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

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OK here’s my list.

Gotta say I expected more of the 60s. Makes the Beatles look a bit like Hirdy circa 2005-2007: a superstar but surrounded by a few too many plodders.

Still, in preparing this, I discovered a couple of albums that I’ll listen to again (eg Easybeats).

1960

3 - The Everly Brothers - a date with the Everly Borther
2 - Evlis Presley - Elvis is Back
1 - Bill Haley and His Comets

1961

3 - Del Shannon - Runaway
2 - Roy Orbison - Lonely and Blue
1 - Chubby Checker - Let’s Twist Again

1962

3 - Crying - Roy Orbison
2 - Hymns from the heart - Johnny Cash
1 - Beachboys - Surfing’ Safari

1963

3 - The Beatles - Please, Please me
2 - Beachboy’s - Surfing USA
1 - The Beatles - With the Beatles

1964

3 - The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night
2 - Bob Dylan - The Times They are a Changin’
1 - The Beatles - Beatles for Sale

1965

3 - The Beatles - Rubber soul
2 - The Beatles - Help!
1 - Easybeats - Easy

1966

3 - The Beatles - Revolver
2 - Tim Buckley - Tim Buckley
1 - Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

1967

3 - The Beatles - Sgt Pepper
2 - The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
1 - Neil Diamond - Just for you

1968

3 - The Beatles - White Album
2 - Cream - Wheels of Fire
1 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Creedence Clearwater Revival

1969

3 -The Beatles - Abbey Road
2- The Beatles - Yellow submarine
1 - Creedence Clearwater - Willy and the Poor Boys

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As per OP, compilations do not qualify…please amend and tag me when you’ve done so.

Also, there are threads covering the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s (so far) if you want to have a go at any of them :slight_smile:

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Which album?

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Thanks, I’ve updated my post. Its a weak 3-voter, a bit like getting BOG on a rainy day against Carlton.

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The thing fascinating about the 60s is the clear evolution of new styles each year, even within broader genres. Transitions in jazz, rock, soul, pop. And just the rise and rise of the album in general.

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I think there are three very good and clear reasons for this.

1 - L
2 - S
3 - D

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Where’s your list? :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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Yeah, at the start of the 60s, there were lots of people just singing other people’s songs, by the end of the 60s music took a form which probably lasted until the death of the CD circa 2010.

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There was a rise in the quality of home hifi that coincided with it to. This peaked in the early 70s. Often referred to as the golden age of hifi.

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Let’s face it…it was the coolest times with the coolest people…and so we got the coolest music!

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Yeah, well some of us were so cool we shunned all that and chose not to exist yet.

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PMSL :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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I had to look up what that meant. I guess you are cooler :joy:

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Cut the man some slack… Doggy’s in the process of cutting down 38,735 shortlisted albums to just 30… it’s a slog…

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30…I only want three…it’s his fault for owning every album released in the 60s and a whole lot that weren’t even released.

His list better be good :wink:

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Incidentally, why is it PMSL, and not PML? It’s a failure of acronymisation, it is.
These are questions that need to be asked.

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I think cos people were constantly getting it mixed up with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy.

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1960
3 Etta James At last
2 Elvis Presley Elvis is back
1 James Brown and the Famous Flames Think!

1961
3 Ike & Tina Turner The soul of Ike and Tina Turner
2 James Brown and the Famous Flames The Amazing James Brown
1 Del Shannon Runaway with Del Shannon
1962
3 Bob Dylan Bob Dylan
2 Beach Boys Surfing Safari
1 Booker T and the MGs Green Onions

1963
3 Beatles Please Please Me
2 Sam Cooke Night Beat
1 Bob Dylan Freewheeling Bob Dylan

1964
3 The Supremes Where did our love go
2 Rolling Stones Rolling Stones
1 Kinks Kinks

1965
3 Beatles Rubber Soul
2 Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
1 Sonics Here are the Sonics

1966
3 Beatles Revolver
2 Beach Boys Pet Sounds
1 Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde

1967
3 Beatles Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
2 Velvet Underground & Nico Velvet Underground & Nico
1 Aretha Franklin I never loved a man the way I loved you

1968
3 Rolling Stones Beggers Banquet
2 Van Morrison Astral Weeks
1 Beatles Beatles

1969
3 Rolling Stones Let it bleed
2 Beatles Abbey Road
1 The stooges The stooges

Almost gave up pre 63 but completed the exercise by naming 3 for those years… (actually two really good albums in there in 61 but slim pickings overall).
65 - 67 had so much good stuff to choose from, tough years to pick and order

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No such album

Del Shannon’s version of the song Runaround Sue was released in 1963.

Do you mean “Runaway with Del Shannon” which was released in 1961?

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Jeez…no pressure…

Edit: the rough list in my mind doesnt have a lot of ‘rare gems’

I may disappoint

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