How often do you listen to music?

In my older days, I tend to not listen to anything anymore ... as much as I used to have music all day and night, just about. However, I still probably average around an hour or two a day, although many of those would be Space Pirate Radio, that is anywhere from 3 to 4 hours long, and the mixes in there are too good and enjoyable to not hear it ... in many ways way more satisfying than putting on an album by any band, just about. 

It's the element of "surprise" and "difference" for me, something that almost all albums do not have after the first piece, unless your name is AD2, but even then, i don't listen to them as much now as the music is cemented in my soul forever. Listening to any of the early albums is sort of like validating all the images and thoughts in my head in so many of those pieces, and I still find the MM Soundtrack (Dance of the Lemmings) to be one of the prettiest and best pieces to fly with ... such touch, such imagination, and such creativity ... and it's all an improvisation ... outstanding work!

Too many albums today are about having a sound that is this or that ... and so few of them are strictly about the music and screw the ideas and what it is supposed to be. But I don't think that folks today have enough of the INNER LIFE to be able to create something that is not based and full of ideas from everything else. How quickly we forget how much different and NEW so much of the music we love was 50 some years ago ... and how fast we have forgotten it all for stuff that is just a format and a sound, instead of pure music!

12 hours listening to music online, gaming and reading

3 hours walking and shopping

3 hours watching DVD movies & TV shows in the evening

6 hours sleeping

...although there's never enough hours in the day. 

Usually a couple of albums from my collection each day when I'm eating, plus some new-to-me music but it's very differently now 

how much I do that, and rather little for the time being.

Many thanks. I will give that anthology a listen!  

Or alternatively, you could Trip the Light Fantastic with the album below, which contains all of The Enid's best music on one outstanding double album. 

If you're reading this Cherry Red Records? 

It is irregular for me, depending on my occupations. I don't listen to music while working/at work, which means that there is a lot of time I'm not listening to music. I often listen to the radio, sometimes for information, but most often for music. I have a favourite - and very eclectic - radio station I listen to most of the days (it goes from rock to classic, from jazz to house, from folk to electronic and every once in a while a prog band passes by...). Otherwise I listen to albums from my collection (mostly in the week-ends) or things on bandcamp or youtube that get recommended here on these forums or elsewhere. But again, the amount of time invested in all that listening time is very fluctuating, from week to week.

Added to that, prog is not necessarily what I listen most to.