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Your Top 10 Best 60s Albums

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  1. Manny Ramirez

    Manny Ramirez The Music Man

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    Here's the thread on the '60s albums. Just like I did with the '80s (as well as the other decades, I am keeping it one album per artist):

    Top 10:

    Forever Changes - Love
    Disraeli Gears - Cream
    The Band aka Brown Album - The Band
    The Notorious Byrd Brothers - The Byrds
    Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
    In a Silent Way - Miles Davis
    The Doors - The Doors
    Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart
    Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
    Astral Weeks - Van Morrison

    Honorable Mentions:

    A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
    Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones
    Monster Movie - Can
    Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
    Rubber Soul - The Beatles
    The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
    Hot Rats - Frank Zappa
    Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
    Truth - The Jeff Beck Group
    The Who Sell Out - The Who
     
  2. jo mama

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    beatles - revolver
    beatles - abbey road
    beatles - hard days night
    beatles - rubber soul
    beatles - white album
    rolling stones - beggars banquet
    rolling stones - let it bleed
    led zep - I
    led zep - II
    led zep - III
     
  3. arkoe

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    I do not listen to music from before ~1990. Please leave the stale music in the bottom of the bag.
     
  4. BMoney

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    I usually don't participate in these best music threads. I can never make up my mind and it gets too frustrating. Also, there are some genres that I am not familiar with, so my list is surely lacking.

    I've always thought the most exciting time in music history was from '65 to '75, but that was when I was growing up, so naturally I'm rather partial to that time period.

    My top ten for the 60's would probably be almost all Beatles, Stones, Dylan, and Who, and I see those have already been selected by others. So I'm going to list ten others that I think should be considered.

    Traffic - Traffic(the song "Forty Thousand Headmen" has always been a favorite of mine)
    Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
    Neil Young - Everybody know this is nowhere
    Crosby Stills and Nash - Crosby Stills and Nash
    CCR - Green River
    Sly and the Family Stone - Stand
    Santana - Santana
    Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
    Spirit - Spirit(a personal favorite)
    Firesign Theatre - How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All
     
  6. Ottomaton

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  7. BMoney

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    Good call Ottomaton!
     
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    No order

    Blind Faith - Blind Faith
    Face to Face - The Kinks
    Revolver - The Beatles
    Tommy - The Who
    Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
    Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
    Disraeli Gears - Cream
    Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
    CSN - CSN
    Let it Bleed - Rolling Stones

    One per. There would be more Beatles, I think.
     
  9. BigM

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    The Beatles - Revolver
    The Beatles - Rubber Soul
    The Beatles - Abbey Road
    Led Zeppelin - I
    Led Zeppelin - II
    The Beatles - White Album
    The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
    The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
    Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
    The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed

    Honorable Mention to The Beatles albums I left off.
     
  10. IROC it

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    Isn't there much, much more MoTown to mention here?
     
  11. Hmm

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    1) The Doors - The Doors
    2) The Beatles - Rubber Soul
    3) The Doors - Strange Days
    4) The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
    5) Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
    6) The Beatles - Revolver
    7) The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
    8) Otis Redding - Pain in My Heart
    9) Pink Floyd - Pipers at the Gates of Dawn
    10) Otis Redding - Otis Redding Sings Soul

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    11) The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
    12) The Beatles - Help!
    13) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy and the Poor Boys
    14) The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
    15)The Beatles - The Beatles (The White Album)
    16) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country
    17) Elvis - NBC-TV Special
    18) Janis Joplin - Cheap Thrills
    19) The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
    20) The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators.

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    21) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are you Experienced
    22) The 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
    23) Nina Simone - High Priestess of Soul
    24) Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan
    25) Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
    26) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
    27) Roy Orbison - Crying
    28) Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
    29) The Youngbloods - The Youngbloods
    30) The Who - Happy Jack

    So.. so.. so many... You could've at the very least assigned this incomparable decade of music a Top 20, Manny... good lord...


    Honorable mentions, just as to prevent this from getting longer in ranking: The Stooges - The Stooges, Elvis - How Great Thou Art, Joan Baez - Joan Baez, The Who - Tommy, The Lovin' Spoonful - Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful, Muddy Waters at Newport etc etc... enough!
     
  12. Hmm

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    there's much, much more of everything to mention here...
     
  13. Deckard

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    Nice list! I can't even begin to come up with one. The '70's list was like pulling teeth and I had to cop out with the "no particular order" and "there are easily 20 more I could add" thingy. Essentially an impossible task.
     
  14. Manny Ramirez

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    2 problems with Motown and albums:

    1) The Motown formula was such that they would place 2 or 3 hit singles on the album and then fill the rest of the album out with filler whether it was cover versions of existing hits or obvious b-sides. One can make the argument that it was The Beatles and Bob Dylan that really first emphasized the importance of the album and that it should be something listened to in its entirety instead of just for 1 to 3 songs.

    2) Nearly all the Motown albums are out of print, why this is the case is something I don't understand but trying to buy all the early Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye stuff is damn near impossible.
     
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    non beatles, stones and zep top 10

    dylan - highway 61 revisited
    hendrix - electric ladyland
    hendrix - axis bold as love
    the kinks - village green preservation society
    byrds - sweetheart of the rodeo
    miles davis - sketches of spain
    beach boys - smile
    nick drake - bryter layter
    pink floyd - piper at the gates of dawn
    fred neil - bleeker and mcdougal (if you like dylan and have never heard this dude then check him out)
     
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    Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
    The Monks - Black Monk Time
    Can - Monster Movie
    The Stooges - The Stooges
    MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
    Raymond Scott - The Secret 7: The Unexpected
    Eric Dolphy - Out There
    Bubble Puppy - A Gathering of Promises
    Gong - Magick Brother
    The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics
     
  17. thegary

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    as manny started to get at, it's a bit fruitless dicussing greatest albums with regards to the 60's. better, i think, to name top ten solo artists and top ten groups.
     
  18. Hmm

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    I'd think that'd be equally fruitless if not more so... it would merely open the floodgates for a plethora of different "the greatest band of all time" claims... which is pretty absurd...
     
  19. Deckard

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    Saw Bubble Puppy many times. We had mutual friends and went to many of the same parties. There were some killer ones at what used to be the old Weingarten mansion across the bayou from UH. Great band live.
     
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    Patsy Cline - Showcase
    Patsy Cline - Sentimentally Yours
    Elvis Presley - every release
    Herman's Hermits - every release

    beatles suck.
     

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