Thinning the herd: 2017

rkm · 2017-12-07T20:16:58-05:00

My 2017 album list grew to about 55 through the year. It's my task this month to get it down to 30-35. This is my self-imposed limit. I've got other loose rules I follow each year, based around trying to represent my tastes and personality. There are broad things I know will be represented: a dose of rock, a big dose of singer/songwriter, a portion of country/folk/Americana, and jazz. Then there's narrower interests I try and find each year: at least one R&B/Soul album, one ambient album, one soundtrack or crossover classical album, one guitar nerd album, one faith-based album, one Australian album (where I'm from), one blues album, one world music album. Having carefully created lists for every year, I'm at a point where I think I've become fairly familiar with my own musical DNA, and could probably map it out on a pie chart. It's enjoyable to listen to music beyond those limits, but also satisfying at the end of the year, to whittle the list down to things I know I really connect with, which unfortunately also means letting go of some very good music. Anyone else thinning the herd? What are your rules and limits? What's your musical DNA?

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Today was one of those days I was trying to review the 2017 albums already in my top 10 but were from the start of the year.

I did three of them and all three I just had to give higher grades after listening to them again:

Is This The Life We Really Want? by Roger Waters

It's Pink Floyd all over but it sounds even more fantastic after a few listens

Life Without Sound by Cloud Nothings

More melodic than their other albums but a grower as well.

The French Press by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Only six tracks but all of them great.

So I'm not at all thinking of thinning the herd yet....

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And I just can't stop listening back to the albums I picked as the top albums of this year and I'm upping the scores on all of them. What a great year in music!!

These are the ones I gave a new spin today:

In Between by The Feelies

In Mind by Real Estate

Still no question of thinning the herd.

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