# What album have you listened to the most? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 11, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552 "2017-02-11T16:31:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/41 "2017-02-12T01:00:23Z")
I just finished listening to all of my vinyl records, in alphabetical order. That took over a year to listen to around 300 LPs. Before that, I had listened to all of my CDs in alphabetical order, about 500 of those. ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/42 "2017-02-12T01:26:39Z")
**Nevermind**. No other album would even come close to the number of times I listened to that in my youth. It was the very first album I owned. I probably played it over 100 times before I noticed the hidden track at the end! ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/43 "2017-02-12T01:43:59Z")
I listened to the “Batman Forever” soundtrack many, many times starting as a teenager. ---
**Author:** ![Santelia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Santelia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santelia)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/44 "2017-02-12T02:02:18Z")
Relationship of Command - At The Drive-In ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/45 "2017-02-12T02:17:13Z")
It would be a Pink Floyd album though I’m not sure which. The Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, and Wish You Were Here are all albums that don’t have any weak bits that I don’t want to listen to. Having said that, although The Wall _does_ have bits I’m not keen on, it was the album that got me into Pink Floyd in the first place and I may have listened to it more than the others. Which ever one it is, it would have been played hundreds of times. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/46 "2017-02-12T02:18:20Z")
Hot Tuna: Double Dose [http://furpeaceranch.com/store/product\_info.php?cPath=55\_56&products\_id=634](http://furpeaceranch.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=55_56&products_id=634) Thousands of listens, easily, front to back. No more specific estimate available. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/47 "2017-02-12T02:59:19Z")
Rush’s _2112_. I wore out an LP and two cassettes. I couldn’t tell you how many times I listened to it. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/48 "2017-02-12T02:59:19Z")
I’m not sure I could give a definitive answer to this question, but I can say that I listened to nothing but Suicidal Tendencies _13_ for over 9 months back in 2013 and early 2014 and I listened to it at least twice a day, every day. I own thousands of albums and I’ve listened to hundreds of them more than 200 times each (a number that I see listed here quite a lot so I figure it’s a good reference point). I’ve had to replace CDs because they wore out (White Zombie’s _La Sexorcisto_ (I’m on my 4th copy), Minutemen’s _Double Nickels On The Dime_, Husker Du’s _Zen Arcade_, Frank Zappa’s _Shut Up And Play Yer Guitar_, Bolt Thrower’s _Mercenary_ among others). ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/49 "2017-02-12T03:44:51Z")
Definitely a Who album, \*Quadrophenia \*or _Live At Leeds_, I’d say. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/50 "2017-02-12T03:51:53Z")
Well I guess I ought to chime in, too. I’ve probably listened to [_Not Available_ by The Residents](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Available_(album)) more than 100 times. And every time I hear something new. I don’t know why I’m so obsessed with this album. There’s just something about it… ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/51 "2017-02-12T03:58:45Z")
dark side of the moon, then the wall, the white album fits in there some place ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/52 "2017-02-12T03:58:56Z")
Hemispheres, 2012, Signals, Moving Pictures, Permanent Waves, Caress of Steel Probably thousands of times Clockwork Angels - maybe a thousand times just because it’s the most recent I’ve probably heard The Wall a few hundred times ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/53 "2017-02-12T04:03:49Z")
I’ve been giving this some thought and I just cannot figure it out for the life of me. I was always all over the map, musically, and I can remember wearing out a few records when I was young lad … so maybe Starz - _Violation_, or Ian Hunter - _You’re Never Alone With a Schizophrenic_, or very possibly Pink Floyd - _The Wall_. But then, when I got Jackson Browne’s\* Running on Empty\* or Van Halen’s first record I played those every day for a month too. I don’t know. And then I think back to my Ford Ranger, the first, and so far only, brand new vehicle I ever bought, which is the first car I had with a CD player in it. In went Primus’s _Pork Soda_ and it didn’t come out for months. I must have listened to that thing on a loop a hundred times. Or maybe it was Sublime’s eponymous disc. It was like a sea-change to me as far as my own tastes were flowing. That’s another one I remember spot-welding into my CD player. TL;DR - fuck, I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/54 "2017-02-12T04:28:02Z")
The Whit Album or Diver Down. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/55 "2017-02-12T04:35:35Z")
It’s likely a toss-up between **[Talking Timbuktu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0iaTsSHuWY)**, Ali Farka Toure & Ry Cooder, and **[Brazileiro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwgHebDiEoA&list=PLDv7kLUIO6H3awQLDam1jqqRNLq9pBqNT)**, Sergio Mendes. Both albums are outstanding and will remain on my playlist until I die, most likely. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/56 "2017-02-12T04:51:53Z")
Jeff Wayne’s [Musical Version of The _War of the Worlds_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne's_Musical_Version_of_The_War_of_the_Worlds) My brother got the double LP for Christmas in 1978, my dad the bought himself the cassette version and listened to it all the time when I was a kid. It was probably the second CD I bought (after Dire Straits’ _Brothers in Arms_) and I’ve picked up the new versions and watched the live show DVD’s. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/57 "2017-02-12T05:02:11Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Most likely “Murmur” by R.E.M. - thousands of times over the decades. 🆒 Same here. Had the vinyl originally, I’m sure I had a cassette as well. Then CD, and of course now digitally. On my iTunes account, my listen count for that album is 217. Their album _Document_ is next on my play count. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/58 "2017-02-12T07:59:59Z")
Lots over 200 spins (none recent) but try: Kind of Blue Money for Nothing Beatles (red and blue albums, Sgt Pepper) Nevermind Rain Dogs Chronicle Daft Punk Hotel California Les Miserables ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/59 "2017-02-12T12:24:33Z")
Probably: 1. Rolling Stones, _Get Yer Ya Yas Out!_. Maybe 250 times, over 38 years. 2. Beatles, _Revolver_. Maybe 200 times, over 41 years. 3. Marlo Thomas and Friends, _Free to Be You and Me_. Maybe 150 times, in two distinct periods: when I was 5-6 years old, and when my son was 5-6 years old (a period just ending now) 4. Putumayo collection called _Music from the Coffee Lands_. Over 100 times. 5. Trevor Pinnock’s English Consort with Stephen Preston, _Bach’s B minor Suite_. Over 100 times, but not always listening to the other tracks after this suite. 6. King’s College Choir, _Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols_. Over 100 times (but rarely the other tracks, _Hymn to St. Cecilia_). 7. R.E.M., _Lifes Rich Pageant_ (though often skipping “Just a Touch”). Over 100 times. Beatles’ Red and Blue albums might come next, along with other childhood favorites like Pete Seeger’s Greatest Hits. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/60 "2017-02-12T12:36:03Z")
I should add that Simon and Garfunkel’s _Bookends_, Clark Terry’s _Color Changes_, and Van Morrison’s _Moondance_ are albums I prefer to enjoy from start to finish, so they’d be pushing 100 listens as well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552.md?page=4)