Monday 5 January 2009

The 5 Listens Test

I firmly believe that any CD of music is worth the 5 listens test.  Basically I listen to it 5 times through each time to give it some level of chance.  I often listen to an album once and twice and do not think it is great butjust about listen 5 it clicks.  I thought of this again at the weekend when I was spring cleaning my sister-in-laws house and we dug up a bag of LPs from the 90s and listened to 'Complete Madness' all the way through on vinyl.

It reminded me of when we used to sit in living rooms and listen to LPs 10-20-30 times in a row.  This never happens now but we can at least try the 5 listen test.  I am currently doing this with the new Animal Collective album Merriweather Post Pavilion

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