I'm expanding my tastes very rapidly, and this seems an excellent idea to widen them further, but I don't know if I'll have enough time to dedicate myself fully to the job of listening to all that stuff by some artists. Thinking it over right now. I'm not sure if I'll be able to participate. Note that I read and fully understood the intention of this club, but only now I've come to realise that some artists have massive discographies.
Good point. Here’s what I personally expect: you’ll do your best to give everything a good try. That is, you’ll follow other people’s threads and listen to the music discussed enough to make meaningful contributions to the discussion.
Since I’m asking people to keep their threads running to around a month, I suspect that means most people will update once or twice a week. Ideally, you’ll be able to read most of the updates, listen to the music if you have time and means, and make some comments contrasting opinions about the music. A good host will realize that you have a life and other obligations, and probably won’t be too upset if you wind up commenting only on every-other update. BUT obviously if you ignoring someone’s thread outright, they’re going to get upset, and probably give you the same treatment.
Likewise, good hosts have certain obligations which go without saying, but I’ll say them anyway. Obviously, someone who picks an artist with a 45 album discog can’t expect everyone else to listen to it all. So, participants who pick big discographies have to be understanding.
To illustrate, I’ll explain to you what I intend to do with my guy, Dylan, who has 35 albums in his discography:
What I am going to do is break Dylan’s discography down into 6 or 7 “eras”, made up of 5 albums each. Every four or five days, I’ll post a new update, which will cover an “era”. I’ll touch on all the albums of that era in my post, but I will suggest only one or two to listen to, or else a handful of songs. I may even provide Youtube or Spotify links, just to help facilitate the discussion. Obviously not every participant will reply to every update, but if every participant (assuming 12 people join the club) decides to respond to at least every-other update, that still means I’d have 6 people, give or take, commenting on every one of my updates, listening to at least some of the music. It’s nice to imagine everyone will listen to and comment on everything, but I’m more than willing to accept the compromise that sometimes people just won’t.
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