Definitely in spirit which was the intent.
Just watched The Gay Divorcee circa 1935 (?) a couple of nights ago. Hard to not focus on him with Ginger and Fred in the mix.
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Journey - Infinity is one of my old favorites. The Journey CDs from that era also have the dubious distinction of being almost unlistenable on my Hi-Fi.
Great in the car with the windows down and the volume up, but an aural assault at any real volume on the big rig.
If you have any CD or SACD re-issues that you can recommend, I am (will be) all ears.
Cheers.
The Gay Divorce is one of my wife’s favorite films from the Astaire-Rogers era.
Somebody has to be the outlier, or at least on the tail end of the curve.
Which is how I usually listened to it in the day and it stills sounds best today. Infinity is the worst. I’ve not found anything better than the original release but it’s still a favorite.
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I always enjoy listening to the first Dire Straits album. Aside from some burnout from Sultans Of Swing due to overexposure, I think all of the songs are great. Sound quality is good too. The album cover seems to echo Nighthawks by Edward Hopper, to me. I find the range of album cover art over the years to be astounding.
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Like other folks here, there are so many in my library that fall into this category. Interesting to read some of the lists. Many albums with which I’m not familiar, which is a good thing! 
Here’re a couple that first came to mind.
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Another one that’s recently floated to top of mind, probably because it’s appeared in a lot of peoples’ playlists over the last few days, at least here in Australia, is a collaboration between composer Nigel Westlake and singer and songwriter Lior Attar called “Compassion”. I think it fits the subject category because all 7 tracks are best heard in there entirety. I find playing the album soothes the troubled spirit.
If you’ll allow a little indulgence, the background story to its creation is interesting. You can read about it here but just in case the link doesn’t work for you, here’s the gist of it.
Nigel Westlake’s son Eli was killed in road rage incident back in 2008. He was just 21.
A year later, Nigel Westlake was at a fundraiser event in Eli’s memory, when he heard Lior perform Avinu Melkeinu, an ancient Hebrew hymn that speaks of compassion as leading to a sense of freedom. For Westlake it began a healing process.
“Having found myself locked in a state of pathological grief for the past 12 months, incapable of finding my way in music or much else actually, that night when I heard Lior sing that song, I felt an awakening. An urge to be part of something bigger than myself.”
Westlake got in touch with Lior to ask if he could create an orchestral backing for the hymn. It was when they took the idea to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, that they realised that this would be something much, much bigger than they had first imagined.
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