Do you listen to entire albums anymore?

[flobadob]

Back in the day when you only had a cassette tape you pretty much listened to it from start to finish and started again or changed cassette and repeated the process. With the CD it became easier to skip a track that you didn't like, or play your favourite ones a few times in a row, but you still pretty much listened to the whole, or most of an album whilst it was in your CD player.

Now with the advent of MP3 players, Ipods etc. it is very easy to shuffle around ever song which you have on it which could be 100s into the 1000s. So do you now find yourself shuffling around all your tracks rather than just enjoying entire albums all at once as they should be listened to?

[erin-x]

I'm with Flip... it appears you have no music taste at all with that attitude Orphan. :)

[MarkRae]

The point about Dolly Parton is well made. Listen to Whitney Houston bawling her way through "I Will Always Love You" and then listen to Dolly's self-penned original version - the difference is palpable...

[fliptheswitch]

Nice, Orphan. Real nice... and for someone who just registered today.

[erin-x]

Wow.... that's deep...............................

[fliptheswitch]

Ha. You sound like my Dad (in a nice way!) he can't stand Whitney Houston... or Mariah Carey. Basically, anyone who "bawls".

[fliptheswitch]

Lol Erin :)) x

[MarkRae]

> and for someone who just registered today

LOL! Yeah, that's right... ;-)

[ummmm]

<Nice, Orphan. Real nice... and for someone who just registered today.>

Nice....coming from a banned user Flip/pinkilady

[fliptheswitch]

Ummmm, I've said this before... please take your wild accusations to the ed. Again.

You really are a paranoid android, you know.

[fliptheswitch]

...and I thought you were going to bed?


Goodnight :-)

[fliptheswitch]

Nothing at all. Your nastiness has everything to do with it, though.

[erin-x]

So you're calling us nerds as well now..... terrible.

[Backdrifter]

Blimey. How many of the above responses actually answer flobadob's question? Well I'd like to asnwer it. Yes, I still listen to albums. A decent album will be structured as a complete piece of work, with some thought put into track sequence. I like the idea of the album as a complete, self-contained thing. I don't yet own an MP3 player or ipod, partly because MP3 file sound quality is inferior, partly because I'm not interested in breaking albums into little bits, shuffling songs or having 12,000 tracks all in one place.

I still own and use a minidisc walkman and have a minidisc player on my stereo. I love MDs. Better sound than MP3, nicely editable, and I like the restriction of the 80 minutes.

[flobadob]

Thanks backdrifter, things did sort of go off on a tangent there, and I must put my hands up and say I went with it. I think that markrae planned that, the crafty bugger. steve, don't you think it is a shame that it has come to picking out random tracks rather than respecting an artist's overall concept of their work?

By the way backdrifter, I'm with you on the MDs, cannot believe that they didn't take off over CDs, you can actually record on them and shift tracks about if I remember correctly. What the hell? 100 times better than CDs. We had a player for many a year but don't anymore. They've missed the boat now I'm afraid.