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Audiogon "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR" list

I've been listening to some of my favorite recordings this weekend and was wondering what others on Audiogon felt were there favorites. We have all seen the Stereophile "Records to Die For", The Absolute Sounds recommended list, Music Directs' list, The Golden Ear, etc. now I'm hoping to assemble the Audiogon "Recordings To Die For". Please list your five favorite recordings, the ones you listen to over and over or play for friends. I would assume the sonic quality is excellent in that this is an audiophile site. The performance and enjoy ability should also be excellent. Please leave your top five, even if they are already chosen so we can discover the very top for the Audiogon listeners. ALSO PLEASE REFRAIN FROM CRITICIZING OTHERS OPINIONS AND JUST LEAVE YOUR FAVORITES!

August 2002: I have compiled a summary and a full printer-friendly list of all of the recommendations below.
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streetdaddy
349 posts
 
Ryan Adams...Heartbreaker.
kyneo
23 posts
 
Hey guys, I just got a stunner. I know we audiophiles don't think of christmas music as audiophile quality but..............!!!!

Check this one out. Chris Botti: "December" Stunning in many ways.. Its light jazz but it has almost everything that we want and you will her it on every cut.
psacanli
535 posts
 
Has anyone heard "Jazz Party" by Claude Bolling?
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knownothing
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Top five "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR"

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five (Remastered CD or LP)
Holly Cole - Temptation
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (Remastered CD or LP)
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
The Dave Mathews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming

Honorable mention:

Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else (Remastered CD or LP)
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington - The Complete Sessions
Patricia Barber - Cafe Blue
Charlie Byrd and Stan Getz – Jazz Samba (CD reissue or Original Verve LP)
Tracy Chapman
Eric Clapton - 361 Ocean Boulevard (Remastered CD or LP)
Bruce Cockburn – Speechless
Larry Coryell, Badi Assad, and John Abercrombie - Three Guitars
Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson (Remastered CD or LP)
Duke Ellington - Blues in Orbit
Bill Evans Trio - Portrait in Jazz (Remastered CD or LP)
Bela Fleck - Tails from the Acoustic Planet
Floratone
Bill Frisell - The best of Bill Frisell, Vol. 1 - Folk Songs
Peter Gabriel - Us
Joe Henderson - Lush Life
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Janine Jensen - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Violin Concerto
Nora Jones - Come Away With Me
Rickie Lee Jones (LP)
Rickie Lee Jones - Pop Pop
K.D. Lang - Ingenue
Led Zepplin - III (Remastered CD or original LP)
Led Zepplin - Houses of the Holy (Remastered CD or original LP)
Los Lobos - Kiko
Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor, Stephen Foster - Appalachian Journey
Charles Mingus - Ah Um (Remastered CD or LP)
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Willie Nelson - Teatro
Nirvana - Nevermind
Madeleine Peyroux – Careless Love
Pearl Jam - Vs
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (thick vinyl)
Rage Against the Machine
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand (CD version)
Markus Roberts - Deep in the Shed
Steely Dan - Gaucho (Remastered CD or 180g vinyl)
Steely Dan - Aja (Remastered CD or 180g vinyl)
Sublime
The David Grisman Quintet (Original 1976 LP)
The Be Good Tanyas - Blue Horse
Weather Report - Sweetnighter
Cassandra Wilson - New Moon Daughter
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1) Kruder Dorfmeister "The K&D Sessions"
2) Coldplay "Parachute"
3) Amon Tobin "Bricolage"
4) Bach Cello suites (played by Pierre Founier)
5) William Orbit (Pieces in a modern style)
6) Ninja Toon compilation "Xen"
7) Radiohead "OK Computer"
8) Pink Floyd "Wish you were here"
9) Rolling Stones "Let it bleed"
10) Duke Ellington "Greatest hits" with Black & Tan Fantasy
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