Originally posted by Soundwall:I just would like to hear a creative, from the heart album. The way it gets produced can hold back or push them to do just that. SOI is quite from the heart.
Originally posted by Soundwall:I just would like to hear a creative, from the heart album. The way it gets produced can hold back or push them to do just that. SOI is quite from the heart.
Originally posted by thefly108:[..]
Exactly. I've encouraged some people my age to listen to whole albums, in order, but there never is any motivation to do it now that songs are a click away.
Originally posted by ahn1991:In this time period, playlists are much more popular than albums in terms of listening preferences. The main reason being that the prolific nature of music streaming services allows users to easily create their own playlists, often times with programs generating playlists using their own algorithms. I think it's rare for people to listen to an album in full and in sequence outside the context of first purchase.
Personally, I have found very few albums that I can listen to in full and in sequence. The two notables that come to mind are The Joshua Tree and Coldplay's Ghost Stories. Most other albums have great tracks, but there is always the one song I have to skip or the sequence itself feels off.
Originally posted by deanallison:I can't argue with the points made about playlists becoming more popular. I've been thinking about it more today and I like the idea more of releasing music more regularly but now my issue is if we're being realistic would u2 really release a song every 2 or 3 months if they went this route or would they give us 2 songs a year and then we'd end up with less output. I think the latter. But yes the more I think about it artists could start to release songs at least every 2 months even giving us 6 a year which would give us a good amount of material and keep bands in the public focus. I would really miss the idea of getting an album for the first time and listening to it all the way through and letting songs grow on me over time but I guess a song every few months is more exciting than a 3-5 year wait for an album with barely a release in between.
Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
It only really bothers me when a NEW artist takes as long as U2 does to put a new album out, because they don't have the back catalogue of albums and live content U2 does to keep fans busy. I could listen to just U2's 80s output for the rest of my life and be happy. A band like Foster The People took 3 years to put a second album out - that's a problem.
I don't really care how U2 puts new music out as long as they keep doing it, but I'd prefer an album. Their albums tend to be pretty thematic both sonically and lyrically, so I have a feeling they like it that way and they'll continue to do it that way anyway. That being said, despite Invisible not really fitting onto Songs of Innocence, it was nice to have that a while in advance of SOI. I remember people being pretty miffed about it not being on the album though.
Shrug.
Originally posted by ahn1991:In this time period, playlists are much more popular than albums in terms of listening preferences. The main reason being that the prolific nature of music streaming services allows users to easily create their own playlists, often times with programs generating playlists using their own algorithms. I think it's rare for people to listen to an album in full and in sequence outside the context of first purchase.
Personally, I have found very few albums that I can listen to in full and in sequence. The two notables that come to mind are The Joshua Tree and Coldplay's Ghost Stories. Most other albums have great tracks, but there is always the one song I have to skip or the sequence itself feels off.
Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
It only really bothers me when a NEW artist takes as long as U2 does to put a new album out, because they don't have the back catalogue of albums and live content U2 does to keep fans busy. I could listen to just U2's 80s output for the rest of my life and be happy. A band like Foster The People took 3 years to put a second album out - that's a problem.
I don't really care how U2 puts new music out as long as they keep doing it, but I'd prefer an album. Their albums tend to be pretty thematic both sonically and lyrically, so I have a feeling they like it that way and they'll continue to do it that way anyway. That being said, despite Invisible not really fitting onto Songs of Innocence, it was nice to have that a while in advance of SOI. I remember people being pretty miffed about it not being on the album though.
Shrug.
Originally posted by blueeyedboy:[..]
You feel that way about NLOTH?
Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
I tend to pretend NLOTH doesn't exist, and sometimes even forget that it does.