At my house I almost exclusively listen to records.
I put it on, listen to the whole thing and put the next one on.
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Problem is it can sometimes be too samey, so it just blends together after a while.
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Listening to album is a way to listen to a full story. While I listen to some Bollywood movie album, it feels like watching the movie again and going through that story
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Absolutely not, most albums have a bunch of skippable junk between the interesting stuff, and exist best as a few tracks on a mixtape. There are a small number of albums that are best experienced as a single piece - e.g Pink Flag, In The Court Of The Crimson King, Woof. - but they're exceptions rather than the norm.
i'm younger but i feel the same way. i almost always listen to albums exclusively, and it's probably the only thing i don't enjoy about being a community radio dj - they tell us not to even play more than a single song by the same artist in an hour.
on the one hand, people put likely hundreds of hours total into a single album, and the album as a whole is the only way to truly appreciate the entire piece of art. on the other hand, it is a small issue to feel better than other people with, lmao. & i would argue the majority of albums have at least a few songs that aren't as good.
oh and as long as we're here, since you're already using lemmy, you might be open to spotify alternatives. consider qobuz, they pay artists significantly more.
Yeah, I never really got it when people started listening to things on shuffle. I like albums. I recently got rid of Spotify and going back to just having albums and VLC on my phone is so nice.
I believe that this was the reason Tool took so long to go on streaming platforms.
It's not all art, especially when labels and PR folks are involved. How much say in set order or even content of an album the artists get varies.
There are maybe a dozen albums I like enough to listen to from head to toe.
If a lot of cases, the band knows they only have a few really good tracks and struggle to put enough on the album for it to sell.
Great album you are listening to.
I feel the same way as well, I will always listen to albums / EPs and very rarely a playlist of random songs mashed together. In general I don't really care for playlists at all.
Quite often there will be one song on an album I will skip though, usually the wanky ballad on a metal album for example, and I'm OK with that. But if an album has one or two great songs and the rest is shite I just won't ever listen to those "great" songs really either.
I want the whole listening experience, not just a list of songs from all different artists.
good albums should
there are lots of albums that aren't good albums
that said, the albums I listen to often are absolutely front to back listening
God one of my favorite albums of all time is Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever by Explosions in the Sky.
While I enjoy shuffling my music for the chaos my library brings, the way each song blends into each other in the studio album is my absolute favorite. It really makes the experience
A couple of years back I was on the tier of music that came with Amazon Prime. One day they decided that listening to albums in order was a premium feature, and if have to pay extra for that.
I suspect Spotify never had as many subscribers sign up as they did that day.
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I always listen to album tracks in sequence, either from the start or from in inner track. love to get into the groove, I don’t think I’ve played tracks randomly for years. Obligatory fk Spotify.
Vol. II by Angine de Poitrine is definitely a good example of requiring a front to back listen. Not because the songs connect per se, but the novelty never seems to die when you listen to it this way.
It's like the difference between getting one spot on your body massaged every day, and getting a head to toe massage every day. But it's my brain/ADHD being massaged.
except Tool's Lateralus while on psychedelics, absolutely skip that last song.
I agree, but I also think they need to be composed to be listened to in that manner. But to take it even further, I think the highest expression is something which is both audio and visually captivating; a complete creation. My classic favorite of this is the Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem by Daft Punk.
A recent example of this for me: I love my computer, Ninjarachi
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A lot of modern artists just release singles, which makes it really difficult to know where to start or how they want me to discover their sound.