This afterword friendly question is blatantly lifted from a Ricky Gervais Tweet. But, hey, plagiarism is the greatest form of flattery. Mine in no particular order
Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter – Incredible Strings Band
Campfire Head Phase – Boards of Canada
The Sensual World – Kate Bush
If I Could Do It All Over Again, I’d Do It Al l Over You – Caravan
Close to The Edge – Yes
Days to Come – Bobobo
I’m guessing based on some default walk to work choices,
AC/DC – If You Want Blood
Thea Gilmore – Rules for Joker
Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell
Warren Zevon – My Ride’s Here
Richard Thompson – Semi Detached Mock Tudor
All albums that I play when I don’t know what to play, and thinking about it I can’t remember when I last played some of them at home.
Arbitrary guess:
The Who – Quadrophenia
Pink Floyd – The Wall
Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks
Carter USM – 30 Something (the soundtrack of 1991 – I think I listened to little else)
Iron Maiden – Live After Death (my memory suggests this was glued in the car stereo in the late 80s)
Oh BTW that SHOULD be Bonobo
It has to be albums I listened to endlessly growing up (when we didn’t have many), and out of those it must be these five:
Ariel Ramirez & Jaime Torres – Folklore en Nueva Dimensión (still my favourite album)
The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night
Stevie Wonder – Songs In The Key Of Life
Gilbert O’Sullivan – Himself
Raymond Leppard/English Chamber Orchestra – Bach Violin Concertos #1, #2/Haydn Violin Concerto #1
Bubbling under: the West Side Story original film soundtrack and Pete Fountain – Pete’s Place.
Orange Juice – You Can’t Hide Your Forever
Velvet Underground and Nico
Crass – Feeding Of The 5,000
Stones – Exile
The Jam – All Mod Cons
Haven’t played Crass for a couple of decades, and The Jam for years, but racked up hundreds of listens in my salad days
Beatles…Sergeant Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour.
I have always, and always will skip Blue Jay Way.
AC/D.C. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.
Thin Lizzy, Johnny The Fox.
Van Halen, Fair Warning.
Bubbling under….Jam, Snap
ELO, New World Record and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
I’d love to say some punk stuff but these days its a couple of tracks a session max.
3 tapes in the dire 1980s; Stones’ 1st, “Beggars Banquet,” “Village Green Preservation Society.”
“John Wesley Harding,” “Nashville Skyline,” “Strange Days” subsequently.
64-69, Golden Age all the way.
Roxy Music – Country Life
Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
Yes – Relayer
VdGG – Still Life
Soft Machine 7
Solidly 1970s, peak vinyl listening period which have carried over through the decades….
Bubbling under more recently – both Shamal and Gazeuse! And a fado compilation which I listen to at work….
At a guess:
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
David Sylvian – Dead Bees On A Cake
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
Paul Simon – One Trick Pony
Rock Follies – Rock Follies/Rock Follies of 77
Bubbling under: Köln Concert (Part One only), Catholic Boy, Beautiful Vision
OK, dull, but here we go…
Tears For Fears: Songs From The Big Chair
Haircut 100: Pelican West
Aztec Camera: High Land Hard Rain
The Jam: Setting Son’s
Del Amitri: Waking Hours
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
The Who – Who’s Next
Sly and the Family Stone – There’s a Riot Going On
The Beatles – Abbey Road
Radiohead – OK Computer
It’s funny, as I consider myself to have more subtle and varied taste than the classic rock cliches on offer here, but I’ve listened obsessively to each of these for periods of my life. The Beatles one could have been Help and I suspect Sticky Fingers would be up there, but not sure which to punt to make space.
Room to Roam – Waterboys
Ram – McCartney
My Aim is True – Costello
Innervision – Stevie Wonder
Just a Little Lovin – Shelby Lynne
You old romantic softie! 😉
It must be the 5 Kraftwerk albums from 1974-1981. I started listening to them when I was 8 and have never really stopped. Also, playing one usually leads to playing all the others.
I think this would be more interesting if limited to, say the last 10 years. Most of us spent our early years immersed in some childish obsession. There is nothing more obsessive than a 12 year old boy. Consequently mine would be:
John Denver’s greatest hits; the Beatles Red and the Beatles Blue. The only albums I owned from 8 yrs to 12.
DSOTM, Wish You Were Here – the next albums I bought – resulting in a Pink Floyd obsession from 12 till about 15.
Followed by a Gabriel era Genesis obsession – so Foxtrot and Nursery Cryme. I love music but as soon as I had an independent source of income. and therefore a means to acquire records at will, nothing stuck around for too long.
Already done this on Twitter. The answer I gave was:
Hunky Dory
Machine Head
A Wizard A True Star
Boston
Blood On The Tracks
Not sure where comedy records fit in – I am assuming we are only talking about music. These are the ones I remember playing or listening to time and time again. The first one is due to it being the only CD in my wife’s car for the last couple of years.
25 -Adele
If I Should Fall from Grace with God- The Pogues
Violator – Depeche Mode
Remain in Light -Talking Heads
Introspective – Pet Shop Boys
The Pogues because it was one of the few tapes my brother owned that I also liked. Again, it provided the soundtrack to many a car journey. Violator cos it’s Depeche Mode’s finest album – but also because it was played throughout a lads’ holiday in Tenerife (first and only time I went on such an escapade). It happened to be a big album at that time generally – so I didn’t feel so vulnerable by having it with me. By “vulnerable” I mean being called a poof and laughed at by the others.
Remain in Light is just simply a really, really good record that I play often. I also used it when I was running to see how quickly I could get to 5 kms. If I was finished before or during Listening Wind – I’d done well.
Introspective was a cassette that stayed in my walkman for several months – I fell for that one book line and sinker. It was the soundtrack to my commute at the time.
Easy and (to me) predictable:
Honky Chateau
Made In Japan
Bless The Weather
Aja
Hejira
And I believe that will remain constant to my expiration.
Probably
The Beatles – Rubber Soul, Revolver and Pepper
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
Neil Young – After The Gold Rush
Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction should maybe be there too. I pretty much wore that out in my pre teens.
Beatles – Abbey Road
Love – Forever Changes
Spooky Tooth – Spooky Two
Everly Brothers – It’s Everly Time
Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left
Ooh dunno. Tricky. I’m guessing
Dixie Chicken – Little Feat
Feats don’t fail me now – Little Feat
Aja – The Dan (or maybe Royal Scam)
Aqualung – TMT (might be Songs from the wood, who knows)
Roadwork – Edgar Winter’s White Trash
I always come back to:
Ain’t that a bitch – Johnny ‘guitar’ Watson
Aja – steely Dan
The nightfly – Donald Fagen
Overnite sensation – Frank Zappa
Imaginary Day – Pat Methrny Group
White Album
Harvest
Thick as a Brick
Pet Sounds
Sgt. Pepper
I’d love to know what it would actually be!
Definitely The Beatles Red Album (which I haven’t owned for a very long time and haven’t played since I was a teenager, but I played it a lot, to say the least)
And then 4 guesses, based on albums I got, and played a lot, in my early-mid teens
The Beatles – Revolver/Abbey Road
The Dream Academy – The Dream Academy
Stephen Duffy – The Ups and Downs
It would be easier to guess at the 5 most played from the past 10 years.
To know for sure would be sweet indeed. I always thought the one bonus of a possible afterlife would be comprehensive recap of one’s time on Earth: this is a bar chart showing the artists you spent most time listening to; beside that is a spreadsheet detailing all the dates on which you began exercising/decided to learn a language/promised to do voluntary work next to the dates where these vows died; here’s graph where the x axis represents the time you devoted to pursuing assorted women and the y axis plots the extent of their lack of interest in you.. etc
I think that if you get sent to hell you get given an illustrated list of the women you could have gone to bed with and didn’t.
Pretty brief in my case, but still.
@moosethemooche – that could be read as a Captain Flasheart boast. You successfully took the opportunity every time. Woof!
Oh yes, spot on, you know me so well.
Yes, that’s something I’ve often fantasised about. How much time I wasted playing countdown on the iPad, how much money I’ve spent on beer, how many times I’ve been drunk, how many times I’ve wished I supported a different football team and so on. iTunes can tell you how many times you’ve listened to certain tracks, at least since the last time the whole thing crashed and had to be reloaded (22 June 2010 for me). This throws up surprises by showing you that you haven’t listened to one of your apparent favourite tracks for 6 years. But that’s about it unless you keep a diary.
I kept a diary from my mid-teens to my early 20s and it would be nice to go back and read it again, if only to confirm what a prize pillock I was when I was younger. But I used to write any records that I bought in my diary, so that would be interesting to read. I stopped keeping it when a bad thing happened and I’ve long since lost them. Threw them away, to be more precise.
Sgt Pepper
Tarkus
Led Zep III
Aja
Sweet Baby James
@Mousey Nice to see III get a mention.
@Neela Thanks to the World Record Club “Pop Spot” in NZ in the early 70s – current albums for $3 vs $5.75 retail!
I thought this sounded familiar!
Yeahbut, this time round involves lists. And lists are the best thing ever.
The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
Gong – You
The Doors – L.A. Woman
Man – Be Good To Yourself At Least Once A Day
Tears For Fears – The Seeds Of Love
Possible alternatives:
Kevin Ayers & The Whole World – Shooting At The Moon
King Crimson – Lark’s Tongues In Aspic
Joni Mitchell – Hejira
Weather Report – Heavy Weather
Was (Not Was) 1st.
Julian Cope – Saint Julian
It would probably be
From the old days when all I did was play reckids,
Beatles Red best of
Beatles Blue best of
Wings Band on the Run
And more recently they’ve been challenged by
AC/DC Highway to Hell
Chris Whitley Living With The Law
Bubbling under would be Sgt Pepper, Bat Out of Hell and Del Amitri Change Everything and/or Twisted. I have no empirical evidence for any of this but I know I have played them all to death. The frequency of the earlier ones was largely because I didn’t have that many records, and the later ones because it was so easy off the computer/phone/CD carousel player.
Thankfully I didn’t see or reply to the earlier version of this thread so I don’t get to find out how senile or untruthful I am.
Probably…..
Genesis – Selling England By The Pound
Kate Bush – Hounds Of Love
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
The Who – Who’s Next
XTC – Skylarking or David Bowie – Hunky Dory or OCS – Mosley Shoals or Prefab Sprout – Jordan: The Comeback…..
I think the first four are reasonably accurate as those were definitely albums I listened to a lot growing up and are still ones I listen to regularly (they are my ‘standards’ on the hi res Sony Walkman that I listen to late night on good headphones). The fifth, I’m not sure about – could be any number of albums…..
Should have also included Dire Straits – Love Over Gold
Solid Air-John Martyn
With The Beatles
The Clash
On The Beach-Neil Young
Buffalo Springfield-Expecting To Fly (Atlantic 99 series)
actually loads more but from memory the above is approx. right
This kind of thing favours albums obsessed over when young.
David Bowie – Aladdin Sane
The Beatles White Album
Sly And The Family Stone – Fresh
The Average White Band
The Upsetters – Super Ape
This Century?
David Bowie – Blackstar
Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Nightmare
Melanie De Basio – No Deal
Burial – Untrue
Radiohead – Kid A
As I meandered through the world of hip hop I wasn’t particularly fond of pop rap and most things that hit the charts or were popular from the past 15 years or so. I’m pretty indifferent towards Jay-Z, for example. Coupled with that, what I know about the Kardashians (admittedly, not a great deal) and having read some of the things that Kanye West has said, I fully expected his albums to be terrible, but they’re not are they. Some of them are fantastic and MBDTN is best of all. It’s a shame he’s such a twonk.
Lots of twonks make music. He’s not the worst offender.
The only Jay-Z album I’ve heard more than once is Grey.
Grey is ace, but not because of him.
Quite.
Mike Oldfield – Boxed (I’m cheating a bit and treating the box set collection of his first three albums as one album in itself – but really I always thought of it like that)
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
Beatles – White Album
Led Zeppelin IV
Queen – A Night At The Opera
A bit mainstream but there you go!
It’s an interesting question. Played most? End to end? And still do on occasion? For me these must come from my youth when I didn’t have that many, relatively, and before my listening habits changed. That is, listening to an album on an iPod and then cherry picking tracks and making playlists.
So,
Making Movies – Dire Straits
Texas Flood – Stevie Ray Vaughan
Live and Dangerous – Thin Lizzy
JJ Cale – 8
Rory Gallagher – Stagestruck
I think…
Easy:
Abbey Road
Caravanserai
Can’t Buy A Thrill
Hoy! Hoy!
Astral Weeks
Hoy Hoy should be an absolute dog’s breakfast if you look at the track list. It is, however, quite possibly the best LF release ever.
Probably:
The Beatles -red best of
Elvis’ Golden Records Vol 2
Orange Juice – You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever
Stevie Wonder- Innervisions
The Clash – London Calling
Innervisions is sixth in my list.
Yes – Close to the Edge
Todd – A Wizard A True Star
EC – Trust
The Mighty Tull (c. Twang) – TAAB
Genesis – Trick of the Tail (but I do tend to skip two of the tracks so Foxtrot as a backup
You could probably guess my age pretty accurately from that list
Thin Lizzy Jailbreak
The Undertones
Meatloaf Bat out of Hell
ELO A New World Record
Van Morrison Tupelo Honey
ELO – Out of the Blue
the jam – All Mod Cons
David Bowie – Let’s Dance
Abba Gold
Blondie – Parallel Lines
I can observe that the two periods of repetition are when you are 11, and when you’e got children aged 4-6. Only one guess as to which album was on constant repeat around 2007 in the car for any journey over 15 minutes..
Love it when the OP breaks his own rule, straight out of the trap! (6 not 5!)
Odd one, this, since as has been noted, your first few albums ever owned are going to have a major advantage, since they were all you had to play. So I might do a bit of “seasonal adjustment” with this in mind. I mean, heck, I started collecting albums when I was 14, in 1971. So. OK:
Van der Graaf Generator – Pawn Hearts (by miles: played at least once a year ever since release)
Gong – Flying Teapot
XTC – English Settlement
Cardiacs – A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window
Genesis – Foxtrot (sick to death of it now, but played almost daily for several years back in the day)
Probably:
Rattlesnakes – Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
Boxer – The National
Grand Prix – Teenage Fanclub
Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust – Sigur Ros
Meat Is Murder – The Smiths
Hats – Blue Nile
Brotherhood – New Order
Joshua Tree – U2
Songs of Faith and Devotion – Depeche Mode
Out of Time – REM
Bubbling under
Tunnel of Love – Springsteen
Goodbye Jumbo – World Party
Of the heart, of the should and of the cross – PM Dawn
It’s a shame about Ray – Lemonheads
Jumbo has had a serious ploatin’ from me over the years. Just doesn’t get old.
these five,
Lexicon of Love – ABC
High Land Hard Rain – Aztec Camera
Dusk – The The
Hex – Bark Psychosis
Happiness – The Beloved
With a considered guess…
Ian Dury – New Boots And Panties!!
10cc – How Dare You!
Be Bop Deluxe – Modern Music
Dr. Feelgood – Stupidity
The Pirates – Skull Wars.
All from around the time in the mid to late 70’s when I was just starting to build a collection with the limited amount of cash available to me. I had to save up to buy an album in those days. All albums I play and enjoy to this day.
I’m really not sure, but I’d guess something like
Creedence Cosmos Factory
Dylan Blood on the Tracks
Van Morrison St Dominic’s Preview
Eric Clapton 461 Ocean Boulevard
Rory Gallagher Live in Europe
But to be honest it wouldn’t surprise me if this was way off beam, apart from the Creedence.
Good point. “Irish Tour 74” must be up there for me.
A boring, rather predictable selection from me.
INPO
Abbey Road
Sergeant pepper
Ziggy stardust
Hunky Dory
Pin ups.
Probably…….
Definitely Maybe
Morning Glory
Revolver
Led Zeppelin IV
The Queen Is Dead
Not Sgt Pepper?
Ooh.
Dude sang out of tune and ruined it.
Seconds Out – Genesis
New Gold Dream – Simple Minds
The Song Remains The Same – Led Zeppelin
Offramp – Pat Metheny Group
Close To The Edge – Yes
Jackie Leven – Forbidden Songs of The Dying West
Bob Mould – Bob Mould
Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel of Love
Sparklehorse – Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Alice Cooper – Schools Out
I guess (but I’m probably wrong):
Hot rocks 1 et 2
The Big heat Stan Ridgway
I.G,Y. Donald Fagen
L’homme à tête de chou Serge Gainsbourg
The Beatles by Morrison’s Green Group.
This last one I played many times without having heard the real thing and I thought that it was the real thing as my father bought it for me as a present. I listened to The real albums by the Beatles many times, but noone is used like this one. Not very trendy, I suppose?
Talking Heads – The Name of this Band is…
Aztec Camera – High Land, Hard Rain
Simple Minds – New Gold Dream
Jonathan Richman – Rockin’ and Romance
Edwyn Collins – Hope and Despair
Quite a Scottish leaning and that’s leaving out the Commotions, the Waterboys and Momus, all contenders.
Even your American choice has a singer from Dumbarton.
“And you may find yourself living in a shotgun but an’ ben” etc
I dont know definitively but:
Simon and Garfunkel Greatest hits
Joni Mitchell Court and Spark
Elvis Costello King of America
Jackie Leven Defending ancient springs
Songs of Leonard Cohen
Buddy Holly – Greatest hits comp
Love – Forever changes
Bruce – Born in the USA
Doors – L A Woman
Nuggets
U2 – Joshua Tree
Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel of Love
The Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues
Electronic – Electronic
Stone Roses – Stone Roses
Seeing Electronic on your list convinces me that this task is impossible. I went through a phase of playing that album incessantly but it took your prompting to remind me of that time. I’m guessing, if I had perfect recall, records such as that (Portishead’s Dummy is another that now springs to mind) which held an absolute grip for a period would prevail over those that were there from the start and never lost their appeal, like Ziggy and Searching For The Young Soul Rebels.
Lately, those end-of-year Spotify playlists have caught me out by reminding me of stuff I was well into at the start of the year whose appeal didn’t survive the summer…
This is proving to be a really interesting thread, seeing what people really listen to lots as opposed to what they’re favourites are. I notice a lot of time given to Tunnel Of Love both here and on the Bruce thread. I’ve always been pretty dismissive of it (Darkness, Nebraska and BtR for me, in that order). I’ll have to give it another go. Also the fondness for Songs From The Big Chair has surprised me. Apart from Sowing The Seeds Of Love and I’m not sure I’ve ever heard it, despite really liking The Hurting. I thought that was such an unexpectedly interesting album, both musically and lyrically, that was so very far from the superficial pretty-boy popsters their image seemed to convey (and I assumed they eventually became with pleasant fluff like Everybody Wants To Rule The World). Am looking forward to checking out those two and others mentioned when I get back from me hols.
Edit: Just looked and I see Sowing The Seeds Of Love was on a different album (called, coincidentally, The Seeds Of Love). Shows how much I know about the band. Which is very remiss of me really, given the esteem in which I hold their debut.
“… what they’re favourites are”! I wrote “they’re favourites”! I hate myself and wish I was dead. No wonder I’m unmarried. Where’s Lodey just when I need him most?
They’re they’re….don’t take on so…
I’m going to see them at Hampton Court in June and have been reminding myself once again of the genius of Roland Orzabal. Please give SFTBC a listen if you loved The Hurting. My current go to though is “Raoul and The Kings of Spain” or Roland Goes Britpop as I like to call it. It’s wonderful…..
I most certainly will. Can’t believe I’ve never thought to investigate further before. I’ll let you know how I get on.
Not really sure, but the following would be there or thereabouts
Setting Sons – the Jam
Doolittle – Pixies
Reckoning – REM
Vivadixie… – Sparklehorse
Black Love – Afghan Whigs
This is going to be difficult, as there’s several albums I played many times in the past which I haven’t listened to at all in years. Can’t even remember the name of one of them!
Forever Changes – Love
In A Silent Way – Miles Davis
No Other – Gene Clark
Let It Be – The Beatles
Liege & Lief – Fairport Convention
If I think about this tomorrow, two or three albums will be different.
Of all The Beatles albums, I’m most fascinated by Let It Be. It’s as though it contains clues to an important secret I can’t quite work out, no matter how closely and how often I listen. I love the studio chat. …Naked misses a trick by Paul insisting it was removed, but, then, two of the songs are among the best he’s ever written. John’s contribution is largely attitude, a quality essential to the best Rock music. His best song was inexplicably left out, squandered on a B side. George is the most disengaged he’s ever been, a spectre at the feast. Ringo doesn’t get a turn at the microphone but gets to invent his most famous drum pattern, one he repeated for his biggest solo hit. George Martin’s fingers are all over the album but twisted and broken by Phil Spector. The rooftop performances with Billy Preston sound wonderful, making me drool for an opportunity to actually see them live. Let It Be tells us why they broke up but also demonstrates why they worked so well together. It is full of personality with all their human flaws. It’s an album that is impossible to tire of. It’s an album to keep listening to until we can’t hear any more.
There is talk of an Abbey Road remix. Is there any news on this? Will it include discs dedicated to the rooftop and Twickenham recordings?
Hmm, I imagine it’s …
Parallel Lines – Blondie
Black and White – The Stranglers
A Tonic for the Troops – The Boomtown Rats
Greatest Hits – ABBA (the one where they’re snogging on the front cover)
Starfish – The Church
So, mostly when I were a lad and probably just listened to one album time after time after time.
In reality my Beatles albums will be the most played: Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Abbey Road, as the primary three.
These in more recent times:
King of America, Elvis Costello
There Goes Rhymin’ Simon, Paul Simon
The Waking Hours, Del Amitri
Back from Rio, Roger McGuinn
In more recent times:
Rainy Day Music, The Jayhawks.
Rainy Day Music could be in mine, just for the amount of time we listened to it in the car, as the missus likes that one too. Every track sounds like it should have been a hit single. It sounds like Crowded House, if they weren’t as rubbish and had better songs.
XTC Apple Venus
Supergrass In it for the Money
Inge Thomson Shipwrecks and Static
Anthony Phillips Wise after the Event
Kate Bush Hounds of Love
Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous
Joni Mitchel Hissing On Summer lawns
Peter Gabriel 3
Ac/DC Back In Black
Kate Bush Hounds of Love
It’s very difficult to say. Only the first album in this this list can I be sure about, because it was the first album I ever bought. The others are guesses. Just albums I’ve listened to a lot.
Elton John – Greatest Hits
Elton John – Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Brian Eno – Discreet Music
R.E.M. – Automatic For The People
Elvis Costello and the Attractions – Imperial Bedroom
I find this very hard to pin down too. These must be up there for sure, not so much now but most certainly etched in my brain.
Cry Tough – Nils Lofgren
Red – Black Uhuru (Still a summer fave)
Bowie – Greatest hits(most of his albums could be in here)
Rumours – Fleetwood Mac
Beyond The Pale – Passion Puppets(it had to be in there!)
Something like:
Traffic – Mr Fantasy
Beatles – Sgt Pepper
Hendrix – Electric Ladyland
Alice Coltrane – Journey in Satchidananda
Pink Floyd – Ummagumma
Although later did acquire a facility for calmer stuff, so Solid Air, Five Leaves Left, Time Out Of Mind, In A Silent Way, Unknown Pleasures also there or thereabouts.
Ummagumma would be a contender for me if you had asked me this question thirty years ago. I lost myself in that album, listening to it over and over again!
I feel someone should collate all these results and find out the Albums Most Listened To By The Afterword Massive. Or even the ACTS Most Listened To… (Before you ask, no, I’m not volunteering….)
From a quick scan of the above, nothing jumps out as an obvious favourite. Beatles? Kate Bush? REM have popped up a few times I think.
Probably…
Hunky Dory by David Bowie
Young Americans by David Bowie
Electric Warrior by T.Rex
New Gold Dream by Simple Minds
For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver
I have been mostly listening to:
1. My Aim Is True – Elvis Costello
2. New Boots & Panties!! – Ian Dury
3. Hunky Dory – David Bowie
4. The Heart of Saturday Night – Tom Waits
5. Peter Gabriel (1st one) – Peter Gabriel.
I think you and I must be the only people on earth who like Heart of Saturday Night. Waitsheads seem to hate it. It seems to be thought of as his Bluejeans and Moonbeams.
Even Waits himself was dismissive of the album, describing it as “very ill-formed, but I was trying.”
He was wrong. It’s a great album.
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Ziggy Stardust…
Upstairs at Eric’s
Hatful of Hollow
Purple Rain
Still love every one of ’em to this day
Not in order
World party. Private Revolution
XTC. Black Sea
U2 Boy
Fisher-z Red skies over Paradise
The Fixx Shuttered Room
@bejesus
Not too many mentions of Fisher-z on here. Loved a lot of their singles but never quite thought the albums gelled.
I agree can’t t get into any of there other albums but this one always gets played.
Up for Fischer -Z. Marlise is a great track!
@uncle-mick
Isn’t it? Should have been a smasheroonie but I bet it only got to 67 or something. I’ll go and check.
Edit. Didn’t even chart.
Hmmm, bit of guess work here.
Rubber Soul – my first Beatles LP, so probably beats Abby Road which is my “go to”
Velvet Underground and Nico
Pretzel Logic (though it could be The Royal Scam) by Steely Dan
Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express – The Go-Betweens
The Clock comes down the stairs – Microdisney
Also in the running will be Ziggy stardust (which I listened to 7 times straight through when I bought it aged 16), Low, Station to Station (bit of a theme here…). And oddly Barbed Wire Kisses by the Jesus and Mary Chain as I had a year or so when I played it every night when I got in from a job I was not enjoying.
The album I’ve listened to the most in the past year is Record by Tracey Thorn.
Best of REM; the IRS years (or Pop Songs 89-99) – R.E.M.
Best of U2 1980-90 (or 1990-2000) – U2
40 Licks – Rolling Stones
Best of Bowie – David Bowie
Greatest Hits – Bryan Ferry/Roxy music (or Platinum Collection) – Roxy, Ferry
To be fair you could add any number of greatest hits from Dylan, Floyd, Peter Gabriel, RT, Van. I have a lot of them, as well as a lot of individual albums by all the same artists, but rarely listen to whole albums time and time again into huge numbers, as there is always some new to absorb. But, on long car journeys, a bit of nostalgia always hits the spot and is all the wife can bear, as she can’t abide hearing something she hasn’t heard as background noise.
My response to the original tweet was
“Low-Life” – New Order
“The Golden Age Of Wireless” – Thomas Dolby
“101 Damnations” – Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
“1000 Years Of Trouble” – Age Of Chance
“Psychocandy” – Jesus and Mary Chain
which is probably about right.
Age of Chance! The mighty roar of Construction, Consumption and Corruption. We are coming your way. I said we’re Coming. Your. Way.
Wireless is an incredibly durable album too. Such scope, such ambition. What a talent. It’s a shame Dolby didn’t do heavy metal though…
…what?
Rather late to this party and it’s years since I posted owt here but for what it’s worth I think probably…
1. Running On Empty – Jackson Browne
2. Nightowl – Gerry Rafferty
3. Out of the Blue – ELO
4. Well, Well Said the Rocking Chair – Dean Friedman
5. August and Everything After – Counting Crows
Night Owl is a great album, innit? Much better than the mega-selling City To City, I’m always happy to hear it. I remember it came out around the same time as George Harrison’s self titled album and both had a similar upbeat, summery vibe. The track Night Owl and Harrison’s Love Comes To Everyone sit very well alongside each other.
I have a very soft spot for North and South too. Beautiful songs, playing, singing. I played that a hell of a lot on long drives up and down the M1.
That was another big factor in high volume repeated plays, the limited number of cassettes in the car.
Oh, go on then….
Fingerprintz – Distinguishing Marks
Yachts – Yachts
Mud – Mud Rock Volume 1
My Life Story – Mornington Crescent
Sparks – Propaganda
They are all of “an age” as the longer I have had them the more I would have listened to them. Also back in the day when I had less disposable income, I would play my meagre collection over and over again, until I got thoroughly bored with them. The five above I always came back to after a few months, like seeing an old friend that you didn`t realised you`d missed.
I remember buying those Mud singles and the B sides being Watching the Clock and then Still Watching the Clock.
My Life Story!
Prefer The Golden Mile meself, but MC is great – especially the two disc edition that gathers the b-sides. Very underrated band.
…with a new single imminent.
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Van Morrison – It’s too late to stop now
Anita Baker – The Songstress
Vince Mendoza – Epiphany
Gil Scott Heron/Brian Jackson – It’s your world (bought after seeing them on OGWT – from a record shop on Preston Bus Station. Met the owner recently – selling vinyl at a car boot sale nr Blackpool and had a really nice chat with him about days gone by).
Hall and Oates – Abandoned Luncheonette
Would like to say a Bowie one, but they’ve been shared out and nnone stands out above the others in listening hours. So if these aren’t the actual ones they are prolly quite close…
New Gold Dream – Simple Minds
Golden Age of Wireless – Thomas Dolby
New Boots – ID&TB
Sheer Heart Attack – Queen
Peter Gabriel 1
Hard question this but I suspect:
– Pet Sounds – Beach Boys (Practically a weekly play at least since I was 15)
– The Real Thing – Faith No More (I was SO obsessed with this in my teens)
– Music Has The Right To Children – Boards Of Canada (They are on, not quite daily but often enough. I suspect I play this the most)
– Movin’ Up Country – James Yorkston (kind of me and my wife’s “album” and it’s on just about every longish car journey)
– Deserter’s Songs – Mecury Rev (similar to the above, it’s just an album we both love so it ends up being default music)
Thinking about it, Wild Honey must be very close to my top five, if not actually in it.
King of America – Elvis Costello
I’m Your Man – Leonard Cohen
New Adventures in Hi-Fi – R.E.M.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot – Wilco
Grand Prix – Teenage Fanclub
Probably – I dare say you could quote 3 consecutive words from the lyrics of any song from these records (except Jazz Police) and I’d be able to tell you the next 3 words*
*I’m not going to though.
At a guess, the following:
Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
Beatles – SGT Pepper
REM – Life’s Rich Pageant
Bruce Springsteen – Born in the USA
Radiohead – The Bends
As an aside, of all the rated GOAT albums I have probably listened to Kind of Blue by a factor of 3. It never really ‘gets old’.
Seconds Out – Genesis
Exodus – Bob Marley &The Wailers
Night Moves – Bob Seger
Quo Live. – The mighty Quo
One More From The Road – Lynyrd Skynyrd
I love live albums
These five would be as close as any others
Hunky Dory
Steve McQueen
Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Lifes Rich Pageant
With the Beatles
Never a Dull Moment – Rod
Blue – Joni
Born to Run
Hunky Dory