[quote="h2orowe"]Albums, usually, are intended to be listened to from start to finish.[/quote]
With the rockin' exception of They Might Be Giants' Apollo 18 - the first/only<?> album specifically made to be played on random. Oh those johns...

[i]What's that blue thing doing here?[/i]

[quote="Snigwel"]the first/only<?> album specifically made to be played on random.[/quote]
Mission of Burma's [i]OnOffOn[/i] has a message on the back that recommends playing it on shuffle.

I guess I don't really appreciate music just because I put it on shuffle.

[quote="Tatsu-Kun"]I don't use random cause it's for people who don't really appreciate music.[/quote]

Shuffle is for people who appreciate all their music, rather than incoherently filling their iPods with useless shit they don't listen to.

[quote="sheerheartattack"]Shuffle is for people who appreciate all their music, rather than incoherently filling their iPods with useless shit they don't listen to.[/quote]
My friends just download a bunch of crap they hear from tv or something, stuff it in their ipod and never listen to it again. Whenever they listen to their itunes they spend 70% of their time skipping to the next song which is really annoying. I have all my music well organized because musicians put their songs in such order for a reason, a good example would be Led Zeppelin who didn't even release singles because their albums were to be listened to not for just one song but as a whole unit.

Another thing I dislike are greatest hits albums. By only listening to a certain bands greatest, you can miss out on a lot of good stuff.

[quote="Tokpile Quohog"][quote="sheerheartattack"]Shuffle is for people who appreciate all their music, rather than incoherently filling their iPods with useless shit they don't listen to.[/quote]
My friends just download a bunch of crap they hear from tv or something, stuff it in their ipod and never listen to it again. Whenever they listen to their itunes they spend 70% of their time skipping to the next song which is really annoying. I have all my music well organized because musicians put their songs in such order for a reason, a good example would be Led Zeppelin who didn't even release singles because their albums were to be listened to not for just one song but as a whole unit.

Another thing I dislike are greatest hits albums. By only listening to a certain bands greatest, you can miss out on a lot of good stuff.[/quote]

Having that been said... I'm glad that the pillows didn't follow suit of Led Zeppelin, because I mean AMAP is just as good as FotP, if not better because it has more songs.

So today, I had my Bloodthirsty Butchers playlist going on first, the song was on Hashiru, then I loaded a different, larger playlist of like 1,600 songs with them on it, I skip the random song that comes on next and it's Bloodthirsty Butchers - Hashiru again.


Eheh.

I never use shuffle because I find the best way to enjoy a band's music is to listen the way it was intended to - as a whole album, all the way through. It also makes you really think about the quality of an album as a whole, and not just an individual collection of songs.

I, for one, prefer individual collections of songs. I have yet to find a non-compilation album that I have liked every song. Only a few have come close, such as Hootie and the Blowfish's [i]Cracked Rear View[/i] and Guns 'n' Roses's [i]Appetite for Destruction[/i], as well as a whole slew of Queen, pillows, and Zep albums.

I'm not sure there's any album for me that I like every song on.

Exception could be Living Field, but one or two of the songs don't [i]always[/i] do it for me.

my mp3 player has a fetish for PREDATORS!!! Dizzy Life. I mean there arent that many songs on the album but everytime it plays a PREDATORS!!! song it's that one.

ironically, its the only song on the album I dont like.