Best Albums of the 1960s
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"Debut album from CS&N, it's an excellent acoustic based record featuring some fine songs. David Crosby contributes the haunting, Guinnevere, and, wooden ships, while Stephen Stills gives us opener, suite:Judy blue eyes, and the lovely, helplessly hoping, and Graham Nash's, Marrakech express, is a..." Reply
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1969
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4,342
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"In reply to jackbrown8786, if you read my review/opinion of, aftermath, I'm not getting the U.K. and U.S. album's mixed up. Anyway, the U.S. version is inferior. What you have to understand is that this website goes all around the world and because of decca/Londons, complete disregard for artisti..." Reply
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1966
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4,313
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"This is one of the albums I have played literally hundreds of times. 1964 was the year when bossanova went world wide. Stan Getz was the famous saxophone crooner already having Jazz Samba" which he performed with Antonio Carlos Jobim, which by the way is fantastic in itself. Few people knew what ..." Reply
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calsper | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1964
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"Perhaps the best female vocal performance on a single album. Respect, Do Right Woman and I Never Loved a Man are essential listening for any soul fan." Reply
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Decurso | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1967
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"A good Simon & Garfunkel album, though not as good as their later music. Some of this stuff drags a bit, but even the songs that drag are usually pretty." Reply
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1966
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4,125
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"Just a great sound, even though they lived as far from the bayou as I do." Reply
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lancashirearab | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1969
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"I actually think this might be The Kinks best... If so, there's not much in it. They had a few great ones all in a row in the late 60s." Reply
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junodog4 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (5 helpful | 2 unhelpful)
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1967
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"A fantastic jazz album that has hints of a Spanish influence scattered across all its tracks making for one of his most unique albums he has made. Miles Davis still leads the line on his trumpet on these brilliant compositions with the record opening on its strongest one with Concierto De Aranjue..." Reply
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1960
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"Obviously only the beginning, but it's fun to imagine what this would have been like to hear in 63 considering what we know now about what the Beatles would give us." Reply
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1963
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"An absolutely brilliant record. Psychedelic soul, all fantastic. Stand!, is without doubt a total classic. Everyday people, stand, I want to take you higher, you can make it if you try, all great tracks, and then you have, don't call me nigger, Whitey, and the rock workout of the epic, sex machin..." Reply
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1969
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 6 of 100
Best Albums of the 1960s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 1960 | 59 | 6% | |
| 1961 | 66 | 7% | |
| 1962 | 50 | 5% | |
| 1963 | 49 | 5% | |
| 1964 | 70 | 7% | |
| 1965 | 90 | 9% | |
| 1966 | 98 | 10% | |
| 1967 | 138 | 14% | |
| 1968 | 185 | 19% | |
| 1969 | 195 | 20% |
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| The Beatles | 17 | 2% | |
| John Coltrane | 17 | 2% | |
| The Beach Boys | 15 | 2% | |
| Miles Davis | 15 | 2% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 15 | 2% | |
| Nina Simone | 10 | 1% | |
| Bob Dylan | 10 | 1% | |
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634 | 63% | |
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204 | 20% | |
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38 | 4% | |
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23 | 2% | |
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22 | 2% | |
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17 | 2% | |
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11 | 1% | |
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