How about a 'World Music' top 5 tracks?

Here's mine: (These all sound fabulous) When I play these to friends & visitors, they are blown away!

Song - Artist - Album

The Path From Gabou -Seckou Keita - 22 Strings
Mashua - Arauco Libre - Salamanca
M'Bifo - Rokia Traore - Bowmboi
Danny Boy - Christy Moore - Lament
Wiyathul - Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu - Gurrumul

Here are some of my favorites:
Buena Vista Social Club w/ Ry Cooder- Chan Chan
Manu Dibango- Soul Makossa
Michel Jonasz- Le Temps Passe, this has excellent dynamics
Michel Jonasz- Le Millenaire, this also has excellent dynamics
Ladysmith Black Mambazo- Amazing Grace

Got 3 of these- need to look up & listen to Michel Jonasz!

This is an impossible task, but here are five tracks that would make my Top 100 list:

• More Than A Feeling / Boston / Epic (Half-Speed Master) HE34186
• What Was It You Wanted / Bob Dylan / CBS OC 45281
• Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner) Leinsdorf, LSO / RCA LSC-2692
• Beginnings / Chicago Transit Authority / MFSL 2-128
• Fantasy on Two Folk Songs (Budashkin) / Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra / Mercury SR00310

Two more tracks that I often use were burned to CD for me by my late friend Tommy West. He made these recordings in his home studio, and he also played them for me there. They were never commercially released. One is a delightful, bouncy cover of "Bobalu's Wedding Day" and the other a take of "Girl of My Dreams," which sets my heart aglow every time I hear it. Tommy was extremely gifted and I miss him.

Here are a couple more favorite tracks/songs that I listen to:
Civil Wars- Bille Jean (Unplugged)
Black Pumas- Fire
Robert Plant- Darkness, Darkness
Might Sam McClain- Long Train Runnin
Sade- Soldier of love and The Moon and the Sky

Great thread! Thanks all, keep it going...

Have Discovered some great (new to me) music from this thread- hope you have listened to mine :-)

Here is 5 more: Song - Artist - Album

From The Beginning - Emerson, Lake & Palmer - The Essential
Thirteen - Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City
Alicia Ross - Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers
Keep it Out of Sight - Dr. Feelgood - I'm A Man (Best of The Wilko Johnson Years 1974-1977)
Wandering Eye - Fat Freddy's Drop - Based On A True Story

These also sound great turned up LOUD!