Steeleye Span …All their early albums up to about 2000. I’ll binge on them exclusively for 2-3 months them drop them for 16-24, then come back. Been doing this 20 years or more.
If not in a Steeyeye mood then the following:
Mary McClasin…“Prairie in the Sky” and “Old Friends”
Carlene Carter…1st 3 albums
Creedence…Selected tunes
Fleetwood mac…Tusk
Gerry Rafferty…“Can i have my Money back” and “City to City”
I’ve tried it but it isn’t for me. I find I get sick of the band pretty fast if it is new music. I can only handle one album of new. Music at a time anymore.
I tried binge listening to led Zeppelin 1-4 recently. I got sick of them and didn’t appreciate the music much.
However I will binge listen to stuff I already have heard and know I like.
I definitely do this from time to time, but it’s been awhile since I’ve binged. During various periods of my life, there is just certain music that speaks to me. In the early 2000s, I binged on Sleater-Kinney; in the mid-to-late-90s, Smashing Pumpkins. Mid-90s, I went through a Phish phase. By “binge” I mean listen to almost nothing but that particular band for weeks and sometimes months at a time. I’m not talking one-day type things. That I’ve done many of. I don’t bother with chronology in my binges, usually. Sometimes I fixate on one or two particular albums; other times I go haphazardly through their whole catalog, but sticking to albums as whole cohesive units. When I binge, it’s usually because I’m using the music as a way to get through difficult or just very emotional times in my life and a certain artist just speaks to me, or the music just has the right vibe for me and allows me to channel my emotions in a non-destructive manner.
ETA: Oh, but not always. I sometimes binge on single albums, but I don’t know if you want to call it a “binge” per se, as it’s not quite as exclusive as these other times I’m talking about, and it doesn’t have the emotional connection in terms of a way of letting off mental and emotional energy: it’s just an album I really, really love at the time. The most recent binges of these types were the Pretenders first album, Television’s Marquee Moon, My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless, The Kinks We Are The Village Green Preservation Society and actually most of the New Pornographer’s discography. So I guess the last one fits the “binge” descriptor as given in the OP, but there’s a different reason for me for binging on that one. Those tend to be albums that I fixate on when running or ice skating or something like that.
I think I’ve always done this, but didn’t have a name for it.
I tend to get into a certain attitude or style that I want to hear so I’ll load up everything from a band and listen to them chronologically from first album first track through to the last track on the most recent album I own. I do that with Def Leppard, Queen, Styx, Eagles, and others that have been around and steadily producing albums for a long time.
For some others artists that I like but don’t own much of their output, I tend to cluster them around their commonalities, so I’ll load Deep Purple, Rainbow, Dio, and Whitesnake all into my phone and play album after album after album.
Is that called Binge-Listening?
Okay.
Did it need a name?
Okay.
–G!
I’ve binge listened to Patsy Cline several times.
More recently I binge listened to Franki Valli after the Jersey Boys movie – not a very good movie but it reminded me how much I loved their music back in the day.
Had to check to see if I had already posted to this threa. Because that is the predominant way I listen to music these days. I pick out a band ( or 2 or 3 or 4 ) and 1-10 favorite albums and run through them all, looping back repetitively often to favorite tracks. Lik GreenElf I will occasionally fixate on a band enough to start going bak to research them some more/read old interviews/reviews and whatnot.
But then I’m only occasionally adding in new music these days. If I do it is usually new old music ( i.e. new to me, but not modern ). I’ve largely fallen out of touch with the current music scene in the last 5-8 years or so.
I’ve been bingeing Duran Duran lately, since I got their latest record, bought some of their previous work, and got to see them in concert at The Hollywood Bowl in October. I’m bingeing their videos on YouTube too.
I’ll sometimes do this before gigs but at the moment I’m studiously avoiding hearing any of Mercury Rev’s new album so I can hear it totally fresh when I see them do it live in a week or two!
But I have been known to binge on various artists, most recently the Young Rascals/Rascals. I don’t have all their stuff but I have most of it and it’s like a potted history of the 60s music scene, from the covers they used to do at local weddings to massive pop hits and into psychedelia and concept albums with gospel singers, jazzy songs lasting whole (vinyl) sides and eclectic instrumentation! Or Van Der Graaf Generator/Peter Hammill - usually just selected albums but occasionally everything (65 or so official releases plus bootlegs). That takes a while…
At work recently I spent about two days listening to nothing but Bartok…
Ever heard Heath Ledger doing that Franki Valli song?
Fuck yes.
Fax Riggs right now. I strongly recommend anyone to check it out. Specifically the album “we sing of only blood or love”