Your Favorite Albums Of 1965

Simple. Just pick your favorite albums that are from 1965. I stuck to 10. You can do more or less, it's up to you.

I'll start. Here's my favorites in alphabetical order by artist:
1. The Beach Boys - Summer Days (And Summer Nights)
2. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
3. The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
4. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
5. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
6. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
7. The Kinks - The Kink Kontroversy
8. Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
9. The Rolling Stones - Out Of Our Heads
10. The Shangri-las - Shangri-las 65!

 

I'll stick to 10...

Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Beatles - Help
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Skip James - Today
Fred Neil - Little Bit of Rain
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues

OK 11...

Butterfield Blues band - s/t

 

Good choices. I almost went with the Butterfield Blues Band too but changed my mind at the last minute

 

Rubber Soul
Mr. Tambourine Man
Highway 61 Revisited
Help!
Bringing It All Back Home
Turn! Turn! Turn!
The Who Sings My Generation
Out of Our Heads

 

1965 ........hmmm.......that's about when my Mom turned me onto the Disneyland record catalogue as I was four and digging it.

 

bringing it all back home - dylan
hwy 61 - dylan
rubber soul - not sure who that was
help - those same guys
a love supreme - john coltrane
out of our heads -stones
december's children - stones
live at the regal - bb king
paul simon songbook
fairytale - donovan

 

Super picks!

 

A pretty thin year. It reminds me that the music-album world had not yet really started or was at the best on the verge of a huge transition.

Eric Dolphy was dead.
Ornette Coleman’s classic period was already long over.
Bob Dylan had just made his best album (see below)
The Beatles managed to release what was really a rehearsal for their best album the following year. Rubber Soul - great on playing and arrangements but weak on songs.
The Byrds - not really an albums band - were still building up to their best album.
The Velvet Underground had formed but had yet to make a record.

That leaves my list looking like this:

Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home
Terry Riley Reed Streams

 

The Beatles - Help
Miles Davis - ESP
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads

 

Here’s my top 10 in no particular order:

1) The Beatles - Rubber Soul
2) The Beatles - Beatles VI
3) The Who - My Generation
4) The Beach Boys - Beach Boys Today
5) The Beach Boys’ Party!
6) The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
7) Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
8) Them - The Angry Young Them
9) The Zombies - The Zombies
10) Miles Davis - E.S.P.

 

Very nice choices!

 

These are the ones I have:

Beatles: Help!
Beatles: Rubber Soul
Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home
Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
B.B. King: Live at the Regal
Coltrane: A Love Supreme

I own comps for most '60s artists. Oh, and for what it’s worth, when I was a kid my parents played Whipped Cream & Other Delights all the time. And I looked at the cover a lot.

(Rubber Soul is weak on songs? )

 

A Love Supreme: John Coltrane
E.S.P.: Miles Davis
Into Somethin': Larry Young
A Charlie Brown Christmas: Vince Guaraldi Trio
Rubber Soul: The Beatles
Bringing It All Back Home: Bob Dylan
Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan
Help!: The Beatles
Hoodoo Man Blues: Junior Wells

 

I wasn't born but hell I was there in spirit...

Mr. Tambourine Man The Byrds
Out of our Heads Rolling Stones

Whipped Cream & Other Delights Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass
Animal Tracks (UK version) The Animals​

Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan
Sitar-Nawaz Ustad Vilayat Khan
Rubber Soul The Beatles
Elvis is Back! Elvis Presley
My Generation The Who

 

In no particular order:

Dylan - Bringing It All/Highway 61
Impressions - People Get Ready
Temptations - Sing Smokey/Temptin'
Four Tops - S/T & Second Album
Phil Ochs - I Ain't Marching Anymore
Sonics - Here Are The Sonics
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
Sinatra - September Of My Years
Fugs - Fugs
Miracles - Going To A Go Go
Dusty Springfield - Everything's Coming Up
Jackson C Frank - S/T
Shangri-las - Leader Of The Pack
Chuck Berry - In London

 

Otis Redding - Otis Blue

Miles Davis - ESP

The Animals - Animal Tracks (UK)

Impressions - People Get Ready

Four Tops - Four Tops
(rel. Jan. 21, '65 in the U.S.)
and Second Album

Graham Bond Organization
Sound of '65

The Pretty Things- s/t

The Yardbirds- For Your Love (U.S.)

 

Pretty darn good list!

 

Coltrane -ALS
Albert Ayler -Spiritual Unity
Otis Redding -Otis Blue
Charles Mingus - Mingus At Monterey
Andrew Hill - Point Of Departure
Max Roach - The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hassan
Moacir Santos - Coisas
Roland Kirk Quartet - Rip Rig and Panic
Xenakis - Metastasis; Pithroprakta; Eonta
Miles Davis - ESP

 

Paul Butterfield- The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Rolling Stones - Now
Them - Them featuring Here Comes the Night
Yardbirds - Having a Rave Up
Zombies - The Zombies
Donovan - Fairy Tale
Who - My Generation
Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
Dylan,Bob - Bringing it All Back Home
John Fahey - The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Beau Brummels - Introducing the Beau Brummels
Kinks - Kink Size
Dylan, Bob - Highway 61 Revisited

 

Stellar group of albums! Kudos to you sir!

 

Highway 61 Revisited

 

1. Beach Boys – Summer Days (and Summer Nights!)
2. Beach Boys – Today
3. Beatles – Rubber Soul
4. Rolling Stones – Decembers Children
5. Rolling Stones – Out of our Heads
6. Johnny Cash – Orange Blossom Special
7. Frank Sinatra – September of my Years
8. The Beach Boys Party
9. The Kinks Kontroversy
10. Johnny Cash Sings Ballads of the True West

 

Nice. Very solid albums.

 

The Rolling Stones Now! (my personal favorite of their pre-Aftermath records)
The Rolling Stones: Out of Our Heads
The Rolling Stones: December's Children

Beach Boys: Today! (Side 2 is near perfection, Side 1 also great)
Beach Boys: Summer Days and Summer Nights

Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited

Beatles: Help! (believe it or not, one of my two favorite Beatles albums, along with The White Album)
Beatles: Rubber Soul

Otis Redding: Otis Blue

 

You have excellent taste! All terrific!