McQ's Favorite Albums Of 1965

Last updated 09.27.2015

HIGHEST RECOMMENDS

1. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan: Rock's greatest lyricist goes full-on electric and delivers the best album of his career.

2. Rubber Soul - The Beatles
3. The Who Sing My Generation
4. Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan

STRONG RECOMMENDS

5. Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds
6. Otis Blue - Otis Redding

SOLID RECOMMENDS

7. The Rolling Stones, Now
8. Help! - The Beatles
9. Turn! Turn! Turn! - The Byrds

MILD RECOMMENDS

None to date.

1965 Albums Of Critical Note I've Yet To Assess In Full

A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
Bert Jansch
December's Children (And Everybody's) - The Rolling Stones
E.S.P. - Miles Davis
Fire Music - Archie Sheep
Get The Picture - The Pretty Things
Going To A Go-Go - Smokey Robinson And The Miracles
Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra 
Here Are The Sonics!
Hoodoo Man Blues - Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band
I Ain't Marching Anymore - Phil Ochs
Inner Urge - Joe Henderson
Live At The Regal - B. B. King
Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock
Out Of Our Heads - The Rolling Stones
People Get Ready - The Impressions
Point Of Departure - Andrew Hill
Rip, Rig, And Panic - Rahsaan Roland Kirk
September Of My Years - Frank Sinatra
Smokin' At The Half-Note - Wynton Kelly Trio and Wes Montgomery
Song For My Father - Horace Silver
Speak No Evil - Wayne Shorter
Spiritual Unity - Albert Ayler
Summer Days (And Summer Nights!) - The Beach Boys
The All Seeing Eye - Wayne Shorter
The Beach Boys Today
The Kinks Kontroversy
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
The Temptations Sing Smokey
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