The Chorus.Fm Users Definitive Albums List • Page 58

I'm honestly interested in my reaction when I throw this on at the end of this year. So far, been putting some interesting choices.

 

Ha, same. Especially at the beginning of the year, I go off on all these weird random tangents with my listening because there's not much new stuff to occupy my time. Will be kind of cool to have a signpost of sorts marking those.

 

Ha, same. Especially at the beginning of the year, I go off on all these weird random tangents with my listening because there's not much new stuff to occupy my time. Will be kind of cool to have a signpost of sorts marking those.

 

I'm inspired, I think I'm gonna try this

 

Five days in, my playlist already includes songs from four different decades. Kind of cool.

 

Just checked mine, and somehow at five different decades

This is screwing with my head

 

Listening to previous decades? That's like my bat signal. Do tell.

 

How are you picking songs, just on that day you are adding a song that like, you're feeling? Or is is some other thing?

 

It's honestly a little bit of everything. Sometimes it's something I listen to during the day. Other times, it's something random that pops in my head, which leads me to listen to it.

For example, added Cry Me a River by JT as one of my three songs today. For whatever reason, I hum that at work from time to time when I'm trying to focus in on a task or waiting for software to load.

 

Been jamming Prince, old U2, and '90s Radiohead this week, so all of those are in the mix so far.

Yeah, my first pick was the new Andrew McMahon song, for obvious reasons. Then it's just stuff that I've been jamming on runs or have found myself gravitating to throughout the days for repeat listens.

 

For me so far, I have Pointer Sisters (80s), RATM (90s), Thrice (00s), Wolf Alice (10s), and PVRIS (20s), among others. Random distribution of songs.

 

When I was initially coming up with the concept, debated about starting off with just 2021 by Vampire Weekend. Then I got an email from Andrew's mailing list, and felt inclined to expand my criteria to up to three songs a day.

 

Love it! I retroactively picked a few songs from the first 4 days based on what I listened to and I think I'm off to the races!

Here's where I'm at, just for fun

Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness - New Year Song
Francis and the Lights - You Still Take Me To The Light
Caylee Hammack - Family Tree
Ellie Goulding - Tides
BROCKGHAMPTION - GINGER

 

Haha, it was a no-brainer. I'm just doing one song a day, but I'm sure 2-3 songs per day serves the same kind of purpose.

Welcome aboard!

 

Hell yeah The Purple One.

Fiancée got me the 10-disc remastered Sign O the Times for Christmas and I can’t wait to dig in

 

So I’ve been spending a fair amount of time with 1999, Sign O the Times, and Purple Rain, but I’m not super familiar with his other work. Where should I go next?

 

I consider his Trinity to be Purple Rain, Sign O the Times and Dirty Mind. Dirty Mind is the moment where he went from amazing R&B singer to wild, perverted genius. And it's so short and sweet. Does not fuck around one bit. I think you might be blown away by "When You Were Mine"

I'm a huge fan of Prince, too. He hadn't blossomed into a unique genius yet, but he was SO good at doing mainstream frizzy funk/R&B.

For some reason I have a sneaky suspicion you'd particularly dig Parade. A lot of the album is basically Prince doing Side B of Abbey Road, and then the fully fleshed out songs are unreal. I think you'd really like "Sometimes It Snows in April", one of his 3 all-time-great closers.

Honestly, everything from the s/t through Sign is brilliant, but everything he ever released has value.

 

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Great rundown, thanks for this!

 

I’ve done the one song a day playlist for the last 3 years (among other kinds of playlist-oriented listening) and can vouch that it is excellent way to remember music. I only add songs I've heard for the first time in the year though, not just whatever I want.

Songs from 2020, a playlist by Matt Chylak on Spotify
Songs from 2019, a playlist by Matt Chylak on Spotify
Songs from 2018, a playlist by Matt Chylak on Spotify

 

I didn't know what Bias Sorter was so I'm gonna redo my list using that later today

 

He doesn’t know what bias sorter is?? In 2021??

 

1 Astral Weeks
2 Goodness
3 Hounds of Love
4 For Emma, Forever Ago
5 Bon Iver, Bon Iver
6 Enter the Wu-Tang
7 Pink Moon
8 Some Rap Songs
9 Stay What You Are
10 Head on the Door
11 Disintegration
12 Left and Leaving
13 A Walk Across the Rooftops
14 Illmatic
15 Moondance
16 Right Now, You're in the Best of Hands...
17 In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
18 After the Warmth
19 Hats
20 Pinkerton
21 American Football
22 The College Dropout
23 Carrie and Lowell
24 World of Echo
25 After the Gold Rush
26 Blood Dust
27 Dude Ranch
28 Unplugged in New York
29 Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
30 Violent Femmes
31 Ready to Die
32 The Blueprint
33 Rumors
34 Black Album
35 Siamese Dream
36 Otis Blue
37 Transgender Dysphoria Blues
38 Da Drought 3
39 The Blue Album
40 Pet Sounds
41 Vacation
42 Late Registration
43 The Low End Theory
44 Vs.
45 Pick of the Litter
46 Bark Your Head Off, Dog
47 '77
48 Houses of the Holy
49 Blood on the Tracks
50 Paid in Full

Here's the Bias Sorter list. Very interesting. I also added in "A Walk Across the Rooftops" because I've been listening non stop, so there's some recency bias there.

 

Bias sorter rules, helps me with stuff like this a ton

 

I’ve been thinking about if I should make one of these even though I’m too late

 

sort your own biases bah humbug