Your favorite LP nobody has ever heard of


I prefer threads that talk about music than gear...and here is one. I assume everybody has a "go to"LP in their collection. A record that has formed a deep connection. A record you are protective of. A record you want to keep to yourself. A record so personal it hurts to reveal. For me it is... the Church...the Blurred Crusade.
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Mine would be the first Warren Zevon LP, "Warren Zevon". His debut album is wonderful.

This is, indeed, a great record--one of my favs--but it's not actually his first. That would be Wanted Dead or Alive from 1969, re-released on Pickwick in 1979, which is when I found it. A bit rough in places, but one can readily hear the artist he would become.
Mine is the eponymous LP by Skip Battin, bass player for the Untitled Byrds, released in 1972 on Signpost Records. It's filled with great, quirky songs co-written with Kim Fowler, and features Clarence White and Roger McGuinn, among others. I stumbled across it in 1974 and it's been in rotation ever since. Seems nobody's heard of this one--for some reason it just sank out of sight.
It's worth checking out, Mofi, if you're into Zevon.

Typo correction in my Battin post above: should read Kim Fowley, not Fowler. He's actually same guy who started producing Zevon's first LP and then walked out in frustration, as per the link Mofi supplies.