Heading to grad school this fall, so the record player will get some more use. I try to keep a wide collection, even stuff I don't care for that much.
My friend took back his copy of "Thriller" at the end of college so I need my own copy, and while I'm looking, I might as well pick up some other stuff.
What are the MUST HAVE records?
Here's the stuff I kept next to my record player in college.
Beach Boys – Endless Summer Beatles – Abbey Road Beatles – Rubber Soul Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band Beatles – White Album Billy Joel – The Stranger Billy Joel – Piano Man Billy Joel – An Innocent Man Blood, Sweat and Tears – Blood, Sweat and Tears Blues Brothers – Briefcase Full of Blues Blue Oyster Cult – Some Enchanted evening Bob Seger – Nine Tonight Boston - Boston Cat Stevens – Tea for the Tillerman Cream – Disraeli Gears Cream – Wheels of Fire Creedence Clearwater Revival – Chronicle Derek and the Dominos – layla Doors – 13 Eagles – Their Greatest Hits Eagles – Hotel California Elton John – Madman Across the Water Emerson Lake & Palmer – Best of Eric Clapton – Slowhand Fleetwood Mac – Rumors Fleetwood Mac – Then Play on Gordon Lightfood – Gord’s Gold The Grass Roots – Greatest Hits The Guess Who – Best of Herman’s Hermits – On tour James Taylor – Greatest Hits Janis Joplin – In Concert Jefferson Airplane – Worst of John Cougar-Mellencamp – Uh huh Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King The Kinks – One for the Road Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin (I) Led Zeppelin – III Led Zeppelin – IV Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy Lovin’ Spoonful – Best Of Mamas and the Papas – Farewell to the First Golden Era Marshal Tucker Band – Greatest Hits Metallica – And Justice For All Metallica – Ride the Lightning Neil Young – Harvest Neil Young – After the Gold Rush Peter Paul and Mary – Best of Pink Floyd – Wish You were Here Pink Floyd – Dark side of the Moon Pink Floyd – The wall The Police – Synchronicity Prince – 1999 Queen – Greatest Hits Ratatat – Ratatat Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street Santana – Marathon Santana – Abraxas Simon and Garfunkel – Greatest Hits Steely Dan – Greatest Hits Stevie Wonder – Greatest Hits vol 2 Tower of Power – Tower of Power Van Morrison – Moondance The Who – Who Are You The Who – Tommy
From: AlecTrevelyan006 | #002 Wigs has already suggested I need some Rush, which I currently have none of. What album should I go for first give the opportunity?
If you're talking about Rush albums, Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures are standards.
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http://img.imgcake.com/nio/bokbokbokpngur.png Hemispheres and Signals are also excellent choices.
From: yoshifan823 | #014 Jeez dude, get some stuff made in the past 10 years. Best advice I have is go to a record store and find things you like. That's what I do.
Also, Paul's Boutique.
That's why I want suggestions.
Although, due to record players going out of style decades ago, I find it is a lot harder and more expensive to get albums from current bands. Thus why I look for the well regarded albums from older bands that lots of my bar patrons will enjoy at a low price.
Plus, I will pretty much listen to anything. I enjoy music a lot but I wouldn't say I am especially discerning. I do not have any bands that I feel particularly attached to from the last decade beyond a song or two each on my ipod that I really like.
AlecTrevelyan006 posted... From: yoshifan823 | #014 Jeez dude, get some stuff made in the past 10 years. Best advice I have is go to a record store and find things you like. That's what I do.
Also, Paul's Boutique. That's why I want suggestions.
Although, due to record players going out of style decades ago, I find it is a lot harder and more expensive to get albums from current bands. Thus why I look for the well regarded albums from older bands that lots of my bar patrons will enjoy at a low price.
Plus, I will pretty much listen to anything. I enjoy music a lot but I wouldn't say I am especially discerning. I do not have any bands that I feel particularly attached to from the last decade beyond a song or two each on my ipod that I really like.
Dude, Amazon. I mean, for most of the albums you're looking for, you're gonna end up paying $10 anyways, and I got plenty of good albums for that price. FutureSex/LoveSound, Hot Sauce Committee Part 2, For Emma, Forever Ago, all sorts of good stuff. Also, check out inSound.com. I've got a lot of indie stuff from there.
If you want a ****ing awesome album, get London Sessions from LCD Soundsystem. Pretty great bar music. Also from my collection that are worth it: Ziggy Stardust, Daft Punk's Discovery, Franz Ferdinand, Vampire Weekend, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. I'm sure there are more I'm missing. I love vinyl.
Also, I wasn't ****ing around talking about Paul's Boutique, that's my favorite album, because it sounds fantastic, it's a generally great album, and it's a single LP, which means less time spent switching.