Okay, I started this, I guess I should tell mine. According to my wife I'm impossible to buy music for, so I guess the best gift of music I ever got was the first one: Christmas 1977 and my parents gave me my first "stereo," an all-in-one receiver, turntable and 8-track player with separate speakers. It served me well until I bought my first set of components in 1983 (of which I'm still using the Sony turntable, a PS-454). But the best music gift was not the music, but the means to play it. Coming in second was the year I gave my wife a list of composers I was interested in. She picked Morton Feldman's name out at random and gave me "For Philip Guston" (California EAR Unit, Bridge Records 4xCD) and "The Ecstasy of the Moment" (Barton Workshop, Etcetera Records 3xCD). After working my way through that much stillness, I got on a Husker Du jag that I couldn't shake for about four months... William Crump