Record You'll Probably Have Listened to Most By The Time You Die

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It would be nice to think, "I haven't heard it yet," but admit it: you have. You listened to something 1,000 times as a teenager and you'll never have that kind of devotion to a record again.

So, imagine yourself on your deathbed. You're about to breathe your last breath, and your most-listened to album is...

(was)

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"thriller" by michael jackson.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

if i died tomorrow: ropers "all the time" and unrest "imperial ffrr"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm thinking that it might be Hot Rocks, but since strictly speaking I don't own it anymore, it's probably gotta to be something else by the time I REALLY die.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 04:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Ziggy Stardust

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Hot Rocks is a strong contender. The Clash and London Calling are right there.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Led Zep II-and it just astounds me to realize that

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Doolittle

― paul cox (paul cox), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Mine will be Born to Run, I'm sure. Even if I only hear it 30 or so times.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

probably the Smiths s/t or Substance (New Order, Disc 1)

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 8 April 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Greetings from LA - Tim Buckley. I will get the horn one last time, and expire.

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

After The Goldrush, by a longshot.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 04:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Surfer Rosa and Dolittle maybe since they were the only tape in my car stereo for roughly two years.

On the other hand, I don't listen to the pixies like ever anymore.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Aladin Sane, Yessongs, White Light/White Heat, Yo La Tengo's Fakebook, probably some others. I was never one play an LP a lot, even if I loved it, for fear that would make me sick of it.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I honestly don't know. I'm not of the over-listen to an album type anymore, so I guess it must be something I was a fan of ten years ago or something, when I had less music.

Nomeansno's "Wrong" maybe? Possibly The Queers' "Love songs for the retarded"
The former still gets listened to now and then. The latter, well, now and then as well, but with the "then" a much larger distance apart from "now". MUCH!

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i listened to the manics a lot as a teen, so maybe it'll be them. i play low a lot, y'know. and "loveless" too.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 07:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Bill Hicks - Rant in E minor

Nevermind

― neil simpson, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 07:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Lazer Guided Melodies - Spiritualized. Maybe.

― kate, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 07:46 (twenty-two years ago)

The Stone Roses' debut. By a LOOOONG way.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably Blonde on Blonde or The 12 Dreams of Dr Sardonicus.

― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

A toss up between "Ready to die", "Illmatic" and "Liquid Swords" due to walkman and long bus journeys to work...

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 08:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The Best of the Ronettes, due to Walkman listening while commuting.

― Joel, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 08:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Nevermind, Nixon, Sticky Fingers, Intervision, or Slanted & Enchanted.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, but probably- no definitely, -Chet Baker Sings.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

somehting like 'minuteman' : double nickels on the dime, 'fushitsusha's' double live and Borbetomagus/albert ayler stuff.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 08:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"Je t'aime...moi non plus". What a stallion I am.

― Tag (Tag), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

f*ck Julio's hardcore. Ayler ok...but fushitusha, borbetomagus. that's intense

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

well double live isn't wall to wall noise you know.

but um, there are diff kinds of so called intensity (i really need my dictionary here for new words). i like late amm too. and that is v quiet.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

probably "sapporo" from keith jarrett's sun bear concerts. i haven't listened to it for about 20 years though. nowadays i don't listen to the same albums too often. there is simply too much choice. of all recent albums i must have listened most to "amnesiac". the same seems to happen with "hail to the thief".

p.s. i must have listened 100+ times to "the world won't listen".

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Shellac 'At Action Park' or Big Black 'Songs About Fucking' (which I listened to every day for three months when I bought it four or so years ago - the only record which I've ever played with anything like that frequency).

So, a real wide range there.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Pet Sounds

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Blood on the Tracks or Best of Randy Newman. It's one or the otehr when I gho to bed, so I've listened to one or the other EVERY DAY for the past 6 months.

Before that it was After the Gold Rush . . . but it annoys me now.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Rid of Me, since it helped me with my mental problemz

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Between my mom playing it nonstop when I was little and my rediscovering of it as a teen, probably Harvest.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I sure hope mine hasn't been recorded yet.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush ... the #1 record of my high school years.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

in all honesty probably 'slanted and enchanted'.

― j fail (cenotaph), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Sign O' The Times

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

mwng by the super furry animals

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Another Prince album - what are the chances of that happeneing, eh?! Purple Rain, but only for When Doves Cry...

― Dave Stelfox, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, so far....
Night Time by Killing Joke
Killing Joke by Killing Joke
Peggy Suicide by Julian Cope
Destroyer by Kiss
Funhouse by the Stooges

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

the replacements "let it be", beach boys "surfs up" -- but also the cure's "wish" and "the madness" by the madness, coz they were the only tapes i had as a kid

― Peter Parker (Peter Parker), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Wish is the Cure album you listen to the most? Odd.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

No freakin' idea. Seriously, I couldn't begin to guess -- maybe Faith by the Cure if you count all the times I had it on as late night fall asleep uneasily music.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Bad Brains or Entertainment!. Or Revolver.

― Sasha Frere-Jones (Sasha Frere-Jones), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Possibilities:

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death
Daydream Nation

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

It's probably the Holy Bible, but both the Gang of Four best of and the Adam Ant best of are extremely close. I like best ofs, they're easy, they prevent me from having to search for hours for albums.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe Songs in the Key of Life or The Yes Album, maybe 1999 or London Calling

― Neudonym, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Doc Watson's Southbound, Gang of Four's Entertainment! and the Beatles' Revolver is my best guess.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Descendents - Somery
or
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I only got it in june '02 but last year I listened to "1/1" and "2/1" (and the others but mainly those) off "music for airports" just about every night. and when reading "ulysses", i'd replay them over and over. So, yeah, I'm thinking somewhere in the range of 250+.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd hate to say. Absolutely no idea eithe but at a guess it's gotta be one of these:
Music For A Jilted Generation
Parklife
Smiley Smile
Giant Steps

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Whatever it is (was?), it's 99.9% likely to be by Fishbone.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I have probably listened to these albums most:

Poison - Flesh and Blood
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the sea
Masters of the Hemisphere - I am not a freemdoom
Iron Maiden - the Number of the Beast
Dinosaur Jr - Where you been
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
Manics - Generation Terrorists
Philistines Jr - Continuing Struggle of
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Weezer - Pinkerton

The more albums I have, the less likely it is that one will get heard over and over and over.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Beach Boys - TODAY.

― matt riedl (veal), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Jeez. "There's A Riot Goin' On," "The Perfect Prescription," and "Radio City" are all contenders, but there's many others besides...

― M Specktor (M Specktor), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, so I've thought this over long and hard (huh huh "long and hard"), and this is what I came up with:

Fishbone - s/t debut EP
Fishbone - Reality of My Surroundings
Mr. Bungle - California
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Praxis - Transmutation
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

I'm 100% certain I'm forgetting something or two or twenty.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Why don't we all have counters in our heads to give accurate answers to these empirical questions? Or is Tom Ridge about to do that for us?

The numbers move as memory does. Whatever year Aerosmith's Rocks came out, it was Rocks for that year by a country mile. College: Sign O' The Times, I Against I, and Double Nickels On The Dime by a huge margin. Then, as jel points out, if you have a situation of saturation, it's near-impossible to experience a full-bore obsession. Or harder. I got close with Stankonia and Original Pirate Licensing Opportunities.

Then there are those times when you have no free will and can't help what you hear. I worked in a sandwich shop with a woman (who I liked otherwise very much) who played that 10,000 Maniacs album with the lavender archers on the cover almost every day. When I get to heaven (or hell) and God (or Satan) hands me a printout of my summed musical affairs, there'll be a moment of terror when I see In My Tribe at #7.

― Sasha Frere-Jones (Sasha Frere-Jones), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

vu & nico, sigh

― Adam A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Bats' Daddy's Highway probably. It's been a while but I listened to it a LOT in college.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh Aeroplane...when I got that record I had to listen to it at least once a day for a good six months. Haven't heard it in a little while, come to think of it.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

These three are my most listened to so far--Exile on Main Street, Raw Power, and Hole by Foetus.

― rw, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Physical Graffiti, Sheer Heart Attack, Songs From The Woods, thanks to teenage earnestness, yess

(Green and Loveless don't quite come close)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Hatful of hollow, Nevermind, Dirty, Slanted and enchanted

― Michael B, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Forever Changes. By a country mile.

― Methuselah (Methuselah), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't actually felt young in a long time. Thank you.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 04:50 (twenty-two years ago)

It might be Liquid Swords or Illadelph Halflife or Toxicity or Ni**a Please or Bitches Brew or Are You Experienced?. But it's prob'ly not.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 05:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"Radio City."

― Jess Hill (jesshill), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

the side one of "comes a time" neil young

― alice, Thursday, 10 April 2003 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

David Bowie - "Black Tie White Noise"

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 10 April 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

superchunk "on the mouth" -- my awakening

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 10 April 2003 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

It's probably something embarrassing from the high-school days when I only had a dozen cassettes to my name, most likely Dead Man's Party, which I just about wore out during my freshman and sophomore years.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 10 April 2003 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Harold Budd/Brian Eno - Ambient 2: Plateaux Of Mirrors

― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 10 April 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

probably twice removed.

― brian badword (badwords), Friday, 11 April 2003 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

i think between the ages of twelve and fourteen i listened to fear of a black planet every day. but in high school, i probably listened to zen arcade a few times a week, but this was stretched out over four years so it might be that. i don't think i've had a full blown, year-long obsession since college, once the records began to pile up around me.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 11 April 2003 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Kruder and Dorfmeister - DJ Kicks!

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 14 April 2003 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

eight years pass...

the p4k '90s threads got me thinking about this. for me it's probably endtroducing.... because of how much i listened to it when i was 14-16.

― circles, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 02:51 (thirteen years ago)

I listened to the Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime what feels now like every single day of my junior year of high school, and a significant portion of senior year, too. But I've listened to Miles Davis's On the Corner scores if not hundreds of times too. So those are probably the big two candidates.

― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 03:10 (thirteen years ago)

cuz it was one of the 1st records I got as a kid, Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil.. or Slayer's Reign in Blood, or Metallica's Master of Puppets... hard to formulate which one..lol!

― SeanWayne, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 03:13 (thirteen years ago)

Probably VU & Nico with Marquee Moon not far behind.

― Frozen_Warnings, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 03:17 (thirteen years ago)

Has to be between Ziggy Stardust, Friends In Danger, and Struggling Electric & Chemical. I think I played Ziggy at least every few days for about 2 years in high school, so that sets the bar high...

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 03:53 (thirteen years ago)

Stop Making Sense.

― piscesx, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 03:58 (thirteen years ago)

I'm not sure about which album fits here, but I'm pretty sure what single would be my most listened one:

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Love Inc. - R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

First heard it on a compilation in 1994, fell in love with the tune, was listening to it all the time. Later on got the single, and 17 years later I'm still not tired of it. (It's actually the B-side of the single, but I rarely listen to the A-side, even though that's decent too.) There are many later records by Mike Ink/Wolfgang Voigt that I also love, but none of them give me the chills this one does.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 14:02 (thirteen years ago)

if i had died 20 years old - that was in 1983 - it would have been keith jarrett's "sun bear concerts". if i project myself onto my death bed in 2043 - supposed i live till 80 - it will probably be johann sebstian bach's "goldberg variations" (mostly in the early gould version). i still like to listen to them.

― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 14:12 (thirteen years ago)

Easily The Lexicon Of Love by ABC for me. I bought it in 94 when I was about ten and just played it to death over the years. I still listen to it it now and can't believe how perfect it is.

I got it the same day as Dare by Human League and Liverpool by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Two of those have ended up in my all time top ten albums, no clues to which one hasn't.

― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 14:35 (thirteen years ago)

even if i never listen to them again, i'll probably never listen to anything as much as i listened to 'master of puppets' and '...and justice for all' as a kid.

close second: telefon tel aviv's first record has remained my post-show chillout record for years.

― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 15:37 (thirteen years ago)

KP, you are too much. New wave afficionado at age 10, nice...

For me this is probably Tears For Fears "Songs From The Big Chair". That was the soundtrack to my late teenage years. Since then I tend not to play things to death for fear of burn-out.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 16:15 (thirteen years ago)

I'd like to think its Loveless, but suspect it's really Purple Rain.

― Plato’s The Cave In Claymation (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 16:17 (thirteen years ago)

up until a few years ago, Francois Bayle's Erosphere, hundreds of times over the years, but Karma Moffett's Golden Bowls of Compassion is gaining

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 16:59 (thirteen years ago)

13 year old me, Black Sabbath Master of Reality. Probably listened to that a 100 times. Other old favs ... David Bowie Low and Chrome's entire discography. Can't really listen to albums too many times these days for fear they'll get boring.

― Spectrum, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 17:15 (thirteen years ago)

I genuinely have no idea. In its many guises, possibly Smile, but that doesn't sound right to me.

― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 17:20 (thirteen years ago)

OK Computer possibly...? I really don't know. Even albums I get into very heavily, I tend to discard from regular rotation after about 18 months.

― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 17:23 (thirteen years ago)

XTC - english settlement - really!

― jimmy_chop, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 17:42 (thirteen years ago)

this is a weird choice, but through all my music-listening phases there's never been a period where I did not find ELP's Brain Salad Surgery to be massively entertaining. one of those weird records that I never have to be in the mood for. it just works.

― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 17:52 (thirteen years ago)

also, my Dad played it a TON when I was a kid

― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 17:52 (thirteen years ago)

Revolver

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 17:59 (thirteen years ago)

KP, you are too much. New wave afficionado at age 10, nice...

― Gerald McBoing-Boing,

Ha, I wouldn't quite say that but I did an unsual obsession with synth pop when I was young. At that same age in an English lesson we are had to write about ourselves and I wrote how Japan were my favourite group. The teacher was really surprised but in the end she got fed up of me writing about them and Duran Duran in our journal lessons. She later told me to stop writing music lists in those same lessons as it wasn't a good use of my journal. Don't really know what her problem was?

― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 18:56 (thirteen years ago)

Used to be Exile on Main St but Blue Nile's A Walk Across the Rooftops is catching up

― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 20:14 (thirteen years ago)

It'll probably end up being Physical Graffiti. Runners up at the moment are Royal Trux - Accelerator, Charlotte Hatherley - Grey Will Fade, Alien Lanes, the first Strokes... Basically, any of the dozen or so albums I can put on anytime and that I never tire of are contenders.

― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:02 (thirteen years ago)

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