(Thanks to Drewn for the idea)How about updating the top-100 "must have" lp's as defined by Soulstrut as a whole? Or: what's the current strut canon? Allow me to kick things off. * = undisputed classic# = time to move on
source...GO! [/b]*Al Green "Let's Stay Together" (Hi) Al Jarreau - Lonely Town *Albert Ayler - "Spiritual Unity" Alice Clark "S/T" (Mainstream) Aposento Alto - goodbye old friends *Baby Huey "Living Legend" (Curtom) #Ballin??Jack - Same Barbara and Ernie-"Prelude to..." (Cotillion) *Bill Withers "Still Bill" (Sussex) Black Caesar OST (Polydor) Black Sabbath. "S/T" #Bob Marley & the Wailers - "Exodus" Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues (Blue Note) Bohannon - "Stop & Go" (Dakar) CAN - "Ege Bamyasi" Certain Lions and Tigers - Soul Condor Charles Mingus--The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady *Curtis Mayfield "Curtis" (Curtom) #Cymande "S/T" (Janus) Cymande "Promised Heights" (Janus) Demon Fuzz - Afreka! (Janus) Donald Byrd - "Places and Spaces" (Blue Note) Donny Hathaway "Everything is Everything" (Atco) *Donny Hathaway "LIVE" Earth Wind and Fire - S/T (Warner Brothers) *Eddie Fisher - Next 100 Years (Cadet) *Eddie Kendricks "People...Hold On" (Tamla) Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch *ESG "S/T" (99) Funkadelic "America Eats Its Young" *Funkadelic "Maggot Brain" (Westbound) *Gal Costa-s/t (naoo identificado) Gary Wilson - "You Think You Really Know Me" Hank Mobley -"Soul Station" (Blue Note) *Harlem River Drive "S/T" (Roulette) Hell's Belles OST Herbie Hancock "Maiden Voyage" (Blue Note) Herbie Hancock "Headhunters" Impressions "Young Mod's Forgotten Story" (Curtom) Jackson 5 - abc (Motown) Jefferson Airplane - "Surrealistic Pillow" Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love (Reprise) Jimi Hendrix Experience "Are You Experienced?" (Reprise) #Jimmy Castor Bunch - It??s just begun (Polydor) Joe Bataan - Gypsy Woman (Fania) Joe Bataan - Subway Joe (Fania) John Coltrane "Giant Steps" John Coltrane "A Love Supreme " Jorge Ben - A T??bua de Esmeralda Jorge Ben - For??a Bruta" Jorge Ben - "Samba Esquema Novo" Kool and the Gang - S/T (De-Lite) Larry Young - Unity (Blue Note) Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy Led Zeppelin "Physical Graffiti" (Atlantic) Lonnie Smith - Drives (Blue Note) Lou Courtney "I'm in Need of Love" (Epic) Love-Forever Changes (Elektra) Mandrill "Just Outside of Town" (Polydor) Marvin Gaye - "Let's Get It On" (Tamla) Marvin Gaye "I Want You" (Tamla) Marvin Gaye "Whats Going On" (Tamla) Michael Jackson. "Off the Wall" (Epic) *Miles Davis - "Kind of Blue" (Columbia) Miles Davis "Sketches in Spain" and "In a Silent Way" Minnie Ripperton "Come to My Garden" (Janus) Muddy Waters "Electric Mud" (Cadet Concept) Ohio Players Pain (Westbound) Ohio Players "Pleasure" (Westbound) OST - Willie Dynamite Parliament - "Osmium" (Invictus) *PE - nation of millions Pink Floyd - More ost, Dark Side of the Moon Ramsey Lewis - Mother Nature's Son Rene & Angela "Wall to Wall" (Capitol) Roy Ayers - He's Coming (Polydor) S.O.U.L. - What Is It #Senor Soul - It's Your Thing #Sonic Youth - "EVOL" Stairsteps- "2nd Resurrection" (Dark Horse) Stark Reality - "Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop" Steely Dan "Aja" #Stevie Wonder - "Talking Book" (Tamla) Stevie Wonder Innervisions (Tamla) Stevie Wonder "Songs In the Key of Life (Tamla) Stooges - "S/T" (Elektra) Superfly OST (Curtom) Sweet Inspriations "Estelle, Myna, & Sylvia" (Stax) Syl Johnson - Dresses Too Short (Twinight) *Syl Johnson "Is It Because I'm Back" (Twilight) *Terry Callier - What Color Is Love (Cadet) The Coup - Kill My Landlord, (Wild Pitch) The Coup - "Genocide & Juice" (Wild Pitch) *The Meters "S/T" (Josie) The Meters "Struttin" (Josie) Thelonious Monk--Brilliant Corners (Riverside) Turner Brothers - "Act 1" *Van Morrison "Astral Weeks" (warner Brothers) Whispers - "shhh" (Solar)