Top Albums of 1967





Rank All Time Rank Artist Album Genres
1
4
The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground & Nico Art Rock, Experimental Rock
2
6
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Pop Rock, Psychedelic Pop
3
14
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced? Acid Rock, Blues Rock
4
36
The Doors The Doors Psychedelic Rock
5
56
Love Forever Changes Psychedelic Folk, Psychedelic Pop, Psychedelic Rock
6
87
Aretha Franklin I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Deep Soul
7
140
Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn Psychedelic Pop, Psychedelic Rock
8
149
Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
9
182
Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow Psychedelic Rock
10
221
Cream Disraeli Gears Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock
11
233
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold As Love Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock
12
302
The Byrds Younger Than Yesterday Folk Rock, Pop Rock, Psychedelic Pop
13
333
The Who The Who Sell Out Freakbeat, Mod
14
366
The Kinks Something Else by the Kinks Baroque Pop, Pop Rock
15
483
Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding Contemporary Folk, Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
16
538
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Safe As Milk Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock
17
547
Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield Again Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock
18
577
Moby Grape Moby Grape Blues Rock, Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock
19
719
The Rolling Stones Between the Buttons Pop Rock
20
790
The Doors Strange Days Psychedelic Rock
21
804
Albert King Born Under a Bad Sign Electric Blues
22
853
Traffic Mr. Fantasy Psychedelic Rock
23
875
Van Dyke Parks Song Cycle Art Pop, Baroque Pop, Psychedelic Pop
24
928
The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed Art Rock, Baroque Pop, Symphonic Prog
25
937
Tim Buckley Goodbye and Hello Contemporary Folk, Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
26
968
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour Pop Rock, Psychedelic Pop
27
1013
Duke Ellington Far East Suite Big Band
28
1258
Pierre Henry & Michel Colombier Messe Pour Le Temps Present Musique concrète
29
1429
Country Joe & The Fish Electric Music for the Mind and Body Acid Rock, Yacht Rock
30
1466
Miles Davis Miles Smiles Modal Jazz, Post-Bop
31
1474
The Beach Boys Smiley Smile Psychedelic Pop, Sunshine Pop
32
1526
Morton Subotnick Silver Apples of the Moon for Electric Music Synthesizer Electronic
33
1534
Otis Redding Live in Europe Southern Soul
34
1556
Four Tops Reach Out Soul
35
1609
Nico Chelsea Girl Chamber Folk
36
1679
McCoy Tyner The Real McCoy Post-Bop
37
1839
The 13th Floor Elevators Easter Everywhere Psychedelic Rock
38
1857
The Mothers of Invention Absolutely Free Experimental Rock, Jazz-Rock, Psychedelic Rock
39
1953
Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim Bossa Nova, Standards, Vocal Jazz
40
2021
The Beach Boys Wild Honey Baroque Pop, Blue Eyed Soul, Soul
41
2045
Sam & Dave Soul Men Southern Soul
42
2180
Procol Harum Procol Harum/A Whiter Shade of Pale Psychedelic Pop, Psychedelic Rock
43
2226
Albert Ayler Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village Free Jazz
44
2238
James Carr You Got My Mind Messed Up Deep Soul
45
2258
Jefferson Airplane After Bathing at Baxter's Acid Rock
46
2310
Cannonball Adderley Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! - Live at 'The Club' Hard Bop, Soul Jazz
47
2342
Pearls Before Swine One Nation Underground Psychedelic Folk
48
2378
Phil Ochs Pleasures of the Harbor Baroque Pop, Chamber Folk, Singer/Songwriter
49
2408
Small Faces Small Faces/There Are But Four Small Faces Mod, Psychedelic Pop, Psychedelic Rock
50
2473
The Red Krayola The Parable of Arable Land Experimental Rock, Psychedelic Rock
51
2606
The Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request Psychedelic Pop, Psychedelic Rock
52
2632
The Incredible String Band The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion Psychedelic Folk
53
2633
The Supremes The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland/The Supremes Sing Motown Girl Group, Pop Soul
54
2739
Scott Walker Scott Baroque Pop
55
2758
The Electric Prunes Underground Psychedelic Rock
56
2771
Antônio Carlos Jobim Wave Bossa Nova
57
2884
Lee Morgan Cornbread Hard Bop
58
2889
Wayne Shorter Adam's Apple Hard Bop, Post-Bop

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Tim Hardin Tim Hardin 2 Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Otis Redding & Carla Thomas King & Queen Southern Soul
Sun Ra Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy Free Jazz
Merle Haggard I'm a Lonesome Fugitive Bakersfield Sound
Elvis Presley How Great Thou Art Gospel
Bobbie Gentry Ode to Billie Joe Contemporary Folk, Country Soul
Nina Simone High Priestess of Soul Soul, Vocal Jazz
Wilson Pickett The Sound of Wilson Pickett Southern Soul
Arlo Guthrie Alice's Restaurant Contemporary Folk, Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Charlie Musselwhite Stand Back! Here Comes Charlie Musselwhite's South Side Band Chicago Blues
The Left Banke Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina Baroque Pop, Psychedelic Pop
Kaleidoscope (UK) Tangerine Dream Psychedelic Pop
Gary Burton Duster Post-Bop
The Monkees Headquarters Pop Rock, Sunshine Pop
Don Ellis Electric Bath Experimental Big Band, Third Stream
Rahsaan Roland Kirk Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith Post-Bop
James Brown Cold Sweat Funk, Soul
Laura Nyro More Than a New Discovery/The First Songs Pop Soul, Singer/Songwriter
Archie Shepp The Magic of Ju-Ju Free Jazz
The Easybeats Friday on My Mind Beat Music
The Electric Prunes The Electric Prunes/I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Richie Havens Mixed Bag Contemporary Folk, Folk Rock
Donovan A Gift from a Flower to a Garden Folk Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Don Cherry Symphony for Improvisers Free Jazz
Aretha Franklin Aretha Arrives Southern Soul
The Hollies Butterfly Psychedelic Pop
Jackie McLean New & Old Gospel Avant-Garde Jazz
John Fahey Days Have Gone By American Primitivism