Right. Sometimes when I'm feeling ambitious, I promise to give every album in my library due attention by choosing one at random and listening to it ten times consecutively before moving on.

Never lasts long though. Sometimes you really don't feel like finishing your Kate Bush marathon.

It's a two way street for me. Sometimes my mood dictates, and sometimes the music dictates my mood. I'm ok with that. I'm not really into having a "process" about something like listening to music. I just let it happen naturally and spontaneously.

I once tried listening to every Beatles album and single in chronological order. But I was so sick of the early stuff after A Hard Day's Night that I skippedBeatles For Sale and Help! and went straight to Rubber Soul. The rest was easy. :D

The early Beatle stuff is better than the later stuff, I would rather listen to Let Me Borrow Your Comb over Helter Skelter any day.

Alll depends. My problem was that I was doing a marathon, and the early stuff all sounds rather alike, whereas you get a lot of variety post-Rubber Soul. BTW, Helter Skelter is one of my least favourite Beatles songs.

TBH I just play Lana Del Rey all the time. I get so obsessed with one artist/band at a time. I have to listen to it over and over so I continue to get musical enjoyment.

I do however base my choices by how I'm feeling.

thanks. :)
now i don't have to type.

I may not explain specifically but definitely and obvious that we all listen to music depending on the mood and definitely not intensionally, it all happens when it comes to music. I mostly listening to various genres of trance depending on the time and mood, surfing soundcloud mostly.

NO I don't. I listen to whatever will make me happy. And most of my favorite songs do just that....no wait all of my favorite songs do that.

My playlists are almost all divided up by my mood/genre. I say mood/genre because I find that more often than not, one genre can make up the majority of a mood centered playlist. So if I am in an f'ed up mood, Rap, all melancholy, Indie/folk, freaky/lovey, R&B, Happy, Alternative Rock or Electronica, Dancing Happy, "Party Music" or Trap Music...