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Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

ButterThumbz — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:48:04 GMT

Author: ButterThumbz

Posted: 04/25/2014 16:48

If it's album material, I'll usually know it within the first few listens but there are some albums that take a while to reveal themselves.

Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

andy_hunter — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:25:38 GMT

Author: andy_hunter

Posted: 04/25/2014 13:25

How long is a piece of string? How long does it take to fall in lover?

There's no rule, really. I'm kind of relaxed about adding charts into my year and decade charts. But my overall chart is sacred, I have to be 100% sure it belongs before I add it. Sometimes this take 1 listen, sometimes it takes about 20. My top 2 took many (20+) listens before I included them. On the other hand, my number 3 probably only took 1 or 2 listens.[/i]

Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

meccalecca — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:20:23 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 04/25/2014 12:20

To crack my overall chart, I think I'd have to have heard an album at least 10 times, probably more. Everything in my top 100 has been listened to so many times that it's become part of my DNA. I can't imagine listening to an album once and thinking, okay this is good enough to knock album x off my overall chart.

That said. I've added plenty of albums to my year charts after only 1 or 2 listens.

Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

Kaiser — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:10:45 GMT

Author: Kaiser

Posted: 04/25/2014 12:10

Usually twice in a row although I like or dislike it.

Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

Torchlin — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:26:06 GMT

Author: Torchlin

Posted: 04/25/2014 11:26

BrandonMiaow wrote:

Yeah, sometimes. Mostly I'm a song-on-repeat sort of person. I listen to individual songs quite a bit for someone on an album based forum. Anyone else like this?

Oh yeah definitely! I get obsessed over songs very easily and it's not rare for me to listen to them up to ten times a day before the excitement wears off. (usually when I find another song to obsess over).
Then it's not rare for me to just "forget" the previous song for a few weeks straight, but if it's really something special I come back to it sooner or later, so it's not really a problem.

It happens with albums also but it's much rarer since it's a lot more difficult to find enough time to listen to them multiple times a day. With a 4-5minute song you can just listen to it whenever you have a little free-time like during your coffee break or something.

Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

drakonium — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 06:01:33 GMT

Author: drakonium

Posted: 04/25/2014 10:01

I'm more like tiger. I never listen to an album more than once a day. I sometimes listen to the same one day after day though. But for months now, I've been much more into discovering than revisiting. I haven't loads of listening time a day, and most of it is used for first to fifth listens, and not that much for old favorites. I think it's just a mood thing, this will eventually wear out and I'll feel the need to come back to faves again, but as of now, it's mostly new things, and I avoid listening to them more than once a day.

Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

videoheadcleaner — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:46:06 GMT

Author: videoheadcleaner

Posted: 04/25/2014 02:46

1-2: year
2-4: decade
2+ : overall

This is for the initial entry. After that, things can change a lot. Expect some today or tomorrow on a few of mine.

Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:21:25 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/25/2014 02:21

sp4cetiger wrote:

Do you play albums on repeat a lot?

I don't think I ever, or at least very rarely, play an album more than once in a day. However, I often listen to albums for several days in a row. I often play songs on repeat, sometimes 5+ times in a row. Lately, I've been listening to Colossal Youth each day and then occasionally playing Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love" and Cat Power's "Good Woman" on repeat.

Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

Romanelli — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:33:12 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 04/25/2014 01:33

sp4cetiger wrote:

I'm always afraid that it will lose its punch if I do that (though I have no data to support that fear). I try not to listen to an album more than once a day, no matter how much I like it.

Kinda curious what others do about this. Do you play albums on repeat a lot?

I try not to listen to an album more than once a month. When I was younger I listened to things over and over, and they were never the same to me afterwards.

For me, I want every listen to be savored. I thought I was doing that when I'd listen to albums repeatedly...but I was only burning myself out on them.

Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

Patman360 — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:24:52 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 04/25/2014 01:24

sp4cetiger wrote:

That's the thing right there. If I wear it out in a week, I feel like I've done myself a disservice. I've been kind of obsessing over Odessey and the Oracle for months now, mainly because I really space out the listening. Another thing about the spaced listening is that, if I'm lukewarm on an album the first time, sometimes it's actually because of my mood. Listening at a different time sometimes gives a different reaction.

I'm not being critical at all, btw, just curious about how others think about this stuff.

That's perfectly understandable, it just depends on the person really, sometimes I just find an album that I hear and as soon as I finish it I just need to hear it again straight away. I guess I should give spaced listening more of a chance as on rare occasions I've put albums away for like a year after not enjoying it on first listen, yet when I've finally returned to it I found out I'd actually really enjoy it in different circumstances (If You're Feeling Sinister being a prime example for me, though once I got into I obsessed over it, on an extreme scale...).

Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:11:28 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/25/2014 01:11

Patman360 wrote:

I'm certain I've done this with every album on my overall chart, where I obsess over it for like a week, playing the album over and over and over...

Quote:

Laughing haha no. I'm not really sure what I was exactly trying to say, just I think that I listen to some things a lot.

Haha, that's cool, I actually would have found it kind of fascinating if anybody viewed that as effectively "never listening."

Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:02:58 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/25/2014 01:02

sp4cetiger wrote:

You see once a day as never listening?

🤣 haha no. I'm not really sure what I was exactly trying to say, just I think that I listen to some things a lot.

Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

Patman360 — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:02:49 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 04/25/2014 01:02

sp4cetiger wrote:

Kinda curious what others do about this. Do you play albums on repeat a lot?

I'm certain I've done this with every album on my overall chart, where I obsess over it for like a week, playing the album over and over and over, some times I do something similar to Brandon, where I could listen to one track on an album like 5 times in a row, then move onto the next, depends on mood really.

Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 20:59:08 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/25/2014 00:59

yourself wrote:

Albums usually end up high my chart because I either am currently playing them obsessively, or have played them obsessively in the past. It feels weird to me ranking something highly if I never actually listen to it.

You see once a day as never listening?

Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 20:48:54 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/25/2014 00:48

sp4cetiger wrote:

Albums usually end up high on my chart because I either am currently playing them obsessively, or have played them obsessively in the past. It feels weird to me ranking something highly if I never actually listen to it. I can put something on my chart after only a few listens, but usually because I know/think I'm going to keep listening to it a lot. When I first got into my current #1 I was proabably playing it a couple times a day for a few weeks, I still play at least parts of it every other day or so.

Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 20:44:46 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/25/2014 00:44

sp4cetiger wrote:

Kinda curious what others do about this. Do you play albums on repeat a lot?

Yeah, sometimes. Mostly I'm a song-on-repeat sort of person. I listen to individual songs quite a bit for someone on an album based forum. Anyone else like this? A lot of times I even listen to a bunch of songs from the same album...don't really understand why I do that honestly. XD I've probably listened to entire albums out of order before from jumping around from song to song by an artist.

Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 20:17:09 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/25/2014 00:17

sp4cetiger wrote:

Do you play albums on repeat a lot?

Yes, quite regularly. I find it helps things stick, and you catch things on an immediate second listen that you may have missed first time (more so than a separate second listen, days or weeks after the first, by which time you may just be reminding yourself of the stuff you heard first time out). And, of course, sometimes an album is just so great that I want to hear it over and over. I think I listened to Roc Marciano's Reloaded nine times the day it came out.

Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 20:09:36 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/25/2014 00:09

Patman360 wrote:

I'm with Outlaw, you can find an album great after just one listen.
That said however, when I do find an album good enough to add after one listen, I usually end up obsessing with it for a few weeks where I play it on repeat pretty much.

Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

Patman360 — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:55:58 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 04/24/2014 23:55

I'm with Outlaw, you can find an album great after just one listen.
That said however, when I do find an album good enough to add after one listen, I usually end up obsessing with it for a few weeks where I play it on repeat pretty much.

Re: How many times do you listen to an album before adding it??

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:11:10 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/24/2014 23:11

You can listen to the album one time.