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Barbu 
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Posted: July 24 2013 at 12:06 |
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All the time, all the time, all the time.
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Posted: July 24 2013 at 11:58 |
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After a good 35 years plus enjoying prog and having built up a substantial collection, so I don't play favorites anymore. It's more of a challenge to make sure everything gets listened to sooner or later and so I have developed rotation and random selection methods to do just that. Of course I'm not so anal about it that I don't whip out an old favorite whenever I feel like listening to it.
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tamijo
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Posted: July 24 2013 at 03:25 |
I usualy listen to a blend of styles, a blend of old/new, and a blend of "masterpieces" and "less revolutionary" music.
Sometimes i get an urge to listen to everything by "X", and does that for some hours until i get fed up.
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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AnnySi
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Posted: July 24 2013 at 02:50 |
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It depends on my mood. Sometimes when I have nostalgia, I turn on my favorite songs and then feel happy))
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: July 24 2013 at 00:17 |
 TheGazzardian wrote:
When I want to. I discover new favorites all the time. I binge listen when I discover a new album, listen to it occasionally afterwards. Sometimes I rediscover an old favorite and binge listen again. There is no discernible pattern, and I make no promises to myself that I will ever listen to a favorite again. That way, each listen could be the least time, and I am forced to get all I can out of it. |
^this..."binge listen" is the perfect term to describe what I do too. I'll listen to an album over and over and over...and wonder how I'll ever get tired of it. Eventually I do, then it sits waiting for me to get tired of my new binge favourite and eventually circle back...repeat...
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TheGazzardian
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Posted: July 23 2013 at 14:06 |
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When I want to. I discover new favorites all the time. I binge listen when I discover a new album, listen to it occasionally afterwards. Sometimes I rediscover an old favorite and binge listen again. There is no discernible pattern, and I make no promises to myself that I will ever listen to a favorite again. That way, each listen could be the least time, and I am forced to get all I can out of it.
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MFP
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Posted: July 23 2013 at 12:06 |
Vompatti wrote:
Once in a few years, sometimes more often. |
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Posted: July 23 2013 at 12:02 |
pfloyd wrote:
mister nobody wrote:
pfloyd wrote:
I only listen to mine once every 3 months or so. I have a deep fear of over listening to albums |
But I look forward to ending that awful practice of rarely listening to favorites. |
how is that an awful practice? It just makes the album that much more enjoyable when I do play it. |
It doesn't for me. I listened to Choirs of the Eye this morning after about 3 months and enjoyed it a lot, but I'm going to listen to it tomorrow and enjoy it even more for sure. I know because it happened that way the last time too.
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Posted: July 23 2013 at 11:58 |
Many don't get a spin for years, but I still carry them in my head 
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Posted: July 23 2013 at 11:10 |
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Having so many favorites, I'll say it's about once a year maybe twice. But in some cases it's even longer, I haven't listened to Crimson in a few years now and they might be my all time favorite.
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moshkito
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Posted: July 23 2013 at 10:40 |
pfloyd wrote:
I only listen to mine, like Nursery Cryme or Snow Goose, once every 3 months or so. I have a deep fear of over listening to albums , which I have done in the past, and not being able to enjoy them anymore. Anyone else have this fear? Do you even think about this? |
It's like an old friend ... they never left!
I don't look at music any different!
I don't look at the mirror any different!
I don't look at past music, past life, my past ... as anything else other than a part of me. There is no reason to dislike it or think it is different, just because yesterday you saw blue and today you see yellow ... it also tells you that you were/are not focused enough to get into the real meat of the work, so that you would know what it is about, and generally that holds all your life!
Edited by moshkito - July 23 2013 at 10:46
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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pfloyd
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Posted: July 23 2013 at 10:21 |
mister nobody wrote:
pfloyd wrote:
I only listen to mine once every 3 months or so. I have a deep fear of over listening to albums |
But I look forward to ending that awful practice of rarely listening to favorites. |
how is that an awful practice? It just makes the album that much more enjoyable when I do play it.
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Posted: July 22 2013 at 22:37 |
Man With Hat wrote:
Once or twice a year, give or take. |
Pretty much the same for me.
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Posted: July 22 2013 at 21:08 |
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A couple of times a month perhaps...it varies depending on the mood I'm in.
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Posted: July 22 2013 at 18:59 |
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Once or twice a year, give or take.
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Posted: July 22 2013 at 17:21 |
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I'm able to listen to Frances the Mute by TMV anytime, it just seems like I'm always in the mood, no matter what. That's why I consider it my favorite. Unfortunately I can't say that about the rest of my top 5 albums. |
Pretty much this.
I'll blast Cassandra Gemini all day.
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smartpatrol
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Posted: July 22 2013 at 17:18 |
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at first i'll probably listen to them a handful of times a week, maybe more, but as time goes by, that usually drops to once every 2-4 months or so
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Eria Tarka
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Posted: July 22 2013 at 17:16 |
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I'm able to listen to Frances the Mute by TMV anytime, it just seems like I'm always in the mood, no matter what. That's why I consider it my favorite. Unfortunately I can't say that about the rest of my top 5 albums.
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Posted: July 22 2013 at 16:17 |
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Not very often. Grace for Drowning, which is probably my favourite album of all time, I haven't listened to since last year.
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Vompatti
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Posted: July 22 2013 at 14:21 |
Once in a few years, sometimes more often.
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