Better late than never. ILX 60'S POLL PART TWO - THE ALBUMS

50. The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Guilded Palace of Sin (193 points, 8 votes)

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49. Getz/Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto (196 points, 8 votes)

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48. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul (197 points, 5 votes)

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47. Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes (198 poinys, 10 votes)

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46. Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain (200 points, 8 votes)

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45. Led Zeppelin - II (202 points, 10 votes)

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44. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home (206 points, 8 votes)

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43. Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch (207 points, 8 votes)

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42. Scott Walker - Scott 3 (209 points, 8 votes)

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41. Scott Walker - Scott 4 (211 points, 8 votes)

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10 albums posted and no comments. Anyone interested?

I am waiting for the good ones (Well, OK, Scott Walker and Flying Burrito Bros are nice enough).

Sweet! You made my week. I'm still trying to figure out who has my Os Mutantes CDs. I might have to give up and buy a new set. With the inclusion of jazz albums, stuff like Sonics and Them might not make it. Love the Getz/Gilberto and Dolphy's Out To Lunch. Still don't have Scott 4, don't quite love Scott 3.

Woah woah woah woah. 48-46 <3 <3 <3

Burrito Bros surprisingly low!

haha I assumed this was a thread revival before I clicked on it!

For the benefit of newbies, we were voting from a fixed list of nominees, here:
ILX 60'S POLL VOTING THREAD, RULES, NOMINATIONS ETC - CLOSING DATE 31st MAY '06

I've forgotten what I voted for, but I imagine I still have the e-mail saved.

Have they counted up the eighties poll yet?

Nice start

I think its an excellent start

40. Nico - Chelsea Girl (212 points, 11 votes)

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39. The Kinks - Something Else By The Kinks (215 points, 8 votes)

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Really?? I liked 84 albums more than Chelsea Girl in 1968 alone. Wish I had voted in this. Something Else is ace though.

38. The Doors - The Doors (215 points, 9 votes)

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37. Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club (221 points, 7 votes)

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36. A Christmas Gift For You from Phil Spector (228 points, 11 votes)

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35. Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come (231 points, 9 votes)

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Potentially controversial entry as most sources say it's a 1959 album.

34. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (233 points, 12 votes)

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Nice one Billy for finally remembering about this. Much appreciated on a friday evening!

33. The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (237 points, 8 votes)

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32. The Beatles - Help! (252 points, 9 votes)

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"A Hard Day's Night" is The Beatles' most ignored classic. For me, up there with their very best albums. Would have deserved to be higher here - like - Top 10 or something.

Awesome!!!

I have never heard Help! !

I just checked my ballot and I didn't even vote for the Burrito Bros so I shouldn't be so surprised that it's so low.

A Hard Day's Night is more "cohesive," but Help! is song by song one of the strongest Beatles albums. abanana you really need to check it out!

A Hard Day's Night is more "cohesive," but Help! is song by song one of the strongest Beatles albums.

A lot of strong stuff on that one too, but considerably dragged down by the presence of "Act Naturally" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"

31. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis:Bold As Love (256 points, 10 votes)

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I have never heard a Jimi Hendrix album all the way through.

30. Sly and The Family Stone - Stand (257 points, 12 votes)

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29. Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (286 points, 12 votes)

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28. Terry Riley - In C (295 points, 9 votes)

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27. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way (297 points, 11 votes)

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26. The Stooges - The Stooges (318 points, 15 votes)

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now there are six truly great albums.

25. Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis (333 points, 12 votes)

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Actually I did vote for Flying Burrito Bros! I was only looking at the list of blurbs I wrote. Billy, do you still have the blurbs voters sent in?

xpost, not sure about the blurbs, will have a look.

24. James Brown - Live At The Apollo, 1962 (348 points, 12 votes)

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Hi musically, you did blurbs for Revolver and the White Album, which may feature later in the list. You gave 50 points to the Burritos btw.

23. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (357 points, 13 votes)

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22. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet (404 points, 15 votes)

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Thanks for the vote of support. Back to the boring list...

15. The Zombies - Odyssey & Oracle (494 points, 14 votes)

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14. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced (503 points, 18 votes)

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The Kinks are The Village Green Preservation Society (507 points, 20 votes)

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Kinks are #13 of course.

These are a bit standard for ILM aren't they, they seem like a MOJO list, even the kerazy ones like Terry Riley thrown in.

Surprised at the Doors - who still admits to liking them?

12. The Beatles - Abbey Road (510 points, 19 votes)

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That's my pick for best of the 60s.

xxxpost, plenty of votes for other stuff, just not in sufficient quantity to make the upper reaches of the list.

I didn't expect Hendrix to do so well on an ILX poll. Also, was expecting more jazz. Though there wasn't too much jazz in the 70s poll either, I guess the jazz fans of ILM are merely a vocal minority.

13th Floor Elevators be gettin' robbed.

It's just that the only thing everyone can agree on it seems are totally standard canonized list regulars

Okay, let me phrase that better: was expecting more non-Miles jazz, but that didn't happen with the 70s poll either. Bitches Brew is still to come, surely? I remember it was among the nominations due to some misinformation about when it was actually released (1970).

There's still two or three more Beatles albums to come, right?

11. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (550 points, 18 votes)

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xxpost Bitches Brew is a 70's album (just).

Weird, I seem to remember it was among the nominations for this poll. But I guess my memory fails me.

Nah, just checked the nominations/voting thread and these were the nominees

Miles Davis- Filles de Kilamanjaro
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain
Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine (live) ('64)
Miles Davis - Nefertiti ('67)
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles ('66)

I recently read the Dream Brother book and Tim Buckley reportedly only listened to In A Silent Way for nearly a year.

It's a good poll and I wouldn't necessarily be up for the work, but I think the only way to get more varied results with more unusual choices would be to expand ballots to 30-50 albums.

The Who Sell Out = robbed

Yeah, unless it's in the top 10 (which I doubt...ILM has never been too big on the Who love), The Who Sell Out was totally fucking robbed. As was My Generation.

10. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (565 points, 14 votes)

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9. The Who - Sell Out (577 points, 19 votes)

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That should please a few people.

"You are forgiven..."

8. Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (612 points, 23 votes)

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7. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (650 points, 24 votes)

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6. The Beatles - Rubber Soul (684 points, 24 votes)

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That tattoo on the VU cover is so subtle I didn't notice it for many years. "None more black..."

5. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (711 points, 23 votes)

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4. Love - Forever Changes (753 points, 21 votes)

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This album had more voters than any other.

3. Velvet Underground and Nico - Velvet Underground and Nico (931 points, 31 votes)

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i cant even remember if i voted

2. The Beatles - Revolver (932 points, 28 votes)

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A little piece of me dies whenever some Oasis album or whatever is ranked higher than this. I can't imagine anyone's life changing after listening to Definitely Maybe. But after listening to Revolver, I remember going "wow, this is IT." Maybe this is embarrassing overshare, but hearing Revolver was one of the defining moments of my life. It completely clicked with me, and the rest is history, I suppose. - Musically

1. The Beatles - The Beatles (1000 points, 28 votes)

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Another blurb from Musically: I'm so glad that the Beatles were incredible egomaniacs and ignored George Martin's advice to shorten the White Album to one LP. I'll gladly skip over some clunkers to save the other songs that they would have likely tossed. I find Wild Honey Pie, Honey Pie, and Why Don't We Do It In the Road completely charming and I don't care what you think of me. And in my incredibly minority opinion I think Savoy Truffle is one of the best Beatles songs EVER, so there.

ILX POLL

50. The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Guilded Palace of Sin (193 points, 8 votes)
49. Getz/Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto (196 points, 8 votes)
48. Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul (197 points, 5 votes)
47. Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes (198 poinys, 10 votes)
46. Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain (200 points, 8 votes)
45. Led Zeppelin - II (202 points, 10 votes)
44. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home (206 points, 8 votes)
43. Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch (207 points, 8 votes)
42. Scott Walker - Scott 3 (209 points, 8 votes)
41. Scott Walker - Scott 4 (211 points, 8 votes)
40. Nico - Chelsea Girl (212 points, 11 votes)
39. The Kinks - Something Else By The Kinks (215 points, 8 votes)
38. The Doors - The Doors (215 points, 9 votes)
37. Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club (221 points, 7 votes)
36. A Christmas Gift For You from Phil Spector (228 points, 11 votes)
35. Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come (231 points, 9 votes)
34. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (233 points, 12 votes)
33. The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (237 points, 8 votes)
32. The Beatles - Help! (252 points, 9 votes)
31. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis:Bold As Love (256 points, 10 votes)
30. Sly and The Family Stone - Stand (257 points, 12 votes)
29. Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (286 points, 12 votes)
28. Terry Riley - In C (295 points, 9 votes)
27. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way (297 points, 11 votes)
26. The Stooges - The Stooges (318 points, 15 votes)
25. Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis (333 points, 12 votes)
24. James Brown - Live At The Apollo, 1962 (348 points, 12 votes)
23. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks (357 points, 13 votes)
22. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet (404 points, 15 votes)
21. Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (406 points, 15 votes)
20. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (409 points, 14 votes)
19. Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (414 points, 14 votes)
18. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (420 points, 16 votes)
17. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (446 points, 15 votes)
16. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (466 points, 16 votes)
15. The Zombies - Odyssey & Oracle (494 points, 14 votes)
14. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced (503 points, 18 votes)
13. The Kinks are The Village Green Preservation Society (507 points, 20 votes)
12. The Beatles - Abbey Road (510 points, 19 votes)
11. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (550 points, 18 votes)
10. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (565 points, 14 votes)
9. The Who - Sell Out (577 points, 19 votes)
8. Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (612 points, 23 votes)
7. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (650 points, 24 votes)
6. The Beatles - Rubber Soul (684 points, 24 votes)
5. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (711 points, 23 votes)
4. Love - Forever Changes (753 points, 21 votes)
3. Velvet Underground and Nico - Velvet Underground and Nico (931 points, 31 votes)
2. The Beatles - Revolver (932 points, 28 votes)
1. The Beatles - The Beatles (1000 points, 28 votes)

NME's Best Albums of the 1960s (1993)

1. Revolver - The Beatles ‘66
2. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys ‘66
3. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground ‘67
4. The Beatles -The Beatles ‘68
5. Highway 61 revisited - Bob Dylan ‘65
6. Astral weeks - Van Morrison ‘68
7. Forever changes - Love ‘68
8. Let it bleed - The Rolling Stones ‘69
9. Blond on blond - Bob Dylan ‘66
10. Otis Blue - Otis Lifts ‘66
11. Beggars Banquet - The rolling stones ‘68
12. The Doors - The Doors ‘67
13. Rubber soul - The Beatles ‘67
14. Live at the Apollo - James Brown ‘63
15. Are you experienced - Jimi Hendrix Experience ‘67
16. Sergeant Pepper - The Beatles ‘67
17. Younger than yesterday - The Byrds ‘67
18. Bringing it all back home - Bob Dylan ‘65
19. Scott - Scott Walker ‘67
20. White light/White heat - The velvet underground ‘68
21. The Stooges - The Stooges ‘69
22. Ogden’s nut gone flake - The small faces ‘68
23. A love supreme - John Coltrane ‘67
24. A hard days night - The Beatles ‘64
25. Dusty in Memphis - Dusty Springfield ‘69
26. The Songs of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen ‘68
27. Kick out the jams - MC5 ‘69
28. Abbey Road - The Beatles ‘69
29. Everybody Knows this is nowhere - Neil Young ‘69
30. The Gilded palace of sin - The flying Burrito Brothers ‘69
31. The Velvet underground - The Velvet underground ’69
32. Fifth Dimension - The Byrds ‘66
33. My Generation - The Who ‘65
34. Piper at the gates of dawn - Pink Floyd ’67
35. We’re only in it for the money - Mothers of invention ‘67
36. Trout mask replica - Captain Beefheart & his magic band ‘69
37. Five leaves left - Nick Drake ‘69
38. Beatles for sale - The Beatles ‘64
39. Music from big pink - The Band ‘68
40. John Wesley Harding - Bob Dylan ‘68
41. Johnny Cash at San Quentin - Johnny Cash ‘69
42. Johnny Cash at Folsom prison - Johnny Cash ‘68
43. Portrait - The Walker Brothers ‘66
44. The Who Sell out - The Who ‘68
45. Nancy & Lee - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood ‘68
46. A Kind of blue - Miles Davis ‘60
47. Smiley Smile - The Beach Boys ‘67
48. Scott 2 - Scott Walker ‘68
49. Turn, turn, turn - The Byrds ‘66
50. Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin ‘69

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just sayin'.

quiet for this type of thread on ILM, standard list doesn't generate talk i guess.

Thanks again Billy, order is interesting nonetheless.

Thanks for posting the results! Glad I could contribute blurb-wise, esp since there is a massive shortage of people giving their opinions of the Beatles in the critical circles. Nice to see that a couple years later my opinions haven't changed too much.

I couldn't care less about 90% of the music on this top 50.

Why not? Had you heard it all and didn't like it? Or are you just not curious enough to hear it?

Kind of surprised Black Saint And The Sinner Lady didn't make it. Since people were voting for jazz albums, you'd think the best one of all time would make a dent.

now there's a great record.

I enjoy 90% of these records.

It is hard to come up with something that doesn't seem to have already been said about these records. Taken individualy each record on this list is great or perfect or somewhere in between, but taken as a whole it's like, eh, this list seems pretty familiar. The trouble with canons.

Is 100-51 available? Maybe it looks more exciting.

he'll post that and more, probably just letting the Top 50 sink in.

It's already sunk like a stone, arf.

Checking my archives, I see that of the ILM 50, six got points from me (in descending order of points allocated: Stand!, In A Silent Way, Shape of Jazz to Come, Scott 3, VU & Nico, Getz/Gilberto).

For what it's worth, I also voted for a couple that are in the NME 50 but not the ILM 50.

Complicit or innocent? You decide.

I voted for 14 of the top 50 - so I guess I should accept some blame. There's nothing about this result that says ILM. I'd have liked to have seen CCR, Mingus, Monk, Veloso, and Gil - to name a few.

CCR have great singles, but slogging through the box set of all their albums was a chore. I didn't think they had any album that was great all the way through.

Gilberto Gil is touring right now. I need to re-listen to some of his early ones.

I think Green River and Willy and the Poor Boys hold up just fine at album-length. Gil's 1969 self-titled album is a left-field masterpiece of psych/samba/fuzz-guitar/tape-cut-up Tropicalia.

All of the CCR albums are good, apart from the last one