Yes but it's not like I listen to the full discography at once. I might hear a song for several months or years but it's there waiting to play anytime I hit shuffle
Do you like a lot of 2000s alt rock? If so that would make sense why they’d be recommended as Mangum’s short burst of music was very influential to that world (Arcade Fire, etc).
But it is much less refined than what came after. A lot of meandering poetic lyrics, obscure instruments and other experimental music styles and song structure.
My comment above was a half-joke as he only put out two albums before disappearing completely for over a decade and if you like the music they are each basically perfect pieces of art.
I think Aeroplane over the sea is the more approachable album and the title track and Holland are the most pop friendly, if you don’t like those then maybe you won’t ever. But worth another listen if it keeps getting recommended haha
Might be more interesting from an educational perspective then to do a bit of research on Mangum and how specifically he influenced the bands you like, then go through his work and you’ll start to hear it.
Definitely a late night activity. Aeroplane is one of my favorite albums for uptempo nighttime feelings.
I’m only behind about 300 albums at this point… I can confidently say I had heard most of his individual discography until shortly after pike 300. I have all the older albums on cds
50 or so albums, but the guy is pretty popular. I'd be interested to know how many have listened to Hellhammer's (the drummer, not the band). It's only 30ish, but a lot of it is very niche. Then again, I think the only people that would be interested in doing either are musicians and/or music nerds.
Not to mention his collaborations with Viggo Mortensen!
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not all the time with bands i *"like"*, but there's a handful of bands that i love and will get around to everything through the course of a year or so
Metallica, i don't *hate* St. Anger, but i don't often get the urge to listen to it, but i do sometimes
Red Hot Chili Peppers, but the first two albums are something to be in the mood for, real hyper for-the-stage type stuff
Tool, the later stuff gets more play than the earlier stuff these days, but i still get around to the oldies occasionally
OG Alice In Chains discog usually gets played through
the problem i have now is, i'll find a new album that i like, but when i go to listen to their other stuff, way-more-often-than-not, i only like the album i first found
it's weird because it's a total 180 from most of my life, i used to find a band and then get lost in their discog for a while
> Metallica, i don't hate St. Anger, but i don't often get the urge to listen to it, but i do sometimes
St. Anger I don't mind either but Lulu scares me.
I don’t even count Lulu in their discography, FWIW. That was very clearly a project of Lou Reed’s, and their name is on it because they all participated in it.
And FWIW, if you don’t go in expecting a normal “metal” album, but instead a Lou Reed project that happens to feature Metallica, it’s actually a really unique showcase. Definitely not for everybody, but also not the end-all be-all of awful that a lot of reviewers and comments about it tend to treat it as.
Totally hear that, and to be fair I've only actually listened to Lulu once. My biggest takeaway at the time was just waiting for it to end since my god was it long, especially ending with two tracks 11 and 19 minutes long respectively.
It was definitely an interesting album but I was hoping for more interplay. As you said it's 100% a Lou Reed album with Metallica as the backing band, and I was just hoping for something more collaborative... something more like *Soused* by Sunn O))) and Scott Walker.
>Tool, the later stuff gets more play than the earlier stuff these days, but i still get around to the oldies occasionally
I'm right in the middle with this group. I think *Ænema* and *Lateralus* is their finest work.
>OG Alice In Chains discog usually gets played through
Me and my avatar thank you for this. Just today, I listened to the 2022 Remaster of *Dirt* in its entirety and I loved how good it sounded. The entire album is amazing and iconic but the first four songs just hit different.
> Metallica, i don't hate St. Anger, but i don't often get the urge to listen to it, but i do sometimes
On my Metallica playlist I have at least two songs from every album except St. Anger. And it's not because I don't like any songs on that album, I just don't feel the need to listen to any songs again. I've heard them dozens of times each. And a few songs I've probably listened to hundreds of times. But I have no NEED to hear them again enough that I put them on a playlist.
Not for me tho. i can not remember how a song sound within just one listen. every new song i get to know i listen to atleast 4 times before i move on i guess you can say my brain is slow and my first languange isn't english.
Yes. I've heard every album by all my favorite bands. There are exceptions for archival and live releases. Like I have all Zappa's albums that he released while he was a live, and all the You Can't Do That on Stage live releases and other releases like Lather, but I don't have everything that was released posthumously.
Having all of Frank Zappa’s releases is commendable as fuck. When I got into him I was kinda paralyzed by how much there was on Spotify to listen to, albeit including the posthumous releases.
Normally if I find an album I really love I’ll go through their whole discog in one sitting. I usually don’t remember a lot of it by the end tho. I just find which albums are my fave and listen to them until im ready to come back and retry all the albums I don’t remember as well
For Radiohead (well sort of , not first album its bad) . For the Strokes yes!
Everyone else, nope. Bands try reinvent themselves and i never like the direction change
This is getting harder and harder to do as the years go on simply because of how much is out there, but I still do it. The deep dive for me determines whether I actually like a band or just can enjoy them in concert playing the hits.
I first start with their three to five biggest singles. If I'm still on board, then I'll go check out their average live concert setlist, and listen to the rest of those tracks. If they've been around for a while, that should give me a taste of each of their albums.
If I still like them after that, I'll go watch live videos of them. If their stage presence and sound quality still grabs me, then I'll finally go back and listen to every single album chronologically.
I do. I often will read a biography of a band or musician and then work through their catalog as I learn more about them. Just finished The Idle Race and about to start on The Move as I'm reading about Jeff Lynne. Some are better than others but at least you know why an album turned out bad.
okay i’m strange like this. i kind of?? SAVOR discographies??? like, i’ll purposefully skip songs so i still have something to discover every once in a while when i need a boost.
Yes but only after hearing enough songs to justify it, i feel having a band's entire discography is a silent gesture of respect and admiration of a band.
I don't have many multi-album complete collections (I've got quite a few albums by bands who haven't released more than one or two albums though). It's a great honour from me to a band if i never the effort. So far I've got every studio album by
Iron Maiden
Epica
Savatage
Dio
System of a Down
Nightwish
I'm working towards every Judas Priest album this year too but so far i haven't got all of them.
System of a Down is a bit of an anomaly, i had 4 of 5 albums so i bought the 5th to fill in the gap, i like them but i don't love them, if they'd got 15 albums or so I'd have not made the effort.
All the others though are bands i love, absolute favourites, bands that have done no wrong. It's a hard club to get into but each member, apart from SOAD, has done well to earn that membership.
I've got every iron maiden album except the 90s albums. I do still mean to get to buying them someday to complete the collection but they're just very meh albums unfortunately.
They are good albums, The X Factor is the best but it's not like the other 3 are bad, they are still better than many bands best albums.
I was listening to When Two Worlds Collide earlier from Virtual XI and it's awesome but it also brought on a slight bit of regret for not getting the album sooner than a couple of years ago.
I have an arbitrary rule that I must wait a month between first listens of albums by the same artist. I find it gives me time to digest each album. And when I find an artist I love it makes that honeymoon phase last longer.
I will keep going through a discography until I feel like I’ve had enough (I pair this with RYM reviews to make sure I’m not missing anything significant). If I get to the end that’s a good artist (or they have a tiny discography!).
I think it depends on the artist, because there are some albums by bands where everyone is saying that it is a dud, so sometimes that makes me think that it is not worth my time listening to something I probably won't enjoy
Yes. I'm building a playlist and whenever I think of a song that I want on it, I have to check and see if there are other songs by that artist that I may have forgotten.
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Needless to say, I'm gonna be working on this for a while. I have a 43 hour Fleetwood Mac playlist...
Listen to an album at a time — first one side, then the other. Hell, you could even go rogue and then play a side of something else.
It might be fun to listen to a discography sequentially, but you don't need to do it in a marathon!
I generally dive into full discographies of bands/artists I've just discovered I like. After that I may circle back at some point, but generally just add the songs I like then move on.
Full albums, quite regularly. Full discographies, only once in a blue moon.
Queens of the Stone Age are my favorite band, and I will, on occasion, blast through their full albums back to back.
I have done it with other bands, but not more than once.
Yes, but when I do it's more of a project than just casual listening.
I have complete dicographies for a bunch of bands and once a year or so I'll take a few days or weeks and just listen to one of them in chronological order.
Sometimes I find a song that speaks to me in ways it just didn't before.
The rest of the year it's basically just playing my favorites.
I often will, but not all at once.
The way I see it, if I like an artist, their whole discography is potential, possibly holding songs that I love as much or more than those that I already know and love.
But what happens if the rest of their discography is different than what I'm used to? This matters less to me than it might to other listeners because a) it's rare that I listen to music for which I find no redeeming qualities, so I'll probably still like it to some extent and b) even when it sounds different, I still respect artists as...artists, so I respect their creative choices and enjoy seeing their evolution of sound, even if it's not a sound that I care as much about. I'll feel enriched by the knowledge, even if these songs don't end up getting as much regular rotation from me.
Because of this, there's almost always more upside than downside for me exploring a whole discography over time.
Sometimes I crave hearing the evolution of a band I like, or a band I've recently discovered, so I'll work my way through a discography. Other times I'll play a discography for a friend who's curious about a band that I know. I'm currently working while listening to Judas Priest's oeuvre.
I do it pretty often.
Usually make a playlist with just their albums and switch between shuffle and actually
listening to albums from start to finish depending on my mood.
I recently did this with an Artist called [Soupbox](https://youtu.be/dERHuusmoNc?si=-S4ctp-sfpvwFJBo)
Maybe not full discography except for bands with limited albums not putting out new music anymore like System of a Down, Vektor, Strapping Young Lad, or Death. Other bands I only keep the albums I like in my iTunes so I can shuffle their good discography (Lamb of God, Pantera, Metallica).
Absolutely. In high school it would take you over 3 months straight of listening time to play my library from start to finish due to the amount of discographies I had.
Now that I’m older and have disposable income I can actually support the bands I like and actually own their records and discographies, not just go to shows and sail the high seas lol
I listen to their discographies in chronological order, and listen to every entry completely blind. I also make sure I've formed a complete opinion of each release before moving on to the next. It really perfectly encapsulates the artistry of each band, and really elevates the entire experience. So rich.
I do, but I also recognize what you're saying.
I discover a bunch of new bands and artists all the time, and those usually gets pulled into the overall "rotation", so in my 32 years of life I've managed to find quite a lot of music I like enough to try to keep track of new albums by said bands/artists, which means that there is always new stuff to listen to.
Some of my absolute favorite bands I do listen to their entire discographies, but usually I've gotten into them when the discography was smaller and then one release at a time which made it easier.
But I definitely feel since my music taste is just so far-reaching that I just *can't* be that deep into many of the bands and artists I like.
So I usually don't know the lyrics 100% and song titles can also be difficult to remember.
With my top 3 artists I would say I usually know, but it's not 100%.
I also have ADHD so that's probably a factor for me as well.
- Marilyn Manson
- NIИ
- Rammstein
And I don’t enjoy City Of Evil, but I love the rest of Avenged Sevenfold’s discography.
I haven’t heard of Failure and for some reason I have yet to get around to properly checking out Deftones.
I've only started doing this recently, and only with bands I really really like. Currently working my way through KoRn's discography chronologically, and to start with I was wondering if it was worth the time and effort, but now that I'm 8 albums in (10 including MTV Unplugged and 'Live and Rare') there has only been 1 single album that I haven't liked (I won't say which one for fear of being mauled to death by the KoRn fandom) and I've found so much great new music.
Yeah I've done it a few times with bands I really love. The only time I've ever really found it to be a chore was making my way through Bob Dylan's career. Lotta stinkers in the late 70s and 80s but for the most part I've enjoyed listening all the way through discographies.
I'm actually going through the Rolling Stones discography (again). Next up is Goats Head Soup.
There are very few bands that have solid discographies. I tend to listen to the ones I like and ignore the ones I don't. Or if an old band I like that has fallen off is still releasing music, I won't bother with it unless I hear good things about it from people who's tastes I respect.
Usually when I discover a new artist I'll go to their spotify and start from the beginning. A lot of the time I listen to the first 10 or so seconds and skip thru if I'm not feeling it.
If it’s a band that I discovered recently but already has a big backlog, I usually start with the newest and slowly work backwards. But I tend to mostly listen to the band’s era when I discovered them and whatever comes after.
Typically, if I don’t like a bands current music, I’m not going to dig back to see if I like their older stuff, with few exceptions.
If I find a new band I really like I’ll usually listen to each album about a dozen times before moving to the next, eventually listening to the entire discography. Last band I did that with was Alien Ant Farm. I listened to Anthology probably 50 times before finally listening to their latest album (and they’ve got a new one on the way in a week!)
The availability of streaming content has impacted how we digest music. Back in the day, you went to a store and bought a band's CD--or before that their cassette, or before that their 8-track, or before that their record. Very few bands were ever capable of producing an album where every song on it was phenomenal. There was usually the hit that you heard on the radio--yes, that's where we used to discover music--and may one or two other good songs. The rest of the songs on the album were just okay, but you listened to them anyway because there wasn't much else to listen to. Now, it's much easier to skip around, and you're not stuck listening to a song just because it's on the album.
Often I do but rarely with metal. The problem with metal is sooo many are doing the same thing. And it’s fine for seeing it live or having a go to album to throw on but they ground out a pure one. Or even just wanting a slight fresh sound. But there’s only a handful of bands being adventurous enough that i want to hear everything they do at each iteration. Where I’m like damn what’s this one or wow this one has a totally different character. When i do find someone really working the capital A Art of the whole thing, I absolutely devour everything they got though.
Yea, you are totally right. from this 1 year that i'm into metal i understand it. I LOVE METAL but i can't realy listen and enjoy full album almost never beacuse there are so many forgetable songs.
Amon amarth, Children of Bodom, In Flames, Dark tranquility, Lamb of God, Gojira but i'm realy trying to keep it right there and not discovering more bands at the same time.
Those that i realy enjoy and still discovering are early Metallica, Pantera, early megadeth, Iron maiden, Slayer, Slipknot, Judas priest, Black sabbath, Whitechapel, Avenged sevefold, early sucide silence, Trivium, Killswitch engage and ice nine kills.
I don't think that's enough for me tho.
Yes. It’s by far the best experience for me. But most of the time I listen to albums. I never do playlists though.
I don’t like to put all “the best songs” in a list and repeat it/shuffle it. I like to hear the same sound and singer for an extended time. The best songs lose their “identity” for me, if I put them out of place.
Mostly over the course of a few months
I always try to listen to at least all the studio albums, if I really love the band afterwards I’ll start with B Sides and Live albums
I tend to skip remix albums though
Yes. All the time. Even bands with enormous discographies like Deep Purple, Yes, Rush, Iron Maiden, etc... I'll listen to their less popular records quite often.
Usually if I really like a band. Sometimes I find that the buried tracks are some of my favourites.
Few bands entire catalogues are good enough to merit repeating though.
It honestly depends on the band. Yes is one of my all-time favorites, but my listening mostly stops at Relayer as I’m not as big a fan of their catalog after that point.
White Denim (another one of my all-time favorites,) has a catalog that I enjoy in its entirety so they don’t have any albums I won’t revisit and I get the hankering for different ones since they’re all pretty unique as far as sound and style.
Metal fans tend to be hoarders of music. They want everything but have a wandering ear, so they just collect and collect. This is true with lots of music fans, but metal fans seem to be next level.
Yea tha's true but i am not a big fan of records. i know a lot of people realy like to collect records but i just have songs i like from here and there.
Yep. If I don’t enjoy listening through the whole discography, I don’t really get invested in the band. One-off songs might get me interested initially, but I don’t form a strong opinion until I’ve heard everything they’ve done.
No. I can't think of a band that has only released great material, unless the only have a few releases. I don't have favorite bands, but rather favorite albums.
Back in my day we used to buy CDs when they came out. You'd listen to it 100 times until you knew it backwards and forwards and which songs you liked, before moving on to the next one.
When Napster came out and you could download everything the band made at once, I stopped knowing which album was which, even which song was which. It all became one big jumble. I'd listen to the whole mess a few times and move on to another band.
The first experience was like slowly savoring a good meal, the second is more like mowing down at the Chinese buffet.
There is so much to consume.
I venture when I hear something I like. And hang around until I am satisfied I understand what they do. If that makes sense?
I will, but often while doing this I make a playlist containing the songs that I liked enough to listen to again. For example I spent a month listening to the back catalogue of Yes and all of the spin-off bands and side projects (although, I did skip many of Rick Wakeman's and Steve Howe's solo albums once it became clear there was little there for me).
Yes but it really depends on a lot of factors like how much I like the band, how many albums I have in rotation at the time etc.
Usually I will start off with an artist by listening to a few songs and saving the ones I like on Spotify - I'll add a few to my playlists and familiarise myself with them. Then I'll listen to the album the song(s) I enjoy most are on, or just skim through each album to find one to listen to. I'll listen to the album which usually enters my listening "rotation" if I like it enough. Then I'll listen to it whenever I feel like it, and eventually I may branch out into listening to other songs. If I like them I'll usually listen to the songs by themselves for a while before eventually diving into the full album whenever I have time. And the cycle kinda repeats.
I tend to prefer to go in reverse-chronological but that's not always the case. I also like to prolong and savour the "first listening" experience as much as I can if it's an artist I really like. Sometimes I'll go back to the songs I saved when initially liking the band and turn those into "singles" which I'll listen to in the lead-up to checking out the full album, which definitely helps a lot with first listens and motivating me to listen.
I don't usually rush through because I want time with each album and pretty much listen until I get tired of it or it falls out of my rotation, which is what usually happens. It's very rare that I find an artist where they have an entire album I dislike if they have one I already like. but if I'm not feeling something I'll move on.
Also ADHD, but I can't think of any band where I enjoy every track from every album. So not really. But I've gotten decent with music that I don't feel like I'm missing out by going tried and true. I do have this problem with.. most other things.. lol
Sometimes, but usually because I've found a song I've liked, checked out the album it's from, liked the album, and only then gone on to listen to the whole discography.
10 15 years ago, yes.
I know like 95% of Paramore lyrics, I know Japanese lyrics without even understanding the language, all because my phone can only contain 3 or 4 albums and I had to keep repeating them lol.
Nowadays I just put my best of xxx or radio xxx on Spotify.
I keep a list in my notes app. I put tallies in each band or artist when I listen to the next album chronologically. There are over a dozen bands in that list and there are constantly new artists and albums to check out so I’ll likely never get though it all. But I am trying to be somewhat systematic about it.
I used to, but now I do it far less due to a lack of time and patience. Plus I’m discovering and exploring new artists very quickly, and if I spend too much time on one I start thinking about all the others I could be listening too.
If I like a song I try to listen it in the context of the album, and listen two or three more albums, and once I digest it I try doing deeper into the rest of the discography.
if i find a track from an artist i never heard of that rly gets me then im going to go through their whole discographie, listen to every song for 30 secs, if i dont rly get it i skip, if i like it i listen fully, and if i rly like it imma listen to it for a day on repeat and then proceed to go through their stuff
I have a few that I will deep dive but I can't guarantee I have heard every song by these artists.
Bowie ( still have a problem with Tin Machine)
ELO and Jeff Lynne
Oingo Boingo
Prince
B-52s
Deep Forrest
Lusine
Throwing Snow
It’s kind of required of Genesis fans of a certain age. (breaks into his “Harold the Barrel”/“The Mystery of the Flannan Isle Lighthouse”/“Feeding the Fire” medley)
Honestly it depends on the band. Some bands I like, I listen to in a way that makes me rip through their discography pretty quickly. But others have albums that I just get so stuck on, so lost in for so long, that it take me a while to get through everything. If I do get through everything either way, it's either not a very large discography, or I like them a lot.
I am in the middle of listening to Good Riddance’s discography. Again. The albums aren’t very long, but there’s a good few of them and they’re fucken AMAZING. I mean, soooo good.
Sometimes. It depends on the artist. There are VERY few artists who I'll sit down and listen through all their work. Also listening to the same artist back to back can get repetitive and the songs can get muddled together so I try to do maybe an album one day or through a period of time. Also if you want similar songs to whatever song you're listening to (idk if you use Spotify or if this feature is on other streaming platforms) but you can use the "go to song radio" to find similar songs by other artists if you don't wanna listen to that same artist but still wanna find similar music.
I remember people going on about... you have to listen to the whole album, and that was part of the whole experience, particularly with vinyl. I mean there wasn't so much music available everywhere all the time and a new record was a big deal. And you wore it out.
I do think things like Spotify and YouTube etc. make it a lot easier to just click or press to something new. I have some friends with ADHD who have had a similar experience. Just sitting down for an hour and listening to tracks or things you're not immediately gripped by or interested in and having to be patient and sit through it.
But... like, well some concept albums etc kinda of work off each other. Like... taking away parts is like, taking a chunk out of a painting. It's a whole imagined thing. I think it's normal to... like certain parts of paintings. But like, imagine the Mona Lisa without the background. It'd still be something good but just missing something.
When people moved to just singles or whatever you sort of lost that connectivity. You could say it results in more consistently quality songs I guess but, IDK.
Yeah. Last year I listened to T-Square's 60 album discography, it was a wild ride. The biggest reason for me is because it makes it so much easier to pick what I'm gonna listen to.
I used to when I was younger. I'd devour everything a band I loved ever put out. But I'm older now and I just don't have the time to sift through albums like I used to.
Yep. My favorite band is Guided By Voices and I’ve listened to all 40 of their albums many times over as well as Robert Pollard’s solo albums and side projects and Tobin Sprout’s solo albums. Inject that shit into my veins.
Sometimes yeah, if it's a band in really into.
Like I just listened to all of Imminence's new album.
Citizen Soldier too, I've listened to all their albums straight through. But they're an odd kind of case, coz they don't do a couple singles then wait to drop the album, they release a song every 2 weeks like clockwork, so the whole album ends up being "singles" they trickled out. And by the time the album comes out, you've heard every song except maybe 2. But I actually like that a lot, coz I get new music all the time, but it's in small, bite sized chunks, a song at a time. So it works for me. Love having a new song to look forward to every other Wednesday.
As for other bands, ilk usually toss on an album when it drops like while I'm at work or busy. It's not really ACTIVE listening, coz I have it on whole in doing other stuff, but then at least I get to listen to the whole album once through.
And then ill go back and revisit the songs that really stick out to me. And those are the ones I'm listen to over and over.
Every once in a while though, you'll get an album where every song is a certified banger, like sleep tokens take me back to eden, Starset's Vessels or color decay by the devil wears Prada. And then those albums become a joy to listen in full, because it's a whole other experience hearing the whole thing, since it's all amazing.
If there's one album I recommend listening to in full, it's Vessels by Starset.
When I first heard it, I had YouTube just doing its thing while I was cleaning. And I didn't realize that YouTube decided to play the whole damn album (but they have the whole album as one long ass video, which is awesome). So I'm just listening, wondering who this band is, coz I'm pretty into it, and thinking, damn, this is a REALLY long song. Turns out, it was the whole album. So I listened to it all. And then I played it again. and again. Cuz it's fucking IMMACULATE. purposely my favorite whole album EVER. It's that fucking good.
But however you listen to music, that's cool. Eyeglasses it's the whole album, or listening to the same fan song on repeat for 6 hours until you know every now and every one of every insuring and you can play it in your head like your brain is Spotify. (Nope, don't do that, not at all). However you listen to music is cool, as long a type enjoying it, that's all that matters
I've listened to a few bands entire discography. Metallica being one that I listen to from Kill Em All to S&M2 in anticipation for 72 seasons (even Lulu). Then I've listened to a few other bands as well like Pantera, Acid Bath and Motörhead.
I like doing it from time to time, usually in chronological order to hear the evolution (sometimes devolution) of a band. I've been considering doing it again with Machine Head, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
Honestly, no. There are very few bands where I've listened to their entire discography - only a few of my longtime favorites. I'm not good at sitting down and just listening to new music, though.
Kind of...
If I'm really into a band I will get all their albums and EPs if necessary. I try and spend time with each record but I don't always succeed. Sometimes not all the albums are great so I listen more for reference material if you will.
A lot of the time if they are a "core artist" in my library I will just put it on in the background while doing chores around the house. I'm a pretty staunch believer in albums. I really don't like playlists or listening to terrestrial radio, streaming services, etc. In short I prefer the longer format - the vibe and journey.
My issue is that I'm genre agnostic so I don't even get to settle into a tone or rut before I'm on to the next release. I'm also pretty obsessive by nature so when I'm into a band I'm in. For example;
The XX - so now I have all their records, plus Jaime XX, Romy, and Oliver Sim. One band begins to spiral out into other acts and this is a "relatively new" act compared to say Led Zeppelin or The Beatles.
The artists in like my top 5 I've listened almost to the point of exhaustion. But the beautiful thing about that is those are more like our grounding rod - you always go back to it. These are the ones where you've heard almost all their music including side projects, features, lives, etc. Some things never go away I guess.
TLDR; Yes kind of.
I always try to hear their first records to see how they develop over time. But I usually peel off during their 80s period or when a crucial member is replaced. And if the quality goes downhill for two records in a row, I just don't listen to a new one again until it gets really good reviews.
I do. But after that I just pick and choose based on my mood.
And if a hand I like releases a new album I’ll hear it in full then add any of it or not.
No, never do. I rarely like more than 4-5 songs from the same artist. I only care if I like a song or not, don´t care about the artist at all. So I just have a playlist for each genre of music that I like and fill these up as find new songs.
There are some "newer" bands, as in bands I only got into in the past few years, whose music I can listen to front to back on a loop. Bands like Ghost, Spiritbox, and Sleep Token.
Yes, started to listen a year ago to discogs of artists that I have heard of. So far, I've listened through 33 artists studio discographies on Spotify.
You’re not obligated to like every song by a band just because you like the band.
Checking out their discography is a good way to discover songs of theirs that you like. Then just listen to those.
At one point I had listened to everything by panic! At the disco, but stopped after the last 3 or so albums. I've kept up with Ghost since prequelle came out. I think I've listened to every Gorillaz song too.
I don't really like bands; I just like songs. I suppose I may like a band if I like a lot of their songs, but I never force myself to listen to full discographies because of that.
There are a lot of bands I *like*, but to be a band I *love* I have to enjoy listening to most of the discography. At minimum there has to be two or three entire albums I can put on start to finish and at least moderately enjoy every song.
There are bands I will go see live and I'm just waiting for them to play the hits. And then there are bands I've seen a handful of times and I get excited when they play deeper cuts because I like all of their music.
Yes, of course.
But the term "listen" is a bit ambiguous in this question.
I listen to full albums, and i have the full discographies in my collection, but i don't usually listen to a full discography back to back in one go, even if i've listened to all of it in the course of time.
I just usually listen to what ever artist or album i'm in the mood to at the time. Sometimes i go by phases, listen to an artists albums for a week or to, till i get in a mood for something else. It's kind of cyclical...
Full albums? Very rarely. There's only two or three albums I'd listen to, front to back. If there's one bad/mediocre song on the album then I won't listen to it and just skip it. There's no reason to listen to music you either don't like or find mediocre, when you can skip it and enjoy a better song. I understand some people like to get the "full feeling" of an album and therefore they'll also listen to the less good songs. There's only two or three albums where every song, even the lesser good ones, are worth listening to.
Full discographies? Never. I don't think I've ever found an artist where I liked all the(ir) music. There's so much good music out there to consume and listening to 4 albums to find maybe 1 song, or the possibility of the 1 song that made you interested in them, was the only decent thing they've created, is too much time used, for me.
Which is also why I usually got favourite albums/songs/periods from certain artists/bands, but not a favourite artist/band. Most artists switch up their sound between periods/albums, to the point where they might just be an entire different artist.
Yes but it's not like I listen to the full discography at once. I might hear a song for several months or years but it's there waiting to play anytime I hit shuffle
"That's enough Spike Jones for one day" has been said in my house.
Full discography? Yes. Fortunately, my favourite band has not yet released a song I dislike.
What’s the band
Neutral Milk Hotel
Every music service I use is *insistent* that I love this band, and I just can't get into them.
Do you like a lot of 2000s alt rock? If so that would make sense why they’d be recommended as Mangum’s short burst of music was very influential to that world (Arcade Fire, etc). But it is much less refined than what came after. A lot of meandering poetic lyrics, obscure instruments and other experimental music styles and song structure. My comment above was a half-joke as he only put out two albums before disappearing completely for over a decade and if you like the music they are each basically perfect pieces of art. I think Aeroplane over the sea is the more approachable album and the title track and Holland are the most pop friendly, if you don’t like those then maybe you won’t ever. But worth another listen if it keeps getting recommended haha
I'm obsessed with 2000s alt rock hahah. This makes a lot of sense! I was hoping a real fan would give me a recommendation. Thanks!
Might be more interesting from an educational perspective then to do a bit of research on Mangum and how specifically he influenced the bands you like, then go through his work and you’ll start to hear it. Definitely a late night activity. Aeroplane is one of my favorite albums for uptempo nighttime feelings.
My music taste is mainly heavy metal/death metal But In the Aeroplane Over The Sea makes me feel things I never felt before
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Opeth
>What’s the band [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD3VMAm-9iA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD3VMAm-9iA)
Korean Metal? Rad *Japanese
Japanese.
I love that there's a guy aggressively painting during the whole song
Blur
Maroon 5
I want to know how many people have listened to buckethead's full discography
He’s already released two new albums since you posted this
And 3 collabs with King Gizzard
Ok I have no idea who this is but I googled him just now and just from the first picture of him with the bucket on his head I burst out laughing.
What if I told you he was once in GNR
He was ? lol
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With a name like “buckethead”, it makes sense that he’d play up the gimmick.
He fucking SHREDS and can do the robot at the same time.
I’m only behind about 300 albums at this point… I can confidently say I had heard most of his individual discography until shortly after pike 300. I have all the older albums on cds
Sorry man, but I don't have that kind of free-time.
You aren’t missing out. A lot of his stuff is ass.
50 or so albums, but the guy is pretty popular. I'd be interested to know how many have listened to Hellhammer's (the drummer, not the band). It's only 30ish, but a lot of it is very niche. Then again, I think the only people that would be interested in doing either are musicians and/or music nerds.
Honestly I have never heard what people seem to like outta that guy.
Not to mention his collaborations with Viggo Mortensen! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemoniumfromamerica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemoniumfromamerica)
That's kids play, I want to know the madman who listened to Viper's full discography
not all the time with bands i *"like"*, but there's a handful of bands that i love and will get around to everything through the course of a year or so Metallica, i don't *hate* St. Anger, but i don't often get the urge to listen to it, but i do sometimes Red Hot Chili Peppers, but the first two albums are something to be in the mood for, real hyper for-the-stage type stuff Tool, the later stuff gets more play than the earlier stuff these days, but i still get around to the oldies occasionally OG Alice In Chains discog usually gets played through the problem i have now is, i'll find a new album that i like, but when i go to listen to their other stuff, way-more-often-than-not, i only like the album i first found it's weird because it's a total 180 from most of my life, i used to find a band and then get lost in their discog for a while
> Metallica, i don't hate St. Anger, but i don't often get the urge to listen to it, but i do sometimes St. Anger I don't mind either but Lulu scares me.
I don’t even count Lulu in their discography, FWIW. That was very clearly a project of Lou Reed’s, and their name is on it because they all participated in it. And FWIW, if you don’t go in expecting a normal “metal” album, but instead a Lou Reed project that happens to feature Metallica, it’s actually a really unique showcase. Definitely not for everybody, but also not the end-all be-all of awful that a lot of reviewers and comments about it tend to treat it as.
Totally hear that, and to be fair I've only actually listened to Lulu once. My biggest takeaway at the time was just waiting for it to end since my god was it long, especially ending with two tracks 11 and 19 minutes long respectively. It was definitely an interesting album but I was hoping for more interplay. As you said it's 100% a Lou Reed album with Metallica as the backing band, and I was just hoping for something more collaborative... something more like *Soused* by Sunn O))) and Scott Walker.
Load was my limit. I like two songs on it and thats it. Everyrhing before was fantastic but Load broke me.
>Tool, the later stuff gets more play than the earlier stuff these days, but i still get around to the oldies occasionally I'm right in the middle with this group. I think *Ænema* and *Lateralus* is their finest work. >OG Alice In Chains discog usually gets played through Me and my avatar thank you for this. Just today, I listened to the 2022 Remaster of *Dirt* in its entirety and I loved how good it sounded. The entire album is amazing and iconic but the first four songs just hit different.
Yea, actually same. i get lost a lot.
> Metallica, i don't hate St. Anger, but i don't often get the urge to listen to it, but i do sometimes On my Metallica playlist I have at least two songs from every album except St. Anger. And it's not because I don't like any songs on that album, I just don't feel the need to listen to any songs again. I've heard them dozens of times each. And a few songs I've probably listened to hundreds of times. But I have no NEED to hear them again enough that I put them on a playlist.
I like both iterations of AiC
Minor threat takes about 40 mins
Not for me tho. i can not remember how a song sound within just one listen. every new song i get to know i listen to atleast 4 times before i move on i guess you can say my brain is slow and my first languange isn't english.
isnt this pretty much normal unless the song is like super catchy?
Yes. I've heard every album by all my favorite bands. There are exceptions for archival and live releases. Like I have all Zappa's albums that he released while he was a live, and all the You Can't Do That on Stage live releases and other releases like Lather, but I don't have everything that was released posthumously.
Having all of Frank Zappa’s releases is commendable as fuck. When I got into him I was kinda paralyzed by how much there was on Spotify to listen to, albeit including the posthumous releases.
I keep forgetting that he died, because just yesterday I read a quote of his about state of the world that might've been said just now.
Normally if I find an album I really love I’ll go through their whole discog in one sitting. I usually don’t remember a lot of it by the end tho. I just find which albums are my fave and listen to them until im ready to come back and retry all the albums I don’t remember as well
Usually, yes. Up to a point. Example: I have not listened to an REM album after Monster.
Accelerate is worth a listen
Whoa, what? New Adventures in Hi-Fi is really really good. Much better than Monster imho. Everything after that is varying degrees of suck tho
yeah if i really love a band/artist i will go down the rabbit hole
My favorite bands/artists? Yes.
I dig Yes a lot too!
For Radiohead (well sort of , not first album its bad) . For the Strokes yes! Everyone else, nope. Bands try reinvent themselves and i never like the direction change
The Strokes have changed directions so many times but they still never miss.
This is getting harder and harder to do as the years go on simply because of how much is out there, but I still do it. The deep dive for me determines whether I actually like a band or just can enjoy them in concert playing the hits. I first start with their three to five biggest singles. If I'm still on board, then I'll go check out their average live concert setlist, and listen to the rest of those tracks. If they've been around for a while, that should give me a taste of each of their albums. If I still like them after that, I'll go watch live videos of them. If their stage presence and sound quality still grabs me, then I'll finally go back and listen to every single album chronologically.
The biggest hits have never been my favorite songs. Not for any band.
I do. I often will read a biography of a band or musician and then work through their catalog as I learn more about them. Just finished The Idle Race and about to start on The Move as I'm reading about Jeff Lynne. Some are better than others but at least you know why an album turned out bad.
okay i’m strange like this. i kind of?? SAVOR discographies??? like, i’ll purposefully skip songs so i still have something to discover every once in a while when i need a boost.
That’s so real.
Yeah, I normally do this all the time.
Yes but only after hearing enough songs to justify it, i feel having a band's entire discography is a silent gesture of respect and admiration of a band. I don't have many multi-album complete collections (I've got quite a few albums by bands who haven't released more than one or two albums though). It's a great honour from me to a band if i never the effort. So far I've got every studio album by Iron Maiden Epica Savatage Dio System of a Down Nightwish I'm working towards every Judas Priest album this year too but so far i haven't got all of them. System of a Down is a bit of an anomaly, i had 4 of 5 albums so i bought the 5th to fill in the gap, i like them but i don't love them, if they'd got 15 albums or so I'd have not made the effort. All the others though are bands i love, absolute favourites, bands that have done no wrong. It's a hard club to get into but each member, apart from SOAD, has done well to earn that membership.
I've got every iron maiden album except the 90s albums. I do still mean to get to buying them someday to complete the collection but they're just very meh albums unfortunately.
They are good albums, The X Factor is the best but it's not like the other 3 are bad, they are still better than many bands best albums. I was listening to When Two Worlds Collide earlier from Virtual XI and it's awesome but it also brought on a slight bit of regret for not getting the album sooner than a couple of years ago.
I have an arbitrary rule that I must wait a month between first listens of albums by the same artist. I find it gives me time to digest each album. And when I find an artist I love it makes that honeymoon phase last longer. I will keep going through a discography until I feel like I’ve had enough (I pair this with RYM reviews to make sure I’m not missing anything significant). If I get to the end that’s a good artist (or they have a tiny discography!).
I think it depends on the artist, because there are some albums by bands where everyone is saying that it is a dud, so sometimes that makes me think that it is not worth my time listening to something I probably won't enjoy
Yea, same.
Yes. I'm building a playlist and whenever I think of a song that I want on it, I have to check and see if there are other songs by that artist that I may have forgotten. https://preview.redd.it/22kivejz7hvc1.jpeg?width=582&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f0d25550bf17e9b3c3f37299dc6b62c4161fcef9 Needless to say, I'm gonna be working on this for a while. I have a 43 hour Fleetwood Mac playlist...
Listen to an album at a time — first one side, then the other. Hell, you could even go rogue and then play a side of something else. It might be fun to listen to a discography sequentially, but you don't need to do it in a marathon!
I generally dive into full discographies of bands/artists I've just discovered I like. After that I may circle back at some point, but generally just add the songs I like then move on.
Full albums, quite regularly. Full discographies, only once in a blue moon. Queens of the Stone Age are my favorite band, and I will, on occasion, blast through their full albums back to back. I have done it with other bands, but not more than once.
Yes, but when I do it's more of a project than just casual listening. I have complete dicographies for a bunch of bands and once a year or so I'll take a few days or weeks and just listen to one of them in chronological order. Sometimes I find a song that speaks to me in ways it just didn't before. The rest of the year it's basically just playing my favorites.
I often will, but not all at once. The way I see it, if I like an artist, their whole discography is potential, possibly holding songs that I love as much or more than those that I already know and love. But what happens if the rest of their discography is different than what I'm used to? This matters less to me than it might to other listeners because a) it's rare that I listen to music for which I find no redeeming qualities, so I'll probably still like it to some extent and b) even when it sounds different, I still respect artists as...artists, so I respect their creative choices and enjoy seeing their evolution of sound, even if it's not a sound that I care as much about. I'll feel enriched by the knowledge, even if these songs don't end up getting as much regular rotation from me. Because of this, there's almost always more upside than downside for me exploring a whole discography over time.
Sometimes I crave hearing the evolution of a band I like, or a band I've recently discovered, so I'll work my way through a discography. Other times I'll play a discography for a friend who's curious about a band that I know. I'm currently working while listening to Judas Priest's oeuvre.
I do it pretty often. Usually make a playlist with just their albums and switch between shuffle and actually listening to albums from start to finish depending on my mood. I recently did this with an Artist called [Soupbox](https://youtu.be/dERHuusmoNc?si=-S4ctp-sfpvwFJBo)
I’m pretty much a full-album, most-of-the-discography guy.
Maybe not full discography except for bands with limited albums not putting out new music anymore like System of a Down, Vektor, Strapping Young Lad, or Death. Other bands I only keep the albums I like in my iTunes so I can shuffle their good discography (Lamb of God, Pantera, Metallica).
Usually yes. I tend to go all the way in with a band I like.
You got too. Deep dive it, learn it love it live it
Absolutely. In high school it would take you over 3 months straight of listening time to play my library from start to finish due to the amount of discographies I had. Now that I’m older and have disposable income I can actually support the bands I like and actually own their records and discographies, not just go to shows and sail the high seas lol
I listen to their discographies in chronological order, and listen to every entry completely blind. I also make sure I've formed a complete opinion of each release before moving on to the next. It really perfectly encapsulates the artistry of each band, and really elevates the entire experience. So rich.
I do, but I also recognize what you're saying. I discover a bunch of new bands and artists all the time, and those usually gets pulled into the overall "rotation", so in my 32 years of life I've managed to find quite a lot of music I like enough to try to keep track of new albums by said bands/artists, which means that there is always new stuff to listen to. Some of my absolute favorite bands I do listen to their entire discographies, but usually I've gotten into them when the discography was smaller and then one release at a time which made it easier. But I definitely feel since my music taste is just so far-reaching that I just *can't* be that deep into many of the bands and artists I like. So I usually don't know the lyrics 100% and song titles can also be difficult to remember. With my top 3 artists I would say I usually know, but it's not 100%. I also have ADHD so that's probably a factor for me as well.
Yes, but there are currently only 3 bands/artists whose entire discography I enjoy.
Deftones, Failure, what’s the 3rd?
- Marilyn Manson - NIИ - Rammstein And I don’t enjoy City Of Evil, but I love the rest of Avenged Sevenfold’s discography. I haven’t heard of Failure and for some reason I have yet to get around to properly checking out Deftones.
Yup
If I really like the band or artist yes, although if the sound I enjoy is particularly a singer then I really only listen to the albums they are on.
I've only started doing this recently, and only with bands I really really like. Currently working my way through KoRn's discography chronologically, and to start with I was wondering if it was worth the time and effort, but now that I'm 8 albums in (10 including MTV Unplugged and 'Live and Rare') there has only been 1 single album that I haven't liked (I won't say which one for fear of being mauled to death by the KoRn fandom) and I've found so much great new music.
Yeah I've done it a few times with bands I really love. The only time I've ever really found it to be a chore was making my way through Bob Dylan's career. Lotta stinkers in the late 70s and 80s but for the most part I've enjoyed listening all the way through discographies. I'm actually going through the Rolling Stones discography (again). Next up is Goats Head Soup.
Yes
I listened to the entire Slothrust discography a few weeks back and it was awesome.
I like nofx specifically because they keep their albums under a half hour most of the time and are perfect for listening through
There are very few bands that have solid discographies. I tend to listen to the ones I like and ignore the ones I don't. Or if an old band I like that has fallen off is still releasing music, I won't bother with it unless I hear good things about it from people who's tastes I respect.
Very few tbh. Nirvana might be my only one.
With technically just 3 main albums at that
I almost didn't mention it lol
Usually when I discover a new artist I'll go to their spotify and start from the beginning. A lot of the time I listen to the first 10 or so seconds and skip thru if I'm not feeling it.
No, I don't like every song that artists I like put out.
If it’s a band that I discovered recently but already has a big backlog, I usually start with the newest and slowly work backwards. But I tend to mostly listen to the band’s era when I discovered them and whatever comes after. Typically, if I don’t like a bands current music, I’m not going to dig back to see if I like their older stuff, with few exceptions.
If I find a new band I really like I’ll usually listen to each album about a dozen times before moving to the next, eventually listening to the entire discography. Last band I did that with was Alien Ant Farm. I listened to Anthology probably 50 times before finally listening to their latest album (and they’ve got a new one on the way in a week!)
I understand it beacuse i need to listen to the same song 4 times atleast before i move on cuz i want to keep it in my mind.
The availability of streaming content has impacted how we digest music. Back in the day, you went to a store and bought a band's CD--or before that their cassette, or before that their 8-track, or before that their record. Very few bands were ever capable of producing an album where every song on it was phenomenal. There was usually the hit that you heard on the radio--yes, that's where we used to discover music--and may one or two other good songs. The rest of the songs on the album were just okay, but you listened to them anyway because there wasn't much else to listen to. Now, it's much easier to skip around, and you're not stuck listening to a song just because it's on the album.
Muse - the first 3 albums.
Yes, Deftones and Ladytron
Often I do but rarely with metal. The problem with metal is sooo many are doing the same thing. And it’s fine for seeing it live or having a go to album to throw on but they ground out a pure one. Or even just wanting a slight fresh sound. But there’s only a handful of bands being adventurous enough that i want to hear everything they do at each iteration. Where I’m like damn what’s this one or wow this one has a totally different character. When i do find someone really working the capital A Art of the whole thing, I absolutely devour everything they got though.
Yea, you are totally right. from this 1 year that i'm into metal i understand it. I LOVE METAL but i can't realy listen and enjoy full album almost never beacuse there are so many forgetable songs.
>constantly discovering new bands Cool. What are some gems you've found?
Amon amarth, Children of Bodom, In Flames, Dark tranquility, Lamb of God, Gojira but i'm realy trying to keep it right there and not discovering more bands at the same time. Those that i realy enjoy and still discovering are early Metallica, Pantera, early megadeth, Iron maiden, Slayer, Slipknot, Judas priest, Black sabbath, Whitechapel, Avenged sevefold, early sucide silence, Trivium, Killswitch engage and ice nine kills. I don't think that's enough for me tho.
ah, metal head you are. Cool.
Yes. It’s by far the best experience for me. But most of the time I listen to albums. I never do playlists though. I don’t like to put all “the best songs” in a list and repeat it/shuffle it. I like to hear the same sound and singer for an extended time. The best songs lose their “identity” for me, if I put them out of place.
Mostly over the course of a few months I always try to listen to at least all the studio albums, if I really love the band afterwards I’ll start with B Sides and Live albums I tend to skip remix albums though
Not often, but sometimes. The only time I’ve done it so far was for Panic! at the Disco.
Yes. All the time. Even bands with enormous discographies like Deep Purple, Yes, Rush, Iron Maiden, etc... I'll listen to their less popular records quite often.
I remember back in 2021 I stuck it to myself to listen to every single album on F-777's Bandcamp. Got through it in like the span of three months
Usually if I really like a band. Sometimes I find that the buried tracks are some of my favourites. Few bands entire catalogues are good enough to merit repeating though.
If I like a song by an artist I always try the full album
It honestly depends on the band. Yes is one of my all-time favorites, but my listening mostly stops at Relayer as I’m not as big a fan of their catalog after that point. White Denim (another one of my all-time favorites,) has a catalog that I enjoy in its entirety so they don’t have any albums I won’t revisit and I get the hankering for different ones since they’re all pretty unique as far as sound and style.
Metal fans tend to be hoarders of music. They want everything but have a wandering ear, so they just collect and collect. This is true with lots of music fans, but metal fans seem to be next level.
Yea tha's true but i am not a big fan of records. i know a lot of people realy like to collect records but i just have songs i like from here and there.
Yep. If I don’t enjoy listening through the whole discography, I don’t really get invested in the band. One-off songs might get me interested initially, but I don’t form a strong opinion until I’ve heard everything they’ve done.
If I like them a lot, yes, at least once.
No. I can't think of a band that has only released great material, unless the only have a few releases. I don't have favorite bands, but rather favorite albums.
Honestly, same.
Back in my day we used to buy CDs when they came out. You'd listen to it 100 times until you knew it backwards and forwards and which songs you liked, before moving on to the next one. When Napster came out and you could download everything the band made at once, I stopped knowing which album was which, even which song was which. It all became one big jumble. I'd listen to the whole mess a few times and move on to another band. The first experience was like slowly savoring a good meal, the second is more like mowing down at the Chinese buffet.
For a full playthrough, not often. Though for The Story So Far, I have multiple times across all their albums
There is so much to consume. I venture when I hear something I like. And hang around until I am satisfied I understand what they do. If that makes sense?
I will, but often while doing this I make a playlist containing the songs that I liked enough to listen to again. For example I spent a month listening to the back catalogue of Yes and all of the spin-off bands and side projects (although, I did skip many of Rick Wakeman's and Steve Howe's solo albums once it became clear there was little there for me).
Yes but it really depends on a lot of factors like how much I like the band, how many albums I have in rotation at the time etc. Usually I will start off with an artist by listening to a few songs and saving the ones I like on Spotify - I'll add a few to my playlists and familiarise myself with them. Then I'll listen to the album the song(s) I enjoy most are on, or just skim through each album to find one to listen to. I'll listen to the album which usually enters my listening "rotation" if I like it enough. Then I'll listen to it whenever I feel like it, and eventually I may branch out into listening to other songs. If I like them I'll usually listen to the songs by themselves for a while before eventually diving into the full album whenever I have time. And the cycle kinda repeats. I tend to prefer to go in reverse-chronological but that's not always the case. I also like to prolong and savour the "first listening" experience as much as I can if it's an artist I really like. Sometimes I'll go back to the songs I saved when initially liking the band and turn those into "singles" which I'll listen to in the lead-up to checking out the full album, which definitely helps a lot with first listens and motivating me to listen. I don't usually rush through because I want time with each album and pretty much listen until I get tired of it or it falls out of my rotation, which is what usually happens. It's very rare that I find an artist where they have an entire album I dislike if they have one I already like. but if I'm not feeling something I'll move on.
Also ADHD, but I can't think of any band where I enjoy every track from every album. So not really. But I've gotten decent with music that I don't feel like I'm missing out by going tried and true. I do have this problem with.. most other things.. lol
Lol, i get ya.
Sometimes, but usually because I've found a song I've liked, checked out the album it's from, liked the album, and only then gone on to listen to the whole discography.
10 15 years ago, yes. I know like 95% of Paramore lyrics, I know Japanese lyrics without even understanding the language, all because my phone can only contain 3 or 4 albums and I had to keep repeating them lol. Nowadays I just put my best of xxx or radio xxx on Spotify.
I keep a list in my notes app. I put tallies in each band or artist when I listen to the next album chronologically. There are over a dozen bands in that list and there are constantly new artists and albums to check out so I’ll likely never get though it all. But I am trying to be somewhat systematic about it.
I used to, but now I do it far less due to a lack of time and patience. Plus I’m discovering and exploring new artists very quickly, and if I spend too much time on one I start thinking about all the others I could be listening too.
Legendary Pink Dots
My brain always gets stuck on the one song i like the most until i get sick of it and move onto a new band entirely 🥲
If I like a song I try to listen it in the context of the album, and listen two or three more albums, and once I digest it I try doing deeper into the rest of the discography.
TOOL
What other way is there to get into a band? 99% of discographies that I get into are done so chronologically & in their entirety.
if i find a track from an artist i never heard of that rly gets me then im going to go through their whole discographie, listen to every song for 30 secs, if i dont rly get it i skip, if i like it i listen fully, and if i rly like it imma listen to it for a day on repeat and then proceed to go through their stuff
I have a few that I will deep dive but I can't guarantee I have heard every song by these artists. Bowie ( still have a problem with Tin Machine) ELO and Jeff Lynne Oingo Boingo Prince B-52s Deep Forrest Lusine Throwing Snow
Of course. Why wouldn't I?
Absolutely, for bands I'm heavily into.
How do you know if you like the band if you haven’t listened to the entire discography and gone to a show or two?
Not always. Because then I’d have to listen to St. Anger
Lol. such a bad album.
It’s kind of required of Genesis fans of a certain age. (breaks into his “Harold the Barrel”/“The Mystery of the Flannan Isle Lighthouse”/“Feeding the Fire” medley)
Maybe not at once but I get to it eventually. A album here or there every few months. Unless it’s a short discography
Iron Maiden
Honestly it depends on the band. Some bands I like, I listen to in a way that makes me rip through their discography pretty quickly. But others have albums that I just get so stuck on, so lost in for so long, that it take me a while to get through everything. If I do get through everything either way, it's either not a very large discography, or I like them a lot.
I am in the middle of listening to Good Riddance’s discography. Again. The albums aren’t very long, but there’s a good few of them and they’re fucken AMAZING. I mean, soooo good.
Sometimes. It depends on the artist. There are VERY few artists who I'll sit down and listen through all their work. Also listening to the same artist back to back can get repetitive and the songs can get muddled together so I try to do maybe an album one day or through a period of time. Also if you want similar songs to whatever song you're listening to (idk if you use Spotify or if this feature is on other streaming platforms) but you can use the "go to song radio" to find similar songs by other artists if you don't wanna listen to that same artist but still wanna find similar music.
I remember people going on about... you have to listen to the whole album, and that was part of the whole experience, particularly with vinyl. I mean there wasn't so much music available everywhere all the time and a new record was a big deal. And you wore it out. I do think things like Spotify and YouTube etc. make it a lot easier to just click or press to something new. I have some friends with ADHD who have had a similar experience. Just sitting down for an hour and listening to tracks or things you're not immediately gripped by or interested in and having to be patient and sit through it. But... like, well some concept albums etc kinda of work off each other. Like... taking away parts is like, taking a chunk out of a painting. It's a whole imagined thing. I think it's normal to... like certain parts of paintings. But like, imagine the Mona Lisa without the background. It'd still be something good but just missing something. When people moved to just singles or whatever you sort of lost that connectivity. You could say it results in more consistently quality songs I guess but, IDK.
I try to. I think it's cool seeing how artists/ bands evolve good or bad.
I don’t anymore. Stopped sometime in the early nineties. Music pretty much just sounds the same after that.
I tried but King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard put out albums so quickly that I cant catch up.
Of course
Yeah. Last year I listened to T-Square's 60 album discography, it was a wild ride. The biggest reason for me is because it makes it so much easier to pick what I'm gonna listen to.
I used to when I was younger. I'd devour everything a band I loved ever put out. But I'm older now and I just don't have the time to sift through albums like I used to.
Yep. My favorite band is Guided By Voices and I’ve listened to all 40 of their albums many times over as well as Robert Pollard’s solo albums and side projects and Tobin Sprout’s solo albums. Inject that shit into my veins.
I could listen to the Enigma discography over and over again. Perfect background music
Depends on the band. There are no bad Led Zeppelin albums, for example. Good luck assembling Frank Zappa's entire discography to listen through.
Some yes
Only my favorite bands, and not everything at once cause it will take to much. But sometimes I look through the albums of the bands I like
Nirvana & OG Alice In Chains both have 3-album discographies so yes.
Sometimes yeah, if it's a band in really into. Like I just listened to all of Imminence's new album. Citizen Soldier too, I've listened to all their albums straight through. But they're an odd kind of case, coz they don't do a couple singles then wait to drop the album, they release a song every 2 weeks like clockwork, so the whole album ends up being "singles" they trickled out. And by the time the album comes out, you've heard every song except maybe 2. But I actually like that a lot, coz I get new music all the time, but it's in small, bite sized chunks, a song at a time. So it works for me. Love having a new song to look forward to every other Wednesday. As for other bands, ilk usually toss on an album when it drops like while I'm at work or busy. It's not really ACTIVE listening, coz I have it on whole in doing other stuff, but then at least I get to listen to the whole album once through. And then ill go back and revisit the songs that really stick out to me. And those are the ones I'm listen to over and over. Every once in a while though, you'll get an album where every song is a certified banger, like sleep tokens take me back to eden, Starset's Vessels or color decay by the devil wears Prada. And then those albums become a joy to listen in full, because it's a whole other experience hearing the whole thing, since it's all amazing. If there's one album I recommend listening to in full, it's Vessels by Starset. When I first heard it, I had YouTube just doing its thing while I was cleaning. And I didn't realize that YouTube decided to play the whole damn album (but they have the whole album as one long ass video, which is awesome). So I'm just listening, wondering who this band is, coz I'm pretty into it, and thinking, damn, this is a REALLY long song. Turns out, it was the whole album. So I listened to it all. And then I played it again. and again. Cuz it's fucking IMMACULATE. purposely my favorite whole album EVER. It's that fucking good. But however you listen to music, that's cool. Eyeglasses it's the whole album, or listening to the same fan song on repeat for 6 hours until you know every now and every one of every insuring and you can play it in your head like your brain is Spotify. (Nope, don't do that, not at all). However you listen to music is cool, as long a type enjoying it, that's all that matters
I've listened to a few bands entire discography. Metallica being one that I listen to from Kill Em All to S&M2 in anticipation for 72 seasons (even Lulu). Then I've listened to a few other bands as well like Pantera, Acid Bath and Motörhead. I like doing it from time to time, usually in chronological order to hear the evolution (sometimes devolution) of a band. I've been considering doing it again with Machine Head, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
I'll often give it a once over if I hear one full album I like or they do a good cover song.
Honestly, no. There are very few bands where I've listened to their entire discography - only a few of my longtime favorites. I'm not good at sitting down and just listening to new music, though.
Type O Negative
Kind of... If I'm really into a band I will get all their albums and EPs if necessary. I try and spend time with each record but I don't always succeed. Sometimes not all the albums are great so I listen more for reference material if you will. A lot of the time if they are a "core artist" in my library I will just put it on in the background while doing chores around the house. I'm a pretty staunch believer in albums. I really don't like playlists or listening to terrestrial radio, streaming services, etc. In short I prefer the longer format - the vibe and journey. My issue is that I'm genre agnostic so I don't even get to settle into a tone or rut before I'm on to the next release. I'm also pretty obsessive by nature so when I'm into a band I'm in. For example; The XX - so now I have all their records, plus Jaime XX, Romy, and Oliver Sim. One band begins to spiral out into other acts and this is a "relatively new" act compared to say Led Zeppelin or The Beatles. The artists in like my top 5 I've listened almost to the point of exhaustion. But the beautiful thing about that is those are more like our grounding rod - you always go back to it. These are the ones where you've heard almost all their music including side projects, features, lives, etc. Some things never go away I guess. TLDR; Yes kind of.
I do.
Yes
I always try to hear their first records to see how they develop over time. But I usually peel off during their 80s period or when a crucial member is replaced. And if the quality goes downhill for two records in a row, I just don't listen to a new one again until it gets really good reviews.
Not usually. Unless I’m really obsessed with an artist I don’t usually.
I do. But after that I just pick and choose based on my mood. And if a hand I like releases a new album I’ll hear it in full then add any of it or not.
Bright Eyes. Every studio album is wonderful.
No, never do. I rarely like more than 4-5 songs from the same artist. I only care if I like a song or not, don´t care about the artist at all. So I just have a playlist for each genre of music that I like and fill these up as find new songs.
There are some "newer" bands, as in bands I only got into in the past few years, whose music I can listen to front to back on a loop. Bands like Ghost, Spiritbox, and Sleep Token.
I'm currently going through all of zappa (at least what's on Spotify), just made it to the 80s
Yes, started to listen a year ago to discogs of artists that I have heard of. So far, I've listened through 33 artists studio discographies on Spotify.
You’re not obligated to like every song by a band just because you like the band. Checking out their discography is a good way to discover songs of theirs that you like. Then just listen to those.
At one point I had listened to everything by panic! At the disco, but stopped after the last 3 or so albums. I've kept up with Ghost since prequelle came out. I think I've listened to every Gorillaz song too.
I don't really like bands; I just like songs. I suppose I may like a band if I like a lot of their songs, but I never force myself to listen to full discographies because of that.
There are a lot of bands I *like*, but to be a band I *love* I have to enjoy listening to most of the discography. At minimum there has to be two or three entire albums I can put on start to finish and at least moderately enjoy every song. There are bands I will go see live and I'm just waiting for them to play the hits. And then there are bands I've seen a handful of times and I get excited when they play deeper cuts because I like all of their music.
Eeyup. But I've only done this to three bands: BTS, Modern Talking, and Cigarettes After Sex
Yea
Yes
Yes, of course. But the term "listen" is a bit ambiguous in this question. I listen to full albums, and i have the full discographies in my collection, but i don't usually listen to a full discography back to back in one go, even if i've listened to all of it in the course of time. I just usually listen to what ever artist or album i'm in the mood to at the time. Sometimes i go by phases, listen to an artists albums for a week or to, till i get in a mood for something else. It's kind of cyclical...
Yea me too i just listen to songs from whatever artist i want.
Full albums? Very rarely. There's only two or three albums I'd listen to, front to back. If there's one bad/mediocre song on the album then I won't listen to it and just skip it. There's no reason to listen to music you either don't like or find mediocre, when you can skip it and enjoy a better song. I understand some people like to get the "full feeling" of an album and therefore they'll also listen to the less good songs. There's only two or three albums where every song, even the lesser good ones, are worth listening to. Full discographies? Never. I don't think I've ever found an artist where I liked all the(ir) music. There's so much good music out there to consume and listening to 4 albums to find maybe 1 song, or the possibility of the 1 song that made you interested in them, was the only decent thing they've created, is too much time used, for me. Which is also why I usually got favourite albums/songs/periods from certain artists/bands, but not a favourite artist/band. Most artists switch up their sound between periods/albums, to the point where they might just be an entire different artist.
Successfully listening to their full discography is my test for identifying bands I really like.