How do you people find time to devote to listening to music? There are so many people with weekly personal charts that extend to Top 40 and in addition to that many of you have albums charts. Do you actualy give each of these albums a spin within the week or how do you consume music? Do you ever have a situation where you just go 'f*** I cant remember half the tracks on that album, but let's have it slide 4 spots this week'?

For the past few years, I have really been struggling with keeping up with the new stuff since there is SO MUCH OF IT. Filtering out the good stuff requires concentration and there is definitely no time to allow anything to mature. If the first impression is BORING then it's deleted and never given a chance again. The only things on my playlist are either the shuffle of the sure-fire stuff that I love or the very new stuff, I hardly listen to a older release in full.

 

I seem to have so many *issues* on the boil today :D

Getting a bus twice a day to work helps me listen to a lot of new albums I buy :D

Oh, I feel your pain!

It's to the point where I only have time for singles, as albums are a chore with too many 'filler' tracks. Even for the artists I like the most! But it doesn't help to have interest in a few too many genres. I spend more time browsing charts than listening to songs because it's more efficient to have 'heard OF' a song than to have actually heard it! :lol: :drama:

 

Don't take that as a complaint, just an honest observation of my listening habits :D

I listen to music all day long on my two days off and for a few hours a day on other days, usually I'll listen to 500 individual tracks per week and maybe 5-10 new albums too depending on what's out that week. When it comes to making my album chart, I haven't usually listened to everything in the top 20 that week, I just do it by memory with a lot of the albums. There are songs that I listen to more than once per week, I usually play the top five of my personal chart at least 5-10 times a week. I do find it harder and harder to make time for new music though, especially in the fourth quarter when everything floods out at once!

I totally get what you're saying. I don't really listen to enough new albums to warrant an album chart - if I'm interested in a new album, I'll download it and listen to it once, but if I don't like it enough on first listen I'll just bin it and not listen to it again. Sometimes I might download a few of the tracks off it that jumped out at me, and not bother with the rest. Occasionally, if I like an album enough, I might keep it and listen to it again and then possibly even buy it. So yeah I agree that first impressions definitely count, there's not enough time to allow albums to mature, even though this means I might be missing out on good albums if I gave them enough of a chance.

 

My personal singles chart is pretty accurate though, as I do listen to current singles quite a lot - I listen to music most of the day at work and then on the drive to/from work too. Half the time I'll listen to Radio 1, the other half of the time I'll listen to new stuff I've downloaded or just random old stuff (I've got 20k+ mp3s on my external hard drive so I don't think I'll ever run out of music!)

 

Andrew, I take it you're not able to listen to music at work or on your commute?

 

same here, i have little available leisure time so albums are out (bar absolute faves, and even there I cherry pick). I listen to the radio in the car to and from work and out and about and while the dj's are waffling I play hot tracks Ive bought off itunes and stuck on cd. If I'm doing chores or computer stuff I have music on in the background, usually radio. Buzzjack SC is a great way to hear great new records without much effort on my part (I dont have time to youtube new releases except here or there where folk have kindly put a link in their charts).... B-)

Oh man! I seriously have to have a cull of my mp3's.

 

I have over 125,000 tracks!!!! No way I'll ever listen to all of those.

 

Mainly I listen in the car during the 2 hours I spend driving every day with my mp3 player hooked into an fm transmitter and then as much as I can at other times.

 

I don't tend to listen to new albums as much as I used to, just cherry picking tracks. There are about 50-60 weekly favourites in a playlist and these constitute the backbone of my listening habits.

Then whatever takes my fancy the rest of the time.

 

I dont listen to very much at all. :(

 

When I was a teenager and up to the age of 25 I listened to so much music.

I have over 125,000 tracks!!!! No way I'll ever listen to all of those.

Bloody hell!! I have 22,000 and even then I'll struggle to listen to many of those.

Bloody hell!! I have 22,000 and even then I'll struggle to listen to many of those.

I am such an inveterate downloader. There is a lot I'll probably never listen to but I've had so many albums that have taken years (or decades) to click.

 

Part of my stash is a digital copy of my CD collection which alone probably amounts to 3000 CDs.

I have done virtually nothing but listen to music since the day I bought my first album.

I lost 14,000 mp3s in 2010 :(

 

I hadn't paid for one of them.

It surprises me to read how many tracks some people have! Not saying it's a bad thing. I "only" have about 7000 and I'm still a bit wary at times about getting lots of new music, because sometimes I feel like I already have so much and a lot of things I don't listen to that much. But I still get urges at times to get new music so I do allow myself to do so at times. There's still stuff I want to explore, like the more rave-y side of electronic music, progressive house, progressive trance, stuff like that. That seems to be where my musical taste is headed at the moment and I would like to get the "right" albums for that, but I'm still trying to decide what and if and when.