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yarstruly 
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Posted: January 11 2007 at 15:03 |
I sometimes will get in a mood to listen to everything by a certain band (or everything I have, in some cases)...that usually means that I will play the albums in sequence when I am driving by myself...I have done this for Yes (Several times), Rush, Van Halen, The Beatles, Zeppelin, KISS, Queen, and a few others....am crazy, or do others do this as well?
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Posted: January 11 2007 at 15:09 |
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I have done, a long time ago. I feel I must have every album of a band to do this though.
Every studio album I mean.
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Posted: January 11 2007 at 15:11 |
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I have done this about five times with every Rush album I own. Usually I just listen to an album ten times in a row.
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Posted: January 11 2007 at 15:13 |
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I've done this for Zeppelin once, and once for Zappa.
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yarstruly
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Posted: January 11 2007 at 15:16 |
 Zappa88 wrote:
I've done this for Zeppelin once, and once for Zappa. |
Wow..Zappa..that could take months!
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Posted: January 11 2007 at 15:17 |
U2, Steely Dan, and The Cure
I have everything from Freak Out! to The Man from Utopia but that would take a day to do.
U2 took me a solid sixteen hours.
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Posted: January 11 2007 at 15:19 |
yarstruly wrote:
Zappa88 wrote:
I've done this for Zeppelin once, and once for Zappa. |
Wow..Zappa..that could take months! |
Yeah seeing as how my Zappa collection is starting to reach a mythical status around these forums  But yeah, I can't even remember how long that one took, nor do I want to!
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Posted: January 11 2007 at 15:22 |
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even if there were many bands in the world who had never released a bad album, (Art Bears? Present? Mr. Bungle?) I still wouldn't tackle a band's entire discography all in one go. However, there are albums which demand to be played side by side with others, for example:
Retrospectiw I -> Wurdah Itah -> MDK
Larks' -> SaBB -> Red
I treat both sets as giant two hour albums and I like them much more than REAL two hour albums (Konvergencie, various TFK releases and so forth)
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Posted: January 11 2007 at 15:31 |
I go through cycles where I'll listen to very little of a group for years and then boom, all of a sudden I'll start listening to everything they did (sometimes several listens of each album).
Right now Yes is such a group - I'm listening to very little of them.
And on the flip side, I'm listening to everything I have by Steve Hackett several times over, including those golden Genesis years. Most likely caused by the recently released Wild Orchids CD, which I've listened to 10 - 12 times since it's release.
I rarely listen to albums chronologically though.
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Posted: January 11 2007 at 16:21 |
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I've had two DT marathons, nothing more(yet).
I do tend to listen to certain artists more than others for some periods.... Right now, for example, I have been listening to almost exclusively Opeth for several days, mostly from Blackwater Park, Deliverance and some from Ghost Reveries and My Arms, Your Hearse.
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Posted: January 11 2007 at 16:23 |
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I've done this with DT, Pain Of Salvation, White Willow, Muse and Kayo Dot (okay, so they only have two albums) as these are the only bands that I have all of their studio albums.
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Philéas
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Posted: January 11 2007 at 17:54 |
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Just after falling in love with VdGG I did a marathon with all the first generation albums.
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Posted: January 11 2007 at 18:03 |
Done it with Supertramp, Genesis, Jean-Michel Jarre and Metallica. 
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Posted: January 11 2007 at 18:05 |
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days on end of RPI....
good way to learn the language as well....
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Posted: January 12 2007 at 12:18 |
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Cant honestly remeber doing it more than with 4 albums of Pink Floyd this one time
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Posted: January 12 2007 at 12:27 |
I've only done it with bands I have all albums by. Did it several times with Khan  And with a lot of Québécois bands : Harmonium, Maneige, Offenbach, Beau Dommage... I also completed a VdGG marathon (without Present, which I don't have) and tried a King Crimson marathon (which stopped halfway through Starless and Bible Black).
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Philéas
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Posted: January 12 2007 at 16:41 |
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I'm currently doing an Art Zoyd marathon, with the albums I have (not everyone yet).
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Posted: January 13 2007 at 17:53 |
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Ive done it with ALice Copper albums. But that's the only time I ever decided to listen to all of a groups work at once in chronological order.
I guess some bands would be easy to do this with, such as Alice Cooper and Rush since the band grew and changed so much with each album its not like listening to the same thing for 12 hours straight. For King Crimson it would indeed be the same as throwing on different bands one after another :) Others like Genesis or Black Sabbath on the other hand might get a bit tiring after several hours.
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Posted: January 14 2007 at 10:25 |
I did a Weidorje marathon today. Didn't take that long, since they only released one album!
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Posted: January 14 2007 at 14:25 |
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I did it with Fish-era Marillion the other day, and Evergrey yesterday.
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