Many of you may already know my stance, share or partly share my stance on the activity of 'listening to music', or disagree which is fair enough as most probably do. I have felt for many years that to truly enjoy listening to music, it has to suit the correct mood that you aim to be in (or that you are in, without choice). Therefore, nothing beats playing a favourite album. Whichever one you choose, an album provides a journey (chosen by the artist). You begin this journey of roughly 45 minutes, 1 hour, or however long, at track 1. The artist spends great care in choosing the order of tracks, designed to travel you through various moods, at different times within it's duration. This style could be compared to a DJ of whatever music, taking their audience along a journey of emotion in their set.
This provides my argument against shuffled music with good backing. I do however, listen to a lot of my music in an endless, shuffled mode. I always feel rubbish doing this, as my emotive journey only lasts for the length of any one track, and then it is shuffled, changed to that of another. I feel guilty doing this as if I am letting not only myself down in not experiencing the emotion of the album, and also letting down the artist in not fully experiencing the track how it was designed to be.
OK, that is my argument against mp3s. I do however realise that it is the way music is going, hold my hands up and admit to all of the points that I argue against. Previously, I had been buying the CD of any album that i wanted. I realise that my stance was far from eco-friendly or sustainable, and, combined with the fact of buying the current Radiohead album, The King Of Limbs, as it is only available, currently, on mp3, I have willingly 'joined the club' of mp3 usage.
This provides my argument against shuffled music with good backing. I do however, listen to a lot of my music in an endless, shuffled mode. I always feel rubbish doing this, as my emotive journey only lasts for the length of any one track, and then it is shuffled, changed to that of another. I feel guilty doing this as if I am letting not only myself down in not experiencing the emotion of the album, and also letting down the artist in not fully experiencing the track how it was designed to be.
OK, that is my argument against mp3s. I do however realise that it is the way music is going, hold my hands up and admit to all of the points that I argue against. Previously, I had been buying the CD of any album that i wanted. I realise that my stance was far from eco-friendly or sustainable, and, combined with the fact of buying the current Radiohead album, The King Of Limbs, as it is only available, currently, on mp3, I have willingly 'joined the club' of mp3 usage.
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