cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14976953
I guess I’m just Single Minded
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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.
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.
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.
Ngl the rest of the album is often trash
It’s not. Most of Pink Floyd’s Animals album is trash, except for Sheep which I think we can all agree on being a fucking great song from a great band.
Steven King’s The Dark Tower series is trash, except for The Gunslinger (and, okay, the final chapter of the final book The Dark Tower), which I think we can all agree on being a fucking great book from a great author.
The Lamiids’s Solanum species of plants is poisonous trash, except for Tomatoes which I think we can all agree on being a fucking great fruit from a fucking great subclade.
That’s rarely true for me. I hear a great song and the rest of the album is generally great.
this comic is actually one of the reasons i really like sitting down and listening through the full discog of a band/artist.
It’s genuinely so much more enjoyable than spotify and streaming.
spotify, the service notorious for song recommendations and not serving people the entire artists discog.
“hey did you know you can just listen to their albums?”
yes i knew that. That’s not the point. This is literally an entire comic panel dedicated to the phenomenon. If you actually have the works of an artist/band you are significantly more likely to listen through it all the way. As opposed to streaming, where you often just let the recommendations take you through, or a playlist. Often not containing an entire album of music.
i use spotify everyday and have listened to thousands of full albums, discovering something new everyday. am i just using spotify wrong? how are people using spotify?
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.
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.
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.