Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s

~ Release group series

Release groups

#	Year	Title	Artist	Type	Rating	Releases
1	1967	The Velvet Underground & Nico	The Velvet Underground & Nico	Album	4.4	46
2	1966	Pet Sounds	The Beach Boys	Album	4.3	55
3	1965	A Love Supreme	John Coltrane	Album	4.55	48
4	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	The Beatles	Album	4.35	58
5	1966	Wild Is the Wind	Nina Simone	Album	4.5	7
6	1966	Blonde on Blonde	Bob Dylan	Album	4.15	59
7	1963	Live at the Apollo, 1962	James Brown	Album + Live	4	12
8	1966	Revolver	The Beatles	Album	4.65	68
9	1969	In a Silent Way	Miles Davis	Album	4.45	26
10	1967	I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You	Aretha Franklin	Album	3.55	20
11	1967	Songs of Leonard Cohen	Leonard Cohen	Album	4.55	19
12	1969	The Velvet Underground	The Velvet Underground	Album	4.15	25
13	1968	Electric Ladyland	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Album	4.35	58
14	1965	Highway 61 Revisited	Bob Dylan	Album	4.2	37
15	1964	Out to Lunch! (Dolphy studio album released posthumously on Blue Note)	Eric Dolphy	Album	4.1	25
16	1969	Abbey Road	The Beatles	Album	4.6	73
17	1963	The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady	Charles Mingus	Album	4	17
18	1969	Let It Bleed	The Rolling Stones	Album	4.3	42
19	1969	Dusty in Memphis	Dusty Springfield	Album	3.65	19
20	1969	The Stooges	The Stooges	Album	4.4	24
21	1965	Pastel Blues	Nina Simone	Album	4.5	9
22	1964	Where Did Our Love Go	The Supremes	Album	4	9
23	1969	Hot Buttered Soul	Isaac Hayes	Album	4	15
24	1968	Astral Weeks	Van Morrison	Album	3.9	20
25	1969	Stand!	Sly and the Family Stone	Album	3.4	17
26	1968	White Light/White Heat	The Velvet Underground	Album	4.15	18
27	1968	The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society	The Kinks	Album	4.45	28
28	1967	Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band	The Beatles	Album	4.55	79
29	1968	Lady Soul	Aretha Franklin	Album	4	15
30	1965	Spiritual Unity	Albert Ayler Trio	Album		9
31	1964	Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica	The Ronettes	Album	3.35	11
32	1969	Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere	Neil Young with Crazy Horse	Album	4.4	22
33	1967	Forever Changes	Love	Album	4.2	23
34	1965	Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul	Otis Redding	Album	4.25	20
35	1968	Beggars Banquet	The Rolling Stones	Album	4.25	33
36	1960	Giant Steps	John Coltrane	Album	4.1	42
37	1969	Led Zeppelin II	Led Zeppelin	Album	4.45	69
38	1965	Bringing It All Back Home	Bob Dylan	Album	4.3	46
39	1967	Are You Experienced	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Album	4.1	55
40	1966	River Deep – Mountain High	Ike & Tina Turner	Album		11
41	1968	In C	Terry Riley; Terry Riley, Members of the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts in the State University of New York at Buffalo	Album		9
43	1960	Sketches of Spain	Miles Davis	Album	4.2	46
43	1967	Chelsea Girl	Nico	Album	3.2	7
44	1969	Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg	Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg	Album	4	9
45	1969	Scott 4	Scott Walker	Album	3.85	4
46	1965	Rubber Soul	The Beatles	Album	4.45	107
47	1968	Odessey and Oracle	The Zombies	Album	3.9	29
48	1969	Monster Movie	The Can	Album	4.1	18
49	1964	Leader of the Pack	The Shangri‐Las	Album		6
50	1969	Kick Out the Jams	MC5	Album + Live	2.5	18
51	1968	Os Mutantes	Os Mutantes	Album	3.15	8
52	1969	It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best	Karen Dalton	Album		2
53	1969	Karma	Pharoah Sanders	Album	4.5	10
54	1969	Trout Mask Replica	Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	Album	4	14
55	1963	The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan	Bob Dylan	Album	4.15	30
56	1969	In the Court of the Crimson King	King Crimson	Album	4.65	72
57	1961	This Is Our Music	The Ornette Coleman Quartet	Album	4.35	6
58	1968	At Folsom Prison	Johnny Cash	Album + Live	4	19
59	1961	Sunday at the Village Vanguard	Bill Evans Trio featuring Scott LaFaro	Album + Live	3.5	36
60	1969	Live/Dead	The Grateful Dead	Album + Live	4	13
61	1969	Five Leaves Left	Nick Drake	Album	4.45	17
62	1960	At Last!	Etta James	Album	4.25	14
63	1969	New York Tendaberry	Laura Nyro	Album		9
64	1967	Axis: Bold as Love	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Album	4	48
65	1967	Safe as Milk	Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	Album	4.4	20
66	1969	Illuminations	Buffy Sainte‐Marie	Album		6
67	1965	Solo Monk	Thelonious Monk	Album	4	14
68	1968	Bookends	Simon & Garfunkel	Album	3.4	25
69	1967	The Who Sell Out	The Who	Album	3.8	31
70	1969	Songs From a Room	Leonard Cohen	Album	4.65	15
71	1964	Ain’t That Good News	Sam Cooke	Album		5
72	1969	Led Zeppelin (I)	Led Zeppelin	Album	4.5	67
73	1969	Clouds	Joni Mitchell	Album	3.5	10
74	1965	The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death	John Fahey	Album	3.15	7
75	1968	Sweet and Dandy	Toots & The Maytals	Album		3
76	1967	New Sounds in Electronic Music	Various Artists	Album		2
77	1968	Silver Apples	Silver Apples	Album	3.75	6
78	1969	Willy and the Poor Boys	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Album	4.4	35
79	1968	Caetano Veloso (Tropicália)	Caetano Veloso	Album	3.65	5
80	1960	Kontakte	Karlheinz Stockhausen	Album	5	3
81	1969	The Band (“The Brown Album”)	The Band	Album	4.1	22
82	1965	Maiden Voyage	Herbie Hancock	Album	4.35	21
83	1967	Silver Apples of the Moon	Morton Subotnick	Album	5	2
84	1962	Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music	Ray Charles	Album	3.4	8
85	1968	Sweetheart of the Rodeo	The Byrds	Album	3.65	18
86	1967	United	Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell	Album	4	6
87	1968	Nancy & Lee	Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood	Album	4	10
88	1966	The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators	13th Floor Elevators	Album	3.2	19
89	1969	Cloud Nine	The Temptations	Album	3	5
90	1962	Françoise Hardy (Tous les garçons et les filles / The “Yeh-Yeh” Girl From Paris!)	Françoise Hardy	Album	4	10
91	1969	Say It Loud: I’m Black and I’m Proud	James Brown	Album		6
92	1969	Gal Costa	Gal Costa	Album	5	6
93	1968	Song Cycle	Van Dyke Parks	Album	4	9
94	1964	Nina Simone in Concert	Nina Simone	Album + Live		6
95	1967	The Doors	The Doors	Album	4.6	51
96	1962	Howlin’ Wolf	Howlin’ Wolf	Album	3.65	6
97	1968	Randy Newman Creates Something New Under the Sun	Randy Newman	Album	4	4
98	1966	Aftermath	The Rolling Stones	Album	3.95	48
99	1968	Gilberto Gil (Frevo rasgado)	Gilberto Gil	Album	3.5	3
100	1965	The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume 1	Sun Ra	Album	5	6

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