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What are the treasures in your vinyl library?

They don't have to be the collector's items, necessarily. I'm just asking, what is your short list of LPs in your personal library that you prize the most (maximum 5)?

I'll start:

Diana Krall: "From This Moment On" from Classic Records, mastered on a tube cutter

Buddy Rich: "Class of '78", Direct-to-disk recording of my favorite drummer leading the best incarnation of his band

Muddy Waters: "Folk Singer", not MFSL or German pressing or original pressing or anything fancy, just a Chess/MCA 1987 reissue LP that puts you in the room with Muddy

I also have a 35mm Everest recording of Mozart woodwind sonatas that I picked up at St. Vincent DePaul for $1. It's old and a little ragged, but that 35mm mag tape really puts the players right there in the living room.
johnnyb53
stilljd
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Treasures? Who knows? But changed what I listened to.

From when I was younger.

Dave Mason - "Is Alive" and "Dave Mason"
Dead - "Europe 72", "Skull & Roses", and "Mars Hotel"
Who - "Who's Next"
POCO - "A Good Feeling to Know"

Middle Age

REM - "Murmur"
U2 - "Under a Blood Red Sky" and "Joshua Tree"
INXS - "Shabooh Shoobah"
Bronski Beat - "Age of Consent"

Old Age

?

Just inherited 75 or so old discs. Anxious to dig in and see if there are any new treasures.

Jim S.
cmo
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Philojet-

I don't think they were recorded seperately, but they were mixed seperately (not just a stereo summed mono). Some of the versions differ slightly in content too.

From interviews I have read and heard George Martin gave the mono's much more attention and relevance than the stereo mixes.... IMHO the mono's sound significantly better than the stereo versions up until around the White Album.... Trouble is, I haven't been able to find/afford all of those old mono records. Anyone want to make a donation?
rballdude
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A few of the gems:

Cat Stevens "Tea for the Tillerman" Mofi
John Klemmer "Touch" Mofi
Christine McVie Self-Titled
Jackson Browne "I'm Alive"
Rickie Lee Jones "Pirates"
Dire Straights "Making Movies"
Bob Welsh "French Kiss"
Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders "Live at Keystone"
Bob Dylan "Planet Waves"
Poco "Legend" Mofi
Shawn Colvin "Steady on"
Bob James & David Sanborn "Double Vision"

and many more...
damaradona
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Here are some of my vinyl treasure:

Desert Sessions - Vol. 9 & 10
Queens of the stone age - Songs for the deaf
Grant Hart - Intolerance
Sonic Youth - Goo
Sabu - Jazz Espagnole
Sabu - Sorcery!
Art Blakey - any
And many Hammond tunes...
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whart
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My most valuable are certainly not my most played, eg a UHQR Tea for the Tillerman, which I have owned since new- I think the old Island pink label I bought off the street for a buck actually sounds better.
Other goodies- Direct to Disc Flamenco Fever :)
Mobile Fidelities like DArk Side and Aqualung
Some valuable pressings off of 'Harry's List,' including some the big Mercurys, RCA's etc.
The best sounding of the bunch of vintage classical are probably the Deccas, some of the Londons, and the Lyritas, of which I have quite a few;
I still have almost all of the records I bought as a teenager, believe it or not- some of them are still in very good condition, but I have them more for nostalgia than playing-
many, many audiophile collectible records from the early seventies and eighties, including Nautilus, M & K, 1/2 Speed Masters, MoFi, Mark Levinson, lots of Japanese pressings, Sheffield, etc.
I really need to organize all this vinyl- I think I'm close to 8,000, maybe more-
Oh, yeah, I found some of Fulton's demo records in a pile not long ago.
And, that Billy Holliday singing at Altamont Airport where you can hear the planes taking off and landing while she is on stage.
I could go on....
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