Best Ever Albums

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

DommeDamian — Sat, 9 May 2020 09:29:04 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 05/09/2020 13:29

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Born To Do It by Craig David

Recommend you read my description for it on my chart. It's at #5 still. I cannot correctly count how many times it's been listened to, but quite frankly 500+ times!

...and I'm listening to this rn.

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

JOSweetHeart — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:11:07 GMT

Author: JOSweetHeart

Posted: 04/30/2020 19:11

My most listened to album is most likely one of the following.

God bless you and Shane and James always!!!

Holly

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

Szyfman — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 11:44:05 GMT

Author: Szyfman

Posted: 04/30/2020 15:44

Bealtes from 1966 to 1969 on a daily basis ABBA weekly and Electric light orchestra monthly.

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

AfterHours — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:34:09 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 04/30/2020 14:34

Probably Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom, Van Morrison's Astral Weeks or Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. Astral Weeks and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea got a head start on Rock Bottom by 4 or 5 years, but Rock Bottom has most likely caught or surpassed them by now. Those three are probably above 500 listens each at this point. If one counts the (roughly) 100 different recordings of Beethoven's 9th Symphony I've listened to all as a single selection (and revisiting my favorite renditions numerous times over the years) then overall, that is perhaps above those 3 or alongside them.

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

babyBlueSedan — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:31:17 GMT

Author: babyBlueSedan

Posted: 04/30/2020 14:31

Yann wrote:

What happened with Interpol ? : )

I still like the album! In fact, I listened to it yesterday which is probably why it was on my mind in this thread. But in the past ten years I've found probably at least 200 albums I like more, so there's no room for it on my chart anymore. Honestly I'm surprised the others I mentioned have held up all these years despite how much my tastes have changed.

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:00:39 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/30/2020 14:00

babyBlueSedan wrote:

with exception of Interpol, they're all still on my chart.

What happened with Interpol ? : )

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

babyBlueSedan — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 07:57:12 GMT

Author: babyBlueSedan

Posted: 04/30/2020 11:57

Unfortunately I have no way to estimate this, but my guess is that it's something I found a very long time ago and still enjoy. Contenders include:

Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Nirvana - In Utero
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica

I found these all within the first year I started exploring music as a hobby and with exception of Interpol, they're all still on my chart. Other possibilities are albums I discovered more recently but where I had a period I was slightly obsessed with them, so maybe:

Kendrick - To Pump a Butterfly
Kanye - MBTDF
Radiohead - The Bends
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Songs: Ohia - The Magnolia Electric Co
Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps

The last couple seem unlikely since I discovered them relatively recently but they're the kind of album I know every note of so maybe. Again they're all still high ranked on my chart besides The Bends which has kind of grown off me.

According to Spotify my top artist of the decade is Tom Waits. I know it's nothing by him because I only started listening to him very recently and i think he grabbed that spot because I listened to so many different albums by him. Modest Mouse was unsurprisingly second on the list.

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

RoundTheBend — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:19:45 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 04/30/2020 04:19

If you used Spotify a lot this decade you can probably find out here:
https://spotifywrapped.com/
Which if you are logged into spotify in a browser should redirect here: https://open.spotify.com/genre/2019-page

Lame... well it used to have a decade recap of your top listened to song/artist/album for the whole decade. Now it's just playlists of your year recaps and a decade playlist "catered to you".

Anyway, I vaguely remembering U2 and R.E.M. being my top listened to artists, which probably would be no surprise to anyone who knew me. I think when I joined this site like 20% of my overall chart was basically those two bands.

I did get a notification that I'm Itzhak Perlman's top 1% listeners in the world on my phone once. Was kinda shocked at that, but makes sense given most people who listen to classical music aren't big Spotify fans and then most people who listen to Spotify usually aren't classical fans. And I'm just doing this massive classical music project all at once - so statistics and all. Probably few people have listened to that much classical music concentrated... and well I am an Itzhak Perlman fan... just not 1% in the world type fan.

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

Fischman — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:00:11 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 04/30/2020 04:00

Impossible to pick any one with certainty. These would be the contenders:

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Dan Fogelberg - Nether Lands
Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
Rush - Moving Pictures

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

Skinny — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 19:07:39 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 04/29/2020 23:07

I probably listened to both The Libertines' albums hundreds of times when I was 13-16. I've never obsessed over anything like that since then. Never return to them anymore.

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

pctrooper — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:57:44 GMT

Author: pctrooper

Posted: 04/29/2020 22:57

That's a tough call. I'd say I usually don't listen to an album more than once a month once I've become familiar with it. That being said, when I was younger I used to listen to stuff I liked nonstop over and over. Here are some ones I listened to a lot in particular

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Consolers Of The Lonely by The Raconteurs

#3 on my chart right now... used to listen to this a lot as a preteen; I also used to listen to all the White Stripes album over and over when I was really young on my MP3 player. Jack White's bands and Nirvana was the only nonradio music I had back in those days.

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Caress Of Steel by Rush

I could never get enough of this album when I first heard it; it was definitely my favorite for like 4-5 months it's 29th on my chart (partly for sentimental reasons)

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Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd

I used to sleep a lot to this album. As well as Dark Side of The Moon (edit: and of course Meddle too, which is my favorite)

A Trick Of The Tail by Genesis

… And this one. I usually listened to at least one Genesis album a day when I was 16, but this one might have been the one I returned to the most (even if it's not my #1)

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Figure 8 by Elliott Smith

I'll throw this one in there, too. I used to listen to Elliott Smith every single day a few years back

And these I listened to a lot too in my first year of college:

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Private Parts & Pieces VIII: New England by Anthony Phillips

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In Camera by Peter Hammill

Haha there's a lot more I could name but I don't want to keep editing. Basically I used to listen to stuff over and over from my favorite artists a lot as a teenager.

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

baystateoftheart — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:07:04 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 04/29/2020 22:07

If I had to guess, it'd probably be the same as my #1: Pet Sounds. However, I've listened to it in full no more than a dozen times total. I spread my album listening around a lot and tend to only obsess over songs.

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

Patman360 — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:58:54 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 04/29/2020 21:58

Stover75 wrote:

Patman360 wrote:

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Doolittle by Pixies

Safe to assume it's probably this followed closely by the rest of my top 10, literally just had it on there again 10 minutes ago. Lovely.

Good choice!
I listen to this one a fair bit.
I have it on vinyl.
And I play the track Where Is My Mind? all the time.
Probably drives my neighbours crackers although I have started using headphones.

Nice! I don't get to it as much anymore as my , but I still check in every now and again and I'm confident it's my most played album, when I first heard this album I played for a week straight easily, just could not stop putting it on!

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 14:51:59 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/29/2020 18:51

My most listened to band of the past ten years just on Spotify is officially Weezer 😲

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 14:49:18 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/29/2020 18:49

Yeah, I wish I knew.

Achtung Baby is a contender as I listened to it a lot when I was a pre-teen. Then got into it later as a teenager. I don't think its on my overall chart though.

I've listened to loads of Belle and Sebastian. I think maybe Tigermilk and Dear Catastrophe Waitress the most. They have always been easy default setting listens for me. Neither are on my overall chart currently.

I listened to Pet Sounds and OK Computer religiously when I was 16. These albums defined my transition to more adult listening tastes (after listening to a lot of fairly commercial 90s rock). I'd love to know how many times I've heard these albums in total. I'd guess 50+. So one of these might be the one. They are both reasonably high on my overall chart.

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

craola — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 14:37:45 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 04/29/2020 18:37

I don’t have any way of knowing, but it’s probably something I got into when I was 16-18 and never got outo. U2, Radiohead, Modest Mouse... could be any release from any of those. Jeff Buckley, Bjork, and Pearl Jam would be biting at their heals too.

I know I’ve listened to Meshes of Voices a lot, and Last.fm says that’s my top, but I only started scrobbling a couple years ago, and scrobbles only account for a fraction of what I’ve listened.

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

CharlieBarley — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:49:16 GMT

Author: CharlieBarley

Posted: 04/29/2020 17:49

Patman360 wrote:

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Doolittle by Pixies

Safe to assume it's probably this followed closely by the rest of my top 10, literally just had it on there again 10 minutes ago. Lovely.

Good choice!
I listen to this one a fair bit.
I have it on vinyl.
And I play the track Where Is My Mind? all the time.
Probably drives my neighbours crackers although I have started using headphones.

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

Spyglass — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:32:39 GMT

Author: Spyglass

Posted: 04/29/2020 17:32

Patman360 wrote:

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Doolittle by Pixies

Safe to assume it's probably this followed closely by the rest of my top 10, literally just had it on there again 10 minutes ago. Lovely.

This might be in my top 20 most listened.

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

Patman360 — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:30:48 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 04/29/2020 17:30

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Doolittle by Pixies

Safe to assume it's probably this followed closely by the rest of my top 10, literally just had it on there again 10 minutes ago. Lovely.

Re: What’s the album you’ve listened to the most in your life ?

Spyglass — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:26:10 GMT

Author: Spyglass

Posted: 04/29/2020 17:26

Led Zeppelin IV, Peepshow, DSOTM and Pet Sounds are all contenders.