Listening to more than their “Greatest Hits”

Joni Mitchell

Kate Bush. Some of her best songs weren’t singles.

Elton John, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac

Goldfrapp, Bongwater, Bic Runga.

Linda Ronstadt. Except for “Long, Long Time,” her hits are the least interesting part of her work Start with her first album on Asylum Records, Don’t Cry Now.

Leonard Cohen

The Guess Who

Todd Rundgren

Bette

Norah Jones

Bruce Springsteen

Fleetwood Mac

R10, I ALWAYS fall asleep trying to listen to Nora Jones albums.

She’s not called “Snora Jones” for nothing

R13 For your sake, thank goodness God invented Betty Lynn Buckley!

Tina Turner, and especially her Private Dancer album. It's one of those albums on which I never skip a track.

Saint Etienne, Blondie, Bowie, Bob Marley, No Doubt

Depeche Mode, Lana del Rey, Pet Shop Boys, Big Country, REM to name just a few who have plenty of deep cuts I like just as much as their singles, if not more.

Sade, Fleetwood Mac, REM, Shawn Colvin

With rare exception, why does anyone listen to full albums?

The very concept of an album is dead, and it was in my long lifetime always the exception that an album was a brilliant start to finish expression of a complete idea. In the case of a Van Morrison or a Joni Mitchell or others who could express a full concept start to finish and free of shitty filler, fantastic. But even then, do you always want to listen start to finish to every song in the presented order? I don't. The point of having much is to have it at the ready to hear it when you want shuffled as you like among artists, genres, time periods, etc. Once you've sat in a room smoking weed and listening to a full album start to finish and then marvelling with your too high friends about the brilliance and what it all means...I don't especially want to repeat that on a tape loop for the rest of my life.

There are painters whose work i find cloying or mediocre or it simply falls short, but they have one aelf-portrait that's astounding and you could look at it every day for the rest of your life. For me it's about choice of the viewer or listener, not buying the whole package as presented without argument.

I just bought a new record player r19. I’m definitely listening to albums from beginning to end.

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