60@60 1968 Albums

I'm starting off with a list of my 60 favorite albums from my collection released in 1968. That was the year I had my first job and significant money to spend on buying records. My collection really started taking shape and I was running out buying albums as they were released.

Most of the albums here I had in 1968 or over the next couple of years. There are a few here that I discovered much later. These are not necessarily what I would say was the best of the year but they are albums from that year that were favorites and records I kept coming back to over the years. They are loosely in order. The top few albums are interchangeable.

1. Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
2. The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
3. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
4. The Band - Music From Big Pink
5. Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
6. Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
7. The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
8. The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
9. Cream - Wheels of Fire
10. Chocolate Watch Band - The Inner Mystique
11. The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
12. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
13. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Creedence Clearwater Revival
14. Donovan - The Hurdy Gurdy Man
15. Canned Heat - Boogie With Canned Heat
16. Aretha Franklin - Aretha Now
17. Sly & The Family Stone - Dance to the Music
18. Procol Harum - Shine On Brightly
19. Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
20. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
21. The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers
22. Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
23. Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father to the Man
24. Jethro Tull - This Was
25. The Pretty Things - S. F. Sorrow
26. Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
27. Bee Gees - Idea
28. Traffic - Traffic
29. The Young Rascals - Once Upon a Dream
30. Deep Purple - Shades of Deep Purple
31. Bloomfield, Kooper & Stills - Super Session
32. Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf
33. Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
34. Buffalo Springfield - Last Time Around
35. Johnny Rivers - Realization
36. Jeff Beck Group - Truth
37. Townes Van Zandt - For the Sake of the Song
38. Frank Zappa - We're Only in It for the Money
39. Dr. John - Gris Gris
40. Spirit - Spirit
41. Quicksilver Messenger Service - Quicksilver Messenger Service
42. The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
43. Canned Heat - Living the Blues
44. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
45. The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
46. The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord
47. Pearls Before Swine - Balaklava
48. Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum
49. Jefferson Airplane - Crown of Creation
50. Small Faces - Odgen's Nut Gone Flake
51. Tom Rush - The Circle Game
52. The Beach Boys - Friends
53. Moby Grape - Wow
54. John Marytn - The Tumbler
55. Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
56. The Fugs - It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest
57. Nico - The Marble Index
58. The Monkees - Head
59. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - Nancy & Lee
60. Silver Apples - Silver Apples