Anyone listen to entire albums?


I assume the answer is yes since many of you run vinyl rigs, but just wondering how many around here listen to entire albums at a sitting?  In the age of instant gratification and playlists I seem to be, recently, gravitating to listening through entire albums.  I don’t have vinyl and only stream or play from a network drive so it’s easy for me to bounce around from song to song, artist to artist.  Maybe it’s a nostalgia thing but I enjoy hearing a record in it’s entirely the way the artist recorded it.  I’ve flirted with the idea of vinyl for the very reason that it seems to be a format that lends itself to listening through an entire album in one sitting.  I seem to be less inclined to make that move though now that I’ve been doing the album thing via streaming. 

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I'm retired, so absolutey. Listening to the entire album, or entire side in case of vinyl is the best way to get the message of the artist on a particular album. At least that applies to all artists worthy of that word. However nowadays many pop artists don't put much thought into their music as it is mostly made at the command of the producers to produce hits. But I don't bother listening to those. 

I’m now 100 percent digital. I stream my ripped/downloaded music from the NAS or from Qobuz.    I usually stream entire albums, but it is not feasible to do that with compilation releases that include multiple CD’s. Occasionally I’ll play a favorite song or two for inspiration.  I have a few playlists to make it easy to play one off songs that I like.  That’s the beauty of streaming.

I don’t mind reissues that have new tracks as long as they do not change the order of the original album. Sometimes the reissues sound great and no one is putting a gun to my head to listen to the new tracks.

 

If I'm playing vinyl albums, yes, unless I just feel like hearing one side at one time and the other side a little later.. When I put in a CD, I'll generally play the entire thing. When I stream, I would generally do it by playlist and put it on 'shuffle'. Good way of hearing songs I otherwise likely would never have heard again.

If listening to "entire albums" means both sides 1 and 2 on vinyl or digital media, then I'd have to say that I do, indeed, listen to entire albums most of the time.  Sometimes, however, with vinyl, I only listen to one particular side unless there is a or a few tunes on the other that I really like.  With CDs I am much more likely to skip tunes that don't particularly thrill me or that I don't particularly care for.  With digital streaming I am much more likely to play individual tunes, here & there.  Digital media makes it much more convenient to be selective in this respect.  Vinyl, of course, requires you to actually get your butt off the couch.  The reason I do this goes exactly to the point that rcm1203 makes.  I have approximately 500 vinyl albums and around 360 CD discs in my collection.  I also have some cassettes (mostly copies of albums I recorded on a high-end machine back in the day) but I don't play those often at all.  I gave away my 8-track & reel-to-reel stuff long ago.  Of everything in my collection, there are only a couple dozen or so albums that I really, really love in their entirety (i.e.  both sides) and maybe another dozen or so that I like well enough to play both sides of sequentially but are not as cherished as my all-time favorites.