records you find it difficult to listen to just because you overplayed them

Stooges 1st..Love..Television..

First three Jens Lekman ones.

Ha, the three mentioned by OP are all in the running, but I just have to let them lie fallow for a decade and then I can listen again.

But real answer is any Beatles album. Bob Dylans' "Big Three" sixties albums, Lucinda William's self-titled ( although also can't listen to that because of later career) various Funkadelic albums. But again, I usually wait five-ten years and then peek out and see if the coast is clear and try to listen again.

The Hendrix albums that were released while he was still alive. I was a massive Hendrix fan aged 18-19, but I haven't really listened to those records in the two decades since.

maybe you will fall in love again..

i thought i can't listen to Hendrix too anymore..a mistake..

At the Drive-in - Relationship of Command, the CD got played constantly at the house I shared during the second year of university. I can still enjoy 'One-Armed Scissor' or 'Cosmonaut' I guess.

"First three Jens Lekman ones."

the question is why did you listen to them in the first place?

(j/k)

beatles

Lots and lots of Beach Boys just floats past me now, I'm sad to say

Phaseshifter - Redd Kross
Nevermind - Nirvana
The Book of David - DJ Quik
Silent Shout - The Knife
Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
Angel Haze - Altered Ego
R.A.P. Music - Killer Mike
Ghost - Ghost (Swe)
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Beck - Mellow Gold
Christian Mistress - Agony & Opium
Curren$y - Pilot Talk & Pilot Talk 2
Motards - Saturday Night Special Ed
The Dwarves - Blood Guts & Pussy
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

entire careers: Beatles, Cheap Trick, OutKast, Boris, Replacements, Husker Du, The Cramps, Belle & Sebastian, Public Enemy

VU + Nico .... think I've played it once this millennium

...but i'm sure you listened to songs from it, somewhere/sometime in the background..

No, don't think so

gaga's another artist i listened to and enjoyed quite a bit for a time, but now can barely tolerate. hard to say whether this is a result of overplaying or an intrinsically short shelf-life. maybe i only imagined i liked her, i dunno. maybe i'll come back around.

"entire careers: Beatles, Cheap Trick, OutKast, Boris, Replacements, Husker Du, The Cramps, Belle & Sebastian, Public Enemy"

this is kinda sad.

i wouldn't mind overplaying B@S, but Boris, The Cramps..

i need to make a rule for myself not to worn out excellent bands..

"No, don't think so"

interesting.

Sunday Morning, Venus in Furs, femme..are kind of "hits" (in some radio stations, cloths stores etc..)

Don't listen to radio, don't buy clothes (well, not from the kind of shops that might play the Velvet Underground)

i'm really hesitant to say this has happened at all. most of really 'overplayed' stuff, e.g. neil young, dylan, beatles, grateful dead, might pass through a few years where i don't want to touch them. but i always go back. sometimes it just takes a while. i've had, like, two or three major dylan immersion periods. neil young and the beatles are always floating in the background.

if i never revisit a record it's usually because my interest in it wasn't particularly deep, not because i overplayed it. records i 'overplay' are always the most enduring.

listened to a lot of lou for the first time in a long time since he died. 20+ years of lots of VU+solo will do that to you.

i never totally give up on anything either, unless i just really didn't like it that much to begin with but was listening out of desperation/lack of other options (the tapes you never cleaned out of your car, etc)
obvs music is a powerful memory stimulator -- some memories i can only handle like 1x every 5 yrs but i enjoy knowing that they're there and i haven't soured on them completely

that said, probably violent femmes s/t because it makes me feel 12

radiohead's discography

Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle (or however they misspell it)
Kinks - Something Else and Village Green
Lungfish - Love is Love
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
95% of my own music

xpost, ha, that may be an exception to my earlier post. i listened to like, nothing but radiohead periods when i was 17, 19, 20. i feel like i'd be happy never to ever hear ok computer, the bends, HTTT, or pablo honey ever again. kid a/amnesiac still have something for me. in rainbows is awesome, still fresh and imo their best album

Pretty much anything by the Police or post-Meddle Floyd, mostly thanks to middle school me, though I finally realized in the case of the former that it's not just overexposure but also the harsh remastering. Sounded OK on vinyl the other day, when I decided to dip a toe in.

Radiohead's another good one. I don't think I've overplayed them but I definitely don't play them. Helps that my wife hates them.

Lately I just play all my (digitized) albums in shuffle mode. Keeps things fresh. My iTunes just went from the first Kate & Anna McGarrigle album to Slayer's "Seasons in the Abyss" to Sleater-Kinney's first to Exodus's "Bonded In Blood." Keeps things exciting!

yea shuffle of all your music is great, if i can keep myself open to the spontaneity and refrain from skipping tracks

can't shuffle -
lots of music is mood-dependent. i mean, how can i enjoy Melt Banana after Galaxie 500?

pearl jam

lots of music is mood-dependent. i mean, how can i enjoy Melt Banana after Galaxie 500?

Well, if I like both, then it's not hard! My mood is not immutable.

Sometimes, if I really want to hear something specific, I'll choose the album the shuffle cycle starts with.

sadly, i barely ever listen to dylan's 60s albums these days for this reason. i am much more likely to put on oh mercy or something

xp yea i don't use shuffle for all my listening, but it can be useful for re-exposing older stuff to me or recontextualizing music in way that makes it seem more fresh. if i hear a particular track as part of its original album it might seem stale and uninteresting. if i hear it individually next to a much of dissimilar stuff, i might acknowledge aspects of it that i didn't notice before

otm. Sometimes I "pseudoshuffle" and just type a letter and two into Itunes or Spotify and listen to whatever it comes up with.

Loveless

I'd guess most people will name albums they got when they were young and didn't have access to gobs of music. For me it's 80s Depeche Mode, though the last time I queued some up I was able to step back and enjoy it. Radiohead's "The Bends" is another one because I got into them before they broke and then it was everywhere.

^^ otm.

hence why i rarely listen to madness these days as i totally overplayed their albums.

anything nirvana. kid a.

mellon collie and the infinite sadness
gaucho
tusk

I was thinking about hit songs that got played to death & were everywhere you went... can't think of any examples in the last 10 years, but like for example "Hey Ya" is a perfect song, and I have faint memories of liking "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," but they're both soooo rusted I can't really hear them anymore. maybe hey ya

Oh god, there's loads, but on the whole I don't worry it because there's a hell of a lot of music out there to be discovered, and sometimes old favourites can regain their potency after you've laid off them for a few years.

a friend of mine brought in a bunch of thin lizzy CDs to the store recently and i've been playing them nonstop after not really being able to for years. because i played them nonstop for so long. i'm giving them a rest again soon.

conversely, the other night i put on first big star cuz i was stumped as to what i wanted to hear and part of me was like: really, again? but then it started and i was like yeah...again. how many times over the years? 300 times? 400 times? it's like breathing or something. i'm always ready.

there should be a term for when you buy a brand new record and listen to it a zillion times and then never play it again. the newness is the thing. i guess "event" albums can be like this. when was the last time anyone played that most recent daft punk album all the way through?

The Chills' Submarine Bells is a record I fell in love with when it came out, played it to death. Now I can hear it only piecemeal, it evokes a time in my life when I was more susceptible to the charms of a record like that one, which I think is kind of great, just so intense. I can't listen to R.E.M.'s Murmur or Elvis Costello's Get Happy!! any more, just played them too much, but I recently heard Imperial Bedroom, one I also played to death, and went, hmm, that's actually quite powerful. I find it difficult to hear Radio City without getting a weird sense of dislocation to the time when it seemed so fresh, though it comes through if I'm in a certain mood; #1 Record has only grown on me because I find the doleful acoustic numbers so beautiful in a way I didn't at first. Taking Tiger Mountain I played to death and I can't get through it at all now.

when was the last time anyone played that most recent daft punk album all the way through?

me like last week. I listen to it a lot!

:)

I last listened to it about two months ago.

reading this thread is fascinating to me because I literally cam't think of a single record I've ever liked that I don't still like - and still like in the *same way* (as far as as I can tell), rather than a "oh this reminds me of how I felt when I was 15" type deal. I do worry that this means I'm emotionally stunted or something - my tastes *have* changed, in that there's stuff I used to dislike that I've learned to like, but never the reverse.

I know too much to argue or to judge, but it's very hard for me to come up with any record that I listened to intensely that I didn't eventually reach a saturation stalemate point where I needed to take a long break. I have a weird example of a record that I liked and was forced to listen to over and over that I somehow never tired of, that being Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits, but this is somehow a different phenomenon.

i overplayed lots of records that i took long breaks from, several years, and when i came back to them i heard them in a totally new way- mostly recognizing composition and production elements that I knew nothing about when i was a teenager.

Fugazi - Red Medicine is/was one of my all time favorite records, but it really lost its bite for me after excessive play.

I listened to Hendrix albums non-stop when I was 18-19. Haven't really listened to any of his stuff at all for over 20 years.

Ha and I just checked upthread and I said the same thing nearly three years ago. Sorry nostormo but I still feel the same way.

Every Go-Betweens album.

Aww. Just listen to the "1978-90" compilation instead!

I'm sure once you read Robert's book you will go right back to relisten.

I never get tired of the Go-Betweens, but I got burned out on Tallulah and Oceans Apart for awhile. Never get tired of "Bachelor Kisses," such a perfect piece of pop, or "Spring Hill Fair."
Others I'm burned out on:
Miles' Jack Johnson
Byrds' Notorious
Arto's Mundo Civilizado
Elis Regina comp, "The Best of," with "Madalena," a song so beautiful--her vocal performance is ultra-romantic yet so cutting--it's hard for me to stop playing it.
Gilberto Gil's "Realce"
Spring Heel Jack's "68 Million Shades"
Tortoise's "TNT." Wore that out in 1998 and 1999. Not sure how well it would stand up today.

the madness catalogue.

my all time favourite band, but if i ever hear baggy trousers again ...

there are a few albums I totally caned during "intense" periods of my life. Can't really listen to them without feeling sad.