The Top 200 Albums from the 1960s

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Year	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	1	The Beach Boys	Pet Sounds	1966		Listen
2	2	The Beatles	Revolver	1966
3	4	The Velvet Underground & Nico	The Velvet Underground & Nico	1967		Listen
4	5	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	1967
5	7	Bob Dylan	Blonde on Blonde	1966		Listen
6	11	Bob Dylan	Highway 61 Revisited	1965		Listen
7	12	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Are You Experienced?	1967		Listen
8	13	Van Morrison	Astral Weeks	1968		Listen
9	15	The Beatles	The Beatles ("The White Album")	1968
10	20	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Electric Ladyland	1968		Listen
11	21	The Doors	The Doors	1967		Listen
12	25	The Beatles	Abbey Road	1969
13	27	The Beatles	Rubber Soul	1965
14	29	The Rolling Stones	Beggar's Banquet	1968		Listen
15	30	The Rolling Stones	Let It Bleed	1969		Listen
16	37	The Band	The Band	1969		Listen
17	40	James Brown	Live at the Apollo	1963		Listen
18	51	Love	Forever Changes	1967		Listen
19	55	Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	Trout Mask Replica	1969
20	56	Otis Redding	Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul	1965		Listen
21	60	Bob Dylan	Bringing It All Back Home	1965		Listen
22	66	Led Zeppelin	II	1969		Listen
23	68	John Coltrane	A Love Supreme	1965		Listen
24	75	The Band	Music from Big Pink	1968		Listen
25	85	Aretha Franklin	I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You	1967		Listen
26	91	Dusty Springfield	Dusty in Memphis	1969		Listen
27	105	Pink Floyd	The Piper at the Gates of Dawn	1967		Listen
28	112	The Who	Tommy	1969		Listen
29	114	Aretha Franklin	Lady Soul	1968		Listen
30	127	The Rolling Stones	Aftermath	1966		Listen
31	128	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin	1969		Listen
32	152	The Flying Burrito Bros	The Gilded Palace of Sin	1969
33	154	King Crimson	In the Court of the Crimson King	1969
34	157	Jefferson Airplane	Surrealistic Pillow	1967		Listen
35	159	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Axis: Bold as Love	1967		Listen
36	160	Nick Drake	Five Leaves Left	1969		Listen
37	162	The Byrds	Sweetheart of the Rodeo	1968		Listen
38	163	The Mothers of Invention	We're Only in It for the Money	1968		Listen
39	169	Sly and the Family Stone	Stand!	1969		Listen
40	171	The Beatles	A Hard Day's Night	1964
41	172	Neil Young with Crazy Horse	Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere	1969		Listen
42	174	Cream	Disraeli Gears	1967		Listen
43	179	Leonard Cohen	Songs of Leonard Cohen	1968		Listen
44	181	The Velvet Underground	White Light/White Heat	1968		Listen
45	186	Bob Dylan	The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	1963		Listen
46	188	Elvis Presley	From Elvis in Memphis	1969		Listen
47	192	The Velvet Underground	The Velvet Underground	1969		Listen
48	195	Johnny Cash	At Folsom Prison	1968		Listen
49	199	The Stooges	The Stooges	1969		Listen
50	202	The Kinks	The Kinks Are Village Green Preservation Society	1968		Listen
51	203	The Byrds	Younger Than Yesterday	1967		Listen
52	205	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Green River	1969		Listen
53	209	Frank Zappa	Hot Rats	1969		Listen
54	216	The Byrds	The Notorious Byrd Brothers	1968		Listen
55	220	The Who	The Who Sings My Generation	1965		Listen
56	221	MC5	Kick Out the Jams	1969		Listen
57	230	Ray Charles	Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music	1962		Listen
58	234	The Who	The Who Sell Out	1967		Listen
59	238	B.B. King	Live at the Regal	1965		Listen
60	246	The Beatles	With the Beatles/Meet the Beatles!	1963
61	256	Big Brother and The Holding Company	Cheap Thrills	1968		Listen
62	261	The Byrds	Mr. Tambourine Man	1965		Listen
63	269	Simon and Garfunkel	Bookends	1968		Listen
64	280	John Mayall	Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton	1966		Listen
65	286	The Mothers of Invention	Freak Out!	1966		Listen
66	298	The Kinks	Something Else by the Kinks	1967		Listen
67	300	Eric Dolphy	Out to Lunch	1964		Listen
68	304	Crosby, Stills and Nash	Crosby, Stills and Nash	1969		Listen
69	321	Buffalo Springfield	Buffalo Springfield Again	1967		Listen
70	327	Miles Davis	In a Silent Way	1969		Listen
71	332	Moby Grape	Moby Grape	1967		Listen
72	339	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Willy and the Poorboys	1969		Listen
73	348	Charles Mingus	The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady	1963		Listen
74	352	Miles Davis	Sketches of Spain	1960		Listen
75	355	The Small Faces	Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake	1968
76	356	Grateful Dead	Live/Dead	1969		Listen
77	359	Isaac Hayes	Hot Buttered Soul	1969		Listen
78	365	The Zombies	Odessey & Oracle	1968		Listen
79	370	Bob Dylan	John Wesley Harding	1967		Listen
80	392	Bobby Bland	Two Steps from the Blues	1960		Listen
81	396	The Rolling Stones	The Rolling Stones/England's Newest Hitmakers	1964
82	401	Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto	Getz/Gilberto	1963		Listen
83	422	Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	Safe as Milk	1967		Listen
84	423	Fairport Convention	Liege and Lief	1969		Listen
85	432	Oliver Nelson	The Blues and the Abstract Truth	1961		Listen
86	437	Howlin' Wolf	Howlin' Wolf	1962		Listen
87	440	The Beatles	Please Please Me/Introducing The Beatles	1963
88	444	Cream	Wheels of Fire	1968
89	445	John Coltrane	My Favorite Things	1961		Listen
90	447	Herbie Hancock	Maiden Voyage	1965		Listen
91	451	Tim Buckley	Happy Sad	1969		Listen
92	457	Bill Evans	Sunday at the Village Vanguard	1961		Listen
93	465	Various Artists	A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector	1963		Listen
94	467	Fairport Convention	Unhalfbricking	1969		Listen
95	478	Bill Evans	Waltz for Debby	1961		Listen
96	479	The Rolling Stones	Between the Buttons	1967		Listen
97	488	Ornette Coleman	Free Jazz - A Collective Improvisation	1961		Listen
98	497	Scott Walker	Scott 4	1969
99	505	Traffic	Mr. Fantasy	1967		Listen
100	531	Albert Ayler	Spiritual Unity	1964		Listen
101	533	Wayne Shorter	Speak No Evil	1964		Listen
102	550	Muddy Waters	Muddy Waters at Newport	1960		Listen
103	551	Quicksilver Messenger Service	Happy Trails	1969		Listen
104	552	Elvis Presley	Elvis Is Back!	1960
105	567	The Rolling Stones	No. 2/The Rolling Stones Now!	1965		Listen
106	589	Simon and Garfunkel	Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme	1966		Listen
107	590	The Kinks	Face to Face	1966		Listen
108	596	Albert King	Born Under a Bad Sign	1967		Listen
109	597	Lee Morgan	The Sidewinder	1963		Listen
110	623	The Doors	Strange Days	1967		Listen
111	634	The Rolling Stones	Out of Our Heads	1965
112	637	The Beatles	Help!	1965
113	668	Wes Montgomery	The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery	1960		Listen
114	696	The Kinks	Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)	1969		Listen
115	697	Frank Zappa	Uncle Meat	1969		Listen
116	712	Jeff Beck Group	Truth	1968		Listen
117	715	Johnny Cash	At San Quentin	1969		Listen
118	728	Horace Silver	Song for My Father	1964		Listen
119	736	Gil Evans	Out of the Cool	1960		Listen
120	745	Ornette Coleman	Change of the Century	1960		Listen
121	753	Otis Redding	Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul	1966		Listen
122	768	Laura Nyro	Eli and the Thirteenth Confession	1968		Listen
123	784	The Beach Boys	The Beach Boys Today!	1965		Listen
124	788	The Byrds	Fifth Dimension	1966		Listen
125	794	Bob Dylan	Nashville Skyline	1969		Listen
126	799	Elvis Presley	Elvis (TV Special)	1968		Listen
127	801	Otis Redding	Live in Europe	1967		Listen
128	804	Them	(The Angry Young) Them/Here Comes the Night	1965
129	809	Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd	Jazz Samba	1962		Listen
130	820	Bob Dylan	The Times They Are A-Changing	1964		Listen
131	824	John Coltrane	Ascension	1965		Listen
132	826	John Coltrane	Live at the Village Vanguard	1962		Listen
133	827	Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band	Hoodoo Man Blues	1965		Listen
134	830	The Incredible String Band	The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter	1968
135	831	Smokey Robinson and The Miracles	Going to a Go-Go	1965
136	842	James Brown	Live at the Apollo Vol. 2	1968		Listen
137	846	Alexander Skip Spence	Oar	1969		Listen
138	857	Blood, Sweat & Tears	Blood, Sweat & Tears	1969		Listen
139	867	Dr. John	Gris-Gris	1968		Listen
140	879	The Beatles	Beatles for Sale/Beatles '65	1964
141	892	The Sonics	Here Are the Sonics!!!	1965		Listen
142	910	Charles Mingus	Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus	1960		Listen
143	911	Country Joe & The Fish	Electric Music for the Mind and Body	1967		Listen
144	915	Otis Redding	The Dock of the Bay	1968		Listen
145	919	Ike and Tina Turner	River Deep Mountain High	1966
146	922	Chuck Berry	St. Louis to Liverpool	1964
147	929	Traffic	Traffic	1968		Listen
148	934	The Beatles	Magical Mystery Tour	1967
149	938	Andrew Hill	Point of Departure	1964		Listen
150	943	Jefferson Airplane	Volunteers	1969		Listen
151	947	Frank Sinatra	September of My Years	1965		Listen
152	951	The Moody Blues	Days of Future Passed	1967		Listen
153	953	Procol Harum	A Salty Dog	1969		Listen
154	955	The Mamas and the Papas	If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears	1966		Listen
155	958	The Yardbirds	The Yardbirds/Over Under Sideways Down/Roger the Engineer	1966		Listen
156	962	Bob Dylan	Another Side of Bob Dylan	1964		Listen
157	964	The Soft Machine	The Soft Machine	1968		Listen
158	1004	Miles Davis	Miles Smiles	1966		Listen
159	1005	Van Dyke Parks	Song Cycle	1968		Listen
160	1011	Cecil Taylor	Unit Structures	1966		Listen
161	1015	Magic Sam	West Side Soul	1967		Listen
162	1030	Duke Ellington	The Far East Suite	1967		Listen
163	1034	Dexter Gordon	Our Man in Paris	1963		Listen
164	1035	Cream	Fresh Cream	1966		Listen
165	1040	The Mothers of Invention	Absolutely Free	1967		Listen
166	1041	Judy Garland	Judy at Carnegie Hall	1961		Listen
167	1042	The United States of America	The United States of America	1968
168	1044	Charles Mingus	Tijuana Moods/New Tijuana Moods	1964		Listen
169	1050	Paul Butterfield Blues Band	Paul Butterfield Blues Band	1965		Listen
170	1053	13th Floor Elevators	The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators	1966
171	1056	Peter Brötzmann	Machine Gun	1968
172	1063	The Temptations	The Temptations Sing Smokey	1965		Listen
173	1066	Blind Faith	Blind Faith	1969		Listen
174	1069	Jackie McLean	Let Freedom Ring	1962		Listen
175	1070	Jerry Lee Lewis	Live at the Star Club	1965		Listen
176	1075	Muddy Waters	Folk Singer	1964		Listen
177	1093	John Coltrane	John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman	1963		Listen
178	1101	Etta James	Tell Mama	1967
179	1113	Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim	Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim	1967		Listen
180	1129	Joe Cocker	With a Little Help from My Friends	1969		Listen
181	1139	The Pretty Things	S.F. Sorrow	1968		Listen
182	1146	Sonny Rollins	The Bridge	1962
183	1151	Hank Mobley	Soul Station	1960		Listen
184	1158	Santana	Santana	1969		Listen
185	1162	Scott Walker	Scott 3	1969
186	1173	Os Mutantes	Os Mutantes	1968		Listen
187	1177	Duke Ellington with Charles Mingus and Max Roach	Money Jungle	1962		Listen
188	1179	Archie Shepp	Fire Music	1965		Listen
189	1187	Blood, Sweat & Tears	Child Is Father to the Man	1968		Listen
190	1191	Leonard Cohen	Songs from a Room	1969		Listen
191	1209	Fred Neil	Fred Neil/Everybody's Talkin'	1966
192	1210	Miles Davis	Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet	1961		Listen
193	1233	Tim Buckley	Goodbye and Hello	1967		Listen
194	1235	Simon and Garfunkel	Sounds of Silence	1966		Listen
195	1240	Chick Corea	Now He Sings, Now He Sobs	1968		Listen
196	1260	Pentangle	Basket of Light	1969
197	1272	The Rolling Stones	12x5	1964		Listen
198	1288	The Beach Boys	Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)	1965		Listen
199	1292	The Byrds	Turn! Turn! Turn!	1965		Listen
200	1296	Charles Mingus	Mingus at Antibes	1960		Listen

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