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How many listens does it take to fully appreciate a DT album

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Offline Jamesman42

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Re: How many listens does it take to fully appreciate a DT album
« Reply #35 on: June 23, 2011, 06:17:31 PM »
To fully appreciate an album? Could be 5 listens, could be 30. I am digging the new Neal Morse record, and my fifth time through *maybe* has me thinking it is better than two of his other solo prog records. It'll take me another good 10 listens to really "know" it, though, which is what I am taking from the question you've asked.
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Re: How many listens does it take to fully appreciate a DT album
« Reply #36 on: June 23, 2011, 06:20:45 PM »
Quote from: Blackfield on June 23, 2011, 11:21:21 AM
I'll listen to the album (no matter what kind of style of music it is) one time and I'll hear if it's good or not.

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Re: How many listens does it take to fully appreciate a DT album
« Reply #37 on: June 23, 2011, 06:22:26 PM »
Quote from: Gorille85 on June 23, 2011, 06:20:45 PM
Quote from: Blackfield on June 23, 2011, 11:21:21 AM
I'll listen to the album (no matter what kind of style of music it is) one time and I'll hear if it's good or not.

lol

lol indeed. I LOVED TMOLS for a week and 20 listens, and then I just came to really dislike it.
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Re: How many listens does it take to fully appreciate a DT album
« Reply #38 on: June 23, 2011, 06:26:41 PM »
It took me 10 listens to fully love In a Flesh Aquarium. I didn't like it at first.
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Re: How many listens does it take to fully appreciate a DT album
« Reply #39 on: June 23, 2011, 07:29:24 PM »
You didn't bother to ask Mr. Owl?
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Re: How many listens does it take to fully appreciate a DT album
« Reply #40 on: June 23, 2011, 09:02:53 PM »
Quote from: Gorille85 on June 23, 2011, 06:26:41 PM
It took me 10 listens to fully love In a Flesh Aquarium. I didn't like it at first.
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Re: How many listens does it take to fully appreciate a DT album
« Reply #41 on: June 23, 2011, 09:21:08 PM »
I still don't think I fully appreciate any of DT's albums and I have listened to a good share of DT.
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Re: How many listens does it take to fully appreciate a DT album
« Reply #42 on: June 23, 2011, 09:33:02 PM »
It usually takes me 30-50 to digest any album properly. I'm not good at rating music on the first listen.
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Re: How many listens does it take to fully appreciate a DT album
« Reply #43 on: June 23, 2011, 09:47:21 PM »
I believe that the more you listen the more you appreciate certain aspects of an album. Thus, I don't believe you can ever really fully "appreciate" an album. Just like you can never put the limit on loving someone. It's a different kind of love, not really more or less. Just how I feel about it.
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Re: How many listens does it take to fully appreciate a DT album
« Reply #44 on: June 23, 2011, 11:17:31 PM »
I need at least 3-4 listens to fully appreciate and remember what the songs are like.
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Re: How many listens does it take to fully appreciate a DT album
« Reply #45 on: June 23, 2011, 11:37:37 PM »
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Re: How many listens does it take to fully appreciate a DT album
« Reply #46 on: June 26, 2011, 08:27:21 PM »
As others pointed out, this is really a tricky question.
I would usually say that after 2-3 listens you usually know whether you like a song or not... But in my experience it's never really that simple. With DT, at least for me, it's even more complex than usual.
I liked I&W, Metropolis Pt.2, Octavarium, the second CD from Six Degrees, BC&SL and SC with just one listen.
The first CD from Six Degrees, ToT, FII and Awake took more listens.
And despite my listening to When Dream and Day Unite over 5 times, I still don't like it...

I talked about albums, but there are some songs that I really never know whether I like them or not:
- A few days ago I took Panic Attack out of my iPod, but today I was listening to Octavarium in my car and actually enjoyed it...
- I don't think I like As I Am, yet I keep listening to it...
- This Dying Soul must be two alternating songs, because I either hate it or love it each time I listen to it...
- For some curious reason I never like Scarred and Voices at the same time, they always alternate in my favour...
- I never cared much for The Shattered Fortress, until one day I listened to it and loved it...
- You, Not Me used to be a song I liked, but not any more...

Personal experience (and ranting) aside, if your friend listens to it a couple of times and really doesn't like any song, then DT is probably not for him (even though no single CD really encompasses all that DT is...)
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Re: How many listens does it take to fully appreciate a DT album
« Reply #47 on: June 26, 2011, 08:29:13 PM »
P.S. Octavarium was actually the first DT CD I listened to and it quite sold me on the band.
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