Best Music and Film of the 1960′s

The following is a listing of what I feel are the top 20 films of the 1960′s (in no particular order) followed by a listing of the top 20 albums (in no particular order) of each year starting in 1966 and on through 1969. Feel free to comment on the choices and leave your own picks.

Movies

The Graduate

Dr. Strangelove

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

2001: A Space Odyssey

Easy Rider

Midnight Cowboy

Planet of the Apes

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Bullitt

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas

The Wild Bunch

The Odd Couple

Once Upon a Time in the West

The Dirty Dozen

Bonnie and Clyde

The Magnificent Seven

The Manchurian Candidate

The Producers

Rosemary’s Baby

In Cold Blood

Music

1966

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention – Freak Out

Bob Dylan – Blond on Blond

The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds

The Beatles – Revolver

13th Floor Elevators – The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators

The Byrds – Fifth Dimension

Miles Davis – Miles Smiles

Monks – Black Monk Time

Cream – Fresh Cream

Buffalo Springfield – Buffalo Springfield

The Rolling Stones – Aftermath

Donovan – Sunshine Superman

The Who – A Quick One

The Kinks – Face to Face

The Seeds – The Seeds

The Sonics – Boom

Otis Redding – Otis Blue

The Yardbirds – Roger the Engineer

John Mayall – Blues Breakers

John Coltrane – Live at the Village Vanguard

1967

The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Pink Floyd – Piper at the Gates of Dawn

The Doors – The Doors

Captain Beefheart – Safe as Milk

Frank Zappa – Absolutely Free

Love – Forever Changes

The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground and Nico

The Kinks – Something Else

Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced?

The Who – The Who Sell Out

Buffalo Springfield – Again

Miles Davis -Sorcerer

Thelonius Monk – Straight No Chaser

The Monkees -  Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.

Moby Grape – Moby Grape

John Coltrane -  Interstellar Space

13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere

The Rolling Stones – Their Satanic Majesties Request

The Move – The Move

Aretha Franklin -  I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

1968

To be continued…