Your favorite LP nobody has ever heard of

Spaces by Herb Pilhofer recorded by Sound 80 Studio in Minneapolis. It's like jumping in a clean, clear lake. It never made it to CD.

Dust: Dust - '70s American heavy metal (Suicide Metal)
Cactus: Cactus - '70s American Funk-boogie-metal
Jefferson Starship - Blows Against the Empire (w/G. Garcia)
Captain Beefhart - Spotlight Kid (gets better w/age)
T Rex - A Beard of Stars (My god, it's made out of stars!)
John Mayall - Turning Point (drumless live bluesy jazz)

Bright White by Shawn Philips .

Mine would be the first Warren Zevon LP, "Warren Zevon". His debut album is wonderful.

This is, indeed, a great record--one of my favs--but it's not actually his first. That would be Wanted Dead or Alive from 1969, re-released on Pickwick in 1979, which is when I found it. A bit rough in places, but one can readily hear the artist he would become.

Mine is the eponymous LP by Skip Battin, bass player for the Untitled Byrds, released in 1972 on Signpost Records. It's filled with great, quirky songs co-written with Kim Fowler, and features Clarence White and Roger McGuinn, among others. I stumbled across it in 1974 and it's been in rotation ever since. Seems nobody's heard of this one--for some reason it just sank out of sight.