10 sonically best rock recordings ?

Megasam, I keep my turntable set-up going largely to play recordings like the ones on my two lists (and also musique concrete, avante-garde classical and free jazz). This is challenging music to track down and find on vinyl nowadays but well worth it: CDs of 80s recordings that were released simultaneous with the vinyl tend to be low quality, esp with independent labels. I fully agree with your remarks about the Big Star CD (the eary one omitted some songs from "#1 Record" by the way). Although the Ace Records remasters of Big Star are bright and a little veiled, they are leagues ahead of the CDs. I also agree with the remarks about CT. What is This Mortal Coil's first album titled?

Slawney,"This Mortal Coil" was a collection of many 4AD recording artists jamming with each other, including members
of Cocteau Twins,Dead Can Dance,Wolggang Press,Cindy Talk
,ColorBox and others. There are three TMC albums, the first and best one called "It Will End in Tears" is the one I was refering to above, 12 tracks beautiful music.

Dave not too surprising (but unfortunate) that home made CDR from vinyl original is better than retail CD. It is also quite simple to record your own cassette tapes at home for car use, as I do that "blow away" any retail cassette version.

Some of my favorites include:

"Songs for a Blue Guitar" Red House Painters
"What's Next to the Moon" Mark Kozelek (singer from RHPs, covering Bon Scott era AC/DC acoustic)
"Arches & Aisles" The Spinanes
"Agaetis Byrjun" Sigur Ros; ethereal sounds from Iceland

just a little note re the "Who's Next" recommendations:
please find the Steve Hoffman (of DCC fame) thread over in the rock music forum at Audio Asylum. a very very interesting read for fans of this seminal work

greggr

p.s. of course i ordered the canadian pressing as soon as i could find it!! (this will make sense after you read Steve's comments)

Here's a few that'll blow your mind!;

Queensryche~Empire (DCC Gold Version)
Yes~Fragile (East/West Japan HDCD re)
Led Zeppelin~III (East/West Japan AMCY-2433)
Def Leppard~Hysteria (MFSL UDCD Gold)
Rush~Moving Pictures (MFSL UDCD Gold)
Los Lobotomys~Candyman (S.Lukather/S.Phillips of TOTO)
The Who~Whos Next (MFSL UDCD Gold)...definetely!
U2~The Joshua Tree (MFSL UDCD Gold)
Robin Trower~Bridge of Sighs (24bit extended remaster)
the list goes on, but I'll stop here with my top recommended's, and fav's!