10 Best Albums Of The 60's !!!

60s radio was eclectic -- if you lived through and enjoyed 60s music your list will be
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Songs of Our Times -- P.F. Sloan
Twelve More times -- P.F. Sloan
That Acapulco Gold -- Rainy Daze
Hear and Now -- Gene and Debbe
The Doors -- The Doors
Hard Day's Night (soundtrack) -- The Beatles
Between the Buttons -- Rolling Stones
Otis Blue -- Otis Redding
The Young Rascals -- The Young Rascals
Live at Vanderbilt University -- Flatt & Scruggs

 

1) Odessa - Bee Gees
2) Abbey Road - The Beatles
3) Today - The Beach Boys
4) Thunderball - John Barry
5) Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
6) The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly - Ennio Morricone
7) Scott - Scott Walker
8) The Pink Panther - Henry Mancini
9) Aftermath - The Rolling Stones
10) Nancy & Lee - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood

 

plus honorable mentions:

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Nancy & Lee
Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis
The Beach Boys - All Summer Long
The Beatles - Hard Day's Night
The Bee Gees 1st
Jobim - The Composer Of Desafinado Plays
Aftermath - The Rolling Stones
Strange Days - The Doors
Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones
Murderer's Row - Lalo Schifrin

 

Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
Elliott Carter - Double Concerto
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Joni Mitchell - Clouds
Jack Bruce - Harmony Row
The Who- The Who Sing My Generation
The Who- The Who Sell Out
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Nico - The Marble Index
Stockhausen - Kontakte/Gesang der Junglinge

 

I'd have a hard time choosing my top ten now, so here's my top ten circa 1989 (age 15), based on the lps/cds I'd taped:

Beatles - Abbey Road
Beatles - Yesterday and Today
Bonzo Dog Band - Dougnut in Granny's Greenhouse
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Kinks - Arthur
Kinks - Something Else
Rolling Stones - Aftermath
Rolling Stones - Between the Buttons
Who - Happy Jack
Who - Who Sell Out

 

How many of you first heard this in the '60s?

 

Only the Walker Brothers singles.
Seen a Philips window display for Scott 4 in in 1969.
Thought Scott Walker was schmaltzy at the time.
The same shop window display also featured David Bowie
(space oddity) album, way cooler I thought.

 

Not until the late '90s, actually.

And I didn't hear my #1 choice, Bee Gees - Odessa, until last year!

 

Any 10 Beatles albums - you pick!

 

Oh jeez, how could I forget "Ventures In Space"?

 

A Hard Day's Night - Beatles
Rubber Soul - Beatles
The Who Sell Out - The Who
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society - Kinks
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces
Shine On Brightly - Procol Harum
My Generation - The Who
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles
Arthur- Kinks (Oct. 69- just barely)

 

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs---GREAT album,released Fall,1970.

 

The Beatles:
Abbey Road
The Beatles aka The White Album
Sgt Pepper
Rubber Soul
Revolver

The Rolling Stones:
Aftermath
Beggars Banquet
Get yer ya ya's out
Let it bleed

The Doors S/T
and many more

 

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
White Album
Bookends
Five Leaves left
Getz/Gilberto
Beggars Banquet
Morrison Hotel
Highway 61 Revisited
Forever Changes
Neil Young

 

oops

fixed

 

no order

The Beatles - The Beatles
Their Satanic Majesty's Request - The Rolling Stones
White Light / White Heat - The Velvet Underground
Exotic Percussion - Martin Denny
The Doors - The Doors
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - Pink Floyd
Latin-Esque - Esquivel
The In Sound From Way Out - Perrey-Kingsley
The Stooges - The Stooges

 

Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Revolver (mono UK) - Beatles
Mr. Tambourine Man - Byrds
Odessey And Oracle - Zombies
Are You Experienced? (both UK & US) - Jimi Hendrix Experience
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
Between The Buttons (UK) - Rolling Stones
Love - Love
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (UK) - Pink Floyd

 

1. Beatles - White Album
2. Doors - The Doors
3. Beatles- Beatles for sale
4. Beatles - Abbey Road
5. Rolling Stones - Beggars banquet
6. Beatles - Revolver
7. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 revisited
8. Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
9. Soft Machine - Volume One
10. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are you experienced ?

 

The Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
The Beatles - Beatles For Sale
Cliff Richard - Cliff's Hit Album
The Delltones - Surf 'n' Stomp
The Supremes - A Bit of Liverpool
The Supremes - Greatest Hits (1967)
Del Shannon - Runaway with Del Shannon
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
Syd Barrett - Barrett

 

I am also, but its interesting how most of the posters are picking stuff from mainly 7-10 groups mostly

Remove those 10, and what do you have? (( some STILL have some interesting albums though ))

I guess music is far far more diversified since the 80s, especially into the 90s and wildly diverse into the 2000's!

From 1990 onwards, if we did a poll like this, it would be all over the place with hundreds of albums listed, instead of the mostly similar 60's listings im seeing on this thread.

In the 60's it seems to like rock, you HAD TO, like the same basic 10-20 groups, and everyone listened to mostly the same music.

Not saying thats bad per se, but there is so much great stuff that seems forgotten. There were literally thousands of albums released in the 60s, and tons of great stuff that didnt come from these same 20 warhorses.

All you see is Beatles, Stones, Who, Kinks, Hendrix, Doors, Dylan, Beach Boys, Zep......

I suppose its the Rose colored glasses syndrome. We all tend to forget stuff over 40 years......!

 

Just the consensus picks from this forum. I would guess music was pretty diverse back in the 60s.

 

And damned expensive, LPs anyway.

 

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
The Doors - The Doors
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country
The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Rolling Stones - Aftermath

 

Another thread resurrection shuffle.

Well done JohnnyQuest.

 

Elvis, "Elvis is Back!" - 1960
Sam Cooke, "Night Beat" - 1963
Otis Redding, "Otis Blue" - 1965
Bob Dylan, "Blonde on blonde" - 1966
The Beach boys, "Pet Sounds" - 1967
The Doors, "The Doors" - 1967
Ray Charles, "A portrait of Ray" - 1968
CCR, "Bayou Country" - 1969
Elvis, "From Elvis in Memphis" - 1969
The Rolling Stones, "Let it bleed" - 1969