Perception:Your "Best" Album vs Album You Listen T - Music

meccalecca

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ButterThumbz wrote:

I was surprised by that response too. This strikes me as exactly the kind of discussion you have been trying to instigate, in your own twisted way.

As for my take on this, certainly with regard to my top twenty odd, they are albums which I return to again and again. Music Has The Right To Children is at my number one spot because it's an album the I return to more than any other. It was love at first listen.

Ha. I hope I didn't give the impression that I was trying to instigate something in the way some people post threads about how a specific popular bands sucks. I was just bored and looking to start an intellectual music discussion about our approaches to our charts.

Fortunately, everyone who responded did so with insight.

But, objectively speaking, we an still all agree that Crazytown was a horrible band, right?

ShaneSpear

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meccalecca wrote:

But, objectively speaking, we an still all agree that Crazytown was a horrible band, right?

YES

ButterThumbz

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meccalecca wrote:

Ha. I hope I didn't give the impression that I was trying to instigate something in the way some people post threads about how a specific popular bands sucks. I was just bored and looking to start an intellectual music discussion about our approaches to our charts.

I was more referring to threads criticising people for making extra effort to get into critically acclaimed albums and their supposed offhand dismissal of mainstream artists.

ButterThumbz

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Mother Nature's Son wrote:

I've placed an album by a band called Oasis on my overall chart today. The name of the album is (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. I decided to place it there because I relistened to it today and realized that I have listened to it many times and because I have such an nostalgic feeling about most of the tracks. I'm also considering putting their Standing on the Shoulder of Giants there. Again, nostalgia! I'm the biggest Oasis fan on these forums, am I right? 8)Abbey Road.

Well, Oasis are one of those bands that were easy to bash, ripping off whoever they saw fit and strutting around like they were the best thing since sliced heroin. Having said that, Some Might Say is possibly one of the greatest EPs in existence.

Kiki

ButterThumbz wrote:

I was surprised by that response too. This strikes me as exactly the kind of discussion you have been trying to instigate, in your own twisted way.

As for my take on this, certainly with regard to my top twenty odd, they are albums which I return to again and again. Music Has The Right To Children is at my number one spot because it's an album the I return to more than any other. It was love at first listen.

The line I highlighted is one I felt to be wrong to myself. The user is saying there are albums we want to love or appreciate so much that we rank them higher. Along with "the albums we truly love" before, the bolded part is implying that people find albums they want to like or appreciate and failing to have them in the former category (of loving them) rate them highly anyway. While I don't know if the person who started the topic intended to imply such things, it is simply a view I can not agree with. 😕

Are people putting more than there favorites in the chart? 🤔 Well it looks as though people can give legitimate reasons for doing so.

ButterThumbz

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an_outlaw wrote:

The line I highlighted is one I felt to be wrong to myself. The user is saying there are albums we want to love or appreciate so much that we rank them higher. Along with "the albums we truly love" before, the bolded part is implying that people find albums they want to like or appreciate and failing to have them in the former category (of loving them) rate them highly anyway. While I don't know if the person who started the topic intended to imply such things, it is simply a view I can not agree with. :?

I fully understand that you do not agree with the OP but surely the discussion it has sparked is along the same lines as a few recent threads you posted.

meccalecca

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an_outlaw wrote:

The line I highlighted is one I felt to be wrong to myself. The user is saying there are albums we want to love or appreciate so much that we rank them higher. Along with "the albums we truly love" before, the bolded part is implying that people find albums they want to like or appreciate and failing to have them in the former category (of loving them) rate them highly anyway. While I don't know if the person who started the topic intended to imply such things, it is simply a view I can not agree with. 😕

Are people putting more than there favorites in the chart? 🤔 Well it looks as though people can give legitimate reasons for doing so.

Oh, I wasn't trying to criticize anyone. Really. I was more or less attempting to raise the idea of consciously and subconsciously liking something.

For example, if your favorite band releases an album, you'll likely put more effort into listening to it than many other albums. You want that album to be just as good as past releases. Anything less is disappointment.

On the other hand, there may be a random record that you have no real personal attachments to, but for some reason beyond your understanding, you keep going back to it and listening over and over again.

Because this desire to listen to said album is on such a subconscious level you may not realize just how much you love it.

paladisiac

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My overall chart (and other charts) reflects my true all-time favorites. That doesn't mean i listen to them often. I have so much music and am constantly listening to so much new-to-my-ears music that i don't have much time to reach back to many albums, let alone my all-time favorites. However, my all-time favorites, especially those closer to #1, have earned that distinction. I listened to "the lamb" quite often about 3 years straight from when i first purchased it. I'd say the duration was 2 years from initial purchase of "mellon collie". i didn't even need my own copy of "thriller" as that album was *everywhere* for a few years (and i loved every minute).

The only way that i could focus on listening to my all-time favorites is to sacrifice hearing new music and music that's new to me. I'd miss out on discovering new sounds and possible new gems and i'm currently unwilling to make that sacrifice.
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Robert Anton Wilson

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It may be true for me in regards to some years chart when there are nearly no albums from that year and none of which are my favorites. Then I may include a highly praised album that I haven't had time to get into or properly rate yet just to give my chart some meat and where it falls in the rank is basically random for me so the claim accompanying it may make it bubble at the surface.

But it definitely does not happen on my overall chart, custom charts, or in those year charts of mine that you can see are well populated because these are years I am familiar with.