I have loads. A few No Play Guilt contenders too. It shouldn't bother me, but it feels wasteful. I feel I should send my family on a week's holiday and immerse myself in neglected purchases.

I have both of the recent-ish Prince CDs given away with newspapers (both picked from charity shops) and haven't listened to a note of either, and I quite like Prince.

and her machine-thingy

Really tried to like it, but was crying with boredom by the end.

Perhaps I never forgave her for that terrible cover of 'Fairytale of New York' that she did with Herr Bragg a couple of Xmases ago.

Lungs sits in the car and looks at me reproachfully, but I stand firm (well actually I sit down, as it's quite hard to stand up in a car)

Just chuck 'em on eBay. Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Jason Downs, various American and country rock monstrosities have all made me some cash over the year.

Don't turn it into a duty.

I wouldn't mind betting that a lot of "played just once" records are those that you've bought:
a) as soon as they came out
b) because you've got their earlier stuff

Just because an artist wants to keep on making records, it doesn't mean that you have to keep dutifully buying them.

is great for this. I went in on Friday, bought four albums I'd always meant to buy, got home, played them once, realised why I never bought them originally and duly shelved them. Actually I should stick them on Ebay - there's every chance I'd end up with a modest profit.

really. What is perhaps a more interesting question is why do we then keep them around for years, and not bin them pronto?

is The Name of This Band is Talking Heads dig it out again sharpish. It's bloody great, contains pretty much all the Talking Heads you'll ever need, in versions often superior to the originals. My most listened to Heads album by a considerable distance.

I've had a few of these and I tend to find putting them away for 5 years and then having another crack at them yields great results - Hounds of Love by Kate Bush being one example (look, I don't know why I didn't like it first time round either!).

It's a four-CD set of an eight-hour performance piece by Laurie Anderson, and I bought it because I love Big Science, which is made up of excerpts from it. The thinking being: love Big Science; will REALLY love United States Live.

I put it on and swiftly realised it was going to be a 'difficult' album, so I put it to one side to come back to another day, when I had the proper time to devote to it.

That was about 15 years ago.

I've got a free INXS cassette single that came with a pair of converse and a free Foo Fighters CD single (prob from the Guardian) which remain in the shrink wrap.

plus I've got a bunch of 10" and 12"s picked up at a Virgin surplus stock sale for 29p/50p a throw years ago and never listened to - Rancho Diablo, Come, Tiny Monroe and Bandit Queen anyone? ( the same batch included Slint's s/t 10", should've bought up all the copies of that...)

I was given the collaborative album See My Friends for Xmas. I listened to it as I cooked Xmas dinner, but haven't bothered since.

Rory Gallagher - Big Guns
Air - Moon Safari
Be Bop Deluxe - Postcards From The Future
Velvet Revolver - Liberated
Rocket From The Crypt - Scream Dracula Scream
Shane MacGowan & The Popes - The Snake

To alleviate the guilt, I have removed these from the shelves and piled them next to the stereo for aural consumption in the next copule of days

The Air and Shane MacGowan albums are two from your list that I own and you will certainly enjoy them, when you get round to listening to them!

PJ Harvey is one of my all-time goddesses of rock "who can do no wrong". So I cringe at my inability to have played "White Chalk" more than once (I even had to check the album title just then). It was just sooooo depressing and awful it never got played again. But still keeps a place on the shelf. Because, because, because, OK?

to London saw me return with - The Knife 'Tomorrow,in a Year', Andrew Bird 'Fitz and the Dizzy Spells', Current93 'Honeysuckle Aeons' Sunn O)) 'Monoliths..' and Aethenor 'en form..'

Of the above, only 1 has been played more than once, 2 have yet to see the light of day, and I have had them for nearly 2 weeks now.

Have also got a number of fopp 3 quid specials that have not even made it out of the sellophane yet! But i'm not stressing about it, I know eventually there will be a time when I want to listen to one of these discs

Midlake 'The Courage of Others'- a yawnathon
The Gaslight Anthem 'The '59 Sound'- repetitive Springsteen bumlickers
Iron & Wine 'The Shepherd's Dog'- v. disappointing as 'The Creek Drank the Cradle' is totally lovely.
It won't stop me buying new stuff though!

Joanna Newsom Y's I frankly couldn't play all the way through - not sure have even listened to it once in its entirety. Bloody awful.
On a visit to FOPP London I bought an album by an Aussie band who I think were called the Drones - just looked for the cd to check but can't find it. Anyway sounded great in the shop, awful when I got it home.
Also only played a Los Lonely boys cd once but must have been in a bad mood - I will look that one out because I suspect a second listen would be more favourable. Or not.

By The Triffids. When I go to the attic for the Diesel Park West album I might drag it down too. It must be 20 years since it had a spin.