The Best Rock Albums of the 1960's
Appendix to my book "A History of Rock Music"
Selected by
piero scaruffi
and revised in 2010 by
Jakub Krawczynski
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1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
Best of the 1960's
of the 1970's
of the 1980's
of the 1990's
of the 2000's
of the 2010's
Best of the 2020's
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(Revised in 2003 by Chris Ford)
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9.5/10
Captain Beefheart
:
Trout Mask Replica (1969)
9/10
Bob Dylan:
Blonde On Blonde (1966)
Captain Beefheart:
Safe As Milk (1967)
Doors
:
The Doors (1967)
:
Frank Zappa
:
Uncle Meat (1969)
Red Crayola
:
Parable Of Arable Land (1967)
Van Morrison
:
Astral Weeks (1968)
Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
Velvet Underground:
White Light White Heat (1967)
8.5/10
Jefferson Airplane
:
Volunteers (1969)
King Crimson
:
In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969)
Leonard Cohen
:
Songs Of Leonard Cohen (1967)
MC5
:
Kick Out The Jams (1969)
Pink Floyd
:
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967)
8/10
Band
:
II (1969)
Bob Dylan:
Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
Colosseum
:
Valentyne Suite (1969)
David Peel
:
Have A Marijuana (1968)
Deviants
:
Ptooff (1967)
Doors:
Strange Days (1967)
Family
:
Music In A Doll's House (1968)
Frank Zappa:
Freak Out (1966)
Frank Zappa:
Absolutely Free (1967)
Frank Zappa:
We're Only In It For The Money (1967)
Grateful Dead
:
Anthem Of The Sun (1968)
Grateful Dead:
Live Dead (1969)
Holger Czukay
:
Canaxis 5 (1969)
Holy Modal Rounders
:
Indian War Whoop (1967)
Jefferson Airplane:
After Bathing At Baxter's (1967)
Jimi Hendrix
:
Are You Experienced? (1967)
Jimi Hendrix:
Electric Ladyland (1968)
Kaleidoscope
:
Beacon From Mars (1968)
Love
:
Da Capo (1967)
Neil Young
:
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)
Nico:
Marble Index (1968)
Pearls Before Swine
:
Balaklava (1968)
Pink Floyd:
A Saucerful Of Secrets (1968)
Robbie Basho
:
Venus In Cancer (1969)
Sandy Bull
:
Fantasia For Guitar & Banjo (1963)
Stooges
:
Stooges (1969)
Tim Buckley
:
Happy Sad (1969)
United States Of America
:
United States of America (1968)
Who
:
Tommy (1969)
7.5/10
13th Floor Elevators
:
The Psychedelic Sounds Of (1966)
Amon Duul
:
Phallus Dei (1969)
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
:
Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse (1968)
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band:
Gorilla (1967)
Creedence Clearwater Revival
:
Green River (1969)
Deviants:
Disposable (1968)
Eric Burdon
:
Twain Shall Meet (1968)
Family:
Family Entertainment (1969)
Grateful Dead:
Aoxomoxoa (1969)
Incredible String Band
:
Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (1968)
Kevin Ayers
:
Joy Of A Toy (1969)
Laura Nyro
:
Eli And The 13th Confession (1968)
Leo Kottke
:
6 & 12 String Guitar (1969)
Love:
Forever Changes (1967)
Nick Drake
:
Five Leaves Left (1969)
Pink Floyd:
Ummagumma (1969)
Robbie Basho:
Falconer's Arm (1967)
Robbie Basho:
The Grail And the Lotus (1966)
Rolling Stones
:
Between The Buttons (1967)
Silver Apples
:
Silver Apples (1968)
Spirit
:
The Family That Plays Together (1969)
Third Ear Band
:
Alchemy (1969)
Tim Buckley: Blue Afternoon (1969)
Tim Buckley: Goodbye And Hello (1967)
Traffic
:
Mr Fantasy (1967)
VanDyke Parks
:
Song Cycle (1968)
7/10
Alexander "Skip" Spence
:
Oar (1969)
Alice Cooper
:
Pretties For You (1969)
Allman Brothers Band
:
Allman Brothers Band (1969)
Amboy Dukes
:
Journey To The Center Of The Mind (1968)
Angus MacLise
:
The Invasion Of Thunderbolt Pagoda (1968)
Band:
Music From Big Pink (1968)
Beach Boys
:
Pet Sounds (1966)
Beach Boys:
Smile (1967)
Beatles
:
Abbey Road (1969)
Beatles:
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Beaver & Krause
:
Ragnarok Electronic Funk (1969)
Blind Faith
:
Blind Faith (1969)
Bloomfield, Kooper, Stills
:
Super Session (1968)
Blue Cheer
:
Vincebus Eruptum (1968)
Blues Magoos
:
Psychedelic Lollipop (1966)
Blues Project
:
Planned Obsolescence (1968)
Blues Project: Projections (1967)
Bo Diddley: Two Great Guitars (1964)
Bob Dylan: Basement Tapes (1967)
Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding (1967)
Bola Sete
:
The Solo Guitar (1965)
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Tadpoles (1969)
Buffalo Springfield
:
Again (1967)
Byrds
:
Mr Tambourine Man (1965)
Byrds:
Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968)
Byrds:
Younger Than Yesterday (1967)
Caetano Veloso
:
Caetano Veloso (1969)
Can
:
Monster Movie (1969)
Captain Beefheart:
Strictly Personal (1968)
Chicago Transit Authority
:
Chicago Transit Authority (1969)
Country Joe & The Fish
:
Electric Music For The Mind And Body (1967)
Country Joe & The Fish:
I Feel Like I'm Fixin To Die (1967)
Cream
:
Disraeli Gears (1967)
Cream:
Wheels Of Fire (1968)
Creedence Clearwater Revival:
Bayou Country (1968)
Creedence Clearwater Revival:
Willy And The Poor Boys (1969)
Cromagnon
:
Orgasm (1968)
David Axelrod
:
Song of Innocence (1968)
Deviants:
III (1969)
Devil's Anvil
:
Hard Rock From the Middle East (1967)
Donovan
:
Fairytale (1965)
Donovan:
Sunshine Superman (1966)
Doors:
Waiting For The Sun (1968)
Dr John
:
Gris Gris (1968)
Earth Opera
:
Great American Eagle Tragedy (1969)
Edgar Broughton
:
Wasa Wasa (1969)
Electric Prunes
:
Mass In F Minor (1968)
Fabrizio DeAndre`
:
Tutti Morimmo A Stento (1968)
Fifty Foot Hose:
Cauldron (1968)
Flock:
Flock (1969)
Flying Burrito Bros
:
Gilded Palace Of Sin (1969)
Frank Zappa:
Hot Rats (1969)
Frank Zappa:
Lumpy Gravy (1968)
Fred Neil
:
Fred Neil (1967)
Frost
:
Rock And Roll Music (1969)
Fugs
:
It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest (1968)
Fugs:
Fugs (1966)
Fugs:
Tenderness Junction (1968)
Godz
:
Contact High With The Godz (1966)
Hapshash & The Coloured Coat
:
Featuring The Human Host And The Heavy Metal Kids (1967)
Holy Modal Rounders
:
Moray Eels Eat (1969)
HP Lovecraft
:
II (1968)
Incredible String Band:
5,000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion (1967)
Insect Trust: Insect Trust (1968)
International Harvester
:
Sov Gott Rose-Marie (1968)
International Submarine Band
:
Safe At Home (1968)
Iron Butterfly
:
In A Gadda Da Vida (1968)
It's A Beautiful Day
:
It's A Beautiful Day (1969)
Jack Bruce
:
Songs For A Tailor (1969)
Jackson Frank
: Jackson C Frank (1965)
Jefferson Airplane:
Crown Of Creation (1968)
Jefferson Airplane:
Surrealistic Pillow (1967)
Jesse Colin Young
:
Young Blood (1965)
Jethro Tull
:
Stand Up (1969)
Joe Byrd
:
American Metaphysical Circus (1969)
John Fahey
:
Great San Bernardino Party (1966)
John Fahey:
Requia (1967)
John Fahey:
The Voice Of The Turtle (1968)
John Mayall
:
A Hard Road (1967)
John Mayall:
Turning Point (1969)
Joni Mitchell
:
Clouds (1969)
Kaleidoscope:
Side Trips (1967)
Kim Fowley
:
Outrageous (1968)
Kinks
:
Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
L'Infonie
:
Volume 3 (1969)
Larry Fischer
:
An Evening With Wild Man Fischer (1969)
Laura Nyro:
More Than A New Discovery (1967)
Laura Nyro:
New York Tendaberry (1969)
Leonard Cohen:
Songs From A Room (1969)
Le Stelle di Mario Schifano
:
Dedicato A (1967)
Led Zeppelin
:
I (1969)
Les Maledictus Sound
:
Les Maledictus Sound (1968)
Limbus 3
:
Cosmic Music Experience (1969)
Lothar & The Hand People
:
Presenting (1968)
Lothar & The Hand People:
Space Hymn (1969)
Mad River
:
Mad River (1968)
Mad River:
Paradise Bar And Grill (1969)
Meters
:
Meters (1969)
Mickey Newbury
:
Looks Like Rain (1969)
Moby Grape
:
Grape Jam (1968)
Monks
:
Black Monk Time (1966)
Moody Blues
:
In Search Of The Lost Chord (1968)
Mort Garson
:
Zodiac Cosmic Sounds (1967)
Mort Garson:
The Wozard of Iz (1969)
Nihilist Spasm Band
:
No Record (1968)
Os Mutantes
:
Mutantes (1969)
Paul Butterfield
:
East West (1966)
Pearls Before Swine:
One Nation Underground (1967)
Pentangle
:
Pentangle (1968)
Peter Ivers
:
Knight Of The Blue Communion (1969)
Quicksilver Messenger Service
:
Happy Trails (1969)
Red Crayola
: Coconut Hotel (1967)
Robbie Basho:
Seal Of The Blue Lotus (1965)
Rolling Stones:
Aftermath (1966)
Rolling Stones:
Beggar's Banquet (1968)
Ron Geesin
:
A Raise Of Eyebrows (1967)
Sandy Bull:
Inventions For Guitar And Banjo (1965)
Santana
:
Santana (1969)
Scott Walker
:
Scott 4 (1969)
Seatrain
:
Seatrain (1969)
Seeds
:
A Web Of Sound (1966)
Seeds:
Seeds (1966)
Shaggs: Philosophy Of The World (1969)
Silver Apples:
Contact (1969)
Soft Machine
:
Volume Two (1969)
Spirit:
Spirit (1968)
Steve Miller
:
Children Of The Future (1968)
Steve Miller:
Sailor (1968)
T. Rex
:
Unicorn (1969)
Taj Mahal
:
De Ole Folks At Home (1969)
Tomorrow
:
Tomorrow (1968)
Townes Van Zandt
:
Our Mother The Mountain (1969)
Ultimate Spinach
:
Behold And See (1968)
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
:
Part One (1966)
Who:
My Generation (1965)
Yardbirds
:
Roger The Engineer (1966)
Zombies
:
Odyssey & Oracle (1968)
Nick Vieira's graphical summary:
The greatest of the 1960s
Velvet Underground
Frank Zappa
Pink Floyd
Captain Beefheart
Doors
Bob Dylan
Jefferson Airplane
Red Crayola
Jimi Hendrix
Soft Machine
King Crimson
Rolling Stones
Grateful Dead
Who
Stooges
Van Morrison
MC5
Led Zeppelin
Amon Duul
Colosseum
Fugs
Holy Modal Rounders
Sandy Bull
Leonard Cohen
Band
Janis Joplin
Creedence Clearwater Revival
VanDyke Parks
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