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09 November 2010

Last album you listened to from beginning to end →[More:]The first record I ever bought for myself and still sounding great 30 years later: Blondie - Parallel Lines

post by: Joe Beese at: 20:02 | 36 comments

I still listen to many albums beginning to end. The last was Piper's first eponymous album.

posted by Ardiril 09 November | 20:11

It's a toss up between Michael Franti - All Rebel Rockers and Girl Talk - Feed The Animals, since I have both of these albums on my ipod.

The Mortal Kombat soundtrack is surprisingly awesome for listening to straight through. Eurotrip too.

posted by youngergirl44 09 November | 20:25

Thanks to the preview streams (which did adequately motivate me to legitimately buy both albums) Elvis Costello's "National Ransom" and Cee Lo Green's "The Lady Killer". I can't recall the last time I bought two albums in the same week, or even the same month. Before that, Yeasayer's "Odd Blood". But listening to an album all the way through is something I do with a new acquisition, then pick and choose the songs to listen to later. The last "catalog" album I've relistened from start to finish was Michael Penn's "March", mostly because I had found and posted to MeFi his latest song "The Count of Pennsylvania" and in the process screwed up the most famous line in "No Myth" (It's BLACK jeans, you moran, not blue jeans).

posted by oneswellfoop 09 November | 20:32

Billy Joel, Turnstiles, during work today.

posted by Doohickie 09 November | 20:36

Kid A

posted by Obscure Reference 09 November | 20:43

Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane Sunday Afternoon while doing my Physics homework. I find listening to Jazz helps me do complicated math problems.

posted by ufez 09 November | 20:51

I listened to almost the entire cast recording of "Amour" coming back from the grocery store. But the last complete album I listened to? Probably Ke$ha.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 November | 20:59

Dire Straits, Making Movies.

posted by JanetLand 09 November | 21:05

I'm already starting to think about my year end list, so I listened to three 2010 albums all the way through while working today. Loudon Wainwright III's Songs For The New Depression, Life on Earth by the Moons, and To Dreamers by Kelley Stoltz. I listened to them while working, so I wasn't concentrating fully on the music. The last album I listened to all the way through (with headphones in bed last night) was Mission of Burma's Vs. I've heard that album many times over the years, but this was the first time with headphones focusing on nothing but the record, and I heard so much I had never noticed before.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 09 November | 21:17

Actually Dark Side Of the Moon cause I had literally never heard it before.

Dory Previn's Mystical Kings And Iguana's is pretty much the only album I can listen to all the way without reservation or skipping or going "oh well, okay the NEXT song is..." but Dusty In Memphis is a close, close second.

posted by The Whelk 09 November | 21:25

Oh and, showing my age, Jagged Little Pill, cause it was the CD I'd use to time my runs in HS so it just washes over me.

posted by The Whelk 09 November | 21:25

Balmorhea - All Is Wild, All Is Silent

Great music for working.

posted by jessamyn 09 November | 21:29

The Mermen, Krill Slippin'

posted by warbaby 09 November | 21:36

Heh, also Dark Side of the Moon, while flying yesterday.

posted by dg 09 November | 21:50

ooooo synchronicity with The Whelk

Dark Side of the Moon is on of the few albums that I have found as one single file. I didn't choose to listen to it, but my music player is set to permanent shuffle play, so it just popped up

posted by rollick 09 November | 21:54

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ;)

this is a banger! Yeezy's gonna do well

posted by Firas 09 November | 21:55

Janelle Monae's "The ArchAndroid" in the car this morning driving back home from a weekend with BoringPostcards. We saw her opening for Of Montreal on Saturday night. Listening to the record with her performance fresh in my memory was great! Just the thing for a long early morning drive.

posted by BitterOldPunk 09 November | 22:11

Aretha, The Delta Meets Detroit. It always sounds best via headphones, with the music filling up your senses.

posted by julen 09 November | 22:12

KT Tunstall's latest.

posted by bearwife 09 November | 22:35

Either The Velvet Underground's Loaded or Springsteen's The Wild, The Innocent and The E-Street Shuffle, can't remember which was most recent.

posted by octothorpe 09 November | 22:36

We listened to a Blitzen Trapper album in the car the other day. Before that, I dunno, probably the latest Ray LaMontagne which I pretty much wore out.

posted by Miko 09 November | 22:44

from a weekend with BoringPostcards

Jealous.

posted by The Whelk 09 November | 23:00

Dark Side of the Moon is on of the few albums that I have found as one single file. I didn't choose to listen to it, but my music player is set to permanent shuffle play, so it just popped up

Yeah I had heard Money and Brain Damage before, and they're in my rotation but I hadn;t heard the whole thing til like a week ago when the entire prop Dept basically told me I Had To. I enjoyed it.

posted by The Whelk 09 November | 23:02

The Kleptones - A Night At the Hip Hopera

posted by Gorgik 10 November | 00:08

Rodrigo y Gabriela - 11:11

posted by AcornCup 10 November | 03:37

Zoe Keating - Into The Trees. Unbelievably good.

posted by VeritableSaintOfBrevity 10 November | 07:13

I recently did a trio and listened to Powerslave (Iron Maiden), Power Windows (Rush), and Power Plant (Gamma Ray) all the way through. Plus of course I frequently listen to classical albums in their entirety.

posted by Wolfdog 10 November | 07:34

The Fleshtones Take A Good Look

posted by BoringPostcards 10 November | 07:45

I dont usually listen to single tracks. i mostly listen to full albums. The last one was Beck's Mutations, yesterday.

posted by DarkForest 10 November | 08:18

Yeah, I pretty much only listen to full records, the last couple were Rheostatics records - Melville and Whale Music. Today, I'm probably going to listen the last Band of Horses one!

posted by richat 10 November | 08:48

Same as Obscure Reference - Kid A

posted by msali 10 November | 10:10

The Decemberists, The Hazards of Love, live.

posted by danf 10 November | 10:43

But the one before Kid A was Long Tall Weekend (TMBG).

posted by Obscure Reference 10 November | 11:19

Various Queen, Garbage, and Dream Theater CD's I kept in my car for when the radio was playing crap. Now that hubby has a car that I can sit in again, and his new car has a USB aux input and can do mp3's and random, will probably never listen to another CD all the way through again.

Our mp3's are mostly ripped from our own CD's, though, so if we listen on random long enough we'll probably hear all the songs from one or more individual CD's.

posted by galadriel 10 November | 11:36

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 10 November | 12:40

Made it half way through Fingathing and the Big Red Nebula Band on my drive to work this morning, and I think the first track is still the best. Maybe the 2nd half will improve on the drive home.

Last album listened to in full before this: Shy Guy's Beats, James Beats. An album of beats taken from James Bond movie soundtracks, good stuff.

posted by filthy light thief 10 November | 13:08

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