What is the VERY BEST CD album you've ever heard?


Just like with records, I came across releases on CD that were never popular, but bring lots of interesting music and so I started collecting CDs that do have collectible value for the reason of a great and rare music presented.

So far album "Sauce Hollandaise" by Ashra is on my #1 desirable list

"Best Band You've Never Heard In Your Life" by Frank Zappa is my 2nd best CD I've ever heard. 

 

czarivey

@tylermunns  

Terms "pop" and "rock and roll" have been in use by music industry professionals, since early- to mid-1950s.  I entered into what I thought was a discussion.  If this is your idea of a game, you can declare yourself the winner by forfeit.

I have a couple I never get tired of Jeff Beck Wired and Special Efx Confidential

1978 Denon release of Archie Shepp and Dollar Brand titled Duet. The cleanest, most revealing recording I've ever heard in any format, regardless of genre. Excellent dynamic range, unmolested transients, superb definition. Play this when you want to gauge just how revealing a system truly is.

https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/2738403?ev=rb

 

@kb673 You said, “You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.”
A clear insinuation I don’t have my facts straight, or am willfully denying “the facts.” That’s where my use of the words, “you don’t want to play this game” came in.
I’ll just cliff note it here for you:
(from Encyclopedia Britannica)
Tin Pan Alley, genre of American popular music that arose in the late 19th century.”

Just because “(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?” is a bit less fancy (although the two top singles of 1911, Irving Berlin’s ‘Alexander’s Ragtime Band’ and Harry Von Tilzer’s ‘I Want a Girl’ are pretty darn simple songs) than the typical pop songs of the ‘00-‘40s doesn’t make those early-20th century songs “not pop.”

If pop is, as you say, a “genre,” then how does describe and define this, “genre”?  
I’ll happily receive, with open arms, these “facts” I am ignorant of.

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