Your favorite album of all time

De-Loused In The Comatorium still got it, whew

Coldcut - Journeys By DJ - 70 Minutes of Madness

Close also-rans:

Radiohead - OK Computer

ATCQ - Low End Theory

Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork

BOC - Geogaddi

Ae - LP5

Stereolab - Dots and Loops

Mouse on Mars - Autoditacker

Dj Shadow - Endtroducing

Beck - Odelay

Somewhat ironically as I get older I find myself listening to these less often, presumably for unsubstantiated fear that they'll lose their magic.

Good threat for recs!  Will definitely be checking on a few of these.

Impossible question. There's too many to name and they rotate constantly with my mood. A shortlist off the top of my head: 

Aphex Twin - SAW85-92

Doves - Lost Souls

Grimes - Visions

Koen Holtkamp - Motion: Connected Works

Kraftwerk - The Man Machine

Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

Mouse on Mars - Autoditacker

Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements

Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel The Illinoise!

Top of head, no order

Geogaddi

Kid A

Nevermind

Dark Side of the Moon

Abbey Road

Turn on the Bright Lights

Loveless

The Moon and Antarctica

SAW 85-92

when I'm in the mood expert knob twiddlers goes way up there

  On 6/25/2018 at 4:36 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

 

Somewhat ironically as I get older I find myself listening to these less often, presumably for unsubstantiated fear that they'll lose their magic.

I did that when I was younger. Did listen to a lot of garbage when all those gems were sitting on a shelf gathering dust. Worst part was that I knew it was totally stupid since I did it on purpose and not subconsciously at all. Luckily got rid of that bad habit when realized how much great music there was just waiting. Another bad habit I had was postponing a listening session in order to wait for a certain mood or situation etc. and when that "perfect moment" came it was kinda meh. Nowadays simply give an album a spin without thinking too much.

Imho, if it's truly great, it won't lose it's grip totally. Sure, you might get tired of some album for some time but it will come back eventually.

  On 6/25/2018 at 1:18 PM, Grumpy Old Daddy said:

Another bad habit I had was postponing a listening session in order to wait for a certain mood or situation etc. and when that "perfect moment" came it was kinda meh. Nowadays simply give an album a spin without thinking too much.

haha i used to do that too! I remember I had deftones Around the Fur CD and thought: "This seems like a Summer album. better wait 2 months until it's June and then listen"

Aphex - Druqks

The Cure - Kiss Me x3

NIN - The Downward Spiral

King Crimson - Red

The Mars Volta  - Deloused

This is actually very challenging cuz there are some others that i know by heart front ot back and have significant memories attached to them but i feel weird saying theyre all time fav.

  On 6/25/2018 at 1:18 PM, Grumpy Old Daddy said:

 

  On 6/25/2018 at 4:36 AM, Bob Dobalina said:

 

Somewhat ironically as I get older I find myself listening to these less often, presumably for unsubstantiated fear that they'll lose their magic.

I did that when I was younger. Did listen to a lot of garbage when all those gems were sitting on a shelf gathering dust. Worst part was that I knew it was totally stupid since I did it on purpose and not subconsciously at all. Luckily got rid of that bad habit when realized how much great music there was just waiting. Another bad habit I had was postponing a listening session in order to wait for a certain mood or situation etc. and when that "perfect moment" came it was kinda meh. Nowadays simply give an album a spin without thinking too much.

 

Imho, if it's truly great, it won't lose it's grip totally. Sure, you might get tired of some album for some time but it will come back eventually.

 

I have had similar realizations before. I think I've managed to balance listening to old faves, new music, and "casual" background better lately. I think the only music you truly have to prevent wearing out is really dated stuff that's heavier on pure nostalgia and not actual substantive worth...i.e. the throwback goofy stuff or guilty pleasures. That stuff can get tired. On the other hand revisiting old classics you cherish is worthwhile to do regularly because they can take on new meaning and appreciation. 

I am def pickier with favorite films - I can literally watch Jurassic Park, Spinal Tap or Star Wars any time over and over again but I do no sit and watch Empire of The Sun very often despite it being a favorite.

  On 6/25/2018 at 8:46 PM, colunga said:

The Mars Volta - Deloused

 

 

 

my man

Illmatic

Liquid Swords

SAW2

Midnight Marauders

Speaking in Tongues

Gas - Pop

The Man Machine

Vespertine

Silent Shout

Listen to quite a few of my own a lot, but probably Twoism by Boards of Canada. There is a lot of beauty in it's simplicity and I never get bored of it no matter how many times it gets played. The SAW series would be second but I've heard them so many times I've gotten burned out.

  On 6/25/2018 at 3:20 AM, Candiru said:

De-Loused In The Comatorium still got it, whew

Amazing record. It was my favorite Mars Volta album for a very long time, but then one day, I somehow fell in love with The Bedlam in Goliath, so now it's my favorite. I know most people don't feel the same, but there's just something about Goliath that grips me. Comatorium is important to me because it came out at a time when I was severely depressed and I listened to it every day, but Goliath's quirkiness somehow surpassed it for me.

  On 6/23/2018 at 6:54 AM, Marked x 0ne said:

ouf, difficult.. but imma go with a god-tier tie between:

 

Miles davis - In a Silent Way

Aphex Twin - Selected ambient works volume 2

Actually need to add one more to my god-tier

Jemapur - Evacuation

Criminally lesser-known, imo a perfect album. Ive been listening to it consistently for over a decade and its lost no power over me, cant recommend it enough.

  On 6/25/2018 at 3:20 AM, Candiru said:

De-Loused In The Comatorium still got it, whew

Must, must, must listen to this (been saying that for about 15 years!)

*saves to Spotify library* 

I don't know, everything is sort of shit when you hear it in a certain way.

just typed out a massive list, but thats not relevant, so deleeeeeeeeete ffs

if you put a gun to my head, it'd be Sgt Pepper, it still enraptures now as it did as a kid

Mark Fell did a good blurb with associated mixes of favourites & bumped up against the same problem, so the mixes are grouped along the lines of personal eons, well worth anyone's time & the mixes rrrrrrrock:

http://www.markfell.com/wiki/index.php?n=Mf.DawnOfMan

Please Jesus, don't mention that fucking album by The Beatles.

Somebody had to do it, I wasn't expecting it to be cwmbrancity! 

  On 6/26/2018 at 6:17 PM, manmower said:

I don't know, everything is sort of shit when you hear it in a certain way.

heheh can be true if your not reading your mood correctly

Albums I could listen to anytime/anywhere:

Amber - Autechre

Songs of Love and Hate - Leonard Cohen

Third - Portishead

Honourable mentions:

Psychic 9-5 Club - HTRK

Burn Piano Island Burn - Blood Brothers

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine

Too Dark Park - Skinny Puppy

Oversteps - Autechre

electronic music: probably computerwelt ...or untilted

classical music: probably beethoven's 9th or string quartet op.130 with grosse fuge

arvo pärt - tabula rasa

harold budd - white arcades

gas - nah und fern

massive attack - mezzanine

tomorrow, I might change my mind

anouar brahem - the astounding eyes of rita/barzakh

va - ethiopiques 10

kraftwerk - trans europe express

can - tago mago/future days

biosphere - substrata/cirque

iztok mlakar - štorije in baldorije

pharoah sanders - pharoah

  On 6/26/2018 at 9:25 PM, beerwolf said:

Please Jesus, don't mention that fucking album by The Beatles.

 

Somebody had to do it, I wasn't expecting it to be cwmbrancity! 

if you'd seen the longer list it might've been brought into context, but 3 dozen lp's of varying eons & genres wasn't really succinct enough bwlad

Sgt Pepper is tremendous, maybe its the timing of things ie when yer first exposed to specific lp's & musical repertoires, but it was genuinely like nothing else i'd ever heard (edit: barring Tomorrow Never Knows & The Waltz of the New Moon at the time).....contrast this with all my Mum's traditional Irish/Ceilidh rekkids & me dearly departed Dad's jazz & blues....it was like entering another world & always transports you somewhere else (N.B. this isnt nostalgia, everybody's favourite music transports them at some level)

these things stay with you

In a Silent Way, Tago Mago & masses of Krautrock, everyfink by Zappa, loads of Beefheart, the late 60's Dubliners release which has Black Velvet Band on it, The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, Pentangle's first lp, any number of Sun Ra lp's, Workingman's Dead & Europe 72 by the Grateful Dead, Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac, everyfink by Pink Floyd up to Obscured By Clouds, Led Zep 2, having a brain fart so the 70's are vague tonight, early Iron Maiden, most of The Fall's 80's long players, first 3 Metallica lp's, first 2 Carcass lp's, REIGN IN BLOOD, everyfink by Cabaret Voltaire, any number of Chris & Cosey albums, Love's Secret Domain & various Coil bits, Soliloquy For Lilith (maybe this shoulda been it), the first 2 Larry Heard/Mr Fingers albums, From the Mind of Lil Louis, LFO (heaviness!), early Orb, Lull's ltd output, Oophoi, Strictly 4 Groovers by DiY & Aural Anagram by Andrew Liles all nearly mugged it @ the last mins.....add around 30 other lp's that could equally justify pole position

too much too much maaaaaaaaan

  On 6/23/2018 at 4:17 AM, GetSquirrely said:

Go Plastic

also, Xanopticon - Liminal Space. Really need to be in the mood for it to set aside an hour and take it in, but it's the only album I know of that's so brutally exhausting to such an extreme magnitude. Pure catharsis for me.