Best Albums of the 1960s
100 albums ranked by Wavelength users
Abbey Road (2019 Mix)
The Beatles • 1969
In the Court of the Crimson King (Expanded Edition)
King Crimson • 1969
Led Zeppelin II (Remastered)
Led Zeppelin • 1969
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles • 1967
Rubber Soul
The Beatles • 1965
Revolver
The Beatles • 1966
The Beatles (The White Album)
The Beatles • 1968
Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan • 1965
A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles • 1964
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Charles Mingus • 1963
Electric Ladyland
The Jimi Hendrix Experience • 1968
Help!
The Beatles • 1965
The Velvet Underground & Nico (45th Anniversary Edition)
The Velvet Underground & Nico • 1967
Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles • 1967
A Love Supreme
John Coltrane • 1965
The Doors
The Doors • 1967
Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan • 1966
Beatles For Sale
The Beatles • 1964
Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan • 1965
Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys • 1966
Aftermath (US Version)
The Rolling Stones • 1966
Beggars Banquet (2018 Remaster)
The Rolling Stones • 1968
The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording
John Coltrane • 1966
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground • 1969
Wild Is The Wind
Nina Simone • 1966
Pastel Blues
Nina Simone • 1965
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin • 1967
Hot Rats
Frank Zappa • 1969
At Last!
Etta James • 1960
Nina Simone In Concert (Live)
Nina Simone • 1963
At Folsom Prison (Legacy Edition)
Johnny Cash • 1968
Nina Simone Sings the Blues
Nina Simone • 1967
Led Zeppelin (Remastered)
Led Zeppelin • 1969
White Light/White Heat (45th Anniversary Edition)
The Velvet Underground • 1968
Karma
Pharoah Sanders • 1969
Sings the Blues
Nina Simone • 1966
In a Silent Way
Miles Davis • 1969
Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen • 1967
Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul (Collector's Edition)
Otis Redding • 1965
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neil Young & Crazy Horse • 1969
Safe as Milk
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band • 1967
Getz/Gilberto
Stan Getz & João Gilberto • 1964
Please Please Me
The Beatles • 1963
Out to Lunch!
Eric Dolphy • 1964
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (Remastered)
The Kinks • 1968
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd • 1967
Judy At Carnegie Hall
Judy Garland • 1961
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company & Janis Joplin • 1968
The Gilded Palace of Sin
The Flying Burrito Brothers • 1969
Eddie Gale’s Ghetto Music
Eddie Gale • 1968
With The Beatles
The Beatles • 1963
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At San Quentin (Legacy Edition) [Live]
Johnny Cash • 1969
Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin • 1968
Os Mutantes
Os Mutantes • 1967
Gal Costa
Gal Costa • 1968
Hot Buttered Soul
Isaac Hayes • 1968
Willy and the Poor Boys
Creedence Clearwater Revival • 1969
Where Did Our Love Go
The Supremes • 1964
Chelsea Girl
Nico • 1967
Odessey and Oracle (Mono Remastered)
The Zombies • 1968
Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel • 1968
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane • 1962
First Take
Roberta Flack • 1969
Kick Out the Jams
MC5 • 1969
Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition
The Velvet Underground • 1969
Ain't That Good News
Sam Cooke • 1964
Live At Birdland
John Coltrane • 1964
Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus
Charles Mingus • 1964
Live Dead (Remastered)
Grateful Dead • 1969
Look-Ka Py Py
The Meters • 1969
New York Tendaberry
Laura Nyro • 1969
Smile Sessions
The Beach Boys • 1967
Otis Blue (Mono)
Otis Redding • 1965
Dusty In Memphis (Deluxe Edition)
Dusty Springfield • 1968
Songs from a Room
Leonard Cohen • 1969
Townes Van Zandt
Townes Van Zandt • 1968
A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters
John Coltrane • 1964
Sweetheart of the Rodeo (Legacy Edition)
The Byrds • 1968
It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best
Karen Dalton • 1968
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At the Village Vanguard (Remastered) [Live]
Bill Evans Trio • 1960
On The Beach
The Paragons • 1967
Straight, No Chaser
Thelonious Monk • 1966
Free Jazz
Ornette Coleman • 1961
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg • 1968
Maiden Voyage
Herbie Hancock • 1965
Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire
The Kinks • 1969
Black Woman
Sonny Sharrock • 1968
This Is Our Music
Ornette Coleman Quartet • 1961
Free for All (Remastered)
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers • 1963
Freak Out!
The Mothers of Invention • 1966
Samba Esquema Novo
Jorge Ben Jor • 1962
We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (2022 Remaster)
Max Roach • 1960
Something Else By the Kinks
The Kinks • 1967
Smiley Smile (Mono & Stereo)
The Beach Boys • 1967
River Deep - Mountain High
Ike & Tina Turner • 1966
Clouds
Joni Mitchell • 1969
Gilberto Gil (1968)
Gilberto Gil • 1967
Empyrean Isles
Herbie Hancock • 1964
The United States of America
United States Of America • 1968
Nefertiti (2023 Remaster)
Miles Davis • 1968
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