Having been born in 1962, and liking and listening to music from the early sixties onward, I thought it might be fun to attempt a listing of my favorite albums each year since birth.
I didn't really begin to listen to a lot of music until the early '70's, and I began buying records around 1974 or 1975 I guess. I can still recall many of those first albums I bought. Many, I still enjoy.
Many of the early 1960's records I found later on in life, some just in the last few years.
I had a period of time from early '90's until the late 2000's that my listening was mostly jazz. This means a couple of things... (a) there will be a decent selection of jazz records in my list, and (b) many of the "rock" albums from this time I might have caught later on (a decade or more) from when they first came out.
So, this isn't really a list from any sort of time-machine, of what was #1 during that year. It's looking at sixty years of music that I can say I enjoy or have enjoyed. I listen to each of these, even still.
I am sure I'll fine-tune my thoughts, but, that is for another day...
I present my favorite albums of 1963...
Albums released 1963
1. John Coltrane Impressions
2. The Beatles Please Please Me
3. Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
4. The Beatles With the Beatles
5. Charles Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
6. Roy Orbison In Dreams
7. Rashaan Roland Kirk Reeds and Deeds
8. Jackie McLean Let Freedom Ring
9. Link Wray Jack the Ripper
10 Bo Diddley Surfin' With Bo Diddley
Honorable Mentions
11. Joe Henderson Page One
12. Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
13. Art Blakey Caravan
14. Ike & Tina Turner It's Gonna Work Out Fine
15. Dick Dale Checkered Flag
16. Ike & Tina Turner Don't Play Me Cheap
17. Dick Dale King of the Surf Guitar