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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
boxer1200clc
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Grateful Dead / Reckoning
50 Years of Blue Note / BIG box set
King Crimson / Starless & Bible Black / Import
Lambchop / How I Quit Smoking
Brian Eno / Here Come The Warm Jets
koegz
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Bruce Springsteen "Born to Run" SCRIPT promo in MINT conition.
go4vinyl
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I have quite a few rarities but if I have to choose one it'd right now be CREAM Wheels Of Fire original US ATCO in MINT condition (it is next to impossible to find without any cover wear!) and it sounds AMAZING (much better than the UK, Japan, German and other pressings and various regular and audiophile re-issues I've compared with)!
emailists
923 posts
 
Intersting that Ghosthouse mentioned Laurie Anderson's Mr. Hearbreak.

I have a Quiex version of that that I have not played in probably years.

A friend recently came over to hear my new Raven One table and asked to hear Mr. Heartbreak. We were shocked at how amazing it sounded. The bass actually caused some hanging lamps to move slightly - I have never seen that before. The distorted guitars (or synths) on SHarkeys has so much texture to them - the last time I listened they had just sounded like distortion.

Incredibly spacious. -

I know everyone always says Nightly is great but to me (I only have a quiex )
I think it sounds very digital.
t_bone
1,182 posts
 
My "most treasured list" evolves. Currently, I am being relatively flexible with the term and it is the next five in the stack of stuff I pull out from the larger stack. The front five there are currently...

Kenny Dorham - AfroCuban
Thelonius Monk - Brilliant Corners
The Magnificent Thadeus Jones
Jimmy Smith - Open House
Talking Heads - not sure which one

(the next five are ELP and classical albums).
Nothing is particularly mint, and nothing is that rare (they are almost all Japanese pressings but I live in Japan so that comes with the territory), but it sounds nice...
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