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Whenever I hear a song I like for the first time, I go to the album to listen to it in context. Artists (foe the most part) put their songs together in a specific order and I want to view it through that lens. Sometimes it’s trash and you move on, but sometimes you find “perfect albums”. They take you on an adventure through the course of the album
Some of mine are:
Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
The Mistress - Yellow Ostrich
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Plastic Beach - Gorillaz
Daylight - Aesop Rock
And many more
How can people not listen to all of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea when they hear one song from it? It’s works so well as a collected piece
Also, people need to check out You Can’t Stop the Bum Rush by Len. Cryptic Souls Crew and Beautiful Day are better than Steal My Sunshine IMO.
My first listen to Plastic Beach, I hated it. As I had bought it on a whim and money was tight at the time, I gave it a few more shots over the next couple of months and now it’s one of my favorites. It’s probably the album that convinced me to give music I don’t immediately like a second chance.
Almost all albums I love most took several listens to get into. Music that sounds great on first listen often becomes boring quickly. More challenging stuff takes its time but in the end delivers much more pleasure.
Thank you, I don’t see many people talk about Aesop Rock. Been my favorite artist for a while now, so many hits and great collabs.
aesop rock is like hip hops version of elvis costello for me. obviously very talented, i like quite a few songs, but i always feel like i just dont quite get it
I’m not relating to this one, I generally only listen to full albums. I’ll get into an artist and stick with their entire discography for a while. But I’m also a fairly picky listener. And I typically hate modern pop.
I hate it when I find a song I really like but it’s a collab between 2 artists and neither of them have anything else that sounds similar
I’m even more mad when it’s a single song from 1 artist that is just different from their usual. Nothing else they do is similar and you’ll never get more hahah. It makes the song special but still.
Dora Jar - Did I Get It Wrong, comes to mind.
There is danger the other way as well. You hear a song, and you like it, but it turns out everything the artist does is so samey that there was no reason at all to listen to any of the rest of the album or discography. 90s me can think of Live’s Throwing Copper and the collected works of Hootie & the Blowfish, and 2010s me remembers Mumford & Sons.
Back in the 1900s, I bought the Smash Mouth CD simply because I liked Walking On The Sun.
That was a mistake.
Very relatable. I have entire discographies with only about a song an album I like. It’s kinda difficult to let go of the entire rest of the album without being sure I can access it at some point in the future.
I’ve heard pretty mid songs that turned out to be incredible albums and I’ve heard amazing songs where it’s the only good track. But I always try to listen to an entire album in most cases. There’s so much good music out there, just under the surface.
Totally. If I hear a really good song sometimes I’ll do a hyper study over a period of time listening to every album, all collabs, the collaborator’s albums, and so on. Definitely did this more when I was younger. But when I hear that sound, it’s mission time.
I always try to listen to an entire album in most cases
I just look for the Best Of album if its an older song.
I’ve done that with artists on spotify but end up not really finding anything then I try on YouTube and find a bunch, it’s hit or miss what their popular* songs are on different platforms and if I’ll like them or not
That does suck. Sometimes you just need to go to the artist’s website and see if you can download the album or buy the vinyl.
When I was younger I loved listening to full albums but now I kinda hate it. I make exceptions sometimes though.
I mean, if you’re listening to a concept album, then you’re really missing out if you’re not listening to it end-to-end.
David Bowie’s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars” is this rising and falling ballad of an alien who visits earth on the eve of the apocolypse.
My Chemical Romance’s “Black Parade” builds up this soundscape of different numbers in an effort to emulate a carnival.
One of my favorite indie bands, the Protomen, have this entire track list that dramatically recreates the story behind the Megaman video game. Their sequel is this very folk-western prologue with some banger original tracks that get so much better as you move from song to song. Some songs lead directly into one another to create this rising tension that ends in a cathertic heavy metal payoff.
I’ll admit I’m a shameless fan of Progressive Rock. Maybe this holds less true in other genres.
This is how I feel about all bands/artists…they may have a one or two songs that I like and the rest of their discography is not something I want to listen to at all.
I feel that way about some, but certainly not all. I can’t imagine only listening to a single track from say Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.
Concept albums are meant to be listened in their entirety so it makes sense. Pink Floyd is a band notorious for concept albums, but they’re not the only ones. If you’re an Arctic Monkeys fan, you’ll probably not listen to just one song from Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. In spotify which shows the number of listens per song, it shows that all songs on Tranquility Base have the same number of listens (some more than others, but not by an order of magnitude).
I guess OP was mostly talking about regular albums which are mostly just collections of disjoint songs. It’s probably happening less now that people consume music one song at a time, but there are numerous examples of artists releasing one good song and then a bunch of filling around it and pass it as an album. If you were playing a CD (or a cassette if you’re old enough), chances are you’d listen to the rest of the album anyway and eventually like it through repetition. For example, with spotify again, if I’m looking at Cowboy Carter by Beyonce, “Texas Hold’em” has 340 million listens and all the rest are below 20 thousands.
