The 5 Albums You've Listened to the Most

[Segue Myles]

I wrote a top five without mentioning Nightwish- Dark Passion Play or Triviums Ascendancy.

 

I can guarantee that for about five years, those two were played obsessively, and were both rediscovered in a BIG way around 2015, and spun plenty since then.

[invisible airwave]

Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

So Much For The Afterglow - Not as much now but I wore this CD out in latter half of high school.

London Calling

Vs

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

Edited June 9, 2019 by invisible airwave

[Rod in Toronto]

MOving Pictures, Powerslave and 1984. Edited June 10, 2019 by Rod in Toronto

[greyfriar]

Besides Rush...

 

Revolver

Quadrophenia

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Animals

Misplaced Childhood

[Tony R]

I wrote a top five without mentioning Nightwish- Dark Passion Play or Triviums Ascendancy.

 

I can guarantee that for about five years, those two were played obsessively, and were both rediscovered in a BIG way around 2015, and spun plenty since then.

 

Non comprende hombre. DPP was released in 2007 and you played it obsessively until sometime in 2012, then totally forgot about it until 2015 and played regularly since then..?

[Tony R]

This is a good question. It's hard to know. So I'll go with 5 that I listened to incessantly right after I first heard them. In order of appearance in my life:

 

Kiss - Alive II

 

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

 

UFO - Lights Out

 

Def Leppard - Pyromania

 

Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction

 

Did you pay your way through college by working in MacDonalds?

[Segue Myles]

I wrote a top five without mentioning Nightwish- Dark Passion Play or Triviums Ascendancy.

 

I can guarantee that for about five years, those two were played obsessively, and were both rediscovered in a BIG way around 2015, and spun plenty since then.

 

Non comprende hombre. DPP was released in 2007 and you played it obsessively until sometime in 2012, then totally forgot about it until 2015 and played regularly since then..?

 

I slowed down on most metal bands between 2009 and 2013/14 when I made the mistake of being a Jehovah's Witness. When I started dipping my toes into seventies waters, bands like Rush and Zeppelin had a lot of bizarre stigma surrounding them and I had to listen to a lot of music secretly.

 

When Nightwish came out with EFMB in 2015, that was around the time I stopped caring about what people thought about me, started buying back old records I threw away and went back to metal in a BIG way, including all the poppier bands I loved as a teenager.

 

And believe me, I got in trouble for loving the last Nightwish album as the lyrics dealt with themes of science that clash with JW teachings, I went to see them live that year and had to, for the most part, keep it off social media and disguise the trip as a visit to a friend (who was also JW and went secretly with me). I bought every Nightwish album, but like nearly all my rock and metal, I could only really play them in private and living with super religious family it had to be quiet and not frequently. I threw away all my Trivium, Mastodon...basically all my metal. I found enjoyment in AOR bands and all that stuff because it's so safe NOTHING could offend anyone, and I would be terrified of anyone finding a record in my collection with a swear word. I had the most...challengingly vanilla record collection that I mostly had to hide away. Only band I insisted on not hiding away was Lacuna Coil, and I was heavily reprimanded many a time for having their records and listening to them. I never wore band T shirts for the fear "someone might be stumbled".

 

My most played bands were Jimmy Eat World and Third Eye Blind. Really, really safe.

 

2015 was also the year I rediscovered Paradise Lost. Even now you will see me post "rediscovered this band from my teens". It's a big deal still to get back to all the music I loved and forgot about as a teen. Metal feels brand new to me again. I can FINALLY collect Iron Maiden records again (as a side note, a girl I grew up with left the religion, went back home last month and her mum beat her up for wearing an Iron Maiden hoodie because it was believed she was possessed)

 

 

Those years were horrible, and I ended up coming to this forum all the time to escape.

 

So a few short years, maybe. But they were truly tough years mentally and I was drained, having to keep a lot locked up mentally, living a day to day life of religious routine, Bible reading, Bible studying, told always what I was and what I enjoyed was wrong, and was being told to feel ashamed of EVERYTHING I used to enjoy.

 

I got in a lot of trouble for just buying Harry Potter books again.

 

I left the religion in late 2017. So, you make it sound like a few short years. They were some the hardest years of my life, and I am still paying for it now with a lot of mental and emotional problems.

 

But you be you.

Edited June 10, 2019 by Segue Myles

[Three Eyes]

I can't imagine how all five wouldn't be Rush albums (with PeW and 2112 probably leading the way). But Boston's debut might sneak in there. Edited June 10, 2019 by Three Eyes

[Rick N. Backer]

This is a good question. It's hard to know. So I'll go with 5 that I listened to incessantly right after I first heard them. In order of appearance in my life:

 

Kiss - Alive II

 

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

 

UFO - Lights Out

 

Def Leppard - Pyromania

 

Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction

 

Did you pay your way through college by working in MacDonalds?

 

The application was too confusing.

[ReRushed]

The Beatles

Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits

Zenyatta Mondatta

Moving Pictures

Nevermind

[goose]

 

Zenyatta Mondatta

 

Definitely in the mix for me as well. Edited June 10, 2019 by goose

[Rick N. Backer]

Non Rush:

Historically:

Selling England By The Pound - Genesis

Machine Head - Deep Purple

Rising - Rainbow

Script For A Jester’s Tear - Marillion

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

 

Last 20 years:

In Absentia - Porcupine Tree

Hand.Cannot.Erase - Steven Wilson

Sloe Gin - Joe Bonamassa

Inception Soundtrack - Hans Zimmer

The Shaming Of The True - Kevin Gilbert

 

What made you decide to listen to sh*t more than anything else over the last 20 years? Was it like an Opus Dei thingy?

[Rick N. Backer]

Zenyatta Mondatta

 

Difinitely in the mix for me as well.

 

The Cops are one of the few bands that it would be hard for me to say which one of the studio albums I listened to the most. Aside from Mother they don't really have any songs I skip when I'm listening to them. They're like Roth era VH in that regard for me.

[Lorraine]

Zenyatta Mondatta

 

Definitely in the mix for me as well.

Me as well. In fact, I had it listed, but then thought of another album I listened to even more.

Edited June 10, 2019 by Lorraine

[Rutlefan]

The Beatles

Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits

Zenyatta Mondatta

Moving Pictures

Nevermind

 

If I'd included Rush among mine we'd have a 60% overlap -- The Beatles, MP and Nevermind. I might have included S & G's Greatest Hits too. That, Elton John Greatest Hits, and Wings Over America were my trinity of favorites when I first really got into music in early grade school (once I'd moved past Three Dog Night, which was my entry drug). From there it was Kiss, Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Rush, and on, but for a good couple years, I saw no reason to listen to anything besides S&G, Elton John, and Wings. Even now I can kind of sympathize with that view.

[goose]

S & G's Greatest Hits too. That, Elton John Greatest Hits, and Wings Over America were my trinity of favorites when I first really got into music in early grade school

Add the Beatles' blue album and a Beach Boys compilation (Good Vibrations) and those are my early five for rock.

 

[goose]

Pre-rock, from my parents' collection...

 

Take Five - Brubeck

Love Story (and other songs) - Roger Williams [a collection of movie themes]

Every Mothers Son

Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack

Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream and Other Delights

[Lorraine]

Pre-rock, from my parents' collection...

 

Take Five - Brubeck

Love Story (and other songs) - Roger Williams [a collection of movie themes]

Every Mothers Son

Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack

Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream and Other Delights

I had almost all. Only one I didn't have was Every Mothers Son

[goose]

Pre-rock, from my parents' collection...

 

Take Five - Brubeck

Love Story (and other songs) - Roger Williams [a collection of movie themes]

Every Mothers Son

Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack

Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream and Other Delights

I had almost all. Only one I didn't have was Every Mothers Son

Come on down to my boat, and you can listen to my copy!

[goose]

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/roger_williams/love_story_f1/

 

 

Lorraine, just thinking about this album's version of "Seeing You Like This" gives me the chills.

Edited June 10, 2019 by goose

[Rick N. Backer]

Pre-rock, from my parents' collection...

 

Take Five - Brubeck

Love Story (and other songs) - Roger Williams [a collection of movie themes]

Every Mothers Son

Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack

Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream and Other Delights

 

Hadn't even thought about that (parents' collection). The 8 track of Saturday Night Fever and Grease have to be up there in numbers. As does The Beatles 1962-1966.

[vaportrailer]

Pre-rock, from my parents' collection...

 

Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream and Other Delights

 

A must for every collection!

 

http://stuffnobodycaresabout.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Cover-Whipped-Cream-and-Other-Delights.jpg

 

Best album cover of all time.

Suck it, Wish You Were Here! :P

[Tony R]

I wrote a top five without mentioning Nightwish- Dark Passion Play or Triviums Ascendancy.

 

I can guarantee that for about five years, those two were played obsessively, and were both rediscovered in a BIG way around 2015, and spun plenty since then.

 

Non comprende hombre. DPP was released in 2007 and you played it obsessively until sometime in 2012, then totally forgot about it until 2015 and played regularly since then..?

 

I slowed down on most metal bands between 2009 and 2013/14 when I made the mistake of being a Jehovah's Witness. When I started dipping my toes into seventies waters, bands like Rush and Zeppelin had a lot of bizarre stigma surrounding them and I had to listen to a lot of music secretly.

 

When Nightwish came out with EFMB in 2015, that was around the time I stopped caring about what people thought about me, started buying back old records I threw away and went back to metal in a BIG way, including all the poppier bands I loved as a teenager.

 

And believe me, I got in trouble for loving the last Nightwish album as the lyrics dealt with themes of science that clash with JW teachings, I went to see them live that year and had to, for the most part, keep it off social media and disguise the trip as a visit to a friend (who was also JW and went secretly with me). I bought every Nightwish album, but like nearly all my rock and metal, I could only really play them in private and living with super religious family it had to be quiet and not frequently. I threw away all my Trivium, Mastodon...basically all my metal. I found enjoyment in AOR bands and all that stuff because it's so safe NOTHING could offend anyone, and I would be terrified of anyone finding a record in my collection with a swear word. I had the most...challengingly vanilla record collection that I mostly had to hide away. Only band I insisted on not hiding away was Lacuna Coil, and I was heavily reprimanded many a time for having their records and listening to them. I never wore band T shirts for the fear "someone might be stumbled".

 

My most played bands were Jimmy Eat World and Third Eye Blind. Really, really safe.

 

2015 was also the year I rediscovered Paradise Lost. Even now you will see me post "rediscovered this band from my teens". It's a big deal still to get back to all the music I loved and forgot about as a teen. Metal feels brand new to me again. I can FINALLY collect Iron Maiden records again (as a side note, a girl I grew up with left the religion, went back home last month and her mum beat her up for wearing an Iron Maiden hoodie because it was believed she was possessed)

 

 

Those years were horrible, and I ended up coming to this forum all the time to escape.

 

So a few short years, maybe. But they were truly tough years mentally and I was drained, having to keep a lot locked up mentally, living a day to day life of religious routine, Bible reading, Bible studying, told always what I was and what I enjoyed was wrong, and was being told to feel ashamed of EVERYTHING I used to enjoy.

 

I got in a lot of trouble for just buying Harry Potter books again.

 

I left the religion in late 2017. So, you make it sound like a few short years. They were some the hardest years of my life, and I am still paying for it now with a lot of mental and emotional problems.

 

But you be you.

TL:DR

:P

[Tony R]

Non Rush:

Historically:

Selling England By The Pound - Genesis

Machine Head - Deep Purple

Rising - Rainbow

Script For A Jester’s Tear - Marillion

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

 

Last 20 years:

In Absentia - Porcupine Tree

Hand.Cannot.Erase - Steven Wilson

Sloe Gin - Joe Bonamassa

Inception Soundtrack - Hans Zimmer

The Shaming Of The True - Kevin Gilbert

 

What made you decide to listen to sh*t more than anything else over the last 20 years? Was it like an Opus Dei thingy?

Yeah, the aural version of a cat o nine tails.

 

 

[Three Eyes]

I wrote a top five without mentioning Nightwish- Dark Passion Play or Triviums Ascendancy.

 

I can guarantee that for about five years, those two were played obsessively, and were both rediscovered in a BIG way around 2015, and spun plenty since then.

 

Non comprende hombre. DPP was released in 2007 and you played it obsessively until sometime in 2012, then totally forgot about it until 2015 and played regularly since then..?

 

I slowed down on most metal bands between 2009 and 2013/14 when I made the mistake of being a Jehovah's Witness. When I started dipping my toes into seventies waters, bands like Rush and Zeppelin had a lot of bizarre stigma surrounding them and I had to listen to a lot of music secretly.

 

When Nightwish came out with EFMB in 2015, that was around the time I stopped caring about what people thought about me, started buying back old records I threw away and went back to metal in a BIG way, including all the poppier bands I loved as a teenager.

 

And believe me, I got in trouble for loving the last Nightwish album as the lyrics dealt with themes of science that clash with JW teachings, I went to see them live that year and had to, for the most part, keep it off social media and disguise the trip as a visit to a friend (who was also JW and went secretly with me). I bought every Nightwish album, but like nearly all my rock and metal, I could only really play them in private and living with super religious family it had to be quiet and not frequently. I threw away all my Trivium, Mastodon...basically all my metal. I found enjoyment in AOR bands and all that stuff because it's so safe NOTHING could offend anyone, and I would be terrified of anyone finding a record in my collection with a swear word. I had the most...challengingly vanilla record collection that I mostly had to hide away. Only band I insisted on not hiding away was Lacuna Coil, and I was heavily reprimanded many a time for having their records and listening to them. I never wore band T shirts for the fear "someone might be stumbled".

 

My most played bands were Jimmy Eat World and Third Eye Blind. Really, really safe.

 

2015 was also the year I rediscovered Paradise Lost. Even now you will see me post "rediscovered this band from my teens". It's a big deal still to get back to all the music I loved and forgot about as a teen. Metal feels brand new to me again. I can FINALLY collect Iron Maiden records again (as a side note, a girl I grew up with left the religion, went back home last month and her mum beat her up for wearing an Iron Maiden hoodie because it was believed she was possessed)

 

 

Those years were horrible, and I ended up coming to this forum all the time to escape.

 

So a few short years, maybe. But they were truly tough years mentally and I was drained, having to keep a lot locked up mentally, living a day to day life of religious routine, Bible reading, Bible studying, told always what I was and what I enjoyed was wrong, and was being told to feel ashamed of EVERYTHING I used to enjoy.

 

I got in a lot of trouble for just buying Harry Potter books again.

 

I left the religion in late 2017. So, you make it sound like a few short years. They were some the hardest years of my life, and I am still paying for it now with a lot of mental and emotional problems.

 

But you be you.

TL:DR

:P

 

It was something about Harry Potter being a Mormon.