What three cd's would one keep from collection ?


Yes, if you had to keep three only, and the rest given away, what would they be ?
lithojoe
Why specify cd's which are available on vinyl with better quality? Or perhaps, stick with road Cd's for listening in the car. Joni Mitchell - great at home on vinyl, not so great digitized and with road noise. Something like Allmans Live at FM East - the cd long version with the nearly complete shows - makes sense; it isn't available on vinyl (or is it?). Or something like one of the Dead's Dick's Picks; American Beauty and Workingmans Dead are much better in analogue (Bob Weir is very clear about his preference for analogue). Or any of the ancient recordings transferred from 78 to cd with restrained noise reduction and eq (or even cylinders or player piano recordings, e.g., Busoni), with better quality than most of us are likely to get otherwise (btw, what's up with Art Dudley advocating 78's these days?). Or the 10 cd Djangology set, where accumulating an equivalent collection of vinyl Django discs is difficult, not to mention cost prohibitive.
Trinity Sessions - Cowboy Junkies
Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat 20th ann edition

mmm the last one is hard - a toss up between Sarah Brightman Symphony or Anne Sophie Mutter - Simply Anne Sophie ok lock in Sarah Brightman Symphony.
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The Essential Leonard Cohen
OK Computer--Radiohead
Physical Graphiti--Led Zepplin

That was tough. The last five to hit the bottom of the waste can:

Bridge of Sighs--Robin Trower
Aenema--Tool
There Goes Rhymin' Simon--Paul Simon
Til The Sun Turns Black--Ray LaMontagne
The Shepherd's Dog--Iron And Wine
1. Arvo Paart "Tabula Rasa" (w/Gidon Kremer)
2. Orlando Gibbons "Fantasias" (Jordi Savall)
3. John Coltrane "Live at the Half Note"
Far East Suite -- Duke Ellington
Last of The New Wave Riders -- Utopia (Live Box Set)

That covers jazz and rock and pop as well as I can wih 2 choices.

Third coice is tougher, I'd probably add a second rock/pop choice, maybe:

Live in Boston -- Fleetwood Mac or
Hits -- Kid Creole or
Blinking Lights - Eels or
Watching The Dark -- Richard Thompson (Compilation)

You know, ten cds would be better ;-)

Marty