BankZZ: Why I can't finish albums.

cold 06.27.18	Why can't you get through a Pink Floyd album?
onionbubs 06.27.18	cos pink floyd sucks
neekafat 06.27.18	Weird, if anything listening to music helps my ADD
BankZZ 06.27.18	Half of my music listening is spent on tracks #1 and #2 of an album
cold 06.27.18	"cos pink floyd sucks" 5.0 +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating Alkaline Trio Good Mourning Blink-182 blink-182 Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me Brand New Science Fiction Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled Green Day American Idiot Linkin Park A Thousand Suns The Horrible Crowes Elsie The Menzingers On the Impossible Past The Menzingers After the Party Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation Underoath Disambiguation Waka Flocka Flame Flockaveli lol ok
onionbubs 06.27.18	im 17 what the hell else did you expect
cold 06.27.18	You said it all
onionbubs 06.27.18	pink floyd is hell if you have problems paying attention because their body of work is more boring than watching paint dry except some songs off the wall when they finally learned what the hell a hook is on maybe a third of the runtime
cold 06.27.18	You kids and your goddamn need for a "hook"
Demon of the Fall 06.27.18	I always finish albums (ok, maybe 98% of the time unless something prevents me from doing so against my will). Whether I'm actively listening is another matter entirely & I will switch off sometimes, usually just a sign the album in question isn't engaging, although there are other factors which I review on a case-by-case basis.
BankZZ 06.27.18	Also it really depends on the genre. Hip-hop I am more comfortable picking out the tracks. As with a Black Metal album I need both physical and mental immersion. Like door closed sitting at a desk edit: Also avoiding all social media (including sputnik) usually helps with that.
RadioheadIsOverrated 06.27.18	If I'm having a hard time listening to an album I usually just do something simultaneously. Granted there are some albums where even that doesn't help, in those cases I take breaks here and there (I think I took about 5 with Speedin Bullet 2 Heaven because of how terrible it was).
butt. 06.27.18	To be fair, I'm 25 and at least half of those 5.0s are solid picks. Brand New/Menzingers/Underoath all fuck hard
Drifter 06.27.18	I have the opposite problem where if I like an artist I want as much music as possible so 75+ minute albums are goat
ZombieToyDuck 06.27.18	"The Menzingers On the Impossible Past The Menzingers After the Party" how dare you coldheaven...
cold 06.27.18	im 32 what the hell else did you expect
ZombieToyDuck 06.27.18	also I have both of those 5'd kudos bubs!
ZombieToyDuck 06.27.18	I'm just... hurt
cold 06.27.18	I'm just joshin', there's a small handful in his 5's I like. But saying Pink Floyd sucks is just blasphemy.
Sharkattack 06.27.18	Pink Floyd does kinda suck. But when they are good they are really good. I can’t NOT sit all the way through animals every time I put it on.
StallionMang 06.27.18	do u take prescription meds of any kind? ADD is a whore but since i started taking adderall i can listen to 5x as many albums per day (as well as want to do 5x as much shit in general)
onionbubs 06.27.18	"im 32 what the hell else did you expect" you're prime menzingers age there then, depending on how working class you are
onionbubs 06.27.18	i listen to 9-10 albums per day sometimes depending on if im doing shit or not because then i can just use it as background music in whatever im doing, wheras now cos its summer ive listened to maybe like 3-4 due to watching the office all day
ArsMoriendi 06.27.18	I only ever have this problem if the album breaks like 70s minutes. Even then, if it's really good, it still won't happen
Sharkattack 06.27.18	I might have mild ADD or something because I usually get ansy around the 45 minute mark unless it’s like really amazing or off the wall.
neekafat 06.27.18	"Brand New Science Fiction Linkin Park A Thousand Suns" those are good 5s tho
neekafat 06.27.18	Yeah but everyone thinks they have mild ADD
BankZZ 06.27.18	I used to but don’t for personal reasons
onionbubs 06.27.18	i hvent bumped down linkin park yet? huh man those are more outdated than i thought
cold 06.27.18	""im 32 what the hell else did you expect" you're prime menzingers age there then, depending on how working class you are" They're okay, not really my thing though.
BankZZ 06.27.18	Honestly reading on other music while trying to get though a album is a bad idea
butt. 06.27.18	Science Fiction was my AOTY for 2017, so there's nothing wrong with 5'ing that
RadioheadIsOverrated 06.27.18	I do have ADHD and am not medicated. With that said I'm going through Jay-Z's discog currently and have only been able to do about 1-2 albums per day. I'm gonna guess The Blueprint 2 is going to take 2-3 days considering it's length.
StallionMang 06.27.18	"I might have mild ADD or something because I usually get ansy around the 45 minute mark unless it’s like really amazing or off the wall." mmm not quite the same thing lol. plus generally anything over 45 minutes is usually considered a long album so that's probably to b expected
StallionMang 06.27.18	+ i guess what i mean by "not the same thing" is ADD is more like a constant state of indecision, where it's hard to get anything done bc ur mind is always somewhere else and/or you're thinking about what you could b doing instead
Demon of the Fall 06.27.18	Is anything over 45 mins considered long? I’d argue it depends on genre. I mean, that’s a long-ass grind album but post-rock? Not so much.
Rik VII 06.27.18	Would be more logical to count in bars instead of minutes, theoretically. Sadly not really realizable because that would be a pain to do for each album.
Sharkattack 06.27.18	I’d say 5 minutes of post rock is too much
BankZZ 06.27.18	Also, it really depends on the genre. I could listen to Kamelot or Metallica much longer than let’s say Opeth or Dissection
Sharkattack 06.27.18	To me (but depends on the genre and song lengths) 30-35 minutes is a golden amount time to get your point across on a record.
Feather 06.27.18	ooooooooo coldheaven bringing out someones ratings is so BA!
cold 06.27.18	Gotta stoop low sometimes, it’s all in good fun
Demon of the Fall 06.27.18	Ok, so you can listen to lots of Metallica but not much Opeth? Is this prog rock Opeth? (Understandable). Otherwise I’m out.
RippingCorpse1986 06.27.18	I always finish albums. I do however give up on some new releases early. If the first four or five tracks do nothing for me, or I just don't find anything worth nothing or a part that makes me think ''ok, guess I should give this a couple of more listens before I rate it and give my opinion'' (a catchy hook, cool instrumental parts, interesting atmosphere), then I can hardly care about the rest of the album, and I just stop listening to it. Then again, the first listening has almost always been a kinda hard experience with almost all the music I've listened to and enjoy nowadays. I think the only exception to this rule was Kreator's ''Hordes of Chaos'' loool.
platnum 06.27.18	I would have problems getting through these albums too 😉
Meridiu5 06.27.18	roger waters is insufferable
dtsanchez 06.27.18	It can be hard to finish albums. Sometimes you get bored and wanna 2,5 it or worse but then you start to feel sorry and continue listening. Life sucks.
bloc 06.27.18	The only times I finish albums is when I feel lazy and don't wanna change the album
osmark86 06.27.18	I listen like demon of the fall does. Like it gotta be full album of gtfo. ADD or not like it doesn't matter.
RadioheadIsOverrated 06.28.18	osmark86, same but it can be hard.
granitenotebook 06.28.18	"I also feel like sometimes I shift from "active" to "passive" listening when I shouldn't." don't worry about this too much. listen how you want to listen (a lot of albums are best heard passively, imo, it can be a different and equally important and valid experience)
Demon of the Fall 06.28.18	^ good point, I've connected with albums by letting them wash over me, sometimes it doesn't work listening very intently & can actually be harmful depending on the music in question.
osmark86 06.28.18	really applies for a lot of ambient music imo. if I'm listening to Biosphere for example I generally don't sit and analyze every minute sound being played.
Demon of the Fall 06.28.18	yeah ambient, or the more chill side of trip-hop. Even some jazzy or post-rock type stuff.
osmark86 06.28.18	completely agree. sometimes the aim of music is to take you to a state of mind more than anything else.
DoofusWainwright 06.28.18	‘Shifting between active and passive listening’ The joy of music is you don’t have to concentrate all the time, let your thoughts take you off in different directions as you listen in and out, esp when out and about with headphones. Music isn’t a sport, it shouldn’t call for effort and stamina lol Honestly if you’re doing it right music should bond with your life and internal monologue, not be a separate entity you have to meditate over Can be useful to listen to the good shit with the good lyrics, like Microdisney or what have you
osmark86 06.28.18	haha exactly. Personally I have the opposite problem sometimes in that I can't passively listen and just enjoy music. this is particularly true for some electronic music where I can't get out of the producer mindset listening for and analyzing how certain sounds have been designed, mixed etc.
ilovewhiskey 06.28.18	Can relate to the passive listening bit. When I'm at the office I'll fire up some random post rock recommendation for background noise. Great for focusing. Albums that I can't make it through because of attention span are really just albums I don't want to admit that I don't like.
MO 06.28.18	lol listening to full albums is the easiest thing to do
granitenotebook 06.29.18	Albums that I can't make it through because of attention span are really just albums I don't want to admit that I don't like. [2]