Dan the List Guy: Best Albums of the 60’s
The List Guy is Dan Reed, Music Director for WXPN. Three times a week, Dan gives his spin on Top 10 musical moments in pop culture.
This decade was very difficult to decide upon which albums were the best, so much so that I had to expand the list to 20 albums. There are many, many more deserving records that could be on here, and my list would probably change if you asked me tomorrow, but here goes nothin’:
1. The Beatles – Revolver (66)
2. The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (67)
3. The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed (69)
4. The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (66)
5. Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited (65)
6. Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison (68)
7. The Who – Tommy (69)
8. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme (64)
9. The Beatles – Abbey Road (69)
10. Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced? (67)
11. Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde (66)
12. Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved A Man The Way That I Love You (67)
13. Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (63)
14. Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (69)
15. The Beatles – The Beatles (The White Album) (68)
16. Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland (68)
17. The Doors – The Doors (67)
18. James Brown – Live At The Apollo (63)
19. Pink Floyd – Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn (67)
20. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico (67)
Great list, Dan - every one of those deserves to be on the list, but the late 60’s especially were such a fertile period for music that you could do a top 20 for each year. Here’s my “supplemental top 10″, not necessarily in order:
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
August 29th, 2007 at 12:30 amBuffalo Springfield - Again
Love - Forever Changes
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
The Band - Music from Big Pink
Procol Harum - A Salty Dog
Crosby Stills and Nash - Crosby Stills and Nash
Santana - Santana
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (I)
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Mothers of Invention - We’re Only in It for the Money
Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Brothers Band
Traffic - Traffic
Big Brother and Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
Moby Grape - Moby Grape
Paul Butterfield Blues Band - East/West
Joni Mitchell - Clouds
Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
Simon and Garfunkel - The Sounds of Silence
Great list, Dan - every one of those deserves to be on the list, but the late 60’s especially were such a fertile period for music that you could do a top 20 for each year. Here’s my “supplemental top 20″, not necessarily in order:
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
August 29th, 2007 at 12:31 amBuffalo Springfield - Again
Love - Forever Changes
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
The Band - Music from Big Pink
Procol Harum - A Salty Dog
Crosby Stills and Nash - Crosby Stills and Nash
Santana - Santana
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (I)
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Mothers of Invention - We’re Only in It for the Money
Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Brothers Band
Traffic - Traffic
Big Brother and Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
Moby Grape - Moby Grape
Paul Butterfield Blues Band - East/West
Joni Mitchell - Clouds
Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
Simon and Garfunkel - The Sounds of Silence
Yours is a great list, Dan. My personal list would have made room for any of the three incredible albums Otis Redding recorded in ‘65-’66: Otis Blue, The Soul Album, and Dictionary of Soul. Also, Sam Cooke’s “Night Beat” and the first Crosby/Stills/Nash album at the end of the decade. Oh yeah, one more–The Band’s “Music from Big Pink.”
August 29th, 2007 at 4:41 pmYeah, I agree with you Stu, on Otis Redding- sorry I omitted him from my list - I’d pick “Otis Blue”.
August 29th, 2007 at 5:56 pmRubber Soul - the Beatles
August 30th, 2007 at 9:44 amAnother glaring omission on Dan’s and my part.
August 30th, 2007 at 10:32 pm