OT: Turntable album-Your top choice

[oldschoolcat]

Lucky for us my parents were raised in the 60's, so they had extensive album collections and kept every one of them. Lots of Beatles, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Moody Blues, Marshall Tucker, etc.

Mine were
ELO Out of the Blue,
ACDC Back in Black and For those About to Rock
Def Leppard Pyromania
Ozzy Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman

My 16 year old daughter also has a turntable, and plays all kinds of stuff new and old. We too are music buddies.

Good bull right there.

 

[Oldmanastro]

Lucky for us my parents were raised in the 60's, so they had extensive album collections and kept every one of them. Lots of Beatles, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Moody Blues, Marshall Tucker, etc.

Mine were
ELO Out of the Blue,
ACDC Back in Black and For those About to Rock
Def Leppard Pyromania
Ozzy Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman

My 16 year old daughter also has a turntable, and plays all kinds of stuff new and old. We too are music buddies.

Good bull right there.

Moody Blues. Nice. Saw them in an outdoor theater in 1988 in Denver. Let’s just say in my experimental time of life. Great show.

 

[WRLHookem]

Zeppelin IV

 

[WRLHookem]

Rush 2112

 

[WRLHookem]

Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon

 

[WRLHookem]

AC DC Back in Black

 

[WRLHookem]

Boston Boston

 

[fidozam]

I wore out playing my Buck Owens "Together Again" 45, til my brother put it on top of a lamp bulb and melted it. It still played but w a different type style.😁
We are both older now, but I still send him Buck Owens stuff just as a joke.

Buck Owens at Carnegie Hall is fantastic.

 

[WRLHookem]

Buck Owens at Carnegie Hall is fantastic.

Well now this thread is no longer serious. Thanks for playing.

 

[fidozam]

Any of the Giles Martin remastered Beatles albums are great for testing out your turntable. My go to record to test out sound quality is Neil Young's Greatest Hits. It's just one of the best sounding records out there. If you can find an AB1006 pressing of Aja it's worth giving a spin.

 

[2300 Nueces]

Bad Company

Dire Straits

BTO

Billy Squire

J Geils

 

[Oldmanastro]

Bad Company

Dire Straits

BTO

Billy Squire

J Geils

Dire Straits and J Giles (also very underrated pre-freeze frame).

 

[Oldmanastro]

Well now this thread is no longer serious. Thanks for playing.

Now now, we all have different taste and flavors.

 

[Oldmanastro]

I’m surprised there hasn’t been a mention of older U2. Boy was very good, and The Joshua Tree was excellent.

 

[oldhorn2]

Songs on the Radio by Shake Russle

....you will not regret the listen...

 

[Oldmanastro]

Btw, Led Zeppelin is probably tops. Just pulled out a couple vinyls, and OMG. Dazed and confused? Wow.

 

[thismutch]

Hotel California
Woodstock 1 & 2

 

[Oldmanastro]

Bad Company

Dire Straits

BTO

Billy Squire

J Geils

I was bored yesterday so decided to grill (charcoal) and broke the seal on a bottle of Still Austin cask bourbon and put Dire Straight “Brothers in Arms” on. Fantastic. Mark Knopfler is an awesome guitarist.

 

[hillcountryhorn63697005]

So yesterday my youngest daughter turned 17 and I got her a turntable for vinyl albums. She’s collected a few albums over the years just for the album covers.
So it tugged at my heart when the first album she chose to play was Dark Side of the Moon. Then she went into my stack that’s been sitting in my media room gathering dust and pulled out my original Van Halen 1 that I bought when it originally came out and hasn’t seen daylight in over 30 years. Brought back memories and tears. We just sat around and listened like we teenagers did back in the 70 and 80’s, and going over and over the album jacket.

So my question to you knuckleheads is “What would be your first album choice to play?”

Kudos to you and your daughter! Sweet that she has interest playing dad's vinyls!

I have 7-8 protected cases of vinyls that I need to pull out and play. Guess I'd start with my 1st official one that I bought as a kid: Stan Musial's "Stan the Man Hit Record".
For music...Grand Funk Railroad's "Closer to Home", was my first.

 

[oldhorn2]

Songs on the Radio----- Shake Russle

 

[oldhorn2]

Little Piece of my Heart........Big Brother and the Holding Company

 

[Yahweh74]

Eagles Greatest Hits

Boston

Chicago

EW&F

Commodores

Willie Nelson ( Red Headed Stranger)

Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys

Ronnie Millsap (there a lone story here)

Garth Brooks (Ropin the Wind)

 

[Etlonghorn]

Eagles Greatest Hits

Boston

Chicago

EW&F

Commodores

Willie Nelson ( Red Headed Stranger)

Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys

Ronnie Millsap (there a lone story here)

Garth Brooks (Ropin the Wind)

I was listening to my Eagles Greatest Hits album yesterday.
Randy Meisner kills it on Take It To The Limit.

 

[westx]

I was listening to my Eagles Greatest Hits album yesterday.
Randy Meisner kills it on Take It To The Limit.

is it heresy to believe that Travis Tritt's cover of "Take it Easy" is better than the Eagles' original?

 

[Etlonghorn]

is it heresy to believe that Travis Tritt's cover of "Take it Easy" is better than the Eagles' original?

Short answer, yes!! I will agree that TT does a REALLY good cover but the harmonies that the Eagles put in most of their stuff set them apart.
Same way Skynyrd used 3 guys basically all playing lead guitar. Stuff like that will always set the originals apart.

 

[Lampasas]

Anyone familiar with Troubadour by J J Cale? I think it is his best album; has the song Cocaine, which he wrote and Eric Clapton later made famous.

Another CD (don't think there's an album) worth checking out is Broke Down by Slade Cleaves. He's an Austin artist with a bluegrass sound; I can really appreciate some good mandolin.

 

[Longyac]

Are looking for suggestions you may already have or is this music education?

Start with Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Arguably the starting place for rock n roll

Muddy Waters Appealing Blues. The original montone has better fidelity than the later stereo remix

The first ladies of jazz; Sarah, Diana, and Ella

Miles/Duke /Count/ Luie

Motown

Funk

Traffic- The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

Simon and Garfunkel

The Who- Who is Next

Bealtes- Sgt Pepper or white album

Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic

Bowie

Peter Gabriel- Solsbury Hill

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Singing in harmony is only still left in the R&B world.

All I’ve got off the top of head at this time of thenight that hasn’t been covered. Maybe Joan Jett debut album? Oh, the Bo Diddley beat.