Informal Reader Poll: What Was Your Last Heavy Rotation Album?

When I was fifteen, GWAR’s This Toilet Earth spent approximately six uninterrupted weeks in my Discman. Everywhere I went, I listened to that record. Sure, at home I probably put on other stuff, but when I was out and about in New York, This Toilet Earth was my only solace. It was hitting the perfect spot for my teenage metal appetite, so I really didn’t need anything else.

Growing up, I used to have albums like that all the time — Chaos AD, Fabulous Disaster, Firedemon. This was partly because metal was new to me and I wanted to absorb the records I loved with a sense of rabid fandom. But in retrospect, part of the reason I put these albums into heavy rotation was that I was using a portable CD player and carrying around a bunch of CDs was a real pain in the ass.

These days, when I have Spotify, YouTube, and my own vast iTunes collection at my fingertips, it can be easy for me to say, “BORED” and jump to something else. It’s not that I don’t return to the albums–if I like a record, I’ll play it a bunch, just not in that same rabid nonstop way. But when music is a bunch of ones and zeros in the cloud (as you can see, I have no fucking idea how computers work), it’s ard to get as attached to it. mAs Vince pointed out to me, the only albums that really get heavy rotation are old ones, where the nostalgia factor and the antiquated format are part of the appeal.

So you tell us: what was the last album you put into heavy rotation? What was the last record you listened to over and over again for days at a time? Do fans still do that? Let us know in the comments section.