Which album have you played the most in your entire life?

I realize the last one seems a bit incongruous, but my sister brought that record home very early on, and we still play it quite a bit to this day (though we are now, of course, in different homes). Thus, it might edge out later albums that get lots of airplay like Singles Going Steady by the Buzzcocks, Funhouse by the Stooges and/or anything/everything by Killing Joke.

Discounting that one, and going with the record I probably listened to the most by choice: Entertainment!

steve reich "music for 18 musicians"

that's why i can't stop overdubbing marimbas.

Perhaps I should lighten up a bit. :-(

And then probably "Loveless" and "Isn't anything" by MBV, couldn't say which I've played more so I'll say both.

I started keeping track of every record I listened to back in Oct. 96 and only 'Funhouse' is very high on this list. I used to listen to 'Raw Power' more, but during my own personal drug era 'Funhouse' was pretty much the soundtrack, so combined with listens in the past few years, it is probably the winner.

Heh, were I born some fifteen years later, instead the above three there would probably be Loveless, Fear Of A Black Planet and Pills'N'Thrills and Bellyaches...

Certainly MX-80 Sound, Hard Attack is #1 if we're talking albums wilfully, deliberately played for our own benefit, because I'll cue that one up repeatedly, like vitamins. I'm sure I've listened at least 1000 times over 20 years (why, that's less than one playing per week!)

As for how many times I've heard certain Led Zeppelin or Beatles opuses, figuring I've played 'em hundreds of times myself AND heard others play 'em countless times more...who whows?

hahaha "who KNOWS?"

In the last ten years, it's probably been Wide Awake, the Vulgar Boatmen compilation.

Selected Ambient Works Vol. II because I used to listen to it every night while falling asleep

superchunk, on the mouth
archers of loaf, icky mettle
pink floyd, wish you were here

probably

also

cannonball adderley, mercy mercy mercy
afghan whigs, gentlemen

this thread makes me sad...

answer: i'd like to think it was something by Kiss/Zep/Aerosmith, but it's probably The Wall instead. :?(

Needing to memorize pieces for performances really skews my answer to this; likely the answer is either some random recording of "Der Freischuetz" or "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny".

Something like:

ZZ Top Rio Grande Mud
Savoy Brown A Step Further
UFO Obsession
Robin Trower Bridge of Sighs
Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys
Point Blank
Angry Samoans Inside My Brain

Huh, good question. I think it would probably come down to one of the following:

Bikini Kill The C.D. Version of the First Two Records
Yaz Upstairs at Eric's
Archers of Loaf Icky Mettle
Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy
Heavenly The Decline and Fall of Heavenly
The Smiths Hatful of Hollow

I'm pretty sure mine is Joni Mitchell's Blue, or possibly Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. My iTunes claims it's Middle Cyclone, but that's almost certainly because I didn't start keeping track of my plays through iTunes until about a year ago.

x-post Looking through other people's posts it occurs to me that both 3 ft high and Rising and the first Stone Roses would also be possible contenders.

no doubt-- chavez "ride the fader"

In my album listening days:

Talking Heads "Remain in Light"
Eno "Another Green World"
Van "Astral Weeks"

But now everything gets chopped into playlists. Have listened to some Low, Massive Attack, and Clientele lists about as much as anything I've ever had on repeat.

I don't know exactly, but it probably has to be Ziggy Stardust because I played it like every day for years when I was in my teens.

In modern times, probably Mountain Mouton by Konki Duet, because I played it almost every day for the year after my son was born (he liked it).

"Slanted & Enchanted"

It's not even close. It still gets played at least once a month.

it's between another green world, the first four ramones,s/t clash and first two ny dolls. "sister ray" is closing in for most listened to jam, i reckon...

I nearly always fall asleep listening to ambient music or (yes really) stand up comedy albums. Top 3 would probably be:

Harold Budd/Brian Eno - "The Pearl"
Brian Eno - "Ambient 4: On Land"
George Carlin - Any of the '70s albums

When I was young=12-14
Tie between two cassettes that I just played over and over and must be up there:
The Cure "Standing On a Beach"
R.E.M. "Murmur" and "Fables of the Reconstruction" each on a side of a Maxell

Just most played ever:
Drive Like Jehu "Yank Crime"
Neil Young "On the Beach"
Led Zeppelin "Physical Graffiti"
Sonic Youth "Sister"

Last 5 years:
Lambchop "Nixon"
ELO "New World Record"

Hmmm, who is getting old ...

Shit, forgot the album that I have probably listened to most in the last 10 years or so (so, close to most played ever) that never gets old for me:

Manishevitz "Rollover"

I don't listen to it very often but knowing that you picked The Decline and Fall of Heavenly makes me v. happy for some reason.

high school:
VU 1st album
Misfits "Legacy of Brutality"
Pussy Galore "Groovy Hate Fuck"
Spacemen 3 "Perfect Prescription"
Throbbing Gristle "2nd Annual Report"
Coil "Horse Rotorvator"
Meat Beat Manifesto "Storm the Studio"

college:
NWW "Rock n Roll Station"
Aphex Twin "SAWII"
Polygon Window "Surfing on Sine Waves"
Suicide first album
FUSE "Dimension Intrusion"
G*Park "Seismogramm"
MBV "Loveless"

grad school:
NWW "Soliloquy for Lilith"
Rhythm & Sound w Tikiman "Showcase"
Signer "Low Light Dreams"
Cat Power "Moon Pix"
Acetone "s/t"
Bjork "Vespertine" (special case)
Burzum "Filosofem"

employment:
Beherit "Drawing Down the Moon"

alas the pooh soundtrack. thanks to my oldest daughter. hah

"Grievous Angel", Gram 'n Emmylou.

Probably Pulp - Different Class. from the pocket money days when you could only afford a few albums and played them to death.

"Also yay Marco THIN WHITE ROPE REPRESENT!"

TWR will always have a very special place in my heart: I loved the music and Kyser sang the things I couldn't say.

As far as individual SIDES go, I'd guess that I've played Side Two of White Light/White Heat more than anything else.

Honestly speaking? I think it would be Ok Computer. Pretentiously speaking I'd say Ege Bamyasi, Doolitle, A tabua de esmeralda or Loaded. Depends on the season.

I don't like saying OkC it in public because I'm self-concious of how sheepish and boring it sounds nowadays but, I shit you not it was the only album I listened for a whole year and then some. I was very young and naive when I listened to it for the first time and it left a deep mark. It took me years to truly enjoy music again after my experience with that album. Nothing I heard was half as good. And to be honest there hasn't been to date any other album that has made me feel the way Ok Computer has. I suppose I got jaded too quick. Almost 12 years have passed and I've lost hope. I don't think I'll get as much enjoyment from music ever again in my life.
Ok Computer saved and ruined music for me.

I don't listen to it anymore.

rip

Realized this morning that I've played Camper Van Beethoven's Key Lime Pie more than any that I listed above.

I associate that album so much with owning the CD that I haven't listened to it much since I switched to iTunes. It's one of the few albums I ever bought in a longbox.

Yeah, I realized after I posted here that the album I've played most overall isn't any of the ones I listed but is actually "Bewitched" by Luna.

it might be key lime pie for me too. or the misfits' walk among us.

Secret Treaties, Back from Samoa, Velvets 1st. And from when I was younger, maybe Endtroducing, though it hasn't had much play in the past five years or so.

The number of times I've played Lonesome Crow in the past year has probably pushed it up into any kind of personal top 10.

I like those first four albums you mention, but what is Lonesome Crow??

Scorpions!

16 yr old Schenker tearing shit up in search of the PEACE OF MIND

probably Alice Cooper Welcome To My Nightmare

Master of Puppets or ...And Justice For All probably. The only albums I've loved solidly since I was 14.

I'm 99% sure it would be Siamese Dream.

was coming on here to say that it is probably something by Luna, but someone beat me to it! it helps that they are one of the main bands my wife and I see eye to eye on ... we listened to Bewitched yesterday, matter of fact.

I have no idea.

Probably Nothing's Shocking or Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. I reckon NS might be the one.

Candidates:

Mozart Violin Concertos
King Arthur - Purcell
Porgy and Bess (Armstrong & Fitzgerald)
69: Velvet Underground Live
Kind of Blue
The Queen is Dead
Penthouse
17 Seconds
Sgt Pepper's

Think it could be The Breeders' Last Splash.

69: Velvet Underground Live is probably one for me as well ... I think I've memorized every second of that. If only I could get my guitar to sound like Sterling Morrison's!

The more records you buy the less plays each one seems to get. I guess nobody has records in quite as heavy rotation as they did in their teens when they only own a few, but in recent years Another Green World would certainly be one of my most played. And Tusk. Hoo boy, I love me some Tusk. Don't think a month has gone by in the past couple of years where I haven't listened to them.
When I was around 11-12 I caned Queen's Greatest Hits. Between 13-15 it was Beatles - Revolver and Nirvana's Nevermind. 15, 16: Manic Street Preachers' Holy Bible, OK Computer, VU debut. 16-18: Odelay, Paul's Boutique, Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back, Ritual De Lo Habitual. Then when I went to uni it was Check Your Head, Enter The Wu Tang, Beta Band 3EPs, Mutations, Midnight Marauders, Low End Theory, Hunky Dory (of course!), loads of Nick Drake, Dylan and Neil Young. Last two years of uni, there were certain records that were on constant rotation in the communal area of our house: Leftfield - Leftism, Strokes - Is This It, Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense. Ah nostalgia.

whoa, this made me look at my top 100 list on itunes again, and it has changed drastically since april. fun.

anyway:

High School:
Elliott Smith- XO
Wilco- YHF
DJ Shadow- Endtroducing...
The New Pornographers- Mass Romantic
New Order- Best of...
Tom Waits- Closing Time

College: (this one is chronological in order of appearance, two records per year (also i was in college for five years, basically, so ten records))
Devendra Banhart- Rejoicing in the Hands
Low- When the Curtain Hits the Cast
No-Neck Blues Band- Sticks and Stones...
Gang Gang Dance- God's Money
Excepter- KA
Ricardo Villalobos- The Au Hareme D'Archimede
Aril Brikha- Deeparture in Time
Steely Dan- Gaucho
Echospace- The Coldest Season
Hercules & Love Affair- s/t
any and all Arthur Russell should go here toooo...

since spring of 08:
Omar-S- Side Trakx Volume 1
Moodymann- Det.Riot '67
Miles Davis- Round About Midnight

probably Alice Cooper Welcome To My Nightmare

exactly what I would say...and so I am!...played that record 'til it screamed back in high school, and still listen the CD about once a week, in various playlists of mine...

for elementary school it was definitely Nevermind, Downward Spiral, Live Through This, and the Blue Album.

When I was a little kid, the first Darts album (the first album I ever bought) was on ultra-heavy rotation... but I haven't played it in 30 years.

As a teenager, Psychocandy, Surfer Rosa, Songs About Fucking and Brotherhood got played a mllion times each, but not so much since their heyday.

So it needs to be an album I owned since I was young, that I played to death and still play to this day. As such the only serious contenders would have to be Revolver, White Album, Abbey Road, Blood on the Tracks, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde On Blonde and American Music Club's California.