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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All my cd were transfered as lossless files...

I can put in one shot on many days a sinple artist from which i own  10-30-50 files or more ...All one after the other for  few days...

I go to another artists  after ...

i dont like at all listening and touching  the trurntable lever when i owned one...

I put on my player all an artist albums play "on" and listen...

when all  has been heard i go on with the next...

For sure i have more than 100 Chet Baker albums for example ... I dont listen the 100  at one fell swoop ... It will be too much... But 5-10 albums sure...

i hate disturbing music with any pushing button or stop it after 20 minutes of the side A... 😊

 

I listen to the majority of my music on CD and LP and almost always listen through on the CD and to one or two sides depending on the LP.

I tend to use streaming to find albums I like and then go buy them in physical format.

After reading the responses I guess that I am in the minority , listening to over 95% vinyl  I pick an album turn it over and play that side because I had listened to the other side that last time I picked that album .  This holds true for almost all listening to Rock , Folk or Jazz .  I say. almost all because there are some albums that were written as a whole or concept , Pink Floyd DSOM , WYWH or Animals , The Who Tommy or Quadrophenia or The Moody Blues Nights in White Satin to name a few.

Classical albums are the only ones that I listen to from beginning to end , after all they were written that way .

I don't have any remastered albums with extra songs but I feel the same way about the order of the playlist on the original release verse a Greatest Hits version that just doesn't have the same flow .

 

The comments are interesting here.  I’m one of those that usually listens to the entire album, one side after the other in a sitting.  With digital on my server run by JRiver, I typically pick and choose songs through the app unless I like the whole album.  Like others, I’ll load the whole thing and listen to it.  
 

With albums I too usually don’t buy it unless I love the album and like most of what’s on it.  For instance I love Supertramp’s “Crime..” and “Crisis..” but really only liked about 4 songs off “Breakfast”.   So for a long time I haven’t bothered purchasing the album because there’s a couple songs that are so-so and a couple I really can’t stand sitting through.  With digital I can just pick what I wanted. 
Although I was recently offered a perfect 1st release copy at a record store for $15 at a record show that I couldn’t resist.  

This is why albums are not so popular anymore. I get bored with my collection and wanna always use roon.

Plus with albums spinning around ever so cooly, it’s difficult to skip songs that may suck. But on the flipside listening to all the music on an album allows you to slowly appreciate tunes that may not otherwise excite you right away. Lots of Beatles songs were kinda like this but overtime you begin to really like them. Greatest hits albums from The Beatles are horrifying since I'm used to the sequence from the original albums.

I would imagine with Taylor Swift given her extended release lots of people have not listened to most of it because they are focussed on Quickstream stuff from Spotify. I have not listened to any of her new music except Fortnite which is a really cool video.