10 sonically best rock recordings ?

just a little note re the "Who's Next" recommendations:
please find the Steve Hoffman (of DCC fame) thread over in the rock music forum at Audio Asylum. a very very interesting read for fans of this seminal work

greggr

p.s. of course i ordered the canadian pressing as soon as i could find it!! (this will make sense after you read Steve's comments)

Here's a few that'll blow your mind!;

Queensryche~Empire (DCC Gold Version)
Yes~Fragile (East/West Japan HDCD re)
Led Zeppelin~III (East/West Japan AMCY-2433)
Def Leppard~Hysteria (MFSL UDCD Gold)
Rush~Moving Pictures (MFSL UDCD Gold)
Los Lobotomys~Candyman (S.Lukather/S.Phillips of TOTO)
The Who~Whos Next (MFSL UDCD Gold)...definetely!
U2~The Joshua Tree (MFSL UDCD Gold)
Robin Trower~Bridge of Sighs (24bit extended remaster)
the list goes on, but I'll stop here with my top recommended's, and fav's!

i was in costco today and saw a Petty anthology that was subtitled "through the years". it's a 2 cd set and has a picture of him playing a guitar on the front cover. is this the anthology that is recommended becasue of superior sonics? it evidently is being released by a subsidiary (UTV Records) of his record company (MCA/Universal). i was hesitant to buy it when i saw that there was a label on the front that said "as seen on TV"...takes me back to the good old K-Tel days where they offered us TV viewers the rare opportunity to purchase compilations of the Guess Who, Monkees, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, etc., etc.

thanks for the help.

gregg

Yes this is remastered by Bob Ludwig and sounds great. The early albums master tapes were not great so those songs have limited improvement, but all songs from "Dam the Torpedos" to present have never sounded better.

I have also mentioned elsewhere that "Dam the Torpedos" and "Hard Promises" his two best albums are available remastered from the same sessions with Bob Ludwig.

Pink Floyd The Wall Doug Sax remastered
Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother Most improved CD I have ever heard
Pink Floyd More
Pink Floyd Ummagumma
The Very Best of Jethro Tull Remastered in 2001 w 24 bits. Very natural, smooth. The cuts from Aqualung are the best ever! Much better than any MoFi or DCC version! They should remaster the whole catalog!
Al Stewart Year of the Cat great sounding CD
Neil Young Comes A Time
Neil Young - Most Neil Young CDs are excellent sounding, but some are grainy and distorted. He promised to remaster the entire back catalog and release DVD-Audio discs. Anniversary version of Harvest to be released soon!