They will need to do back-to-back exorcism on us. My habits are not the same but clearly are ABNORMAL. I only listen to Spotify in the car and I keep playlists of single artists. Some are days worth of music and I play them from start to finish.
Most of the spectrum people I know did this in one form or another. I usually hear that they play the same song over and over in a loop for days.
I get a little more variety than that. I get different renditions of the same show program.
What is wrong with it, I suppose it is because NORMAL people don't do that. I don't know what they mean by normal but when I use it I mean 1 two standard deviations based on a trait being discussed.
@NaraMoore
The candle deserving priest seems to have become one with the force by now, if what a friend from those days tell me is true. And I've been lazy to go to that damned school to investigate…=)
About the music listening, I'm not in that group (yet). At most I repeat a song a few times if it's one of my all time favorites, like Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. What I find funny about such "normal" people is the aplomb of their accusations, and that they can't tell me why is this wrong…=)
@NaraMoore
That's the fun part about this. They can't understand that I simply like to do this. I mean, I'm almost always listen to the main playlist, an abomination that includes music from Mozart to Marilyn Manson, for example, and that is criticized, too. But not like my "sick" habit of listening to a full album. And when I tell someone I sometimes listen from the CD, they flip. But I'm the madman, of course…=)
@NaraMoore
Please note that I'm not denying my insanity. I pride on it. Just that listening to the full Queen II album is NOT an evidence of it. Having more than one version of said album (and many, many others) might be…>=)
@ixtlidekami@NaraMoore I prefer to listen to full albums, but I'm old enough that that is how we had to listen to things (unless it was a radio program with DJs and ads).
@elysegrasso@NaraMoore
Same here. I love my Tough Mixes, but listening to a full album, from the time when artists didn't recorded "single collections" is a great experience…=)
We had albums but the wonder of cassette tapes had happened by the time I started to seriously listen to more than the radio. So we had "variety tapes."
And bootleg tapes. Which is probably closest to what I now mainly listen to.
@NaraMoore@elysegrasso
I remember making mix tapes from the radio. There was a station here where the DJ gave a signal that let listeners know the next song would be played without "watermarks" so people could record them…=)
"Bootleg" not as in pirated tapes but concert and club recordings made by people in the audience. Usually made on the sly since you were not supposed to be recording.
@ixtlidekami@NaraMoore
I just checked wikipedia, and mix-tapes did not become common until the 80s, while I got my second masters in '81.
I have realized that I don't create playlists for my stories or characters (or even for my own listening: Pandora is very annoying because it won't play albums or sides) because as a child of the 60s and 70s that's not how music works in my head.
I would hate to disagree with Wikipedia but we were making varity tapes in the mid to late 70s. Let's see I was in the military from 74 to 75 so we were def making variety tapes in the mid 70s
@NaraMoore@ixtlidekami They said 'common', so it probably started years earlier in various regions and subcultures, then spread as the tech became available and affordable.
Tech (and prices) changed FAST in those days.
I got a fancy slide-rule for high-school graduation in 72, never used it because in freshman year the rich kids had $200 4-function calculators you could borrow. By 77ish I could buy my own calculator that did trig functions and exponents for $35.
Music gear evolved fast too.
Actually... I'm old enough that what I used to listen to was really half-albums. My record player would go back to the beginning after playing a side, so when I was using an album as a sound-block during studying I often heard one album-side more than once before I got around to turning the record over or replacing it on the turntable with something different.
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