POLL: Greatest albums of 1968

This poll points to choose the favorite records among the most acclaimed albums from 1968. 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 1968
Acclaimed Music
Best Albums of 1968

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 polls:
POLL: Greatest albums of 1967
POLL: Greatest albums of 1966
POLL: Greatest albums of 1965

 

Cheap Thrills.

Raw, crude, acid, intense, UGLY. I love their attitude - f*** you we are going to play our music the way WE want it.

It also has a song that in my opinion is, put simply, a perfect rock song.

Piece of My Heart.

The intensity, the vocals, the energy - it rocks.

And how could I forget Summertime? What a beautiful instrumental. Goosebumps. Every. Time. I. Listen. To. It.

 

^ Love Aretha’s Lady Soul too

 

Beatles
Stones
Kinks

I like a few of the others but not enough to vote for them

 

Sf sorrow
White album
Beggars banquet

 

1968 is a setback from 1967 for me. Only two album I really enjoy :

Beggars Banquet
Electric Ladyland

Honourable mention : The Notorious Byrds

 

~"The Beatles (The White Album)" by The Beatles
~"Bookends" by Simon & Garfunkel
~"The Notorious Byrd Brothers" by The Byrds
~"The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society" by The Kinks
~"Astral Weeks" by Van Morrison

Most Honorable Mention:
The Rolling Stones
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Band
The Velvet Underground

Honorable Mention:
The Byrds
The Small Faces
The Zombies
Cream
Jeff Beck
The Pretty Things

 

The Beatles
Electric Ladyland
Beggar's Banquet
Music from Big Pink
Wheels of Fire

 

Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet.

 

Again too many great albums, but went with
Truth
electric ladyland
Village green preservation society
We're Only In It For The Money
Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison

close runners up
Cheap Thrills
White Album
astral weeks
white light/white heat
bookends

 

Did RUX already have a reissue in 1968?

 

We're Only In It For The Money
White Light/White Heat
The Village Green Preservation Society
Odessey And Oracle

 

whoops ... that's called sleep depravation lol ... fixed it

 

In this order:
1. ODESSEY AND ORACLE
2. VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY
3. THE BEATLES
4. S. F.SORROW
5. BOOKENDS

 

The Village Green Preservation Society (The Kinks)
Bookends (Simon & Garfunkel)

Darryl

 

1. *
   The White Album (The Beatles)
   *
2. Astral Weeks (Van Morrison)
3. *
   Electric Ladyland (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
4. *
   Beggars Banquet (The Rolling Stones)
   *
   Wheels Of Fire (Cream)

 

Not on list
Elvis (NBC TV Special)

I also voted White Album
Beggars Banquet
At Folsom Prison

 

Hendrix
Stones
Van
Band
Aretha

 

The Walrus Was Paul
Tire Tracks Up And Down Your Back
Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself
Watch That Side Watch That Side
God Save Donald Duck

 

I've picked 3 from the list:

The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

I haven't heard 16 of them. Of the rest some are okay but not worthy of a vote and there's a bunch I don't like.

My favourite album of the year is either Gordon Lightfoot's Back Here On Earth or The Dillards' Wheatstraw Suite.

 

I had a friend who always answered this type of question with, "What album did Miles Davis release that year?"

So in 1968, Miles Davis released MILES IN THE SKY and FILLES DE KILMANJARO.

 

The list misses one of my favourite of all time albums Ten Years After - Undead

 

I ended up ticking the first 5; so i stopped there!!