How many of you actually listen to a whole album at a time?

[rustywire]

Depends. In general, yes I spin the full album. Most of my favorite albums get played front-to-back at home or in the car.
Mobile listening is usually playlists and podcasts.

[leaves turn]

I listen to full albums, when I feel like listening to the full album.

On the other hand, I almost never make playlists. I just jump around my phone/foobar hunting for whatever I'm feeling at the moment.

[BitchPudding]

99% of the time my listening is albums from front to back. I'd feel like I was missing something if I did anything different.

HOWEVER.

If I'm hanging out with my friends I usually throw my shit on shuffle and let it ride.

[D.o.S.]

Sounds like there's too many prog-cape wearing Yes fans here.

I see no harm in putting, say, Minor Threat's discography on Shuffle.

[Iommic Pope]

What's your point there, champ?

[D.o.S.]

Not all bands craft 78:59 minute epics that must be listened to, with the pauses, the way Lindsey Buckingham intended it to be heard.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzZCoe38_hM[/youtube]

[retinal orbita]

Oh here we go with the cape bashing..... Next we'll be slagging wandering around in graveyards wearing a funeral shroud......

Tarkus really only has one good song/side. Exceptions can always be made.....

[bongoben]

Most of the music I listen to is at work or while I'm in the basement (my cave) or doing laundry so yes, most of the time I listen to an entire album. Although I do sometimes only get through one side of a record (when I'm in my basement) then change to something new.

[Grrface]

Pretty much exclusively. I do most of my listening at work, and if I'm in a mood, it might be just one artist all day. Today is pretty much all Zozobra so far, cause that was what I was in the mood for. And that's after all of Harmonicraft and most of Torche S/T.

[MrNovember]

I hate shuffle.

I hate a totally collection-spanning shuffle. I tend to build playlists of specific genres, sub genres or moods, and shuffle within them. That way it's more like a mix tape I don't know yet, or a radio show without commercial interruptions... made up entirely of music that I vetted ahead of time.

I mostly do this or listen to entire albums.
It helps that my phone has so little memory that I essentially have to build a playlist every couple of weeks

[bigchiefbc]

Sounds like there's too many prog-cape wearing Yes fans here.

I see no harm in putting, say, Minor Threat's discography on Shuffle.

Even though I hate you for bashing prog and Yes, you bring up a good point here.

I do listen to full albums a lot, but another thing I do a lot is I'll listen to a shuffle of a single band, or a couple bands with a common member or something like that (like including Mad Season in my AIC shuffle, yaknow?)

[coldbrightsunlight]

I do it a lot. Always in the car, which I seem to spend a lot of time in these days so I get to listen to a lot of full albums.

I'm not averse to a full music collection shuffle though, and that's a lot of what I listen to when I'm surfing the net or gaming.

[retinal orbita]

I won't stand for any Yes bashing here.....

[wafl]

Are you guys still making mix tapes/cds?

[jrmy]

Are you guys still making mix tapes/cds?

Hellz yeah!