Everybody’s Top 5 - Vinyl

unreceivedogma, If you hadn't mentioned Baxter's and Sandy you would have been permanently on my sh-t list. Is it RT's dark sense of humor that you don't like? Listen to or watch 1000 years of popular music. Listen to RT play the bass and melody lines simultaneously. Jorma is a brilliant folk guitarist. RT is frigging unbelievable. 

My top fifteen; some are chosen for SQ, some for musical merit over SQ.  No Jazz or Classical here...that would be too tough!

The Band - The Band (their pinnacle for both)
Ry Cooder - Jazz (Paradise And Lunch has better songs).
Jimi Hendrix - Rainbow Bridge (I'd pick Axis for music, but RB has way better sound)
Grateful Dead - Blues For Allah (Side 1 medley takes all cakes)
Little Feat - The Last Record Album (you want bass?)
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame (Apocalypse for SQ)
Joni Mitchell - Hejira (Blue for music)
Van Morrison - His Band & Street Choir (Moondance is better, but SQ lacking)
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet (Let it Bleed toss up)
Rod Stewart Gasoline Alley (I have a Polydor set of his 3 1967-1970 LPs on a clean UK pressing)
Talking Heads - Remain In Light (pure genius)
Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues (best blues album evah!)
Neil Young - Harvest
Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo (has it all)

Many of my favorites have been mentioned...hear are a few more.( pun intended)
Gato Barbieri.Latin America vol 4. Alive in New York
Wayne Shorter/ Milton Nasceimento.
Native Dancer
Don Cherry/ Steve Lacy. Evidence( all Monk tunes)
King Crimson.......Discipline....plus everything else they have ever recorded
Talking Heads. . Remain in Light.....Speaking in Tongues
And not on the turntable, but streaming on spotify, from South Korea, a modern/ ancient group....Lee Nal Chee. Their entire cd is great!!!

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Fly By Night
Tres Hombres
Phenomenon
Montrose
Get Your Wings
Machine Head
Rock & Roll Outlaws
Bridge of Sighs
Sad Wings of Destiny 

Pat Metheny Group
Romantic Warrior
Heavy Weather
The Köln Concert
MF Horn II