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.
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!
I listened to the “Batman Forever” soundtrack many, many times starting as a teenager.
Relationship of Command - At The Drive-In
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.
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Thousands of listens, easily, front to back. No more specific estimate available.
Rush’s 2112. I wore out an LP and two cassettes. I couldn’t tell you how many times I listened to it.
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).
Definitely a Who album, *Quadrophenia *or Live At Leeds, I’d say.
Well I guess I ought to chime in, too.
I’ve probably listened to Not Available by The Residents 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…
dark side of the moon, then the wall, the white album fits in there some place
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
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.
The Whit Album or Diver Down.
It’s likely a toss-up between Talking Timbuktu, Ali Farka Toure & Ry Cooder, and Brazileiro, Sergio Mendes. Both albums are outstanding and will remain on my playlist until I die, most likely.
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.
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.
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
Probably:
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Rolling Stones, Get Yer Ya Yas Out!. Maybe 250 times, over 38 years.
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Beatles, Revolver. Maybe 200 times, over 41 years.
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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)
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Putumayo collection called Music from the Coffee Lands. Over 100 times.
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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.
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King’s College Choir, Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols. Over 100 times (but rarely the other tracks, Hymn to St. Cecilia).
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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.
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.