Top 5 cd recordings of all time?

Here are my nominees for five top jazz cd's:
1. Jeremy Davenport on Telarc
2. Monty Alexander "Echoes of Jilly's"
3. The Charlie Byrd Trio "au courant"
4. Leroy Vinnegar "Walkin' the Basses"
5. The Alan Broadbent Trio "Pacific Standard Time"
Here's a bonus in the country division: Merle Haggard "If I Could Only Fly" highly recommended even for non-country fans. Beautifully recorded.

Hard to argue with Floyd also Steely Dan's entire output is great musically and in terms of production,the MCA remasters from '99 onwards are superior to the previous CD versions.
Early Roxy Music stuff too now available on HDCD.
David Sylvian's recent Everything and Nothing compilation.
Also the Queen early stuff still stands up.
PJ Harvey's Songs From The City,Songs From The Sea-great modern rock recording.
Most old Jazz recordings sound great due to the simplicity of the actual recordings, most things by Miles,Coltrane,Mingus and Monk etc.
There are too many great recordings to isolate into 5.

Ben

I have to agree with Mejames on the Pink Floyd. The Harvest import is much better if you like that album. Here are five recordings that I think are superbly recorded:
1. Charles Lloyd, the Water is Wide
2. Steve Davis, the Quality of Silence
3. the Goldberg Variations, performed by Ito Ema on M*A
4. Euforia on Mapleshade
5. Shoji Yokouchi, Greensleeves on Cisco
These are all Jazz except for the third one, which is so exceptional I highly recommend it.

Mikey Fremer would say that there are none!

However, here are mine, in no particular order:

Tanita Tikaram...Lovers in the City
Emmylou Harris...Wrecking Ball
Gladiator...soundtrack, full volume!
Paul Simon...The African Concert (LD)
Laura Smith...Between the Earth and My Soul

steely dan Katy Lied, Royal Scam, Aja

Hogwood Academy Ancient Music Handel pieces

Miles 60's QUintet boxset