Playing the most currently will look different to played the most over longer periods or ever. These are ones that I have played the most and still play a lot. No particular order. Probably forgotten some obvious ones.
Led Zep 2
Led Zep 4
Abbey Road
John Mayer. Where the Light is. Live.
John Martyn. Solid Air.
Free Live.
Steely Dan. Aja. (All played a lot)
Lynyrd Skynyrd. One More From The Road. Live.
Nick Drake. Five Leaves Left.
Stevie Wonder. Inner Visions.
Bob Dylan. Self portrait
Beatles. For sale
Manassas. Self titled debut
Chicago Transit Authority
Incredible string band. Wee Tam and the Big Huge
Alabama 3. Exile on Coldharbour Lane
Tyrannosaurus Rex. Unicorn
Van Morrison. St Dominics preview
Peter Tosh. Bush doctor
Pink Floyd. Atom heart mother
Mike Oldfield. Ommadawn
Ok that’s 11 but don’t know which one to remove .
Just thought of another 10.
Hmm some similar tastes there. I was a huge Jam fan as a kid and Setting Sons would indeed be perfect were it not for the strange addition of the final track. Still don’t get it.
The Woods so Wild - Julian Bream
Dowland Lute - Nigel North
RVW Symphony No 5 - Richard Hickox
Bless the Weather - John Martyn
Mendleson String Quartets Volume 3 - Eroica Quartet
Vivaldi Double and Triple Concertos - Il Giardino Armonico
Bax Nonet - Nash Ensemble
Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances - Richard Hickox
Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake
RVW String Quintet and Quartets - Maggini Quartet and Garfield Jackson
I’m going to exclude classical from this because classical music doesn’t fit the album concept:
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Blue Train - John Coltrane
Famous Blue Raincoat - Jennifer Warnes
Cream - Reunion RAH
Jeff Beck - Performing this week at Ronnie’s
Ricki Lee Jones
Ry Cooder - Prodigal Son
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Paul Simon - Hearts and Bones
Free - Free
It’s so difficult this I’ve had to leave out Sgt Pepper, Hotel California, Clubhouse (Dexter Gordon), Something Else (Adderley), Sidewinder (Lee Morgan), The Pretender etc. Also, your favourite individual tracks might not appear e.g my top Free track is Oh I Wept but Free eclipses Fire and Water as my best album. Would love to have included Layla and other assorted…… However, these are the ones that get played most.
Yes, hopefully there’ll be an announcement soon. IIRC correctly the rumour mill with regard to the Revolver release specs & formats started grinding at the end of summer / early autumn - hopefully the details will be resealed soon, and the prices - gulp.
Very boring
Joan - Joan Baez (Now on 2nd CD but still got original vinyl)
Diamonds and Rust - Joan Baez
Hometown Girl - Mary Chapin Carpenter
The Essential Hebrew Violin- Anne Battegay (her only CD to date)
Collection - Mary Black
DSOTM - Pink Floyd
Evita- David Essex , Elaine Paige etc
The Ring Without Words - Lorin Maazel (Sorry Graham 55)
Forever Changes - Love
Songs Of Love and Hate - Leonard Cohen (On the same vinyl disc I originally bought back in 71 )
Acoustic- Eva Cassidy
I have only used LPs and CDs that I will just drop in the drawer and play throughout
It will be interesting to see what the next archive release will be from Apple. Speculation is that it will be an expanded re-release of the Red and Blue albums (with or without the “new” song “Now And Then”). This will obviously push back any Rubber Soul release, but hopefully this will still happen at some point. @igahman
Ah that would be interesting, I like those two compilations. My 2014 Red double LP sounds very good indeed, but less so with the Blue LP as there are more tracks squeezed into the four sides - wonder if they’ll expand both LPs to span over three discs with more tracks, all reworked by Giles.
Yes, Rubber Soul would be a welcome box set, especially if they include the Mono version from the 2014 box set as per Revolver.
