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Originally Posted by chriskisn
As the very opposite to Becca, I can't understand people who buy one album by an artist. If I buy one, I'll buy the entire back catalogue.
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I'm totally guilty of this. The downside to it, however, is that it makes me somewhat reluctant to fully embrace an artist who has produced a sh**load of music over a very long career. It's hard to get into a "mature" artist's music all at once- the music becomes a blur and the appreciation for that artist is nowhere near the appreciation you get by following that artist in "real time." For example, I would love to really dig deep into Neil Young's catalogue, but between all of the band albums, solo albums, bootlegs, live albums, box sets and videos, the amount of music that man has produced is just head-spinning. In recent years I have started to
get his music in a way that I haven't been able to comprehend before, but I feel like it would take me the rest of my life to fully appreciate and understand the context of his work. Bob Dylan is another one. For the most part, to my ears, listening to him is akin to listening to the grinding maw of a garbage truck. But at the same time, there is a definite
gravitas to his music that is interesting to me, and is something that I would probably understand with enough time, effort and patience. Or maybe not. Will it be worth the effort?
