Everybody’s Top 5 - Vinyl

[in alphabetical order]

If I Could only Remember my Name    David Crosby
The North Star Grassman and the Ravens   Sandy Denny
Blonde on Blonde         Bob Dylan
Sibelius   The Symphonies     Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Vanska
Shut up and Play your Guitar     Frank Zappa

Clearthinker - most people have no idea who Sandy Denny was talking about tragic. My favorite work with her at the helm would be Liege and Lief. After about 1/2 hour of Shut Up my eyes start to cross. I guess I prefer Zappa's solos in the context of his songs. He gets so technical sometimes the sole is missing, the mirror image of Duane Allman. I do love Uncle Meat and Burnt Weeny Sandwich. Call Any Vegetable probably has his most famous guitar solo.  

Thanks for the response @Mijo

Here in the UK Sandy was far bigger than stateside.  She was born in Wimbledon where I grew up, just a couple of years older than I.  Her brother was at my school.
I agree about Liege and Lief.  I listen to it often.  It is Fairport's masterpiece and perhaps the centrepiece of folk-rock because it retains the folk idiom in a way that, say, Mr Tambourine Man does not.
It would be in my next 5 if OP had permitted.  But listen to Grassman again - it showcases her wonderful voice in a way L+L cannot, as well as some wonderful quiet introspective songs.

Zappa is surely by far the most under-rated rock guitarist of all time, tragically taken as he was about to break further into the world of serious orchestral music, financed by his rock career.  I take it you have heard the orchestral releases?

Hi mijo
Another thing about Yellow Shark is the brilliantly tight sound quality on a stock CD.  Utter pleasure to listen.

Those guys played because they were paid.  But I do hope they enjoyed the sessions.

Frank's orchestral music was modern but it is far more approachable than almost all the 'modern' 'classical'.  Strange isn't it that all his orchestral recordings are instantly identifiable as Zappa.  No-one else could have written or arranged them.

Yes Richard Thompson is big everywhere now but his golden years ended with Fairport.