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A Meeting By The River is a master piece recording, simple, pure, dynamic and most of all real and for certain the one recording for my deserted isle loop.
 
Best Piece - Ganges Delta Blues, IMHO
 

 

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[tbp71]

Herbie Hancock, The piano. The piano is on the wide side, but it's a great recording and performance.
 
Cowboy Junkies, Trinity Session. A stereo mic, a great room and a band (and engineer) good enough to not need to fix anything in the mix.  
 
Pierre Boulez/the Cleveland Orchestra, Stravinsky The Right of Spring/Le Sacre du Printemps. I don't know if it's the best, but it's a great performance and recording. 
 
Maria Schneider, The Thompson Fields.  A recent favorite. It's large ensemble instrumental jazz that weaves textures.

 

[KopaneDePooj]

Howard Jones - Human's Lib (2008 Remaster)
 

 

[txfilmguy]

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Rod Stewart - A Night on the Town
Led Zeppelin - I
Eagles - Eagles
Eagles - One of These Nights
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Roger Waters - Amused to Death
Van Morrison - Hard Nose the Highway
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Beatles - Revolver
Secret Machines - Now Here is Nowhere
 
I'm sure more will come to mind...

 

[Mal Waldron]

One of my favourite piano solo album of Cecil Taylor it's also one of the best recorded. Released in 1980 on MPS, it's also one of the best approach to Cecil Taylor's universe.
 
Cecil Taylor - Fly! fly! fly! fly! fly! (1980) {MPS}

 

[Konstantin690]

Keb' Mo' - Just Like You

 

[Mython]

Unless the thread search function is misfiring, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Macy Gray's recent album, 'Stripped'

Very decent recording, even though I wouldn't generally otherwise consider myself a Macy Gray fan.

youtube.com/watch?v=8ucGbREFrA4
youtube.com/watch?v=RXGj7-JvYq0

 

[JWolf]

Unless the thread search function is misfiring, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Macy Gray's recent album, 'Stripped'

Very decent recording, even though I wouldn't generally otherwise consider myself a Macy Gray fan.

youtube.com/watch?v=8ucGbREFrA4
youtube.com/watch?v=RXGj7-JvYq0

It's a very good recording. It has an average dynamic range of 13. It's from Chesky Records.

 

[protoss]

Nas - Illmatic 1994

 

[JWolf]

Nas - Illmatic 1994

Unless you can find an original 1994 version, it's going to sound awful. The current version is very loud and compressed.

 

[JWolf]

Keb' Mo' - Just Like You

No Way. It's a victim of the loudness wars with an average DR of 6. No way something overly loud and overly compressed is going to sound good enough to be one of the best of all time.

 

[JWolf]

Nothing that's a victim of the loudness wars is appropriate for being suggested as one of the best. So please don't bother.

 

[WoodyLuvr]

No Way. It's a victim of the loudness wars with an average DR of 6. No way something overly loud and overly compressed is going to sound good enough to be one of the best of all time.

Who are you to belittle someone's contribution to the thread and telling them not to bother posting? Have you actually listened to the album? I clearly see why someone would offer it up as an excellent recording... maybe it doesn't meet your own personal elitist standards but that is still a very nicely mastered album. Your opinions are fully respected and your posts are most welcome but definitely not in the manner that you are expressing them nor the unfriendly tone you are using with other members.

It doesn't cost a rusty nickle to be nice and respectful.

You definitely owe a very nice guy, who has been a helpful and valuable contributing member, a sincere apology.

 

[JWolf]

Who are you to belittle someone's contribution to the thread and telling them not to bother posting? Have you actually listened to the album? I clearly see why someone would offer it up as an excellent recording... maybe it doesn't meet your own personal elitist standards but that is still a very nicely mastered album. Your opinions are fully respected and your posts are most welcome but definitely not in the manner that you are expressing them nor the unfriendly tone you are using with other members.

It doesn't cost a rusty nickle to be nice and respectful.

You definitely owe a very nice guy, who has been a helpful and valuable contributing member, a sincere apology.

The thread is about the best sounding albums. Albums that have been artificially made louder and compressed do not sound all that good. I'm sorry if anyone is offended. But when the recording doesn't sound good because it's loud and flat, it doesn't belong in this thread.