1960s
19 albums
A Love Supreme
A four part spiritual suite recorded with his classic quartet, moving from the chant of Acknowledgement through Psalm. C...
Getz/Gilberto
The record that made bossa nova a global craze, pairing Getz tenor saxophone with Gilberto hushed guitar and Astrud Gilb...
King of the Delta Blues Singers
Johnson recorded 29 songs in 1936 and 1937 and died at 27, but this 1961 LP of his recordings electrified a generation o...
The Freewheelin Bob Dylan
The album that announced Dylan as the voice of a generation, with Blowin in the Wind, Masters of War and A Hard Rains a-...
Astral Weeks
A stream of consciousness song cycle recorded in days with jazz session players in New York, blending folk, blues and Ce...
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
The first rock album treated as a single work of art, with an unbroken song sequence, orchestral overdubs, studio effect...
Abbey Road
The last album the Beatles recorded, closing with the celebrated side two medley and the quiet joke of Her Majesty. Geor...
Pet Sounds
Brian Wilson quit touring to build pocket symphonies in the studio with session players, odd instruments and harmonies t...
Highway 61 Revisited
Dylan went electric with a full band and opened with Like a Rolling Stone, a six minute single that broke the three minu...
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Produced by Andy Warhol with a peelable banana cover, it mixed drone, noise and street realism about drugs and desire. I...
Are You Experienced
Hendrix redefined the electric guitar in a single stroke: feedback, wah, backwards tape and blues aggression on Purple H...
Otis Blue
Recorded in about 24 hours at Stax with Booker T and the MGs, Otis Blue covers Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Sam Cooke w...
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Atlantic debut, recorded largely at Muscle Shoals, opens with her rearranged Respect, a civil rights and feminist...
Live at the Apollo
Brown bet his own 5,700 dollars on recording a night at the Apollo Theater against label wishes. The screaming audience ...
At Folsom Prison
Cash played two January shows inside Folsom State Prison and caught his outlaw persona on tape with whoops and grit. The...
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
The Genius took country standards into soul arrangements with strings and the Raelettes, and the experiment stayed on th...
Revolver
Made as the band was tiring of touring, Revolver pushed studio technique into new territory with backward tapes, automat...
Blonde on Blonde
Recorded mostly in Nashville with crack session players, it was one of the first double albums in rock. Dylan later desc...
Electric Ladyland
The third and final Experience studio album, a double LP recorded largely at the Record Plant in New York. Hendrix stret...