Scenes From A Memory is my #1 favorite album, period. And I'd take my top 5 DT albums over any other albums out there. I really do love this band wholeheartedly.
The thing is, I'm not the type of person to just downrank an artist or an album because I haven't listened to them recently. To be honest, I don't listen to Scenes From A Memory that much, but that's because it's not fresh for me, and the reason it's not fresh for me, is because I love the album so much that I listened to it until it was burned into my brain. I can think about the album and just hear the whole thing in my head. And yeah, taking a break from it and then revisiting it after a while does actually feel fresh, which is another reason to give it a rest. So yeah, just because it's not something I still listen to on a regular basis, doesn't mean that it somehow less favorite for me. That's not really how my brain works. It's an integral part of my identity and personality, as much as the movies I've been watching since I was a child, or the video games, or whatever.
And yes, of course, a large part of that is nostalgia, but at the end of the day, the important part is how much I enjoy it, not WHY I enjoy it. And if nostalgia makes me enjoy this awesome album on a whole other level, then there's nothing wrong with that. Objectively, it's not like the album got worse, I mean, it's the exact same collection of sounds as it was when I first heard it, so everything that I found awesome about the album, on its own merits, is still just as awesome as it ever was.