The Best Rock Albums of the 1960's

Appendix to my book "A History of Rock Music"
Selected by piero scaruffi
and revised in 2010 by Jakub Krawczynski
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1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
Best of the 1960's Best of the 1970's Best of the 1980's Best of the 1990's Best of the 2000's Best of the 2010's
TM, ®, Copyright © 1998 Piero Scaruffi
(Revised in 2003 by Chris Ford)

If you know the recording (NOT release) dates of these albums, please send them to me. It is ridiculous that rock music uses the release date instead of the recording or composition dates.

The greatest of the 1960s

  1. Velvet Underground
  2. Frank Zappa
  3. Captain Beefheart
  4. Pink Floyd
  5. Doors
  6. Bob Dylan
  7. Jefferson Airplane
  8. Tim Buckley
  9. Red Crayola
  10. Jimi Hendrix
  11. Soft Machine
  12. King Crimson
  13. Rolling Stones
  14. Grateful Dead
  15. Who
  16. Stooges
  17. Van Morrison
  18. MC5
  19. Led Zeppelin
  20. Amon Duul
  21. Colosseum
  22. Fugs
  23. Holy Modal Rounders
  24. Sandy Bull
  25. Leonard Cohen
  26. Band
  27. Janis Joplin
  28. Creedence Clearwater Revival
  29. VanDyke Parks

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