Well, if one of my friends tells me to listen to a band I've never heard of before, I'll usually ask what album they recommend and listen to that. If I like what I hear I'll try some of their other albums, if not, well at least I listened to one album and gave that a fair chance. If it's a band I know of but only one or two songs I've heard of I'll usually do the same thing - pick an album and listen to it. And if it's a band I KNOW I really wanna get into I listen to their first album and work my way up from there.
A lot of my friends will just go for the singles first or maybe a best-of compilation before digging into deeper tracks though. That's great for some people but for me I feel like I'm only scratching the surface of the band's music if I do that and am missing out on a lot of potentially good songs. To each their own I guess xP
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