Best Record You Have Ever heard


Thought I would start this thread for all you vinyl lovers out there.

The rules are simple:
1. Only post one album, the absolute best you have heard.
2. It must be something you have heard on VINYL.
3. Both the recording AND musical content must be impeccable
and I do mean BOTH!
4. Try to be as specific as possible i.e/ version, year, re-issue, original, 45RM,direct to disc, half speed mastered etc...

Here is mine.

Artist: John Frusciante
Album: Curtains
Release: Record COllection
Date: 2005
Recording: It was done in his living room, fully acoustic album. Mastered by Bernie Grundman Hollywood CA.
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Artist: Al Green
Album: I'm Still in Love with You
Release: London, Hi!
Date: 1973
Recording: Memphis - Hi Studios
M&K Recording Flamenco Fever

From 1978 on M&K Realtime Records,RT-107
Live Direct-To-Disc recording
33 1/3 rpm
Performed by Felipe De La Rosa & his Famenco Group,recorded live at the Club El Matador in Los Angeles

The recording and dynamics are both equally impressive.
My most recent acquisition is Analogue Productions' 2x45 rpm rendition of the 1962 Living Stereo classic, "The Power of the Orchestra," which features Joseph Leibowitz conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Moussorgsky's "Night on Bare Mountain" and "Pictures at an Exhibition."

This "Pictures at an Exhibition" performance ranks with the very finest and the "Night on Bare Mountain" is so visceral it will make you curl up in fear. The clarity of the percussion and bite of the brass must be experienced to be believed, and the 45 rpm version imparts a clarity and dynamics the like of which I've never heard for a bombastic orchestral piece on LP before, let alone a 3-track. For sonics+musical value it's my #1.
Artist: Art Pepper
Title: Art Pepper Plus Eleven
Original was on Contemporary, around 1959
Latest version I have is on two 12" 45RPM
Amazing fidelity.