Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1969

The Top Albums from 1969
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	20	The Beatles	Abbey Road
2	36	The Rolling Stones	Let It Bleed		Listen
3	47	The Band	The Band		Listen
4	54	Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	Trout Mask Replica
5	63	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin II		Listen
6	103	Dusty Springfield	Dusty in Memphis		Listen
7	108	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin		Listen
8	113	The Who	Tommy		Listen
9	131	King Crimson	In the Court of the Crimson King
10	151	Nick Drake	Five Leaves Left		Listen
11	161	The Flying Burrito Bros	The Gilded Palace of Sin
12	167	Sly and the Family Stone	Stand!		Listen
13	172	The Velvet Underground	The Velvet Underground		Listen
14	180	Neil Young with Crazy Horse	Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere		Listen
15	181	The Stooges	The Stooges		Listen
16	191	MC5	Kick Out the Jams		Listen
17	209	Frank Zappa	Hot Rats		Listen
18	221	Elvis Presley	From Elvis in Memphis		Listen
19	268	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Green River		Listen
20	344	Isaac Hayes	Hot Buttered Soul		Listen
21	353	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Willy and the Poor Boys		Listen
22	355	Crosby, Stills & Nash	Crosby, Stills & Nash		Listen
23	370	Grateful Dead	Live / Dead		Listen
24	385	Miles Davis	In a Silent Way		Listen
25	398	Fairport Convention	Liege and Lief		Listen
26	412	Scott Walker	Scott 4
27	475	Fairport Convention	Unhalfbricking		Listen
28	514	Tim Buckley	Happy Sad		Listen
29	538	Quicksilver Messenger Service	Happy Trails		Listen
30	591	Bob Dylan	Nashville Skyline		Listen
31	654	The Kinks	Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)		Listen
32	682	Johnny Cash	At San Quentin		Listen
33	822	Frank Zappa	Uncle Meat		Listen
34	890	Leonard Cohen	Songs from a Room		Listen
35	954	Jefferson Airplane	Volunteers
36	955	Blood, Sweat & Tears	Blood, Sweat & Tears		Listen
37	958	Alexander Skip Spence	Oar		Listen
38	984	Procol Harum	A Salty Dog		Listen
39	1034	The Pentangle	Basket of Light
40	1047	Blind Faith	Blind Faith		Listen
41	1271	Santana	Santana		Listen
42	1287	Chicago	The Chicago Transit Authority		Listen
43	1293	Joe Cocker	With a Little Help from My Friends		Listen
44	1297	Scott Walker	Scott 3
45	1350	Jeff Beck	Beck-Ola
46	1357	Nico	The Marble Index		Listen
47	1376	Fleetwood Mac	Then Play On		Listen
48	1384	Terry Riley	A Rainbow in Curved Air
49	1410	Laura Nyro	New York Tendaberry		Listen
50	1440	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Bayou Country		Listen
51	1682	Can	Monster Movie		Listen
52	1702	Kevin Ayers	Joy of a Toy		Listen
53	1711	The Tony Williams Lifetime	Emergency!		Listen
54	1788	Jethro Tull	Stand Up		Listen
55	1825	Grateful Dead	Aoxomoxoa		Listen
56	1880	Pharoah Sanders	Karma		Listen
57	1897	John McLaughlin	Extrapolation		Listen
58	1916	Rod Stewart	An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down/ The Rod Stewart Album		Listen
59	1929	Art Ensemble of Chicago	People in Sorrow
60	1970	The Soft Machine	Volume Two		Listen
61	1973	Tim Buckley	Blue Afternoon
62	2184	The Youngbloods	Elephant Mountain		Listen
63	2271	Karen Dalton	It's So Hard to Tell You Who's Going to Love You the Best		Listen
64	2388	Townes Van Zandt	Our Mother the Mountain
65	2425	Joe Cocker	Joe Cocker!		Listen
66	2433	Moondog	Moondog		Listen
67	2463	Pink Floyd	Ummagumma		Listen
68	2475	Herbie Mann	Memphis Underground		Listen
69	2479	The Temptations	Cloud Nine		Listen
70	2508	Boz Scaggs	Boz Scaggs		Listen
71	2549	George Russell	Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature		Listen
72	2562	Julie Driscoll with Brian Auger & The Trinity	Streetnoise		Listen
73	2572	Amon D��l II	Phallus Dei
74	2615	Os Mutantes	Mutantes
75	2814	Leo Kottke	6 & 12 String Guitar		Listen
76	2826	The Jackson 5	Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5
77	2861	Bee Gees	Odessa		Listen
78	2907	Ten Years After	Ssssh
79	2925	Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra	Atlantis		Listen
80	2942	Jack Bruce	Songs for a Tailor
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Cream	Goodbye		Listen
		Eric Dolphy	Iron Man
		Sir Douglas Quintet	Mendocino		Listen
		Fairport Convention	What We Did On Our Holidays		Listen
		Bukka White	The Legacy of the Blues
		Johnny Winter	Second Winter		Listen
		John Stewart	California Bloodlines		Listen
		Buffy Sainte-Marie	Illuminations		Listen
		Roberta Flack	First Take		Listen
		Aretha Franklin	Soul '69		Listen
		Wayne Shorter	Super Nova		Listen
		Charlie Rich	The Fabulous Charlie Rich		Listen
		The Moody Blues	On the Threshold of a Dream		Listen
		Koko Taylor	Koko Taylor		Listen
		Miles Davis	Filles de Kilimanjaro		Listen
		Don Cherry	Eternal Rhythm		Listen
		Richie Havens	Richard P. Havens, 1983
		Silver Apples	Contact		Listen
		B.B. King	Completely Well		Listen
		Johnny Winter	Johnny Winter		Listen
		Joni Mitchell	Clouds		Listen
		Gal Costa	Gal Costa		Listen
		Phil Ochs	Rehearsals for Retirement		Listen
		Caetano Veloso	Caetano Veloso [1969]		Listen
		Euphoria	A Gift from Euphoria		Listen
		Thunderclap Newman	Hollywood Dream
		John Mayall	The Turning Point		Listen
		Jefferson Airplane	Bless Its Pointed Little Head		Listen
		Colosseum	Valentyne Suite		Listen
		High Tide	Sea Shanties		Listen
		Judy Henske & Jerry Yester	Farewell Aldebaran
		Gal Costa	Gal		Listen