Titan
01.12.17 | estimates? |
guitarded_chuck
01.12.17 | 101? |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | Well yeah, of course estimates - I haven't been jotting down the exact number of listens since I was 8 years old. The figure is a lower estimate, so read it as I've listened to the album at least that many times. The list is more about just listing the albums I've listened to the most but that's my attempt at ranking the albums in some sort of order.
There will eventually be 101 entries |
Titan
01.12.17 | damn then, if your numbers are accurate, i hope your career is statistics oriented lol |
Sinternet
01.12.17 | Troublegum squad represent |
danielcardoso
01.12.17 | Nice one. |
Davil667
01.12.17 | Very nice list, and still growing. I'm pretty surprised about the amount of metalesque albums on here tbh. Several of them would make my list too fo sure. To see Pantera and STP on here makes me feel good somehow. |
danielcardoso
01.12.17 | Surprised to see Yield is your most jammed PJ album, don't misunderstand me as i absolutely love it but i figured you'd have given Vitalogy more spins. |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | Dav firstly back in the 90s I'd play albums to death as I'd only buy one a month, also metal albums are good to work out to as well so get some listens that way too.
Dan Yield was just the PJ that caught me at the perfect time, I'd just started university and used to play it a lot then |
AsleepInTheBack
01.12.17 | fantastic list doof. Really need to check 1 |
manosg
01.12.17 | Doof showing his hidden metal side! I knew you had it in you dude.
Some fine picks as well. 15 screams that you grew up in the 90s. |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | The whole list screams I grew up in the 90s |
Dewinged
01.12.17 | Damn Doof our beginnings are fairly similar enter the 90s. I add a good amount of mtv's hair metal from the 80s to the mix but that's about it. |
JasonCarne
01.12.17 | We actually had the exact same first album purchase. |
manosg
01.12.17 | Surprised that The Offspring - Smash isn't somewhere on this list. |
theBoneyKing
01.12.17 | Good stuff Doof, I'm liking the mix of albums you've known since forever that your parents probably played a lot, albums you were into as a teenager/young adult when as you say you would buy an album and listen to it obsessively, and albums you've gotten into more recently that are higher quality than a lot of the more listened stuff but don't have as many listens due to the nature of music listening nowadays. |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | Manosg it's on its way |
DominionMM1
01.12.17 | No sixteen stone, or did I just miss it? |
Davil667
01.12.17 | Love this list more and more :] |
danielcardoso
01.12.17 | Your rating for 70 is criminal :o
Cool af list. |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | Sixteen stone I didn't listen to that much, prob 40 listens |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | most of you prefer the taste I had at 15 I'm guessing ;D |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | Thanks for all the comments fam |
theBoneyKing
01.12.17 | Gotta say I'm surprised that High Violet isn't up there with Boxer and TWFM, HV is easily my most listened National album. |
Conmaniac
01.12.17 | there's no way I could do anything like this wow |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | 'Boxer' was the one that got me into them and 'Trouble' is my absolute favourite. I still spin HV a lot though, anything on this list you could say I've played to death really |
danielcardoso
01.12.17 | The lack of Sunhouse is shocking but understandable lol. |
theBoneyKing
01.12.17 | Fair enough Doof, to be fair Boxer has the benefit of having been out longer I guess as well. |
Davil667
01.12.17 | Damn there are probably 14 albums on here that would also make my top 100, that's amazing man. I'd never had expected such a large overlap tbh.
List deserves a feature imo, for the idea, the amount of work it took and the awesomeness of the list itself. |
theBoneyKing
01.12.17 | Dan I've only spun Crazy on the Weekend 30-40 times myself and I've only known it a year so it's certainly fair for it not to be here. |
TwigTW
01.12.17 | With Scrobbling, now you really could have an accurate count. The mind reels. |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | Yeah dan, anything I've got into the last year won't have chalked up the required listens - Garden of Delete has 6 months on some of my recent favourites (Sunhouse/Is a Woman/Opiates revised, etc) and just scraped the list so consider them bubbling under.
Thanks Dav, perhaps if I'd put up more comments it would have earned a feature...we'll see |
danielcardoso
01.12.17 | Boney yeah exactly, hence "understandable" :] |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | 'With Scrobbling, now you really could have an accurate count. The mind reels.'
Yeah, growing up now you could actually get far more accurate measures of this |
theBoneyKing
01.12.17 | Last.fm isn't that helpful to me as I've only used the last 15 months or so and it only tracks my Spotify listens (though these days that's about 70% of my listening) |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | Anyone want to post their own guess at a top 5 most played albums? |
DominionMM1
01.12.17 | man I wore the shit out of my cassette copies of 6 and 90 |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | There was a permanent copy of 6 on cassette left in my dayroom at school, no one claimed they owned it and so if no one brought in anything else it just got played on repeat...and repeat...and repeat. Still enjoyed it nonetheless |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | thiswas - I only know the Deftones from that list.
Is that your genuine favourite of theirs or is it just the one that came out at the perfect time to clock up that number of listens? |
theBoneyKing
01.12.17 | Top 5 for me are probably
Radiohead - OK Computer
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
The National - High Violet
Coldplay - Viva La Vida (if I'm being completely honest) |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | thiswas - I've heard of Jawbreaker and I'm pretty sure I've heard a tune or two by them. I'll check those out.
Boney - you have to be completely honest (refer to my 22, 44, 50 and 64 in particular) |
danielcardoso
01.12.17 | "Anyone want to post their own guess at a top 5 most played albums?"
Really fun idea but it'd be pretty hard for me to try and do it lol. |
NorthernSkylark
01.12.17 | Really surprised there's no Sunhouse/Clark, but cool list anyway.
Mine would be:
The national - alligator
Van Morrison - astral weeks
Everything everything - get to heaven
Galaxie 500 - on fire
The blue nile - hats
Wilco - summerteeth
Lewis - l'amour
Gavin Clark - beautiful skeletons
Fiona Apple - the idler wheel...
Majical cloudz - are you alone?
Interpol - turn on the bright lights
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theBoneyKing
01.12.17 | "you have to be completely honest"
Ruh roh, if I'm being totally honest there might actually be another Coldplay album in that top 5, I played the hell out of them for about 2 years.
Lark, Summerteeth would be in my top 10-15 probs too, nice one. |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | Lark, the Blue Nile album is another that's creeping onto the list but I've only been listening to it for 6 months, guessing I've listened to it 30 or so times. The Lewis album must be close to 40 listens.
Summerteeth is my most played Wilco, again looking at 30+, maybe 40+, listens |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | Boney I think two Coldplay albums is still less embarrassing than two Terrorvision albums xD |
danielcardoso
01.12.17 | Lol. |
NorthernSkylark
01.12.17 | Oh my list wasn't all time, just the last few months. Making that list would take some time to compile! |
TVC15
01.12.17 | Kewl |
Davil667
01.12.17 | "Anyone want to post their own guess at a top 5 most played albums?"
This will be so hard but I'll def give it a try later. |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | Solid stuff Toad
Yeah, try and work them out Dav, all I insist on is 100% honesty |
theBoneyKing
01.12.17 | It was relatively easy for me because I've been listening to music for a short enough time that "most listened to" more or less equals "my favorites".
Though come to think of it there are some albums that I listen to a lot but only when falling asleep that might screw up my most listened numbers. |
Flugmorph
01.12.17 | why does this exist |
theBoneyKing
01.12.17 | Why do you exist |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | Flug I think a lot of users have an idea of what the Doof is all about but I just thought this list would reveal something else, I dunno
People have already said they're surprised there's so much metal on the list
Plus it gets people thinking what albums they listen to the most :/ |
Middle18
01.12.17 | We have dangerously similar tastes man apart from the lack of pop punk on your behalf |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | Middle this isn't so much current taste but yeah sure we have a lot of overlap regardless |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | Personally this list was interesting for me to put down because it's so different to my Top 100 albums list |
Divaman
01.12.17 | Oh Doof, no Irish bands. Why do you continue to oppress my people? |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | (Listens to a Corrs album 51 times) |
Cimnele
01.12.17 | i probably listened to SOAD "Toxicity" three hundred times in my life but if I were to name my top five albums ever it's not making teh shortlist |
zakalwe
01.12.17 | INXS. lol. |
claygurnz
01.12.17 | Some great stuff here man we have a lot of mutual taste |
claygurnz
01.12.17 | Bar Weezer of course |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | Zak that's my childhood right there, INXS then graduate to Terrorvision |
zakalwe
01.12.17 | I'm compiling mine at the min doof dude. P.H.U.Q. Yes son! |
Divaman
01.12.17 | (Listens to a Corrs album 51 times)
lol. I was going to give you two Our Fathers and three Hail Marys, but that will work too. |
zakalwe
01.12.17 | I'm going to say. (Limiting to one artist, Beatles, Dylan, PJ, Blur, Nirvana or REM probably have the lions share over the years)
Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - Nevermind
Blur - Parklife
R.E.M - Automatic for the People
Leftfield - Leftism
Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy
Pixies - Doolittle
The Beatles - Sgt Peppers
Radiohead - OKC
Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks
The Clash - The Clash
Spiritualized- Ladies and Gents
KLF - The White Room
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Green Day - Dookie
Michael Jackson - Thriller
The Who - Who's Next
Faith no More - Angel Dust
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain.
Mogwai - CODY
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Weezer - Blue
Moby - Play
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Public Enemy - Nation of Millions
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Blood Sugar
Dinosaur Jr - Farm
Neil Young - After the Goldrush
Sepultura- Chaos AD
Sunhouse - Crazy on the Weekend
Deftones - White Pony
Mastodon- Crack the Skye
Dodgy - Homegrown
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Pink Floyd - Darkside
National - High Violet
Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
The Outlaws - Too Many Fools Following Too Many Rules
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
Air - Moon Safari
Motörhead - Ace of Spades
Rodriguez - Cold Fact
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Wire - Pink Flag
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Faithless - Sunday 8pm
Yo La Tengo - Painful
Eels - Dasies of the Galaxy
Rainbow - Rising
The Verve - A Northern Soul
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Can - Tago Mago
|
danielcardoso
01.12.17 | Sick picks Zak. |
zakalwe
01.12.17 | Oh yeah.
And. Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Cheers bro. |
dbizzles
01.12.17 | Full Moon Fever for the win. Best Tom Petty by miles, imo. |
dbizzles
01.12.17 | Except for Zombie Zoo. Fuck that pile of shit. |
altertide0
01.12.17 | You're old Doof |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | Zak no way your list can be that blemish free, has to be an equivalent of Terrorvision in there?
You have definitely maintained a constant level of good taste on the evidence of that. I've had patches where I got hopelessly adrift in choppy nu metal and brit rock waters, along with being force fed stuff by my parents. |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | alt I thought you knew my age, it's up on my RYM page |
zakalwe
01.12.17 | I dunno doof. Dodgy not good enough for ya? There's some others I've though of that defo have to be in there.
Prodigy - Jilted Generation
Beta Band - Heroes to Zeros
Foo Fighters - Colour and the Shape
Boo Radleys - C'Mon Kids. |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | Boo Radleys, Dodgy and Colour & the Shape - that's some slightly suspect stuff I'll accept that.
Black Grape - It's Great... nearly made my list. The fact I haven't listened to that album since 2000 stopped it. At least 40 listens of that one though.
Girls VS Boys - house of GVSB is another one I listened to a lot. |
altertide0
01.12.17 | yeah i knew your age but this still hit me hard. you're acting like a youngster like a master |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | I'm not acting, I just behave like this generally. Life hasn't beaten the youth out of me quite yet, my friends are the same tbh. My other half is a PE teacher so again she's got a similar outlook. I've got friends who are 45 and others who are 29. Maybe it's an English thing |
zakalwe
01.12.17 | Happy Mondays - Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches
Ocean Colour Scene - Mosley Shoals
Elastica - Elastica
Bluetones Expecting to Fly
L7 - Hungry for Stink
|
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | Ocean Colour Scene? That's worse than Terrorvision in my book - I'm impressed...
...though I raise you Reef 'Replenish' |
zakalwe
01.12.17 | Beck - Odelay.
Bob Marley - Catch a Fire
Compilations as well.
The in Crowd, The Ultimate Mod Collection 58-67.
That's was spun all the time in the 90s but it's been lost in the garage among the SNES box, weights and the 80s copies of Razzle. |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | '80s copies of Razzle'
Could be worth a fortune if in mint condition and no pages are stuck together |
DoofusWainwright
01.12.17 | 'Judgement Night' soundtrack - the one with the hip hop/metal crossover collaborations, that should have made the list. |
zakalwe
01.12.17 | It was impossible to blow your beans over Readers Wives. Stacy from Thanet showing us what she had for lunch. |
zakalwe
01.12.17 | Carpenters - Gold |
Davil667
01.12.17 | Ok this was way harder than I thought. Kudos for putting up your list so quickly Doof. I didn't include sampler, classical music or house mixes. I don't know if I forgot something but I'll post it anyway now... Here's a very rough estimate: |
Davil667
01.12.17 | Kings X - Ear Candy
Megadeth - Youthanasia
AC/DC - Highway To Hell
Kings X - Tape Head
Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction
Dream Theater - Awake
Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4
Beatles - Revolver
Faith No More - King For A Day
Ice-T - Original Gangster
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Ugly Kid Joe - Menace To Sobriety
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Anthrax - Among The Living
Guns n Roses - Appetite For Destruction
AC/DC - Powerage
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Ugly Kid Joe - Amerika's Least Wanted
Anthrax - Volume 8
Van Halen - II
Biohazard - Means To An End
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
S.O.D. - Bigger Than The Devil
Ministry - Sphinctour
Soundgarden - Down On The Upside
Helmet - Size Matters
Anthrax - Persistence Of Time
Helmet - Betty
Marilyn Manson - The Golden Age Of Grotesque
Kings X - Dogman
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Suicidal Tendencies - Art Of Rebellion
Böhse Onkelz - Es ist soweit
Mourning Widows - Furnished Souls For Rent
Population 1 - Population 1
Pantera - Reinventing The Steel
Biohazard - Uncivilization
S.O.D. - Live At Budokan
Prong - Cleansing
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Prong - Power Of The Damager
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Davil667
01.12.17 | Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity
Dizzy Mizz Lizzy - Dizzy Mizz Lizzy
Spin Doctors - A Pocket Full Of Kryptonite
Ministry - Rio Grande Blood
System Of A Down - Mezmerize
Living Colour - A Stair In The Doorway
Van Halen - FUCK
Foo Fighters - Nothing Left To Loose
The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
Nuno Bettencourt - Schizophonic
Die Fantastischen Vier - Die 4. Dimension
Extreme - III Sides To Every Story
Waiting For The Punchline
Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
Stevie Salas - Back From The Living
Dizzy Mizz Lizzy - Rotator
Rammstein - Mutter
Do As Infinity - Deep Forest
AC/DC - Blow Up Your Video
Aerosmith - Nine Lives
Mr. Big - Bump Ahead
Bumblefoot - Abnormal
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Ferris MC - Asiemetrie
Black Sheep - A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
Ice Cube - Amerikkka's Most Wanted
Böhse Onkelz - Heilige Lieder
Freak Of Nature - Gathering Of Freaks
Suicidal Tendencies - Art Of Rebellion
Paul Gilbert - Silence Followed By A Deafening Roar
Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet
N.W.A. - Niggaz 4 Life
Eins Zwo - Gefährliches Halbwissen
Rammstein - Reise Reise
Kinderzimmer Productions - Irgendjemand muss doch
Incubus - SCIENCE
Infectious Grooves - Groove Family Cyco
Jamiroquai - Dynamite
Absolute Beginner - Bambule
M.O.D. - Rhythm Of Fear
Maceo Parker - Made By Maceo
Mr. Big - What If
Nils Landgren - Live In Stockholm
Aerosmith - Pump
The Sound Stylistics - Play Deep Funk
Daft Punk - Homework
Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
Vernon Reid - Mistaken Identity
Drama Gods - Love
Fünf Sterne Deluxe - Neo Now
Dynamite Deluxe - Deluxe Soundsystem
Hubert von Goisern - Omunduntn
Tomahawk - Tomahawk
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Davil667
01.12.17 | So sorry for spamming your thread Doof! But I'm glad I didn't have to put up a list myself as several albums aren't in the database :]
And damn there we go, forgot to include Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
Would have made the upper third for sure... |
DoofusWainwright
01.13.17 | Top work Dav, a few of those I haven't heard and will check eventually. A few I recognise from the rec comp |
DoofusWainwright
01.13.17 | Rio Grande Blood your most played Ministry stands out, will have to give it a go |
zakalwe
01.13.17 | As a result of this thing I gave Dodgy a listen on me way into work.
Classic. |
betray
01.13.17 | you've listened to appetite for destruction all the way through 300+ times |
Davil667
01.13.17 | Yeah, really played the hell out of Rio Grande Blood, mainly cause it's so awesome to workout to. So energetic... A lot of those got many spins due to their great workout-value for me. |
DoofusWainwright
01.14.17 | Betray, yes I have, as a 8-10 year old it was my favourite album and in the days before the Internet people would only purchase ten or less albums a year.
It may seem strange now, but it really wasn't then. Bands used to dominate the world, now that's impossible.
For the record, the way people listen to music now is probably stranger. |
betray
01.14.17 | well I rate you high marks for your resiliency at least! |
DoofusWainwright
01.14.17 | From my current rating you can see it's not something I listen to/hold up as all that despite all those listens. I haven't played it all the way through in years. |
talktothehead
01.14.17 | Are you just guessing these or did you log every time you listened to an album as a kid? |
DoofusWainwright
01.14.17 | Lol, guessing. They're 'under estimates' |
DoofusWainwright
01.14.17 | I guess for albums I like they'll clock up 20 listens within a couple of months (RtJ3 has 20 listens in less than three weeks for example) and 30 listens within the first year. Anything I listened to pre 1997 I was still playing a lot of computer games and I always listened to music when playing them, plus I only owned a couple of hundred or so albums at that point so would play stuff to death. |
Davil667
01.14.17 | My listening behavior hasn't changed that much over the years I guess. I still buy 95% of all albums I like and listen to in depth as vinyl or CD, the only difference is the quantity I purchase them in. |
Davil667
01.14.17 | I still don't know how to estimate how often I listened to some albums, especially the first ones I owned. It's def a lot though, I know that much... |
Flugmorph
01.14.17 | my most played albums according to last.fm (since december 2013)
1. Devin Townsend Project — Z²
229 scrobbels
2. Converge — All We Love We Leave Behind
200 scrobbels
3. Neurosis — A Sun That Never Sets
198 scrobbels
4. PINK GUY — Pink Guy
177 scrobbels
5. Soilwork — The Living Infinite
171 scrobbels
6. The Ocean — Pelagial
168 scrobbels
7. Mastodon — Once More 'Round the Sun
156 scrobbels
8. Katatonia — The Fall of Hearts
155 scrobbels
9. Steven Wilson — Hand.Cannot.Erase
154 scrobbels
10. Streetlight Manifesto — The Hands That Thieve
150 scrobbels
there you go.
dayum i just realized your numbers are full spins. thats a lot of fucking full listens breh.
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DoofusWainwright
01.14.17 | Dav CD albums used to cost £15 in the 90s...the equivalent of about £25 today you'd think.
Sometimes I'd tape stuff on cassette off friends or copy albums from the library the same way. Other than that there were a few rock shows I'd tape and listen to again plus some TV shows (even Top of the Pops used to have rock and indie acts playing in those days)
Finding new music and paying for it was genuinely difficult |
Cimnele
01.14.17 | jo whiley sitting cross-legged on a couch "interviewing" musicians while actually just staring at the camera and making sure every sentence she said creaked sexily upwards just at the end
i bought a skunk anansie album during these times, what a drought. could've been listening to the Melvins had i known |
Cimnele
01.14.17 | i jammed these a lot at the time:
supergrass "in it for the money"
whatever that kula shaker album was called lol
super furry animals "radiator", "ice hockey hair", "guerrilla" and "fuzzy logic"
radiohead "the bends"
manic street preachers "the holy bible" and "everything must go"
the singles for "beetlebum" and "no surprises"
fairly one-dimensional now that i look at it |
Cimnele
01.14.17 | also mansun "six"
to be honest I'll still stand up for all those albums except Kula Shaker
the songwriting on the Supergrass disc is like massively impressive compared to what we expect from rock after the 70s in terms of accompaniment, dramatic pacing and picking out interesting chords. wonder if it needs a review really
sorry for wittering all over your good list |
Gyromania
01.14.17 | Man, your top 10 would bore the ever living shit out of me to play that many times. Especially guns n roses and nevermind. Those albums are pretty whatever as it is having heard twice |
Anothertwo
03.28.17 | I love Massive Attack and Sleigh Bells; I'm actually not that familiar with most of it (I'm not a tremendous rock fan). |
DoofusWainwright
03.28.17 | Gyro, in '92 I was 12 years old with maybe twelve cassettes I'd listen to over and over while playing computer games. Pre internet music listening was very different, you had your music and you listened to that. Not everyone could be John Peel, esp not a kid with a tiny amount of pocket money :/ |
DoofusWainwright
03.28.17 | At school you'd also play the same Albums over and over - must have clocked up 50 listens of 'Master of Puppets' that way |
theBoneyKing
03.28.17 | Different times they were certainly. In some ways I almost wish I could listen to music like that - I imagine it was much easier to build up that personal connection to the stuff.
I mean how much of what I listen to this year am I still going to listen to and remember in a few years' time? 10% at best probably. |
DoofusWainwright
03.28.17 | New music was so rare I was scared of it a bit. I'd get a tingle of 'should I buy this?' Because you had to take risks. I'd rarely listened to all of an album before I bought it (sometimes I hadn't heard ANY of it). You'd tape stuff off your friends, record the radio 'Rock Show' and tape the rock music video show that aired at 1am. You'd even explore your parents music collection. It was incredibly different. Feeding off tantalising scraps, it was cool. You couldn't look up live footage for most bands, you either bought the VHS or you went to gigs not having a clue what to expect. I'd read music magazines cover to cover - still will spend half an hour a month reading them at the train station newsagents, habit stuck. |
theBoneyKing
03.28.17 | I started out with my dad's collection so it wasn't until about 2 years ago that I even started directing my own music exploration. I do have some nostalgia for those days - he purchased somewhere around an album a week and I would usually listen to that, in that time though my listening was more similar to how I imagine yours was back in the day - sure he had a big collection (some 2-3 thousand albums probably) I only explored a very small part of it and would actually listen to mostly the same 50 or so albums pretty consistently. And, I must say, a lot of those albums remain among my absolute favorites. |
DoofusWainwright
03.28.17 | Yeah, half of my top 20 all time favourites are ones I just played to absolute death back in the day |
theBoneyKing
03.28.17 | Today a new album is lucky if I give it more than 15 listens before falling out of rotation - more recently it's been closer to 10 even. And even with that there's more new stuff I want to hear every day. Ugh. |
JWT155
03.28.17 | I'd even argue it was still much the same for me 10-12 years ago Doof. The internet still hadn't really solidified it's place in music, outside of a few bands using myspace and some AOL features I relied mostly on my local radio station and some record stores to find new music. Crazy to think now how easy it is to explore and discover new music compared to back in the day. So many burned cds... |
DoofusWainwright
03.28.17 | Stuff I like a lot usually gets over 40 listens in the first 4-6 months.
But agreed a lot of stuff I like only a little bit less gets 10 listens and forgotten these days |
JWT155
03.28.17 | too much stuff to listen to to give an album as much love as I'd use to |
DoofusWainwright
03.28.17 | JWT - think I ended up copying half the CDs from Milton Keynes library onto cassette. They had all the Bad Religion albums up until '95 which I remember thinking was odd at the time |
theBoneyKing
03.28.17 | Recently my most listened new listens have been Loveless (checked out back in August and have listened about 35 times per last.fm) and Fear and Whiskey (checked October, about 30 listens). Most others cap at 10-15 as I said. |
DoofusWainwright
03.28.17 | Loveless is a classic, sounds like you've listened to it more intensively than I did when I first got into it. Should revisit it sometime - I bought the recent reissue but prob only played it two times in full since |
ArsMoriendi
03.28.17 | Can't wait until We're Only in It reaches this amount of airplay :P |
DoofusWainwright
03.28.17 | Picking up a copy next month, have to see how much I spun it after that. Did you bump 'Zoot' recently? |
ArsMoriendi
03.28.17 | Not recently, but i've heard it so many times lol |
DoofusWainwright
03.28.17 | I meant the rating, thought it used to be nearer a 4? |