The album you've listened to the most

[Tangram]

OK, we have a thread on the album that you like the most. Is that album the one you've given the most plays? Probably most of is listened to more music in our late teens through mid twenties and probably discovered prog then. But is your fav something you discovered later in life but haven't listened to it as much simply because you don't listen to as much music anymore?

For me, they match, Pink Floyd's DSOTM and WYWH. To round out the top five, Tangerine
Dream's Underwater Sunlight, Genesis' 3 Sides Live and a nonprog at 5, Elton John's Blue Moves.

Your Turn

[Gruno]

Kevin Gilbert's thud. Since November, I have had multiple listens per day -- every day.

[Modry Effekt]

Oddly i have listened this more than anything.I use it for work out.

[Rarebird]

It's pretty hard to answer that one. Perhaps Maximising the audience by Wim Mertens, basicly because I started to play it all over again, as soon as I had played side 4.

[PeterG]

I've got about a dozen that I've played to death since the 70s and still listen to, so impossible to answer really.

[GuitarGeek]

Back in the day, I might have said either Double Platinum, Queen's Greatest Hits, Hot Rocks, Seconds Out, Relayer, Electric Ladyland, Animals, Tangram, Encore, Rubycon, American Beauty (or actually, more likely one of the Dead shows I had in the early 90's), Levitation, or Space Ritual.

These days, though, I'm careful to not listen to any one thing to often. There was a point in the mid 90's, where I realized the reason I lost interest in certain records was because I listened to them too often. So I listen to something now, then I probably won't play it again for a couple weeks or more.

[bob_32_116]

I haven't kept a count of course, so it's only a guess, but I think the album I have listened to the most number of times all told is Elton John's self-titled.

[PeterG]

I reckon it would be easier to do by the albums I was listening to most in each decade

70s
Neil Young - Harvest
Queen - News of the World
Hank Williams - greatest hits
Buddy Holly - greatest hits

80s
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Bob Marley - Legend
Led Zeppelin IV
The Stranglers - Greatest Hits
Bruce - The River
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps

90s
Cardiacs - Songs for Ships and Irons
Cardiacs - Heaven Born and Ever Bright
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Squeeze - 45s and Under

00s
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Cardiacs - Songs for Ships and Irons
Cardiacs - Heaven Born and Ever Bright

10s
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Cardiacs - Songs for Ships and Irons
Cardiacs - Heaven Born and Ever Bright


This may however all change tomorrow

[Lopez]

Strawbs - Bursting at the Seams
The Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers
The Move - Shazam
Spirit - Spirit
Los Straitjackets - 'Tis the Season for Los Straitjackets (can't get enough of surf-side Christmas tunes)

and for honorable mention: The Three Hanks - Men with Broken Hearts

[BobM]

I reckon it would be easier to do by the albums I was listening to most in each decade

Yes, that would make more sense for me as well:

70's
- Fragile
- Tales From Topographic Oceans
- Thick As A Brick
- various Allman Brothers

-80's
- Lamb Lied Down on Broadway
- Seconds Out
- Animals
- The Wall

90's
- probably more jazz than prog
- Thud & other Kevin Gilbert stuff

2000's
- I would say I started to listen more to newer prog bands, and loved quite a few of them, but not one in particular that stands out entirely

[Camelogue]

Thick as a Brick.

As a 13 year old I probably listened to it twice a day for months!

[nosebone]

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

As a 11 year old I probably listened to it twice a day for months.

[Garden Dreamer]

Thick as a Brick.

As a 13 year old I probably listened to it twice a day for months!

TAAB and Humble Pie's "Smokin'" were two of the first albums I bought, along with Chicago II and Yes' "Fragile". While I tended to listen to Chicago II and Fragile less as the years went on because of song overplay on classic rock radio, TAAB and Smokin' are two albums I have never tired of 40+ years later and I have listened to them consistently since they first came out, maybe a few times/year.

[walt]

Jethro Tull-Benefit

[rcarlberg]

Easy pick for me: The Rotters Club (by a mile...)

I played it so many times I could hear it any time I wanted in my head.

[No Pride]

It's pretty hard to answer that one.

Impossible, at least for me. I'd have to make something up. How can you know the answer to that unless you've kept records of how many times you've listened to your favorite albums?

These days, though, I'm careful to not listen to any one thing to often. There was a point in the mid 90's, where I realized the reason I lost interest in certain records was because I listened to them too often.

Same here, except for the "mid '90s" part; I think I stopped playing certain albums to death about 10 years prior to that. If I've heard an album TOO many times, I get to the point where I can't enjoy it anymore, no matter how great it is. Maybe that's weird, I don't know...

So the best I can do in answer to this thread is to pick 10 albums that I once listened to a lot (sorry!). I'm not even sure if they're the ones I've listened to more than any others, but then again, who cares?!

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
XTC - Oranges and Lemons
Bruford - One of a Kind
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's
Genesis - SEbtP
Gentle Giant - TPatG
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
The Doors - Strange Days
RTF - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy

[klothos]

Rush - Moving Pictures
Pink Floyd - The Wall
E.L.O. - On The Third Day, Eldorado
ABC - The Lexicon Of Love
Klaatu - 3:47 EST
Yes - Fragile
Front 242 - Front By Front
Frontline Assembly - Tactical Neural Implant
Duran Duran - Rio

[PotatoSolution]

When I really like an album, I actually try not to listen to it too much, so I don't get sick of it.

In my lifetime, I'd guess the most-listened to album is probably The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

Here is a fun fact: I've seen The Lamb performed live in its entirely three times, but never by the actual band that created it (I was there for the legendary Kevin Gilbert performance in '94, I saw the Musical Box, and Nick D'Virgilio's live tribute).

[mogrooves]

Overall: probably Charlie Parker - The Complete Savoy Sessions

Rock Division: probably one of the first three Hendrix LPs.

[Reid]

Dregs-Unsung Heroes
Zappa-Shut Up...
Mike Keneally-Sluggo
Pat Metheny-The First circle
John McLaughlin-Belo Horizonte
Phil Keaggy-The Master And The Musician

[Blah_Blah_Woof_Woof]

Brain Salad Surgery and Physical Graffiti

[progeezer]

Love - Forever Changes
Love - debut s/t
Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstasy
The Who - Quadrophenia

[zombywoof]

A Passion Play

[Gruno]

ABC - The Lexicon Of Love
Duran Duran - Rio

Excellent!

Here is a fun fact: I've seen The Lamb performed live in its entirely three times, but never by the actual band that created it (I was there for the legendary Kevin Gilbert performance in '94, I saw the Musical Box, and Nick D'Virgilio's live tribute).

Although I don't own the Genesis album, The Lamb seems to creep into my life here and there, for some reason. I opted not to go to the '94 performance that Kevin did. I was present (at least in the building) when Musical Box did the Lamb and when NDV did his tribute performance in Whittier. I have grown to accept more of the Lamb as the years have passed, but I will never fully warm to the original.

[Yaman Aksu]

Either one of the 4 Fish-era studio albums by Marillion or the live album Alchemy by Dire Straits.
99% of all those particular listens took place in the last century, and at least 95% took place in the 80s.