Albums that admit of no follow-up in your listening session

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So, you're listening to music all day, one album after another (to be trad about it), when you get to the end of *that* album - the one that you fall in love with and, once it ends, leaves you stymied as to what you could possibly play next that would satisfy at all. The feeling is akin to reaching the end of a fantastic book. In some ways you feel like silence is better than anything else at that point.

I somehow feel that not all great albums can trigger this phenomenon -- only some; but I can't quite put my finger on why this is.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Anyhow, for me today (and often), this album was The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society. Anything else will pale right now, in the context of the sonic world it has created, so I'm presently listening to crickets, as it were.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Godspeed You Black Emperor all the way...and Deefhoof.

― Tynan DeLong (TynanTynan!), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

"In a Silent Way" . . . I almost always play it twice in a row for this very reason.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

I know what you're saying but how about music that makes you absolutely crave more of the same? (indie edition:)Recently listened to Vetiver's Between EP, had to listen again, still had a fix so I listened to their debut full-length, hit the spot but I had run out of catalog, knew better than to try Devendra cause that's a whole nother thing so I stooped to consulting Amazon "people who bought this also liked..." downloaded some artists who utterly failed me(six organs of admittance, white magic, magic numbers? yawn) went to Joanna Newsom which didn't scratch the itch but satisfied in its own way, more or less. It's frustrating but a nice problem to have from time to time.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

That sounds like the feeling I'm getting at, tremendoid, just that my response (put nothing on at all) is the lazy one.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

Yo La Tengo defenitely. The Smiths too.
But the biggest effect of this is Endrtoducing by DJ Shadow.

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Thursday, 15 December 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

This almost fits the thread .. I was listening to a live Go-Betweens recording from last year.... on came Darlinghust Nights. I had to keep repeating it, because I couldn't think of anything else that would follow it.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Thursday, 15 December 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

Back in better days, I would turn off the car radio after an R.E.M. song. Regardless of what the station would play next, it would sound histrionic and juvenile.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 15 December 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

Often I'll just start the record over again and listen from the beginning.

― Mr. Silverback (Mr. Silverback), Thursday, 15 December 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

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