kirbypuckett Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Inspired by this blog posting: http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2009/12/how_do_you_make_your_yearend_l.html I create a text file listing all of the records of the year on separate lines, then I cut and paste until it's too my liking. Nothing too technical or exciting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flicker Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 was there a new Mt. Eerie album this year!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casey Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 I make a list of all the albums I really liked. Then, each week or so for the last two months of the year, I do a blind rank of the albums using a corresponding point system. 1st place = 10 points; 10th place = 1 point. Then I rank the albums according to the tallied points. It works best for me because the albums I like all stay the same, but the intensity with which I like them varies constantly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamlikesmusic Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 I don't, as I know I'll fuck it up and forget something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drabley Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 I do it by playcounts in iTunes. I list the albums in contention for 2009 and then jot down the total play count of all songs on the album. I adjust each a little based on how often I spin the record or listen in my car. Highest number wins and so on down the line. It was the only way for me to give any sort of measure to the process. I've found that I overlook things any other way, and it really helps me to differentiate albums that are more solid all around from albums that may have one great song and a bunch of filler. When I first did this, I noticed that when I just selected without looking at the numbers I had a tendency to pick the albums with one great song over albums that I enjoyed more completely for some reason. Like last year -- Sybris's Into The Trees is a record I wouldn't have selected to make my list had I just thought about it. But when I looked at the total play counts, it was in my top 10 most listened to albums of the year. So I obviously really liked the record even though I would have otherwise passed it up. Kind of crazy, I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darknesscomesalive Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 I keep a running list throughout the course of the year on my phones notepad (since I always have my phone handy and can add/edit at any given time) around the first part of December i'll email that list to myself, transfer it into a google document then get to work on sorting it out. Usually when I sit down to do that I have a damn good idea what top 3 is so I'll work out a rough draft of my top 10/15 and do at least one or two more drafts to sort it out and get what I feel like is a fairly accurate representation of my absolute favorite records of a given year. a complicated way to come to what is a very personally subjective decision. :EDIT: What's funny is I posted this before reading the link and I see that my method is not too different from the authors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 I list the albums I really enjoyed. An unprecedented approach, I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mutinyzine Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 2009 will be a tough list to make. It's been quite a year record-wise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokithelion Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 I have a file with all the reviews i did that got really high scores (all of the *rimshot), i re-read what i wrote, listen to the records again and figure out if i fucked up somewhere. then i make a list of all the stuff i bought and listened to that i didn't review cause i'm an idiot and i feel and obligation to people who send me stuff more to cover them before what i want to cover and combine the two lists. then i listen to everything again and cut it up into 25 records. then i drink a lot and feel like i'm wasting my time and no one cares. its a great ritual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darknesscomesalive Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 I list the albums I really enjoyed. An unprecedented approach, I know. unprecedented in that you don't obsessively arrange those albums you enjoyed into an arbitrary number that designates "this album was my favorite of the year, the rest are X amount of albums I really REALLY enjoyed as well" like the rest of us do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drabley Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 Also -- I notice that as years progress, I have fewer and fewer albums from a given year to choose from. Seems I'm enjoying new releases less and less as years go by. I always harassed my dad for only listening to his fogie rock and ignoring most new music. Apparently, I'm doing the same thing bit by bit. I listened to as much stuff from 1999 as I did from 2009 this year, if not more. Moral: never fuck with pops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thousandjulys Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 a combination of last fm and then going through the records i bought that year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaggle Von Swift Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 I simply listen to Dear Landlord - Dream Homes and it's already decided. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goraiders Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 i put a song from each album i think could be in it into a playlist and then try to put them in order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blanketbyday Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 was there a new Mt. Eerie album this year!? umm yes. also, i just make a list and include pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benchwarmer Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 I don't, because I don't think anyone really cares what I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted December 4, 2009 Author Share Posted December 4, 2009 I don't, because I don't think anyone really cares what I think. Haha, that's what I think when my friend sends me his top 20 albums of the year and they're all goofy Scandinavian Metal bands. But I continue to do it anyways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goraiders Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 i just love lists, and making lists. and I read most of the peoples on here and if i see a few that i really like and a few i dont know ill check them out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 I sort my iTunes by year and look at everything that came out this year and rank them based on personal opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottheisel Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 I don't, because I don't think anyone really cares what I think. Haha, that's what I think when my friend sends me his top 20 albums of the year and they're all goofy Scandinavian Metal bands. But I continue to do it anyways. I guarantee this is Urban. And my system's pretty basic, too -- I sort my iTunes by year then type up records I particularly enjoyed in a text file. I keep a running playlist of my favorite songs of the year, too, so I end up going through that to make sure I didn't miss anything. I also check out my last.fm stats to see what I've given the most spins to, and the last step is going through my car's back seat to see what albums have hung around the longest in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akross Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 I keep track of what I have heard over the year at Rate Your Music (www.rateyourmusic.com), then I trim the list way down and organize it at the end of December. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsterdamned Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Haha, that's what I think when my friend sends me his top 20 albums of the year and they're all goofy Scandinavian Metal bands. But I continue to do it anyways. I guarantee this is Urban. I say JB. Urban at least branches out into other kinds of metal. JB ONLY listens to stupid folk/fantasy metal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skumbucket Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 And my system's pretty basic, too -- I sort my iTunes by year then type up records I particularly enjoyed in a text file. I keep a running playlist of my favorite songs of the year, too, so I end up going through that to make sure I didn't miss anything. this is me. after sorting it i look at the list and make an objective, gut decision on what is better than what. then i write them down in a word doc and think about what nice things i can say about them that i haven't already said on my website. then i format that shit and post it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokithelion Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 And my system's pretty basic, too -- I sort my iTunes by year then type up records I particularly enjoyed in a text file. I keep a running playlist of my favorite songs of the year, too, so I end up going through that to make sure I didn't miss anything. this is me. after sorting it i look at the list and make an objective, gut decision on what is better than what. then i write them down in a word doc and think about what nice things i can say about them that i haven't already said on my website. then i format that shit and post it. I can't remember. Didn't you have your collection sliced in with your girlfriend? If you're dumpedbucket now does that mean you had to do the great record separation? How did that go? Also sorry if you got broken up with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 I guarantee this is Urban. I say JB. Urban at least branches out into other kinds of metal. JB ONLY listens to stupid folk/fantasy metal. Yeah, it's JB. He's the only dude I know that still listens to music based on genre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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