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Do you have a few albums that you play when you "can't decide?"
 
For me:
 
George Benson - Breezin' 
John Lee Hooker - The Healer
Steely Dan - Aja
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon
Sammy Hagar - Standing Hampton 
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Eric Church - Chief
Eric Clapton - Journeyman
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
 
 
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Clapton - Crossroads - Disc4
Carverfest 2014
Duke Ellington - at Newport
Brubeck - Take 5 (Time Out)
PF DSoTM
Queen - Classic - Blue Cover
Dire Straits - Dire Straits 
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Interesting, we have some of the same tastes apparently - But I do stray from the norm somewhat.
 
Joes' Garage - Frank Zappa
Dreamboat Annie - Heart
Tubular Bells -  Mike Oldfield
Add it up - Violent Femmes
Kill Bill Vol. 1 - Assorted
Alice Cooper - Goes to Hell
Great Film Fantasies - Erich Kunzel (Cincinnati Pops Orchestra)
O'Brother, Where are thou? - Assorted (movie soundtracks, this is a must listen) 
 
I know there's some there off the beaten path - but very good stuff there. Of course, not every track on every album, like Kill Bill has a couple shorts that are really weird, and I skip.
 
I've also been enjoying the re-mastered and re-mixed Zeppelin albums released a few years ago 
 
Good thread! I love this, I'll be checking out some of youse guys' suggestions.
 
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Patricia Barber - Cafe Blue
Jodi Proznik Quartet - Foundations
Vanessa Fernandez - Use Me
Connie Evingson - Let it Be Jazz
Grant Green - Idle Moments
Eliane Elias - Dreamer
Natalia M. King - Bluezzin till Dawn
Melanie Di Biasio - A Stomach is Burning
Mike Frost Band - Live at the Red Pepper 
 
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Grant Green - Idle Moments
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Winner!
 
For me
Boston - Boston
U2 - Joshua Tree (Bullet the Blue Sky for sure a test record on system changes)
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Rolling Stones - Some Grils
Lee Morgan - Cornbread
Lee Morgan - Rump Roller
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Tina Brooks - True Blue 
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SRV - The Sky is Crying (Mobile Fidelity Gold)

Rachmaninoff / Kissin piano concerto's 2 and 3

Erich Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops - Chiller

Peter Richard Conte - Magic

Two Steps from Hell - Invincible

Metallica - Black Album

Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Dave Matthews - Crash

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Liked it musically, lot of interesting contrast to how most perform it today, just wish they could have restored more of the sound and less of the inherent hiss. Like Richter's 2nd and Horowitz's 3rd, but RCA's Kissin recordings are excellent sound ref.

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Don-R.......... off topic, but the AeroSmith album is still out there somewhere. Since it has been a couple of weeks, I thought that I should get an idea of where it was sent from. Then again, it the season for late packages. Many thanks.

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Breakfast in America    -  Supertramp      (vinyl format)
Dark Side of the Moon  -  Pink Floyd       (vinyl format)
Greatest Hits*On the Radio   -  Donna Summer    (vinyl format)
 
Blood on the Tracks      -  Bob Dylan        (cassette format)
Diamond Life                 -  Sade                (cassette format)
 
Brothers in Arms            - Dire Straits        (CD format)
The Very Best of Billy Idol                         (CD format) 
        track #3 White Wedding
        track #4 Rebel Yell
        track #5 Eyes Without a Face
Neil Young Greatest Hits                            (CD format)
Naturally          -  J.J. Cale                          (CD format)
I'm Your Man   -  Leonard Cohen               (CD format)
 
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Don-R.......... off topic, but the AeroSmith album is still out there somewhere. Since it has been a couple of weeks, I thought that I should get an idea of where it was sent from. Then again, it the season for late packages. Many thanks.
 
I sent it from here the day after. Regular post so no tracking. Not that it matters as once is hits US customs, tracking is no longer available.  
 
So much for international cooperation!  
 
I'll look for the receipt tomorrow as it's likely at the office... 
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I use many of those that you all have listed, but here are a few ones that I use that I didn’t see:

 

Supertramp - Crime of the Century

Lots of non-electrified instruments and big dynamic range

Pink Floyd - Echoes

Low end

Holts the Planets - Mars

One of my favorite pieces of symphony that I have heard live many times as a reference (the rest of the suite is meh)

Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On

I have a LP pressing of this that I found used, it is very old but not played much, and for some reason is one of the purest sounding pieces of vinyl that I have.

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