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Wish you were here by Pink Floyd

Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants - beautiful music and very easy to listen to endlessly.

My "album I've listened to for nigh on 40 years" is Paul Simon's Graceland

Only album from my teenage years that never got old

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells, probably my most enduring album (i.e. the one I've liked for the longest period of time while other tastes have come and gone).

One?!

You mean one from (almost) every year right? With the average scores from Rate Your Music for comparison? I never leave the house without mine.

/ Bob Dylan - The Free Wheelin' Bob Dylan (1963) RYM 3.95 / Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965) RYM 4.16 / Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (1966) RYM 4.15 / The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) RYM 4.22 / Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison (1968) RYM 4.13 / Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969) RYM 4.04 / Neil Young - After the gold rush (1970) RYM 4.08 / Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (1971) RYM 4.10 / David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars (1972) RYM 4.26 / Neil Young - On the beach (1974) RYM 4.08 / Neil Young - Tonight's the Night (1975) RYM 3.94 / Tom Waits - Small Change (1976) RYM 3.77 / Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1979) RYM 4.11 / Talking Heads - Remain in Light (1980) RYM 4.26 / The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow (1984) RYM 4.08 / Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (1985) RYM 4.16 / Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (1985) RYM 4.04 / The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (1986) RYM 4.12 / The Smiths - Louder than Bombs (1987) RYM 4.14 / Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (1988) RYM 4.04 / Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique (1989) RYM 3.93 / Sonic Youth - Goo (1990) RYM 3.80 / My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991) RYM 4.25 / Tom Waits - Bone Machine (1992) RYM 3.97 / Sonic Youth - Dirty (1992) RYM 3.70 / Portishead - Dummy (1994) RYM 4.16 / Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible (1994) RYM 3.82 / The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995) RYM 3.88 / DJ Shadow - Endtroducing (1996) RYM 4.13 / Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯A♯∞ (1997) RYM 4.15 / Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West (1997) RYM 4.08 / Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada (1998) RYM 4.16 / Tom Waits - Mule Variations (1999) RYM 3.86 / Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! (2000) RYM 4.21 / Avalanches - Since I Left You (2000) RYM 4.05 / Radiohead - Kid A (2000) RYM 4.25 / Deftones - White Pony (2000) RYM 3.96 / Daft Punk - Discovery (2001) RYM 4.05 / Destroyer - Streethawk: A Seduction (2001) RYM 3.72 / Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002) RYM 3.86 / Boris - Feedbacker (2003) RYM 3.99 / MF DOOM - Madvillainy (2004) RYM 4.33 / Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005) RYM 3.64 / Boris - Pink (2005) RYM 3.87 / J Dilla - Donuts (2006) RYM 4.11 / Tom Waits - Orphans (2006) RYM 3.88 / Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies (2006) RYM 3.73 / Burial - Untrue (2007) RYM 3.98 / Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (2007) RYM 3.81 / Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007) RYM 4.28 / Portishead - Third (2008) RYM 3.94 / Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion (2009) RYM 3.74 / Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (2010) RYM 3.82 / Death Grips - Exmilitary (2011) RYM 4.12 / Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread (2011) RYM 3.33 / Death Grips - The Money Store (2012) RYM 4.08 / Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (2012) RYM 3.73 / Deafheaven - Sunbather (2013) RYM 3.72 / Iceage - You're Nothing (2013) RYM 3.42 / Swans - To Be Kind (2014) 4.03 / Death Grips - Jenny Death (2015) RYM 4.01 / Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition (2016) RYM 4.13 / Radiohead - Moon Shaped Pool (2016) RYM 3.94 / Death Grips - Bottomless Pit (2016) RYM 3.91 / Li gua Ignota - Caligula (2019) RYM 3.77 / Sunn O))) - Life Metal (2019) RYM 3.38 / The Strokes - The New Abnormal (2020) RYM 3.73 / Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready (2021) RYM 3.81 / Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (2022) RYM 3.93

....sorry for the wall of text.

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory!

Obviously impossible but probably Music has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada or Journey in satchidananda by Alice Coltrane

'Thick as a Brick' Jethro Tull.

More of a grower than an immediate album but, once you tune in, there's so much going on I never get bored.

Sorry - I can only narrow it down to three:

The Race For Space - Public Service Broadcasting

American Idiot - Green Day

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

Daft Punk - Discovery

The Strokes - Is This It a close 2nd.

A coin flip between Radioheads In Rainbow, and Burials Untrue

If you want an album with a narrative Jeff Wayne's war of the worlds is pretty brilliant and so the 'the point'.

I wouldn't listen to any album forever, but Porcupine Tree's Deadwing is great for listening to again and again.

Hex Enduction Hour by The Fall. I never understood the Fall until I heard this album... Mark E Smith's lyrics and voice range from vicious to eerie. I was sold.

I drunkenly insisted on playing its first song 'The Classical' on repeat on my stag do shouting "it's a grower! You'll get it this time! There's 2 bloody drum kits and the bass is great just listen properly!" (On a tiny Bluetooth speaker)

It is great though. Turn it up loud. If you don't like it the first time, just remember to bloody listen properly lol

Hmmm, well there's one album that I've been listening to since I was about 16, so getting on for forty years. I've listened to it on headphones and hi-fi ranging from cheap to exotic, indoors, outdoors, in cars, every time of day and night, in every type of emotional state, tired, fresh, drunk, sober, straight and high on various narcotics, often at the same time. I've played it to many different people of different ages and backgrounds in different circumstances.

You'll probably hate it!

Tangerine Dream - Encore

Although I do love Hendrix' Electric Ladyland.

Master Of Puppets. Greatest pure metal album ever made.

Obviously The Prodigy has to make the list.

Autechre NTS sessions. It's not my favorite album by any means. But it's 8 hours long so it'll take me longer to get bored of it.

Placebo self-titled

Definitely Maybe by Oasis, not a single bad track and came out at the perfect time for me growing up while discovering my own taste in music.

Paranoid by Black Sabbath

"Things We Lost In The Fire" by Low.

Either Vaudeville Villain by MF Doom as Viktor Vaughn or Things Fall Apart by The Roots.

Three cheers for sweet revenge by My Chemical Romance. Absolutely perfect album in my opinion.

Hmmm difficult it would be between the Beatles and Queen for me

One album forever? Tough one.

This might change after some thought, but the first one that popped into my head was Leftism by Leftfield.

However, my favourite band are R.E.M., so I might feel tempted to take one of theirs instead!

Character by Dark Tranquility is definitely one of my favorite albums.

It's an amazing album and very nostalgic for me since it was one of the albums that got me into Melodic Death Metal, my favorite genre.

Chroma Key You Go Now is one I listen to from start to end, so that's the first thing that comes to mind.

Though maybe there would be some more intense thing to listen to piece by piece that would be more appropriate for what might be a really long time.

The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place by Explosions In The Sky.

Perfect for relaxing and concentrating. I basically have this and Deftones on repeat at work to drown out all the noise.

Something by The Rumjacks. I generally listen to them on the phone or computer, so I'm not sure which songs are from which albums.

On a more personal note, One By One, by Chris Summerill. He's a friend, but the track Away We Go is genuinely one of my favourite songs. Ideal for sitting in the sun with a beer 👍

This one is hard, but currently I think I'd have to go with folklore or evermore by Taylor Swift, which I'm sure is going to be very different to most suggestions you'll get!

I'm not really a Taylor Swift fan, but her alternative / country albums from 2020 blew me away, as I'm very much about that style of music. Shame she went back to doing standard pop, I was hoping she'd continue that way.