Do you skip tracks on albums?

[Incandenza]

I rarely do, even if it's something truly awful on an otherwise fine album ("Drunk and Hot Girls" on Graduation) or a big-time dud on a near-great album ("Gangsta Shit" on Stankonia). And, as those two examples show, temptation is always strongest on hip-hop records, as they're traditionally filler-heavy. The only exception I regularly make is for rap skits, and then only if they exceed a minute in length.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

I haven't listened to an album straight through in like over two years. The internet finally won

 

[Incandenza]

Get the fuck out of here, retard.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

Not on the first listen. I have to listen to the whole album in it's entirety. Probably because I want to decide if the album is good or not.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

I used to be all about the album experience. Now my primary means of music consumption is YouTube. wtf happened to me.

 

[Incandenza]

I have no problem doing this if I got a shuffle playlist going. What inspired me to make this thread was I was doing just that and "Drunk and Hot Girls" came on. SKIP.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

I used to be all about the album experience. Now my primary means of music consumption is YouTube. wtf happened to me.

Your primary means of music consumption is to post the youtube links in music threads then listen to them afterward.

I have no problem doing this if I got a shuffle playlist going. What inspired me to make this thread was I was doing just that and "Drunk and Hot Girls" came on. SKIP.

After the first album listen, that's it. I don't think I'd listen to the entire album again without skips. Although the last album that I downloaded where I didn't download all the songs was the Marshall Mathers LP, even though you can get through that without skips.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

I always used to skip "Fitter Happier" and "Treefingers" back when I was a Radiohead listener. Also, "Eight Line Poem" on Hunky Dory is a song I've probably listened two twice in my entire life.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

I also rarely skip songs. There are certain artists who I think would merit that treatment, so I just listen to their greatest hits albums instead. The Who, The Cars, Tom Petty etc.

 

[Incandenza]

Though this probably won't happen until music as physical media has become a completely outdated concept—and we're still a way aways from this in spite of what a lot of people think/believe—contemporary pop artists should give up on the album format entirely. Katy Perry and Pink and whoever else should only release singles or even EPs, since the bulk of their fanbase most likely cares about the "hits" than whatever else they pad their albums with.

And GAAWD, I keep hearing "Raise Your Glass" and "F'n Perfect" (spelling intentional as it's the radio edit I hear) at the gym. I hate Pink. How is she still having hits?

 

[still fly]

Funny that this topic is brought up. Last album I bought was 50 Cent's "The Massacre" in 2005 and pretty much skipped through the whole album. Being that the album was like 25 dollars at the time, it convinced me to buy an IPod.

So 50 Cent ruined albums for me.

 

[Incandenza]

I should add to the above that I'll likely begin to enjoy the two Pink songs I mentioned, due to unavoidability. The same thing happened to me with every single on the recent Katy Perry album, so I suppose it's a matter of time.

 

[still fly]

But I liked to listen through whole albums when I was in my late teens. But albums with l like 20 tracks plus filler just got to be too much.

Rap Albums are the worst when it comes to this. I re-listened to Dr. Dre's 2001 and I could probably chop all the skits out and 2-3 of the songs and it wouldn't hurt the album

 

[Ripper]

a big-time dud on a near-great album ("Gangsta Shit" on Stankonia).

Andre's verse is way to great to call that song a dud.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

There's basically one 'Gangsta Shit' on every OutKast album and it's always the weakest song.

 

[Jaxxxson Mayhem]

Not on the first listen. I have to listen to the whole album in it's entirety. Probably because I want to decide if the album is good or not.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Not on the first listen. I have to listen to the whole album in it's entirety. Probably because I want to decide if the album is good or not.

I find myself skipping some songs regularly if I have the CD in, though. I'll skip "Creature of the Wheel" on Astro-Creep 2000 whenever I listen to it.

I, too, have gotten too into the habit of listening to individual songs as opposed to albums proper. I usually get a CD, rip the songs off of it, and throw them on my iPod before listening to the disc in full. The last CDs I bought and listened to completely, start to finish, was Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. I (Nachtmystium) and Mechanize (Fear Factory), and before them? Possibly just Blood Mountain (Mastodon).

 

[Captain of Outer Space]

And GAAWD, I keep hearing "Raise Your Glass" and "F'n Perfect" (spelling intentional as it's the radio edit I hear) at the gym. I hate Pink. How is she still having hits?

Man, I know. I think with her and Avril Lavigne (who is also inexplicably beloved by the MSM) it that they were positioned as anti-Britney Spears when it actually meant something. Of course, what wasn't mentioned about them was they were as equally manufactured and marketed as Spears, Aguilera, et al. It's a very PG way of projecting the image of being edgy females without actually doing anything dangerous enough to distinguish oneself as one.

As to the topic at hand, I've blatantly skipped over tracks following the second listen. Most of my music consumption was of the mixtape variety to start off with, more of an audio scrapbook of what I was into at the time than anything thematic. The advent of the internet and mp3's and the advent of Winamp just codified my already established listening habits. I still purchase CD's though, although it took me weeks to listen to Grinderman 2 in its entirety as opposed to song by song.

 

[Black Lushus]

Though this probably won't happen until music as physical media has become a completely outdated concept—and we're still a way aways from this in spite of what a lot of people think/believe—contemporary pop artists should give up on the album format entirely. Katy Perry and Pink and whoever else should only release singles or even EPs, since the bulk of their fanbase most likely cares about the "hits" than whatever else they pad their albums with.

And GAAWD, I keep hearing "Raise Your Glass" and "F'n Perfect" (spelling intentional as it's the radio edit I hear) at the gym. I hate Pink. How is she still having hits?

I was just having a conversation with someone about Pink yesterday...what's this girl's deal? Why is she so angry? Why does she hate everything so much? Is life truly this bad for her?

 

[MFer]

Maybe it's a simplistic way of looking at it, but I think CDs will become obsolete once vehicle-makers come up with a way to incorporate MP3s into stereos.

 

[The Metal Maniac]

Don't they already have that? Don't you just need an audio in jack?

Anyway, I'm generally not adverse to skipping tracks, except when it's a new CD (have to listen to it all through, as others have said) or if it's one of select few CDs that I refuse to skip songs on, like Black Sabbath's s/t. I cannot listen to just one track off that album.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Maybe it's a simplistic way of looking at it, but I think CDs will become obsolete once vehicle-makers come up with a way to incorporate MP3s into stereos.

See, this belief has merit, but I'm not too inclined to agree with it, if only because iPods/Zunes/etc. have a tendency to break or fry, and they're more expensive to replace than a scratched CD. Keeping a hard copy is also a good idea, even just for the off chance that your player does break or fry.

 

[Captain of Outer Space]

My 2009 vehicle has a USB port in the stereo; plug in a thumb drive full of mp3s and hey presto. Less of a temptation for break-ins than an iPod as well.

 

[KOAB]

I should add to the above that I'll likely begin to enjoy the two Pink songs I mentioned, due to unavoidability. The same thing happened to me with every single on the recent Katy Perry album, so I suppose it's a matter of time.

I find most of Katy Perry's and some of Gaga's music to be much like Rick Ross... I will not like it at first but the sheer exposure of it and how catchy it is will finally beat me into submission and then shortly thereafter I will start to like it.

 

[Incandenza]

I still hate those two Pink songs, so yay.

 

[KOAB]

congrats

 

[FLAM]

I don't usually skip tracks on a record, but I've done it more often in recent years. Skipping tracks was one of my biggest pet peeves in high school. But there are a few albums I listen to (don't listen to) that require it. And I love The Smiths, but it's rare that I listen to the last track on Meat is Murder.