Music: Best Albums of the Year Series: 1960's Vote-off

[Saturated Fats]

Alright guys, into the nitty gritty. The rules for the decades are that you will be given a maximum of THREE votes to place - and you can place anywhere between 1 and 3. There's no aggregate or placed voting on HF, so you can share your rankings of the albums in a post below. If a year featured a tie, I'll include both (or each) of the albums that tied as voting options.

I'll also be including a WILD CARD entrant into the vote-off - that entrant being the album that got the most votes, without winning, from any year in the decade. For the 60's, it was Led Zeppelin II, which received 15 votes in the 1969 poll.

Enjoy!

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[Pranzo Oltranzista]

I'm trying to build a top-100 from every polls you've done and it's so hard... As of now, what I have for the 60s goes as this:

1. George Harrison – Wonderwall Music (1968)
2. The Beatles – The Beatles (The White Album) (1968)
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3. The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
4. The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)
5. Charles Mingus – Oh Yeah (1962)
6. Harry Nilsson – Aerial Ballet (1968)
7. The Peter Brötzmann Octet – Machine Gun (1968)
8. Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman (1969)
9. Nina Simone – Pastel Blues (1965)
10. The Beach Boys – Smiley Smile (1967)

Already Beatles heavy and I'm pretty sure I'm being too hard on Let It Be and that it should get in at #9.

For the poll, easily The White Album for me. I had it tied at #1 for 1968 (what a monster of a year), and decided in Wonderwall Music's favor for the time being.

 

[Teemu]

Gonna do ten from each decade

Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (1966)
The Beatles – Abbey Road (1969)
Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison (1968)
The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
The Beatles – Rubber Soul (1965)
Zombies – Odessey & Oracle (1968)
Flying Burrito Brothers – The Gilded Palace of Sin (1969)
The Band – The Band (1969)

 

[Chili]

Limiting myself to one album per band/artist

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart Club's Band-The Beatles (1967)
Sounds of Silence-Simon & Garfunkel (1966)
Days of Future Past-The Moody Blues (1967)
Do you Believe in Magic?-The Lovin' Spoonful (1965)
Real Folk Blues-John Lee Hooker (1966)
Are you Experienced?-Jimi Hendrix (1967)
Led Zeppelin I (1969)
High Tide and Green Grass-The Rolling Stones (1966) (it's a compilation album but my favorite Stones album)

 

[kihei]

Ten from decade:

Beatles: Rubber Soul
Beatles: Revolver
Beatles: Help
Beatles: A Hard Day's Night
Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Leonard Cohen: Songs of Leonard Cohen
The Kinks: Kinks Kontroversy
Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing at Baxter's
The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico
Neil Young: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band

Next decade (1970), or else I need to add it to my list too (which makes me realize my Let It Be comment was off, 1970 too)

 

[kihei]

Next decade (1970), or else I need to add it to my list too (which makes me realize my Let It Be comment was off, 1970 too)

You are correct. I will replace it woth Songs of Leonard Cohen.

 

[Oxbow Lakes]

The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Charles Mingus - Blues & Roots
The Sonics - Boom
The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy and the Poor Boys
The Sonics - Here Come the Sonics!
The Beatles - Revolver

What can I say? I’m a novice when it comes to 60s, pretty much. TONS of wonderful songs though!

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Charles Mingus - Blues & Roots
The Sonics - Boom
The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy and the Poor Boys
The Sonics - Here Come the Sonics!
The Beatles - Revolver

What can I say? I’m a novice when it comes to 60s, pretty much. TONS of wonderful songs though!

Mingus? check.

You're good in my books.

 

[MakeTheGoalsLarger]

vote closed already ?!

my top10 from the decade

1.The Beatles -Sgt. Pepper's
2.The Beatles - Revolver
3.The Kinks are the Village green preservation society
4.The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
5.The Who Sell Out (the bonus songs on the remastered edition make it even better)
6.The Beatles - Magical mystery tour
7.The Monkees - The birds, the bees and the monkeys
8.The Beach Boys - Pet sounds
9.The Rolling Stones - Their satanic majesties request
10.Pink Floyd - The piper at the gates of dawn

 

[frisco]

In order:
At San Quentin-Johnny Cash
From Elvis In Memphis-Elvis Presley
Strange Days-The Doors
Horizontal-The Bee Gees
Strangers In The Night-Frank Sinatra
At Folsom-Johnny Cash
The Doors-The Doors
Blue Hawaii Soundtrack-Elvis Presley
Odessa-The Bee Gees
Something For Everybody-Elvis Presley

My Best-Carey

 

[Shareefruck]

Wasn't planning on participating because the whole voting/winner thing always ends up feeling offputting to me and sours the experience, but couldn't help myself.

1. White Light White Heat by The Velvet Underground
2. The Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground
3. Bootleg 4: Live 1966 by Bob Dylan
4. The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings by Bill Evans Trio
5. The Velvet Underground (Closet Mix) by The Velvet Underground
6. Point of Departure by Andrew Hill
7. The Real McCoy by McCoy Tyner
8. The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel by Miles Davis Quintet
9. A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
10. Live at the It Club by Thelonious Monk

11. Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart
12. The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus
13. Revolver by The Beatles
14. The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings by John Coltrane
15. In a Silent Way by Miles Davis
16. Atlantis by Sun Ra
17. Spiritual Unity by Albert Ayler
18. Another Side of Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
19. Wonderwall Music by George Harrison
20. After Bathing at Baxters by Jefferson Airplane

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Wasn't planning on participating because

Blablabla, at last you're in.

 

[Shareefruck]

Blablabla, at last you're in.

Bah humbug

 

[Saturated Fats]

I'm gonna count @Shareefruck 's vote for Revolver (highest of all listed options) as the tiebreaker, and declare it the winner.