My favorite band is Queen, so only counting their studio albums, that already gives me more than a dozen LPs I will listen to all the way through over and over

My favorite band is Queen, so only counting their studio albums, that already gives me more than a dozen LPs I will listen to all the way through over and over again. Then there's their live albums, the band members' solo albums, singles/45s... I also think listening to one side of an LP and then switching to a different one isn't that much more work than flipping it over, so it's OK if only one side is flawless. I will listen to Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" anytime, even though the songs on the other side are not as iconic/necessary. Finally, I think you may not know ahead of time which albums become beloved and worthy of the ceremony upon repeated listening. I bought my partner "songs" by Adrianne Lenker (of Big Thief) because she loved "anything" from that album, and now that double album is one of our favorite albums that we're currently wearing out. I think it's worth taking a risk sometimes, and if you don't love it, you could sell it to a used record shop for someone else to love.