Albums you still listen to, off the top of your head...

Prince of Darkness · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am **Posts:** 11048

Drinky Wrote:

Radcliffe Wrote:

Hell, all of the ones I've kept. I guess I don't understand the question.

and

Old Kingfish Lee Wrote:

if I don't listen to it anymore, I sell it back.

see edit at top of thread: i'm just wondering what albums had actual staying power with you as opposed to existing in your racks patiently awaiting your perusal.

Kit · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:47 pm **Posts:** 3052

Forgot about Spoon's "Gimme Fiction." Been listening to that incessantly.

Also:

The 88 - Over and Over

Excellent indie pop/rock disc.

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:35 pm

Spade Kitty Wrote:

Spoon - Kill the Moonlight and Girls Can Tell
Wrens - Meadowlands
YYY's - Fever to Tell
Franz Ferdinand - S/T
Pedro the Lion - Control

those are my most played albums

fuck me, we don't agree much on sports, but all of those would qualify Plus:

Interpol::Totbl
Shins::Oh, Inverted World and Chutes Too Narrow
Low::Things We Lost in the Fire and The Great Destroyer
Kings of Leon::Youth and Young Manhood and Aha Shake Heartbreak
Nada Surf::Let Go
Queens of the Stone Age::Songs for the Deaf

top o' the ole noggin'

fancypants · **Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:35 pm

I'm surprised the wrens had so much staying power for me. When I bought it, I thought it would get some heavy rotation then spend the rest of its life hoping in vain to be played again.

Kit · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:47 pm **Posts:** 3052

Stop Breathin' Wrote:

Spade Kitty Wrote:

Shins::Chutes Too Narrow
Kings of Leon::Aha Shake Heartbreak

These too. Can't believe I left these out.

neuroboy · **Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:47 pm

the first futureheads album

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:48 pm

Prince of Darkness Wrote:

see edit at top of thread: i'm just wondering what albums had actual staying power with you as opposed to existing in your racks patiently awaiting your perusal.

Oh, OK.

It's hard for me to answer that because of how I've forcefully organized my listening over the past year. It's all been either new purchases or marathons of everything I have or can get by artists in my collection.

Anyway, these are some definite favorites from those years that I very often want to listen to, and that I feel I'll never really get tired of.

Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain
Fugazi - The Argument
Deerhoof - Reveille, Apple O', and probably The Runners Four
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Racebannon - In the Grips of the Light, Satan's Kickin' Yr Dick In
Need New Body - UFO
Akron/Family - s/t
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Fig. 5, Liberation, Change, and Flags of the Sacred Harp
Tortoise - Standards
Smog - Dongs of Sevotion, Supper, and A River Ain't Too Much to Love
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Fantomas - Director's Cut
Enon - Believo! and High Society
Circulatory System - s/t
Radiohead - Kid A
M. Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent

And I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot.

There's nothing I listen to on a monthly basis, but I'd love to be listening to any one of these right now.

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

Are you serious? Do people stop listening to records once they are more than a year old?
I still listen to these regularly, some of my favorite albums:

apostle of hustle - folkloric feel
the beta band - hot shots II
bjork - vespertine
boards of canada - geogaddi
broadcast - haha sound
broadcast - tender buttons
brokeback - looks at the bird
califone - heron king blves
neko case - black listed
colleen - the golden morning breaks
the dears - no cities left
dirtbombs - ultraglide in black
dirty three - whatever you love, you are
dirty three - she has no strings apollo
duke spirit - roll, spirit, roll
el perro del mar - what's new?
four tet - rounds
four tet - late night tales
paula frazer - a place where I know
holly golightly - single's round-up
pj harvey - stories from the city, stories from...
jolie holland - escondida
hanne hukkelberg - little things
interpol - turn on the bright lights
interpol - antics
lhasa - the living road
low - things we lost in the fire
low - the great destroyer
manitoba - start breaking my heart
mojave 3 - spoon and rafter
juana molina - segundo
ariel pink - the doldrums
sam prekop - who's your new professor?
roots manuva - run come save me
songs:ohia - didn't it rain
songs:ohia - the magnolia electric co
stereolab - margerine eclipse
tape - milieu
rufus wainwright - want two

reissues from that period :

antena - camino del sol
arthur russell - world of echo
arthur russell - calling out of context
cedric im brookes - the light of saba
burning spear - sounds from the burning spear
esg - a south bronx tale
george faith - to be a lover
moondog - the viking of sixth avenue
niney the observer - sufferation

edit: not exactly "off the top of my head" but I'm horrible with remembering release dates.

For a lot of these "still listen to" = weekly.

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:59 pm

Ambulance LTD,
Shins - Chutes Too Narrow,
Ryan Adams - Cold Roses
Rufus Wainright - Poses
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
Rhett Miller - The Instigator

ok, I'm going backwards through iTunes.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:55 pm

Regular rotation albums are ones I don't even bother slotting into the collection and are perennially stacked near the stereo.

Kings of Leon Youth & Young Manhood, Aha Shakeheartbreak
The Strokes Is This It, Room on Fire
Babyshambles Down in Albion
Drive By-Truckers The Dirty South
Tragically Hip In Violet Light, In Between Evolution

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:43 pm

All Your Summer Songs

Saturday Looks Good to Me

KPH · **Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:44 pm

Walkmen
Wilco
TVOTR (EP, duh!)
LCD Soundsystem
New Year
Pulp
New Porn
Deerhoof
Microphones
Broadcast
Magnetic Fields
Radiohead (Kid A mostly, few tunes from the others)
Pernice Bros
The Joggers
Sigur Ros
Spoon

I guess. I dunno, my listening habits are rarely album-centric these days unless it's a really phenomenal record.

DHRjericho · **Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:44 pm

arcade fire
wolf parade
british sea power - the decline
destroyer - streethawk
doves - lost souls
elbow - casr of thousands
new pornographers - mass romantic, electric version

nevermind these don't count ...pre 2000
underworld - dubnobass...
masive attack - mezzanine

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Prince of Darkness Wrote:

from, oh say 2000-2005.

EDIT: on a regular basis, however you define that. For me, it'd be albums i listen to every month or so.

I don't have any regular rotation.* Once new purchases get their requisite first 3 listens, they go in the racks. I have my collection sorted by genre so I can pull stuff at random based on what type of music i want to hear. If I find myself pulling something out and don't feel like listening to it more than a few times, I question why I still own it.

*except for times like now since I'm trying to determine my shmoo poll rankings

Sex, Drugs, and Dave · **Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:05 pm

Everything From:

Broken Social Scene & all related bands
Wilco
Spoon
Madlib
The Wrens
My Morning Jacket

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:03 am

After so much (over)hype, it's nice to see the Wrens mentioned here so much. I probably listen to Silver more than anything else Wrens.

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:09 am

Pretty much all of them, aside from some White Stripes and Strokes.

Almost half of my cd collection is albums released between Y2K and January 1, 2006.

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:17 am

KPH Wrote:

Walkmen

TVOTR (EP, duh!)
LCD Soundsystem
Spoon

Oh hell yeah, especially Bows + Arrows and Everyone who Pretended..

alive · **Joined:** Mon Nov 29, 2004 1:00 am **Posts:** 352

I still listen to these often:

Neko Case - Blacklisted
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Walkmen - Everyone Who...
Broadcast - Haha Sound
Deerhoof - Reveille
Lhasa - The Living Road
Herman Dune - Not on Top
Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic

And I listen to PJ Harvey, Radiohead, Amon Tobin, Nick Cave a lot including their newer albums (except for Radiohead after Kid A).

Evil Dr. K · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:51 am **Posts:** 6327

I don't listen to anything on a regular basis, unless you are counting 2 or 3 times a year as 'regular'.

I have 2,000 albums to pick from. I avoid listening to the same handful over and over because that inevitably spoils them.

cherry chapstick · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:26 am

you are free .. ? i read and re-read this thread and i didn't see this mentioned. This is my number 1 played album.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:12 am

As I knew it would, this thread has jogged my memory for other records:
Kings Of Leon - (both releases)
Shrimp Boat - Something Grand (all 4 discs, of course!)
Shrimp Boat - Speckly (reissue, but whatever)
Brinsley Schwarz - Cruel To Be Kind

nobody · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:59 am

Lots of stuff, really.

Any White Stripes, any of the Air records, anything by Sigur Ros, the first Kings of Leon, all Boards of Canada, the Johnny Cash records, Notwist: Neon Golden, Songs:Ohia: Electric Magnolia Co., Massive Attack: 100th Window, any Handsome Family from that time period, Tom Waits: Alice, Common: Be...

Lots more, but the boss just called...guess I outta work a bit today...

Sketch · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:20 pm

pollysix Wrote:

Are you serious? Do people stop listening to records once they are more than a year old?

Not stop, not certainly not enough to ensure one-month-a-spin average. Biggest CD assimilation time for me was in the car, and I haven't had one for 2+ years. I listen to lots of '00-05 (and other era) songs regularly, but few full albums.

Tool - Lateralus
Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
DJ Shadow - The Private Press
Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
Wrens - Meadowlands
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days, Woman King

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