Everybody’s Top 5 - Vinyl

Royal Ballet  RCA 6065-45
Art Pepper, Meets the rhythm section   APJ 010-45
Pink Floyd, Dark Side  30th Anniv. Ed. 2003
Carole King, Tapestry   Classic Record 45rpm.
The Who, Live at Leeds,  Classic Records

Music:  Dark Side of the Moon;   Maynard Ferguson,  Live In New York;  Zappa, Apostrophe/Overnight Sensation.  Jean Pierre Rampal:  Jazz for Piano and Flute.
Recording quality:  Rosie O'Grady's Good Time Jazz Band, D to D from Orlando.  Sheffield D to D:  Harry James, Coming From A Good Place.  Sheffield D to D:  Thelma Houston, Pressure Cooker.   Charles Lloyd: Forest Flower  (As far as I remember). 

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!!!