Albums that are so good that...

I have a few albums too which (I hope) I'll never get tired of:
Animals by Pink Floyd
Thick as a Brick and Minstrel in the Gallery by Jethro Tull
In the Court of the Crimson King and Lark's Tongues in Aspic by King Crimson

There are probably a few others, but these are my favorite bands.:)

When I grew up in the 70s I had a phase in which I nearly got mad listening to BJH, Supertramp, Alan Parsons Project, Pink Floyd ( yes, me... ) all the time and I needed some distance so I can develop my own style, so in the 80s I concentrated on anything else comin' along and making me feel good, I even bought albums because they had good reviews ( and some because they were chartbreakers and had quite interesting covers/titles ! ) and forced myself to NOT listen to "Prog" for a while. It worked... I developed my own style as a singer/songwriter and I don't copy anyone, but hey, what I'm doing IS NOT prog whilest since long I allowed myself to get back to anything I ever loved and listen to it as often as I like again...

I'm just thinkin'... is there REALLY an album I love but got enough of cause i played it too often ?

Well... there were times I didn't wanna hear any of Cat Stevens' familiar tunes but later on my love became even greater and I don't think that this example is what you asked for...( No prog ) but to let you know:

I DISLIKE "Dark Side of the Moon" and if there weren't "Money" on it i'd like to stamp it "Most overrated Prog-Album of all time"... but I never really liked it so that's something different, too ( SORRY to all PF-Fans... It's great to you, I know, please forgive me ! ).

In general it's just "phases" in which I've got enough of one album or artist I usually like, the longer the pause the greater the pleasure when it's over and I'm puttin' it on again !

Rust wrote:  I have discovered alot more prog since I gave Animals a break, and I was very unimpressed with it when I came back to it after about a 6 month break. It just wasn't as sharp and fresh as I once remembered it.

I got the exact same thing with wish you were here from pink floyd...

its really boring to listen to it now ... though it was so amazing still a little while ago

gues i just listened to it to much

The first thing happened to me with Close to the Edge when I first bought it, but it turns out it has never grown old on me even though I broke my rule of only listening a couple of times a week or something geeky like that.

The second thing did happen to me a bunch of times though (I mean loosing interest in an album I thought was amazing at first). First it happened with Dream Theater's Scenes from a Memory, then with Angra's Rebirth, then with In the Court of the Crimson King and a bunch of others. One funny thing that happened was that I lost interest in Brave by Marillion but then I regained interest in it and still love it.

DSOTM

Kid A and OK Computer

Takk

Everythig else I listen to as often as the urge takes me.

memowakeman wrote: The Division Bell It was the first album to come to my mind

It really is a good album.................

Savatge: Dead winter Dead (I play it a few times in the winter, it is so emotionaly draining)

King crimson: Islands (special occasion music)

Mike Oldfield: Ommadawn (Im not worthy)

Non Prog- Many put thats personal.

I'm not playing The Snow Goose, The Last Bright Light, Runrig's Proterra or Argus at the moment, just to give some other stuff a chance.

In a few weeks I'll go back to them and will doubtless love them more than ever. The Tain and Book of Invasions by Horslips never get boring however much I play them, though, which is very often.

I'm currently trying to get into VDGG and King Crimson and failing completely, but Gentle Giant are improving with every listen to the point where they are now amongst my favourite bands.


Edited by Tony Fisher

There are several albums i wish I hadn't overplayed. Master of Puppets, In Absentia, Roots, Blackfield, Rust In Peace, On the Sunday of Life, and Leviathan.

I'm being very careful not to overplay Ghost Reveries.

After the initial onslaught of finding and listening to a favoriye album of all time I inevitibly put it aside to be played only once in awhile to keep the initial rush fresh in my mind when I do play it again.
eg. Yes; Close to the Edge and Gentle Giant; Free Hand, I've owned since they were released in the early 70's. Nowadays I've only have played them about once every two years but I know them so well they are still my favs .