Swinging 60s

In personal terms between the group, Abbey Road may have marked the beginning of the end but in creative terms it kept pace with the rest of the bands'

Quoted, recommended, and worshipped by the critics for decades, this underground masterpiece has now become part of the establishment. It cries to be listened to without interruption, which may explain why it failed to reach either the UK or US charts.

Arguably, the first psychedelic rock album, Revolver was praised for its musical experimentation.

Having grown out of the amiable but derivative styles captured on the long-circulating series of bootleg home recordings, Drake imbues his tunes with just enough drama -- world-weariness in the vocals, carefully paced playing, and more -- to make it all work.

without 'rubber soul,' there would be no psychedelia.

With a clear back to basics approach, The Doors fifth album Morrison Hotel released in 1970 was a showcase for all members of the group to highlight their artistic strengths. 

Island Records presents Nick Drake's second album 'Bryter Layter' in the Back To Black format.

Monkees fans have been poorly served with proof of what a good live band they became…until now!

The Beatles devised, wrote and directed a television film called Magical Mystery Tour which was broadcast on BBC Television at Christmas, 1967.

Another vital album from Hendrix, containing some of rock's molten milestones. There's the fluid psychedelia of "Castles Made Of Sand", the viciously funky "Little Miss Lover", and the so-beautiful-it-hurts "Little Wing".

The best Beach Boys album, and one of the best of the 1960s. The group here reached a whole new level in terms of both composition and production, layering tracks upon tracks of vocals and instruments to create a richly symphonic sound.

Meet the Supremes is the debut studio album by The Supremes, released in late 1962 on Motown. The LP includes the group's singles: "I Want a Guy", "Buttered Popcorn", "Your Heart Belongs to Me" and "Let Me Go the Right Way".

One of the first pop albums to become a cult classic, Love's 1967 masterpiece, Forever Changes. This is the pinnacle of the LA freak scene.

Ethereal, exceptional, beautifully orchestrated pop music from one of the late 20th century's most idiosyncratic artists, Scott 3 contains a series of lush, mesmerizing songs that typify the free-spirited, experimental late 1960s. in this third solo album, Scott Walker gives free rein to his more epic impulses on songs like the careening We Came Through, a prime example of the kind of marvelously over-the-top pieces that made him a byword for eccentricity, while 30th Century Man is almost the exact opposite, featuring only the mellow-voiced singer and an acoustic guitar.

Jimi Hendrix's debut recording was an instant classic, and is as startling today as when it first hit the streets in 1967

Her debut originally released in 1967 (mere months after the groundbreaking The Velvet Underground and Nico album).

Ten songs that ultimately changed the world. Ten songs pulled from precedent-establishing albums recorded between 1963 and 1966.

Outlaw is a set of songs that exist in a place bordered by jazz, rock, and funk.

This release from 1969 stands as Scott Walker's most accomplished album. His first collection of entirely original numbers - marking a notable departure from the earlier precedent of having three Jacques Brel tunes per studio outing. The predominant mood of Scott 4 is set by lush and layered, though relatively subtle, string arrangements that perfectly complement his deep, expressive voice. while Walker would issue other important and intriguing recordings in the decades that followed, this album marks the end of his highly influential late-'60s heyday.

A Saucerful Of Secrets is the only album to feature the five band members: Roger Waters on bass and vocals, Richard Wright on keyboards and vocals, Nick Mason on drums, Syd Barrett and David Gilmour on guitar and vocals.

With the collaboration of a very young musician, Jean-Claude Vannier, he created an album hailed as one of the most remarkable successes of orchestral pop around the world.

Hendrix flew into London from New York on September 23rd 1966 with his new manager Chas Chandler and within a couple of days started auditioning for The Experience. 

Lauded and loved by artists as diverse as Mose Allison to Emma-Jean Thackray, his tracks have been sampled by Mos Def and Common, his original compositions covered by Sarah Vaughan, Richard 'Groove' Holmes and The Main Ingredient.

Self-referential, weird and still absolutely essential, a sort of premature greatest hits album.

Best of Doo-Wop!

The Psychedelic Scene, a compilation of various artists, brings together some of the pivotal pieces that shaped the unique energy of the psychedelic era.

Carole King brought the fledgling singer / songwriter phenomenon to the masses with Tapestry, one of the most successful albums in pop music history. A remarkably expressive and intimate record, it's a work of consummate craftsmanship.

When the Velvets recorded this debut, they were best known as the protégées of Andy Warhol (who designed the sleeve), and as a grating, combustive live band.

Music On Vinyl proudly presents their legendary Scorpio’s Dance album as a 2024 remastered edition from the original 1970 mix by Robbie van Leeuwen.

When Scott Walker recorded this, his first solo album, he was 23 years old and sounded about two hundred. He was rich, handsome, absurdly famous - and he hated it. Though the Walker Brothers, the band his cavernous croon decorated, specialised in lavishly over-produced, heroically lachrymose ballads (Make it Easy on Yourself, The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore), any subtlety they attempted was being lost beneath the screams of their teenage audiences. Scott Walker took to spending his days in darkened hotel rooms and becoming steadily obsessed with the work of legendarily louche belgian songwriter Jacques Brel. On the cover of Scott, a sunglass-wearing Walker stares tetchily at his shoes, as if the merest intrusion of a camera was, by this point, becoming intolerable. He needn't have looked so glum: the sleeve contained a masterpiece. of the 12 tracks on Scott, three were written by Walker, three by Brel and the rest by other famously consumptive writers such as Tim Hardin and Kurt Weil. Walker sang all of them like they were his valedictory message to humanity, finding greater depths than ever in his awesome voice, and drenching the whole thing in great surges of strings. This is a classic, which generations of self-consciously misunderstood young men have clasped close to their hearts ever since.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the demise of Johnny Cash, rediscover all the greatest songs of the man in black on a nice double vinyl.

Barabajagal is the seventh studio album, eighth album overall and most fascinatingly the third of our re-issue programme from British singer-songwriter extraordinaire Donovan.

Bridge Over Troubled Water is the most enduring album in the beloved duo's catalog, boasting some of their finest vocal performances as well as some of Simon's most accomplished songwriting.

The seminal album from 1966 is one of Dylan's finest moments.

Fourteen greatest hits on one vinyl album.

Debut released in 1958.

World-renowned Indian musician Ravi Shankar’s Shankar Family and Friends was originally released in 1974.

Four Sail is the fourth album by the American Rock band Love, released in 1969. By mid-1968, Arthur Lee was the only remaining member of the Forever Changes line-up of Love.

Love, fronted by the charismatic Arthur Lee, was the first rock band signed to the '60s folk label Elektra, and their wild, enigmatic sound was a big part of their unique appeal.

The Jefferson Airplane's sixth album Volunteers was released in 1969, a mere two year since their monumental psychedelic hippie rock album Surrealistic Pillow [MOVLP034]. A politically charged album, Volunteers mainly dealt with the injustice of the Vietnam war.