Albums you'll probably never bother listening to again.

Scott Walker - The Drift

But if we're going to get specific, I was really really into Birdsongs of the Mesozoic last summer, and now I don't think I'll ever listen to them again.

Mike Patton's "Peeping Tom" album was basically the same way, except that I couldn't be bothered to listen to the whole thing all the way through even once. That "Moonchild" album he put out with Zorn, Joey Barron, etc. just recently is much more engaging.

I have a completely opposite experience with that album, it amazes me every time I hear it. I might actually have to give it another listen right now, it's been about a year.

Haha! Me too!

and, sadly, the new grandaddy probably falls into this category too. actually: the last three grandaddy albums ;)

Sufjan
Magnetic Fields
Labradford
Low

i don't think i'll ever listen to these ever again. i really don't want to!

i make sure to listen to that album at least once every six months, but maybe that's because it brings me back to an especially good period in my life. it's a wonderful record all the way through though, i hope agf releases another one with laub sometime.

I'm pretty sure everyone on here has gotten to the point where they're never going to be able to listen to EVERYTHING they have again. I can't imagine I'll ever listen to my John Cage CDs again, even though I know they're great, they're just not as great as some of the other albums I'm more likely to reach for of an evening.

I realise that, in essence, I'm saying That Dog are better than John Cage
*ducks, covers head*

I have maybe 100 cassettes that I almost never listen to and probably never will again: Pulp Fiction soundtrack, old Sonic Youth (to be repurchased on CD eventually, but probably not the Made in USA sndtk), Belly (there’s some gems in there though), the Alice in Chains catalogue, NOFX, Rancid, JSBX, Garbage, Bettie Serveert, others I can’t remember because it’s just been so damn long.

As for CDs I’ll likely never listen to again at this point:

Beck
Guided By Voices
Tobin Sprout
Robert Pollard solo
Belle & Sebastian (!)
Helium (!)
Isotope 217 (I’ve sold all but one of these CDs already)
Autechre (excepting Confield and or or two others)
Aphex Twin/Richard James (pre-2000 anyway)
Preston School of Industry
Wilco
Eminem (post-1999)
Jay-Z (dude needs a best of bad)
Eyes Adrift
Olivia Tremor Control
Liz Phair
Bob Mould
Wooden Wand (the ones involving the Vanishing Voice anyway)
Weezer (the bulk of it)
Noxagt
Cub
Panda Bear
Papa M/Aerial M/Dave Pajo (a great CD-R could be culled from the 10 cds I have)
John Cougar Concentration Camp (or whatever they’re called)
Fifteen
Mount Eerie/Microphones (can’t believe i’m saying this but it’s probably true!)
Mirah
The Blow
Kyle Anderson

First two Strokes records.
Arctic Monkeys (why does it seem unnaturally LOUD?)
Talking Heads, Remain In Light.
The new Streets.
Boards of Canada, Music Has the Right to Children (or whatever)

These albums make me cling to my Buddy Holly, early Elvis, Animal Collective, and Pixies records with joy and thanksgiving.

I'm a much bigger fan personally of More Songs ... and Fear of Music.

I liked this album a lot, then my wife said, "why is this guy screaming at me?"

I'll never listen to it again, too much yelling wine...

how about "spoken word"? that's all it is, the only rap-like thing on there is the "Facts are lazy and facts are late" bit in "Crosseyed and Painless." (inspired by Kurtis Blow!)

I listen to all the promos we get, though often that means that by the time I get to things with particularly uninspiring names or covers, it's a while after they've been sent. And GENERALLY they depress me, though the general ratio is about one in six is good, and of those one in four are pretty great. But the vast, vast majority of them are albums that I will never listen to again (mostly because we seem to have a huge surplus of noodly jam bands, bland singer songwriters and totally interchangable MySpace bands). And the ones that really suck, I leave at the office for the rest of the folks to listen to.

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...is the one that springs most readily to mind for some odd reason.

Ditto on:

Panda Bear
Mount Eerie/Microphones

I have the sneaking suspicion I will never listen to my Frog Eyes albums again. Which is bad, I know.

Never knew that it was inspired by Kurtis Blow, though. Always good to learn something new. Thanks, dude. :-)

Among albums I like? Well, that's a bit more difficult. I can't recall the last time I've wanted to listen to e. g. the Beatles -- one gets enough Beatles by osmosis. And even if I wanted to hear a specific song, that's not the same as listening to the whole album, is it? "'Eleanor Rigby' Twelve Times in a Row" wasn't released as an album in the UK or America.

Probably should've been.