I really like this song!
I really like this song!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14976953
I guess I'm just Single Minded
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I hate it when I find a song I really like but it’s a collab between 2 artists and neither of them have anything else that sounds similar
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I'm even more mad when it's a single song from 1 artist that is just different from their usual. Nothing else they do is similar and you'll never get more hahah. It makes the song special but still.
Dora Jar - Did I Get It Wrong, comes to mind.
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There is danger the other way as well. You hear a song, and you like it, but it turns out everything the artist does is so samey that there was no reason at all to listen to any of the rest of the album or discography. 90s me can think of Live's Throwing Copper and the collected works of Hootie & the Blowfish, and 2010s me remembers Mumford & Sons.
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I loved every song featuring Remi Wolf but just could not get into her music....then like a year later it clicked and now I fuckin love Remi Wolf. I think I was too focused on the specific things I liked about her in the features and and missed out on what else she had to offer
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Whenever I hear a song I like for the first time, I go to the album to listen to it in context. Artists (foe the most part) put their songs together in a specific order and I want to view it through that lens. Sometimes it's trash and you move on, but sometimes you find "perfect albums". They take you on an adventure through the course of the album
Some of mine are:
Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
The Mistress - Yellow Ostrich
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Plastic Beach - Gorillaz
Daylight - Aesop Rock
And many more
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My first listen to Plastic Beach, I hated it. As I had bought it on a whim and money was tight at the time, I gave it a few more shots over the next couple of months and now it's one of my favorites. It's probably the album that convinced me to give music I don't immediately like a second chance.
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Almost all albums I love most took several listens to get into. Music that sounds great on first listen often becomes boring quickly. More challenging stuff takes its time but in the end delivers much more pleasure.
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Which is the point of Gorillaz, so they've succeeded once more.
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Thank you, I don't see many people talk about Aesop Rock. Been my favorite artist for a while now, so many hits and great collabs.
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aesop rock is like hip hops version of elvis costello for me. obviously very talented, i like quite a few songs, but i always feel like i just dont quite get it
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How can people not listen to all of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea when they hear one song from it? It's works so well as a collected piece
Also, people need to check out You Can't Stop the Bum Rush by Len. Cryptic Souls Crew and Beautiful Day are better than Steal My Sunshine IMO.
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Random Access Memory could also fit the comic (with some adaptations) because it is an album different from most of Daft Punk discography
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This is how I feel about all bands/artists...they may have a one or two songs that I like and the rest of their discography is not something I want to listen to at all.
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I feel that way about some, but certainly not all. I can’t imagine only listening to a single track from say Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.
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That’s because Dark Side of the Moon is a single track 🙃
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Concept albums are meant to be listened in their entirety so it makes sense. Pink Floyd is a band notorious for concept albums, but they're not the only ones. If you're an Arctic Monkeys fan, you'll probably not listen to just one song from Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. In spotify which shows the number of listens per song, it shows that all songs on Tranquility Base have the same number of listens (some more than others, but not by an order of magnitude).
I guess OP was mostly talking about regular albums which are mostly just collections of disjoint songs. It's probably happening less now that people consume music one song at a time, but there are numerous examples of artists releasing one good song and then a bunch of filling around it and pass it as an album. If you were playing a CD (or a cassette if you're old enough), chances are you'd listen to the rest of the album anyway and eventually like it through repetition. For example, with spotify again, if I'm looking at Cowboy Carter by Beyonce, "Texas Hold'em" has 340 million listens and all the rest are below 20 thousands.
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Meanwhile me with only Money and Another Brick in the Wall as the only Pink Floyd tracks in the whole digital library
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I just can't be bothered listening to tracks I don't like, especially in this day and age where I don't have to swap CDs/tapes to listen to a track from a different artist.
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I have this thing as well. In general I'm really picky with music, I'd say I don't like most songs. But once in a while I find one song by some artist I like and the rest of their songs I don't like. It's weird.
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The moment when you realize the only good song was a cover...
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I've heard pretty mid songs that turned out to be incredible albums and I've heard amazing songs where it's the only good track. But I always try to listen to an entire album in most cases. There's so much good music out there, just under the surface.
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And the most popular songs of any band, which are generally the ones you'll hear randomly, might not turn out to be the ones you like the most from that album or artist. I've had songs I liked and listened to a lot but just never got around to exploring the band until years later, and then found some of my all-time favourites after doing so.
A perfect example for me is my favourite song from one of my favourite bands, which I just never heard before actually sitting down and going through their whole discography:
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Totally. If I hear a really good song sometimes I’ll do a hyper study over a period of time listening to every album, all collabs, the collaborator’s albums, and so on. Definitely did this more when I was younger. But when I hear that sound, it’s mission time.
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I can't think of a situation where I don't like every song on the album.
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I always try to listen to an entire album in most cases
I just look for the Best Of album if its an older song.
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Ngl the rest of the album is often trash
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That's rarely true for me. I hear a great song and the rest of the album is generally great.
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Yeah though I feel like if you only listen to pop music that you hear on TikTok then you're not going to have so much of a good time, but if you listen to artists that aren't put forward as pop stars you'll get better depth.
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That's the difference between a good musician/ band and a bad one.
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It's not. Most of Pink Floyd's Animals album is trash, except for Sheep which I think we can all agree on being a fucking great song from a great band.
Steven King's The Dark Tower series is trash, except for The Gunslinger (and, okay, the final chapter of the final book The Dark Tower), which I think we can all agree on being a fucking great book from a great author.
The Lamiids's Solanum species of plants is poisonous trash, except for Tomatoes which I think we can all agree on being a fucking great fruit from a fucking great subclade.
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Literally, most people with Goyte; his music outside his one hit wonder is so fucking good. I highly recommend listening to more of his work if you haven't.
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I’m not relating to this one, I generally only listen to full albums. I’ll get into an artist and stick with their entire discography for a while. But I’m also a fairly picky listener. And I typically hate modern pop.
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exactly my thought process of discovering new music.
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And then there is the polar opposite crowd which caused Plexamp to hava a shuffle where it shuffles whole albums instead of songs.
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That's me, I love full albums.
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Hey, it's me, I have two self released albums, and two EPs. Give me a shot: www.thassodar.com
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I don't usually look up the rest of the album because when I used to do that, I almost never found even 1 more song on the album I liked. There are exceptions, of course. But there aren't many artists that have nothing but bangers.
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I still give it a try once in a while. Often it isn’t the album, but another by the band might have something enjoyable.
Pretty rare to have a whole A-side’s worth of songs that slaps these days.
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EDM / techno is kind of an exception with many albums that were designed to be played from start to finish, going hard all the way.
If you like techno or funk at all check out Griz, almost all his albums can be put on and listened to straight through, especially if you're out driving or something.
In particular Good Will Prevail and Ride Waves are almost entirely bangers with only a couple duds. Funky as fuck
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I find it really interesting how different people have radically different relationships with music.
You've got like depth first listen to everything. Listen to stuff on repeat until you know it by heart. Listen to it once and forget. Critical analysis of lyrics. Getting all the words wrong.
I tend to listen to the whole band's discography if I like them , and if there's only a song or two I like I don't really stick with it
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I'm with you. I'll put albums on repeat, and it just makes sense to listen to them in discographical order. You get to follow along with their growth.
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this comic is actually one of the reasons i really like sitting down and listening through the full discog of a band/artist.
It's genuinely so much more enjoyable than spotify and streaming.
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You do know you can listen to a whole album on Spotify, right?
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spotify, the service notorious for song recommendations and not serving people the entire artists discog.
"hey did you know you can just listen to their albums?"
yes i knew that. That's not the point. This is literally an entire comic panel dedicated to the phenomenon. If you actually have the works of an artist/band you are significantly more likely to listen through it all the way. As opposed to streaming, where you often just let the recommendations take you through, or a playlist. Often not containing an entire album of music.
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end of a majestic song, you wipe away a tear at how great it was
"..."
"WITH SPOTIFY PREMIUM YOU CAN LISTEN TO THIS AND MANY MOR-"
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I use lots of Spotify but almost exclusively albums front to back
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i dont use spotify and almost exclusively listen to discogs front to back
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sad musicians noises
I always went to the album though so I think there's still some dedicated listeners.
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Very relatable. I have entire discographies with only about a song an album I like. It's kinda difficult to let go of the entire rest of the album without being sure I can access it at some point in the future.
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When I was younger I loved listening to full albums but now I kinda hate it. I make exceptions sometimes though.
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I mean, if you're listening to a concept album, then you're really missing out if you're not listening to it end-to-end.
David Bowie's "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars" is this rising and falling ballad of an alien who visits earth on the eve of the apocolypse.
My Chemical Romance's "Black Parade" builds up this soundscape of different numbers in an effort to emulate a carnival.
One of my favorite indie bands, the Protomen, have this entire track list that dramatically recreates the story behind the Megaman video game. Their sequel is this very folk-western prologue with some banger original tracks that get so much better as you move from song to song. Some songs lead directly into one another to create this rising tension that ends in a cathertic heavy metal payoff.
I'll admit I'm a shameless fan of Progressive Rock. Maybe this holds less true in other genres.
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PROTOMEN MENTIONED RAAAA
thank you rock band 4 for introducing me to them. fucking love their song the hounds
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Me too. What I’m about to say was before I was born, but music used to be primarily singles sold on vinyl 45s in drug stores. I’m back to that model with digital purchases.
Also, I recall in the 90s that dance music was single oriented – vinyl 12” stores for DJs and rave flyers.
This is kinda silly but what started me looking into album oriented radio and music business executives was a song by Sisters of Mercy, Doctor Jeep.
Businessmen from South Miami
Humming AOR
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This was a real issue back when we had to buy full albums (cassettes) back in the eighties.
Sure, we look back to some epic albums from that time, but a whole lot of them were the one top forty hit and a bunch of crap filler songs. But we had to suffer through it because we'd spent eight dollars of our hard earned money on that crap. (Eight dollars back then would be over twenty dollars in today money)
It was groundbreaking when the CD listening stations came to record stores.
All this said, I love listening to full albums and was one of THOSE guys back in the nineties who would seek out things like Japanese releases that had ever so slightly different versions of songs.
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there are a few albums that only had a top 40 hit but were actually good all the way through, did u ever buy one of them? or was it all just filler?
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Found one - Skylarking by XTC. Dear God peaked at #37. No other songs charted. It's long been one of my favorite albums.
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I listen to albums atleast 95% of the time. I only listen to separate songs when I'm looking for new stuff
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With the advent of electronic tools (computers and other digital means of sound creation) IMO it has become rare to find an album that has a decent number of good songs on it. The band or musician(s) just seem to throw a bunch of styles at the wall and see what sticks, or the songs are so similar they just run together in a boring mass. Maybe it’s because music is so cheaply and easily produced with so little oversight and editorial input we just get what any mid can crank out with basic Ableton Instrument packs. Before, bands would have to fight to hold on to the crown and keep airplay and the record contracts coming (not trying to say the recording industry is good - its a shit industry - but it did have a few good points) and that pressure came from the record companies and radio stations. Now anyone can dump almost anything on Spotify and never look back.
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The last 3 bands I've taken a shining to - The Pretty Reckless, Coheed and Cambria, and Set it Off - all have a lot of great stuff.
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Cindy Lou Who has some pipes, The Pretty Reckless rule live too.
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She does. I really think she has one of the finest voices in a long time, especially for her age. And yeah, I saw them pretty recently. Just as good live.
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I like listening to full albums because then I can decide which songs I can listen to again later on, and which ones to actively avoid.
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The best listening experience is to find an album you like and listen to the whole thing.
Anything else imo is like looking at the corner of a painting and ignoring the rest.
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Sometimes yeah, but other times it's really just one song. For example, I really like the song "Ruler of Everything" by Tally Hall, but when I tried listening to more of their stuff I mostly didn't like it. There are also many intermediate cases. I can confidently say "Eh el Ibara" by Masar is my favorite music ever. As for the album it's from, "El 'Aysh Wel Mehl", it's a solid album, maybe in my top 12. Same for the band in general. The leader/composer Hazem Shaheen might be ranked a bit higher, like maybe my 6th or 7th favorite musician, because I also like some of the other songs he made without this band, like "Horse of Darwish". But there are more instances where I'll want to listen to just my 1 favorite song rather than to my 12th favorite album entirely.
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But if listening to an entire album was necessary 100% of the time, artists wouldn't release singles.
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Streetlight Manifesto is one of the few bands I go out of my way to listen to every song on every album, because they're that good and have almost no bad songs. I can't wait for the next album that's supposed to drop this year.
Edit: Beast in Black too.
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I'm a mix of both. That's why I pay for Spotify, and also own a turntable setup. Sometimes I just want single tracks, sometimes I want to sit down and listen to the entire album. There are some albums where I'll only listen to the entire thing.
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I'm the opposite. Usually listen to full albums and even if I really like one or two songs, if the album sucks otherwise I'm unlikely to listen to them much, if at all.
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