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Audiogon "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR" list

I've been listening to some of my favorite recordings this weekend and was wondering what others on Audiogon felt were there favorites. We have all seen the Stereophile "Records to Die For", The Absolute Sounds recommended list, Music Directs' list, The Golden Ear, etc. now I'm hoping to assemble the Audiogon "Recordings To Die For". Please list your five favorite recordings, the ones you listen to over and over or play for friends. I would assume the sonic quality is excellent in that this is an audiophile site. The performance and enjoy ability should also be excellent. Please leave your top five, even if they are already chosen so we can discover the very top for the Audiogon listeners. ALSO PLEASE REFRAIN FROM CRITICIZING OTHERS OPINIONS AND JUST LEAVE YOUR FAVORITES!

August 2002: I have compiled a summary and a full printer-friendly list of all of the recommendations below.
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duratek
18 posts
 
Dr John "Auntha Zone" Gravelly soulful tight Louisianna funk

Roxy Music "Avalon" CLASSIC!

Best performance of a song live "Doors Essential Rarities track 14 "The END"
rockethouse
42 posts
 
Chris Whitley's Living with the law (his debut) and Terra Incognita (3rd cd)are IMHO both recordings to die for, Whitley is one of the best singer/songwriter/guitarist's to come out of the last decade and these two offerings indeed place him up there with the greatest musical poets of all time. The first is a ballardy national wood/steel guitar cd and the second is a little more electric rock with both having a country feel (not in the comercial way). Whitley is prolific is his use of alternate guitar tunings for both acoustic and electric. Please give this musician a chance, some of the most infectious music I have come across.
duratek
18 posts
 
Kenny wayne Shepherd "I found love when I found you" from Trouble IS (great Blues CD)

And the new Dave MAthews Solo ALbum "You Devil" is recorded AWESOME.....

D (intersting selection Rocket....similar Kelly Joe Phelps "Lead On"))
kyneo
23 posts
 
Top 5 can't (hardly) go wrong artists.
holly cole
jennifer warnes
diana krall
peter cincotti
lyle lovett
kyneo
23 posts
 
Also for stunning performance and startling imaging i recommend:
King singers, Good vibrations. Play it in pitch black darkness, as my non-audiphile daughter said, "it will creep you out"
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