Is there an album that you can listen to it anytime and you wont get tired of him forever?

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If there is one, please let me know, cause even from my 10 favourite albums, that some of them i know for more than 10 years i got tired after a while.
There are some albums that i used to to like for 5 years or more, and really thought it would last forever, but i guess theres no such thing at least for me.
if i'll take my 10 cd's to an isolated island, i'll probably through them to the sea sooner or later.

emekars (emekars), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

No, there is no album that will magically prevent you from ever growing bored with your husband or boyfriend. Love is about hard work and compromise.

nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 26 June 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i know my post looks like a romantic-love thing..

emekars (emekars), Monday, 26 June 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

I agree: You'll get burnt out on any album if you play it enough. I.e., I thought I'd love Radiohead forever--but the only album I haven't really played out is Pablo Honey.

B Money (B Mingus), Monday, 26 June 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

but i guess there are some people who can love an album forever.
Thurston moore for example.
Sonic youth covered The stooges "i wanna be your dog" 25 or more years ago, he name drop them once in a while as an influence, and lately he invited them to the sonic youth's ATP show.same goes for petty smith, i think.

emekars (emekars), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

electronic - twisted tenderness

james brooks (j_brooks), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

unrest - imperial

electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

also: rumours

electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

Luomo's Vocalcity is the right answer to this question.

Jena (JenaP), Monday, 26 June 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

Sam Prekop's s/t

Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

It's been 6 years of listening to it at least once a week and I'm not sick of Kid A.

Josh Smart (smartypants), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 00:48 (nineteen years ago)

Townes Van Zandt's "Live at the Old Quarter"

silence dogood (catcher), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

Notorious B.I.G - Ready to Die

beat club (beat club), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

vocalcity seconded

lf (lfam), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

but i guess there are some people who can love an album forever.
Thurston moore for example.
Sonic youth covered The stooges "i wanna be your dog" 25 or more years ago, he name drop them once in a while as an influence, and lately he invited them to the sonic youth's ATP show.same goes for petty smith, i think.
-- emekars (francobomban...), June 26th, 2006.

I think you are of taking the piss yesno? With the supplidamento gullibilties?

John Justen, HUSH UP LITTLE MANG. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

I remember reading about a guy who listened to side A of Kind of Blue every day for 20 years, never listening to the other side because he was worried he'd find that it didn't match the perfection of the first. Of course, he may have been insane.

There are several songs that I can listen to endlessly, but there isn't one album that I can say the same about. And I do have a fear that I will eventually tire of some of these favorites.

Matthew E. Armstrong (gensu3k1), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

No.

fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

ascension maybe. the trick is you don't listen to it too often as it is too hard, too intense. impossible to get tired of it. you have no chance. as you have to be quite strong to face the listen.

alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

anything by Limp Bizkit

Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Slightly off-topic, but not totally:

Vis-a-vis Pulp. I was thinking earlier this week that, despite the fact that Different Class is Pulp's "best" album (or argue This is Hardcore is you want), We Love Life is the one that I return to all the time. I think there are a couple of other examples like that, but I can't think of them right now. "Standing in the shadows of classics" or something.

pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

I would third Vocalcity...okay, I do...but I think that for me, it would probably be something by Prince. Or maybe Off the Wall?

trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

I don't listen to it all the time, but Beck's Mutations is one I come back to a lot.

Bob Six (bobbysix), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Zuma

van igloo (van smack), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

"him"

flëétwøöd måçk (jaxon), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

"anything by Limp Bizkit

-- Thomas Tallis"

Gosh, you may have the worst music taste ever.
I'd say Jeff Buckley's "Grace"

Tina Josefine (t inajosefine), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, simply because I never listen to any one album that often.

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hard Day's Night UK LP and Autobahn.

harvey.w (harvey.w), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff Buckley? Or do you mean Lord Buckley and his amazing "Bad Rapping the Marquis de Sade"?

I'm kidding of course. I understand that quite a few folks get the jelly knees for Jeff Buckley. He's never done a thing for me though. Still, I can't argue against anyone's considered choice. And for me, that consideration has a time factor that leaves out Luomo and a few of the others listed, including Beck's "Mutations."

The time consideration as far as I am concerned is no shorter than ten years. As the OP wrote, you might think for five years that you listen to an album forever, but then at ten years you are sick of it.

Yes, I realize that if you are younger than 25, you might not have sufficient music from which to draw. TFB.

There is another hidden component to emekars' question. I can think of a handful of disks right now that for me have stood the test of time (more than twenty years, some more than thirty) but the interval between listening on some of them has grown to years. I listen to some of them in heavy rotation for a few weeks and then I don't need to hear them for several years.

Again, this is my preference and not a prescription, but the albums that hold up the best for me have no vocals per se--that is no song with verse-chorus-verse. Most word-based music for me has a limited shelf life because the lyric usually becomes tedious if I have to listen to it again and again.

If you're still reading, here are ten that make my desert island disks, which are not necessarily my favorites of all time, but ones that I think I could play without getting tired of if I only had a limited pool to pick from:

Don Cherry - Brown Rice
Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
Ravi Shankar - Three Ragas
Dave Liebman - Lookout Farm
Archie Shepp - magic of Juju
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - Il quattro stagioni/Vivaldi
Berliner Philharmonic - Symphony No. 3 in E flat major ("Eroica"), Op. 55 (but I'll take it in the box set with the other 8 symphonies, just in case)
Michael Blake - Kingdom of Champa
Charles Mingus - Right Now!
Paul Bley - Open, to Love

J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

Shoot! Michael Blake's Kingdom of Champa is 1997! I have to wait a year before I meet my own guidelines! OK, instead give me The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet (John Zorn, Ray Drummond, Wayne Horvits, Bobby Previte) with "Voodoo."

And toss in Sonny Sharrock's Ask the Ages, too, please.

J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

rollerskate skinny - shoulder voices

ten years +/- and still growing on me.

john clifford (onesoma), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

Some albums give me a charge whenever I put them on, it's the litmus test of a classic for me. The longer I go between listens usually sharpens the impact, but 20 years and counting and things like Damaged, Children of God, Fun House, Reign In Blood, and Evol still rock my world.

I saw The Minutmen documentary a couple months ago; "Anxious Mo-fo" came on and an anticipatory chill went down my spine. If they had temporarily suspended the screening to play the rest of the album I wouldn't have minded.

It's kind of sad to hear people say they've never found a record that still affects them years later. It's like never falling in love. Maybe you just haven't met the right albums?

Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

Steely Dan's Gaucho or Pretzel Logic

Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

There's a select double-handful-or-so of LPs I've loved nonstop for almost 30 years...albeit with several-year stretches of not hearing (or even necessarily OWNING) a copy. CD reissues are key, obv.

M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)


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