What are songs where people or instruments sound closer to you?

Grover Washington Jr’s "Winelight" album:

1. Winelight

2. Let it Flow

Both of those tracks have percussion and subtle acoustic guitar all over the place...great imaging. I have the original release and the Nautilus Super Disk versions on vinyl.

Sade "Best of Sade" has several great tracks... among them "Your love is King", "Hang on to Your Love", "No Ordinary Love".

James Taylor "Dad Loves His Work"

A silly track, barely over 2 minutes long, called Summer’s Here. About a third of the way in, a brief solo on a Hammond Organ sound like the damn thing got rolled almost to your listening chair. When I had Maggie 1.7’s it was almost startling. Fun tune!

Steely Dan "Kid Charlemagne" has a lot going on in it's soundstage. But then so do MANY of Steely Dan's and Donald Fagan's work.

@CuriousJim That’s where streaming comes in so handy...being able to sample an album before buying physical media.

My copy of "Dad Loves His Work" is a MoFi Superdisk CD. Sadly, I’m not that wild about most of the tracks on it, except "Her Town too" and "Summer’s Here". If I had streamed it first, probably would have passed on buying it.

I guess it works both ways though. I bought Boz Scaggs’ double album, "Dig" after hearing one track. Upon 1st listening, I only liked 2 tracks on the whole 2 disk set...disappointing! But, due to the nature of listening to vinyl, 1 side at a time, I got a real appreciation for 7-8 more tracks after "having" to listen to them because they were on the side where my early favorites were. If I had been streaming, it’s quite likely that I would have put the 2 early favorite tracks on a Playlist and never returned to revisit the rest. That whole album is one of my frequent players.

Ya never know