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Which one would it be?
I think I'd go for The Boatman's Call by Nick Cave ATBS.
ho ho. This just made me think of that episode of Father Ted where they only
had one record at the disco: Ghost Town by The Specials. That was funny.
Leftism - Leftfield... or maybe Guns n' R Use YYI 2
Paul Weller, Stanley Road.
Dark side of the moon...
Surely this, designed to be background noise and not intrude, Ambient for Airposts :
Geogaddi - BoC. (BTW isn't it about time for a new release, it's been 8 years now...)
Although last time I put in an all-nighter it was Angel Olsen’s ‘My Woman’, repeat x10. Now it feels like she’s my strange disembodied supervisor-cum-inspirer
Either of
Alter Bridge - Live at the Royal Albert Hall featuring the Parallax Orchestra
or
Thunder - All the Right noises
Both of which I have had on loop on various WFH days
I'm an aging rocker 😉
(What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Depends on what type of work, I suppose. If you are doing a lot of thinking and needing a bit of background then Brian Eno - New Space Music or Aphex Twin - Stone in Focus.
Not exactly something to bop around to though.
Gang of Youths, MTV unplugged. Bit less rocky than their normal stuff (obv...)
or
MMJ - Okonokos
I know that's two...
Dark side of the moon…
Please god no. I worked in a kitchen as a pot-washer where the chef played it on loop, I wanted to put myself in the industrial dishwasher just to get away from it.
I'm gonna go a bit left field with my suggestion though - Steve Earle, The Hard Way.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, I'd choose Bowie's Hunky Dory
Friday I'm reaching for Springsteen's "Live at the Main Point, 1975"
Miles Davis: In a silent way
My wife plays Miles Davis or Rachmaninov on loop when she's trying to do brain work.
I'd probably go for this -
or Springsteen: Live at Hammersmith
Well there are loads I could stand for a single day. It'd get more challenging if it were every day though.
Can we have compilations, I've got a great Trojan ska & reggae CD somewhere that I'd happily put on repeat.
Another David Bowie Hunk Dory here
Maybe Supertramp Breakfast in America as backup, I hardly ever listen to it but I don't think I could get mad with it.
Somebody who has control over their music for the day should try it, listen to the same album for a solid 8 hours, see if you still like it by the end of the day!
Can I have this? Over 11 hours of ambient sounds. It might put me to sleep though. 😛
https://motionsicknessoftimetravel.bandcamp.com/album/ballades
Somebody who has control over their music for the day should try it, listen to the same album for a solid 8 hours, see if you still like it by the end of the day!
This. Possibly my favourite album of all time is "JuJu" by Siouxsie and the Banshees. Do I want to change that? No.
For work, can't have lyrics for me and better if it doesn't have a discernible sound that I'll fix on so better to have randomness in it. I listen to nature sounds (bird song etc) e.g. Destination Audio or Bush Therapy channels on YouTube or the live camera feeds from Explore.org. I can sometimes listen to Aphex Twin ambient or going down a rabbit hole of afrobeats stuff. Once I know the tunes it often distracts me so one album on repeat would be a nightmare.
Lee Scratch Perry arkography - its a triple album of reggae history
It would totally depend on my mood on the day but it would be one of the following:
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish
Possibly.
The Smurfs Go Pop.
anything on repeat would drive me nuts.
I was going to be sensible and suggest something made for the job by Brian Eno... but loving some of these options more.
Most things on a constant loop would drive me nuts, so I'd either have something ambient, or Handel or Mozart
The Man from Mo Wax
This is a game I often play being home-based for the last 6 years.
I genuinely love playing albums that are really long (Roland Kayn, La Monte Young Eliane Radigue, Jean Claude Eloy and Jim O'Rourke pieces I have are all at least 4 hours long), proper adventures in sound that are great as 'working music' whilst doing creative stuff.
My favourite for all-day looping as I work is John Fahey's – Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice).
Bit of a cheat, as it's three CD's:
Townes Van Zandt live at the old quarter or Coldcut Journeys by DJ. Depends on the work really
The Rise and Fall of Bossanova.
You dont even have to loop it, it's over 13 hours long.
Part 1 - 7hrs
Part 2 - 6h 20m
@binners I love the roses, but we listen to absolute radio a lot at work (not my choice) and I'm sick of hearing roses tunes now.
As above would drive me mad but since it’s a serious question ..
Mike Olfield Tubular Bells
possibly
The Rise and Fall of Bossanova.
On a quick listen, this doesn't sound much Jobim or Gilberto, so I think I'll pass.
whatever my GP pipes down the phone whilst in a queue, currently... 40 mins deep at the mo 😒
What the OP said.
And then on the next day To Bring You My Love by PJ
Rumours is my favourite album, but to listen to it ~10 times on a loop would quite possibly drive me nuts.
We had to make these choices when I worked in Halfords back around the turn of the millennium as we had to have the car audio playing and we were in a radio deadspot! We would always take it in turns, sometimes just for a morning or afternoon. You'd think we had won the lottery when a 10 disc CD changer was installed 🤣
My choice back then was usually Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape as it had a flow to it. Now I'd probably go for a Dream Theatre or Porcupine Tree album for the same reason, they are more than just songs but tell a story.
If I had to choose now it would be Porcupine Tree's Fear of a blank Planet.
For work? Something by Hyper or similar, that's all I could listen to when I was doing a load of project work recently, great for drowning out distractions and keeping focus. I could probably handle The Panic on a loop.
Pavement Live Europaturnen 1997.
Probably cheating a little but a decent live performance with minimal forgetting how to play or the words!
A long time ago I realised I'd parties away 4 years of my life and needed to pass the degree exams I had to negate "Peter row your boat ashore" from the CU next door. It was Jesus and Mary Chain Honey's Dead for almost 3 months straight. Weirdly I actually still like it.
Max Richter's Sleep would be a good shout. Might not even make it the whole way through in a working day.
Otherwise, 69 love songs by the Magnetic Fields as it is both a fantastic album and nearly three hours long.
Otherwise, 69 love songs by the Magnetic Fields as it is both a fantastic album and nearly three hours long.
It's one of my very favourite albums, but the lyrics are far too clever and prominent for working to.
Something cheery and light-hearted so The Cure - Disintegration.
The Band-The Band (brown album)
The Band-The Band (brown album)
I'd rather go for Orbital's brown album.
The "where time becomes a loop" bit would be quite apt.
American Idiot, Screamadellica, Absolution.
I use these 2 on endless repeat for any mundane tasks I have to do
Evan & Jaron ST
Alice Band - Love Junk Store
Melodic, Happy inoffensive pop
On a good day: Bladerunner Soundtrack by Vangelis
On a bad day: The Downward Spiral or The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails
If I could only have 1 track though, it'd be something like Hyperballad by Bjork.
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@binners I love the roses, but we listen to absolute radio a lot at work (not my choice) and I’m sick of hearing roses tunes now.
Count yourself lucky. We get to listen to Shite FM - a selection of about 8 songs from the likes of Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa. Thankfully it's not as prominent now that Little Miss Titsandmakeup moved to the other end of the office and has a bit more work to do.
I can always cope with Miles Davis and recently enjoyed Fila Brasilia. Bonobo is also a common choice for work.
This has made me put the Orbital album on actually.
So so good.
This has made me put the Orbital album on actually.
Went through a phase recently of listening to Tiny Foldable Cities over and over again. That's probably what I'm going to do now in fact.
It would change daily for me. I could handle Deltron 3030 if I’m allowed the full and instrumental versions back to back.
Alabama 3, hits and exit wounds.
Sleep - Jerusalem (dopesmoker) whole album (both sides) is one song of epic stoner drone rock
Not listened to Alabama 3 for ages, will get them on tomorrow.
For me, Meat Puppets, Up on the sun. Perfect album for having on quietly in the background as the soundtrack to a productive day of putting numbers in boxes
Not sure I could have a single album on a constant loop. Have had a few albums recently that I have listened to a few times but not back to back on loop. More often I have had one of my Spotify Daily Mixes which gives a nice bit of variety when I don't have anything specific.
Most recent listens are Kip Moore (Wild World Deluxe) and Vince Gill (Okie)
Not on loop but I have listened to Ben Folds Rockin' the Suburbs quite a lot recently. So either that, or Origin of Symmetry, or Black Holes and Revelations, or The Colour and The Shape.
I could go on but I definitely can't pick just one.
Beaster.
It’s only 31 minutes long so I could listen to it lots.
Any day that has ‘that’ guitar solo in it multiple times is a good day.
I wouldn't want anything I have a particular like of as it'd ruin it for me. Possibly Something by Tool. Good but not a go to Listen.
White Light, White Heat
First to mind was Wise Guys, Executive Suite.
Or
DJ Shadow, Endroducing
Rolling Stones, Let it Bleed
Arrested Development, MTV unplugged 93
Ministry of Sound, Chill out Sessions (original, 2001?)
This is what I am currently going with.
Perfect for working, foot-tapping, shoulder-slinking, songs mostly go on for ages so don't grab your conscious attention.
The entire album is a banger, but this is a fave track from it. Motherlode by the Godfather of Soul himself.
If it means I only have to work one day for the rest of my left then the first ****ing album I can lay my hands on. Otherwise presumably I can choose a different album every day? Too confused by question, in which case which ever album I own I feel like listening to all day long.
Webster Lewis and the post-pop, space-rock, be-bob, gospel tabernacle chorus and orchestra baby. (Live in Oslo)
OK I get it, one day I'm being forced to listen to one album on loop. Not every day just this special day. Ok.... Orblivion by The Orb. It'll do.
For accelerated learning purposes, something at 60bpm for revising things and 70bpm for learning new things. It's meant to be lyric free as well.
Personally I work best to Mumford & Sons Sign no More album. Why? Dunno. But the ability to yell out "you really ****ed it up this time..." is pretty much perfect.
Springsteen… The River
The most defining music of my very misspent youth.
Follow that with
I know that is two, dont get me started on the Blackburn Raves...
Springsteen… The River
Just Fabulous.
I've seen him and the E street Band live a few times. Each member of the band has to be able to play/recite the full catalogue of songs they have ever done.
The last time was at Man City ground, some random bloke in the crowd had a full santa outfit on. Springsteen spotted him, pulled him up on stage and made the entire band play 'Santa Claus is coming to town'
It was middle of July.
V by Wooden Shjips
I'd be pushed to pick but something from the following
Royksopp - Melody AM
Monster magnet - Dopes to infinity
Tool - Lateralus
Queens of the stone age - songs for the deaf
Alice in chains - Dirt
I could go on
Something cheery and light-hearted so The Cure – Disintegration.
Or Wish ... to wish impossible things....
I think I’d go for The Boatman’s Call by Nick Cave
I was fully down for this from the OP as my playlist for tomorrow, but now I’m tempted to go for QOTSA and Tool for my day in the (home) office tomorrow.
It would have to be instrumental for me, the repetition of lyrics would grate after several repeats. Tool’s ‘Lateratus’ is indeed a fine album, but I couldn’t listen to it on repeat.
Probably something by Eno, from his Ambient series, or Fripp & Eno ‘Evening Star’, which would just blend into itself.
Bob Marley- live for a happy day
Bruce The River for a thoughtful day
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures.. you can work that one out.