Recordings with incredible effects or imaging that we may not know about

Listen to a Vangelis or Alexander Vollenweider album, lots of ambient "stuff" going on...

I'm not a big "new age" listener, but have a small collection of 70-80's records. Great stuff for a momentary escape.

These 2 albums always come with me to shows- Vangelis record "China" and AV ablum White Winds" Great reason to blast "Yin & Yang"  and "Brothership"  on a top notch table.
Always blows away unsuspecting listeners in the room.

Pink Floyds "DSM"-"On the Run" never gets old, especially on a killer system.

Julian Lennon - The album is called Help Yourself  
The track I know has the all around you effect is called Would You

Circa 1999 I had a 27" picture tube tv mounted in a cabinet (GE I think). Whenever I put (e.g.) a football game on I could distinctly hear the higher frequency components of crowd noise coming from spots far outside the span of the tv set with its usual pair of small front-firing speakers. I marveled at it and wondered how to replicate the psychoacoustics. Several years later the picture went bad, and I found to my dismay that the replacement tv (same type, size, mounting etc. but a different brand) did not produce the effect. I had expected that whether the effect was from the old tv or from some acoustic anomaly related to its mounting position in the room, I would hear the same thing. I never did, nor have I heard it again with the flatscreens that have since replaced the old beasts.

Chris Whitley - "Perfect Day". Purchased this CD 20 years ago, played it once and put it away. Played it two days ago and was blown away by this remarkably well-recorded album. Focus is on percussion within the soundscape (wood blocks, rim-shot sort of accents). Sound may be due to my new B&W 804s.

Turn the lights out and listen to Jean Michel Jarre Oxygen!

Duran Duran Tiger Tiger has the circling thing - in fact many albums had that affect - Ultravox used effects to.
Beach Boys Caroline No (train crossing dogs barking at the end)