Audiogon "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR" list

The following 10 are respectufully submitted:
#1. JVC's D-2-D, "Sugar Loaf Express".
#2. Test pressing of Patricia Barber's "Modern Cool".
#3. Crystal Clear Recordings D-2-D: "Virgil Fox Volume 1".
#4. Sheffiels Labs D-2-D: Prokoffiev " Excerpts from Romeo & Juliette".
#5. M-A Recordings CD: "Serra un Noche".
#6. Vinyl version of the 20th Anniversary Jethro Tull Anthology.
#7. The Cheiftians: "Santiago".
#8. Jade Recordings: "Carmina Sacre".
#9. Beausoleil: "Vintage Beausoleil".
#10. Hungaritron CD- Mozart: " Divertimento K. 563".

Wow! What a thread. This one's going to cost me a fortune at the music store. I agree with so many of your selections and will experiment with many recommendations. I can't tell you guys and girls how nice it is to pull winners off the shelves everytime I go in the record stores thanks to threads like this one. Thanks JADEM6. Here's five more that got left out
Sade - Diamond life
Sting - Nothing like the sun
Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing the hard line
C.S.N.Y. - So Far
Eric Clapton - Unplugged

1. Rebecca Pidgeon "the raven" (Chesky)- 128/24 rec.
2. Muddy Waters "folk singer" (Chess)- old records incredible good sound!!!
3. Vanessa Rubin "sings" (Novus)
4. Cassandra Wilson "new moon daughter" (Blue Note)
5. Livingston Taylor "ink" (Chesky)- 96/24 rec.

King Crimson "Red"
Elvis Costello "King of America"
Van Morrison "Astral Weeks"
Joni Mitchell "Hejira"
Richard Thompson "Mirror Blue", and/or "Rumour and Sigh"
Richard and Linda Thompson "Shoot Out the Lights"
Ry Cooder + V.M. Bhatt "A Meeting by the River"
John Hiatt "Bring the Family"
David Sylvian "Gone to Earth"
Talking Heads "Remain in Light"
Jan Garbarek "I Took up the Runes"
Bill Frisell (Can't chose which one!)
Ralph Towner (same here)

Emmylow Harris- "Wrecking Ball" yes, definately, and yes anything by Daniel Lanois - his 2 solo CD ("Acadie", and "For the Beauty of Winona"
Muddy Waters "Folk Singer" - MFSL gold CD sounds great
Don Byron "Bug Music" - fun and phenomenal
Oregon "Out of the Woods"
Bjork - "Debut" amd "Homogenic" simply the most talented,interesting + creative person working in "pop" today
Jefferson Airplane - "Crown of Creation" + "Volunteers" on MFSL gold CD's - always like the Airplane's version of "Wooden Ships" much more than CSNY's. These sound great on MFSL.
Pentangle (John Renbourn, Bert Jansch, Jackie McShee + Danny Thompson all on one record!) Live recording "In the Round" (but all are great)
King Crimson's "Thrak" is pretty d*mn phenomenal + mind blowing
David Byrne "The Catherine Wheel", and w/Brian Eno on "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"
Eno (where do I start?) "Another green World", "Before and After Science" w/Fripp on "No Pussyfooting" w/John Cale "Wrong Way up"
"801 Live" (Manzannera, Eno, Kevin Ayers, Francis Monkman) and they were just out having fun!)
Ella Fitzgerald "Gershwin Songbook" 3 CD's with Nelson Riddle. Just marvelous.
Burt Bacharach + Elvis Costello - "Painted by Memory"
June Tabor - "Acaba" what a voice, what songs, and what wonderfully spare arrangements - unique and breathtaking (most of her others a great too - check her out with Maddy Prior as Silly Sisters in "No More to the Dance"
Peter Gabriel - "Us" , I, II, III, "Security", "So"
...and I could continue...