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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
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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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ghosthouse
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Emailists -
What is Quiex vs Nightly relative to the Mr Heartbreak LP?
I just have it on regular release vinyl. The bells at the beginning of "Gravity's Angel" amaze me. The entire LP is very well recorded.
knownothing
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Just received well over 100 LPs from my father's collection ranging from vintage mono from around 1950 to pre-digital early 1980s. Very broad range of stuff. I have only a vague idea what treasures are buried in there, but will get back to you on that.

Of my own collection - love drummer Ed Thigpen's "Out of the Storm" and "The David Grisman Quintet". If you're in the mood, the original London pressing of The Rolling Stones "Let it Bleed" is pretty great.

PS - I have Laurie Anderson's Mr. Heartbreak and haven't listened to it for about 20 years. even on my much more rudimentary system of that time, I could tell it was well recorded - have to dig it out.
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I have an import London pressing of The Stones "Let It Bleed". Very nice! Probably far and away the best Stones recording I have in any format.
psacanli
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23 as new Chet Atkins 50's/60's albums.
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