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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
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).
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.