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Favourite Albums vs Most Played
If you were to list your most played albums, would this differ greatly from what you would declare as your all time favourites. This is my "Top Played" list and of course it is skewed towards albums of the last century as I have had much more time to play them!
There are certain albums that I would not have thought of listing as my favourites! OVER TO THE MASSIVE.....
PINK FLOYD Dark Side Of The Moon 1973
PINK FLOYD The Wall 1979
Jeff BECK There And Back 1980
The BEATLES Beatles "White Album" 1968
SUPERTRAMP Even In The Quietest M. 1977
PINK FLOYD Animals 1977
Steve HARLEY Love's A Prima Donna 1976
David GILMOUR David Gilmour 1978
PINK FLOYD Wish You Were Here 1975
SUPERTRAMP Crisis ? What Crisis ? 1975
Steve HARLEY Timeless Flight 1976
John MARTYN Grace And Danger 1980
GOLDFRAPP Felt Mountain 2000
ROLLING STONES Goat's Head Soup 1973
Judie TZUKE Welcome To The Cruise 1979
Joni MITCHELL Wild Things Run Fast 1982
STEELY DAN Two Against Nature 2000
John MARTYN On The Cobbles 2004
PINK FLOYD Atom Heart Mother 1970
Robert FRIPP Exposure 1979
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Not room for even...
... one album by a black artist? Interesting.
It's not, is it?
If your taste veers towards classic rock and prog, with a smattering of singer-songwriter stuff, as craig42blue's list appears to suggest, then it's not really surprising, I'd have thought.
What's the implication ?
What exactly are you implying in that sly and underhand way? Whatever, it does not seem to be in the spirit of the Word Forum.
There's no implication...
.....there's nothing sly or underhand.
It's just a question!
It's not trolling....more like Devil's Advocate stuff.
I've been here for a couple of years and the buggers catch me out regularly.
Calm doon.
How...
do you know?
Sad but
Its not an exact science (I don't keep a full record of plays).
In response to the other question - Marvin Gaye - What's Going On is the only album im my most played top 30.
But hey, I grew up in the rural North West (listening to 'Fluff' Freeman on a Saturday afternoon) and was ambivalent to Soul and Reggae until I hit my late twenties...
My work playlist
...so not a real representation - nothing too raucous because of where I am, and yes, it does differ from my favourites.
Decemberists - Hazards of Love
REM - Out of Time
er...The Very Best of Vivaldi
Wonderstuff - Never Loved Elvis
Bowie at the Beeb
Beatles - Revolver
The definitive Simon and Garfunkel
Maria McKee - Life is Sweet
Marillion - Clutching at Straws.
<irony> not a black musician in sight either, though I believe Simon and Garfunkel are Jewish, if there's a quota to be met. </irony>
Interesting
I suppose it's down to whatever music you were brought up on. My guess is that craig42blue is British, white and around the half century mark.
I fit all of the above criteria. I have many black artists in my music collection (blues and jazz) but the only album that'd fit into my top 20 (by a black artist) is "Love Me Tender" by BB King.
BB King, Randy Crawford, Chuck Berry and Stevie Wonder would all show up in my favourite 30 artist list I think.
Much as I love Muddy, Hooker, Lightnin', Davis, Cotrane, T-Bone, Ella, Louis etc. etc. .....they ain't my favourites.
My point..
If there is or was a point to my original post... it is that the music I discovered between the age of say 13 and 20, is the music that sticks with you, the music you loved at the time of life when you had most time to spend on it... the music that stays with you.. yes you are spot on I'm Male, White, British, 46 years old and in my 20s and 30s my taste broadened to include Modern Jazz, Miles Davis, Terry Callier, Tom Waits....
How do you track this?
I can see most played tracks, artists etc on iTunes & Last.fm but not albums.
Counting Out Time...
My 'top played' list of albums could not have been counted via i-tunes or last-fm or whatever... This is over half a lifetime..(I'm 46 BTW).
Most of my 'plays' of these albums were possibly even pre-cd!!.
I suppose that my most played albums list is skewed by the fact that I had more time to play albums in the 80s and 90s than I do know.. over the last 10 years I probably manage 1 album a day (mainly in the car) whereas in my bedsit years (pre-kids) I would spend 2, 3 even 4 hours a day listening to albums.
You can work out your most-played albums...
...by going to your last.fm page (if you have one),clicking on Top Tracks and then switching from ‘Tracks’ to ‘Albums’ in the drop-down menu. Mine are more a reflection of iPod listening habits. I only have a small percentage of my record collection on PC and still mostly listen to music on the CD player in my bedroom.
The Gun Club – The Las Vegas Story
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
Coldplay – Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Kate Bush – The Kick Inside
Diabolical Masquerade – Death's Design
New Order – Republic
The Dream Syndicate – Ghost Stories
Burial – Untrue
Concrete Blonde – Mexican Moon
Santana – Caravanserai
Rachel's – systems/layers
Radiohead – In Rainbows
Suede – Sci-Fi Lullabies [Disc 1]
Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope
Candidate – Under The Skylon
The Gun Club – In Exile
The Horrors – Strange House
Kyuss – Blues for the Red Sun
The Mountain Goats – the Life of the World to Come
Clearlake – Lido
Las Vegas Story!
What an album!