Great Albums of.......1968

Henry Irving

This was some year

Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones
Sweat Heart of the Rodeo - The Byrds
Soul Queen - Aretha Franklin
White Light/White Heat - The Velvet Underground
At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash
Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks

Could go on and on but

Must have classic: Music from Big Pink - The Band

Plenty more to choose from so let's be having you.

Charlton_Road_James

Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
The Beatles - The Beatles (White album)

Charlton_Road_James

Cream - Wheels of Fire
Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut gone Flake

Henry Irving

meanwhile on the singles chart

01 Louis Armstrong What A Wonderful World / Cabaret
02 Mary Hopkin Those Were The Days
03 Des O'Connor I Pretend
04 Hugo Montenegro The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
05 Union Gap Young Girl
06 Tommy James & The Shondells Mony Mony
07 The Beatles Hey Jude
08 The Equals Baby Come Back
09 Esther & Abi Ofarim Cinderella Rockefella
10 Tom Jones Delilah
11 Love Affair Everlasting Love
12 The Bee Gees I've Gotta Get A Message To You
13 Casuals Jesamine
14 Engelbert Humperdinck A Man Without Love
15 The Scaffold Lily The Pink
16 Crazy World Of Arthur Brown Fire
17 Manfred Mann The Mighty Quinn
18 Leapy Lee Little Arrows
19 Cliff Richard Congratulations
20 The Rolling Stones Jumpin' Jack Flash

mistrollingin

Wish It Would Rain - Temptations
Silk and Soul - Nina Simone
Village Green Preservation Society - Kinks
Mr Dynamite - James Brown and the Famous Flames

mistrollingin

Singles, so many great ones.

Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
Hello I Love You - The Doors
Chain Of Fools - Aretha
Dance To The Music - Sly and The Family Stone
La La Means I Love You - Delfonics
Tell Mama - Etta James
We're A Winner - Impressions
Always Together - The Dells
Just Look What You've Done = Brenda Holloway

soapy_jones

Pinky and Perky's Hit Parade (MFP, 1968)

mistrollingin

soapy_jones said:

Pinky and Perky's Hit Parade (MFP, 1968)

Classic, how did I miss that one!

ken from bexley

1. Electric Ladyland:Hendrix
2. Wheels of fire: Cream
3. Astral Weeks: Van the man
4: Beatles: White album
5. Bookends; simon & Garfunkel

soapy_jones

mistrollingin said:

soapy_jones said:

Pinky and Perky's Hit Parade (MFP, 1968)

Classic, how did I miss that one!

I was five at the time

Stig

Saucerful of Secrets. Quite possibly the best second album ever.

bobmunro

A lot of the ones already mentioned plus:

CCR - CCR
Scott 2 - Scott Walker
Anthem of the Sun - The Grateful Dead
Child is Father to the Man - Blood, Sweat and Tears
Traffic - Traffic
Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf
The Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan

Plus
Ogdens Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces - One of the greatest albums of any year!! (edit: just noticed Charlton Road James beat me to it - goes without saying that I agree!!)

What a year 1968 was!!

SomervilleAddick

Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse - Bonzo Dog Band

Leuth

First VDGG album was this year although I'd not really call it a 'great' album. Opening and closing tracks are quite something though

Bangkokaddick

So many popular bands released their debut albums that year: VDGG already mentioned but also This Was by Jethro Tull, Shades Of Deep Purple (and The Book of Talliesyn), Fleetwood Mac, 2 albums by The Steve Miller Band and plenty more. None of them would be labeled as classics, though.

I'll add Spirit by Spirit as a top album for '68.