PA Top 25 60s Albums: Your Most Liked of Known

Vote for one album in the poll that is enjoyed by you.

I wanted to try something different from the norm and so was going to ask for least favourite of what you know from the list, but then I changed my mind and went to the normal favourite question. I am tempted to make this multiple choice but am deciding not to. I don't much like negativity, but still I'm interested in what people know and like as well as what they know and does not appeal, as I like to get to know and explore the individual members of this community's tastes, and consider my own.

From these top 25 PA charted studio albums from the 60s, including Proto-Prog and Prog Related, please vote for one that you like. And then consider mentioning one that does not appeal to you, and explaining, briefly or not, why you think it is not for you. But if mentioning something you don't like, please don't just say something like "Everything from the Beatles" as I want to focus on the individual album themselves. I would rather someone try to mention their issues with that specific album beyond "I dislike it because it's The Beatles".

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Love and know well most in the list. While I don't have any least liked to notably mention, for two favourites I will mention Miles Davis' In a Silent Way and Soft Machine's second. Going with Soft Machine right now, but I could happily go either way. Also that King Crimson is the bomb. I like it more than ever now. Jimi Hendrix and The Doors and Led Zeppelin and Santana are up there, and the Colosseum album is great... Love Hot Rats... I have really liked the Beatles, that Herbie Hancock is one of my favourite jazz albums. I really like Tommy... To much great stuff for me to want to be negative about anything here.

Edited by Logan - March 21 2025 at 09:37

I like almost everything in the poll, to the point where I can't choose to vote for just one album, but there are four albums in the poll that don't appeal, even if they were given away absolutely free. 

Santana's debut!

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

Magical Mystery Tour. I woke up early this morning to witness the annual mattress migration.

I was glad that Hot Rats had no votes because this is almost impossible. Happy to vote for that one anyways.

I may find To Our Children's Children's Children a little bit too cute even for The Moodies and The White Album ca. 60% wonderful/40% skippable. I would not relly enjoy listening to Tommy in full, but it's got plenty of nice highlights. Something that could be said about about 1/3rd of these. But I love them all regardless.

My third place would win if I voted for "most essential in my life", but I chose a "most enjoyed by me in 2020-2025" approach:

1 Abbey Road
2 In a Silent Way
3 In the Court of the Crimson King
4 Led Zeppelin (I)
5 Stand Up

It's in the last couple of years that I've really - like fully started to appreciate the everchanging creative flood of timeless beauty and musicality the Abbey Road medley has to offer.

Logan wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: I like almost everything in the poll, to the point where I can't choose to vote for just one album, but there are four albums in the poll that don't appeal, even if they were given away absolutely free.  Understood, Zappa is hit or miss for me.

For me as well, but I enjoy pretty much everything during the Mothers of Invention years. Some days this may even be my favorite seven minutes of 1960's music:

 Led Zeppelin I

Great stuff; thanks all.

Saperlipopette! wrote: Logan wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: I like almost everything in the poll, to the point where I can't choose to vote for just one album, but there are four albums in the poll that don't appeal, even if they were given away absolutely free.  Understood, Zappa is hit or miss for me. For me as well, but I enjoy pretty much everything during the Mothers of Invention years. Some days this may even be my favorite seven minutes of 1960's music:

Thanks, been ages sine I last heard that. I love it. What I find with Frank Zappa music generally is that a lot of the instrumental music immediately appealed, but not the "songs". Hearing "Peaches en Regalia" on classic rock radio was something of a revelatory experience to me (it was a regular on a program called The Electric Lunch that focused on the 60s and early 70s). I found it so ebullient and infectious. While Paul listens to music in a different way than I do, I would have thought that he would have found something in the Mothers/Zappa albums to like. Sometimes for me me all it takes is one phrase, and then the rest of the music starts to open up, but it helps to listen attentively often , play all the way through, and play more than once. It can take time and acclimation to attune one's ears. Still, to each his or her own interests and methods.

All these Beatles albums with Revolver as top of the bill.