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1969

Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin (English hard rock/blues rock, debut)
The Meters- The Meters (American funk, debut)
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (American jazz fusion)
Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin II (English hard rock/blues rock)
Jethro Tull - Stand Up (English blues rock/progressive rock, their first album with Ian Anderson as the sole lead vocalist)
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline (American country rock)
Beach Boys - 20/20 (American pop rock/ psychedelic pop)
The Beatles - Abbey Road (English rock, the last album to be released while the band were still together)
The Beatles / George Martin- Yellow Submarine (English psychedelic rock/film score, soundtrack to the animated film featuring songs by The Beatles and a score by George Martin)
King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King (English progressive rock, debut)
David Bowie- David Bowie (English folk rock/ psychedelic rock, also released under the titles Space Oddity and Man Of Words/Man Of Music)
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (English folk, debut)
Can - Monster Movie (German psychedelic rock / krautrock, debut)
Creedence Clearwater Revival- Green River (American roots rock)
The Doors - The Soft Parade (American psychedelic rock)
Earth /Black Sabbath - 1969 Demo (English hard rock/blues rock, bootleg recordings of early Black Sabbath from before the release of their first album)
The Stooges- The Stooges (American garage rock/proto-punk, debut)
Alice Cooper - Pretties For You (American acid rock, debut)
The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World (American outsider music, debut album)
The Velvet Underground- The Velvet Underground (American art rock)
The Who - Tommy (English hard rock/psychedelic rock opera)
Creedence Clearwater Revival- Willy and the Poor Boys (American roots rock)
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Canadian country rock/hard rock)
Neil Young - Neil Young (Canadian folk rock, debut album)
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (American experimental rock/blues rock)
The Rolling Stones- Let It Bleed (English rock)
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (English progressive rock/ psychedelic rock, double album consisting of half live material, half studio recordings of solo performances by individual band members)
Pink Floyd - More (English psychedelic rock, soundtrack to the film of the same name)
Scott Walker- Scott 3 (American baroque pop)
Dusty Springfield- From Dusty In Memphis (English pop/r and b)
The Temptations - Cloud Nine (American r and b)
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country (American roots rock)
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul (American soul)
The Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children (English progressive rock)
Sly and the Family Stone- Stand! (American funk/psychedelic soul)
MC5 - Kick out the Jams (Live American hard rock/proto-punk, debut)
Leonard Cohen- Songs From a Room (Canadian folk)
The Grateful Dead - Live/Dead (Live American psychedelic rock)
Joni Mitchell- Clouds (Canadian folk)
Chicago- Chicago Transit Authority (American jazz rock, debut album)
The Grateful Dead- Aoxomoxoa (American psychedelic rock)
Janis Joplin- I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!  (American psychedelic blues rock)
The Kinks - Arthur (or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (English rock, concept album)

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