Is There Just One Single Album That Does It For You, Completely? Just One.

Not even you ... 😉

It was not about our favorite album...

If it was this thread would have not much interest nor any originality ...

The question is about one or two album for LIFE ...

It is amazing that most people dont realize that the repetition of the same EACH DAY will kill any love by routine listening of a content emptied of any depth by repetition ; most musical albums will not last than a few days, weeks, months ...

So beautiful they could be an album to resist destruction by repetition must have a detph musical content impossible to perceive easily and impossible to exhaust by our melodical immediate knowledge of it ...

For life only Bach did it for me ... It is the single one music i listened all my life at almost each sessions ...I am 72 years old ...😉

Beethoven set of quartet can do it too ....But it is more than one hour ...

The art of the fugue is a diamond and nobody is fatigued to see a complex luminescent diamond one time a day, especially if the diamond cutter cut it with an insurpassable craftmanship ....

Funny how many responders can’t follow directions! It was ONE album! 😹

I can’t even come close to picking only 1 album; even 10 would be impossible.

I listen to 3 major genres, and quite a few subgenres within each genre. And within each genre and subgenre, there is music that I rate just as highly as in any other choice in the other genres and subgenres.

Jazz - post-bop, fusion, chamber-jazz, avant-garde

Prog - avant-prog, Canterbury, Zeuhl, classic prog, prog-metal

Classical - avant-garde, atonal, spectralism, serial, 12 tone,

I guess if someone were holding a gun to my head, and forced me to name 1, it would be Yes - Close to the Edge (since it was such a game changer in my listening history).

But seriously, there are many albums by Magma, Thinking Plague, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, PFM, Banco, Anglagard, within prog. Mahavishnu Orchestra, John Coltrane, Allan Holdsworth, Anthony Braxton, Return to Forever, Miles, Oregon, within jazz. And Elliott Carter, Alban Berg, Charles Wuorinen, Bruno Maderna, Joan Tower, Stefan Wolpe, within classical, that I consider the equal of any other recording I would chose.

one must on an island in the stream…combine two old phrases of wisdom…

Familiarity breeds contempt, but absence makes the heart grow fonder…

If you are stuck on a desert island with 2 records, how would you play it, power it, etc?

see OP initial post… solar power extant ….