Right now? The Sucker Punch soundtrack. I love six of the nine songs, and can easily stand the remaining three. I keep coming back for "Army of Me." (And White Rabbit has an intoxicating quality that I'm drawn to. It's been said that I'm too easily sold on exceedingly wet, echoey mixes, and this doesn't do a good job of recusing me of that argument.)

Prior to this, hm. TRON. (Mostly for Derezzed and the end titles, additionally The Son of Flynn. Tracks 13, 21, and 3, respectively.)

Prior to that, I don't recall. Something random and old that I re-discovered from previous musical infatuations and depleted of its replay value in a marathon of repeat-listenings. Maybe "Queen of Pain" by Devil Doll, or "This is Hardcore" by Pulp.

The Sucker Punch soundtrack. I was disappointed by the movie but the covers are pretty solid. Also Ill buy anything that has Alison Mosshart singing Beatles' songs.

I'm addicted to 'Wilderness Heart' by Black Mountain. They have a very heavy Zeppelin/Sabbath/Floyd influence to them.

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2010 was comprised mostly of Bat For Lashes "Two Suns,"album, the XX's self titled debut, and Prodigy's "Invaders Must Die." 

Currently, I'm into The Social Network soundtrack.  It feels almost like NiN demo's, in a weird way, but I'm very excited about the direction Trent is taking with this and How To Destroy Angels.

Music for a German Tribe by former Bavarian DJ and dark electro pioneer :WUMPSCUT:

It's an EP of some early hits all performed auf Deutsch (in German) including Soylent Green, Die in Winter, and Tell Me Why. I like the variety of songs and the intensity of the performance. The EP was compiled with several other rarities in a two disc compilation titled, Preferential Tribe.

When I'm in the mood for some :\\//\\//: I'll listen to this EP above others.

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I remixed Incubus' "Morning View" and "Make Yourself" onto one CD about 10 years ago, dropping 4 or 5 of the weaker tracks.  I can always skip to something on that disc that soothes my mood.

For the last few years if I'm listening to anything it's an audiobook.  Spent the drive down to Fla listening to, "We're Alive."  Anyone know if the lady credited with the surname "Doty" is an Astroninja sibling?

<edit> oops, no.  Her name is: "Dodin."

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^This.  I'm a long time TVOTR fan.  I saw them when they won the 2004 SHortlist Award and haven't looked back since.  I like this album a lot, and find it a nice change of pace while still moving their style forward.  Very good album to listen to while writing.

And no, while I like Metric, I am not related to the singer.

Great albums.

I go through a lot of bands and albums, but certain albums have permanently glued themselves into my playlist for the better part of a decade.

Engine Down - Demure - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmHY2wbaObc
To/Die/For - Jaded, Epilogue - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdO6IsP-WY0
Katatonia - The Last Fair Deal Gone Down - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxvjrowbN44

Newer stuff that I've had on repeat for the last several months:

Madder Mortem - Eight Ways - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ0AayHr8XU
The Provenance - Red Flags - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZzsl_vSgzw
The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life And Death - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0K2pxn62B0

All of that is various flavors of metal / goth-metal-type stuff EXCEPT:

Engine Down - old "emo"ish band that was doing that shit before it became the fucked up nu-goth bullshit it ended up being later on. In my opinion they're the spiritual successor to Sunny Day Real Estate, if you know who they are. Kinda different and not quite that low key, but in the same vein.

The Dear Hunter - I have no suitable classification for this band. It's like someone wrote some insane movie musical, released the soundtrack and then forgot to actually make the movie. Their stuff is all over the fucking place. Happy, sad, slow, fast, heavy, soft... and all that shit generally happens in just about every song on all their albums. The song I linked is pretty heavy, cause that's how I like it, but I could have just as easily linked to something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_AgwXR1Los

@drewjmore: I played the hell out of Morning View when it was out. Haven't listened to it in a long time, but now that you mention it I think I'll dig it back up and throw it in for a while. I remember getting really pissed off at Incubus when one of their next albums was released (Murder of Crows or something?) and I hated every single song on it.

@Shackman: Here's some more 90's music for you

And yeah, I've been really bored tonight...

Agreed... Also Ween's White Pepper is a fantastic frickin' album, plus the production on it is outstanding.
Always love a good schizophrenic album.

Drew: Nine Inch Nails.

OH GOD

NO

TRANSFORMING TO HIPSTER

GUH

AH!

OH AHHHHHH MY ONLY WEAKNESS IS NINNNNNNNN

You have to listen to The Fragile in its entirety several times to appreciate it!!!

*shits out lungs*

*lies dead on floor*

The Fragile is their best work. I can understand why people like Downward Spiral better, since it was THE nin album for 6 years or so and had a lot of time to become an iconic album.

If you want to talk about bands that have released more than 4 albums and still write great stuff, there's the Foo Fighters and Thrice as well. Both of those bands started out with a certain type of sound and by their third or fourth album just said "screw this samey sound BS" and started writing all kinds of crazy good music. Their later stuff is better than their earlier stuff by far.

Along with Katatonia, Opeth, The Gathering (the new vocalist is fucking great, btw), Porcupine Tree and a ton of other bands. I think you have to actively avoid the sort of poppy stuff they play on the radio to consistently find the bands that are going to write albums worth listening to after their first or second album. What gets me is all the bands that keep releasing album after album of stuff that sounds exactly the same. I dunno how they can keep sane or why their fans keep buying new albums if all they wanted was more of the stuff that was on the previous albums...