Creating artist playlists vs saving songs?

Just wondered how most people do when it comes to artist related listening, do you guys save all albums to a long playlist, do you only save the "essentials" in a shorter playlist or do you tend to more listen to the albums in full and just save the albums of artists?

I struggle to find the ultimate way to use spotify because if I save all the albums I want to listen to I feel the app becomes too cluttered, but that's the only way to get the songs into the artists profile.