1960s

Top 20

1. Abbey Road — The Beatles (1969)
2. Revolver — The Beatles (1966)
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band — The Beatles (1967)
4. The Velvet Underground & Nico — The Velvet Underground (1967)
5. Pet Sounds — The Beach Boys (1966)
6. The Beatles (The White Album) — The Beatles (1968)
7. In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) — King Crimson (1969)
8. Highway 61 Revisited — Bob Dylan (1965)
9. The Doors — The Doors (1967)
10. Rubber Soul — The Beatles (1965)
11. Blonde On Blonde — Bob Dylan (1966)
12. Are You Experienced — The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)
13. Led Zeppelin II — Led Zeppelin (1969)
14. Electric Ladyland — The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1968)
15. Let It Bleed — The Rolling Stones (1969)
16. Led Zeppelin — Led Zeppelin (1969)
17. Astral Weeks — Van Morrison (1968)
18. A Love Supreme — John Coltrane (1965)
19. Forever Changes — Love (1967)
20. Magical Mystery Tour — The Beatles (1967)

1960

• Sketches Of Spain — Miles Davis
• Giant Steps — John Coltrane
• At Last! — Etta James
• Blues & Roots — Charles Mingus
• Elvis Is Back! — Elvis Presley
• Joan Baez — Joan Baez
• We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite — Max Roach
• The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery — Wes Montgomery
• Muddy Waters At Newport 1960 — Muddy Waters
• Soul Station — Hank Mobley
• Portrait In Jazz — Bill Evans Trio
• A Date With The Everly Brothers — The Everly Brothers
• Miriam Makeba — Miriam Makeba
• Ella In Berlin — Ella Fitzgerald
• Walk Don't Run — The Ventures
• Drums Of Passion — Olatunji
• Presents Charles Mingus — Charles Mingus
• The Big Beat — Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
• Rockin' At The Hops — Chuck Berry
• Open Sesame — Freddie Hubbard

1961

• My Favorite Things — John Coltrane
• King Of The Delta Blues Singers — Robert Johnson
• Sunday At The Village Vanguard — Bill Evans Trio
• Free Jazz — Ornette Coleman Double Quartet
• Ole Coltrane — John Coltrane
• Africa Brass — John Coltrane Quartet
• The Blues And The Abstract Truth — Oliver Nelson
• Showcase — Patsy Cline
• Two Steps From The Blues — Bobby Bland
• This Is Our Music — Ornette Coleman
• Eastern Sounds — Yusef Lateef
• The Genius Sings The Blues — Ray Charles
• West Side Story (The Original Sound Track Recording) — Various Artists
• Someday My Prince Will Come — The Miles Davis Sextet
• Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane — Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane
• Djangology — Django Reinhardt
• Lonely And Blue — Roy Orbison
• A Night In Tunisia — Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
• Out Of The Cool — Gil Evans Orchestra
• Time Further Out — The Dave Brubeck Quartet

1962

• Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music — Ray Charles
• Howlin' Wolf — Howlin' Wolf
• Waltz For Debby — Bill Evans Trio
• Bob Dylan — Bob Dylan
• Green Onions — Booker T. & The M.G.'s
• Go — Dexter Gordon
• Françoise Hardy (Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles) — Françoise Hardy
• Tijuana Moods — Charles Mingus
• Jazz Samba — Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd
• The Bridge — Sonny Rollins
• Oh Yeah — Charles Mingus
• Crying — Roy Orbison
• Coltrane "Live" At The Village Vanguard — John Coltrane
• Surfin' Safari — The Beach Boys
• Takin' Off — Herbie Hancock
• Peter, Paul And Mary — Peter, Paul And Mary
• Mosaic — Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
• Coltrane — John Coltrane Quartet
• Sentimentally Yours — Patsy Cline
• Burnin' — John Lee Hooker

1963

• The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady — Charles Mingus
• The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan — Bob Dylan
• Please Please Me — The Beatles
• James Brown Live At The Apollo — James Brown
• With The Beatles — The Beatles
• Night Beat — Sam Cooke
• Monk's Dream — The Thelonious Monk Quartet
• A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector — Various Artists
• Duke Ellington & John Coltrane — Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
• Money Jungle — Duke Ellington / Charlie Mingus / Max Roach
• Samba Esquema Novo — Jorge Ben
• Midnight Blue — Kenny Burrell
• Night Train — Oscar Peterson Trio
• In Dreams — Roy Orbison
• John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman — John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
• Surfer Girl — The Beach Boys
• Beethoven: IX. Symphonie — Herbert Von Karajan / Berliner Philharmoniker
• Ballads — John Coltrane Quartet
• Back At The Chicken Shack — Jimmy Smith
• Surfin' U.S.A. — The Beach Boys

1964

• A Hard Day's Night — The Beatles
• Getz Gilberto — Stan Getz & João Gilberto
• The Times They Are A-Changin' — Bob Dylan
• Beatles For Sale — The Beatles
• Out To Lunch! — Eric Dolphy
• Another Side Of Bob Dylan — Bob Dylan
• Presenting The Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica — The Ronettes
• Ain't That Good News — Sam Cooke
• Where Did Our Love Go — The Supremes
• Kinks — The Kinks
• Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus — Charles Mingus
• The Sidewinder — Lee Morgan
• Empyrean Isles — Herbie Hancock
• Folk Singer — Muddy Waters
• The Animals — The Animals
• Meet The Beatles! — The Beatles
• Song For My Father (Cantiga Para Meu Pai) — Horace Silver Quintet
• "Live" At The Star-Club, Hamburg — Jerry Lee Lewis
• Wednesday Morning, 3AM — Simon & Garfunkel
• The Rolling Stones — The Rolling Stones

1965

• Highway 61 Revisited — Bob Dylan
• Rubber Soul — The Beatles
• A Love Supreme — John Coltrane
• Bringing It All Back Home — Bob Dylan
• Help! — The Beatles
• Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul — Otis Redding
• Pastel Blues — Nina Simone
• My Generation — The Who
• The Beach Boys Today! — The Beach Boys
• A Charlie Brown Christmas — Vince Guaraldi
• Mr. Tambourine Man — The Byrds
• Here Are The Sonics!!! — The Sonics
• Out Of Our Heads — The Rolling Stones
• Spiritual Unity — Albert Ayler Trio
• Jackson C. Frank — Jackson C. Frank
• I Put A Spell On You — Nina Simone
• Live At The Regal — B.B. King
• Turn! Turn! Turn! — The Byrds
• Bert Jansch — Bert Jansch
• Free For All — Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

1966

• Revolver — The Beatles
• Pet Sounds — The Beach Boys
• Blonde On Blonde — Bob Dylan
• Aftermath — The Rolling Stones
• Sounds Of Silence — Simon & Garfunkel
• Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme — Simon & Garfunkel
• Freak Out! — The Mothers Of Invention
• Wild Is The Wind — Nina Simone
• Face To Face — The Kinks
• The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators — 13th Floor Elevators
• Ascension — John Coltrane
• If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears — The Mamas And The Papas
• Fresh Cream — Cream
• Black Monk Time — Monks (US)
• Fifth Dimension — The Byrds
• Speak No Evil — Wayne Shorter
• Sunshine Superman — Donovan
• Da Capo — Love
• Maiden Voyage — Herbie Hancock
• Blues Breakers — John Mayall & Eric Clapton

1967

• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band — The Beatles
• The Velvet Underground & Nico — The Velvet Underground
• The Doors — The Doors
• Are You Experienced — The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Forever Changes — Love
• Magical Mystery Tour — The Beatles
• Songs Of Leonard Cohen — Leonard Cohen
• The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn — Pink Floyd
• Axis: Bold As Love — The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Strange Days — The Doors
• Disraeli Gears — Cream
• Surrealistic Pillow — Jefferson Airplane
• Days Of Future Passed — The Moody Blues
• I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You — Aretha Franklin
• Something Else By The Kinks — The Kinks
• Safe As Milk — Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
• The Who Sell Out — The Who
• Chelsea Girl — Nico
• John Wesley Harding — Bob Dylan
• Younger Than Yesterday — The Byrds

1968

• The Beatles (The White Album) — The Beatles
• Electric Ladyland — The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Astral Weeks — Van Morrison
• Odessey And Oracle — The Zombies
• The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society — The Kinks
• Beggars Banquet — The Rolling Stones
• White Light/White Heat — The Velvet Underground
• Bookends — Simon & Garfunkel
• Music From Big Pink — The Band
• At Folsom Prison — Johnny Cash
• A Saucerful Of Secrets — Pink Floyd
• Waiting For The Sun — The Doors
• Lady Soul — Aretha Franklin
• We're Only In It For The Money — The Mothers Of Invention
• The Notorious Byrd Brothers — The Byrds
• Cheap Thrills — Big Brother And The Holding Company
• Wheels Of Fire — Cream
• Os Mutantes — Os Mutantes
• Sweetheart Of The Rodeo — The Byrds
• S.F. Sorrow — The Pretty Things

1969

• Abbey Road — The Beatles
• In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson) — King Crimson
• Led Zeppelin II — Led Zeppelin
• Let It Bleed — The Rolling Stones
• Led Zeppelin — Led Zeppelin
• The Velvet Underground — The Velvet Underground
• Five Leaves Left — Nick Drake
• Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere — Neil Young & Crazy Horse
• In A Silent Way — Miles Davis
• Hot Rats — Frank Zappa
• Tommy — The Who
• The Band — The Band
• Trout Mask Replica — Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
• Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) — The Kinks
• The Stooges — The Stooges
• Crosby, Stills & Nash — Crosby, Stills & Nash
• Green River — Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Stand! — Sly & The Family Stone
• Willy And The Poor Boys — Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Karma — Pharoah Sanders