How do you first listen to albums?
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Topic: How do you first listen to albums?
Posted By: fender101
Subject: How do you first listen to albums?
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 21:42
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What I mean is once you have purchased an album do you just listen to it in the car, put it on your mp3 player discman? I always make sure my first listen is through a set of quality headphones in a quiet room. ------------- Well McGarnical Billy is dead! They slit his throat from ear to ear! |
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Posted By: Gentle Tull
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 21:49
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Yea, when I get a new cd, I go into my room, lay on my bed, and listen all the way through. In fact, about 10 minutes ago, i just did that with The Power and the Glory. It's great! ------------- 
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 22:01
Yes, i do the same.. but i listen to them 3 times in a row... ( of course , if i have time ) ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Gentle Tull wrote:Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 22:37
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Cool thread- Living room- sit down, listen- usually not all the way through- too much crap to do |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 22:41
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loud !! ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 22:50
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Drunk. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 22:55
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On the stereo in the lounge. I would play it through headphones,
but I've broken them (only one speaker seems to work properly).
If I like the music, I will probably play it again the next day, or it
has been known straight after the first listen. I really want to
play Comus, the first CD of the Song To Comus 2-CD set (featuring the
album "First Utterance" is just sublime) again, I'm addicted! Having said that, I have Pawn Hearts in the care at the moment and it sounds great, but I'm not going for a drive at this time of night! Has anyone taken a car ride just to listen to their music collection? It's good fun, except when it's raining or cold and the wipers or heater drown the music out. I don't have the best car speakers in the world (in fact, they are the ones that came with the car), but the compactness of the sound is great and I can get peace there and no interruptions (except from other drivers). Can't wait to hear Wobber - "Hinterland" it should arrive later in the week. -------------   
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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 23:14
^Try Wobbler - they rock too 
Hinterland is VERY good by the way  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 23:23
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Off topic: I've downloaded the two demo tracks but I haven't even played them yet, so I'm taking a risk, but it's not the first time I've done so, I did the same with a Colosseum Anthology and that turned out great, I don't have any bad prog in my collection. Is White Willow more folk based than Wobbler? Any recommendations on which album to get? Baring in mind Amazon are rubbish..., there is so much prog I can't get my hands on, it's driving me crazy! Back on topic: Playing it in the car is great fun, I find I hear a lot more. -------------
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Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 23:27
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Best time is when I'm the only person in the house ... the player in my living room ... doesn't happen too often ... so alone, late at night, softer than I'd like it to be ... is the more common answer ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 23:34
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I've done that, but I'm a little worried about waking the
Neighbours. Being unemployed, I have the house to myself during
the day, so I can play CDs pretty loud. But I really want to
listen to them in a dark room, no lights..., particularly ITCOTCK,
Lark's Tongues In Aspic or Pawn Hearts with all their weird sounds.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: November 21 2005 at 00:43
| Preferably, alone in a pitch black room. But more often, since I have so much to listen to, it winds up being on the go via mp3 player or laptop. |
Posted By: Lorak
Date Posted: November 21 2005 at 01:45
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Back when there was a prevalence of vinyl, I would always listen to
side two first! Always! Just my way. CD's sure changed that. ------------- Two heads are better than one, but if you want something done right, do it yourself. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, but better safe than sorry. Look before you leap, but he who hesitates is lost |
Posted By: Politician
Date Posted: November 21 2005 at 04:45
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In the sitting room, while I'm working. I mainly work from home, so I have
plenty of opportunity to listen to music. |
Posted By: Hibou
Date Posted: November 22 2005 at 00:20
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I wait at night till everyone is off to bed. Then I sit at my computer, slide the disc in, slip on the Sennheisers and wish the world goodbye. You can knock on my door, pound on my window, ring me on the phone till the ringy-dingy wears off: I’m there for no one. ------------- [IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b311/Progueuse/Album.jpg"> Gene Police: You!! Out of the pool! |
these magic moments.Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: November 22 2005 at 00:21
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I put (i.e. rip) the album on the computer and then listen to it while I use to computer. ------------- 
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Posted By: zabriskiepoint
Date Posted: November 22 2005 at 12:47
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Posted By: moonlitbay
Date Posted: November 22 2005 at 12:59
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As long as it isn't when my daughter on about a year is in the presence..... My answer will therefore be after her bedtime, and loud in headphones. ------------- A reunion.......it will never happen in my lifetime!! |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: November 22 2005 at 13:04
I try to use my ears.
------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Fritha
Date Posted: November 22 2005 at 17:51
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This is pretty much what I do, too, except I don't listen to the CD's on my computer but on my stereo -and ALWAYS, always with headphones. I've grown so used to them that I can´t really listen to music without them any longer. I prefer the music, especially music that I've yet to hear, to be as near as possible to my ears, it feels much more intimate that way. There are some records that I try to give that first listen to while lying in my bed, all relaxed and yet fully attentive to the music I am about to hear. This is the case if I have very high hopes for the record in question. There are at least two records which I gave a first listen to while going out for a walk; CTTE and Octobus. I figured the walking, surrounded by some nice scenery, would help me to get through what I believed would be rather weird music ------------- I was made to love magic |
Posted By: ChadFromCanada
Date Posted: November 22 2005 at 19:46
| Usually, I'll listen to a bit of one of the albums I buy on the way home. Then I listen to albums in their entirety, one by one, almost exclusively when I work out. I'll go downstairs, put on a CD or vinyl, and let it play while I exercise. When I'm on the computer I prefer to open winamp and let it run through a random selection. Most of the stuff I haven't listened to already are my dads albums that I've ripped to try out. |
Posted By: Biggles
Date Posted: November 22 2005 at 19:58
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I usually listen to music on my computer while I'm browsing through forums. When I first get an album, if it's something particularly difficult, I sometimes put it on the computer and let it sink into the background and play it about 3 times like this just so my subconscious soaks the melodies in, and then I play it and devote my attention to it and I understand it better. That's what I did with Pat Metheny's "The Way Up." When you've got a 60-minute composition with heavy jazz influence and a lot of improvisation, that's a good way to approach it. ------------- The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe. http://www.last.fm/user/sbonfiglioli/?chartstyle=red"> 
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