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Every so often, you come across an album (old or new) that you just can't stop listening to. It drives your roommates crazy, but like good porno there's no such thing as enough. It might not be a landmark or particularly influential album, but its playability couldn't be higher. What was the last album that did that for you?

My last obsession:
Avalanches - Since I Left You

― Yejoon (Yejoon), Friday, 8 April 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

Black Monk Time

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 April 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Extraordinary Machine - Fiona Apple

― Kate's evil twin (papa november), Friday, 8 April 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

The Hold Steady. (thank goodness, prior to that it was Josie and the Pussycats OST).

― bg, Friday, 8 April 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

New Order - Waiting for the Sirens' Call

― Baaderonixxxorzh (Fabfunk), Friday, 8 April 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Vulgar Boatmen--Wide Awake

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 8 April 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

nick nicely - psychotropia

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 8 April 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

I have to join to that Avalanches obsession.. and Is This It? - The Strokes.

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Friday, 8 April 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Well done you. I could hardly play that Avalanches album once!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 April 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

"I have to join to that Avalanches obsession.."

"Well done you. I could hardly play that Avalanches album once!"

That album had me on so many levels. Soul, downtempo, electro, hip-hop, house, and great samples galore. I immediately downloaded Madonna's "Holiday" and Kid Creole's "Stoole Pigeon" after googling their samples. The fact that they paid so much to use a small segment of "Holiday" just because they felt it fit perfectly and didn't want to compromise the album makes it all the better.

― Yejoon (Yejoon), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

I liked the "since I left you" single.

The "psychiatrist" one sounded like an extended advert for radio 1's "Sunday Surgery".

The rest left me cold.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

"Close to You" was the clincher for me.

― Yejoon (Yejoon), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

My Review: "GET OFF MY EARS!! I KNOW I KNOW!!!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Falcon Crest - Raise the Flag, Taste the Thunder

basically, they're locals here in Mpls/St.Peezy....sorta like the really old Husker Du records if they had grown up on No Means No and Drive Like Jehu records.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Reign in Blood

xpost 0+2=1

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

anniemal.

for several weeks on oct/nov/dec it dominated my life.

put my schedule way out .. haven't dared go back to it in ages for fear of more set backs.

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Eels - Shootenanny. Don't know why but it's just really suited this week and it's bipolar weather.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

"anniemal."

That album did it to me as well. I was a bit disappointed, though, when I found out that "No Easy Love" sampled Shakatak's "Easier Said than Done," but then Shakatak is pretty terrible and sampling has never stopped me from liking music before.

― Yejoon (Yejoon), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

The Chi-Lites -- A Lonely Man

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Waiting For The Sirens' Call - NEW Order

― bizotic, Friday, 8 April 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

..as opposed to OLD Order?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

hurrrrrrrrrrrrrr

― Yejoon (Yejoon), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

For a long time it was the Arcade Fire record. Now though it's the Avalanches, actually.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

The last album I had this "problem" with was probably the Futureheads record....but I've since weaned myself.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

yeah I'm on the Futureheads right now. damn it's catchy.

― lemin (lemin), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

The Engineers - The Engineers
Didn't like it much at first, now can't stop

― actionjackson, Friday, 8 April 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Brian Wilson - SMiLE

― charleston charge (chaki), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Lately, that House of Love Creation collection.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Captain Sensible - The Universe of Geoffrey Brown

It's not perfect by any means, but I haven't yet played it out of my system in four days of listening.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

"The last album I had this "problem" with was probably the Futureheads record....but I've since weaned myself."

I've had this on my mp3 player for a while but haven't gotten around to listening to it. I'll try this one out now.

― Yejoon (Yejoon), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Yep, that Futureheads album did it for me too. Three months in and I still listen to it everyday and love it more each time

― Nathan Woolls (regularfries), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

I was hoping to have this same problem with the Bloc Party record -- but it ain't happening.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

John Frusciante/Josh Klinghoffer A Sphere In the Heart of Silence. The balance between how their voices sound, the overall pacing and layout of the album, something about the final notes of this album IMPLORE you to press play just one more time.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

I think i'll be the third person to state NEw order: Waiting for the Sirens Call then.

― AMD (AMD), Friday, 8 April 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

entrance: wandering stranger

― b b, Friday, 8 April 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

"John Frusciante/Josh Klinghoffer A Sphere In the Heart of Silence. The balance between how their voices sound, the overall pacing and layout of the album, something about the final notes of this album IMPLORE you to press play just one more time."

John Frusciante has always been a bit too junked out for me. Would I like this one?

― Yejoon (Yejoon), Friday, 8 April 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Lately, Funkadelic's America Eats Its Young. And also Donna Summer's Bad Girls, altho I always skip (what used to be) side three.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 8 April 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

geto boys - geto boys

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 8 April 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Bloc Party's month long reign has been usurped by British Sea Power.
Give it another play... yeah, and another... go on then, one more... something else now, ah stuff it, one last time... etc.
Apart from that I've played "Fine Time" by Yazz and "Teardrops" by Womak and Womak about 15 times each this week. Because I FUCKING HAD TO.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Friday, 8 April 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

The Ex + Tom Cora — Scrabbling at the Lock

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Friday, 8 April 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Jay Haze - Love for a New World, I even went as far as starting a thread on it about a week ago. STILL listening to it, even after I'd heard the new Ellen Allien and Jamie Lidell albums, some of my most anticipated records this year.

― Jena (JenaP), Friday, 8 April 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Mahalia Jackson (some random best-of CD)

― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 8 April 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Also, Deep Cuts by The Knife has had some really weird hold over me for the past month!

― Jena (JenaP), Friday, 8 April 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

On the Corner

― jmeister (jmeister), Friday, 8 April 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I guess it'd be Arular, and (currently going through a 93-94 phase) PJ Harvey's Rid of Me. I did listen to Bloc Party many, many times and like it, but it's not one of those albums where I get all the songs stuck in my head..

― daria g (daria g), Friday, 8 April 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Wowee Zowee just went into the player one day on a whim and it's hardly left.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 8 April 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

In fact, none. Not by now. It is sort of my way of preferring music that I never let myself get tired of anything, so I tend to wait for months between every time I listen to one album.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 8 April 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

Herman Düne, Not On Top.

― sibsi (sibsi), Friday, 8 April 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

I listened to Charlotte Hatherley's Grey Will Fade about a thousand times in a row earlier this year. Now I've got Howling Hex's All-Night Fox in pretty much constant rotation.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 9 April 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)

I've been playing the shit out of Arular for the passed 3 months. My current fixation is Smashing Pumpkins' Adore. But for me it's usually that one song I play over and over again, moreso than albums.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 9 April 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

Primal Scream - Screamadelica

― AbXy6001, Saturday, 9 April 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

It was either Forever Now or Mirror Moves by the Furs only because those were the last albums I bought. I can't remember which was the last one I listened to more than five times in a day.

I'm hoping the next one will be the new Foo Fighters' album so I can get away from the Furs. It's just about to drive my mom crazy, but my grandma doesn't mind much.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 9 April 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

I do this a lot with bands instead of just albums. I've been wearing out all my Mastodon records since Leviathan came out. And all my Swervedriver shit has been gettin a lot of play since I got the anthology a few weeks ago.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Saturday, 9 April 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

Scritti Politti (1978-1985 so far...I haven't acquired the later stuff yet but I will!)

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 9 April 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

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