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TrickDacy ,

The best listening experience is to find an album you like and listen to the whole thing.

Anything else imo is like looking at the corner of a painting and ignoring the rest.

Kichae ,

Sometimes that one brush stroke is really good, but I really do not give a shit about another still life painting.

Or always.

Yeah, always.

TrickDacy ,

You've missed out on thousands of hours of bliss.

Empricorn ,

That's what Sting said too.

loaExMachina ,

Sometimes yeah, but other times it's really just one song. For example, I really like the song "Ruler of Everything" by Tally Hall, but when I tried listening to more of their stuff I mostly didn't like it. There are also many intermediate cases. I can confidently say "Eh el Ibara" by Masar is my favorite music ever. As for the album it's from, "El 'Aysh Wel Mehl", it's a solid album, maybe in my top 12. Same for the band in general. The leader/composer Hazem Shaheen might be ranked a bit higher, like maybe my 6th or 7th favorite musician, because I also like some of the other songs he made without this band, like "Horse of Darwish". But there are more instances where I'll want to listen to just my 1 favorite song rather than to my 12th favorite album entirely.

Empricorn ,

But if listening to an entire album was necessary 100% of the time, artists wouldn't release singles.

5oap10116 ,

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

kitering ,

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.

JohnSmith ,

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.

ours ,

Which is the point of Gorillaz, so they've succeeded once more.

GraniteM ,

Since I Left You - Avalanches

5oap10116 ,

Alopecia - Why?

Keep it goin

pearable ,

The West is Dead - HMLTD

Edgarallenpwn ,
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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.

readthemessage ,

Random Access Memory could also fit the comic (with some adaptations) because it is an album different from most of Daft Punk discography

MrBusiness ,

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.

BigBananaDealer ,
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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

QuarterSwede ,
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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.

germtm_ ,
@germtm_@lemmy.world avatar

exactly my thought process of discovering new music.

IrateAnteater ,

I'm a mix of both. That's why I pay for Spotify, and also own a turntable setup. Sometimes I just want single tracks, sometimes I want to sit down and listen to the entire album. There are some albums where I'll only listen to the entire thing.

atro_city ,

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.

Norgur ,
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And then there is the polar opposite crowd which caused Plexamp to hava a shuffle where it shuffles whole albums instead of songs.

glimse ,

That's me, I love full albums.

Thassodar ,

Hey, it's me, I have two self released albums, and two EPs. Give me a shot: www.thassodar.com

glimse ,

Ok I will today

glimse ,

Off to a strong start here. Are the horns sampled, a VST, or are you playing? My biggest struggle with music is getting instruments I can't play (horns, as an example) to sound how I'm hearing them in my head

I'm not drawing a comparison to the music itself but it reminds me of what I like about 3 artists in particular: A Cloud For Climbing, Broke For Free, and Mesita. They, and you, layer a lot of sounds in a way that pleases me.

Thassodar , (edited )

So most of the horns are samples, for example Beaches in My Sand is all samples. Doing Things With Stuff is actually a BBC Symphonic Orchestra VST I got for free a few years ago, so I was doing things with that stuff, if you get what I mean.

Recently I've been incorporating my own custom sub bass, like in Smoky Whispers and Whatchudoin' (SoundCloud).

A lot of my Jamns from January have custom sub bass, but those are 14 one minute tracks I did for a challenge.

EDIT: I forgot: Midnight Funk Train had a ton of horns, but it's all samples. The "flute box" in the middle of the song is several flute samples I threw on a drum rack and came up with a "solo" for them.

glimse ,

I liked Leveling Up and now I'm listening to your newest release

Infernal_pizza ,
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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

glimse ,

I loved every song featuring Remi Wolf but just could not get into her music....then like a year later it clicked and now I fuckin love Remi Wolf. I think I was too focused on the specific things I liked about her in the features and and missed out on what else she had to offer

PoopingCough ,

If you haven't listened to her live at Electric Lady album i highly recommend. The band she has is absolutely killer.

glimse ,

Dude that's the EXACT set that did it for me lol

I had listened to her studio stuff and it just wasn't hitting...but after hearing the live set, I went back and loved it all. I'm kicking myself for not seeing her live

pantyhosewimp ,

Please forgive me for listing these but right now we’ve got:

  • Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix
  • Electric Landlady by Butthole Surfers
  • Electric Lady by Remi Wolf

I await more references.

PoopingCough ,

Well Electric Lady is the name of the studio that live album was recorded at, which is a studio in NYC that Jimi commissioned, so those two at least are related.

OptiMoose ,

Saaaaaame. When she played in my city I only liked Photo ID so I skipped her show, but now I have that, Sugar, Cinderella, Anthony Kedis, and Hello Hello Hello on HEAVY rotation.

oxideseven ,

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.

Reddfugee42 ,

Back in the 1900s, I bought the Smash Mouth CD simply because I liked Walking On The Sun.

That was a mistake.

TheRedSpade ,

I made a closely related comment just a few days ago. Odd that it came up again so soon.

umbrella ,
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you might as well be walking on the sun

BigBananaDealer ,
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what!?!? fush yu mang is a banger of an album. i love the fonz and padrino

wjrii , (edited )

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.

oxideseven ,

So true. All 3 of those are great examples too. I can barely pick out a song from any of them, but you won't need to lol.

can ,

sad musicians noises

I always went to the album though so I think there's still some dedicated listeners.

Grippler ,

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.

DoctorWhookah ,

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.

amlor ,

That’s because Dark Side of the Moon is a single track 🙃

RidcullyTheBrown ,

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.

Grippler ,

I guess OP was mostly talking about regular albums which are mostly just collections of disjoint songs

No I'm talking music in general. I don't really care that they have some artistic intention with their album as a whole, if I don't like a track I'm moving on. I don't get why anyone would listen to music they don't enjoy.

Grippler ,

I just can't be bothered listening to tracks I don't like, especially in this day and age where I don't have to swap CDs/tapes to listen to a track from a different artist.

spookex ,

Meanwhile me with only Money and Another Brick in the Wall as the only Pink Floyd tracks in the whole digital library

SorteKanin ,
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I have this thing as well. In general I'm really picky with music, I'd say I don't like most songs. But once in a while I find one song by some artist I like and the rest of their songs I don't like. It's weird.

lugal ,

The moment when you realize the only good song was a cover...

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