Albums you just can't stop playing

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I decided to test the new ‘flat’ installation and put a track on from Leonard Cohen ‘Live in London’. I now can’t leave it. Coffee side 2 and I’m set for the next hour or so. How does it sound so addictive, in the jumble of a study/general purpose space? Naim or Leonard to blame ?

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Don’t listen to too much Laughing Len, or you might move into the dreaded slit-your-wrists territory.

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I find his work uplififting. :slight_smile:

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…and humorous.

G

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He did develop that as he got older I think.

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Anyone else have an album that once on just can’t be left?

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I tend to be a whole album listener and won’t start one if I know I’ll be interrupted.

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I have a wife. Interruptions? “Was you listening to that, sorry” :grinning:

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Mrs H is an avid reader…we have an understanding.

G

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I can identify with that. Similar situation here.

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Tgat has generally been my reaction upon purchasing a new album, if it is any good. Back when my collection was small I think I typically played each new album two or three times a night for a few weeks, then maybe once a night, then a few times a week, etc. It was easy for vinyl records to reach 100 plays in not much time - no wonder many wore out! Nowadays with a collection of 1000 or so I tend to go back to other albums as well faster tgan in those early days, but if a new album is good it gets many plays in the first weeks and months.

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I’m now getting horrific flashbacks to my childhood, when my oldest brother (15 years senior to me) would play his records at near full volume on an HMV or PYE auto-changer mono player.
He would either load up the centre spindle with a pile of singles, and then lift the whole bunch up to play over again or, most annoyingly, play a new single without engaging the auto-changer ‘arm’ (don’t know the technical name) so the same record would play again and again and again…
I still can’t play certain tracks by The Who or The Kinks without a chill running down my spine. :crazy_face:

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