your most listened-to album

I'd imagine this is 'Secrets of the Beehive'.
The obsession I had with it for the first decade or so has def waned, but, I've never not loved it in the 30 or so years I've owned it, so...

Though these days, I typically grab 'Manafon' for a Sylvian fix, SotB sure does still sound great. Good job, Dave.

Zep II, I'm guessing, as it's the first of their albums I got.

I think The Sundays' Reading, Writing And Arithmetic must be up there. Failing that maybe Blue Lines.

Budd/Eno The Plateaux of Mirror is forever at the top of my ambient bedtime rotation.

Daytime listening: Dark Side of the Moon

It's hard not to be obvious and go with my favourite album, The Lexicon Of Love. I bought it on tape in 1994 when I was 11 and I've played it so much on the multiple formats I've owned it on since then. Along with Dare, Rio and Gentlemen Take Polaroids it's one the albums I bought around that time that has outlasted any phases I've been through. Even when I had a rough couple of years in the 90s where I was fairly Britpop obsessed, I still threw those on now and again. I still play them all now with Lexicon being the one I go for the most.

In the itunes/Last FM age it has been Broadcast's Tender Buttons (although Ten Love Songs is catching it up). It's crazy to think that I initially thought that album was a slight disappointment after Haha Sound.

Has to be one from my walkman-era. Show No Mercy, Ride The Lightning or Battles In The North I guess.

Siegbran don't you ever just listen to, like, Barenaked Ladies

Surviving an entire Barenaked Ladies record is metal af.

I’m not Canadian enough for Barenaked Ladies but non-metal is over 80% of what I’m listening, I just dont write about it a lot on ILM. iTunes says my last years most listened to artist was 67 but who wants to read what some middle ages white guy has to say about them?

(middle aged, freudian slip obv)

Pretty sure it's Remain in Light for me.

Guessing it's Flood by They Might be Giants, I played that CD to death as a teenager

My best guess is Ritual de lo Habitual, but I honestly don't know. Especially if I think back 15-20 years and how much time I would spend just walking around with a single disc in my walkman back then. There were many so many that I'd latch onto for weeks at a time back then and I certainly wasn't trying to quantify listens or anything.

Funky Kingston — Toots & The Maytals

It could be "This Nations Saving Grace" The Fall..

It's really hard to know. I could easily look at my last.fm, but that would only tell me information from when I started to use the site. I was probably 26 or 27 when I signed up for last.fm, so there's literally decades of undocumented listening before that.

If I had to guess, I'd say one of the early David Axelrod albums; Song of Innocence, Songs of Experience, or Earthrot.

I think for me its:

Lilys - Eccsame the Photon Band

Probably Graceland. It's warm and unobtrusive in the background, catchy & buoyant if i'm actively listening.

It's probably 'Loveless', even though I don't think I've listened to it for some two years now.

I think the most interesting thing about Last.fm logs has been discovering that even records I feel like I played constantly for a year turn out to be about 10-15 plays though the whole thing, given around 100 track counts for a favored release. Even as a kid with LPs and a Walkman, I now have the sense that most albums got around 10 played before they seemed familiar enough to move on to the next shiny hype. Making a wild guess at albums that I couldn't get enough of, and still dip into: Badmotorfinger, Double Nickles on the Dime, Money Jungle.

This year the koze one

I don't know why it didn't occur to me earlier, but I'm currently listening to Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age and that's a thing that I've done front-to-back at least every couple of months since its release, so if it isn't quite my most listened-to yet it's very quickly on its way there.

Very possibly my favorite album of the 21st Century.

Either Violator or Music for the Masses. I listened to those cassettes so much. I actually bought Music for Masses on cassette for a second time at one point, because my first one wore out.

Mainly because of longevity, my most-played album might be any of these (purchased as new releases by my father, later stolen by my brother/me, subsequently repurchased on CD):

The Doors, ST
Hendrix, Are You Experienced?
The Beatles, Abbey Road
Dylan, Nashville Skyline

or it might be In a Silent Way

in more modern times, according to last.fm, my most listened to album is Of Montreal - False Priest, which kind of surprised me but is probably accurate

Has to be MX-80 Sound's "Hard Attack"

One from LAMF, What's the Matter Boy? Two Sevens Clash or Best Dressed Chicken in Town.

Van Dyke Parks Song Cycle

probably Chet Baker Sings

Alien Lanes, with Odessy and Oracle a close second

Stooges: Funhouse, maybe - as a classic I've listened to since teenage years. The Cure's Pornography also fits that category.

Close To The Edge. Been playing it since 1974.

I'd guess it's probably something I played as "background" while studying in high school or college — Music for Airports, Kind of Blue, Brandenburg Concertos (Trevor Pinnock/DG Archiv). During this decade, it's John Maus's We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves.

It would probably be something from my high school days when I only had a handful of cassettes and a Walkman - most likely something by Oingo Boingo.

Keith Jarrett's Sun Bear Concerts. I must have listened to them a hundred times at the end of my school years.

― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, September 16, 2018 7:40 AM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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