# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/81 "2017-02-13T13:23:58Z")
_Q. Are We not Men? A. We Are Devo_ - listened to it 188 times _Abbey Road_ - 165 times _The Cars_ - 126 times EDIT: correction, I did not listen to the song ‘Jocko Homo’ in its entirety on March 3, 1981. So, perhaps in the interests of honesty and accuracy I should count only 187 _complete_ listenings. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/82 "2017-02-13T14:06:02Z")
Do singles compilations count? Because I’ve listened to\*\* The Cure\*\*‘s _Standing on a Beach_ several thousands of times…and then other compilations in descending order (_Louder Than Bombs_ by **The Smiths,** **Bauhaus** _1979–1983_, \*\*Jethro Tull’\*\*s _Living In The Past_ (the SA-only compilation not the 1972 one)) If not, then it’s a contest between \*Century Flower \*by **Shelleyan Orphan** , _Rattlesnakes_ by **Lloyd Cole and the Commotions** , _Aion_ by **Dead Can Dance** and _Reading, Writing and Arithmetic_ by **The Sundays** , I’ve listened to all those more than a thousand times (like, around once a week for the last 20 years plus, with occasional play-on-repeat binges) ---
**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 13, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/83 "2017-02-13T15:51:34Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I also discovered TKATVGPS about a half a year ago on a separate forum and it’s already in the 20s. Every track either fits into the theme or is a great song nonetheless (“Big Sky” and “All of my Friends” are the only ones that don’t seem to fit thematically but musically they do, and are good songs.) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/84 "2017-02-13T16:18:10Z")
Back in the day, when all I had was a turntable, and you really had to listen all the way through, there were: Led Zeppelin IV Dark Side of the Moon Agents of Fortune Now that we live in a digital music era, I rarely listen all the way through. Now that I can easily skip Debbie Denise and other such filler songs, I’ll never listen to AoF all the way through again. (I don’t even bother to import the crappy songs, so there is no Within You Without You interrupting my perfect Sgt Pepper album. 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/85 "2017-02-13T16:22:40Z")
Actually, now that I think about it some more “Best of the Smiths” Vol 1 and 2 might also be the winner for me, although it’s only one of the discs about half the time, so it’s hard for me to pinpoint how many times I’ve listened through the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/86 "2017-02-13T16:43:13Z")
**Appetite for Destruction** , by virtue of simply having owned it the longest; in fact I didn’t own any other album for at least another 2 years. It’s pretty good, too. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/87 "2017-02-13T16:56:04Z")
“Who’s Next” held the record (no pun intended) to the point where I can do without hearing “Behind Blue Eyes” ever again. Until I got “Quadrophenia”, which holds the record to this day. There was no better way to try to “cope” with teen angst than with an entire album about teen angst ! ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/88 "2017-02-13T16:57:44Z")
Probably something like: KISS Alive Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Made in the Shade Quadrophenia The Cars Abbey Road Ziggy Stardust Who keeps track? ---
**Author:** ![Euclid\_s\_Anvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Euclid\_s\_Anvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euclid_s_Anvil)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/89 "2017-02-13T18:50:19Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits. Listened to it dozens of times from start to finish back when cassette tapes were all the rage. Nice choice! Mine would probably be _Led Zeppelin I_ or _II_. Man, if I haven’t heard those things a thousand times by now I would be very surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/90 "2017-02-13T19:41:17Z")
For me it would probably be: Paul Simon - Graceland Although a couple more deserve honorable mention: Stray Cats ‎– Rant N’ Rave With The Stray Cats Bachman-Turner Overdrive ‎– Best Of B.T.O. (So Far) I listened to this one countless times because it was the ONLY 8 track tape on the tractor I drove one summer. It was either that or listen to the AM radio in the late 70s. The Farm Report just isn’t that interesting. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/91 "2017-02-14T01:04:59Z")
My most played has got to be the album _Eagles “Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)”._ I looked the album up to see just how popular it was. Looks like it is the number 2 all time seller with 32 million “certified” copies sold. \*\*Michael Jackson Thriller 1982 46.0 Eagles Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) 1976 32.2 Fleetwood Mac Rumours 1977 27.9 Whitney Houston / Various artists The Bodyguard 1992 27.4 AC/DC Back in Black 1980 26.1 Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon 1973 24.2 \*\* Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell 1977 21.5 Bee Gees / Various artists Saturday Night Fever 1977 20.6 ---
**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 14, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/92 "2017-02-14T03:45:51Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > Hemispheres, 2012, Signals, Moving Pictures, Permanent Waves, Caress of Steel Probably thousands of times What, no love for _A Farewell to Kings_? 😉 That’s my favorite Rush album – probably heard it all the way through forty times, but my favorite three songs from it over a hundred times each (not counting the 20 or so times I practiced “Xanadu” with my high school garage band). ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/93 "2017-02-14T04:23:37Z")
Boards of Canada, _Music has the Right to Children_, by virtue of more than a decade of listening to it several times per month as I drift peacefully off to sleep at night. OK, so usually I get only about halfway through it before Mr. Sandman knocks me out, but still. Probably next would be the Beatles’ _Abbey Road_; it was the second album I ever bought (after Grand Funk Railroad’s ‘Closer to Home’, don’t judge me) and I’m sure I listened to it hundreds of times (on vinyl!), with a twenty-year or so gap before repurchasing it on CD. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Burden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jack\_Burden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Burden)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/94 "2017-02-14T17:44:17Z")
Seconding previous suggestions of Revolver, Moondance, and Blood on the Tracks; have all of these on vinyl, cassette & disc. But my top 2 are London Calling and Exile on Main Street. ---
**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 16, 2017, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/95 "2017-02-16T02:49:21Z")
Obviously, numbers approximate. But I could probably add Graceland, Wish You Were Here, Very Best of the Eagles, Best of Leonard Cohen, Negotiations and Love Songs, Morphine, a couple Pixies albums, Heart of Gold, Day for Night, Joshua Tree, several REM albums… ---
**Author:** ![Orwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/dfb087/32.png) [@Orwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orwell)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/96 "2017-02-16T02:52:41Z")
I vote that Best Of and Greatest Hits albums don’t count. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/97 "2017-02-16T02:58:15Z")
Queensryche, Operation Mindcrime ---
**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 16, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552/98 "2017-02-16T02:59:53Z")
Fair enough. Just being honest. “Best of” isn’t really the same, but certainly a forerunner of “three MP3s from their entire discography”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-album-have-you-listened-to-the-most/779552.md?page=4)