Anyone who watches YouTube regularly (especially if you’re a watcher of “vinyl community” videos) will have noticed a craze for “the 10 albums I listen to the most” videos.
So why not bring this to the forum? What are the 10 albums you lissten to most; not necessarily the best, your favourites, but the ones you play the most – whether that’s ever, recently, or at the moment [NB, not format-dependent]
I’ll get the ball rolling (in no particular order)
Hard to say, and if you asked a month ago, or were to ask in a month’s time, likely there’d be some differences. There are probably 50-100 albums that make up perhaps three quarters of my playing. The top 10 at any one time. will be from those. In recent weeks the “top ten” probably looks something like the following (in no particular orderother than the order I think of them):
Roger Waters Amused to death
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath
Verdi La Traviata
Twelfth Night Live and let live
Grieg Peer Gynt (full vocal version)
Schubert Trout quintet
Carl Orff Carmina Burana
Led Zeppelin I & II
Who Tommy
Mostly Autumn Passengers
I find that very hard to say, but something like this:
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (mono or stereo mix, depending on mood)
Leo Kottke - Six and Twelve String Guitar
Beethoven Fifth Symphony - Carlos Kleiber/Vienna PO
Led Zeppelin III
Neil Young - After The Goldrush
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Beethoven Last Three Piano Sonatas - Maurizio Pollini
Steve Hillage - Fish Rising
Beatles - Rubber Soul (although the album may change from day to day)
How there isn’t a Doors album in that list rather defeats me! I could easily change five or six of those choices if I made a new list next week, but the Jeff Buckley and Carlos Kleiber LPs will never drop off my list.
Keith Jarrett - Köln Concert
Miles Davis - Silent Way
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Ornette Coleman - Golden Circle vol 1
John Coltrane - Africa Brass
Archie Shepp/Dollar Brand - Duet
Art Pepper - Roadgame
Terry Riley - In C
Bill Evans - How My Heart Sings
I’m the same as @Innocent_Bystander.
I’d find it far easier to list 10 albums I don’t think I’ll ever choose to listen to again as opposed to the favourite 10 which is ever changing.
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Steely Dan - Gaucho
Elton John - Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy
Paul Simon - Graceland
Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Destroyer - Kaputt
Lambchop - Nixon
Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind
The National - High Violet
Elvis Costello - King Of America
I tend to fixate when something new to me comes along that I like and that album got heavy rotation when i first heard it… agree about their second album, think I have played that half a dozen times at best.
