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hmmm

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by suckamc

how about Daniel, Fred & Julie's self titled album? I know a lot of the songs stand on their own, but the album from front to back is really great.

I also think Destroyer's stuff is best listened to in its entirety.

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re: This Show, Like Most Shows, Is a Show About Music

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by semitones

Good morning!

I find some records are best listened front-to-back. I usually listen to Owen Pallett's Heartland that way and I feel like Arcade Fire's stuff is great for listening the way that the album is made. Maybe it's just me, but I think I usually listen to an album in it's entirety now - there must be some thought around the way that they arranged the music to play.

It's been great to have you hosting, Will!

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re: This Show, Like Most Shows, Is a Show About Music

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by StephRamsahai

Good morning!

I made it to Friday! Yay! Loooong weekend!

And I'm going to have to agree with sucka in saying that Destroyer's albums should be listened to front to back. The only other thing that is coming to mind right now is Abbey Road by The Beatles.

Loved having you as our host for a week, Will! Come back soon!

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re: This Show, Like Most Shows, Is a Show About Music

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by taggy666

I hope you had a great time on R3 Will! You did a great job filling Vish's shoes (and those are big shoes to be sure). The album that I must listen to from cover to cover would have to be Into Your Lungs by Hey Rosetta! Every song leads into another and it's basically one long musical storybook. It's simply awesome :)

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What albums do you need to listen to from front to back?

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by tb3

Ever since the resurgence of vinyl, I listen to everything start to finish, as the artists constructed it.

I am lucky that I am old enough that I come from the generation that listened to albums not tracks and had to get up off my ass to listen to side B. I remember records, then 8-tracks, then cassettes, then CD's, then MP3's…

And we didn't have iPods – the each of us. We had one record player in the front room so music listening wasn't such a loner-istic experience that it's become today. And we couldn't shake to shuffle.

I know this sounds like the rantings of an "In my day" speech… and it really is.

But…

It most cases I am inclined to agree that technology making things easier and more intimate is better. But with the great number of people getting into, or returning to vinyl, I have to say that progress may have sped past and overshot the album.

And that perhaps just maybe making things better was more for making things better sake and not improving the album experience?

To answer the question:

Every single Arcade Fire album I have heard, has ALWAYS compelled me to listen to the whole thing start to finish, every single time. I am highly bummed when I can't listen all the way through.

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Dirty Fonzie Greaser Rock!

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by tb3

There aren't enough thumbs up for this CATL song.

<3

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re: This Show, Like Most Shows, Is a Show About Music

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by StephRamsahai

Where's MikeV at? I'm scared.

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MikeV

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by tb3

on his way /slash/ or at

SAPPYFEST

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@tb3

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by StephRamsahai

OH YEAH! Okay, I'm good now. Thanks teebs! Haha.

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Yaa I Get It!

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by StephRamsahai

"The only thing I love more than rappin' is nappin'"

Yup. Same here.

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@semitones

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by countryfrench

I feel the same way about heartland. and thanks very much! i've had a very fun week.

will

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ooooo

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by suckamc

Sappyfest. Curses for the couple of us in my carload who have to work... But still, we'll only miss a few bands!

I'd like to echo above statements of thanks, and hope you had a good time Will! I hope to see you tour back east again, and hopefully play a different venue than The Wave (Baba's, Alibi, Hunters). Though I did still enjoy the Wave show. :)

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@tb3

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by countryfrench

yeah i see what you're saying, though even before this technology we had records that may have been good but you really only wanted to hear that one song. i think it was probably hard for a while to make records while thinking in terms of "singles", but some came through like @stephramsahai mentioned abbey road.

i think, though i'm not sure, more artists today think in terms of the album opposed to group of singles. maybe some have accepted that if they aren't the black eyed peas, their one single won't carry them, and that people want to hear more from them. i don't know.

will

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@suckamc

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by countryfrench

THANKS! yes, i really did have a great time this week. not just hosting but also peeking into this very cool online community of contributors like yourselves. it's a very neat thing to know that you're broadcasting to folks with such a real passion for music!

and yes, i'll be back east sooner rather than later i'm sure.

will

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@Will [13]

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by StephRamsahai

In regards to your second paragraph, I totally agree. I haven't really come across any albums recently where I only liked one song, or where the songs were random and didn't connect or flow. There have been albums (Forgiveness Rock Record) where I didn't like one of the songs (Forced To Love) and usually skip it, and this is one reason I'm glad we have the technology to do so today.

Oh! Another record I've listened to recently in it's entirety is Shad's TSOL and it was awesome to listen to front to back. There wasn't one song that didn't fit it, and I think that 90% of the time I listen to it it'll be front to back.

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The true test of a band (and whether I will like them)

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by tb3

Is how much of an album makes me want to listen to more.

If you make singles plus filler, I lose interest quick.

p.s. Suburbs — HOLY CRAP!

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a shift

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by suckamc

Is it perhaps a new thing that's happening again (?), a throwback to the vinyl days, that more albums are better listened to as a whole? Maybe we're in a recoil to the late 90's early 2000's single dominated albums. I certainly am listening to whole albums more than having something on shuffle...

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@tb3

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by StephRamsahai

Totally. There's this band called Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and I LOVE like 6 of the songs on the album, but the rest are only so-so, it's frustrating. With albums like this I often make my own version of the album. Heh.

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I think the return to vinyl

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by tb3

Is more about the consumer reclaiming the experience.

For me it was getting frustrated with the iPod I had and listening to 60% of any song and then skipping to another. I'd be conditioned into this musical A.D.D. thanks to the ability of having an ENTIRE library (of 300+ CDs) in my hand and the ability fan through without thinking about what I was listening to, much less why I was.

The bands we listen to, have been making whole albums all along. It's just now they can afford to put them together themselves and get them to market, rather than listening to a big label telling them to hold some back and add more filler so they have gold for the next album.

Vinyl is about the user experience. And about making the relationship between artist and fan more intimate and involved.

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re: This Show, Like Most Shows, Is a Show About Music

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by countryfrench

yeah there was a while there where i was getting pretty concerned about music, and it seemed like everything popular was just released as a single primarily and if you wanted more you could get the album which usually sucked. but i think we've reached a point where people who love music know where to find the good stuff...and it isn't on top 40 radio and it isn't one of the rare videos you ever see on tv these days. i guess it takes a bit of digging but it's worth it to come across a radio 3 playlist for example.

will

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P.S. MartinMC

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by tb3

SAPPYFEST!!!!!!

(enjoy you bastard)

((also more Suck on that TB3 videos, okay?))

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@taggy666 04

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by countryfrench

first of all, thank you!

and secondly, yes, hey rosetta! are really some of the best of the best. very few bands fill me with such jealousy and enjoyment at the same time.

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@tb3

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by countryfrench

yeah i agree, money plays a major part. major labes with major money want to make it back in a hurry with a hit single. poor people who can finally make a record i think do so because they have a great record to make.

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@countryfrench

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by taggy666

you nailed it right on the head. Hey Rosetta! is pure and simple musical genius in my opinion, and if you don't listen to the whole record, you just aren't listening to Hey Rosetta! as they were meant to be listened to :) Though, some songs are great on their own. you like HR!...you are my friend ^^ haha!

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@tb3

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by suckamc

I'll see if I can get a Vish version of that for you. :D I'm hoping to get videos of all of us Radio 3 listeners that will be at Sappy.

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re: This Show, Like Most Shows, Is a Show About Music

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by NVW

For me it's got to be Neon Bible by Arcade Fire.

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If you're playing a ceedee that also exists in vinyl,...

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by Benoit from Ottawa

...should you interrupt it where you would have to flip the record over?

(It's a silly question.)

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Fashion Blues

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by Benoit from Ottawa

Now playing.

Current fave. Don't know why. Pop as fuck, as say the Library Voices...

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The Maple Mountain Sunburst Triolian Orchestra

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by pollard

I desire to listen to albums from front to back. I think concepts can create additional flavour, but songs need to work individually before they can add to that flavour. Currently, I love listening to The Maple Mountain Sunburst Triolian Orchestra in its entirety. It's beautiful!

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Tic Toc Tic

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by Paul Fisher

Oh, that's another record that's worth listening to through, though it has a few songs that it's worth jumping into in the middle for. My favourite is "No Talking".

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Jetset motel

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by Jess_ik

Geez. this sounds like Wilco!

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hmmm

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by MoniSki

good morning everyone :)

well, if I look back to the more recent albums that I've been listening to, I'd say the new yukon blonde record is something that I've been listening to from front to back!

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Playing records right through

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by Benoit from Ottawa

There's another way?

Kidding. But I don't have any randomisation devices (except this computer, which I don't use for music, except here, streaming). Me, it's ceedees in one of various players (home, car, portable).

Oh, sometimes, I'll go straight to a favourite song, but generally it's right through by default.

IOW, it takes a song I really don't like, or am tired of, to step away from playing all the disc.

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ahhh Matt Barber!!!!

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by MoniSki

awwww good choice. I haven't heard this in a while... that reminds me... Matt Barber's EP I can listen to from front to back for sure. I know it's only a few songs.. but they are great :) and his first album "means and ends" i can do that as well :) awww Matt. *sigh*

ps. I used to listen to The Moffatts from front to back.... haha

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hi-oh?

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by MoniSki

does saying "front to back" not deserve a hi-oh?

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Off subject

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by Benoit from Ottawa

"The Oregon government is suing a Calgary mother for the cost of keeping her son in foster care for two years while she fought for his return to Canada.

The boy, now 12, was visiting his stepfather in Oregon in 2008 when police there picked him up for not wearing his bike helmet.

U.S. officials didn't recognize the boy's stepfather as a legal guardian, so he was sent to a foster home, setting off a long legal battle. A U.S. judge finally allowed him to return to live with his mother and younger sister in Calgary last month.

This week, the mother — who cannot be identified along with her son — received a notice from the provincial court of Alberta that Oregon wants to be reimbursed for child support and medical costs incurred while the boy was under the state's care.

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Dear MoniSki

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by Benoit from Ottawa

No, you have to say "I love Matt Barber front to back", or something lke that, to rate a real Hi-O*.

Is it even LEGAL to do hi-os outside Craig's program?

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@moniski

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by countryfrench

haha,yeah I think the moffatts come to all of our minds when speaking about prolific artists. good call.

will

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@Benoit from Ottawa

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by MoniSki

I love Matthew Barber from front to back.

hi oh

it's always legel!

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@will

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by MoniSki

they even hosted the Junos one year. So really, they are probably the most important Canadian boy band of the early 2000s.

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whole album

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by dawn.h

I don't listen any other way. But the majority of my intense listening is on-the-move. I burn a CD (shut up!) for the car - in fact my twist is finding a musician to match the full album and fill the whole CD up (best so far: The Cons with a touch of EB at the end).

In fact, does it not sort of irk others at parties or dinners when a great song is on and then the stereo shuffles to another musician.. and you think.. man but the next song on that album is so good?

I think Mr Collett makes good listen-to-it-all albums.

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@MoniSki

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by suckamc

They're Canadian?! Who knew! Why aren't they on R3?

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Will

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by dawn.h

You were a wonderful co-host. Come back any time.

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@Martin and other Sappyfesters

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 by dawn.h

Have a great time. And know.. we're all jealous. Ha.

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