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    What is your collection of great sounds/audiophile/awesome recordings in pop-rock ?

    First and foremost, I will certainly place ROMANTIC WARRIOR is in a class by itself.
    To a lesser degree, I also love the debut UK along with a few others:

    Aja -- Steely Dan
    Trilogy -- ELP
    Tales of Mystery & Imagination -- Alan Parsons
    Brother to Brother -- Gino Vanelli
    Operation Mindcrime -- Queensryche
    Hysteria -- Def Leppard
    Revolver/Abbey Road -- The Beatles
    Rumours -- Fleetwood Mac
    Hotel California -- Eagles
    Wish You Were Here/The Division Bell -- Pink Floyd
    Scenes From a Memory -- DT
    Overnight Sensation -- Zappa
    The Seventh House/Dark Matter/Frequency/The Road of Bones -- IQ
    Blow By Blow -- jeff Beck
    New York Reunion -- McCoy Tyner
    OSI (debut) -- OSI
    In Absentia/Deadwing -- Porky Tree
    Switched On Bach -- W. Carlos
    Magnification/The Ladder -- Yes
    Boston -- Boston
    A Night at the Opera -- Queen
    A Trick of the Tail -- Genesis
    Breakfast in America/Crime of the Century -- Supertramp
    Toto IV -- Toto
    Tumbleweed Connection/Goodbye Yellow Brick Road -- EJ
    World Sinfonia -- Al DiMeola
    Harvest -- Neil Young
    The Original Soundtrack -- 10CC
    Faith Hope Love -- Kings X
    Whos Next -- Who
    Birds of Fire -- Mahavishnu Orchestra
    Greatest Hits -- The Cars
    Ah Via Musicom -- Eric Johnson
    Night & Day -- Joe Jackson
    Dozens more I can't remember at this moment -- did I mention ROMANTIC WARRIOR ?
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    i always liked the live Ozzy album Speak Of The Devil although I've heard it was doctored up quite a bit in the studio but still it always sounds so big and raw that it's one of my favorites.

    I also like the sound off Metallica's Ride The Lightning. Creeping Death will blow your car speakers out, ears too... but it sounds good LOUD!
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    One the greatest albums to me was Slayers Seasons in the Abyss. I know some Slayer fans don't care for South of Heaven or Seasons some say these 2 albums were to commercialized. I remember reading a interview with Tom Araya at the time and he said the producer at the time (Rick Rubin) left them alone and did whatever. Rick was more focused on Red Hot Chili Peppers album Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik . Maybe that's why Seasons was such a good album not to much producer interference.

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    Bat Out of Hell------Meatloaf
    Dreamboat Annie----Heart
    Saga/ Worlds Apart-----Saga Very few bands touched "On The Loose".
    Live in '78------ Buddy Rich
    Rumours--------Fleetwood Mac
    Delaney & Bonnie On Tour With Eric Clapton

    Too Many Others To List.

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    yes way too many to list. man the 'on the loose' song brings back some memories....
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    Quote Originally Posted by slinky View Post
    yes way too many to list. man the 'on the loose' song brings back some memories....
    We did it for years. Great song!! The sad part was that so few people had heard of Saga back then that they thought that we wrote the song, but it always went over really well.

    I just put it up on the "What music are you listening to" thread about 2 nights ago.

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    Ah ,as we all know a lot of what sounds great audiophile wise may not hold up over the years.
    I find Romantic Warrior dated sounding and the drum sound (especially Lenny's snare) choked and flat.
    A lot of RTF recordings are just so uneven.
    The sound that Chick gets out of a mini Moog just drives me to distraction.

    I like the acoustic No Mystery cut as it is just as perfect as a recording there is,but the electronic stuff is just dreadful at times.

    Gino Vanelli Gist of the Gemini I find to be the best of what Gino has done recording wise.

    Steely Dan Royal Scam floats my boat material wise and recording wise..

    Jean Luc Ponty Imaginary Voyage or Enigmatic Ocean are killer recordings.

    ELP Tarkus The remastered stuff is punchy and ageless.

    Yes 90215 was damn near perfect performance and audiophile wise.

    First two Ambrosia albums are pretty awesome sounding ,but the drums are just too uneven to make them stellar.

    Miles Davis Kind of Blue is just ageless material wise and recording wise.
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