10 sonically best rock recordings ?

Curbach,
forgot to mention that I was referring to the 180g reissues from Acoustic Sounds. These LP's really allow Stills' guitar to shine, as well as Fuzzy Samuels' bass. "Manassas"
is indeed one of those gems that went way under the radar.

The original Atlantic pressings were OK, I still own them, CD's were much worse, have not heard the HDCD copy.

Well, Slipknot, I was being polite in my previous post. Since you were talking about the vinyl, I'll go ahead and bluntly say the cd doesn't sound so hot :-) I guess we agree on that. I've never heard "Manassas" on vinyl and no longer have a turntable. Too bad for me.

There's a lot of good sounding rock recordings here, but I haven't posted any myself. At least not yet ;-)

http://www.audioannex.com/AAxRRs2.htm#rock

Phasecorrect ... it's funny because I bought the remaster of "Communique" and to me it sounds much worse than the original LP ... it's al boom and sizzle. I was really disappointed as this is one of my favorite albums.

Sean 99..."Communique" is the only one I dont own...but suffice to say...the others I own sound vastly superior to the earlier CDs...maybe not as good as a hi-end turntable with a good vinyl copy on a good system...but very good nevertheless....and my system is pretty unforgiving....my local hi-end dealer...which favors vinyl(no surprise)....features these in their listening demos...