Albums you are truly obsessed with!

1. Pet Sounds--The Beach Boys

2. Basic Blues Magoos--The Blues Magoos

3. Trout Mask Replica--Captain Beefheart and his magic band.

4. Revolver--The Beatles

5. Freak Out!--The Mothers Of Invention

6. The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette--The Four Seasons

7. New Gold Hits--The Four Seasons

8. The Feel Of Neil Diamond-Neil Diamond

9. Van Dyke Parks--Song Cycle

10. Pyromania--Def Leppard

11. Sports--Huey Lewis and The News

12. Incesticide --Nirvana

14. Ride This Train--Johnny Cash

15. Partners In Crime--Rupert Holmes

16. The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn--Pink Floyd

17. Chicago Transit Authority--Chicago

18. Where The Happy People Go--The Tramps

19. The Power Station--The Power Station

20. Piece of Mind--Iron Maiden

21. Lick It Up --Kiss

22. Folsom Prison--Johnny Cash

23. Combat Rock--The Clash

24. Arthur--The Kinks

25. Absolutely Free--Mothers Of Invention

26. Frontiers--Journey

27. Odessa--The Bee Gees

28. Diamond Life--Sade

29. Bradley's Barn--The Beau Brummels

30. Whenever You Need Somebody--Rick Astley

31. 5th Dimension--The Byrds

32. Younger Than Yesterday--The Byrds

33. The Notorious Byrd Brothers--The Byrds

34. The Diving Board--Elton John

35. Warrior--Scandal

36. Clockwork Angels--Rush

37. Look At Us--Sonny and Cher

38. Strangers In The Night--Frank Sinatra

39. The Good The Bad and the Ugly--Movie Soundtrack--Ennio Marconi

40. The Thing From Another World--Movie Soundtrack--Dimitri Tiompkin

There is just so many.

 

Xanadu soundtrack
A New World Record
Magical Mystery Tour
Light Years
The Album
Tommy/Quad
Ziggy

Way too many really.

 

Currently it would be

Joywave - Content
Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm
Shy Boyz - 2 Horses
alt-J - Relaxer
Schoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions
Tech N9ne - Dominion
Collocutor - The Search

All getting heavy playtime.

 

Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left to Lose
Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie
Paul McCartney - Chaos and Crreation in the Backyard
Megadeth - Youthanasia
Megadeth - Rust In Piece
Megadeth - So Far, So Good, So What
Megadeth - Peace Sells, But Who's Buying?
Neil Young - On the Beach
Yes - Drama
Yes - 90125
Yes - Big Generator
U2 - Achtung Baby
U2 - Pop
Bob Dylan - Blood On the Tracks
Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
The Rolling Stones - Undercover
The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
The Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock and Roll
The Beatles - Help!
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Iron Maiden - Killers
Iron Maiden - Somehwere In Time
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Oasis - What's The Story Morning Glory?
Oasis - Be Here Now
Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth
Queen - A Day at the Races
Queen - The Miracle
Queen - A Kind of Magic
AC/DC - Powerage
AC/DC - Fly On the Wall
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Australian)
Prince - Dream Factory/Sign O The Times
Prince - Love Symbol
Prince - The Dawn (3 cd set covering 1993-1995)
Prince - The Gold Experience
Prince - Parade
XTC - Skylarking
XTC - Oranges and Lemons
Dream Theater - Fallign Into Infinity
Dream Theater -Systematic Chaos
Dream Theater - Awake
Dream Theater - Images and Words
ZZ Top - Tejas
Weezer - Maladroit
Weezer - Pinkerton
Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright In the End
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Smashing Pumpkins - The Aeroplane Flies High
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Ramones - Too Tough to Die
The Ramones - Road to Ruin
The Ramones - Subterranean Jungle
The Ramones - Halfway to Sanity
The Ramones - Animal Boy
The Ramones - Leave Home
The Kinks - Word Of Mouth
The Kinks - State of Confusion
The Kinks - Give the People What They Want
The Kinks - Misfits
The Kinks - Low Budget
The Kinks - Sleepwalker
The Jam - Setting Sons
The Jam - Sound Affects
The Jam - All Mod Cons
The Jam - The Gift
The Jam - The Modern World
The Style Council - Our Favourite Shop
Paul Weller - Wild Wood
Paul Weller - Stanley Road
Paul Weller - Paul Weller
Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
Paul Weller - As Is Now
Sloan - One Chord to Another
Sloan - Navy Blues
Sloan - Pretty Together
Sloan - Action Pact
Scorpions - Taken By Force
Scorpions - Virgin Killer
Slayer - Christ Illusion
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Rush - Power Windows
Rush - Hold Your Fire
Rush - Presto
Rush - Counterparts
Rush - Permanent Waves
Rush - Signals
Rush - Moving Pictures
Rush - Hemispheres


Ok, that's just off the top of my head and forgetting a LOT. Should I continue? lol....

 

Rush-Power Windows,Steely Dan-Aja, Styx-Cornerstone, Paul Davis-Cool Night, Journey-Frontiers to name a few.

 

And Private Eyes. Pretty much the perfect pop album.

 

Oh my god someone who absolutely loves fly by night! I always thought it was an underrated album. It is a very fun album to listen to, anthem, best I can, beneath between & behind, by tor on one side and fly by night, making memories, rivendell, in the end on the other side. Simple and great songs.
A few years ago I listened Velvet Underground and Nico every day btw.

 

there are so many.

dark angel - darkness descends

overkill - taking over

bathory - first 5 albums and Nordland I & II

onslaught - the force

satan jokers - trop fou por tois

venom - black metal

merciful fate - Melissa

Traffic - john barleycorn must die

and so many more.........................

 

At the moment, Quadrophenia. I don't generally like super deluxe boxes, but I'd love this one. Anyone want to sell me theirs for $40?

 

The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely (1992)
Luther Allison - Live in Chicago
Bobby Blue Bland - His California Album
Walter Trout - Unspoiled By Progress: 20 Years of Hardcore Blues
Harvey Mandel - Snake Pit

 

I can never get sick of these albums:

The Cure - Pornography
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Chet Baker - Baker's Holiday
Pat Metheny - Travels
Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Simon & Garfunkel - Concert in Central Park

 

Cocteau twins- Heaven or las Vegas
Black Sabbath- black sabbath
Bob Dylan- highway 61 revisited
Ryan Adams- 29
Ryan Adams- Cold Roses
Elvis Costello- Blood and Chocolate
Conor Oberst- Ruminations
Tom petty and the heartbreakers- Long After Dark
Tom petty and the heartbreakers- Hard Promises
Bruce Springsteen- Darkness on the edge of Town

 

Recently...
Paul Simon - Graceland
Les Goules - Coma
Charles Mingus - Cornell 1964
Nino Ferrer - Metronomie

 

I have not listened all my life to this pair of albums by Judas Priest from 1977 and 1978 but I have become somewhat obsessed with them these last few years. Recorded prior to arriving at their better known, commercially successful, stadium anthem incarnation, these two have me wonder what was going on in their heads as there are no obvious influences from which they descended. While listening I'll sometimes look over other hard rock releases of that year and years previous, contemplating how these albums came about as they are like strange, rare wines among factory beer. Or in archaeological terms, after years of Neanderthalis Hard-rockius discovering and examining the greater frontal lobe of Homo Sapien-Metallius.

 

I definitely agree. There's probably bits and pieces of various influences but hard to tell. Stained Class, when I heard that, sounded so unique and so fresh, still does after all these years. Sabbath may have been the first heavy metal band, but in my mind Judas Priest were the first HEAVY metal band: a major stepping stone for everything that came after.

 

I have at times been pretty obsessed in finding certain rare albums I've wanted but I can't say that I'm obsessed with any particular album once I have it. Lots of really wonderful albums mentioned here though.

 

What is obsessed?
I have 34 copies of Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols on vinyl, 10 on CD (one of them with the 80's long box), one cassette, and a DVD documentary on the record.
I am still buying.
I believe I am obsessed with this one.

 

Agreed

 

Surprisingly, Little Feat - Dixie Chicken.

 

Currently Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother and Genesis Trespass.Even though these have been out for forty seven years and I have been listening to music for forty years these two are relatively newcomers to me.

 

Chris Whitley- living with the law

 

My list would be huuuuuuge (LOL) so I'll go with my undisputed number 1: "The Doors" debut release "The Doors". I listen to it at least once a week on on multiple vinyl pressings of it as well as have it on CD and in MP3 format.

The Doors, Paul Rothchild, and Bruce Botnick created this masterpiece in under a week in the studio with few overdubs using a 4 track with 1 of those tracks reserved for overdubs. As Manzarek said on more than one occasion, this album was basically "The Doors live in the studio". They recording also has a powerful sound to it as it was competing with others in the era of "the wall of sound".

Overall, I'm in love with the simplicity of the recording process as much as the content of the record ....

 

I've been playing this on CD all week.

 

Hot Rocks, Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main St. - The Rolling Stones
Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon
Band On The Run - Paul McCartney
Listen Without Prejudice - George Michael
Achtung Baby - U2
KISS - KISS
Pyromania - Def Leppard

U.S. Rubber Soul, UK Revolver,
The Beatles Second Album,
Yesterday and Today,
Meet The Beatles, Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band- The Beatles

Led Zeppelin I, Led Zeppelin II and Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin

In The Wee Small Hours and
September Of My Years - Frank Sinatra

I Am What I Am - George Jones
Storms Of Life - Randy Travis