Which album(s) have you listened to most over the years?

Leonard Cohen – The Best of

U2 – Under a Blood Red Sky (I haven’t played to for years, but the amount I played it when I was a teenager probably puts its annual average at about 100 times a day.)

The The – Soul Mining

The mention of Matt Johnson and The The bring back memories- I used to listen to them a lot.
U2 War and The Joshua Tree were 2 of my most-played albums.
Also The Offspring’s Smash.

I would guess…

Manic Street Preachers. The Holy Bible.
Ride. Nowhere.
Julian Cope. Jehovakill.
New Model Army. Thunder and Consolation.

Two off the top of my head that seem to get played year in year out.

So many brilliant 3 minute memorable pop rock songs in one album.

Not everyone’s first though of Neil Young albums but always been my fave.

Forty+ years of album buying means there’s a shit-load to choose from, but there’s a small list of perpetual favourites that I’ve never grown tired of listening to:
King Crimson – In The Court Of The Crimson King
Paul Simon – Hearts and Bones
Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain
Elbow – Asleep At The Back
Talk Talk – It’s My Life
David Byrne and Brian Eno – My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
‘Til Tuesday – Everything’s Different Now
Kate Bush – Hounds Of Love
Shawn Colvin – A Few Small Repairs
Peter Gabriel – Four
Genesis – Selling England By The Pound
Portishead – Dummy
A few decades covered there, I’ve left out anything really recent that I really love, some of them I’m really confident I’ll still be listening to in twenty or thirty years time, but I think for the purpose of this thread longevity is key.
Certainly every one listed has been listened to over and over again right the way through ever since I first heard them.
All killer, no filler! 😀

Blue – Joni Mitchell

Rage against the machine debut, and DJ Shadow entroducing still regularly listened to these days and have been since their release.

More recently Frank Turner England keep my bones

What’s Goin On – Marvin
Astral Weeks – Van
Greetings from LA – Tim Buckley
Ill Communication – Beasties
Therea a riot Goin On – Sly
Horses – Patti
I see a Darkness (and Greatest Palace Music)- BPB
Jukebox -Cat Power
Dream river – Bill Callahan
In A silent Way – Miles
Kanon Pokajanen – Arvo Part

Have never gotten tired of listening to any of these.

Neil Young – Harvest
Led Zep – 3
Black Crowes – The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion (today even, in the van)

Anything by the The Pixies, love ’em

The The Dusk. Soundtrack to my teens

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx-GmR6c8ajtuqQfbx4MInxSFNxoPnlWK

this seems to never be out of the CD player

Let it Bleed by the Stones.
After the Goldrush and Everybody Knows this is Nowhere by Neil Young.
Blood on the Tracks and Nashville Skyline by Dylan.

But by far the most played is The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion by the Black Crowes. I think it’s the first album I got as a teenager that has stayed with me. Tomorrow I’ll be unwrapping a new vinyl copy of it and I’m really looking forward to it. The song I listen to most is Wiser Time off their next album.

Tool – Lateralus
DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Atheist – Unquestionable Presence
Metallica – Ride the Lightning
Melvins – Houdini
Bjork – Homogenic
Melt Banana – Charlie
Boredoms – Vision Creation Newsun

If we’re talking vinyl it’s a close run thing between;
Transformer Lou Reed or Powerage AC/DC
cd; Stone Roses Stone Roses.

Metalheart – we are musical kindred spirits. We became brothers at Dream River

Kerb dog – Siamese Dream is a great shout

I’d like to add another shout for Exile on Main Street

Beck – Sea Change, Mellow Gold, Odelay

Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker

The National – Boxer

Too many by Mr Zimmerman to list

Flaming Lips – Soft Bulletin

Could go on, love this game

Jimi Hendrix – Axis Bold As Love
Led Zeppelin IV
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Vol I
DJ Shadow – Entroducing
Goldie – Timeless

Good tastes out there. Fin25, I like your style……The Boredoms? Far out.

For me Electric Ladyland is the one. The one I’ve listen to most over the years and the one album I’d take to the desert island. I listen to it often and every time it sounds different.

1992 Love Album, Entroducing, Exile on Main Street, In Utero, Ill Communication, Sheet One, Babylon by Bus amongst others are all albums I’d dearly miss

Tricky Maxinquaye,
The Clash London Calling,
Dick Gaughan A handful of earth
The Buzzcocks Another music in a different kitchen
The hot club of Paris The hot club of Paris
Bob Marley and the wailers live

Clarence Greenwood recordings by citizen cope
Grace by Jeff Buckley
Figure of 8 by Elliott Smith

Teens:

The Who – Quadrophenia
Genesis – Selling England By The Pound
Black Sabbath – Sabotage
The Cult – Love
Thomas Dolby – The Golden Age of Wireless
New Order – Power, Corruption and Lies

20s:

Matt Johnson – Burning Blue Soul
The The – Soul Mining
The The – Infected
Killing Joke – What’s This For?
Led Zeppelin 1&2
Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup
The Orb – Live 93
FSOL – Lifeforms

30s:

Leftfield – Leftism
Julian Cope – Autogeddon, Jehovakill, Peggy Suicide
DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
Underworld – Beaucoup Fish
Can – Future Days
Amon Duul – Wolf City
Boredoms – Vision Creation Newsun
Josephine Foster – Hazel Eyes I will Lead You
Comus – First Utterance

40s

Gas – Zauberberg
Gas – Königsforst
Gas – Pop
Stereolab – Cobra and Phases…
Magma – Mekanik Destructiw Kommandoh
Magma – K.A.
Motorpsycho & Ståle Storløkken – The Death Defying Unicorn

AFX – Selected ambient works ’85-’92
Boards of Canada – any!
808 State – 90
Public Enemy – It takes a nation of millions to hold us back
Coldcut – Journeys by a DJ
Various – Artificial Intelligence
Autechre – Amber
De la soul – 3 feet high & rising

Flaming Lips – Soft Bulletin

Ah yeah!!! +1

And, for some reason it reminded me

Destroyer – Destroyers Rubies

Got stuck on that one LP for about 6 months. Off to have a quiet reflective listen now as the whole house sleeps, the moon shines fully on my gin tonic and the owls are a-softly hootin! Just perfect. Have a cool yule all 🙂

The 3EP’s by The Beta Band.
Always something new.

You’re all forgetting one great album.

quite a few, but the one played relentlessly thru my teens, probably never gone a year without being played, even now in my car CD player

If you wait, by London Grammar

An amazing voice and a sensational album

Also Black on Black by Amy, have never got bored of that album this year

Grandaddy – Sophtware Slump
Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted
Paul Simon – Graceland
De La Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising
Fugazi – 13 songs
Nightmares on Wax – Smokers Delight

I always crawl back to these……

Depeche Mode – Violator
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Journey – Escape
Kenny Larkin – Azimuth
Van Halen – 5150
Rush – Moving Pictures
Urge Overkill – Saturation
Temple Of The Dog – Temple Of The Dog
Alice In Chains – Dirt
Risky Business – OST
Soundgarden – Superunknown
Bomb The Bass – Clear
Dinosaur Jr. – Where You Been?
GnR – Appetite For Destruction
Tycho – Awake
Hammock – Kenotic
Satchel – Heartache & Honey

Hoping everyone is having a nice day with loved ones 🙂

Chameleons – script of the bridge
More recently – the National – trouble will find me.

A lot of suggestions here really make me smile… A good song or album is timeless!
I still listen to this like I did when I first bought it on tape twenty-something years ago (on repeat).

Hmm tricky, there are quite a few that still get regular airtime after several decades.
Yes – The Yes Album and Fragile
Genesis – Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot
Pink Floyd – Ummagumma
Frank Zappa – Sheikh Yerbouti

Wu-Tang Forever
This year – Etherwood, Blue leaves

Jekkyl speaks the truth:

Besides, as you know; “All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen album”

Led Zeppelin III

Nough said 😉

JeZ