I was inspired by my buddy Mike Lamb and his new record player / collection he was starting as I visited him in a Boston a few months back. So about a month ago I emailed / tweeted a bunch of folks asking for album recommendations that:
1) they enjoy (obviously) and
2) sound great on vinyl and
3) are meaningful
I received back quite an impressive list and so figured I would share it out in case others are looking for inspiration:
- 21 Pilots – Vessel
- Alabama – Southern Star
- Alicia Keys – Songs in A Minor
- Beach Boys – Surfer Girl
- Beastie Boys – License to Ill
- Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
- Beatles – Abbey Road
- Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour
- Beatles – Revolver
- Bill Evans Trio – Portrait in Jazz
- Bill Withers – Live at Carnegie Hall
- Billy Joel – An Innocent Man
- Billy Joel – Piano Man
- Billy Joel – The Stranger
- Billy Joel – Turnstines
- Black Sabbath – Paranoid
- Bob Marley – Legend
- Boston – Boston
- Brown Bird – Salt for Salt
- Coldplay – Rush of Blood to the Head
- Counting Crows – August and Everything After
- Crosby Stills Nash and Young – 4 Way Street
- Cults – Static
- Dave Matthews – Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King
- Dave Matthews – Some Devil
- David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
- Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs
- Desi Valentine – Fate Don’t Know You
- Dizzy Gillespie – New Wave
- Doobie Brothers – What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
- Eagles – Hotel California
- Eric Clapton – Ocean Blvd
- Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes & Helplessness Blues
- Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
- Foo Fighters – In Your Honor
- Foreigner – Juke Box Hero
- Gregory Alan Isakov – Evening Machines
- Guns and Roses – Use Your Illusion II
- James Taylor – Sweet Baby James
- Jamie xx – In Colour
- Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced?
- John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
- John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
- John Coltrane – Giant Steps
- Jonathan Butler
- Joseph Arthur – Come to Where I’m From (in the sun)
- Journey – Infinity
- Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- Kenny Chesney –
- Khalid – American Teen
- La Luz – It’s Alive
- Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
- Led Zeppelin – II
- Led Zeppelin – Zeppelin 1V
- Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon
- Leonard Cohen
- Lumineers – The Lumineers
- Lynyrd Skynrd – Second Helping
- Marc Cohn – Marc Cohn
- Marvin Gaye – Trouble Man
- Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On?
- Michael Jackson – Thriller
- Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
- Monk – Straight No Chaser
- Neal Young – Harvest
- Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
- Of Monsters and Men – My Head Is an Animal
- Oscar Peterson Trio – One
- OutKast – ATLiens
- Paul Simon – Graceland
- Pearl Jam – Ten
- Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
- Pink Floyd – Delicate Sound of Thunder
- Pink Floyd – The Wall
- Police – Synchronicity
- Prince – Purple Rain
- Queen – Queen II
- REM – Automatic for the People
- REM – Reckoning
- Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street
- Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
- Rush – Moving Pictures
- Shovels and Rope – O’ Be Joyful
- Sigur Ros – Hvarf/Heim
- Sigur Ros – Takk
- Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
- Smiths – The Queen is Dead
- Spoon – Kill the Moonlight
- Steely Dan – Aja
- Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble –
- Stevie Wonder – Original Musiquarium I
- Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life
- Sting – The Dream of the Blue Turtles
- Sufjan Stevens – Michigan, Illinois
- Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans
- Supertramp – Breakfast in America
- Thelonius Monk – Brilliant Corners
- Tom Petty – Full Moon Fever
- Tom Petty – Wildflowers
- Traveling Wilburys – Volume 1
- Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Social Network Soundtrack
- U2 – Best of 1990 – 2000
- U2 – In the Name of Love
- U2 – Joshua Tree
- Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
- Van Morrison – Moondance
- Yaz – Upstairs at Eric’s
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
Hit me up in the comments if I missed anything or if there is an additional album from someone already listed I should consider…thanks!
