Albums you hardly listen to but really enjoy the rare times you do

[kaosmark2]

Lengthy topic title, but I decided to get it in there.

What albums do you rarely actually play through, but every time you do, you think to yourself "this is fantastic, I ought to listen to it more often"?

[mrtourette]

Nearly all my collection, I spend so much time on new music/albums I don't spend enough going back and listening to old ones. One I pulled out last night - 'This Is This' by PWEI. Haven't listened to that for years.

[Gucci Piggy]

Loveless. Hardly ever feel inclined to listen to it, but love it when I do. Typically listen to it on long train journeys when I've no distractions for the entire duration.

[kaosmark2]

Nearly all my collection, I spend so much time on new music/albums I don't spend enough going back and listening to old ones. One I pulled out last night - 'This Is This' by PWEI. Haven't listened to that for years.

[kaosmark2]

Loveless. Hardly ever feel inclined to listen to it, but love it when I do. Typically listen to it on long train journeys when I've no distractions for the entire duration.

[PDAD]

Put on Dear Catastrophe Waitress today and wondered why I had gone so long without.

[PDAD]

Oh, and same yesterday when I pulled out Coney Island Baby.

[dentalplan]

Um. Most of my collection probably as I spend a lot of time listening to my backlog of albums I'm getting round to listening to.

One that stood out to me the other day, though, was Primary Colours.

[music-fan4]

Can think of quite a lot:

loveless

let england shake

antlers - hospice

sky ferreira - night time, my time

most of radiohead (other than Ok Computer which I listen to quite regularly)

bright eyes - I'm wide awake it's morning

the soft bulletin - the flaming lips

the stone roses

bloc party - silent alarm

mystery jets - twenty one

the dark side of the moon

any of tyler's albums and OF mixtapes in general (although I listen to earl/frank often)

bjork - debut

the strokes - angles

pavement - wowee zowee

arctic monkeys - AM

[justanothername]

I'm actually having a hard time thinking of one.......

[Com Truise]

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Foals - Total Life Forever

RHCP - By the Way

Radiohead - Pablo Honey

Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero

[kaosmark2]

Put on Dear Catastrophe Waitress today and wondered why I had gone so long without.

[kaosmark2]

RHCP - By the Way

[Babyquack]

Hmm, the one that comes to mind is Debut by Bjork but there a few others too when I think about it:

The Holy Bible - Manics

Elephant - The White Stripes

OOS - Muse

Neon Bible - Arcade Fire

[Com Truise]

I'd say that's worse than Pablo Honey. Although that might partially be because of how ridiculously overplayed it was everywhere in my teens.

[kaosmark2]

they're all actually my least favourite albums by those bands, bar By The Way which is higher than some RHCP albums. That's the reason I don't listen to any of them much, but I still love them, so every time I go back to them I really enjoy it

[Com Truise]

Well RHCP albums get really terrible.

[kaosmark2]

I like them all to be honest, just some quite a bit less than others

[kaosmark2]

And to get back on topic:

Mother's Milk

Oh, and the album that triggered the thread was Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's S/T.

[2rare2die]

Sleeper - The It Girl

Tool - Lateralus

Counting Crows - August And Everything After

Catatonia - International Velvet

Pitchshifter - Psi

To name a few

[the wonderwhy]

Disintegration, which is my favourite album. Um...

[zero000]

Siamese Dream

Odelay

The Downward Spiral

All albums which I have to be in a certain mood to listen to.

[Gucci Piggy]

Tool - Lateralus

[music-fan4]

Never rated it actually. I keep on thinking I must have missed something as it's so highly rated, but every time I go back and give it another go I'm disappointed again.

[2rare2die]

One of my go to albums when I can't be arsed to listen to anything on my iPod and don't have Spotify handy. I end up listening to it pretty much every time I'm doing work alone at college.