honorentheos wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 7:27 am
I have a question, Jersey Girl. While much of this thread is about single songs, what is your experience with listening to full albums and how did that affect your connection with the music or musicians behind the music in your life?
I ask because this seems to be something largely lost to the way most people experience music now that we get our music through services or forums that detach a song from an album. Some artists are even limiting LP releases in favor of recording and releasing new songs spread out over a period of time. It may just be different like change tends to be.
But I am old enough to have listened to most music from my youth in the form of albums. Many of them listened to with friends while hanging out. Almost all at some point as an active listener playing them on my system in my bedroom, letting the transitions of the album from song to song inform the experience of that album. I still prefer to find albums and let them play through while listening at work though I don't think I've spent the time to just sit and listen to an album as the center of my attention in so long I couldn't tell you when was the last time I did so. Something I am now thinking about, too,...
honor I saw this when you posted it and I don't quite understand what you are asking though others apparently did.
I will start here and if you would like, ask me questions that lead to your original thoughts and questions you posed.
The first records I ever listened to were my parents collection of 78s and some of those I think were made from glass at least it seemed like it. Those had more than one tune on them. Pretty much Big Band music as I recall and God I wish I still had that record player!
Then I listened to my family's collection of 45s, ALL old country music (I'm talking Web Hank Williams Sr., and such as that) and early rock n' roll, two sides, two singles on each side. Same record player.
The first record I ever bought with my own money was a 45 because that is what I could pay for on my own.
I have an LP record collection on vinyl that is three cases of albums. I don't know how many there are. I would listen to those if only I had a needle for our Sansui 6500 quad system's turntable. Replacing that has fallen by the wayside in favor of other in real life concerns and activities and the quad system remains in storage.
Whenever I purchased an LP I immediately went for the most popular tunes that had come out as singles first, then the entire album all the way through. I do NOT like every single song on every single album, quite the contrary is true which is why some tracks are worn to pieces on my albums.
Off the top of my head, if/when our needle ever gets replaced, albums I would listen to start to finish without hesitation would be in no particular order:
Tommy (The Who)
The White Album (Beatles)
Linda Ronstadt every album I own
Nicolette Larson
You will notice the clear absence of most every complete album by the Beatles and ALL of my Stones albums.
I have a hunch that the difference between your goals and my goals with regard to music appreciation is the fact that I listen to music that I can either sing or dance to, or both. In other words, I really
never just listen for listening's sake though some relaxing mountain dulcimer or Celtic type instrumental or Mozart has been known to put me in that space.
p.s. I don't know exactly where my report is on the Stones concert, but I think if you were to read it, you'd see that I was talking about singing and dancing through the whole concert barefoot in Mile High Stadium.