I personally find it hard and don't see much point of going through 132 albums from one year. I dunno, I just don't see the appeal. Saying that, I'm trying a handful from bands I don't know from 2019 over the last week or so and am finding it a chore to get through just a few.
Yeah, everyone's different. I've had years where I only listen to a dozen or so albums max. This year though, I've just found the willingness and desire to listen to sooo much music. I could see myself listening to 132 if I made it a point to have music going all day every day. I could easily reach that number if I didn't have TV shows or podcasts or other YouTube stuff I liked to listen to (but it helps I live alone so I have pretty much all the waking day to listen to tunes, including work).
Curious, out of all the albums yourself and Chad have listened to, how many would you consider would become albums you could see revisiting for years to come or discovering bands that you would become a 'fan' of?
I'm just finding it hard to spend so much time wading through albums I'll never listen to again. I guess it's hard as my time is limited anyway, that really doesn't help me. Perhaps if I wasn't at work so much, I'd have the time to do this more.
Part of the fun for me is the journey of listening to something new; whether it remains on my radar is something I've learned not to dwell on, because thinking about whether or not I'm going to come back to them an arbitrary number of times doesn't mean much. Most of the time my music listening ends up with me putting my 'favorites' playlist of thousands of songs on shuffle, and another playlist for all the stuff I have to listen to, and my favorite from the latter cross over to the former.
But, I'll play: of all the ones I've listened to, the ones I see myself revisiting in the future... hard to say. Many of these are new for me. I'd say a couple dozen at the minimum are going to be albums that I revisit in the future, or at least have a selection of songs I will revisit in the future. But many of the albums are also 'full album experiences' to me, in that I won't reach for them as often as others, but I'll put them on from start to finish for certain situations or moods...
I dunno. The older I get, the harder it is to find a band that I 'obsess' about. In fact, it's very rare I come across those. But, I can at least think of some impressions every one of those albums left me with, which is noteworthy in my opinion. I can't tell you how many I'll revisit in the future, but I can tell you that almost all of them were enjoyable enough to make me continue thinking about them after listening. So I'll very likely continue to listen to a majority of these, but at the same time, my listening habits and how I gauge how much an album or song means to me... all of that is changing, too.
Different strokes for different folks, basically. I'm just currently in a mood where the very act of hearing music makes me happy, so I'm far more receptive to new music and music that's challenging my tastes and sensibilities. My favorite albums of all time... other than a couple, I don't reach for them often anymore, but they're always playing in the back of my mind. So, instead of playing them for the millionth time, I just choose to listen to something new instead. Nothing lost, only gained.
Topic: Top 10 Albums of 2019 (Preliminary DTF Top 20 of 2019) (Read 20934 times)
