SemiConscious Dot Org

Being an inveterate music list maker, I’d already started putting together my “Favorite Albums of the Oughts” list. I was all set to publish it, but decided that doing so would be premature, given that this decade obviously isn’t over yet. So instead, why not satisfy my jones by making lists for all the rock n’ roll decades which are over?

We’ll start with the 60’s. Yes, rock and roll technically started in the mid 50’s, but “albums” as we currently think of them didn’t exist in the 50’s (they were just collections of previously released singles.) Also, much like Chuck D, I don’t give two shits about Elvis.

So, the 60’s it is. Granted, I wasn’t alive during the decade, but why should that stop me? Feel free to tell me how wrong my picks are, and/or offer alternate titles. I probably won’t agree, but what are Teh Interwebs for, if not a good argument?

Here’s the Top 10. The order of the list should in no way be construed as conferring rank. In true hippie fashion, everybody’s equal. Now, let’s all join hands and sing “Kumbaya…”

The Rolling Stones – Let it Bleed
The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat
Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland
Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
The Beatles – S/T (ie, “The White Album”)
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
The Band – S/T
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica
Led Zeppelin – S/T
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited