My second theory is that a really good album (or perhaps even any album) will grow on you and that will mean that on first listen you may have one or two favourite tracks, and then as you get more familiar with the album you favourite tracks change. Eventually (for a good album only?) you may end up liking all or most of the tracks and having them each as your favourite at one point in time.
How this experiment will work . . .
Like the first experiment, I need an album that I am already not familiar with. I shall then listen to it, and comment about which tracks I like and which I don't (or which I "get" and which I don't "get"). I'll update the comments every now and then to see if this develops.
I think I should nominate the debut album by
The Twang, Love It When I I Feel Like This. As explained in a previous blog entry:
"I've been waiting for this for ages (well since beginning of the year when everyone got Twang mad as it was some kind of Happy Mondays comeback thing). Liked first single Wide Awake. Album not immediate. Not as immediate as Cookies by 1990's. Get that instead. Shame. I'm sure it's a grower."
And I have been told by a work colleague that it is a good album. So a perfect candidate. I have listened to it once. Twice at most.
I nominate “The Downward Spiral” by NIN