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AfterHours
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Location: originally from scaruffi.com ;-)
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- #41
- Posted: 09/04/2016 04:32
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I go in spurts where I'll re-listen to a large section of my top 500 to ensure it still holds up, and make various revisions as necessary. Then I'll listen to several new albums as well, and making necessary additions to my list(s). Occasionally I'll mix the two, but more often than not, I'm largely one or the other.
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CA Dreamin
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Location: LA
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- #42
- Posted: 09/04/2016 08:43
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I'd say 95% of my album listens are re-listens. Living in LA means spending a lot of time in traffic, and my CDs get me through it. Work and social life take a toll on my leisure time for hobbies so I don't get as much time as I'd like for first time listens, only about 2 albums per week. One listen is never enough anyway. _________________ on such a winter's day
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souplipton
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Location: Toronto
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- #43
- Posted: 09/04/2016 17:17
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Most weeks I listen to 95%-98% relistens, but then I'll have a couple days a month where I'll plow through 5 or 6 new ones, and mark the best for relistening over the next week to determine whether it enters my regular rotation.
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CA Dreamin
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Location: LA
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- #44
- Posted: 09/04/2016 19:14
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souplipton wrote: | I'll have a couple days a month where I'll plow through 5 or 6 new ones, and mark the best for relistening over the next week to determine whether it enters my regular rotation. |
That's pretty close to my listening routine. Though except for albums that truly suck, I give everything at least two listens before deciding whether to add it to my collection or not. Then if it keeps growing on me with each re-listen, I'll add it to my shopping list.
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Age: 38
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- #45
- Posted: 09/04/2016 19:47
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so far this year for me
Total Listens: 1541
Releases Listened This Year: 732
First Listens: 322
Releases Heard Previously: 410
2016 Releases Listened: 170
Pre-2016 First Listens: 152
Only Listened Once: 414
Only Listened Twice: 173
Listened Three Times: 61
Listened Four Times: 27
Listened Five Times: 11
Listened Six Times: 11
Listened Seven Times: 11
Listened Eight Or More Times: 24
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RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad
Location: Ground Control
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- #46
- Posted: 09/06/2016 05:44
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New music is like a binge for me. I'll go a year sometimes without honestly listening to a whole album by a new artist. I don't count the accidental Spotify/YouTube/Friend finds of a song or two that were discovered. Usually those haven't been interesting enough to make me want to listen to a whole album, but the songs are a fun new find.
So I guess another way to say that is I'm listening to new songs all the time, but albums... nah, bad albums are too painful to be listening to all the time (sorry, just how I feel). For me albums are for masters of their craft... there are few artists that can craft a masterpiece of an album worth my time. Out of the 8985198798416268498141989 albums out there, there's probably 1000 I'll listen to often enough to say I like it.
I'm not really a new music junkie in the sense that I need new music all the time and am bored with the classics. I'm more into music history/stuff I consider to be the stuff that probably people will care about 100 years from now.
Seems like about every 3 years I do a deep dig on new artists for about 6 months to a year to see if any new artists have created a masterpiece worth holding on to. Otherwise a fad song or two all the time. Then I go back for another year or 3 without doing a deep dig into new artists (outside of spotify/friends/youtube finds that occur naturally).
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RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad
Location: Ground Control
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- Posted: 09/06/2016 05:45
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Tap wrote: | so far this year for me
Total Listens: 1541
Releases Listened This Year: 732
First Listens: 322
Releases Heard Previously: 410
2016 Releases Listened: 170
Pre-2016 First Listens: 152
Only Listened Once: 414
Only Listened Twice: 173
Listened Three Times: 61
Listened Four Times: 27
Listened Five Times: 11
Listened Six Times: 11
Listened Seven Times: 11
Listened Eight Or More Times: 24 |
This is impressive.
Do you have an excel sheet I can steel the template from? hahaha.
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Age: 38
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- #48
- Posted: 09/06/2016 06:14
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it's google sheets actually https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/..._H0/edit?u sp=sharing
there's a lot of junk tho, all that really matters is sheet1 and albumlist
I tried to do some stuff with durations but I'm too lazy to jot down all those, but I got em for most of my most listened things. I was also lazy with year of release, I only did decade of release. but I've been playing around with how to look at the data, like here's my first listens by release decade, with a more specific view on this decade:
1950: 0
1960: 9
1970: 35
1980: 16
1990: 11
2000: 37
2010: 219
2010-2015: 47
2016: 172
so I've mostly been focused on exploring albums from this year, but also the 1970s, 2000s, and 2010s in general. but yeah I think it'll be fun to look at this when the year is up
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RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad
Location: Ground Control
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- #49
- Posted: 09/07/2016 00:41
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Tap wrote: | it's google sheets actually https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/..._H0/edit?u sp=sharing
there's a lot of junk tho, all that really matters is sheet1 and albumlist
I tried to do some stuff with durations but I'm too lazy to jot down all those, but I got em for most of my most listened things. I was also lazy with year of release, I only did decade of release. but I've been playing around with how to look at the data, like here's my first listens by release decade, with a more specific view on this decade:
1950: 0
1960: 9
1970: 35
1980: 16
1990: 11
2000: 37
2010: 219
2010-2015: 47
2016: 172
so I've mostly been focused on exploring albums from this year, but also the 1970s, 2000s, and 2010s in general. but yeah I think it'll be fun to look at this when the year is up |
That's rad mate. Thanks!!!
I love me some data.
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forkboy84
Gender: Male
Age: 39
Location: Scotland
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- #50
- Posted: 09/07/2016 09:54
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I definitely lean heavily towards the familiar. We're talking 80/20 in favour of stuff I already know, even if it's an album I haven't heard in years so it's almost like a new experience to me. Though when I do get in the mood for new music I definitely binge on it & listen to almost nothing but.
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