Pitchfork: Best Albums of the 1960s

The Velvet Underground & Nico (45th Anniversary Edition)

The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys (1966)

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane (1964)

The Beatles (The White Album)

The Beatles (1968)

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone (1966)

Blonde On Blonde

Bob Dylan (1966)

Live At The Apollo (Expanded Edition)

James Brown (1968)

Revolver

The Beatles (1966)

In a Silent Way

Miles Davis (1969)

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin (1967)

Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen (1967)

The Velvet Underground

The Velvet Underground (1969)

Electric Ladyland

The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1968)

Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan (1965)

Out to Lunch!

Eric Dolphy (1964)

Abbey Road (2019 Mix)

The Beatles (1969)

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus (1963)

Let It Bleed (Remastered 2019)

The Rolling Stones (1969)

Dusty In Memphis (Deluxe Edition)

Dusty Springfield (1968)

The Stooges

The Stooges (1969)

Pastel Blues

Nina Simone (1965)

Where Did Our Love Go

The Supremes (1964)

Hot Buttered Soul

Isaac Hayes (1968)

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison (1968)

White Light/White Heat (45th Anniversary Edition)

The Velvet Underground (1968)

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (Remastered)

The Kinks (1968)

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Beatles (1967)

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin (1968)

Spiritual Unity (50th Anniversary Expanded Edition)

Albert Ayler Trio (1964)

Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica

The Ronettes (1964)

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Neil Young & Crazy Horse (1969)

Forever Changes (Remastered)

Love (1967)

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul (Collector's Edition)

Otis Redding (1965)

Beggars Banquet (2018 Remaster)

The Rolling Stones (1968)

Giant Steps (2020 Remaster)

John Coltrane (2009)

Led Zeppelin II (Remastered)

Led Zeppelin (1969)

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan (1965)

Are You Experienced

The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)

River Deep - Mountain High

Ike & Tina Turner (1966)

In C

Terry Riley

Chelsea Girl

Nico (1967)

Sketches of Spain

Miles Davis (1960)

Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg

Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg (1968)

Scott 4

Scott Walker (1968)

Rubber Soul

The Beatles (1965)

Odessey and Oracle (Mono Remastered)

The Zombies (1968)

Monster Movie (Remastered)

Can (1968)

Leader of the Pack

The Shangri-Las (1997)

Kick Out the Jams

MC5 (1969)

Os Mutantes

Os Mutantes (1968)

It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best

Karen Dalton (1968)

Karma

Pharoah Sanders (1969)

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (1963)

In the Court of the Crimson King (Expanded Edition)

King Crimson (1969)

This Is Our Music

Ornette Coleman Quartet (1961)

At Folsom Prison (Legacy Edition)

Johnny Cash (1968)

At the Village Vanguard (Remastered) [Live]

Bill Evans Trio (1960)

Live Dead (Remastered)

Grateful Dead (1969)

The Making Of Five Leaves Left

Nick Drake (2025)

At Last!

Etta James (1960)

New York Tendaberry

Laura Nyro (1969)

Axis: Bold As Love

The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)

Safe as Milk

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band (1967)

Illuminations

Buffy Sainte-Marie (1969)

Monk.

Thelonious Monk (1964)

Bookends

Simon & Garfunkel (1968)

The Who Sell Out (Super Deluxe)

The Who (1967)

Songs from a Room

Leonard Cohen (1969)

Ain't That Good News

Sam Cooke (1964)

Led Zeppelin (Remastered)

Led Zeppelin (1969)

Clouds

Joni Mitchell (1969)

The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death (Remastered)

John Fahey (1964)

Sweet And Dandy

Toots and The Maytals (1968)

Silver Apples

Silver Apples (1968)

Willy and the Poor Boys

Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)

Caetano Veloso (Remixed Original Album)

Caetano Veloso (1968)

Kontakte - Single

Karlheinz Stockhausen (2015)

The Band (Remastered)

The Band (1987)

Maiden Voyage

Herbie Hancock (1965)

Morton Subotnick: Silver Apples of the Moon - The Wild Bull

Morton Subotnick (2011)

Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music, Vols. 1 & 2

Ray Charles (1961)

Sweetheart of the Rodeo (Legacy Edition)

The Byrds (1968)

United

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (1967)

Nancy & Lee

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood (1967)

The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

13th Floor Elevators (1965)

Cloud Nine

The Temptations (1969)

Tous les garçons et les filles (Legacy Edition)

Françoise Hardy (1962)

Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud

James Brown (1969)

Gal Costa

Gal Costa (1968)

Song Cycle

Van Dyke Parks (1966)

Nina Simone In Concert (Live)

Nina Simone (1963)

The Doors

The Doors (1967)

Howlin’ Wolf

Howlin’ Wolf (1962)

Randy Newman

Randy Newman (1968)

Aftermath (US Version)

The Rolling Stones (1966)

Gilberto Gil (1968)

Gilberto Gil (1967)

The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra (Vol. 2)

Sun Ra (1965)

Freak Out!

The Mothers of Invention (1966)

From Elvis In Memphis

Elvis Presley (1969)

Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz & João Gilberto (2011)

Sentimentally Yours

Patsy Cline (1961)

Sounds of Silence

Simon & Garfunkel (1966)

Free Jazz

Ornette Coleman (1961)

Reach Out

Four Tops (1967)

Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus

Charles Mingus (1964)

A Rainbow in Curved Air

Terry Riley

Philosophy of the World

The Shaggs (1968)

Grande Liquidação (Deluxe Version)

Tom Zé (1967)

On The Beach

The Paragons (1967)

The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 1

Gate 5 Ensemble & Harry Partch (1996)

Straight, No Chaser

Thelonious Monk (1966)

First Album

The Fugs (1964)

Nefertiti (2023 Remaster)

Miles Davis (1968)

Initials B.B.

Serge Gainsbourg (1967)

Smiley Smile (Mono & Stereo)

The Beach Boys (1966)

The Meters

The Meters (1969)

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Pink Floyd (1967)

Israelites

Desmond Dekker (2006)

In the Groove

Marvin Gaye (1968)

Something Else By the Kinks

The Kinks (1967)

Black Woman

Sonny Sharrock (1968)

D-I-V-O-R-C-E

Tammy Wynette (1967)

Black Monk Time

The Monks (2009)

Live At Birdland

John Coltrane (1964)

The United States of America

United States Of America (1968)

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

Various Artists (1963)

Best of Jimmy Cliff (2017)

Jimmy Cliff (2017)

The Gilded Palace of Sin

The Flying Burrito Brothers (1969)

Aretha Now

Aretha Franklin (1968)

Money Jungle

Duke Ellington (1962)

Fred Neil

Fred Neil (1966)

Crying

Roy Orbison (1961)

It's Our Thing (Expanded Edition)

The Isley Brothers (1969)

For Once in My Life

Stevie Wonder (1967)

Mary Lou Williams Presents Black Christ of the Andes

Mary Lou Williams (1963)

Anthems in Eden

Shirley (1969)

September of My Years (Expanded Edition)

Frank Sinatra (1964)

Oar

Alexander “Skip” Spence (1991)

Song of Innocence

David Axelrod (1967)

Blasé

Archie Shepp (1969)

Samba Esquema Novo

Jorge Ben Jor (1963)

Eternal Rhythm

Don Cherry (1967)

First Take

Roberta Flack (1969)

Father of Folk Blues

Son House (1965)

Olé Coltrane

John Coltrane (1961)

The Black Record

La Monte Young (2003)

Ces gens-là (Bonus Tracks)

Jacques Brel (1965)

We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (2022 Remaster)

Max Roach (1960)

La La Means I Love You

The Delfonics (1968)

Moondog

Moondog (1968)

At the "Golden Circle", Stockholm, Vol. 1 (2012 Remaster)

The Ornette Coleman Trio (1965)

Mama Tried

Merle Haggard & The Strangers (2001)

Monastic Trio

Alice Coltrane (1968)

Acid (Remastered 2024)

Ray Barretto (2024)

I Ain’t Marching Anymore

Phil Ochs (1965)

An Electric Storm

White Noise (1968)

Gris-Gris

Dr John (2024)

Cheap Thrills

Big Brother & The Holding Company & Janis Joplin (1968)

A Hard Day’s Night

The Beatles (2014)

The Bridge

Sonny Rollins (1961)

The Notorious Byrd Brothers (Reissue Edition with Bonus Tracks)

The Byrds (1968)

Keep On Pushing

The Impressions (1964)

Machine Gun

The Peter Brötzmann Octet (2011)

Here Are the Sonics

The Sonics (1964)

The Inflated Tear

Roland Kirk (1967)

Golden Rain: Balinese Gamelan Music & Ketjak, the Ramayana Monkey Chant

Various Artists (2013)

Justicia

Eddie Palmieri (1969)

Far East Suite

Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra (1966)

Sings

Patty Waters (2002)

Ella and Basie!

Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie (1962)

Townes Van Zandt

Townes Van Zandt (1968)

Empyrean Isles

Herbie Hancock (1964)

Switched‐On Bach

Wendy Carlos (1993)

A Jackson In Your House / Message To Our Folks

The Art Ensemble of Chicago (2001)

The Exciting Wilson Pickett

Wilson Pickett (1966)

I'll Cry If I Want To

Lesley Gore (1963)

The Soft Machine

Soft Machine (1968)

Looks Like Rain

Mickey Newbury (1969)

BBC Radiophonic Music

BBC Radiophonic Workshop (2019)

Mingus Plays Piano

Charles Mingus (1962)

Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire

The Kinks (1969)

Surrealistic Pillow (2003 Bonus Track Edition)

Jefferson Airplane (1967)

Folksinger

Dave Van Ronk (1961)

Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Live at 'the Club')

Cannonball Adderley Quintet (1966)

Wildflowers

Judy Collins (1967)

Phallus Dei

Amon Düül II (1968)

Link Wray

Link Wray (1970)

Surfer Girl

The Beach Boys (1962)

A New Perspective

Donald Byrd (1964)

Aerial Ballet (Mono Version)

Harry Nilsson (1968)

Rockin' With Wanda

Wanda Jackson (1960)

Unit Structures

Cecil Taylor (1965)

Point of Departure

Andrew Hill (1963)

Sunshine Superman

Donovan (1966)

Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Ennio Morricone (1965)