1. Fleetwood Mac Rumors
2. Dire Straits Brothers in Arms
3. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
4. Miles Davis Kind of Blue
5. Matchbox 20 Yourself or someone like you
6. Al Stewart Year of the Cat
7. Johnny Cash At Folsom Priso
Building a 100 album vinyl collection 3 must have albums are?
No opera or rap in the three must haves. Sorry.
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There are absolutely no "must-have" albums. None, zero, zilch. Find three albums that YOU like, that is all that matters. If you don't know what you like, wait, buy nothing. Find out what YOU like and then get those. I like to support new artists on Bandcamp, so possibly head over there and take the plunge. Most of it is not my taste, so it takes a bit of time to try a bunch of different artists/bands/genres. Occasionally, there may be some unexpected happy surprises. Good luck with your journey of music discovery! |
My 100 LP collection would also have to include: - The Dwight Twilley Band: Sincerely. The best melding of 1950's Rock 'n' Roll and 60's Power Pop I've ever heard. An incredible album! - Rodney Crowell: The Houston Kid (though it would need to be pressed on vinyl. It is presently available only on CD). A masterpiece of a "theme" album, with Johnny Cash guesting on "I Walk The Line (Revisited)". - Buddy Miller: either Your Love And Other Lies and/or Cruel Moon, both offered on LP by Bear Family Records out of Germany. Buddy is a fantastic singer, guitarist, bandleader, and producer. Both albums are stunningly great. |
OP, great thread, we get a hint of member’s tastes, reminded of great stuff, ... 3 Current ’New To Me’ artists, with links to quickie finds, there are many music videos Rising Appalachia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeULeHtHBfw Larkin Poe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy0RGsd2-JA Mandarin Orange (before they changed their name) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOHkyZ62jjQ
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If I were to be allowed a second list of three, it could include:
- Emitt Rhodes: s/t debut. Better than McCartney’s debut. - Dave Edmunds: Get It. Dave was my favorite artist and producer during the 1970’s and 80’s. - Rockpile: Seconds Of Pleasure. One Super Group worthy of the title. Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Billy Bremner, and Terry Williams. Along with The Band, the best live Rock ’n’ Roll band I ever saw and heard. The Who with Keith Moon were incredible too, but that’s not really Rock ’n’ Roll, now is it?😉. Plus, to hear them you have to be willing to hear Roger Daltry "sing". Ugh. Another band in the running for that title were and are NRBQ. Fan-f*cking-tastic!
But to do that I would have to ignore my best of/greatest.hits albums of Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, and The Everly Brothers. Those three albums would make a good start on a Rock ’n’ Roll library. |
I thought it would be fun to compile "MY" list of 100 albums from your responses. Some of the artists I liked, but not the album, so I choose mine. I also added some artists/albums that haven't been mentioned yet, but most came from above. I'm up to around 90 so far. It's been kinda fun. Not as easy as you'd think. Thanks everyone for the input. A lot of these albums I haven't listened to in like forever. Need to correct that... |
The point would be to get the most enjoyable musical experience, so in my book, direct to disk is the only game in town. Sheffield The King James Version ( Harry James) Sheffield, Hollywood Town ( Amanda McBroom) I never found a really well done classical guitar. Kind of why I quit playing "with" music and went CD so I could just "play" music. Yes, an LP can sound great, but on average, no. Limited dynamic range, poor SNR, ticks-pops, eq that is very rarely close to RIAA, and never sound as good as the second playing again. Now, the above responses did list a bunch of great music that should be in everyone's library, be it a 45 or HDCD. A few I am missing. Darn, got to have them! |
I'll add 3 that haven't been mentioned and could be my desert lp's. These aren't my top three, but so many of my fav's have already been mentioned. All are awesome discs with great content throughout. Tommy Bolin -Teaser Santana III- one of the greatest guitar albums ever with an awesome groove Grover Washington Jr.-Skylarkin Bonus: George Benson-White rabbit |
Winelight-Grover Washington Jr Sotho Blue-Abdullah Ibrahim and Ekaya Walking in Space-Quincy Jones Journey-Fourplay Thriller-Michael Jackson Soft Space-Jeff Lorber Fusion Takin’ Off-Herbie Hancock Healing the Wounds-The Jazz Crusaders Tenderly-George Benson Beyond the Blue Horizon-George Benson (so 70’s CTI down to the cover art!) City Life-The Blackbyrds
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What a great thread!!! My three faves are all live albums.....I like to go to the show. In no particular order because I love them all: 1. Live From Deep in the Heart of Texas, Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen. THIS is beer drinking music by some of the best musicians you will ever hear. I have worn out 2 LPs... 2. Have to agree with WYOBOY "Waiting for Columbus" by Little Feat may be the best live album recorded. Got a MOFI copy that I prize! 3. A Show of Hands by Rush is just superb. The lyrics are as relevant today as when they were written. Excellent recording and production. My neighborhood knows this album well.... And just a throw in, one of the best produced albums I've ever heard Recycled-Nektar I have clipped more amps with this recording than anything else in my library. Great fun, maybe the best album art ever! |
Aja Dark Side Kind of Blue Too easy. A better discussion if you are trying to discover (to some degree) under appreciated albums for a 100 must have list is to ask for 10 albums of a specific type: pop/rock, classic jazz (acoustic), progressive jazz, big band, heavy metal, classical, etc. I would have included the following for a top 10 that haven't been mentioned (my apologies if I missed an already listed): Cannonball Adderley - Something' Else (a Miles album in my mind) Steely Dan - Royal Scam The Who - Quadrophenia Jackson Browne - Running on Empty Alan Parsons - I Robot Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die Boz Scaggs - S/T Bill Evans - Portrait in Jazz Pat Metheny Group - S/T Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle
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U2 - Joshua Tree (1987). "Without or Without You" (track #1) to benchmark the Bass. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors (1977). #1 selling album of all time until Thriller (1982). Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon (1973). Amazing collection of sounds including a black hole, recorded at Abbey Road! If you don’t take drugs this may encourage you to start! The latter two are still among the top-10 selling albums of all time with 30m+ sales! I don’t really listen to classical but as a substitute I’d pick some art rock albums from Genesis or Phil Collins after he sold out. Did you know that Phil Collins is like the #2 or #3 selling pop artist of all time with over 130m album sales? Genesis - Duke (1980). Their Opus during the art-rock stage. Genesis - Turn it on Again (1999). Their Greatest hits from their Pop period but a few art-rock songs still like Abacab ... Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits (1972). What can I say their songs are still being used on sound tracks 50 (!) years later (The Orville 2022 episode "Domino") and they are the #1 folk group of all time! For #2, Peter Paul & Mary. Dire Straits - Money for Nothing (1988). This greatest hits album is titled by the song "Money for Nothing", which is a frequent benchmark for dynamic range in turntable systems. This has one of the very greatest lead-ins of any song of all time. I don’t often listen to Dire Straits, but when I do, so do the neighbors! Dave Brubeck - Greatest Hits (1966). If you aren't into Jazz Yet, this will GET YOU IN and it will truly exercise your turnable like nothing else! |
These are the three I HAVE to have, due to their sonics and sheer musicality.
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman Supersax Plays Bird Just For A Thrill (Weslia Whitfield - a little rare, hard to find, but worth it) |
These threads are always a great source for music you haven't heard although i'd probably err on the side of streaming many before buying a vinyl version. Also obvious is that few here can confine it to three but i'll do my best: 1. Allman Bros--Live at Fillmore East--many recommendations on this one 2. Santana- Abraxas--played this one frequently at my student apartment in France in 1974 and my landlady next door begged to know what it was--i went and bought it for her and then got to listen to it through the walls nearly every night for a year--she told me it saved her marriage 😀 3. Little Feat--Waiting for Columbus--IMO best live album ever recorded |