ALBUM OF THE MONTH CHALLENGE.

[Glasser]

One album for one Month. Can anyone do it? Starting January 1st to the 30th pick one album and listen to nothing else. Greatest hits, live albums, Deluxe Versions, and Anthologies are excluded. Double albums are fine if its one release, (Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence) is acceptable and those alike. You get the picture. February 1 you're free. Obviously this is all on the honor system..I thought about doing this myself to become one with an album like I used to do but I wondered if anyone could do it. Post your album here, you have until New Years Eve to submit. I'm still thinking about mine but I'm excited to do this. I hope a few of you get on board.

[wolfking]

Umm.....Why would I want to do this Tom?

[jingle.boy]

Umm.....Why would I want to do this Tom?

Ditto... I'm way too much of a music whore to dedicate a whole month to a single album.  I'm not even sure I could do it for a week!

Are you trying to start your own thing - like no-nut November?  Which I don't even bother with either.

[TAC]

One album for one Month. Can anyone do it?

No I can't fucking do it!

Did you enter the priesthood or something?

[Dr. DTVT]

IT’S IN ALL CAPS, YOU MUST COMPLY!

[wolfking]

like no-nut November?  Which I don't even bother with either.

   I've actually never heard of this.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

No-can-do's-ville babydoll. I could probably do an Artist of the Month challenge, assuming they had more than 3 or 4 albums, but why would I want to? Do I get a million dollars at the end of the month? 

like no-nut November?  Which I don't even bother with either.

   I've actually never heard of this.

I thought it was non-stop nut November...

[TAC]

Do I get a million dollars at the end of the month? 

You get a thousand Glasser points.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Do I get a million dollars at the end of the month? 

You get a thousand Glasser points.

Are those equivalent to Schrute Bucks or Stanley Nickels?

[Jamesman42]

A month is too long. Why choose that long of a timeframe?

5 days or a week or something along those lines would be much more interesting and achievable.

What's the goal of doing this? Get to know an album better for some of many different reasons?

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Even if I didn't have other big plans for next month, there's no way I could do this.  As jingle noted, I don't even think I could do it for a week.  Listening at least once a day every day?  I could probably do that, but to the exclusion of everything else?  Nah, I'm out.  After a few days it'd be like eating chocolate ice cream for every meal.  You'd despise it by the end of the month.  I get the appeal of trying to replicate the more limited selection of one's youth, because I'm sure anyone over mid-30s or so can remember a time before digital music was so easily accessible and can relate to spending more time with particular albums than the FOMO temptation of wanting to hear "everything" nowadays, but I think it has to be organic, I don't think you can successfully force it. 

[wolfking]

I'll do it for $100. 

I'll do an Issa album for $1000.

[Jamesman42]

I get the appeal of trying to replicate the more limited selection of one's youth, because I'm sure anyone over mid-30s or so can remember a time before digital music was so easily accessible and can relate to spending more time with particular albums than the FOMO temptation of wanting to hear "everything" nowadays, but I think it has to be organic, I don't think you can successfully force it. 

Great words, Litho.

[ProfessorPeart]

I'll do it for $100. 

I'll do an Issa album for $1000.

Who wants to fire up the GoFundMe? We HAVE to raise $1000!

[wolfking]

Fuck....January is 31 fucking days too! 

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Yeah, February this past year or '25 would have been better.   

[Glasser]

Jeez, ok. All of the replies was the reason, its tough. Why? Yes to get to know an album better and I figured January is the slowest month for new releases. I find myself not giving albums a full chance because of so much music. I just thought it would be cool to stick with an album for a month.

[Glasser]

One album for one Month. Can anyone do it?

No I can't fucking do it!

Did you enter the priesthood or something?

Ok Tim, now you get an EP only! 

[Glasser]

IT’S IN ALL CAPS, YOU MUST COMPLY!

Yes, I will now ASSIGN EVERYONE AN ALBUM!!!

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

IT’S IN ALL CAPS, YOU MUST COMPLY!

Yes, I will now ASSIGN EVERYONE AN ALBUM!!!

Are you trying to pull a Jedi mind trick on us all?

[jingle.boy]

I'll do it for $100. 

I'll do an Issa album for $1000.

Who wants to fire up the GoFundMe? We HAVE to raise $1000!

I can PayPal him the money right now.

[lonestar]

I'd rather shave my nads with a rusty cheese grater than stick to one album all month.

[wolfking]

I'll do it for $100. 

I'll do an Issa album for $1000.

Who wants to fire up the GoFundMe? We HAVE to raise $1000!

I can PayPal him the money right now.

 

Can't say I'm not mildly tempted.  I do love money.

[wolfking]

Jeez, ok. All of the replies was the reason, its tough. Why? Yes to get to know an album better and I figured January is the slowest month for new releases. I find myself not giving albums a full chance because of so much music. I just thought it would be cool to stick with an album for a month.

I think if you made it a week you'd get a bit more interest.

[NoFred]

One album for one Month. Can anyone do it? Starting January 1st to the 30th pick one album and listen to nothing else. Greatest hits, live albums, Deluxe Versions, and Anthologies are excluded. Double albums are fine if its one release, (Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence) is acceptable and those alike. You get the picture. February 1 you're free. Obviously this is all on the honor system..I thought about doing this myself to become one with an album like I used to do but I wondered if anyone could do it. Post your album here, you have until New Years Eve to submit. I'm still thinking about mine but I'm excited to do this. I hope a few of you get on board.

I’m in attendance at Fear Factory + Machine Head on the 31st… how is 1-30 a month my guy??

[Glasser]

I'd rather shave my nads with a rusty cheese grater than stick to one album all month.

It seems everyone feels the same.. 

[Glasser]

IT’S IN ALL CAPS, YOU MUST COMPLY!

Yes, I will now ASSIGN EVERYONE AN ALBUM!!!

Are you trying to pull a Jedi mind trick on us all?

I'm not even sure why I started this thread anymore. 

[ProfessorPeart]

You started this so we could make wolfking listen to Issa for 31 straight days. Specifically, her Queen Of Broken Hearts record as it was written by his favorite writer, Alessandro Del Vecchio. He would be in heaven!

[SoundscapeMN]

I wouldnt do this, but if I did (like I was being paid some reasonable sum of $), I would pick something like The Color Spectrum from The Dear Hunter. and I would just listen to 2-3 of the EP's a week, that way it wouldn't become so repetitive. In other words, if the rules are, you can only listen to any music FROM 1 album, but not necessarily the entire album at once. Per random songs every day/week, I would time/space it out to not have to hear say Mandala and the Indigo EP 31+ times, so I wouldn't wear it out. Maybe 4-7 times tops, and then the next week go on to the next couple of EPs.

[twosuitsluke]

Think I'd struggle to do this for one day!

That being said, if you're assigning albums for everyone, and they must comply, can you assign Murder of the Universe by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard to Lizzo

[ariich]

For some reason I initially read the OP as saying you listen to just one album for one day, and then a different one for the next day, etc. But one album for a solid month? Hell no, that'd be like 100 listens for me at the exclusion of all other music.

EDIT: That said, there are more moderate versions that could be fun to do. For example, the album of the month being one to listen to every day.

[nobloodyname]

If you go and look in the Pantheon of Bad Ideas (tm), there's a reason this is a new entry at number three.

Pile on is richly deserved

[wolfking]

Tom, is there a prerequisite on how much we actually have to listen to the one album?

[Indiscipline]

I know this challenge. I call it marriage.

[jingle.boy]

I know this challenge. I call it marriage.

Can I get a new wife on Feb 1?