Category: Album Lists

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The Best Albums of 1967


1. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico


2. The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band


3. Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen


4. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced?


5. The Doors – The Doors


6. The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour


7. Frank Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim – Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim


8. Captain Beefheart – Safe as Milk


9. Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow


10. John Fahey – Days Have Gone By


11. Love – Forever Changes


12. Nico – Chelsea Girl


13. Pink Floyd – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn


14. Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You


15. The Left Banke – Walk Away Renée / Pretty Ballerina


16. The Moody Blues – Days of Future Passed


17. Nina Simone – Nina Simone Sings the Blues


18. Thelonious Monk – Straight, No Chaser


19. Albert King – Born Under a Bad Sign


20. The Mothers of Invention – Absolutely Free


21. Cream – Disraeli Gears


22. Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding


23. Miles Davis – Miles Smiles


24. Scott Walker – Scott


25. The Who – The Who Sell Out

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The Best Albums of 2012


1. Swans – The Seer


2. Pig Destroyer – Book Burner


3. Aesop Rock – Skelethon


4. Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind


5. Susanne Sundfør – The Silicone Veil


6. Devin Townsend – Epicloud


7. Scott Walker – Bish Bosch


8. Storm Corrosion – Storm Corrosion


9. High on Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis


10. Gojira – L’enfant sauvage


11. Death Grips – The Money Store


12. Deathspell Omega – Drought


13. Orbital – Wonky


14. Napalm Death – Utilitarian


15. Killing Joke – MMXII


16. Meshuggah – Koloss


17. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city


18. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange


19. Natural Snow Buildings – Beyond the Veil


20. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music


21. Baroness – Yellow & Green


22. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel…


23. Liars – WIXIW


24. The Darkness – Hot Cakes


25. Jens Lekman – I Know What Love Isn’t

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Guest List: The Best Albums of 2012 – John Macintosh

1. Swans – The Seer

2. Beach House – Bloom

3. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city

4. Grizzly Bear – Shields

5. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!

6. Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light

7. Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan

8. Burial – Kindred

9. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw…

10. Purity Ring – Shrines

11. Andy Stott – Luxury Problems

12. Julia Holter – Ekstasis

13. Jens Lekman – I Know What Love Isn’t

14. Twin Shadow – Confess

15. Grimes – Visions

16. Tame Impala – Lonerism

17. Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind

18. Liars – WIXIW

19. Death Grips – The Money Store

20. Chromatics – Kill for Love

21. Ty Segall Band – Slaughterhouse

22. Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It

23. Crystal Castles – (III)

24. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange

25. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music

26. Sharon Van Etten – Tramp

27. DIIV – Oshin

28. Ash Borer – Cold of Ages

29. Jason Urick – I Love You

30. Scott Walker – Bish Bosch

Honorable Mentions: Nachtmystium – Silencing Machine, El-P – Cancer 4 Cure, Marissa Nadler – The Sister, Polica – Give You the Ghost, Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man, Animal Collective – Centipede Hz, Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance, Angel Olsen – Half Way Home

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The Best Albums of 1966


1. The Beatles – Revolver


2. The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds


3. Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde


4. The Mamas & The Papas – If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears


5. John Coltrane – Ascension


6. The Mothers of Invention – Freak Out!


7. Chico Hamilton – The Dealer


8. Nina Simone – Wild Is the Wind


9. The Rolling Stones – Aftermath


10. Monks – Black Monk Time


11. Krzysztof Komeda – Astigmatic


12. Simon & Garfunkel – Sounds of Silence


13. John Lee Hooker – It Serve You Right to Suffer


14. Otis Redding – Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul


15. John Mayall – Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton


16. Wayne Shorter – Adam’s Apple


17. The Who – A Quick One


18. Donovan – Sunshine Superman


19. Small Faces – Small Faces


20. Doc Watson – Southbound


21. Wilson Pickett – The Exciting Wilson Pickett


22. Miles Davis – Four & More


23. John Coltrane – Meditations


24. The Kinks – Face to Face


25. Lee Morgan – Search for the New Land

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The Best Albums of 1965


1. Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited


2. The Beatles – Rubber Soul


3. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme


4. Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home


5. Nina Simone – Pastel Blues


6. Jackson C. Frank – Jackson C. Frank


7. John Fahey – The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death


8. Son House – Father of Folk Blues


9. Albert Ayler – Spiritual Unity


10. The Beatles – Help!


11. The Who – My Generation


12. Wayne Shorter – The All Seeing Eye


13. Vince Guaraldi – A Charlie Brown Christmas


14. Miles Davis – E.S.P.


15. Atrud Gilberto – The Astrud Gilberto Album


16. Them – The Angry Young Them


17. Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil


18. Otis Redding – Otis Blue


19. The Sonics – Here Are The Sonics!!!


20. The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man


21. Horace Silver – Song for My Father


22. Bert Jansch – Bert Jansch


23. Pete La Roca – Basra


24. Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Rip, Rig and Panic


25. Merle Haggard – Strangers