[Kukuk]

If I'm browsing the internet or something, I just put all my music on shuffle. When I'm actually focusing on listening to music, full albums.

full albums usually. anything from bob dylan

My dude.

 

[kid vic]

This album just dropped so.....

 

[Carolina Pitbull]

New albums don't always have the same front-to-back quality as those from yesteryear. I think a lot of new albums suffer from being made in a time when a hot ALBUM is not as important as hot singles.
That's more true for music important to pop culture than other genres though. A band like Badbadnotgood for instance has put out 2 excellent albums worthy of full replays, but that doesn't hold true for other artists in other genres imo.

I think you've hit the nail on the head here. Making albums and marketing them as a whole simply isn't the distribution model anymore.

 

[ADUHF]

I think you've hit the nail on the head here. Making albums and marketing them as a whole simply isn't the distribution model anymore.

Not sure I agree with that. Music distribution is complex. And I think albums still have an important role in it. Even in the pop music genres.

More to the point, I think there are still plenty of artists who enjoy the process of assembling different ideas and concepts together into an album.

 

[kid vic]

Not sure I agree with that. Music distribution is complex. And I think albums still have an important role in it. Even in the pop music genres.

More to the point, I think there are still plenty of artists who enjoy the process of assembling different ideas and concepts together into an album.

True, but the art and dedication to make a good full album is often missing. I find most artists who are considered mainstream don't make albums so much as a collection of songs to satisfy label demands and appease fans.
I can think of at least 5 albums new this year that are actual albums but plenty that are just iTunes fillers (Scorpio by Drake being the most obvious.)

 

[yrun26]

I also think the type of medium we are using may push us into what kind of listening we do. If I am going to buy vinyl, I am going to listen to the album from end to end. If I buy a CD and rip it to my library, I will listen the album end to end. If I'm on Spotify, that's when things become different for me. Working at my computer I will put on one of the focus playlists, which is completely random. If I'm looking for a change in music scenery or at new artists, I will be doing random searches all day long. But at the end of the day, nothing satisfies my love for music as a good solid listen to an entire album.

 

[taffy2207]

I'm a 70's kid so it's Albums for me

 

[ADUHF]

True, but the art and dedication to make a good full album is often missing. I find most artists who are considered mainstream don't make albums so much as a collection of songs to satisfy label demands and appease fans.

Hasn't that always been the case to some degree though?

 

[ADUHF]

I'm a 70's kid so it's Albums for me

So am I.... a 70's kid. And rarely listen to albums. What does that do to your theory?

 

[wuwhere]

Mostly entire albums from jazz, classicals to rock.

 

[theiratepirate]

Generally random tracks, but there are some bands/artists that do a really nice job telling a story such that the whole album is greater than the sum of its parts (e.g. BTBAM - The Parallax II, Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony.)

 

[Carolina Pitbull]

How you listen to music does not matter, it is the fact that you listen at all that is important.

 

[Whazzzup]

When im driving or walking, shuffle.Desktop, album.

 

[lizardpanda]

random tracks

 

[Grayes]

mostly random tracks for other then classical