i started making a list of my favorite songs on a weekly basis freshman year of high school because i thought it would be fun and i've been obsessed with music since i was 2. (indulging or not, mom said i had song lyrics memorized by age 2 or 3.) i cut that down to a yearly songs chart before entering college because i didn't think i'd have the time to keep a weekly chart up, but picked it back up a year-and-a-half into college.
I didn't think of making a weekly album chart until 1995 (first full year out of college). Again, i did so because i thought it would be fun.
And it was fun. I kept those weekly charts up until April 2010 when my last PC hard drive crashed and i discovered i didn't make a backup of the music stuff since 2003. With all of that data gone (except yearly favorites), i decided to stop doing the weekly thing. But i still keep track of my yearly favorites on an annual basis... because i find it fun. _________________ fav artists NOW | ALL-TIME favs | i listen 2 more music than u so u don't have 2!
Listening to albums is a hobby for me. I just wanted to take advantage of organizing a list on this website to show off to people, something I cannot do on Twitter or Facebook. No deep or profound reason. I just make charts just because my hobby is listening to music! _________________ ...and for dessert!
I became interested in lists at a young age. I remember when I was 9 when AFI made their Top 100 Movies List. I recall totally disagreeing with it, not because I had better choices, but because I was 9 and hadn't seen or heard of almost everything on it. But it got me interested in seeing more movies. I made my first list when I was 12ish on the most important thing to me at that age...video games. I made my first movie list at 13, and my first album list at 18. So when I joined BEA, all I had to do was plug it in.
People love charts, and we make charts for just about everything. But I think the reason people make their own is because nobody agrees with authorities on a given subject. Take albums for example. Nobody entirely agrees with Rolling Stone's lists, or Spin Magazine's, or Q magazine's, or VH1's, etc. So we make our own. At least that's why I started making my own.
I like and dislike lists. I like them because they're very good at introducing people to a great movie or album that they've never experienced. But I dislike them because they uplift everything that's on them, while weeding out everything that isn't. It's as though a select few works of art deserve to be on a higher pedestal, and everything else doesn't deserve recognition, which is unfair. At least BEA's overall chart is all-inclusive. So even if an album is only loved by one person, it still gets a little recognition. _________________ on such a winter's day
i started making charts in grade school because i truly heart music. nothing really has changed since i had songs memorized at age 3 except my music library size.
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