listening to an album all the way through.

I always listen to whole albums all the way through.

I did so even when I used my computer as my main music listening source, but have now returned to using my CD player almost exclusively, so it's even more of a given to listen to albums all the way through.

It's one of my annoying traits at work that probably pisses off my co-workers, insisting that we listen to whole albums as much as possible and resolutely sticking out even a mediocre release to the very end.

SIDES.

you could have said what the guardian said in one sentence, that link is gratuitous.

Already discussed and summarily dismissed here.

if i'm on the ipod or computer i rarely let it go longer than 3 or 4 songs at a time unless it's a first listen. if i'm listening to a record i tend to let it go all the way through, even when i'm not interested, almost to the point of absurdity (3 LP live albums, for example). putting on a record requires more effort than opening a file, so i feel this weird obligation to finish the damn thing.

I nearly always listen to albums all the way through

I spend probably 75% or so of my music listening listening to albums all the way through. I'm certainly not above skipping a song I don't like, but I don't usually do that until I've familiarized myself with the album.

The other 25% is clicking random shit on Youtube haha.

500 thrusting Thatcherkid "what's an album?" posts to follow.

Actually, it's probably more like 60-40. xp

Note to journalists - the mechanics of how people listen to music alone is not interesting.

Porcupine Tree. Gary Louris. All the big names.

uh in stylus it was quite often. xp

I can see how it would be interesting to marketers, or to certain musicians perhaps, but to other listeners? Why? If you're talking to someone about a book they've read, do you really care whether they read it in long sittings in their armchair or in snatched minutes on the Tube?

get record, needle hop, listen to the bits that interest me, rest will get absorbed as time goes by. sometimes i just put stuff on and leave it when i want some background noise. but thats different, just being lazy cuz i can't be arsed to change it. although this doesn't apply to stuff like improv, noise, drone, minimalism and newer classical and jazz stuff.

why? experience innit, i'd guess that less than 10% of all the stuff i own i could enjoy in one sitting.

Like everything, it depends on the ability of the writer to make the reader interested (xp).

I really like the idea of doing this, but find I rarely have the patience nowadays, and usually skip a couple of tracks in the second half of albums. There are a handful of records I'm always happy to listen to all of - Abbey Road, Hunky Dory, Dummy off the top of my head.

I've listened to two albums all the way through today. They were by Royksopp and Sepultura. Apparently I am suffering from severe mood swings.