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Which band's vinyl catalog is consistently great?

I have been buying a lot of the so called "audiophile" pressing on vinyl of a variety of musicians, and have been amazed by how great some band's work sounds, and how terrible others sound.

For me, the most consistent catalog of work is Wilco's music on vinyl. Every one I own sounds amazing, and the vinyl is clean and free of groove noise. I have also become a big fan of anything on MoFi as well. I just bought all of the Elvis Costello and Pixies releases and have been having lots of good hours of listening.

Which labels/bands are your favorites?
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bdgregory
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Neil Young's catalog is consistently great. Same for Joni Mitchell, and Van Morrison. Eric Clapton's live lp "Just One Night" is amazing

Mike Oldfield's is also excellent, but Virgin label's pressings often were noisy.

Roxy Music, Brian Eno, and Bryan Ferry Solo albums - at least Avalon, Bette Voir, Boys and Girls.

If you like their music (I really do) - King Crimson

Steve Hackett's solo work is great

The Pentangle, John Renbourn solo, and Bert Jansch solo stuff is all great.

If you want to talk Jazz - it opens up a whole lot. Anything on ECM is great. All of Miles Davis is great.

I agree with many of the citations above, and with the Genesis/Peter Gabriel citation, but I find the Genesis pressings are often really noisy (true of most Charisma Label stuff). Peter Gabriel's first solo LP was my favorite, but I amp always disappointed in the engineering on the LP.
bongofury
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The Band
sloane27
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As for bands, there was this one called Led Zeppelin. I'm not saying they're Genesis or anything...

CLUTCH has about seven wicked albums in a row. All except the first are recorded quite well. That's a band, in my opinion.
mrmitch
359 posts
 
Peter Gabriel post-Genesis.
bongofury
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XTC is also uniformly great.
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