2018 Mid-year Album List Cull - Music - Forums : Best Ever Albums

Decurso

Gender: Male

Age: 53

Location: Sao Paulo, SP Brazil

I keep all my years lists to ten albums, and I don't publish them until January of the following year, so I can't say I really have this issue.
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Daydreamer

Puncture Repair wrote:

It's pretty rare that I'll hear more than 10 albums that I really love in a year. I'll only put an album on my yearly chart that I think is worth charting. So I keep it to 10, then when it becomes too hard to exclude #11, I'll expand it out to 20 and so on.

I've only done this the last couple years or so, but it gives me peace of mind knowing I don't have to meticulously rank everything, and down the line there's usually no culling necessary.

I like this method.
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rkm

In this age of streaming, my yearly list has become a place to store things I want to return to, otherwise I might not think to revisit them. Over the course of the year, things will drop off because I no longer feel the need to return to them, and things will climb to the top of the list that I’ve become quite attached to, and will no doubt buy a physical version of for posterity.

Ten is probably a pretty accurate number for the things I’m really attached to in any given year, but 35 is good for covering all the things I like to return to, as well as cover all the genres of things I like.

rkm

Country-ish things:

Kept

By The Way, I Forgive You by Brandi Carlile

Other Arrangements by Parker Millsap

Motel Bouquet by Caitlin Canty

Ditched

Golden Hour by Kacey Musgraves

See You Around by I'm With Her

Starfire by Caitlyn Smith

rkm

It’s June 30, and I got it down to 30.

The Questions -Kurt Elling
God’s Favorite Customer -Father John Misty
Lump -LUMP
By The Way, I Forgive You - Brandi Carlile
Part Of The Light - Ray LaMontagne
Lost Friends - Middle Kids
Come Tomorrow -Dave Matthews Band
All The Things That I Did And All The Things That I Didn’t Do -The Milk Carton Kids
Songs From The Valley - Sandra McCracken
Shelter - Olivia Chaney
Motel Bouquet - Caitlin Canty
My Design, On Others’ Lives - Estère
Dirty Computer - Janelle Monáe
The Prodigal Son - Ry Cooder
Other Arrangements - Parker Millsap
Free Yourself Up - Lake Street Dive
Plays Well With Others - Lera Lynn
Djarimirri (Child Of The Rainbow) - Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
Black Times - Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One) - Jon Hassell
One Eye Sees Red - Lonker See
Encores 1 - Nils Frahm
Music IS - Bill Frisell
Vanished Gardens - Charles Lloyd & The Marvels + Lucinda Williams
Awase - Nik Bärtsch's Ronin
Invisible Threads - John Surman
Currents, Constellations - The Nels Cline 4
All In My Mind - Lonnie Smith
Seymour Reads The Constitution! - Brad Mehldau Trio
Both Directions At Once - John Coltrane

Bork

Executive Hillbilly

Location: Vinson Mountain, GA

All I see is quality creep. The more albums you listen to, the more it requires to score high. This leads to lists being unfairly rigid and favoring old shit over anything new. I don't have the cure, just the curse. All of you are going to get old too.

EDIT: Friday night. Too much beer. Valid point, wrong post to make it on. Move along.

mickilennial

The Most Trusted Name in News

Gender: Female

Age: 37

Location: Detroit

I'm almost at 70 and these aren't just flavor of the week things for me. I genuinely enjoy these records. I'm a bit more meticulous for some and quantifying enjoyment in stars is hard but every yearly list I have has the criteria of requiring four stars minimum to chart.

rkm

Gowi wrote:

I'm almost at 70 and these aren't just flavor of the week things for me. I genuinely enjoy these records. I'm a bit more meticulous for some and quantifying enjoyment in stars is hard but every yearly list I have has the criteria of requiring four stars minimum to chart.

I feel like I’m at a bit of a crossroads. I’ve generally wanted to limit my lists to what I own in physical format, and to limit my entire collection so that I can reasonably revisit everything. However, the streaming age means that I can find more music that I genuinely like.

I’m contemplating not buying any physical music beyond this year, letting my lists grow longer and changing my mindset a little.

By the way, I enjoyed Caitlyn Smith and Lonker See from visiting your list earlier in the year. Cheers.

mickilennial

The Most Trusted Name in News

Gender: Female

Age: 37

Location: Detroit

rkm wrote:

I feel like I’m at a bit of a crossroads. I’ve generally wanted to limit my lists to what I own in physical format, and to limit my entire collection so that I can reasonably revisit everything. However, the streaming age means that I can find more music that I genuinely like.

I’m contemplating not buying any physical music beyond this year, letting my lists grow longer and changing my mindset a little.

By the way, I enjoyed Caitlyn Smith and Lonker See from visiting your list earlier in the year. Cheers.

That's awesome. I don't know if people even look at my lists anymore (no ratings, qq). My list has grown a lot since then, but I still like those records quite a bit even if they are on the lower end of my chart.