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i don't do albums. as a kid, we basically only had recorded-from-radio cassettes. when we got a CD player in like 1999, we mostly bought those "now that's what i call music" collections. i didn't really listen to music myself at all until like 18-19. i didn't see the point. as a result i basically can't sit through an entire album of the same genre.
is this weird?
That's so interesting! As a kid I remember not liking much music until I found some individual songs that I loved, then I couldn't get enough and albums were my thing!
I'm a bit of both on albums - some I have on end to end no matter what (R.E.M especially), but then there's some bands I'm like you and wander off halfway through! :)
Trying to think of bands that genre-hop and might be fun for you end-to-end on one disc
that would be interesting! the few "albums" i have gone through recently have all been by mashup artists, so the genres have been all over the place but the "touch" of the artist has been there throughout.
If you ever get into vinyl, you will appreciate the album format a lot more.
we had a lot of vinyl when i was a child. i listened to that one ELO track a lot. i have no real nostalgia for the sound.
You will never hear a recorded song more clearly than vinyl. A good record player patched into a big 1970s cabinet console. The sound is only beat by live music.
Have you considered that maybe you don't like music?
going from "i don't listen to albums" to "maybe you don't like music" is incredibly strange. i listen to tons of music which i love. i just don't do albums. I buy loads of songs on bandcamp and have multiple constantly growing playlists hundreds of tracks long.
that's just demonstrably not true. maybe on a perfectly calibrated player in a completely dust-free lab environment with no air movement on a never-played vinyl that was just pressed and has never been moved. as soon as one of those conditions fail to hold the sound is distorted. from an acoustic perspective, live music also tends to have really weird sound and it's usually muddied by the environment.
You like songs. You don't like music.
It's what the part in that one song means when he's singing
what a weird thing to say. please explain.
You will just have to discover it yourself.
i realize you get off on being cryptic, but i can't accept this gatekeepy bullshit. I'm too old and neurodivergent to care about whatever profound wisdom you want me to discover. be straight with me, or shut up.
I am being clear with you, you can't understand because you don't like what I am saying. It's not cryptic. It's obvious.
Let me just start by pointing out that you came into a thread asking about your favorite album at this moment and you stated how you don't like albums. You started with a negative response. I gave you a chance to be a part of the conversation but you went even more negative.
You like songs. You listen to them one after another. But your missing the point of what an album is to the people who make albums.
You like the pretty songs but you don't know what it means.
The lyrics I quoted are from Kurt Cobain who famously hated poser music fans. He wanted his music listener to listen to his album but the music industry turned him into a pop star by releasing his songs as singles. He hated how people only knew Smells Like Teen Spirit or his other radio hits but didn't know his other stuff and only ever wanted to hear one song.
i wouldn't say "i don't do albums" is a negative response. i even asked about it to see if it's just me. then you start talking about formats and fidelity rather than music, which other people engaged me about.
i "get" why people like vinyl. it's a ritual thing. i can't do rituals due to how my brain works. i also "get" why artists make albums. it's a way for music to tell a story, for narratives to interleave, to experiment with emotional changes. i "get" all that. i understand it. i know it. i would love to listen that way. it just doesn't work on me. i don't know why. i've tried, god knows i've tried.
jumping to the conclusion that i do not understand, and then reiterating that i do not instead of trying to explain it, and using unattributed quotes, is being cryptic. it is not clear.
and regarding cobain; artists know that the way people interact with their work is not up to them. throwing tantrums, accusing people of being "fake" for being... people, that's a teenager's way of looking at the world. it's not enough to create something people love, they must love all of you, or it's "fake". this happens all the time. look att blink-182, toto, chumbawumba. fucking rick astley. the difference is what they make of it. and to be clear, i'm not being down on curt. the man was obviously going through it. i'm just saying that you're not making the point you think you are with that.
Probably not, there's plenty of people who mostly just listen to the radio and don't own much music. Sounds much the same. If it doesn't work for you then it doesn't work for you!
Sad, maybe