Can You Make it Through PA in one life time !?

trackstoni wrote: chopper wrote: According to the home page there's 30,763 albums on PA. If we average them out to 45 minutes each, that equates to 961 days of continual listening (if my maths is correct). Right Chopper , it cannot be done , if the average listening in one day is about two hours , 12 for working , 7 for sleeping 2 for bathing & eating and another one hour for the family !! so this was my point , it's not the time what we need , it's our forums , reviews & rates ! simply i believe this is the best way to get the Essence of this Site , and with no regrets from me to spend my couple of hours listening to good music & digging around the forums for good comments !

I know how you feel! I've discovered so many bands here that I enjoy, and cherish. It has become a hobby to me. I too like to dig around the forums for new music and read people's comments while listening to it. This site has the same like-minded people to walk you through the album.

crimhead wrote: In a word...no.

   Safe travels Teddy. 1993-2010

it's your Cat Teddy !! a real friend for almost seven years !! nice words to use in this sad moment , i respect that Crimhead , and join yu for a little prayer in this occasion !!

31000 even at 1 hour each / 8 hours a day of listening = a little over 10 years of daily listening at that rate. Which for those of us who listen all day at work, and often more, is not out of the question.

Negoba wrote: 31000 even at 1 hour each / 8 hours a day of listening = a little over 10 years of daily listening at that rate. Which for those of us who listen all day at work, and often more, is not out of the question.   But that's one listen to each album.   Is it possible? Yes. Is it probable? No.

A reminiscence if you will...

Many years ago (early 21st Century) as I was priotising my time by liustyening to as much prog roc as my ears could take ((earphones) and undergoing the pretext of working (for the purpses of acquiring prog rock music) my then leader and divine inspiration (aka the boss) finally approached and wondered if I got any work done in between surfing and listening. As it happens I got an amazing amount done thanks to musical inspiration.

Anyway he saw I was listening to Caravan (CD cover). He stopped and started recommending Caravan albums (a fan too) and told me to continue and keep up the good work. He later went on to somewhere where they keep secrets but I was left alone after that. 

Still listening to the marvelous Caravan. (And all the other usual suspects and rogues out there...!)

It's not the lifetime but what you use to occupy it.

It'sd a very good lifetime doing this. Oh and if one includes the jazz and all the classical music, as well as the other rock and anything else that contibutes then one has to really hope for some reincarnation.... (also known as choose your remastered for CD transfer copies carefully...)

As just my collection currently stands it would take me approximately 65,580 minutes to make it through my collection.  1089 hours.  732 days if I slept 8 hours a day.   Slightly more that two years.  I'm guessing there is no way to tally the total length of music on this site, but by dead reckoning you could possibly make it through all the music we currently have on this site.  It might help if you drop out live duplicates and stuff you don't consider to be music and/nor progressive.

Let's assume that my collection only consists of 10% of the music cataloged here.  If i did the math right, I'm looking at 20 years. So yes, even accounting for the extra stuff being constantly added.  Of course I might not have the math right.

Then you have to ponder how much stuff will be added while I am trying to work my way through the batch.  Because I believe that prog will never die and nor will this site, it's not worth trying to do it.

You really have to be selective musically and this site is about inclusiveness.  So, choose wisely.


Edited by Slartibartfast - January 14 2011 at 07:43

There's sort of two conflicted questions in the OP.   No I don't think that anyone could make it through PA in one life time, and I woudln't wish that on my worst enemy.   But I do think its possible to get the "essense" of the site.   For example, if you have most of the top 100 favorite albums on the PA site, and you really have heard and appreciate them.  I think you've got the essence.  

Dean wrote: Even if you only listened to music for two hours a day (eh? I thought this was a Prog site - 2 hours? what? Is it your day off from listening to music? Is it national don't-listen-to-music day or something?) - 31,000 albums @ 45 minutes each is a little under 32 years - piece of cake - I've been listening to music since I was a nipper ... that's well over 50 years. But as Iván suggests, it's not the listening that's the problem, it's the cost ... it would be a $30/day habit.

   believe me Dean , in 42 years of travelling around the World , it cost me much more than that ! not to mention time , following live concerts , tickets , accomodations , and for sure albums & CD's !