The Top Albums from 1968

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	14	The Beatles	The Beatles ("White Album")
2	15	Van Morrison	Astral Weeks		Listen
3	22	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Electric Ladyland		Listen
4	30	The Rolling Stones	Beggars Banquet		Listen
5	80	The Band	Music from Big Pink		Listen
6	130	Aretha Franklin	Lady Soul		Listen
7	169	Johnny Cash	At Folsom Prison		Listen
8	174	The Byrds	Sweetheart of the Rodeo		Listen
9	187	The Kinks	The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society		Listen
10	190	The Velvet Underground	White Light/White Heat		Listen
11	205	The Mothers of Invention	We're Only in It for the Money		Listen
12	242	The Byrds	The Notorious Byrd Brothers		Listen
13	243	Big Brother and The Holding Company	Cheap Thrills		Listen
14	316	The Zombies	Odessey & Oracle		Listen
15	319	Simon and Garfunkel	Bookends		Listen
16	340	Small Faces	Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
17	483	Cream	Wheels of Fire
18	625	Jeff Beck	Truth		Listen
19	711	Dr. John	Gris-Gris		Listen
20	729	The Incredible String Band	The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
21	768	Laura Nyro	Eli and the Thirteenth Confession		Listen
22	782	Otis Redding	The Dock of the Bay		Listen
23	804	Os Mutantes	Os Mutantes		Listen
24	837	The United States of America	The United States of America
25	881	Traffic	Traffic		Listen
26	893	The Soft Machine	The Soft Machine		Listen
27	912	Elvis Presley	Elvis (TV Special)		Listen
28	943	Van Dyke Parks	Song Cycle		Listen
29	985	The Pretty Things	S.F. Sorrow		Listen
30	1029	James Brown	'Live' at the Apollo, Volume II		Listen
31	1232	Chick Corea	Now He Sings, Now He Sobs		Listen
32	1273	Peter Brötzmann	Machine Gun
33	1329	Caetano Veloso	Caetano Veloso
34	1331	Miles Davis	Nefertiti		Listen
35	1412	Blood, Sweat & Tears	Child Is Father to the Man		Listen
36	1464	Bloomfield - Kooper - Stills	Super Session		Listen
37	1491	Duke Ellington	...And His Mother Called Him Bill		Listen
38	1512	Tom Rush	The Circle Game		Listen
39	1550	Various Artists	Tropicália ou Panis et Circencis		Listen
40	1681	Kaleidoscope (US)	A Beacon from Mars		Listen
41	1698	Steve Miller Band	Sailor		Listen
42	1776	The Millennium	Begin		Listen
43	1794	Fleetwood Mac	Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
44	1856	Family	Music in a Doll's House		Listen
45	1859	Jefferson Airplane	Crown of Creation		Listen
46	1875	Iron Butterfly	In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida		Listen
47	1914	The Original Broadway Cast	Hair		Listen
48	1921	The Doors	Waiting for the Sun		Listen
49	1943	Rahsaan Roland Kirk	The Inflated Tear		Listen
50	1990	The Everly Brothers	Roots		Listen
51	2015	Serge Gainsbourg	Initials B. B.		Listen
52	2063	Shivkumar Sharma, Brijbushan Kabra & Hariprasad Chaurasia	Call of the Valley		Listen
53	2066	Pink Floyd	A Saucerful of Secrets		Listen
54	2074	Spirit	Spirit		Listen
55	2122	Grateful Dead	Anthem of the Sun		Listen
56	2145	Anthony Braxton	3 Compositions of New Jazz		Listen
57	2340	Pearls Before Swine	Balaklava
58	2369	The Pentangle	Sweet Child		Listen
59	2405	Steppenwolf	Steppenwolf		Listen
60	2428	Blue Cheer	Vincebus Eruptum		Listen
61	2523	Otis Redding	The Immortal Otis Redding		Listen
62	2637	José Feliciano	Feliciano!
63	2754	Francoise Hardy	Comment te dire adieu?		Listen
64	2848	Walter Carlos	Switched-On Bach		Listen
65	2896	The Fugs	Tenderness Junction
66	2980	Randy Newman	Randy Newman		Listen
67	2993	Taj Mahal	The Natch'l Blues		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Ennio Morricone	C'era una volta il West / Once Upon a Time in the West		Listen
		Silver Apples	Silver Apples		Listen
		Procol Harum	Shine On Brightly
		Fairport Convention	Fairport Convention		Listen
		Aretha Franklin	Aretha Now		Listen
		Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood	Nancy & Lee
		Nilsson	Aerial Ballet
		Bonzo Dog Band	The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse
		Albert King	Live Wire/Blues Power		Listen
		Sun Ra and The Arkestra	Sound of Joy		Listen
		Gilberto Gil	Gilberto Gil		Listen
		Otis Redding	In Person at the Whisky a Go Go		Listen
		Archie Shepp	The Way Ahead		Listen
		Scott Walker	Scott 2
		David Ackles	David Ackles/The Road to Cairo		Listen
		Canned Heat	Boogie with Canned Heat
		Jerry Butler	The Ice Man Cometh
		Merle Haggard	Mama Tried		Listen
		The Moody Blues	In Search of the Lost Chord		Listen
		Skip James	Devil Got My Woman		Listen
		Terry Riley	In C		Listen
		Judy Collins	Who Knows Where the Time Goes		Listen
		Spirit	The Family That Plays Together		Listen
		Taj Mahal	Taj Mahal
		Buddy Rich	Mercy, Mercy		Listen
		The Beau Brummels	Bradley's Barn		Listen
		Joni Mitchell	Joni Mitchell/Song to a Seagull		Listen

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