How do you approach listening to multiple albums?
 

So let's say you go to the store and buy 5 CDs, how do you approach listening to them? Do you listen to one after the other and switch between them or do you listen to just one over and over until you feel you've absorbed it and then move on to the next one?

I suppose everyone is different. Christmas is a time where I usually end up with about 4-6 new albums to listen to. I suppose it all depends on the type of album as well. If I have an album by a mainstream rock group who I'm familiar with I won't sit around re-playing it until it's absorbed, because it's so accessible anyway. If it's a prog-rock album or a genre I've never touched upon before, i'll give it a few listens before I move on to the next one, because the style demands that kind of attention. I'd tend to leave the most familiar 'til last...like pudding

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.

Most of the time I will go through the 5 CDs in the order that I picked them up from the store. I give each one a proper listen through and sometimes there is one or two tracks that are so good that I have to repeat them but I don't stay too long on one album before moving to the next one. Now after I listen to all 5 CDs, I will go back and replay which ever album stood out the most to me or that I enjoyed overall more than the others and replay it til I get tired of it.

Depends what mood I'm in. If I've bought a whole bunch of albums of different genres or feels then I will probably play them according to how I'm feeling and what I'm in the mood for. But I'll say it would likely be one after the other rather than chopping and changing. I like to listen to an album in its entirety if I've just acquired it :)

I play them all at the same time at an extremely high volume until the police are called.

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SoundgardenRocks, do you remember creating this thread? :)

Be fair, at least he hasn't started it 3 times yet..

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Two years later and he's still waiting for an answer to his dilemma :laughing:

Hahaha, what can I say, I guess I'm a forgetful mofo haha!