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I just recently started listening to full albums again after mostly doing pandora/spotify radio, and it's quite refreshing. How do you listen to music?
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the album im working on now is a bunch of short pieces specefically to be played back on shuffle mode, so it will be different each time you listen to it. with just piece of song structure rather than whole songs, most tracks about 30 seconds long
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May 13, 2017 17:09
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I never ever listen to albums on shuffle, except for that one oval album where thats what you're supposed to do
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May 13, 2017 17:43
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Listening to an album on shuffle is like reading the chapters of a book in a random order
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May 13, 2017 17:44
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it's like having sex with one of your parents while heiling hitler and watching dubs instead of subs
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May 13, 2017 17:45
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oh, you mean like, shuffling your entire music library, or just listening to an album at a time? that's different
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May 13, 2017 17:46
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if I'm driving or working out it's usually on shuffle. if I'm listening to listen, albums are what I do.
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May 13, 2017 17:46
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shuffle song library
listen through albums
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May 13, 2017 17:46
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just to be clear though, if you listen to an album on shuffle, you're a monster
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May 13, 2017 17:46
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just to be clear though, if you listen to an album on shuffle, you're a monster
notable exceptions:
They Might Be Giants - Apollo 18 because if you listen on shuffle, all the little bits of "Fingertips" get dispersed throughout which is probably the point (note, playing it on shuffle will not make the music good, or you less of a loser nerd who listens to baby music for adults)
Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle because Cubist means things can be out of order and still be good, but the surprise is, its still not all that good
Oval - 94 diskont - pretty sure this was meant to be played on shuffle
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger - because if the album randomly shuffles into exactly reverse order, Willie Nelson appears and smokes weed with you
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May 13, 2017 17:51
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it's like having sex with one of your parents while heiling hitler and watching dubs instead of subs
dubs are great when the tv is too lores to legibly display subs
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May 13, 2017 18:23
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- byob historian
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just to be clear though, if you listen to an album on shuffle, you're a monster
after and before and after and after and before science
im def a monster but thats got nothing to do with this
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May 13, 2017 18:27
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Listening to an album on shuffle is like reading the chapters of a book in a random order
theres quite a few books written for this type of reading you know
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May 13, 2017 18:28
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i like the old school shuffle: put side 2 on before side 1
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May 13, 2017 19:13
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albums arent meant to be enjoyed in their entirety otherwise they would have been released as singles
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May 13, 2017 20:34
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just to be clear though, if you listen to an album on shuffle, you're a monster
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May 13, 2017 23:20
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This local internet radio station started resequencing albums and some of them are kind of neat. Like this example http://www.bdcwire.com/radiobdc-resequenced-the-bends/ Planet Telex as track 1 always bothered me so seeing the whole album in a different context is kind of neat.
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May 13, 2017 23:22
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I sit down with a new album and do my best to listen to it all the way through and only after many hours of reflection and pondering the meaning of the sounds and sometimes words in their intended order, only then do I venture into shuffle mode. whole albums are primarily the order which I listen to music and I am glad you asked this question.
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May 14, 2017 00:36
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This week's New Yorker has an article on Richard Russell, the head of XL Recordings. Here's a part of it:
quote:
Along a large white wall on the building’s main floor, Russell has printed instructions, in vinyl lettering, about how to listen to music:
There is a proper procedure for taking advantage of any investment.
Music, for example. Buying music is an investment.
To get the maximum you must
LISTEN TO IT FOR THE FIRST TIME UNDER OPTIMUM CONDITIONS.
Not in your car or on a portable player through a headset.
Take it home.
Get rid of all distractions, (even her or him).
Turn off your cell phone.
Turn off everything that rings or beeps or rattles or whistles.
Make yourself comfortable.
Play your CD.
LISTEN all the way through.
Think about what you got.
Think about who would appreciate this investment.
Decide if there is someone to share this with.
Turn it on again.
Enjoy Yourself.
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May 14, 2017 01:22
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I used to do the Spotify radio thing to find new songs that I liked, then when I found something I would add that album to a playlist with several other albums I found at the same time, and I'd listen to it on shuffle while riding the train. Any songs that I really liked would get added to a playlist of songs I really like and I'd listen to that on repeat.
Spotify Radio only gives me the same like 3-4 artists over and over though so these days I don't find out about new music at all and I've been listening to the same 28 song playlist for a year
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May 14, 2017 02:32
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Something has gone horribly wrong
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May 14, 2017 05:30
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I got a spotify playlist of 800 songs that's meant to be pure shuffle. Abba, gwar, muse, meatloaf, lady gaga. It's got it all.
But there are times when I sit and just listen to an album start to finish. This is usually metal albums.
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May 14, 2017 16:46
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I have a v strong pref for listening to the whole album and always have, to the point that i don't really like listening to the radio, though I appreciate the effort that a (good) dj puts into curating a good selection of songs in a good order
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May 14, 2017 18:40
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me, crying softly and whispering to my smartphone as I press shuffle: i'm so sorry
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May 14, 2017 19:12
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the album im working on now is a bunch of short pieces specefically to be played back on shuffle mode, so it will be different each time you listen to it. with just piece of song structure rather than whole songs, most tracks about 30 seconds long
This sounds like a pretty neat idea. Do you keep the beginnings and ends in the same tempo and key so they all sync up nicely, or is it supposed to have hard transitions between tracks?
And whole albums, no skipping. They're some good stuff in there that you can miss completely because you keep jumping around and never listen to the whole thing.
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May 14, 2017 20:54
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Planet Telex as track 1 always bothered me
whoa i always thought that was radioheads best side 1 track 1, up there with like, five years and day of the eagle
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May 14, 2017 23:46
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This sounds like a pretty neat idea. Do you keep the beginnings and ends in the same tempo and key so they all sync up nicely, or is it supposed to have hard transitions between tracks?
ive never been much of a songwriter, arranging and engineering feel like my strong points;
the plan is for it to be 99 tracks, some codas, some choruses, some bridges, &c, but no actual songs per se
the idea is that it will be a diff mashup just about every time
the exact tempo wont be maintained but itll all be nice and slow and chill
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May 14, 2017 23:49
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ive never been much of a songwriter, arranging and engineering feel like my strong points;
the plan is for it to be 99 tracks, some codas, some choruses, some bridges, &c, but no actual songs per se
the idea is that it will be a diff mashup just about every time
the exact tempo wont be maintained but itll all be nice and slow and chill
Can I rap a 30 second verse on your album
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May 15, 2017 00:46
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Instead of watching movies or playing videogames, I just listen to the soundtrack in order
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I would be down for recommendations for unconventional/lesser known/more contemporary music that people think works particularly well as an album, where the whole is more than the sum of its parts
not knocking the well-known/famous/deliberately structured "concept" albums, it's just fun to discover stuff that would otherwise get overlooked
I'm not sure I'm the best person to give examples, but OK I'll give it a whirl in the spirit of reciprocity. I saw a piece recently on the 20th anniversary of that dog.'s "Retreat from the Sun" and it reminded me how much I like that album as an album. it is full of what are pretty recognizable elements of the band's sound (lush vocal harmonies juxtaposed with distorted guitar and dissonance, prominent string parts), and they help tie the album together musically, but there's also a sort of thematic . . . earnestness? wistfulness? playful melancholy? . . . it's like reading the diary of a smart, sardonic bipolar teenager, in a good way. and it's just loaded with crunchy pop hooks, and that makes it highly listenable imo.
I think it's even smartly structured, from the slightly sardonic optimism of the opener, "i'm gonna see you" (which was purportedly the main singer/writer's "love letter to the band") to the cheery mock-defeat of the closer, "until the day I die." and there's a definite . . . uh, centerpiece . . . in the middle, the grandiose "annie," probably my favorite track.
apparently that dog. is coming out with a new album this year! I'm excited, but for most people that's probably an occasion to say, "uh, who?"
ty nesamdoom!
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