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Originally Posted by Tervuren
For me, personally, if I'm hitting the skip button on a track, I need to find another CD to put in that spot. I like albums designed to flow in either thought or sound, from one song to another.
I currently do have an exception loaded into my car though, there were two songs written after the album production was in process, I skip those two to get the album as it should of been released.
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^sounds as if your A.D.D. is not so severe as mine. But I expect we all have our favorite songs, and the digital formats make instant gratification too easy.
Aside from the fact that as a listener you are "forced" into hearing a complete set of tracks, I also think the length of the LP format is ideal for that. Of course commercially manufactured cassettes and early Compact Discs followed that formula, so lend themselves to consumption of an entire album. Once CDs took hold, record companies started filling the extra space the format allows with bonus tracks and they became too long for my wandering attention I suppose. Now in fully digital land, the concept of an album is going away. People often just buy individual songs.