your most listened-to album

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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