Albums that are so good that...

you limit yourself on how often you listen to it, because you fear that you may overplay it and it will lose its appeal, or wont be as fantastic, or maybe you may become bored with it.  But you like it so much, that you are worried this may happen, so you hold off on it.

i can only think of a few albums at the moment, and here they are

Grobbschnitt - Rockpommel's Land

Yes - Relayer (Gates of Delirium is my favorite song, and i plan on keeping it fresh)

Camel - The Snowgoose, i have only recently started holding off, I have probably played this cd the most out of all my albums

 

oh, and why not, hows about albums that you thought were incredible but you played them so often that you lost interest.  I have a few of those, like

Strawbs - Grave New World

Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Eart

ELP - most of their albums

i'll add more later

Aaron

 

 

Aaron wrote: you limit yourself on how often you listen to it, because you fear that you may overplay it and it will lose its appeal, or wont be as fantastic, or maybe you may become bored with it.  But you like it so much, that you are worried this may happen, so you hold off on it. I know what you mean but I can't think of any. I do have a lot which I know so intimately that I seldom play them.  oh, and why not, hows about albums that you thought were incredible but you played them so often that you lost interest.  I have a few of those, like This happened to me a couple of years ago with Mostly Autumn's Passengers - I played it over and over virtually to the exclusion of all else for months, but then the fire went out and now I wonder what I saw in it.

Gentle Giant - Octopus, Power & The Glory

Genesis - Foxtrot

King Crimson - ITCOTCK

Dream Theater - Awake

and many others!!

Aaron wrote: you limit yourself on how often you listen to it, because you fear that you may overplay it and it will lose its appeal, or wont be as fantastic, or maybe you may become bored with it.  But you like it so much, that you are worried this may happen, so you hold off on it.

I know what you mean...I think that a bit about Close to the Edge...I don't play it that often but when I do, it gets blsted 5 or 6 times in a row! One non-prog track I did tire of through over playing was "Stairway to Heaven" - it's lost its appeal for me now.

The Wall has always been my all-time favourite album but I have overplayed it so much along my lifetime that nowadays I play it less than once a year.

 

Well, this is pretty familiar!
I have had this with the Dream Theater albums. In a couple of months I bought all DT-cd's, and these days I notice I don't play them that much anymore. The fact that my collection is rapidly expanding will also be a factor here.

The last couple of weeks I have this with my Opeth cd's. Just when I thought: ok, enough's enough, let's cut down on the opeth, a good friend of mine discovered them, and is constantly playing their music. Which on the other hand is a good thing, as I'll be seeing them live in about 2 months, and ofcourse I want to know every song the could play that evening

Script for a Jester's Tear by MARILLION.Yeah,it's my favouritest album EVER,but I listen to it very seldom - I'm afraid it can lose its magic with frequent listenings!!!

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Currently for me it's the live version of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway from Archives I.  I'm trying my best not to listen to it once a week but I keep reaching for it all the time even though I got it in January.  It's so good it's like I've never heard it before.

I`ll never tire of listening to anything by Gentle Giant. The only thing that worries me is that everything they ever recorded might eventually be released. I just bought Scraping the Barrel about two weeks back and still haven`t made it through all 12 hours of it.

A lot of Gov't Mule stuff, 'cause I have numerous live versions of songs I love and I don't want to overplay it all.

Most of my Van der Graaf Generator and Peter Hammill collection, I don't ever want them to their appeal, I'd be devastated!

In some ways, I'm very glad Gov't Mule have released a lot of double albums and long live recordings, it means I don't tend to play them all that often, which is cool!

I'm listening to a 4CD concert of theirs as I type this though, eep!

That's 4:07:24 worth of music!

I also don't want to overplay Comus or White Willow - Storm Season.

I have Taal - Skymind in the car and I really think I should remove it, the same with Starless and Bible Black by KC, I play either of those all the time.  Pawn Hearts is in the car as well, but I always make sure I never play it.