Best Recording of Music

Well, here goes some... all lps...

Black Dub "S/T" (first pressing)  pretty amazing!
John Denver "Back Home Again" /Speakers Corner
Janis Joplin "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again" / Speakers Corner
Alan Parsons "I Robot" (it always sounds great no matter the pressing)
Chet Atkins/Mark Knopfler "Neck And Neck"/first pressing
Neil Young "Massey Hall 1971"/ Classic Records
Miles Davis  all I own that are Columbia 6 eye!!!

Among the very best I've heard is an LP played for me today by a friend. It is a hard to find LP on the Sound Storage Recording Company label with music by Bondon and Debussy performed by the Carter Chamber Ensemble, SSR 2020. This is one of the most realistic, immediate and natural sounding recordings I've ever heard.

The goal of the Sound Storage Recording Company was the "electro-mechanical DUPLICATION of a musical event; i.e., reproduction which would be indistinguishable from the original event in all respects."  Whew! What an aspiration!! 

They only made a limited number of LPs around 1980. I've heard two of them and have been successful in tracking down and buying one of those two for my own shelves. The results they accomplish through incredible attention to detail in every step of the recording process and LP manufacturing process is amazing.

I can't believe we've gotten this far into a "best sounding" thread without someone mentioning Hugh Masekala's "Hope", especially the 45 RPM double LP  from Analogue Productions. It's a great sounding recording and really good music IMHO.

Many Decca records  are great as well as many EMI and British Columbia classical records.