Anyone else have this problem with music?
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No, you pretty much do what I do.
By picking out one or two songs from different artists, you can get quite a nice range of music.
By picking out one or two songs from different artists, you can get quite a nice range of music.
Even if there's only the odd song or two i like, i often get the whole album. Nothing annoys me more when i have friends over and someone says, oh you have "insert band here" have you got "song" its on the same album, only to find i dont have it. It does no harm just sitting there, so i dont mind i having it. I have also found that after i over play a song to death the rest of the album starts growing on me, not right a way but a few months down the line.
Its annoying looking at someones music collection only to find its the odd song or two, with my friends its often the indie-pop crap ones.
Its annoying looking at someones music collection only to find its the odd song or two, with my friends its often the indie-pop crap ones.
Considering judgements of value are completely subjective any arguments relating to the quality of particular songs or albums are essentially a wast of time. I have my opinions and you have yours.GiantRaven said:
On the point I made of bands being expected to push out albums at an unrealistic rate, artistic endeavors can not be forced to conform to a timetable however when a new artist signs on with a record label the contract has a time table saying they will produce X number of albums in X amount of time. New artists do not generally have the clout to be able to change much in contract negotiation. Since they are bound by contract to get that next album out or lose their contract they will often have to include material which is either not finished to their satisfaction or use songs written by label songwriters they may have never met which will result in music which doesn't feel the same because it wasn't written by the same people.
There is value to what you're saying and I agree, bands should be allowed to complete an album at their leisure to get everything sounding perfect but once you start labelling this applicable to all albums that are released (which you did, stating that 'Most of an album has been crap filler with 1-3 maybe even five good tracks for at least twenty years') then you begin to make large claims that you really need to substantiate. This, of course, is completely impossible so it begs the question as to why you needed to make such a huge blanket statement in the first place.Ken Sapp said:
Im very picky about the music I like, so yeah I rarely have much use for entire albums of my favourites. Sometimes I only like one or two songs of a given band or musician. The ones who really stand out however I tend to be able to listen to entire albums or like a hefty amount of songs from, and it's usually these I try to support by going to concerts and seeing them live (since that's the true way of supporting a band instead of buying CD's, since most of that money end up in the hands of redundant, useless record companies who leech of the talent of others).
Considering the lack of digital distribution, that is no surprise. However, nowadays we are not forced to buy an entire album just to get one or two songs that we are looking for.tigermilk said:
Because it is generally true. If you walk up to random person in a record store(do they still have those? I haven't been to a mall in a while) and ask them why they are purchasing an album most will name the 1-5 songs off the album that they want.GiantRaven said:
I make blanket statements because I am speaking in generalities which are mostly true. There are exceptions to every generality but the exceptions do not make the generality untrue.
I don't think that we should be called a "dying breed". There's just fewer of us. But there will always be a section of consumers who like a full product, and appreciate an album as a full work of art that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Also, people selling disks at concerts and whatnot don't sell them by the song, so there's that. Aaaaaand artists will be making concept albums until the end of time, and even people who usually only pick their favorites from an album should be able to appreciate those.
Also, people selling disks at concerts and whatnot don't sell them by the song, so there's that. Aaaaaand artists will be making concept albums until the end of time, and even people who usually only pick their favorites from an album should be able to appreciate those.
I only listen to albums and I see absolutely no point in doing otherwise.
If the bands you're listening to have 1-2 good songs per album with the rest being filler, maybe they're just... Y'know.. Shit?
But then, I still buy vinyl, so what the fuck do I know? Har de har
If the bands you're listening to have 1-2 good songs per album with the rest being filler, maybe they're just... Y'know.. Shit?
But then, I still buy vinyl, so what the fuck do I know? Har de har
I have one album of wich I love every song, being Because of the Times, by KoL. But, for example coldplay and Muse, I only like about 3 specific songs of them