Not just a cut, not a bunch of songs you have compiled, but an entire album as released by a studio. If you done this, what album was it?
I listed to Rutles Highway Revisited, a Rutles tribute album about an hour ago. You?
Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young and Crazy Horse about a month ago. The album was meant to be played all the way through. I played it just because it was time to re-listen to a classic the way it was meant to be.
After I finished my work yesterday afternoon, I sat back and fired up Bob Dylan’s most recent, Shadow Kingdom.
For more than one record, probably never. For both sides of a record, maybe when I was 16. For just one side it would be the last time I listened to Alice’s Restaurant, so maybe 3 years ago.
I’ll play. Every now and then and as recently as last month I listened to the entire “Kind of Blue”
Miles Davis album. It holds up and helps take me back to the heyday of my teens. There are others
from that era that I’ll play again (all of the cuts) when things need a fresh point of view.
Steely Dan’s “Aja” is another of that ilk.
And there are several of the early Mancini things that help me remember better times.
I’m curious how others will respond. Good question!
For me, it’s been at least 15 years. We don’t have a CD player or a turntable. While I’m sure it’s possible to stream an album, I haven’t stopped to figure out how.
Pinball Wizard (The Who’s verstion) came on this morning, and I thought about listening to the whole Tommy album again. That would be fun.
I ONLY listen to entire albums non stop … last one was Deadwing - Porcupine Tree
Same here. I don’t do shuffle. Entire albums only. I’ve been revisiting my childhood recently by working my way through Blue Oyster Cult’s discography. I stopped following them in the mid-80s. I pretty much only listen to music in the car. I’m currently in the middle of the album they put out in 2001, which I don’t remember the name of.
I almost never listen to an entire album, but by coincidence I just happened to put on Judas Priest’s Screaming for Vengence a little while ago and I’m currently on the last song of the album.
Before that was Derelicts by Carbon Based Lifeforms a couple of weeks ago. I will occasionally (maybe once every month or two) put either this album or Interloper to play in the background while I’m doing things on the computer.
Yesterday - Tui, Pretty Little Mister. (One of my favorite albums.) We have a radio/CD player on the kitchen counter, and rotate a stack of 10 or so CDs that are standing next to it. Play through an album or 2 at least every other day or so.
Last LP was a couple of weeks ago, Johnny WInter, Nothing But the Blues. The record player is in the basement.
My PC & phone music players use my cloud account. Which holds ~500 ripped CDs. Those always play in album mode. Always. But I don’t bother very often, maybe 2 hours per month.
It’s kinda rare I get through a whole album before switching off to do something else for awhile. But when I come back it picks up where I left off. SO maybe that’s one album straight thorugh and maybe not; ask the OP.
I sometimes FF though an especially crappy song, but more often I’ve deleted those already. So I play my album-minus-1-shitty-song straight through. Whether that’s good enough for the OP is up to them.
Far more often than any of the above I play a subset of those ripped CDs in the car.
And those are always set to play tunes in alpha order by title. Which means no albums. Not even any consistency of genre. Jazz followed by classical, followed by disco, followed by New Age, etc. The only sure thing is that nothing follows C&W since C&W never plays; nasty crap unworthy of my time.
I’m an album guy through and through, always was regardless of formats. So yesterday on a typical Friday evening, I streamed about 5 or 6 albums in a row, and the last one was “The Holy Bible” by the Manic Street Preachers. (others from yesterday were “Evol” by Sonic Youth, the new PJ Harvey album, two albums by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and “Phanerothyme” by Motorpsycho. A mix of new and old, like most of the times)
I’m sometimes weirdly anal about my musical habits, one quirk is that I never skip songs on albums even if I don’t like a song. Most albums to me are a special art form that deserve to be listened to like intended.
I tend to cue up an album and let it play, although I turn it off when there are interruptions of various sorts. Last ones I definitely listened to in their entirety: Trøllarbundin by Eivor Palsdottir; Why Dontcha by West Bruce & Laing; Argus, by Wishbone Ash.
If I play music (be it from an LP, from a CD or from my NAS), it’s usually a whole album. Right now, “Marquee moon” by Television is playing on the stereo.
Never?
I don’t think I’ve ever had an album that I’ve liked all the songs on enough to play thru, other than the first time. Even greatest hits albums always had several songs I didn’t like. I’m more of a like a song guy than like a band guy.
Back in the olden days, I would record individual songs to my reel to reel rather than listen to albums. It also saved me a lot of cash by borrowing friends albums to record one or two songs.
Last Album I sat and listened to from end to end was ‘Dark Side of the Moon’, probably six months ago. That’s an album that really has to be listened to as an album.
Doesn’t happen that often these days, but the “Natural Born Killers” soundtrack was the most recent one (a few weeks ago).
Probably last year when the Beatles’ Revolver: Special Edition came out.
People who listen to classical music do this a lot more frequently, I imagine. I listened to the Brahms 4th the other day. On LP. I guess that now an “album” can also refer to a CD, and I listen to numerous complete pieces, some on CD, some on LP. As for jazz or pop, I tend to do the same. Someone mentioned Aja and the Beatles (especially the concept albums like Dr. Pepper) and those albums almost demand to be heard as a whole. And when I’m in the mood, an Oscar Peterson album does the trick.
I’m more of a Sprite Album man. myself.