Top 50 Albums Of The 1960's As Picked By You
 

Yes, yes it is that time. Point system will be as follows: #1-50,#2-49,#3-48, etc...PM me your official completed lists. Also, I was thinking about maybe doing a separate list for jazz/soul records, since a lot of lists will be sticking to rock/folk music anyways. Results will be posted in two weeks.

Enjoy.

EDIT: Due to the nature of this decade and an overall concurring consensus you may also include/substitute 10 singles in your list.

Beggars Banquet-Rolling Stones
It's almost noise rock.

No particular order mixing all genres:

John Coltrane - Ascension
Os Mutantes - S/T
James Brown - Live At The Apollo Volume 2
Amon Duul - Psychedelic Underground
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
The United States Of America - S/T
Caetano Veloso - Tropicalia
Dyke and His Blazers - The Funky Broadway
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Muddy Waters - Electric Mudd
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
Sun Ra - Atlantis
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Miles Davis - Silent Way
Silver Apples - Contact
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out
Charles Mingus - Mingu Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
Charlie Nothing - The Psychedelic Sax Of..
Robbie Basho - Falconer's Arm Vol.II
The Shaggs - Philosophy Of The World
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - A Jackson In Your House
Rolling Stones - Her Satanic Majesties Request
VU - With Nico
The MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Rashaan Roland Kirk - Rip,Rigand Panic
The Stooges - S/T
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
The Monks - Black Monk Time
The Seeds - Future
isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
Them - Them Again
Count Five - Psychotic Reaction
Soft Machine - Volume 1
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
The Sonics - Introducing The Sonics
Captain Beefheart - Safe As Milk
The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird
Electric Prunes - Underground
John Fahey - Transfiguration Of Blind Joe Death
Red Krayola - Parable Arable
Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Ultimate Spinach - S/T
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space
Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn
The Kinks - Face To Face
Donovan - Wear Your Love Like Heaven
Hmm...I know I'm missing some, but oh well I think thats 50

This is going to be the most difficult list so far.

I predict Trout Mask Replica #1, but I don't think I'll put it anywhere near that high on my list.

Number one will go to a Beatles or VU album. I can't see TMR winning this, as popular as it is on here.

I'm going to abstain from voting
because my knowledge of 60's albums is pretty limited

My personal favorites of the sixties in order:
1. Revolver by The Beatles
2. Freak Out by Frank Zappa
3. S/T by The Stooges
4. Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan
5. Buffalo Springfield Again by Buffalo Springfield
6. Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground
7. Bringing it all Back Home by Bob Dylan
8. Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
9. Everybody Knows this is Nowhere by Neil Young
10. Here are the Sonics! by The Sonics
11. Kick Out The Jams by MC5
12. Are you Experienced by Jimi Hendrix
13. Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th floor Elevators by The 13th floor elevators
14. We're Only in it for the money by Frank Zappa
15. Vincebus Eruptum by Blue Cheer
16. Hot Rats by Frank Zappa
17. Forever Changes by Love
18. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles
19. The Doors S/T by The Doors
20. Freewheelin Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan

1. Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
2. The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
3. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
4. Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
5. The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
6. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
7. Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
8. The Doors - The Doors
9. The Stooges - The Stooges
10. MC5 - Kick Out the Jams

For as much great ''underground'' stuff that came out in the sixties, that by now is fairly easy to obtain, I'm hoping for at least a diverse top 15. Its hard to say that the beatles or velvets or beefheart didn't make the best album of the sixties, because, well, even in the context of this message board, they probably did to most posters.

You're the boss for this poll.
The result depends mainly ( only? ) on you.

I may the boss in that I'm tallying up the totals, but it is up to you all to send your lists.

I wanna give this one more thought

I would think that #1 would be a fight between The White Album and The Velvet Underground and Nico given this is the Sonic Youth board.

I'm not even sure if I can do this one. My '60s tastes are more all over the map than any of the decades we've featured so far. I don't have clear favorites nearly so much.

VU and Nico, cause this is a Sonic Youth board ( as you said ), and it has such a banana on the sleeve!

1. John Coltrane – Ascension
2. Charles Mingus – The black saint and the sinner lady
3. Jazz Composer’s Orchestra – Communications
4. Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
5. Ornette Coleman – Free jazz
6. Don Cherry – Eternal rhythm
7. Dave Burrell – Echo
8. John Coltrane – A love supreme
9. Velvet Underground – White light / white heat
10. Doors – The Doors
11. John Coltrane – Meditations
12. United States of America – The United States of America
13. Leonard Cohen – The songs of
14. King Crimson – In the court of the crimson king
15. Tim Buckley – Happy sad
16. Bobby Hutcherson – Dialogue
17. John Coltrane – My favorite things
18. Prince Lasha & Sonny Simmons – Firebirds
19. Sam Rivers – Contours
20. Cecil Taylor – Unit structures
21. Pharoah Sanders – Karma
22. Krzysztof Komeda – Astigmatic
23. Nico – The marble index
24. Sonny Sharrock – Black woman
25. Luciano Berio – Sinfonia
26. Max Roach – Percussion bitter sweet
27. Eric Dolphy – Iron man
28. John Coltrane – Kulu sé mama
29. Eric Dolphy – Out to lunch
30. Rahsaan Roland Kirk – The inflated tear
31. Terry Riley – In C
32. Sly and the Family Stone – Stand!
33. Zombies – Odessey and oracle
34. Jacqueline Danno – Lorca
35. Gal Costa – Gal
36. Jimi Hendrix – Are you experienced?
37. Duke Ellington, Max Roach & Charles Mingus – Money jungle
38. McCoy Tyner – The real McCoy
39. Holy Modal Rounders – Indian war whoop
40. Captain Beefheart – Trout mask replica
41. Pink Floyd – A saucerful of secrets
42. Don Cherry – Symphony for improvisers
43. Patty Waters – Sings
44. Manfred Schoof – European echoes
45. Charles Tolliver – The ringer
46. C.A. Quintet – Trip thru hell
47. Jackson 5 – Diana Ross presents the Jackson 5
48. Giacinto Scelsi – Natura renovatur
49. Wendy and Bonnie – Genesis
50. Love – Forever changes

Wow, no Cheap Thrills? Big Brother & the Holding Company? .. lame

O.k., here's my list. I can't believe how many great records I ended up cutting to just get 50. I kept it to one record per artist to include as many different people as possible.

1) Sun Ra - Atlantis
2) Beatles – Revolver
3) Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat
4) The Sonics – Here Are The Sonics
5) Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced
6) The Stooges
7) John Cage – Rozart Mix
8) Rolling Stones – Let it Bleed
9) Captain Beefhart and the Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica
10) Harry Partch - And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma
11) Pink Floyd – Piper at the Gates of Dawn
12) Terry Riley – In C
13) Nico – The Marble Index
14) Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte
15) James Brown – Live at the Apollo
16) The Who – My Generation
17) Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
18) The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
19) MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
20) David Bowie - Space Oddity
21) Howlin Wolf
22) Nina Simone – Wild is the Wind
23) The Monks – Black Monk Time
24) White Noise – An Electric Storm
25) The Byrds – Fifth Dimension
26) John Coltrane – Om
27) The Kinks
28) Albert Ayler – Spiritual Unity
29) Songs of Leonard Cohen
30) Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis / Pithoprakta / Eonta
31) Ramsey Lewis – Mother Nature’s Son
32) Cream – Disraeli Gears
33) Donovan – Sunshine Superman
34) Miles Davis – Sketches of Spain
35) John Fahey – The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
36) Frank Comstock: Project – Music from Outer Space
37) Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention – We’re Only in It for the Money
38) Led Zeppelin I
39) Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left
40) The Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow
41) Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
42) Credence Clearwater Revival – Green River
43) Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood – Nancy & Lee
44) Tim Buckley – Happy Sad
45) The Fugs (Second Album)
46) Ornette Coleman – Forms and Sounds
47) The 13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere
48) King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
49) Can – Monster Movie
50) Red Crayola – Parable of Arable Land

I'm surprised noone but RdTv has listed Magical Mystery Tour yet. I think it's going to be my #1.

Dead-Air you have a nice list,really encompasses what was going on back then. I agree on the keeping it to one artist but that is so dificult if I go with my favorite records or the ''best'' records, which tend to be quite different. I only kept to one artist for my other lists and think I will try to do the same with this one.

Dead-Air, is that your 100% done list, I mean can I start counting the points....

Far as MMT, well,its got my favorite beatles songs on it, so it was between that or revolver

Everytime I start to compile a personal list I revise and revise and can never decide on a final...Damn.

Being so old school, most of my collection is 60s and 70s. All that SF psychedelic and garaggie type stuff is my favorite, and the rock-blues. I hope to compile a fair list for this though, however it may appear to be pretty bland compared to many of yours.

I should probably wait and see what I've forgotten in the next few days before saying it's final. I edited the '70s one about a dozen times after I posted it. If it's not a problem, just tabulate mine when you do all the rest.

trout mask replica is # 1.

Hey....can compilations like NUGGETS boxset count ?

...no. Nuggets didn't come out until much later. If it had come out in one collection in the 60s we would let it count, but I can't really see how it would be feasible to include it. But there are quite a few good records from bands on that comp. Strawberry Alarmclock is going to get a spot in my list, I think.

True, but the problem with 90% of the groups on the comp, and the reason the comp was so good, is that they were really singles bands. Even those that had whole albums out, and many of them didn't, had the song that's on Nuggets, maybe one more original and all the standard blues covers. Granted that was even the case for first albums by major groups like the Stones and the Kinks, but those groups did go on to write lots of classic original songs, and did better versions of the blues songs than most (though not all) of the garage bands.

1. White Light White Heat/Trout Mask Replica

ill finish the 50 within the next few days, but this is gonna take a lot of rock and jazz sorting out.

2. Albert Ayler-Spiritual Unity/Sonny Sharrock-Black Woman
3. John Coltrane-Ascension
4. Sun Ra-Atlantis/Art Ensemble of Chicago-A Jackson in Your House
5. Rolling Stones-Beggars Banquet
6. Jimi Hendrix-Axis: As Bold as Love/The Rolling Stones-The Aftermath
7. AMM-AMMusic
8. John Fahey-Death Chants, Breakdowns, and Military Waltzes
9. The Grateful Dead-Anthem of the Sun
10. MC5-Kick out the Jams
11. The Velvet Underground and Nico
12. King Crimson-In the Court of the Crimson King
13. Peter Brotzzman-Machine Gun
14. Blue Cheer-Vincebus Eruptum
15. Cromagnon-Orgasm
17. The Kinks-Are the Village Green Preservation Society
18. The 13th Floor Elevators-Easter Everywhere
19. The Rolling Stones-Let it Bleed/Aftermath
20. John Fahey-Anthem of the Sun
21. Ornette Coleman-Free Jazz
22. Charles Mingus-Tijuana Moods/Ah Um
23. Changes-Fire of Life
24. The Who-Sell Out
25. The Stooges-S/t
26. Cecil Taylor-Nerfetti the Beautiful One has COme
27. Stockhausen-Microphonie 2
28. Miles Davis-In a Silent Way
29. Iannis Xenakis-Polytope
30. Soft Machine-Volume 2
31. The Incredible String Band-The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion
32. The Godz-Contact High wit the Godz
33. La Monte Young-The Well Tuned Piano
34. The Monks-Black Monk Time
35. The Velvet Underground-S/T
36. The Grateful Dead-American Beauty
37. Bob Dylan-Bringing it All Back Home
38. Robbie Basho-The Falconer's Arm
39. Jimi Hendrix and the Experience-Are You Experiened (UK)
40. The Kinks-The Kink Kontroversy/Os Mutantes-S/T
41. The Marzette Watts Ensemble
42. Derek Bailey-Karyobin
43. Sun Ra-The Heliocentric Worlds/The Electric Prunes-Underground
44. Pharoah Sanders and Sonny Sharrock-Tauhid
45. The Beatles-The White Album
46. James Brown-Live at the Apollo
47. Cecil Taylor-Conquistadors
48. Ayler-Live at the Village Vanguard
49. Amon Duul 2-Phallus Dei/Silver Apples-Contact
50. Terry RIley-In C
51. Pearls Before Swine-One Nation Underground
52. Buffalo Springfield-The Last Time Around
53. Tyrannasaurus Rex-Unicorn
54. Jefferson Airplane-Surrealistic Pillow
55. The Rollong Stones-At Thier Satanic Magesties Request
56. Blue Cheer-OutsideInside
57. The Flamin Groovies-Super Snazz
58. The Pretty Things-S.F. Sorrow
59. Sly and the Family Stone-STAND!

dude amazing lists for reals

1959

^Only the Ornette Coleman was 1959.

I don't think Albert Ayler or Sonny Sharrock started their recording careers until well into the 1960s. I don't think fugazifan is much of a jazzfan.

ur right on ornette

Ah. Here is something that has really changed about our culture that started in the 60s. We're doing a best albums thread about a decade when people weren't concerned with (or rather weren't allowed to be) making album oriented music.

no i just misquoted him, i meant to only quote the ornette coleman...
oopsss

This is my problem with this round - I can't think of a great many whole albums from the 60s that I think are great. Loads of singles, but albums-wise I'm going to be stuck in the 'contemporary classical'/ jazz vein. Unless I just say the Shaggs 49 times with the Monks at number 50.

I'm compiling my final list and I'm having a hard time remembering great soul/funk albums of the sixties. Yet, most of the really great raw underground stuff was and still remains singles only.

Alas, Senor Glice, you of all must remember that The Shaggs were really a 50's boy band, no?

True enough. I was noticing how many of my favorite albums of the '60s came out in 1969, and that plays into it even further. The decade began as a singles one and ended as an album one. The Beatles obviously pushed that direction, though others followed suit. Meanwhile there were so many great garage bands who really could only scrape up the money for a '45 and so put everything into those two 4 minute bursts energy wise that the people with real backing and popularity put into 45 minute LPs.

We were talking about this on another thead a while ago. The 1950s was a singles decade, and this went on into the first half of the 1960s.

Many albums of the period were essentially "best ofs", singles compilations. And often compilations with a great deal of second-rate fillers.

Which is why I agree with this:

And on the subject of albums, this is on Radio 2 tonight.

Thanks. I'll make a point of tuning into that tonight.

EDIT. I had to dump my list again. this is just far too difficult.