Top Albums of 1968





Rank All Time Rank Artist Album Genres
1
13
The Beatles The Beatles ["White Album"] Pop Rock
2
15
Van Morrison Astral Weeks Chamber Folk, Singer/Songwriter
3
31
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland Acid Rock, Blues Rock
4
39
The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet Rock
5
93
The Band Music from Big Pink Folk Rock, Roots Rock
6
143
Aretha Franklin Lady Soul Southern Soul
7
145
Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison Country
8
185
The Kinks The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society Pop Rock
9
190
The Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo Country Rock
10
199
The Velvet Underground White Light / White Heat Art Rock, Experimental Rock, Noise Rock, Proto-Punk
11
235
Big Brother and The Holding Company Cheap Thrills Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock
12
288
The Zombies Odessey & Oracle Baroque Pop, Psychedelic Pop
13
294
The Mothers of Invention We're Only in It for the Money Experimental Rock, Satire
14
319
The Byrds The Notorious Byrd Brothers Folk Rock, Pop Rock
15
372
Simon and Garfunkel Bookends Folk Pop, Folk Rock
16
533
Small Faces Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake Mod, Psychedelic Pop, Psychedelic Rock
17
702
Cream Wheels of Fire Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock
18
783
The Incredible String Band The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter Psychedelic Folk
19
793
Dr. John Gris-Gris New Orleans R&B, Psychedelic Rock
20
808
Jeff Beck Truth Blues Rock, Hard Rock
21
843
Otis Redding The Dock of the Bay Southern Soul
22
855
Os Mutantes Os Mutantes Psychedelic Rock, Tropicália
23
861
Laura Nyro Eli and the Thirteenth Confession Blue Eyed Soul, Pop Soul, Rhythm & Blues, Singer/Songwriter
24
948
The United States of America The United States of America Art Rock, Experimental Rock, Psychedelic Rock
25
1014
The Pretty Things S.F. Sorrow Psychedelic Rock, Rock Opera
26
1095
Peter Brötzmann Machine Gun European Free Jazz
27
1150
The Soft Machine The Soft Machine Canterbury Scene, Psychedelic Rock
28
1185
Blue Cheer Vincebus Eruptum Acid Rock, Blues Rock, Heavy Psych
29
1262
Traffic Traffic Psychedelic Rock
30
1303
Terry Riley In C Indeterminacy, Minimalism
31
1341
Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Acid Rock, Heavy Psych
32
1343
Miles Davis Nefertiti Modal Jazz, Post-Bop
33
1358
Elvis Presley Elvis (Original Soundtrack Recording From His NBC-TV Special) Pop Rock, Rock & Roll
34
1378
James Brown 'Live' at the Apollo, Volume II Funk, Soul
35
1396
Nico The Marble Index Avant-Folk, Chamber Folk
36
1472
Blood, Sweat & Tears Child Is Father to the Man Jazz-Rock, Psychedelic Pop
37
1491
Silver Apples Silver Apples Electronic, Psychedelic Rock
38
1513
Magic Sam West Side Soul Chicago Blues
39
1522
Caetano Veloso Caetano Veloso Tropicália
40
1531
Serge Gainsbourg Initials B. B. Baroque Pop, Chanson, French Pop
41
1605
Chick Corea Now He Sings, Now He Sobs Post-Bop
42
1613
Cecil Taylor Conquistador! Free Jazz
43
1635
Bloomfield - Kooper - Stills Super Session Blues Rock, Electric Blues
44
1667
Etta James Tell Mama Southern Soul
45
1682
Ennio Morricone C'era una volta il West / Once Upon a Time in the West Film Score, Spaghetti Western
46
1687
Randy Newman Randy Newman Baroque Pop, Singer/Songwriter
47
1796
Various Artists Tropicália ou Panis et Circencis Tropicália
48
1830
Family Music in a Doll's House Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock
49
1844
Steppenwolf Steppenwolf Hard Rock, Psychedelic Rock
50
1939
Rahsaan Roland Kirk The Inflated Tear Post-Bop
51
1962
The Millennium Begin Psychedelic Pop, Sunshine Pop
52
2035
Aretha Franklin Aretha Now Southern Soul
53
2049
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood Nancy & Lee Baroque Pop, Country Pop
54
2062
The Original Broadway Cast Hair Psychedelic Pop, Show Tunes
55
2077
Walter Carlos Switched-On Bach Baroque Music, Electronic
56
2140
Shivkumar Sharma, Brijbushan Kabra & Hariprasad Chaurasia Call of the Valley Hindustani Classical Music
57
2159
Duke Ellington ...And His Mother Called Him Bill Big Band, Swing
58
2219
Kaleidoscope (US) A Beacon from Mars Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock
59
2227
Tom Rush The Circle Game Contemporary Folk
60
2262
Fleetwood Mac Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac Blues Rock, British Blues
61
2274
The Doors Waiting for the Sun Psychedelic Rock
62
2537
Gilberto Gil Gilberto Gil Tropicália
63
2577
Nilsson Aerial Ballet Baroque Pop
64
2641
The Everly Brothers Roots Close Harmony, Country Pop
65
2709
Merle Haggard Mama Tried Bakersfield Sound
66
2799
Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets Psychedelic Rock
67
2813
Jefferson Airplane Crown of Creation Acid Rock
68
2840
Grateful Dead Anthem of the Sun Jam Band, Psychedelic Rock, Yacht Rock
69
2911
Pearls Before Swine Balaklava Psychedelic Folk
70
2913
Scott Walker Scott 2 Baroque Pop
71
2973
Anthony Braxton 3 Compositions of New Jazz Avant-Garde Jazz
72
2976
Steve Miller Band Sailor Psychedelic Rock
73
2979
Taj Mahal The Natch'l Blues Blues
74
2988
Canned Heat Boogie with Canned Heat Boogie Rock

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Procol Harum Shine On Brightly Art Rock, Progressive Rock
Otis Redding The Immortal Otis Redding Southern Soul
José Feliciano Feliciano! Latin Pop
Sun Ra and The Arkestra Sound of Joy Post-Bop
Spirit Spirit Psychedelic Rock
Albert King Live Wire/Blues Power Electric Blues
The Pentangle Sweet Child British Folk Rock, Folk Baroque, Progressive Folk
Taj Mahal Taj Mahal Electric Blues
Françoise Hardy Comment te dire adieu? Chanson, French Pop
Fairport Convention Fairport Convention British Folk Rock
Otis Redding In Person at the Whisky a Go Go Deep Soul
The Moody Blues In Search of the Lost Chord Progressive Pop, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Pop
The Fugs Tenderness Junction Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Bonzo Dog Band The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse Comedy Rock, Psychedelic Pop, Satire
Jerry Butler The Ice Man Cometh Pop Soul
Archie Shepp The Way Ahead Free Jazz
David Ackles David Ackles/The Road to Cairo Singer/Songwriter
Silver Apples Contact Electronic, Experimental Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Spirit The Family That Plays Together Psychedelic Rock
Judy Collins Who Knows Where the Time Goes Contemporary Folk, Folk Rock
Skip James Devil Got My Woman Delta Blues
Buddy Rich Mercy, Mercy Big Band
The Beau Brummels Bradley's Barn Country Rock, Folk Rock
Joni Mitchell Joni Mitchell/Song to a Seagull Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter