Playlist: The 20 best albums from 1968

After the heady daze and smorgasbord of musical treasures of 1967, 1968 was the year that rock music finally grew up. It was the year that album sales outstripped singles for the first time, with the album cover – following on from 1967's Sgt Pepper and The Velvet Underground and Nico – becoming an intrinsic part of the whole long player experience. The double album came of age and new genres like heavy rock sprung up. Psychedelia was still a prevailing trend but there were also folk and blues revivals as artists looked to the past as they moved forward. The move towards a more rootsier, stripped-back approach to the music caught on and informed much of the best music of the year. Recommended Playlist: The 10 greatest singles from 1968 Soul music, still reeling from the loss of Otis Redding, was very much in rude health in the form of Stax and Motown, with the latest black music offshoot – psychedelic soul – just about to go stratospheric. In the wider world the idealistic peace and love vibe of 1967 had given way to the grim reality of global unrest as Russian tanks rolled into Prague and the war… Read full this story

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