cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14976953
I guess I’m just Single Minded
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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.
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I always went to the album though so I think there’s still some dedicated listeners.
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
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
If you haven’t listened to her live at Electric Lady album i highly recommend. The band she has is absolutely killer.
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.
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.
Back in the 1900s, I bought the Smash Mouth CD simply because I liked Walking On The Sun.
That was a mistake.
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.
And then there is the polar opposite crowd which caused Plexamp to hava a shuffle where it shuffles whole albums instead of songs.
Hey, it’s me, I have two self released albums, and two EPs. Give me a shot: www.thassodar.com
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.
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.