POLL: Greatest albums of 1966

This poll points to choose the favorite records among the most acclaimed albums from 1966. You'll be allowed to select up to 5 albums from the list.

The confection of the list was based on these three sources:
100 Greatest Albums of 1966
Acclaimed Music
Best Albums of 1966

The first condition to include an album in the poll was being in the Top 30 of at least two of those three lists. Then the two highest positions of each album were averaged to determine the relative order. In this way, the Top 25 albums of the resultant list were selected as nominations for the poll.

NOTE: If you think that one or more essential albums you would have selected are not in the list, then you can choose less than 5 options and name those records you wish they had been here.

Previous poll:
POLL: Greatest albums of 1965

 

Both ones from S&G
Love
The Yardbirds
Beatles

Jefferson Airplane Takes Off would have made my list had it been included in this poll.

 

Revolver, Blonde On Blonde, Fifth Dimension, Maiden Voyage, Sunshine Superman.

 

A very overrated year.

 

That's one of my very favorite albums from 1966 as well; but it wasn't included in the poll because it was not a Top 30 album in any of the lists from the used sources.

 

Impossible task, but...my votes went to-
~"Revolver" by The Beatles
~"Blonde On Blonde" by Bob Dylan
~"Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme" by Simon & Garfunkel
~"Sounds Of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel
~"Pet Sounds" by The Beach Boys

The four most honorable mentions are great on the level of the 5 vote getting choices-
The Kinks
The Byrds
The Rolling Stones
The Mamas & The Papas

Two Dark Horse greats-
The Monks
The 13th Floor Elevators
* prefer their debut, "Love" by Love (also from '66 & my fave album by them), to "Da Capo" (which is terrific too).

 

PS, R, BOB, RTE, SS.

 

Pet Sounds ("who's gonna listen to this ****?")
Revolver

 

Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys)
Face To Face (The Kinks)
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme (Simon & Garfunkel)
Sounds Of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)
If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears (The Mamas & The Papas)

Darryl

 

Revolver
Blonde on blonde
Face to face
Freak out
Bluesbreakers

 

REVOLVER
PET SOUNDS
FACE TO FACE
PARSLEY SAGE ROSEMARY & THYME
ROGER THE ENGINEER

HM:
BLACK MONK TIME
A QUICK ONE

What a great year!

 

No Yesterday and Today?

 

Help! and Rubber Soul are in the previous poll and Revolver is in this poll; there you have Yesterday And Today, albeit in fragmented form...

 

Compared to?

 

East West makes the top 5 for me! Love it to pieces!

Oh, I picked Pet Sounds, too...so I could stay a member of the forum.

 

... how it's rated.

 

... is an American compilation, hardly noticed in the rest of the world.

 

S&G - Sounds id Silence
Revolver
Pschedelic Sounds. .
5th Dimension
Blonde

I was and am Never a fan of Beach Boys albums and even Pet Sounds. I admire their influence, but to me they have only a handful of true classics of which 3 of them on Pet Sounds.....( ok 2 hand Full, including their Surf Songs)

 

Blonde On Blonde

 

I think what we're measuring here is the number of classic rock fans vs jazz fans on the SHF.

 

Pet Sounds
Revolver
Blonde on Blonde
Aftermath
Bluesbreakers

Some thoughts:
- I've always thought it was kind of interesting that, after all four acts released multiple albums a year in '64 and '65, the Beach Boys, Beatles, Stones and Dylan all only released one record in 1966.
- Do people pop into these types of polls just to vote for the Beatles and then run out again without even posting?

 

Both S&G albums and, of course, The Byrds. Haven't heard 17 of them which shows some pretty serious gaps in my knowledge.

Not knocking the poll which is nice & extensive but my favourite album from 1966 is Gordon Lightfoot's debut.

 

As a jazz fan, I must say, most of the albums I return to most often that were issued that year aren't on the above list, those would include:

Sun Ra - The Magic City
Roscoe Mitchell - Sound
Cecil Taylor - Conquistador
Albert Ayler - In Greenwich Village

Of the above list the albums I like best are Blonde on Blonde and Pet Sounds, though there are a lot of other fine albums on there obviously.