Everybody’s Top 5 - Vinyl

Definitely, first on the boat would be:

1. A Date with The Everly Brothers (this LP influenced them all- Beatles, Beach Boys…)

2. Beethovens Ninth

3. Nashville (soundtrack)

4. Santana (first LP. Difficult to find a well recorded copy)

5. Thelonious Monk

wish I could take a few more. Sometimes life isn’t fair. 

Out of 6,000 LPs? Really a useless question. The choices change from month to month, depending on mood, though I suppose some remain near the top most of the time. 
Nevertheless here goes, with 11:

- Sandy Denny: The North Star Grassman and The Ravens
- Tim Buckley: Live at The Troubadour
- Laura Nyro: New York Tendaberry
- Pergolesi: Stabat Mater (I have a dozen interpretations of this)
- Frederick Rzewski: Coming Together 
- Jefferson Airplane: After Getting Stoned on Acid (After Bathing at Baxter’s)
- Max Roach with Abbey Lincoln: We Insist! Freedom Now Suite
- John McLoughlin: Devotion
- Henryk Gorecki: Symphony #3
- Aaron Copeland: Appalachian Spring 
- Mark Almond Band: eponymous 

In no particular order, but 5 of my favorites so far... I've purchased about 100 records since my wife bought me a record player last Christmas and haven't listen to them all yet. Probably will feel differently once I listen to some others.

PJ Harvey; To Bring You My Love

Desaparecidos; Read Music/Speak Spanish

Nine Inch Nails; The Downward Spiral

Underworld; Beaucoup Fish

Odesza; In Return

I know I’m supposed to like Richard Thompson.

And I do, as a person.

I listen to his work on his own, rarely.
I listen to his work with Fairport once a month.

All you rock n rollers! Educate your mind and get some jazz!