I just cant do it Sup Forums. I fucking give up, how the fuck do you guys do it...

I just cant do it Sup Forums. I fucking give up, how the fuck do you guys do it? No matter how hard I try I cant bring myself to listen to full albums. Seriously, I even took a list of supposedly "perfect" albums and gave up after 2 because they were honestly horrible (like only 1 or 2 decent songs). Its extremely time consuming and not rewarding imo.

Like I've fucking tried to listen to more radiohead but I cant bear to listen to a full song of them thats not creep.

is there hope for me? whats the secret here?

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What music do you like

You need a new hobby. I suggest buying color accurate monitors, a good printer, and stare at photos all day long.

Or just watch anime and play vidya like every single faggot out there.

lol
you seriously made a thread about your lack of attention span?


not gonna make it

drugs

You could just not have a real taste for music beyond catchy singles, it's not bad to be this way a lot of people are like this. Listening to a full album is kind of a dying custom in the mainstream since iTunes came out, made it much easier for artists to just sell the shit out of a few songs rather than a whole album. Your taste could just not be developed enough yet or perhaps listening to music at a deep level just isn't for you

I know its a cliche answer but I listen to everything except stuff that start with the word reggae.

Its not even about lack of attention span, its simply that I cant tolerate to listen to an entire album because MOST SONGS ARE FUCKING SHIT, and I dont see a point in listening to something I dont like. But at the same time I'm afraid that the song will get better eventually so I try not to skip it.

AND IT NEVER GETS BETTER, so its time loss, and I end up frustrated.

>I know its a cliche answer but I listen to everything except stuff that start with the word reggae.
I really doubt this since you can't even listen to more than a few songs by an artist who has made 1 or 2 songs you like.

Try doing something else while listening. Playing a game/reading a book/whatever. It's obviously not going to be the most immersive way to listen, but it can help you get through 45+ minutes of music.

Why would you equate my taste for genres with my preference to listen to 1-2 songs. Are you implying that every single song from a certain genre is great?

radiohead and Sup Forums core fucking suck thats why

How can you say you like a genre if you can't stand to listen to more than a handful of songs in the genre?

What's the good shit then

maybe you don't like music

Who is this qt?

honestly radiohead is good but still massively overrated on this board and hipsters in general

i would recommend trying

Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Pink Floyd - Animals
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
these imo are pretty easy to get into and work well as albums


>I listen to everything
well you could try some grind-core, 20 min albums to work your way up to full albums
youtube.com/watch?v=Kt1gYAMICpc

this, video games works really well cause you don't have to focus, books not so much.

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you have to manage to find an album you like enough that you don't want to turn it off or switch to something else
in other words, find something you personally consider a 10/10, get used to listening to it in full, then transfer that say of experiencing and thinking about albums to other ones enough to where you go into listening to most music in the mindset that you want to see how it all fits together

Do this, it's the best way to ease into it. I used to listen to bands entire discographies while playing wow in college.

It also has the unfortunate drawback of realizing you really liked a song from 2-3 hours ago then spending another hour trying to find it again.

Because like I fucking said not every song in a genre is magically great.

I could list you like 20 of my favorite songs and most of them would be from different genres

Thats the point im trying to make, I can listen to pretty much every genre

What music does he listen to?

desu

>OP says he cant listen to full albums
>You suggest he listens to 10/10 albums
>but how can he know they're 10/10 if he cant listen to them?

I'm at a lost here dude.

It's ok dude, sometimes you just like meghan trainor and there's nothing wrong with that.

better than tay tay thats for sure

fucking god-tier bait

determine they're 10/10 by listening to the songs you really like on them, then listen to other ones a bunch to give them a good chance, and then once you like the majority of the album start trying to listen to the whole thing

>Because like I fucking said not every song in a genre is magically great.
I agree, but there sure as hell are more than 1-2 or even 5 good songs in the majority of genres.

Honestly, go try Innervisions by Stevie Wonder. It's listenable as fuck, the music is genuinely interesting, and since it's poppy it goes down real smooth

go to genius.com and look up the lyrics, read the meaning of each line and then listen to the song again, you can now easily see how the story unfolds and understand what hes talking about.

focus on distant noises in the music, feel the lyrics.

also read the backstory of the album to get a feeling of how it was made.

i also struggled like you, listing to top 40 and billboard music(still listen to it sometimes) and nothing else. i came here and discovered a whole other world of music, genres and music that i thought i would never have liked before but now deeply love.

its hard listing to a full album when you've never done it before but as this guy suggest try to do something while listing, you might suddenly while playing shift attention towards the music and find a moment you like, ive done this with multiple albums like A Moon Shaped Pool since i didn't like it at first until listing to it while doing other things and picked up on some interesting moments in the music.

also try playing the song on Audiosurf, its incredibly immersive with the song, you basically Ride the song, you insert the song into the game and it creates a track fro you to drive in, sounds weird but its alot more fun than it sounds.

as i said before i was just like you until i tried it in different ways, its like taking a tall plank through a door, you've got to try different positions till it fits through the door.

try listening to it in different ways, you will be surprised how different you take it in

list those 20 please, i can give u da recc

OP here I'd like to ask that I play the piano and I really love bands that incorporate some piano tunes like what ELO did with evil women, jamiroquai with virtual insanity and the clash with rock the casbah.

If you can recommend songs/bands with similar piano tunes, that'd be great

this, we rec you, gib us songs

Listen to Weezer's Blue Album, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Revolver, 36 Chambers, or the Cars self titled, those albums have some of the best songwriting ever. If you can't get into them just give up, you're not one for music.

Listen to Autechre - Confield

dude Van Halen
youtube.com/watch?v=rMV-fenGP1g
gets me pumped

Wow please leave and never come back

The fact that there are people on this baord who have heard less than even 1,000 albums is terrifying to me

There is only one good album ever made and it's under thirty minutes anyway

Black Foliage - Olivia Tremor Control
Funeral - Arcade Fire

>people who haven't listened to at least 1000 albums can't enjoy music
shit tier b8

OK I guess I'll bite.

The clash- Rock the casbah
Jamiroquai- Virtual insanity
ELO- Evil woman
Hall and oates- out of touch
hall and oates- maneater
hall and oates- adult education
hall and oates- you make my dreams come true
soda stereo- tratame suavemente
soda stereo- nada personal
soda stereo- el cuerpo del delito
soda stereo- paseando por roma
radiohead- creep
iron maiden- the trooper
iron maiden- brave new world
iron maiden- fear of the dark
the ramones- pet semetery
the ramones- bonzo goes to bittburgh
dead kennedys- california uber allies
the misfits- teenagers from mars
marcus miller- power
stevie wonder- do like you
stevie wonder- master blaster
stevie wonder- as if you read my mind
stevie wonder- skeletons
stevie wonder- superstitions.
The police- everything she does is magic
The police- the bed's too big without you
the police- message in a bottle
Sting - seven days
cowboy bebop soundtrack- tank


More than 20, just off the top of my head.

>tfw i have listened to 1300 albums
>tfw still pleb as fuck
should probably bump that up to 5000 albums senpai

Thats not the tune im looking for, it sounds too much like a synth (maybe its the sound quality), and im looking for a more cheerful/playful piano tune

just stick with those. there's no hope

Olivia tremor control sounds too much like the beatles and im really not into beatles.

Arcade fire is sounding good so far.

Dont listen to this guy OP if you're not new to Sup Forums then you know that literally every "POST WHAT YOU LIKE" challenge will end up with people telling you you have shit taste no matter what

>"everything that doesnt start with 'reggae'"
>literally all dadrock

I know this'll sound like a neckbeard answer but your taste in music is normie x 2000 maybe as your taste evolves and beanches out you'll find an album that'll click for you, don't try to force it though.

listen to a pink floyd album tbqh

try dark side of the moon- actually no youll probably end it before it starts because youll think on the run is bad - try animals or wish you were here

in fact maybe give the wall a go, would like to see ur reaction to a concept album, however hamfisted the wall's concept is

just get into depressive shoegaze

youtube.com/watch?v=aFUzvbkEvRk

Most people start listening to music by picking up an album by an artist whose singles they like. That album will have 3-4 songs you like and a lot of trash, mostly likely. Keep listening to those until you find one you like all of.

Or don't.

But that's just how most people do it


Honestly now if I download an album and I dislike more than about 20% of it I usually delete the whole thing

These are just bands off the top of my head, I obviously listen to a lot more and people usually tell me how I know a lot of obscure bands/have an unusual taste.

I've obviously listened to pink floyd. The wall is shit imo btw

>Stevie wonder is dadrock
>tank is dadrock
>marcus miller is dadrock
>jamiroquai is dadrock
>elo is dad rock

bro what?

Don't be embarassed, the whole "you must listen to full albums" meme was born from technological limitations - singles used to be the norm back when 12-inch records were all we had - and a rockist attitude. The album format as it exists now is dying, and some artists already realized this and started experimenting - King of Limbs was "only" 37 minutes long.

I'm not even baiting

How could you have any udnerstanding of music without properly understanding at least some kind of context?

OP's list () very clearly exemplifies what a lack of musical context looks like

>The Wall is shit

may as well kill yourself now

Its boring as fuck mate, they repeat another brick in the wall 3 times with slightly different production and some songs are literally identical.

Also you said on the run was shit, it was, but that didnt deterred me from listening to the rest of the album.

IMO one of the things I hate about pink floyd is how they literally repeat parts of a song throughout the whole album.

try wire - pink flag

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

>motifs are bad
oh boy

>singles used to be the norm back when 12-inch records were all we had
In this same post you said the album format was born from technological limitations but singles would be too then. Why would you want to constantly be switching records to listen to more than a few songs? Even with everything being digital I still find it annoying to have to keep constantly switching songs. It's more comfortable for me to just put on an album that has 10-15 songs on it that'll last me around an hour.

And albums being variable lengths isn't anything new and isn't experimenting. You have albums that are less than 30 minutes (and you can include EPs if you think of them as just shorter albums) and longer than 2 hours and it's been that way for quite a while. Even with the limitations of physical records you still had some artists putting out albums that wouldn't fit on a single one.

Funny thing though is that I think I remember reading that the desire for records that could hold more music was driven by classical music and people not wanting to have to flip the record in the middle of a movement or piece.

I dont consider them motifs when they're not short

>Also you said on the run was shit

I never said anything like that. It's one of my favorite songs on the album.

Well luckily you aren't in charge of it's definition so we good

Well, you (correctly) assumed that I would think it was shit, and I did. How do you even like that crap man? Its literally just a random electronic sound going up and down.

The future will be a landscape without said norms. Artists that want to release 3 hour long albums will do so; artists that want to release only singles will do so. Streaming is the last nail in the coffin of the CD, therefore the end of the album as standard for music output.

A cool factoid, though: the average listener is incapable of listening to full albums. Even people that buy albums usually pick one or two or three favorite songs out of the record and listen to them on loop. This is actual research but I can't be bothered to find the source now, probably a few google clicks away

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You have the wrong man, I'm not that guy buddo

odd. i honestly cant imagine listening to music as individual songs anymore. it feels far too insubstantial an experience.

>motifs
>stopped reading there

this desu

kek what a turbopleb

spend ur summer kissing girls faggot, stop shitting up our image board with your normie bullshit

>this thread

>Even people that buy albums usually pick one or two or three favorite songs out of the record and listen to them on loop.

How could anyone do this and not get fucking bored? I can listen to an album on repeat for 3-4 days before I burn out. I can't listen to anything I've had on my mp3 for longer than a month usually.

I get the feeling that you think artists are being forced to release albums. This may be true for the biggest pop starts that are more commodity than anything but most artists release albums because they want to. And I don't see that going away just because it's easier (though I don't really see how, other than releasing songs as they're made rather than waiting to have enough for an album) to release single songs.

Also a lot of artists have come out saying they get fuck all from streaming so I also don't see that making artists want to just release songs as they're made on streaming sites.

its about how the song functions as part of the album my dude... it builds a sense of fear or paranoia if you like.. empties the listeners mind in a sort of hypnotic way, amplifying the impact of the crash at the beginning of Time tenfold

it's fast-paced and fun

ITT: Everyone fell for this semi-quality bait.
do you really think people OP even browse Sup Forums?

what prevents someone from Sup Forums deciding to browse Sup Forums with none of the cultural context?

I mean, there's a reason we have containment threads.

CRINGE

>can't listen to a full song of them thats not creep

my man if you can't listen to airbag and love it you're beyond saving

keep trying though, honestly the fact that you're putting in effort puts you above 95% of the population

you'll find something you enjoy

Just give up all hope, you weren't meant for music.

honestly i'm starting to think music is just objective

nobody here thinks OP browses Sup Forums idiot

it's obvious he's a summerfag, he's not baiting, just a gigapleb

I just listened to the entire Funeral by Arcade fire.

I beared through it, and I liked the first 3 songs, but then it became kind of a chore to complete.

Also I wonder why the hell did that user recommended it to me after asking for something similar to the piano tunes from the clash and ELO

shorter albums my guy, listen to nervous breakdown or some shit

Try the Richard D James album by Aphex Twin, it's very short. I am very much interested in what you would think of that.

>Also I wonder why the hell did that user recommended it to me after asking for something similar to the piano tunes from the clash and ELO

I was thinking that too...

The New Pornographers' Twin Cinemas would be a better recommendation, for that era and style of music.

Check this out
youtube.com/watch?v=XBAUQaj6EJo

ps. by that era and style of music I mean Arcade Fire's era and style, not ELO and the Clashes

you might be doomed to greatest hits albums

>A cool factoid, though: the average listener is incapable of listening to full albums.

Wow, most people are utter plebs. Who would have guessed?

Try long EDM mixes

BBC 1 Essential Mixes are a good start

Since you like Maiden, Powerslave is a good one to listen to all the way because every song except 1 or 2 is consistently good and it has fairly diverse songs.

those first two albums are total fucking shite

>ITAOTS
>shite

kys my man you fell for the meme

whatever you like retard

stop taking mushit seriously

most mushit is mostly interesting not actually god tier to everyone or anything like that

Yeah I stopped at the half of the 2nd track

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Summer makes me depressed as fuck