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Candidates for Re-mastering?

What would be your recommendations for great music, but not the greatest sound quality recordings (at least what is commercially available)...and thus would be at the top of your lists as candidates for re-mastering, or finding the orginal tapes to be reissued, SACD re-issues etc etc? The 'to die for" lists in stereophile and audiogon don't take this into account. Digital formats only.

Here are few of mine to get things started.
Beatles: Abbey Road, Sgt Pepper, Rubber Soul (if ABKO can do it for the Rolling Stones, can someone else do it for the Beatles, please!)
Weather Report: Heavy Weather: SACD available but done poorly in my opinion.
Led Zep IV
all of James Brown (especially Funk Power!) and Sly Stone recordings
henryhk
tomryan
797 posts
 
Led Zep I and II
James Taylor - "Sweet Baby James"
Neil Young - 1st three albums (1968, 69, and 70)
Santana - "Borboletta"
Jan Hammer - "Oh, Yeah"
Brand X - "Brand X"
Johnny Winter And - "Live"
Roy Buchanan - "That's What I Am Here For"
(Jeese...how old am I?!?)

By the way, you can get damn good sounding Japanese remasterings of entire Beatles catalog from redtrumpet.com.
jax2
3,031 posts
 
Joni Mitchell, "Blue"

Not the biggest Beattles fan but I'd agree wholeheartedly with that assessment - I'd nominate Roger Waters to remaster them!

Marco
theduke
372 posts
 
Van Morrison: "Moondance"
r_burke
212 posts
 
Totally agree with Neil Young's early stuff and Moondance and would add the following:

Van Morrison: Astral Weeks
Savoy Brown: Looking in and Raw Sienna
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