i love this track so much, i'm never going to listen to it ever again...

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does that remark seem at all logical in any way? its an extreme summary of what i often find myself doing...fearful that a track i like a lot or indeed love will soon deplete in its power i try to ration my exposure to it more in order to preserve its status in my head as classic or whatever. as a result i dont listen to what i profess to be my favourite albums and songs of all time hardly ever

how often do you listen to your supposed favourites? are you the opposite in that you identify what you like and listen to it every single day for months on end...and still listen to your favourite album at least once a month a year after its release? i can't seem to do that.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 12:53 (twenty-three years ago)

You should be brave and listen to them! You'll discover what really are your favourites that way, and what was really just a sugar rush.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 13:01 (twenty-three years ago)

It varies between the two, depending on the record. I rarely play 'Funhouse' by The Stooges so that it doesn't "deplete in its power" as you say.

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

but i have my favourites in my head all the time anyway and i suppose the measure is if the track comes into my head and i then want to hear the real thing then thats a sign of a classic and favourite, but if i'm not actually bothered about hearing the track itself at that time then its not...right now i've got Underworld's 'Juanita' in my head and yes i would quite like to hear it...but by the time i get home tonight its very unlikely i will actually listen to it (especially as its about 10 bloody minutes long)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

juanita is my favourite underworld track by a mile.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I alwasy feel a pang of guilt whenever I crack out one of my definite favourite records, along the lines of "oooh, I love you so much already, I really ought to be loving something else 'cos they'll get jealous otherwise" which perhaps says more about my mentalism than anything else.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Ground Zero 'Consume Red' to thread?

― summerslastsound (summerslastsound), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I usually give my favorites some break time. I listen to them wildly for some time, and then forget about them a little while, and next time I see them I do it again. This is partly based on the random way my collection is stored, but also on the fact that I only have limited listening time, and would like to try other music too.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:24 (twenty-three years ago)

As an interesting aside, do any of us ever envisage a time when we find a record that so completely fills our desires for music that we neevr want to lisetn to anythign else?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I had that with Ocean Colour Scenes b-sides album. Since then I wear headphones and listen to white noise in case one even slightly noticeable change in pitch of my environs should trigger a form of psychological whiplash so intense in form that my soul is ripped its moorings and into a painful hellworld of the non-dadrock.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think I'll ever get tired of Juanita, or anything on the live CD, I can't remember any other album which has managed to keep its sheen so well. It never fails to make me awnt to dance. Generally no matter how much I love something I get sick of it, but I don't ration it to myself. Does it work Steve?

Records I still love as much as first time (there are few)

Cosmos-Take Me With You
X-Press 2-Lazy
Underworld-Everything Everything.
DJ Rolando-Jaguar

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

It's amazing how "Juanita" is so fantastic when they do it live and so soul-suckingly awful on _Second Toughest..._.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 20:34 (twenty-three years ago)

It's just heartshattering on Everything Everything, hehe, I might go and listen now!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

it seems logical, but its not something i do. i can't resist putting my favourite albums/tracks on. if its really good, it'll endure, trust me. i'm still not sick of "hot rock", and i've listened to it a hell of a lot. and then if you do get sick of it, you can put it away for a while, and listen to it again a year or so later and find that it always was really great. yay! but honestly, whats the point in owning a record if you aren't going to listen to it?

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

As an interesting aside, do any of us ever envisage a time when we find a record that so completely fills our desires for music that we neevr want to lisetn to anythign else?

Good god man, no!

I always get crap music stuck in my head so I doubt I could overplay a favorite song or album.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

It's amazing how "Juanita" is so fantastic when they do it live and so soul-suckingly awful on _Second Toughest..._.

well, its lucky for you that the two times i saw them live they didnt play 'Juanita' cos i really want to attack you for saying that ;)

and i dont consciously ration my favourite music like that...its just become the way i work - its almost subconscious...obviously we all go crazy for something for 3 months or whatever but then dont bother with it so much - and like I say, perhaps the fact that the song is in your head so much cos you love it so much is enough and you dont need to listen to it that much as a result - dunno if that makes sense but thats how it seems to go for me.

was it Tom who started a thread a while back about listening to an old favourite for the first time in AGES and discovering lots of things about it you either totally forgot about or did not even notice until now...? i look forward to that myself...

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

The time things an interesting point...how much time per day do people actually get to listen? Sometimes I'm just hearing music rather than paying attention/being engulfed. I also find favourites get put on the shelf because I'm mainly trying to listen to stuf I haven't heard before.

I crave a record that totally consumes me. Last year i'd say the only record I listened to more than, say 5 times, was the Str**ts.

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

i worked out that on average i'll play my favourite albums from more than 3 years ago only once or twice a year...fave individual tracks a lot more than that but still way below average i reckon - how do you compare?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

and what would you say was your MOST PLAYED album? perhaps it will not always match with what you consider to be your favourite album ever, tho i'm not sure i have an all time fave album these days myself

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 21:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd have records that I (somewhat misguidedly?) consider peaks, greats, untouchables that I haven't, er, touched for 5 years or more I reckon...Funkentelechy vs the Placebo Syndrome, Super Ape, That Certain Ratio disc with Knife cuts water...hmmm I might dig them out.

Plus I'm more likely to play a CD.

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

if you buy recs often enough its then quite difficult, once you 'get' what it's abt and you've enjoyed it, to go back to it becuz you've got a pile sitting over there int eh corner of yr room.

but I always return to some of my favourites.

I don't know what's my most played rec actually. a lot of my favourite are not played often, actually.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

When I buy a new record I love, I have to eat it. I mean, it's like falling in love. I want to get to know it intimately, feel it in my blood, taste it in my ears... I'll listen to one album to the exclusion of all else 10-20 times straight. It drives my bf crazy and I dread to think how the neighbours feel about it. Then, inevitablly, you do go one listen too far and the backlash comes... but I've always found that to be temporary, and sooner or later it'll be back in the player and I'll still love it, but in a more comfortable way.

Most overplayed? Louder than Bombs. Most recently overplayed: Holywood.

― Zora (Zora), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

i cant imagine doing that Zora, good insight tho....is it perhaps a bit like, as you say, falling in love with the record but having wild crazy sex with it straight away instead of flirting and romancing a bit more beforehand and letting things take their natural course?

haha probably not, but its a thought...

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 23:36 (twenty-three years ago)

It's amazing how "Juanita" is so fantastic when they do it live and so soul-suckingly awful on _Second Toughest..._.

soul-suckingly awful?? dan, that is the single most ridiculous thing i've read on ilm. that and the thing about spells.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Has anyone ever taken the title of this thread literally? Or, has anyone ever heard a song that was just perfect - and then searched it for years and upon hearing it a second time was completely unmoved?

This usually happens to me with opera music. If it strikes me as wonderful, It's usually because of when & where I heard it - and not so much the music itself. .. And a lot of modern symphonies have the same effect .. on the second listen, I'm not as surprised as the first time - .

reference

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

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