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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As usual, lots of great suggestions by some serious music lovers and audiophiles. 
Here are my 3. (Only 3!?!??!!)

1. Everly Brothers. A Date With The Everly Brothers. (Well recorded. Touching and emotional. Country and Blues crossover to equal Rock n Roll. One can hear where The Beatles, The Beachboys were influenced and “got” there sound. IMHO. 
 

2. A Clockwork Orange soundtrack. Well recorded. Excellent intro to Classical music for those of us who were not exposed much. 

3. Thelonious Monk, Talking Heads, Santana, Mozart…

 

Dylan, Blood on the Tracks (his best material & sonics)

Fleetwood Mac, Eponymous, 1975  (ditto)

Pink Floyd, Dark Side (material -- Floyd sonics are consistently fine)

Counting Crows, August and Everything After (abundance)

Neil Young, After The Gold Rush (abundance, emotional range)

Ramsey Lewis Trio, Pot Luck (a heaping platter of magic)
(Criteria: Appeal of material, arrangement/mix, sonics)

Oh. 
I’d like to thank those people who listed 

Axis Bold As Love 

Gaucho

Wheels of Fire, Disraeli Gears

Talking Heads  ‘77

Aretha Franklin

Janis, Big Brother Holding Co  

Carol King Tapestry 

N Young, Everybody Knows…

 

U2- The Joshua Tree (available as a 40th anniversary 2lp set)

Richard and Linda Thompson- Shoot Out The Lights

The Smiths- The Queen Is Dead

Derek and the Dominoes- Layla and Other assorted Lovesongs

Supertramp- Crime of the Century

Rush- 2112