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let me flip it on you, i have entire albums i like as individual songs. but i don't put the record on the start, turn off shuffle and pretend to be of higher in
by avh02 2y ago
let me flip it on you, i have entire albums i like as individual songs. but i don't put the record on the start, turn off shuffle and pretend to be of higher intelligence because i 'appreciate' the work the artist put in to it.
For sure there are albums that are like that, i just don't tend to listen to music like that. I listen to a song, i think "oh, i want to listen to that next", queue it up and forget i wanted to listen to it until it comes up and i feel good about hearing that song i wanted.
And definitely far from the greatest hits only - that's a pretty stretchy conclusion.
edit: the problem i have at the end of the day, is forcing EVERYONE to organize their music and listening like that because the artist says "this is how you must listen to music". Sometimes i know the song i like and i just want to pick them out instead of browsing through another layer of albums that hide the list of songs by an artist.
- a-french-anon 2y agoAs I expanded in another reply, what warrants a reaction like mine is listening to most or all of your music in this way. I mean, I won't force people not to put ketchup in all their dishes, including when going to a 1-star Michelin restaurant, but if that's not the dictionary definition of "pleb", I don't know what is.
- avh02 2y agoaye, and i'm not interested in having a chef prepare a tiny aubergine steak with a splash of tahini and charge me $500 for the honour of eating his choice of how to virtue signal to his chef friends. I don't necessarily listen to ALL of it at once, I will mostly be queueing up what i want to listen to next constantly and skip through what i don't feel like listening to right now (if the platform allows it easily, which i'm struggling to find again). On another day in another mood, that same song i skipped previously might be just what i need. Almost as if i can choose my meal and my dessert independently every day depending on what i feel like eating. edit: and occasionally, it may be a $500 aubergine steak - when i want it to be.
- a-french-anon 2y agoThing is that the musical equivalent of that dish is Schoenberg, "music that's clearly designed for album listening" is another beast and overlaps a lot with non-intellectual elitist stuff. About meal and dessert, I've never experienced a strong and justified coupling between these; actually, I always rinse my mouth with water between dishes to fully embrace the taste divide.