Can I Have One Hour of Your Time?

I won't vote yet as I have not taken the time to hear the others, but Eggshell Man is my favourite track off the album that topped my contribution to the 2013 AotY list.

rushfan4 wrote: The problem with creating polls is that people just want to vote for the songs that they know and they don't want to take the time to listen to the songs that they don't.  This poll will take an hour out of your life that you probably don't have to give.  I've chosen 5 songs that each last 12 minutes in length.  You have one hour to listen to them all and tell me which one is your favorite.  Some of you may have an advantage and already know a song or two so maybe you will get done a bit quicker.

I usually try to listen to ones I don't know and often will favour that which is new to me. I have found it odd sometimes that so many even with but two options will automatically go with the one they know rather than even trying to check out the other choice. I like research and finding new to me things more than many. people have different priorities. I would not vote in such a poll if I weren't willing to try the other, but that's me and we all have our differences. When at PA, I always keep a youtube tab open. I have discovered so much great music that way over the years. When I make my own topics too, I always try to listen to everything I don't know that others post in them (or at least in part if really long -- I am sometimes put off by topics by posters who don't seem interested in what the respondees write, especially when they ask for recommendations and then don't respond back). Sometimes I scrub through tracks to get a feel for if I might enjoy them (play bits and pieces of it) and then if it at all appeals, then I play the whole thing. If there are only a few choices, I used to always try to comment on each of them. Others at PA are often listening to their own music when online, but I rarely do that unless I'm making a topic or writing something about music that I already love.

One issue is that we get so many topics and polls a day (I like to read through threads, and that also takes time) that it can be hard to really delve into all of them. There is only so much time in a day, and time is precious. Less active topics might lead to better and deeper discussion, and having fewer active polls (especially outside of the usual choices) might lead to more people wanting to check out the music. There's commonly so much going on here every day that it can get overwhelming, especially for a windbag like me.

Paul, I know you like to share music in your topics, and if you're like me, you would hope that others would listen and discover music through that. That is why I post music embeds -- hoping that someone will find something to appreciate, maybe discuss it a bit, and I have found a lot of great music by people posting other music in my own topics as well as by checking out other people's topics.

That said, I won't commit an hour to this now (and if I don't seem to like a track I might not listen to the whole thing). I still have to given another listen to those in the latest interactive poll. From a little listen to each these are generally outside my comfort zone usual music preferences, but I do like to challenge myself. The Eggshell Man and Izvir ones are appealing to me particularly now.

By the way, I think the interactive polls have shown that there are quite a few here who are willing to listen to music posted by others and actually post their thoughts on the music, which is a favourite part for me (well, I like to read what others think more than what I think as I'm terrible when it comes to describing music). Yes, partially it's because they want others to listen to their music, but it becomes a wonderful communal exercise), and I hope this becomes common across topics. Since being here I have hoped that we could get into more topics where we listen to each other's music, discover music, and comment on it. It can be very ear-opening and for me is a wonderful sociable activity. I don't have people to share my music interests with (or many other passions) outside of PA, if I did then doing so at PA would likely mean less to me.

Edited by Logan - July 19 2020 at 14:20

IQ...been a fan only since Dark Matter...went back and bought several old ones ,as well as the newer ones .

I like this idea!

Yes, I will give them a listen, but give me a day or two to digest them.

Thanks!

All qualify for a "Finest Hour"-compilation, but Days between Stations remains the winner for me.

Great series of polls by you and I have started to listen to these now... but I can probably process one of these per week and they come on faster than daily basis...

Didn't give an hour or listen all the way through. But the one that stood out for me was Izvir.

Good luck with your polls.

Edited by Lewian - July 23 2020 at 07:02