When you buy a new album...
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Topic: When you buy a new album...
Posted By: Shakespeare
Subject: When you buy a new album...
Date Posted: September 29 2007 at 14:22
| Of course, everyone will read most of their favourite albums' booklets, and not much of the booklets of albums they dislike, but, on average, how much do you read? |
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: September 29 2007 at 14:27
| I try to read the whole thing, just to see if there are any amusing stories involving personnel or song creation. |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: September 29 2007 at 14:29
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I read the whole thing, but not on the first day I get the album. I read most of it one day, a little another day and so on until I read it all. I think I'll go with "I just quickly glance over it, reading bits here and there" in the same day I buy the album. ------------- 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 29 2007 at 14:31
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Every last word including the credits and thanks, even I have no idea why - I mean who cares that the band thanks everyone who ever said a nice word to say about them, I still read them (what am I looking for? my name to suddenly appear? "No mention of my brother Gjalt again, but a big thankyou to darqdean for buying all my albums...")
However, it really bugs me when the text is really small and in a dark colour so you can't actually read it.
I stay in the Cinema until the last credit rolls by too.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: jimmy_row
Date Posted: September 29 2007 at 15:17
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^^woa that's dedication. I usually begin reading the booklet (if it's in English of course) assuming that there is one, but if it's long I usually get anxious and go listen to the damn thing (attention deficit disorder? you bet!). |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: September 29 2007 at 15:43
| On average I'd say I read most of it. If it's an album I really like or am interested in I usually read the whole booklet, but in some cases I just glance through it. |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: September 29 2007 at 19:41
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I'm more interested in the artwork, frankly. I might glance at the lyrics if they are posted but I feel like the pictures and/or drawings should set up the mood. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: September 29 2007 at 19:57
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I pretty much read the whole thing!
Even the legal rights stuff saying that the music belongs to whoever producer and what not. ------------- 
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: September 29 2007 at 21:51
I always read the articles about the band or the album that usually come with remasters, and often bands put cool stuff there themselves. Crediths and thanks usually too, there are some nice jokes in them sometimes Lyrics I'd rather look up online, easier to read.------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: September 29 2007 at 23:15
Very true [But some bands' lyrics are extremely hard to find] |
The Miracle wrote:Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 03:23
This is pretty much how it goes for me as well. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 03:26
I don't read them immediately, but eventually. Yes lyrics make for good bathroom reading. 
------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 06:38
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It depends on the content. I won't often read the lyrics, but the history of the album/band found in remasters and best ofs I always find myself reading.
I also often read which member of the band plays which intrument on which track, as well as the equipment each member of the band uses. |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 06:43
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Usually, "I just quickly glance over it, reading bits here and there" |
Posted By: yoel?
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 06:45
| i switch between the first two options, I read and looked throught the whole of the FOABP booklet [i got the special edition with large art section] and then I only skimmed through the meshuggah booklet for contradictions collapse and none which i bought the other day. It depends on how much I love the band |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 06:55
| for researching and writing about music, some notes are great sources of information.. and much more likely to be written by or quoted directly from a band member, and therefore as accurate as you will find |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 08:25
| If there is a booklet, I usually read it. |
Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 08:32
I read almost everything written on it. But I smell the booklet first.
Yum! ------------- 
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 09:30
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Most of it usually, but Iskip over some of the credits.
------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 21:37
| I am reading booklets of albums I bought ages ago for the first time now. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 21:40
I love the smell of CD booklets in the morning... smells like victory |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: October 01 2007 at 09:12
| New [booklet] smell. |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: October 01 2007 at 23:36
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/\ Yeah and they all have diffrent nice smells i have my favorite types some last longer while some disapear after some years. Anywayz if there is anything writen in the booklet i always read it, when i lisen to the album for the first time. ------------- 
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Posted By: progcabaretdoll
Date Posted: October 02 2007 at 07:01
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When I buy a new album, I'll read every single word in the damned thing.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 02 2007 at 07:11
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Read? What is this reading thing of which you speak?
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 02 2007 at 07:32
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Every damned word - I want to know the lyrics, who produced, who the additional musicians were, who cleaned the khazi in the studio; when you get an album, and you know by the weight, there's a thick booklet inside, you know the band love you very much...
...what I don't like is when the booklet folds out into a single sheet of paper about the size of your average Ordinance Survey map, and still doesn't contain any information, just an abstract piece of 'art' (or in Steve Vai's case, another picture of him with his cheeks sucked in trying - in vain - to look pretty) ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: October 02 2007 at 17:36
| Too right |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 02 2007 at 17:46
I lick it so no one else will want to eat it.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 02 2007 at 17:49
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^ except the spit-eating monster who's standing behind you. (it's a Salivaraptor btw) ------------- What? |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: October 02 2007 at 17:55
| That guy always creeps up outta nowhere!!!! |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: October 03 2007 at 00:20
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Everything. ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: Proletariat
Date Posted: October 03 2007 at 00:24
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none of it untill I have heard the album all the way through, theres nothing worse than a good consept given away by those damned lyric sheets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------- who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: October 03 2007 at 00:32
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All of it short of those long and drawn out paragraphs of names of family members and record executives. Stupid thank-you pages.
-------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: October 03 2007 at 09:00
Yep, though I also read the whole thing first day sometimes too. It really depends on the booklet though, if it has many pages or fewer pages. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Badabec
Date Posted: October 03 2007 at 16:56
Usually every single word in the damned thing. 
------------- Mesmo a tristeza da gente era mais bela E além disso se via da janela Um cantinho de céu e o Redentor - Antônio Carlos Jobim, Toquinho & Vinícius de Moraes - Carta ao Tom 74 |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: October 04 2007 at 15:40
I eventually get around to reading everything. But it depends. I hate meager booklets. 
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: October 07 2007 at 13:35
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meager booklets sucketh I also hate booklets that are ONLY lyrics |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: October 07 2007 at 15:17
You do realize that Illumanati scientists have created a chemical that causes an endorphine release that makes the brain crave more cd's that they have lined the inside of cd booklets with, don't you? ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: October 07 2007 at 15:30
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I read every word. One of the most disappointing things in life is
openning to booklet to see nothing but the track titles and times. It
makes me weep.
------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: October 12 2007 at 10:38
| i read every word, but i wait until after i listen to the album. when i listen to it i just like to focus on the music and nothing else, but afterwards i'm interested to read everything, especially if there are amusing stories and i also like to look at the engineering and production credits. as an audio student, i like to know these things and know who's worked on what and look at similarities between that album and other work they've done. |