What's the minimum amount of listening one has to do to have "heard" an album?

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Pop philosophy problem, peeps!

How much of an album do you have to listen to in order to have "heard" it? All of it? Some of it (which parts)? How many times?

"Heard" here means that would answer in the affirmative to the question "Have you heard PRETENTIOUS_ALBUM_NAME by NEWLY_HYPED_BAND?".

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People who want to go into more detail about their album listening process, please do so in the comments! Especially if it is really kooky or baroque ("I wear special album-listening pants, I sit in a special sound-conditioned room, I disappear with the album up a mountain for two days surviving purely on its audio for sustenance")

Comments

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

To have heard an album, you have to play it right through, without necessarily giving each track your full attention. But it is quite acceptable to dismiss the band on less than a whole album listen, so long as you do not mislead when so doing.