[technobarbie]

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

 

[omedon]

Pet Sounds

 

[ssblood]

Modest Mouse - Moon & Antarctica The only cd I had in my car's cd player for several months, then even after I got more cds it was in there 95% of the time.

 

[shasty]

It'd be a really hard choice between
DT- Images and words or
DT- Scenes from a Memory...


Prolly I&W

 

[coolbluewater]

Well, call it coincidence here

Dream Theater - Live at Budokan

 

[tim_j_thomas]

Sort of cheating, but: The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 : Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991 [BOX SET].

There are some real gems here!

 

[Yikes]

Just one? How about one Rock/Popular, one Jazz, and one Classical.

Rock
King Crimson “Larks Tongues in Aspic.

Jazz
Miles Davis “Sketches of Spain”

Classical’
Mahler Symphony No.2 Slatkin Saint Louis Telarc SACD

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[allenf]

A record I first heard 30 years ago, one I don't find the time to listen to these days, one I regard as the most complete record I have ever heard.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

 

[Relayer71]

Much too hard to decide on one...but I would be happy if it were any one of the following:

Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

 

[mrjones]

at the momemt, it would probally be blood on the tracks.

 

[NiceCans]

do box-sets count as an 'album'?

 

[bixby]

Sgt. Peppers

 

[PSmith08]

I would, oddly enough, take Jessye Norman's first recording of Strauss' Vier Letzte Lieder, with Kurt Masur and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. It is my favorite recording of my favorite soprano lieder.

 

[TheGhostWhoWalks]

One album from each genre would make this at least SOMEWHAT managable. But as it stands, there's no way I can answer it... Okay, I'll try:

Karl Bohm's recording of Mozart's Late Symphonies (35-41). I've listened to it a million times and discover something new with every listen.

From other genres:

Opera: The Rake's Progress conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
Jazz: Monk's Dream - Thelonious Monk
Fusion: Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue
Rock: AC/DC - Back in Black
Metal: Cynic - Focus
Prog Rock: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Prog Metal: Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Alternative: Radiohead - OK Computer (or either Mars Volta album, close call)

 

[lionel marechal]

1) Schubert - Impromptus and moments - Edwin fischer.
None of the smileys work for this, it's not a big smile on your face, no 'wow sound', just an internal bliss and blessing.
The sound is not very good, although still very enjoyable, and the most magical version of it, at a time when they were not going 10 times in the studio to do the recordings. Some techincal diffuclties for Edwin fischer, I think; it the last impromptu of the second cycle, maybe he is taking it too fast. But hey .. makes him more human.
( FYI : I never liked Brendel in this, In nice sound and digital perfection there is Zimmerman, 10 Years ago I liked Radu Lupu but Edwin Fischer took his place at the top ).

2) Second Choice ! Gould Golberg 81. A very human album as well with his 'presence' in the recording, wether you like it or not. That you can hear 'him' in addition to the music, just makes him more present, more 'here' with you, in my opinion. And at least, on this recording, you do not hear his chair that I think his dad did for him and that used to ... make sound !

Lionel