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.

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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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[Edited 2/27/26 1:05am]

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

Albums where I never skip a track:

For You

Prince

Dirty Mind

Controversy

1999

Purple Rain

Around The World In A Day

Parade

Sign O The Times

Lovesexy

Batman

Grafitti Bridge

Come

The Gold Experience

Chaos & Disorder

Emancipation

The Truth

The Vault... Old Friends 4 Sale

The Rainbow Children

NEWS

Xpectation

C-NOTE

One Nite Alone...

One Nite Alone... Live

The Chocolate Invasion

The Slaughterhouse

Musicology

Lotusflower

Welcome 2 America

Art Official Age

HitNRun Phase 1

HitNRun Phase 2

Do y'all even like Prince?

Seriously though, those albums above I genuinely can listen to all the way through with pleasure.

So I think that leaves

Diamonds & Pearls

Crystal Ball

Rave Un2/In2 The Joy Fantastic

- These three above are albums I like a lot, just with a couple of clangers included.

Then

3121

Planet Earth

20Ten

MPLSound

each have quite a few clangers. I would say each is probably half a good album.

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 agree with this.

I mean, the first time I put on Parade and Christopher Tracey's Parade came on, my thought was 'what the hell is that mess of a noise?!'

But now I like how strange it is as the opening to an album.

databank said:

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).

This is how I listen. I"ll listen to Jughead because I like the rest of the album. I don't skip songs. I skip albums. Prior to Planet Earth the only thing I skipped as far as Prince music was For You.

ShellyMcG said:

databank said:

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).

"What have we become as a society when we can't listen to a whole record?" I'm sorry but I had to laugh at that comment. Society has nothing to do with it. I just don't feel like wasting my time listening to shit I don't like. Life's too short to waste it listening to Jughead or Like A Mack

Respectively, perhaps it has nothing to do with you, but I think the quest for constant, immediate gratification and the lack of patience towards acquired tastes are very much a societal issue in 2026.

Not that they weren't before, but I suspect it worsened with the Internet. In the days of vinyls and cassettes, skipping tracks was more complicated. In the days of CD, it became easy, but we still functioned with whole albums as a by default model. + we depended on the radio and music videos a lot, so we had to go through things we didn't necessarily love to hear things we did. Nowadays, many people mostly only listen to playlists that are, usually, only made of "love on first sight" songs.

.

I always disapproved the "like/dislike" model as a default mode for the appreciation of arts as sheer entertainment. It's like in school, when kids tell the teacher they like or don't like such film or novel, and the teacher asks "why?", and they say "IDK, I just like/dislike it", and the teacher replies "you can't just say that, you have to be aware of why you feel that way and able to elaborate". Presumably, "skipping" everything we dislike doesn't help developing such reasoning skills.

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I remember, about a decade ago, I read the comments under a 4 minutes long music video that was on a Pitchfork (IIRC) YT playlist, and someone wrote something like "You fucking assholes, I was in the garden and I had to get back inside to skip that shit". I felt really sorry for that individual.

olb99 said:

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.

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

databank said:

ShellyMcG said: