![]() I think these are vital types of albums that I want to check out, but note that this might explain why mentioned rankings differ from the ones you see on RYM in general. When I use the RYM list I have live and archival albums switched on. Still, I like communication on this forum so if you want to take the journey along with me, either by listening to my choices or pick your own choices based on the same formula, I’d be happy to hear it. It is also a self-contained project, perhaps more something for a blog, but I post it here for now. To me it really is one of those journey-is-more-important-than-the-destination-things, like my earlier top 10.000 Songs project. I would end up listening to 300 albums from AM and 750 from RYM. So, to make things perhaps a bit more confusing for this explanation I decided to make even more alternations: I’ll first pick an album of the bottom of both lists, than one from the top, back to the bottom again, and so on until they meet in the middle. It would take very long to get to the top albums. There was one thing bothering me, though. At the same time I will chose another album from the final 10 of the RYM top 7.500. And after I’m done I move up to 2981-2890 and pick another one, and so on and so on. There are no other criteria for choosing an album besides that I want to. How many times? As many as I feel like, probably spread out over several days. Fatboy Slim – Better Living Though Chemistryįrom these ten I would pick one that would at the moment of choice be something I would want to hear and listen to it a few times and write a review. Sonny Rollins – East Broadway Run DownĢ998. Bobby Timmons – This Here is Bobby TimmonsĢ997. Julee Cruise – Floating into the NightĢ996. Ol’ Dirty Basterd - Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty VersionĢ993. Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man in the UniverseĢ992. Take for example the last ten albums of the AM list:Ģ991. Work my way up the list and pick one album out of every ten I pass. Besides, these lists are too long for such an approach. I haven’t heard Michael Jackson’s Thriller yet for a reason: I really don’t want to. That would be too much of being guided again and would leave to little room for my own interests. However, it didn’t appeal to me to just go down the lists in order. I wanted to use both lists combined for a new chapter in listening. Both have their appeal and may I say charm. A lot of albums appear on both lists of course, but they both have their flavor, with AM being more friendly to mainstream albums (the RYM community hates a ‘hit status’ with a passion), whereas RYM is better for finding hidden or idiosyncratic works. The RYM list can be brought to 7.500 albums (I see ranking until 10.000 appear, but don’t know how to access the final 2.500 not that I really need to at the moment) and AM currently ends at 3.000. I may find the site itself a bit frustrating for discussions and reviews, but that list is a strange and quite wonderful beast. As of late I have come to be a bit fascinated with the RateYourMusic list. This very site is of course a major canon, but there are many more. There are all these canons with so much interesting music. Don’t get me wrong, I love discovering new music and these polls and games have been a valuable way of finding great albums in places I wouldn’t have looked. When listening to many of my personal favorites for the current album poll I had a good time and noticed that indeed I might have missed staying a little closer to myself. There are a lot of them, of which I don’t even play a fair lot, but still I feel I listen to more music ordained by these polls (especially the hefty Moderately Acclaimed game) than things I put on because I’m curious myself. That has something to do with all the polls and games here. The last couple of years, basically since becoming an active member of this forum, I have listened to more music than before, while at the same time perhaps pursuing my interests less. This year I have thought a little bit more about my music habits. There are mountains beyond mountains of music and no way to seriously tackle it. There is no keeping up with things that are coming out and then there is the huge legacy of music that already existed before I was even born. You see, music has one big problem: there is way too much of it. What is this now? This is a crazy little (well, not really little in scope) music project I thought up a while ago that I’m finally going to pursue. ![]()
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