> when you review thousands of CDs you only listen to the first 10 maybe
> 15 seconds.

This is one of those things that really bugs me. People who's business it is to listen and critique music for a living get so jaded that they'll only listen to the first 10 seconds of something before tossing it in the garbage heap if it doesn't 'grab' their attention.
Music is more than just blowing somebody away in the first few seconds.
It's about well written lyrics, good melodies, musicianship and a dozen other things that requires you to listen to a song and judge a band as a whole.
Maybe this is one of the reasons why there's so much crap on the radio these days... all the bands are trying to cookie cut the same 'attention grabbing' demos for jaded music business types, that they all end up sounding the same.
I'd hate to think what would have happened if an A&R rep had only listened to the first 10 seconds of Van Halens 1st album and then just tossed it away before getting to Eruption. Or hearing Dark Side of the Moon and rejecting it because the intro with the coins was too boring.