LPs/albums you return to over and over

[rutabowa]

I've got a few records, but I realised that I dont hardly ever play most of them, there is about a 5% of them I play a lot maybe less. It's not ones I'd necessarily have picked as best, but its ones that get played most out of what I have. It is a combination of them being good all the way through, and easy to spot on the shelf. For me it is Pavement "wowee zowee", television personalities "and dont the kids just love it", jesus lizard "liar". It would be white light white heat but that is impossible to distinguish from the spine so doesn't get on so much.

 

[ska invita]

At this age in my life the ones I return to I've returned to so many times I cant return to them anymore
Very little I havent rinsed to death



Yet I never tire of King Tubby (doesnt really ever) Meet the Upsetter at the Grass Roots of Dub
In fact 70s dub LPs probably the most indestructible to overplay
lyrics and clever ideas can weather badly after 100 plays

 

[platinumsage]

Some of REM's early albums. That's the only stuff I listened to regularly in my youth that I still happily crack open nowadays.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
Aladdin Sane - David Bowie
Greatest Hits - Leonard Cohen

 

[Steel Icarus]

Does this mean vinyl or just the album on whichever format?

 

[rutabowa]

Does this mean vinyl or just the album on whichever format?

Whatever format... I don't tend to return to stuff streaming tho, I usually listen to new stuff.

 

[plurker]

I have a few albums that I play more than others; I probably spend 3/4 of my time listening to new music, and the rest revisiting old stuff

These are probably the most frequent I pull lit
Bunny Wailer's Blackheart Man
Manu Chao - Clandestino
The Arkology CDs set.
LTJ Bukem - Logical Progression
All the Plastikman stuff
Elevator Suite- Barefoot and Shitfaced

 

[Athos]

On Fire - Galaxie 500

 

[existentialist]

Led Zeppelin 1. When I first heard it, I struggled to get my head around it. I came back to it about 20 years later, and now it's one of those albums that's become a go-to.

Pink Floyd - The Wall is another one. And "Papa John Creach - Papa Blues".

 

[hitmouse]

Pretty much anything by Pixies would be the first thing that comes to mind.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Forever Changes - Love
Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart
Astral Weeks - Van Morisson

 

[souljacker]

Janis Joplin - Pearl. I must have listened to it thousands of times over the years. I put it on at least once a month but often more.
Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power too

 

[DaveCinzano]

The ones that spring to mind as constantly on at various times (whether as tapes, records, CDs or files) would be:

The The: Infected
Blaggers ITA: United Colors Of Blaggers ITA
Richard X: Presents His X Factor Vol 1
Gunshot: Patriot Games
The Fugs: It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest
Chris T-T: London Is Sinking
Radical Dance Faction: Wasteland
Madnomad: Tamper-Evident
Mekha: Immersion LP
Ballistic Brothers: London Hooligan Soul

Definitely massively skewed towards stuff around when I was buying physical things. More recently would be home-compiled stuff, or single tracks.

 

[stavros]

I'd have to say... The Best of the Beatles.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I'd have to say... The Best of the Beatles.

Back of the net!

 

[killer b]

How long do you have to have been returning to an album for it to count towards the thread?

 

[contadino]

The Premier League...

FSOL - Lifeforms (probably about once a week)
Japan - Quiet Life/Oil on Canvas
Spiritualised - Lazer Guided Melodies
John Coltrane - Blue Train
The Beatles - Abbey Road

The Championship...

St Germain - Tourist
Gustav Holst - The Planets
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Horace Silver - Song For My Father
Herb Alpert presents Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66

 

[weepiper]

Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
Fugazi - Repeater
Martyn Bennett - Grit
Idlewild - The Remote Part
REM - Green
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Slowdive - Slowdive

 

[hitmouse]

The ones that spring to mind as constantly on at various times (whether as tapes, records, CDs or files) would be:

Gunshot: Patriot Games

Definitely massively skewed towards stuff around when I was buying physical things. More recently would be home-compiled stuff, or single tracks.

That's one I only got into around the start of lockdown, fantastically fun record though. Also, thinking about it, Misfits stuff like Walk Among Us - I don't think of them as one of my favourite bands, but I don't think I ever look at my music library and think "hmmm, I am definitely not in the mood to listen to Walk Among Us" either? I've not revisited Will Anything Happen? by the Shop Assistants in a while, but I think that's earned its place up there. Probably Fever to Tell by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Someone To Drive You Home by the Long Blondes should be up there too.

 

[Dr. Furface]

The Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
Roxy - Stranded
John Martyn - One World

 

[nottsgirl]

St Germain - Foxbase Alpha hits the sweet spot between not overplayed but I absolutely love it every time I hear it.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Silent Alarm - Bloc Party
Dubnobasswithmyheadman - Underworld
Super Ape - Lee Scratch Perry
You're living all over me - Dinosaur Jr

Never get bored of these, play them fairly regularly

 

[hitmouse]

Tempted to say something like Depression Cherry by Beach House, but I only got into them around 2016 or so, so yeah, depends how long-term we're talking here.

 

[rutabowa]

How long do you have to have been returning to an album for it to count towards the thread?

half your age minus 5 years.

 

[killer b]

I had a look through the lower reaches of the 'on the cd player today' thread, and there's quite a lot of stuff I still regularly listen to a decade on tbh.

Funhouse, Scott 4, LFO - Frequencies, that Minor Threat album, The Boy With The Arab Strap, Pye Corner Audio's Black Mill Tapes 1&2, Colossal Youth, Freaks Faggots Drunks & Junkies, Paris 1919... there's more tho

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

How long do you have to have been returning to an album for it to count towards the thread?

half your age minus 5 years.

Then take away the number you first thought of.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Then take away the number you first thought of.

And is this your card?

 

[cozmikbrew]

The Specials Specials
Ruts The Crack
Subhumans Worlds Apart
Lee Perry Blackboard Jungle
Lee Perry and DubSyndicate TimeBoom X De DevilDead
Sound Iration Sound Iration in Dub
PublicEnemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back
3rd Bass Cactus Album
African Headcharge Songs of Praise
RootsManuva meets Wrong Tom Duppy Writer
The Bug Pressure
BetaBand Three EPs
Dr Octagon Dr Octagonecologyst
RDF BorderlineCases
ButtholeSurfers Hairway to Steven
Fugazi 13 Songs
Basement 5 1965-1980+In Dub
CombatWombat/Cop On Fire Split LP
The Beat I Just Cant Stop It
All of the SoulJazz Studio 1 compilations
Thatcher On Acid Curdled
Dr Alimantado Best Dressed Chicken in Town
DissidentNoizeFactory Everything
Leftfield Leftism
Senser Stacked Up
WuTangClan Enter the 36 Chambers
DeLaSoul 3 Feet High And Rising
The Goats Tricks of The Shade
CultureShock Onwards and Upwards
XRay Spex GermFree Adolescents
TimDog Pennicilin on Wax
Gong Camember Electrique
Gong with Here and Now FloatingAnarchy
Chumbawamba Pictures of Starving Children

 

[DaveCinzano]

The Specials Specials
Ruts The Crack
Subhumans Worlds Apart
Lee Perry Blackboard Jungle
Lee Perry and DubSyndicate TimeBoom X De DevilDead
Sound Iration Sound Iration in Dub
PublicEnemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back
3rd Bass Cactus Album
African Headcharge Songs of Praise
RootsManuva meets Wrong Tom Duppy Writer
The Bug Pressure
BetaBand Three EPs
Dr Octagon Dr Octagonecologyst
RDF BorderlineCases
ButtholeSurfers Hairway to Steven
Fugazi 13 Songs
Basement 5 1965-1980+In Dub
CombatWombat/Cop On Fire Split LP
The Beat I Just Cant Stop It
All of the SoulJazz Studio 1 compilations
Thatcher On Acid Curdled
Dr Alimantado Best Dressed Chicken in Town
DissidentNoizeFactory Everything
Leftfield Leftism
Senser Stacked Up
WuTangClan Enter the 36 Chambers
DeLaSoul 3 Feet High And Rising
The Goats Tricks of The Shade
CultureShock Onwards and Upwards
XRay Spex GermFree Adolescents
TimDog Pennicilin on Wax
Gong Camember Electrique
Gong with Here and Now FloatingAnarchy
Chumbawamba Pictures of Starving Children

Looking at that list I have a sneaking suspicion you might also have been into Consolidated, Renegade Soundwave, Paris, AOS3, Gary Clail, Meat Beat Manifesto and Scarface/Geto Boys

 

[cozmikbrew]

Looking at that list I have a sneaking suspicion you might also have been into Consolidated, Renegade Soundwave, Paris, AOS3, Gary Clail, Meat Beat Manifesto and Scarface/Geto Boys

Ha yes indeed,everyone@x