New Album

Tarvark · 08-13-2005, 06:29 AM

When you buy an new album how do you listen to it for the first time?

Try to play it all of the way through? Skip around? Head for the first single? Dont play it right way?

Have any of you ever had an album that they couldnt finish the first time around but then grew to love?

**Bonochick** · 08-13-2005, 06:35 AM

I listen to it straight through, ASAP.

I always finish an album to give it a fair judgement, but I remember being kind of put off by The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free. Then I decided to give it another chance and listened to it straight through again one dark, rainy night while driving...and I realized just what a great damn album it is.

Aardvark747 · 08-13-2005, 06:39 AM

Hey Tarvark, the guy with name that sounds like mine!

I just whack it on and listen to it in full, to hear everything at once. Always seems to work for me!

the rockin edge · 08-13-2005, 06:49 AM

listen to it all the way through, maybe several times

impy13 · 08-13-2005, 07:16 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Aardvark747

I just whack it

Seriously though, folks. You gotta listen to it all the way through at least twice before you skip around.

Irishteen · 08-13-2005, 07:51 AM

I prefer not to really love any of the singles on a album before listening to it, give the other songs a chance, because because I loved every single from Greendays album so much every song after Boulevard of broken dreams, feels like a filing up space before wake me up when september ends. But when i bought HTDAAB, i hadn't listened to any of the songs, I didn't want to hear Vertigo, I heard Vertigo for the first time at 9am Christmas Morning, and I listened to the whole album and still do.

Zoots · 08-13-2005, 07:53 AM

All the way through at least once.

u2popmofo · 08-13-2005, 08:31 AM

All the way through.

Skippers go to hell when they die.

indra · 08-13-2005, 11:44 AM

All the way though. Preferably alone and through decent headphones. Depending on the band possibly in a chemically altered state. Not doing anything else -- just just sit back, close my eyes and listen. Loud. If I like it -- repeat the steps just listed several times.

And if it's a band I know already or a band that comes very highly recommended by a few trusted individuals, I also prefer to not have heard any songs on the album prior to hearing the whole thing. It just makes for a better listening experience to me.

Quote:

Originally posted by Tarvark
Have any of you ever had an album that they couldnt finish the first time around but then grew to love?

Yeah. Several years ago I found a cassette of Priest = Aura by The Church at Goodwill for 25 cents. I was so excited to find a Church album that I immediately popped it into my car stereo as the guy I was seeing at the time and I ran errands. Big mistake. Not only was the car stereo quite poor, but the guy was being his usual whiny bastard self, so I just didn't get anything out of the album.

A few months later I listened to the album again -- on a decent portable cassette player (still not great, but a whole lot better than the one in my poor car) and without the whiny bastard. And I thought "Wow, this is good!" so I listened to it again, and again, and again. It's one of my very favorite Church albums now(and therefore one of my favorites overall as well).

00Kevin · 08-13-2005, 01:45 PM

I listen to it all the way through twice, then start skipping the songs i don't like

Axver · 08-13-2005, 02:24 PM

I sometimes get this annoying urge where I think "OK, I'm enjoying this song, I can listen to it later, I want to know what's next and I want to know now!" So yeah, sometimes I skip simply because curiousity gets to me too much.

Lila64 · 08-13-2005, 03:07 PM

Listen to the album as a whole. Over and over and over. I know on first listen, I wasn't so sure about HTDAAB, but I had to hear it a lot before I could give it the

Even now, I generally don't skip around CDs. I push play and let it go. Unless of course you have the urge to hear a particular song at a particular moment. Which reminds me...

Bono's shades · 08-13-2005, 10:26 PM

I always listen all the way through the first time, but after that I'm sometimes a bad girl and skip tracks if I'm listening while driving or something. If I've got music on in the background while I'm on the computer I'll just let the whole thing play without skipping.

08-13-2005, 06:29 AM	#1
Tarvark Acrobat Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 447 Local Time: 05:51 PM	New Album When you buy an new album how do you listen to it for the first time? Try to play it all of the way through? Skip around? Head for the first single? Dont play it right way? Have any of you ever had an album that they couldnt finish the first time around but then grew to love? __________________

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Bonochick Halloweenhead Forum Moderator Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Cherry Lane Posts: 40,819 Local Time: 01:51 PM	I listen to it straight through, ASAP. I always finish an album to give it a fair judgement, but I remember being kind of put off by The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free. Then I decided to give it another chance and listened to it straight through again one dark, rainy night while driving...and I realized just what a great damn album it is. __________________ __________________ "Knight in shining Zubaz." Bonochick [at] interference.com

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Axver Vocal parasite Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 1853 Posts: 152,922 Local Time: 03:51 AM	I sometimes get this annoying urge where I think "OK, I'm enjoying this song, I can listen to it later, I want to know what's next and I want to know now!" So yeah, sometimes I skip simply because curiousity gets to me too much. __________________ "Mediocrity is never so dangerous as when it is dressed up as sincerity." - Søren Kierkegaard Ian McCulloch the U2 fan: "Who buys U2 records anyway? It's just music for plumbers and bricklayers. Bono, what a slob. You'd think with all that climbing about he does, he'd look real fit and that. But he's real fat, y'know. Reminds me of a soddin' mountain goat." "And as for Bono, he needs a colostomy bag for his mouth." U2gigs: The most comprehensive U2 setlist database! Gig pictures \| Blog

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Bono's shades Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: The back of beyond Posts: 5,038 Local Time: 12:51 PM	I always listen all the way through the first time, but after that I'm sometimes a bad girl and skip tracks if I'm listening while driving or something. If I've got music on in the background while I'm on the computer I'll just let the whole thing play without skipping. __________________

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08-13-2005, 06:39 AM	#3
Aardvark747 Blue Crack Addict Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Obscured By Clouds... Posts: 22,368 Local Time: 06:51 PM	Hey Tarvark, the guy with name that sounds like mine! I just whack it on and listen to it in full, to hear everything at once. Always seems to work for me!

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the rockin edge Blue Crack Addict Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: tomorrow's just an excuse away Posts: 26,816 Local Time: 11:51 AM	listen to it all the way through, maybe several times

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Irishteen Blue Crack Addict Join Date: May 2005 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 29,624 Local Time: 06:51 PM	I prefer not to really love any of the singles on a album before listening to it, give the other songs a chance, because because I loved every single from Greendays album so much every song after Boulevard of broken dreams, feels like a filing up space before wake me up when september ends. But when i bought HTDAAB, i hadn't listened to any of the songs, I didn't want to hear Vertigo, I heard Vertigo for the first time at 9am Christmas Morning, and I listened to the whole album and still do.

08-13-2005, 07:53 AM	#7
Zoots Blue Crack Supplier Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: the great beyond Posts: 36,802 Local Time: 07:51 PM	All the way through at least once.

08-13-2005, 08:31 AM	#8
u2popmofo Blue Meth Addict Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Utah Posts: 37,177 Local Time: 11:51 AM	All the way through. Skippers go to hell when they die.

08-13-2005, 01:45 PM	#10
00Kevin War Child Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Chicago Posts: 707 Local Time: 11:51 AM	I listen to it all the way through twice, then start skipping the songs i don't like

08-13-2005, 03:07 PM	#12
Lila64 Blue Crack Distributor Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: ♥Set List Lane♥ Posts: 52,894 Local Time: 10:51 AM	Listen to the album as a whole. Over and over and over. I know on first listen, I wasn't so sure about HTDAAB, but I had to hear it a lot before I could give it the Even now, I generally don't skip around CDs. I push play and let it go. Unless of course you have the urge to hear a particular song at a particular moment. Which reminds me...