What was your favorite album/albums? You could play them over and over and never get tired of them.

[debm55]

Mine was After the Goldrush by Neil Young
EDITED to add albums.

[lisa58]

1. What a great album - I have favorites of each favorite artist

James Taylor: New Moonshine
Beatles: Let it Be
John Lennon: Imagine
Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Waters

and I second After the Goldrush

[debm55]

2. I also liked Sweet Baby James

[lisa58]

4. Can't argue with that -

[notdarkyet]

3. Good choice

So many..picking in a godda da vida

[ByebyeTrump]

5. Great idea for a thread.

Dark Side of the Moon,on a crappy lil Sony Walkman that would just flip it ,and play it all night while I slept my 3 or 4 hours. Yup the alarm clock part was my check the clock and get up to study or kick back for another round.

[bullimiami]

6. That's a good one. Trick of the Tail. Wind and Wuthering. Sheer Heart Attack. UFO Force It.

I’m sure there are many more but those come to mind real quick.

Probably all Zeppelin until Houses of the Holy.

[cos dem]

11. A fellow Genesis fan! I like it.

Probably Foxtrot for me, but those are great choices too.

Not to mention DSOTM. I don't listen to it as much as I did 35 years ago, but when I do put it on, it's still great. Likewise with Wish You Were Here and Animals.

[mopinko]

7. stevie wonder- hotter than july.

pretty much any old stevie, but that 1 came out just as i took a ride on a rocket.

[Earl_from_PA]

8. Three Dog Night

Hard Labour

[MerryHolidays]

9. Anything by the Fab Four

But especially Meet the Beatles, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles (aka the White Album), and Abbey Road.

That's just for starters!

[pdxflyboy]

10. Dark Side Of The Moon

N/T

[First Speaker]

12. Three especially come to mind--Kind of Blue...

...an obvious pick, even a cliche...but cliches are cliches for a reason. Also--Mingus' The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, and Oliver Nelson's Blues and the Abstract Truth.

[OilemFirchen]

13. Quadrophenia

Pet Sounds
Exile on Main Street.
Leonard Cohen Live in London
Taj Mahal The Real Thing
Van Morrison It's Too Late to Stop Now
... and a hundred others.

[ARPad95]

14. The Joshua Tree by U2, Achtung Baby by U2, Rattle and Hum by U2, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

by U2...

Okay, I'll just say all U2 albums.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

15. Obviously DSOTM and Wish You Were Here, lotta Zeppelin and Beatles Albums

Some other all-time faves:
Carole King - Tapestry
Rush - 2112, Moving Pictures
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street, Some Girls
Yes - Fragile, Close to the Edge
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic, Rocks
Van Halen - Van Halen, Van Halen II, 5150
Elton John - Captain Fantastic
R.E.M. - Literally every IRS release and Automatic for the People
INXS - Kick
The Cure - The Head on the Door, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, Disintegration
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
The Replacements - Let it Be, Tim, Pleased to Meet Me
U2 - Boy, War, Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby
Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fear
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Uncle Tupelo - Still Feel Gone, Anodyne
Son Volt - Trace, Wide Swing Tremolo
Wilco - Being There, Summerteeth, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Sky Blue Sky
Steve Earle - Guitar Town, Copperhead Road, I Feel Alright
Goo Goo Dolls - A Boy Named Goo
Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
Jason Isbell - Southeastern
Arctic Monkeys - AM
Beck - Sea Change, Morning Phase
The War on Drugs - Lost in a Dream
CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe, Every Open Eye

Starting to realize I could do this all day lol ...

[CTyankee]

39. tapestry- YES!

A musical highlight of my life (in one time in my life).

Isn't it funny that we can assign a song/album to a time/episode/moment in our lives so perfectly?

[Wounded Bear]

16. Guess I would have to go with Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel...

It has the distinction of being the first album I purchased in multiple different media: vinyl, cassette tape, CD...

First new music for each new technology as I upgraded.

So much good music from their early folk-rock sound.

[Mr.Bill]

17. Meddle - Pink Floyd

L.A. Woman - The Doors

Let it Bleed - The Rolling Stones

White Album - The Beatles

[Fiendish Thingy]

18. Most Beatles albums, but also:

Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
Odessey & Oracle by The Zombies
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
Band On The Run by McCartney
Tapestry by Carole King
Headquarters by The Monkees
Songs In The Key Of Life by Stevie Winder
All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
C’mon C’mon by Mary Chapin Carpenter
Life On Planet Eartsnop by Myracle Brah (amazing power pop!)

And more recently (this century),
The Way I See It by Raphael Saadiq (great 60’s - 70’s soul vibe)

Turn it up and Try and listen to this without dancing around the room:

[LakeArenal]

19. Rubber Soul, God Shuffled His Feet, Van Morrison Greatest Hits#1, Every Picture Tells A Story.

[sakabatou]

20. The Cowboy Bebop OSTs

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

21. The Koln Concert, Keith Jarrett

[Chipper Chat]

22. Errol Garner: Concert By the Sea.

And any album by the
Manhattan Transfer.

[Chainfire]

23. I never seem to tire of Santana's live at Tanglewood performance.

Dark side of the Moon, Bookends, Led Zeppelins early stuff.

[ProfessorGAC]

24. A Few From Back In The Day

Yessongs, Aladdin Sane & Pin-Ups (Bowie), Mott, Desolation Boulevard, Deep Purple Made In Japan, Black Sabbath 1 & 4, Trilogy (ELP), Layla...
More recently, Beat (King Crimson), Surfing With The Alien (Satriani), Stop Making Sense, Calm Animals & Reach The Beach, & all the Police albums.

[Tikki]

25. So many over a life time. So far this year 2023.. Goodnight Neanderthal by GEE TEE.

Year is just near half and there are always new albums being released.



Tikki

[Auggie]

26. Equinox by Srgio Mendes

My art teacher played this in class when it was released. Still like creating with it.

[rurallib]

27. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

other Beatles at 2, 3, 4, 5 (Rubber Soul, revolver, Abbey Road. Let it Be)

Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits, Rolling Stone High Tide and Green Grass, Buddy Holly Greatest hits

[Jeebo]

35. I'll second Sgt. Pepper's ...

I grew up in the 1960s and bought every Beatles album that came out except Revolver because I wasn't able to come up with the three dollars that it cost. Three dollars was a LOT of money for me at the time because I had no source of income except the fifty cents a week allowance my father gave me. But somehow I managed to come up with the three dollars to buy all the others, and in 1967 at age 17 I started working at a greasy spoon and had a little of my own money then. I still have those old Beatles albums I bought then. Yes, I know they would be worth a lot of money now if they were in good shape, but they're not in good shape. Sgt. Pepper's is the only one that I actually wore out, and I mean THOROUGHLY wore out, and sometime in the 1980s I had to buy another copy. I repeat, it's the ONLY record album I've ever worn out to the point where I had to buy another copy of it. And as I recall, at sometime in the past two or three decades it was voted the best album of all time.

-- Ron

[Conjuay]

28. Court and Spark

But I could never play an album over and over.

[Wolf Frankula]

29. I have several favorites

Can't Buy a Thrill by Steely Dan,
Passion Play by Jethro Tull,
Blows Against the Empire by Jefferson Starship
Surrealistic Pillow and Bark by Jefferson Airplane
Countdown to Ecstasy by Steely Dan.

And many more

Wolf

[applegrove]

30. Soundtrack to "Hair" the movie soundtrack. "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac

[bedazzled]

31. Operation mindcrime ... queensryche

They were prophets...

[hay rick]

32. Rubber Soul, Aja, The Captain and Me, Indianola Mississippi Seeds...

Lots more if I thought about it more...

[yellowdogintexas]

33. mine: (at least the ones which come to mind)

Tapestry
Rumours
4-Way Street by CSNY
Steely Dan (I have a boxed set which is my Road Music)

[electric_blue68]

34. from The Who, U2, Springsteen, Patti Smith Group

Who's Next/Tommy/Quadrophrenia

Achtung Baby/No Line On The Horizon/E&I

Born To Run/Darkness On The Edge of Town/Magic

Radio Ethiopia/Easter/Dream of Life

Luckily all these were original vinyl, or CD's. If some had been tapes they might have broken from such repetition!😄

All these artists I'd played sections of all their other recording over, and over, too


As for The Beatles: probably from Meet The Beatles through The White Album were played pretty incessantly
😄
The last 2 not as much


When I moved to a very small place I had to leave like 150 - 200? albums So I had a good amount

[RockRaven]

36. I'm not sure I'd answer the same for "favorite" & "play-over-and-over-w/o-getting-tired" but

when it comes to indefinitey repeated consecutive listening... I'd go with Led Zep IV or U2 The Unforgettable Fire

[N.I.4.N.I.2023]

37. Difficult decision

Cactus 1, Santana 1 2 & 3

[Emile]

38. 'Abbey Road' THE BEATLES

[Niagara]

40. Here we go:

1. The Cars: The Cars, Shake It Up


2. Loverboy: Get Lucky, Keep It Up, Lovin' Every Minute of It


3. Rick Springfield: Hard to Hold, Working Class Dog


4. Def Leppard: Pyromania, Hysteria


5. AC/DC: Back to Black, The Razor's Edge


6. Billy Idol: Billy Idol, Rebel Yell


7. Nirvana: Nevermind


8. The Doors: The Doors, Absolutely Live, Soft Parade, L.A Woman, Waiting For The Sun

* Someone on DU once claimed that Jim Morrison didn't have much a vocal range. Jim was an untrained distinctive baritone, he could sing at E2, which is extremely difficult range for some tenors. He also reached B2, G4, A4, B4, D5, B flat 5 (which again is difficult for most male singers) , and D5. Definitely an underrated vocalist.

[Trailrider1951]

41. Hejira - Joni Mitchell

Songs from the Wood - Jethro Tull
Vangelis Direct - Vangelis
Apurimac II - Cusco
Watermark - Enya

Yeah, I like a lot of very different stuff.

[Doc_Technical]

42. Selling England by the Pound- Genesis

Benefit- Jethro Tull
Quadrophenia- The Who

[lastlib]

43. Moody Blues, On the Threshold of a Dream

Masque - Kansas
Hemispheres - Rush
Seventh Sojourn - Moody Blues
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Autobahn - Kraftwerk
Boston - Boston
Turn Of A Friendly Card - Renaissance

...to name a few.....