due to the majority of my listening being in the ipod shuffle vein, I listen to (at least tracks off) my favorite discs all the time. I've also gotten in the habit of leaving classics in the gf's car for the occasions where I steal it and get sick of listening to her Discharge and X discs. Right now I've got Double Nickle on the Dime and [/i]On Avery Island[/i] chillin' in there.

I listen to London Calling, 36 Chambers and Kid A all the time

I agree. I ripped so many albums from Derris and LooGar last year that its awesome to just hit random on iTunes and have to occasionally go check and see What The Gar it is. Playing on random also inspires me to suddenly listen to an entire album. This actually just happened a few minutes ago and now I'm listening to "And Out Come The Wolves"

Edit: And oh, I listen to my favorites fairly often. Phases. Probably Exile more than most .

just bought this after a preview listen, it sounds time tested and reliable to me


I always go back and listen to my faves at any given time. Some have tarnished, but work their wayback. Some never die. I take it you mean by album, but I generally look at the catalog and what suits me at the time.

Marley
Dire Straits
Waylon
Steve Earle
Mats/Westerberg
Wilco
Van Mo
Waterboys

on & on

HAHA. An album I have owned since 1995 and have tried to get you into on a number of occasions. I guess we all have lapses in believability?

don't get me wrong I like that too as long as i'm at home and can later satiate my curiousity as to what I was listening to. Its when I'm driving down the road at 70 miles an hour with no idea what's on the stereo and likely no real way to check for 10-12 hours that it bugs the shit out of me.

Not when there's a pile of something yet to be heard, however non-essential. And there's always a pile so...

RATIONALIZATION: There might be a needle in that haystack, right? + You need to give overplayed favorites time to refresh! I'm talking decade and a half or more depending on the level of overplay.

REMEDIES: if you cannot bring yourself to break your rigid OCD rules, bend 'em! I haven't played the two New York Dolls albums in a while but did the demos, that sort of thing--deluxe reissue/remaster, etc. Fool your own mind.

As a last resort, you can mark an arbitrary birthday and then say if you don't look back there you will DIE without hearing your old favorites ever again.

Or tell yourself you could be hit by an SUV tomorrow. Who wants your last listen to be some derivative of a derivative new release when you can go out with something original and genius?

Space is the cruel limiting factor which slows things down. Theoretically this will eventually create time for the 'all -time' stuff. But the truly gone will always discover new storage possibilities--unless you live in NYC or something.

All-time songs: I've got the Sketch box (see sig) on my iPod at all times and probably access it a few times a week.

As for all-time albums in their entirety, it's not very frequent. I probably give each of my top 50 a thorough listen one or two times a year.