When I first buy and listen to an album I always cherry pick to see if there are standout songs on the cd. One reason, those standout (as in easily accessible) songs make wanting to listen to that album easy and for another I usually listen to a cd on the way home from the store and so at most I have time for only a handful of songs and at that point I'm not looking for depth.
But when I'm listening at home while working on the computer I just let the album play out in its entirety and over many listens songs that did not stand out on first listen become my very favorites on that album. So much so that when someone says there only two or three good songs on a given cd I just blink at them in wonder because as far as I was concerned there wasn't a dud in the bunch.
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Whine bitch moan, rinse and repeat.
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