Nick Drake - Bryter Layter (1970)

The first Nick Drake LP I bought (around 1973) and the album that contains some of the late English singer-songwriter's brightest, most hopeful songs, plus three gorgeous instrumentals. Many of the pieces feature lovely string arrangements, and the melodies, especially the sublime 'Northern Lights' and the melancholy 'At the Chime of a City Clock', haunt your head for days after your first listening session.

I still have the LP (Pink Moon, too), a British pressing in fairly scratch-free state, though it's the excellent 4-CD box set, 'Fruit Tree', that sees a lot of player action these days.