where you could name the tracks off by heart and in order?

I hear people referring to tracks released over the last few years and I am surprised that I have to really think which album they came from whereas up to Diamonds and Pearls I knew them all...

Planet earth

Thibaut said:

well that might be a good sign then!

planet earth. although i can name all of them (apart from crystal ball)

Purple Rain Maybe?


He's got so much output that I just stopped memorizing each one

probably the batman soundtrack, but if i took my gingko i could probably remember the track lists for graffiti bridge and diamonds & pearls, too.

Seriously? Lovesexy. Bad innit

LittleSmedley said:

tell me about it! I would have said Lovesexy too but once I thought about I managed to make it to D&P - after that I reckon I get to about track 2 of the symbol album!

Ima Name em Off:

1. Dirty Mind
2. Controversy
3. 1999
4. Purple Rain
5. Lovesexy
6. Sign O The Times
7. Batman
8. 3121
9. Planet Earth

the last one would be 3121

Interesting question, and I have wasted about half an hour discovering the answer is Purple Rain.

Scary. Have bought everything as soon as it was released since Purple Rain, and can barely get to track 5 off the top of my head on most of 'em!

Planet Earth.

every single one with the xception of planet earth...

i can name them all, in order, each album since for you. heck i can even
give you planet earth off the top of my head.

how hard is it to remember a sequence of 10 songs?

you guys must really like Prince

purplesocks said:

it's not just prince, lol. i can do that with 90% of my record
collection.

but that's probably because i've always been more of an album
listener than a seperate song listener.

i like the proper album experience, listening to it from start
to finish.

with true albums like "Blue", "Bitches Brew", "Sweet Dreams",
"Transformer", "Achtung Baby", "Ok Computer", "Boys for Pele",
"Dead Cities", "Nebraska", "After the Goldrush" etc etc etc
i just want to whole vibe and feel and experience that whilst
listening to the entire disc.

i can see though how many people would not know all the songs
on many modern albums, and even prince's latest output since
a lot of artists aren't releasing "albums" anymore, they're a
bit patchy these days and everything just ends up sounding as
if it were a fucking mixtape.

IstenSzek said:

Don't you feel that's something of a reflection on society in general?

Most people don't seem to want the longer experience. Films that go over 2 hours are usually criticised for being too long now, yet most films under that fail to tell the story as well as it should be told.

I reckon the driving force behind music output, the label owners, realise people seem to prefer the short, sharp single songs experience (skipping tracks etc.) rather than taking the time to appreciate a whole album now.

I don't mean to generalise with this, but I do believe modern day pressures move people in this direction.

alxndrstff said:

yes i agree, it does. but i also think that this won't last forever since it
leaves people wanting more all of the time yet all that's on offer is that
same bitesized portion of something that could be so much better if it were
presented as a whole, longer or bigger package.

what you say about the movies is so true, i read that all the time in reviews
lately, how movies to go 2 hours or over are -too long, too winding and too
boring. wtf? and these are still hollywood productions so they're already jam
packed with action and stuff.

how about watching an art house flick for 3 hours huh? lol. i wonder how many
young kids today would not consider that absolute torture. yet, i totally do
enjoy such things. it relaxes and calms you and doesn't make you feel like it
is only meant to stimulate you for 5 minutes before moving you along to the
next consumer isle where another marketing gun is aimed at you



in 50 years from now people are going to look back at this time and wonder
how people kept from going insane in this particle bombardment world that
we live in today. it's just flash flash flash move along flash flash flash
non stop 24/7

omg, so am i lol. i'll stop ranting now

excuse me

IstenSzek said:

as we like to say in london - Blimey!!

3121

I think I can do it with Planet Earth, although I haven't heard it yet. I know I can with 3121 and most of Prince's albums.

clarityman said:

I always listen to albums in shuffle mode, so I don't remember the exact track lists of any album. I do know what song is on what album, at least until about 1995...

Last one: 3121

If I listen to an album 3 times I know the tracklist dude.