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Pink Floyd:Dark Side Of The Moon. When I first heard it I had an Olympic 8-track player and it was perfection. I now listen to it on SACD through a rather sophisticated system and it is still perfection.

The Who: Who's Next or Quadrophenia—take your pick, they both stand the test of time. DSOTM would have to be considered too.

Ray Charles: Crying Time. Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue. Neil Young: Harvest Moon.

Tom Russell: The Man from God Knows Where

The Angel in the House by the Story.

Neil Young Live at Massey Hall. Sheer bliss.

Haircut 100: Pelican West. Great from start to finish.

Fairport Convention : What We Did On Our Holidays (released in US as Fairport Convention). Listen to the LP on a high-end system.

Got to go with I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You by Aretha Franklin. Not only is she lining up the classics, but it's her breakthrough album as well. And what a breakthrough it is!

Self-effacing to the point of being audacious, in that they manage to occupy a unique and, for me, fascinating musical niche using very traditional tools, The Clientele's God Save the Clientele is without flaw. Same for The Trash Can Sinatras' I've Seen Everything. I'd like to cite a Shack album, as their work is equally successful to me, but part of their magic is including the odd low point as the exception to, and proof of, the brilliance of the many high points.

Harbour of Joy. A two-CD Camel Tribute album featuring Glass Hammer (USA), Evolution (UK), Cast (Mexico), Algebra (Italy), etc. Excellent!

Aja, period.

Time by Michael Smith.

Genesis: Selling England by the Pound

Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms. Mark Knopfler: Sailing to Philadelphia.

Steely Dan´s Aja. All compositions first rate. Every little arrangement high in quality, all along the record.

Talking Heads: Speaking in Tongues

Lila Down's works, especially the older ones, Anthony & the Johnsons' second, Lhasa by Mark Lanegan, there is a lot of talent around, trouble is to find it in the mass of average pop mass production

Kind of Blue, needless to say, by Miles Davis.

Vocalese by The Manhattan Transfer.

Dave Brubeck: Jazz at Oberlin

There are many select albums by various artists of the 1960s and early 1970s, but the masterpiece is the Beatles remastered Stereo box set.

Tool: Aenima

Tom Petty: Wildflowers

U2: The Joshua Tree. There is a reason this album put U2 on the cover of Time. Every song is exceptional. There are some real gems on the album that didn't and don't get a lot of radio play time. The remastered 180 gram vinyl is a Record 2D4!

Rush: Moving Pictures. Genesis: Selling England By The Pound. Yes: Close to the Edge. King Crimson: Red. David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust.

Tapestry by Carole King

Jimmy Cobb Quartet: Jazz in the Key of Blue

Off the Wall by Michael Jackson/Quincy Jones.

The Smiths (first album)