heres mine-
1. Velvet Underground and Nico
2. Sgt. Peppers
3. Rubber Soul
4. Odessey and Oracle
5. Highway 61 Revisited
6. Otis Blue
7. Let it Bleed
8. Blonde on Blonde
9. White Album
10. Electric Ladyland

In No Particular Order:
The Beatles - Rubber Soul (1965)
13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (1966)
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (1966)
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)
The Byrds - Fifth Dimension (1966)
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Vol. 2 (Breaking Through) (1967)
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (1967)
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
The Electric Prunes - The Electric Prunes (1967)
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? (1967)
Country Joe & The Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body (1967)
The Doors - Strange Days (1967)
Love - Forever Changes (1967)
Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again (1967)
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed (1967)
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? (1967)
Frank Zappa - We're Only in It for the Money (1968)
David Axelrod - Song of Innocence (1968)
Miles Davis - Miles in the Sky (1968)
The United States of America - The United States of America (1968)
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison (1968)
Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake (1968)
Brigitte Bardot et Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie and Clyde (1968)
The Band - Music From Big Pink (1968)
Big Brother & the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills (1968)
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (1968)
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul (1969)
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (1969)
The Soft Machine - Volume Two (1969)
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking (1969)

...I went over by a few. It's too hard to narrow down such a great decade to 10 albums. I think I could get the '80s down to 10, though, and I've only listened to about 10 albums from the '50s. However, I think you could pick 10 from the above list on any given day and call them my faves.

o fuck, i forgot pet sounds. its definitly behind VU and N imo, and probably behind Sgt. Peppers too.

I'm with Filmore on this one, there is no way I could narrow done my list to ten selections. Besides, a bunch of top tens would like repeat a lot of the same artists and albums, which can get pretty boring. A lot of the fun in lists like these are discovering new albums, so here's a top fifty ordered by year that I had lying around:

John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1960)
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain (1960)
Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz (1961)
John Fahey - Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes (1963)
V/A - A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector (1963)
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
Jackson C. Frank - Jackson C. Frank (1965)
Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch (1965)
Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (1965)
The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics!!! (1965)
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)
The Beatles - Revolver (1966)
Tim Hardin - Tim Hardin 1 (1966)
The Seeds - The Seeds (1966)
Shadows of Knight - Gloria (1966)
The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of . . . (1966)
Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again (1967)
Cream - Disraeli Gears (1967)
The Doors - The Doors (1967)
The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream [Last Night] (1967)
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (1967)
Love - Forever Changes (1967)
Moby Grape - Moby Grape (1967)
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
The Red Krayola - The Parable of Arable Land (1967)
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Part One (1967)
The Band - Music From Big Pink (1968)
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968)
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison (1968)
Leonard Cohen - The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1968)
Incredible String Band - Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter (1968)
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Nancy & Lee (1968)
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (1968)
Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow (1968)
Silver Apples - Silver Apples (1968)
Scott Walker - Scott 2 (1968)
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle (1968)
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (1969)
Fairport Convention - Liege and Leaf (1969)
Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace of Sin (1969)
The Kinks - Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire (1969)
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (1969)
Moondog - Moondog (1969)
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (1969)
Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence - Oar (1969)
The Stooges - The Stooges (1969)
Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt (1969)
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)

Forgot These:

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Originally posted by nmeiborg:
John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1960)
Moby Grape - Moby Grape (1967)
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
The Red Krayola - The Parable of Arable Land (1967)
Incredible String Band - Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter (1968)
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (1969)
Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace of Sin (1969)
The Stooges - The Stooges (1969)

I've never actually listened to these:

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Originally posted by nmeiborg:
Jackson C. Frank - Jackson C. Frank (1965)
Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch (1965)
Tim Hardin - Tim Hardin 1 (1966)
Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow (1968)
Silver Apples - Silver Apples (1968)
Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence - Oar (1969)
Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt (1969)

I've held that Pretty Things album in my hand several times, and I've had Skip Spence's solo album on my wishlist for years.

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Originally posted by Filmore Mescalito Holmes:
I've never actually listened to these:

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Originally posted by nmeiborg:
Jackson C. Frank - Jackson C. Frank (1965)
Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch (1965)
Tim Hardin - Tim Hardin 1 (1966)
Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow (1968)
Silver Apples - Silver Apples (1968)
Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence - Oar (1969)
Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt (1969)

I've held that Pretty Things album in my hand several times, and I've had Skip Spence's solo album on my wishlist for years.

Most of them are folk/singer-songwriters (Frank, Jansch, Hardin and Van Zandt), really great stuff. Though on second thought I might pick the second Hardin disc over his first.

Silver Apples on the other hand were a psychedelic group whose use of oscillators made them one of the first groups to incorporate electronic music with rock. I think it would be an understatement to say they were a little ahead of their time.

Yeah, I was gonna ask about that Silver Apples one. It's the only name I haven't seen before. Must be better than the Joe Meek produced stuff, eh?

I actually missed out on seeing the Silver Apples a few months back when a bunch of clubs in Dallas had some big festival going on.. it was when I first moved out here though and didn't know my way around

Speaking of TX, Filmore has a couple excellent Austin bands on there (13th Floor Elevators, Big Brother & the Holding Company) along with some absolute classics (Bonnie and Clyde, At Folsom Prison, Forever Changes, Are You Experienced?, We're Only in It for the Money, Pet Sounds, etc.)

Nice to see Free Jazz, I threw out Ornette Coleman with that in mind in the other thread. And nmeiborg has 13th Floor Elevators as well? Shit, I didn't know anyone on MC knew them.. (except maybe grabblegarrr or JB), some love for The Seeds too, but no The Godz? Some more classic garage... Red Krayola is some excellent psychedelia, still being stolen today by the SF psych crews


Nmeiborg pretty much has a more expansive version of my list. I'm stealing it, cutting it down, and maybe throwing in one or two more albums.


whoa, Red Krayola call Houston home..

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I think Bubble Puppy (later Demian) was from Austin as well. Their first album Hot Smoke & Sassafras was highly decent, and I believe it was originally released by the same label as the 13th Floor Elevators. Their sophomore album under the name Demian (changed under label stress) is also well worth checking out for fans of the first.

I have heard of neither... hmmm... well thank you sir!

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I have heard of neither... hmmm... well thank you sir!

No probs. They are not one of my fave bands of the period, but they have their moments. I've been discovering a lot of great Texas bands lately from all eras (there's some solid funk coming out of there these days), and my hero above all heros is Austin's own Bill Hicks.

The Monks Black Monk Time
Can Monster Movie
Skip Spence Oar
Os Mutantes S/T
Bee Gees Odessa
Dusty Springfield Dusty in Memphis
John Coltrane Coltrane's Sound
The Who The Who Sell Out
Duke Reid Treasure Isle Singles Compilation
Tim Buckley Happy Sad

The Monks and Can didn't even pop in my head, good call.. but generally I think of two albums when I think of Can and they happen to both be 70s. No bueno.

I'd probably put 10 Beatles albums and be done with it. Maybe that's not cool, but it's truth.

As tough as it is, I'll try to keep it to ten. Of course the list is ever evolving, fluidly changing day by day, mood by mood. But I'd say on average these might be in the top 10 most often:

Bob Dylan- Bringing It All Back Home
The Beatles- Stg. Pepper
Hendrix- Axis Bold As Love
The Doors- The Doors
The Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
The Band- Music From Big Pink
Love- Forever Changes
Led Zeppelin II
Van Morrison- Astral Weeks
The Velvet Underground- White Light/ White Heat

for simplicity sakes, I limited myself to only one album per artist... otherwise there'd be more dylan

I got burned out on a lot of the standard stuff in high school. But here are some favorites, in no particular order except for the first two.

1. I'm just going to cheat and say everything original The Zombies recorded. It's only a couple CDs, anyway.
2. Abbey Road
In the Court of the Crimson King
The Kinks - either Village Green or Arthur, depending on my mood
More Hits by the Supremes
Some random Ronettes comp, I'm obsessed with Ronnie Spector
Horace Silver - Song for My Father
Getz/Gilberto
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave, fucking beautiful. Get this right now if you're not familiar with it.
Pentangle - Basket of Light - good call on Liege & Lief, Jacqui McShee is only one half step below Sandy Denny. And John Renbourn and Danny Thompson are godly.

I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot of cool stuff, but it's one in the morning. To be honest, I I'd probably take any of the decades since over the 60s. I mean, Stevie Wonder and Joni Mitchell alone put out at least 5 or 6 albums in the 70s that are more indispensable to me than most of this list.

Also, despite my love for the Zombies, much to my regret I have never been able to get into the other "lost treasure" of the 60s: Forever Changes. Honestly, it puts me to sleep every time I try to listen to it. Maybe someday that'll change.

great lists! what about Blue Cheer's Vincebus Eruptum? great album.

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Also, despite my love for the Zombies, much to my regret I have never been able to get into the other "lost treasure" of the 60s: Forever Changes. Honestly, it puts me to sleep every time I try to listen to it. Maybe someday that'll change.

I'm glad I'm not the only one here. I think it has some great songs near the beginning but try as I might I can't see why the whole album's considered a classic.

As far as other albums go, most of my favorite albums from this era turned out to be from the 70s. (At least, most of my favorite albums that aren't the already-saids, like Pet Sounds, Highway 61, and Abbey Road of course.)

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In the Court of the Crimson King

Nice pick.

The Byrds "Sweetheart of the Rodeo"