Do you play the same records over and over again?

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

@emergingsoul ”How do you decide what to listen to?
 

l believe most music lovers need no prompting. They generally know on the spur of the moment what appeals in that moment. If not, a quick look along the spines in the record rack something will “pop out” and that title will be chosen.

After all if the record is in your collection, surely it must be of value, or appreciated for it to be still in there?

Since April 2020 my goal was to play my entire vinyl collection. I made the decision to play only 1 side to speed up the process. During this time period I have added nearly 1000 albums bringing my total to around 2400. Currently have played over 98% of the entire collection with the vast majority of the unplayed being sealed, only a handful of bottom feeders(content/condition) are left to be possibly played. My 2026 focus will be trimming the fat from the collection and component upgrades.