>Find a great song >Look up the whole album >That one

story of my life m8

we've all been there, op.

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>Find a great album
>Look up the band's discography
>That one great album is the only album in the discography worth listening to
>mfw

>>53333986
>you love an album
>decide to dig more into the artists discography
>they only released one album and disbanded 10+ years ago
Feels bad

>Listen to an album
>"Holy shit this is great, have they released any new material?"
>Album that you love happens to be their last album
>Haven't released anything since
Fuck you, The Angelic Process.

>>53332201
But then u find related vids on youtube with 300 views
So cadh

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>>53332201
>Find a great song
>Look for the whole album
>There is no such album
>mfw

>>53333986
i'm looking at you andrew jackson jihad

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>>53333986
>Find a great discography
>That one great discography is the only discography in the world worth listening to
>mfw

>>53333986
fucking Natural Snow Buildings.

>>53333986
Fucking this. Then I feel like a dick for having only one album of theirs in my library.

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>>53333986
It's even worst when it's the band's first album.

Same thing happened with My Bloody Valentine
>"Well, /mu/ won't shut up about this lame ass group, I'll try to listen to their most critically acclaimed album"
>first listen
>come to the conclusion that When You Sleep is the only good song the band has ever made

I study music so I think I know good tunes when I hear them.

>>53335414
I really hate MBV fanboys and I swear I'm not one, but you really think you can make that concrete of a judgment after hearing an album just once?

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>hear a great song
>look up the album and its great
>its the only album they ever released
Fuck you Avalanches.

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>>53333986
>Find a great album
>Look up the band's discography
>That one great album is the only album in the discography worth listening to
>it's also the most recent one where they adopted a "new" sound, so hardcore fans will never ever favoring opinions about it
>mfw

>>53332201
That's the exact story behind Dinosaur Jr's cover of "Just Like Heaven". They listened to that album on tour, and that was the only song that ever clicked for them.

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>>53335452
On the contrary, how can you be so slow in the head that you need more than one listen to decide whether it fits your tastes? Do you eat every dish twice too to decide whether it tastes good?

>>53335581
I've returned to albums I didn't like after a single listen year later and ended up loving them. I used to hate broccoli when I was a kid, but now I love it. If your taste doesn't change, then you're probably pleb af.

>>53334037
I hate this so much.

>>53334234
>find a great genre
>that one great genre is the only genre in the world worth listening to
>it's metal
\m/

>>53335581
no, but I give it multiple tastes to decide if it's good.

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>>53334165
People or Can't Maintain?

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>>53335581
Not sure if this is bait but that's a pretty ridiculous statement
So many things go into listening to an album - your current mood, location, events happening in your life, even your health. One listen to an album one day could be entirely different from a listen another day
If you really do just give music one chance I'm honestly a little depressed. I'm not saying you should listen to albums 15 times if they don't click immediately, but a few tries over the course of a month or two is totally reasonable and just a logical way to do it

>>53334165
I don't get it, every single song they've put out sounds exactly the same

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>>53335662

>>53334153
this was a serious feel for me back in my obsessive compulsive album art adding youth

>>53334234
fucking Jandek

>>53335675
Can't Maintain has it's moments, but People is the only one you can listen to the end. Also on that topic I can't decide if it's a good or a bad thing if a band puts all the good songs on the first half of an album. On the upside you don't have to skip as much, on the downside you rarely ever venture into the second half.

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>find a song I think is good
>look up the artist and download one of their albums
>every single song sounds the exact same

>>53335799
Diiv

>>53335799
>coldplay.jpg

>>53335799
>find a song I think is good
>listen to a bunch of other songs by the artist
>they all sound exactly the same
>forgot to bookmark the first one and a week later can't remember which one it was

>>53335676
best post I've seen on /mu/ on this subject
honestly if you only give something one try that's pretty weak. but if you're one of those people that listens to every acclaimed album 10 times to "get it" that's even worse.
also, there's something to be said about getting into certain genres. if you're not into music that uses the wall-of-sound technique, listening to mbv once might not be enough, and chances are a lot of shoegaze won't click for you.

>>53334253
not at all

>>53335676
What if I'm a NEET and every day in my life is the same?

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>Find a great album
>artist has a new one coming out soon

>>53336099
>artist releases new album
>It's shit

>>53336064
Your body fluctuates mood and hormones and shit all the time, even if you do the same thing every day you'll have good ones and bad ones
>>53336012
For real, people also gotta realize that they might not love everything. 10 tries on an album is just wasting your own time, if you don't like it by then you probably never will

>>53336064
Then get a life just for the music's sake, I did

Am I wrong to say that you can usually tell if an album is worth pursuing after a single listen? A lot of the time I'll listen to an album and won't really enjoy it, but it'll be on my mind for a while. Others I listen to and may like more, but don't really think about that much afterwards. Usually the ones I think about are the ones that get better with repeat listens, while the others get worse.

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>find a great song
>the great song is on a great album
>the band only made one album

>>53336173
i think a common mistake is listening to an album and thinking "ehhh that didn't really feel like anything" or just getting a blank or maybe confused reaction. i've never actively disliked something and came back to it and liked it, but sometimes albums that just sound like nothing on first listen are really great the next time around. it's good to reminder yourself to go back to albums like that even if they're few and far between.

>>53335778
I agree People is their best but I do enjoy most of their discography as well.

And what's wrong with never venturing into the second half if you don't like the second half? Doesn't seem like much of a downside

>>53336046
he's right though; Shadow Kingdom is their only great album.

>>53336550
>Centauri Agent
>Night Coercion
>Winter Ray

>>53336173
I think that can be the case sometimes, but isn't usually what's going on. Like early on when I was getting into music I tried jumping into too experimental of music and I had no reference point and it didn't make sense to me. I walked away thinking that the music was forced and experimental for experimental's sake and didn't give it any more thought. But then a year or two later came back and it all came together in my head much easier and really clicked.

I guess what I'm getting at is that some music requires more experience for lack of a better word to even make any sort of impact at all. Not saying you have to be patrician, but knowing points of reference and influences of music definitely helps. I'm definitely oversimplifying this whole issue but I hope it makes sense.

>>53332201
Dennis > Charlie > Dee > Mac > Frank
[spoiler]Cricket > all[/spoiler]

>>53336583
Winter Ray is okay, the other two are mediocre.

and no one better bring up that overrated boring tripe AKA The Dance of the Moon and the Sun

>>53332201
all natural lemon and lime flavors
blackalicious
>>53333986
sweet trip - vdc
>>53334153
gorillaz - doyathing
>>53335799
stereolab

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>find a great album
>listen to it two more times
>lost all appeal, sounds like shit

Thanks, Rossz Csillag Alatt Született

>>53336798
deerhunter

>>53336819
This. Halcyon Digest just sounds like mediocre trash to me nowadays.

>>53336819
>>53336836

I think Halcyon Digest has tracks worth coming back for individually (notably the first and last ones) but I can see how its overall appeal drops significantly over time