Spread too thin????????
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Topic: Spread too thin????????
Posted By: Drew
Subject: Spread too thin????????
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 15:26
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(i meant "Spread" too thin--sorry) I've been thinking about this lately- Life is short- we all love music- ok question: Is it better to have less albums, and liisten to those religiously, or to have MANY albums and listen to them not as much? Do you spread yourself to thin by buying many albums and find yourself rarely listening to them? Or do you listen to your favs over and over? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm tell me what you think! |
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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 15:29
i have had my musical education stretched since coming on this site - many many new bands - i'm having fun  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 15:31
| that's great- but as far as the question............ |
Posted By: Syntharachnid
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 15:32
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Variety's good. It's nice to give yourself options. So I vote the second choice, though my own collection isn't something I'm very proud of. ------------- 
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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 15:33
lots of music - i'd get bored listened to a few over and over ...  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Drew wrote:Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 15:35
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haha- thats pretty damn funny |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 15:48
| I think it's best to have listened to a lot of music, but to have whittled your collection down to a small core of essential albums that you know you'll always love. |
Posted By: sonic wizard
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 16:02
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I will always have my favorites, but I'm definately in the second boat. ------------- Arguing on the internet is a lot like the special olympics - even if you win, you're still retarded. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 16:30
I try to have many albums that I like and listen to them according to my mood. That is the way to go.  ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 16:38
I do a little of both, I'll buy a few new one's play those for a while, then go listen to a couple of classics, then back to the one's I'm less familiar with. I find going back and forth keeps me interested, especially if a new purchase is NOT very good (e.g., Pete Sinfield "Stillusion). By doing this I have gotten turned on to some awesome albums lately: Caravan "In the Land of the Grey and Pink," Aphrodite's Child "666," King Crimson "Beat" and on and on. ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 18:02
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I have a sizeable collection with a good variety to suit my present mood. I rarely find myself not listening to an album just because I have too much. The only reason something doesn't get played too often is if it's not that good. |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 20:04
I want to know a lot of music The more the better. I live getting into new albums. If I had to listen to same 20 albums forever, I'd go insane But that's just my personality.------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 23:21
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Don't worry, you'll just end up insane. I'm on the path now... "The lunatic is on the path"
------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: tardis
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 23:24
I'm obsessive compulsive when it comes to my music collection --- I
listen to albums in order from A-Z, then when I reach Z, I start over
again. 
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Posted By: robertplantowns
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 23:39
| The more albums the better. I love having a plethora of music at my disposal and I would much rather have albums in my collection that I've never listened to than be forced to listen to the same albums because of a lack of a good collection. The albums that you really like will attract you more, and albums only deserve many repeated listens if they are really great anyways. I don't subscribe to the "it takes many listens to appreciate this music theory." If you listen to the music closely enough the first time, and you know how to listen to music, you can "get" it the first time around, and then of course repeated listening is done for further enjoyment but is not needed to "get" the music. It's of course easier to listen to the music on subsequent listens because you know what to expect but I don't think that one needs to listen to an album 5 or even 2 times to "get" it. That's why I can have such a huge collection and am able to listen to new albums all the time without going back to the already listened ones too many times except when done for pure enjoyment. I think repeated listenings of albums is only necessary to some to acclimate them to music that they would not like if they didn't "force" themselves to try to like it. I won't divert to far into this subject although I think it would make an interesting point for another forum, I'll just reiterate my initial point, one can never have enough prog and one should never be satiated by their current collection of prog. |
Posted By: Harry Hood
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 23:44
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Well, when it comes to prog rock, I'm fairly new, and the albums I have are only the bare essentials. But my entire collection as a whole contains many albums from many artists, some I listen to far more than others. My mood changes frequently, and I like to have an album for it. ------------- 
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Posted By: barbs
Date Posted: October 16 2005 at 02:33
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It depends on how much time you have on your hands IMO. I think you have to discipline yourself to play the stuff you don't usually listen to. Some albums are that good, you can listen to them regularly but if you want to listen to something different you have to put them aside for awhile (bit like dieting and giving yourself a treat). I have to many albums and not enough time to listen in order to appreciate half of them. Not enough hours in the day. In the end, unless you have heaps of time you end up listening more for pleasure and not for trial because you only have a certain amount of time in which to enjoy the moment. ------------- Eternity |
Posted By: Yams
Date Posted: October 16 2005 at 02:41
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Life is short, but not that short.
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Posted By: barbs
Date Posted: October 16 2005 at 02:51
Yeah, I get your point. I was just
trying to explain that with work and family commitments and other
stuff, the time I do get to listen means I prioritise what I listen to
more and I probably don't experiment as much with listening because of
that.------------- Eternity |
Posted By: Throgh
Date Posted: October 17 2005 at 07:31
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variety is better!
I'm listening lot of jazz- rather modern than mainstream- some classic music- Vivaldi, Beethoven, Mahler etc- some metal and punk, rock'n'roll .... There are many styles I'm listening to. ------------- don't worry be happy |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 18 2005 at 03:59
I do not know how old you are , but one can only listen to an album a few hundred times before stopping or else it will make you sick of them> I have not listened to most "clasic Prog Giants" yet this year , unless I acquired a remaster or a DVD> I know them by heart , can almost sing them in my sleep etc...... Believe me there are hundreds of superb album to be discovered (and not just in prog) to be concentrating on a few, no matter how masterful they are! ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Chipiron
Date Posted: October 18 2005 at 04:24
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Since I found this site, my music collection grows on and on and on and on..... I'm afraid I'm a compulsive buyer, however, there is a bunch of classics I always go back to. Besides, I've got an mp3 player crammed with more than 10.000 songs and I have a long time before me to listen to them all. ------------- [IMG]http://www.belderrain.es/GIFs/tora.gif"> |
