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

Slade Alive

Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
The Clash London Calling
U2 Boy
Best of the Pogues (as it includes Rainy Night in Soho)

Unfortunately much of this reads as a list of old albums I’ve simply long got tired of. Was hoping to find some gems, but it seems that I rarely listen to any albums lots these days. There’s always so much else interesting new stuff to listen too and albums 20+ years old I’ve simply already listened to too much.. Humphh :-/

OK new stuff I see.

1. Turin breaks “we were here”
2. Kurt vile
3. Heartless bastard’s, any albums good
4. Jamie woon.
5. Songhoy blues. Music in exile
6. ….

JeZ

New stuff, Alt-J – both albums, The National – all recent albums, Future Islands – Singles, Arcade Fire – Reflektor (leads back nicely to Funeral/Suburbs/Neon Bible)

Dream River by Bill Callahan is my top tip for late night CTFU zoning. It’s a magic 40mins. First time I heard it was at midnight just as I was starting to nod off, it was one of those eureka moments of perfection.

Read up on the album afterwards and it was apparently intended to be a late night playback album, for drinking and nodding off to. Vindicated!

Ill Communication – Beastie Boys

Among the Living – Anthrax

G Love and Special Sauce – self titled first album

rumbledethumps sed> Satchel – Heartache & Honey

Nice one, I had no idea they released a second proper record… and copies seem to go for over £100. Great.

Fat bottomed girls they’ll be riding today
So look out for those beauties oh yeah!

They won’t be today Jekkyl!!

Anything by Natalie Merchant, but particularly Tigerlilly, can’t believe she isn’t more well known.

In Rainbows by Radiohead was a good call from earlier.
A lot of The The on here which is surprising, love Uncertain Smile as a song (Jules Holland on the piano for this one).

Crikey ,after reading the last two pages most of you are welcome all back to mine for a party! 😉
Most of mine have already been bagsied..
Led Zep II
Beastie boys Ill comm.
Ryan Adams heartbreaker
Underworld dubnobass….
My bloody valentine loveless
Sabres of paradise haunted dancehall & sabresonic
M83 till the dawn heals us.
Blondie parallel lines
All are listened to regularly .

@ Wordnumb…..Dont know if you know but Shawn Smith is currently recording with Dave Abbruzzese (the old Drummer from Pearl Jam) and there is a new song below which sounds great!

http://shawnsmith.bandcamp.com/track/like-the-child-of-the-water-i-am-working-rough-mix

I love all that Washington stuff 🙂

Malfunkshun……Pigeonhed……Satchel…….Brad

Happy days 🙂

no_eyed_deer – Member
Unfortunately much of this reads as a list of old albums I’ve simply long got tired of. Was hoping to find some gems, but it seems that I rarely listen to any albums lots these days. There’s always so much else interesting new stuff to listen too and albums 20+ years old I’ve simply already listened to too much.. Humphh :-/

You clearly missed the point of the thread: Which album(s) have you listened to most over the years?
Emphasis on the word years, which means anything very recent doesn’t really count.
I really shouldn’t have to point this out, it seems to be so obvious.
A good album is one that is timeless, and is of such a quality that it encourages repeated listening across many years; if you get bored with it and stop listening then it clearly wasn’t that good, was it.
I’ve got hundreds of albums, and I continue to buy new ones, I haven’t listed anything that I’ve bought in the last five or so, because they’re still too recent to have passed the test of time.
I could list albums by pinkshineyultrablast, Paper Aeroplanes, Arc Iris,, Beach House, and a whole bunch of others, from the last five years, but that’s too recent.

^ I think that was precisely my point. I struggle to think – out of a collection of >1000 albums from 1930s – present day, of anything I can continue to listen to for years now. I used to, back in the CD-vinyl era, but now it’s more the new stuff that continually grabs me, but not for all that long. I was hoping that some of the suggestions above might change my present view, but no.. It doesn’t seem that way! I just get easily tired of stuff now.. Green grass in every other field! 🙂

@ rumbledethumps – oh yes, a new Pigeonhed record would be very welcome around these parts.

Dr. Boondigga and the Big BW by Fat Freddy’s Drop.

Pauls Boutique – Beastie Boys
Black Sunday – Cypress Hill
Leftism – Leftfield
Ladies and Gentleman we’re Floating in Space – Spiritualized
Northern Soul – The Verve
Smash – The Offspring
Panic Prevention -Jamie T

All on seemingly constant rotation!

Some excellent Spotify inspiration here!

For me:

Automatic For The People – R.E.M.
Easter – Patti Smith
Rust Never Sleeps – Neil Young
Where You Been – Dinosaur Jr
Dirty – Sonic Youth
Bandwagonesque – Teenage Fanclub
Our Time in Eden – 10,000 Maniacs
OK Computer – Radiohead
Ocean of Confusion – Screaming Trees

Slayer – Decade of aggression
The Cult – Sonic Temple
GnR – Lies
NIN – pretty hate machine
Paradise Lost – Gothic

Totally agree with what no_eyed_deer said ^^ up there.
However, yesterday made me realise that there are 2 Bowie related albums which probably are my “most listened to” over the years – Hunky Dory and Lust For Life.
Why anyone else would be interested in this information is beyond me though 😉

Does this count as a compilation?

Or it might be

Difficult to say what I’ve listened to most in the past 50 years – I gave up counting. But on the basis that I first heard it in 1972 and I’m still listening to it quite regularly now, I’m going for The Yes Album.

I actually wore out my first copy of Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden so that.

Queen – Greatest Hits probably runs it a close second.

Unfortunately now listening to an album doesn’t really happen any more with MP3 players and shuffle features.

Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy
Joy Devision – Unknown Pleasures
OMD – English Electric
The Birthday Party – Junkyard
New Order – Low-Life. Love Vigilantes is one of my all time favorite songs
The History of the House Sound of Chicago
and how could I forget Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill, a life changing album

Alanis morisette – jagged little pill

Rage against the machine – debut album

Probably Neil young.. Harvest moon overall.

Pixies – Doolittle
A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders
Screamadelica
Modest Mouse – Good news for people who love bad news

Arcade Fire-Funeral
Broken Bells-Broken Bells
Tom Waits-The Heart of Saturday Night
Elliott Smith-Figure 8
Belle and Sebastian-Dear Catastrophe Waitress

Soundgarden-Superunknown

I’d put money on it being The River by Bruce Springsteen.

New stuff!
Hiatus Kaiyote-Choose your weapon.
It’s taken a couple of spins to make sense but it’s really good.

Born to Run – Springsteen

…good thread and more than half of what’s been posted I’d happily listen to a lot.

It’s a good question because ‘what have you listened to most’ is not ‘what are your favourite/desert island disc/best albums’. And it’s also albums. Tracks would be different. So probably…

– velvet underground: art gallery loaded, velvet underground and velvets live, probably in that order.

– duke ellington/jonny hodges: back to back play the blues – small band, restrained and superb playing, not at all what you’d expect.

– louis armstrong: town hall concert plus

– bob dylan: new morning

– ben folds: unauthorised biog of reinhold messner

– beastie boys, that ‘science’ one.

– al green: the belle album

Not what I’d’ve expected and not like the new stuff I listen to.

Oh and another surprise: love for Matt Johnson. He’s surely due some sort of revival?

velvets live

Have you heard the Matrix Complete boxset (forms 3/4 of Live ’69 I think)?

Very high quality mixes (from the desk I think). Well worth checking out if you’ve not already.

Raven-wiped out. The album cover screams ‘spend £10, make it look like £11’, but they lock into some impressively tight grooves…if you like your metal.

Marillion- fugazi. Spiralling keyboards galore.

The orb-u.f. Orb. Bass set to stun.

Sugar-copper blue.

Electric Ladyland
In the Court of the Crimson King
Black Sabbath
Live at Max’s
Darkside
You

Hmmm,
Yes – The Yes Album, Close To The Edge, Fragile
Genesis – Foxtrot
Zep – Physical Graffiti
Floyd- Wish You Were Here
U2 – Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, Zooropa
Radiohead -The Bends
The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace With God

jimster01 – Member
Zep – Physical Graffiti

I’m surprised this is the first mention of this album, their best imo.
I’d also go with The Bends, plus Blood on the Tracks, Born to Run, Paul’s Boutique and Wild Wood.

Well, off my computer, these:

Off my hifi, I have no idea, but in a similar vein as above…

Ten most played are probably:

The The – Mind Bomb
Japan – Obscure Alternatives
Associates – Fourth Drawer Down
Clash – Sandinista
Radiohead – The Bends
Weller – Wildwood
Bob Marley – Exodus
Green Day – Dookie
Jam – All Mod Cos
Foos – There is Nothing Left to Lose

U2 The Joshua Tree
Rolling Stones Exile on Main St