10 Greatest Albums of the 1960s, Ranked

The album, as a medium or work of art, did exist before the 1960s, even if the album era didn’t really begin until the mid-1960s. Frank Sinatra and Miles Davis certainly had works from the 1950s that still feel like albums, in the traditional sense, when listened to today, and Sinatra even had In the Wee Small Hours (1955), which sometimes gets highlighted as the first concept album. Concept albums, of course, also really took off as a, uh, concept, during the 1960s.