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Originally posted by grabblegarrr:
Well there you go.

I'll have to check out Anne Briggs and Steeleye Span though, I haven't heard of them.

Steeleye Span is very weird, but also very good. They don't do much original material, but their takes on traditional tunes are imaginative, to say the least. Parcel of Rogues is a good place to start.

Some favorites from the 1960's, more like a Top 50

Nuggets:Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, (1965 to 1968)
Gene Clark w/ the Gosdin Brothers
Townes Van Zandt-same
Steve Young-Rock, Salt and Nails
Peter La Farge-six albums released in the 1960's (wrote Ballad Of Ira Hayes)
Patrick Sky-first two albums
Jerry Jeff Walker-Mr. Bojangles & Driftin' Way Of Life
Leonard Cohen-Songs Of...
Phil Ochs-all five 1960's albums
Tim Buckley-three sixties albums
Nick Drake-Five Leaves Left
John Martyn-Tumbler & London Conversation
Ralph McTell-first three albums
Fairport Convention-Unhalfbricking
Strawbs-Strawbs (first release in 1969, Dragonfly from 1970 is recommended)
Family-Entertainment & Music From A Doll's House
Van Morrison-Astral Weeks and albums with Them
Masters Apprentices-same
Man-first four albums released from 1969 to 1971 (psychedelic Welsh jam band)
Stackwaddy-same (released in 1971, group was active in the 1960's)
Ashkan-In From The Cold
Love-Da Capo and Forever Changes
Captain Beefheart-Safe As Milk
Dr. John-Gris Gris
Velvet Underground-White Light/White Heat
Small Faces-There Are But Four and Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Humble Pie-Town and Country & As Safe As Yesterday Is
Flying Burrito Bros.-The Gilded Palace Of Sin
Byrds-Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
Buffalo Springfield-Again
Neil Young-1st & Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Beach Boys-Pet Sounds
Cream-Disraeli Gears & Wheels Of Fire
Blind Faith-Blind Faith
Bob Dylan-Blonde On Blonde
Rolling Stones-Aftermath & Let It Bleed
Beatles-Revolver & Rubber Soul
Pink Floyd-Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Zombies-Odyssey and Oracle
Kinks-Village Green Preservation Society
Who-Sell Out & Tommy
Jimi Hendrix-Axis:Bold As Love & Are You Experienced?
The Doors-The Doors & Strange Days
Big Brother & the Holding Co.-Cheap Thrills
The Band-Music From Big Pink
King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King
Allman Brothers Band-same
Charlie Musselwhite-first two on Vanguard
Paul Butterfield Blues Band-same & East-West
John Mayall/Bluesbreakers-first several albums
Fleetwood Mac-first two albums

Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Skip James, J. B. Lenoir, Champion Jack Dupree, Elmore James and many more blues artists that were active and recording in the sixties.

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As well as the usual choices like Love (who have my favourite album of the 60s), Velvet Underground, Odessey and Oracle, Revolver (my Beatles favourite) and Rubber Soul that have been posted already, I'd also nominate:
Pearls Before Swine: One Nation Underground (1967) and Balaklava (1968)
Ed Askew: Ask The Unicorn (1968)
Nico: Chelsea Girl (1968)
Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left (1969)
Scott Walker: Scott 4 (1969)

Here are some of my top 60s releases:

1 The Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle
2 The Stooges - The Stooges
3 Dr. John - Gris Gris
4 Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
5 Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
6 The Red Krayola - The Parable of Arable Land
7 The Kinks - Village Green
8 Flying Burrito Bros. - The Gilded Palace Of Sin
9 Cream - Disraeli Gears
10 David Axelrod - Song of Innocence
11 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
12 Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes
13 Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
14 Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt
15 Can - Monster Movie
16 Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
17 Frank Zappa - We're Only in It for the Money
18 Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
19 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe As Milk
20 Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso

1. Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
2. Our Mother the Mountain - Townes Van Zandt
3. Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix
4. In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
5. Days of Future Passed - The Moody Blues
6. Abbey Road - The Beatles
7. Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
8. Aoxomoxoa - The Grateful Dead
9. In a Silent Way - Miles Davis
10. Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones
11. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
12. Ummagumma - Pink Floyd
13. The Doors - The Doors
14. II - Led Zeppelin
15. Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt

Off the top of my head

1. the kinks - the kinks are the village green preservation society
2. The zombies - odyssey and oracle
3. The beatles - the beatles (white)
4. the band - the band
5. the beach boys - pet sounds
6. the byrds - sweetheart of the rodeo
7. Nancy sinatra and Lee hazlewood - nancy & lee
8. the kinks - arthur
9. the beatles - abbey road
10. bob dylan - blonde on blonde

I'm not sure if compilations that were released later count, or I would've added the shangri-la's - myrmidons of melodrama

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Originally posted by WarmerCorners:
7. Nancy sinatra and Lee hazlewood - nancy & lee

If we were doing a top songs of the 60s, "Some Velvet Morning" would be top 10 for me.

1. Revolver - Beatles
2. Forever Changes - Love
3. Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
4. Love Supreme - John Coltrane
5. Dusty in Memphis - Dusty Springfield
6. Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
7. Disraeli Gears - Cream
8. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
9. Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
10. I Never Loved a Man the Way that I loved you