Albums you are truly obsessed with!

yeah, rather than just list my favourite albums I thought I'd name one that I really have a fixation with..it's something in the atmosphere, lyrics and above all some great tunes.

 

The first album i ever owned has been a consistent ever since.

 

Watch the film on you tube, You'll see. Right as Pete gets on stage he enters in an unusual way, Hint Hint

 

The topic of this thread is "Albums you are truly obsessed with" not "What albums do you listen to weekly"

 

Beach Boys - L.A. Light Album
Jayhawks - Smile
Jackson Browne - Late For The Sky
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
Five Easy Pieces - Five Easy Pieces
Steve Forbert - What Kinda Guy?
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Wallflowers - Red Letter Days & Breach
Fast Times At Ridgemont High Soundtrack

 

Lol, I'm not sure, pssst. I learned quickly not to post a poll here, you misspell something or don't put something down that folks don't agree with, and its like throwing a chunk of meat to wild wolves, dayaum!

 

The Jeff Beck Group - Rough and Ready

I'm guessing not many folks even in this obsessive forum can do a shootout of 3 or 4 masterings of this one. And now there's a new quad Japanese SACD to check out...

Runner up would be the Stone Roses debut, since I bought the mega deluxe box, and that cd singles box that came out in the early 90's.

 

Johnny Gunn / Don Ralke ‎– Introspection IV
Sunn O))) ‎– Monoliths & Dimensions
The Residents - Not Available
Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs
Brian Eno - The Ship
Captain Beefheart - The Spotlight Kid
Blaine Reininger - Night Air
Stravinsky – Petrushka (Boulez / NY Philharmonic)
Boris - Smile
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Trans

 

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue and Miles Smiles
Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
Burning Spear - Social Living
The Jam - Sound Affects

 

I can't believe I forgot to list Pygmalion, I've been completely obsessed with that album forever.

 

Yes! Tons of them, as a matter of fact!

Yes! All of them, really.

Oh.

I've got nothin'.

There's no way I'd listen to something weekly even for a few months.

 

Again, I say: it was in a figurative language, somehow I just wanted to reinforce I didnt want just favorite albums, but the ones you listen the most since the very first listen.

Anyway, the albums I listed, I listen to, if not weekly, every other week.

 

A few weeks ago, I would have told you All Things Must Pass. But now, it is most certainly DSOTM

 

I very purposefully never listened to particular albums a lot more than others. I figured out when I was very young that listening to anything too often not only had the effect of making me like it less, but it had almost a Chinese water torture effect on me. That's the case regardless of how much I like the music in question. And it's the case not only for particular songs or albums, but particular artists and genres. If I even hear stuff in the same genre all the time it drives me crazy. I don't know why it has that effect on me, exactly, but it does.

So starting from a very young age, I've always played music systematically, with a balance of (a) maximizing variety,while (b) enabling me to hear something just often enough to learn it/for it to grow on me, and (c) slightly biasing favorite artists so that I hear them more than others, but not too much. If I like an artist, I'll collect their entire discography, and I'll play everything in their discography equally.

And in fact, as a musician myself, I feel the above strongly enough that it's even dictated my career path. I've steered myself towards maximum variety. As much as I love the Rolling Stones, and as much as I'd love Charlie Watts' money, if I had to play "Satisfaction" that many times over the course of 50 years I would have shot myself . . . or shot someone else. Anything to avoid hearing the same thing over and over.

So the only thing I'm obsessed with is variety.

 

Boz Scaggs - Moments
Flying Burrito Bros - Gilded Palace of Sin

 

I love that album!

 

Leonard Bernstein & The New York Philharmonic/"The Rite Of Spring"

 

U2 Achtung Baby
Love it from the time it came out

 

Brand X - Moroccan Roll
Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour 74
Santana - Moonflower
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Deep Purple - In Rock
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
Allman Brothers - Fillmore East
Rainbow - On Stage

 

not that I listen to them regularly anymore,but when ever I do they thrill me like they used to do.

1.muswell hillbillies-the kinks(my favorite album of all time)
2.raw power-Iggy and the stooges (greatest rock n roll record ever made)
3.after the gold rush-Neil young
4.taking tiger mountain(by strategy)-brian eno
5.legendary hearts-Lou reed
6.car wheels on a gravel road-Lucinda Williams
7.neon golden-the notwist
8.sweetheart of the rodeo-the byrds
9.rough mix-Pete townshend/Ronnie lane
10.the infotainment scan-the fall
11.shake some action-the flamin' grooves
12.wrong way up-brian eno/john Cale

 

Only trying to post albums that haven't been mentioned; yet still luv today to hear all the way though, often!:

"Remember the Future - Nektar"
[luv ceedee made it even more like 1 song]
"Kapt. Kopter and the (Fabulous) Twirly Birds"
[layers of guitar solos & even great 'Beatles' covers]
"Distortions - The Litter"
[only picked up a K-Tel CD cause original LP is so expensive just had to hear it/Arf! Arf! CD is even better w/'live' cuts]
"Electric Ladyland - The Jimi Hendrix Experience"
[don't luv all the songs/especially could do w/o Noel's number/still great taking a trip w/Jimi tho]
"Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath"
['coke' induced 'ear bleeder' for sure/yet luv the 'Spacey Metal' tone(s)]
"Goat's Head Soup - The Rolling Stones"
[not "hard"/yet the all over the place takes me on an enjoyable R&R journey]
"S/T - Montrose"
[burning/glad Steve did a gold disc]
"Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols"
[raw searing "Pop"/the more songs the better/especially w/the 'free' 45]
"Morning Dove White - One Dove"
["Trip Hop" masterpiece]
"Mixed Up - The Cure"
[kinda cheating/new song is 'killer' tho]
"S/T - Bad Company"
[solid "Rock Pop"/Steve did a gold disc]

 

Bitches Brew

 

None at present but at one time it was Nevermind, Electric Ladyland & Kind Of Blue.

 

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Astral Weeks
Communiqué
Deja Vú
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Eat A Peach

 

Just Joking:

Time to change the avatar too!!