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Can You Accurately Name All Of The Songs Off Of Your Favorite Album Of The Past Ten Years, In Order? (1 Viewer)

Or, has the way we buy and consume records changed so much we can't? 

And do you like singles better, anyway?  

 
- last "new" stuff i ever got excited about was the Interpol/YeahYeahYeahs era  :shrug:

and, no ... cannot name the track sequence  :unsure:

 
otb_lifer said:
- last "new" stuff i ever got excited about was the Interpol/YeahYeahYeahs era  :shrug:

and, no ... cannot name the track sequence  :unsure:
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My last "new" stuff was dance-punk 2004 era, too, and I can't do it, either.  

This might be too tough of a question for many reasons...

I went the "I like singles" route, anyway.  

 
rockaction said:
My last "new" stuff was dance-punk 2004 era, too, and I can't do it, either.  

This might be too tough of a question for many reasons...

I went the "I like singles" route, anyway.  
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i hear ya  :thumbup:

curiously enough, i'm pretty sure i can do it with the entire Beatles (British releases) album discography ??

 
otb_lifer said:
i hear ya  :thumbup:

curiously enough, i'm pretty sure i can do it with the entire Beatles (British releases) album discography ??
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Wow. Go for it. Had the Beatles on my wall in college. Sort of a non-controversial choice, it just wasn't their hippie years, which made it great in a neo-hippie era.

I think I framed the "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" poster.  

We were counter-revolutionaries, man!   

 
rockaction said:
Wow. Go for it. Had the Beatles on my wall in college. Sort of a non-controversial choice, it just wasn't their hippie years, which made it great in a neo-hippie era.

I think I framed the "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" poster.  

We were counter-revolutionaries, man!   
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"Revolver" was the first Punk album ... right off the bat with 'Taxman' - you can hear the Jam's entire body of work encapsulated in those two and a half minutes. 

see, also: Buzzcocks. 

 
I can't. A big part of the reason for me is 99% of the time I'm listening to music I'm either driving or running.  Gone are the days of listening to music while sitting on the coach reading along with the lyrics from the CD booklet. 

Edit:  Another reason is the competition with the number of things to do.  For instance, TV.  With a zillion channels, DVRs, streaming services, etc., there is always something to watch.  Back in college we were limited to about 5 snowy channels with rarely anything good on. And then there's the Internet...

 
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Juxtatarot said:
I can't. A big part of the reason for me is 99% of the time I'm listening to music I'm either driving or running.  Gone are the days of listening to music while sitting on the coach reading along with the lyrics from the CD booklet. 
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I forgot about lifestyle changes. Mogwai Fear Satan is my running jam, if I ever run.   

 
The only album I could do this with confidence came out 40+ years ago:

1. Speak to Me
2. Breathe In The Air
3. On The Run
4. Time
5. The Great Gig in the Sky
6. Money
7. Us and Them
8. Any Colour You Like
9. Brain Damage
10. Eclipse

I may or may not have once listened to this for eight consecutive hours. I can neither confirm or deny drugs may have been a factor.

 
I hardly listen to current music, let alone from at least ten years ago.

But, the two that I can still name after listening to them many many times.

1.    "Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)"
2.    "Photograph"
3.    "Stagefright"
4.    "Too Late for Love"
5.    "Die Hard the Hunter"
6.    "Foolin'"
7.    "Rock of Ages"
8.    "Comin' Under Fire"
9.    "Action! Not Words"
10.    "Billy's Got a Gun"

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1.    "Women"
2.    "Rocket"
3.    "Animal"
4.    "Love Bites"
5.    "Pour Some Sugar on Me"
6.    "Armageddon It"
7.    "Gods of War"
8.    "Don't Shoot Shotgun"
9.    "Run Riot"
10.    "Hysteria"
11.    "Excitable"
12.    "Love and Affection"

 
rockaction said:
I can't. 

Can you?  
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Tried and failed.

Succeeded in a similar self-created challenge to list the setlist of my favorite concert attended in the last ten years.  
 
There are many albums I listened to regularly before the days of MP3 players I can still either ace the track listing or just omit or transpose a couple songs.   

I would say this is an effect of a major change in how we buy and consume music.

 
Bruce Dickinson said:
Tried and failed.

Succeeded in a similar self-created challenge to list the setlist of my favorite concert attended in the last ten years.  
 
There are many albums I listened to regularly before the days of MP3 players I can still either ace the track listing or just omit or transpose a couple songs.   

I would say this is an effect of a major change in how we buy and consume music.
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Yep. I'm not trying to self-confirm, it's just interesting to me. As soon as I got an iPod, the track listings went out a window, really.  

 
pandora said:
I hardly listen to current music, let alone from at least ten years ago.

But, the two that I can still name after listening to them many many times.

1.    "Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)"
2.    "Photograph"
3.    "Stagefright"
4.    "Too Late for Love"
5.    "Die Hard the Hunter"
6.    "Foolin'"
7.    "Rock of Ages"
8.    "Comin' Under Fire"
9.    "Action! Not Words"
10.    "Billy's Got a Gun"

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1.    "Women"
2.    "Rocket"
3.    "Animal"
4.    "Love Bites"
5.    "Pour Some Sugar on Me"
6.    "Armageddon It"
7.    "Gods of War"
8.    "Don't Shoot Shotgun"
9.    "Run Riot"
10.    "Hysteria"
11.    "Excitable"
12.    "Love and Affection"
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Man, you love you some Def Leppard, don't you?  

 
the way I have ALWAYS listened to music, the answer is "hell no"

for at least the first 30 years of my life, I couldn't necessarily tell you with confidence what the name of the song was.   I have 95%+ of the lyrics memorized though.   At least 3000-4000 songs worth of lyrics in my head.  WTF.

Never looked at the album covers....ever.  Then never looked at the cassette cases...ever.  Then never looked at the CD cases...ever.

 
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Well, that was a get off my lawn moment.  I legitimately don't think there is an album I enjoy released in the last 10 years.

If we're going all time then yeah I could probably do it for most of my top...25?

 
MarvinTScamper said:
the way I have ALWAYS listened to music, the answer is "hell no"

for at least the first 30 years of my life, I couldn't necessarily tell you with confidence what the name of the song was.   I have 95%+ of the lyrics memorized though.   At least 3000-4000 songs worth of lyrics in my head.  WTF.

Never looked at the album covers....ever.  Then never looked at the cassette cases...ever.  Then never looked at the CD cases...ever.
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Interesting. I always looked at the album covers and read the liner notes for lyrics and band thank yous, just to see who they were thanking, which meant influences and touring. Wild that you have such a radically differing experience than mine. 

 
I don't know if I could name an album from the past decade let alone the songs on it. (which makes those music drafts fun) 

 
MAC_32 said:
Well, that was a get off my lawn moment.  I legitimately don't think there is an album I enjoy released in the last 10 years.

If we're going all time then yeah I could probably do it for most of my top...25?
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That's also part of it, yes.  I think there are a few for me, but they're all punk or hip hop. 

 
rockaction said:
Interesting. I always looked at the album covers and read the liner notes for lyrics and band thank yous, just to see who they were thanking, which meant influences and touring. Wild that you have such a radically differing experience than mine. 
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Actually, I think it's wild too.   Someone asked me a question like this years ago, and it dawned on my that my methods were quite different than most.

 
rockaction said:
Yep. I'm not trying to self-confirm, it's just interesting to me. As soon as I got an iPod, the track listings went out a window, really.  
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My 14-year-old is really into music, mostly what she knows is digital delivery.  She's seen vinyl LPs and 45s, CDs, cassettes... but all of her music collection is digital.  

At the last concert we went to, one of the opening acts didn't have physical media of their new album - for $10 you could buy a cassingle of the first track, and the "liner notes" of the cassette included a code good for a digital download of the entire album.  

I was telling her about the Sunday night programming of a rock station in my home city when I was a kid.  For 4-5 hours on Sunday night, they played entire albums - side 1, couple commercials, side 2, couple commercials, side 1 of next album, rinse and repeat.  They would finalize the Sunday night lineup on Friday or Saturday and the DJs would promote it.  The DJ on Sunday night would accommodate those trying to tape the album off the radio, often saying "start your machines, now" before putting Track 1 on.  And at the end of the album, would recap the song titles and order.  

My dad had shoeboxes of tapes from those Sunday night playings, and as I got more curious about classic rock and harder stuff, those boxes were cheap source of music education.  I'd name an artist new to me but not the world, he would invite me to sift through those tapes to find albums by said artist.

 
rockaction said:
That's also part of it, yes.  I think there are a few for me, but they're all punk or hip hop. 
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I found one!

Eagles of Death Metal - Heart On.  I wasn't able to do all of them though.  

Anything Cept The Truth-Wabba Be in LA-Tight Pants-High Voltage-Secret Plans...uhhh...a whole lotta filler...I'm Your Torpedo

 
Actually, I'm not sure at this point in my life I could name a single album and the track order therein. 

This was an obtuse-assed question. Thanks for bearing with me.  

 
I might be able to name the songs on Ten, but not in order. 

Haven't purchased an album since napster.

 
Vs. is better than 10, but since there's a couple of landmines I purged from my catalog I botched the order.  <_<

 
MarvinTScamper said:
e.g. knowing the Eruption guitar solo off of VH1, I know that "You really got me" comes next.   I haven't seen that album in 25 years.
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Of course.

This is where shuffle play on Spotify really screws with my head. I like the randomness, but there are some songs that are so linked to the other songs around them in my mind that I am thrown off when a song ends and it isn't followed by the next song on the album.

 
Hmmm, I could list in order the songs on Excitable Boy or London Calling or dozens of others from my teens and twenties.  My favorite album of the last ten years is probably Southeastern by Jason Isbell.  No way I could list them in order.  I might come up with all of the songs or I might get confused with some of the songs from Something More Than Free, since they are similar. Interesting topic.

 
  1. Ready to Start
  2. The Suburbs
  3. Rococco
  4. Modern Man
  5. Empty Room
  6. City With No Children
  7. Half Light
  8. Half Light II
  9. Suburban War
  10. Month of May
  11. Wasted Hours
  12. Deep Blue
  13. We Used to Wait 
  14. Sprawl I 
  15. Sprawl II
  16. Suburbs continued
 
I had 5 and 6 flipped initially, but noticed it just in time! Used my hotmail to format it.  Wish we could do lists here.
 
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