Building a 100 album vinyl collection 3 must have albums are?

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper

The Doors - s/t

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon

Happy Listening!

Mofi 45's of American Beauty and Workingman's Dead, and Neil Young's Decade

@laoman 

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

Do you have vinyl references for the pieces you mention?

@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  Thank you!

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.

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"

- 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.

@macg19

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

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

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

Pet Sounds (mono)

s/t - Warren Zevon

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

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

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!!

Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Muddy Waters - Folk Singer

@hbarrel 

Have any of the suggestions sparked your interest yet ?

You must have a valid reason for 100 albums..

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!!

Beatles Revolver

Joni Mitchell Hissing of Summer Lawns

Crosby Stills Nash 1st album

Crosby Stills Nash and Young 1st album together 

Robert Plant and Allison Kraus - Raising Sand

Patricia Barber - Cafe Blue

Sonny Rollins - Way Out West

Kind of Blue-Miles Davis

Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Floyd

Mozart Clarinet Quintet. 

Clash--London Calling

Lana Del Rey--Norman F Rockwell

Mozart--Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat Major, Midori, Imai, Eschenbach, NDR-Sinfonieorchester 

Cruising with Ruben & the Jets (1967)

The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles Hits (1964)

Rail Dynamics (Cook Records, 1950’s)

  Tell me I'm wrong.

Hope you all have a restful weekend!

Everything by Pink Floyd

Everything by Van Morrison

Everything by Mark Knopfler/Dire Straights  

Oh, have to mention - Everything of what little there was by Amy Winehouse and Eva Cassidy (gone way too young)

So many more, I wasn't sure where to even start

Europe '72 - Grateful Dead

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams

Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan

And because I have to include at least one jazz album:

Eyes of the Heart - Keith Jarrett, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian

To start?

Desert, island, mountain cave... If I'd stay with "modern" music, and as long as I could have my system, these would be three to start "The 100 Collection":

Pink Floyd: Meddle
Can: Soon Over Babaluma
Wether Report: Black Market

These threads are always a great source for music you haven't heard although i'd probably err on the side of streaming many before buying a vinyl version.  Also obvious is that few here can confine it to three but i'll do my best:

1. Allman Bros--Live at Fillmore East--many recommendations on this one

2. Santana- Abraxas--played this one frequently at my student apartment in France in 1974 and my landlady next door begged to know what it was--i went and bought it for her and then got to listen to it through the walls nearly every night for a year--she told me it saved her marriage 😀 

3. Little Feat--Waiting for Columbus--IMO best live album ever recorded

The Allman Brothers Band - Fillmore East

The Clash - London Calling

Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy

Hellbound Train-Savoy Brown

Rock n Roll Music to the World-Ten Years After

Rides Again-James Gang

just to offer some new flavor. Many more already named. How can you not love these discussions?

These are the three I HAVE to have, due to their sonics and sheer musicality.

John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman

Supersax Plays Bird

Just For A Thrill (Weslia Whitfield - a little rare, hard to find, but worth it)
   Here's a rip from vinyl.

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

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!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums

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!

Genesis:

Trespass, Foxtrot, Nursery Cryme, Selling England by the Pound, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

Excellent question and some excellent recommendations already. Here are three jazz lps I love that I didn’t see mentioned yet:

Gil Evans, New Bottle, Old Wine

Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come

Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch

+1 for previously mentioned Love, Forever Changes

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

XTC- English Settlement

Kraftwerk - Computer World

Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder

I take it a rap opera would be unsuitable?

OK, serious question: do you care for jazz? classical music? Have to check because some of the best recordings I know are in those genres.

Can’t do it. 
 

I need at least a vague idea of what your preferences are. 
 

I have 6,000 LPs, dunno if I could choose 30, never mind 3. 

What a great thread!!! My three faves are all live albums.....I like to go to the show. In no particular order because I love them all:

1.  Live From Deep in the Heart of Texas, Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen.  THIS is beer drinking music by some of the best musicians you will ever hear. I have worn out 2 LPs...

2. Have to agree with WYOBOY "Waiting for Columbus" by Little Feat may be the best live album recorded. Got a MOFI copy that I prize!

3. A Show of Hands by Rush is just superb. The lyrics are as relevant today as when they were written. Excellent recording and production. My neighborhood knows this album well....

And just a throw in, one of the best produced albums I've ever heard

Recycled-Nektar I have clipped more amps with this recording than anything else in my library. Great fun, maybe the best album art ever!

Winelight-Grover Washington Jr

Sotho Blue-Abdullah Ibrahim and Ekaya

Walking in Space-Quincy Jones

Journey-Fourplay

Thriller-Michael Jackson

Soft Space-Jeff Lorber Fusion

Takin’ Off-Herbie Hancock

Healing the Wounds-The Jazz Crusaders

Tenderly-George Benson

Beyond the Blue Horizon-George Benson (so 70’s CTI down to the cover art!)

City Life-The Blackbyrds

I'll add 3 that haven't been mentioned and could be my desert lp's.  These aren't my top three, but so many of my fav's have already been mentioned.  All are awesome discs with great content throughout.

Tommy Bolin -Teaser

Santana III- one of the greatest guitar albums ever with an awesome groove

Grover Washington Jr.-Skylarkin

Bonus: George Benson-White rabbit

The point would be to get the most enjoyable musical experience, so in my book, direct to disk is the only game in town. 

Sheffield The King James Version  ( Harry James)

Sheffield, Hollywood Town  ( Amanda McBroom)

I never found a really well done classical guitar.  Kind of why I quit playing "with" music and went CD so I could just "play" music.  Yes, an LP can sound great, but on average, no. Limited dynamic range, poor SNR, ticks-pops, eq that is very rarely close to RIAA,  and never sound as good as the second playing again. 

Now, the above responses did list a bunch of great music that should be in everyone's library, be it a 45 or HDCD. A few I am missing.  Darn, got to have them!

1) Steely Dan - Aja

2) Brian Eno- Another Green World

3) John Coltrane- A Love Supreme 

1) Steely Dan - Aja

2) Brian Eno- Another Green World

3) John Coltrane- A Love Supreme 

Bing Crosby Christmas album

Mary Poppins movie Soundtrack

Anything from Frank Sinatra

I thought it would be fun to compile "MY" list of 100 albums from your responses.  Some of the artists I liked, but not the album, so I choose mine.  I also added some artists/albums that haven't been mentioned yet, but most came from above.

I'm up to around 90 so far.  It's been kinda fun.  Not as easy as you'd think.

Thanks everyone for the input.  A lot of these albums I haven't listened to in like forever.  Need to correct that...

• Tapestry - Carol King
• In My Tribe -10,000 Maniacs
• Boston - Debut Album by Boston