If you could only keep 5 record albums, what would they be?

I suffer tremendously from paralysis of analysis, so it would take me weeks/months to whittle down to 5 records to keep. That said, I'm going to change my rules for replying, so I can not waste too much time thinking about it.

If the house was burning down and I have time to grab 5 albums TODAY, I would pull the following from my record shelves:

Pete Townshend - "White City - A Novel"
The Tubes - "What do you Want From Live"
Supertramp - "Brother Where You Bound?"
dada - "Puzzle"
The Jayhawks - "Hollywood Town Hall"

and if my wife could carry 5 more of my records through the burning house, I would give her:

World Party - "Goodbye Jumbo"
The Who - "Who's Next"
Elvis Costello - "Spike"
Robben Ford - "Robben Ford and the Blue Line"
Rush - "Hemispheres"

If I wasn't in a hurry and had more time to think I might............ ;~)

A Hard Day’s Night (Beatles, UK Stereo)
Pet Sounds (Beach Boys, 90’s stereo mix)
The Inner Mounting Flame (Mahavishnu Orchestra)
Goldberg Variations (Bach/Glenn Gould, 1981 )
Late Quartets (Beethoven/Guarneri Quartet)

Lets see...5...

1. A Clockwork Orange- It's got some good synthesizer music (I normally don't seek it out, but if we are on a spaceship, tumbling through the cosmos, it might come in handy when the martians get us). And of course it's got Ludvig's 9th!

2. John and Yokos 2 Virgins- put the cover over one of the windows. that'll scare most of the martians. Might be better NOT to play the album, never know what it might attract.

3. Blood Seat and Tears

4. Motown- Temptations or Miracles. Something to take me back to the days of being a kid, grinding on the pretty girls.

5. Gram Parsons- the Grievous Angel

1. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
2. Dizzy Gillespie - The New Continent
3. Oliver Nelson - Jazzhattan Suite
4. Baden Powell - Canto On Guitar
5 - OK, I’m going with Rubber Soul for my Beatles selection

I know it won’t be very popular. And you could argue the US version or UK, I guess.