Wow an old album that rocked your world

Ol' dog here growing up with tons of live music in house and nearby relatives/lousy sound unacceptable Note YouTube "samples" ..shooting for "a skosh off the radar" for some of us...Here goes:
Anne-Sophie Mutter - Carmen-Fantasie DG 4D (YT)
AC/DC Live (1992) - Collectors Edition (YT)
Al Green - More Greatest Hits (YT)
Alan Toussaint - Bright Mississippi (YT)
Alison Krauss & Union Station - New Favorite (YT)
Alison Krauss & Robert Plant - Raising Sand (YT)
Anita O'Day - Finest Hour
Appalachian Stomp - Bluegrass Classics -Rhino 
Aretha Franklin - The Very Best Of (YT)
Arturo Delmoni - Songs My Mother Taught Me - Water Lily 
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - Flight of the Cosmic Hippo (YT)
Billy Strayhorne - Lush Life (YT)
Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming (YT)
Buddy Holly - From The Original Master Tapes - Hoffman Remaster (YT)
Cantante Domino - Oscars Motettkor - Proprius - (YT vinyl)
Cantus - Let Your Voice Be Heard (some YT)
Chet Atkins - The Master and his Music (YT)
Claude Bolling's - Greatest Hits (YT) 
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions (YT)
Delbert McClinton - Never Been Rocked Enough (YT)
Dire Straits - "self titled" (YT)
Don Juan deMarco - (soundtrack Bob Ludwig remaster) (YT)
Dusty Springfield - Love Songs (YT)
Ella Fitzgerald - Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie (YT)
Eva Cassidy - NIGHTBIRD Live at Blues Alley (YT)
Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief (YT)
Frank Sinatra - Nice 'n Easy (YT)
Greg Brown - The Poet Game (YT)
Gladiator - (soundtrack) (YT)
Heifetz - Mendelssohn JVC XRCD - Boston SO (YT)
Hank Williams III - Lovesick, Broke & Driftin' (YT)
Hans Theesink - Slow Train (YT)
James Brown - Live at the Opollo (YT)
Janis Ian - Breaking Silence (YT Hi-Res)
Jazz at the Pawn Shop - Proprius - 30th Anniversary (YT)
Joan Armatrading - "self-titled" (YT)
John Hyatt - Bring the Family (YT)
John Prine - Bruised Orange (forever favorite-love John,RIP) (YT)
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark (YT)
Julie London - Ultra Lounge (YT)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - "self-titled" (YT)
Keb' Mo' - "self-titled" Red House Label (YT some)
Led Zeppelin II - (cans or near field fun) (YT)
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man (YT)
Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus "remaster" 
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (YT)
Mahler #2 - TIDAL has tons 'PLAY LOUD'
Melanie - Beautiful People (YT)
Mercury Living Presence - Wilma Cozart Fine (YT-research works)
Michael Jackson - Thriller Special Edition (YT)
Mighty Sam McClain - Give It Up To Love (YT)
Muddy Waters - Folk Singer ..no surprise, but it's that good :) (YT)
Nanci Griffith - Other Voices/Other Rooms (YT)
Natalie Merchant - Motherland (YT)
Nina Simone - The Essential (YT)
Nirvana - Nevermind (YT)
O Brother, Where Art Thou - (soundtrack) (YT)
Oscar Peterson - Oscar in Paris Live at the Salle Pleyel
Patty Loveless - Mountain Soul (YT)
Paul Simon - Graceland 25th Anniversary (YT)
Reference Recordings - "do your homework" (some YT)
Ray Charles - anything..especially the 50's early blues&jazz (YT)
Richard Thompson - Action Packed/The Best of the Capitol Years (YT)
Robert Palmer - Addictions Vol 1 (YT)
Robert Shaw - "choral music, research" (YT)
Rickie Lee Jones - "self-titled" (YT)
Rosanne Cash - The Wheel (YT)
Roy Orbison - Black & White Night (YT)
Ry Cooder - Mambo Sinuendo (YT)
Sheffield Labs "research direct to discs" (YT)
Sony Essentials Label - Beeth 9th Szell w/Cleveland / research others
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Hits (YT)
Tanita Takaram - Ancient Heart (YT)
Tord Gustavson Trio - Changing Places (YT)
Trio - Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton & Linda Ronstadt (YT)
Trio De Cologne - La Belle Excentrique
Valerie Carter - The Way It Is (YT)
Weather Report - Heavy Weather (YT vinyl 1 & 2)
Willie Nelson - Phases and Stages (YT)

ABBA - Number 1s - (we all have one like this) (YT)  

More Peace and hang in Friends, Pin

That was just the acid kicking in!

You mean like the time I swear I levitated while listening to Surealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane in 1966!

Alison Krauss & Union Station, So Long So Wrong
Dire Straits, Love Over Gold
John Fogerty, Blue Moon Swamp
Armstrong and Ellington
The B-52s, Cosmic Thing
Eric Clapton, Forever Man

Good Rats

TASTY

RIP Pepi

Rocked my world? My parents bought me and my sister Meet the Beatles when it first came out. The Beatles changed everything. 
I still have that album, and play it occasionally.

since then, many albums have.

I've got a few that are still My Favorites. I'll start with the Rolling Stones, "Exile on Main Street" Either Japanese Vinyl or a Japanese Pressed CD. Mahavishnu Orchestra, "Apocalypse", The Who, "Live at Leeds" again, Japanese pressed vinyl or MFSL. The Who, "Quadrophenia", Johnny Winter/And Live, Johnny Winter, Captured Live. If Highway 61 Revisited doesn't cause the gas pedal in Your  car to get depressed, then I don't know what will, Jeff Beck,'Truth" Blow by Blow and "Wired" That is it for now. I have to get back to work. Sincerely, Apocalypse Report this

I've got a few that are still My Favorites. I'll start with the Rolling Stones, "Exile on Main Street" Either Japanese Vinyl or a Japanese Pressed CD. Mahavishnu Orchestra, "Apocalypse", The Who, "Live at Leeds" again, Japanese pressed vinyl or MFSL. The Who, "Quadrophenia, Johnny Winter/And Live, Johnny Winter, Captured Live. If Highway 61 Revisited doesn't cause the gas pedal in Your to get depressed, then I don't know what will, Jeff Beck,'Truth" Blow by Blow and "Wired" That is it for now. I have to get back to work. Sincerely, Apocalypse

Great thread!! Sometimes we forget it’s the Music that got us to this point. Some really great album suggestions, most  of which I also own and listen to. A couple of “ go to’s” I would recommend... Sting- “Nothing like the sun”And Tracy Chapman’s first record. Both amazing music and sound. BTW also both Bob Ludwig masters. When I find an amazing sounding record, almost always winds up being an RL. 

Gong - Flying Teapot
Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Fall - Live At The Witch Trials

Muddy Waters Folk Singer

All awesome examples of music only a few I am unfamiliar with. Shows we all know the music as well as how it should be listened to. 
I forgot about Crack the Sky. Gonna spin that one next. Totally agree on why they were never more popular. 
Happy listening

@nitrobob, I flew to Baltimore last March to catch a Crack The Sky acoustic show at The Baltimore Soundstage. They were backed by a 5 piece string quartet and the show was fantastic. John Palumbo said they were taping the show; but, it has yet to show up on their website for purchase.

However, there is a 2 CD set from a May of 2008 acoustic show that I found on YouTube called "For Catherine." I think I paid $20 for it (including shipping) and I highly recommend it! The guy selling it (Markus Barth) also mastered the CD; so, all indications are this is an officially sanctioned bootleg. 

A somewhat obscure album that is seldom mentioned.  Joe Beck's album titled Beck. I bought this as a cutout in the 70s and it is one of the best finds ever. It was quickly re released as Beck and Sanborn.  The interplay between Beck's guitar and Sanborn's sax is awesome.  This is one of the "tastiest" albums I own.  +1 for Pat Metheny.  Al Dimeola's Elegant gypsy is also awesome.

Yes - Close to the Edge
Genesis - Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
ELP - Pictures at an Exhibition
Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth

I pulled out my original issue The Clash - Combat Rock to look for one song, and I ended up playing the whole album.  This is well-produced audiophile punk!  I had forgotten how huge and energetic this record was.  

Spooky Tooth - You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw.

Blodwyn Pig. A Head Rings Out

Forgot about that one. Great album, great album cover :)

Blodwyn Pig. A Head Rings Out. Incredible sonics esp Dear Jill.

Crack The Sky was from right down the road. I just can't believe they didn't make it bigger. Very talented bunch of guys  

Richard Barone - "Cool Blue Halo"
Crack The Sky - "Crack The Sky"
Bruce Cockburn - "Inner City Front"

Chicago: Chicago Transit Authority and Chicago II
Aerosmith: Get Your Wings
But hearing Devo's Freedom of Choice played on the most high end system I'd heard up until then (either Magnepan or KLH Model 9 electrostatics, a Dual 1229 turntable and a Conrad Johnson Premier One amp) really rocked my world.  

Boz Scaggs 1969 debut with Duane Allman on the track Loan Me A Dime. 
Joe Cocker 1972

Robin Trower Bridge of Sighs 1974

The Cars -Self Titled 1978
Cheap Trick at the Budokan
Led Zeppelin - played VERY loud
Procol Harum - Self titled 
Allman Brothers Band - Idlewild South
Blues Breakers John Mayall with Eric Clapton

Heck, I’m going put The Cars on the TT right now!

Humble Pie Smokin’
Kansas Leftoverture 
Genesis And Then There Were Three
Stelar recordings? Not quite. Listen to the soul. 
Oh, and anything Dire Straights. 

“Canned Wheat” The Guess Who

“Stationary Traveller”. Andrew Latimer  always knows exactly the right notes to play on guitar 

William Royal on Tikva T-29  Sings Romantic Music of the Jewish Theater.  Best Yiddish song collection I enjoy listening to (out of 42,000 LPs/CDs/78s).

Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts. UK pressing with the gatefold cover.

Shawn Phillips: Most albumsDead: Have favorite versions of specific songsWho's Next, It's a Beautiful Day, Hard Days Night,
Buddy Guy and Junior Wells  Play the Blues. Best concert I've been to.Buffalo Springfield Double Album.Just found In the Court of the Crimson King and The Bluesbreakers with Clapton at a used music store on cd for $5 each. I listen to CK when I'm walking, pulling weeds, or watering plants.

I have most of the albums listed above, and I do listen to them.  Some get placed into a more current rotation.  And then, change the rotation, and so on.  I believe a few very important ones were missed.  Try these... Alan Parsons Project (all of them), Emerson Lake and Palmer (Brain Salad Surgery), Steely Dan (Aja), Stevie Wonder (Inner Visions and Talking Book), Led Zeppelin (all of them), Roxy Music (especially Avalon), Super Tramp (especially Crime of the Century), Jethro Tull (especially Stand Up and Aqualung), The Beatles (all of them), and the list can go on.  Bottom line, there is so much wonderful music from the late 60s through the end of the 70s.  Not that I am stuck in that era alone, but the OP did ask about "an old album that rocked your world".  These all rock my world.  To all, be safe & healthy, and do enjoy the music.

I believe it was back in the mid 70's when hi-fi shops were plentiful before the big box stores ran them all out, I went in to one of our local shops to audition some JBL L-100's. The salesman put on Heart's Dreamboat Annie album, flipped the loudness switch on the Pioneer receiver and played the Crazy On You cut.  First time I ever felt bass pound me in my chest. From then on out I was hooked on audio.  

John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat - "Hooker N Heat"
some of the best harmonica playing - 11 minutes of "Boogie Chillen" great!! 

Wow, this is great.  Reminds me of how much great music I have not listened to in so long.  Time to dig these up.

@french_fries 
I saw Hot Tuna at the Lone Star Cafe NYC, very small venue, was standing at the bar about 6 feet from Jorma, hard to believe all that music is coming from one guitar.

As to rediscovery:
Blood Sweat and Tears/BS&T/God Bless the Child.
David Clayton Thomas fabulous vocals and the arrangement is top shelf.  Give it a spin. 

Oh what about a "popular record"? Well. I never tire of the 1st Hot Tuna Album. BTW, If you've never attended a coffeehouse concert (as in a small restaurant/bar) overstuffed with people- you can hear and see everything up close,
it's just as great as any big rock concert venue, only different. I also saw Larry Coryell in a somewhat dumpy bar many years later. And John Hammond, too. There's nothing else like it. I'll bet the Beatles had a blast in those early days playing in small clubs even without getting paid the big bucks. 

One of the 1st records MY FATHER brought home one night after work.
It finally got re-issued recently on a Japanese CD label. Dave Brubeck- My Favorite Things. So not many people know about it. I like many of his records, but this is just about as good as the others. I played it many many times, and you know-I never get tired of it. If you like DB, then I know you will love it.

Several - Beatles' Abbey Road, Santana's Caravanserai, PMG's American Garage and Yes' Close to the Edge reward near field listening on the far superior to the back in the day system I have now. And I really enjoy the depth and clarity of the SACDs of the Jeff Beck Group Rough & Ready and Orange albums, the first ECM Pat Metheny Group album (w San Lorenzo & Phase Dance) and Keith Jarrett's Sunbear concerts - especially Kyoto.

BTW after reading the raves about the DCC version of Pet Sounds on the Steve Hoffman forum (well what would you expect?) I just acquired a copy at great expense. The result: distinctly underwhelmed. Those sycophants have no sense sense of objectivity when it comes to anything mastered by the great one.

Very muffled and flat sounding with a lack of dynamics and micro dynamics. If he had access to, and used the original the original master tapes, as claimed my name‘s Albert Einstein. If he actually did, he totally butchered them.

+1 for Genesis and Cat Stevens, but different albums — Selling England by the Pound and Tea for the Tillerman still rock my world!  My taste must be a few years older...

Just played Pet Sounds and Highway 61 last night on a nostalgia trip.

Took my breath away once again despite having listened to them countless times. Both definitely on my personal top ten of all time list. 

Last night:

Little Feat:  Waiting for Columbus
The Band: Big Pink

Kansas self titled debut 
A masterpiece in my mind and high end production 😎🍺

I was just playing these the other day. Both are originally purchased by me in 69 and 70 , I guess I am showing my age.
  
Chicago Transit Authority,

Chicago II

John Mayall’s “Turning Point”.  As Jazzy as it is Bluesey, it’s kept me company for almost fifty years.  

👍👍on Spirit!
What a recording for it's day😎

Taj Mahal - Oooh So Good n’ Blues
JJ Cale - Troubadour 
Rolling Stones - Aftermath UK mono and US stereo 
Gene Ammons - ca purange 
Lee Morgan - Search for the New Land

As it happens I’ve been breaking in a new cartridge since last night.  

Les McCann and Eddie Harris
Swiss Movement “Live at Montreaux Festival”

I just sold a R2R version of that not long ago. Great jazz.

Alvin Lee/Ten Years Later "Ride On".
"ZZ Top’s First Album".
Jaco’s self-titled debut "Jaco Pastorius".
Yes, "The Yes Album".
The Who "Live At Leeds".

Elf Trying To Burn The Sun
Robert Johnson Close Personal Friend
Henry Gross Plug Me Into Something