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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You must have a valid reason for 100 albums to have.. 

I recommend a collection albums that sound fantastic.

 The Wonderful Sounds of Female Vocals
 The Wonderful Sounds of Male Vocals (two from Analoque productions)

Zuill Bailey Bach complete cello suites ( octave records) 

Happy listening!!

You must have a valid reason for 100 albums to have.. 

I recommend a collection albums that sound fantastic.

 The Wonderful Sounds of Female Vocals
 The Wonderful Sounds of Male Vocals (two from Analoque productions)

Zuill Bailey Bach complete cello suites ( octave records) 

Happy listening!!

I love so much of this music, interesting that it's practically all recorded on old equipment that doesn't sound near as good as we have now. Funny how the important part ultimately is the music not the equipment. 

Chris Botti - When I fall in love

Van Morrison -Moondance

Frank Sinatra -The Very Good Years

Pet Sounds (mono)

s/t - Warren Zevon

Mahler - Symphony No. 3. Abbado/Vienna or Bernstein CBS (360 label)

What albums do I listen to over and over again?

Fleetwood Mac (The second incarnation)

Rolling stones—Exile on Main Street

U2—Joshua Tree

Honorable Mention:

Steely Dan—Aja

Led Zeppelin—Physical Graffiti

The Beatles—Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Amy Winehouse—Back to Black

Alabama Shakes—Boys and Girls

Frank Sinatra—Sinatra at the Sands

@macg19

I remember seeing and thinking about that as well as one for male singers ,

thanks for the reminder , I'll look for that .

 

- The Band: Music From Big Pink.

- The Band: s/t (the "brown" album).

- Either Iris DeMent’s My Life (critic Robert Christgau gave it an A+ grade) or John Hiatt’s Bring The Family.

All four are, imo, perfect albums.

So for fun, I would offer three Christian music classics. Every song on these albums are very good and the production is extremely solid.

 

Larry Norman - "In Another Land"

Randy Stonehill - "Welcome to Paradise"

Mark Heard - "Appalachian Melody"

 

and two others

Michael and Stormie Omartian - "Seasons of the Soul"

Phil Keaggy - "What A Day"

I forgot to add The Wonderful Sounds of Female Vocals (Analogue Productions).

Don’t let the cheesy name fool you, this is a fantastic sampler of great artists, great recordings and a great pressing - if you like female vocals.

Great for showcasing your system as well.

@terry9

Debrink Tobakova

Regent Record, Chandos,

Upon Reflection

Maxim Rysanov, Kristina Blaumane, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra

Dobrinka Tabakova: String Paths

 

Michael Nyman - his full discography

  • 963 – Introduction and Allegro Concertato for Wind Quartet (lost)
  • 1963 – Divertimento for Flute, Oboe and Clarinet
  • 1965 – Canzona for Flute
  • 1974 – Bell Set No. 1 (multiple metal percussion)
  • 1976 – 1–100 (4–6 pianos)
  • 1976 – (First) Waltz in D (variable)
  • 1976 – (Second) Waltz in F (variable)
  • 1977 – In Re Don Giovanni (for the Michael Nyman Band) – arranged for string quartet (1991), string quintet (1997), and orchestra (2010)
  • 1977 – A Walk Through H (film music)
  • 1978 – The Otherwise Very Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz (multiple pianos)
  • 1978 – Vertical Features Remake (film music)
  • 1979 – ’The Masterwork’ Award Winning Fish-Knife (for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 1979 – Four Ostinatos (bass clarinet)
  • 1979 – Masterwork Samples (for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 1980 – A Neat Slice of Time (choir)
  • 1980 – A Neat Slice of Saraband (clarinet, trombone, piano and cello)
  • 1985 – The Falls (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 1980 – Act of God (film music)
  • 1981 – Think Slow, Act Fast (for Hoketus) – reworked into soundtrack for A Sixth Part of the World in 2010
  • 1981 – Five Orchestral Pieces for Opus Tree (band)[23] (based on Anton Webern’s Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10)
  • 1981 – M-Work (for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 1981 – Two Violins (two amplified violins)
  • 1982 – Four Saxes (Real Slow Drag) (saxophone quartet)
  • 1982 – A Handsom, Smooth, Sweet, Smart, Clear Stroke: Or Else Play Not At All (orchestra)
  • 1982 – The Draughtsman’s Contract (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 1983 – Ballet Mécanique (ensemble)
  • 1983 – Time’s Up (Gamelan ensemble)
  • 1983 – I’ll Stake My Cremona to a Jew’s Trump (electric violin and viola, both players also simultaneously singing)
  • 1983 – Love is Certainly, at Least Alphabetically Speaking (soprano and ensemble)
  • 1983 – Ballet Mécanique (film music for ensemble)
  • 1983 – Nelly’s Version (film music)
  • 1983 – Frozen Music (for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 1984 – The Abbess of Andouillets (choir and percussion)
  • 1984 – Bird Work (for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 1984 – The Cold Room (film music for chamber orchestra)
  • 1985 – Nose-List Song (soprano and orchestra) [this and the above three works are from an unfinished opera setting of Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, which Nyman has repeatedly cited as his all-time favourite book]
  • 1985 – Childs Play (2 violins and harpsichord or ensemble)
  • 1985 – String Quartet No. 1
  • 1985 – A Zed and Two Noughts (film music for ensemble)
  • 1985 – Memorial (orchestra)
  • 1985 – Zoo Caprices (violin)
  • 1986 – Basic Black (ballet for orchestra, reduced for piano duet as Taking a Line for a Second Walk in 1994)
  • 1986 – The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera; libretto by Christopher Rawlence; adapted from the Oliver Sacks case study by Nyman, Rawlence, and Michael Morris)
  • 1986 – And Do They Do (for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 1986 – The Disputation (film music)
  • 1987 – Touch the Earth (two sopranos, violin, and viola)
  • 1987 – Vital Statistics (opera; libretto by Victoria Hardie) – withdrawn and revised into Facing Goya in 2000
  • 1988 – Orpheus’ Daughter (opera; libretto by Gerrit Timmers) – withdrawn
  • 1988 – String Quartet No. 2
  • 1988 – Drowning by Numbers (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 1989 – Out of the Ruins (choir)
  • 1989 – La Traversée de Paris (for the Michael Nyman Band, soprano, and choir)
  • 1989 – The Fall of Icarus (for the Michael Nyman Band) – reworked into The Commissar Vanishes in 1999
  • 1989 – L’Orgie Parisienne (soprano or mezzo-soprano and ensemble) – originally part of La Traversée de Paris
  • 1989 – La Sept (for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 1989 – Death in the Seine (film music)
  • 1989 – The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 1990 – Shaping the Curve (soprano saxophone, string quartet or piano)
  • 1990 – Six Celan Songs (contralto and orchestra)
  • 1990 – Polish Love Song (soprano and piano or two clarinets, viola, cello and bass)
  • 1990 – String Quartet No. 3
  • 1990 – Men of Steel (TV episode music)
  • 1991 – Where the Bee Dances (soprano saxophone and orchestra)
  • 1991 – Fluegelhorn and Piano
  • 1991 – Prospero’s Books (film music for the Michael Nyman Band), Concert Suite for chamber orchestra arranged in 1994
  • 1991 – Letters, Riddles and Writs (3 voices and the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 1991 – Masque Arias (brass quintet)
  • 1991 – The Final Score (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 1991 – I am an Unusual Thing (contralto and the Michael Nyman Band or piano)
  • 1992 – Time Will Pronounce (violin, cello, and piano)
  • 1992 – For John Cage (brass ensemble)
  • 1992 – Self-Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and Her Omnipotence (alto and string orchestra or countertenor and viol consort)
  • 1992 – The Convertibility of Lute Strings (solo harpsichord)
  • 1992 – Anne de Lucy Songs (soprano and piano)
  • 1992 – Le Mari de la Coiffeuse (film music)
  • 1992 – The Upside-Down Violin (orchestra/ensemble)
  • 1992 – Mozart on Mortality (soprano and 6 players)
  • 1992 – The Piano (film music for orchestra), arranged for concert suites in 2003 and 2005
  • 1992 – Ariel Songs (soprano and piano, also for voice and string quartet, or saxophone and piano)
  • 1993 – MGV: Musique à grande vitesse (band and orchestra)
  • 1993 – The Piano Concerto (piano and orchestra)
  • 1993 – Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs (1993; opera-ballet setting William Shakespeare’s The Tempest)
  • 1993 – Yamamoto Perpetuo (violin solo)
  • 1993 – Songs for Tony (saxophone quartet)
  • 1993 – On the Fiddle (violin or cello, and piano or strings)
  • 1994 – To Morrow (soprano or soprano saxophone, organ)
  • 1994 – 3 Quartets (ensemble)
  • 1994 – Concerto for Trombone (trombone, orchestra, and steel filing cabinets)
  • 1994 – A La Folie (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 1994 – Carrington (for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 1994 – Three Quartets (for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 1995 – String Quartet No. 4
  • 1995 – Tango for Tim (In memoriam Tim Suster) (harpsichord)
  • 1995 – The Waltz Song (unison voices)
  • 1995 – Viola and Piano
  • 1995 – Grounded (mezzo-soprano, saxophones, violin, piano)
  • 1995 – HRT [High Rise Terminal] (chamber ensemble)
  • 1995 – Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings
  • 1995 – Double Concerto for Saxophone and Cello (saxophone, cello, and orchestra)
  • 1995 – The Diary of Anne Frank (film music for the Michael Nyman Band, also orchestral suite)
  • 1996 – After Extra Time (ensemble)
  • 1996 – Enemy Zero (game music for soprano and orchestra)
  • 1996 – The Ogre (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 1996 – Elisabeth Gets Her Way (harpsichord)
  • 1996 – Knights at School (brass ensemble)
  • 1997 – Enemy Zero – Original Soundtrack
  • 1997 – Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks (orchestra)
  • 1997 – Gattaca, orchestral suite in 2001/2003
  • 1997 – Titch (worked on the main opening/closing piano theme).
  • 1998 – Cycle of Disquietude (Coisas, Vozes, Lettras) (soprano, mezzo-soprano, and band)
  • 1998 – Orfeu (band)
  • 1998 – De Granada A La Luna (band)
  • 1999 – The End of the Affair (film music, also orchestral suite)
  • 1999 – Wonderland (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 1999 – Balancing the Books (choir)
  • 1999 – Strange Attractors (piano quintet)
  • 2000 – Facing Goya (opera; libretto by Victoria Hardie)
  • 2000 – Act Without Words (film music)
  • 2000 – The Claim (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 2001 – a dance he little thinks of (orchestra)
  • 2001 – Fourths, Mostly (organ)
  • 2001 – Free for All (brass ensemble)
  • 2001 – Mosè (choir and string quartet)
  • 2001 – Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi (soprano and string quartet or string orchestra)
  • 2002 – 24 heures de la vie d’une femme (film music for orchestra)
  • 2002 – Beckham Crosses, Nyman Scores (string quartet and tape), derive Exit, No Exit for bass clarinet and string quartet in 2005
  • 2002 – Dance of the Engines (orchestra)
  • 2002 – Mapping (video art music for string quartet)
  • 2002 – Sangam: The Meeting Point (mandolin and the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 2002 – The Actors (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 2002 – Yellow Beach (piano trio)
  • 2002 – Zeit und Ziel 1814–2002 (for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 2003 – Violin Concerto (violin and orchestra)
  • 2003 – Man and Boy: Dada (opera; libretto by Michael Hastings)
  • 2003 – A Child’s View of Colour (choir and strings)
  • 2003 – Manhatta (for the Michael Nyman Band or bass clarinet or soprano and bass clarinet)
  • 2004 – 24 Hour Sax Quartet
  • 2004 – Flicker (electronic guitar and electronics)
  • 2004 – The Libertine (film music for orchestra)
  • 2004 – Photography of Chance (piano trio)
  • 2005 – Love Counts (opera; libretto by Michael Hastings)
  • 2005 – Melody Waves (Chinese orchestra)
  • 2005 – Revisiting the Don (Chinese flute and the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 2006 – gdm for Marimba and Orchestra (concerto)
  • 2006 – Acts of Beauty (song cycle for soprano and 6 players)
  • 2006 – For Kiyan Prince (choir)
  • 2006 – I was a Total Virgin (orchestra)
  • 2006 – That’s the Lover (voice and 5 players)
  • 2007 – A Handshake in the Dark (choral piece with orchestra; text by Jamal Jumá [world premiere 8 March 2007, Barbican, London, performed by the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, John Storgards conducting])
  • 2007 – Interlude in C (expansion of a theme from The Libertine for Accent07 touring ensemble)
  • 2007 – Warwick Fanfare (Parts 1 & 2) (procession and recession fanfares used for graduation ceremonies at the University of Warwick)
  • 2007 – 50,000 pairs of feet can’t be wrong. (for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 2007 – A New Pavan For These Sad, Distracted Times (cello concerto)
  • 2007 – I Sonetti Lussuriosi (soprano and ensemble or orchestra)
  • 2007 – Piano Concerto No. 2
  • 2007 – Violin Concerto No. 2
  • 2007 – Taking it as Read (violin and piano)
  • 2008 – Yamamoto Perpetuo for Solo Flute (arranged by Andy Findon)
  • 2008 – Something Connected with Energy (ensemble) – reworked into soundtrack for The Eleventh Year in 2010
  • 2008 – For Ennio (cello and strings)
  • 2009 – Sparkie: Cage and Beyond (opera with Carsten Nicolai)
  • 2009 – The Musicologist Scores (for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 2009 – Banjo & Matilda (for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 2009 – Kino (3 accordions and the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 2009 – Ombra mai fu (countertenor and orchestra)
  • 2009 – Secrets, Accusations and Charges (for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 2009 – Underneath the Hessian Bags (for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 2010 – 2Graves
  • 2010 – Body Parts Songs (song cycle)
  • 2010 – Concerto for Flute and Strings
  • 2010 – Milton Songs (voice and the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 2010 – Poczatek (piano trio)fPolish Love Son
  • 2011 – Prologue to Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell (opera, libretto by Vera Pavlova)
  • 2011 – Battleship Potemkin (film music for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 2011 – Doing the Rounds (orchestra and choir)
  • 2011 – On Languard Point (soprano and the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 2011 – Let’s not make a song and dance out of it (String Quartet No. 5)
  • 2012 – Through the Only Window (piano quintet)
  • 2012 – Devoción (orchestra)
  • 2013 – Trumpet & String Quartet
  • 2013 – Goldberg Shuffle (piano)
  • 2013 – Symphony No. 2
  • 2013 – Symphony No. 5
  • 2013 – Symphony No. 6
  • 2013 – Water Dances (Symphony No. 8)
  • 2014 – Symphony of sexual songs (Symphony No. 3)
  • 2014 – War Work: Eight Songs with Film (song cycle commissioned to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the First World War)
  • 2014 – Hillsborough Memorial (Symphony No. 11)
  • 2014 – Symphony No. 12
  • 2014 – Two Sonnets for Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (choir or voice)
  • 2015 – Chromattic (saxophone, accordion, marimba and double bass)
  • 2015 – Empresa Cines Merida (piano quintet)
  • 2015 – Symphony No. 4
  • 2016 – As You Watch The Athletes Score (for the Michael Nyman Band)
  • 2016 – No Time In Eternity (countertenor and viol consort)
  • 2019 – Flute Concerto No. 2 (flute and strings)
  • 2019 – Neat Slice of Tango (piano)
  • 2019 – When Ingrid Met Capa (string quartet)

Available on Island records, Chandos, Polydor and others

@laoman 

True. There are dozens of good modern pieces, IMO. At least 0.001%.

Do you have vinyl references for the pieces you mention?

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper

The Doors - s/t

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon

 

Happy Listening!

IMHO;

ROCK / POP; 1) BOWIE; HEROES

                      2) JAPAN ;GENTLEMEN TAKE POLAROIDS

                      3) 801; LISTEN NOW

JAZZ;              1) JEAN LUC PONTY; A TASTE FOR PASSION

                       2) JOHN SCOFIELD; BLUE MATTER

                       3) KENNY BARRON; SCRATCHAL

CLASSICAL;     1) SIBELIUS; SYMPHONY NO. 1 IN E MINOR

                        2) SATIE; GNOSSIENNE 1

                        3) MUSSORGSKY; NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN

                  

1) Alan Parsons,  "vulture Culture" 

2) Moody Blues, " in Search of the Lost Cord"

3) Beatles, " Abby Road"

@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.  

Idris  Muhammad  "Power of Soul"

Climax Blues Band " Shine On"

Steppenwolf "7"

 

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

I hope none of these are repeats - I did look...pick your own 3, too tough for me

Friday Night in San Francisco

The Well (IMPEX)

Breaking Silence

We Get Requests (Oscar Peterson)

Stardust

Lightnin Hopkins, Lightnin

Wildflowers and Damn the Torpedoes

Johnny Cash American II: Unchained

The Youngbloods - Elephant Mountain 

Pat Martino - First Light 

Miles Davis - In a Silent Way

 

@deroy Who's Next ,Dark Side ,Allman  Bros. At Fillmore East

 

I can’t argue with that list - all excellent albums!

Peter Gabriel So

Talking Heads Remain in Light.

Grateful Dead 77 Cornell concert

Too numerous, 100 albums is a teaser.

Most albums of great music are available in very decent digital versions, so it is not that essential to hunt down a vinyl version.  But, in some cases, the original vinyl release is quite a bit better than anything else.  This particularly true with jazz and specialty recordings that were done direct-to-disc.  These are some of my picks:

Dave Brubeck-Take Five (original, 6-eye Columbia recordings sound better than anything that followed).

Bill Berry Allstars-For Duke (fantastic direct-to-disc recording)

David Peabody-Americana (obscure recording that was not reissued digitally that sounds amazing).

Duke Ellington-Blues in Orbit (6-eye Columbia original.  Another recording not surpassed in reissue. Sony though well enough of the recording to make it among the first SACDs issued, but even that was not as good as the originsl0

 

Impossible...I would personally have trouble with all 100. Still, too much great music would be left out. Good luck with your pursuit.  AB

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

@palasr 

Not sure how relevant that is, as the same could be said for an "original, genuine pressing" of Kind of Blue, Pet Sounds, Allman Bros. at the Fillmore East, Blue Train, etc. As there was no reference to cost in the question and there are always avenues for finding good bargains on anything if one is diligent.

Russ Barenberg - Moving Pictures
Paul Simon - Graceland
Al Stewart - Time Passages
Kim Richey - Edgeland
Dreadful Snakes - Snakes Alive!
Jesse Winchester - Humour Me
Sheffield Labs - The Moscow Sessions
Donald Johanos / Athena - Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances Vocalise

@tony1954

You should also mention to the OP that an original, genuine pressing of Tool's "Aenima" will run at least $1000.  There are many, many bootleged versions, but very few genuine articles.  

I’m ashamed I didn’t remember the 1st Moody Blues album, when they were a Piano Based Blues Band with Denny Laine singing. Many are aware of the Justin Hayward Era, but this is how they came to fame.

Moody Blues, Go Now,

Go Now, song, showing USA version of LP Sleeve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN2fOgfFnDo

Whole Album on youtube, different sleeve image

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgY1kWDzqk&list=PLZ-KH7o-aD2hFPcuUog_mStKaFD9ud_3-&index=1

I’m lucky to have found 2 copies on R2R tape at great prices years ago

https://www.ebay.com/itm/265963964309?hash=item3decb00795:g:4YAAAOSwgQdjRb49&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA0JwyPB0JheFvv7e%2BzfCsFUwVZ5IEHCxKPy%2Bve8NQy0bjZAViKirL9NTh5mo3NpITtVaSCsLE11n0s91BRoKVRX54o3qp5MYSpaI4gsOtMLQf2l8nzLOlPp%2BzjNbmsGoDWM4OHH9l4B8%2Fl%2Bz4yHiJ%2FDGgxW4WsOhxqeIDVzEuCLYF60SyFnyMai1%2FfUTQbuEjuMsVARAKuk6GV1p2T%2FXF1oSe4x0GW7oDIc6bj4SriOpYePiJ0M%2BkhPYKE7h0M1wC7VAakQw3RrQlQYjBNNqWUCw%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR66Axf25Yg

The Piano benefits most from the Tape Format.

btw, I'll Go Crazy was written by James Brown, here, 1960, with the Famous Flames

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twa3WQk2fgk

 

 

Queen “Night at the Opera”

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Deja Vous”

Who “Next”

Cat Stevens “Tea for the Tillerman”

Pink Floyd “ Dark Side of the Moon”

Little Feat “Waiting For Columbus”

Talking Heads “Stop Making Sense”

Natalie Merchant “MTV Unplugged”

Alice In Chains “MTV Unplugged”

Nirvana “MTV Unplugged”

Supertramp “Crime Of The Century”

Amy Winehouse “Back To Black”

The Civil Wars “Barton’s Hollow”

Gorillaz “Demon Days”

Roxy Music “Avalon”

 

 

woretpot

  1. LP (Laura Pergolizzi) "Lost on You"
  2. Tool " Aenima"
  3. Linda Ronstadt "Heart Like a Wheel"
  4. Moby "Reprise"
  5. Roy Buchanan "Livestock"

Nevermind,   Nirvana.

Red Hot Chili Peppers,   Blood Sugar Sex Magik.

Neil Young,   Harvest.

 

The Beatles,   Rubber Soul.

Miles Davis,   Kinda Blue.

Bill Evans,   Waltz For Debby.

Excellent picks!

L. Ronstadt - Heart Like a Wheel

Getz/Gilberto 

The Band - s/t

"I find myself agreeing with you today" is a good example of why the music related threads tend to be more enjoyable (and civil) then the equipment related threads.

+1 for Jeff Buckley - "Grace;" I can't believe I forgot that one. While not a universally loved & respected album (or critics choice), I can't imagine not having "Argus" by Wishbone Ash in my collection.

#1 Bowie...Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars....#2Warren Zevon..Excitible Boy....#3. Jeff Beck...Truth or Beckola......Honorable Mention  CSN....Daylight Again and Karla Bonoff S/T

Now that you have a lot of peoples favorites or suggestions ( I gave suggestions because my favorites would not necessarily be your favorites )    you have to now consider pressings .  So here are a few thoughts from my experiences .  For rock I like Japanese and German pressing in general , the English/Great British ones can be good if you find one without a lot ot background noise  , Reprise is a good label So is London and Abbey Road .  For classical I am limited in experience to Chicago Symphony Pressings  , RCA Living Stereo , Decca/London ffrr and Mercury Presence , for Jazz Blue Note , for Folk Vanguard .

I like fidelity of the new re-releases at 45rpm as well as the double vinyl 33rpm releases ( like Dire Straits " Brothers in Arms " ) .

All of these are available within reason whereas the MOFI original and the new Ultra Disc are Ultra expensive , as are the Classic pressing ( great fidelity but so so quietness ) the same with Chesky  .

While all this is just my opinion it is some to start thinking about . 

 

Great choices listed, mine:

Supertramp - Breakfast in America

Flertwood Mac - Rumors

Dire Straits - S/T

honorable mention:

Eagles - The Long Run

Keep us posted and good luck

Good question! Great answers from folks!

Santana - Abraxas (Original on Columbia)

Dave Brubeck - Take Five (Several good pressings out there)

Vivaldi - Four Seasons, Boston Symphony w/ Seiji Ozawa conducting (Telarc)

 

Happy listening. 

Miles Davis- Sketches of Spain

Steely Dan - Gaucho

Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman 

Derek and the Dominoes- Layla and Other assorted Lovesongs

Supertramp- Crime of the Century

Rush- 2112