PA Top 25 60s Albums: Your Most Liked of Known
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Topic: PA Top 25 60s Albums: Your Most Liked of Known
Posted By: Logan
Subject: PA Top 25 60s Albums: Your Most Liked of Known
Date Posted: March 21 2025 at 09:36
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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". https://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?ssubgenres=12&ssubgenres=37&ssubgenres=38&ssubgenres=3&ssubgenres=36&ssubgenres=42&ssubgenres=44&ssubgenres=41&ssubgenres=35&ssubgenres=30&ssubgenres=17&ssubgenres=18&ssubgenres=32&ssubgenres=6&ssubgenres=33&ssubgenres=19&ssubgenres=15&ssubgenres=36&ssubgenres=28&ssubgenres=4&ssubgenres=43&ssubgenres=29&ssubgenres=11&syears=1969&syears=1968&syears=1967&syears=1966&syears=1965&syears=1964&syears=1963&syears=1962&syears=1961&syears=1960&salbumtypes=1&scountries=&sminratings=1&smaxratings=0&sminavgratings=1&smaxresults=100&x=86&y=6#list" rel="nofollow - CLICK HERE for the chart 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. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 21 2025 at 09:40
I know and enjoy most of the albums in the list, this is a tough choice poll, I'll het back to it, or vote for an underdog. 
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 21 2025 at 09:45
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. 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 21 2025 at 09:50
Understood, Zappa is hit or miss for me. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Psychedelic Paul wrote:Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: March 21 2025 at 11:40
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Santana's debut! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: March 21 2025 at 12:02
| Wow! Some great albums. Led Zeppelin II. But, not the most confident vote. |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: March 21 2025 at 12:22
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King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II Jethro Tull - Stand Up The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: March 21 2025 at 12:40
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Lots of great stuff, Crimson win. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: March 21 2025 at 16:00
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Magical Mystery Tour. I woke up early this morning to witness the annual mattress migration. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: March 21 2025 at 18:05
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Tommy - I dig rock opera! ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: March 21 2025 at 22:27
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I was glad that Hot Rats had no votes because this is almost impossible. Happy to vote for that one anyways. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 21 2025 at 23:22
How do you get 'Prog related' to come up in the chart? I've often wondered what the overall chart would look like if the likes of Led Zep were included. Their higher rated albums come later of course especially the behemoth albums III and IV. I voted for Led Zep II in this poll as I think they were as important to progressive music as any band of the period.
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 21 2025 at 23:35
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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.
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: |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 22 2025 at 03:26
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Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: March 22 2025 at 04:51
| Led Zeppelin I |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: March 22 2025 at 07:20
| I'll go for Revolver over Court and Hot Rats mainly because Revolver didn't have a vote yet. Otherwise I'd have a hard time to decide between these three. Also love Uncle Meat, Soft Machine II, In a Silent Way and more Beatles. I don't think there's any album here that I don't like. But because you asked, if I were told I could keep 24 out of these 25 and need to give one away, it'd probably be Tommy. But now that I write this, even that would hurt a bit. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 22 2025 at 09:03
Great stuff; thanks all.
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. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: March 22 2025 at 10:00
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Strange to say, but the album I'm back to more often is Abbey Road ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 22 2025 at 10:52
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All these Beatles albums with Revolver as top of the bill. ------------- 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 22 2025 at 10:53
I ended up playing with the filters and urls to figure out how I could do it manually after someone asked for live album charts including Prog Related some years ago. Every subgenre is assigned a number, if you use the subgenre filters at the chart, you will notice ssubgenres= come up in the url. Canterbury, for instance, is 12, so its chart is https://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?ssubgenres=12. I looked through all of the number of the subgenres that are in the menu on the chart page and went through some numbers not listed by manually adding it to the url (I found them very quickly). The subgenre number for Proto-Prog is 37 and for Prog Related it is 38. So here , for instance, is the Prog Related chart with no other filters added: https://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?ssubgenres=38" rel="nofollow - https://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?ssubgenres=38 Here is the all years chart with all Prog subgenres and Prog Related included (it's a long url, so quote this post to see it or just see it from the link's url): https://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?ssubgenres=12&ssubgenres=38&ssubgenres=3&ssubgenres=42&ssubgenres=44&ssubgenres=41&ssubgenres=35&ssubgenres=30&ssubgenres=17&ssubgenres=18&ssubgenres=32&ssubgenres=6&ssubgenres=33&ssubgenres=19&ssubgenres=15&ssubgenres=36&ssubgenres=28&ssubgenres=4&ssubgenres=43&ssubgenres=29&ssubgenres=11&syears=&scountries=&sminratings=0&smaxratings=0&sminavgratings=0&smaxresults=250&x=81&y=2#list" rel="nofollow - CLICK HERE for chart For this chart, I highlighted every category that is available in the the subgenere down down filter, ensure that all is not highlighted, and I chose the other filters I wanted, like years the normal way, but then I pasted &ssubgenres=37&ssubgenres=38& into the url (web address). If it's not done exactly right, then it won't work. After that don't use the submit button, but instead press enter on your keyboard. I also chose to make 250 results. Led Zeppelin is at number 16 with IV, David Bowie is at 17 for Blackstar, Queen is at 32 for Queen 2. And here it is with Prog Related and Proto-Prog included in case any might be interested: https://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?ssubgenres=12&ssubgenres=37&ssubgenres=38&ssubgenres=3&ssubgenres=42&ssubgenres=44&ssubgenres=41&ssubgenres=35&ssubgenres=30&ssubgenres=17&ssubgenres=18&ssubgenres=32&ssubgenres=6&ssubgenres=33&ssubgenres=19&ssubgenres=15&ssubgenres=36&ssubgenres=28&ssubgenres=4&ssubgenres=43&ssubgenres=29&ssubgenres=11&syears=&scountries=&sminratings=0&smaxratings=0&sminavgratings=0&smaxresults=250&x=81&y=2#list" rel="nofollow - CLICK here I do plan to do a 70s one of these. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Posted By: pauldunhill
Date Posted: March 22 2025 at 15:42
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In a Silent Way. For me the pinnacle of Miles’ output |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 23 2025 at 10:10
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Hi, This list is impossible. And I STILL have all the albums except one. It ought to say something ... but the list is totally insane! Can't even make up my mind after the first one! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: March 23 2025 at 10:55
One of three albums I considered voting for in this poll before going with Zep II. Very well could be his pinnacle although Sketches of Spain, Porgy and Bess, Birth of Cool and his commercial peak, Kind of Blue, would all be contenders. Bitches Brew, On the Corner, Milestones and Jack Johnson would be others receiving votes too. |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: March 24 2025 at 02:33
| Backing up Led Zep's debut album. |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: March 24 2025 at 10:28
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Tommy (from the 4 I know😂) ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |