Anyone Enjoy the entire album?

[NavyIntel007]

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/06/22/1313205.shtml?tid=141&tid=188

Yeah so great artists <vomit> like Madonna and Linkin Park think that we should purchase their entire albums because it's their "whole work of art."

My question to the masses... Out of all the songs on your itunes playlist... which ones do you think are "complete albums" meaning you like at minimum all but 2 songs?

The only Albums I can truely listen to in entirety...

AK1200 - Fully Automatic
AK1200 - Prepare for Assault
Crystal Method - Vegas
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
The Bourne Indentity Soundtrack
DJ Dara - From Here To There
DJ Dara - Moving Melodies
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E
The Bourne Indentity Soundtrack
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Notorious BIG - Ready To Die
Oakenfold - Voyage Into Trance
Paul Van Dyk - 45 RPM
Pearl Jam - 10
Portishead - Dummy
Portishead - Portishead
Prodigy - Music For the Jilted Gen.
Prodigy - Experience
Soundgarden - Superunknown

Post yours!

[Kwyjibo]

i listened to all of linkin park it was a good album, not great but good and after you pick your favorite tracks ...you don't need to enjoy it as a whole all the time.

[NavyIntel007]

Originally posted by Kwyjibo
i listened to all of linkin park it was a good album, not great but good and after you pick your favorite tracks ...you don't need to enjoy it as a whole all the time.

I used to have linkin park... I sold it at a garage sale for $.50 or something. That cd is the same whether you listen to track 3 12 times or the whole cd. It's all the same.

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by NavyIntel007
I used to have linkin park... I sold it at a garage sale for $.50 or something. That cd is the same whether you listen to track 3 12 times or the whole cd. It's all the same.

that's how it is with most popular music these days.

i would say i think of 90% of my music as albums. but i'm not "most" people.

[iGav]

r.e.m. 'new adventures in hi-fi'
pwei 'dos dedos mis amigos'
dandy warhols '13 tales from urban bohemia'
filter 'shortbus'
pete yorn 'music for the morning after'
massive attack 'mezzanine'
moby '18'
midge ure 'move me'
portishead 'portishead'
saint etienne 'sound of water'
smudge 'manilow'
james 'wah wah'
midnight oil 'earth and sun and moon'
underworld 'second toughest in the infants'
harry connick jr. 'we are in love'
juliana hatfield 'beautiful creature'
bread 'best of'

[P-Worm]

Less Than Jake seems to make complete albums. It is hard of me to think of songs individually and not as just a mass of music.

P-Worm

[jefhatfield]

of recent albums, avril lavigne's release was easy to listen to, as was afi's latest, and i liked most of what i heard on metallica's st. anger

i also heard kitty's latest and it's not very pleasant though the musicianship is great...it's just those puppet vocals that turn me off

for old stuff, almost any beatles album are easy to enjoy...they are so accessible which made them so universal for almost anybody

layla by derek and the dominoes is such a classic and eric clapton at his best

nevermind by nirvana

rumors by fleetwood mac

any zepplin album

beauty and the beat by the go-go's

ride the lightning by metallica

destroyer by kiss

any bangles album

get the knack by the knack

thriller by michael jackson

nomads, indians, and saints by the indigo girls

saturday night fever soundtrack

grease soundtrack

9 1/2 weeks soundtrack

10 by pearl jam

the first three U2 albums

the early eagles albums when they were still more country than rock and roll...but there later rock based albums were also great

and many, many live albums like the eagles live, U2, the rolling stones 1981 tour, cheap trick at the buddokahn, the who live at leeds, woodstock I and II, etc...

and many, many greatest hits compilations like issac hayes, marvin gaye, beatles collections, bruce springsteen, the cure, the temptations, etc...

i grew up in a time where sometimes the only way to get many songs, even some hits, was to buy the entire record album or cassette and it turns out many of my favorite songs never made the charts

[NavyIntel007]

Originally posted by P-Worm
Less Than Jake seems to make complete albums. It is hard of me to think of songs individually and not as just a mass of music.

P-Worm

I would have agreed with you in highschool but I find it hard to listen to LTJ now for some reason.

[evil]

since i dont listen to the radio and dont care what is popular aor all that. i buy the ban ds i like. and therefore just about every album i own i listen to everysong.

and im talking about 200 cd's or so.

i would never pay money for a cd so i can like a couple songs of it. not worth it at all.

[NavyIntel007]

Originally posted by evil
since i dont listen to the radio and dont care what is popular aor all that. i buy the ban ds i like. and therefore just about every album i own i listen to everysong.

and im talking about 200 cd's or so.

i would never pay money for a cd so i can like a couple songs of it. not worth it at all.

Agreed... sometimes I just won't feel like listening to a song... and sometimes I will though.

[Roger1]

I haven't bought an album in years (excuse me-I mean CD) except for a Christmas album, last year. I'm just not that interested in the music out there today. When I listen to music, its usually one of the stations on itunes and its an 80's station.

After all that here is a list of groups that would listen to the entire album.

Green Day- Dookie
Rush-2112, All the Worlds a Stage, and a couple of their older albums
A couple of classical albums I own.

Now I'm not saying my musical tastes are excessively limited; I have a couple hundred CD's albums, and cassettes. It's just that none of them really have more that 2-3 songs on each that are really really good.

[vollspacken]

weezer - "pinkerton"
massive attack - "protection"
roni size reprazent - "new forms"
kemistry & storm - "dj kicks"
howie b - "turn the dark off"
sly & roobie "stripped to the bone by howie b"
hi-tek - "hi-teknology"
4 hero - "creating patterns", "journey from the light EP"
smith & mighty - "bass is maternal"
everything but the girl - "tempramental"
beastie boys - "check your head"
U.N.C.L.E. - "psyence fiction"
coldcut - "journeys by dj - special release"
jeru the damaja - "the sun rises in the east"
john barry - "thunderball O.S.T.", "you only live twice O.S.T."
underworld - "dubnobasswithmyheadman", "second toughest in the infants"
dj shadow - "entroducing"
dj food & dk - "solid steel sessions vol.1"
dj marky - "the brazilian job"
the orb - "U.F.orb"
various - "a trip to brazil vol. 1 & vol. 2"
røyksopp - "melody A.M
lalo schifrin - "bullit O.S.T."
kraftwerk - "computerwelt", "trans europa express"
jazzanova - "
photek - "form and function"
future sound of london - "ISDN"
duran duran - "best of"
metalheadz - "platinum breaks vol. 1-3"
orbital - "in-sides"

and many, many, many, many more...
;)

[King Cobra]

I don't listen to too many albums in full. If anything:

3rd Strike
Linkin Park - Hyrbird Theory
Staind - 14 Shades Of Grey
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E
Default - The Fallout

[mymemory]

I know Madonna has a few good songs but my girlfriend just got a copy of the last album and after several years away from the Madonna fashion I started to listening to it... what a piece of crap! no ownder she needs to advertise her entire album because mayyyyyybe one song is worth it.

The entire album sounds the same thing and the sound quality is very anoying, the texture is very digital, everything is way too crispy, the same mid high frequencey from beganing to the end (sounds like goa trance), allways the same dynamic, the same instruments played in the same way, the same extra crispy spanish guitar sound played in the same way.

I can notice that she is laying her "talent" on her pupolarity rather on her art.

Forget about Madonna selling an entire album, she can only sell songs, she is not like U2 or Depeche Mode whos albums are just one entire story divided in to different parts, no, she is taking pieces from here and from there, of course Madonna is not a musician, she is a singer.

[MrMacMan]

I enjoy a couple album's fully.

Likin Park's -- Meteora.
Gorillaz's -- Gorillaz
Daft Punk's -- Discovery
The Chemical Brothers' -- Surrender
The Chemical Brothers' -- Come with us
The Beatles -- Okay, I own every album, I'm not gonna take the time to list them all. :rolleyes:
Fat Boy Slim -- Halfway Bewteen the Gutter and Stars.
NOFX -- The War on Errorism
P.O.D -- Satellite

Most of the stuff I buy I like to listen to because I don't waste my money on garbage. :D

[ibookin']

If I'm going to listen to a full album I might as well have the CD. With that I at least get the liner notes. However, there are not many albums worth purchasing in their entirety (I can't even think of any off the top of my head), that I just buy single songs off iTMS and am happy I'm not forking over $18.99 at a retail shop.

And as for the artist who want their albums to be preserved as works of art:

Radio/TV airplay of popular music usually focuses on one or two songs out of an entire album. A lot of people aren't going to hear the entire album anyway, and some (like me) are more likely to buy the song for $1 rather than download it off x or buy it in an album. Viola! More sales.

[janey]

Originally posted by ibookin'
(I can't even think of any off the top of my head)
*cough* *cough* ennio morricone *cough* britney spears *cough* *cough*

[ibookin']

Originally posted by übergeek
*cough* *cough* ennio morricone

That one was good. But it was an anthology so I don't think it counts.

I will not quote or mention the second one. It does not deserve it.

[NavyIntel007]

I was at Borders bookstore and glanced over to the CD racks. There were quite a few Madonna "American Life" CDs not moving.

[shadowfax]

Albums to be listened to all through:

Radiohead: All, i.e. Pablo Honey (not as much), The Bends, OK computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief.

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, others i can't think of...

Dismemberment Plan: Is Terrified, Change, Emergency & I

the Doves: Lost Souls

Flaming Lips: Soft Bulletin, Transmissions from the Satellite Heart, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots...


lots of others.

[KershMan]

Anthrax - Sound of White Noise
Anthrax - We've Come for you All
Metallica - An Justice for All
Metallica - St. Anger
System of a Down - Toxicity
Watchtower - Control and Resistence
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinder
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Pearl Jam - 10
Days of the New - Days of the New
Korn - just about anyone
Red Hot Chili Peppers - most

[tpjunkie]

There aaren't too many albums I can listen to straight through, but most Beatles albums,
Dookie by Green Day
Hangups by Goldfinger (except I do skip most of the blank space on this any Dookie to get to the secret songs)
Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses (usually)
Wheatus (self titled)
My Degeneration by Flashlight Brown, this new band whose CD i bought on a whim from Amazon for 5 bucks.

[trebblekicked]

there are plenty of great albums out there that need to be listened to the whole way through:
OK Computer, Dusk at Cubist castle, in the aeroplane over the sea, slanted & enchanted, knock knock. what do these have in common? none are by madonna.
madonna sucks. madonna calling her music art is like saturn calling the manual for the SL-1 classic literature.

[3rdpath]

what constitutes an entire album of listenable material is certainly subjective.

but any artist that won't allow their music to be sold as singles is delusional about the realities of the "new" business model.

jump on the bus or be left behind.

[NavyIntel007]

It's funny how most of us keep repeating the same albums. Hardly any are Pop music either.

Funny how that is...

[pEZ]

The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are:

Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Luce - Luce
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Billy Joel - Storm Front
Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy up the Girl
Incubus - Make Yourself
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Semisonic - All About Chemistry
The Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse
Flickerstick - Causing a Catastrophe

A ton of soundtracks fall into this category, but most notably Cowboy Bebop OST 1, Metropolis, American Beauty (the score, not the songs), and Requiem for a Dream.

[medea]

My entire ipod is filled with full albums, but I don't listen to a quarter of the crap that has been mentioned in this thread. The only people that are complaining about selling individual songs are indeed the pop acts etc who can't release an album worth listening to, but the thing is I'm sure I could I go into a store a pick up a Madonna single so what is the difference?
Oh and I'd just like to state that St.Anger by Metallica is the worst piece of absolute **** to come out this year.

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[Flowbee]

Tool albums certainly add up to more than just a collection of songs.

[KershMan]

Originally posted by medea
My entire ipod is filled with full albums, but I don't listen to a quarter of the crap that has been mentioned in this thread. The only people that are complaining about selling individual songs are indeed the pop acts etc who can't release an album worth listening to, but the thing is I'm sure I could I go into a store a pick up a Madonna single so what is the difference?
Oh and I'd just like to state that St.Anger by Metallica is the worst piece of absolute shi t to come out this year.

I disagree here. Jewel's Intuition really blows! However, if you are a Metallica fan you gotta link St Anger. It really rocks, especially after Load and Reload. It probably is the hardest album they have put out since And Justice for All.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by KershMan
However, if you are a Metallica fan you gotta link St Anger. It really rocks, especially after Load and Reload. It probably is the hardest album they have put out since And Justice for All. hah! i know several metallica fans and they all hate the one on the radio vehemently, as do i. it's such a blatant, useless imitation of everyone else. thoughtless and unpleasant. hard, yes, but who cares, if it sucks?

[medea]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
hah! i know several metallica fans and they all hate the one on the radio vehemently, as do i. it's such a blatant, useless imitation of everyone else. thoughtless and unpleasant. hard, yes, but who cares, if it sucks?

lofl.

[Xero]

i have to agree with the jewel thing... what is this world coming too? what in gods name was she thinking, its a total 180 from her previous stuff and its complete garbage... i mean seriously, when i saw that video i immediately thought "...WHAT THE **********CK!"

but yeah new metallica is pretty bad.

other than that people seem to have relatively decent tastes here. i can name some more that i enjoy all the way through.

Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Radiohead - The Bends [for sure]
Aphex Twin - Drukqs [its like a musical genre rollercoaster! weee!]
Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
Phillip Glass - Metamorphosis [Solo Piano]
All Portishead
Ben Harper - Live from Mars [disc 2 mainly]
Dashboard Confessional - Swiss Army Romance [his only really good album]
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
+ some other stuff people mentioned

[medea]

Originally posted by medea


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gee I wouldnt want to do that. you must be a metallica fan.

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by medea
gee I wouldnt want to do that. you must be a metallica fan.

not funny...

But, I used to be a big Metallica fan. After that whole Napster thing, I kinda got out of it. Then I sold off most of my rare colleciton to afford my first TiBook.

anyway...just keep it clean with the words...m'kay? ;)

[scem0]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
hah! i know several metallica fans and they all hate the one on the radio vehemently, as do i. it's such a blatant, useless imitation of everyone else. thoughtless and unpleasant. hard, yes, but who cares, if it sucks?

It most blatantly copies System of a Down, which is definitely on the top of my album list (Toxicity - havn't listened to Steal this album before).

Yeah, the new song does suck. Only SoaD can be SoaD.

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