If you could only keep 5 Lp vinyl which ones

White Stripes - Under Great White Northern Lights (live)
The Pixies - Death to the Pixies (live)
The Birthday Party - It's still Living (live)
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie
John Spencer Blues Explosion - Damage

Sneaking in... (I'm sure you said seven?)

BRMC - BRMC
Nirvana - Nevermind

* Best of the Brady Bunch
* Partridge Family -- Greatest Hits
* Alan Sherman -- My Son the Nut
* The Brindski Family -- Let's All Polka
* Kukla, Fran, & Ollie -- Let's Be Friends

Okay, so this time for real.....

* Sonny Rollins -- Way Out West
* Cat Stevens -- Teaser and Firecat
* Grateful Dead -- American Beauty
* Duke Ellington -- Live at Newport
* The Allman Brothers Band -- Live at Filmore East

*Grateful Dead---Working Man's Dead
*Ry Cooder---Paradise and Lunch
*Nitty Gritty Dirt Band---Dirt, Silver and Gold(3 LPs-not fair)
*Talking Heads---Little Creatures
*Rush---Moving Pictures

Also agree with Thick As a Brick provided it's the original Reprise. I will always buy a clean one of these when I find it. Don't care if I end up with ten.

I only have 3,000 LPs so my task is MUCH easier than Elizabeth's. While jazz is my overall favorite category, I must choose for variety. And that means samplings from several styles:

*Miles -- Kind of Blue (this would be #1 no matter how many I got to choose)
*Brubeck Quartet -- Carnegie Hall Concert (includes hits from Time Out plus more variety)
*NGDB -- Will The Circle Be Unbroken
*Beethoven Nine Symphonies -- von Karajan/BPO (1962 recording, hey, the records came in one album box!)
*Beatles -- Sgt. Pepper (or Rubber Soul or Revolver)

Now, where are Monk, and Mingus, and Bach, and Coltrane, and Zappa, and Talking Heads, and Mozart, and Simon, and KD Lang, and Satchmo, and Dolly, and, and, and?