Whole CDs vs. "Best Bits"

I make playlists all the time and listen to them these days. I used to 'edit' suites of 70 minute score cds using the best 30 minutes on the album. Just as often however I find myself listening to complete albums. If there's a whole bunch of alternate cues or source cues at the end of an album, I'll usually avoid those.

For me 95% of the time I will listen to the whole score as it appears on the album. Just once in a while I skip the songs or other tracks that are not from the composer, like classical pieces that appear in the movie etc. I have quite a bunch of 70+ minutes albums so I fully devote my time to absorb them, from the first to the last minute, while I'm on my PC doing other things I can do while playing music (that doesn't include gaming, which just distracts me). And when I feel like it, I will take selected tracks only, but that happens only rarely.

I once listened to Cutthroat Island 2 times in a row, I just enjoyed the first listen so much, I had to immediately repeat that musical high, needless to say I was a little exhausted afterwards.

Same for the Star Wars Special Editions: I try to listen to 'em in one go. Doing otherwise I would consider blasphemy!! Though I don't always enjoy the source music.

Generally I listen to scores the whole way through, but I do like to make compliation CD's of some of my favorite tracks to listen to in the car... They both have their place in my world.

I usually listen to the entire score on the CD player, and rarely also make my own compilation CDs, especially for scores where there are more songs and less score, like Alan Menken's Disney classics.

But on my iPod I generally keep only those tracks from albums that I listen to a lot, in order to save space. Of course, for great albums where every track is worthy of a listen, I keep 'em all



No, you're not, mate. Out here in India it's considered a miracle if oil/gas prices decrease by a single rupee these days. They're growing like every two weeks or so

Please, for the love of God, DO NOT compare stuff like MICHAEL CLAYTON with UNITED 93, never, never again; Please.

I'm a complete albums man myself, the exception being when I'm in the car and I listen to my compilations (including, in my new car, MP3 CDs - so I now have a five-hour Goldsmith compilation which I can stick on random play - great fun)

The worst thing is when you actually make time to listen to an entire album (it's a big thing for me!) and something gets in the way about half way through,

Oh man, I had to stop Cutthroat Island on the last cue about 15 seconds from the end once (this was just the OST, not the complete).

Exactly, 15 seconds! 15 seconds left before a convenient time for me to be interrupted! It happens a lot when you've got music on the car stereo and you arrive wherever you're going and the person turns the engine off. You think ''damn, why couldn't you just let that finish?''

Spoken like a true Thor!

I was going to put this icon after that >

But I know you too well so it's this >

I'm going to have the fun of setting up all my playlists again tonight. This will use up valuable Crysis time!

I use way too many emoticons these days.

That's because you're not completely and utterly sad, probably.

If I ever made a playlist like that, it would certainly be an ''action tracks that are longer than 4 minutes long'' one. I hate listening to loads of short cues.