OK, here's an idea:
The Premise
Each month I'm going to post my best of the year playlist (via Spotify) for a randomly generated year. Everyone else is encouraged to do the same or create a playlist of favorites for that year. Discussion and exploration will surely abound! The range of years will be 1955 to the present. 1955 was chosen as essentially the birth year of rock and, to my mind, as good as any beginning point.
The (indulgently biographical) Background
I have been making annual playlists for decades now. I take them fairly seriously and spend a lot of time narrowing things down in a process that causes me a lot of ridiculous self-imposed stress. I have some guidelines/rules for myself: all songs must be ones I own copies of on physical media; no more than one song per album; a goal of 80 minutes' worth of music (stemming from the days when I would burn my playlists to blank CDs). In 2020, I changed my length guideline as I no longer was burning CDs; playlists post-2019 now have exactly 20 songs (which was pretty average for most 80 min. compilations I'd made). So that's what you'll see from my playlists. I'm curious if any of you have similar regulations for yourselves. In converting my iTunes playlists to Spotify, I've decided to note where songs were not available (usually Neil Young and Joni Mitchell) rather than fill in replacements. Anyway, I'm foolishly proud or at least fond of these playlists I made and wanted to share/promote them. I imagine there are others like me out there...
The Plan
I'll randomly generate three years at a time so that we can plan ahead a little for the next few months. Provisionally, February will be reserved for a playlist of the previous year. I'll also use the second post in this thread to keep a link to all the other Best of the Year playlist threads.
Here's the first quarter (VMP style!):
July - 1993
August - 2019
September - 1986
The Premise
Each month I'm going to post my best of the year playlist (via Spotify) for a randomly generated year. Everyone else is encouraged to do the same or create a playlist of favorites for that year. Discussion and exploration will surely abound! The range of years will be 1955 to the present. 1955 was chosen as essentially the birth year of rock and, to my mind, as good as any beginning point.
The (indulgently biographical) Background
I have been making annual playlists for decades now. I take them fairly seriously and spend a lot of time narrowing things down in a process that causes me a lot of ridiculous self-imposed stress. I have some guidelines/rules for myself: all songs must be ones I own copies of on physical media; no more than one song per album; a goal of 80 minutes' worth of music (stemming from the days when I would burn my playlists to blank CDs). In 2020, I changed my length guideline as I no longer was burning CDs; playlists post-2019 now have exactly 20 songs (which was pretty average for most 80 min. compilations I'd made). So that's what you'll see from my playlists. I'm curious if any of you have similar regulations for yourselves. In converting my iTunes playlists to Spotify, I've decided to note where songs were not available (usually Neil Young and Joni Mitchell) rather than fill in replacements. Anyway, I'm foolishly proud or at least fond of these playlists I made and wanted to share/promote them. I imagine there are others like me out there...
The Plan
I'll randomly generate three years at a time so that we can plan ahead a little for the next few months. Provisionally, February will be reserved for a playlist of the previous year. I'll also use the second post in this thread to keep a link to all the other Best of the Year playlist threads.
Here's the first quarter (VMP style!):
July - 1993
August - 2019
September - 1986
