What are the Top 5 albums you've listened to the most?

[DrewJD82]

Hmm, I know it’s neck and neck with everything under my initial top 3-

Dream Theater- Scenes From A Memory
Steve Vai - Fire Garden
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell/PULSE
Eric Johnson- Venus Isle
Pantera- Official Live: 101

AIC should be on that list but I never had a favorite album, I loved it all equally and they got just as much play as anyone on that list, much like Faith No More.

Was just listening to Venus Isle this morning, hugely underrated on the production side.

 

[FuzzyAce]

Hmm, I know it’s neck and neck with everything under my initial top 3-

Dream Theater- Scenes From A Memory
Steve Vai - Fire Garden
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell/PULSE
Eric Johnson- Venus Isle
Pantera- Official Live: 101

AIC should be on that list but I never had a favorite album, I loved it all equally and they got just as much play as anyone on that list, much like Faith No More.

Was just listening to Venus Isle this morning, hugely underrated on the production side.

Venus Isle production is .
AiC - Dirt and FnM - The Real Thing are very close contenders for me too. Top 20 would have been an easier list.

 

[JiveTurkey]

This is a hard question. I can't say I can do it accurately tbh. Peace Sells, Reign In Blood, Defenders of the Faith, The Real Thing would be up there. As would The Police, old Chilis, some lesser known thrash and power metal.

 

[QQQ]

Extreme - III Sides to Every Story. Another one I listened to a looot back in the day. It's Nuno's fault.
It's gotta be in the top 10 I've listened to most.

Such a fantastic album!

 

[mchad]

It's a difficult question. You listen to something but it stays in you resonating around like a never ending reverb trail. But enough of that philosophy bollocks...
Steely Dan - Aja
XTC - Skylarking (and Black Sea and English Settlement)
Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
The Police - anything
Early U2
Early Midnight Oil

 

[TSJMajesty]

Extreme - III Sides to Every Story. Another one I listened to a looot back in the day. It's Nuno's fault.
It's gotta be in the top 10 I've listened to most.

Yeah I had that on spin for a while myself. But I'd start it over before it was finished, then ultimately just let it run all the way through. It's deep!

 

[AlbertA]

Vanilla Ice - To the Extreme

 

[FuzzyAce]

It's deep!

It is. That's why I like it so much, goes a lot of places and really showcases some great arrangements and production. I know a lot of people may not like Gary's singing style and the cliches he often puts in his lyrics, but I really think it worked great with that album.

edit: lol, I always call Gary, Pat for some reason. fixed.

 

[Bloody_Inferno]

Top 5

Yasunori Mitsuda - Xenosaga Ep 1 OST
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Joe Satriani - The Extremist
Steve Vai - Fire Garden
Rush - Moving Pictures

Rush probably gets rotated with a few honourable mentions but the top 4 have been pretty solid over the years.

 

[Rewolf]

I didn't have much access to record stores, and when I did as a student, there wasn't much money or space for a collection, so I would get Best Of compilations. The ones that I have definitely played, and where the cassette copy wore out or got mangled in the car are from before we got access to large streaming libraries. They are generally best of compilations and live.

Deepest Purple - the very best of Deep Purple, published before the Mk II reformation. Saw the reformed MkII at Knebworth
Alchemy: Dire Straits Live - also a best of really. Saw them at Wembley Arena
Thin Lizzy: Life-Live. Another double live best of; unfortunately Phil Lynott died before I got the chance
Status Quo: 12 Gold Bars Volume Two (and One). Another double album that I got because the cover photo was from the Milton Keynes Bowl "Farewell" tour (the first one) that I also saw.
Rush: Exit Stage Left. Another live best of. They didn't tour the UK much, but I did see them at the NEC on the Hold Your Fire tour


But I also have to mention more local bands where a single album got played a lot.

Marillion: Script for a Jester's Tear - and the rest of the Fish era, but I saw them more than any other band including a home gig at Alyesbury Friars
Gun: Taking On the World - still haven't managed to see them live but going to manage it some day
Magnum: On a Storyteller's Night - took a gamble on the album cover and remained a fan. Saw them at home in Wolverhampton

Scraping in above all of these was the real source of music from my teens when there was no local record store - a double radio cassette player and Radio 1 when it took over the shared FM stereo broadcast at 10pm on Friday nights. Tommy Vance's Friday Night Rock Show. I would religiously record every episode then compile them down to C90 cassettes and cycle through them all the time. The absolute best episodes were the live recordings of festivals such as Reading and Monsters of Rock at Castle Donington that I could never have got to.

 

[Chocol8]

After thinking for a while, I still can't answer this. When I would get a new album, I would listen to it straight through a few times. The good ones more than that, but they were all fads or phases, and even the best albums had songs I would often skip once I moved to CD's which was pretty early, like 11 or 12. After a while, my favorite songs stayed in play rotation but not the full album. I would move on to something new. I also listened to a lot of bootlegs and live recordings, but it was all about variety, not the same ones over and over. ADHD?

 

[FuzzyAce]

not the same ones over and over. ADHD?