Albums you can honestly play all the way through no skips!

- Dirty Mind

- 1999

- Parade

- Black Album

- Batman

- Come

- Musicology

- A0A

I wanted to include SOTT but I often skip Slow Love and Beautiful Night, Purple Rain too but TMWU often gets passed by.

All albums up to 'Batman' (including), +'The Black Album'.

After that...

(I'm the only one who likes) 'N.E.W.S.',

and 'New Power Soul',

and 'One Nite Alone...'.

That's it.

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(There are even bootlegs i listen to as albums, no skips.)

For you

Prince

Dirty Mind

Purple Rain

Batman

SOTT

Diamonds and Pearls

3121

Hit&Run phase 2

[Edited 2/26/26 13:58pm]

boomshaka said:

Albums you can honestly play all the way through no skips!

- Dirty Mind

- 1999

- Parade

- Black Album

- Batman

- Come

- Musicology

- A0A

I wanted to include SOTT but I often skip Slow Love and Beautiful Night, Purple Rain too but TMWU often gets passed by.

I never skip any song on any album. Never have.

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TBH I find the habit distressing: what have we become as a society that we can't even listen to a whole record, take the time to try and learn to appreciate what doesn't hit us immediately, and stand listening to 4 minutes of a song we don't love by an artist we like? Many songs that I didn't particularly fancy at first did actually grow on me because I wouldn't skip them each time.

.

It's like those people writing such or such Prince song makes them cringe. "Cringe"? Really? Good Lord! We're being sensitive, now, aren't we? Poor little fragile things...

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It's also like when people jump at the host's computer at a party to abruptly interrupt whatever's playing and play something on YT or Spotify instead, because they need to hear their favorite song now and can't even cope with hearing something they're not familiar with—or enjoying the conversation, for that matter (needless to say, such a practice is absolutely forbidden when me and my wife have guests—we've been at parties where it was literally impossible to hear a whole song once, because each was cut in the middle by someone who played something else, which, in turn, was cut in the middle by someone else, and so on...).

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IDK, I could cope with such nonsense when we were teenagers and being passionate and acting on impulse about just everything. At 49, I find such behaviors pathetic (there, I said it).

boomshaka said:

Albums you can honestly play all the way through no skips!

I'll add that I find the use of the adverb... dishonest, as it implies it's quite the challenge to listen to an album without skipping songs and people may lie about not doing it to look stronger or braver than they are.

4 realz?

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databank said:

It's also like when people jump at the host's computer at a party to abruptly interrupt whatever's playing

Funny. That would infuriate me as well.

My "rule" with my family is that 1) a song should be played until the end (and if we have to leave or something, I'll do some kind of fade out ) 2) no song should be played twice in a row, even if we love it (yeah, I know, I'm a joy killer...).

databank said:

boomshaka said:

Albums you can honestly play all the way through no skips!

- Dirty Mind

- 1999

- Parade

- Black Album

- Batman

- Come

- Musicology

- A0A

I wanted to include SOTT but I often skip Slow Love and Beautiful Night, Purple Rain too but TMWU often gets passed by.

I never skip any song on any album. Never have.

.

TBH I find the habit distressing: what have we become as a society that we can't even listen to a whole record, take the time to try and learn to appreciate what doesn't hit us immediately, and stand listening to 4 minutes of a song we don't love by an artist we like? Many songs that I didn't particularly fancy at first did actually grow on me because I wouldn't skip them each time.

.

It's like those people writing such or such Prince song makes them cringe. "Cringe"? Really? Good Lord! We're being sensitive, now, aren't we? Poor little fragile things...

.

It's also like when people jump at the host's computer at a party to abruptly interrupt whatever's playing and play something on YT or Spotify instead, because they need to hear their favorite song now and can't even cope with hearing something they're not familiar with—or enjoying the conversation, for that matter (needless to say, such a practice is absolutely forbidden when me and my wife have guests—we've been at parties where it was literally impossible to hear a whole song once, because each was cut in the middle by someone who played something else, which, in turn, was cut in the middle by someone else, and so on...).

.

IDK, I could cope with such nonsense when we were teenagers and being passionate and acting on impulse about just everything. At 49, I find such behaviors pathetic (there, I said it).

I fully understand you.

And somehow I agree.

Let me put it like this.

I also don't 'skip' songs, i also try to experience a whle album.

That doesn't mean that some songs on albums I really don't like.

When I sometimes have things on random play, I might skip songs, so this is in a differetn context.

And indeed, sometimes I discover something new, that I like, in a song i often didn't pay much attention too.

Obviously, unlike any other artist out there, Prince's whole catalgoue is a goldmine to rediscover things, over an over again.

Maybe Zappa and Bowie's catalogue do the same to me.

Teenage years I would skip songs all the time on all of the albums.

Now?

I never skip songs...EXCEPT Graffiti Bridge the song...I still can't get through that one.

1980 - 1995