Comments on: How Do You Listen to Music?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:12:51 +0000

I always open up and read the lyrics first, and I listen to the songs whoes lyrics I like most first. then I listen to the cd at night as background or at work.

By: Ana

Ana — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 15:19:57 +0000

I usually start with a recommendation from somebody to listen to a song or CD. If I like it, I add it to a list of songs to burn. Once I get a good number of them built up, I make a cd for the car.
I love Italian music, and can even sing a few songs in Italian, although I understand very little of it. It’s just beautiful and romantic. My friends tell me that I am probably singing about a man who sells fruit on a corner in Chicago, or something.
I love show tunes, gospel music and just about any other genre aside from rap. That type of music has never apealed to me.

I cannot listen while writing or reading.
I listen while cooking or cleaning.

By: Carla Jean

Carla Jean — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 02:26:46 +0000

My process is very similar to yours… except sometimes, the CDs skip the liner notes stage because I’ve already rocked out to ‘em so much that I don’t need the notes. That’s the highest compliment on this end.

And if they don’t endure past the work background listen, they are often sold.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:26:04 +0000

Eric: That question is much harder to answer, as the answers are as individual as the questioners.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 26 Nov 2004 19:49:56 +0000

I was thinking about this topic as well recently, perhaps slighly different tangent, more along the lines of why people like certain music. I was thinking what makes someone like a song or despise it?
Then I thought what makes me like a certain song?

I know what I like in a song, but it is hard to define. I have to think about this more and go for a blog entry soon:)

By: indi

indi — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:53:26 +0000

Anything new, that actually came on CD, is immediately ripped to mp3 and dropped onto the iPod’s “Newies” playlist, which is then listened to in the car during the next travel.

By: christiana

christiana — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:37:12 +0000

here’s my general pattern:

1. unwrap cd. put it in my home stereo and pull out the liner notes, which are always key for me. listen and read along a bit. put down the liner notes and go get a cup of tea and settle in for more listening.

2. the next stage is the car. usually if a cd makes it from my home to my car it’s a big step. (many have never made it). often a cd will stay in my stereo for at least a week. this is when the singalong stage happens for me too.

3. occasionally, i bring a cd into work if i haven’t had a chance to give it a full listen. but i actually only have a few cds on my computer at work. parts of 4 AP cds, one CC, jeremy casella, johnny cash, normals, patty griffin, and some bootlegs.

By: the Foolish Sage

the Foolish Sage — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:05:42 +0000

I’m similar to others who’ve posted here. With my study schedule, most music goes into my iTunes Party Shuffle as background while I read or write. Anything I want to give a serious listen to has to come along in the car on a trip.

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:35:49 +0000

Done

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:52:13 +0000

All my new CDs go straight into the car CD player. Share the Well, for example didn’t budge for at least three weeks, and the only reason it budged was because I was going to the Mark Schultz concert and I didn’t have his newest CD until a week or so before the concert. I had to put it in so I knew all the songs by the time I got to the show.

Maybe I will write something up about this. Good idea…

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:39:45 +0000

When a CD makes it into my truck, that’s where the serious listening (and yes, singing along) begins. I listen at work to lift my spirits, but if it is new music, I just can’t focus the attention on it to really get into it. As for home, there are few times where I will just put music on. Normally when I do, it is while doing homework, which then also leads to a lack of concentration on the music.

So when I said that I had Share the Well and Peterson’s Christmas Album in the truck, that was a good thing.

By: Jeff H

Jeff H — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:40:17 +0000

I’ve done it both ways. Such a geek, I’m telling you! I’m such a geek!

I loved in “High Fidelity” when the main character talked about listening to his albums in autobiographical order. I thought I was the only one that did that.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:35:16 +0000

Jeff: Your year-by-year is interesting … but do you do it by year produced or year acquired?

By: Jeff H

Jeff H — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:56:12 +0000

I listen to music while programming… it helps me get into a rhythm and clears my mind. Adriene and I will listen to CD’s on road trips, too. We like to surpise each other with CD’s that we brought for the trip, but lately, we just plug in the iPOD and put it on random, which is fun for surpises, too.

And, I’m an order freak. I’m wierd. I’ll listen to an entire artist’s catalog in chronological order, or I’ll pick a year and just listen to albums from that year for a day. I don’t know why, I guess it ties the music together with a common theme.

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