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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Showing 4 responses by bigtwin

I always find these kinds of posts interesting as I, like everyone else I'm sure, looks at so many selections and thinks somewhat incredulously, WTF?  How could anyone feel "that" record is a must have? 🤣  

When an OP clearly asks for 3 selections, why do so many insist on posting a much larger number?  

I own many of the LPs suggested and agree they are great records.  However, my criteria for 3 must have LPs would need to take into account how they actually sound of a good system.  Many of the LPs I grew up loving, get very little play today as they just weren't recorded very well to start with.  So classic LP's that also sound great:

Junior Wells - Come On In This House

Joshua Redman - Elastic (/Brain Blade's drumming is fantastic throughout)

Jimmy Smith - Dot Com Blues

@norton Don't hear a lot about Climax Blues Band.  Always liked them.  Recently picked up a nice box set (Amazon) containing their first 5 recordings.  Put out by the Esoteric Recordings label.  Going back to 1969 for the first two records, it's very impressive the use of soundstage.  Some great engineering.