#21

I don’t skip really

I do go back and replay favourite songs a lot though

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#22

If an album has a track so bad I need to skip it then it ruins the whole thing for me. Might revisit individual tracks for playlists, occasionally construct an alternate tracklist and just listen to that, but wouldn’t bother putting on an album knowing that there was something really crap coming up

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#23

Don’t skip tracks, don’t rewind. Man of the people here.

#24

Fugazi mainly. the argument, red medicine and in on the killtaker. All of them have short or extended noise sections but they add to the tapestry of the records so I never skip them.

One absolute wrong answer is Murray Street. I defy anyone to listen to Karen revisited in full every time

#25

For all the skippers, I’m wondering at what point you decide that certain tracks on an album are not worth listening to. I presume from the fact that you are listening to the rest of the record that it is one you like so how much time do you give it before you write off portions of it?

My experience is that my favourite track on an album changes over time. Often songs that completely pass me by at first become my absolute favourites after a a few listens. I treasure this process - it’s like the instant, impactful, songs on an album have bought time for the lower key classics to work their magic. Wouldn’t want to give that up.

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#26

I’m quite bad at this - if something doesn’t grab me quite quickly I write it off and will be a skip. I’ll give the album a couple of run throughs and it either makes the cut or doesn’t. I’ve never been one that will stick a whole album end to end on anyway so probably very different to a lot of you on here.

I do use shuffle quite a lot (on all of my playlist) so down the line that same song might come up and just grab me in a different way and I’ll add it to the repertoire.

#27

Not sure about that. It’s a generational thing I think. My listening habits were formed when buying a vinyl album was pretty much the only way you could listen to music you’d chosen and I could only afford to buy one a week at best. That tends to get you into the habit of listening to whole albums and giving things plenty of time to grow on you. I’ve never really changed much from that.

CDs were really the first technology that made skipping tracks easy, and then that’s compounded with streaming giving you that plus almost free access to limitless music. Obviously if you’ve grown up with that you are going to listen to music differently.

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#28

Yeah, I was going to say this, being the age I am and growing up with LPs and tapes really just mean I tend to listen to albums wholesale still now. Even if there are some I am less keen on.

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#29

On the other hand, quite a few hip hop albums I love are butchered by me to remove all the ‘amusing’ interludes/skits etc.

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#30

Like some others on here, I generally don’t skip. There are a few albums that I have to listen to all the way through once I’ve started. Zen Arcade and Emergency and I being 2 that spring to mind

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#31

That’s the downside of the ‘whole album’ approach. I find I tend to not to listen at all to those 75 minute 90s hip hop albums padded with endless skits (which is a shame because they obviously have some great tracks on amongst all the dross).

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#32

Like many others here, I feel like most of the albums I listen to/enjoy as a whole I don’t skip any songs on. If there’s an album I only like a couple of songs on I won’t tend to listen to that album as an album - I’ll just add the songs to a play list instead…

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#33

Mellon Collie and the infinite sadness

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#34

I only ever listen to the first and last tracks of albums. Tells me all I need. I sometimes like to make up middle tracks myself usually on my kazoo.

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#35

since I only had a few key listening years before I got into downloads, iTunes etc. there’s a whole load of albums I only know from the edited playlist versions I made. Like Slanted and Enchanted just didn’t have about 3 of the tracks on there as I didn’t like them the first couple of times I heard them, so just deleted them from my computer

Now I like a few of them a lot more so it’s good going back and appreciating them afresh, but it was a genuine shock to remember that the version I’d been used to hearing for years wasn’t the “real” version at all

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#37

I don’t think there are any these days, find listening to a whole album intolerable

#38

ctrl+f “turn on the bright lights”

Wtf guys

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#39

Is This It.

#40

Yeah I think that + Boxer / Alligator + Come On Die Young are the ones that comes to mind of the ones I will listen to all the way through when I’m in an ‘Album’ mood

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#41

Can’t skip songs, it ruins everything.

Only ones I even consider are You Would Know by QOTSA, The Party Song by Blink 182, and the second half of Pink Cellphone and sometimes Lucky You by Deftones.