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I guess I’m just Single Minded
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I’ve heard pretty mid songs that turned out to be incredible albums and I’ve heard amazing songs where it’s the only good track. But I always try to listen to an entire album in most cases. There’s so much good music out there, just under the surface.
Totally. If I hear a really good song sometimes I’ll do a hyper study over a period of time listening to every album, all collabs, the collaborator’s albums, and so on. Definitely did this more when I was younger. But when I hear that sound, it’s mission time.
I always try to listen to an entire album in most cases
I just look for the Best Of album if its an older song.
I’ve done that with artists on spotify but end up not really finding anything then I try on YouTube and find a bunch, it’s hit or miss what their popular* songs are on different platforms and if I’ll like them or not
That does suck. Sometimes you just need to go to the artist’s website and see if you can download the album or buy the vinyl.
And the most popular songs of any band, which are generally the ones you’ll hear randomly, might not turn out to be the ones you like the most from that album or artist. I’ve had songs I liked and listened to a lot but just never got around to exploring the band until years later, and then found some of my all-time favourites after doing so.
A perfect example for me is my favourite song from one of my favourite bands, which I just never heard before actually sitting down and going through their whole discography:
sad musicians noises
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’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.
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 discograsphy. 90s me can think of Live’s Throwing Copper and the collected works of Hootie & the Blowfish, and 2010s me remembers Mumford & Sons.
So true. All 3 of those are great examples too. I can barely pick out a song from any of them, but you won’t need to lol.
Back in the 1900s, I bought the Smash Mouth CD simply because I liked Walking On The Sun.
That was a mistake.
I made a closely related comment just a few days ago. Odd that it came up again so soon.
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.
Dude that’s the EXACT set that did it for me lol
I had listened to her studio stuff and it just wasn’t hitting…but after hearing the live set, I went back and loved it all. I’m kicking myself for not seeing her live
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.
And then there is the polar opposite crowd which caused Plexamp to hava a shuffle where it shuffles whole albums instead of songs.
That’s me, I love full albums.
Hey, it’s me, I have two self released albums, and two EPs. Give me a shot: www.thassodar.com
I liked Leveling Up and now I’m listening to your newest release
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.
So most of the horns are samples, for example Beaches in My Sand is all samples. Doing Things With Stuff is actually a BBC Symphonic Orchestra VST I got for free a few years ago, so I was doing things with that stuff, if you get what I mean.
Recently I’ve been incorporating my own custom sub bass, like in Smoky Whispers and Whatchudoin’ (SoundCloud).
A lot of my Jamns from January have custom sub bass, but those are 14 one minute tracks I did for a challenge.
EDIT: I forgot: Midnight Funk Train had a ton of horns, but it’s all samples. The “flute box” in the middle of the song is several flute samples I threw on a drum rack and came up with a “solo” for them.
Ok I will today
I’m a mix of both. That’s why I pay for Spotify, and also own a turntable setup. Sometimes I just want single tracks, sometimes I want to sit down and listen to the entire album. There are some albums where I’ll only listen to the entire thing.
I’m not relating to this one, I generally only listen to full albums. I’ll get into an artist and stick with their entire discography for a while. But I’m also a fairly picky listener. And I typically hate modern pop.
exactly my thought process of discovering new music.
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.
The best listening experience is to find an album you like and listen to the whole thing.
Anything else imo is like looking at the corner of a painting and ignoring the rest.
Sometimes yeah, but other times it’s really just one song. For example, I really like the song “Ruler of Everything” by Tally Hall, but when I tried listening to more of their stuff I mostly didn’t like it. There are also many intermediate cases. I can confidently say “Eh el Ibara” by Masar is my favorite music ever. As for the album it’s from, “El 'Aysh Wel Mehl”, it’s a solid album, maybe in my top 12. Same for the band in general. The leader/composer Hazem Shaheen might be ranked a bit higher, like maybe my 6th or 7th favorite musician, because I also like some of the other songs he made without this band, like “Horse of Darwish”. But there are more instances where I’ll want to listen to just my 1 favorite song rather than to my 12th favorite album entirely.
But if listening to an entire album was necessary 100% of the time, artists wouldn’t release singles.
Sometimes that one brush stroke is really good, but I really do not give a shit about another still life painting.
Or always.
Yeah, always.
You’ve missed out on thousands of hours of bliss.
That’s what Sting said too.
Whenever I hear a song I like for the first time, I go to the album to listen to it in context. Artists (foe the most part) put their songs together in a specific order and I want to view it through that lens. Sometimes it’s trash and you move on, but sometimes you find “perfect albums”. They take you on an adventure through the course of the album
Some of mine are:
Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
The Mistress - Yellow Ostrich
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Plastic Beach - Gorillaz
Daylight - Aesop Rock
And many more
How can people not listen to all of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea when they hear one song from it? It’s works so well as a collected piece
Also, people need to check out You Can’t Stop the Bum Rush by Len. Cryptic Souls Crew and Beautiful Day are better than Steal My Sunshine IMO.
My first listen to Plastic Beach, I hated it. As I had bought it on a whim and money was tight at the time, I gave it a few more shots over the next couple of months and now it’s one of my favorites. It’s probably the album that convinced me to give music I don’t immediately like a second chance.
Almost all albums I love most took several listens to get into. Music that sounds great on first listen often becomes boring quickly. More challenging stuff takes its time but in the end delivers much more pleasure.
Which is the point of Gorillaz, so they’ve succeeded once more.
Since I Left You - Avalanches
Alopecia - Why?
Keep it goin
Thank you, I don’t see many people talk about Aesop Rock. Been my favorite artist for a while now, so many hits and great collabs.
aesop rock is like hip hops version of elvis costello for me. obviously very talented, i like quite a few songs, but i always feel like i just dont quite get it
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 have this thing as well. In general I’m really picky with music, I’d say I don’t like most songs. But once in a while I find one song by some artist I like and the rest of their songs I don’t like. It’s weird.
The moment when you realize the only good song was a cover…
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.
I just can’t be bothered listening to tracks I don’t like, especially in this day and age where I don’t have to swap CDs/tapes to listen to a track from a different artist.
That’s because Dark Side of the Moon is a single track 🙃
Meanwhile me with only Money and Another Brick in the Wall as the only Pink Floyd tracks in the whole digital library
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.
When I was younger I loved listening to full albums but now I kinda hate it. I make exceptions sometimes though.
Me too. What I’m about to say was before I was born, but music used to be primarily singles sold on vinyl 45s in drug stores. I’m back to that model with digital purchases.
Also, I recall in the 90s that dance music was single oriented – vinyl 12” stores for DJs and rave flyers.
This is kinda silly but what started me looking into album oriented radio and music business executives was a song by Sisters of Mercy, Doctor Jeep.
Businessmen from South Miami
Humming AOR
I mean, if you’re listening to a concept album, then you’re really missing out if you’re not listening to it end-to-end.
David Bowie’s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars” is this rising and falling ballad of an alien who visits earth on the eve of the apocolypse.
My Chemical Romance’s “Black Parade” builds up this soundscape of different numbers in an effort to emulate a carnival.
One of my favorite indie bands, the Protomen, have this entire track list that dramatically recreates the story behind the Megaman video game. Their sequel is this very folk-western prologue with some banger original tracks that get so much better as you move from song to song. Some songs lead directly into one another to create this rising tension that ends in a cathertic heavy metal payoff.
I’ll admit I’m a shameless fan of Progressive Rock. Maybe this holds less true in other genres.
PROTOMEN MENTIONED RAAAA
thank you rock band 4 for introducing me to them. fucking love their song the hounds
Literally, most people with Goyte; his music outside his one hit wonder is so fucking good. I highly recommend listening to more of his work if you haven’t.
Ngl the rest of the album is often trash
That’s the difference between a good musician/ band and a bad one.
It’s not. Most of Pink Floyd’s Animals album is trash, except for Sheep which I think we can all agree on being a fucking great song from a great band.
Steven King’s The Dark Tower series is trash, except for The Gunslinger (and, okay, the final chapter of the final book The Dark Tower), which I think we can all agree on being a fucking great book from a great author.
The Lamiids’s Solanum species of plants is poisonous trash, except for Tomatoes which I think we can all agree on being a fucking great fruit from a fucking great subclade.
That’s rarely true for me. I hear a great song and the rest of the album is generally great.
Yeah though I feel like if you only listen to pop music that you hear on TikTok then you’re not going to have so much of a good time, but if you listen to artists that aren’t put forward as pop stars you’ll get better depth.
this comic is actually one of the reasons i really like sitting down and listening through the full discog of a band/artist.
It’s genuinely so much more enjoyable than spotify and streaming.
I use lots of Spotify but almost exclusively albums front to back
You do know you can listen to a whole album on Spotify, right?
end of a majestic song, you wipe away a tear at how great it was
“…”
“WITH SPOTIFY PREMIUM YOU CAN LISTEN TO THIS AND MANY MOR-”spotify, the service notorious for song recommendations and not serving people the entire artists discog.
“hey did you know you can just listen to their albums?”
yes i knew that. That’s not the point. This is literally an entire comic panel dedicated to the phenomenon. If you actually have the works of an artist/band you are significantly more likely to listen through it all the way. As opposed to streaming, where you often just let the recommendations take you through, or a playlist. Often not containing an entire album of music.
i use spotify everyday and have listened to thousands of full albums, discovering something new everyday. am i just using spotify wrong? how are people using spotify?
I like listening to full albums because then I can decide which songs I can listen to again later on, and which ones to actively avoid.
