Analyze your own tastes! What makes your favorites... your favorites?

for the longest time, my magic formula was I hated anything my parents liked and loved anything that would make them uncomfortable, although I hope I've grown past that at this point. they listened to nothing but the most innocuous, noodly, blandly ahistorical Scottish & Irish traditional music, with the occasional bluegrass, folk, and inoffensive mainstream rock thrown in. I like rhythm, hedonism, obtuseness, variety, novelty.

I'm an oddball that has been keeping track of whatever album, cd etc. since Oct 1st 1996. 24 years, I'm totally insane. Kind of started in an odd way as I was working as a temp at the freaking Farm Coop headquarters in Indianapolis doing some type of temp stuff. They were laid back as it was all getting shipped to Illinois or somewhere at the beginning of the year. Pretty much your usual late 90s, recent collge grad situation...anyway this lovely lady that was a retiree teacher doing temp work for pocket money loved talking to me about the CDs I had in my book bag I was always listening to on discman headphones. She said, "you have too many child, you cannot listen to them all" and got talking to me to keeping a list to see that I actually listened to what I was accumulating. I started the list, but the accumulation never really stopped. ;) The list evolved and is in a Excel spreadsheet and Word document that was originally created on a out of the trash Windows 3.1 box. It's been saved and converted over the years, but there is probably some weird artifacts for a file going through that many different application versions. Nurd, i know.

These are the records I have listened to the most from the 90s, not repeating any other by the same artist.

Boards of Canada- Music has the Right to Children
DJ Shadow- Endtroducing
Tortoise- Millions Now Listening will never die
Shellac- Terraform < I've listened to all their records a bunch, but this might be there as it came out new right after I started the list.
Queens of the Stone Age- S/T <<<< This one is from driving. Last listened 2017.
Underworld- Dubnobasswithmehead
Slint- Spiderland
Fugazi- Steady Diet of Nothing
Jesus Lizard- Liar
Soundgarden- Badmotorfinger

These are the records from the 80s that have the most listens.

Motorhead- Ace of Spades
Joy Division- Closer
Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
Jane’s Addiction- Nothing’s Shocking
New Order- Power, Corruption & Lies
Deep Purple- Perfect Strangers < This one kind of surprised me. I had a CDR in the truck for a long time, has to be why.
The Minutemen- Double Nickels on the Dime
AC/DC- Back in Black
Big Black- Songs about Fxxxing
Soundgarden- Louder than Love

I guess I'm a beer drinker but not a hell raiser. I have listened to 'other' music, I know I have listened to over 4000 different records since I started the list.

Yeah, I bought a few issues of Spin.

solid list there, a foundation for living