[Closed] When did you last listen to a whole album?

i drifted off to sleep with an oldie (but one of the most sublime compilation albums of all time) Nick Warren - Back To Mine

Agreed, I love this and still listen to it!

The last was Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase

But it's been on constant loop in the car for three weeks.

On the Dark Side of the Moon / OK Computer theme, have a listen to Easy Star Allstars versions, Dub Side of the Moon and Radiodread. Brilliantly observed mellow listening in a reggae style.

Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden.

5 minutes ago .

[i]Young love,catching ferries around the islands.
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Music is a time machine 🙂

Regularly plough through a host of full albums in the motor when out and about, currently stashed full of oldskool hardcore and hard dance albums along with this beauty

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Almost always listen to full albums. Not really into pic'n'mix music. I like it to all link up with a theme or style.

Last one, the other day old school... David Holmes - This Film's Crap Let's Slash the Seats

I tend to stick a CD on in the car and leave it in until I get a bit bored of it. It can be in there for weeks sometimes, then I'll swap it or buy something else that gets the same treatment.
I'm currently on a Salvation compilation that I bought the other week in Whitby, when they were supporting Fields of the Nephilim.

I buy vinyl albums and listen to them all the way through when they arrive.
Last was Blue Daisy "Darker Then Blue". (Dark blue vinyl). I would definitely recommend it.

Honestly though, the last album I listened to all the way through was a CD - it's an old one that I never bought when it came out, bought it off ebay - Au Pairs - Sense & Sensibility.

But then, Friday night, my son wanted to listen to the new Chemical Brothers album (he likes "Go" off that advert), so I put it on my iPod in the car. The traffic was so bad we listened to the whole thing driving into Portsmouth.

Normally I do have my iPod (or nas) on shuffle.

deadkenny : That's a belter of an album, really gets the juices flowing (so to speak), have you heard [i]David Holmes presents the Free Association[/i]? - i love the intro track [i]Don't rhyme no mo[/i] , another good one is [i]The Holy Pictures[/i], especially the Andrew Weatherall remix of [i]I heard Wonders[/i]

About an hour ago; Fading Frontier by Deerhunter.

"Some Friendly" on Friday, for the first time in years.

I listen to whole albums all the time, in fact, I only listen to whole albums, or as much of an album as I have time to.

I still listen to whole albums, albeit not always non-stop.

New Richard Hawley is as great as always. I've been listening to a lot of Eels recently - their live at the Albert Hall deserves listening to in full.
As it happens just been listening to Wonderstuff Eight-Legged-Groove Machine on Spotify from beginning to end.

What I don't do anymore is just sit and listen like I used to when I was a kid - I'm always doing something else - either on t'internet, at work or on the train/tube

somafunk - Member
deadkenny : That's a belter of an album, really gets the juices flowing (so to speak), have you heard David Holmes presents the Free Association? - i love the intro track Don't rhyme no mo , another good one is The Holy Pictures, especially the Andrew Weatherall remix of I heard Wonders

Yeah, I've got the Free Association. Love a bit of David Holmes, got most of the studio albums though I never got round to The Holy Pictures. I must check that out. I hear it's a bit different in style though.

Mostly listen to albums, last one was

Earlier today

Yesterday:

Jackson C Frank - Blues Run the Game
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Dexter Gordon - Our Man in Paris

Today, this one with writing that might be too teeny to read:

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Knee deep in the North Sea by portico quartet then out of season by Beth gibbons and Rustin Man

Both very different (and can be found on YouTube as whole albums if you want to try before you buy!)

Listened to Compton front to back a fair few times since it's release.

Clarkesville - The half chapter - yesterday
Khruangbin - The universe smiles upon you - the day before

Resisted the urge to keep everything alphabetically, plenty of stuff to rediscover when looking for something else.

Today I listened to the whole of Gilmour's 'Rattle That Lock'.

Last week I listened to the whole of 'Dead Set' and 'Reckoning' - both double live albums, and Nils Frahm's 'Spaces'.

I often listen to whole albums most recently Deacon Blue Raintown and Calexico Black light

I listen to at least one full album most days, especially since I started spinning the vinyl again.
Tonight has been :
Highway 61 revisited - Bob Dylan.
The Blue Album - The Beatles.
Just started listening to Roxy and Elsewhere by Zappa.

Usually listen to my BBC playlister concocted from 6 music tracks but just lately I've been playing killing jokes new album 'pylon'.

There are only 3 albums worth listening from start to finish in my opinion

Kasabians first album called Kasabian - a piece of musical genius
British Sea Power - Do you like rock music
James - Best of

Does anyone agree with me?

Today.
Latest albums from Josh Ritter, Everything Everything & Beach House.
Oh and my 14 year old daughter apparently agrees with NickC re Everything Everything on Friday night. Unfortunately I missed the gig but apparently her and her best friend were bouncing madly downstairs so if you saw two teenagers with long hair behaving like, err, teenagers, that was them......

There are only 3 albums worth listening from start to finish in my opinion

No.

I must admit I haven't quite finished the whole of the new Swallow the Sun album yet, but then again it is 3 albums in one:

i) Progressive metal/doom
ii) all acoustic
iii) dark, dirty funereal doom.

I've listened to i and iii so far, but each one in their entirety at the time.

Always play full albums. Last one was yesterday - Bombay Bicycle Club, So Long See You Tomorrow.

When did you last listen to a whole album?

Just now.

Yazoo's first one.

Most days I'll listen to at least one album straight through. As well as lots of individual tracks and playlists.

I played the Glasvegas mini Xmas album on Friday.

I'm on a roll tonight. Overkill by Motorhead now. (RIP Philthy)

Last Friday was Jarrod Dickenson -The Lonesome Traveler, in preparation for seeing him support The Waterboys next Saturday. Listen to full albums most days when at work, unless TMS is keeping me entertained.

I generally listen to full albums when I play music.

Right now. It's KT Tunstall, because I'm super cool like that.

Friday morning - New Model Army, No Rest For The Wicked

edward2000 - Member
There are only 3 albums worth listening from start to finish in my opinion

Kasabians first album called Kasabian - a piece of musical genius
British Sea Power - Do you like rock music
James - Best of

Does anyone agree with me?

Good God no!
Unless you've only got six albums, that's a daft thing to say. I've been buying albums, first on cassette, then vinyl, then CD, since around 1970, they number in the hundreds, and that's my meagre collection, how could anyone say there are only three worth playing all the way through, let alone those three.
I couldn't pick thirty, let alone three.
There are one or two that are best with one track skipped, like Dire Straits [i]Love Over Gold[/i]: [i]Industrial Disease[/i] has no place on that album at all, it ruins the flow and the mood completely. It's also the only album of theirs I own.
One thing that's rather interesting is the number of people who listen to complete albums on the move, like in cars, which is something I've never really done, I guess because I started with cassettes, and because of the constraints of the format I started doing mix tapes early on, just for variety across the few tapes I could carry, and that meant the car as well; it wasn't until around 2003 I even had a car with a CD capability, and that got replaced with a minidisc multiplayer, for even more compilation capability.
Now, that means I'm so used to having many tracks played at random I can't really listen any other way, unless I'm at home, where it's the other way around, and I really only play full albums, even via iTunes.
Nothing I enjoy more than lying back with a beer or scotch, picking a particular artist then playing several albums right through, one after another, or playing some new CDs, before ripping them.
Which reminds me, I must get Courtney Barnett's new album, I'll be seeing her next month.
Amazon here I come...

I listen to whole albums. I think the last on while I was in the garage today was Yeti by Amon Duul.

Despite having a Sonos system (which I've yet to set back up after moving a year past May) I listen to CDs.

While I loved the ability to select tracks form thousands on the NAS I found I'd make a couple of lists and then mostly play them (maybe about a hundred tracks each) on repeat. Convenient, but a bit samey.

When I moved I didn't have broadband for 6 weeks so started using the CD player/radio. I found I liked having to change albums and it made me drag out some old stuff I'd not listened to in a while. Hence why I still haven't reinstated Sonos. Also means that when I get a new disc it tends to get played a lot more than it would've on Sonos.

Last album I listened to (yesterday evening) was Alasdair Roberts 'Farewll Sorrow'. Before that it was (Beatles) Revolver and Mogwai's Les Revenants soundtrack.

I love full albums , or I should say I love the full albums I love!
Harder and harder to find new ones to add to the longish list.
Highlights of the weekend were Underworld "second toughest.." ,
Ryan Adams "Ashes & Fire" ,My Bloody Valentine "Loveless" and a John Hopkins one....all played loud, hurrah,

Yesterday.

last week

Machine Gun Etiquette

Stoneage Romeos

Angelic Upstarts - Bullingdon Bastards

I buy lots of CDs, old and new, as I like to have my music collection 'on display'. Definitely more likely to play a full album from physical media.
I have even more digital music, but these albums are really treated as samplers, until I get round to buying the disc...

Well knock me over with a pair of spandex and heels..

Most excellent 80's throwback Rock n Roll..

The Darkness's latest "Last of our kind"

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Muse - Black Holes and Revelations.

Usually listen to full albums while I'm training at the gym. Always listen to them in the right order too. Also have some playlists that I randomise. Crazy huh?

Still listen to albums. Making my own playlists just seems like too much bloody effort. In the wake of the recent death of the guitarist Dickie Hammond, this has been on repeat recently. I'm still quite shocked at how good it is 20-odd years later (if you're into this sort of thing that is)...

All the time - all my Spotify playlists contain full albums.
Also keep couple of CD's in the garage, although Type O Negative CD are on most of the time. TON works very well for bike maintenance, especially Dead Again for pressfit BB's. 🙂

At least 3 in the last week that I remember:

Kasibian Kasibian (?)
New Order - Substance 1987
Jurrassic 5 - Quality Control
JJ Cale - Troubadour