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
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
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
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
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