Best Ever Albums

Re: Listening to albums

Charicature — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:55:31 GMT

Author: Charicature

Posted: 02/15/2010 20:55

an_outlaw wrote:

Charicature wrote:

Expecting To Fly by The Blue Tones (liked it somewhat, sounds like Manic Street Preachers)

Just Joking 😉

I'm gonna have to listen again to see where you're coming from with that 😜 There are nine different Manic Street Preachers (No album have they sounded the same). I'm guessing Everything Must Go era

Vocally, mainly. Style's not too far off, though.

Then again, I'm only familiar with Send In the Tigers.

Re: Listening to albums

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:49:21 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/15/2010 20:49

Charicature wrote:

Expecting To Fly by The Blue Tones (liked it somewhat, sounds like Manic Street Preachers)

😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 🤬

Just Joking 😉

I'm gonna have to listen again to see where you're coming from with that 😜 There are nine different Manic Street Preachers (No album have they sounded the same). I'm guessing Everything Must Go era

Re: Listening to albums

Charicature — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:41:56 GMT

Author: Charicature

Posted: 02/15/2010 20:41

So I've decided to start listening to the albums I'm not familiar with on other people's charts using Grooveshark (inasmuch as I can, anyway). So the first name I happened to see was Badfaith's, so today listened to Duke by Genesis (didn't care for), Expecting To Fly by The Blue Tones (liked it somewhat, sounds like Manic Street Preachers), In Rainbows by Radiohead (really don't see why it hasn't caused fans to abandon them in droves), and started listening to Us by Peter Gabriel (already know I'm going to give it a 90+ rating) when I decided to sidetrack myself and listen to Steve Burns (yes, the former Blues Clues host) "Songs For Dust Mites" - I'm familiar with a couple of the songs and really like them (Mighty Little Man and What I Do On Saturdays) and decided to see what the entire album had to offer.

Re: Listening to albums

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:58:54 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/11/2010 14:58

So did Spotify get banned everywhere but the Uk?

Re: Listening to albums

Charicature — Sun, 7 Feb 2010 18:41:58 GMT

Author: Charicature

Posted: 02/07/2010 23:41

Actually, it's just the thing, except the first artist I decided to peruse, Bowie, has few albums available and there's mostly just tribute and best of albums there. Hopefully other artists have a more complete selection.

I'm not downloading or uploading anything, so I don't think legality is an issue. Just using the streaming. Listening to Hunky Dory now.

Re: Listening to albums

Charicature — Sun, 7 Feb 2010 03:54:04 GMT

Author: Charicature

Posted: 02/07/2010 08:54

RFNAPLES wrote:

Grooveshark is great, not sure how legal.

Ah - I'd presumed it was an above-board streaming site. Don't really want to get into the illegal sites due to viruses and lawsuit-happy record companies.

Re: Listening to albums

RFNAPLES — Sat, 6 Feb 2010 22:58:06 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 02/07/2010 03:58

Grooveshark is great, not sure how legal.

Re: Listening to albums

Charicature — Sat, 6 Feb 2010 22:21:45 GMT

Author: Charicature

Posted: 02/07/2010 03:21

Applerill wrote:

Sorry, but I don't think that's really necessary.

I remember when I first heard about Tori's Little Earthquakes, my favorite album ever. My ex-girlfriend was doing something for my mom at my house, and while they were doing that, I just spent three hours listening to the 30-second previews in order. It was another week until I bought my first track from it, "Crucify".

What I normally do when I want full songs is just go and get the track list and look them up on Youtube. Sometimes, people even make it easy for me by making an album playlist :)

The problem is (and I've found this with, say, Disintegration by the Cure on iTunes) the 30-second samples often aren't very representative of the whole song. They might sample a bridge for instance - hardly gives you much to go by...meanwhile, as Mikey and Badfaith state, nothing really compares to unravelling an entire album track by track in the order they were arranged by the band/producer. That's the true art of the album, moreso than the individual songs, though the strength of the individual songs tends to increase the strength of the collection.

As for YouTube, I've found most often they don't have complete albums when I've gone searching - only for occasional artists and the occasional album. I'm sure the second a record company finds out then the audio "videos" are taken down for copyright infringement.

Thanks, Cartoken - I'll check out grooveshark when I get a chance.

Re: Listening to albums

maxperenchio — Sat, 6 Feb 2010 18:55:00 GMT

Author: maxperenchio

Posted: 02/06/2010 23:55

Its amazing how many full albums are on Youtube. I think blogspot is generally the way to go though if you want to check out albums you haven't heard much about- just to kind of "sample" and see if you like them... and never keep them past 48 hours....... 🫢

Re: Listening to albums

Applerill — Sat, 6 Feb 2010 17:43:53 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 02/06/2010 22:43

Well, continuing this bunny trail, I don't think it's ALL bad. When you buy an album digitally, you might forget all about it, then rediscover a song from it while in a shuffle session.

Re: Listening to albums

mikeyskywalker — Sat, 6 Feb 2010 17:29:17 GMT

Author: mikeyskywalker

Posted: 02/06/2010 22:29

badfaith wrote:

I think that's the one real downside to the digital music era, you used to buy an album and work at it until it revealed all it's wonders to you, now you can select a track and ignore the rest if it doesn't grab you straight away... you miss a lot of good music that way.

This is definitely my method of finding and listening to music. I love the feeling of purchasing that new album, putting it in your stereo, and just letting it run all the way through. There's nothing better! 😁

Re: Listening to albums

cartoken — Sat, 6 Feb 2010 11:58:32 GMT

Author: cartoken

Posted: 02/06/2010 16:58

best site to isten to complete albums is certainly: www.grooveshark.com

Re: Listening to albums

badfaith — Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:40:06 GMT

Author: badfaith

Posted: 02/06/2010 15:40

I think that's the one real downside to the digital music era, you used to buy an album and work at it until it revealed all it's wonders to you, now you can select a track and ignore the rest if it doesn't grab you straight away... you miss a lot of good music that way.

I always think of discovering an album like slowly and methodically unwrapping a parcel or present, the brightest elements will grab you immediately, which snippets will reveal, while some aspects need you to be in the right place of mind to appreciate, and this may take months, or even years to synchronise with a song so to speak, and it's these little gems that suffer when people can choose not to get them from the off.

Whole albums are one area nobody seems to have been able to reconcile with the need for protection so far. It used to be you could stand in the record shop and browse while an album was played in it's entirety.

Re: Listening to albums

Applerill — Sat, 6 Feb 2010 09:13:23 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 02/06/2010 14:13

Sorry, but I don't think that's really necessary.

I remember when I first heard about Tori's Little Earthquakes, my favorite album ever. My ex-girlfriend was doing something for my mom at my house, and while they were doing that, I just spent three hours listening to the 30-second previews in order. It was another week until I bought my first track from it, "Crucify".

What I normally do when I want full songs is just go and get the track list and look them up on Youtube. Sometimes, people even make it easy for me by making an album playlist 😄

Listening to albums

Charicature — Sat, 6 Feb 2010 07:08:17 GMT

Author: Charicature

Posted: 02/06/2010 12:08

I suppose it would interfere with someone's profit model so I guess it's a long shot, but a comment left on my chart last night makes me wonder: are there any sites out there where you can listen to whole albums? I haven't heard many of those on the charts I've peeked at myself, and the comment left on my chart was "Too many albums I have not heard of" (I'm guessing as an explanation for why the poster didn't leave a chart rating). It would be nice to be able to hear at least say 75% of an album from time to time, and not just 20-30second snippets of songs.