Best Albums of the 1960s

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Listed below are the best albums of the 1960s as calculated from their overall rankings in over 53,000 greatest album charts.

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Year	Albums The number of albums from each year featuring in the greatest album charts.	Score Total rank score for each year (made up of the total rank score from all albums in that year)	Top Ranked Album The top ranked album from each year and where it ranks in the overall chart.
1960	591	26,608	Giant Steps (437th)by John Coltrane
1961	557	23,048	My Favorite Things (588th)by John Coltrane
1962	624	20,785	Modern Sounds In Country And Wes... (1,112th)by Ray Charles
1963	646	49,961	The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (92nd)by Charles Mingus
1964	762	49,024	A Hard Day's Night (229th)by The Beatles
1965	901	148,862	Highway 61 Revisited (26th)by Bob Dylan
1966	975	192,446	Revolver (4th)by The Beatles
1967	1,200	307,235	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club... (8th)by The Beatles
1968	1,562	229,659	The Beatles (The White Album) (13th)by The Beatles
1969	1,942	351,789	Abbey Road (3rd)by The Beatles
Total	9,760	1,399,417

The best artists of the 1960s were The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Led Zeppelin, The Doors and The Rolling Stones.

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Best Albums of the 1980s
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2. Doolittle by Pixies
3. Remain In Light by Talking Heads
4. Disintegration by The Cure
5. The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses
6. The Joshua Tree by U2
7. Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush
8. Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth
9. Thriller by Michael Jackson
10. Closer by Joy Division
11. Purple Rain by Prince And The Revolution
12. Surfer Rosa by Pixies
13. Master Of Puppets by Metallica
14. Rain Dogs by Tom Waits
15. Appetite For Destruction by Guns N' Roses
16. Graceland by Paul Simon
17. Back In Black by AC/DC
18. Spirit Of Eden by Talk Talk
19. Murmur by R.E.M.
20. Moving Pictures by Rush