Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1968
The Top Albums from 1968





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Time
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Song
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1 13 Van Morrison
Astral Weeks
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2 15 The Beatles
The Beatles ("The White Album")

3 19 The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Electric Ladyland
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4 29 The Rolling Stones
Beggar's Banquet
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5 73 The Band
Music from Big Pink
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6 111 Aretha Franklin
Lady Soul
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7 165 The Byrds
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
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8 169 The Mothers of Invention
We're Only in It for the Money
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9 182 Leonard Cohen
Songs of Leonard Cohen
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10 188 The Velvet Underground
White Light/White Heat
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11 195 Johnny Cash
At Folsom Prison
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12 213 The Kinks
The Kinks Are Village Green Preservation Society
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13 221 Big Brother and The Holding Company
Cheap Thrills
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14 227 The Byrds
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
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15 284 Simon and Garfunkel
Bookends
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16 355 The Small Faces
Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake

17 383 The Zombies
Odessey & Oracle
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18 422 Cream
Wheels of Fire

19 713 Jeff Beck Group
Truth
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20 759 Laura Nyro
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
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21 810 The Incredible String Band
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

22 843 Elvis Presley
Elvis (TV Special)
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23 858 Otis Redding
The Dock of the Bay
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24 879 Dr. John
Gris-Gris
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25 899 James Brown
Live at the Apollo Vol. 2
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26 951 Van Dyke Parks
Song Cycle
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27 965 Traffic
Traffic
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28 993 The Soft Machine
The Soft Machine
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29 1030 The United States of America
The United States of America

30 1045 Peter Brötzmann
Machine Gun

31 1076 Os Mutantes
Os Mutantes
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32 1137 The Pretty Things
S.F. Sorrow
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33 1149 Blood, Sweat & Tears
Child Is Father to the Man
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34 1337 Chick Corea
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
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35 1395 Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso

36 1405 Duke Ellington
…And His Mother Called Him Bill
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37 1498 Kaleidoscope (US)
A Beacon from Mars
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38 1500 Anthony Braxton
Three Compositions of New Jazz
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39 1580 Bloomfield-Kooper-Stills
Super Session
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40 1595 Rahsaan Roland Kirk
The Inflated Tear
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41 1601 Fleetwood Mac
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac

42 1622 Tom Rush
The Circle Game
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43 1633 Miles Davis
Nefertiti
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44 1647 Family
Music in a Doll's House
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45 1690 Steve Miller Band
Sailor
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46 1789 Millennium
Begin
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47 1804 Anthony Braxton
For Alto
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48 1819 The Doors
Waiting for the Sun
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49 1855 The Original Broadway Cast
Hair
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50 2008 The Everly Brothers
Roots
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51 2027 Iron Butterfly
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
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52 2061 Jefferson Airplane
Crown of Creation
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53 2078 Otis Redding
The Immortal Otis Redding
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54 2110 Pearls Before Swine
Balaklava

55 2122 Pentangle
Sweet Child
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56 2243 Blue Cheer
Vincebus Eruptum
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57 2258 Morton Subotnick
Silver Apples of the Moon for Electric Music Synthesizer
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58 2279 Wendy/Walter Carlos
Switched-On Bach
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59 2281 Spirit
Spirit
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60 2348 Pink Floyd
A Saucerful of Secrets
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61 2356 Grateful Dead
Anthem of the Sun
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62 2404 José Feliciano
Feliciano!

63 2450 Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention
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64 2561 Aretha Franklin
Aretha Now
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65 2633 The Bonzo Dog Band
The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse

66 2801 Ennio Morricone
Once Upon a Time in the West
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67 2978 Procol Harum
Shine On Brightly

Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Randy Newman
Randy Newman
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Otis Redding
In Person at the Whiskey a Go Go
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Albert King
Live Wire/Blues Power