Albums you never tire of....

[byu71]

Merry Christmas (White Christmas) Bing Crosby

[John McClain]

Crosby, Stills and Nash
Jethro Tull - Aqualung and Thick as a Brick
Neil Young - Harvest and After the Gold Rush
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road
Buffalo Springfield - Retrospective
Santana - Abraxas
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Johnny Lang - Lie to Me
The Who - Who's Next and Tommy
Luther Allison - Blue Streak
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Legend - Bob Marley and the Wailers
AC/DC - Back in Black and Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Eagles - Hotel California
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Led Zeppelin - II and IV

[John McClain]

I forgot to mention Warren Zevon's greatest hits. Great Songs to sing along to.

[Scott R Nelson]

Crosby, Stills and Nash
Jethro Tull - Aqualung and Thick as a Brick
Neil Young - Harvest and After the Gold Rush
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road
Buffalo Springfield - Retrospective
Santana - Abraxas
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Johnny Lang - Lie to Me
The Who - Who's Next and Tommy
Luther Allison - Blue Streak
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Legend - Bob Marley and the Wailers
AC/DC - Back in Black and Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Eagles - Hotel California
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Led Zeppelin - II and IV

Apparently there are two other people with tastes in music similar to mine. I thought there was just one other.

[Moliere]

ilPad, you are one cool dude.

Mine:
U2 Rattle and Hum
Toad the Wet Sprocket Fear
Alanis Morisette Jagged Little Pill
Steve Miller Band Hits 1974-78
Carpenters The Singles
Sarah McLachlan Surfacing
Keane Hopes and Fears
Journey Greatest Hits
Tori Amos Little Earthquakes
Dixie Chicks Home
Crowded House Recurring Dream

Not allowed as they're not real albums.....although Lights is a great song.

[SuperGabers]

Not allowed as they're not real albums.....although Lights is a great song.

Shoot. I knew I'd get caught trying to cheat!

[MarkGrace]

Not allowed as they're not real albums.....although Lights is a great song.

I didn't want to be the one to say it. Also, McClain has Legend.

[MarkGrace]

I was wondering when you would show up. Good list but some of those I wouldn't call great albums but more albums with great songs, but that's just my opinion. You are definitely more knowledgeable on the subject and it is very subjective.

Like?

But the thread was albums you could listen to and never tire of, and for me I've listened to those over and over and never tired of them.

If it was strictly just great albums, the list would have been more expansive. Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart, Bitches Brew by Miles Davis, Autobahn by Kraftwerk, Tago Mago by Can and a bunch of others in that vein I think are great albums, important in the history of music, and stuff every music fan should own, but they're not the kind of albums I can listen to over and over.

[Guest]

Blood on the Tracks

It Takes a Nation of Millions

Harvest Moon

Crooked Rain

It Still Moves

Document

LA Woman

Sound of Silver

Ocean Rain

[MarkGrace]

Some good picks, 8BR. It Still Moves is a beast, isn't it? Previously I would have listed Z as my favorite MMJ album, but lately I'm stating to think it is tops.

[falafel]

ilPad, you are one cool dude.

You mean he was one cool dude. None of those albums are less than 20 years old!

[Guest]

Some good picks, 8BR. It Still Moves is a beat, isn't it? Previously I would have listed Z as my favorite MMJ album, but lately I'm stating to thin it is tops.

It Still Moves is a road trip favorite; great driving music. One edit as I look at my list again, I'd have to say I listen to Fables of the Reconstruction a lot more than Document.

Edit: Also I really like Harvest Moon. Not many people talk about it because it is the 90s version of his early '70s sound and they see After the G R, Harvest, et al. as the better stuff. But I really like all the songs on it, well, except for that dumb 'old king' tune.

[Moliere]

Like?

But the thread was albums you could listen to and never tire of, and for me I've listened to those over and over and never tired of them.

If it was strictly just great albums, the list would have been more expansive. Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart, Bitches Brew by Miles Davis, Autobahn by Kraftwerk, Tago Mago by Can and a bunch of others in that vein I think are great albums, important in the history of music, and stuff every music fan should own, but they're not the kind of albums I can listen to over and over.

You are right and I probably shouldn't have said that given how subjective all of this is. I'm not a big fan of Appetite or August and Everything but I like songs off of those albums so those were the ones that caught my eye.

I like your list though as it has given me some new stuff to try.

[SuperGabers]

You mean he was one cool dude. None of those albums are less than 20 years old!

Dude, Fally... Have you looked at all the other lists?

[MarkGrace]

You are right and I probably shouldn't have said that given how subjective all of this is. I'm not a big fan of Appetite or August and Everything but I like songs off of those albums so those were the ones that caught my eye.

I like your list though as it has given me some new stuff to try.

I figured you might pick August, and then my next guess was Vitalogy, because they're probably not great in the way that some of the others are. August, though, like Donut said, is piled with nostalgia for me. I listened to that album constantly in high school; camping trips, road trips, late-night bbq's, just hanging out with friends, etc. For me it is lived in and worn and tied to so many great moments -- and even when I throw it on now all these years later, it's just so listenable. It's not a big and remarkable statement like Ok Computer, and it wasn't a cultural shifting behemoth like Nevermind; it's just an album that for me is full of great songs and never gets old (I'm looking at the track list right now and everything on there is just so great).

Vitalogy, well, PJ was my favorite band for the longest time in the 90s, and I've kind of since abandoned them. But during that time, I listened to their records non-stop, so I felt like I needed to give them two since all my other favorite bands had multiple. That album had some big hits (like Better Man), but it's the oddness of it that I always enjoy so much. For Pearl Jam, it was a strange record, and probably their most original. I enjoy it and after Ten it's generally the PJ record that I most feel like listening to over and over.

Appetite? Get out of town. That record kills from top-to-bottom. The massive success of the singles have maybe detracted from what it is as an album (that's the funny thing about singles -- once they hit a certain level, it almost starts to feel like they have become detached from the rest of the album), but that thing is a beast.