Albums you are truly obsessed with!

Chill...the OP eluded to "weekly" in the post.

 

Ah...forgot Making Movies.

 

Led Zep II, sealed.

 

James Taylor - Sweet Baby James and Getz/Gilberto

 

Beatles stereo White Album.... It's my go-to CD in my car.

 

Grand Funk Railroad (young n’ foolish-13)
The Feelies
Fila Brazillia
The Shins
My Morning Jacket
The War On Drugs
Squeeze

 

great topic for a thread BTW!

 

Not just Allman Bros. "Fillmore East" but "Elizabeth Reed" from that album. I get a little shaky if too much time passes without Elizabeth in my life.

 

What about movies that you can easily wacth thousands of times without getting tired?

Alien (1979) is one of them for me, love every second.

 

I look at a lot of these posts, many of which mention what are regarded as classic albums and realise that I don't listen to those as much now. I've been finding a lot of what is to me obscure stuff (SECONDS OUT), Jessica Pratt's two albums, Pan American, Charlie Rouse, School Of Seven Bells, Beautify Junkyards, the 'English Weather' compilation, Sigur Ros's VALTARI....I don't if these will be albums that I'm obsessed with, but I'm finding I'm happier with leaving the old favourites behind. This may be temporary, but even REVOLVER may now be too familiar for me, which I can't believe I'm writing. It's like I'm finding these above mentioned albums at the right time...weird.

 

Zappa's "Sleep Dirt"
Steven Wilson's "Hand. Cannot. Erase."

 

Beatles
Revolver
Second Album

Rolling Stones
Exile
Sticky Fingers

Black Crowes
Southern Harmony

Counting Crows
Recovering The Satellites

If I can have these forever, I'm good.

 

Quicksilver Messenger Service. -- ' What about me and Just for love.
Five Live Yardbirds
Lightnin Hopkins. -- Blues in the bottle. (most of his actually)
Beatles. -- Abbey Road and White Album
Blue Cheer. -- Vincibus Eruptum

 

I sometimes have short-term obsessions where I repeatedly play a particular album or, more often, a few albums by a particular artist for a few weeks or a month or so before it fades, and I get fixated on a particular song now and then. I probably played "Fired Up" by Titus Andronicus on repeat every time I drove to or from work for like a month. And I have a LOT of favorite albums that I play more often than other stuff.

But I don't think I have any longterm obsessions where I play one album super-frequently (once a week, once a month?) across years or decades. A lot of the lists in this thread include great albums, but I'd go bonkers if I listened to the same 20 things all the time.

Also, I avoid letting myself get too far into the rabbithole of old favorites when I've got an appalling amount of stuff on my New Things That Need to Be Played shelves.

 

I've been obsessed with Leonard Cohen's You Want It Darker since the day it was released.

 

Boards of Canada- Geogaddi

 

Blind Melon's Soup! Great reissue on vinyl. RIP Shannon !

 

Except that the original post defined "albums you are truly obsessed with" as those you listen to at least once a week. I'm truly surprised that so many people listen to so many albums on a weekly basis. I go through periods of obsessive listening to various albums and groups (early last year I listened to nothing but Cousteau for several months), and there are many albums I return to regularly over the years--but each and every week for decades? Not for me.

 

'Obsessed' with?

Donald Fagen: The Nightfly

Azymuth: Telecomunications, Light as a Feather, Outburo, & Cascades

Pink Floyd: Meddle

Black Sabbath: 1, 2, 3.

King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King

CSNY: Deja Vu

Zep 4

 

Nick Drake - Bryter Later
Queen - Queen II
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe

 

Hmmm---I understood your original post more literally, and have been shocked at how many people have replied with long lists! In any event, I tend to obsess on an album or artist in periods lasting between a week and (as in the case of Cousteau I mentioned above) several months, during which I listen daily to little else but that artist. I then tend to give those artists/albums a fairly long break (though I'm still returning to Cousteau's albums pretty often). For that reason, I can't really choose any albums that fully fit your pattern.

To some extent, I find myself most likely to return obsessively to the same several classical compositions when I'm in my classical phases (such as Brahms's first piano concerto or fourth symphony, or Shostakovich's second string quartet), but those often involve various performances of those works by different artists, so even that doesn't quite match your criteria.

 

Frank - songs for swingin lovers
Miles - kind of blue
Talking heads - more songs about buildings and food
Elvis - my aim is true
Richard and linda - I want to see the bright lights
Warren zevon, self titled
Joe jackson - look sharp
Ccr - chronicle
Rockpile - seconds of pleasure
The beatles - abbey road, revolver, rubber soul
Bob marley - legend

 

Exactly.

 

Real Cool!!