Listening to Albums

[Ned Weasel]

thanks to this post I made a list of my 100 favorite albums.  im going to listen to each one of them all the way through, list my 3 favorite songs, least favorite song, and rate it.  first one I played I decided wasn't good enough lol.

You could just say what it is and make it a top-101 list. 

[CapeCodder]

Currently listening to Smile Empty Soul's 2003 self titled debut. I was a freshman in HS that year and Post-grunge seemed to be the in thing to listen to. So far, the album has aged like milk.

[bugo]

I've been listening to the new Deftones album a lot since it came out last week. I am also on a huge Deafheaven kick. I guess I like bands that have hearing loss.

I almost always listen to the whole album, unless I'm driving a short distance and just have time to listen to one or two songs. If a single off an upcoming album is released, I usually only listen to it once or twice before the record comes out and I can listen to the album in its entirety. Songs make more sense if they are in context with the rest of the album. I was born in '73. I don't know if it's a generational thing or not.

[Finrod]

I don't ever shuffle albums.  I listen to them in the order they came in.  There is one album that I reorder, though, and that's my #1 album, Boston.  The track order on the cassette and the track order on the vinyl were different, and to me the cassette track order makes a lot more sense than the vinyl track order, so my car copy of Boston has the tracks reordered to be in the same order they were on the cassette:

1. More Than A Feeling
2. Peace Of Mind
3. Something About You
4. Let Me Take You Home Tonight
5. Rock And Roll Band
6. Smokin'
7. Hitch A Ride
8. Foreplay/Long Time

Ironically, when I first got that album on cassette, I couldn't figure out why the tracks were in that order-- at that time it seemed to me that it should start with Rock And Roll Band; now I can't imagine it in any other order.

I have a lot more to say about albums but this is enough for now.

What order does your vinyl copy have the songs in?

It probably has it as the CDs do:


Side A:

   
• More Than a Feeling
• Peace of Mind
• Foreplay/Long Time

Side B:

   
• Rock & Roll Band
• Smokin'
• Hitch a Ride
• Something About You
• Let Me Take You Home Tonight

That's it exactly.  Foreplay/Long Time is in what I call the Stairway position, where Stairway To Heaven was on Led Zeppelin IV: last song of side 1.  Fairly common position for big songs; that's where Come Sail Away was on the Styx album The Grand Illusion, for example.