who still listens to whole albums?

[Radish6404]

I think that whole albums are boring to listen because the artists use the time of 80 minutes for track fillers. There are no albums with all tracksthat are great , even from the best goa trance artists like MElectric Universe, Miranda and MFG. Astral Projection filled Astral files only wit hone les goood track Enlightened Evolution Remix, however the trust in Trance 3 album contains Englightened Evolution and Black and White, which are definatly track fillers for me. Also Trust in Trance 2 has a lot of track fillers, not to forget that the quality of the tracks of Trust in Trance 2 is poor. If I compare to Culture Beat from Germany, the tracks sound way more melodic and complex and of much better mixing quality than Trust in Trance 2, released in 1994, the same year when the masterpeaces of Culture Beat Call me Mr. Whine and Washing in the rain. The simple tracks In novation, Voodoo experience, beautiful but still simple and many others on that album where just simple. Goa Trance (especially Astral Projection) should have beenmuch more complex and melodic in 1994 and of much better mixing quality, just like Culture Beat and other Eurodance artists. Miranda is also not very good to list en for whole albums, I think the best album of Miranda with the tracks Mars needs wome and U are alone has only2 other good tracks.  Also the albums Electric Universe ONe Love and Electric Universe "Stardiver" do have rack fillers, I do not want to mention in this post. The best Astral Projection track is "visions of Nasca" remix, but it is the onlygood track on the album, Raja Rams Pipeworm. All other tracks are boring on this album. The way I listen to music is creating playlists on Mediamonkey and listen only to good tracks. What is your way of listein g to music or do you like to listen to MFG The Propehcy with the boring tracks, to Eternity and Illumination? MFg in my opinion is better than Astral Projection, but there are a few good tracks on each album, only.

[abasio]

I only every listen to albums or compilations. I do not like playlists, for basically the same reason you state for not listening to albums 😂 I find there is too much filler, while with a proper album, I find the whole journey more cohesive, and while some tracks might not be as good as the others, I feel they still add to the journey. I don't want 80 minutes where everything is the same level, I want some peaks, and some plateaus. I will listen to properly made mixes when the DJ can fully understand the need for movement in the mix and not just keeping everything at the same level. There are some excellent concept albums and compilations: Pleiadians first 2 are amazing journeys and the Crystal Skulls compilations too understand this need for a cohesive journey. At least that is what I like. 

[Radish6404]

Nice opinion. In my opinion, the labels like spirit Zone and the label of Goa Head had problems putting tracks on them with the same level. Some tracks are just boring to me. Also there are extremly good Pleiadians tracks, but on Seven sisters I only like Starbase 11, which is one of the best Goa Trance tracks in goa trance history.

[acid being]

I usually listen to whole albums and sometimes compilations. Almost never playlists of individual tracks though occasionally I will use playlists of multiple albums while working. On the best albums of some of my most favorite artists there are rarely any truly poor tracks. I am thinking of things like Dimension 5 - Transdimensional, both Hallucinogen albums, anything by Elysium, all of RA's stuff. Basically what abasio said that a good album has a cohesive and interesting journey.

I will have to give MFG - The Prophecy some more listens to comment on that. With MFG I started out listening to Pure Energy a lot and never got bored with the tracks on that, but not listened to their earlier stuff quite as many times yet.

I do listen to a lot of Goa trance albums by other artists to try and find more stuff I like and sometimes to write reviews. And in other cases, sure, it can get boring or samey after a lot of listening. I usually listen while I am busy going about my day, so if it was a playlist of loads of different artists, I often wouldn't know who I was hearing unless I sit down at the computer and check for the best stuff.