Yes definitely and I don't have a playlist right now cause I'm still acclimating to the complete box set

they really perfected that otherworldliness on Slip Inside this House

I went on Steve Hoffman to see what they had to say about which version was best and was immediately out of my depth with all the talk of pressings and stuff

Refined not perfected

Prefer the earlier primal energy

but I Want You is the best pop song ever recorded is it not

you can still probably find you answer, just gotta shift through the vinyl talk

youtu.be/aehwEu8SBSo

i use Musicbee which I have laid out basically the same as iTunes. i just had to switch a few years ago because iTunes search of my whole library started taking like 10 seconds to load and scrolling lagged on my s***ty laptop back then.

I have "playlists" that I use, but theyre really just piles of albums categorized in certain ways. The main playlist "all" is just the entire library. The other main playlist is called Protein based off Henry Rollins method. "Protein is when you’re burning. You’re finding new bands, you’re trying to push yourself. You’re listening to bands where you know it’s good, but it’s tough. You have to drag yourself up to it. You put in the time." its the playlist with all the albums i'm currently digesting that I listened to for the first time in the past 6 months or so. i've tried to keep the total albums in there lower but now its a somewhat manageable ~100. when its gotten bigger things really get out of hand with the digestion process. The ideal standard that I've started using is an album typically stays in there for about 5 listens. if it's something I'm really feeling then it's at least 10, and for the rare cases where I dislike it its only like 2-3 listens. i used to have bigger standards for these numbers but ngl I kinda caved and lowered them partially out of needing less listens for styles I already know and love, and just wanting to listen to more music. the original number I started at was 15. After the album is done in the Protein playlist, it goes into the Rate playlist where I give it one more non-super passive listen and log it into Rateyourmusic, then delete it from the rate playlist. At that point the first round of digestion ends. but recently I've found that a second round of digestion is when I really especially fall in love with an artist, and happens once I put them away for a year or two and then suddenly really want to revisit it. then i'll give as many non-protein listens as I want as long as I'm feeling it. there's also a playlist of albums I just downloaded to listen to for the first time, usually stays at <50. in my other notepad file of non-music stuff I'll also throw artists/album names on there as I discover them to download some time later

so those are the "piles" of albums that I choose from. I have yet to find a good way to split the following and always break my own guidelines, but this is what I've been going with for now roughly. I assume like 12 listening hours for a normal work day (though its actually more like 10-11), and I divide it between albums in the Protein pile, albums in the Rate pile, albums to revisit for secondary digestion, and just simple extracirricular listening of whatever I want to hear the most. typical divide that I'm trying to go for is like 5 hours of protein digestion, 2 first-time listen albums that get added into the Protein pile. 1 hour of rating albums, 1 hour of secondary digestion, and 4 hours of whatever I want at the end of the night. Recently though because its nearing the end of 2021 and I want to whittle down my currently ~100 albums ready to rate as much as possible, I'm probably doing 4 hours of that a day. then as a result im kinda falling behind on the regular protein

as for choosing the albums for each day: at the beginning of every week I will make other playlist piles of albums of the different categories: protein, rate, re-listen, 1st listen. then for the next day I will choose albums accordingly from those piles and make it into another playlist ie: Thurs daytime. the daytime playlist aims to be like 8 hours, and then there's another nighttime playlist where I will add the albums I'm really feeling for the tomorrow night. and for that I just have a notepad file with a list of the artists I'm currently binging on every night so I don't forget. Weekend is similar but I tend to do a lot more of the "whatever i want" listening. then on Sunday I kind of clear everything out and prepare all the piles again

The playlists I plan out for each day are very idealized though and I almost always fall behind, like I'll have 10 albums on there but for some reason or another I only got to 8 of them, then the other 2 have to roll over to the next day etc. which pushes everything back again. but I figure its better to have a larger list then to have a smaller realistic list that I might reach the end of and have nothing left to listen to. ill also totally break the rules sometimes and just kick an album out of the protein list and just slap a quick rating on it if things are getting super congested and I'm not feeling it

and i think that covers the listening process for now lol. always looking to try to perfect it though and its changed a lot from when it started

edit: also should say that I do such a scheduled order of listening because I found that when I'm interested and thinking of something that's when I really want to listen, so spur of the moment decisions and shuffle don't do it as much for me

I could tell they were only going to talk about vinyl versions and would just at my desire to hear digital versions on the go at work in the car and stuff

the pressing stuff is superfluous a lot of the time when they're going super deep, I'd just try to look on there and see if there's a general consensus of mono vs. stereo, or if some remaster or version was particularly terrible

i looked through a gigantic Sabbath pressing thread where everyone was swearing by one particular version then I checked it out and it didn't even sound noticeably different to the regular remaster I already had

a lot of them are cd guys though, (most) dont blindly hate digital

@Elric gave you my autistic spiel so you gotta give your method summary to refresh my memory

also should mention that nowadays since living along I usually listen on my big speakers all day, except the last few hours which are headphones sitting in bed

can't get mad at that but I Want You is the zenith

they released the whole 1966 live recordings a couple years back and he actually played Positively electric. bet you havent heard

only 50 years until we can discuss real music

1. Bob Dylan - Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
2. Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
3. Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
4. Bob Dylan - One Of Must Know (Sooner or Later)
5. Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna
6. The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love
7. Bob Dylan - I Want You
8. Neil Diamond - Solitary Man
9. Monkees - I'm a Believer
10. Them! - Gloria
11. Kinks - Dead End Street
12. Fugs - Virgin Forest
13. Mothers of Invention - Wowie Zowiee
14. Cher - Bang Bang
15. Ike & Tina Turner - River Deep Mountain High
16. Troggs - Wild Thing
17. Mothers of Invention - Anyway The WInd Blows
18. Mothers of Invention - Help I'm a Rock
19. Bob Dylan - Absolutely Sweet Marie
20. Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside the Middle of Mobile
21. Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice
22. Rolling Stones - 19th Century Nervous Breakdown
23. Beach Boys - God Only Knows
24. Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
25. The Mamas & The Papas - I Saw Her Again
26. Kinks - Dedicated Follower of Fashion
27. Rolling Stones - Have You Seen Your Mother?
28. Mothers Of Invention - How Could I Be Such a Fool?
29. Paul Butterfield - East West
30. Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves a Woman

didn't think anybody else acknowledged One Of Us Must Know as a clear Blonde highlight

You Can't Hurry Love that high but no You Keep Me Hanging On

19th Century Nervous Breakdown the Stones/Crimson mashup we never knew we needed

I will respond in due time sorry

forgot that one (and many others tbh).

Jamerson f***in snapped on that bass line almost a toss up between that and Reach Out for best Motown song of the year and also best James Jamerson baseline gotta be the two strongest singles they came out with in a single year

Do you think Sad Eyed Lady is Dylan's masterpiece? Almost felt like he was acknowledging that on Sara when he's like "woman, I wrote this for you"