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1) all Rhino reissues cut by Chris Bellman, Doug Sax or Bernie Grundman.

2) Boris - Amplifier Worship 2LP

3) Nick Drake box sets

4) Dream Theater - Dramatic Turn of Events 2LP (US press)

5) Testament - Dark Roots of Thrash 2LP

6) Devin Townsend - Epicloud 2LP and Z2 4LP

7) Casualties of Cool - Casualties of Cool 2LP

8) all Steven Wilson records (except for Fear of A Blank Planet - has distortion in vocals)

9) Opeth - Heritage 2LP and Pale Communion 2LP

10) Opeth - Still Life 2LP (reissue)

11) Carcass - Surgical Steel 2LP 45RPM

12) The Beatles - Love 2LP

13) Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve 45RPM 2LP reissue 

14) Beck - Morning Phase LP

15) Massive Attack - Mezzanine 2LP reissue

16) Katatonia - Night is the New Day 2LP

17) Sigur Ros - Kveikur 2LP, Valtari 2LP and INNI 3LP

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Double Nickels On The Dime by Minutemen

 

My Double Nickels sounds really good as well. During songs like "Cohesion" and "History Lesson, Part II" I feel like I'm hangin out with Mike Watt.

 

Also, my copy of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly soundtrack from Black Friday RSD last year. Sounds awesome.

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Truly outstanding to me:

 

Weezer. Blue Album /MoFi

Smashing Pumpkins. Adore /recent repress

Converge. Jane Doe /2010 repress black 45rpm

Brand New. TDAG /mov black & clear

Tim Hecker. Harmony in Ultraviolet /2009 repress 45rpm

Max Richter. Blue Notebooks /recent repress

Wolves In The Throne Room. Two Hunters /black OP

Pianos Become The Teeth. Keep You /black Euro 180g

Philip Glass. Solo Piano /2014 MOV 

Dismemberment Plan. Emergency & I /2011 repress

My Bloody Valentine. m b v

Beach Boys. Smile Sessions /2011 Box

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The Get Up Kids--On A Wire

Brand New--Your Favorite Weapon (blue first press)

Boston--Boston

Weezer--Weezer (blue album MoFi reissue)

The Murder City Devils--Empty Bottles, Broken Hearts (pink vinyl, first press)

The Wednesdays--Invisible Youth

The Dexateens--Red Dust Rising

Wax--13 Unlucky Numbers

I also second that I've yet to come across ANY Wilco vinyl that doesn't sound great

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The Wombats- This Modern Glitch. When I took it out of the sleeve it looked and felt like a great solid made record. Played it and oh man, first few notes where so crisp, along with the whole album, fell in love with it even more lol. And with that I'm expecting their new album to sound just as amazing when it ships next month, along with me hoping their first album gets pressed some day so I can hear it's amazingness too!

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Brand New - Daisy (digitally recorded don't mean ***, well mastered and mixed does)

Rx Bandits - Gemini

The Catherine Wheel - Ferment

Dead Prez - Let's Get Free

Failure - Fantastic Planet

Cake - Prolonging the Magic

Finch - Say Hello to Sunshine

... about any post-millennial album really.

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I saw nirvana-nevermind ORG mentioned earlier.  it should be noted that the currently available pressing for less than $30 uses the same plates and is pressed at the same plant as the famed ORG pressing of nevermind.  It is the definitive best sounding pressing of nevermind and much cheaper than you'll find the ORG.

 

and thanks for the tips on that counting crows record, its been on my nostalgia hit list and good to know I should focus on the AP 2x12" at 45rpm pressing (seems obvious, but sometimes they're duds)

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Wow, thanks for the replies everyone! This is sick!

So further adding on to this theme.... has there been any song or album you discovered you liked MORE once you heard it on vinyl?

For me, this applies to If These Trees Could Talk. "The First Fire" was always my favorite song, but when I finally got my copy of Red Forest on vinyl, and I got to "They Speak With Knives", the vinyl sound spectrum offered with this song's dreamy bed of delay-soaked guitars opened up a wholllle new world for me.

Same thing happened with "Hand of the Host" by Isis off of "Wavering Radiant". Hall of the Dead had been my favorite song from that record, but when I heard the bass breakdown at the end of "Hand of the Host", it was a fucking game changer.

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