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What albums do you keep coming back to?

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Opeth - Blackwater Park seems to never really disappear from my playlist, ticking all the boxes from production to songwriting to bass lines.
Skyclad - The Answer Machine? or any Skyclad really.
Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet

Off the top of my head.
 
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Partial list off the top of my head:

Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come
Sonny Rollins, Next Album, The Bridge
Johnny Winter, Roots, Saints and Sinners
Grateful Dead, Live Dead, Ladies and Gentlemen ....
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
Canned Heat, Future Blues
Little Feat, Waiting for Columbus
Gong, You, 25th Anniversary Concert
 
I don't listen to these often but they are some of my favorite albums and I do go back and listen to them from time to time. With all of these, each song is good through the entire album, the album flows well, and the production is pleasing and fitting.

Dredg - El Cielo
Fire Theft - Fire Theft
Of Montreal - Hissing fauna....
Chairlift - Something
Mars Volta - deloused
Sigur Ros - untitled
Bright Eyes - I'm wide awake...

Dude... you are the man. Dredg AND Sigur Ros? I only know 2 other people (now 3) who know both of those bands. You made my morning.
 
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Radiohead- The Bends, OK Computer and Kid A
Pink Floyd - The Wall and DSOTM
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
NIN - The Fragile and With Teeth
The Misfits - Collection 1
MJ - Thriller
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Sigur Ros - ageitis bryjun
Miles - kind of blue
Jamiroquai - Traveling without moving and Space Cowboy
Jawbreaker - Dear you, 24 hour revenge therapy

And because it is that time of year:

Vince giraldi trio - Charlie Brown Christmas
 
This is what's on my goto rack:
  • Moody Blues - first five albums
  • Snarky Puppy - We Like it Here
  • Camel - Nude
  • Michael Hoenig - Departure from the Northern Wasteland
  • Wendy/Walter Carlos - Switched on Bach
  • Steve Harkey & Cockney Rebel - Face to Face
  • Janis Joplin - Cheap Thrills
  • Earth, Wind and Fire - All in All
  • Cat Stevens- Tea for the Tillerman and Catch Bull at Four
  • Loreena McKennitt - Live at the Alhambra
  • Doors - Strange Days
  • Alan Parsons - Tales of Mystery and the Imagination (original vinyl version - not the remastered and 'enhanced' version)
  • Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
  • Peter Schickele - P.D.Q. Bach
  • Harry Partch - The Music of Harry Partch
  • Moondog - Moondog and More Moondog
  • The Who - Quadrophenia
  • Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
  • Schoenberg - Pierre Lunaire Op. 21 (on the Nonesuch label)
  • Jethro Tull - just about all of them, although Songs From the Wood, Heavy Horses, and Benefit get the most routine listens.
  • Jade Warrior - Kites
  • Morton Subotnik - The Wild Bull
  • Half a ton of Baroque flute and recorder music
 
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