Live Drugs. Very loud. It’s a regular.
With me it’s almost instantaneous a lot of the time. I said this before here in a similar thread, I knew I was going to love Smells Like Teen Spirit before I even heard a single word. All I needed was the intro music and I was hooked.
Other than theme albums, I don’t find this to be correct. Take Hotel Califonia as an example. Life In The Fast Lane is the only song I like. Hotel is a distant second and the others are not on my radar at all. I see no similarities to Fast Lane in any of them. Sure, maybe the bassist played the xyz chord while the drummer slapped on his drums in every song, but that kind of stuff is lost on me.
Yes siree! And digital improved on that. No more paying out for a LP when all you like is one song.
That is my answer as well, but it was about one month ago for me.
I’m currently listening to “We Have Been Here Before “ by Black Space Riders. Earlier today listened to Atheist’s first three albums.
When I’m working, driving, workout out I lean towards shuffle. When I’m just relaxing, I usually queue up albums, generally based on and artist or theme.
Within the last year, I listened to Joni Mitchell’s Blue, as well as Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys. I’m sure there were others I don’t remember off the top of my head.
Most days. Right now I’m listening to “The Beggar”, the new Swans album, and this morning I listened to Joe McPhee’s “Nation Time”. I do put bands on shuffle occasionally, but mostly I listen to albums.
Chris Smither “Time Stands Still”. About a month ago. When it arrived, I opened it and played it through.
Music threads always make me feel so young here.
Green Day, American Idiot. It’s kind of a concept album so it bears listening from start to finish, like some great big multi-movement concerto. I feel like it defines what it was like to be a kid in 80s & 90s suburbia and dealing with the shock of the post-911 world.
I listened to it last time I drove across state lines to visit my Aunt, in the Spring. My husband and I usually play it once on the road, and end up raving about how good it is.
I think the last album I bought and listened to in its entirety was Caro Emerald’s Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor around 2010.
I listen to music on YouTube, so I only listen to whole albums or concerts. The last album was No Need To Argue by The Cranberries.
But you could cull the gimmick tracks from your library, right? I have Neil Young’s melodious Comes A Time album… but I tossed the raucous “Motorcycle Mama” decades ago.
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Hey, music is timeless. Here’s a 70 yr old boomer who agrees with you.
Someone just asked me about all the classic bands I’d seen, and I said that Green Day’s American Idiot tour is still the most fun I’ve had at a concert.
Only if I completely deleted them. I have done just that for some tracks I can’t stand to hear at all. It would not be easy to tell my Windows Media Player to only play the track if it is part of an album being played, but to skip it when I am playing my entire library on shuffle.
Just about every day I’ll listen to a CD or two. Any one of the 1000’s I got on the shelf. Yesterday it was Thin Lizzy, Live and Dangerous
About a year ago, when it was released, I listened to Alan Parsons’ From the New World album as I added it to the shuffle. Once in a while I’ll need to hear all of Pink Floyd’s Animals.
Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield. I was folding towels and it came up on the YouTube rotation.
Anytime I hear Rocks Off played, I just let it roll through the rest of Exile. It’s such a great jam.
I listened to both sides of Tubular Bells myself while running errands two days ago.
Ludovic mentioned listening to parts of Elvis Costello albums. I attended the show on 7/5 at the Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater and several days later drove over 700 miles home. On the trip home, I played the extended versions of the first five EC albums in order. (For anyone not familiar with EC albums, that’s A LOT of tracks. Also, I count Taking Liberties in the first five. Trust is the sixth. But I also played Live at the El Mocambo for extra credit…and the bonus EP from Armed Forces.)
I literally wore out Animals and Wish. Both skip on me now. I have to dump them on a USB and play them that way now. It adds little gaps between track which kinda piss me off.
Believe it or not, I found a Brand-New copy of Dark Side in a junkyard. It still plays.
If I’m listening to a CD in the car, I usually don’t bother to skip tracks. But the last time I listened to a CD in the car was probably 5 or 10 years ago. I remember liking Flight of the Conchords’s eponymous album as driving music, as an example.
While I have a lot of playlists, both on devices and the cloud, I figure I listen to full albums 3-5 times a week. Certain types, especially ones that tell a story, really only work on album format. And that leaves out various instrumental soundtracks that I have on for mood or relaxation as background music.
Today though, were a few that were in the story format:
Dreams in the Witchhouse - A Lovecraftian Rock Opera
Charlemagne : By the Sword and the Cross
Both are awesome in different ways, and I hadn’t listened to either in the last month or two, so was in a mood.