Which 5 albums do you think you've listened to most during your lifetime?

[proggy_jazzer]

Favorites can wax and wane, but there are a few albums in my collection that I can't recall a time when I could say "I haven't listened to that for a long time" since I bought them in the 70s (or '81 in the last case). There are others, of course, but I can honestly say I've never tired of these over 40+ years of listening:

Close to the Edge
Nursery Cryme
Foxtrot
Animals
Discipline

[richt]

PF- DSOTM
PF-Wish you were here
Yes- Close to the Edge
Nektar-Remember the Future
Beatles- Sgt. Pepper

[Enidi]

Jimi Hendrix Experience- Electric Ladyland
Jeff Beck- Blow By Blow
The Beatles- White Album
ELP- Tarkus
King Crimson- In The Court Of The Crimson King

I still love these 5 particular albums...however I have to be in a special mood to hear them.

[markowitz]

Sounds Like This Nektar
Talking Book Stevie Wonder
Shootout at the Fantasy Factory Traffic
Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd
Tales from the Topographic Oceans Yes

Had a lot of time during high school to listen to whole sides of albums

Later on honorable mention:

First Circle Pat Metheny Group
Moonflower Santana
Arc of a Diver Winwood

[Fracktured]

Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
The Doobie Brothers - The Captain and Me
Yes - Relayer
Chicago Transit Authority
The Allman Brothers Band - Brothers and Sisters


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[hippypants]

I guess these would be my prog albums (among others)

King Crimson- In The Court Of The Crimson King--That's one I go back to pretty frequently.

Freak Out and Absolutely Free--I still listen to fairly regularly.

I still listen to these ever so often: Cream's Wheels of Fire & Disraeli Gears

Tull's 1st album

Santana's Abraxas and Caravanserai

and The Grateful Dead's Anthem of the Sun and the Skeleton and Roses 1971 album

[mnprogger]

educated guess:

Toy Matinee - Toy Matinee
Kaddisfly - Set Sail the Prairie
Apes & Androids - Blood Moon
Ours - Distorted Lullabies
Marillion - Marbles

[Digital_Man]

Five random albums (I'm sure there's others):

Yes - Relayer
King Crimson -Larks Tongues in Aspic
Rush - Hemispheres
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
Marillion - Clutching At Straws


Also, most KC, Yes, Genesis and Rush(earlier Rush albums as in 75-82 I've listened to a lot)

[3LockBox]

Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Genesis - Abacab
Robert Plant - Principle of Moments
Led Zeppelin - Houses of The Holy
Bruce Springsteen - Wild/Innocent/E St

This was tough. I could have replaced any of those above with The Stones-Some Girls, Jethro Tull-Aqualung, John Mellencamp-The Lonesome Jubilee...

There might be some compilations and/or live albums that could've qualified: Classic Yes or Wings Over America. Certainly in the last 20yrs I would have listened to all of Yes's proper albums more but Classic Yes was my gateway to Yes. I can honestly say I've listened to a lot of prog and modern mainstream indy more in the last 12 or 15 years, but in keeping with theme I still listen to my top all-time faves, going back to when I was a teenager.

[SteveSly]

Interesting question. It would most likely be the albums I have had the longest. Off the top of my head I would say:

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Bob Seger - Live Bullet
Styx - The Grand Illusion
REO Speedwagon - Live You Get What You Play For

[Steve983]

Its tricky, maybe the ones I've had longest but my absolute favourites are not necessarily the most played, my guesses would be:

Elton John - Captain Fantastic
10cc - Deceptive Bends
Yes - Going For The One
Yes - Close To The Edge
Rush - Hemispheres


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[Garden Dreamer]

Probably...

Tull - Thick as a Brick
Humble Pie - Smokin'
Yes - Tales
Rush - Hemispheres
Rush - Farewell to Kings

[miamiscot]

Yes Tales From Topographic Oceans
Genesis The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
King Crimson Larks' Tongues In Aspic
ELP Brain Salad Surgery
Kansas (debut)

[Magic Mountain]

Rush - Farewell to Kings
Black Sabbath - s/t
Uriah Heep - Look at Yourself
Yes - Close to the Edge
Pink Floyd - Animals

[Rarebird]

I with I knew, I can just think of 2 albums I suppose I've played a lot:
Wim Mertens - Maximising the audience (When I just had this album I started playing side 1 and after playing side 4, I started with side 1 again)
Streetmark - Dry (bought this in Amsterdam, during a hard and influental time in my life, and the album still reminds me on those days, so I suppose I've played it a lot in those days)

[Scrotum Scissor]

The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Love - Forever Changes

On my list as well!

Plus:

Cornelis Vreeswijk: Ballader och grimascher
John McCabe: Piano Music by Erik Satie
Lars Klevstrand: Til Dere

[rich]

Genesis - Lamb, Selling, Trick and Wind
Yes - Close To The Edge

LOL... when I read the subject these 5 LP's literally came to mind as my choices!!

Others that would be close, Relayer, Going for the One, Camel Moonmadness, Dust and Dreams, RTF Romantic Warrior, Sting Nothing Like the Sun, Phil Face Value & Hello I Must Be Going, Supertramp Crime and Crisis...

[happytheman]

DSOTM
CTTE
Abbey Road
LA Woman
ITCOTCK
I might throw out LA Woman for SEBTP.. but in high school LA Woman got a lot of turntable time.

[Trane]

Absolutely no idea, because there are albums I played almost transparently thin when a teen and have hardly listened in decades (stuff like Sad Wings, Sighs, Rising, Paranoid, In Rock, etc...). That is further helped by the fact that I had few albums in my collection, therefore less choice.

And then there were some that have survived (like Crime of Century, AHM, Caravanserai, Stand Up, Crown Of Creation, Trick, Lizard, Ricochet, Black Noise, Grey & Pink, etc...), that still get the odd play now & then

Then of course the jazz stuff I discovered in the 80's and still spin once in a while like Black Saint, Bitches, Love Supreme, Out Of The Cool, Sahara, Sextant etc...

All these RIO albums I discovered in the mid-90's and I'm +/- tired of would not come into the picture in terms of number of plays.

Setna's Guerison (2013) might just edge in the picture, but bottom of a top 10/15, I guess

[Magic Mountain]

Absolutely no idea, because there are albums I played almost transparently thin when a teen and have hardly listened in decades (stuff like Sad Wings, Sighs Rising, Paranoid, In Rock, etc...). That is further helped by the fact that I had few albums in my collection, therefore less choice.

The question was the five that you played the most in you lifetime. You hit the nail on the head about less choice. Unless you worked at a record store, radio station or grew your collection some other way, it would likely have to be albums in the years when you were broke and had few albums in your collection and all the time in the world to play them. Now that I have thousands in the collection and access to streaming, youtube, etc. there is no way a single album can approach the number of plays of albums you had in your teenage and early adult years.

[Rarebird]

The question was the five that you played the most in you lifetime. You hit the nail on the head about less choice. Unless you worked at a record store, radio station or grew your collection some other way, it would likely have to be albums in the years when you were broke and had few albums in your collection and all the time in the world to play them. Now that I have thousands in the collection and access to streaming, youtube, etc. there is no way a single album can approach the number of plays of albums you had in your teenage and early adult years.

I think you're right on that one. I think my records are played a lot more, than my CD's. Less choice, though through the public library I added stuff on cassettetapes and reel to reel tapes. I mostly use YouTubeto sample stuff I want to buy and I don't do streaming.

[NogbadTheBad]

Probably back to my teens when I had around 100 albums and played them to death.

AC/DC - Highway To Hell
Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
Rainbow - Rising
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

[arturs]

Definitely albums I owned as a teenager:
Asia s/t
Beatles Let it Be
Soft Machine Third
King Crimson Discipline
Genesis Trespass

[Joe F.]

No idea. If I had to guess...based upon my tween to teen years.

Kiss- Alive
Jethro Tull- A Passion Play
King Crimson- Lizard
Black Sabbath- Sabotage
Yes- Relayer

[Mythos]

In my early 60's and having been listening to albums for nearly 50 years, that's a tough one. There are albums I listened to - a ton of times in the 70's and still listen to, but I've been more into 80's stuff since the 80's and play it more often nowadays, so I'm gonna do two lists, one pre-80's and one post 80's...

Pre-80's:
Pink Floyd: DSOTM
Hendrix: Electric Ladyland
Far East Family Band: Nipponjin
Amon Duul II: Wolf City
Can: Future Days

Post 80's:
Simple Minds: New Gold Dream
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
Chameleons: Script of the Bridge
Cure: 17 Seconds
Wild Swans: Bringing Home the Ashes