Acclaimed Music Top 20 Albums of 1965

Otis Blue

This is a kind of "history of music" project, based on aggregated charts found on Acclaimed Music. It features Top 20 playlists for decades 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, and yearly Top 20 playlists (both songs and albums) for each year from 1960 to 2010. It should be a weekly project (though I'm not very consistent with weekly projects). To keep track of it, I made the Acclaimed History of Music page.

This time, our kind DeLorean drives us back to 1965, and to a formidable mixture of soul (Otis Redding), jazz (John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter), rock (The Byrds, The Who, The Rolling Stones), blues (B.B. King), pop (Beach Boys) plus... some Frank Sinatra! Six albums are not available: by The Beatles and Bob Dylan, as usual, and by Them and Sonics. Enjoy!

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TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 1965
Source: Acclaimed Music
Missing from Spotify: 4 albums
(legenda: the number preceding the artist name is the ranking in Acclaimed Music Top 3000 chart)

- (11) Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
- (29) The Beatles - Rubber Soul
1 (61) Otis Redding - Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
2 (67) John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
- (73) Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
3 (239) The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
4 (251) The Who - My Generation/The Who Sings My Generation
5 (307) B.B. King - Live at the Regal
6 (517) Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
- (620) The Beatles - Help!
7 (641) Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
8 (672) The Rolling Stones - No. 2/The Rolling Stones Now! (I chose No.2, published in the UK)
9 (679) The Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads
10 (774) The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys Today!
-- (785) Them - The Angry Young Them/Them (featuring Here Comes the Night)
11 (844) Smokey Robinson and The Miracles - Going to a Go-Go
12 (873) Horace Silver - Song for My Father
-- (915) The Sonics - Here Are the Sonics!!!
13 (971) Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band - Hoodoo Man Blues
14 (1031) Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
15 (1261) Frank Sinatra - September of My Years
16 (1291) The Beach Boys - Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
17 (1338) Archie Shepp - Fire Music
18 (1367) The Temptations - The Temptations Sing Smokey
19 (1453) The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
20 (1520) The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!

Listen to it on Spotify:
Mammoth (full albums): HTTP, URI. (SR0732)
Lite (3 tracks each album): HTTP, URI. (SR0733)

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