I tend listen through the whole album, and if I find it interesting, I listen to it again. Maybe first getting more familiar with the tracks I liked, then listening to the others again. That's what I did with Black Sabbath's Paranoid and Weezer's Pinkerton. I already knew about Paranoid and Iron Man from the former, and El Scorcho and The Good Life from the latter. By re-listening I gained interest in War Pigs, Planet Caravan and Fairies Wear Boots, and Across the Sea, Pink Triangle and Butterfly.
If the first tracks tracks I hear are boring, I quickly go through the other songs to see if they're equally uninteresting. If they are, I just move on the the next album.
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