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21 March 2011

Happiness is a warm playlist. Just wiped my iPhone before my run and restocked it from top to bottom. My list definitely says "Hi, I'm in my mid-30s," but a great many of these discs have been favorites since I was in college. What full albums are on your portable media player of choice?
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Aimee Mann / Smilers
Alexi Murdoch / Time Without Consequence
Beth Ditto / Beth Ditto EP
Boards Of Canada / The Campfire Headphase
Brendan Benson / One Mississippi
Captain / Distraction (Sampler)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions / Armed Forces
Elvis Costello / Spike [bonus disc]
Eurythmics / Boxed (Sweet Dreams) CD 2
Francine / 28 Plastic Blue Versions of Endings Without You
Francine / Forty On A Fall Day
Frank Black / Frank Black
Freedy Johnston / Never Home
Freedy Johnston / Right Between the Promises
Joni Mitchell / Hejira
Josh Rouse / Dressed Up Like Nebraska
Laura Veirs / Year Of Meteors
Liz Phair / Whitechocolatespaceegg
Maria Taylor / 11:11
Nancy Sinatra / The Very Best Of - 24 Great Songs
Nick Drake / Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake / Pink Moon (Remastered)
Pixies / Bossanova
Placebo / Black Market Music
Purple Ivy Shadows / White Electric
Richard Buckner / Meadow
Seal / Seal [1991]
Supergrass / In It For the Money
Suzanne Vega / 99.9 F°
The 6ths / Wasps Nests
The Field / From Here We Go Sublime
The Magnetic Fields / The Charm of the Highway Strip
The New Pornographers / Electric Version
The Pernice Brothers / Yours, Mine and Ours
Thomas Dolby / The Sole Inhabitant [Live]
Versus / On The Ones And Threes
Wire / Wire 1985-1990:The A List
Yo La Tengo / Electr-o-pura
Zero 7 / When It Falls

post by: mykescipark at: 23:01 | 19 comments

Full albums? Not many. Just;
Vangelis - Blade Runner Esper Edition,
Vince Guaraldi - Live at El Matador,
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue,
Neko Case - Canadian Amp,
Townes Van Zandt - Road Songs.

posted by arse_hat 21 March | 23:37

Robert Shaw Chorale: Rachmaninoff, Vespers
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor): Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem
Trainspotting soundtracks (both of 'em)
Lady Gaga: The Fame Monster
Jeff Buckley: Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
Handsome Boy Modeling School: So... How's Your Girl?
pretty much everything Billy Bragg, Jason Falkner and Rufus Wainwright ever recorded

posted by Madamina 22 March | 00:33

I don't have any full albums on my iPod currently. (I probably only have 10 or so full albums on my iTunes.) I use my iPod to exercise or I wipe it and fill it with a couple podcasts (currently listening to stuff like Underground Wellness and Brene Brown interviews). My exercise iPod is filled with Lady Gaga, hip hop, old-school Madonna, Big Country, Katie Perry, MGMT, etc. I'm old and I'm not hip. ;-)

posted by LoriFLA 22 March | 07:40

Hmm. I have about 1,000 full albums on my phone.

posted by BoringPostcards 22 March | 09:12

I pretty much only have full albums on my ipod. So, lots?

posted by gaspode 22 March | 09:19

yeah, I'm in the ALL full albums group! I am still very album driven in what I listen to. Can't stand shuffle!

posted by richat 22 March | 09:44

Dessa: A Badly Broken Code (Damn you, Slack-a-go-go. or thank you)
Jesus and Mary Chain: Darklands
The Twilight Sad: Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
Clover: World's End Land.

The rest is silence, actually.

posted by crush-onastick 22 March | 09:50

Ugh, every time we talk about music, I feel so pedestrian. You guys are light years ahead of me in the music department. I listen to things like Journey and Carrie Underwood or God forbid, when the kids are around, High School Musical. Go ahead and judge, I'm used to the laughter!

posted by supercapitalist 22 March | 10:44

I have hundreds of full albums on my phone. I think I've probably bought fewer than a dozen "singles" in my music-buying life. I wonder if that's an age thing. Growing up in the era of the Album and all.

posted by BitterOldPunk 22 March | 12:35

Being 27, here's what I have in terms of full albums on my iDevices at the moment:

The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - Let it Be
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate
Green Day - The American Idiot Original Broadway Cast Recording
Anamanaguchi - The Scott Pilgrim Game Soundtrack
Ore Ska Band - Wao!!
Philharmonia - Beethoven's 9th
The Aggrolites - Dirty Reggae

And one concert:

Jonathan Coulton - Live at Park West (the one where he and Paul and Storm played "Flood" by They Might Be Giants.)

Plus about 300 sundry tracks. That's all my poor 8 jiga 1st gen iPhone can hold.

posted by gc 22 March | 13:50

Augh. That should have been Philharmonia Baroque - Beethoven's 9th.

posted by gc 22 March | 13:55

Hard to say as not all the things listed as albums are actually even music, and then again there are probably a lot of examples where I have *most* of an album loaded, but to save time and space I didn't sync some tracks that I don't listen to much.

Anyway my guess is around 70 full albums.

posted by philipy 22 March | 14:06

I have lots of full albums on my iPod. . .Lots of Leonard Cohen, all of the Decemberists, a fair number of complete early Dylan, Casey Chambers, early Lucinda Williams, Pleasures of the Harbor by Phil Ochs, lots of complete Thea Gilmore albums, lots of Gram Parsons, etc etc etc

posted by danf 22 March | 14:12

95% of my music (excluding the audiobooks) is albums. And I still like hearing an album from first song to last, as the band or compiler released them.

posted by bearwife 22 March | 15:23

Yeah, I mostly have albums, too, and it's a good thing - some of my favorite songs aren't the hits or singles, and I only discovered them from the full album.

Sometimes I go into album mode, and sometimes shuffle mode. I love being able to go back and forth depending on my mood.

If I put my mind to it, there are probably 10-12 albums that would be must haves for full-albums, but that'd require some thought.

posted by julen 22 March | 18:23

Wow, surprised at the lack of album love. Of course, liking showtunes makes me a big fan of full recordings.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 22 March | 20:50

Hrm? Didn't most people in the thread say that they mainly have full albums?

Is my reading comprehension going to crap?

I *am* drunk so it may be that.

posted by gaspode 23 March | 00:06

Yeah, that's a pretty overwhelming amount of album love. Although I frankly did not expect anyone else to go Excel-crazy to produce a list like I did. It's interesting enough to hear that MeCha is decidedly pro-album. For me, it manifests in this really weird way where I really, really hate to have individual tracks in my iTunes library and will rip and store an entire album even if I hate all but two of the songs on it.

My iPhone is my mood ring, so I have to change out the music on it entirely on a weekly basis. I tend to keep a base of 20-25 albums with a few odd playlists of individual tracks. I could never possibly keep 700 albums on this thing. It would be the most unappetizing Shuffle Mode in history. (Bob Mould! Erik Satie! The Boredoms! Marlene Dietrich!)

posted by mykescipark 23 March | 01:51

Albums only here - about 100 albums on my iPhone, which represents about 30% of my music collection. I'm old-school enough that I generally hate to listen to individual tracks, except for certain playlists such as the one I have for running.

Because I don't keep up with current music, I don't really know if it's the case any more, but I like to believe that artists have arranged an album in a certain way for a reason and it should be listened to that way.

posted by dg 23 March | 17:12

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