1. SGT Pepper
2. Thunder Road - Springsteen
3. Live at Blues Alley - Eva Cassidy
4. Who's Next - The Who
5. Crack The Sky - Crack The Sky
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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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! |
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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