Best LPs to Test Turntables


Hi Ya Goners,

I'm about to test drive a few new turntables and I'm looking to bring in vinyl to play when I preview them. Looking for suggestions on what specific LPs you would recommend to bring in to test and listen to the various turntables.   Thanks in advance for your suggestions. 
pgaulke60
Bring your best sounding uncompressed ones that you have listened to & know

I would bring:
Wilson Audio or MFSL pressings
Pink Floyd DSOM & The Wall 
The Damned -  Black Album, Anything
Clannad - in concert
Red Nichols - Marineland
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
Verdi - Requiem
Taj Mahal - Recycling the Blues

I would also bring my Portuguese pressing of Joy Division Still...
1. STRAVINSKY: "Petrouchka" ~ Oscar Danon at Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ~ Chesky Records ~ UK ~ CR 42. 
2. STRAVINSKY: "The Firebird" ~ Antal Dorati ~ Mercury Living Presence/Classic Records ~ 180g ~ SR-90226.
3. BEETHOVEN No. 6 ~ "Pastorale" ~ Bruno Walter ~ Columbia Masterworks ~ US ~ MS-6012.
4. BEETHOVEN No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 ~ Sir Georg Solti & Chorus ~ Decca/Speakers Corner ~ Germany ~ 6BB 121/2.
5. HOWELLS ~ "Hymnus Paradisi" ~ David Willcock ~ EMI ~ UK ~ ASD-2600.
6. CASSANDRA WILSON ~ "New Moon Daughter" ~ Blue Note ~ UK ~ 7-24384E 11.
7. CORINNE BAILEY RAE ~ "Corinne Bailey Rae" ~ EMI ~ UK ~ 009463 54117 1 3.
8. KEITH JARRETT ~ "Facing You" ~ ecm ~ W. Germany [Old Album!] ~  1022.
9. LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS [Real Name: Sam Hopkins] ~ "Boot Hoot 'LIVE'" ~ DCC ~ US ~ LPZ-2007.
10. GENE HARRIS ~ "The Gene Harris Trio, Plus One" ~ [Stanley Turrentine/Ray Brown & Mickey Roker] ~ 45rpm ~ Groove Note Records ~ US ~ GRV-1019-1.
11. JOE HENDERSON ~ "Double Rainbow: The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim" ~ Verve ~ US ~ 534.
12. MICHAEL BRECKER plus Claus Ogerman ~ "Cityscape" ~ Quiex II Limited Ed. ~ Warner Bros. Records ~ US ~ 23698-1.


all so... 
13. SAINT JOHN WILLIAM COLTRANE ~ "Blue Trane" ~ 45rpm/4 set ~ Blue Note ~ Classic Records/Clarity SV-P II ~ US ~ 1577-45.
14. PINK FLOYD ~ "Dark Side of the Moon" [Pro-Use Series] ~ Japan ~ EMLF-97002.
15. STING [Real Name: Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner] ~ "The Dream of the Blue Turtles" ~ MFSL ~ Japan ~ MFSL 1-185.... and...
16. THE VENTURES ~ "Ventures In Space" ~ Dolton Records ~ US ~ BLP-2077.... I'M KIDDING!!!!
Mike oldfield in tubular bells spectacular intros of many instruments all played by him. Great sound stage