Acclaimed Music - The Top 200 Albums from the 1960s
The Top 200 Albums from the 1960s





Rank All
Time
ArtistAlbumYearBuy 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 6 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 19 The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Electric Ladyland
1968
Listen
11 21 The Doors
The Doors
1967
Listen
12 24 The Beatles
Abbey Road
1969

13 27 The Beatles
Rubber Soul
1965

14 29 The Rolling Stones
Beggar's Banquet
1968
Listen
15 31 The Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed
1969
Listen
16 38 The Band
The Band
1969
Listen
17 39 James Brown
Live at the Apollo
1963
Listen
18 50 Love
Forever Changes
1967
Listen
19 54 Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
Trout Mask Replica
1969

20 56 Otis Redding
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
1965
Listen
21 65 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 73 The Band
Music from Big Pink
1968
Listen
25 84 Aretha Franklin
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
1967
Listen
26 96 Dusty Springfield
Dusty in Memphis
1969
Listen
27 100 Pink Floyd
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
1967
Listen
28 111 Aretha Franklin
Lady Soul
1968
Listen
29 113 The Who
Tommy
1969
Listen
30 131 Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
1969
Listen
31 133 The Rolling Stones
Aftermath
1966
Listen
32 141 King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King
1969

33 155 The Flying Burrito Bros
The Gilded Palace of Sin
1969

34 160 Nick Drake
Five Leaves Left
1969
Listen
35 163 Jefferson Airplane
Surrealistic Pillow
1967
Listen
36 164 The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Axis: Bold as Love
1967
Listen
37 165 The Byrds
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
1968
Listen
38 168 Neil Young with Crazy Horse
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
1969
Listen
39 169 The Mothers of Invention
We're Only in It for the Money
1968
Listen
40 172 Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
1963
Listen
41 174 Sly and the Family Stone
Stand!
1969
Listen
42 177 Cream
Disraeli Gears
1967
Listen
43 180 The Beatles
A Hard Day's Night
1964

44 182 Leonard Cohen
Songs of Leonard Cohen
1968
Listen
45 185 Elvis Presley
From Elvis in Memphis
1969
Listen
46 188 The Velvet Underground
White Light/White Heat
1968
Listen
47 193 The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
1969
Listen
48 195 Johnny Cash
At Folsom Prison
1968
Listen
49 200 The Stooges
The Stooges
1969
Listen
50 203 Frank Zappa
Hot Rats
1969
Listen
51 205 The Byrds
Younger Than Yesterday
1967
Listen
52 213 The Kinks
The Kinks Are Village Green Preservation Society
1968
Listen
53 216 MC5
Kick Out the Jams
1969
Listen
54 221 Big Brother and The Holding Company
Cheap Thrills
1968
Listen
55 223 Creedence Clearwater Revival
Green River
1969
Listen
56 227 The Byrds
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
1968
Listen
57 232 The Who
The Who Sings My Generation
1965
Listen
58 235 Ray Charles
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
1962
Listen
59 249 B.B. King
Live at the Regal
1965
Listen
60 258 The Who
The Who Sell Out
1967
Listen
61 267 The Byrds
Mr. Tambourine Man
1965
Listen
62 268 The Beatles
With the Beatles/Meet the Beatles!
1963

63 279 The Mothers of Invention
Freak Out!
1966
Listen
64 284 Simon and Garfunkel
Bookends
1968
Listen
65 288 John Mayall
Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton
1966