13 Albums from 1957

[pcqgod]

Pick your three favorites from this list of popular 1957 long players.

I'd probably go with the first three listed.

[Walk In My Shadow]

Miles, Gene and John

[NMB]

I was playing April in Paris yesterday, didn't vote for it though. West Side Story, Sonny Rollins, Little Richard.

[Muskrat]

Damn, that's a good list.
On the basis of merit, influence, or what I'd most likely be listening to?

Merit: Sinatra, West Side Story, maybe Basie
Influence: Berry, Little Richard, maybe Miles
Accessibility to me when I'm not looking for something special: Elvis (a GREAT album), Vincent, Cash

Though I wouldn't mind listening to any of them, and have owned most.

[TG]

Monk, Little Richard & Chuck Berry.

[Darkness_Fish]

I don't know any of the albums well enough to comment, but if I voted from my expectations, it'd be Crickets, Miles, then Coltrane.

[George P. Smackers]

That Little Richard record is one of very few basic reference points for me in rock and roll. As in "X is good insofar it aims for the spirit and power of Here's Little Richard but adds x, y, or z." It's really what rock and roll is about for me and why it's good.

Others from the list I pick are Saxophone Colossus, which is most important to me among the jazz ones, and Gene Vincent just because I love a couple of those songs.

[toomanyhatz]

Monk, Crickets and Cash. Those are the ones that seem the most like what we'd call albums - the rest are more collections of tracks. But most of these are pretty great.

[Davey the Fat Boy]

Monk, Little Richard, Crickets.

But jeez...really every single one of those.

[Fonz]

I don’t have most, but I do have the jazz ones, so I voted for Miles, Monk, and Rollins

[Rayge]

Richard and Chuck select themselves. Couldn't find a third that I've heard.