Moody

I turn into a listening beast

I listen to all the discography literally and eventually after hours of listening I never find but 2 or 3 good songs similar to the one I liked

I hate it when it happens -_-

Norg

i dont own entire discos now a days i just run throw various artist alwasy looking for something new

if i dont have anything by them i sometimes just buy there greatest hists and then move on

but Alot of artist these days dont even have a greatest hits album they never reach tha point LOL

Cuthbert

Depends.

I got through the bulk of David Bowie's in about 3-4 months but it was pretty much all I listened to. I usually like variation so normally it would take me ages. It's taken me a year to get through The Roots' discog. for example.

Scarlett O'Hara

Yeah that's good, you can't judge by just one album because people change their styles and alternate between different genres all within the space of another album. If that makes sense.

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Paedantic Basterd

Nearly all of the artists behind my favourite albums only have one album apiece I feel strongly about. I would hate to miss the next favourite because of a poor first, or even second impression.

Koroyev

Poor analogy, yes, but Christmas Eve doesn't allow for much creativity, if you know what I mean.

Of course the answer would be the fine restaurants, but at the same time you may not like what these fine restaurants serve you at first, no? Unless I have interpreted your analogy wrong. The way I interpret it: you go from restaurant to restaurant eating their best meals, as you would go from artist artist listening to their best albums. But at the same time, why wouldn't you want to go back to certain restaurants as you would go back to other artists? Not all chefs make steak quite the same, just as every artist doesn't make music quite the same, even if it is similar, but even the most subtle of differences can still make something better and thus worth returning to, no?

But maybe I'm over thinking this. But what I say still stands, what if you really would like something the second or third time? By pitching that, you'd still be missing out, even if you could have discovered something new by the time you like it, but at the same time, you are never ever going to hear everything, and so, in the end, you are still going to miss out, so why not enjoy what you have more than once or more than a couple of times? No matter what you do, there's going to be a perpetual cycle of "missing out". I heard this, but while I heard this I could have heard that, but by listening to that I apparently missed this but now I'm dead and missed all of these things. It's just music, you know. Which sounds blasphemous considering where I'm posting it, but you're meant to enjoy it, and are you really getting all that satisfaction by increasing your library by large amounts every day? What's worth more, an album you've heard a lot and enjoyed to its fullest extent, or ten albums that you've heard once and thought were good but aren't worthy of another because you're worried about "missing out" on tons of other albums that may really not be as good as the ten you just blew off?

I hope that all makes sense, I was just writing what I thought as I thought it.

Goofle

The problem with this is that I don't only listen to albums I like once or twice, I give them plenty of time. I was just making a point that I would rather listen to 1000's of great albums (to my tastes) once or twice than hundreds of okay albums 10 times.

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Koroyev

Hence why I said "it sounds to me" in my original post. I just thought you were, like, "CONSUME CONSUME CONSUME", you know?