Does anyone listen to full albums anymore?

Question

Or has the i-Pod / digital music / burning / piracy revolution brought an end to the purpose behind an artist creating an album and a concept?

Answer 1

i still listen to full albums
some bands that i find only have a couple of good songs (Arctic Monkeys, anyone?) so i just download the good songs and save myself ten dollars
some bands are great and i purchase the albums
my grandpa died four years ago and left me his record player and a huge stash of records. i have the who and the beatles and elvis presley and johnny cash, and i listen to those albums in full.

Answer 2

You need to listen to the full album to get a full taste for the music. A lot of times, at least for me, the less popular songs are often better. The ones that gain the most widespread popularity are usually the most empty, simple songs on the album. There's this trend where at least one song on the album, usually toward the end, is a song that's significantly longer than the rest of them..they're usually spacy and slow, but some can be very interesting and worth the listen. I think the 'revolution' has stifled it, but it's not dead yet.

Answer 3

I like to listen to whole albums there is always that song that at first you hate and then one day bam its the best track on the CD. I have a theory about this and it is that society has grown to have things fast there isn't time to smell the roses anymore. Everything has to be done yesterday there is never time to enjoy the moment which is anything that is longer than ten minutes and thus every one is on the fast track, fast food, fast delivery's, 1hr photo, high speed connections well I like that but anyways you get what I mean. Artist will keep making art and it up to us to enjoy it and if the rest don't want too then screw them. its there loss.
TL

Answer 4

I only listen to the whole album if it is a classic album like Dark Side of the Moon or The Wall by Pink Floyd, in those days albums had to be good from start to finish......

Answer 5

I never download just one track of a band.
I always listen to the full album.

Listening to only one "hit" song by a band is retarded and plays you into the hands of the RIAA's cultural wasteland of music taste.

Bands still make fantastic albums and I will always listen to them all.

If anything, I think albums have gotten better because now their audience has expanded a thousand fold.

Answer 6

oh heck yes.

and for the record (no pun in tended) I have a turn-table and a healthy collection of albums that I listen to quite often.

Gotta love the sound of those old vinyl albums!

Answer 7

I tell my teens all the time how sad it is that they miss out on the album art work, and just lying on the floor listening to track after track..they play video games while listening! Sacrilege!

Answer 8

unfastened sharing of copyrighted song is illegitimate and you'd be fined $10,000 for it while you're caught. probable the sole rationalization why there are nonetheless websites the place you may get unfastened song is that a number of them are in different international locations and outdoors U.S, jurisdiction. using fact the checklist companies can't prosecute the vendors, they flow after the downloaders, and meaning you. There are some felony websites the place you may get unfastened promotional downloads of particular songs. i does no longer take a raffle on the different unfastened downloads. i might particularly pay ninety 9 cents in keeping with music than be fined $10,000 in keeping with music.

Answer 9

I refuse to not listen to a full album. I think it's cheating the artist.

Answer 10

Yeah,

It's always worth listening to a whole album in the roder it was designed, you could pick up something you;d miss otherwise