What is your most played album in full?

1+ for King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic

Hmm difficult to say with total accuracy. Back in the early days I only had five or six lp's including a couple of totp compilations. The Lp that I played over and over was Kimono My House by Sparks. I still love it today but don't play it so much as I now have over 2000 LP's. I was also a big Bowie fan and managed to get a bootleg of Live at Santa Monica which now has an official release and that also got played to death. The other heavily played one was Cabretta by Mink Deville. Funny enough nothing of recent times gets heavy play probably due to too much choice.

Hi premmyboy,

Think you made a good point there about all the choice and the amount of albums we own nowadays. back in the early 80,s i had only a handful of LP,s and cassettes and they nearly all got played right through to the last track, never thought of lifting a record off the platter until it finished itself! Nowadays i have over 2000 CD,s and only play a few tracks of any cd here and there to try and hear as much different and new stuff as possible, due to time. Although i still hear the last track of  "Foolish behaviour" quite often.

DSOTM/ WYWH/ ANIMALS/TFC and 

And this album 

Wow!!! Thanks for this suggestion... What a great album I just discovered...

When a new person discovers this on here I feel a warm glow of pleasure.

Bruce

I tried to like this but, being a Scot, I find the folksy scots intoning grates somewhat.......must try again.  G

Possibly Astral Weeks, though not played for some time.

Also Pet Sounds, Highway 61, Revolver, Fegmania, Murmur, Pretzel Logic, Liege and Lief, Fearless, The Nightfly, Workingman's Dead, Remain In Light, and recently Saltbreakers and July Flame. Since there've been a few Dire Straits mentions, I have to say I still quite like On Every Street, though maybe not all of it.

This is a really good question, I tend to find an album i like and then play it to death , then occasionally picking it out once in  a while .

 The Smiths  The Queen is Dead, This gets  a lot of regular plays all the way through. To me this is the best  Smiths Album.   Morrissey and Marr at their  best . .

other than that , The Stones exile on main street ,The  jesus and mary chain Psychocandy get  a fair amount of "not this again" from the family members .

 My itunes tells me that PJ Harvey Let England shake is the most played ,, must be good dog walking music.

TWP

I guess over the years I have played this more than anything else - every track a gem

Have another warm glow Bruce, I have enjoyed listening to a couple of tracks on Youtube. 

They never topped it. I remember it pre-release on late night JJ radio in Oz. Wonderful stuff, the likes of which I'd never heard. I'm not sure THAT particular album is "deeply unfashionable". It is just a pity it that it went all "pretentious" from there on.

Even better when they played it all live in 2006.. 

40 years on a still played regularly

Steve

Paddy Keenan's eponymous album is one of a few for me.

Awesome album.

Your TM has a different cover from mine. 

Your TM has a different cover from mine.

Yes- this was the UK  United Artists cover with sleeve notes by Duncan Fallowell on back.  Always loved the cover-great image of Damo in front of Jaki- a small drumkit- no flashy massive kit for the "metronome"

This is the German LP release cover, used on Spoon Cd re-issues until  the recent 40th anniversary release

Steve

Hard to answer definitively, but probably Land Of Grey And Pink. It would also do duty if I had to answer a slightly different question, "what single album would you select to represent you, the person?"

@John: who gives a flying one if it's unfashionable. I remember it as being terrific, and if I haven't listened to it for 30 years that's my fault/loss.

@Bruce: if Aerial CD2 were as old as LOGAP it'd probably be up there in number of listens. I adore it.

@Guy: love your list, most of which would grace anyone's most played list!

These are my most played in order.

1) Mike Oldfield     Crises

2) Rush         Show of hands

3) D Bowie         Pin ups

4) D Bowie         Ziggy Stardust

5) Paradise Lost    Symbol of life

6) Tom Waits        Blue Valentine or swordfish trombones

The Mike Oldfield album has been played that much that I have gone through 1 cassette, 1 LP and now have it on pristine Vinyl and cd and hdcd cd, at one point just after its release it was the only album I played for about 6 months. I still love it to death.

regards

Donald