I just read that with all the mp3s, iPods, digital music culture or let's call it music 2.0 we lose the sense for audio quality and when schoolkids listen to their mp3s with high pitched handy speakers, I could go apeshit. If you like music, no - let's say you love music, you can't bear this shit quality and you rather wait for the moment you can listen to your favorite tunes on a reasonable stereo or maybe your car radio. I can wait for my music and I sometimes listen to a full album, I like to collect albums and listen to them as one big song - sometimes it is easy to tell if a artist is really good, if there are 16 songs on a album and just 2 are good, it is most likely a shitty artist, if all songs are just average, then it makes him (in my eyes) a better artist the the 2 hit artist. I can't understand why people can't find time or even try to listen to a whole album. Let's compare it to a good meal, 2 weeks ago I had a huge (medium-rare) t-bone steak, potatoes, beans and salad - the whole meal is the album and there are parts (let's face it) no one can eat - bones (yeah, yeah - there are people eating lightbulbs, airplanes and shit, but for my metaphor, please ignore those people) and there are things that some people don't like as much as others (me, I like the meat, salad, beans, potatoes - in that order) a vegetarian would have a different order and so on. If I would be a song person, I would just eat a small part out of my steak and the rest I can't even smell, taste or look at, I ignore it, that's what a lot of people do, with songs, not meals. Song people, can't you even try the rest of the meal and then say you don't like the cook? I never understood the fact that there are Singles, I mean, yes, '2 Unlimited' repeated the same song over and over and if you know 'No Limits' you know all there work, but consider at least, that if you like this particular song, maybe there are songs you like as much as this on there album and that's easier then looking for a similar artist.

And... people that like everything - fuck you! (excuse my explicit language, I just watched the documentary 'FUCK - The Documentary' - i like the sound, the word and all the different meanings it can have)
Are you trying to tell me you like Dave Matthews Band, Lady GaGa, Despised Icon, Waking The Cadaver, Manowar, Explosions In The Sky, Slipknot, Leonard Cohen, Suicide Silence, Marc Cohn, Mercenary, East 17, Bach and Heaven Shall Burn? Then you are very close to my taste in music and you are honest (East 17, Manowar, Bach and Waking The Cadaver in one sentence), but you (- for fucks sake - ) don't like everything.

If you still think you like everything, then never complain about music anywhere - you just lost that right, if you are a song person - please tell me why - I'd love to learn something.

Nachtrag: hab ich doch glatt die deutsche Kurzversion vergessen... Es geht mir um Leute die entweder einzelne Songs moegen oder komplette Alben anhoeren (zu letzterer Gattung zaehle ich), sei es weil Ihnen die Zeit fehlt oder die Geduld. Ich meine nur einzelne Songs anzuhoeren ist nicht die Wuerdigung die bestimmte Kuenstler verdient haetten, wer nimmt sich den noch Zeit und hoert ein Album eins Gesamtkonzept, denn auch wenn manche speziell als solche gekennzeichnet sind, ist doch jedes ein Gesamtkonzept und Kunstwerk. Ich bin dafuer sich mehr mit Musik zu beschaeftigen und ruhig einem Kuenstler einen mit einem Song begeistern kann, die Chance zu geben das mit anderen der seinigen genauso zu tun. Dann hab ich noch ein bisschen rumgemeckert wie doof (ich hab 'fuck' verwendet - gibt leider kein schoenes deutsches Aeqivalent) ich Menschen finde deren Musikgeschmack aus: "ich mag alles" besteht, hab dann diverse Kuenstler die ich mag aufgezaehlt die unterschiedlicher nicht sein koennen und dich ich doch alle mag und ich wette, jeder Alleshoerer findet mindestens einen Kuenstler der meinigen, die derjenige nicht mag!