Everybody’s Top 5 - Vinyl

@gochurchgo cool picks. napalm death and pulse demon (!) im a Scum guy myself when it comes to ND but pulse demon would be my merzbow pick as well (w/caveat ive only heard like 15 merzbow releases out the 400 or whatever). love your list 

10 of my favorite records 

Santana Abraxas
Freddy Fender Before the Next Teardrop Falls
Ted Lucas s/t 
Derroll Adams - Portland Town
Sonya Spence - In the Dark
Sam Cooke live at the harlem square club 
Ash Ra Tempel - New Age of Earth
Midori Takada - through the looking glass 
Willie Colon & Hector Lavoe - Lo Mato
Townes van zandt live at the old quarter 

10 more personal favorites

Marvin Gaye - in our lifetime 
Sade - diamond life (in reality i'd pick every Sade. just perfect records, undefeated discography imho)
The best of john fahey on takoma. maybe i just lucked into an especially nice copy but this record is the closest to "he's literally right there in front of me" i've ever gotten from an acoustic guitar lp, and i've got a few 
Los Mirlos - los charapas de oro
Badfinger - straight up
Black Flag 82 demos bootleg lp
Ahmad Jamal - tranquility 
Mingus Black Saint and Sinner Lady
Gato Barbieri - latinoamerica vol. 1
Don Cherry - brown rice