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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
david12
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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
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audioblazer
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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
oilmanmojo
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great thread, Hard to stop at 5 but this week, here are my top 5
DSOTM-------pink floyd. THe album is over 30 years old and gets played almost every week and is still perfect (maybe two pops/clicks from my earlier days) I got to get a backup copy!
Buckingham/Nicks first album
Window and Walls----- Dan Fogleberg---great voice and wonders sonics on this album

Eve----Alan Parson Project

AJA--- Steely Dan

Next week would be 4 new ones but these are 5 incredible albums that will showcase any system
arnold_layne
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Pink Floyd Wish you were here Nimbus super cut
Roger Waters - Amused to death
David Gilmour - On an Island
Dire Straits Brothers in arms 1/2 speed master
Any of my Maynard Ferguson LP's
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mapman
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Tough One!

Moving Waves - Focus
Tarantula - Chuck Mangione
It's Too Late to Stop Now - Van Morrison
A Dream - The Moody Blues
Electric Nights - Jim Capaldi
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