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Best Albums of 1967

Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.

  1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band1967A landmark of studio craft that is admired far more often than it is actually put on.Read the review
  2. I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You1967Aretha sat down at the piano in Muscle Shoals and stopped being a polite Columbia jazz singer inside a single afternoon.
  3. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn1967Syd Barrett's album and nobody else's. English nursery rhyme wired to a very loud amplifier.
  4. Magical Mystery Tour1967Half a soundtrack to a bad film, half the best run of singles anyone released that year. Compiled, not composed.
  5. How Great Thou Art1967The gospel record he actually wanted to make, in the middle of the years he was contractually stuck.
  6. Deliver1967Pleasant, professional and running low on ideas, with one great single doing most of the lifting.