How many times you listen a CD?
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Topic: How many times you listen a CD?
Posted By: Ytse Jam
Subject: How many times you listen a CD?
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 06:11
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How many times you listen a Prog CD to fix all the songs in the CD? You guys hear a little of all CD's or listen the same CD many times? How can i remember the music of all CD's? |
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Posted By: mr.burns
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 06:24
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It really depends,sometimes the album goes straight to the heart.Other times it requires a little "work".I think that an album that you like straight away,you will probably tire of quite soon.Not always,but in more than 50% of the cases.But then again,good mudic is good music no matter what.Me myself,i mostly listen to a lot of albums once.But then again if its something special,i play it many times.Sometimes i listen to it once,and think that its ordinary.Then i take it out a monthlater,and love it.Its like fine wine,it gets better with time.
He he he,long answer ------------- Father Ted: Sheep like all wool-bearing animals, instinctively travel north. Where it's colder, and they won't be so stuffy. |
Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 06:31
| ditto on the like it first up - tire of it quite soon. The gems are the ones that take work. This is the very reason why progressive music could never find its way back into mainstream- attention spans are too short nowadays. |
Posted By: Publius84
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 06:47
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Yes, sometimes it takes some time to get into album. But sometimes first time is enough to like, or even love it. ------------- I know what I like and I like what I know... Prog is in my heart, in my mind, in my soul... |
Posted By: samhob
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 06:56
| Yeah, me for example , i loved hot rats at first hearing, but now i got a bit tired of it... |
Posted By: retuow
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 07:18
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The same goes for me: the masterpieces need work. Selling England By
The Pound took me a few weeks to truly appreciate it. One notable
exception was Van der Graaf Generator though, they struck me from the
moment I heard them and they continue to do so...
------------- Human beings were created by water to carry it uphill. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 07:20
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depends on how much I like it...
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Posted By: Politician
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 07:38
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I tend to listen to most albums only once, though some things merit
repeated plays. But with around 10,000 albums and more coming in nearly every day, there's too much new music to hear to play anything less than brilliant repeatedly. |
Posted By: mr.burns
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 07:46
A little bragging Me also have many cd`s,so i tend to listen to it once and maybe come back to it later.I have cd`s i bought maybe ten years ago,and i`m just starting to listen to them.There is just not enough time in the world,its not like louis armstrong si ngs"we have all the time in the world"------------- Father Ted: Sheep like all wool-bearing animals, instinctively travel north. Where it's colder, and they won't be so stuffy. |
Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 07:46
| That's like $300,000 dollars worth of cd's man. What's your name- Richard Branson? |
Posted By: Fritha
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 08:04
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I wonder if you really get much out of your listening experiences this way... You seem to consume music, literally, rather than taking the time to enjoy it and let it inside your heart and mind. Hmmm, each to their own, I suppose. I can only hope that you are able to recognise a brilliant CD, which deserves more than one listen, when you hear it for the first time! ------------- I was made to love magic |
Politician wrote:Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 10:25
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I didn't like some of my favourite albums the 1st time I heard them. Like In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson, and Feels Good To Me and One Of A Kind by Bruford (my first jazz rock cd's). Usually it takes a few listens for me to decide if I really like a cd. I only found out after 7 listening sessions that Coda's What A Symphony was a masterpiece. Before I didn't really like it. What I don't do is listen to the same cd twice a day. I like variation. Most of the times I don't even listen to the same cd more than once a week! I listen to a lot of different cd's, and mostly I wait some time before I listen again to a certain cd. I never use the shuffle function for a cd. I suppose that most prog fans don't use it a lot, either. |
Posted By: little_neutrino
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 11:22
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Most of the time if it's new music, or a new band, I need to listen to it thru headphones and late at night when I'm almost asleep. That almost-asleep time is for some strange reason where I do all my music appreciation. I couldn't for the life of me understand why Van der Graaf Generator were getting such an awesome reputation around here before. Listened to Pawn Hearts and only really liked Man-Erg for the fun schizo-ness. Then I fell asleep to Lemmings and woke up somewhere around Plague. I am now a Hammill-addict. If it's a band I already have stuff by, then I usually like the CD already, so I can listen whle conscious and still love the crap out of it. Anyway, once I get into a CD it constantly floats around the player until I get more new music. Then it gets shelved and loved on special occasions. I only ever use the shuffle function on the offchance that none of the songs have to do with each other and that there are no transitions between songs, just silence from one to the next. It's good for best-ofs and compilations. It's nice to be surprised. But I can't see using it on The Wall. I tried that once and it was just too weird. |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 11:56
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i listen ALL the time - new and old stuff - sometimes music mellows with time ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: Gentle Tull
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 11:59
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I listen to the album i get alot, and usually if they take a long time to get into, they are better and last longer. ------------- 
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Posted By: Politician
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 12:01
Yes, fair comment. Generally I know what I think of an album the first time I hear it - and on the rare occasions that I don't, it gets a very swift second listen! |
Posted By: proger
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 12:11
------------- ...live for tomorrow... |
Posted By: ChadFromCanada
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 14:11
That was like me with ITCOTCK - King Crimson. Listened to it through 3 times in a row. |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 14:24
10-15 times at first usually work for me ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 15:22
Depends. If i buy many CD's at the same time, I usually listen to all of them one time each three times. If i only buy one, i usually listen to it 3-4 times in a row  ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: November 14 2005 at 03:48
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I listen to it 3 complete times before i decide if i should continue listen to it or it is just so bloody awfull it wont get any better But i always listen to them atleast 3 times nomatter how bad they are. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: November 14 2005 at 03:54
I do that too. 3 times. |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: November 14 2005 at 11:10
Thats a good rule, I always listen several times but usually you get an idea on first hearing. Good idea to stick it out for at least 3 plays if you can. Took me several listens to get into The Mars Volta, there's so much going on - only other band I've spent so much time listening to was Yes, a long time ago (& very different from TMV!) |