Records reviews from Reddit

Summary

We analyzed 118 Reddit reviews across 13 subreddits and 16 posts to rank the best Records brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/MetalForTheMasses, r/vinyl, r/musicsuggestions, r/blues, r/Hardcore. Top-rated brands include The Beastie Boys (4.5/5), Miles Davis (5.0/5), Josey Records (5.0/5).

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Reviews118
Subreddits13
Posts16
Brands84
Products71
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#1

The Beastie Boys

4.5
(10)
"Paul's Boutique is the best overall album they ever made!!"
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"The Beastie Boys are so great! Their albums dropped chronologically along with my life."
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"Pauls Boutique is an american treasure. Top 10 albums in the states, all time."
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"Paul’s Boutique by a mile, followed by Check Your Head"
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"Paul's Botique is phenomenal"
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"We got some cool stuff as a result like Low End Theory and Check Your Head."
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"The in Sound From Way Out. Love the instrumentals."
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"Def Ill Communication for me"
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"Ill Communication,Hello Nasty, Check yo head"
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"Licensed to III and Hello Nasty"
#2

Miles Davis

5.0
(4)
"Can't go wrong with Kind Of Blue!"
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"Record: A Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis"
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"Miles Davis’s *Kind of Blue* or *Nefertiti*"
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"Safe picks: Miles davis - kind of blue."
#3

Josey Records

5.0
(3)
"Josey Records is the best."
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"Josey is so large that they have loads of non-collector priced vinyl."
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"Josey records is the king."
#4

Morbid Angel

5.0
(3)
"Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal to the Flesh"
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"Morbid Angel's album Covenant. The vocals are brutal but you can still understand what he's saying."
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"I also very much enjoy the vocals from Morbid Angel and Nile."
#5

Cannibal Corpse

5.0
(3)
"Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding"
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"Cannibal Corpse - Tombs ( really any CC album.)"
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"Cannibal Corpse bar none."
#6

Deicide

5.0
(2)
"Deicide - really any album . Deicide, Legion, Once upon the cross, serpents, scars, stench are my favorites."
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"Deicide - Deicide"
#7

Harm's Way

5.0
(2)
"I just put on the whole Harms Way discog and have at it"
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"Harm's Way, The Acacia Strain, Hatebreed, Earth Crisis, Knocked Loose, Instigate, Disembodied, Ill Natured and Brotherhood of the Lake are my current go to bands for lifting."
#8

Dyscarnate

5.0
(2)
"Dyscarnate - with all their might"
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"Dyscarnate"
#9

Led Zeppelin

5.0
(2)
"Led Zepplin 2, 4, physical Graffiti"
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"I would second Jose’s and Res Zep."
#10

Carcass

5.0
(2)
"Carcass, Dying Fetus, Immolation, Incantation (especially since Decimate Christendom), Arghoslent up until Incorrigible Bigotry(racist band), The Berzerker"
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"Heartwork is probably the best record to show that. It’s like some demon chained up in a dark, dark cave."
#11

Obituary

5.0
(2)
"Nothing beats Obituary! Start with “Slowly We Rot” and go from there. Tardy on vocals is just amazing!"
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"Obituary - Cause of death."
#12

Cattle Decapitation

5.0
(2)
"Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity (Deathgrind)"
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"Cattle Decapitation - specially the early stuff Human jerkey"
#13

Explosions in the Sky

5.0
(2)
"The first three Explosions in the Sky records."
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"EITS - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place"
#14

Vince Guaraldi

5.0
(2)
"Guaraldi's The Eclectic Vince Guaraldi"
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"Anything by Vince Guaraldi"
#15

Opeth

4.5
(2)
"Opeth were my entry point for growls. Check out Blackwater Park or Watershed."
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"Blackwater Park by Opeth is pretty damn good, would I say it's the best? Probably no, but it's worth checking out"
#16

Bilmuri

4.5
(2)
"American Motor Sports by Bilmuri"
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"Bilmuri - American Motor Sports"
#17

Hatebreed

4.5
(2)
"The correct answer is Hatebreed’s Perseverance"
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"Hatebreed - The Concrete Confessional, but I’ll go with Madball - For The Cause."
#18

Belmont

4.0
(2)
"Belmont’s new album"
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"It's definitely something you should check out"
#19

Disney

4.0
(2)
"I bought a few of the Disney titles from VC Vinyl."
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"I have found a lot of Disney records that are audiobooks."
#20

Reign Supreme

4.0
(2)
"Reign supreme."
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"Reign Supreme - testing the limits of Infinite"
#21

Carfax

3.0
(2)
"Sign up for MyCarfax account, it is not a full Carfax but it is free."
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"Carfax. Its not a guarantee but most dealers and chain shops report to them."
#22

Hypocrisy

5.0
(1)
"Hypocrisy. Tägtgren's vocals are quite intelligible, to the point you can almost get all of the song's lyrics in 2-3 listens, while sounding awesome at the same time"
#23

Demonical

5.0
(1)
"Demonical"
#24

Dir En Grey

5.0
(1)
"Dir En Grey - Uroborous"
#25

Amorphis

5.0
(1)
"Amorphis - Under the Red Cloud"
#26

The Monolith Deathcult

5.0
(1)
"The Monolith Deathcult - Triumvirate (tetragrammaton is also fantastic)"
#27

Revocation

5.0
(1)
"The Outer Ones - Revocation"
#28

Kataklysm

5.0
(1)
"Kataklysm - Temple of Knowledge"
#29

At the Gates

5.0
(1)
"At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul"
#30

Exhumed

5.0
(1)
"Exhumed - Gore Metal/ Slaughtercult"
#31

Black Dahlia Murder

5.0
(1)
"Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers Trevor was so good at telling a story with his lyrics."
#32

Edge of Sanity

5.0
(1)
"Edge of Sanity - Crimson 1 & 2"
#33

Between the Buried and Me

5.0
(1)
"Between The Buried And Me - Colors 1 & 2"
#34

Entombed

5.0
(1)
"Entombed - Clandestine (1991)"
#35

Katatonia

5.0
(1)
"Katatonia - Brave Murder Day (Death Doom Metal)"
#36

Skeletonwitch

5.0
(1)
"Skeletonwitch - Beyond the Permafrost"
#37

Gutslit

5.0
(1)
"Gutslit - Amputheater"
#38

Daupe!

5.0
(1)
"I own a Daupe! GOAT, and saw DRW doing new black versions earlier this year."
#39

Lucro Live

5.0
(1)
"Yes, Lucro Live is what I need in my life"
#40

Gorerotted

5.0
(1)
"Gorerotted (all albums)"
#41

Mary Lattimore

5.0
(1)
"Mary Lattimore’s *Silver Ladders*"
#42

Konkhra

5.0
(1)
"Konkhra"
#43

Dismember

5.0
(1)
"Dismember"
#44

Zyklon

5.0
(1)
"Tony from Zyklon being another good example."
#45

Bloodbath

5.0
(1)
"Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh"
#46

Sloth Records

5.0
(1)
"Honestly your best bet for records in general is Sloth Records on 17th Ave in Calgary."
#47

R.L. Burnside

5.0
(1)
#48

Buddy Guy

5.0
(1)
"One of the best blues albums ever."
#49

Cryptopsy

5.0
(1)
"Cryptopsy - None So Vile (Brutal Death Metal)"
#50

John Lee Hooker

5.0
(1)
"Best of the best"
#51

Otis Spann

5.0
(1)
"Must have."
#52

The Amenta

5.0
(1)
"Mark Bevan's vocals on The Amenta's first album, Occasus."
#53

Muddy Waters

5.0
(1)
#54

Freddie King

5.0
(1)
#55

Slice the Cake

5.0
(1)
"Check out Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West. So much vocal variety, and all types are equally awesome."
#56

Bill Evans

5.0
(1)
"My favorite chill album."
#57

Sonny Rollins

5.0
(1)
"Sonny Rollins - The Bridge / Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus"
#58

Cannonball Adderley

5.0
(1)
"Cannonball Adderley - Somethin Else / Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out / Miles Davis - Kind of Blue / John Coltrane - Blue Train"
#59

Beastie Boys

5.0
(1)
"Hermanos Gutierrez Budos Band Jungle Fire Beastie Boys- The In Sound From Way Out"
#60

Klaatu

5.0
(1)
"Hope and Sir Army Suit, both by Klaatu are awesome albums for some psychedelic rock in the background!"
#61

Stereolab

5.0
(1)
"Stereolab - Dots and Loops Badbadnotgood-III Blockhead - Insomniac Olympics Nada Surf - Let Go Menomena - Friend and Foe Clinic - Walking with Thee Jose Gonzalez - Veneer Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right… Digable Planets - Reachin…. Toro Y Moi - Outer Peace DJ Shadow - Endtroducing New Order - PCOL The Clash - Combat Rock Morphine - Good Blur -13 RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke TVOTR - Desperat"
#62

Brian Eno

5.0
(1)
"I would think that ambient/instrumental albums would be the best bet - so any of the Eno ambient records or the the Fripp/Eno collabortations."
#63

Alt-J

5.0
(1)
"A Massive Wave - Alt-J"
#64

Jack Johnson

5.0
(1)
"Jack Johnson, Daft Punk, The Beatles - Revolver and Abbey Road, Tom Petty,"
#65

Mike Oldfield

5.0
(1)
"Tubular Bells"
#66

Sabaton

5.0
(1)
"The Symphony To End All Wars - Sabaton"
#67

Bessie Smith

5.0
(1)
#68

Tom Waits

5.0
(1)
"I'd play Tom Waits albums like Swordfishtrombones or Rain Dogs."
#69

Minecraft

5.0
(1)
"Maybe some instrumental music, like the minecraft soundtrack"
#70

Bach

5.0
(1)
"Bach’s *Sonatas & Partitas For Solo Violin* (Johanna Martzy)"
#71

Blind Willie Johnson

5.0
(1)
#72

Suffocation

5.0
(1)
"Suffocation - *Pierced From Within*"
#73

Griselda

4.0
(1)
"A guy had a numbered supreme blientele behind the counter for 600 CAD"
#74

Reject

4.0
(1)
"Off top.. Reject 2, Reject on Steroids, Butcher on Steroids, GOAT"
#75

Amazon

4.0
(1)
"I had about 80 records that fit into a 100LP flight case (some were 2LPs). I had my Dad mail it to me in FL from the UK. I ordered the case from Amazon and it came in a cardboard box. I put the LPs in the flight case and the case back in the cardboard box and it worked perfec"
#76

Big Ghost

4.0
(1)
"3 of the early Big Ghost LPs as well: the one with Vic Spencer (I think that was DRW), Aguardiente (RRC), and Cocaine Beach (RIP Tuff Kong)"
#77

Gojira

4.0
(1)
"Hell, album from Gojira except maybe Magma and Fortitude"
#78

Rayna Corp

4.0
(1)
"We have always used https://raynacorp.com/."
#79

Value Village

4.0
(1)
"Value village has some, or if you can make it too calgary they have quite a few vintage/antique stores as well as a couple record stores."
#80

ECM

4.0
(1)
"Anything ECM or Windham Hill records."
#81

Hank Mobley

4.0
(1)
"The more I listen the more I enjoy it."
#82

Oscar Peterson Trio

4.0
(1)
"Not going to be super cheap but I’ve turned so many people on to jazz with this record."
#83

Herb Alpert

4.0
(1)
"All the Herb Alperts are usually cheap and great to leave in the background."
#84

Kenny Dorham

4.0
(1)
"Kenny dorham , all his albums."

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