The Velvet Underground

What I am about to say is only important or valid if you are interested in expanding your musical horizons. If you're not, then it's possibly going to come across wrong, and I may sound like an asshole.

I really do understand what you're experiencing with these albums. 6 years ago I was in the same boat. This doesn't mean to insinuate that you should want to or feel like you should change the way you listen to music. I am simply pointing out that the way you're listening to music has limited workability. Limited only in the sense in that, if you stick with it, you're unlikely to branch out very much on your musical tastes.

As you say, "I note how an album makes me feel".
It's reactionary. What I mean when I say "looking for the emotion" is causing your affection for an album, not just playing an album and letting it hit you.

Before I go any further I want to assure you that the way you listen to music is not incorrect or wrong or anything. I am simply showing you another route. Mine is not the right route. I've just found it more workeable on a broader scale, that's all. And it is totally fine if you think what I am saying is a bunch of crap. But if you go with it, you may open up a whole new world of listening enjoyment.

Let me explain: most everyone sooner or later, just before or after they get into music, develop and decide on what they like. It can mean a genre, or their favorite band. In looking at your lists and posts, it seems to mostly be melodic folk or pop. Therefore, you are probably most likely to go into listening to a new album with an ideal of "melodic folk/pop" or perhaps "like Blood on the Tracks". There is very little on the first two Velvet Underground albums that follows this ideal. Now, what if you went into an album looking for conviction of emotion? Do you see how that might be more all-encompassing? How it could allow you to see the power and profundity in Sister Ray, which is an emotional odyssey taken to obscene heights? Or what about the build-up and ensuing orgasm that splits open the finale of Heroin? Or the swinging pendulum between life and death that overwhelms Venus In Furs? Or the apocolyptic frenzy of European Son?

Going into an album with a limited ideal will force you to react to an album based on that ideal, as opposed to being more at a cause point as to how you garner feelings from it. Innately, as a being, you really can experience anything. Using your mind, you can think of anything you want, and to greater or lesser degree, experience the emotion in that thought as if it were partially or wholly real. So if you go into an album wanting to have an experience via communicated emotion, then you're much more likely to derive what's great about any and all styles of music than using any other way. This will lead you to a much fuller vocabulary of assessing, dissecting and loving many, perhaps all, musics. With the admirable audacity of your plan to tackle all an artists' works this could be a very desireable route for you. Would you agree? Is there anything you disagree with? Is there anything you want me to explain further?