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Best Recorded Vinyl Albums

What are your favorite 5 vinyl albums based upon the sheer sound engineering, mix, sonic depth and quality of the record?

I have 300 records to go through, but so far my five heart stoppers are:

1. Miles Davis/ Decoy
2. Any Steely Dan Album
3. Chicago 7
4. Jeff Beck/ Blow by Blow
5. Yes/ Fragile
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phasecorrect
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Chicago Transit Authority
Super session-kooper-bloomfield
Clear spot-Captain Beefheart
B52s-debut
Beck-Sea Change
Santana-abraxas
herman
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too many to distill it down to 5 all time but here are some good ones I've listened to lately

Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
Steve Earle - The Mountain
Louis Armstrong - Satchmo Plays King Oliver
Allison Krauss- New Station
The Mavericks - Music for all Occasions

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mothra
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Most of the records famous for recording are not things I like musically. Some good ones that to me are also fine musicially are:

- Mingus "ah um"
- Sam Cooke "night beat"
- reiner/bartok " Music for celeste and percussion"
- milford graves/andrew cyrille "dialogue of the drums"
edtrout
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AC/DC "Back In Black" sounds absolutely perfect to me.
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