Music: Best Albums of the Year series: 1965

[Saturated Fats]

1967: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1980: AC/DC - Back in Black
1994: Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
2000: Radiohead - Kid A
1973: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
1988: Metallica - ...And Justice for All
2004: (TIE) Madvillain - Madvillainy // The Killers - Hot Fuss // Green Day - American Idiot
1969: The Beatles - Abbey Road
1991: Nirvana - Nevermind
1977: Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
1985: Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair

2007: Radiohead - In Rainbows (13 votes)

2nd Place: The National - Boxer (8 votes)
3rd Place (TIE): Kanye West - Graduation (5 votes)
3rd Place (TIE): Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (5 votes)
5th Place: 4 albums tied at 4 votes

Not really a surprise that the free album gets it done. I still think 2007 is the greatest year of music in this millennium, and there was a ton to celebrate and some great recommendations.

Today we are throwing back to 1965, which I think is the furthest back that I will go in terms of years. It's a challenge to cobble together a list of 30 recognizable and celebrated albums when you get this far back, as popular music was still in its relative infancy. Being that I'm not big on bop, and only sort-of into jazz, it took some time to curate this list.

Note that, in the interest of keeping the front page of the Entertainment board free of my constant posting and clutter, I'll be doing two of these per week moving forward. I'll be posting them on Sundays and Wednesdays.

The next year we will cover will be 1975.

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[WetcoastOrca]

Beatles Rubber Soul
Beatles Help
The Zombies
Coltrane A Love Supreme
Them The Angry Young Then
Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
Nina Simone I Put a Spell on You
Paul Simon The Paul Simon Songbook
Otis Redding Otis Blue

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

T1. The Beatles – Rubber Soul / The Beatles – Help
T1. Nina Simone – I Put A Spell On You / Nina Simone – Pastel Blues
(Can't go against The Beatles, even if their two albums are really uneven, with amazing stuff on the top-end (Norwegian Wood is one of their best songs, and thus one of the best songs) and some atrocious crap too... Nina Simone's albums are a lot more even through and through)
3. The Zombies – Begin Here
4. Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band - Hoodoo Man Blues
5. The Kinks – Kwyet Kinks (The Kinks also had two albums that year, Kinda Kinks and The Kink Kontroversy, but it's the quieter EP that I prefer – side 2 is amazing)
6. Otis Redding – Otis Blue / Otis Redding – The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads (like the Beatles albums, real uneven stuff on both, but damn that voice...)
7. Them – The Angry Young Them
8. Andrew Hill – Point of Departure
9. Howlin' Wolf - The Real Folk Blues
10. The Turtles – It Ain't Me Babe

HM:
Xenakis — Metastasis / Pithoprakt / Eonta
Donovan – Fairytale / Donovan – What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid
Sam Rivers – Fuschia Swing Song
Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home / Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
Phil Ochs – I Ain't Marching Anymore
The Sorrows – Take A Heart
Paul Revere & The Raiders – Just Like Us!
Roscoe Holcomb - The High Lonesome Sound
The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics!!!
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme (also The John Coltrane Quartet has another pretty good album that year)
Roland Kirk Quartet – Rip Rig And Panic / Now Please Don't You Cry Beautiful Edith
Miles Davis – E.S.P.
Sun Ra – The Heliocentric Worlds
Albert Ayler Trio – Spiritual Unity
Jacques Brel - Jacky

 

[Mikeaveli]

The year Brian Wilson went from talented singer, songwriter, and producer to full blown genius.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Great job on the poll!

I've got the Zombies album as Begin Here

 

[kihei]

John Colrane: A Love Supreme
The Kinks: The Kinks Kontroversy/Kinda Kinks
The Beatles: Help/Rubber Soul
The Rolling Stones: Out of Our Head/Now/December's Children
B. B. King: Live at the Regal
Thelonius Monk: Solo Monk/Monk
Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home/Highway 61 Revisited
Dionne Warwick: Here I Am/The Sensitive Sound of Dionne Warwick
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
The Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man

All around, a mind-blowing year

 

[Chili]

Rubber Soul
Help
Out of Our Heads

Added:

Lovin' Spoonful-Do You Believe In Magic

 

[frisco]

Other than Elvis For Everyone:
Johnny Cash-Sings Ballads Of The True West
Johnny Cash-Orange Blossom Special
Frank Sinatra-September Of My Years
The Sound Of Music-Soundtrack

My Best-Carey

 

[plank]

1. My Generation - The Who
2. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
3. Rubber Soul - The Beatles
4. s/t - Jackson C. Frank
5. s/t - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
6. Hoodoo Man Blues - Junior Wells w/Buddy Guy
7. The Angry Young Them - Them
8. Here are the Sonics - The Sonics
9. Out of Our Heads - The Rolling Stones
10. Turn Turn Turn - The Byrds
11. Bleecker & McDougal - Fred Neil

 

[Teemu]

Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
Beatles – Rubber Soul
Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads
The Sonics – Here Are the Sonics!

 

[Mescaleroman]

the Who - My Generation
Phil Ochs - I Ain't Marching Anymore
Herman's Hermits - s/t
the New Originals - Gimme Some Money
the Animals - Animal Tracks - US version

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Help

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Help

You need somebody?

 

[YoSoyLalo]

Rubber soul ofc

Do want to say I think Bringing it All Back home is really underrated among Dylan albums though. I prefer it to Blonde on Blonde *ducks*

 

[Langdon Alger]

You need somebody?

Not just anybody.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Not just anybody.

I was waiting for it to come!

 

[Fantomas]

oh, nm.

 

[Habsfunk]

Rubber soul ofc

Do want to say I think Bringing it All Back home is really underrated among Dylan albums though. I prefer it to Blonde on Blonde *ducks*

I agree. I find Blonde on Blonde is overrated. Like most double albums, it suffers from serious bloat.

Also, can't believe Help beat out Highway 61. I get that Help is the first great Beatles album, but Highway 61 is a landmark recording and an all time great. IMO, it's the best album of 1965, but The Beatles are The Beatles.

 

[Teemu]

I agree. I find Blonde on Blonde is overrated. Like most double albums, it suffers from serious bloat.

Yea, its a great album that would have been greater if it ended after "Absolutely Sweet Marie"