Acclaimed Music - The Top 200 Albums from the 1960s

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	14	The Beatles	The Beatles ("White Album")	1968
9	15	Van Morrison	Astral Weeks	1968		Listen
10	21	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Electric Ladyland	1968		Listen
11	22	The Beatles	Abbey Road	1969
12	24	The Doors	The Doors	1967		Listen
13	29	The Beatles	Rubber Soul	1965
14	30	The Rolling Stones	Beggars Banquet	1968		Listen
15	36	The Rolling Stones	Let It Bleed	1969		Listen
16	39	James Brown	'Live' at the Apollo	1963		Listen
17	44	The Band	The Band	1969		Listen
18	47	Love	Forever Changes	1967		Listen
19	50	Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	Trout Mask Replica	1969
20	58	Otis Redding	Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul	1965		Listen
21	61	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin II	1969		Listen
22	65	John Coltrane	A Love Supreme	1965		Listen
23	70	Bob Dylan	Bringing It All Back Home	1965		Listen
24	79	Aretha Franklin	I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You	1967		Listen
25	80	The Band	Music from Big Pink	1968		Listen
26	95	Pink Floyd	The Piper at the Gates of Dawn	1967		Listen
27	101	Dusty Springfield	Dusty in Memphis	1969		Listen
28	108	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin	1969		Listen
29	110	The Who	Tommy	1969		Listen
30	122	The Rolling Stones	Aftermath	1966		Listen
31	126	Aretha Franklin	Lady Soul	1968		Listen
32	127	King Crimson	In the Court of the Crimson King	1969
33	136	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Axis: Bold as Love	1967		Listen
34	148	Nick Drake	Five Leaves Left	1969		Listen
35	156	The Flying Burrito Bros	The Gilded Palace of Sin	1969
36	162	Sly and the Family Stone	Stand!	1969		Listen
37	163	Cream	Disraeli Gears	1967		Listen
38	167	The Byrds	Sweetheart of the Rodeo	1968		Listen
39	168	The Velvet Underground	The Velvet Underground	1969		Listen
40	169	Jefferson Airplane	Surrealistic Pillow	1967		Listen
41	170	Leonard Cohen	Songs of Leonard Cohen	1967		Listen
42	172	Bob Dylan	The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	1963		Listen
43	175	The Beatles	A Hard Day's Night	1964
44	176	Neil Young with Crazy Horse	Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere	1969		Listen
45	178	Johnny Cash	At Folsom Prison	1968		Listen
46	181	The Stooges	The Stooges	1969		Listen
47	182	The Velvet Underground	White Light/White Heat	1968		Listen
48	188	The Kinks	The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society	1968		Listen
49	194	The Mothers of Invention	We're Only in It for the Money	1968		Listen
50	198	MC5	Kick Out the Jams	1969		Listen
51	200	Frank Zappa	Hot Rats	1969		Listen
52	215	Elvis Presley	From Elvis in Memphis	1969		Listen
53	217	The Byrds	Younger Than Yesterday	1967		Listen
54	223	The Mothers of Invention	Freak Out!	1966		Listen
55	228	The Byrds	Mr. Tambourine Man	1965		Listen
56	231	The Byrds	The Notorious Byrd Brothers	1968		Listen
57	232	Big Brother and The Holding Company	Cheap Thrills	1968		Listen
58	236	Ray Charles	Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music	1962		Listen
59	248	The Who	My Generation/The Who Sings My Generation	1965		Listen
60	255	The Who	The Who Sell Out	1967		Listen
61	260	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Green River	1969		Listen
62	282	The Beatles	With the Beatles/Meet the Beatles!	1963
63	285	The Kinks	Something Else by the Kinks	1967		Listen
64	286	B.B. King	Live at the Regal	1965		Listen
65	298	Eric Dolphy	Out to Lunch!	1964		Listen
66	302	John Mayall	Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton	1966		Listen
67	314	Simon and Garfunkel	Bookends	1968		Listen
68	317	The Zombies	Odessey & Oracle	1968		Listen
69	329	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Willy and the Poor Boys	1969		Listen
70	330	Crosby, Stills and Nash	Crosby, Stills and Nash	1969		Listen
71	334	John Coltrane	Giant Steps	1960		Listen
72	339	Isaac Hayes	Hot Buttered Soul	1969		Listen
73	349	Stan Getz and Jo�o Gilberto	Getz/Gilberto [featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim]	1964		Listen
74	353	Grateful Dead	Live / Dead	1969		Listen
75	361	Small Faces	Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake	1968
76	364	Miles Davis	Sketches of Spain	1960		Listen
77	366	Miles Davis	In a Silent Way	1969		Listen
78	367	Buffalo Springfield	Buffalo Springfield Again	1967		Listen
79	384	Fairport Convention	Liege and Lief	1969		Listen
80	387	Charles Mingus	The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady	1963		Listen
81	394	Bob Dylan	John Wesley Harding	1967		Listen
82	396	Moby Grape	Moby Grape	1967		Listen
83	399	Scott Walker	Scott 4	1969
84	410	Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	Safe as Milk	1967		Listen
85	417	The Rolling Stones	The Rolling Stones/England's Newest Hitmakers	1964
86	420	Bobby Bland	Two Steps from the Blues	1961		Listen
87	423	Howlin' Wolf	Howlin' Wolf	1962		Listen
88	453	Oliver Nelson	The Blues and the Abstract Truth	1961		Listen
89	465	Bill Evans	Sunday at the Village Vanguard	1961		Listen
90	466	Cream	Wheels of Fire	1968
91	467	Various Artists	A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records/Phil Spector	1963		Listen
92	475	The Beatles	Please Please Me/Introducing�The Beatles	1963
93	480	Fairport Convention	Unhalfbricking	1969		Listen
94	484	Herbie Hancock	Maiden Voyage	1965		Listen
95	492	Tim Buckley	Happy Sad	1969		Listen
96	496	John Coltrane	My Favorite Things	1961		Listen
97	501	Muddy Waters	Muddy Waters at Newport 1960	1960		Listen
98	518	Quicksilver Messenger Service	Happy Trails	1969		Listen
99	532	The Kinks	Face to Face	1966		Listen
100	534	Albert Ayler	Spiritual Unity	1964		Listen
101	537	Ornette Coleman	Free Jazz	1961		Listen
102	550	The Doors	Strange Days	1967		Listen
103	560	Bill Evans	Waltz for Debby	1961		Listen
104	562	The Rolling Stones	Between the Buttons	1967		Listen
105	581	Bob Dylan	Nashville Skyline	1969		Listen
106	587	Elvis Presley	Elvis Is Back!	1960
107	595	The Beatles	Help!	1965
108	604	Traffic	Mr. Fantasy	1967		Listen
109	611	Wayne Shorter	Speak No Evil	1965		Listen
110	613	Jeff Beck	Truth	1968		Listen
111	628	The Kinks	Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)	1969		Listen
112	638	The Rolling Stones	No. 2/The Rolling Stones Now!	1965		Listen
113	639	Johnny Cash	At San Quentin	1969		Listen
114	645	The Rolling Stones	Out of Our Heads	1965
115	676	Dr. John	Gris-Gris	1968		Listen
116	701	Simon and Garfunkel	Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme	1966		Listen
117	715	The Beach Boys	The Beach Boys Today!	1965		Listen
118	719	Albert King	Born Under a Bad Sign	1967		Listen
119	720	The Incredible String Band	The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter	1968
120	721	Otis Redding	Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul	1966		Listen
121	724	The Byrds	Fifth Dimension	1966		Listen
122	725	Otis Redding	The Dock of the Bay	1968		Listen
123	727	Laura Nyro	Eli and the Thirteenth Confession	1968		Listen
124	731	Lee Morgan	The Sidewinder	1964		Listen
125	748	Them	The Angry Young Them/Them (featuring Here Comes the Night)	1965
126	756	Ike and Tina Turner	River Deep - Mountain High	1966
127	765	Wes Montgomery	The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery	1960		Listen
128	768	Gil Evans	Out of the Cool	1961		Listen
129	771	Frank Zappa	Uncle Meat	1969		Listen
130	779	Bob Dylan	The Times They Are A-Changin'	1964		Listen
131	783	Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane	Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane	1961
132	796	Smokey Robinson and The Miracles	Going to a Go-Go	1965
133	799	Os Mutantes	Os Mutantes	1968		Listen
134	804	John Coltrane	Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard	1962		Listen
135	809	Horace Silver	Song for My Father	1965		Listen
136	816	The United States of America	The United States of America	1968
137	822	Leonard Cohen	Songs from a Room	1969		Listen
138	824	Charles Mingus	Blues and Roots	1960		Listen
139	828	The Soft Machine	The Soft Machine	1968		Listen
140	843	Tim Buckley	Goodbye and Hello	1967		Listen
141	844	The Mamas and the Papas	If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears	1966		Listen
142	850	Elvis Presley	Elvis (TV Special)	1968		Listen
143	853	Traffic	Traffic	1968		Listen
144	864	Charles Mingus	Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus	1960		Listen
145	879	Blood, Sweat & Tears	Blood, Sweat & Tears	1969		Listen
146	881	Ornette Coleman	Change of the Century	1960		Listen
147	882	Alexander Skip Spence	Oar	1969		Listen
148	885	Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band	Hoodoo Man Blues	1965		Listen
149	906	The Beatles	Beatles for Sale/Beatles '65	1964
150	907	Jefferson Airplane	Volunteers	1969
151	911	Van Dyke Parks	Song Cycle	1968		Listen
152	921	The Sonics	Here Are the Sonics!!!	1965		Listen
153	922	Jerry Lee Lewis	Live at the Star Club, Hamburg	1964		Listen
154	926	Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd	Jazz Samba	1962		Listen
155	935	The Beatles	Magical Mystery Tour	1967
156	939	Procol Harum	A Salty Dog	1969		Listen
157	942	The Moody Blues	Days of Future Passed	1967		Listen
158	948	Cream	Fresh Cream	1966		Listen
159	951	Otis Redding	Live in Europe	1967		Listen
160	953	Charles Mingus	Tijuana Moods/New Tijuana Moods	1962		Listen
161	963	Yardbirds	Yardbirds/Over Under Sideways Down/Roger the Engineer	1966		Listen
162	964	Andrew Hill	Point of Departure	1965		Listen
163	972	James Brown	'Live' at the Apollo, Volume II	1968		Listen
164	984	13th Floor Elevators	The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators	1966
165	986	Max Roach	We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite	1961
166	993	Sam Cooke	Night Beat	1963		Listen
167	995	The Pretty Things	S.F. Sorrow	1968		Listen
168	998	Blind Faith	Blind Faith	1969		Listen
169	1008	John Coltrane	Ascension	1966		Listen
170	1027	Judy Garland	Judy at Carnegie Hall	1961		Listen
171	1037	Simon and Garfunkel	Sounds of Silence	1966		Listen
172	1043	Country Joe & The Fish	Electric Music for the Mind and Body	1967		Listen
173	1067	Duke Ellington with Charles Mingus and Max Roach	Money Jungle	1962		Listen
174	1072	The Mothers of Invention	Absolutely Free	1967		Listen
175	1075	The Pentangle	Basket of Light	1969
176	1088	Fred Neil	Fred Neil/Everybody's Talkin'	1966
177	1115	Bob Dylan	Another Side of Bob Dylan	1964		Listen
178	1119	Dexter Gordon	Our Man in Paris	1963		Listen
179	1142	Magic Sam	West Side Soul	1967		Listen
180	1153	Hank Mobley	Soul Station	1960		Listen
181	1160	Chuck Berry	St. Louis to Liverpool	1964
182	1161	Chick Corea	Now He Sings, Now He Sobs	1968		Listen
183	1165	Miles Davis	Miles Smiles	1967		Listen
184	1172	Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim	Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim	1967		Listen
185	1184	Duke Ellington	Far East Suite	1967		Listen
186	1186	Etta James	Tell Mama	1967
187	1194	Frank Sinatra	September of My Years	1965		Listen
188	1204	Santana	Santana	1969		Listen
189	1211	Muddy Waters	Folk Singer	1964		Listen
190	1212	The Beach Boys	Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)	1965		Listen
191	1220	Peter Br�tzmann	Machine Gun	1968
192	1221	Cecil Taylor	Unit Structures	1966		Listen
193	1223	Sonny Rollins	The Bridge	1962
194	1235	Scott Walker	Scott 3	1969
195	1236	Caetano Veloso	Caetano Veloso	1968
196	1237	John Coltrane	John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman	1963		Listen
197	1243	Miles Davis	Nefertiti	1968		Listen
198	1246	Joe Cocker	With a Little Help from My Friends	1969		Listen
199	1251	Archie Shepp	Fire Music	1965		Listen
200	1258	Chicago	The Chicago Transit Authority	1969		Listen