Favorite Album? No… Favorite Albums

Daily writing prompt

What’s your all-time favorite album?

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I cannot answer this question. Normal people can, but I cannot. I don’t have a favorite album. I have a nearly infinite number of favorite albums. They are all different. I react to them all uniquely. I can’t pick just one. I’ll give you a very short list of a subset of personal favorites that will likely appear very long but is honestly just a small portion of the overall total. You have been warned. In no particular order, here goes nuttin’……

• Rush
  • Moving Pictures
  • Permanent Waves
  • Clockwork Angels
  • 2112
  • Hemispheres
  • Hold Your Fire
  • Counterparts
  • Vapor Trails
• Throwing Muses
  • House Tornado
  • Untitled first album
  • University
• The Beatles
  • Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
  • Revolver
  • Abbey Road
  • Rubber Soul
• Yes
  • Close to the Edge
  • Fragile
  • Going for the One
  • The Yes Album
• Pink Floyd
  • Dark Side of the Moon
  • Meddle
  • The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
  • Wish You Were Here
  • The Wall
• Genesis
  • Selling England by the Pound
  • Foxtrot
  • A Trick of the Tail
• BB King
  • Live at the Regal
  • Live at the Cook County Jail
• Cream
  • Disraeli Gears
  • Wheels of Fire
• Crosby Stills Nash and Young
  • Deja Vu
• Deep Purple
  • Machine Head
  • Made in Japan
  • Deep Purple in Rock
  • Fireball
  • Burn
• Led Zeppelin
  • Houses of the Holy
  • Presence
  • Led Zeppelin II
  • Led Zeppelin IV
• Jeff Beck/Jeff Beck Group
  • Blow By Blow
  • Wired
  • Truth
  • Rough and Ready
• John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers
  • Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton
• Derek and the Dominoes
  • Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
• Emerson Lake and Palmer
  • Brain Salad Surgery
  • Trilogy
• Fairport Convention
  • Unhalfbricking
  • Liege and Lief
• Jefferson Airplane
  • After Bathing at Baxters
  • Volunteers
  • Crown of Creation
• King Crimson
  • Red
  • Discipline
  • Starless and Bible Black
• King’s X
  • Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
  • Dogman
  • Tape Head
• Kristin Hersh
  • Hips and Makers
• Mahavishnu Orchestra
  • Inner Mounting Flame
  • Between Nothingness and Eternity
• Mission of Burma
  • Vs
  • The Obliterati
• Nirvana
  • Bleach
  • Nevermind
• Pearl Jam
  • Vitology
  • Vs
• Peter Gabriel
  • III (Melt)
  • So
• Procol Harum
  • Home
  • A Salty Dog
• REM
  • Life’s Rich Pageant
  • Document
  • Reckoning
  • Fables of the Reconstruction
  • Green
  • Automatic for the People
• Robin Trower
  • Bridge of Sighs
  • Twice Removed from Yesterday
• Smashing Pumpkins
  • Gish
  • Siamese Dream
• The Who
  • Who’s Next
  • Quadraphenia
  • Live at Leeds (Deluxe Edition)
• Traffic
  • Traffic
  • John Barleycorn Must Die

I promise that is a microscopically small list. I basically ignored all of the Boston based bands that I obsessed over through the 90’s and early 2000’s and for bigger national/international artists I tried to only list the very top favorites, but I could easily have written a list 10 times this length.

So in summary… music is a pretty big deal for ol’ Robbie the Red Head.