The Top Albums from 1968

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	14	The Beatles	The Beatles ("White Album")
2	15	Van Morrison	Astral Weeks		Listen
3	21	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Electric Ladyland		Listen
4	30	The Rolling Stones	Beggars Banquet		Listen
5	80	The Band	Music from Big Pink		Listen
6	126	Aretha Franklin	Lady Soul		Listen
7	167	The Byrds	Sweetheart of the Rodeo		Listen
8	178	Johnny Cash	At Folsom Prison		Listen
9	182	The Velvet Underground	White Light/White Heat		Listen
10	188	The Kinks	The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society		Listen
11	194	The Mothers of Invention	We're Only in It for the Money		Listen
12	231	The Byrds	The Notorious Byrd Brothers		Listen
13	232	Big Brother and The Holding Company	Cheap Thrills		Listen
14	314	Simon and Garfunkel	Bookends		Listen
15	317	The Zombies	Odessey & Oracle		Listen
16	361	Small Faces	Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
17	466	Cream	Wheels of Fire
18	613	Jeff Beck	Truth		Listen
19	676	Dr. John	Gris-Gris		Listen
20	720	The Incredible String Band	The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
21	725	Otis Redding	The Dock of the Bay		Listen
22	727	Laura Nyro	Eli and the Thirteenth Confession		Listen
23	799	Os Mutantes	Os Mutantes		Listen
24	816	The United States of America	The United States of America
25	828	The Soft Machine	The Soft Machine		Listen
26	850	Elvis Presley	Elvis (TV Special)		Listen
27	853	Traffic	Traffic		Listen
28	911	Van Dyke Parks	Song Cycle		Listen
29	972	James Brown	'Live' at the Apollo, Volume II		Listen
30	995	The Pretty Things	S.F. Sorrow		Listen
31	1161	Chick Corea	Now He Sings, Now He Sobs		Listen
32	1220	Peter Brötzmann	Machine Gun
33	1236	Caetano Veloso	Caetano Veloso
34	1243	Miles Davis	Nefertiti		Listen
35	1357	Blood, Sweat & Tears	Child Is Father to the Man		Listen
36	1409	Duke Ellington	And His Mother Called Him Bill		Listen
37	1418	Tom Rush	The Circle Game		Listen
38	1432	Bloomfield - Kooper - Stills	Super Session		Listen
39	1464	Various Artists	Tropicália ou Panis et Circencis		Listen
40	1653	Steve Miller Band	Sailor		Listen
41	1683	The Millennium	Begin		Listen
42	1739	Iron Butterfly	In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida		Listen
43	1754	Kaleidoscope (US)	A Beacon from Mars		Listen
44	1774	Fleetwood Mac	Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
45	1776	Jefferson Airplane	Crown of Creation		Listen
46	1796	The Original Broadway Cast	Hair		Listen
47	1836	Rahsaan Roland Kirk	The Inflated Tear		Listen
48	1864	The Everly Brothers	Roots		Listen
49	1895	The Doors	Waiting for the Sun		Listen
50	1938	Family	Music in a Doll's House		Listen
51	1958	Shivkumar Sharma, Brijbushan Kabra & Hariprasad Chaurasia	Call of the Valley		Listen
52	1965	Serge Gainsbourg	Initials B. B.		Listen
53	1976	Pink Floyd	A Saucerful of Secrets		Listen
54	2016	Grateful Dead	Anthem of the Sun		Listen
55	2051	Anthony Braxton	3 Compositions of New Jazz		Listen
56	2070	Spirit	Spirit		Listen
57	2237	Steppenwolf	Steppenwolf		Listen
58	2261	Pearls Before Swine	Balaklava
59	2268	The Pentangle	Sweet Child		Listen
60	2304	Blue Cheer	Vincebus Eruptum		Listen
61	2417	Otis Redding	The Immortal Otis Redding		Listen
62	2481	José Feliciano	Feliciano!
63	2637	Francoise Hardy	Comment te dire adieu?		Listen
64	2710	Walter Carlos	Switched-On Bach		Listen
65	2819	Randy Newman	Randy Newman		Listen
66	2833	Taj Mahal	The Natch'l Blues		Listen
67	2851	Ennio Morricone	C'era una volta il West / Once Upon a Time in the West		Listen
68	2918	Procol Harum	Shine On Brightly
69	2948	Fairport Convention	Fairport Convention		Listen
70	2963	Silver Apples	Silver Apples		Listen
71	2964	Aretha Franklin	Aretha Now		Listen
72	2979	Nilsson	Aerial Ballet
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Sun Ra and The Arkestra	Sound of Joy		Listen
		Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood	Nancy & Lee
		Bonzo Dog Band	The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse
		Albert King	Live Wire/Blues Power		Listen
		Gilberto Gil	Gilberto Gil		Listen
		The Fugs	Tenderness Junction
		Otis Redding	In Person at the Whisky a Go Go		Listen
		Archie Shepp	The Way Ahead		Listen
		Scott Walker	Scott 2
		David Ackles	David Ackles/The Road to Cairo		Listen
		Jerry Butler	The Ice Man Cometh
		Canned Heat	Boogie with Canned Heat
		Merle Haggard	Mama Tried		Listen
		Terry Riley	In C		Listen
		The Moody Blues	In Search of the Lost Chord		Listen
		Skip James	Devil Got My Woman		Listen
		Spirit	The Family That Plays Together		Listen
		Ravi Shankar	The Sounds of India		Listen
		Judy Collins	Who Knows Where the Time Goes		Listen
		Taj Mahal	Taj Mahal
		Buddy Rich	Mercy, Mercy		Listen
		The Beau Brummels	Bradley's Barn		Listen
		Joni Mitchell	Joni Mitchell/Song to a Seagull		Listen

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