Do you listen to complete albums anymore?

[PJPro]

I always rip whole albums but almost never listen to whole albums unless I'm in the car where I only have a CD player.

 

[audioaffair]

Don't forget there are a few odd albums where the entire thing is one linear track that flows into another and a few where all songs are over one track. I think the first CD to do this (love or loathe the music!) was Prince Love Sexy where all songs were on 1 track so it had to be listened to in order. Some very long classical pieces too. But obviously these are the exceptions to the rule!

 

[the record spot]

If I'm at home, I pretty much always listen to the whole album, in order. Force of habit and listening to LPs for years took care of that. Had a big surprise when I picked up the excellent Boomtown Rats album "In The Long Grass" which I've had on LP for years. Big shock to find they'd not only had it remastered for the first appearance on CD that was far too bright, but they'd changed the order of the tracks. It's not the album I knew and the LP remains my reference for this great and highly underrated album. Avoid the CD, it's a poor facsimile and the one album I couldn't listen to in its entirety.

 

[SteveR750]

I just listened all the way through to one I just downloaded from HD tracks. If its new and I like it then I will usually play it through several times, once committed to memory I like to shuffle the songs with all the others for about 90% of the time.

 

[Trefor Patten]

Surely that's any more, not anymore... In my case whether I do or not depends on the album,

 

[SteveR750]

Trefor Patten:Surely that's any more, not anymore... In my case whether I do or not depends on the album,

Only if you are Treforpatten