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1 Funkadelic - Funkadelic
2 The Rolling Stones - LET IT BLEED
3 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
4 James Brown - Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud
5 The Stooges - The Stooges
6 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
7 Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
8 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
9 Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!
10 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country
11 Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
12 Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis
13 The Beatles - Abbey Road
14 Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
15 Fleetwood Mac - English Rose
1968;
1 Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
2 The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
3 Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
4 The Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
5 Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
6 The Rolling Stones - BEGGARS BANQUET
7 Nico - Chelsea Girl
8 Dr. John - Gris-Gris
9 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
10 Big Mama Thornton - Ball N' Chain
11 Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
12 The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
13 The Everly Brothers - Roots
14 Traffic - Traffic
15 Ray Barretto - Acid
1967;
1 The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
2 Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
3 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
4 Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello
5 The Doors - The Doors
6 The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
7 Fred Neil - Fred Neil
8 Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
9 The Doors - Strange Days
10 Love - Forever Changes
11 Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again
12 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
13 Sun Ra - Atlantis
14 The Beau Brummels - Triangle
15 Magic Sam - West Side Soul
1966;
1 The Beatles - Revolver
2 Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
3 The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
4 Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
5 The Rolling Stones - AFTERMATH
6 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
7 Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!
8 The Kinks - Face To Face
9 John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton
10 Them - Them Again
11 Paul Revere & the Raiders - Midnight Ride
12 Tim Hardin - Tim Hardin 1
13 The Mamas & The Papas - If You Can't Believe Your Eyes and Ears
14 Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
15 Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - Breakout...!!!
1965;
1 Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
2 The Beatles - Rubber Soul
3 The Rolling Stones - OUT OF OUR HEADS
4 Horace Silver - Song For My Father
5 The Zombies - The Zombies (Featuring She's Not There and Tell Her No)
6 The Who - My Generation
7 The Kinks - You Really Got Me
8 Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch
9 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Going To A Go-Go
10 Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run The Game
11 The Beatles - Help!
12 The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
13 Jackie Wilson - Soul Time
14 Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1
15 The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys Today!
1964;
1 Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
2 John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
3 Terry Callier - The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier
4 Dusty Springfield - A Girl Called Dusty
5 Solomon Burke - Rock 'N' Soul
6 Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News
7 The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones
8 The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go?
9 Jacques Brel - Olympia 64
10 Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan
11 Skip James - Greatest of the Delta Blues Singers
12 The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
13 Mississippi Fred McDowell - My Home Is In The Delta
14 The Rolling Stones - 12 X 5
15 Charles Aznavour - La mamma
1963;
1 Sam Cooke - Night Beat
2 John Barry - From Russia With Love
3 Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
4 Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
5 Link Wray - Jack the Ripper
6 Sam Cooke - Live At The Harlem Square Club
7 Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
8 Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues
9 Ravi Shankar - India's Master Musician
10 Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
11 The Beatles - With the Beatles
12 Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
13 Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond
14 The Beatles - Please Please Me
15 Roy Orbison - In Dreams
1962;
1 James Brown - Live At The Apollo
2 Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Wolf (The Rockin' Chair Album)
3 Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
4 Odetta - Odetta and the blues
5 Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
6 Duke Ellington - Money Jungle
7 Lee Dorsey - Ya Ya
8 Ben E. King - Don't Play That Song
9 Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
10 Booker T. & The MG's - Green Onions
11 Dick Dale - Surfer's Choice
12 Roy Orbison - Crying
13 Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
14 John Lee Hooker - Burnin'
15 The Drifters - Save The Last Dance For Me
1961;
1 Nina Simone - Forbidden Fruit
2 Dizzy Gillespie Quintet - An Electrifying Evening With The Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
3 Jerry Lee Lewis - Jerry Lee's Greatest!
4 Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special
5 Nina Simone - Nina Simone At Newport
6 Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds
7 Elvis Presley - Elvis Is Back
8 Bill Evans - Sunday At The Village Vanguard
9 Duke Ellington with Count Basie's Orchestra - First Time! The Count Meets the Duke
10 Quincy Jones - The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones: Live!
11 Bobby Vee - Bobby Vee
12 Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack
13 Bobby "Blue" Bland - Two Steps From the Blues
14 Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk
15 Ben E. King - Spanish Harlem
1960;
1 Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters at Newport
2 Miriam Makeba - Miriam Makeba
3 Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
4 Ike & Tina Turner - The Soul of Ike & Tina Turner
5 Link Wray - Link Wray & the Wraymen
6 John Lee Hooker - The Country Blues Of John Lee Hooker
7 Etta James - At Last!
8 Eric Dolphy - Out There
9 Oscar Brown Jr - Sin & Soul
10 James Brown - Please Please Please
11 John Coltrane - Giant Steps
12 Joan Baez - Joan Baez
13 Blind Willie McTell - Last Session
14 Gil Evans Orchestra - Out of the Cool
15 Dinah Washington - What A Diff'rence A Day Makes!
See also;
Best Albums of The Late Fifties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y26bt_best_albums_of_the_late_fifties_%281956-1959%29
Best albums of The Seventies;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y22fg_best_albums_of_the_seventies_%281970-1979%29
Best Albums of the Eighties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y24lq_best_albums_of_the_eighties_%281980-1989%29
Best Albums of The Nineties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y25kn_best_albums_of_the_nineties_%281990-1999%29
Best Albums of The Noughties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/09/08/2zux3s_best_albums_of_the_noughties_%282000-2009%29
1 Funkadelic - Funkadelic
2 The Rolling Stones - LET IT BLEED
3 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
4 James Brown - Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud
5 The Stooges - The Stooges
6 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
7 Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
8 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
9 Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!
10 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country
11 Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
12 Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis
13 The Beatles - Abbey Road
14 Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
15 Fleetwood Mac - English Rose
1968;
1 Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
2 The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
3 Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
4 The Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
5 Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
6 The Rolling Stones - BEGGARS BANQUET
7 Nico - Chelsea Girl
8 Dr. John - Gris-Gris
9 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
10 Big Mama Thornton - Ball N' Chain
11 Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
12 The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
13 The Everly Brothers - Roots
14 Traffic - Traffic
15 Ray Barretto - Acid
1967;
1 The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
2 Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
3 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
4 Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello
5 The Doors - The Doors
6 The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
7 Fred Neil - Fred Neil
8 Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
9 The Doors - Strange Days
10 Love - Forever Changes
11 Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again
12 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
13 Sun Ra - Atlantis
14 The Beau Brummels - Triangle
15 Magic Sam - West Side Soul
1966;
1 The Beatles - Revolver
2 Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
3 The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
4 Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
5 The Rolling Stones - AFTERMATH
6 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
7 Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!
8 The Kinks - Face To Face
9 John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton
10 Them - Them Again
11 Paul Revere & the Raiders - Midnight Ride
12 Tim Hardin - Tim Hardin 1
13 The Mamas & The Papas - If You Can't Believe Your Eyes and Ears
14 Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
15 Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - Breakout...!!!
1965;
1 Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
2 The Beatles - Rubber Soul
3 The Rolling Stones - OUT OF OUR HEADS
4 Horace Silver - Song For My Father
5 The Zombies - The Zombies (Featuring She's Not There and Tell Her No)
6 The Who - My Generation
7 The Kinks - You Really Got Me
8 Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch
9 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Going To A Go-Go
10 Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run The Game
11 The Beatles - Help!
12 The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
13 Jackie Wilson - Soul Time
14 Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1
15 The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys Today!
1964;
1 Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
2 John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
3 Terry Callier - The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier
4 Dusty Springfield - A Girl Called Dusty
5 Solomon Burke - Rock 'N' Soul
6 Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News
7 The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones
8 The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go?
9 Jacques Brel - Olympia 64
10 Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan
11 Skip James - Greatest of the Delta Blues Singers
12 The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
13 Mississippi Fred McDowell - My Home Is In The Delta
14 The Rolling Stones - 12 X 5
15 Charles Aznavour - La mamma
1963;
1 Sam Cooke - Night Beat
2 John Barry - From Russia With Love
3 Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
4 Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
5 Link Wray - Jack the Ripper
6 Sam Cooke - Live At The Harlem Square Club
7 Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
8 Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues
9 Ravi Shankar - India's Master Musician
10 Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
11 The Beatles - With the Beatles
12 Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
13 Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond
14 The Beatles - Please Please Me
15 Roy Orbison - In Dreams
1962;
1 James Brown - Live At The Apollo
2 Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Wolf (The Rockin' Chair Album)
3 Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
4 Odetta - Odetta and the blues
5 Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
6 Duke Ellington - Money Jungle
7 Lee Dorsey - Ya Ya
8 Ben E. King - Don't Play That Song
9 Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
10 Booker T. & The MG's - Green Onions
11 Dick Dale - Surfer's Choice
12 Roy Orbison - Crying
13 Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
14 John Lee Hooker - Burnin'
15 The Drifters - Save The Last Dance For Me
1961;
1 Nina Simone - Forbidden Fruit
2 Dizzy Gillespie Quintet - An Electrifying Evening With The Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
3 Jerry Lee Lewis - Jerry Lee's Greatest!
4 Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special
5 Nina Simone - Nina Simone At Newport
6 Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds
7 Elvis Presley - Elvis Is Back
8 Bill Evans - Sunday At The Village Vanguard
9 Duke Ellington with Count Basie's Orchestra - First Time! The Count Meets the Duke
10 Quincy Jones - The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones: Live!
11 Bobby Vee - Bobby Vee
12 Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack
13 Bobby "Blue" Bland - Two Steps From the Blues
14 Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk
15 Ben E. King - Spanish Harlem
1960;
1 Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters at Newport
2 Miriam Makeba - Miriam Makeba
3 Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
4 Ike & Tina Turner - The Soul of Ike & Tina Turner
5 Link Wray - Link Wray & the Wraymen
6 John Lee Hooker - The Country Blues Of John Lee Hooker
7 Etta James - At Last!
8 Eric Dolphy - Out There
9 Oscar Brown Jr - Sin & Soul
10 James Brown - Please Please Please
11 John Coltrane - Giant Steps
12 Joan Baez - Joan Baez
13 Blind Willie McTell - Last Session
14 Gil Evans Orchestra - Out of the Cool
15 Dinah Washington - What A Diff'rence A Day Makes!
See also;
Best Albums of The Late Fifties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y26bt_best_albums_of_the_late_fifties_%281956-1959%29
Best albums of The Seventies;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y22fg_best_albums_of_the_seventies_%281970-1979%29
Best Albums of the Eighties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y24lq_best_albums_of_the_eighties_%281980-1989%29
Best Albums of The Nineties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y25kn_best_albums_of_the_nineties_%281990-1999%29
Best Albums of The Noughties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/09/08/2zux3s_best_albums_of_the_noughties_%282000-2009%29
