List of Tree and Dawn’s SACD, DVD-Audio and BluRay audio discs and vinyl

Updated 24-Dec-2017

John Adams – Transmigration of Souls (SACD): This album won a Grammy for the best surround sound disc in 2010, so naturally, I had to have it. Turns out, it had previously won for Best Orchestral Performance and Best Contemporary Classical Composition a couple of years before that. Composer John Adams was commissioned by several benefactors including the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center's Great Performers to write a piece of music commemorating the September 11th terrorist attacks. Adam's On the Transmigration of Souls premiered on the first anniversary of the attacks. It is a complex work that integrates street sounds and spoken word with two choirs and of course an orchestra. It generates a fairly indescribable experience that I will not attempt to describe. Other than to say it lasts some 20 minutes and most everyone I have played this for has found it a moving experience.

It also includes a few pieces by Samuel Barber and a world premiere recoding by Jennifer Higdon.

Alice In Chains – Greatest Hits (SACD)

Ian Anderson – Homo Erraticus and TAAB2: A couple of recent solo albums by Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson that are based on the original Thick As A Brick.

Anathema – Distant Satellites:

Joan Armatrading – Live (DVD-Audio): Unfortunately – this is not the same band line-up I saw live a number of years ago. It is instead a trio – which really doesn’t fill in the surround very much.

Art of Noise – Daft (SACD): This album is the classic original sound of AON. I wouldn’t say this make a lot of use of the surround sound landscape however. The effect is pretty subtle on most tracks.

Art of Noise – Reconstructed (SACD): These are live tracks that were recorded at the Coachella Festival in 1999. While the surround mix is more impressive than Daft, most of it is the same as the DVD Video Into Vision which is probably more fun because of the video element.

Audio Art of Systematism – Space or Dream of Life: This is very nice in the dark.

Patricia Barber – Modern Cool (BluRay): Excellent sound – Excellent cover of Light My Fire.

Barclay James Harvest – Barclay James Harvest XII,

Bass Communion – Loss (DVD Audio): Bass Communion is a side project of Steven Wilson, best known for his lead role in the rock band Porcupine Tree. It consists of two pieces, each about 19 minutes long. The classification for type of music is “ambient, drone”. Loss is a lament to love lost, and it is a mournful question. Can the dead communicate with the living? With his lone lonely piano, and its canvas of white noise, Steven Wilson depicts tormented souls of both living and dead, lost, afraid, alone. Very spacey and probably best played in the dark.

The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds: They went back into the studio and did a surround mix of this album on 1998. This isn’t a stunning surround mix – but it is the Beach Boys in surround.

The Beatles – Love (DVD Audio): I suggest not putting this on unless you are prepared to be glued to the couch for over an hour. This is the most incredible Beatles experience you can have without actually seeing them live. Except for a string orchestra assembled by George Martin to turn “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” into a much softer song, every note here is Beatles music – but heard in a way you never thought possible. It takes great advantage of the surround stage as well.

The Beatles – Yellow Submarine (DVD Video): Excellent re-master of the songs in this movie into surround sound. This is what you buy after you hear Love and want to hear more of the Beatles in surround sound. Then you dream about what things like The White Album and Abbey Road would sound like in surround.

Beck – Sea Change (BluRay)

Jeff Beck – Blow by Blow

Beck, Bogart & Appice: (DTS)

Beethoven Symphonies (DVD Audio) I read some review that said the series on the Teldec label with Barenboim conducting was the one to get. Some of these have been hard to find with some of them selling upwards of $60 on Ebay. I finally have them all.

Beethoven – Piano Concerto #3 (SACD): I walked into Music Millennium and asked for Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto on SACD, and this what they dug up. This has Olli Mustonen playing piano and conducting. I was surprised at how great of a recording this ended up being – right up with there with the symphonies. It also includes a version of the Violin Concerto – rescored by Ludwig for piano!

Beethoven – String Quartets

Beyonce – Beyonce (BluRay) The 2015 Grammy for Surround Sound

Black Sabbath – Paranoid (Quad)

Blackfield: Blackfield IV

Blood Sweat & Tears: Child is Father to the Man (SACD)

Blue Man Group (DVD Audio): This may seem strange, but some of the best sounding surround sound music comes from the men in blue. Even their DVD Video productions are pretty good – but they are at their best in the studio.

Tim Bowness – Lost in the Ghost Light

Britten’s Orchestra – (SACD): Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. This got the award for best surround sound disc in 2011.

Jackson Browne – Running on Empty

Jack Bruce – Shadows in the Air (DVD Audio): This is a 2002 recording of that same voice we enjoyed listening to Cream. Is has a jazz trio sound – but includes White Room and Sunshine of Your Love. Too bad the original Cream recordings don’t sound this good.

Bruford – Seems Like a Lifetime Ago 1977-1980 – Boxed set with surround versions of Feels Good to Me and One of a Kind.

Camel – The Snow Goose (SACD) – Sorry… not in surround

Joseph Canteloube – Chants d’Auvergne: Classical with choir.

Caravan – In the Land of Grey and Pink

Checkfield – Surrounded (DVD Audio): Smooth Modern Jazz recorded exquisitely in surround.

Chicago – Quadio (10 discs) – The first 10 Chicago albums all in Quad. I also have the first album in quad by itself.

Eric Clapton – 461 Ocean Boulevard (SACD): This is a fairly new addition to my collection. I never had the original album, but couldn’t resist it when I found it at Fry’s for a nice price. Probably the only song on here I know is “I Shot the Sheriff” – but I am sure it will reveal other treasures when I get a chance to listen to it more seriously. I also have Slowhand.

Eric Clapton – Crossroads: Different than the DVD with Steve Winwood (which is excellent if nothing else for seeing them do “Had to Cry Today”). Features lots of different people you know doing various classics.

Classic Jazz – A collection of various Jazz pieces in surround.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind- (SACD) – Sorry – not surround.

Coldplay – A Head Full of Dreams (BluRay): Excellent mix and sound. Killer bass.

Continuum - Continuum is a collaborative ambient and drone music project between Bass Communion (Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree) and Dirk Serries (of Vidna Obmana and Fear Falls Burning). The project looks to expand on the artists' "collective ambition and vision, motivated by their immense passion for a wide-range of musical styles, ranging from spacious ambience to pounding doom metal.

Crosby Stills Nash and Young - CSNY 1974 (BluRay) – Sorry – not surround.

Deep Purple – Concerto for Group and Orchestra (DVD Audio): Maybe they don’t make the right kind of drugs to listen to this album any more. I put it on once or twice, but just never got into it.

Depeche Mode – Music for the Masses (DVD Audio): Includes some extra songs and a short video. Not bad, but I guess I have sort of gotten over Depeche Mode after listening to them so much about 20 years ago. We also have Playing The Angel, Violator and Live in Berlin.

Derek and the Dominos – Layla (SACD): This was nominated for an Grammy for the surround mix and I have to agree it is excellent.

Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms (SACD): I haven’t had time to listen to the whole album – keep playing Money For Nothing over and over again. I probably played that for you already however. Simply awesome!!

Dishwalla – Live, Opaline

Dream Theater – Dream Theater

DTS Blu-Ray Demonstration Disc – A very nice collection of “stuff”.

The Eagles – Hotel California (SACD): This used to sell for like $250 on EBay – but it was recently released in Japan on SACD for “only” about $50. This is a fantastic recording. The guitars just jump out of the speakers on Victim of Love. We also have When Hell Freezes Over.

Electronic OPUS – 5.1 and 9.1 3D audio

Emerson Lake and Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery (DVD Audio): Includes a bonus cut of Lucky Man. This is an original disc release around 2002? I also have Emerson Lake and Palmer (first album), Trilogy, Tarkus which were remixed by Steven Wilson and released in DVD Audio in 2012. There is also a newer version of Brain Salad Surgery by Mr. Wilson.

The Enid – The Bridge

Fairport Convention – Close to the Wind

Arthur Fiedler – this recording is from like 1954 – recorded in three channel with a center microphone.

Fire Garden – Far and Near

Fleetwood Mac – Mirage, Rumours, Say you Will.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood – The Sonic Collection (DVD Audio): Frankie says….

Peter Gabriel - Up

Genesis (DTS): Nice of Genesis to rerelease most of their catalog in surround. I currently have Abacab, A Trick of the Tail, Gensis, Invisible Touch and We Can’t Dance.

Gentle Giant – Octupus, The Power and The Glory, Three Piece Suite

David Gilmour – Rattle That Lock (BluRay) and On An Island (part of Live in Gdansk)

Philip Glass – Koyaanisqatsi (DVD Audio): This is probably the most difficult entry to describe on this list. The music was a soundtrack for a movie done in the 80s that showed lots of scenes of “Life out of Balance”. The word Koyaanisqatsi means exactly that in the Hopi Language. The music was rerecorded in 2001 and after I first listened to it, I felt this might be the best surround sound disc I owned. If you are worn out by some of the more energetic or challenging selections on this list – and are looking for a safe place to relax for awhile or just hear something different, you will probably enjoy this. It’s probably also a great thing to put on at 3 AM when most everyone is asleep. Great use of the surround sound stage and fantastic recording quality – great organ sound. Borders on being boring – without being boring at all.

Steve Hackett – The Night Siren

Handel – Music for the Royal Fireworks / Water Music: (SACD).

Gavin Harrison – Cheating the Polygraph (DTS): Jazzed up instrumental versions of Porcupine Tree songs.

George Harrison – Live in Japan

Mickey Hart – The Best of Mickey Hart (DVD Audio): This is a collection of various pieces Mikey has put together, mostly with internationally known drummers and a few bits with Jerry Garcia and I think that must be Bob Weir singing “Down The Road”. Intense rhythms with an orchestra of tuned percussion that defies to be categorized. I found this to be an excellent disc to put on while enjoying some homebrew beer after a busy day. Just magic!!

Hawkwind – Warrior on the Edge of Time Another Steven Wilson remix.

Heart – Live in Seattle

Holst – The Planets BBC Philharmonic / Sir Andrew Davis

Andy Jackson – 73 Days at Sea, Signal to Noise. Andy mixed the surround sound in Pink Floyd’s TheEndless River and put together his own albums which will impress anyone who likes the Pink Floyd sound.

Jean Michel Jarre – JMJ has changed over the years. His latest Teo and Tia is pretty much techno dance – but excellent surround sound. Oxygene (his first album) has been re-recorded LIVE with video of the process and in surround. Finally, Aero is sort of a best hits collection, again rerecorded and excellently put together in surround. The transition to Souvenir of China will nearly make you jump out of your seat. Teo & Tea is techno.

Jethro Tull – Aqualung (two versions), A Passion Play, Benefit, Minstrel in the Gallery, Stand Up (two versions), Thick as a Brick, Too Old to Rock ‘N’ Roll, War Child

Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (DVD Audio): I used to play the start of this album all the time on my old 1980’s audio system. It sounds nice when played loud!! Includes a making of video that I have yet to watch. Also have Madman Across the Water.

Norah Jones – Come Away With Me (SACD)

Katatonia – The Fall of Hearts

King Crimson (DVD Audio): I was never into King Crimson in my youth. I was aware that Greg Lake was associated with the band and that was about it. Steven Wilson from Porcupine Tree started working with Robert Fripp to remix the catalog into surround sound. I have bought them as they come out: (In the Court of the Crimson King, Red, Lizard, The Wake of Poseidon, Starless and Bible Black, Discipline, Islands, Larks Tongue in Aspic, Thrak, Three of a Perfect Pair and Beat). If you are familiar with one or more of them, it is probably a good choice to listen to. Some of the music here is a bit challenging to get into. Most of the albums have a long centerpiece on them. If you are lost and want to try something, the song Lizard is an awesome surround sound experience and really comes alive in this format. How this ever fit into two channels is beyond me. In fact, Fripp used to hate this piece of music until he heard how Mr. Wilson refined it. I also have a very recent King Crimson “project” A Scarcity of Miracles. Kind of a light jazz flavor to it with Tony Levin playing bass and the Chapman Stick. More of Tony in a video on the Discipline album with Adrian Belew. I also have a couple of DVDs with live King Crimson. Radical Action (To Unseat The Hold of Monkey Mind) is a live BluRay of their 2014/2015 concert tour. On and Off the Road boxed set has lots of stuff – including three of the albums above in surround again.

Kitaro – Best of Silk Road (DVD Audio): Updated surround recordings of a selection of the pieces from the original Silk Road Suite. And excellent place to spend some time giving your ears a break from the more challenging selections on this list.

Kitaro – Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai (SACD)

Kraftwerk – 3D (Blu ray – 3D and 5.1)

Eric Kunzel – Celtic Spectacular (SACD): With The Chieftains, James Galway and others. Various well known Celtic pieces – including some fantastic stuff from The Lord Of The Dance.

Led Zeppelin – How the West Was Won (DVD Audio): Want to know what it was like to be at a LZ concert? Ask for “Whole Lot of Love” and medley (loud) and enjoy. I’ll bring some alfalfa in from the barn for that organic smell on request. Also have Celebration Day.

Linkin Park - Reanimation

Loggins & Messina: Loggins and Messina

Love and Rockets (BluRay): Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven

Lynard Skynyard – Then and Now

Mahler – Symphony No. 1 – Titan (DVD Audio): One of my all time favorite classical symphonies. The third movement is highly recommended (remind me to unplug the refrigerator for best effect). Very interesting how one melody transitions into another (sometimes not after a bit of a struggle). I also have Symphony No. 4.

Mannheim Steamroller (DVD Audio): Pretty much anything Mannheim Steamroller does is sonically excellent and this carries over into the surround sound recordings. Fresh Aire 8 is a DVD Video in surround as is The Christmas Angel and the Christmas Concert. They also have a home theater sampler with a fun little video on it. The audio only Manheim Steamroller meets the Mouse is fun. Too bad they have not rereleased the whole Fresh Aire series in surround. Also Christmas Extraordinaire and Mannheim Steamroller Meets The Mouse.

Mahavishnu Orchestra: Birds of Fire (Quad)

Marillion – Misplaced Childhood (Blu Ray) Steven Wilson remix.

Metallica (DVD Audio): The “black” album in surround. I was not as impressed with this as I hoped I would be after spending about $40 for it. Seems like the bass guitar is almost missing from the surround mix (it is better in the stereo mix on the same disc). However, if you play it loud enough – it shows up.

Steve Miller – Fly Like an Eagle

The Moody Blues – Days of Future Passed (DTS): Stunning. A great disc to put on just before sunset. Also have A Question of Balance, Good Boy Deserves Favor, On the Threshold of a Dream, Seventh Sojourn and To Our Childerns Childerns Childern.

Gary Moore – Back to the Blues (DVD Audio): Since Hendrix and Stevie Ray are gone, we will have to make do with Gary Moore – and quite well. (Updated 6 February 2011 – Gary died of a heart attack).

Mozart – Requiem (SACD): Obligatory Mozart Choral work.

Mozart – Flute Concertos (SACD): Just some of your average Mozart Flute stuff. Pick your favorite key: G major, C major or a couple in D major (Rondo and Concerto). The booklet is thicker than the CD case.

Graham Nash – Songs for Beginners

Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral (SACD): This disc got pretty high reviews and after finally having a copy of it in stereo to listen to – I decided to give it a try. This album comes with a parental advisory – which means you should not play it for your parents. Actually – this is a very excellent album in surround. A lot of the industrial sounds that are mixed into the songs do well in the rear channel (or center speaker as demonstrated in the first cut with a jet engine sound). The dynamics jump from garage band to Pink Floyd several times in each song. The Becoming might be a good place to start – or the last few songs on the disc.

No Man – Schoolyard Ghosts and Together We’re Stranger (DVD Audio): Steven Wilson again doing the music and Tim Bowness on vocals. Very clean recordings.

Nosound – A Sense of Loss, Afterthoughts and Scintilla

Babatunde Olatunji – Love Drum Talk (SACD): Lots of drums, acoustic guitar and vocals. This is not a surround sound disc – but high quality stereo. Not unlike something you would hear Mickey Hart producing. (this album appears to be missing somewhere)

Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells (DVD Audio): We have both the 2003 re-recording and the original. Since the original came out – I haven’t put the newer one on. Stunning doesn’t do it justice. However, the 2003 version does have some nice video with it of a couple of concerts. More recently, Mike has started releasing older albums redone in surround. I have Crises, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, Five Miles Out and Discovery. I also have Incantations – but not much of this is in surround (if any). I have been holding back on getting QE2 since it has NO surround. Sure hope Amarok comes out in surround someday. Return to Ommadawn was just released in 2017.

Opeth – Still Life (DVD Audio): America to Metallica in under 30 seconds. Best to just listen to The Moor and if you survive, you will probably want more. Face of Melinda might be a less challenging way to start with this band. I also have Deliverance & Damnation, Heritage and Pale Communion.

Alan Parson Project (DVD Audio): Tales of Mystery and Imagination – Edgar Alan Poe was remixed in 2016 and sounds wonderful. I also have I Robot and Eye in the Sky, but these are in high quality Stereo. The start of I Robot is worth hearing however. Two recent releases are in surround – On Air and A Valid Path. This last one is an excellent surround sound disc with remakes of some of their older songs and some new stuff. First cut features David Gilmore. There is “A Recurring Dream Within a Dream” for fans of their first album. On Air has a neat way of using surround for the start of the album. I also have a recent concert with Alan done in Spain that is very interesting to watch if you are into his music.

Anthony Phillips – The Geese & The Ghost

Pineapple Thief – Your Wilderness

Pink – I’m not Dead

Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of The Moon (SACD): Totally meets your unrealistic expectations. It’s that good. Unplug the refrigerator. There are sounds in this you have never heard before on the standard recording. Wish You Were Here was added with the Immersion Box Set and is also excellent. The Endless River and The Division Bell are also available.

The Pixies – Doolittle (BluRay)

The Police – Every Step You Take (DTS): This is the only Police album I could afford in surround. Excellent.

Porcupine Tree (DVD Audio): Porcupine Tree pretty much picks up where Pink Floyd left off after Animals and carries the idea forward into the 21st century. Most of the stuff released since 2000 by PT

has come out in surround. Also, their video Anesthetize is in surround. Russia on Ice off of Lightbulb Sun is a great place to start if you aren’t familiar with their sound.

Primus – Primus & The Chocolate Factory and Sailing the Seas of Cheese

Queen – A Night At The Opera (DVD Audio): The Prophet’s Song is a must listen. Bohemian Rhapsody isn’t bad either.

Rachmaninov – Symphony No. 3

Riverside – Love, Fear and The Time Machine

Robert Reed – Sanctuary This sounds very much like Mike Oldfield. So does Sanctuary II

Roxy Music - Avalon

RPWL – World Through My Eyes.

Todd Rundgren - Liars

Rush – 2112, A Farewell to Kings and Moving Pictures.

David Sanborn – Timeagain (DVD Audio): Modern Jazz with Sax. David has always had a very clean sound on his CDs and it shines in surround.

Santana – Abraxas (DTS): Not only is this an excellent surround sound version of the album – you will also find the mix to be different enough that you occasionally are left with the feeling that this was a different performance. No – that wasn’t me (or anyone else in the room) with those “yips” during the end of Black Magic Women.

Santana – Caravanserai (SACD Stereo): This has always been a favorite album of mine – so I bought a copy on SACD even though it wasn’t in surround. It is a very excellent recording with improved signal to noise ratio over the normal CD. Sounds great on the Sony MDR-V6’s hooked up to the stereo output of my player.

Simple Minds – Sparkle in the Rain

Solitudes – Songbirds Bird sounds

Spyro Gyra – Good to go-go

Ringo Starr – 5.1 (DVD Audio): So – Ringo does an album called 5.1 – so naturally, I had to have it. He pretty much delivers what you would expect and has the same charming Ringo quality to the songs. HOWEVER, do not listen the second song on this disc without some Kleenex around. What a surprise.

Steely Dan – Gaucho (DVD Audio): I am not really that great of a Steely Dan fan – but after hearing so many good reviews of this – I added to my collection.

Sting – Nothing Like The Sun (DTS): Excellent. Did you know Sting covered a Jimi Hendrix song?

Stone Temple Pilots – Core

Storm Corrosion (BluRay): Collaboration with Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt (from Opeth). This album was nominated for the Surround Sound Grammy in 2012. It does not sound anything like Opeth or Porcupine Tree. Much more acoustic, but with an edge still. Some very nice surround work here – probably my 2nd highest ranked surround sound disc.

Styx – Cyclorama (DVD Audio): I think this is the only Styx album available in surround – or else EVERYONE is keeping their copy of The Grand Illusion.

Super Session – Bloomfield, Kooper and Stills.

Symphony-X – Paradise Lost (DVD)

T-Bone Walker – Back On The Scene (DVD Audio): Trivia Question, who was the black guitarist who used to play the strings with his teeth? No – the guy before Hendrix. He wrote Stormy Monday that everyone covered.

Talking Heads – Remain in Light (DVD)

Tchaikovsky – 1812 (SACD): Erich Kunzel – an updated version of this classic by the guy who required the groves to be spaced further apart for the cannons when he recorded the original version. I like how they used a choir for the start of this – gives it a very nice ambience.

Tears for Fears – Songs From the Big Chair by Steven Wilson.

Telsa – Standing Room Only

Tomita – The Planets Ultimate Edition

Travis & Fripp – Follow (DVD Audio): Theo Travis (woodwinds, flute, sax) and Robert Fripp (guitar with lots of electronics). I guess this might be called ambient – but it’s more than that. Very nice in surround sound.

The Trondheim Soloists (Trondheimsolistene) (BluRay / SACD): Group from Norway. This is a small chamber orchestra recorded in surround sound. Nominated for a Grammy. Considered a very clean recording. It is different than most classical surround discs in that it puts the instruments around the room instead of trying to recreate a concert hall experience with the orchestra in front of you and hall ambience in the rear.

Stevie Ray Vaughn – Texas Flood (SACD) – Sorry not surround.

Rick Wakeman – Journey to the Center of the Earth (Quad)

Roger Waters – The Wall (SACD): Recorded live in Berlin. Amused to Death. Also – the BluRay of The Wall is here.

The Who – Tommy (DVD Audio): You only think you have heard this album. Don’t bruise your jaw when it hits the floor. There are some fun extras included on the second disc that are worth listening to. The Who try several times to record one song and take turns flubbing it up. Quadrophenia is here too in BluRay.

Steven Wilson – Insurgentes, Grace for Drowning, The Raven That Refused To Sing, Hand Cannot Erase, 4½ and To The Bone.

Wishbone Ash – Bare Bones (DVD Audio): A solid album with lots of acoustic guitar, bass and drums. It was produced original band member Andy Powell - recorded in 2002.

XTC (DVD Audio): Drums and Wires, Nonsuch, Oranges and Lemons, Skylarking. All remixed by Steven Wilson. I was never into XTC – and still am not – but maybe someday.

Yes – Their albums have been slowly coming out in surround. The Yes Album, Close to the Edge, Fragile (original and new), Relayer and Tales From Topographic Oceans.

Yes – Magnification (DVD Audio): From 2001 – Yes replaces Rick Wakeman with an orchestra. Probably one of the few Yes albums you have not heard a single song from. Maybe this is an album like Tales from Topographic Oceans that has to grow on you – I don’t know yet.

Vinyl Albums

101 Strings – Play the World’s Great Standards (Classical)

ABC – How to be a Zillionaire!

William Ackerman – Childhood and Memory ($1 Restore Special)

Adele – Adele, Adele 21

Air – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for The Virgin Suicides

Jon Akkerman – Jon Akkerman

Herb Albert & The Tijuana Brass – What Now My Love

Gene Ammons – Blues Up & Down (1950)

Anderson / Stolt – Invention of Knowledge (2016) Jon Anderson from Yes.

Arrested Development – Three years, five months and two days in the life of Arrested Development – (Double Orange Vinyl).

Chet Atkins – More of That Guitar Country Another sound from my parent’s first studio. This isn’t the same recording – but very similar. Chet Atkins was a radio ham! The First Nashville Guitar Quartet ($1 Restore special)

ASAP – Silver And Gold (special colored vinyl) Couldn’t pass this up for $3 or whatever it was. The sound is actually bad – maybe due to the coloring?

AWOLNation – Megalithic Symphony

The Beatles – White Album (2LP) I remember having a copy of this album and taking it to a neighbor’s house next to my dad’s cabin and playing it with the kids there.

David Bedford – Star’s End

Harry Belafonte – At Carnegie Hall (double live album)

Shelley Berman – Inside Shelley Berman My dad bought this album when I was a kid. He used to record comedy stuff off the radio.

Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath I had this album back in the day although my first Black Sabbath album was Master of Reality. I heard Sweet Leaf on the Cal State Northridge FM station and went out and bought the album right away.

Blink 102 – Dude Ranch

Claude Bolling – Suite for Cello & Jazz Piano Trio with Yo-yo Ma

David Bowie – Black Star

Victor Borge – Caught in the Act

Jackson Browne – Running on Empty

Bush – Sixteen Stone (2LP - Clear Vinyl)

Camel – A Live Record, Camel, Mirage, Moonmadness, The Snow Goose, I Can See Your House From Here, Rain Dances. I had all of these (and more) back in the 1970s.

Camelot – Richard Burton and Julie Andrews

The Cars – Heartbeat City

Chambers Brothers – Greatest Hits

Nat King Cole – The Nat King Cole Story (three disks – boxed set)

Phil Collins – Both Sides, Face Value, Hello I Must be Going, No Jacket Required, You Can’t Hurry Love (EP)

John Coltrane – Blue Train My second Jazz album after getting my new turntable in 2016.

Computer Music – One of the first synthesizer albums – I first heard it in 8th grade when my music teacher played it for us in class.

Crack The Sky – Crack The Sky, Animal Notes

Cristopher Cross – Self titled album.

Miles Davis – Kind of Blue

Depeche Mode – Behind the Wheel (EP)

Neil Diamond – Hot August Night (2LP – 1972)

Dire Straits – Dire Straits (1978)

Walt Disney – Cinderella, Snow White

Tommy Dorsey – On the sentimental Side

Emerson Lake and Palmer – Welcome Back My Friends… (3LP), Brain Salad Surgery (part of boxed set), Works Volume 1 (2 LP), Works Volume 2

The Enid – Aerie Faerie Nonsense, Something Wicked This Way Comes

Erasure – World be Gone (Orange Vinyl)

Bill Evans – Conversations with Myself

Ferrante and Teicher – Our Golden Favorites

Fleetwood Mac – Mirage (part of boxed set), Rumours

Focus – Hamburger Concerto (1974), Live at the Rainbow

Foo Fighters – Greatest Hits (2LP)

Fovea Hex – The Salt Garden (10 inch) This artist is the first artist other than Steven Wilson to use his Headphone Dust record label.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Welcome to the Pleasuredome (2LP) I had this CD when if came out – first time on vinyl.

Robert Fripp – The League of Gentlemen Rober Fripp is the driving force behind King Crimson.

Game of Thrones – Music from Season 3 (2LP - Blood Red Vinyl)

Garbage – Garbage (2LP – 3 Sides with Laser Etching on side 4), The Chemicals (Orange EP)

Gorillaz – Gorillaz (2LP), Plastic Beach (2LP)

Green Day – American Icon (2LP – Colored Vinyl)

Groge – Grand Canyon Suite ($1 Restore Special)

Guitar Speak – IRS Records sampler – Alvin Lee, Steve How, Leslie West, etc.

Herbie Hancock – Mayden Voyage (green vinyl)

Hawkwind – Night of the Hawks (EP)

Jethro Tull – A Passion Play

Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland (2LP), The Jimi Hendrix Experience (8LP) I listened to Electric Ladyland many times at the library at Cal State University Northridge. Great stereo effects with headphones. The 8LP set has most of his well known songs – but versions that you probably haven’t heard before.

Jon and Vangelis – Friends of Mr. Cairo

Johnny Horton – Greates Hits (mono) – My dad had this album.

Iron Butterfly – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1968) My 9th grade algebra teacher would often put the main song on during the six minute passing period and sometimes wouldn’t start class until it was over – 17 minutes and 5 seconds later.

It’s a Beautiful Day – Marrying Maiden

Jean Michel Jarre – Chronologie Remix (EP), The Concerts In China (2LP), Zoolook, Magnetic Fields

Marice Jarre – Doctor Zhivago OST

Keith Jarrett – The Koln Concert (2LP) Many thanks to Rita who gifted this. Solo Concerts (3LP) Bremen and Lausanne

Jethro Tull – Aqualung (part of boxed set) This is the LP version of the Stereo mix Steven Wilson did. He later redid it “right” on the smaller boxed set (with no vinyl). At this time – it has never been played.

Kitaro – Asia, Full Moon Story, Silk Road, Tao

Klaatu – Klaatu, Sir Army Suit

David Lanz – Christofori’s Dream, Natural States (with Paul Speer) These are things I got originally on CD. Saw David Lanz live a couple of times – once at the Art Museum and then at the Intermediate Theater (now the Newmark). Nightfall Piano Solos

Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin When I was in Junior High – this record came out and everyone had a copy. Listened to it very loud many many times when the parents weren’t home.

Lemon Pipers – Green Tambourine (1968): I was never into this group – although the song Green Tambourine was a bit hit. Heard the song Through With You on deep tracks and decided I needed this album. Great sound from the era.

Lighthouse – I am the Morning A recent release with Gavin Harrison gusting on drums.

Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory, Road to Revolution (2LP live – Colored Vinyl)

Nils Lofgren – The Best

Loggins and Messina – On Stage (2LP live) A record from my past. Has a twenty minute version of Vahevala and a nice version of Angy Eyes.

Lorde – Pure Heroine

Lunatic Soul – Fractured (double Red vinyl)

Manhattan Trasfer - Vocalese

Manheim Steamroller – Fresh Aire, Freash Aire II, Fresh Aire III, Fresh Aire 4 Manheim Steamroller was one of the labels that produced high quality vinyl and excellent sound. They were in most audiophile record collections.

The Mariachi Brass – Hats Off Dawn recognizes the album cover from her youth. Sounds very much like Herb Albert’s Tijuana Brass.

Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins – The Prestige Sessions About my 4th Jazz album purchased in 2016. One side of this was recorded before I was born, and the other just after. The sound is awesome.

The Monkees – Headquarters Back in the late 60’s I had all of the Monkees records and would watch their TV show. This was an album where they finally got to play most of the instruments themselves in the studio.

Monty Python – Matching Tie & Handkerchief (3 sides)

Moody Blues – Long Distance Voyager, In Search of the Lost Chord

Mozart – Symphony 41 and Haydn Symphony 94, Great Men of Music (3LP)

Mr Mister – Welcome to the Real World

Anne Murray – New Kind of Feeling

Muse – The Resistance

My Fair Lady – Original Cast Album When my parents bought their first “stereo” back in 1962 – this is one of the albums they bought. I guess when they first hooked it up – one of the channels wasn’t working. A service man came and fixed it – and suddenly there were additional singers on one of the songs. I thought it was magic. I probably listened to this album 50 times when I was a kid.

Patrick O’Hearn – Between Two Worlds

Mike Oldfield – Airborn, Crises, Hergest Ridge, Moonlight Shadow (EP), Ommadawn, To France (EP), Tubular Bells, The Killing Fields I had most of these on vinyl.

OMD – English Electric

Tony Orlando – Dawn’s New Ragtime Follies

Alan Parsons Project – I Robot Another album I listened to a lot with headphones in the dark. Ammonia Avenue, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Edgar Allan Poe.

Pavarotti – Pavarotti’s Greatest Hits

Pearl Jam – Live at Melbourne Park Australia March 5 1998

Carl Perkins – Dance Album (clear blue vinyl)

Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls (EP)

The Piano Guys – The Piano Guys

Pineapple Thief – Where We Stood (double live with Gavin Harrison)

Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here Symphonic (Pink Vinyl) The title track has Rick Wakeman and Alice Cooper!

Bud Powell – Blue Note 1503 Volume 1

Porcupine Tree – The Delerium Years 1991-1993 (9LP). The Delerium Years 1994-1997 (8LP). Includes the albums Sky Moves Sideways, Signify and Coma Divine (live). Also includes additional tracks that were released on various EPs. Includes two mixes of Signify II on parallel groves – so it depends on where the needle sits down on which you hear.

Pretty Things – Cross Talk, Sorrow

Charley Pride – Greatest Hits

Primus – Green Naugahyde (2LP Green Vinyl), The Desaturating Seven (rainbow spatter vinyl)

Renaissance, Azure d’or, Illusion, Live (2 LP), Turn of the Cards

Savoy Brown – Greatest Hits (2 LP Live)

Bob Seger – Against the Wind, Nine Tonight (2LP live)

Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil

Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun (2LP)

South Pacific – Original Broadway Cast Another album from my parent’s collection from the early 60’s.

Square Dancing – The Fundamentals of Square Dancing (includes bonus 45)

Steeleye Stan – Now We Are Six

Supertramp – Crime of the Century. I remember listening to this album back in 1975 when I was renting a room from my friend Marty. Listened to this many times with headphones in the dark.

Synergy – Cords (clear vinyl)

Tchaikovsky – 1812 Overture (Telarc). This is a very famous LP. Everyone who was an audiophile back in 1980 had a copy. It was one of the first digitally mastered recordings. The dynamic range was well beyond anything ever heard on vinyl before. The groves in the record are spaced out further during the canon shots so that there is enough room for the full waveform. You can see the low frequency components of the canon shots with your eyes.

Tomita – The Tomita Planets

Tool – Undertow (2LP), Lateralus (2LP picture discs)

Toto – Toto IV

Triumvirat – Spartacus One of my all time favorite albums from the 70’s.

Robin Trower – BLT (with Jack Bruce and Bill Lordan) Jack Bruce is better known as the singer/bass player for Cream.

Vangelis – Albedo 0.39 ($1 Restore Special), Chariots Of Fire

Rick Wakeman – White Rock This album has been almost impossible to find on CD. I used to have it on vinyl and it was always one of my favorite Rick Wakeman albums. Rhapsodies is a double album I used to have – but have never seen on CD – so I have it again.

Joe Walsh – You Can’t Argue with a Sick Mind (live)

Weezer – Weezer

John Wesley – A Way You Will Never Be (2016) John played second guitar with Steven Wilson when Porcupine Tree toured in the 2000’s.

The Who – Tommy – Special boxed edition with guest stars – Lou Reizner production.

Steven Wilson – Hand Cannot Erase (2LP), Transience (2LP), Unreleased Electronic Music (2LP), Hapiness III (45), To the Bone (bone colored vinyl)

George Winson / Meryl Steep – The Velveteen Rabbit

Steve Winwood – Steve Winwood, Back in the High Life

Amy Whitehouse – Back to Black

George Winston – Winter Into Spring ($1 Restore Special)

Yardbirds – Roger the Engineer A re-release of their first album.

Yes – Yessongs (3LP live)

Kink – Lights Out KINK used to put together these collections and sell them for charity.

The First Great Rock Festivals of the Seventies (3LP) I had this title – and as far as I know it was never released on CD. Had three pieces I played a lot – by Hendrix, Mountain and Ten Years After. I initially heard the “Extension on a Chord” by Ten Years After on an AM radio station – tuning into the middle of it. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Took me awhile to track down the recording.