When was the last time you listened to an album from start to finish, doing nothing else?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by formbypc, Nov 28, 2015.

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  1. bhazen

    bhazen I Am The Walrus

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    Deepest suburbia
    Yesterday afternoon ... David Bowie, Blackstar. The best 41 minutes of my day it was, too.
     
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  2. Gaslight

    Gaslight ⎧⚍⎫⚑

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    Well, unless someone's in a completely blackened room strapped to a chair, we're always doing "something". Does reading liner notes count against this?

    I would assume that the OP meant that the music wasn't in the background. If so, then it's almost every day for me - I can listen to an album and read this forum quite easily. It's when I have to do something more focused like Photoshop work or coding or painting/spackling that the music goes more into the background.
     
  3. +1. Typing this response as I've got as I've got Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life on the turntable.
     
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  4. Chris C

    Chris C Music was my first love and it will be my last!

    Location:
    Ohio
    My wife and I sat down just the other day and I played a lot of vinyl. One of the albums that got the full playback was

    "Nancy Sinatra's Greatest Hits" on Reprise

    Each and every song were perfectly placed and was a joyful listening experience. Lee Hazelwood got some great bottom end on his Nancy Sinatra productions. Strange, but when Frank's duet on "Something Stupid" came on, it sounded really empty, as compared to all of the other tracks on this album. I know that "Something Stupid" is a great recording, as proven on the CD "For My Dad", which Steve Hoffman mastered, but whatever tape they used on the vinyl album of that song was not very good.

    http://www.discogs.com/Nancy-Sinatra-Nancys-Greatest-Hits/release/1149443
     
  5. Gaslight

    Gaslight ⎧⚍⎫⚑

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    OMD's "Crush" for me right now. When I continue spackling later today (yes there was reason for my earlier comment) whatever I put on will definitely be more background stuff.
     
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  6. Beatledust

    Beatledust Forum Resident

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    Salt Lake City, UT
    Yesterday, since I do this little thing known as Vinyl Saturday. On the playlist was Aladdin Sane, All Summer Long, The Final Cut, and Nirvana's Unplugged in New York.
     
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  7. bleachershane

    bleachershane Forum Resident

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    When they said "doing nothing else" I assumed browsing these forums would be excluded from that, in fact it's usually these forums that lead me to go listen to something or the other ;)

    PC listening lead to a terrible habit for me, in that I'd jump around tracks that I liked and rarely listen to albums from start to finish. It was just to easy to move onto something altogether different on a whim. In the last few years, that habit has turned around almost entirely, I much prefer to throw whole albums and listen from start to finish, maybe I've got lazier, but I much prefer not having to fiddle around with my playlist after every song!
     
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  8. Gaslight

    Gaslight ⎧⚍⎫⚑

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    Forum browsing isn't any different to me than reading liner notes - the music is still in the forefront and I can pick up details easily. It only changes when I'm actually focused on some other task where extra brain-cycles are required.

    If I had to put myself in a box for 100% dedicated listening, I'd probably never post here. I'd probably never be on the Internet at all, save for work-related items. Music is probably playing the vast majority of the time I'm on this site.
     
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  9. Lonson

    Lonson I'm in the kitchen with the Tombstone Blues

    Really doing NOTHING else. . . it was one afternoon this week I put on a Columbia LP, Eddie Condon's "Bixieland" and was just stopped dead by the sound quality and the performances. . . I did get up to change the LP side but that was it. Awesome LP.

    Yesterday I listened to both sides of the Music on Vinyl "Band of Gypsys" and finished reading a book on Gobekli Tepi.
     
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  10. Classicrock

    Classicrock Senior Member

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    South West, UK.
    Today - Bowie's Blackstar vinyl.
     
  11. M321115

    M321115 Forum Resident

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    Northern Kentucky
    Last Friday driving from Atlanta to Cincinnati. Listened to the first six Squeeze CDs as well as Warchild by Jethro Tull.
     
  12. Carl Swanson

    Carl Swanson Senior Member

    Last night, the 2006 hybrid SACD of the Moody Blues' On the Threshold of a Dream. After six months of solitary confinement* my Yamaha multi-format carousel saw the error of its ways and condescended to recognize the SACD layers.

    (*It was carefully packed and put into storage while we were out of the house for a remodel, along with most of my very modest system.)
     
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  13. What??? You can do that, I mean listen to an entire album!!!! While doing nothing else!!??? Well son of a BI#*H.
    I am lucky if I get to hear one full song without interruptions. Even a Ramones song, all the way, without interruptions would be fun. I am not complaining, or asking for sympathy, but someone is always asking me for something these days. I guess it is good to be needed but I would like to try this whole album thing once...okay maybe twice, but after that I would begin feeling guilty.
     
  14. The7thStranger

    The7thStranger Part of the Rhythm Nation

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    An der Lahn...
    Last night, Yes's Drama. Listening in the dark with my boyfriend, who more or less only listens to classical. It was an experience.
     
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  15. ponkine

    ponkine Senior Member

    Location:
    Villarrica, Chile
    Last night

    I listened to Jean Luc Ponty 'Fables' complete, with my headphones on and lights out

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  16. Carl Swanson

    Carl Swanson Senior Member

    This one . . .

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  17. Carl Swanson

    Carl Swanson Senior Member

    When I sit down to actually listen, which is a few times a week, I'm in a darkened room, not reading, not watching TV, not thinking about anything but what I'm hearing. But I usually only listen to one or two albums at most at any one sitting.
     
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  18. Carl Swanson

    Carl Swanson Senior Member

    Are we talking about "listening" or "hearing?" Listening is active, hearing is passive.
     
  19. Carl Swanson

    Carl Swanson Senior Member

    Last night, the 1994 CD of Pink Floyd's Meddle.
     
  20. Koabac

    Koabac Self-Titled

    Location:
    Los Angeles
    Every night when I'm ready to go to sleep, I put on headphones and listen to music on my Mac - lights out, eyes closed. Many times, it's playlists on shuffle, but I also will listen to albums all the way through. Last night I was reading a book about Steely Dan (updated 2015 edition of "Reeling In The Years") and then went to bed listening to the albums about which I had just been reading (early demos, "Can't Buy a Thrill" and "Countdown to Ecstasy"). Kind of a 3-D Steely Dan immersion study/lullaby).
     
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  21. chacha

    chacha Forum Resident In Memoriam

    Location:
    mill valley CA USA
    Yes
     
  22. florandia

    florandia Forum Resident

    Location:
    Florida
    Today I was involved in my ongoing task of getting my records in some kind of order , I found a bunch I had bought several years ago, amongst them were the Harry Belafonte' Midnight Special' ,
    Foreigner ' Foreigner' and Gerry Rafferty 'Can I Have My Money Back' .Played all three but played the Belafonte a second time.
     
  23. Meloski

    Meloski I don't roll on Shabbat

    Tonight - John Coltrane, Blue Train, Miles Davis, Kind Of Blue
     
  24. Jeff57

    Jeff57 Senior Member

    Just finished...
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  25. mikaal

    mikaal Sociopathic Nice Guy

    Yesterday. The Stranglers' "Black And White"....the supposedly awful 2001 release with bonus tracks.
     
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