Album which you have listened to most?

Only three? No promises! :-) You ask for LP’s that engender an emotional; response and I could list a hundred. How about three from each of several separate categories? Even at that it is damn hard and I will leave out many –depends on the mood as to what I find best. All of these, though, induce strong emotions in me upon listening and I’d never say no if they were offered in the queue. I have tried to restrict my suggestions to those that are not blatantly obvious “best-sellers” (e.g. Sgt. Pepper’s/Dark Side of the Moon/Led Zep IV, etc.) BTW, kudos to Lugnut for mentioning G. Allman's "Laid Back" and I feel I must mention it also - it is sorely underrated and an all-time favorite for melancholy moods - I recently had to buy a mint first pressing since my son absconded with my original copy!

50’s-60’s Jazz
Art Pepper – “Intensity”
Art Pepper – “Smack Up”
Miles Davis - “Steamin’”

70’s Jazz/Fusion
Chick Corea – “Again and Again (The Joburg Sessions)”
Weather Report – “8:30”
Brand X – “Livestock”

60’s Rock
Beatles – “Revolver”
King Crimson – “In the Court of the Crimson King”
Velvet Underground – “White Light, White Heat”

Motown
Supremes – “With Love”
Marvin Gaye – “What’s Goin’ On”
Stevie Wonder – “Innervisions”

70’s Rock
Steely Dan - “Pretzel Logic”
Yes – “Fragile”
Spirit – “Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus”
There are dozens in this list, alone.

Country Rock
Pure Prairie League – “Bustin’ Out”
Ozark Mountain Daredevils – “Men From Earth”
Poco – “Indian Summer”

70’s R&B/Soul
War – “The World is a Ghetto”
Al Green – “Let’s Stay Together”
O’Jays – “Backstabbers”

80’s Rock
Donald Fagen – “The Nightfly”
R.E.M. – Document
The Clash – “London Calling”

Bluegrass
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – “Will the Circle Be Unbroken”
Flatt and Scruggs – “Country Music”
Dillards – “Decade Waltz”

Classic Female Vocals
Carol King – “Tapestry”
Jennifer Warnes – “Shot Through the Heart”
Aretha Franklin – “Lady Soul”

Relatively Current-
Steely Dan – “Everything Must Go” (superb)
Marlena Shaw – “Live in Tokyo”
Coldplay – “Rush of Blood to the Head”

I hesitated to post so many, but maybe it is a good thing for the sake of variety. As some will equally find for my choices, I would not let the choices of some others come near my platter. Moral: "To each his/her own!" :-)

1. dave brubeck quartet with jimmy rushing: excellent, but short recording that I can still listen to almost every week,in fact it is playing as we speak.

2. ben harper - fight for your mind: this is listened to alot although some tracks do get past over, I even have a copy for listening in my car. This has alot of different tracks on it. Sometimes I just put on the guitar intro of track 12 and listen to it quite a few times in a row.

3. midnight oil - acoustic nights: this was made on the oxygen label and recorded during the unplugged craze a few years back. even though the are doubles of some tracks, it was recorded in two different venues, I often listen to it all the way through

Eric Clapton "Unplugged"
Eagles "Hotel California"
Pink Floyd everything from Meddle and after

I have to break the rules and add one

Joe Zawinal - The Rise & Fall of the Third Stream

I think anything this man touches is magic (including Weather Report) and this is my current favorite, ever evolving and tuneful, very tasteful

Oh, I almost forgot, I almost never tire of the 20hz test tone on the Stereophile Test CD 1. It's an audiophile classic.

Marco