While films are best enjoyed with other people - you go to the cinema with your friends, or get them 'round your house to watch a DVD - music is often characterised as the refuge of the loner. If you want to see the latest big movie, you rifle through your phonebook to see who's available; if you want to listen to that new album that everyone's talking about, you go up to your bedroom and put on your headphones. Alone.
Obviously there are environments like clubs and gig venues where music becomes a shared experience, but this is The Album Wall, not The Sticky Floor - I'm specifically talking about listening to albums in full, the way you'd watch a film in full at your local Cineworld. Can you enjoy an album when you're listening to it with other people? Can the presence of other people actually enhance one's appreciation of an album? Or is it always better when you're on your own?
