The Chorus.Fm Users Definitive Albums List • Page 41

Big miss for more folks not including Charlie Brown Christmas. I should’ve posted my list earlier!!

 

Biggest disappointment to me personally is Al Green only making two ballots.

Also Marvin Gaye only making two, but he missed my 50 so I'm culpable.

 

Phoebe Bridgers being on 29% of the lists when her oldest album is 3 is wiiiiiiild!

 

Bridgers - 15
Baker - 12
Dacus - 2
Boygenius - 1

 

Happy to be the resident Lucy Dacus fan

 

I am, legitimately, still a bit flabbergasted at Jimmy showing up on 50% of the lists. Not a diss toward them at all, that is a crazy stat.

 

Yeah, I was kind of confused at that stat a little lol

 

people love recency bias on this site

 

the boygenius EP rules but a six song EP from two years ago being on anyone's all-time albums list is fucking wiiiiild, idc who made the EP

 

It’s also one of the best albums of the last twenty years, so... *shrug*

 

I mean, we have a lot of users in their 20s and early 30s, so a lot of people may not have much of a connection to classic/legacy artists. I know I'm one of them. We also have a lot of users who pretty much got into music in general through AP and may have never worked backwards beyond the bigger artists around here from the 90s like Blink or whatever.

 

Yeah, some of us are even younger and thus probably literal infants compared to the rest of y'all, LOL.

It's me, I'm the infant.

 

Clarity definitely deserves to be up there (holds my #2 spot). It's so easy to love and incredible.

 

At this point I’m pretty good at telling what albums will stick with me so I’m okay with including really recent stuff

also yeah I’m technically gen z

 

It's very easy to keep up with current music in your lifetime, it's very hard to go back and cover the other 50+ years of music in even remotely a similar way

 

if you have two weezer albums or two oasis albums on your list you probably shouldn't be critiquing people for having phoebe or boygenius or whoever on theirs lol

having self-awareness is a good thing! i promise!

 

i’m 31 lol

 

Okay lol, that doesn’t change what I said

 

it wasn’t a qualitative statement at all you dork lol

there’s an, at minimum, 25 year gap between those albums. whatever point you’re trying to make, you’re doing a bad job at it.

 

it’s not like 20 year olds don’t have the same means to this music.

my #1 choice came out like 15 years before i was born lol and it isn’t one i grew up with my parents spinning. not saying it’s “right” or wrong of me. but new music is just as readily available as older music

 

it seems like the majority of lists in this thread feature albums that were released when the people were toddlers or when they were coming into their own music taste. which is totally fine and good! it’s just interesting to see ones that maybe fall into the latter category that are basically two years old. doesn’t seem like that wild of a take.

 

Well yeah but I’m not talking about access. For me, I feel like my musical “awakening” or whatever happened when I found bands like Manchester Orchestra or Jimmy Eat World, and those bands led me to the younger, newer bands they were repping and touring with and so on. This website/AP also places a heavy emphasis on keeping up with new releases, so my mentality since I started lurking when I was like, 15, has been primarily focused on discovering new stuff. I actually want to start making more of an effort to dig into the classics so to speak, but what I’m saying is that myself and many others on the site (I think) are just more inclined to focus on new stuff.

 

all i said in my initial post is that this site is prone to recency bias ... which is basically what you confirm several different ways in this post

so what’s the problem?

 

it seems Very Dumb To Me to argue about *when* an album came out rather than the actually quality of said album but hey you do you man!!

 

i would implore you to quit getting mad online about list making lol. sheesh