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Points: 8843 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2013 at 13:38
This is probably heavily biased to the period of my life where I owned about 10 albums and listened to one every night before going to bed ... 

The winner will without a doubt be the Broadway Cast version of Les Miserables, which I listened to for months and months when I was in high school, before I got into rock. I still love it to this day and have collected all the English language versions I could find, and a couple french versions as well...

After that it's a guessing game but I would say:
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Beethoven's Last Night - found this after I started to get bored of Les Miserables when I was looking for another musical to fall in love with. Didn't know what it was at the time but I liked the cover so I borrowed it from the library. I remember almost shutting it off at first listen because I was shocked by how heavy it was (at this point in my life I was pretty much only into classical and Les Mis). But I didn't and I ended up loving it quite heavily, borrowed it from the library dozens of times, then downloaded it when I moved to college because I couldn't find it anywhere and fell in love with it all over again. Then finally found it on CD and bought it. Got it signed when I saw them live.

Tears for Fears - ??
Either Everybody Loves a Happy Ending or The Hurting, not sure, but these guys were my #1 for years before I got into prog, and these were the two that I listened to the most.

Yes - ??
Another band that I obsessed about, this one for a very long time followed by only the occasional listen since. If I had to guess I would say The Yes Album or Fragile are my most played but really anything from The Yes Album to Drama has a pretty decent chance.

Fifth: I would have to guess Major Parkinson's Song from a Solitary Home. That or VDGG's Pawn Hearts. 

According to lasfm  (which has only been active since 2007, five years after #1 and #2 and 3 years after I got into #3) my top 5 are:
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A Floyd record, probably...or a Rush one.


Song : Definitely, Aqualung.
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It's probably The Moodies' Days... and In Search... then all the Beatles' albums, especially Revolver and Abbey Road, my favorites.
And Wish You Were Here of course.
I also think that Joni Mitchell, Simon & Garfunkel and Leonard Cohen are good contenders, it's hard to tell, they've been with me for a long, long time.


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On my iPod it's Thick as a Brick. On YouTube, probably From Mars to Sirius or The Way of All Flesh.
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My top 5 are probably (in no order):

Genesis - Trespass
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Greatest Hits
Led Zeppelin - Mothership
Led Zeppelin - I or IV
Rush - 2112 or Caress Of Steel


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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 07 2013 at 14:28
In my whole life I suppose this is the top 5 of most spins (I didn't count, obviously):

1. Camel - Nude
2. Yes - 90125
3. Genesis - Three Sides Live
4. Yes - The Yes Album
5. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
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Points: 10213 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 07 2013 at 14:06
Originally posted by pfloyd pfloyd wrote:

Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

 


4 of my absolute favorite albums right there. gonna have to check out "Crna Dama" since you clearly have amazing taste in music.
 
Thank you for compliment; I hope you'll enjoy in that middle/late 70s melodic hard rock and fusion cocktail called Crna Dama
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Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

 
 
 
 
 
 


4 of my absolute favorite albums right there. gonna have to check out "Crna Dama" since you clearly have amazing taste in music.
 
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Jimi Hendrix - Smash Hits (LP given to me by my cousin in my youth; album I've owned for the longest time and still own today)
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath (For a while in the early 90s I was in a Mercyful Fate / K. Diamond cover band so I pored through their material constantly. This beats out their Melissa LP solely because "Night Of The Unborn" was such a difficult song to learn on guitar)
Norah Jones - The Fall (Odd choice, but for two straight years every single night it helped put my toddler to sleep...he would flip out if I tried to play something else at bedtime)
The Who - Who's Next (I've heard these songs so many times I actually get a bit repelled when I hear something from it due to overplaying it back in the day)
Slayer - Hell Awaits (I'd play this to and from school on my walkman without bothering to change it for basically years. I was a bit nutty back then)
 
Not a very 'prog' list (not at all actually). Guess when I listen to prog I tend to focus on the music entirely, while my most played material involved music I could regulate to the background yet still enjoy while doing other things.
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Points: 4659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 07 2013 at 09:50
Top 5 would all be Kansas albums. The next 5 (some guesswork required here given I've been collecting records since 1974):

- Led Zeppelin IV
- Dark Side of the Moon
- The Go-Gos - Beauty and the Beat
- Best of the Bee Gees (the yellow one)
- Marillion - Misplaced Childhood

Since I've joined PA:

- Carol of Harvest
- Smell of Incense - Through the Gates of Deeper Slumber
- Will-o-the Wisp - A Gift for your Dreams
- Led Zeppelin IV
- Proto-Kaw - Early Recordings
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Points: 2162 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 07 2013 at 09:29
Originally posted by bloodnarfer bloodnarfer wrote:

Well, according to last.fm my top played albums are:

1

2

3

4

5


Which isn't worth a whole lot because that's only music I've listened to on my computer (basically just spotify) and it's counted according to track plays not albums plays. Four of these albums are quite long and contain many tracks.  The first one is a curiosity for me I had no idea I listened to it that many times.
I'll have to think about what they actually are.


After thinking about what the real albums could be, a good guess would be this:

(mostly based on broke teenage years when new CDs were hard to come by and I'd play 'em over and over and over until I brainwashed myself.)
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Led Zeppelin - Mothership
Dream Theater - Images and Wurd!

(And then just because I was obsessed in college)
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Genesis - Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
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Is anybody else seeing a whole bunch of albums that they have never heard on other people's most played list?
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Shades of Deep Purple
Focus III
ELP - Trilogy
Ekseption 5
In The Court Of The Crimson King
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Points: 9466 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 07 2013 at 07:46
From the handful of albums I own in my teenage years.

Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Deep Purple - Machine Head
AC/DC - Back In Black
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Phil Collins - Serious Hits... Live!
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Points: 13382 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 07 2013 at 05:27
Originally posted by tamijo tamijo wrote:


Minstrel in the G.
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New album!
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Points: 4287 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 07 2013 at 04:48
I couldent say for sure, but i bet these are compeeting for the top 5. 
 
Genesis - The Lamb lies down.
Tull - Minstrel in the G.
Zeppelin - II - Houses of the Holy
Crimson - Red (and maby Lizard and maby Islands)
Yes - Fragile
Gentle Gaint - In A Glass House
Local Artist : Sebastian - Nĺr Lyset Bryder Frem / Ulvehřjen
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
 
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Points: 13382 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 07 2013 at 04:17
Hard to tell, but these have had many plays, mostly around 4-6 years ago:

Pink Floyd - Ummagumma 
Pink Floyd - Animals
Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste
Gentle Giant - Free Hand
Egg - The Polite Force

And slightly more recent (2-3 years ago):

Cheer-Accident - Not a Food 
Cheer-Accident - Babies Shouldn't Smoke 
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ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
ELP - Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends ,Ladies and Gentlemen...
IQ - The Wake
IQ - Ever
Mike Oldfield - Incantations

if I make a cut off albums post 2000 then the following would be top of the list along with three of the above

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Muse - Absolution
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Black Sabbath - Volume 4
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Genesis - Foxtrot
Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear
Marillion - Clutching at Straws
Rainbow - Rising
Yes - Relayer
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
Magnum - Wings of Heaven
Dream Theater - any
There are really so many Confused that I have chosen the above mainly due to the fact that since the albums came out they have never been very far from my sound system.
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Points: 21364 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 06 2013 at 21:33
Probably from my teenage years when I played albums to death

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
AC/DC - Highway To Hell
Rainbow - Rising
Motorhead - Overkill
Scorpions - Animal Magnetism
Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Ozzy - Blizzard Of Oz
Led Zep - IV
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