Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine
Van Morrison - Avalon Sunset
Genesis - Selling England By the Pound
Radiohead - OK Computer
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Pink Floyd - Pulse (Live)
I have them all on vinyl (several copies of some) and reckon I play digital and analogue versions as often as each other.
This could be the ever list. Back in time the collection was small and same records were played almost every day. Later there has been different favourites but these early ones are hard to beat (when number of spins is considered).
Bill Evans - You must believe in spring (CD)
Konitz/Mehldau/Haden - Alone together (CD)
Steely Dan - Gaucho (CD)
Lucio Battisti - Don Giovanni (LP, CD)
Arthur Lima Moreira - Ernesto Nazareth, Brazilian Waltzes and Tangos (CD)
Keith Jarrett - The melody at night, with you (CD)
Maria Joao Pires, Mozart Sonatas (CD)
Glenn Gould, Mozart Sonatas (CD)
Münchner Philharmoniker, Celibidache - Bruckner, Symphonies (CD)
Helsinki Philharmonic, Leif Segerstam - Sibelius, Symphonies (CD)
Thievery Corporation - Saudade
An Emerald City - Circa Scaria
Elliot Smith - Either/Or
Mazzy Star - Among my Swan
Unkle - War Stories
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile
Jiro Inagaki - In the Groove
Monophonics - In your Brain
The Verve - A Northern Soul
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Based on listening I’ve the last month or two anyway… an all time list might look a. Little different
Yours is the first list all artists I have never even heard of! (Many have some artists I haven’t heard of, or artists I’ve heard of but music I haven’t, but none completely unrecognised.)
The OP asked for a list of 10 albums you listen to the most, it can be Ever, Recent or Current (aka this moment). Mine was Ever.
Therefore, if you want to post one, two or three lists under those headings, then I don’t see that as an issue.
If you want to list a few that just missed out of the your top 10, than that is interesting too - it’s all about the music and sharing what we enjoy after all.
I have the one in Munich, 1988, and the one in Vienna, 1989, both with the Münchner Philharmoniker. But the best one, in my opinion, is a recording with a student orchestra, difficult to find and included in a documentary. Marvelous, as always when he worked with young people.
As is clear in his Bruckner 7th in Berlin with the Berliner Philharmonikler, 1992, his performances ‘off Munich’ seem to be more austere and demonstrative of his musical ideas than those for the Münchner audience, his ‘home listeners’.
I was lucky enough to follow him in various courses, in Munich, Cluny, Italy, over a period of six years between 1982 and 1988. He changed my way of hearing music and thinking about it. It shaped my teaching years irremediably, and his imprint is still active and alive in my personal daily experience of music.
At the moment I would say the albums I am listening to most include:
Desperate Journalist - Live at JT Soar
The Big Moon - Here is Everything
The Waeve - The Waeve
The National - First Two Faces of Frankenstein
Bernard Butler and the Anchoress - In Memory of My Feelings
Doves- The Universal Want
Richard Ashcroft - These People
PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
This is a guesstimate and is a mix of albums listened to at home, in the car and via the phone, so a mix of vinyl, ripped CDs and downloads.
Other albums that could have been included would include Sharon Van Etten, Snow Patrol, BC Camplight, Du Blonde and Katy J Pearson, The Mysterines, The Anchoress. Something by Robert Calvert and/or Hawkwind would always be bubbling away somewhere in my top 30 played albums I guess. Albums from The Cure, Lone Justice, Latin Quarter, Charlotte Gainsbourg, The Cars/Ric Ocasek, REM, Bruce Springsteen and a few others all have regular plays too.
I spotted this thread and expected to see all my favourites lined-up.
Frankly, I was a bit shocked.
I guess this thread serves to remind me just how unique my own listening tastes are.
Here goes… (In no particular order)
RY COODER Jazz
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER Ashes And Roses
JOHN FAHEY Of Rivers And Religion
QUADRO NUEVO Tango Bitter Sweet
RAY LAMONTAGNE Till The Sun Turns Black
ANDREAS VOLLENWEIDER White Winds
PAUL SIMON There Goes Rhymin’ Simon
BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 4 Masur, Gewandhaus
RACHMANINOV PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 Simon, Slatkin, Saint Louis
DIRE STRAITS On Every Street
ERIC TINGSTAD Mississippi
MICHAEL FRANKS One Bad Habit
KEB’ MO’ Suitcase
THE PEE WEE RUSSELL QUARTET New Groove
TORD GUSTAVESEN TRIO Changing Places
SHARON ROBINSON Everybody Knows
HAILEY TUCK Junk