Which 5 albums do you think you've listened to most during your lifetime?

[bigjohnwayne]

Echolyn: As the World
Wilco: Summerteeth
Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Genesis: Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
King Crimson: The Great Deceiver

[MudShark22]

The question was the five that you played the most in you lifetime. You hit the nail on the head about less choice. Unless you worked at a record store, radio station or grew your collection some other way, it would likely have to be albums in the years when you were broke and had few albums in your collection and all the time in the world to play them. Now that I have thousands in the collection and access to streaming, youtube, etc. there is no way a single album can approach the number of plays of albums you had in your teenage and early adult years.

That's why my choices in post#12 go all the way back to my parents stuff, music as a gift, or my early purchases w/ my own cash.

I wont call Hot August Night my fave album + but there is no doubt about how many time I heard it! LOL

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[Klonk]

There's definitely more, but I know I wore out each one of these...

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Rush - Moving Pictures
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

[Moribund2]

1) Jesus Christ Superstar
2) The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
3) Subterannea - IQ
4) In Absentia - Porcupine Tree
5) Stars Die - the Delerium Years - Porcupine Tree

Honorable Mention:
Two for the Show - Kansas

[thedunno]

For me it also has to be the albums from my teens untill early twenties. I had little money to spend on music back then so the albums I did own I played a lot. Of those albums there are only a few that I still regulary play. These would qualify:

Queen 2
Sergeant Peppers
Vdgg - pawn hearts
Cardiacs- a little man
Rush - A farewell to Kings

[Superfly]

There's some guesswork here, but I'll trust my old Ipod play count as a guide.

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
The Beatles - Revolver
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
Depeche Mode - Violator

Honorable mentions,
IQ - Dark Matter
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell

[FrippWire]

Frank Zappa / Over-Nite Sensation
King Crimson / ITCOTCK
Talking Heads / Remain In Light
Steely Dan / Aja
Mahavishnu Orchestra / Visions Of The Emerald Beyond

[Bake 2]

Could be a few that tie some of these for the number of plays, (Soft Machine 1, Miles Davis Jack Johnson, Lark's Tongues, Massacre Killing Time, Tyranny and Mutation, McLaughlin Devotion, Kraan Live) never kept a log:
Can - Future Days
FZ - Hot Rats
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
The Who - Live at Leeds

[EBES]

The question was the five that you played the most in you lifetime. You hit the nail on the head about less choice. Unless you worked at a record store, radio station or grew your collection some other way, it would likely have to be albums in the years when you were broke and had few albums in your collection and all the time in the world to play them. Now that I have thousands in the collection and access to streaming, youtube, etc. there is no way a single album can approach the number of plays of albums you had in your teenage and early adult years.

That gets us into areas which bypass personal choice, actually. Given that (a) I didn't leave the house much until I went to college and (b) my dad has extremely limited and repetitive taste, whereas I tend to hop around a lot, my #1 might be Enya's Memory of Trees and my #2 might be Don Henley's Greatest Hits (the one where he's a used car dealer on the cover). It felt like those two things were all he played in the house for about eight years, and I can't stand either to this day.

[BravadoNJ]

A Night At The Opera- Queen
Point Of Know Return- Kansas
90125- Yes
Breakfast In America- Supertramp
Out Of The Blue- ELO

[hippypants]

The question was the five that you played the most in you lifetime. You hit the nail on the head about less choice. Unless you worked at a record store, radio station or grew your collection some other way, it would likely have to be albums in the years when you were broke and had few albums in your collection and all the time in the world to play them. Now that I have thousands in the collection and access to streaming, youtube, etc. there is no way a single album can approach the number of plays of albums you had in your teenage and early adult years.

Well, there are a lot of factors actually: age, when you were born, economics too, etc. Starting out, I didn't have many albums, but my first one I got was for Christmas and it was The Beatles '65 album, which I'll still play from time to time. I also got: Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass' Whipped Cream & Other Delights, and Johnny Rivers' Realizations (still a great album), and I'll play those from time to time too, but not as frequently as I may play the first Crimson album, or Genesis' Lamb Lays Down, or Bob Dylan, etc.

[dang]

Ziggy Stardust - Bowie
Todd Rundgren's Utopia (The first one with The Ikon)
Queen II
Private Eyes - Tommy Bolin
Topographic Oceans

[alucard]

Zappa : One Size fits all
Joni Mitchell : Hissing of the Summer Lawns
Randy Newman : Little Criminals
John Coltrane : Atlantic Years 2 LP
Steely Dan : Aja

[nosebone]

Back in my teens:

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny & Mutation
Angel - s/t
Dixie Dregs - What If
Bruford - One of a Kind
Frank Zappa - Sleep Dirt

[mozo-pg]

Back in my teens:

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny & Mutation
Angel - s/t
Dixie Dregs - What If
Bruford - One of a Kind
Frank Zappa - Sleep Dirt

As a teenager, I loved, and still do, Sad Wings Of Destiny. It's simply a brilliant metal statement with prog undertones. I haven't played it in a long time but it's close to my heart. I had my parents' speakers outside our cottage in front the beach, blaring this album in the mid-1970s. I just think everything works on this album. Searing guitars, compelling vocals, etc.

[Camelogue]

When I was young my oldest sister had Led Zeppelin 4, Thick as a Brick, Tommy and John Barlycorn Must Die - I listened to each one multiple times every day for a year.

I don't think I could ever catch up with that.

Fifth one might be Masque by Kansas that I listened to a lot in my teens.

As an adult I'd have to think about it for a while.

[chalkpie]

Crazy guess:

Rush Hemispheres
Rush Moving Pictures
Zappa Joe's Garage
Zappa Roxy and Elsewhere
Tull Thick as a Brick
Tull Songs From the Wood

These are definitely in the running.

[Progatron]

It would probably be fairly run of the mill choices for me, stuff that I loved as a kid/teenager and still listen to now like Genesis and Rush. There's no comparison later in life for those first big musical loves. Those were the days of literally wearing out LPs and cassettes from playing them so often. Even the amazing stuff I discovered later on in my 20s and beyond simply can't compete with the likes of Genesis and Rush because they had so much of a head start.

One wildcard album I will throw in as a potential candidate however is Sonic Temple by The Cult. I worshipped that album when it came out and never really stopped playing it, even into my prog and jazz discovery periods. Something about that album has magical properties for me.

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

H'mmm. For a couple of years I played either a few sides of Chicago's original Carnegie Hall box, or else all of Jesus Christ Superstar, just about every day after school. So there are my almost certain numbers 1 and 2, with Chicago taking the #1 spot because I still listen to it -- or would if I hadn't gotten the 16-disc box, so the original is now going to gather very nice dust.

Then... Probably my next obsessive listen was Quadrophenia, then The Lamb Lies down on Broadway.

My most recent "obsessive listen" would be the Magma Trilogie au Trianon, so there's number five.

[StarThrower]

IQ: Road Of Bones
Supersister: Present From Nancy
Supersister: To The Highest Bidder
Soulive: Next

[Tanglewood Grey]

YES- Fragile or Yes Album
EMERSON LAKE & PALMER - s/t debut
CROSBY, STILLS & NASH S/t debut
BLACK SABBATH - Paranoid
OZZY OSBOURNE - Blizzard Of Ozz
IRON MAIDEN Number or Powerslave
LED ZEPPELIN - II or Houses of the Holy
JETHRO TULL Aqualung
DREAM THEATER - I & W
RUSH - Permanent Waves or Moving Pictures
GRATEFUL DEAD - American Beauty, Blues For Allah
ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Eat A Peach, At Fillmore East

Uh, impossible for me to pick just five, but it would be any of these.
Some I used to have on vinyl or cassette, but have now been updated to cd.