Highway 61 Revisited
1965
Al Kooper was not the organ player and sat down at it anyway, which is the sound everybody remembers from Like a Rolling Stone.
★ 9.8
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Rubber Soul
1965
Norwegian Wood has the first sitar on a pop record. The stretched cover photograph happened when a slide slipped during the projection.
★ 9.3
Bringing It All Back Home
1965
One side plugged in, one side not. A few months later Dylan took the electric half to Newport and the folk crowd turned on him.
★ 8.9
I Put a Spell on You
1965
Simone had trained to be a classical pianist and was turned down by the conservatory. You can hear the Bach in her left hand throughout.
★ 7.9
Otis Blue
1965
Recorded in a single twenty-four-hour stretch, with a break so the musicians could play their regular Saturday gigs, and three Sam Cooke songs on it.
★ 7.5
Maiden Voyage
1965
A concept album about the sea, made by Miles Davis's pianist with Davis's rhythm section, and every title refers to water.
★ 6.8
Speak No Evil
1965
Shorter wrote these while working in Miles Davis's band and said he was thinking about folk tales and misty landscapes with witches.
★ 6.4
Live at the Regal
1965
The crowd answers every line he sings, and King plays around them rather than over them. He never plays and sings at the same time.
★ 6.0
Out of Our Heads
1965
Keith Richards wanted horns on the Satisfaction riff and used a fuzz pedal as a placeholder. The placeholder is what got released.
★ 5.4
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
1965
The band's rhythm section came straight out of Howlin' Wolf's group, and Butterfield had learned harmonica in Chicago clubs while still at university.
★ 3.9
Hoodoo Man Blues
1965
Buddy Guy played guitar but was credited as Friendly Chap, because he was signed to another label at the time.
★ 3.6