If you could only keep 5 Lp vinyl which ones

*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?

5 copies of Kind Of Blue, ah ? No Coltrane - Love Supreme ?

WOW, lots of good album here that i haven't put on in years. I will put some on this weekend. My collection is somewhat small approx. 2000 LP's
Jazz is really my thing so here it goes:

Miles (Kind of Blue)
Duke Ellington (Jazz Party in Stereo)
Patricia Barber (Cafe Blue 45rpm)
Billie Holiday (Lady in Satin) Not recommended if you are on suicide watch.
John Coltrane (Blue Train)
And for the non Jazz in me:
Alyson Krauss (Forget about it)

Beatles: Abbey Road
Allman Bros: Live at The Fillmore
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Joni Mitchell: Blue
Jeff Beck: Guitar Shop (groove on the cool album cover while listening to the music)