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Which albums to you go back to most often?

Kind of Blue - MD
In A Silent Way - MD
A Love Supreme - JC
The Koln Concert - KJ
Ziggy.... - DB
 
Kraftwerk - Ralf And Florian
Easterhouse - Contenders
Television - Marquee Moon
Swell Maps - International Rescue
 
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
Keith Jarrett, Deerhead Inn
Yo La Tengo, When Nothing Turned itself Inside Out
Jeremy Denk , Goldberg Variations
The Necks, Mosquito
Boards of Canada, Campfire Headphase
Frank Ocean, Blonde
 
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Love - Forever Changes
Love - Da Capo
Love - 1st Album
Love - Four Sail
Neil Young - Everybody knows this is nowhere
Manassas - Manassas
Nick Drake - Five leaves left
Issac Hayes - To be continued
Marvin Gaye - What’s going on
Marvin Gaye - Lets get it on
Buffalo Springfield- Again
Spirit - The 12 dreams of Dr Sardonicus
Flying Burrito brothers - Gilded palace of sin
Frank Zappa - Hot rats
Steely Dan - Can’t buy a thrill

Regards,

Martin
 
Can - Tago Mago
Gong - You
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way, Kind of Blue
King Sunny Ade and his African Beats - JuJu Music
Kate Bush - The Directors Cut, Sensual World, Red Shoes, The Hounds of Love, Aerial
Kraftwerk - The Mix, Tour De France, Trans Europe Express, The Man Machine
Pink Floyd - Meddle, Wish You Were Here
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow, The Queen is Dead
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Manu Chao - Clandestino
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Going On
Weather Report - Black Market
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures, Closer
New Order - Movement, Power Corruption and Lies, Low Life, Technique
Gillian Welch - Soul Journey
Neil Young - Decade
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Joni Mitchell - Blue, Hissing of the Summer Lawns, Hejira, Ladies on the Canyon
The Kinks - Greatest Hits
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Television - Marquee Moon
Al Green - Compilation
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Alice Coltrane -Journey in Satchidananda
The The - Infected
Little Axe - The Wold that House Built
Portishead - Third
Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares for Me
Gil Scott-Heron - Glory, Spirits
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters

That's more than enough but there are many more, nothing recent listed as too early to know how durable their attraction will prove.
 
Omitting any recent discoveries/obsessions and just sticking to the tried and true, from 5+ years ago or so:

The Future Sound of London - Dead Cities (but most of their discography)
Autechre - Tri Repetae (but most of their discography)
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (but most of their discography)
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By Wixel - Heart
They Might Be Giants - anything up to Factory Showroom
The Notwist - Neon Golden
Kettel - Volleyed Iron
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
Donato Dizzy - Plays Bee Mask
Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - In Utero
1991 - No More Dreams
Lee & Willbee - North Carolina
Philip Glass - Violin Concerto / Prelude to Akhnaton / Company (Naxos)

Probably more that I can't think of at the moment.

Very likely additions from recent discoveries:
Cross Record - Cross Record, Wabi-Sabi
 
Another 5....or 6 or 7

Spirit - Future Games
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
Big Star - Same / #1 Record
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions / Talking Book
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
 
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Can - Tago Mago
Gong - You
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way, Kind of Blue
King Sunny Ade and his African Beats - JuJu Music
Kate Bush - The Directors Cut, Sensual World, Red Shoes, The Hounds of Love, Aerial
Kraftwerk - The Mix, Tour De France, Trans Europe Express, The Man Machine
Pink Floyd - Meddle, Wish You Were Here
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow, The Queen is Dead
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Manu Chao - Clandestino
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Going On
Weather Report - Black Market
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures, Closer
New Order - Movement, Power Corruption and Lies, Low Life, Technique
Gillian Welch - Soul Journey
Neil Young - Decade
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Joni Mitchell - Blue, Hissing of the Summer Lawns, Hejira, Ladies on the Canyon
The Kinks - Greatest Hits
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Television - Marquee Moon
Al Green - Compilation
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Alice Coltrane -Journey in Satchidananda
The The - Infected
Little Axe - The Wold that House Built
Portishead - Third
Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares for Me
Gil Scott-Heron - Glory, Spirits
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
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Wow, that is an extremely liberal interpretation of the word ‘five’! I mean, there’s five by Kate Bush for starters. Or maybe I misunderstood the OP - I guess he might have meant ‘five of the albums you go back to most often by a particular artist...’
 
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Wow, that is an extremely liberal interpretation of the word ‘five’! I mean, there’s five by Kate Bush for starters. Or maybe I misunderstood the OP - I guess he might have meant ‘five of the albums you go back to most often by a particular artist...’
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My apologies for losing sight of that. The thing is I haven't kept a tally but do feel reasonably confident that the five wold be amongst this selection.
 
Five that I'm likely to overplay:

Neil Young: Zuma
Van Morrison: Tupelo Honey
Television: Marquee Moon
Pink Floyd: Meddle
Lou Reed: New York
 
Hi Rbn, perhaps those of a certain age, my music tastes were dictated by glorious 208 in the seventies.
 
At home I tend to just browse the racks/piles and see what I stumble across - there's nothing that gets pulled out on a regular basis. Which is perhaps a bit odd now I think about it.
 
Recently to make me listen to more of my records I set streamer to play random albums from a diff letter each day, yesterday was T, played terrorvision out of blue, forgot even had it.
 
Vangelis - L'apocalypse Des Animaux (most evenings!)
Sylvian & Czukay - Plight & Premonition
Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive
Nils Petter Molvaer - Khmer
Kind Of Blue
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet
Tangerine Dream - Poland
Yes - Relayer
Waters - Pros & cons
 
Can - Monster Movie
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Cluster - Zuckerzeit
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
The Breeders - Pod
The Fall - Perverted By Language
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
The Sound Defects - The Iron Horse
The Terminals - Touch
 
Way too many to list, basically everything I grew up with, current to me then and heard from my elder brothers colleactions.
Predominantly prog, 70/80s rock, decent pop etc. I don't think anything I've bought in the last 20 years enjoys anywhere near the same play time.
 
Joni Mitchell - Blue
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
VDGG - Pawn Hearts
Roy Harper - Stormcock
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue

I had considerably more but stuck to the OP's suggestion of 5. It did make me notice some albums I considered go to albums, then realising I hadn't played them for nigh on twenty years. The Lone Justice debut album being a good example.
 
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