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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 29 2017 at 22:20
It depends on what I want to listen to. And where I am. When I'm in my house, I usually put whole CD's... and usually new ones I have got... actually, I got to stop buying new albums so I have time to listen to my favourites more often (and I don't think I even buy so many new albums). While in my car, I put my IPod, and there I have my lists with my favourite songs from each artist I like, or lists by genres, or decades, etc. so depending on my mood I put those lists either in the order I made them (usually chronologicaly), or in random (it depeneds on how long the list is and if I expect I want to listen to the whole list or not). Of course, I can also shuffle everything on my IPod too, and that one is very good when I can't make up my mind what I want to listen to.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 29 2017 at 23:26
I almost always listen to albums from start to finish. For hard rock bands, I'll often create my own "best of" playlists, sometimes devoted to a single band, sometimes combining several.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2017 at 00:45
Almost always full albums.

Couple of exceptions. A pal of mine suggested Rush's Hold Your Water... Fire... was more effective with side 2 first. So one day Ill get around to fixing a CDR of that.

Another is Topographic Oceans Either side 1 and 2 (i.e. CD 1) or both. Never Disc 2 (i.e. Sides 3 and 4). For some reason the complete album experience happens with the first two works and the with the second volume. I don't know why this should be so. Odd considering the first Yes I heard was side 3 on day time AM radio.

Another friend decided that putting John Paul Jones second album and shuffling it with Tortoise music was a good idea. I told him it wasn't. I was right.

If I had one of those prog compilations you get now that prog has come out of the closet then maybe. But I don't have those compilations. Or rather I do but only in album format. i.e. the artist statement.

Oh, it works for non-prog albums as well.

I also never get classical music compilations or worse, the dreaded "themed" type stuff.

Well it might be filler but I really enjoy Ludo's 9th. Even the single off the album. I wonder what the flip side was...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2017 at 09:21
Of course I do!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2017 at 12:27
At home: i'm lazy so usually i shuffle all music (no particular playlist), via Windows Media Player.
so yes, corey hart songs may bookend king crimson :)

In car: full albums/cd

For working out, i alternate:
i have a spotify modern prog playlist i add stuff to and shuffle. helps find new stuff i like.
i just shuffle my complete music collection imported into google music 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2017 at 21:50
It's like eating pizza crust first. I just can't do it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2017 at 07:10
I probably listen to music on shuffle about 5% of the time. Otherwise I tend to listen to albums or minidiscs that I've recorded that are largely based around d an album or two.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2017 at 09:33
i have to listen to an album from start to finish. Cant shuffle. It drives me mad and gets me upset.
Its the reason why i pay for Spotify so i can listen in order.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2017 at 10:32
Not really... Most of the time I just listen to albums all the way through (because I have so many to listen to... Not that I really get around to them) but I have a few Spotify and Youtube playlists of like-sounding songs. Then I decide what song the playlist should start with. Then I listen to the last few seconds/minute of that song and decide what song's start goes well with that. Youtube used to have a feature where you could make videos start and end part way through the video so I could cut out annoying uploader-created intros or fade outs that last too long etc. Still on the rare occasion I listen to those playlists I skip some songs because I don't feel like hearing 'x' song. (will post my Gojira Youtube playlist when I get home)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2017 at 10:37
Never shuffle any kind of music, although I like to make alternative track order for a few albums I already know very well.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2017 at 12:11
I'm listening to a prog station on Pandora...it's kinda like shuffling.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2017 at 12:12
Yes. Mood dependant. But not in the car.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2017 at 15:15
It depends what I'm doing.

In the car - shuffle.
While working - shuffle.
Critical listening - never shuffle.

Accordingly, I shuffle >80% of the time since i'm always on the road or chasing a deadline.
Critical listening these days is mainly cranking DTS 5.1 through the home theater until I pass out.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2017 at 01:09
I've recently started shuffling on my mobile phone while I'm going to work. Sometimes it can be agood idea, sometimes after a song from a concept album it's bad having it followed by something else, sometimes it's irrelevant, i.e. The Whirlwind takes more than my whole travel time. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2017 at 05:55
prog playlist? Hah... Let me tell you man... outside of the perverted confines of this website... admitting to your date, or even to your friends, to having a

prog playlist

is only one step better than admitting that you wear garters and women's panties under your blue jeans... and like Richard Gere movies LOL

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2017 at 07:01
But not knowing what comes after is sometimes funny. You only have to be sure that there's no rubbish on your device. I mean "random playlist containing only prog"

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2017 at 07:06
preaching to the choir man...  LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2017 at 09:43
I already did something like shuffling when it all was vinyl. I drew out something from my collection blindly and put it on trying not to see the label, several different things in a row, because I liked the surprise and the rediscovering of stuff that I hadn't played often enough to truly appreciate and memorise it. And to test myself how much I could name after a few seconds.

Now in the digital age of course I love to shuffle, usually everything, only rarely a playlist or an artist or even (very rarely) a single album.
I listen to albums in order too, of course. I respect the order intended by the artist as something special and somehow privileged, but not trying out anything else to me looks like pointless dogmatism.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 01 2017 at 10:12
Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

I already did something like shuffling when it all was vinyl. I drew out something from my collection and put it on trying not to see the label, several different things in a row, because I liked the surprise and the rediscovering of stuff that I hadn't played often enough to truly appreciate and memorise it. And to test myself how much I could name after a few seconds.

Now in the digital age of course I love to shuffle, usually everything, only rarely a playlist or an artist or even (very rarely) a single album.
I listen to albums in order too, of course. I respect the order intended by the artist as something special and somehow privileged, but not trying out anything else to me looks like pointless dogmatism.
This ^
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2017 at 12:55
Never shuffle I'm a great believer that albums should be listened to from start to finish
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