Music you have played to death

[Harlan Huckleby]

I was just listening to a Miles Davis song, and realized that I may have heard it a thousand times and am not even close to tired of it. So I was wondering what albums or CDs or twitter tweets you have listened to hundreds of times without getting sick of it. I made my list and realized that when it comes to obsessions, I'm really sweatin to the oldies.


Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
ERik Satie Piano Works, Aldo Ciccolini
Marvin Gaye, What's Goin On
The Gentle Side of John coltrane
Dylan, Blood on the Tracks
Neil Young, After the Gold Rush
Nirvana, Unplugged
Jimi Hendrix, Band of Gypsies
LTJ Bukem, Producer 01
Billie Holiday Columbia recordings

[Tyrone Bigguns]

For Ty:

Air: Moon Safari

My Bloody Valentine: Loveless

The Clientele: The Violet Hour

Spiritualized: Lazer Guided Melodies or Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space

Belle and Sebastian: Tigermilk

Luna: The Days of Our Nights

Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures

Joseph Arthurs: Redemptions Son

Boards of Canada: The Campfire Headphase

Nightmares on Wax: Carboot Soul

Brian Jonestown Massacre: Her Satanic Majesties Second Request

Dandy Warhols: The Dandy Warhols Come Down

Pernice Brothers: Yours, Mine and Ours

VU: The Velvet Underground & Nico

Roxy Music: Avalon

Mogwai: Rock Action

Mercury Rev: All is Dream

Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin

Kings of Convenience: Quiet is the New Loud or Versus

Daft Punk: anything

Gotan Project: La Revancha del Tango

Thievery Corporation: anything

Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto

Anything classical: Mozart, Brahms, Bach, etc.

[hoosier]

The Who, Live at Leeds

Traffic, Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

Stones, Beggars Banquet

Pogues, Red Roses and Rum, Sodomy and the Lash

Allison Krauss, Now that I've Found You (my six-year old makes me play it)

[Zool]

For Ty:

Air: Moon Safari

My Bloody Valentine: Loveless

The Clientele: The Violet Hour

Spiritualized: Lazer Guided Melodies or Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space

Belle and Sebastian: Tigermilk

Luna: The Days of Our Nights

Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures

Joseph Arthurs: Redemptions Son

Boards of Canada: The Campfire Headphase

Nightmares on Wax: Carboot Soul

Brian Jonestown Massacre: Her Satanic Majesties Second Request

Dandy Warhols: The Dandy Warhols Come Down

Pernice Brothers: Yours, Mine and Ours

VU: The Velvet Underground & Nico

Roxy Music: Avalon

Mogwai: Rock Action

Mercury Rev: All is Dream

Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin

Kings of Convenience: Quiet is the New Loud or Versus

Daft Punk: anything

Gotan Project: La Revancha del Tango

Thievery Corporation: anything

Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto

Anything classical: Mozart, Brahms, Bach, etc.

Good shit. Check out some Pedro the Lion and No Knife.

[HowardRoark]

Afro Cuban All-Stars - A Toda Le Gusta
The Clash - London Calling
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out/Take Five*
Gear Daddies - Can’t Have Nothin’ Nice
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Jack Johnson - On & On
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Lyle Lovett - The Road To Ensenada
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
The Replacements - Tim
Son Volt - Trace
The Spinners - High Five
St. Germain - Boulevard
Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
Vladimir Horowitz - Horowitz in Moscow
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

*if I could only choose one.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Zool,

Yeah...i'm pretty much a sucker for anything B&S put out...smart, sardonic, witty....what's not to like?

Mogwai...anything psychedelic gets me.

Those were ones that i never get tired of...i've listened, seen and liked Pedro. Though the Xianity/faith thing isn't really my thing, but i certainly can appreciate Bazan's talent and why people like him.

No knife...I can only listen to one knife band...SHONEN KNIFE. I've heard them also....get my fill of that style with ATDI, Fugazi, Clash, Sparta, etc...but, i'll revisit.

What i'm listening to now:

Los Campesinos
Decemberists
Arcade Fire
Camera Obscura ---damn those scots are good
Steven Reich
La Monte Young
Gui Borrato
LCD Soundsystem
Hot Chip

P.S. Saw Mogwai when they did a solo show on an open date from the Curiosa tour....6 of us in the audience. Amazing. Still, not as good as Coachella....me exhausted...laying on my back in the tent..their hypnotic drone taking me to a place halfway tween sleep and conciousness.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Afro Cuban All-Stars - A Toda Le Gusta
The Clash - London Calling
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out/Take Five
Gear Daddies - Can’t Have Nothin’ Nice
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Jack Johnson - On & On
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Lyle Lovett - The Road To Ensenada
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
The Replacements - Tim
Son Volt - Trace
The Spinners - High Five
St. Germain - Boulevard
Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne
Vladimir Horowitz - Horowitz in Moscow
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Definitely coulda included them as well.

[Joemailman]

The Band-The Last Waltz

Jackson Browne-The Pretender

The Byrds-Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

Johnny Cash-At Folsom Prison

Bob Dylan-Blonde On Blonde

Steve Earle-El Corazon

Emmylou Harris-Last Date

Los Lobos-How Will The Wolf Survive?

Van Morrison-It's Too Late To Stop Now

Elvis Presley-From Elvis In Memphis

Bruce Springsteen-Born To Run

U2-War

Neil Young-Rust Never Sleeps

[Tyrone Bigguns]

The Band-The Last Waltz

Jackson Browne-The Pretender

The Byrds-Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

Johnny Cash-At Folsom Prison

Bob Dylan-Blonde On Blonde

Steve Earle-El Corazon

Emmylou Harris-Last Date

Los Lobos-How Will The Wolf Survive?

Van Morrison-It's Too Late To Stop Now

Elvis Presley-From Elvis In Memphis

Bruce Springsteen-Born To Run

U2-War

Neil Young-Rust Never Sleeps

Los: What a gorgeous voice. Some of the best shows i've seen. Much more applicable/relevant now that i live in AZ..and with our current immigration policies.

Earle: Love him as well..and fits my politics. Bought Exit O after hearing "i ain't ever satisfied" just once on the radio.

Last night i dreamed i made it to the promise land
I was standin' at the gate and i had the key in my hand
Saint peter said "come on in boy, you're finally home"
I said "no thanks pete, i'll just be moving along

Brilliant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My-WWuXMcDA

[Harlan Huckleby]

Los: What a gorgeous voice. Some of the best shows i've seen. Much more applicable/relevant now that i live in AZ..and with our current immigration policies.

I like their albums, but kinda dissappointed with concert experience. I think they are sort-of a bar band, they don't project to giant audience.
I like their album Kiko, among others.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Daft Punk: anything

I pirated a copy of their album "Homework", listened to it once, was gonna throw it out, but labeled it "Load of Crap" and threw it in a box. I thought it was corny.

Then I gave it another listen a couple years later, guess I was in the mood for a load of crap. So its start to grow on me, and pretty soon I'm playing it over and over in the car. Its a guilty pleasure, like a BeeGees disco album.

[Joemailman]

What I'm listening to most these days:

Dave Alvin-Ashgrove

Johnny Cash-The Man Comes Around

Bob Dylan-Modern Times

Norah Jones-Come Away With Me

Jerry Lee Lewis-A Half Century Of Hits

Shelby Lynne-Suit Yourself

Tift Merritt-Tambourine

John Prine-Fair & Square

Bruce Springsteen-We Shall Overcome:The Seeger Sessions

Hank WilliamsIII-Straight To Hell

Lucinda Williams-West

Neil Young-Prairie Wind

[Harlan Huckleby]

Norah Jones-Come Away With Me

I don't see how a well-adjusted, grown man can listen repeatedly to that shlock.

I know Norah Jones is really talented, I've seen her a few times on TV and she is an incredible singer. She can do WAY better material.

The songs on the that album are for love sick teenage girls. I was forced to listen to that album repeatedly when it first came out in coffee shops which employed love-sick, teenage girls. The songs are so drippy and dopey and formulaic. There is so much better music in that genre, say a Sarah Vaughn album, if you're feeling tender.

Grow up!

[Joemailman]

You don't even like the Hank Williams song?

[Harlan Huckleby]

Its hard to justify disliking that album so intensely. Its not the songs themselves. She uses the same emotional device, a trailed-off breathless yearning, on every goddamn phrase on every goddamn fucking song from beginning to end. It sounds premeditated, the creation of a heartfelt sound rather than a sound from the heart.

I saw Nora Jones sing a Marvin Gaye song, , "Trouble Man", with just her own piano accompaniment on a late night show (OK, I confess, it was Carson Daly) and it was mesmermizing. Incredibly soulful, she sang it better than MArvin Gaye, which ought to be impossible. She is an amazing talent.