I’m honestly a bit bored of albums at the moment..maybe I’m becoming more millennial in my middle age #-o I still like discovering music so I think I will try to explore playlists and radio shows a bit more this year. I got into listening to some podcasts last year ( not music related) so more of that too. Might start some threads on all the above so we can share and share alike.
I guess I will finish up comments on my overall chart as well. They are basically done but probably need a bit more finessing to be properly readable from top to bottom.
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Go get a job! hehe just messin - that's funny.
Here's a singles playlist I put together of singles I like or "should like" (mostly applies only near the end cuz I'm a boomer codger myself - ripe old age of late 30s hehe.
Also high five to baystateoftheart, MadhattanJack on your progress, and best of luck to the rest of you on your goals.
Right now I'm jammin on revisiting the 2010s - hindsight usually helps give new/real meaning to things... Real? well maybe not, but history is written by the winners, right?
I'm only about 50% happy with this myself, but I'm fine tuning it as we speak... well I speak... not sure this place has humans in it anymore.
Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s by RoundTheBend
I've always wanted to do a year by year party with albums, but instead am doing it with singles - see playlist above. That'd be cool if in 2023 I got to that from an album perspective. That project is heavy though and life is super easy right now (masters/working/human demands).
Lastly the decade I haven't revisited in like 6 years or more is the 50s... so maybe I'll do it year by year and combine that project... and maybe in 5 years finish it... hehe. That's my fear of year by year. But I think I'll learn a lot from it.
Cheers BEA - thanks for the years of social frustrations and mostly ineptitudes on my part... hehe. Oh I mean community, yeah that's what I meant. In all seriousness, some standup experiences with you all.
Guess I was a turd in 2022, but here's my 2021:
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For 2021:
1) "perfect" my library
For physical items, get rid of things I no longer appreciate. Due to not a need to own everything, plus the mental/financial benefits of not doing so, I think I'm going to max my library out at 400 physical records... but I want those 400 to really shine. I have no idea how I'm going to do this, so likely won't happen... but may just happen by continuing my efforts to enjoy existing library/loved albums, etc. (I made up 400 - whatever fits on my 4 shelves, plus maybe a 7 inch box, and then another shelf I have reserved for CD box sets I held onto... that CD thing might change, as I believe CD is the best way to collect classical music... noise floor on vinyl is tough for high dynamics unless you are willing to put down for expensive vinyl, etc.). Another aspect of this is to decide
2) Finish my pre-album era discoveries - RYM has been a great resource for pre-album era music. Although this years addition of 1940s albums was a great help there too.
3) Another project I kinda started was RYM single ratings for my top artists or just singles I like. Might keep doing that.
4) Deffo gunno finish my pre-album era (non classical) project. Hoping to pick up some more music from this period... some estate sales got me into it.
5) I may finish my 1001 albums to hear before you die, but some of those actually suck, so maybe not... dunno. Some good finds that way too though..
6) Go through the years from 1950 to 2020? dunno this is quite the project.
7) Lastly maybe update my charts... it's been really hard for me to do that for some reason. Saying no to old stuff or yes to new stuff... Sometimes a new listen is so exciting I put it on my existing chart, but re-organizing everything just seems like a lot of work, but I also am not happy with my current charts.
8) Listen to more from you wonderful people
9) I've already done some genre discovery (current Hip-Hop Tourney, but also genre Tourney's of times past, but may dig more into that using RYM's genre charts.
Ok that's probs a lot, but I feel like I've been mostly doing those items anyway this year, so kind of a more deliberate continuation, some of which is too much and I likely won't get to (especially the year project).
1) Perhaps I should shift that to 200 LPs, 50 78s, and 50-100 45s. Idk... I didn't prune, but I did shift to singles... fucking Millinials... just kidding.
2) Pretty happy with pre-album era single reviews - 1930-1940 done and doing 1920... well started it.
3) Top Artists - mostly kinda done... I gone dun did the listening, but rating things lately has been less fun, so I just don't.
4) I don't even know what this means anymore - I think made a 40s album list? Or maybe it's the singles, at any rate, I'm happy with progress.
5) 1001 albums before you die was a complete waste of time... ~600 of them I had already and the other ~400 were a waste of time
6) Still a hit list
7) I guess I started this by deleting my 2010s chart, partially because of mean comments, but mostly because it was easier to start from scratch
8) I like good recs, but honestly my music projects keep me busy.
9) I can't remember taking this honestly... hehe... and probably never will, tbh.
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Also high five to baystateoftheart, MadhattanJack on your progress, and best of luck to the rest of you on your goals.
Thanks! Just as a quick progress report, I still haven't quite figured out why I bothered to organize my MP3 collection last year, but thankfully the whole thing comes in at well under 400GB, and as long it fits neatly onto a 512GB MicroSD card I guess there's no real urgency to prune it all down or anything.
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Thanks! Just as a quick progress report, I still haven't quite figured out why I bothered to organize my MP3 collection last year, but thankfully the whole thing comes in at well under 400GB, and as long it fits neatly onto a 512GB MicroSD card I guess there's no real urgency to prune it all down or anything.
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I think most music heads like a well-organized library.
Thanks! Just as a quick progress report, I still haven't quite figured out why I bothered to organize my MP3 collection last year, but thankfully the whole thing comes in at well under 400GB, and as long it fits neatly onto a 512GB MicroSD card I guess there's no real urgency to prune it all down or anything.
1 TB storage is getting cheaper. I have 2 of them. No pruning! 😎 _________________ I'm leaning on the threshold
Of her mystery
And crashing through the walls
Of dying history
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I'd like to accept that I'm moving into a more laidback stage of music hobbyism, whether for the short or long term. I'm not going to complete an extensive review of new music every year, and that's okay. I'd like to go to at least four concerts. And I'd like to keep posting here semi-regularly (album below you games especially, *cough*) and work on my lists/charts when I feel moved.
First item, check. Second item, sadly didn't make it to four concerts. Third item, partial check. Will have to think a bit more about goals for the coming year.
Musical goals for 2023:
Try to top the 2020 albums tally (unlikely) - 🙁
Have a full chart (100 entries/albums listened) by the end of April - 🙁
Keep a list of concerts/DJ sets/events I've been to - 😄
Finish the 80s chart - 😄
Finish the RYM singles project and (possibly) the top concerts of 2022 rundown - 🙁
Refine the 00s and 90s charts, as well as the 2022 one - 😄
Make a more serious 2020s chart with at least 90 entries (possibly full 100, depending on the quality of this year's music) - :)
I'm listening to less and less current albums, which is a shame. This is the first time I haven't cracked 200 albums since 2017, I think. On the other hand, I'm still going to concerts/DJ sets/events etc. weekly, hopefully that continues. Supporting the scene, discovering a lot of cool musicians and all that.
Musical goals for 2024:
Keep a list of concerts/DJ sets/events I've been to
Listen to the heavy hitters from 2023 I've missed (Lana, Sampha, MIKE...)
Have a full 2024 chart (100 entries/albums listened) by the end of April
Finish the 70s chart
Be more engaged in those 2 BEA games I like (album below you and album below you canon edition) _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
- Publish a BEA chart for every year 1950-present
- Do track-by-track close listens for at least one dozen albums
- Keep playing both album below you games
- Go to at least two concerts that I love (instead of simply enjoy) _________________ Join us in the canon game :) / Add me on RYM
- Publish a BEA chart for every year 1950-present
- Do track-by-track close listens for at least one dozen albums
- Keep playing both album below you games
- Go to at least two concerts that I love (instead of simply enjoy)
For the first resolution, I now have up-to-date charts published for 38 out of 75 years, with 2 more in progress. I only published four of those in 2024, so I didn't come particularly close. For the second resolution, I got halfway there with six albums. Resolutions 3 and 4 were both successes. I loved seeing Mitski, Camera Obscura, and The Lemon Twigs, and went to several other enjoyable concerts. _________________ Join us in the canon game :) / Add me on RYM
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