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Wow an old album that rocked your world

I know this is a Hifi forum but isn’t it about the music as well. Has anyone recently played a
Vinyl, disc or whatever you are into. One that you forgot was so good and totally was blown away by the music and the recording? If so share it with us. Mine was Mahavishnu orchestra Birds of Fire. Have not listened to that for some time. Wow. FORGOT HOW GOOD THAT WAS. 
This is what Hifi is all about IMO. 
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artemus_5
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I’m amazed that Grand Funk Railroad get hardly any exposure despite their record sales which were over 100 million (I think) And they are not in R&R Hall of Fame despite their ground breaking music,. They sold out Shay stadium faster than the Beatles. They also opened for Zeppelin who would not go on after them. 
GFR - 2nd (Red Album)
Iron Butterfly - Metamorphosis
Uriah Heep - Demons & Wizards
All 3 Fantastic albums

So much good music listed in this thread.
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flatblackround
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Don Henley.      Building the Perfect Beast
What a great collection of songs.  “A Month of Sunday’s“ is on the cd but not the vinyl.  Grammy winner too.
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rdk777
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Boston S/T half-speed mastered  - this album is evergreen.
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bdp24
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Smiley Smile by The Beach Boys. Though I didn't yet know SS was a mere hint of what the album originally entitled Smile was to have been (which I learned in a 2-part story on the album in Crawdaddy magazine, the article later included in the author's book Outlaw Blues, by the great music critic Paul Williams), there was enough there to blow my little 17-year old mind.

Though Brian Wilson didn't finish Smile in 1967 (it's a long story, which a search will lead you to), what he had completed was finally stitched together in the early 2000's (2003, iirc) and released by Capitol in several forms, the most complete being a big ol' boxset. Smile is quite unlike any music you have ever heard, I guarantee you. Van Dyke Parks was Brian's collaborator on Smile, and his first album---Song Cycle---is another stunning work of art.

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Today I had Tidal streaming Steely Dan "A Decade of Steely Dan". I was somewhat ambivalent when they were popular, but today they sounded amazing playing through my Vandersteen's. May be that I am different today than 30 years ago when I originally listened......possibly I appreciate things a bit more. Happy 4th to all. 
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