what in your opinion are the greatest vinyls?
ive recently bought
Bookends-simon and garfunkel
rock and roll-john lennon
sweet baby james&mud slide slim- james taylor
velvet underground&nico
i was thinking of buying Transformer-lou reed, what do yous think??
any other albums you think that i really must own?????
thanks
2007-01-04 07:02:08 · 8 answers · asked by strangeinthewest 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
get some Doors vinyls man
all of them if you can
the music has a rhythm as natural as a heart and the words and phrasing are as good as your ever gonna get!!
and if you've any money left(!!) you gotta get
Unplugged in New York- Nirvana
that's the greatest live acoustic album there is
2007-01-04 10:06:08 · answer #1 · answered by TheLizardKing 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best records are really the ones you like best!
All the early dylan albums are great and not so hard to find second hand.
Really though it's the packaging that's gotta win, so try and get Led Zeppelin III - it's got a cool die cut cover with a spinning wheel that changes the picture...oooh!
School's Out by Alice Cooper - the record is in a sleeve that can be made into a cool school desk origami style, and the original issue had a free pair of pants inside!!!
Metal Box by Pil (John Lydon's band after the Sex Pistols) comes in a coooool wait for it...metal box!
The Who's live at Leeds has loads of cool bits in it - a poster and 13 extras - guestlists for the gig etc.
Roxy Music's first album has a cool gatefold with a centrefold lady!
Also the Pixies did a lovely issue of their first album on heavy duty 10in vinyl in a nice box.
If you get old folkways records they have lovely packaging, and it's a guarantee that if it's on folkways the artist is good.
There is a label called Earmark that does excellent quality 180 gram reissues of classic albums across a diverse range of genres.
Some albums are different on Vinyl than on the CD - eg. the first Godspeed You Black Emperor - which also came with a photo and flattened coin.
But generally, everything sounds better on vinyl, especially things made pre the days of c.d. - you are playing them in the format they were made for. You also can't do the legendary playing backwards for secret messages (ie on Pink Floyd's The Wall) on CDs, so you have a world of fun there, and the ability to put a locked groove on a track, so it plays on forever....like on Sonic Youth's Evol.
2007-01-06 07:29:51 · answer #2 · answered by empanda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy Transformer. It's a classic of 'camp-rock' and a direct descendant of Velvet Underground and Nico.
Then see where Lou Reed went, with one of his later albums - try "New York" or "Magic and Loss".
If you don't know Jeff Buckley's "Grace" then you really should, but I doubt it's available on vinyl.
2007-01-04 15:07:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's always Dark Side of the Moon, and I really like Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens. If you like Lou Reed, you should go for it!
2007-01-04 15:04:43 · answer #4 · answered by endless mike 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd
2007-01-04 15:05:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anything by Pink Floyd and sticky fingers by the rolling Stones
2007-01-04 15:09:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
dylan-oh mercy and blood on the tracks, james brown-live at the apollo, miles davis-in silent way, john coltrane-giant steps, areatha franklin-lady soul, stones-tattoo you, public enemy-fear of a black planet, van morrison-moondance, steely dan-aja, muddy waters-hard again, prince-sign o the times, u2-boy...too many to list.
nothing better than vinyl, brother
2007-01-04 15:08:50 · answer #7 · answered by sugarbaby 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try to find a copy of george harrison's all things must pass. youd enjoy that alot.
and to that person before, jeff buckleys grace is available on vinyl, its just hard to find and expensive.
2007-01-04 15:42:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋