Do you play the same records over and over again?

mahler123 Listening to the Abbado CSO, the 4th movement with Horne grabbed me, and led me down the rabbit hole of Urlichts!

Through Jessye Norman et al. and finally Kathleen Ferrier.  That of course led me down the Kathleen Ferrier path (after I stopped weeping).  Her Urlicht (and almost everything else she performs) truly moves me to tears, probably a mix of her voice and her early death.

I find myself wishing that she had lived longer, or had lived later, to really hear her voice.  I remember hearing her on my uncle Arthur's gramophone in the early '50s singing "What is life" and "Blow the wind Southerly".

Apologies if this is off topic but mahler123's correction led me to a wonderful, moving, morning! 

I used to and then buy another copy, but with streaming, I’ve only bought 5-6 new records this year.

Depending on what's going on in life, (health, relationships, etc), I can get stuck in a rut where I can't listen to anything new. So I keep playing the same 50 or so albums, until I break out of the rut. Whereupon I'm then receptive to new stuff for a while until the next slump.

I'm a lot like the poor guy in this video https://youtu.be/sFoUht6QA0o?si=CQb-S9RG1Wm_UDIy

@mulveling 

Is your record collection growing? 3000 is a lot of records.

How do you decide what to listen to? Do you have a master index of all your recordings?

Do you have any 45s? 

I don't, but I miss that. I get so many new records in my life that I am almost always playing the newest, or the ones I haven't played in a long time. When I owned 100 records, and loved twenty of them madly, it was as if they were family members. They became part of my world view, part of my personality, in a way few things did.

These days, I might find one or two records a year that I play repeatedly (like almost every day). I'm now in a phase of wanting to touch as much of the music world as I can before I leave the planet. And it is wonderful, in many ways. But obsessively loving a very few pieces of music - I seem to have lost that ability. 

As I said, I miss that. It might have more to do with the law of diminishing returns, and how large I view the world in my older age. I don't know...

David