The Great Blitz Album Survey…Favourite Albums Across The Years…The 60s

1960
3 - Max Roach - We Insist!
2 - Charlie Mingus - Blues & Roots
1 - Etta James - At Last!

1961
3 - John Lee Hooker - The Folk Lore Of…
2 - Max Roach - Percussion Bitter Sweet
1 - Bobby Bland - Two Steps From The Blues

1962
3 - Max Roach His Chorus And Orchestra - It’s Time
2 - Françoise Hardy - Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles
1 - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Mosaic

1963
3 - Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin’
2 - Sam Cooke - Night Beat
1 - Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

1964
3 - The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night
2 - The Ronettes - Presenting The Fabulous…
1 - Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder

1965
3 - The Beatles - Help!
2 - The Beatles - Rubber Soul
1 - The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics!!!

1966
3 - The Beatles - Revolver
2 - Monks - Black Monk Time
1 - The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

1967
3 - The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
2 - The Velvet Underground & Nico
1 - The Creation - We Are Paintermen

1968
3 - The Zombies - Odessey And Oracle
2 - Silver Apples - Silver Apples
1 - The Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat

1969
3 - The Beatles - Abbey Road
2 - The Kinks - Arthur
1 - Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt

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Yeah, no Sgt Pepper or White Album. Fight me.

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Those two terrible oversights aside (especially Sgt Pepper’s), that’s a damn good list.

You must have spent ages finding some of those albums (particularly the early 60s ones).

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The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Although it didn’t make my top 3 for the year,
easily my favourite Beatles Album.

No bad songs and lots of gold.

Penny Lane is probably my favourite Beatles song from an album.
Paperback Writer is my favourite single.

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You know how it’s done. And my opinions are - as the NHMRC forces us to say these days - of someone with lived experience in that period. Not of someone going back through the bibliotheques to see what was released in what year.

?It was released as a “Double A single” not on an album. The record company was anxious that they were taking too long to make Sgt Pepper’s that they forced this early release. It was later put onto that compilation album.

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1960

3- Everly Brothers - A Date With the Everly Brothers

1961

1962

3 - Roy Orbison - Crying

1963

3 - The Beatles- Please Please Me
2 - The Beach Boys - Surfer Girl
1 - Roy Orbison - In Dreams

1964

3 - The Searchers - It’s The Searchers
2 - The Kinks - Kinks
1 - Simon and Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning, 3 am

1965

3 - Beatles - Rubber Soul
2 - Soundtrack - The Sound of Music
1 - Soundtrack - My Fair Lady

1966

3 - Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
2 - Simon and Garfunkel- Sounds of Silence
1 - The Beatles - Revolver

1967

3 - The Beatles - Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
2 - The Foundations - From The Foundations
1 - Dusty Springfield - The Look Of Love

1968

3 - The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
2 - The Beatles - White Album

1969

3 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country
2 - The Who - Tommy
1 - The Beatles - Abbey Road

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I like to learn.

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Yeah, they had those great non-album songs around 66-67. I wasn’t sure if MMT would qualify as an album or not, but that’s how they released it in the US with the stacked Side 2.

I really like both albums but wanted to spread some love and go with what I play more.

Those first 4 years in the decade, man… I basically had to learn jazz :crazy_face:

The Max Roach album from 1960 floored me, an intense protest album. I just bought a vinyl copy today.

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Released 1964…please amend and tag me when you’ve done so.

Cheers :slight_smile: