Anyone ever do "marathons" of listening t
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Topic: Anyone ever do "marathons" of listening t
Posted By: yarstruly
Subject: Anyone ever do "marathons" of listening t
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 15:03
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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? ------------- Facebook hashtags: #100greatestprogrockchallenge #scottssongbysong #scottsspotlight |
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date 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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 15:11
| 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. |
Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 15:13
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I've done this for Zeppelin once, and once for Zappa. ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: yarstruly
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 15:16
Wow..Zappa..that could take months! ------------- Facebook hashtags: #100greatestprogrockchallenge #scottssongbysong #scottsspotlight |
Zappa88 wrote:Posted By: Asyte2c00
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 15:17
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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 By: Chris H
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 15:19
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! ------------- Beauty will save the world.
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Posted By: laplace
Date 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) ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: Firepuck
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 15:31
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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. ------------- Kryten : "'Pub'? Ah yes, A meeting place where humans attempt to achieve advanced states of mental incompetence by the repeated consumption of fermented vegetable drinks." |
Posted By: magnus
Date 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. ------------- The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie 
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Posted By: sleeper
Date 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.
------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 17:54
| Just after falling in love with VdGG I did a marathon with all the first generation albums. |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 18:03
Done it with Supertramp, Genesis, Jean-Michel Jarre and Metallica. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 18:05
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days on end of RPI.... good way to learn the language as well.... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: el böthy
Date 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
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: January 12 2007 at 12:27
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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). -------------  
RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: January 12 2007 at 16:41
| I'm currently doing an Art Zoyd marathon, with the albums I have (not everyone yet). |
Posted By: Flyingsod
Date 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. |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: January 14 2007 at 10:25
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I did a Weidorje marathon today. Didn't take that long, since they only released one album!
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Posted By: Man Overboard
Date Posted: January 14 2007 at 14:25
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I did it with Fish-era Marillion the other day, and Evergrey yesterday. ------------- https://soundcloud.com/erin-susan-jennings" rel="nofollow - Bedroom guitarist". Composer, Arranger, Producer. Perfection may not exist, but I may still choose to serve Perfection. Commissions considered. |
Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: January 14 2007 at 14:27
Who is this petite on your sig? |
Posted By: 2112
Date Posted: January 14 2007 at 18:50
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i have done pink floyd marathons on the train to university. could listen to about 6 albums on the way! also have done a few rush ones and dream theater ------------- 
I can't wait to share this new wonder...The people will all see its light! |
Posted By: kazansky
Date Posted: January 17 2007 at 21:28
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i did some, with Rhapsody(about 4 albums), Dragonforce(the last 2 albums), and Trans-siberian Orchestra(2 albums) ------------- The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. |
Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: January 20 2007 at 00:46
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Not just albums: Me and my friends had very long sessions listening just one band/composer in order to find the meaning of the stuff... My last hobby is to mix music during long nights of work... I mean, more than 200 hours of mp3 from different bands (68 to 06) and I just take my time to chooose what I gonna hear... It's paradise, man... Sometimes I work 38-40 hours without sleep and music is my inspiration to go on... Prog is great!!! ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: January 20 2007 at 08:04
Doing this again, and will do a Dün marathon later. |
Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: January 20 2007 at 13:02
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I did an Ihsahn marathon a few times... ------------- sig |
Posted By: Floydian42
Date Posted: January 21 2007 at 18:20
| Whenever I listen to Pink Floyd or Pete Gabriel's solo stuff, I keep wanting more and more of it, so there's my marathons. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 25 2007 at 13:27
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Did it with GYBE! once, should do that again. Also, I have that YCDTOSA marathon to get too one of these days. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Jack-a-lynn
Date Posted: January 26 2007 at 12:17
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Went about a month listening to nothing but Crosby Still Nash & Young. that was an awesome month. ------------- "from the moment i could talk, i was ordered to listen." -cat stevens 
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Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: January 26 2007 at 12:19
| Went through all my Rush stuff twice in a row. |