Pink Floyd - The Wall
Queen - Live Killers
Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk
Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Bob Dylan - Love And Theft

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Laibach - Kapital
Yes - Fragile
Primus - Frizzle Fry
Iron Maiden - Powerslave

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Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Depache Mode - The Singles 86&gt;98 (I know it's cheating, but it's all great)
NIN - The Downward Spiral
Yazoo - You and Me Both
Metallica - Master of Puppets

Agree with 4Rings that it's tough to pick just 5. I'd probably give you 7 different answers depending upon day of the week. Here's my Monday picks...

1) John Coltrane - Blue Train
2) VanKarajan/BPO 1963 reading of Beethoven's 9th
3) John Hartford - Aeroplane
4) Beatles - Revolver
5) Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours

Glad I get to pick 5 more next year... ;-)

Beatles Abbey Road,Pat Metheny This is Home

Joni Mitchell - Blue
Bach - Brandenberg Concertos (o.k., 2 albums...)
X - Los Angeles
Joan Osborne - Relish

#5 was really tough. The contenders were
The Cure - 17 Seconds
Aimee Mann - Whatever
Richard &amp; Linda Thompson - Pour Down Like Silver

The winner - Richard &amp; Linda, cause "Night Comes In" would be perfect on a desert island.

let alone, be able to generate my own power from coconut husks. ;-)

and 2nd you on Pink Floyd.

If longer, I'd need more than five.

Thelma Houston &amp; Pressure Cooker
Leonard Cohen - Ten New Songs
Patricia Barber - Cafe Blue
Do'a - Ancient Beauty
Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills - Super Session

The performance of <a href="http://store.acousticsounds.com/browse_detail.cfm?Title_ID=11360">I've Got the Music in Me</a> is almost unbelievable.

With good speakers, the imaging on Cohen's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ten-New-Songs-Leonard-Cohen/dp/B00005Q45W/ref=sr_1_7/103-0905273-9827049?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1182980552&sr=1-7">Ten New Songs</a> and Barber's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Caf%C3%A9-Blue-Patricia-Barber/dp/B0000634I2/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/103-0905273-9827049?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1182981139&sr=1-2">Cafe Blue</a> is breathtaking. Both have small club acoustics.

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Doa-Ancient-Beauty/dp/B000008F4U/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-0905273-9827049?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1182981455&sr=1-1">Ancient Beauty</a> is a casual listening instrumental ... with percussion that'll strain the transient response of the best audio equipment.

I'm showing my age with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Super-Session-Michael-Bloomfield/dp/B000002A9Z/ref=sr_1_6/103-0905273-9827049?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1182981720&sr=1-6">Super Session</a>, a '68 recording (now available on CD) that was included with the vinyl version of The Butterfield Blues Band's East-West, another great recording. "Season of the Witch" is an amazing cut.