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Special Event: ATRL announces Best of 2011
Member Since: 11/2/2010
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Originally posted by Sunderland 4ever
How... how did you manage to listen that amount of albums in a year?
In my case I have listened about 18-20 new albums this year.
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I've actually listened to around 70 albums this year. I've been very impressed with the debut albums this year, I like quite a few albums I didn't expect to like.
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Member Since: 11/2/2010
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Originally posted by Gui Blackout
My Top 3 changes every damn second, I can't do this.
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My top 3 is based on plays as I find it impossible to decide between them.
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Member Since: 3/18/2008
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Originally posted by Michael
My top 3 is based on plays as I find it impossible to decide between them.
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Yeah, I think i'm gonna have to to that. I love them so much so I don't wanna be unfair.
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Member Since: 10/3/2009
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Originally posted by Michael
I've actually listened to around 70 albums this year. I've been very impressed with the debut albums this year, I like quite a few albums I didn't expect to like.
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70?!?!?!? Oh well.... Maybe you can recommend me a couple of albums to listen this month. I actually wanted to listen to more albums - probably 30 - but it is just that these three last months of the year I had less time to be on the computer searching for them. Help!!
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Originally posted by Michael
My top 3 is based on plays as I find it impossible to decide between them.
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I had the same feeling a year ago when ranking my Top 10. The most ironic part is that now that a year has passed, I only jam about 4 songs of my Top 10 of 2010. Fortunately, 3 out of those 4 songs were in my Top 5 of 2010. A piece of advice I can give you is to consider for how long you have been jamming each of your songs. I usually rank the oldest songs in the highest places.
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Member Since: 11/2/2010
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Originally posted by Sunderland 4ever
70?!?!?!? Oh well.... Maybe you can recommend me a couple of albums to listen this month. I actually wanted to listen to more albums - probably 30 - but it is just that these three last months of the year I had less time to be on the computer searching for them. Help!!
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Yeah. I just go on iTunes and search for the latest albums in the Dance, Electronic, Rock, Pop, Soul genres. You'll be amazed by how many albums you'll find that you like the sound of.
My Best Of is basically a mish-mash of the genres I listed above.
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Originally posted by Sunderland 4ever
I had the same feeling a year ago when ranking my Top 10. The most ironic part is that now that a year has passed, I only jam about 4 songs of my Top 10 of 2010. Fortunately, 3 out of those 4 songs were in my Top 5 of 2010. A piece of advice I can give you is to consider for how long you have been jamming each of your songs. I usually rank the oldest songs in the highest places.
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Yeah I got that with my top albums last year. I find myself only listening to around 10 of the albums on my Best Of last year, even though I had 40. It's hard to predict what you'll be enjoying in a few months but like you said the albums / singles released in the first / second quarters I tend to rank higher than ones released in the third / fourth quarters, although there are a few exceptions this year.
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Member Since: 4/7/2009
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Originally posted by Gui Blackout
My Top 3 changes every damn second, I can't do this.
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ch.. my top 100 isn't even in a satisfying order that I would like, if I based it on plays then the list is all ****ed because having high plays doesn't mean I think the song is greater than the others. I kind of put most of them in terms of how they flow with the other.
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Member Since: 11/18/2011
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Now yall know I'm new can somebody just SIMPLY break this **** down to me
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Member Since: 3/18/2008
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Originally posted by Glamazon
Now yall know I'm new can somebody just SIMPLY break this **** down to me
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Just make your Best of 2011 list and then post it. That's it.
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Member Since: 4/7/2009
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Originally posted by Glamazon
Now yall know I'm new can somebody just SIMPLY break this **** down to me
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Compose a list of your favorite [insert] of the year.
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Member Since: 9/16/2011
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Originally posted by Gui Blackout
My Top 3 changes every damn second, I can't do this.
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My top 10 albums was actually my easiest list... It's the only one I have no desire to change.
And then on my singles and album track lists I'm confident about the top 5-10, but everything else is questionable.
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Member Since: 11/18/2011
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So I can say my top 20 songs and top 20 albums right? Or is it a set number?
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Member Since: 2/11/2008
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Originally posted by Glamazon
So I can say my top 20 songs and top 20 albums right? Or is it a set number?
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It's Best of (album, songs, artist, movies, shows, whatever, but most importantly MUSIC) of 2011.
You don't have to necessarily do a ranking.
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Member Since: 3/18/2008
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Originally posted by JakeKills
My top 10 albums was actually my easiest list... It's the only one I have no desire to change.
And then on my singles and album track lists I'm confident about the top 5-10, but everything else is questionable.
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Albums are all set, but when I go to songs... I play one and say : "Yeah this is the best", play the other "No this one **** all over", and the other.... I think i'm gonna choose in the day i'm gonna post it.
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Member Since: 11/18/2011
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Originally posted by D/X
It's Best of (album, songs, artist, movies, shows, whatever, but most importantly MUSIC) of 2011.
You don't have to necessarily do a ranking.
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Oh okay thanks love
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 9/26/2001
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Quote:
Originally posted by JakeKills
My top 10 albums was actually my easiest list... It's the only one I have no desire to change.
And then on my singles and album track lists I'm confident about the top 5-10, but everything else is questionable.
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Originally posted by Gui Blackout
Albums are all set, but when I go to songs... I play one and say : "Yeah this is the best", play the other "No this one **** all over", and the other.... I think i'm gonna choose in the day i'm gonna post it.
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That's funny, it's actually much easier for me to do the singles list (and it's a top 100 this year!) than it is to do the albums list every year. Seems like the albums list just takes more work, for some reason. Admittedly, though, I'm experiencing the same "top 3 keeps changing" problem myself, GB.
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Member Since: 6/25/2010
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I just started this today.
Have my top 15 albums, but I'll change the order around probably, and so far have 39 songs out of my top 100, but I stopped adding more because I don't want to move those songs I have already lower, but I want to add songs higher. The dilemma of ranking songs.
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Member Since: 11/18/2011
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Would S&M count as a 2011 song since it's off a 2010 album?
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Member Since: 11/2/2010
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Originally posted by Glamazon
Would S&M count as a 2011 song since it's off a 2010 album?
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Yes, because it was released in 2011. But anyway it's up to you which criteria the countdown must meet as it's YOUR countdown.
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Member Since: 12/9/2007
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Originally posted by Michael
Yeah. I just go on iTunes and search for the latest albums in the Dance, Electronic, Rock, Pop, Soul genres. You'll be amazed by how many albums you'll find that you like the sound of.
My Best Of is basically a mish-mash of the genres I listed above.
Yeah I got that with my top albums last year. I find myself only listening to around 10 of the albums on my Best Of last year, even though I had 40. It's hard to predict what you'll be enjoying in a few months but like you said the albums / singles released in the first / second quarters I tend to rank higher than ones released in the third / fourth quarters, although there are a few exceptions this year.
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Thanks to Spotify I was able to listen to over 100 albums this year (not all amazing, but the majority were). Whittling the list down to 50 was pretty hard (a lot of good records missed the cut) but I'm happy with my Top 50 albums. I just need to order them from 50-1 now!
EDIT: And please tell me you've heard Nicolas Jaar's album! It's one of the best electronica albums of the year. I even think it's better than James Blake's album.
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Member Since: 1/8/2011
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I use my iTunes stats & lastfm stats for help but the final rankings come under my discretion.
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