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Anyone listen to entire albums?

I assume the answer is yes since many of you run vinyl rigs, but just wondering how many around here listen to entire albums at a sitting?  In the age of instant gratification and playlists I seem to be, recently, gravitating to listening through entire albums.  I don’t have vinyl and only stream or play from a network drive so it’s easy for me to bounce around from song to song, artist to artist.  Maybe it’s a nostalgia thing but I enjoy hearing a record in it’s entirely the way the artist recorded it.  I’ve flirted with the idea of vinyl for the very reason that it seems to be a format that lends itself to listening through an entire album in one sitting.  I seem to be less inclined to make that move though now that I’ve been doing the album thing via streaming. 

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danager
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I haven't listened to an actual album (vinyl) in a really long time but there are lots of releases I listen to start to finish.  Maybe 10% of the time I'll listen to a playlist but usually the release is interesting enough to play all the way through.  I have noticed that I am listening to playlists more and more but I'm also expanding into different types of music.

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travelinjack
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Ripped all my CDs to the NAS and still listen almost exclusively to whole albums.

bdp24's avatar
bdp24
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Before the arrival of the CD each LP side was created with it's own dramatic arc, the two sides being separate entities, complete unto themselves (with the possible exception of the dreaded concept album).

I thought it would be "cute" if the record companies made CD reissues of LP's so that after the first "side" played the listener would need to again hit "Play" to hear the second side.

 

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hilde45
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Not as much as I'd like.

But free associating is fun, too.

Remember mix tapes?

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rcm1203
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Another aspect of this question; how many albums do you own that you actually like every single track on the album. Or maybe you bought it for one particular track and that turned out to be the only one you liked! Of course, that second aspect is a drawback of the olden days when you had to buy it to try it, unless you had a friend who bought it first and let you borrow it. Streaming does make things so much easier.

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