Acclaimed Music Top 25 Albums from 1966 poll

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insane list, could vote for so many of these classic, classic albums.

guh. voted beach boys over cecil taylor, coltrane (ascension), stones, beatles, monks, zappa.

is this the last year John Coltane alive? sure feels like it.

just looked it up, he died about a half a year later.

John Coltrane (September 23, 1926 - July 17, 1967).

Black Monk Time is TOO FUCKING LOW. Sounds of Silence is a more acclaimed album???

But about the actual poll: this is Revolver, duh.

Beach boys 4eva

Larry Young in a country mile

kidding - Revolver obviously

Pet Sounds, with much love to The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul, Black Monk Time, Revolver and Fifth Dimension.

i know ppl were saying this about 65 but this is the best year for top 40 in america imo

Ascension over Aftermath. the rest are not really close

5D

In reality this is a battle between Revolver and Pet Sounds, but I voted for Meditations, which quite often is my favorite Coltrane.

First Jefferson Airplane album, the one without Grace, should be on there--that would be my vote if it were.

There are a whole bunch of albums here where I love two or three or four songs, but I don't have a particular favourite. I'll vote for Fifth Dimension for "Eight Miles High" and "Why."

1965 vs. 1966: not sure how you'd structure it, but that would a good poll.

wanted to throw out some love for both "The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators" and "Sunshine Superman" as they are both great albums. cannot vote for either of them however.

i dug out my copy of Aftermath today. going to play it to see if it can penetrate the Top 3. i don't think it will get my vote but love the track listing on this album. going to be a good day.

Where is Monkees band? Most important album of 1966 for me at that time.

Pet Sounds. Pretty sure California Dreamin' would be my top song of the year though.

Aftermath is amazing especially side one. but the last song is "Goin' Home" and is over 11 minutes long. i was thinking, just end already. is it as good as Revolver? no. is it as good as Pet Sounds? hell no. is it as good as Blonde on Blonde nope.

it will be one of those three.

have these Acclaimed series run its course? not seeing a reason to continue.

Keep doing them! At least finish off the sixties.

Everything ever has run its course. We plod ahead anyway. (I.e, keep doing them!)

the singles from the 60's will probably do much better. coming in about three months...

Tim Hardin 1 just missed the cut at #26. I'd vote that over all but about five of these.

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decided to vote for Revolver, it is really hard to pass that record up.

the photo at the top of the thread represents an LP I just might vote for over any of these.

Quiller Memorandum and Born Free OSTs also capable of vying with this roster.

Voted for whatever prevents Bob Dylan from winning again.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I made an effort to listen to all the albums here before making my decision and evidently forgot to actually vote. Would have (just) gone with Revolver.

that would have been awesome!

Top 3 looks about right. as i said a bit earlier in the thread, hard to get past those three.

Wow I know jack abt Dylan or jazz but I am willing to bet that Pet Sounds/Revolver are not 300% better than their albums :P

Dammit I knew I should've given a sympathy vote to Sunshine Superman.

Voted for Cecil. Most influential thing on here.

(Who was the other Cecil voter?)

xps I'm willing to bet Ke$ha's next is 300% better than Blonde on Blonde.

I was the other Cecil voter, such a treat to hear him do his thing w/ good studio recording, rehearsal time etc. Brilliant alb cover, too.

Right on. And yeah, that's one of the better/more iconic Blue Note covers.

this year's top two albums are the highest ranked *of all time*

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