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I often get phases where i listen to one album/ cd over and over ..have done this since the late sixties..
Over recent times i' ve listened endlessly to " Wincing The Night Away" by The Shins,and also to an album called " The Great Liverpool Acoustic Experiment " featuring tracks by many talented and well loved local bands x
How about you? Are you addicted to any cds or albums at the moment and find you need to hear them time and again?

Gosh, I'm sure there's a million over the years. I tend to listen to something for a while when I first get it over and over. As I mentioned to you, I had the Garden State soundtrack in my 6 disc player for years. I remember having a stint of listening to RHCPs Californication one summer.

Now, I tend to download individual songs and make my own CDs. I'm currently obsessed with putting together songs from the TV show HIMYM!

The last time I flogged an album to death was Adele's '21'.

[carorees]

None for me just at the moment but DS is driving me crazy playing "Counting Stars" by One Republic. He is also addicted to an instrumental group called Two Steps From Hell.

In the past though I also played Adele's 21 to death and more recently the track "Graffiti on the train" by the Stereophonics.

If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle and Sebastian
Mermaid Avenue - Billy Bragg and Wilco
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - self-titled
Veronica Falls - self-titled
Quiet is the New Loud - Kings of Convenience
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
Poem of the River - Felt
Come on Feel the Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
OK Computer - Radiohead

Gosh there are several I've played and played and played, Back to Black -Amy Winehouse, best of Macy Gray, Corinne Bailey Rae, etc, etc but at the moment it's Voyage to India by India Arie.
There is one song she sings that i always listen to "I'm not your average girl". Its a good song to listen to when your having a down on yourself day.

" I’m not the average girl from your video
And I ain’t built like a supermodel
But I learned to love myself unconditionally,
Because I am a queen"

P.s. not saying I'm permanently down on myself I just love the song

Different things at different times, but I always go back to Joni Mitchell's Hejira.

[wildmissus]

My playlist called 'My favourites'. There are 19 songs on it some of which are -

Muse - Uprising
Procol Harum - White Shade of Pale
Davis Bowie - Heroes
Creep - Radiohead
Neil Diamond - Love on the Rocks
Prince - Purple Rain
Elbow - One Day like This
Led Zepplin - Stairway to Heaven
Beautiful - Christina Aguilera (for the same reason as @Minsmum)

A bit of a mixture in there but I know what I like.

Overused CD's would be Fun - Some Nights and all of the CD's from Noah and the Whale.

The New Gary Barlow one at the moment it seems to be summing up my mood. Also I tend to listen to music on the PC so with Micheal Buble and Harry Connnick JR I have made up playlists of my favourite songs.

@Wildmissus Agree with you there about Beautiful, strong words.... I put that song on Mins iPod and told her to listen to it, she gets a lot of unkind words sometimes, because she has short cropped hair (al la Halle Berry) mostly from adults!!!! and not pretty girl plaits.
She loves that song now x

@wildmissusI love Purple Rain and was blasting Prince through the house a couple of weeks ago.
Lately it's been Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
Might borrow DS's Talking Heads CD next.

Meatloaf - Bat out of hell. I actually have 2 copies, one is a gold plates cd that hubby bought me as a Christmas present one year, the other is as you say, played to death.

Saw "The Offspring" live a few weeks ago. Been running their albums through non-stop. One of their recent albums really does it for me at the moment. These guys got me into music 15 years ago and I still love their style.

[Debs]

I buy a lot of new music, but if I can't decide what to listen to, I always go back to old favourites:
Muse-Absolution
In. Rainbows and OK Computer-Radiohead
Elephant-White Stripes
Know your Enemy-Manic Street Preachers

If we go back in time I would say Fleetwood Mac's Roumors. Well, Bruce Springsteen's Born to run comes in second and Roxy Music Avalon and ....
Today I'm modern and use playlists plus listen to BOB.FM on the net all the time.