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Most Acclaimed Albums of the 1960s Beta

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#1 Pet Sounds (1966)

The Beach Boys | 18 lists

#2 Revolver (1966)

The Beatles | 17 lists

#3 Abbey Road (1969)

The Beatles | 17 lists

#4 The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)

The Velvet Underground & Nico | 17 lists

#5 The Beatles ["The White Album"] (1968)

The Beatles | 15 lists

#6 Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

Bob Dylan | 17 lists

#7 Blonde on Blonde (1966)

Bob Dylan | 16 lists

#8 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

The Beatles | 15 lists

#9 Astral Weeks (1968)

Van Morrison | 15 lists

#10 Are You Experienced (1967)

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 16 lists

#11 A Love Supreme (1965)

John Coltrane | 14 lists

#12 Rubber Soul (1965)

The Beatles | 12 lists

#13 Electric Ladyland (1968)

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 13 lists

#14 At Folsom Prison (1968)

Johnny Cash | 13 lists

#15 Let It Bleed (1969)

The Rolling Stones | 12 lists

#16 Forever Changes (1967)

Love | 12 lists

#17 Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul (1965)

Otis Redding | 13 lists

#18 Live at the Apollo (1963)

James Brown and the Famous Flames | 12 lists

#19 Lady Soul (1968)

Aretha Franklin | 12 lists

#20 Beggars Banquet (1968)

The Rolling Stones | 12 lists

#21 Dusty in Memphis (1969)

Dusty Springfield | 12 lists

#22 I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967)

Aretha Franklin | 10 lists

#23 The Band (1969)

The Band | 11 lists

#24 Bringing It All Back Home (1965)

Bob Dylan | 10 lists

#25 The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968)

The Kinks | 11 lists

#26 The Velvet Underground (1969)

The Velvet Underground | 10 lists

#27 The Doors (1967)

The Doors | 10 lists

#28 Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)

Leonard Cohen | 9 lists

#29 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)

Pink Floyd | 10 lists

#30 Music from Big Pink (1968)

The Band | 8 lists

#31 Stand! (1969)

Sly and the Family Stone | 9 lists

#32 Five Leaves Left (1969)

Nick Drake | 9 lists

#33 Younger Than Yesterday (1967)

The Byrds | 8 lists

#34 The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963)

Charles Mingus | 8 lists

#35 Trout Mask Replica (1969)

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band | 9 lists

#36 Led Zeppelin II (1969)

Led Zeppelin | 8 lists

#37 The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)

Bob Dylan | 8 lists

#38 The Stooges (1969)

The Stooges | 8 lists

#39 Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968)

The Byrds | 8 lists

#40 A Hard Day's Night (1964)

The Beatles | 8 lists

#41 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)

Neil Young & Crazy Horse | 8 lists

#42 White Light/White Heat (1968)

The Velvet Underground | 8 lists

#43 Odessey and Oracle (1968)

The Zombies | 8 lists

#44 Led Zeppelin (1969)

Led Zeppelin | 8 lists

#45 In a Silent Way (1969)

Miles Davis | 7 lists

#46 The Who Sell Out (1967)

The Who | 8 lists

#47 Kick Out the Jams (1969)

MC5 | 8 lists

#48 Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (1962)

Ray Charles | 6 lists

#49 Tommy (1969)

The Who | 6 lists

#50 Wild Is the Wind (1966)

Nina Simone | 5 lists

#51 The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968)

The Byrds | 6 lists

#52 Axis: Bold as Love (1967)

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 6 lists

#53 Gris-Gris (1968)

Dr. John | 6 lists

#54 Scott 4 (1969)

Scott Walker | 6 lists

#55 The Gilded Palace of Sin (1969)

The Flying Burrito Brothers | 6 lists

#56 Hot Buttered Soul (1969)

Isaac Hayes | 6 lists

#57 From Elvis in Memphis (1969)

Elvis Presley | 6 lists

#58 We're Only in It for the Money (1968)

The Mothers of Invention | 5 lists

#59 I Put a Spell on You (1965)

Nina Simone | 4 lists

#60 Surrealistic Pillow (1967)

Jefferson Airplane | 6 lists

#61 Live at the Regal (1965)

B. B. King | 4 lists

#62 Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968)

Laura Nyro | 5 lists

#63 Liege & Lief (1969)

Fairport Convention | 4 lists

#64 Something Else by The Kinks (1967)

The Kinks | 5 lists

#65 Cheap Thrills (1968)

Big Brother and the Holding Company | 5 lists

#66 Safe as Milk (1967)

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band | 5 lists

#67 Bookends (1968)

Simon & Garfunkel | 5 lists

#68 Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969)

Crosby, Stills & Nash | 4 lists

#69 John Wesley Harding (1967)

Bob Dylan | 4 lists

#70 Getz/Gilberto (1964)

Stan Getz & João Gilberto | 5 lists

#71 Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes (1964)

The Ronettes | 5 lists

#72 Aftermath (1966)

The Rolling Stones | 4 lists

#73 Out to Lunch! (1964)

Eric Dolphy | 4 lists

#74 Mr. Tambourine Man (1965)

The Byrds | 4 lists

#75 Happy Sad (1969)

Tim Buckley | 4 lists

#76 Going to a Go-Go (1965)

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles | 3 lists

#77 Buffalo Springfield Again (1967)

Buffalo Springfield | 3 lists

#78 In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)

King Crimson | 4 lists

#79 The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (1968)

The Incredible String Band | 3 lists

#80 Sketches of Spain (1960)

Miles Davis | 4 lists

#81 Moby Grape (1967)

Moby Grape | 3 lists

#82 My Generation (1965)

The Who | 3 lists

#83 Giant Steps (1960)

John Coltrane | 4 lists

#84 At Last! (1960)

Etta James | 4 lists

#85 The Marble Index (1968)

Nico | 3 lists

#86 The United States of America (1968)

The United States of America | 4 lists

#87 Live/Dead (1969)

Grateful Dead | 4 lists

#88 Nancy & Lee (1968)

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood | 4 lists

#89 Black Monk Time (1966)

Monks | 4 lists

#90 Pastel Blues (1965)

Nina Simone | 3 lists

#91 Disraeli Gears (1967)

Cream | 3 lists

#92 Willy and the Poor Boys (1969)

Creedence Clearwater Revival | 4 lists

#93 First Take (1969)

Roberta Flack | 4 lists

#94 Reach Out (1967)

Four Tops | 4 lists

#95 New York Tendaberry (1969)

Laura Nyro | 3 lists

#96 A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector (1963)

Various Artists | 3 lists

#97 Karma (1969)

Pharoah Sanders | 3 lists

#98 Freak Out! (1966)

The Mothers of Invention | 3 lists

#99 Please Please Me (1963)

The Beatles | 2 lists

#100 Songs from a Room (1969)

Leonard Cohen | 3 lists

The Beach Boys

Rock / Pop / Art Pop / Art Rock / Pop Rock / Psychedelic Rock

18 lists

Pet Sounds 1966

The Beatles

Rock / Pop Rock / Psychedelic Rock

17 lists

Revolver 1966

The Beatles

Rock / Pop Rock

17 lists

Abbey Road 1969

The Velvet Underground & Nico

Rock / Punk / Art Rock / Garage Rock / Proto-Punk / Psychedelic Rock

17 lists

The Velvet Underground & Nico 1967

#13

The Beatles

Rock / Hard Rock / Pop Rock

15 lists

The Beatles ["The White Album"] 1968

#14

Bob Dylan

Rock / Folk / Blues Rock / Folk Rock

17 lists

Highway 61 Revisited 1965

#17

Bob Dylan

Rock / Folk / Blues Rock / Folk Rock

16 lists

Blonde on Blonde 1966

#20

The Beatles

Rock / Pop / Baroque Pop / Pop Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Rock & Roll

15 lists

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967

#31

Van Morrison

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock

15 lists

Astral Weeks 1968

#10

#33

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Rock / Blues Rock / Hard Rock / Psychedelic Rock

16 lists

Are You Experienced 1967

#11

#37

John Coltrane

Jazz / Free Jazz / Modal Jazz / Post-Bop / Spiritual Jazz

14 lists

A Love Supreme 1965

#12

#51

The Beatles

Rock / Pop / Folk / Beat Music / Folk Rock

12 lists

Rubber Soul 1965

#13

#52

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Rock / Blues Rock / Psychedelic Rock

13 lists

Electric Ladyland 1968

#14

#60

Johnny Cash

Country

13 lists

At Folsom Prison 1968

#15

#62

The Rolling Stones

Rock / Blues Rock / Hard Rock

12 lists

Let It Bleed 1969

#16

#64

Love

Rock / Pop / Folk / Baroque Pop / Folk Rock / Psychedelic Rock

12 lists

Forever Changes 1967

#17

#68

Otis Redding

Soul / R&B / Southern Soul

13 lists

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul 1965

#18

#69

James Brown and the Famous Flames

Soul / R&B / Funk / Rhythm & Blues / Southern Soul

12 lists

Live at the Apollo 1963

#19

#75

Aretha Franklin

Soul / Southern Soul

12 lists

Lady Soul 1968

#20

#82

The Rolling Stones

Rock / Blues Rock / Rock & Roll / Roots Rock

12 lists

Beggars Banquet 1968

#21

#88

Dusty Springfield

Rock / Pop / Soul / Blue-Eyed Soul / Pop Rock

12 lists

Dusty in Memphis 1969

#22

#105

Aretha Franklin

Soul / R&B / Rhythm & Blues / Southern Soul

10 lists

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You 1967

#23

#106

The Band

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Roots Rock

11 lists

The Band 1969

#24

#112

Bob Dylan

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock

10 lists

Bringing It All Back Home 1965

#25

#122

The Kinks

Rock / Pop / Folk / Baroque Pop / Folk Rock / Pop Rock / Traditional Pop

11 lists

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society 1968

#26

#130

The Velvet Underground

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Psychedelic Rock

10 lists

The Velvet Underground 1969

#27

#135

The Doors

Rock / Blues Rock / Psychedelic Rock

10 lists

The Doors 1967

#28

#136

Leonard Cohen

Folk

9 lists

Songs of Leonard Cohen 1967

#29

#147

Pink Floyd

Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Space Rock

10 lists

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 1967

#30

#149

The Band

Rock / Folk / Blues Rock / Folk Rock / Roots Rock

8 lists

Music from Big Pink 1968

#31

#159

Sly and the Family Stone

Rock / Soul / Funk / Psychedelic Rock / Psychedelic Soul

9 lists

Stand! 1969

#32

#164

Nick Drake

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock

9 lists

Five Leaves Left 1969

#33

#171

The Byrds

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Psychedelic Rock

8 lists

Younger Than Yesterday 1967

#34

#173

Charles Mingus

Jazz / Free Jazz

8 lists

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady 1963

#35

#178

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band

Rock / Punk / Art Rock / Blues Rock / Proto-Punk / Psychedelic Rock

9 lists

Trout Mask Replica 1969

#36

#183

Led Zeppelin

Rock / Blues Rock / Hard Rock

8 lists

Led Zeppelin II 1969

#37

#188

Bob Dylan

Folk

8 lists

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan 1963

#38

#193

The Stooges

Rock / Punk / Garage Rock / Proto-Punk

8 lists

The Stooges 1969

#39

#197

The Byrds

Rock / Folk / Country / Country Rock / Folk Rock

8 lists

Sweetheart of the Rodeo 1968

#40

#199

The Beatles

Rock / Beat Music / Pop Rock / Rock & Roll

8 lists

A Hard Day's Night 1964

#41

#204

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Rock / Folk / Country / Country Rock / Folk Rock

8 lists

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 1969

#42

#206

The Velvet Underground

Rock / Punk / Art Rock / Noise Rock / Proto-Punk

8 lists

White Light/White Heat 1968

#43

#210

The Zombies

Rock / Pop / Baroque Pop / Pop Rock / Psychedelic Rock

8 lists

Odessey and Oracle 1968

#44

#214

Led Zeppelin

Rock / Blues Rock / Hard Rock

8 lists

Led Zeppelin 1969

#45

#224

Miles Davis

Jazz / Jazz Fusion / Modal Jazz / Post-Bop

7 lists

In a Silent Way 1969

#46

#238

The Who

Rock / Beat Music / Psychedelic Rock / Rock & Roll

8 lists

The Who Sell Out 1967

#47

#239

MC5

Rock / Punk / Garage Rock / Hard Rock / Proto-Punk

8 lists

Kick Out the Jams 1969

#48

#263

Ray Charles

Soul / R&B / Country / Rhythm & Blues

6 lists

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music 1962

#49

#278

The Who

Rock / Art Rock

6 lists

Tommy 1969

#50

#288

Nina Simone

Jazz / Soul-Jazz

5 lists

Wild Is the Wind 1966

#51

#300

The Byrds

Rock / Folk / Country / Country Rock / Folk Rock / Pop Rock / Psychedelic Rock

6 lists

The Notorious Byrd Brothers 1968

#52

#307

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Rock / Blues Rock / Psychedelic Rock

6 lists

Axis: Bold as Love 1967

#53

#309

Dr. John

Rock / Soul / R&B / Funk / Jazz / Blues / Jazz Fusion / Psychedelic Rock / Psychedelic Soul / Rhythm & Blues / Soul-Jazz

6 lists

Gris-Gris 1968

#54

#314

Scott Walker

Pop / Baroque Pop / Chanson

6 lists

Scott 4 1969

#55

#316

The Flying Burrito Brothers

Rock / Country / Country Rock

6 lists

The Gilded Palace of Sin 1969

#56

#320

Isaac Hayes

Soul / Funk / Disco

6 lists

Hot Buttered Soul 1969

#57

#322

Elvis Presley

Rock / Soul / Country / Blue-Eyed Soul / Rock & Roll

6 lists

From Elvis in Memphis 1969

#58

#352

The Mothers of Invention

Rock / Electronic / Classical / Art Rock / Psychedelic Rock

5 lists

We're Only in It for the Money 1968

#59

#397

Nina Simone

Soul / Jazz / Blues / Piano Blues / Soul-Jazz

4 lists

I Put a Spell on You 1965

#60

#411

Jefferson Airplane

Rock / Psychedelic Rock

6 lists

Surrealistic Pillow 1967

#61

#414

B. B. King

Blues / Chicago Blues

4 lists

Live at the Regal 1965

#62

#421

Laura Nyro

Rock / Pop / Pop Rock

5 lists

Eli and the Thirteenth Confession 1968

#63

#432

Fairport Convention

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock

4 lists

Liege & Lief 1969

#64

#435

The Kinks

Rock / Beat Music / Pop Rock

5 lists

Something Else by The Kinks 1967

#65

#449

Big Brother and the Holding Company

Rock / Blues Rock / Psychedelic Rock

5 lists

Cheap Thrills 1968

#66

#457

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band

Rock / R&B / Blues Rock / Garage Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Rhythm & Blues

5 lists

Safe as Milk 1967

#67

#459

Simon & Garfunkel

Rock / Pop / Folk / Folk Rock / Psychedelic Rock

5 lists

Bookends 1968

#68

#469

Crosby, Stills & Nash

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Pop Rock

4 lists

Crosby, Stills & Nash 1969

#69

#477

Bob Dylan

Rock / Folk / Country / Country Rock / Folk Rock

4 lists

John Wesley Harding 1967

#70

#480

Stan Getz & João Gilberto

Jazz / World / Brazilian

5 lists

Getz/Gilberto 1964

#71

#484

The Ronettes

Rock / Pop / Soul / Baroque Pop / Rock & Roll

5 lists

Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes 1964

#72

#504

The Rolling Stones

Rock / R&B / Pop Rock / Rhythm & Blues

4 lists

Aftermath 1966

#73

#510

Eric Dolphy

Jazz / Free Jazz / Post-Bop

4 lists

Out to Lunch! 1964

#74

#523

The Byrds

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Garage Rock / Pop Rock

4 lists

Mr. Tambourine Man 1965

#75

#534

Tim Buckley

Rock / Jazz / Folk / Folk Rock / Jazz Fusion / Psychedelic Folk

4 lists

Happy Sad 1969

#76

#547

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

Soul / R&B / Rhythm & Blues

3 lists

Going to a Go-Go 1965

#77

#555

Buffalo Springfield

Rock / Folk / Country / Country Rock / Folk Rock / Psychedelic Rock

3 lists

Buffalo Springfield Again 1967

#78

#559

King Crimson

Rock / Prog Rock

4 lists

In the Court of the Crimson King 1969

#79

#560

The Incredible String Band

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock / Psychedelic Folk / Psychedelic Rock

3 lists

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter 1968

#80

#566

Miles Davis

Jazz / Cool Jazz / Modal Jazz

4 lists

Sketches of Spain 1960

#81

#567

Moby Grape

Rock / Psychedelic Rock

3 lists

Moby Grape 1967

#82

#574

The Who

Rock / Beat Music / Garage Rock

3 lists

My Generation 1965

#83

#584

John Coltrane

Jazz

4 lists

Giant Steps 1960

#84

#620

Etta James

Soul / R&B / Blues / Rhythm & Blues / Southern Soul

4 lists

At Last! 1960

#85

#621

Nico

Rock / Pop / Baroque Pop / Psychedelic Rock

3 lists

The Marble Index 1968

#86

#637

The United States of America

Rock / Electronic / Art Rock / Psychedelic Rock

4 lists

The United States of America 1968

#87

#640

Grateful Dead

Rock / Folk / Country / Country Rock / Folk Rock / Psychedelic Rock

4 lists

Live/Dead 1969

#88

#646

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood

Rock / Pop / Country / Baroque Pop / Country Rock / Pop Rock

4 lists

Nancy & Lee 1968

#89

#647

Monks

Rock / Garage Rock

4 lists

Black Monk Time 1966

#90

#656

Nina Simone

Soul / R&B / Jazz / Blues / Rhythm & Blues / Soul-Jazz

3 lists

Pastel Blues 1965

#91

#662

Cream

Rock / Blues Rock / Psychedelic Rock

3 lists

Disraeli Gears 1967

#92

#664

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Rock / Blues Rock / Rock & Roll / Roots Rock

4 lists

Willy and the Poor Boys 1969

#93

#667

Roberta Flack

Soul / Jazz / Vocal Jazz

4 lists

First Take 1969

#94

#671

Four Tops

Soul / R&B / Rhythm & Blues

4 lists

Reach Out 1967

#95

#677

Laura Nyro

Rock / Folk / Folk Rock

3 lists

New York Tendaberry 1969

#96

#686

Various Artists

Rock / Pop / Soul / Pop Rock

3 lists

A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector 1963

#97

#700

Pharoah Sanders

Jazz / Free Jazz / Modal Jazz / Post-Bop / Spiritual Jazz

3 lists

Karma 1969

#98

#724

The Mothers of Invention

Rock / Electronic / R&B / Prog Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Rhythm & Blues

3 lists

Freak Out! 1966

#99

#730

The Beatles

Rock / Pop / Beat Music / Rock & Roll

2 lists

Please Please Me 1963

#100

#731

Leonard Cohen

Rock / Folk / Country / Folk Rock

3 lists

Songs from a Room 1969

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