Poll: Favorite Rock Albums of 1968

The White Album
Beggars Banquet
Waiting for the Sun
Electric Ladyland
The Village Green Preservation Society

 

My choice from the list
Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf
The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
The Beatles - White Album
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

Would add
All the rest on list and
Small Faces Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake


Also
Bookends, but is it Rock? A great album

 

Tough to choose just five, because the whole list is pretty great, but I went with the White Album, Anthem of the Sun (perhaps the most underrated album of that year?), Electric Ladyland, Beggar’s Banquet, and Music From Big Pink.

More 1968 favorites, not included in the poll:

Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets

Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends (minus “Voices of Old People”)

Deep Purple - their first two albums (Loves me some Mk. 1)

The Monkees (most seriously) - Head soundtrack

 

Van - Astral Weeks (Spellbinding)

 

I voted for 4 in this order:
1. VILLAGE GREEN
2. ODESSEY AND ORACLE
3. THE BEATLES
4. IN SEARCH OF THE LOST CHORD

 

From the list: The Moody Blues
The Beatles
The Band

But my real favorite from 1968 is The Byrds Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

 

There are a ton of albums listed that are not on the poll. All are great albums. I've got one that is one of my favorite lp's of all time, I don't believe it has been mentioned.

Realization by Johnny Rivers.

There's a lot more to this lp than just the chart hit 45 "Summer Rain" and its follow up 45"Look To Your Soul." It has great versions of "Hey Joe", Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade Of Pale", and Bob Dylan's "Positively 4th Street." My favorite songs on the lp is "Something Strange", and "What's The Difference."

A man who should be in the Rock and roll HOF. That's Johnny Rivers.

 

The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord
The Beatles - White Album
The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Cream - Wheels of Fire

It was a tough choice between the Moody Blues and the Rolling Stones, but I'm basing this list on albums I actually bought at the time. I'm surprised Cream is so low on the survey.

 

Astral Weeks is in my all-time top five, too.

 

1968?
Too many classic albums.
Expand this poll.

 

all of them and then some, how much quality in a single year, and yet thats true of most years from the period 65-71

 

1966 albums poll?

 

Of that list I only like/have 4 albums, and Electric Ladyland is the big standout.

 

I started buying LPs in 1966.1968 is one of my favorite years in music.So many great albums that year.

My list can't be just 5 so I've listed my top 16 from 1968.

1.Grateful Dead-Anthem to the Sun
2.ELVIS 68 TV Comeback
3.Hendrix Electric Ladyland
4.Stones Beggars Banquet
5.Van Morrison Astral Weeks
6.The Beatles WA
7.The Byrds TNBB
8.Canned Heat Boogie With
9.Kaleidoscope A Beacon From Mars
10.Mother Earth Living with the Animals
11.Velvet Underground WLWH
12.Steve Miller Band Children of the Future
13.Fleetwood Mac
14.Johnny Cash-At Folsom Prison
15.Traffic
16.Grace Slick&Great Society Conspicuous Only In Its Absence(Recorded 1966 released 1968)

I have a few more but these will do.

 

I would add some country rock favorites:
International Submarine Band-Safe at Home
The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard and Clark
Dillards-Wheatstraw Suite.

 

Velvets White Light White Heat
Pretty Things SF Sorrow
Who Sell Out
Notorious Byrd Brothers

 

3 favourites from that year.
EL
TWA
Bookends

 

I only own 2 - Stones and Cream.

 

From the list I picked:

Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf
Canned Heat - Boogie with Canned Heat
The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Cream - Wheels of Fire

Not on your list, but worth mentioning as they received plenty of playback time on my system in the day:

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears
The Nice - Ars Longa Vita Brevis
Bloomfield, Kooper, Stills - Super Session
Various Artists - 2001: A Space Odyssey

 

Such a tiny list considering the year. I own all of them. All great albums. Bunch of them were in mono too!

 

From the list:
Kinks
Stones
Jimi
Van
+
The Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers, Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
Spirit - s/t, The Family That Plays Together
The Velvet Underground
John Coltrane - Om
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets
Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
The Jeff Beck Group - Truth
Jethro Tull - This Was
Traffic - Traffic
Neil Young - s/t
John Mayall - Blues From Laurel Canyon

 

Tastes May Change, but the Classics Remain: the Best Albums of 1968 - The Wire

 

The Beatles White Album is my favorite album by them