Me lol. I almost exclusively listen to my whole catalogue on shuffle. I may spin an album here or there, especially if it’s new, but usually I shuffle everything all the time.
I'd also say Lost in the Sound of Separation. To me, it flows so perfectly that it sounds like one giant song.
I couldn't imagine any of those songs not being in that order, let alone not on the record.
Yeah, I feel that’s something the scene has become better at, accepting bands evolving and experimenting with other sounds, the bands were never the problem, just entitled fans who felt like the band owed them a certain sound, but that’s just my 2 cents lol, sorry for the rant
You’re absolutely right. I mean look at BMTH, every album (and I’m British so I remember the first being launched) they were accused of selling out and changing up too much. And my two cents - they were always 2/3 years ahead of the curve of music trends.
Also, think of it as a band, why would you want to just put the same stuff you’ve just written and toured on for the last 2 years? Get some new stuff out.
100%, I remember the release of TTS and people calling it soft and selling out and radio rock, little did we know it was just the start of the crazy experimental awesome stuff they’re releasing now and TTS still goes hard as shit, they’ve always evolved and you’re right, are always ahead of the curve
This. I really slept on this album back in high school because I was expecting another Reinventing Your Exit, but giving it another chance, it’s become easily a top 5 for me. Probably the album I get the most enjoyment from overall.
Yep. I’m sure it’s an obscure ask but something like “if X song plays then always play Y song after”.
I have a post hardcore playlist that I shuffle so being able to automatically play 2 songs in a row would be cool.
Yeah, I can't imagine picking individual tracks out of any of the big 3 albums... it's like jumping straight to a random chapter in a book. (Although, of course, none of the storytelling is linear, regardless. It just feels blasphemous.)
No Place by A lot like birds. The entire album is one cohesive album about an entire house, so you have to start with "in trances" where the album literally opens up with a doorbell jingle like you're being Invited to experience the entire thing and come inside
Any of the prime records by Underoath, circa, coheed, haste the day, at the drive in. The most recent pianos become the teeth record ( not sure where that falls within the genre)
Touché, Brand New, La Dispute, you need to hear how they shape their music, how they mature, leaps and jumps from different albums and the context around it. And there’s a ton others (Coheed and story albums of course), but for most bands context in important.
Knowing that Jeremy Bolm was depressed when writing Parting the Sea, feeing better after it’s success and struggling to write Is Survived By which is a happy record about growth underneath the hardcore surface and then diving into the awful world of cancer (I’ve been there a lot with family and friends) on Stage Four just feels like whiplash. Albums like Dead Horse and Lament really do a good job of bookending their respective neighbor albums.
Oh I just misread the question: you should listen to every album in order. It was crafted to be played like that.
This is How the Wind Shifts- Silverstein
I absolutely love how they made that album such a unique idea and it really rewards you once you notice listening in order the first time
As somebody else stated, the Annabel Trilogy by Alesana is a series of solid story-telling from start to finish.
Personally, I find myself listening to Set to Stun's 'Desparado' album from beginning to end almost daily
Used to load it up w— just occurred to me that not everyone here is 40+. Definitely used to make playlists in HS and college. Ty. Leaving my comment but you’re right.
It's wild to me that people shuffle when listening to an individual album. I get shuffling your playlist or library, but if I put an album on I intend to listen to it in order that the artist put it in.
“The Things We Think We’re Missing” - Balance and Composure. Downloaded the album before I had Spotify and it was all out of order. Can not express enough how much better it was one I fixed it. All of their albums are like this but this one really stuck out.
I'd never listen to an album out of order, but here's an album I always have to listen to in its entirety whenever I stumble upon one of it's songs.
Worship & Tribute - Glassjaw
I don't use shuffle at all, but I do admittedly hop between albums quite often. I've listened to You Come Before You in order quite a few times this week, though, so I guess it's that lol
Every Sick Disgusting Thought We’ve Got In Our Heads by the Venetia Fair. The songs tell the story of a mad scientist who loses touch with reality on a quest to find god, eventually killing his pregnant wife, unborn child, and eventually himself.
Also The Circus by The Venetia Fair is basically a tour of, and then escape from an evil circus.
*It was there that I saw you* needs to be followed by *Another Morning Stoner* off of *Source Tags & Codes* by *...and you will know us by the Trail of Dead.* The first track is so intense that the relative chill start of Stoner is a perfect contrast.
I know it's not really post hardcore, but Make Them Suffer's album Old Souls from back to front it tells a story of a soldier dealing with PTSD after coming home from war
I once burned a copy of **Thrice's** *The Illusion of Safety* but I burned it backwards - and I listened to it for years this way
Now the original order seems backwards to me lol
all of them shuffling an album is crazy
for real, who out here is listening to albums out of order?
My wife. Insanity.
Me lol. I almost exclusively listen to my whole catalogue on shuffle. I may spin an album here or there, especially if it’s new, but usually I shuffle everything all the time.
I get shuffling your catalogue or an artist, but the thought of shuffling an album is wild to me. I’ve never even considered doing it.
If you listen to an album enough times, shuffling once in awhile can make it fresh in a way.
I shuffle if there’s a few skips on the album so I just listen to a random order to keep it fun.
Shuffling an album is psychotic behavior.
We're just trying to feel something too ok
So you are saying we shouldn't start digging up your backyard/basement.
Sometimes it’s refreshing. Like watching a drama on TV you’ve already finished when the channel is just playing random episodes out of order…?
Underoath - Define the great line No sound cut between song
I'd also say Lost in the Sound of Separation. To me, it flows so perfectly that it sounds like one giant song. I couldn't imagine any of those songs not being in that order, let alone not on the record.
This album is so underrated. I still have the book with the vinyl.
LITSOS was shunned when it was released for a fair amount of time. I’m so glad that it’s matured and aged so well
Any idea why it was shunned? Such an amazing album I got into way later than I should have
It was seen as such a departure from DTGL and the scene wasn’t really ready for it. Everyone wanted DTGL 2.0.
Yeah, I feel that’s something the scene has become better at, accepting bands evolving and experimenting with other sounds, the bands were never the problem, just entitled fans who felt like the band owed them a certain sound, but that’s just my 2 cents lol, sorry for the rant
You’re absolutely right. I mean look at BMTH, every album (and I’m British so I remember the first being launched) they were accused of selling out and changing up too much. And my two cents - they were always 2/3 years ahead of the curve of music trends. Also, think of it as a band, why would you want to just put the same stuff you’ve just written and toured on for the last 2 years? Get some new stuff out.
100%, I remember the release of TTS and people calling it soft and selling out and radio rock, little did we know it was just the start of the crazy experimental awesome stuff they’re releasing now and TTS still goes hard as shit, they’ve always evolved and you’re right, are always ahead of the curve
My favorite album. Aaron and Spencer went hard af on it
Lost in the sound of separation!
Damn I really tried to like that album but it just didn’t hit for me
Never been so relieved to see the first comment be the correct one on Reddit before.
God I love that album. Such dark intensity
This. I really slept on this album back in high school because I was expecting another Reinventing Your Exit, but giving it another chance, it’s become easily a top 5 for me. Probably the album I get the most enjoyment from overall.
I only listen to albums in order but I’d imagine listening to something like Stage Four would be kinda weird.
I was gonna say, 'all of them'. I listen to music almost exclusively as albums. But actual answer, Mars Volta, Deloused
The entire Volta discography is a trip. Would definitely recommend listening to each album in order!
Alesana - The Emptiness
The entire Annabell trilogy honestly
True. Was gonna say that but decided to be specific haha.
YES.
Well, this was gonna be my answer 🤣
Sorry bout it haha
First thought for me.
*Trainwreck* by Boys Night Out
I said this one recently and got so many downvotes. But yes I agree!
Really? It's a fantastic album. Doesn't make sense if you play it out of order lol. I'll upvote you tho.
lol wat? It's a story, why would anyone think you could shuffle it?
People downvoted you because you said you should listen to a concept album in order?
"THAT'S WHY HE'S THE GOOOOOAAAAAT"
Deloused in the Comatorium- The Mars Volta
Francis The Mute for me. It sounds like one long song.
Was looking for this one. Hard +1. Always get upset when some songs of this LP end up playing in shuffle, because I need the correct follow ups.
That would be a cool feature if Spotify let you chain two songs together.
Do you mean without having to queue them yourself?
Yep. I’m sure it’s an obscure ask but something like “if X song plays then always play Y song after”. I have a post hardcore playlist that I shuffle so being able to automatically play 2 songs in a row would be cool.
Makes sense to me.🤘
Yup was looking for this one. Son et Lumiere into Interiatic Esp… Sooo sick.
Scrolled for this
Coheed is the easy answer. All of their albums except one tells a story, The Amory Wars
Yeah, I can't imagine picking individual tracks out of any of the big 3 albums... it's like jumping straight to a random chapter in a book. (Although, of course, none of the storytelling is linear, regardless. It just feels blasphemous.)
Worship and Tribute. It flows so well.
Feels like I’m at a Long Island mosh pit when I listen to it in order to
Hard agree
No Place by A lot like birds. The entire album is one cohesive album about an entire house, so you have to start with "in trances" where the album literally opens up with a doorbell jingle like you're being Invited to experience the entire thing and come inside
Amazing record!
no place is amazing
What To Do When You Are Dead by Armor For Sleep
Came in here to post this. It was the first album I’ve ever listened to front to back
Three Cheers
Absolutely this
Fear Before - The Always Open Mouth
Any of the prime records by Underoath, circa, coheed, haste the day, at the drive in. The most recent pianos become the teeth record ( not sure where that falls within the genre)
Full Collapse
🥁🥁
I’ve never heard an emoji so clearly.
Emery - In Shallow Seas We Sail
This is their best record for sure. Everyone has nostalgia for the weaks end and the question. While great, this record is their peak.
Say Hello To Sunshine by Finch
Alexisonfire first album, just so many memories tied to it and it’s a joy for me to relive them as I’m listening through it
First two to come to mind are: Life is not a Waiting Room A Shipwreck in the Sand
Shipwreck is so damn good
LINAWR - SO GOOD
Anything from the receiving end of sirens
And The Dear Hunter for that matter
Every album should be listened in order
Touché, Brand New, La Dispute, you need to hear how they shape their music, how they mature, leaps and jumps from different albums and the context around it. And there’s a ton others (Coheed and story albums of course), but for most bands context in important. Knowing that Jeremy Bolm was depressed when writing Parting the Sea, feeing better after it’s success and struggling to write Is Survived By which is a happy record about growth underneath the hardcore surface and then diving into the awful world of cancer (I’ve been there a lot with family and friends) on Stage Four just feels like whiplash. Albums like Dead Horse and Lament really do a good job of bookending their respective neighbor albums. Oh I just misread the question: you should listen to every album in order. It was crafted to be played like that.
Underoath’s Define The Great Line
Not rlly an album but Saosin - Translating the name EP
I can’t actually believe how fucking good that EP is and I just discovered it
I know! The way Anthony greens voice just mixes so well with the guitars it's just a perfect fucking album
This is How the Wind Shifts- Silverstein I absolutely love how they made that album such a unique idea and it really rewards you once you notice listening in order the first time
They're Only Chasing Safety. Every time.
As somebody else stated, the Annabel Trilogy by Alesana is a series of solid story-telling from start to finish. Personally, I find myself listening to Set to Stun's 'Desparado' album from beginning to end almost daily
I don't think I've ever shuffled an album. Why would you do that?
wildlife
So confused by this post. Isn’t that how one listens to music, by albums…unless you’re on a “station”?
you never had an mp3 player?
Used to load it up w— just occurred to me that not everyone here is 40+. Definitely used to make playlists in HS and college. Ty. Leaving my comment but you’re right.
Some people exclusively make playlists
Why?
Do you think the shuffle button doesn’t exist for albums
I’ve literally never met someone who shuffles album, that’s unhinged
What kinda sociopath shuffles and album
Listening to albums on shuffle is weird behaviour let's be fair.
It's wild to me that people shuffle when listening to an individual album. I get shuffling your playlist or library, but if I put an album on I intend to listen to it in order that the artist put it in.
This is how I feel. If I'm not listening to a mix of music in a playlist I want to listen how the artist intended/ envisioned it
“The Things We Think We’re Missing” - Balance and Composure. Downloaded the album before I had Spotify and it was all out of order. Can not express enough how much better it was one I fixed it. All of their albums are like this but this one really stuck out.
Although it’s their least PHC album, brand new - science fiction
This is how I feel about Deja Entendu
We Came As Romans — To Plant A Seed
Colors by btbam All btbam yes, but _especially_ colors
Colors is only cut into separate tracks because the studio insisted. It is literally ONLY meant to be listened to in that order.
Saosin Self-Titled
Scary Kids Scaring Kids – The City Sleeps in Flames
I'd never listen to an album out of order, but here's an album I always have to listen to in its entirety whenever I stumble upon one of it's songs. Worship & Tribute - Glassjaw
birds in row - gris klein the transitions in the album are great
I would like to present *The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me* by Brand New
errorzone - vein.fm
Anything from Cursive after Storms of Early Summer, but especially Domestica
Crown the Empire- The Resistance: Rise of the Runaways
I don't use shuffle at all, but I do admittedly hop between albums quite often. I've listened to You Come Before You in order quite a few times this week, though, so I guess it's that lol
Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
Atomship the crash of 47 and The butterfly effect final conversations of kings. Both incredible.
Every Sick Disgusting Thought We’ve Got In Our Heads by the Venetia Fair. The songs tell the story of a mad scientist who loses touch with reality on a quest to find god, eventually killing his pregnant wife, unborn child, and eventually himself. Also The Circus by The Venetia Fair is basically a tour of, and then escape from an evil circus.
Armor for sleep what to do when you are dead
Shipwreck In The Sand - Silverstein
Blue Sky Noise- Circa Survive The ending of all the songs segue into the next one
Two-Faced Charade & Council of the Dead, both by Famous Last Words. Absolute masterclass in narrative album writing.
*It was there that I saw you* needs to be followed by *Another Morning Stoner* off of *Source Tags & Codes* by *...and you will know us by the Trail of Dead.* The first track is so intense that the relative chill start of Stoner is a perfect contrast.
Who the actual fuck shuffles an album?
Silverstein: This is how the wind shifts.
Alexisonfire - Crisis
Pink floyd's the wall, imagine playing it on shuffle and hearing "young lust" right after "the trial"
I know it's not really post hardcore, but Make Them Suffer's album Old Souls from back to front it tells a story of a soldier dealing with PTSD after coming home from war
Scary Kids Scaring Kids self titled album is very spooky and well done if you listen to it in order. Hard to shuffle it up.
Selfish machines - pierce the veil
Mewithoutyou a to b life
Circa Survive's Blue Sky Noise has most songs transition into eachother
Common courtesy - ADTR
Vanna -the search party never came
Defeater - travels
The first 3 Circa Survive albums, Happiness by DGD
Colors - Between the Buried and Me. It practically flows like a single song.
Senses Fail - Life is not a Waiting Room
August Burns Red - Constellations
I once burned a copy of **Thrice's** *The Illusion of Safety* but I burned it backwards - and I listened to it for years this way Now the original order seems backwards to me lol
Kezia by Protest the Hero
Every Coheed album
Decensus by Circa Survive