How much time put into Top 100 past the Top 10?

[Jasonconfused]

Honestly.. past maybe my top 25, the list gets kind of random. Not too random. Definitely still some of my favorite albums, but the lower you go on my list, the more interchangeable a lot of the albums could be. I do putting more time into making the list more accurate to my liking, but truth be told, it's only the first 10 that I'm completely sure of (for now) and the next 15 are pretty close to complete, but after that I could definitely see myself moving them around. Anyone else do something similar?

[paladisiac]

i've put a lot of time into my top X of all-time across a couple decades, too much time really. I'm also constantly reworking my top 250+ (i think that's how much i'm up to in my spreadsheet) and plan on eventually expanding that. I am, and have always been, music; whether that music has been worth listening to is to the ear of the beholder.
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[Robert Anton Wilson]

That is totally to be expected particularly at your age. What will be really funny is when you look back on your list -for example 10 years from now- what actually will have changed. You might be surprised to see that things you thought were given have gone and things you aren't sure about now grow stronger on you through the years.

A top 100 is too much for any individual to be really meaningful unless you are making a living of it - or a hobby for years, even decades on. That is the point of favorites, there can be only a few favorite ones otherwise it becomes to say my favorite groups and then go on with a list of a 100 groups. It just means you cannot make up your mind about what you really like. It is when you must make the hard choices, select only 10 - that the real pressure to select what really you could not live without works. If you end up on a desert island with 100 records, you can easily allow yourself to have a few dubious choices, that still makes a 4 days of listening without repeats if you listen to music 24 hours on. But if you are allowed only 10 albums -or worst only 10 songs- then what you choose becomes really meaningful.

So go ahead, use the top of your chart to tell us which ones you could not live without, and the bottom to tell us which albums you are currently spending time with when time allows.

[Guest]

^ I am an ultra-obsessive minded person. So when I decided I wanted to get into music almost 1 year ago, and soon listening to way more music per day than is probably sane, my tastes have now changed dramatically. I can hardly stand to think of the albums I thought I liked... only one year ago. 10 years will be interesting to see how I evolve, where I will probably have long moved-on from this music obsession anyway, or will I?


Currently, my top 3 are the "can't live without" type. The fourth is getting close to that. 5 through 17 are the next tier. The rest are a mix of albums I either just really enjoy, I associate certain things with, or are simply placed there because I think they COULD be that good and I want to see how it weighs on my mind seeing them placed at their position.

[Jasonconfused]

I agree that I am too young to be able to know what my musical taste will be like 10 years from now, 20 years from now, 50 years from now. That being said, I've listened to a pretty wide range of music and in a very dedicated manner so I don't expect there to be a revolutionary change. For examples, I've listened to much much much more heavy metal than I have listened to blues, but I already know that I love blues and I can expect that years from now I will just listen to more of the genres that I already find interesting or enjoyable.

Some of these albums though I do think they will be pretty stable on my list. If not because they are actually the best albums I've heard, then because they have very emotional ties to me.

[pearljammer13]

When I first made my chart it did get pretty random after about the top 20. But since I've updated it probably 50 times, it's become pretty set in an order. Then again, I still update every couple weeks or so it's always shuffling a bit here and there. Plus as your tastes change you'll notice certain albums moving way down on your list from the original position, and new discoveries rocketing up.

I'd actually love to see how much my chart has changed since the first one .

[Jasonconfused]

[nutso42]

Nah, mine is pretty much the way I think it should be.

My bottom 10 or so could maybe be switched a bit, but no more than that.

[Yourselfisntsteam]

The more I listen to the more I have no idea what order to put things in. I think at least once a month I get annoyed and try and completely reorder my chart, only for it to end up a slightly different variation of what was their before. Everything becomes slightly random because ranking exact musical preferences is nearly impossible for me.

[Robert Anton Wilson]