The last time I remember doing this is when I first discovered Tom Waits and while I did like seeing how his music progressed over his career, I still found myself mostly just picking the songs I liked off each album and listening to those. Nonetheless, I do kind of regret that I'll never really get to enjoy the experience of discovering a band or artist and the journey of going through their discography as opposed to just listening to whatever song I happen to be into at the time on repeat. I guess it says a lot about mine and other people from my generation's attention spans.
Personally, as someone who grew up with the Internet being my main source of music, I've become accustomed (or maybe desensitized is a better word) to this fact and now I enjoy songs as a format more than albums - which I'm sure older music fans would find horrifying to think of. July 1, - I agree that the music industry seems to be much more about singles than albums nowadays. I really liked that feeling of getting my hands on a track that other people had difficulty finding - it would be a point of pride to have something that your friends didn't. In my opinion I am not really sure that having such an ease of access to all of the tracks from an artist is that great as it makes the whole field of collecting seem less of a challenge. One of the things I have noticed changing with the popularity of CDs, then digital files is how much easier it is now to pick up bonus tracks and B-side content. If you are an avid music collector looking at discographies can be an amazing way to build up your collection and make sure you have all of the music from an artist. For myself it feels like it is a more enjoyable way to track a group's progress if you have more chances to track their musical direction. I actually preferred having more albums released with less content as I loved to collect not just the music but the unique packaging assigned to each album, and more "snapshots" of where an artist's thinking was at during a particular point in time. I have noticed when looking through new discographies that the albums released today have many more songs than they used to prior to the CD age, with many albums today pushing the 60-minute mark. That kind of made it fun, sort of like the thrill achieved while playing a Nintendo game and finally progressing to the next level.įor those that are into collecting music do you prefer the modern business model of artists releasing longer albums every few years, or do you enjoy having more frequent releases, with fewer songs? I had very little money at the time, so it would take me awhile to buy the next album on the list. I followed them to complete my quest of becoming the true ultimate fan. I was at the age when I could and wanted to give my undying devotion away to musical groups.ĭiscographies to me were like a to-do list. I found them while searching for Celtic music online, and I intend to go through their discography until I have all of their works.Īs a teenager, I frequently became a major fan of several bands very quickly. Iona is from Scotland, which I'm sure is part of the reason that not too many people in the United States have heard of them. I love the Celtic band Iona, and even Amazon only had one of their CDs for sale. Discographies are extremely helpful when you are trying to locate all of the music available from an artist whose music cannot be found in music stores or even on iTunes.
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