Best Albums of 1968
Listed below are the best albums of 1968 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 3 hours ago).
"This album has it all. From gorgeous songs like 'while my guitar gently weeps' and 'blackbird', to just great songs like 'happiness is a warm gun' and 'im so tired', to hard rock (for the time) like 'helter skelter' and 'birthday', to blues jams like 'why dont we do it in the road' and 'yer blues..." [+] Reply
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JulianR | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +12 votes (13 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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1968
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"By the time he began to record 'Electric Ladyland', Jimi Hendrix had already learned enough about studio recording to be able to reproduce all the sounds he had in his head, note for note. The result was, in my opinion, the ultimate Jimi Hendrix experience and a testament to his songwriting and p..." [+] Reply
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1968
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17,067
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"This remains for me one of those albums where its clear something strange and abstract and almost divine happened. Like few albums before or since such as A Love Supreme, this album almost feels like it has a Godly influence. I don't know how to explain it, but almost every aspect of this record ..." [+] Reply
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Mercury | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +10 votes (10 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1968
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"What I was trying to convey with the slightly awkward comment below is that this is not at all a fun and happy album as some commenters have said. I mean look at the lyric subjects for the first half of the album, we've got: longing (Care of cell 44), loneliness (A Rose for Emily), jealousy (Mayb..." [+] Reply
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1968
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"Does anyone else realise that this is the first studio album by the Kinks that never made the album charts in the UK, and none of their subsequent albums did either. After Something Else - which only reached No 32 in 1967, only compilation LP's made the charts. I find this absolutely staggering, ..." [+] Reply
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1968
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"Quite simply, this is the Stones' best album IMO. Jagger comes through with his best set of lyrics on this album, especially on "Sympathy for the Devil", which is a chronicle of tragic historical events sung from the viewpoint of Satan, who admits to causing them to happen (no, it is definitely N..." [+] Reply
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1968
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8,876
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"Drugged out album which involves nearly zero songwriting, the sound of a band that doesn't give a fuck! I can't see its experimental nature, all The Velvet Underground ever did on this record was to turn up the volume and allow the created feed-back and noise to be maintained in the mix. The poem..." [+] Reply
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Mother Nature's Son | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (16 helpful | 10 unhelpful)
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1968
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"This is yet another great folk pop album from S&G. Maybe they go a little overboard with effects (like how the gospel-like vocals are piped in in "save the life of my child" and the voices in "voices of old people" go on a little long), but the album is still great regardless and feels BIG overal..." [+] Reply
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paladisiac | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (4 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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1968
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"It was very brave of the Band to open their debut album with the long, slow and dark "Tears of Rage" . They were praised for this at the time, but now more than three decades later, the song may scare away new listeners which is really a big shame because is one the Band's greatest and probably t..." [+] Reply
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1968
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"Every time I listen to this album it's 1968 and not even my computer can convince me otherwise. The honesty and raw delivery of this performance bleeds a humanity that transcends beyond the music itself. This hour-long performance yielded the best country LP you will come across." Reply
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dmercado | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +9 votes (9 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1968
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Total albums: 973. Page 1 of 98
Best Albums of 1968 composition
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| Various Artists | 11 | 1% | |
| Johnny Cash | 4 | 0% | |
| Elvis Presley | 4 | 0% | |
| James Brown | 4 | 0% | |
| Buck Owens And His Buckaroos | 4 | 0% | |
| Joan Baez | 3 | 0% | |
| Stevie Wonder | 3 | 0% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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541 | 56% | |
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149 | 15% | |
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36 | 4% | |
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36 | 4% | |
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31 | 3% | |
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22 | 2% | |
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18 | 2% | |
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