Listening to Albums

[ethanhopkin14]

I am not talking about vinyl.  I am talking about the fact that I still listen to albums.  I mean, I have an album by an individual or band and I listen to it "from cover to cover".  I don't put it in as background noise, I actually listen to it, pick apart the songs, listen to the way it is mixed.  To me, an album sounds like 20 hour days and sleepless nights and tireless work by people you never know just to entertain me, and I appreciate it. 

In all honesty, this is not just about listening to albums, although I do want to know if anyone does it now days.  This is really about doing things the way they always were done until the world changed 20, 15 or even 10 years ago.  Now, no one even understands the purpose of releasing an album (in fact, "drop" is the correct term now) with constant music streaming and unlined storage space on listening devices, you can listen to anything, anywhere, at anytime!  The way it used to be is sometimes you didn't have the album you wanted to listen to, but your friend did, and you would get together at his house, or your turntable and listen to it, but you didn't do chores, you sat and listened to it.

Which brings me to my other old man things:

I prefer regular TV programing instead of streaming because I actually enjoyed the flow of a season of a show, instead of having the whole thing at once, not unlimited enjoyment.  Give it to me in doses, and you dictate it, not me, you are the professional.

I prefer having physical DVDs or Blurays as opposed to digital versions because I don't trust that one day it will just disappear.

I prefer terrestrial radio because, even though I can't stand commercials, something is depressing without them (and I am talking the local stuff, not the Sirius/XM commercials).  Plus like TV, I appreciate the work in the media.

I would rather read a newspaper.  This one is obvious because the internet has delivered a crop of bad journalism.

I hate YouTube people.  I liked it better when you had to get the approval of people to have a TV show because you have talent, not because your parents bought you an expensive camera.

I don't like streaming sports highlights.  I want to see them live, listen to the radio or watch Sports Center on ESPN.

All I can think of about my pet peeves.  Does anyone else continue to do things the way they always did it because they are more comfortable doing it that way despite a much more convenient and socially popular method out there?  Oh year, and do you listen to albums?

[Ned Weasel]

This is my favorite off-topic topic in a long time!  Thank you for this!

I am not talking about vinyl.  I am talking about the fact that I still listen to albums.  I mean, I have an album by an individual or band and I listen to it "from cover to cover".  I don't put it in as background noise, I actually listen to it, pick apart the songs, listen to the way it is mixed.  To me, an album sounds like 20 hour days and sleepless nights and tireless work by people you never know just to entertain me, and I appreciate it. 

In all honesty, this is not just about listening to albums, although I do want to know if anyone does it now days.

I do!  It's definitely my preferred method of listening to music.  When I'm doing a long workout or taking a long drive, I put in a CD (yes, those weird, ancient round things that you should try not to scratch)!  I enjoy the way a band/artist orders the songs, and I especially love concept albums (I'm starting to wonder how many people even remember the concept of concept albums), where songs flow into each other at least some of the time.  Nobody asked, but my favorite album of all time is Shadows Collide with People by John Frusciante (from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, if the name doesn't ring a bell)--it's a melodic, well-crafted emotional powerhouse from beginning to end, and I never get tired of listening to it in its entirety.

When I got my trucking job, I decided to try to put music on my phone, so I could plug the phone into the auxiliary jack and listen to albums that way.  For whatever stupid reason (aside from smartphones generally being crap for a whole host of reasons beyond the scope of this topic), I could never get the damn thing to consistently play the songs in the correct order.  So I said "**** it!" and just listened to the company-provided Sirius XM instead (thanks for that; I honestly did appreciate it!).  Sometimes I took a box of CDs with me and popped them in on occasion, but it's harder to do that in a big-rig than it is in a car.

This is really about doing things the way they always were done until the world changed 20, 15 or even 10 years ago.  Now, no one even understands the purpose of releasing an album (in fact, "drop" is the correct term now)

I hate that term!  What is the artist doing, taking a poo?  (Poo used to be acceptable subject matter on this forum, so I'll assume I'm not breaking any rules by going there.)

with constant music streaming and unlined storage space on listening devices, you can listen to anything, anywhere, at anytime!  The way it used to be is sometimes you didn't have the album you wanted to listen to, but your friend did, and you would get together at his house, or your turntable and listen to it, but you didn't do chores, you sat and listened to it.

Which brings me to my other old man things:

Hah, you're only four years older than me, but when I meet people in their early 20s, I sometimes feel like an "old man," too.

I prefer regular TV programing instead of streaming because I actually enjoyed the flow of a season of a show, instead of having the whole thing at once, not unlimited enjoyment.  Give it to me in doses, and you dictate it, not me, you are the professional.

Ambivalent here.  I actually hate most TV, except I'll occasionally watch Jeopardy! or take in a few minutes of news.  There are a few Netflix series I've enjoyed, emphasis on "few."

I prefer having physical DVDs or Blurays as opposed to digital versions because I don't trust that one day it will just disappear.

Agree, except I don't even have a BluRay player.  I watch my DVDs and Netflix on a Zenith CRT console television that I inherited from my grandmother.  It was made in 90s, and it works beautifully.  No need to replace it with a flat-screen that you can't set the DVD player, Roku, and remote controls on top of.

I prefer terrestrial radio because, even though I can't stand commercials, something is depressing without them (and I am talking the local stuff, not the Sirius/XM commercials).  Plus like TV, I appreciate the work in the media.

Disagree, but maybe it's because Kansas City radio is rarely good.  And I kind of dislike hearing commercials that remind me of what metropolitan area I live in.  I'd rather feel like I'm away from home.

I would rather read a newspaper.  This one is obvious because the internet has delivered a crop of bad journalism.

I don't read as much as I "should," but I've seen bad journalism in print newspapers.  But I agree that Internet "journalism" is worse--often far worse.

I hate YouTube people.  I liked it better when you had to get the approval of people to have a TV show because you have talent, not because your parents bought you an expensive camera.

I used to watch a few YouTube political commentators from various sides of the political spectrum, but now I can barely stomach most of them.  Their biases and associations became more transparent the more I watched them.

I don't like streaming sports highlights.  I want to see them live, listen to the radio or watch Sports Center on ESPN.

No opinion.  I'd rather play sports than watch them.  Not like I was ever a great athlete, but still--

All I can think of about my pet peeves.  Does anyone else continue to do things the way they always did it because they are more comfortable doing it that way despite a much more convenient and socially popular method out there?  Oh year, and do you listen to albums?

When I drove a truck for a living, I reluctantly used a GPS because I realized the reduced risk of missing turns would ultimately be a time-saver.  But it was so friggin' awful that I had to make a rule of checking the GPS's route from beginning to end before I left, because there would frequently be errors that I would have to adjust, even considering it was already programmed for my truck's specifications.

Unfortunately, I don't have that job anymore (no, I wasn't fired; I left for personal reasons), but when I drive somewhere new, I just look up the location on Google Maps and scribble down just enough of a map for me to be able to glance at it and figure out how to get to the place I'm going from my last turn off of a major road that I already know.  This applies anywhere in the continental U.S., not just my home state or metropolitan area.  I don't own a GPS anymore, and I don't have a data plan on my "smart" phone, so I can't use that, and I really don't need to.

[kphoger]

I put in a CD (yes, those weird, ancient round things that you should try not to scratch)!

That's my biggest gripe about CDs and DVDs.  While tapes had worse sound quality, and it was harder to find the song you wanted, they lasted a lot longer, surviving what I consider "normal abuse".  Lose the case for a cassette tape, and it's no big deal.  Lose the case for a CD, and it won't last long.  If you listen to an entire album at a time, then the "harder to find the song you want" isn't really a thing.

What is the artist doing, taking a poo?  (Poo used to be acceptable subject matter on this forum, so I'll assume I'm not breaking any rules by going there.)

I thought pooing was still cool.  ?

[TravelingBethelite]

[...]

I prefer terrestrial radio because, even though I can't stand commercials, something is depressing without them (and I am talking the local stuff, not the Sirius/XM commercials).  Plus like TV, I appreciate the work in the media.

Disagree, but maybe it's because Kansas City radio is rarely good.  And I kind of dislike hearing commercials that remind me of what metropolitan area I live in.  I'd rather feel like I'm away from home.

[...]

The beauty of DX: a taste of stations outside of your market.

Also, I still do have an appreciation for terrestrial radio as well, for the work involved. But not so much the big city iHeart, Entercom, and Cumulus stations. The small town stations, the local owners, local DJ's, who care about the community they serve, and the music they play (so it's not just the same 500 songs over and over again ad infinitum, especially on classic rock/hits stations.

[hbelkins]

I listen to albums, but there are very few on which I don't skip a cut or two. I'm not one of those who will listen to a song from one artist, then a song from another artist, and so forth and so on.

Probably the last concept album I bought was Rush's final studio release, "Clockwork Angels." One of my favorites is Queensryche's "Operation Mindcrime."

[ethanhopkin14]

[...]

I prefer terrestrial radio because, even though I can't stand commercials, something is depressing without them (and I am talking the local stuff, not the Sirius/XM commercials).  Plus like TV, I appreciate the work in the media.

Disagree, but maybe it's because Kansas City radio is rarely good.  And I kind of dislike hearing commercials that remind me of what metropolitan area I live in.  I'd rather feel like I'm away from home.

[...]

The beauty of DX: a taste of stations outside of your market.

Also, I still do have an appreciation for terrestrial radio as well, for the work involved. But not so much the big city iHeart, Entercom, and Cumulus stations. The small town stations, the local owners, local DJ's, who care about the community they serve, and the music they play (so it's not just the same 500 songs over and over again ad infinitum, especially on classic rock/hits stations.

Maybe I didn't come off the way I wanted to on that one.  Make no mistake, I love Sirius/XM, but I do find it sometimes to be a little corporate and less intimate, plus they tend to rehash the same songs over and over again.  However, I do like the fact that you can find a station you like and listen to it if you are driving across the county and not worry about losing the signal.  It is really great for listening to baseball or football games.  Then again, there was an art to being on a road trip (and speaking from my experience) and the Cowboys would be playing and I knew the basic triangulation of the Cowboys radio network (when we start losing the signal from station A, we should be able to pick up station B). 

[Roadrunner75]

I mostly still listen to albums in their entirety (and buy physical CD copies if I can - -  still like to get liner notes!).  I've loaded a number of them (but still a tiny percentage of my collection) on my Ipod Classic for the car.   Occasionally I'll bring CDs in the car when it's not something I want to put on the player, but I've found my Forester's CD player has the annoying habit of loading tracks one at a time which results in gaps in tracks that blend together.  I suspect by the time we get our next car, the CD player will have gone the way of the tape deck.

Pre-wife and kid, when it was just me controlling the music, I often could give distances by albums:  "You can get there in about one Genesis Abacab and half of Duke".   Those were the cassette days...

[adventurernumber1]

I love listening to albums, and it is what I choose to do most of the time I listen to music (whether it be on YouTube, a CD, vinyl, etc.). Sometimes I will listen to individual songs by artists, but this is usually when it is an artist who I only know a few songs by - and many of those artists I decide to start listening to entire albums from. In addition, I almost never skip any tracks on an album. Even if a song isn't my favorite cut, I'll still listen to it as part of the album experience, and there would rarely be a song on the album that I would actually dislike, I just might like it less than other songs.

I lament the ending of the "album era," with singles and streaming becoming more popular. Don't get me wrong, singles are perfectly fine and streaming is a useful product of new technology, but I still see the album as the best form of musical expression. Artists craft their albums, some are more cohesive than others, but there is hard work and strategizing put into it, and an album can give you a very good and interesting musical journey. Concept albums are especially cohesive, and they are very effective listened to as a whole. For example, Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon is an example of a great concept album, and the beginnings and ends of some songs (with the sound effects) might be confusing listened to in isolation since all the songs blend together on the album. I love concept albums like that. On the Beatles' great Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, the title track (and its reprise) might be confusing listened to in isolation, but as part of the album they form an integral part of the concept. Even albums that aren't conceptualized or cohesive at all still draw my preference compared to mostly listening to isolated songs. I just love listening to albums, and doing so also helps introduce me to a lot of the artist's catalog - in contrast to listening to only a few hits, listening to full albums can introduce you to some really good deep cuts. I can see why streaming is popular, and I think it's a good thing, but at the same time I don't want the album to lose its popularity and dominance as an art form. It is timeless in my opinion.

[Henry]

Even today, I still play all my old albums from time to time. Most of it is from the 70s and 80s, which to me were the best era of music, because now you had far more variety than any other decade before it, and I have at least one from every genre. My interest started waning in the 90s, but as long as the older artists put out new music, I'd still buy them. I absolutely refuse to buy anything online, especially music; I'd rather rummage in a used record shop just to find what I'm missing (and believe me, I've had quite a few wear out completely due to overplaying them, but I'd replace them if the price was right).

[webny99]

I actually don't listen to albums, but I couldn't give a very good explanation of why. I've always just tended to discover songs and decide if I like them one at a time.

[Duke87]

I am also of the sort who listens to music in album form. Yes I've been told this is weird but I like how organized and consistent it is. Besides, the best albums have a whole which is much greater than the sum of their parts, an experience which is missed if you only listen to individual songs.

It is interesting though that the concept of the "album" as we know it is very much a mid-20th century creation, arising out of the invention of 33 RPM LP records. Previously, lengthy orchestral compositions were a thing, but otherwise music was written on a more ad hoc basis since there was no particular reason to compile it into fixed collections.

With distribution of music now being mostly online, we are once again in a position where there's no particular reason artists cannot release songs on an ad hoc basis - and indeed, some have taken to doing so. Nonetheless, albums persist as a matter of institutional inertia. Artists have decades of conditioning to publish music in 30-80 minute collections (30-50 minute collections before CDs) and thus keep doing so.

[Hwy 61 Revisited]

A list of great albums you all should listen to right away:

   
• OK Computer and Kid A by Radiohead
• The Velvet Underground & Nico
• Horses by Patti Smith
• Marquee Moon by Television
• The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.
• Close to the Edge by Yes

[bugo]

A list of great albums you all should listen to right away:

• OK Computer and Kid A by Radiohead

Everybody seems to forget about The Bends for whatever reason. That was my favorite Radiohead record.


Western Electric Model 500

[Takumi]

A list of great albums you all should listen to right away:

• OK Computer and Kid A by Radiohead

Everybody seems to forget about The Bends for whatever reason. That was my favorite Radiohead record.

Probably because it and Pablo Honey were their most "conventional"  albums, sound-wise.

[bugo]

Everybody seems to forget about The Bends for whatever reason. That was my favorite Radiohead record.

Probably because it and Pablo Honey were their most "conventional"  albums, sound-wise.

It has more in common with OK Computer than with Pablo Honey.

[kphoger]

Previously, lengthy orchestral compositions were a thing, but otherwise music was written on a more ad hoc basis since there was no particular reason to compile it into fixed collections.

Furthermore, music aficionados from centuries past had no concept of "the classics".  Nobody wanted to listen to an orchestra perform music that had been written more than about 20 years earlier.  We nowadays are more likely to value a Beethoven symphony than were classical music fans in 1870.

[hobsini2]

My list of favorite albums to listen to in their entirety that are not greatest hits comps:
AC/DC - Back In Black
Aerosmith - Pump
Alanis Moriddette - Jagged Little Pill
Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin
Billy Joel - Storm Front
Blues Traveler - 4
Bob Seger - Stranger In Town
Bon Jovi - Have A Nice Day
Bon Jovi - Lost Highway
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Bryan Adams - Reckless
Cars - The Cars
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coldplay - X & Y
Collective Soul - See What You Started By Continuing
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Counting Crows - Recovering the Satallites
Credence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
Darius Rucker - Charleston, SC 1966
Darius Rucker - True Believers
David Gilmour - On an Island
Depeche Mode - Delta Machine
Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
Depeche Mode - Spirit
Depeche Mode - Violator
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way
Don Henley - Building the Perfect Beast
Don Henley - End of the Innocence
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor (Double CD)
Garbage - Version 2.0
Genesis - Abacab
Genesis - Genesis
Genesis - Invisible Touch
Genesis - We Can't Dance
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
Hootie and the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View
Jars of Clay - If I Left the Zoo
Jars of Clay - Much Afraid
Jason Aldean - My Kinda Party
John Mellencamp - Freedom's Road
John Mellencamp - Life, Death, Love and Freedom
John Mellencamp - Mr Happy Go Lucky
John (Cougar) Mellencamp - Scarecrow
Lady Antebellum - Golden
Leslie Phillips - The Turning
Lisa Marie Presley - To Whom It May Concern
Live - Throwing Copper
Madonna - Ray of Light
Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia
Matchbox 20 - Mad Season
Matchbox 20 - More Than You Think You Are
Matchbox 20 - Yourself or Someone Like You
Melissa Etheridge - Lucky
Melissa Etheridge - Your Little Secret
Michael W Smith - I 2 Eye
Moby - Play
Newsboys - Going Public
Newsboys - Take Me To Your Leader
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory?
Paul Simon - Graceland
Phil Collins - Face Value
Phil Collins - No Jackets Required
Pink - Funhouse
Pink - I'm Not Dead
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Savage Garden - Savage Garden
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Sheryl Crow - C'mon, C'mon
Sheryl Crow - The Globe Sessions
Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club
Sheryl Crow - Wildflower
Shiny Toy Guns - We Are Pilots
Sixpence None the Richer - This Beautiful Mess
Taylor Swift - Red
Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedoes
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
Tom Petty - Into the Great Wide Open
U2 - Achtung Baby
U2 - Joshua Tree
U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
U2 - Songs of Innocence
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
Van Halen - 5150
Van Halen - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
The Who - Who's Next
Zac Brown Band - The Foundation
Zac Brown Band - Uncaged
ZZ Top - Eliminator

[Hwy 61 Revisited]

The ones I've heard so far of those and my ratings:

AC/DC - Back In Black (8/10)
Alanis Moriddette - Jagged Little Pill (9/10)
Cars - The Cars (9/10)
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (8/10)
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor (Double CD) (4/10 for the first half, never heard the second)
Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory? (7/10)
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (10/10)
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell (7/10)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (10/10)
U2 - Achtung Baby (7/10)
U2 - Joshua Tree (8/10)
The Who - Who's Next (9/10)

[Ned Weasel]

I don't make a point of showing off my taste in music, but for the heck of it, and for the sake of the topic, here's a list of eleven of my favorite albums, in alphabetical order by artist.  Some are concept albums, some aren't, and some are somewhere in between.  But all of them are ones I love listening to from beginning to end.  Links for ones that are available online but not on Amazon or at major retailers.

The Armory - I Can Complain the Best out of All of Us (Shout out to friend and acquaintances.*)
Beck - Mutations
Dead Confederate - Wrecking Ball
The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
John Frusciante - Shadows Collide with People
I've Made Too Much Pasta - Swear I Saw your Mouth Move (https://ivemadetoomuchpasta.bandcamp.com/releases)
Look Left - You Should Drink More (https://lookleft.us/album/you-should-drink-more)
Mr. Bungle - California
Randy Newman - Trouble in Paradise
Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
Radiohead - OK Computer (OK, it's already been mentioned, but I still like it.)

*If any of you happen to read this, you should definitely re-release all of your albums, EPs, and singles on Bandcamp or something similar.  They're all worth paying for.

[CoreySamson]

I still listen to entire albums, albeit on an iPod Touch. Here's the albums I've listened to, rated:

Audio Adrenaline: The Ultimate Collection 8.5/10
Blanca: Blanca 5/10
Capital Kings: II 6/10
Colton Dixon: A Messenger 8.5/10
David Crowder Band: Church Music 7/10   Remedy 9/10
dc Talk: Greatest Its 9.5/10
Deluge: Deluge 9/10   Unshakable 10/10
Family Force 5: Reanimated 6/10   Time Stands Still 7.5/10
Hawk Nelson: ...Is My Friend! 8/10
Hillsong Young And Free: This Is Living- EP 9/10
Hollyn: Hollyn 5.5/10
Insyderz: Fight Of My Life 10/10   Skalleluia 9/10
Mandisa: Overcomer 7/10   What If We Were Real 7/10
MercyMe: The Generous Mr. Lovewell 7/10   Welcome To The New 7/10
Newsboys: Go 8.5/10   God's Not Dead 8/10
Salvador: Salvador 8/10
Skillet: Unleashed 9/10
Superchick: Recollection 7.5/10   Rock What You Got 9/10
Switchfoot: The Beautiful Letdown 9/10   Hello Hurricane 9.5/10   Oh! Gravity 8/10
Third Day: Move 8/10
TobyMac: Dubbed and Freq'd 8/10   Eye On It 8/10   Momentum 9/10   Portable Sounds 9.5/10   This Is Not A Test 8/10   Tonight 9/10
U2: The Best Of 1980-1990 8.5/10

[texaskdog]

XTC-Drums & Wires, Oranges & Lemons (or any)
Beatles-White Album, Magical Mystery Tour, Revolver, Abbey Road, Rubber Soul
Beach Boys-Smile
Monkees-Pisces Capricorn
Yes-Relayer, Yes Album
Velvet Underground-Loaded
Pavement-Slanted & Enchanted
Kate Bush-The Dreaming
Liz Phair-Exile in Guyville
Husker Du-Zen Arcade
John Cale-Fear

[Finrod]

I still listen to albums, and I still buy compact discs.  I have a copy of all of them on my main laptop, but as .wav not as .mp3.  I've got the disk space to store them all as .wav so why should I mangle them into an inferior format to save space that I don't need to save?

For that matter, I still listen to compact discs in the car.  It was great when we had a 2013 Equinox with a built-in cd player that would display the names of the tracks on the main display while they were being played.  Too many of my albums, I only really know the songs by track number, not by name.  We ended up trading it in for a 2016 Equinox-- which was the first year they stopped making them with cd players.  Grr.  The dealership promised to install a compact disc player for us, but they never did, bastards.  So I went searching for a portable cd player, and the best bet ended up being a used Sony.  So I still listen to compact discs in the car, but I no longer have my track name display.

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.

[hbelkins]

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?

[Hwy 61 Revisited]

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

[texaskdog]

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.