What record have you listened to more than any other in your life, and why?

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For me it is Bax's Seventh Symphony. LPO Bryden Thomson.

I got so broke that I sold all my CDs, but this one was unsaleable because I'd lost the sleeve notes. And I played it and played it, hundreds and hundreds of times. Then I got married and there were other priorities than buying music, so I still played it a lot. Now I'm divorced, thank goodness, and not so broke, and so poor old Bax 7 hardly gets played. But oddly enough I've never gone off it.

It's probably the least admired of Bax's symphonies - very hushed and unemphatic - hardly any tunes, just reshakings of the kaleidoscope. It's a great record for putting on repeat in the background and seeping under your skin as you work. I recommend it, but you may have to listen to it thirty or forty times before it really starts to work its magic.

A flatmate at University played nothing but Leonard Cohen's first album the whole fucking time. I grew to hate it. This bloke's room was next to the kitchen where we ate, so we always had to listen to Leonard bloody Cohen moaning on while we ate our beans on toast, or whatever. Don't think I've listened to an LC song since, thank riddance.

― All Bunged Up. (Jake Proudlock), Thursday, 19 February 2004 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

NIrvana - Nevermind or The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Thursday, 19 February 2004 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably Dressed to Kill by Kiss (the first record I ever bought with my own cash, and one that I still listen to today).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

That said, I played the following albums into the ground for a while, possibly more so than Dressed to Kill
- Night Time by Killing Joke
- Funhouse by the Stooges
- Shout at the Devil by Motley Crue (hey, I'm not proud about it)
- It's Alive by the Ramones
- Q:Are We Not Men?... by Devo

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 February 2004 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Sly & the Famly Stone, There's a Riot Goin' On, followed by Luna, Penthouse; Prince, Sign 'O' the Times; Marshall Crenshaw, Field Day; and probably History of Our World Part 1: Breakbeat & Jungle Ultramix by DJ DB.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 19 February 2004 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably The Colour and the Shape so far.

It's only because when I started listening to it, I listened to it like ten times a day every day. That went on for a long time too. Still not sick of that album.

I've listened to Night Time a lot too. More than any other Killing Joke album, but The Colour and the Shape has had the most time in my cd players.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 19 February 2004 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

gorecki - i got hooked on it when my parents died. it feels like all is sadness but life as well - does that make sense? no.

― jimmy the doomed saint, Thursday, 19 February 2004 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Sylvian and Fripp - The First Day (1993)
For the past ten years, I probably listen to all or particular songs on this disc at least once a month.
I have always been a fan of Sylvian, yet can only take so much of his penchant for introspection and melancholia. This disc is all attitude and aggression. It is as if he dropped any sign of pretension for this project.
Fripp's playing is ferocious throughout the disc. No egghead mathematical exercises here. The collaborators temper each others' excesses perfectly.
Plus, rhythm section Trey Gunn and Jerry Marotta lay down some fluid grooves.

― bahtology, Thursday, 19 February 2004 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Stone Roses" in terms of totl numbers, probably "Pinkerton" by Weezer if you do it in terms of listens-per-month-owned.

― Nick H (Nick H), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

They Might Be Giants Lincoln was my favorite record in 1988 and still is now.

Also, all of these lived in my cd player (or in some cases cassette deck) for months on end:
Van Halen Fair Warning
Minor Threat Out of Step
Dead Milkmen Big Lizard in My Backyard
Violent Femmes 3
The Sugarcubes Life's Too Good
His Name is Alive Stars on ESP
Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin
Tom Daily The Burlington Northern

I'm sure I'm forgetting some, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head that I played into the ground.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Hot on the heels of Martin ... I'm going with the Minor Threat Discography CD.

― dean! (deangulberry), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Close to the Edge, The White Album, Tonight's the Night, and Funhouse, daily, all at different stages of my life, because they kept my feet of the ground, and distracted me from depressing bullshit.

― otto, Friday, 20 February 2004 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

New Order - Substance (disc 1)
Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Pulp - Different Class
Pet Shop Boys - Very

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 20 February 2004 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

...hm. This is a really good question but I have no idea what the answer is.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Mine is probably either *Changesonebowie* or Elton John's *Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,* believe it or not. Unless I'm forgeting something.

Last 20 years: Probably Guns N Roses, *Appetite for Destruction.*

― chuck, Friday, 20 February 2004 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Also probably in the running (though no doubt there's a bunch I'm forgetting): Led Zep IV, first Clash (american version), first three Elvis Costello albums, Prince *Dirty Mind.* The first Stooges album would probably be up there, except I've always turned off "We Will Fall" long before it ended.

― chuck, Friday, 20 February 2004 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Due to periods of listening obsessively, the following probably come out on top for me:

Thomas Dolby - Golden Age of Wireless
Peter Gabriel - 4 (Security)
Prefab Sprout - Life of Surprises compilation

PG is the only one I hardly listen to anymore. (I don't dislike it but, hmm, I guess there are those "Headless chickens!" moments that are harder to take seriously now than when I was a teen)

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I forget *Velvet Underground and Nico* and Alice Cooper's *Greatest Hits* and ???? And I should note that many of the albums I listed (esp. the Elvis C ones) are not even close to being among my all-time faves; they're just what I listened to a lot when I first became obsessed with music in the early '80s, and didn't own very many records yet, so there wasn't much competition to choose from!

― chuck, Friday, 20 February 2004 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

God, it's probably "Hemispheres" for me.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think side one of Let Them Eat Jellybeans left my turntable for a period of about seventeen months at one point in the mid-80's.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorta funny you mention that. *is currently listening to the DK's Live at the Deaf Club*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The only track I didn't rate on that record (Let them Eat..) was Really Red's "Prostitution". Everything else was GOLD!....even "Slave to my Dick" by the Subhumans!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

That was one of the best songs ON there, Alex! Not as good as "Ha Ha Ha" by Flipper, maybe, but still way up there...I thought it kind of sounded like Bachman Turner Overdrive, speeded up! How cool is that?

― chuck, Friday, 20 February 2004 01:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you talking about Really Red or the Subhumans? Glad we agree about "Ha Ha Ha," though. I quite liked "Isotope Soap" by Geza X & the Mommymen as well.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine not very unique I am sure

Low Life - New Order Elegia the instrumental just consumed me for ages

Verve Jazz Masters 13 - Antonio Carlos Jobim my wife and i fell in love to this one

My War - Black Flag haven't heard it in years but all those times when I was 15 added up

Ocean Rain - Echo and the Bunnymen again a teenage obsession that I recently repurchased

Selected Ambient works 85-92 Aphex Twin just because it is fucking brilliant

― hector (hector), Friday, 20 February 2004 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

>>Are you talking about Really Red or the Subhumans? <<

"Slave to My Dick."

― chuck, Friday, 20 February 2004 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Physical Graffiti...pass the cones...

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Friday, 20 February 2004 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably 'Hex Enduction Hour', but at the moment I don't know if I can ever leave 'A Bell Is A Cup... Until It Is Struck' off the turntable platter for more than a couple of days.

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 20 February 2004 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Nirvana - Nevermind, Nine Inch Nails - the Downward Spiral. Both of those were defining albums of my adolescence, and I still listen to them fairly often. I don't care what anybody says.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 20 February 2004 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension
Joy Division - Closer
Smiths - Singles (sorry, but damn convenient)
Pulp - This is Hardcore
Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Going On (but I'd take Fresh's Thankful N' Thoughtful over any of the songs on TARGO)
Prince - Parade

All albums from before my music buying habits increased dramatically, so lots of exclusions.

― Jedmond, Friday, 20 February 2004 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I should have also mentioned Minor Threat - Complete Discography.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 20 February 2004 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Led Zep - I
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Carole King - Tapestry
Harry Nillson - Nilsson Schmillson
Leon Russell - Carney

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 20 February 2004 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The Cure - Disintegration
Slowdive - Souvlaki
New Order - SUbstance (disc 1)

and probably, through forced exposure, Air - Moon Safari

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Friday, 20 February 2004 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)

grief this is a tuff one to answer. probably 1000 years of trouble by Age of Chance.
when this was released i bought the tape version and literally had this on a loop for a year on my walkman.
followed fairly closely by Nail by foetus, though Seven by Madness may also beat both of these ..
i have to admit i dont really keep track of these things .. but those 3 must be involved.

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 20 February 2004 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

greetings from la - tim buckley. slag me now. its a nostalgia thing. it reminds me of when i was young and horny.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 20 February 2004 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

That would be a close call between one of the first five Iron Maiden albums, something by Legendary Pink Dots (probably Crushed Velvet Apocalypse or Maria Dimension) and Hayden's Everything I Long For.

Maiden was my favorite band around 1982-1988 and their music guided me on a daily basis through school and puberty and all awfull things happening outside and inside my body at that time.

Pink Dots became a fave when I started to listen to other kinds of music. I guess because their music knows no boundaries and can travel to whatever plane of existence. Just what I needed after being a metal fundamentalist for seven years in a row.

I've listened to thousands of albums since then. Most of them only serving me for a small time. Hayden Desser's Everything I Long For was there to stay, thou. I can listen to this album all the time without getting bored. I still try to figure out why. Being so not into grunge/Neil Young...

― Roger T (Roger T), Friday, 20 February 2004 09:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Er.. most likely NIN's Downward Spiral. High school. What can you do. Hole, Live Through This and PJ Harvey, Rid of Me are up there, for the same reasons, but I still listen to those two nowadays.

― daria g (daria g), Friday, 20 February 2004 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Slovenly - We Shoot For The Moon
The Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean Basically?

Had them both for around 18 years and I still dig them out fairly regularly. Other records are catching them up though...

Television - Marquee Moon
The Byrds - Fifth Dimension
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
John Coltrane - Coltrane (the one w/ 'Out of this World' on it)

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 20 February 2004 09:25 (twenty-two years ago)

S&E by Pavement probably. What of it?

close behind:

VU and Nico
Liquid Swords by Gza/Genius, probably would be #1, but it got stolen at some point
Imperial ffrr by Unrest, recently
Pink Flag by Wire but I usually skip the long songs
Minor Threat discog too

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Friday, 20 February 2004 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

dEUS - Worst Case Scenario
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours/Tusk/st (this was achieved in a couple of months - think greil marcus/r johnson)

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 20 February 2004 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Nirvana - In Utero
Nirvana - Nevermind
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True

And at this rate, The Strokes' "Room On Fire" is gaining fast on EC. Another year of this and it'll be up there.

It is such a strange thing to realize that you've listened to certain albums far more than you've listened to your favorites. Good call Chuck.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Friday, 20 February 2004 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper
Young Marble Giants, Colossal Youth
Loud Family, Plants & Birds & Rocks & Things
Stereolab, Peng
Talking Heads, Fear of Music
Belle & Sebastian, If You're Feeling Sinister
The Ramones, End of The Century

Probably Sgt. Pepper wins. I listened to it every day, several times day, for two years between ages 11 and 12.

― mike a, Friday, 20 February 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

probably zen arcade or the first wu-tang...again, high school, when i probably only owned 15-20 cd's.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 20 February 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

What Ned said. And I'd love to know what it is, but I've no idea. But I don't tend to listen to any record over and over. So I'm guessing the winning number of plays would probably be pretty low compared to some of you guys.

― Jeff W, Friday, 20 February 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

It's just a flat out mystery to me, this question -- I'm very good at identifying what I've listened to most in a previous year, but long term it's all...vague.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 February 2004 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably something by the Beatles, possibly Rubber Soul. (Most of their other albums have too many songs I skip over.)

Another likely candidate would be Sun Ra's Out There a Minute, though I've only been listening to it since I got it in about 1989. I can listen to it in virtually any mood, but it is also particularly good when I am feeling world-weary.

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 20 February 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden (every morning for about a year)
Meat Puppets - Monsters
Rain Parade - Emergency Third Rail Power Trip
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces

And more recently, Joni Mitchell - For The Roses & Don Juan's Reckless Daughter

― mzui, Friday, 20 February 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a funny Meat Puppets one to pick (not as obvious as Up On The Sun fer instance), but I was thinking about it the other day while I was listening to Murray Street. Nice.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 20 February 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

It's the first one I heard, someone played Light on an old BBC Scotland radio show called Beat Patrol, I got into loads of good stuff that way. I love II and Up On The Sun but have listened to Monsters the most.

― mzui, Friday, 20 February 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Yankee. Hotel. Foxtrot.
Set You Free-Chisel (daily since I bought it, two weeks after it was released...only recently slowing down)
Don't Tell a Soul-Replacements (every 'Mats fan hates it but me)
Yes-Morphine (in fact I listened to it so much I sold it and have only recently desired to hear it again)

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 20 February 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

She's So Unusual by a landslide.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 20 February 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Far and away, Loveless. It's an exaggeration, but I feel like I've listened to at least part of it every day since it came out. Second place is really tough, though. Has to be something I played the hell out of in high school and have never gotten tired of like London Calling, The Queen is Dead, or Staring at the Sea.

― rainman (rainman), Friday, 20 February 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies and David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust were the first albums I ever bought, and the only albums I owned as a 12-year old, so I listened to them a zillion or so times. I no longer have my original copies, but I replaced Ziggy Stardust and still listen to it every once in a while. I may still have some of the play-money from Billion Dollar Babies laying around somewhere.

I've also worn out and replaced copies of Darkness on the Edge of Town, Street Hassle, Get Happy!!!, The Violent Femmes and every Velvet Underground album.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Friday, 20 February 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Harder They Come" soundtrack. Each of my parents and step-parents owned this. I have never lived in a house without at least one copy.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 20 February 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Harold Budd / Brian Eno - Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirrors
cos I used to fall asleep to music almost every night and that was my fave

runners up probably:
Jon Hassell / Brian Eno - Fourth Worlds Vol.1: Possible Musics
Eno - On Land, Ambient 3: Day Of Radience (side 2 !), Apollo, Neroli, etc
more Harold Budd - The Pearl, The White Arcades, etc
Zoviet France - Shadow Thief Of The Sun, Just An Illusion, etc

basically anything that could work as ambient (includes some NOISE! for me...) got listened to (or soaked up) disproportionately.
just don't try it with certain Klaus Schulze records, especially Timewind side 1, which ends with the SOUND fROM HELL!

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 20 February 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Songs About Fucking and At Action Park in slightly lame competition at the top there. Let Them Eat Jellybeans would be up there as well, which is why it's always very nice to see people going on about it... and from the "just started buying records" era, Superunknown, the first RATM and a few others

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

in the thousands:

Led Zeppelin-That 4CD set, Nirvana-Nevermind, The Beatles, Beastie Boys- Paul's Boutique, Sonic Youth-Daydream Nation, John Coltrane- A Love Supreme, Sly-Riot, Neil Young-On the Beach, the second disc of Robert Johnson-Complete Recordings, Tim Buckley-Blue Afternoon, Aphex Twin- I Care and RDJ, Stevie Wonder-Talking Book, Morton Feldman- The Viola in my Life, Nilsson Schmilsson.

― Beta (abeta), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The Cure's "Pornography" - probably for most of the 80's. I still love it, from the first drumbeat it just grabs me.
JAMC's "Psychocandy" for the _slightly_ less morose times in between Cure albums.
Tricky's "Maxinquaye" got a fair rotation for a while but I eventually tired of it.
gybe!'s "Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada" EP took up residence in my discman for a bit, it's now probably the only godspeed recording that I still regularly dig out.

More recently Danielson Famile's "Fetch The Compass Kids" - the perfect "arrive at work happier than you left your bed" album.

Also the first Suicide album, a mainstay in my top 5 since the first time I heard it.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

this question is impossible to answer without listing about 100 albums - i tried and gave up after 20.

― tricky disco (disco stu), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably Daydream Nation based on the condition the sleeve of my original copy was in by the time I replaced it. It would have been closely followed by Doolittle, Big Black's Atomizer and Dinosaur Jr's Bug. Later contenders would definitely include Loveless and Slanted and Enchanted.

Being a teenager with a limited record buying budget had a lot to do with the number of times these records got put on.

― mmmmsalt (Graeme), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been keeping track of every album I listen to since October of 96. The cd with the most listens since I started tracking is "In A Silent Way". I had that one a long time before 10/96, so it is probably up there on the all time listens list.

The Stooges "Funhouse" or Led Zep "II" may be the records I have heard the most over time, but that is a guess. I've also put on "Music for Airports" or "SAW II" quite often right before I go to sleep.

It would be interesting thing to know.

― earlnash, Friday, 20 February 2004 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm guessing Eno's "Before and After Science," largely based on the summer when I had it playing quietly on continuous repeat every night once I discovered that it would keep the mice out of my room.

In terms of consciously putting on something over and over, probably "Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise," the soundtrack of my 13/14-year-old self.

In the last ten years, it's either James Brown's "Live at the Apollo" (for work-related reasons) or Family Fodder's "Savoir Faire"--I put it out, but it's one of my favorite comfort-food albums.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm guessing Eno's "Before and After Science," largely based on the summer when I had it playing quietly on continuous repeat every night once I
discovered that it would keep the mice out of my room.

That's brilliant!

Oh Douglas, BTW -- planning on being in Portland for Memorial Day weekend, will you be around?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably Doolittle, though I've only actually had it for about 3 years. Pinkerton, Mellon Collie and Different Class (which I've has since I was 12) would be up there too, but I'm not really one for playing albums to death. And I'm still only 20.

― Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't know who Bax was until this thread!

I'm guessing Led Zeppelin II. It was one of the first albums I ever got and I never stopped listening to it.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 20 February 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Best Of -- Guess Who -- I've heard to this album since my mom picked it up when i was three. I took it along when i left home and i've listened to it on a regular basis ever since. After working through all their proper albums this GH from 1971 is still best way to hear them.

Other contenders include:

Nashville Skyline -- Bob Dylan
Honky Tonk Heroes -- Waylon Jennings
Legend & The Legacy -- Ernest Tubb & Friends
A Tribute to the Delmore Brothers -- Louvin Brothers
Express -- Love & Rockets
Sound of Joy -- Sun Ra
Horace Silver Trio -- Horace Silver Trio

― christoff (christoff), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

probably Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's Orange, it came out when I was 17 and was just starting to really find my own tastes and do my own exploring. It was the album that set the standard I would follow voraciously for the next five years before broadening out further.

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Friday, 20 February 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Doop by Doop. Whenever I'm going out this goes on first.

― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Friday, 20 February 2004 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, "Orange is Addictive". I've also, like a couple of others on here, really flogged Slanted and Enchanted: and still not fed up with it. If I haven't got much time, I just play the first track, which I've often had on repeat, and "Two States". It's interesting because S+E doesn't get the unequivocal vote on the best-Pavement-record thread. Maybe it's an album for a certain kind of nutter.

― All Bunged Up. (Jake Proudlock), Friday, 20 February 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's a probable top five...

1. MX-80 Sound - Hard Attack
2. Led Zeppelin - Presence [tho I usually skip "Tea For One"]
3. John Coltrane/Rashied Ali - Interstellar Space
4. The Velvet Underground & Nico
5. Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica

"Presence" was the first Zep I owned (back in '80.) The Coltrane & Beefheart LPs absolutely demand hundreds (thousands?) of listenings due to their mindboggling density. And if I could pinpoint exactly why I find "Hard Attack" so compulsively listenable, it probably wouldn't be here!

Also, if I were thinking in terms of vinyl 'sides', then Side One of "Zoso" (Led Zep) and Side Two of both "White Light/White Heat" (Velvets) and "Fun House" (Stooges) woulda topped the list.

― Myonga Von Bontee, Friday, 20 February 2004 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorta related

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 20 February 2004 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe Faith No More's Angel Dust, but it'd be a close thing.
There are so many records I've played to death, I prefer to dothat rather than listen to many records, but few times each.

― mei (mei), Saturday, 21 February 2004 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

american music club, everclear
the beatles, rubber soul
joy division, unknown pleasures

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Saturday, 21 February 2004 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"probably Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's Orange, it came out when I was 17 and was just starting to really find my own tastes and do my own exploring. "

Coincidentally...

I just listened to Orange today for the first time in at least 8 years. Wow, I forgot how much I LOVED this ablum at the time it was released! In 94, I bought only a handful of "non-punk" albums - Bee Thousand, S&E and Crooked Rain, Bakesale, Superunknown, etc(those I remember). This was easily my fav album of that year (that and Punk in Drublic). What a nice surprise to rediscover it again! Why doesn't this album get more love, I wonder? Or does it?

― kickitcricket, Saturday, 21 February 2004 06:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's Orange, it came out when I was 17

Cripes, some of you are young!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 06:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Very true, I'm actually ten years younger than Aja.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"Twice Removed from Yesterday" , Robin Trower, I've no idea why

"Slight Case of Overbombing" Sisters of Mercy

"No Dice" Badfinger

"Sehnsucht" Rammstein

"No More Shall We Part" Nick Cave (it was on the player after I got back from downtown on 9/11 and I became possesed of this idea that as long as I kept it playing, nothing else awful would happen. This lasted, um, a while.)

"Long Division" Low

― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Saturday, 21 February 2004 07:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Soft Cell - "This Last Night in Sodom"
PJ Harvey - "To Bring You My Love"
The Sisters of Mercy - "Some Girls Wander By Mistake"

― anode (anode), Saturday, 21 February 2004 07:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i listened to bossa nova all the way through high school and "heroes" all the way through college, so either one of those i guess.

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 21 February 2004 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i dunno ... a few nominees:

david bowie, changesbowie
the smiths, louder than bombs
my bloody valentine, loveless (hi ned!)
nwa, straight outta compton
frank zappa, hot rats
gary numan, the pleasure principle
brian eno, taking tiger mountain (by strategy)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 21 February 2004 08:03 (twenty-two years ago)

some more, after thinking about it:

elvis costello, greatest hits (the one that came out in 1985)
echo and the bunnymen, ocean rain
talking heads, fear of music
black sabbath, we sold our souls for rock 'n' roll
u2, war (i was 15!)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 21 February 2004 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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