![]() ![]() The truth is, pioneering singer-guitarists like Wanda Jackson and Sister Rosetta Tharpe were as instrumental as any male musician in helping rock’n’roll coalesce out of rockabilly, country, R&B, and blues in the 1950s. To read most rock histories, you’d think women started picking up guitars sometime in the mid-1970s. Listen to selections from this list on our Spotify playlist and our Apple Music playlist.ġ96. In 2017, we’re not making the same divisions between, say, Miles Davis’ In a Silent Way and John Fahey’s The Legend of Blind Joe Death or Nico’s Chelsea Girl they’re all gorgeous records that fill a room, records we stream and collect and share with our friends with a “you gotta hear this one.” Here are 197 more. But we hope this list represents the best of what the decade has to offer and reflects how people explore music now. Inevitably, our list also reflects the realities of the marketplace in the ’60s-some brilliant singles artists never made a great album. That means, in addition to a mix of rock and pop and R&B, our list is heavy on jazz and includes quite a bit of early electronic music alongside records from outside the English-speaking world. The key for us in assembling this list, which is based on votes from more than 50 full-time staffers and regularly contributing writers, is to make sure we opened up our look at the decade to incorporate all places where great music was happening in LP form. ![]() ![]() This list is Pitchfork’s attempt to do just that. ![]()
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