What are the treasures in your vinyl library?

Voyage 34 original (not the reissue!) by Porcupine Tree
'Ear' album by Global Communications
S/T Emerson Lake & Palmer, pink Island original
Vaughan Williams, Symphony #6 w/The Lark Ascending, 'half dog' EMI
Furtwangler, 4 Last Songs w/Kirsten Flagstad (78 rpm transcription) all other versions *SUCK* despite having better sound...

Willie Nelson : Stardust/ Classic records 200g

Peter Gabriel : Passion/ Classic records 200g

Tom Waits : Mule Variations/ Regular pressing

Jack Johnson : In between dreams/ Regular pressing

White Stripes : Elephant/ Regular pressing

All of these are not only good albums but also sound exceptionally good on vinyl.

Well, I've had a few additions since my last post. I now have Japan-EMI pressings of Rubber Soul and Revolver (opened by never played, or played once at most). Damn! It's unbelievable how well even pop/rock music was sometimes recorded over 40 years ago.

I also now have a direct-to-disk recording of Mel Torme accompanied by the Buddy Rich Big Band and a rare (I think it was distributed only in Europe) pressing of Pat Metheny's "Question and Answer" that I got from a UK vendor on eBay.

I recently discovered an antiques pavilion near where I live. A few of the vendors sell LPs, and I picked up the Sheffield D2D of Harry James' band and some Concord Jazz albums of the L.A. Four and the Woody Herman big band (all about $3 ea.). Concord Jazz has some of the most real in-the-room-sounding LPs I've ever heard.

On the same trip, my stepson made what may be the biggest score of all--a Japanese pressing of Pink Floyd's "The Wall," apparently unplayed ($10). Holy shnikes! This has got to be one of the 5 best-sounding LPs in my house, and the best pop/rock studio recording I've ever heard. The dynamic slam on kick drum on this is an order of magnitude better than any other pop studio album I have.

La Boheme Beecham recording with De Los Angeles and Bjorling, way the most important.

Strauss Der Rosankavlier, Karajan Schwarskopf

Lorna Hunt All in one Day

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook

Vaughan Williams The Lark Assending Academy of St Martins in the Fields

Pretty tough reducing it to 5. Another day it might be 5 different ones, except La Boheme

1. soular energy ray brown japan super analogue pressing
2. Ry Cooder Jazz Mfsl
3. Rossini 6 sonates a quattro philips
4. Serenata Maastrichts salon orchestra philips
5. Joan Baez Diamond and rust in the bullring Gold castle label and many many more