olb99 said:

olb99 said:

databank said:

Perhaps y'all Swiss are more civilized than us French when it comes to behaving at someone else's party

Well, I'm 48, married with one child, a mortgage, etc. It's not like I'm going to parties, anyway.

But when we do have people over or go to other people's homes, I've never witnessed anybody interrupting the music. We might comment on it, discuss it, but that's the extent of it.

It doesn't have to be huge parties. Sadly, those become rarer and rarer as we grow older. I'm 49 and married, but I have neither children nor a mortgage, so you'd think I'd be OK, yet, usually, when I go to a houseparty, it's usually 8-15 people (not even sure if this qualifies as a party TBH), yet they regularly manage to do the songs thing

This might be slightly off-topic, but bear with me. This morning I realized that we're in March 2026, that I hadn't properly listened to a Prince album in a very long time (that happens to me frequently), and that now might be a good time to listen to all Prince albums from first to last. You know, April 2026 being almost there. I like symbolic dates.

So I now realize that I don't skip tracks/songs, but I do skip entire albums. Last.fm informs me that I hadn't listened to "For You" (the album) since... 2016! That's crazy. I suspect I haven't listened to many Prince albums in many, many years...

olb99 said:

This might be slightly off-topic, but bear with me. This morning I realized that we're in March 2026, that I hadn't properly listened to a Prince album in a very long time (that happens to me frequently), and that now might be a good time to listen to all Prince albums from first to last. You know, April 2026 being almost there. I like symbolic dates.

So I now realize that I don't skip tracks/songs, but I do skip entire albums. Last.fm informs me that I hadn't listened to "For You" (the album) since... 2016! That's crazy. I suspect I haven't listened to many Prince albums in many, many years...

Same here. IDK about you but in my case it's just that I've listened to all those albums to death, over and over for years, some of them I've had for over three decades.

Every once in a while it's nice to get back to one of them, like if it really is the right mood, it's like meeting an old friend you ain't seen for a while and you have a ball (it happened to me with Emancipation some months ago), but otherwise, I realized when I play the old albums, my brain just can't pay attention anymore: it needs a little challenge, a little unpredictibility, and there's none left there.

So of course I still need a little Prince fix here and there, and thankfully there's enough for me to not go around in circles, so I always end-up revising this or that, but I usually prefer to listen to later or posthumous releases... just because they're not entirely worn out yet.

Lovesexy used to be my favorite Prince album and I can't recall the last time I listened to it. It's probably been years.