Best Albums of 1963
Listed below are the best albums of 1963 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 59,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 1 hour ago).
"The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady is a tense, passionate, fierce album that deals directly with the personal chaos Mingus found in his love life. It is a meticulously composed, multi-layered triumph that continually announces its motifs through a hefty series of deft variations, continually build..." [+] Reply
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AfterHours | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +16 votes (16 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1963
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"24 August 2013 - This is just about as perfect as it gets. This album just feels good, natural, real and off the cuff. At the same time it is perhaps the most beautifully varied set of songs Dylan ever put out. The break up songs, the social songs, the love songs, the talking blues songs, the blu..." [+] Reply
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Mercury | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1963
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"So this is where it all started with ten of the songs recorded in an eleven hour session. It features their two singles up to that point, love me do and the title track. The other standouts from Lennon-McCartney are the rollicking opener, I saw her standing there and the beautiful and overlooked ..." [+] Reply
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1963
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"All time classic. Yes it's great. Obviously, it's James brown live. But it's not the best live album ever. In fact I'd rate it his 4th best live cd. So please please please (ahem) consider checking out his other classic live CDs like love peace power in Paris and the Dallas one. For me two of the..." [+] Reply
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Graeme2 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1963
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"To me by far their worst album. Songwriting wasn't as sharp and covers weren't as good. Three good songs (It' Won't Be Long, All I've Got To Do, and All My Loving), but rest are just fillers and b-sides." Reply
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1963
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""Night Beat" from 1963 is considered one of Sam Cooke's best albums. Since the album does not contain any of Cooke's hits or best known songs, the cause of the album's reputation is rather achieved through its overall casual late-night blues mood. Cooke has written three of the twelve songs, and ..." [+] Reply
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1963
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"Monk was certainly a musician's musician. One of the greatest to ever do it." Reply
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"Considered one of the best Christmas albums of all time. A great representation of Phil Spector's Wall of Sound." Reply
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Mdemauri | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1963
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"This is a really cool collection of songs, that feels like more than the sum of its parts. The opener is the obvious highlight, but the rest is very good as well" Reply
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JulianR | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1963
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"A tightly packed offering of a few different beautiful stylings of Samba. Great melodies, cool arrangements, unexpected vocal jumps. Can’t imagine this not being an enjoyable listen for a majority of people." Reply
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AAL2014 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1963
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Total albums: 573. Page 1 of 58
Best Albums of 1963 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Various Artists | 5 | 1% | |
| Fats Domino | 5 | 1% | |
| John Coltrane | 4 | 1% | |
| Johnny O'Keefe | 4 | 1% | |
| John Lee Hooker | 3 | 1% | |
| Elvis Presley | 3 | 1% | |
| Bruno Walter / Columbia Symphony Orchestra | 3 | 1% | |
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397 | 69% | |
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41 | 7% | |
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23 | 4% | |
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18 | 3% | |
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14 | 2% | |
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12 | 2% | |
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10 | 2% | |
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