Best Ever Albums

Re: Loose songs on your iPod:

NowhereMan — Thu, 4 Sep 2014 06:28:20 GMT

Author: NowhereMan

Posted: 09/04/2014 10:28

HoldenM wrote:

Let's see..

Coldplay - "Charlie Brown"
Crowded House - "Don't Dream It's Over"
Death Cab for Cutie - "Monday Morning" & "Portable Television"
Drake - "Hold On, We're Going Home"
Hey Champ - "Cold Dust Girl"
Jens Lekman - "If You Ever Need a Stranger (To Sing At Your Wedding)"
Jimi Hendrix - "Purple Haze"
Kings of Leon - "Radioactive"
The Magnetic Fields - "The Book of Love"

That's it. The rest is albumized.

No albums by Hendrix?

Re: Loose songs on your iPod:

HoldenM — Thu, 4 Sep 2014 04:00:06 GMT

Author: HoldenM

Posted: 09/04/2014 08:00

Let's see..

Coldplay - "Charlie Brown"
Crowded House - "Don't Dream It's Over"
Death Cab for Cutie - "Monday Morning" & "Portable Television"
Drake - "Hold On, We're Going Home"
Hey Champ - "Cold Dust Girl"
Jens Lekman - "If You Ever Need a Stranger (To Sing At Your Wedding)"
Jimi Hendrix - "Purple Haze"
Kings of Leon - "Radioactive"
The Magnetic Fields - "The Book of Love"

That's it. The rest is albumized.

Re: Loose songs on your iPod:

NowhereMan — Wed, 3 Sep 2014 05:37:19 GMT

Author: NowhereMan

Posted: 09/03/2014 09:37

noWaxJim wrote:

I kind of do the opposite to this, in a roundabout way.

As memory gets tight on my iPhone and bearing in mind I have to own everything I like (I tend to use Spotify for discovering/trying before purchase) I get round this little issue by butchering compilations I already own and adding relevant individual tracks to these.

For example, there is a fine compy of Post-Punk on Soul Jazz Records called Do It Yourself - The Rise Of The Independent Music Industry After Punk. There are however a couple of duds on it, so what to do? Simple - replace said duds with tracks like TVOD or Psycle Sluts PTs 1&2. Better compilation and odds-and-ends cleared up.
Everyone's a winner.

I will probably end up doing something like this once my memory has to be rationed. My classic has around 120GB so I'm lucky.

Re: Loose songs on your iPod:

meruizh — Tue, 2 Sep 2014 23:07:35 GMT

Author: meruizh

Posted: 09/03/2014 03:07

The majority of my itunes library is made up with albums, still I have several songs laying by themselves. Specially mainstream pop songs. I just dont see a lot of potential in albums made by

A-ha - Take on me
Alphaville - Forever Young
Aqualong - Brighter than Sunshine
Asia - Heat of the Moment
Black Eyed Peas - Where is the Love?

.... just to name a few

Re: Loose songs on your iPod:

revolver94 — Tue, 2 Sep 2014 17:18:14 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 09/02/2014 21:18

wow like so many loose songs

like albums are good obviously

but they can be such an ordeal sometimes

songs are good too

plus the new t swift album isn't out yet so i'm resigned to listening to 'shake it off' on repeat until it is

and even then the album will probably be mediocre so i'll still just listen to the singles

😎 pop music 😎

Re: Loose songs on your iPod:

Mdemauri — Tue, 2 Sep 2014 15:45:39 GMT

Author: Mdemauri

Posted: 09/02/2014 19:45

I have all albums, aside from my college fight song. It is the only "loose" song on my iTunes.

Re: Loose songs on your iPod:

Anonymous — Tue, 2 Sep 2014 15:42:30 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/02/2014 19:42

I only allow albums, compilations, EPs, and singles to be in my iTunes, so no loose songs from larger releases here.

Re: Loose songs on your iPod:

Jimmy Dread — Tue, 2 Sep 2014 15:03:17 GMT

Author: Jimmy Dread

Posted: 09/02/2014 19:03

NowhereMan wrote:

I tend to to download compilation albums which may contain singular songs I like and others that I consider dross and simply add that particular individual track onto my iPod that I like or I do not already have. The remains of rubbish or stuff I already have is left on my library.

Re: Loose songs on your iPod:

NowhereMan — Tue, 2 Sep 2014 14:20:14 GMT

Author: NowhereMan

Posted: 09/02/2014 18:20

A few more I have floating in the ether:

Cher - Gypsies Tramps & Thieves
Crowded House - Weather With You
The Culture Club - Karma Chameleon/Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
Deep Purple - Emaretta
Dodgy - Good Enough/Staying Out For The Summer
Eddie & The Hot Rods - Do Anything You Wanna Do
Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You
Embrace - Ashes
EMF - Unbelievable
Eric Carmen - All By Myself
The Farm - All together Now

Re: Loose songs on your iPod:

NowhereMan — Tue, 2 Sep 2014 14:10:40 GMT

Author: NowhereMan

Posted: 09/02/2014 18:10

drakonium wrote:

I don't know much from your list Nowhere, but by all means listen to the Billy Bragg's EP where New England is from. It's the fucking best EP of all time, objectively. Like do it now.

I'll dig it out; dad has it on vinyl somewhere..

Re: Loose songs on your iPod:

drakonium — Tue, 2 Sep 2014 12:45:53 GMT

Author: drakonium

Posted: 09/02/2014 16:45

Patman360 wrote:

I'm actually a complete neat freak with my iTunes so everything I have in there is in album form...

Another one like you here xD I've had Fireflies by Owl City alone for a while though, but I now have the album.

I don't know much from your list Nowhere, but by all means listen to the Billy Bragg's EP where New England is from. It's the fucking best EP of all time, objectively. Like do it now.

Re: Loose songs on your iPod:

Patman360 — Tue, 2 Sep 2014 10:43:31 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 09/02/2014 14:43

Puncture Repair wrote:

Likewise, individuals songs on album-view would drive me insane. Honestly it's not very often there will be one song I want to listen to that I don't have the album for, and in the event there is, YouTube works just fine.

Exactly, glad to see I'm not the only one who does this. 😎

Re: Loose songs on your iPod:

Cymro2011 — Tue, 2 Sep 2014 10:33:12 GMT

Author: Cymro2011

Posted: 09/02/2014 14:33

Patman360 wrote:

I'm actually a complete neat freak with my iTunes so everything I have in there is in album form...

Same.

Re: Loose songs on your iPod:

NowhereMan — Tue, 2 Sep 2014 10:07:12 GMT

Author: NowhereMan

Posted: 09/02/2014 14:07

Obviously everything on my charts etc etc are all in album form.

Re: Loose songs on your iPod:

NowhereMan — Tue, 2 Sep 2014 10:06:16 GMT

Author: NowhereMan

Posted: 09/02/2014 14:06

[quote="eyezayzay"]

Is this because you buy singular songs or singles?[/quote

I tend to to download compilation albums which may contain singular songs I like and others that I consider dross and simply add that particular individual track onto my iPod that I like or I do not already have. The remains of rubbish or stuff I already have is left on my library.

Re: Loose songs on your iPod:

Anonymous — Tue, 2 Sep 2014 10:03:50 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/02/2014 14:03

Patman360 wrote:

I'm actually a complete neat freak with my iTunes so everything I have in there is in album form...

Re: Loose songs on your iPod:

eyezayzay — Tue, 2 Sep 2014 09:39:29 GMT

Author: eyezayzay

Posted: 09/02/2014 13:39

Hmm, I solely use Spotify and then download anything they don't have. I suppose it's a very corrupt way to do things but I also spend a lot of money on vinyl and go to shows...so I think it evens out.

Kudos for doing it the right way though.

Is this because you buy singular songs or singles?

Re: Loose songs on your iPod:

Patman360 — Tue, 2 Sep 2014 09:39:14 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 09/02/2014 13:39

I'm actually a complete neat freak with my iTunes so everything I have in there is in album form...

Loose songs on your iPod:

NowhereMan — Tue, 2 Sep 2014 09:11:29 GMT

Author: NowhereMan

Posted: 09/02/2014 13:11

I have spent hours organising my albums on my iPod and take take great pride in the collection I now have at my fingertips.
I also, however have many loose individual tracks from various artists that I love but just haven't been bothered to listen to further or the fact that I know the song is widely seen as a 'one hit wonder'.

Here are a number of examples from my collection - what are yours?

A.A Bondy - American Hearts
ABC -The Look Of Love
Ace - How Long
Aha - Take On Me
Andy McKee - Rylynn
Badly Drawn Boy - Disillusion
Billy Bragg - New England
Billy Ocean - Love Really Hurts Without You
Yardbirds - For Your Love/Evil Hearted You/Shapes Of Things
The Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch
The Boomtown Rats - Rattrap/I don't like mondays
Bruce Hornsby and The Range - The Way It Is
Semisonic - Secret Smile
Doves - Catch The Sun/Black & White Town
The Caesars - Jerk It Out
Candy Flip - Strawberry Fields Forever
The Charlatans - The Only One I Know/North Country Boy