A lot of good stuff came out in 1965, so I may need to do a follow-up poll at some point.

For Stones and Kinks, I've gone with UK titles and release dates.

Exclamation marks were popular in 1965, weren't they? (see Beach Boys, Beatles, Byrds, Sonics, etc). Did people shout more in those days?

Which one of these is your favourite?

Kink Kontroversy.
I was just about to remark on the exclamation marks before I scrolled down!!
Wasn't the biggest seller that year The Sound Of Music?
Oh, and indeed, dear.
Should have called it; The Sound Of Music!

When I read the heading I thought I'd barely knew any album from that year in full. However to my surprise I actually heard about a quarter of them.

Almost chose Highway 61 Revisited, but then I went for Rubber Soul. Not as many total standouts as on Revolver, but this is the most consistent LP The Beatles ever recorded without one single superfluous track (i.e. no Yellow Submarine).

Would have liked to vote for Turn! Turn! Turn!, Bringing It All Back Home and A Love Supreme as well.

Or maybe...
The Sound! Of Music!!!
Oh, I give up...

:D

Angry Young Them – Them

Tempted for the first track...

Bringing It All Back Home – Bob Dylan

don't play it much but probably my favourite Dylan LP :)

A Charlie Brown Christmas – Vince Guaraldi

Hey! great one! Love Linus and Lucy! Finally managed to play it recently :)

Do You Believe in Magic – Lovin' Spoonful

Another good one, in places at least.

Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty – Dusty Springfield

Some very good stuff on here.

Kinda Kinks – The Kinks
Kink Kontroversy – The Kinks

Not commented on some of the others as would melt in a 'another good one' muchness. I actually preferred the Kinks first album to these - the great stereo sound and production helped, even those the ballads on these albums showed more maturity. I like to cherry pick from albums :)

Mr. Tambourine Man – The Byrds
My Generation – The Who

two very good albums :)

The Paul Simon Songbook – Paul Simon

A nice obscurity. Good cover.

Rubber Soul – The Beatles

among my favourites, even if some tracks seem like makeweights ('The Word). Saved by Nowhere Man in particular :)

The Sound Of Music [film soundtrack]

nice stuff :girl2:

Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) – Beach Boys

great one, in places

Today! – The Beach Boys

great one, in places

Turn! Turn! Turn! – The Byrds

another good one

Today I'm going to vote for Summer Days and Summer Nights :)

Too many to choose from, many classics among those I've not commented on. :o

The Sonics for goodness sake who else? :applaud:

Lots of great albums here, the Otis one in particular is a corcker, his best album, just been re-released in one of those deluxe editions if you are keen.

However I think A Love Supreme towers above everything else on this list.

Herb Alpert wins for best cover though ; )

It still has pride of place in my records because of that - and I do play it quite often on sunny Sunday mornings.

A toss-up between Dylan and Jansch.

Yes, when i saw the topic title my mind was running through Bringing It All Back Home, Fugs 1st, Rubber Soul, Out of Our Heads, probably others ... But it's A Love Supreme, no contest. It's the year I was born, and possibly the first year that saw more than a half-dozen albums that rate highly with me. I assume that's a pretty common phenomenon (one's birth year being sort of a cut-off line for liking a lot of the music that came after).

ESP I think. I love this Davis quintet. Closely followed by Ayler's Ghosts and Sun Ra.

I would normally vote for Coltrane but I prefer all his post ALS 1965 material. If Sun Ship or First Meditations were on the list I would have voted that way. A Love Supreme is overrated and I rarely play it. I even prefer Crescent to ALS.

Highway 61 Revisited. My fave Dylan album to boot.

Crescent is brilliant but I think ALS just tops it in my opinion. I think it works better as a coherent whole. The heads are one of the first thing I learnt to play on my sax and the second track is still a gut punch whenever I hear it. Personally I think that all of the Trane I've heard so far is essential and I won't stop until I have every recording in one form or another.

Good year for albums though. I could easily vote for Bob.

Edit: Also I've still not heard the whole of Bert Jansch's debut but I think that Needle of Death is one of the most chilling performances of all time.

I agree with all that (though "overrated" is highly relative here) and still voted for ALS :)

Aye, tis a heartbreaker, especially the line about the father. I've not heard anyone else do that song (nor do I need to really) but it'd be interesting to hear someone else have a go, whether it's the singer or the song that makes it so incredible.

well I am inclined to vote Rubber Soul but recently I have been listening to the Otis album a lot, and think that wins.

Is the reissue full of extra value MB??

Bugger it, I wish I'd voted Rubber Soul now.

help

love supreme is my favourite here

i didn't know rip rig and panic was an album name

i love rip rig and panic the band, especially god

A Love Supreme

Even as a concept it's still astonishing today, I don't mean religiously but structurally, artistically and sonically, let alone how much it defines the listener's life when they first heard it (mid-90s for me; any other album from 1965 is a museum piece I'm afraid...

love supreme-john coltrane
is breathtaking

but c'mon we all know
rubber soul/beatles
is best