Albums you never get tired of

[J T]

I don't really tire of many of my albums because I don't listen to them so many times that I can't stand to listen to them again. There are some albums that I've listened to quite a lot though that surprisingly haven't tired me yet.

This is a long list, but it really is only a small fraction of my total collection. You can get a sense for the diversity of my tastes too. This is why trying to create "all time top 10" lists makes my brain explode.

AC/DC: Back In Black
Aesop Rock: Float
The Amazing Royal Crowns: Amazing Royal Crowns
Amon Tobin: Supermodified, Bricolage
Antonio Carlos Jobim: The Man From Ipanema
Aphex Twin: Drukqs, I Care Because You Do, Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2
Aretha Franklin: The Very Best of...
The B-52s: Cosmic Thing
The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Beastie Boys: Paul's Boutique
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beck: Midnight Vultures, Mellow Gold
Ben Webster: Soulville
Bikini Kill: Reject All American
Bjork: Debut
Bob Marley & The Wailers: Legend
Brian Setzer Orchestra: Dirty Boogie
Busta Rhymes: When Disaster Strikes
Charles Mingus: Blues and Roots
The Chemical Brothers: Dig Your Own Hole
Course of Empire: Initiation
David Bowie: Low, Outside, Ziggy Stardust
Deltron: Deltron 3030
Dieselboy: A Soldier's Story
Dr. Octagon: Dr. Octagonacologyst
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer: ELP
Eric Dolphy: Out To Lunch
Esquivel: Space Age Bachelor Pad Music
Fantomenk: Ultimate Collection
Fiona Apple: Tidal
Florence + The Machine: Lungs
Frank Sinatra: Greatest Hits
Frank Zappa: Hot Rats
Gary Burton: Libertango
Goldie: Timeless
Gogol Bordello: Gypsy Punks
Herbie Hancock: Headhunters
High Contrast: True Colors
James Brown: Best of
James Mathus and The Knockdown Society: Stop and Let The Devil Ride
Janelle Monae: Archandroid
John Coltrane: Love Supreme
Jonas Hellborg: Good People In Times of Evil
Judas Priest: Screaming for Vengeance
Juno Reactor: Bible of Dreams
Katharine Whalen: Jazz Squad
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin II, IV
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
Les McCann and Eddie Harris: Swiss Movement
Manu Chao: Proxima Estacion- Esperanza
Marilyn Manson: Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals
Marvin Gaye: Let's Get It On
Metalheadz Presents Platinum Breaks
Michael Jackson: Bad, Thriller
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue, Bitches Brew
Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile, The Downward Spiral, Broken, Pretty Hate Machine
Nirvana: Nevermind, MTV Unplugged Live in NY
Outkast: Speakerboxxx/Love Below
PJ Harvey: Rid of Me
Pearl Jam: Ten, VS
Pink Floyd: The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here
Poe: Haunted
Portishead: Dummy
The Postal Service: Give Up
Primus: Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Prince: Purple Rain
Prodigy: Music for the Jilted Generation
Pulp: Different Class
Queen: Greatest Hits
Radiohead: OK Computer, The Bends
Rage Against the Machine: RATM
Ram Trilogy: Molten Beats
Rancid: And Out Come The Wolves
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Roger Waters: Amused to Death, Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking
Roni Size: New Forms
Royal Crown Revue: The Contender
Sam Cooke: The Rhythm and The Blues
Seal: Human Being
DJ Shadow: Endtroducing, Brainfreeze
Sleater Kinney: Dig Me Out
Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream
Squarepusher: Go Plastic
Steve Vai: Fire Garden
Stray Cats: Best of...
Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense
They Might Be Giants: Flood
Tom Waits: Rain Dogs, Foreign Affairs, Small Change
Tool: Opiate, Lateralus, Undertow
Tori Amos: Boys For Pele, Little Earthquakes, Under The Pink
Tribe Called Quest: Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders
Unwound: New Plastic Ideas, Fake Train
Varttina: Vihma
Venetian Snares: Winter In The Belly of a Snake, Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
Violent Femmes: Add It Up
Weezer: Pinkerton
Willie Nelson: Red Headed Stranger
Yoav: Charmed & Strange
4 Hero: Two Pages

Akira Soundtrack
Betty Blue Soundtrack
Blade Runner Soundtrack
Natural Born Killers Soundtrack
Pulp Fiction Soundtrack

[Hobie-wan]

Course of Empire: Initiation

Excellent. A friend in high school had a tape of their first album before they were picked up by a major and it got re-released. Their other albums are great too. Very underrated group that should have more fans. Too bad they're not around any more.

Royal Crown Revue: The Contender

I actually prefer Mugsy's Move to The Contender. But definitely good stuff when one is in the mood.

Violent Femmes: Add It Up

I actually prefer just their first album as it is so solid all the way though. Just couldn't get into later stuff other than the song American Music. Must have sucked though, everyone just wanting to hear the older songs all the time.

[MyNameIsVince]

I can pop these albums into my car pretty much any time and enjoy it (which is about the only way I enjoy CDs these days). Not to say that I don't dig the other albums in my collection but usually if I have nothing in my car and I want to put something in immediately, these are the ones I hit up first (these aren't in order of preference either, just listed what was off the top of my head):

Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Norma Jean - O' God, The Aftermath
Norma Jean - Meridional
The Chariot - Everything is Alive, Everything is Breathing, Nothing is Dead & Nothing is Bleeding
The Offspring - Smash
The Offspring - Ignition
Meshuggah - Nothing
Deftones - Around The Fur
Foo Fighters - Self Titled (aka the one with the weird space gun on the cover)
Every Time I Die - Last Night in Town
Every Time I Die - Hot Damn!
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Limp Bizkit - Three Dollar Bill Y'all
Metallica - Master of Puppets

[J T]

Yeah, Course of Empire really never quite got the appreciation I felt they deserved. I really like their first album too. I first got into them because of Infested (Goodman Darwin Mix). I loved how they mixed in Benny Goodman's version of "Sing Sing Sing" into their song. Combining the two drummers from Course of Empire with samples of Gene Krupa is some brilliant percussion overload.

[CFFJR]

The Offspring's entire output.

They've had highs and lows like any band, but I seriously love everything they've done and I never get tired of them.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Aphex Twin: Drukqs, I Care Because You Do, Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2

Dude - this list needs Volume 1. So good.
I never got into I Care Because You Do; always thought the Richard D. James Album was much better.

[Lazer]

I would also add Led Zeppelin's first 6 albums, and Black Sabbath's first 6 albums.

I first started listening to Zeppelin when I was about 15 or 16. Still love them to this day. If pressed, I would call them my favorite band of all time. Interestingly, I only recently listened to and began to appreciate "Physical Graffiti", and I now consider it to be one of the (if not the) best of their albums. I don't know how I missed that one.

[Omerta]

Gojira - The Link
Opeth - Deliverance
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
Necrophagist - Epitaph
Chimaira - Self Titled
Taylor Swift - Every Album

[jinx]

Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral, The Fragile, Broken, Pretty Hate Machine
Psyclon Nine: Devine Infekt, Crwn Thy Frnicatr, INRI
Skinny Puppy: 12 Inch Anthology
ohGr: SunnyPsyOp, Welt
Tool: Lateralus, Undertow, Opiate
Xentrifuge: Converting Infinity
Staind: Tormented
Mind in a Box: Crossroads
Daft Punk: Tron Legacy Soundtrack
Prodigy: Fat of the Land
Radiohead: OK Computer
RATM: The Battle of Los Angeles

Completely random order...
I simply listed them as they popped into my head. I could probably go on, but I don't feel like it.

[johnny turbo]

Grateful dead- live/dead
2pac- Me against the world
Clash- London calling
Jay z- blueprint
Public enemy- fear of a black planet
Aphex twin- ambient works 85-92
Bob Dylan- blood on the tracks
Nas- illmatic
Pink Floyd- piper at the gates of dawn
NWA- straight outta compton
Neil young- live at Massey hall
George Harrison- cloud 9
A tribe called quest- low end theory
Smashing pumpkins- simease dream
NIN- Downward spiral
Skinny puppy- too dark park
Radio head- ok computer
Replacements- let it be( which is 100 times better than the beetles album by the same name.)
Layla- Derek and the dominos
Pink Floyd- final cut
Led zeppelin- houses of the holy
The list goes on and on.