If I find myself overplaying certain songs, I sometimes have to force myself to take a break because when I don’t, I usually end up ruining/disliking the song. I hate when this happens because perfectly good songs that I love end up irritating me because I have heard it too much. Do you stop listening to those songs or just play it as many times as you like?
EDIT: changed title to be open-ended.
I’m old and vastly prefer to listen to albums in their entirety rather than just specific songs. I’ll still sometimes listen to an album on repeat a bunch, but I think this effect is slightly dulled on me because I’m listening to 10ish tracks on repeat rather than just the one.
My wife though - she’ll play the same 3 albums on repeat for a goddamn year at a time. I still can’t stand The Hives because they’re all I heard in our car for far too long.
I am like that when listening to music I haven’t heard before, I listen to the album in its entirety, and the releases in chronological order. After that, they get dumped in a spotify playlist based on genre and played on shuffle. Some of my playlists get huge.
Yes! When I discover a new band I always like to listen to their stuff chronologically, as you said. At times this can be rough. Some bands start off very strong, but often bands take a few albums before they get good and I have to slog through a few before I find one I like.
I’m having the opposite problem right now. Radiohead’s first two albums are some of my favorite ever, but I’ve never been able to get into their stuff after those two. Currently I’m making an effort to go through the rest of their discography in order to see if there’s anything else I like. I’m 5 albums in and there’s been a few specific tracks I like, but none of the albums thus far compare to those first two for me. As an album-based listener this is weirdly stressful to me.
Haha, this is the same for me. I’ll listen to a band’s debut, and the rest doesn’t always live up to it. Then I have to force myself to listen to the rest just in case I like any more, even sometimes to check them off my list.
Radiohead is one of those bands that evolve their sound a lot, so it is not so weird that you mostly enjoy just a few of their albums.
That said ok computer and its spiritual successor in rainbows are those albums for me.
Also Thom Yorkes track suspirium from the suspiria soundtrack album is one of those songs I cannot stop listening to. That track is often played three times in a row for me.
Getting into vinyl helped me with this and I get to hear the lesser known songs of my favorite artists as well as their weird experimental stuff.
Yeah, I grew up collecting vinyl so that’s probably what got me into the habit all those years ago.