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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.
awhittington
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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
dragunski
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1. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
2. Dizzy Gillespie - The New Continent
3. Oliver Nelson - Jazzhattan Suite
4. Baden Powell - Canto On Guitar
5 - OK, I’m going with Rubber Soul for my Beatles selection

I know it won’t be very popular. And you could argue the US version or UK, I guess. 

dragunski
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That was difficult to do with no Prokofiev or Zappa. But I'm sticking to it. 
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