Board 8 > In general, do you listen to whole music albums?

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I personally usually only listen to show tunes (i.e. the soundtrack of musicals), so I probably will only listen to the album front-to-back once then just pick whichever songs I like the most to add to my playlist.

And since I started before there was Spotify and there was only YouTube, sometimes I just come across songs I like from uploaded clips and just listen to them out of context, never knowing the full musical...(hi Bye Bye Birdie and Six).

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Answer is a little complex. But in general my answer is no. All of my music discoveries typically start with tracks first.

But:

For artists I'm already interested in, I always listen to the full album first. And though I typically listen to tracks only, I still enjoy putting on a whole album for the ones I really love when I'm in the mood, but they pretty much have to have no tracks I would want to skip on it. And then there are albums I prefer to listen in full, like a lot of Japanese progressive/jazz instrumental artists.

So I'm all over the place!


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Since I got paid music streaming I generally losten to albums. Full thing front to back, I rarely skip songs unless it's TRULY bad or I'm familiar with the album and not feeling a track for whatever reason. So I went with the first option.

I don't NOT listen to playlists but I don't make my own (aside from basically as queues of albums to listen to), that's way too much effort. I just stick to The Algorithm or the curated playlists for those tbh. That's good enough for low-effort listening and helps me listen to singles or hear new artists, and then I'll listen to their albums if something grabs my interest.

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