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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
4yanx
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It is easy for me. I've recanted this story a few times and a few here know that my father lost what would today be a literal small fortune in jazz LP's in a fire at our home in the late-60's. I had alway assumed that all was lost but when I got back into vinyl several years ago, and subsequently found an appreciation for jazz, my dad called to say that he had grabbed a few LP's that day in a stack that was close at hand. Said he'd bring them next visit. Next visit, true to his word, he handed off what immediately became my five favorites (still sealed- never played):

Miles Davis Qunitet - "Steamin'"
Miles Davis Qunitet - "Cookin'"
Miles Davis Qunitet - "Relaxin'"
Miles Davis Qunitet - "Workin'"
Cannonball Adderly - "Somethin' Else"
crem1
672 posts
 
A private release LP of The Beatles. The concert occured on Dec.23,1963 .

This is the only known Beatles recording actually recorded by the Beatles themselves. It was was performed in Manchester , England . The mono-sound is amazying. I have no idea how many exist.

For historical vetting, that concert was discussed as a turning point in the bands career in Barry Miles book "Many Years from Now ".
boxer1200clc
2 posts
 
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
317 posts
 
Bruce Springsteen "Born to Run" SCRIPT promo in MINT conition.
go4vinyl
188 posts
 
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)!
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