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
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.
Back in the 1900s, I bought the Smash Mouth CD simply because I liked Walking On The Sun.
That was a mistake.
I made a closely related comment just a few days ago. Odd that it came up again so soon.
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.
So true. All 3 of those are great examples too. I can barely pick out a song from any of them, but you won't need to lol.
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
If you haven't listened to her live at Electric Lady album i highly recommend. The band she has is absolutely killer.
Please forgive me for listing these but right now we’ve got:
I await more references.
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
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.
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.
Which is the point of Gorillaz, so they've succeeded once more.
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.
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.
That’s because Dark Side of the Moon is a single track 🙃
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.
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.
Ngl the rest of the album is often trash
That's rarely true for me. I hear a great song and the rest of the album is generally great.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
exactly my thought process of discovering new music.
And then there is the polar opposite crowd which caused Plexamp to hava a shuffle where it shuffles whole albums instead of songs.
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.
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.
sad musicians noises
I always went to the album though so I think there's still some dedicated listeners.
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.
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
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.
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.
When I was younger I loved listening to full albums but now I kinda hate it. I make exceptions sometimes though.
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.
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
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.
I listen to albums atleast 95% of the time. I only listen to separate songs when I'm looking for new stuff
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.
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.
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.
Sometimes that one brush stroke is really good, but I really do not give a shit about another still life painting.
Or always.
Yeah, always.
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