| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica | 3.5 |
| The best avant garde album out there. Captain Beefheart does a nice job of compiling an album filled with bizarre music, while still giving off a bluesy feel to it. A very good album overall. |
| Carole King Tapestry | 5.0 |
| Carole King was a prodigy as a teenager for songwriting, with hits like "The Loco-Motion" and "Up On The Roof." Here she displays just how well she can translate her own songs herself. King does an excellent job of not trying to fit in by being sexual, like Tina Turner, or wailing like Janis Joplin. She is simply herself, which makes this album all the better. |
| Love Forever Changes | 5.0 |
| An amazing album. It both captures the essence of the social climate of 1967 and describes the less positive look on the California scene that was so big at the time. "The Daily Planet" and "Andmoreagain" are key songs, but the two that stick out are "A House Is Not A Motel" and "Alone Again Or" because of the fantastic lyrics and use of guitar thanks to the brilliant Arthur Lee. Just brilliant. |
| Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk | 3.0 |
| A good first album for a potentially decent group. Songs such a "Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.) and "Say Please" are good songs with even stronger lyrics. I personally loved "Baby Boomer"because of its fantastic lyrics and beautiful melodies. That song made the album for me. |
| Otis Redding Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul | 4.5 |
| Between his covers of other hits and his own gems, Otis Redding creates a fantastic all together album. His renditions of "My Girl", "Satisfaction", "Wonderful World", and "A Change Is Gonna Come" are almost as good as the originals, but with his soulful touch added to them. He also creates songs like "Shake", "I've Been Loving You Too Long", and "Respect", which are to this day timeless. |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
| A great goddamn album. The whole flow of it makes it as though it's one great song, it's not "Money" and "Time", it's just The Dark Side Of The Moon. Just like time and money aren't real in life, just words for things we feel need to be there to keep structure. That's what this is one big song broken down to keep structure. It's one of those timeless albums, one of those albums where you also say "I know there is alot of instances of symbolism in this, but if I sit down and try to pinpoint them, I'm going to get a headache trying." |
| The Band The Band | 5.0 |
| One of the great albums of all-time. The Band create a fantastic debut with classics like "Up On Cripple Creek" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." A fantastic first album to what would turn out to be one of the great bands ever. |
| The Beatles With the Beatles | 3.5 |
| A great album. "All My Loving" and "All I've Got To Do" are two of their best early songs. Alot of Motown covers and such, but you can see that they are still trying to settle and find their sound as a band. |
| The Beatles Please Please Me | 5.0 |
| The Byrds Turn! Turn! Turn! | 3.5 |
| A quality album. Alot of good covers, and of course "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)" An important album in the careers of an excellent group. |
| The Doors The Doors | 5.0 |
| About as good an album as you can find. Jim Morrison's poety, Ray Manzarek's amazing keyboard skills, John Densmore and Robby Krieger showing their mastery of their instruments. All of these are the formula for the success of this album. I can't think of one bad song on this album. Even the less popular songs like "End Of The Night", "Twentieth Century Fox", and "Back Door Man" are fantastic and go perfectly with the album. The big hits like "Break On Through", "Light My Fire", "The Crystal Ship", and "The End" add to the dark/haunting yet poetic flow of the entire album. This could seriously be considered the greatest album of all-time. |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love | 4.5 |
| A fantastic album. I personally find it the weakest of the JHE's three albums, but that doesn't men it isn't great. Songs like "Bold As Love", "If 6 Was 9", "Little Wing", and "Castles Made Of Sand" are still considered to be some of Hendrix's finest work. I think what I love about this album is how it is so unlike any other album of his, it isn't so much about sex and voodoo, but more focused on actual love and experiences in his life. An amazing piece of work. |
| The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed | 5.0 |
| A brilliant album beginning to end. Songs like "Love In Vain", "Midnight Rambler" and "Live With Me" are perfect examples of how The Rolling Stones can create both intense songs with their own individual significance, but can also have a great flow throughout the album. The songs such a "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and "Gimme Shelter" are The Stones at their finest. |
| The Ronettes ...Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica | 3.5 |
| A great first album for quite possibly the greatest female group of all-time. Songs like "Be My Baby" and covers of Ray Charles and The Dixie Cups help to create an altogether strong album, for yet another brain-child of Phil Spector. |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 5.0 |
| About as good an album as you can possibly find. It starts with the beautiful "Sunday Morning" yet changes moods constantly. "I'm Waiting For My Man", a story about a cocaine deal, "Venus In Furs" is out there and almost psychadelic. It really feels like a testament to Andy Warhol and the whole Factory scene going on at the time. A phenominal collection of songs. |
| Wayne Shorter Adam's Apple | 4.0 |
| Songs like "Adam's Apple" and "Footprints" truly show the brilliance in Wayne Shorter's ability to create a jazz compostion. An album such as this truly peronifies how underrated a musician he was, and how he is one of the great jazz writers of all-time. |
