The N&G Top 500 Albums of All Time!!!

BjorgenFjorgen said:
Anyone got any tips for how you're assembling your list? Just going through your record and digital collections and making a Google Doc that you can drag stuff around to rearrange, using a third-party website, etc.?
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I have all the albums I've ever listened to in an iTunes playlist. I start with the first album alphabetically and write it down on a Google Doc. With the next album, I ask myself if I enjoy it more or less than the first album I wrote down, then put it either above or below the first one respectively. Then I just repeat that process with each subsequent album, comparing it to all the ones I've written down by asking myself if I enjoy it more or less.

And yes, this method is incredibly time-consuming and mind-numbing lol
 
jaycee said:
I'm not going to enjoy cutting this down to 50. I need to figure out criteria to rank between genres. Basically my list is just going to be 50 albums that have been important to me in my life
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I've been considering doing an "autobiographical" list, as a way to honor albums that were really important to me in the past but don't resonate anymore (I used Pretty Hate Machine as an example earlier in this thread). I want to include formative artists like Nirvana even though I'm almost never in the mood to listen to them anymore. I may "save" slots 41-50 for albums that fall into this category, but I'm not sure yet.
 
bettim84 said:
I've been considering doing an "autobiographical" list, as a way to honor albums that were really important to me in the past but don't resonate anymore (I used Pretty Hate Machine as an example earlier in this thread). I want to include formative artists like Nirvana even though I'm almost never in the mood to listen to them anymore. I may "save" slots 41-50 for albums that fall into this category, but I'm not sure yet.
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I'm kind-of doing the opposite to narrow it down I think. If it's something that was formative but I'm not really attracted to it now it probably won't make the cut. If it's something that was formative and I still want to listen to it it's probably in.... my very rough first pass and there is almost nothing from the past few years, which is part of the problem/challenge with these lists.
 
jaycee said:
I'm kind-of doing the opposite to narrow it down I think. If it's something that was formative but I'm not really attracted to it now it probably won't make the cut. If it's something that was formative and I still want to listen to it it's probably in.... my very rough first pass and there is almost nothing from the past few years, which is part of the problem/challenge with these lists.
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I think Melodrama is the only one from the last couple years that is likely to make mine. But there is hesitation with 10+ albums from a 5 year period being included. No excuses though, they’re albums I loved then and still love now.
 
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