albums you keep coming back to…

[bon viesta]

what are some albums that, despite your musical journey through the years, you just keep coming back and listening to? whether in parts, a few songs, or in full. my picks are todd rundgren’s something/anything and chicago’s chicago transit authority. and by extension, i’ll also throw in the two albums that follow those two, chicago II and a wizard, a true star.

i come back to todd rundgren for the brilliant songwriting and production, and i come back to chicago for the bass sound and bass lines, as well as the songwriting of course. something about those albums can’t seem to free themselves from my mind.

 

[Zooberwerx]

BOC's "Agents of Fortune". Good material and I can remember when & where I first heard it: college freshman year.

Riis

 

[Bassic_desires]

"Stillpoint" by Madder Lake and "Sex" by The Necks.

 

[Jebberz]

Oldest album I had and still listening to is Clutching at Straws by Marillion. I was 12 when someone gave it to me, and I sill play it quite often.

 

[bass12]

There's very little of my record collection (dating back to when I was three or four) that I don't still enjoy listening to. Some albums from my childhood that I still consider favourites (and go back to often):

- Dare by The Human League
- Songs From The Big Chair by Tears For Fears
- Running In The Family and World Machine by Level 42
- Sons And Fascination, New Gold Dream, Sparkle In The Rain and Once Upon A Time by Simple Minds
- The soundtrack from the film Wild Style
- A Secret Wish by Propaganda

 

[stigbeve]

 

[badinage]

Rush 'Fly by Night'.
Mills Brothers 'Cab Driver'.
Asleep at the Wheel 'Western Standard Time'.
Steely Dan 'A Decade of Steely Dan'...

And this time of year... Dean Martin 'A Winter Romance'.

 

[brianrost]

Mothers of Invention "Uncle Meat"
King Crimson "Larks Tongue In Aspic"
Miles Davis "Bitches Brew", "Live Evil"
Traffic "Traffic"
Jack Bruce "Songs For A Tailor"
Captain Beefheart "Clear Spot"
Gateway "Gateway 2"
Robin Trower "Bridge of Sighs"
Ginger Baker "Middle Passage"
Bahia Black "Ritual Beating System"
Modern Lovers "Modern Lovers"
Joni Mitchell "Blue"

 

[bholder]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Crimson_discography

 

[ezstep]

Allman Brothers "Eat a Peach" I bought it, my college daughter stole it, my wife replaced it, and years later my other daughter stole it, too. It's a family affair.
"Dark Side of the Moon"
Allison Kraus and Union Station - almost anything
Lots of Beatles albums.

There are plenty of others.

 

[Fight4Bottom]

Donald Fagen's "The Nightfly". Definitely one of my stranded-on-a-desert-island albums.

 

[smeet]

Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
Kind of Blue (Miles Davis)
Romantic Warrior (Return to Forever)
Larks’ Tongues in Aspic (King Crimson)
Remain in Light (Talking Heads)

 

[portpc]

Dave Brubeck Quartet "Take Five"
UK "UK"
Moody Blues All of the Mike Pinder era recordings
+ 1 on Robin Trower "Bridge of Sighs"

 

[bikeplate]

Rush-Moving Pictures
Dream Theater-Awake
Kings X-Gretchen goes to Nebraska
Badlands-Voodoo Highway
UFO-Strangers in the Night
Talas-Sink your teeth

 

[WestyBassBob]

Orbital - Snivelization
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
The Who - Quadrophenia

Those are the the first ones that come to mind.

 

[Danny O Danny]

Armed Forces by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Mock Tudor by Richard Thompson
Woodface by Crowded House
Powerage by AC/DC
Time (the Revelator) by Gillian Welch
Gorillaz by Gorillaz
Worlds Apart by Saga
Angel City by Angel City
Give 'em Enough Rope by The Clash
XO by Elliott Smith
August and Everything After by Counting Crows
Lovely Creatures (The Best of) by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Genius (The Best of) by Warren Zevon

 

[Gustopher]

Bruce Springsteen- Darkness on the Edge of Town
Radiohead - OK Computer
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Mastodon - Leviathan
Tori Amos - Under the Pink
Tom Petty - Damn The Torpedos

 

[Rev12_11]

All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes - Pete Townshend
Pretenders - The Pretenders
This Years Model - Elvis Costello
Quadrophenia - The Who
I Love Rock 'n Roll - Joan Jett
American Idiot - Green Day
White City Fighting - Pete Townshend
Abbey Road - You Know

 

[brianrost]

As I'm looking at other folks' replies I'm thinking I could really add to the list I made

 

[Obese Chess]

I have an interpretation of the album art from HORSE the Band's "Desperate Living" tattooed on the majority of my right leg, if that answers your question.