Beatles - Abbey Road
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up
Tomasz Stanko - Lontano
Gustav Mahler - Symphony 10, Birmingham Symph, Cond. Simon Rattle

2 rock, 2 jazz, 1 classical!

Gene Clark -- White Light
Byrds -- Notorious Byrd Brothers and Mr. Tambourine Man
Flying Burrito Brothers -- The Gilded Palace of Sin

Fifth would have to be a very long mix tape.

Looking through a box of LP's that's been in storage. Haven't played it yet (for years anyway). That was quite a trans-formative album blending traditional country and rock styles. Paved the way for the Eagles, Poco, and others. Sneaky Pete on pedal steel could rival Hendrix. Too bad the original lineup folded so soon.

Just a great album. Great music and lyrics, such as from My Uncle:

. . . . . .A sad old soldier once told me a story
About a battlefield that he was on
He said a man should never fight for glory
He must know what is right and what is wrong

So I'm headed for the nearest foreign border
Vancouver may be just my kind of town
'Cause they don't need the kind of law and order
That tends to keep a good man underground

It was surprisingly difficult when I tried.

Crosby Stills & Nash - Crosby Stills & Nash
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
Eagles - Desperado
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

That's some list!

1. The Band - Music From Big Pink
2. The Who Sell Out
3. Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues
4. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
5. Booker T & The MG's - Hip-Hug-Her

"Never Gonna Give You Up", and the Stones

With Victoria de Los Angeles, Jussi Bjorling, Robert Merrill. It's not stereo, but OMFG, what a performance and the audio is otherwise very good. A legendary recording where everything just came together with a cast thrown together at the very last minute.

Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Led Zeppelin - II
REM - Automatic For The People

Traffic- Low Spark
The Band - Last Waltz
Alligator Records 25th Anniversary.... So sue me. 3 disc retrospective
Black Sabath- Sabatage

When I was 15 KC MO Sandstone Amphitheater
1985 ish
Was just Dio then...
Didn't get to see Black Sabbath
Bummer

Ozzy on my list.
Still thinking!

I'm so old that I've seen Sabbath with 3 different singers.

I thought Dio was the best live but Ozzy made netter records...

In no particular order:

* Bach -- Goldberg Variations -- Glenn Gould 1955 recording.
* Puccini -- Tosca -- de Sabata and Teatro alla Scala with Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi.
* Mozart -- Le Nozze di Figaro -- Carlo Maria Giuliani and Philharmonia Orchestra with Eberhardt Wächter, Elizabeth Schwartzkopf, Giuseppe Taddei, Anna Moffo, Fiorenza Cossotto.
* Brahms -- Ein Deutches Requiem -- John Eliot Gardiner and Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra
* Mahler -- Symphony No 9 -- John Barbirolli and the Berlin Philharmonic

Subject to revision, but the top three, Bach/Gould and the Puccini and Mozart operas, would likely head any such list of mine.

Note: I no longer listen to popular music. There's no point in it when there is centuries of other music that goes well beyond loud electric guitars, bass, and drums. YMMV.

And you are correct. It is difficult to narrow it to five. (Note that two of my selections are whole operas which I choose to count as single disks even though that they are not. The Mahler Ninth is on two discs, which I also count as one.)

The Mahler Ninth alternates with the Karajan performance along with Barbirolli's reading of the Mahler Fifth.

The Brahms Requiem is very close to being pinned on this list, like the first three.

A second five would be a rather deep dive into music and might very well include some rather esoteric works (e.g., Alban Berg would likely show up). There also would likely be much more opera. Solti's Golden Ring would make an appearance, all fifteen CDs of it. (Yes, counts as one work, one disc. )

About that and get back to ya!

Led Zeppelin IV
The Who, Who's Next
Peter Gabriel, Secret World Live
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
The Beatles White Album

But in no particular order:
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
Black Crowes - Amorica
Pink Floyd - Animals
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud

That was a nickname given to me by a buddy when he saw pics of my past hair band days. Was in a room full of people and it stuck. I dig early Bowie, T-Rex, NY York Dolls, etc. but not really influenced by them.... More of a blues rock dude.