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 Peppers 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 Gords Gold The Grass Roots Greatest Hits The Guess Who Best of Hermans 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.