10 Best Albums Of The 60's !!!

10 Best Albums.

The creme de la creme only please.

Any music genre.

 

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off the top of my head and in no particular order:

Beatles- Abbey road
Jimi Hendrix - Are you experienced
Velvet Underground- Velvet Underground with Nico
Love - Forever Changes
The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the gates of dawn
The Doors - The Doors
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Who - Sell Out

 

My top ten

The Beatles - Revolver
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch!
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Duke Ellington - ... and His Mother Called Him Bill
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet

 

This is too easy:

Last Time Around - Buffalo Springfield
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Astral weeks - Van Morrison
20/20 - Boys Boys
Notorious Byrds Brothers - Byrds
Let It Bleed - Stones
Naked City Theme - Ahmad Jamal
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly- soundtrack - Morricone
White Album - Beatles
Gospel Sound of Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers Vol 1

Interesting that the Stones and Who didn't really peak, imo, until early 70's

 

Today these, tomorrow who knows.

* Beethoven : 9 Symphonies (Karajan; Berliner Philharmoniker)
* Frank Zappa : Hot Rats
* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov : Schéhérazade (Reiner; Chicago SO)
* Hendrix : Axis Bold As Love
* The Beatles: The Beatles (a.k.a. White album)
* Miles Davis: In A Silent Way
* Bach: Suites for Unaccompanied Cello Complete (Starker)
* King Crimson: In The Court Of The Crimson King
* John Coltrane: Love Supreme
* Hendrix: Electric Ladyland

EDIT: OOps! I forgot Eric Dolphy: Out to lunch! Thanks ashlee5!!

 

10 great jazz recordings that don't get mentioned here often enough
Horace Silver - Song for my father
Duke Ellington - Far East Suite
Charles Mingus - Mingus, Mingus, Mingus...
Sonny Stitt - Stitt plays bird
Mel Torme Swings Shubert Alley
Lee Morgan - Search for the new land
Wayne Shorter - JuJu
Grant Green - Idle Moments
Charles Lloyd - Forest Flower
Gabor Szabo - The Sorcerer

 

beatles - sgt pepper

hendrix - are you experienced

buffalo springfield - again

stones - high tide and green grass/through the past darkly - tie

byrds - greatest hits

chicago - chicago transit authority

jefferson airplane - surrealistic pillow

neil young - everybody knows this is nowhere

crosby stills nash - couch album

allman brothers - first album

 

1. Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
2. The Doors – The Doors
3. Neil Young With Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
4. The Beatles – Abbey Road
5. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II
6. The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed
7. The Beatles – Revolver
8. The Doors – Strange Days
9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis: Bold As Love
10. Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde

 

Stand Up (1969) - Jethro Tull
Led Zeppelin II (1969) - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin I (1969) - Led Zeppelin
Chicago Transit Authority (1969) - Chicago
Axis: Bold As Love (1967) - Jimi Hendrix Experience
Are You Experienced (1967) - Jimi Hendrix Experience
Beggars Banquet (1968) - The Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed (1969) - The Rolling Stones
The Doors (1967) - The Doors
Strange Days (1967) - The Doors

 

My favorites, in no particular order:

Let it Bleed
Electric Ladyland
Beggars Banquet
Abbey Road
Disraeli Gears
Revolver
Axis Bold as Love
Bringing It All Back Home
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Tommy

 

Last part of the 60's you could dam near have 10 a year.

 

Highway 61 Revisited -- Bob Dylan
Blonde on Blonde -- Bob Dylan
Revolver -- The Beatles
Are You Experienced? -- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Velvet Underground and Nico -- The Velvet Underground
Let It Bleed -- The Rolling Stones
The Who Sell Out -- The Who
At Folsom Prison -- Johnny Cash
Green River -- Creedence Clearwater Revival
Dusty In Memphis -- Dusty Springfield

 

A fairly forward looking 60s jazz one...

Art Ensemble of Chicago - People in Sorrow
Anthony Braxton - Three Compositions of New Jazz
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Miles Davis - Nefertiti or In A Silent Way
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra
Charles Mingus - Black Saint & Sinner Lady
Peter Brotzmann - Machine Gun


Grieved me no end to leave out Sun Ra, George Russell, Jackie McLean, Max Roach, Ellington, Wayne Shorter, Larry Young, Andrew Hill, Gil Evans and...and...and...what a great decade for jazz it was!

 

Revolver (1966)- The Beatles
Are you experienced? (1967)- the Jimi Hendrix Experience
Velvet Underground And Nico- (1967) Velvet Underground
Mr. Tambourine Man (1965) - The Byrds
Sgt Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band- (1967) The Beatles
Let it Bleed (1969)- The Rolling Stones
Smiley Smile (1967)- The Beach Boys
In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969) - King Crimson
S.F. Sorrow (1968)- Pretty Things
Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn (1967)- Pink Floyd

 

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles- Rubber Soul
Velvet Underground- Velvet Underground & Nico
The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the gates of dawn
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
The Who - Sell Out
The Doors - s/t

 

Getz/Gilberto - Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Beggar's Banquet - Stones
Willie And The Poor Boys - CCR
The Doors - The Doors
Dusty In Memphis - Dusty Springfield
Boss Tenor - Gene Ammons
Days Of Future Passed - The Moody Blues
Idlewild South - The Allman Brothers Band

 

In no Particular Order

Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones
White Album - The Beatles
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Beggar's Banquet - The Rolling Stones
Tommy - The Who
The Doors - The Doors
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Revolver - The Beatles
Are you experienced? - the Jimi Hendrix Experience

 

One per artist...

The Beatles - Revolver
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Leonard Cohen
The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Townes Van Zandt - S/T

 

nothing new here, but:

Velvet underground--VU & Nico
Love--forever changes
Beatles--Sgt. Pepper
Rolling Stones--beggar's banquet
Cream--disraeli gears
Bob Dylan--highway 61
Buffalo Springfield--again
Doors--the Doors
Beach Boys--pet sounds
Jimi Hendrix--electric ladyland

 

Only one person has selected 'Forever Changes' so far. That does surprise me.
I'm working on my top 10 now. Am I allowed to select Beach Boys - 'Smile'?

 

Beatles: Abbey Road
Crosby, Stills, & Nash
Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced?
The Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man
Simon & Garfunkel: Bookends
Love: Forever Changes
Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow
Buffalo Springfield: Again
Neil Young: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Chicago Transit Authority
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks

Sorry, that's eleven. Sue me.

 

Listed more or less in order of how often I listen to them:

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Ten Years After - Stonedhenge
The Soft Machine - Volume Two
The Soft Machine - s/t [Volume One]
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles - s/t [White Album]
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Yes - s/t

 

I could probably come up with a few hundred with no drop in quality

Mingus -the Black Saint & the Sinner Lady
Miles - In a Silent Way
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Sly & the Family Stone - Stand
James Carr - You Got My Mind Messed Up
John Coltrane - Meditations
Soft Machine - II
Lonnie Mack -the Wham of That Memphis Man
King Crimson - In the Court Of the Crimson King
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour

With the exception of 1-3 it would be completely different 15 minutes from now

 

This is an easier task than the 70s thread - I couldn't answer that one, as there's just no way to narrow it down to only 10!

1960s, in no order:

Stones "Let It Bleed"
Beatles "Revolver"
Kinks "Arthur"
Who "Sell Out"
Stones "Beggar's Banquet"
Beatles "A Hard Day's Night"
Beatles "Beatles"
Kinks "Village Green Preservation Society"
Stones "Aftermath"
Kinks "Something Else"

Yes, there were great albums made in the 60s, but these remain the best for me - I just don't think any other acts compete with the best of 60s Beatles/Stones/Kinks/Who...