Album which you have listened to most?

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Van Morrison - No Guru No Method No Teacher
Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Catch a Fire
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Trenchtown Rock 1969 - 1978
Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles
Miles Davis - Nefertiti 
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme 
John Coltrane - Coltrane’s Sound
Sarah McLachlan - Solace
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
David Bowie - Low
David Bowie - Blackstar
The Beatles - Rubber Soul (US version)
The Rolling Stones - Beggar’s Banquet 
Roxy Music - Avalon
Cassandra Wilson - Blue Light Til Dawn
REM - Murmer
REM - Fables of the Reconstruction 
Patti Smith - Horses
Tangerine Dream - Exit
Shadowfax - Shadowfax
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
Aimee Mann - Mental Illness

This isn’t even close to a comprehensive list of my frequently played discs. No way I can only list 3. :)

Bach violin solos, cello solos.
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing.

I discovered so much music on this thread that I wish to thank each and every one of you who responded to this thread from the bottom of my heart. I know some of you came back few times after every few years since I posted this 17 years ago.
If this is your first time or tenth time visiting this thread, post 3 albums as per original request and make my day!
Happy Listening!

Miles & Company:  "Kind of Blue"
Dylan: "Blood on the Tracks"
Sibelius:  Second and Fifth Symphonies  I've got too many versions of both these works, to choose a single favorite orchestra or conductor.

Santana-Abraxas
Bowie-Space Oddity
Tosh-Equal Rights
Chemical Brothers-Dig your own hole
Massive Attack.-Mezzanine
Bjork-debut
Primal Scream-Screamidelica
Marley-Uprising
Basie-Basie Jam
Public Enemy...it takes a nation....
The Church-Heyday
Dylan-the freewheeling Bob Dylan
Pistols-Bollocks
Ramones-its alive
Saints-im stranded
Waylon-grt hits

I’ve probably listened to these three (four) the most out of any of my music over the last 40 years:

1. Jackson Browne - For Everyman

2. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush

3. Tie between Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
and Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town (it’s mandatory for those of us who grew up and live at the Jersey Shore to have at least one Springsteen album in our top three!)

I just received Best of Lobo CD.

These songs bring back great memories of younger days and make me smile.  Never heard them on a "good" stereo before.

since the 60s?

hmm. hard to say...

i'd guess a blues artist such as john lee hooker.

Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival

This thread has had a good shelf life!  I probably replied some years ago, but can't be bothered to search.  In any case, tastes change.  If the limit is three recordings max, I'd have to go with the following.  One caveat:  I listen to a lot of Dylan, so there is not one CD/recording that I listen to more than others.  Otherwise:

Bach:  Goldberg Variations (Murray Perahia)
Eva Cassidy:  Live at Blues Alley
Jakob Dylan: Women and Country

The Cure - Disintegration

Rubber Soul-US version
Teatro-Willie Nelson tie Dylan-Blood on the Tracks
Springsteen-Darkness

Grateful Dead / Reckoning
Roxy Music / Roxy Music
Brian Eno / Another Green World

This year...Ginger Baker's "Why?"

Pink Floyd - The Division Bell.

We listen to that a few times a week, the last song has some of the best guitar Gilmour has played and he can play a guitar.

Tears For Fears: The Seeds Of Love

Equal Rights is one of the top 3 Reggge albums of all time, IMO.

Peter Tosh - Equal Rights.
I have a "playing copy" and a sealed copy LOL.

I didn't have to think about this one. It's a tie between the 1st and 2nd Band albums. Literally thousands of times.

flotation toy warning: bluffers guide to the flight deck

alt w/

donnie hathaway: live

this changes from time to time, however:

1)Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"
2) Janes Addiction "Nothing's Shocking"
3) The Beatles "Sgt. Peppers"

3 staples for me: Steely Dan: Countdown to Ecstasy (ABC Rainbow), The Guess Who: American Woman (Cisco) LP, Joni Mitchell: For the Roses (Early Press)LP

Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels
Jethro Tull - Benefit (or Stand Up)
And oddly, Best of Enya

The Stone Roses - S/T

Loved it when it came out and still love it now.

Talk Talk's - The Colour Of Spring has been getting a lot of play time recently, but they are a more recent discovery for me.

Here's three of my favorites ...

1. Dave Bruebeck's "Jazz in the USA"

Paul Desmond's playing on this mono record is among the best of Desmond. I bought my first copy back in the 50's when it first came out. That was when the Bruebeck Quartet was converting a lot of DooWop and R&B fans over to jazz. Even after listening to this recording for over 60 years, I never get tired of it. Its that good. I have a bunch of copies, including a white label promo. I tend to give them away to audiophile/music loving friends just to show them what good mono sounds like .. and to turn them on to Desmond, of course.

2. Miles Davis' "Round Midnight."

This is another record that was never released in stereo. The mono sound is so good it puts miles' muted trumpet right in front of your nose. A fantastic record and well worth the hunt. I bought mine back in the early 70's at a used record store for .75 cents.

3. "Little Band, Big Jazz"

This is on the budget label known as Crown. It features Conte Condoli on trumpet and Stan Levy on drums. The sound and performance is demo quality ... and its in stereo. Again, I have a number of copies. The best sounding one is on red vinyl. Hmm ... try to find that one.

Those are only three of my desert island records. I have thousands of LPs. Most likely, they eventually will once again end up in used record stores and thrift stores. My kids and grand kids could care less. All of the music they own exist on their IPADS. So sad ...

For me its probably David Live. David Bowies 1974 Diamond Dogs Tour at the Tower Theater. Just some great musicians backing Bowie on that tour.

Patrick O'Hearn "So Flows The Current"

Ray Obiedo "Sticks and Stones"

Mark Dwane any of his CD's

The Cruel Sea any of their CD's

o Dave Brubeck: Time Further Out, Live at Carnegie Hall
o Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
o Leopold Stokowski: Bizet Suites (Carmen, L'Arlessiene)
o Bruno Walter w/CBS Orch: Eroica
o Buddy Rich: Swingin' New Big Band, Big Swing Face, Keep the Customer Satisfied
o George Benson: White Rabbit, Breezin'
o Janos Starker: Bach Cello Suites on Mercury Living Presence
o Ormandy/Philadelphia Phil: Mahler's 1st Symphony; Strauss Waltzes, esp. Blue Danube
o Brandenburg Concertos: Musica Collegium/LA Chamber Orch. w/Gerard Schwarz
Gary Burton: Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett; Paris Encounter (w/Stephane Grappelli)
o Gene Krupa: Drummer Man
o Frank Sinatra: Sinatra's Sinatra; Sinatra at the Sands
o Count Basie: Pretty much anything

I've listened to John FOgerty's Blue Moon Swamp a lot. Top notch all around. It's one of my wife's favorites as well.

Creedence Clearwater Revival, any and all of their recordings.

In my car via BT receiver I can't stop listening to Joseph Tawadros "Chameleons of the White Shadows" released last year. There's also DVD with great documentary of perfect work done.
The rest of musicians are
Richard Bona(MMMM!) BASS!
Bela Flack ...you know:-)
Joey DeFrancesco (MMM!) B3
Roy Ayers ... you know:-)
Jean-Louis Matinier -- L'Accordeon

I can't name just one. There are several: Cat Stevens' "Tea for the Tillerman"; Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks": Joni Mitchell's "Court and Spark"; James Taylor's "Sweet Baby James"; Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick"; and many others. I bet you can guess my age from this list.

'Machine Head' by Deep Purple. I usually skip over it, and go from 'Fireball' to 'Made in Japan.'

Consistently interesting thread with some suggestions I have bought myself. I seem to agree with so many of the listings, many of which, would be at the top of my list of likes.

The thread has been going for years. If some of the origonal posters are still on the Gon, it might be interesting for them to repeat their current 3 favourites, to see if they have changed. It is definitely more useful if people stick to 3 suggestions.

Another point I would make, is how different posts are from US residents, I am from the UK. In an interconnected world, you would expect US artists to be as well known in the UK, but so many of the US artists I have never heard of.

Easily number 1: Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies

Not sure about the order of the rest but all have been played LOTS...

Mark Knopfler - Shangri-La

Floyd - DSOM

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Elis & Tom (LOVE this album and pretty much everything else he has done)

Pearl Jam - Ten

Abbey Road ;Beatles
Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
Night Train, Oscar Peterson
Stan Getz with Joao Gilberto feaut. Jobim
Bach cello suites, Anner Bylsma (1st recording)
Goldberg variations, Glen Gould (2nd recording)
Count Basie. Live at the Coast
Sonny Rollins, the Bridge
Archie Shepp & NHOP, Looking at Bird

Charles Mingus. Three or Four Shades of Blue
Rosanne Cash. Rules of Travel
Bobby Hitcherson. Happenings

Milan60: Hank Mobley, Soul Station... Which version/release if not secret? CD? Record?

Miles Davis, Kind of Blue

John Scofield, Meant To Be

Hank Mobley, Soul Station

last 2 years; Carmen Gomes inc, Torn

Beatles: Rubber Soul
Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks
Jose Feliciano: Feliciano
Louis Armstrong: Plays King Oliver

Thanks much, Martykl. I'm waiting for the reincarnation of Terry Kath. Will pursue your lead.

I'll throw in The Doors LA Woman. SQ isn't too bad. They kept the recording simple back then. Not so hashed.

Arnett,

You might want to check this out. I caught this band when they opened for Taj Mahal near my home last year. It's Danny Seraphine's new band and they seem to be targeting that early Chicago sound. When I walked into the show, I was amazed at how much the guitarist sounded like Terry Kath (and I agree that Kath was a very special player).

http://www.ctatheband.com/newDEV/

Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago's first album. Terry Kath, guitarist, is the best I've ever heard.

Leon Redbone On the tracks
Greg Brown The Live One
Various others so I don't have three

Mapman, you have excellent taste in both music & loudspeakers! ;)
Do you have the "approved" version of "The Snow Goose" featuring the late Spike Milligan BTW? Sounds sumptuous on vinyl. No one ever thought Spike could take a project that seriously ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl2BFccAJnY

You can find anything on YouTube these days! :)
I was going to mention Genesis, Rick Wakeman and others but didn't want to overload the thread ;)

The Orb.

Moonglum,

You sound like a kindred spirit. Big Camel/Latimer fan here.

My kids even like Stationary Traveller.

"A Nod and a Wink"/"Stationary Traveller" by Camel
"Somewhere Deep in the Night" by Swing Out Sister
"Larks Tongues in Aspic", et al, by King Crimson
"Aerial", et al, by Kate Bush
"Ashes Are Burning"/"Prologue", et al by Renaissance
"Phantasmagoria"/"2nd Album" by Curved Air
"Oora", et al, by The Edgar Broughton Band
"Dulaman", et al, by Clannad

e.g. If you've not heard them before, try this by Clannad....a touching love song, sung alternately in English & Gaelic....perfectly measured performance by Mhaire Brennan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTXrdt7piyc

"A Nod & a Wink" should be subtitled, "Ruminations on a Theme of Youth and Old Age". Andy Latimer, in his 50s playing guitar & flute like a demon. Doesn't get any better than this but takes at least 6 replays to get your head around it. Like "Aerial" and "Somewhere Deep" it's a grower so don't expect instant results but the long term reward is great.

Enjoy

Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
The Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children, Seventh Sojourn

Dire Straits - Making Movies
The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night, Abbey Road