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- Published September 14, 2007 - 60 Comments
Rock journalism has never recovered from the sixties. Many institutions, such as the eternally sixties-tied Rolling Stone, have never recovered from the romanticized ecstasy of the decade. While future decades produced a greater quantity of great music (the seventies mostly), the highlights of the sixties stand with any other. Here is what this writer finds to be the best 15 albums of this often misunderstood decade.
15. Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin Wikipedia
Led Zeppelin II is the blueprint for every heavy metal album to follow it. The album is the band’s first real showing of songwriting, and the songwriting is stellar. Whole Lotta Love (besides the borrowed lines from Willie Dixon) stands as one of the greatest riffs ever written, and Plant contributes some great lyrics to “What Is And What Should Never Be” as well as “Thank You.” This album is one of the bands most consistently great works, which no one would have guessed; the album was recorded in dozens of studios while the band was on tour.
14. S.F. Sorrow The Pretty Things Wikipedia
S.F. Sorrow was rock opera before the term was coined. While Tommy is widely considered to be the first true rock opera (it certainly was the first successful rock opera), S.F. Sorrow was released a year prior. Despite being neglected all these years, some great treasures are on this album. While the story is not as interesting as Tommy’s, it is still quite good, and this album is a must for anyone wanting to hear great music of the sixties that they haven’t heard a million times before.
13. Surrealistic Pillow Jefferson Airplane Wikipedia
One of the key albums of the summer of love, Surrealistic Pillow contains, if nothing else, one of rock’s biggest and most recognizable choruses. Seriously, who in this day and age has not heard in some form “Don’t you want somebody to love…” Surely almost everyone has, and that song, “Somebody To Love,” sums up the ideals of the time perfectly. It’s not the real highlight, however, for that honor belongs to “White Rabbit.”
12. Let It Bleed The Rolling Stones Wikipedia
Let It Bleed finds the Rolling Stones in a state of transition. Early during the recording session, Stones founder and lead guitarist Brian Jones was jettisoned from the group in favor of the more stable and equally capable Mick Taylor. It also comes at time when the band was re-embracing their blues roots, yet expanding to include gospel and other influences. As such, the album contains songs form all over the spectrum (an idea brought to an extreme on 1972’s Exile On Main Street). Album highlights include the title track, “Love In Vain,” “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” and possibly the band’s best song, “Gimme Shelter.”
11. Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan Wikipedia
This album is most famous for having Bob Dylan’s biggest song, “Like A Rolling Stone.” However, few if any albums in his catalog are as consistently brilliant as this. Refining the electric progressions of Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited takes Dylan and his backing band to great places, like the fantastic title track, “It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry,” “Desolation Row,” and the epic “Ballad Of A Thin Man.” With few exceptions (Blonde On Blonde, Blood On The Tracks, and The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan), no Dylan album is as famous as Highway.
10. The Doors The Doors Wikipedia
The Doors are the most famous band to emerge from the late sixties psychedelic scene in California. This is in large part due to their self titled debut, which for most people who had never heard of the band Love before had never heard a band like this. Frontman Jim Morrison’s poetic reflections and illusions, whether you like them or not, are as influential lyrically as anything this side of Bob Dylan. The songs are great, too, and “Break On Through,” “Light My Fire,” “Soul Kitchen,” and “The End” rank among rock’s best songs.
9. Forever Changes Love Wikipedia
While modern belief holds Forever Changes at or near the top of the heap of great albums, it really isn’t more than a minor masterpiece. However, it is still a great piece of west coast music, and includes some great unknown songs. “A House Is Not A Motel” easily could have been a top 5 hit in the hands of the Doors, and the same goes for “The Red Telephone.” What is lost on many modern Love fans that learned of the band through Forever Changes is how much of a change the album was from their trademark sound. The band was heavy, as their two hits “Seven And Seven Is” and “My Little Red Book” attest to, while Forever Changes is mainly acoustic. If you haven’t heard this album yet, which many haven’t, it is well worth your time.
8. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles Wikipedia
While the opinion of this writer is that Sgt. Pepper receives more credit than it rightfully deserves, there is no understating the quality of the songs. The band never stretched farther for abstraction than on this album, with the highlights all coming out of the proverbial left field. “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” is as psychedelic as its acronym, “Within You Without You” was the first successful pop interpretation of eastern music, and few if any of classic rock’s most famed bands came as close to Sinatra as the Beatles did with “When I’m 64.” While the album represents the band at the height of their pretensions, it represents them at the height of their genius as well.
7. Tommy The Who Wikipedia
So popular was this album that for many years it overshadowed the band. Famously, the Who were billed on several gigs as “Tommy the Who” due to a misunderstanding of the album cover. Regardless, Tommy is a masterstroke of guitarist Pete Townshend, who fully brought his brand of rock music into maturity with this effort. Tommy’s immense influence continues to reappear at times, such as its important role in Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous” as fortune teller. While the story may seem a bit strange, which it is, the idea of rock as a serious form of music was never made clearer than on this album. While the Who have had better albums, in many ways Tommy is their most important statement.
6. Pet Sounds The Beach Boys Wikipedia
Brian Wilson composed some of the most beautiful arrangements of any genre of music with this masterpiece. Pet Sounds shows the band in top form. At the time, the Beach Boys were still considered equal rivals to the Beatles; the Pet Sounds album provided the inspiration for the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. While the album was a moderate flop at the time in the US, it has since grown in popularity to the point where an entire box set has been devoted to the album’s recording sessions. While it is a great shame that “Good Vibrations,” a song written at the time of the albums recording, was not included on the album, the band’s best song is included, that being “God Only Knows.”
5. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin Wikipedia
With few exceptions, no album shaped the seventies more than Led Zeppelin’s debut. At first listen, it is instantly better produced and played than almost anything else going on at the time. Blues was never this heavy before, such as “You Shook Me,” “How Many More Times,” and “Dazed And Confused.” And yet, there were lighter touches, such as the beautiful “Black Mountain Side” and “Your Time Is Gonna Come.” Punk rock is even predicted here with the charging “Communication Breakdown.” However, the real triumph of light and shade is “Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You,” which features some of the best vocals ever put to tape.
4. Are You Experienced? The Jimi Hendrix Experience Wikipedia
Jimi Hendrix’s most famous album is his debut, which contains more great guitar work than some bands produce in their entire careers. This was a band though, and Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell are masters of bass and drums respectfully. Are You Experienced? is commonly thought to be one of the first places where the guitar becomes symphonic in rock, although this is disputed. Regardless, the album contains some of Hendrix’s best songs, such as “Fire,” “Foxy Lady,” and “Purple Haze.”
3. Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan Wikipedia
Remember the cries of “Judas” aimed at Dylan’s decision to turn electric? This album was the catalyst. Bringing It All Back Home contains some of Dylan’s best songs, “Subterranean Homesick Blues” and “Maggie’s Farm” for example, as well as some blistering blues guitar from his backing band. Some of the songs date back to as early as the period in which Dylan wrote for Another Side Of Bob Dylan. Such songs include “Mr. Tambourine Man” and “Gates Of Eden.” However, the highlight of the album might be the super-abstract “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” which has inspired everyone from the Beatles to writer Joyce Carol Oates.
2. Revolver The Beatles Wikipedia
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is constantly heralded as the best album of both the sixties, and all time. Not only is that not the opinion of this writer, but Revolver holds a more lofty position. Revolver was where all the doors were truly broken down, not on Sgt. Pepper. This is where we get our first taste of George Harrison as a real songwriter; his brilliant Taxman opens up the album. But Paul McCartney and John Lennon are also in great shape, bringing some of their best songs to the table. McCartney went into a new level of sophistication with “Eleanor Rigby,” which included nothing but strings playing the melody and his voice; a great departure from the guitar pop/rock they were known for. Lennon not only gave us the mellow “I’m Only Sleeping” (a college anthem for sure), but the absolutely spellbinding “Tomorrow Never Knows” which is every bit as brilliant as “A Day In The Life” is billed to be.
1. The Who Sell Out The Who Wikipedia
By 1967, The Who were stagnating. Despite the success of their early singles, as well as decent showings with both their My Generation and A Quick One LPs, the Who were showing signs that they could not turn a profit. The band were spending money at huge rates, partially due to their tendency to destroy their equipment after live performances, and because they were being ripped off by their first producer, Shel Talmy. In an attempt to right the ship, guitarist Pete Townshend worked on his most connected and intricate batch of songs to date. These songs were connected by a loose concept that paid tribute to pirate radio, as well as mocking the jingles associated with it. Townshend also flipped his ace in the hole, the revolutionary “I Can See For Miles,” which was hailed at the time as being the heaviest song ever written. Once released, sales were less than flattering. Townshend, who expected it to reach the number one spot, famously decreed “To me it was the ultimate Who record yet it didn’t sell. I spat on the British record buyer.” In recent years, the album has become recognized as one of the great albums of the sixties.
Contributor: Jason Hirschhorn
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September 14th, 2007 at 5:00 am
OK, I guess the backlash can begin here. As great as it is to see the Pretty Things & Love on here I have to ask, where’s the Velvet Underground?
September 14th, 2007 at 7:31 am
Can’t wait to read the comments on this list. Someone with the bollocks to say Sgt. Pepper wasn’t the greatest, I mean, WOW! Not only that, but that the Who Sell Out was better? Refreshing and scandalous at the same time. I love the Who so this isn’t lost on me, but I can’t wait for the fireworks to come. I just hope the boss doesn’t expect me to work today.
September 14th, 2007 at 7:53 am
No Velvet Underground?
Revolver is an album I have never been a huge fan of. I actually prefer quite a few Beatles albums to the two on this list. Abbey Road, the White Album and Rubber Soul are all more enjoyable listens for me.
I would have had Electric Ladyland ahead of Are you Experienced also. Still though, an excellent list and I am in the process of obtaining the several albums I have never heard before on this list.
September 14th, 2007 at 8:13 am
Love’s album isn’t any more than a minor masterpiece?
This list isn’t any less than a farce.
This list hardly scratches the surface of sixties music.
Velvet Underground, Fairport Convention, Small Faces, Kinks, Mothers of Invention, Little Feat, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Silver Apples, Pink Floyd, Simon and Garfunkel, The Band, Lovin Spoonful, Miles Davis blah blah.
This list isn’t going to be slaughtered because its wrong it going be slaughtered because it lacks thought.
September 14th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Travis – I think that’s a bit harsh. Be honest, it’s simply an impossible task. What possible criteria are you going to use? Most influential? Most artistic? Most popular? Progressive? Favorite? Everyone is going to have an opinion, and sometimes these lists are put out there to get people talking. Your suggestions are equally valuable as the one submitted. But who’s to say what’s better?
Also – genre is not really catagorized here so it is a bit of a stretch not to have MIles Davis mentioned. Maybe it should have been catagorized Best Rock list.
September 14th, 2007 at 10:12 am
i think you have to add “live dead” by the grateful dead to the list. if you like the dead or not, this record showcased the san fran sound better then any airplane record or big brother or anything.
also i think the reason sgt pepper gets better press then revolver is because so many of their contemporaries have said it pushed them to be better. plus i think it’s kind of cool that the beatles went home to england cuz it was too crazy over here & said we’re all done with america & touring. america said “ok we dont need ya, we can make our own beatles” & the monkees were born. meanwhile the beatles said hey america, we’ll take your interpertation of popular music & your monkeys & raise you 1 sgt pepper & while we’re at it, redefine what is pop music.
September 14th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
yeah I thought rubber soul was ten times the album as revolver.
September 14th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
I agree that Led Zeppelin had a heavy influence on Hard Rock/Metal. The album from the 60’s that literally created the genre of Heavy Metal was Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath. You ask almost any Hard Rock/Metal band who had a bigger influence on their sound and it is almost universal it is Black Sabbath and not Zeppelin.
September 14th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
How could you leave out the White Album by the Beatles?
September 14th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
I agree that I was harsh, but this list doesn’t even scratch the surface of sixties music. There is so more to it, yet people are determined to list the same old crap. In my opinion that’s laziness and put up so more people will digg the list. And yes that’s probably harsh too, but I would much prefer to come to this list and think mmm I’ve never heard of that album I’ll think I check it out.
September 14th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Travis, Bucslim is right. It’s impossible to make a “Best Of” list regarding music and make everyone (anyone?) happy. Just add your own favorites so that we the readers might find out about something maybe we haven’t heard before.
I for one absolutely despise The Who and feel they shouldn’t be on any best of anything. But… I didn’t write the list.
September 14th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
soonerproud – Black Sabbath didn’t release their first album until May of 1970.
September 14th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Was hoping Piper at the Gates of Dawn would be included, but nobody’s perfect.
September 15th, 2007 at 12:12 am
bilhat:
I got when the band formed (1968) mixed up with the date of the first album. You are a little off on the date. So I guess Sabbath would qualify for one of the most influential 70’s bands.
“Black Sabbath, released on Friday the 13th, February, 1970″
September 15th, 2007 at 7:43 am
Regarding “S.F. Sorrow The Pretty Things”. I’m not clear how a Top 15 album can be “neglected all these years” providing 60’s fans music “that they haven’t heard a million times before”. Two Zeppelin albums? Two Beatle albums? Two Dylan albums? Two Who albums? Naw. There WERE other bands, ya know. Where’s Janis Joplin? Hell, I’d put Mama’s & Papa’s on it. And “Hair” had much more impact than “Forever Changes — Love”.
September 15th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Yarr- fair enough and I admit I’m not a nice person, but if you are going to make money from writing lists and then publish them you should be providing a little more insight than this.
I’m sorry as someone who has earns there living writing for publications on the internet I’m sick of being overlooked for lame shite like this. There is little knowledge of the period and unforgivably no evidence of research. Believe me I can accept anyone’s opinion if I think I know what they going on about.
September 15th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
travis:
Nowhere does anyone on this site say these list are definitive. These list are based on the opinions of the authors (which is always subjective) and do not make any claim to being a consensus on the issue. It is purely for entertainment purposes and is not intended to be taken as serious journalism.
I highly doubt that jfratter or any other person involved with this site makes their living exclusively publishing to this site. They do it because it is fun and it leads to some great conversations with others.
If you do not like the opinions of the author of any list on this site, just submit your own. If it is well written and researched they will pay you $20 to publish it. You also are free to express your opinion in the comments.
There is no need in being rude and slamming the authors of these list just because you disagree with their conclusions. There are more than enough ways on this site to express your own opinion about what you think the list should look like if you wrote it.
btw:
Before you claim you make a living writing publications to the internet, please check your post for spelling and punctuation errors. There are a few in your last post. People will not take you seriously in making such claims with these types of errors.
(No, I do not write for a living nor do I claim to. So if I have spelling and punctuation errors in this post, please excuse my lack of experience in writing.)
September 15th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
And how many here on the list have tribute bands dedicated in their honor?
September 15th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
“Tomorrow Never Sleeps”? Last time I checked it was “Tomorrow Never Knows”. Oh well…
September 15th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
How old is jfratter? I can’t imagine he actually lived through this era. “Led Zeppelin” was a great bad, no doubt — but they didn’t release their first album until 1969 fer chrissakes.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:59 am
Sorry I type quickly
September 16th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Well, ya know if you want to get into the serious Rock list what you need to do is skip the round numbers and do something like 66 to 76 because that’s basically the history of rock right there. Before sixty six you’re still in the era where Rock was basically just a sub-genre of Country and after 76 you’re getting into punk which was the celebration of the death of the music industry. And the punks did it in the end because I tell ya what, the majority of the downloading anarchist computer geeks came straight out of the punk scene. You could argue it was techno geeks, but I’d say techno has more shared heritage with punk than any other genre.
But this list, it could have been re-phrased. Instead of baiting people by emphasizing The Who as number one and some of the other goofie stuff it could have been presented as a list of underappreciated bands of the sixties. The Who was more of an eighties band and that’s a sad thing to say. They really didn’t work in the early years aside from some of the gender bending stuff that attracted a loud, aggressive and outspoken following. Tommy was merely passable as a rock opera. There were a lot of great rock operas and Tommy does not top the list.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:04 pm
And King Crimson, Janis Joplin, Traffic…?
September 25th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
The more I read this list, the more I’m convince that the people who had a hand in compiling it did not live through that era. It’s something a teenager would guess after listening to a 20 year old on MTV quoting a 25 year old music critic who couldn’t even name the four Beatles because he only listens to heavy-metal music. (And even there, he left “Steppenwolf” off the list — and they invented the term!) It’s sloppy revisionism proffered by someone who’s never actually seen an 8-track tape cartridge, doesn’t know Mr. Natural from Robert McNamara, and thinks a headshop is where you buy hats. It really should be quietly pulled.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:21 am
hey…what about blind faith…
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:48 am
This list reads like the playlist from an oldies station. boring! What about:
The Kinks: Village Green Preservation Society and Something Else
Joni Mitchell: Ladies of the Canyon
Laura Nyro: New York Tendaberry AND Eli & The Thirteenth Confession
Van Dyke Parks: Song Cycle
The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground
And I won’t even begin to list Motown artists that aren’t here… but where is The Four Tops’ “Reach Out”?? Or Otis Redding’s “The Dock of the Bay”??
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:53 pm
pretty good list…..don’t think the who should have been on the top of it……..and you forgot to include Bob Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde or Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.
October 3rd, 2007 at 6:43 am
Pink Floyd’s Piper at the Gates of Dawn should be on this list.
January 4th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
‘Velvet Underground And Nico’. It contains multitudes.
Rolling Stones: ‘Beggar’s Banquet’. The definitive ‘bad guy’ Stones album.
Pink Floyd: ‘Piper At The Gates Of Dawn’ colourful psyche with a blue-green lining of psychotic.
To be brutally honest, mention of the Who automatically makes me think of Wicked Uncle Peter and his adventures on the Net, and not the band’s place in musical history. Sad, but that’s the way it is.
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Why is Cream not on this list?!? Without Cream there is no Zeppelin …
March 7th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
i think jeff beck’s ‘truth’ is an under rated album.
March 10th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Why is Revolver only at Number 2??? Anyway, pretty good list
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June 2nd, 2008 at 3:18 pm
YAY!!
2 beatles albums!!
revolver shoulda been first though…
oh well.
the beatles are amazing.
im only 13 and i listen them, and tons of my friends do too, so thats just how amazing they are :]
June 11th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
psh…i hate the who. I think it’s because roger daultry is a total shmuck..but yeah f them. wheres van morrison? and pink floyd?? duh. how does the who outrank jimi and floyd is just out sick???. makes no sense. and poor old zappa & the mothers overlooked.. of course.
June 16th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
In all honesty, I don’t think great albums of the sixties can be narrowed down to only 15.
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July 3rd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Maybe you’ll think I’m just another beatlesfan (which I am) when I say at number one there should be an album like Sgt. Peppers, the White album, or even Revolver.
Especially Sgt. Peppers, the most influential album of all times, one of the best albums of all times (check Rolling Stone’s list. You can’t put that on 8. o.0
You’re list was good, but by seeing that number one I see you didn’t research the albums enough :p
August 15th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
ok no offense but i despise the who. i think they’re terrible main;y because of roger daultry if thats how u spell it. they aren’t as good as ppl make them out to be.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
“stens to heavy-metal music. (And even there, he left “Steppenwolf” off the list — and they invented the term!”
Er,…..no.
It was a term in “Naked Lunch” by William S. Burroughs.
So was Steely Dan.
December 21st, 2008 at 11:14 pm
this is the best list for this ive seen props for not putting beatles at 31 i dont belive any of theyre albums deserve number 1 but theyre by far the most consistent band in coming out with top albums.
December 24th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
There were other genres besides rock in the 60’s…some great Soul and Jazz albums came out of that decade as well…
February 12th, 2009 at 3:48 am
Love the list, especially the placement of the Zeppelin albums. I like II, but I lurve I and I think that I was a lot more influential. Good list.
February 27th, 2009 at 7:50 am
dude I think you lacked thought to some of this, Zeppelin is one of the most overated bands of all time in my opion, i’m not saying they arn’t good just not good enough. Where is Velvet Underground? However I do agree completly with the Doors, Beatles and Hendrix. I am glad that Grateful dead isn’t on there; yuck. Bob Dylan are you kidding me? Yeah he is ok,but not worthy of top 15 sorry. I say i’m 50, 50 with this list, but think about all of your options next time.
February 28th, 2009 at 2:34 am
LSD.chaos: Zeppelin are not overrated bro, their later stuff maybe, but the albums here I and II changed the way people looked at heavy rock and the blues. I actually think that there is a good arguement for a Grateful Dead album here. Why doesn’t Dylan deserve to be on this list?
February 28th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Because Dylan’s way of singing his songs just sounded so… whats the word i’m looking for??, damn i need a thesaurus. Anyway his album just wasn’t what i expected when i heard it.
March 1st, 2009 at 5:01 am
Well if it makes you feel any better I don’t actually think that Bringing It All Back Home was that great. I think this list is more like Top 10 Artists of the 60’s, because I think that based purely on merit Highway 61 Revisited was a much more solid album in my opinion. To me it looks like the author has just picked some famous 60’s artists and chose the albums he liked the best. I don’t think that was such a bad way to do it, but I do agree with you that maybe some other albums could’ve been considered.
March 1st, 2009 at 7:12 am
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Mark, I can’t help but to respectfully disagree. I think ‘Bringing It All Back Home’ is a fabulous record. The lyrics alone are some of the best written in popular music.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bringing_it_all_back_home
Check out the track listing. Songs like this hadn’t been written before.
And have had a big influence on popular culture.
I can’t help but ask why you don’t think it’s that great.
March 2nd, 2009 at 3:22 am
Bobby the K: You can’t put an album that high on a list like this solely based on the lyrics and Highway 61 Revisited was a much better album musically (not to mention that if we were going based so heavily on lyrics, neither of these albums would win this). Now to explain, lyrics are essentially poems, agreed? Well I can think of, oh, about, >1,000 poets who wrote poems before Dylan took the time to put them to music. Don’t get me wrong, I think Dylan was, and still is to a lesser extent, a great musician. But even he himself preferred Highway 61 Revisited, who are we as mere mortals to argue?
March 13th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
I think a list of the “Top Albums of the British Invasion” would be better.
That said, there are many great albums that were given the shaft because, and let’s face it, this was an impossible task.
-The Band
-Blind Faith
-Buffalo Springfield
-The Byrds
-Cat Stevens
-Cream
-Crosby, Stills, and Nash
-Free
-Harry Nilsson
-The Hollies
-Jackson Browne
-John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers
-Joe Cocker
-Join Mitchell
-The Kinks
-Little Feat
-The Mamas and the Papas
-Neil Young
-Nick Drake
-Nico
-Simon and Garfunkel
-Pink Floyd
-13th Floor Elevators
-The Rolling Stones
-Santana
-Tim Buckley
-Van Morrison
-Velvet Underground
-Yardbirds
and many others all deserve to be on this list in their own right.
For what it’s worth, I love The Who Sell Out. And I think that “Good Vibrations” is the most over-rated songs ever not by a band named “Journey, Bon Jovi, or Bruce Springsteen.”
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:15 pm
robert cs. take on this list the who sell out a+ sgt.pepper a
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:19 pm
thats robert christgau by the way . and quote from allmusic – There’s no discernable theme behind these songs, yet this album is stronger than Tommy, falling just behind Who Sell Out as the finest record the Who ever cut. my opinion is that who sell out is the who’s best but the best of the 60’s I guess is an opinion.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Where the hell is the Rolling Stones’ Aftermath and the debut of the Who? And the White Album…?
August 10th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
totally agree with the who at number one, but here’s a question:
What about Black sabbath? The revolution of rock music and the invention of metal music started in 1969 because Black sabbath debuted. Sure, Paranoid was the true defining album, but Black sabbath’s debut deserves a mention!
August 30th, 2009 at 9:23 am
My issue is with the title. Since the genre is static, shouldn’t the title reflect that? So exclusively American as well. The Guess Who’s ‘Canned Wheat’ usurped the Beatles and focused eyes north. Jazz? Hello? Great albums in the 60’s that changed music came from all over the world, in various disciplines.
September 12th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
@bassbait (52): Wasn’ the album “Black Sabbath” released in 1970…?
October 20th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
@Mark (54), yup it was. It was also addressed in comments 12 & 14, but I guess bassbait (52) is too lazy to read stuff before posting. Oh, and you, too, I guess.
Anyway, why isn’t Velvet Underground on this list and why is it filled with so much crap?
October 27th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
THE WHO SELL OUT?
I am a huge Who fan, and this is my LEAST FAVORITE album by them!!! Really, what is so fantastic about this album?
On a lighter note, I’m glad to see that my favorite band (jefferson Airplane) made it on the list, even though I don’t think Surrealistic Pillow is their best album. The Doors was a very nice choice, as was Sgt. Pepper’s and Tommy. Overall, good job, but what is with The WHo Sell Out?
November 12th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
@Amanda Buttfuk (55): I know full well when Black Sabbath was released, I was being sarcastic.
November 15th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
“lilya2013
October 27th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
THE WHO SELL OUT?
I am a huge Who fan, and this is my LEAST FAVORITE album by them!!! Really, what is so fantastic about this album?”
Everything.