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If you could only keep 5 record albums, what would they be?

I am looking at my collection this evening and trying to determine my favorites.  If I had to narrow it down to 5 it would be: Dan Fogelberg...The Netherlands; Roy Clark...Yesterday When I Was Young; James Taylor...Flag; Talking Heads...77; and last but not at all least, Commodores...Greatest Hits. All oldies but goodies that I still enjoy listening to as much as when I bought them many years ago.
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baffler65
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Cudos to bdp24 for bringing up Dave Edmunds/Rockpile.

I know a lot of folks look to their systems to bring them back in time to experience the performance as it was being recorded and most of these lists reflect this fact. So I thought I'd make a list where the production shines and transports you someplace else. 

ABC-The Lexicon of Love produced by Trevor Horn
Pulp-Different Class, Chris Thomas
Ultravox-Rage In Eden, Connie Plank
Kraftwerk-Computer World, Ralf Hütter
Joy Division-Closer, Martin Hannett
reubent
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I suffer tremendously from paralysis of analysis, so it would take me weeks/months to whittle down to 5 records to keep. That said, I'm going to change my rules for replying, so I can not waste too much time thinking about it.

If the house was burning down and I have time to grab 5 albums TODAY, I would pull the following from my record shelves:

Pete Townshend - "White City - A Novel"
The Tubes - "What do you Want From Live"
Supertramp - "Brother Where You Bound?"
dada - "Puzzle"
The Jayhawks - "Hollywood Town Hall"

and if my wife could carry 5 more of my records through the burning house, I would give her:

World Party - "Goodbye Jumbo"
The Who - "Who's Next"
Elvis Costello - "Spike"
Robben Ford - "Robben Ford and the Blue Line"
Rush - "Hemispheres"

If I wasn't in a hurry and had more time to think I might............ ;~)

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bdp24
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@baffler65, the ABC Lexicon Of Love album has SUCH incredible production! My fave from that era of English Synth-Pop.

For those who nominated Roy Orbison, there have been a couple of audiophile reissues of his Monument recordings (first by Classic Records), and the sound of them is absolutely incredible! They almost sound like a direct-to-disk LP they are so alive and immediate. His recording engineer Bill Porter was one of the all-time greats. 

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tostadosunidos
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A Hard Day’s Night (Beatles, UK Stereo)
Pet Sounds (Beach Boys, 90’s stereo mix)
The Inner Mounting Flame (Mahavishnu Orchestra)
Goldberg Variations (Bach/Glenn Gould, 1981 )
Late Quartets (Beethoven/Guarneri Quartet)

oregon
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Lets see...5...

1. A Clockwork Orange- It's got some good synthesizer music (I normally don't seek it out, but if we are on a spaceship, tumbling through the cosmos, it might come in handy when the martians get us). And of course it's got Ludvig's 9th!

2. John and Yokos 2 Virgins- put the cover over one of the windows. that'll scare most of the martians. Might be better NOT to play the album, never know what it might attract.

3. Blood Seat and Tears

4. Motown- Temptations or Miracles. Something to take me back to the days of being a kid, grinding on the pretty girls.

5. Gram Parsons- the Grievous Angel
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