Best Albums of 1966
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
RevolverFourteen songs, no two alike, none of them longer than they need to be. The best thing they ever made.Read the review
Pet SoundsThe record that taught pop music it could be architecture, and every studio obsessive since has been arguing with it.
If You Can Believe Your Eyes and EarsFour voices, one enormous arrangement and two songs that defined a whole coast for a generation.
The Mamas & the PapasThe same formula nine months later, more polished, and short of one truly great song.