How to Listen to A Full Album...
 

Am I the only person here who has trouble sitting down and listening to a full album right off the bat?

I usually have to ease myself into an album, by taking it a track at a time but for the people that can, how do you do it?

I find that if I have something else to do, like read, driving or paint etc. I can pop an album on and listen to it in its entirety, but I always get antsy to change the track.

Can anybody help me with this problem :laugh:

I have to change, too - because I usually don't like a lot of the songs when I first get the album, and want to find the good ones.
Then for a long time I listen to only the songs I liked right away.
Then very slowly I'll get used to the songs I didn't like as much originally, then after awhile I may grow to like them very much. That is especially true for quite a few of Stevie's songs.
I can listen to a whole album if I'm thinking about something else, as well.

So I can't help you. :laugh:
But that is why I am so happy when someone puts out an entire album that I think is good.

I'm the same way. What I do to listen to the whole thing is to either play it while I'm at my desk at work, or while I'm cleaning at home. That way, I won't flip through the songs and I can let them ease their way into my subconscious. ;)

I'm kind of add in that way too. I sometimes pick out favorites and head right to them.

If you have access to a turntable, listen to the vinyl rather than the CD. It's a bigger pain in the ass to change songs on LP, so the temptation kinda goes away.

Vinyl > CDs, etc.

There are too many songs I didn't like at first that soon became my favourites because I resisted skipping through them in order to listen to albums in their entirety. Some albums need to be listened to all the way through in order to appreciate them.

I noticed that to :thumbsup:

A couple of bong hits helps. :shocked: :eek: :thumbsup:

:laugh: :distress:

I have been listening to a few albums that I have not listened to in their enitrety before - and now I know why I couldn't listen to them.

I just finished listening to Pat Benetar's "Tropico" and it is awful. I listened to Paula Abdul's "Head Over Heels" and David Bowie's "Hours..." and I feel insane from all the crap that has gone through my head :laugh:

Ah yes, well, one of the things that really helps you to listen to albums all the way through is to buy good albums.

:laugh: Yes, well - you don't know if they are good albums unless you listen to them do you? :D

I usually have the same problem. There are only a couple of albums that I listen to their entirety (hmm, perhaps Roxy Music Live or a couple of Massive Attack albums).
But I guess t's normal. It's impossible to like all the songs, even when it comes to your favorite artists.
However, what I have noticed is that some songs that I used to skip eventually became my favorite tracks. :o Example: I didn't like Peacekeeper on Say you will, but after listening to it a couple of times, I never skip it anymore.