Ok - I was surprised to notice the low 'play count' number on most of my songs in my iTunes library...
When I was a young teenager I literally wore out cassette tapes from being played so much. Whilst it may be cheesy or embarrassing now I recall wearing out KISS - Dynasty and KISS Unmasked on cassette... later U2 War also took a beating...
What album have you flogged to death?
Mmmm where do I start, yep looking back some where embarrassing and fairly commercial .
Bob Dylan - Desire
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
Eagles - Hotel California
Stones - Heaps of them - Exile on Main Street, Sticky Fingers, Some Girls.
Yes - Close to the Edge. (went to sleep to this album for ages around 15yo.)
David Bowie - Changes One (was the first cassette I bought when I got my license and stuck a sound system in my vw beetle that was worth more than the car, it then took me months to be able to afford anything else so it was on high rotation for a while).
Led Zepplin - Houses of the Holy, iv.
Yeah in the teenage years and into my twenties I spent half my life in my car cruising around town or road tripping down South, so def listened to heaps of music.
Both my Queen tapes got worn out 'day at the races' and 'night at the opera' also all the 'hooked on' series and 'tubular bells'
Yeah U2 tapes copped a flogging. Had to buy a second rattle and hum cos i wore it out.
Also I had one mixed tape that lived in the car stereo that copped it for ten years probably. I can still remember the songs in order. Mixed tapes were awesome. All of what you wanted and none of the ****e.
my first cent went on a cassette, dead kenedys that i bought of the neighbor. thrashed music. talking heads, little creatures. kevin bloody wilson that mum got me for chrissy. she freaked but loved the album haha. rage against the machine. f...k i thrash all my music still to this day.
Wish you were here Pink Floyd 
I still love it.
Verses Pearl Jam, I have even tried to stop listening to so I dont get sick of it but I always come back to it. Eddie Vedder is a master IMO 
Actually I never wore out an album but I played some heaps.
Tubular Bells (side 1)
Yes - Close to the Edge
Perfect Angel - Minnie Ripperton (imagine a house full of scum bikers rocking out to Minnie.)
Gratitude - Earth, Wind and Fire (a tight, full power horn section will out rock any scuzzy rock band with amps turned up to 11.)
No Mystery - Return to Forever (Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Al Di Meola with chops to blow your ears and your fingers)
Reach For It - George Duke (take Frank Zappa, add some chick singers and a heap of funk)
Dawg Music - Dave Grisman (blue grass/jazz mandolin)
I went to heaps of concerts when I was young and they were religious experiences. I still go to concerts and enjoy them but I don't get lost in the moment the way I did as a kid. I'm guessing it has something to do with the immature brain of the young be more open to suggestion.
I have been to a few shows recently that were outstanding and highly enjoyable but not earth shaking (Jeff Beck, Earth Wind and Fire several years ago, and Chris Botti)
@ Gorgo, Tubular Bells is def a fave. My old man used to play that all the time and I still have it on my iPod its a classic and Mike did it all him self
Richard Clapton- Goodbye Tiger. A must have for northern beaches Puberty Blues days.
Sex Pistols- Never Mind the Bollocks. Just fun when punk hit.
Chisel - east had most CC tapes but i think this one copped the bigest flogging and then bought another when it wore out.
Hoodoos - Kinky
The cure - Wish
and Imo the best Rock album ever, def leapards hysteria 
Spy v spy Trash the Planet
Christ i am a Baboon
As a wee one The Saggy Baggy Elephant (45 vinyl with picture book)
My older brothers/sister used to listen to Manfred Man, Cat Stevens, The Beatles and Fleetwood Mac so I used to listen to those a lot.
The Lime Spiders: Headcleaner etc. Mick Blood had a voice bordering on strep throat
Pixies: Doolittle and Bossanova
The Scientists.
Fugazi: Repeater and Red Medicine
Ride: Going Blank Again
Swervedriver: Raise, Mezcal Head and Ejector Seat Reservation
Mudhoney: Superfuzzbigmuff and 5 dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew
Dead Kennedies: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, Frankenchrist and Plastic Surgery Disasters
Not as a teenager but I have nearly worn a hole in them
Slayer: Diabolus in Musica and God Hates Us All.
Mastadon: Remmission, Crack the Skye, Blood Mountain, Leviathan
I had a CD with all the TOOL albums on it in my car for nearly a whole year, it was all i would listen to. still love it!
Lateralus is the best album by far! i reckon their new album will cop allot of play time too, when it eventually comes out that is.
Deadmau5 discography also cops a hammering in my car!
Ha ha - never wore out an album as I used to listen to each shiny new record once - checking optimum record levels on a decent cassette deck - then transfer to cassette on the 2nd pass and tuck the fragile black platter back away and flog the cassette to death.
U2's 1st 4 albums copped an absolute hiding till the cass was all stretched and saggy sounding.. then I taped a new copy again.
EDIT: Oh also a cass given to me by a girlfriend with A-side: New Order - 'Low Life' with B-side: Blue Ruin - 'Such sweet thunder' got LOADS and LOADS of listens. Still have that cass today.
In recent years I got really stuck on the Eels Souljacker (till I had to ban it from my own car) and a compliation of The Be Good Tanyas.
as a teenager i wore out 4 albums until they were unplayable:
raw power- iggy and the stooges
london calling- the clash
great truckin songs of the renaissance- tism
small change- tom waits
Great Thread GPA 
Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
The Jam - Setting Sons (Dad - Mr small business - hated it - so I loved it - downloaded last week and getting caned in the car - kids love it)
Earlier - KISS - Alive (again dad hated it)
Under a Blood Red Sky (U2), 10 to 1 (midnight Oil), You Have the Right to Remain Silent (The Radiators)
kids bought me a machine that puts your vinyl onto the computer then to CD/mp3.
Its great resorting the old albums. got Eurythmics and U2 ready for a roadtrip in 2 weeks. favourite oldy so far is Iron maiden , Number of the beast.
I seem to have collected a lot of live albums they just seem right for the stereo in the car
they just seem right for the stereo in the car
Tim Buckly "GREETINGS FROM LA" went through two of em....working on wearing out a CD now
australian
daddy cool, black sorrows, masters apprentices, richard clapton
overseas
santana, black magic women, jethro tull osibisa, isley brothers who's that lady, blondie guess who american women,, marianne faithfull broken english especially the copy that was banned stones sympathy for the devil tim buckley get on top of me women
trouble was in the morning after a party getting the records back into the covers and cleaning the bourbon of them... **** what a mess
Nirvava, Nevermind. It ended up playing the other side backwards in sections (twisted tape?). That happened to the best bits of most tapes I recorded off the radio too. I think the show was called 9 o'clock culture shock, on 3d radio in Adelaide.
had it on tape and it used to drive my mates mad!! 
