Doing a personal Top 10 for the year, Classic or Dud?

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Personally I don't want to take the time and don't see the point but lots of people make up an annual top 10 (or more). Making up your own- Classic or Dud?

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Making up someone else's top 10: classic

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

I say classic. Well.. maybe not "classic," but I don't see anything dudworthy about it..

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

does Andy_K have a current 2005 tracking list? on da web

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Top 10 = dud. Top 40 = a bit more like it, frankly. Make an effort!

I've been doing them since 1983, and find them useful to look back on.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

I've done end-of-year top 50 album lists for as long as I can remember (except in 2001 for obvious reasons) and they have been published in a variety of obscure places, including the Uddingston Grammar School magazine (The Villager!), sundry fanzines/Oxford-based journals/NHS in-house magazines (!!), and obviously more recently on my blog(s). I'm undecided about doing one this year - not so much the process of doing one, but where exactly I could put it (no rude suggestions plz).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:15 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes I'm in the mood, sometimes not. Last year I wasn't, and this year I won't be, though maybe a singles list.

A lot of people on ILM get asked to do them for the Village Voice Pazz & Jopp.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

Marcello, create a list using rateyourmusic.com, ala these http://del.icio.us/djmartian/rym2005

one example of a rateyourmusic.com user, that uses the list format to include reviews

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/markeefe/favorite_albums_of_2005/

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

Mr Geir Hongro: My Top 40 Albums Of 2005 (So Far...)
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/GeirH/my_top_40_albums_of_2005__so_far/

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

Really I ought to do it on the blog but I don't feel any urgent need to resuscitate Koons and such an exercise would be far too big for NYLPM.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

So, rateyourmusic.com is an ideal format for you

check:

Ranked Lists - that is easy to set up
Album front covers - neat presentation
space for reviews/comments/links etc

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

dud (also r*ckist) but I do it anyway

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

does Andy_K have a current 2005 tracking list? on da web

I suddenly felt fed up and dumped it. Too much stuff to like, not enough stuff to love.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

I reckon no more than 5 of geir's top 40 list would be in Marcello's Top 50 list

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

I find lists that limit themselves to singles (as opposed to including album tracks or whatever) rather odd in this day and age. It doesn't seem to reflect how most of us listen to music. I understand it's a way of making the choices manageable, but still.

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

depends how you define 'singles' though, innit. it's not hard to work out intuitively what track is 2005 vs 2004 - for instance it would be insane to call 'goodies' a 2005 record even though its uk release was jan 05.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

Yeh, I've always made a Top50 'tracks' list more than a 'singles' list.

Anyway, personal list making = classic. I love to read other people's too.

― naranjito (Koens), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

I reckon no more than 5 of geir's top 40 list would be in Marcello's Top 50 list

-- DJ Martian (altmartinu...), October 27th, 2005.

Currently seven, but as with everything that's liable to change.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Classic if you enjoy doing it, dud if you don't.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Classic.

In not too much of an exact order:

1. partial arts - trauermusik

2. ttc - une bande de mec sympa

3. blonde redhead - through spring and summer fall

4. beck - cellphone's dead (villalobos remix)

5. courtney tidwell - don't let the stars keep us tangled up (ewan pearson remix)

6. hot chip - over & over (maurice fulton remix)

7. modeselektor feat. thom yorke - the white flash

8. !!! - must be the moon (emperor machine remix)

9. lcd soundsystem - all my friends

10. lusine - flat (matthew dear's 'flat for you' remix)

fucking hell, i can't get it down to 10.

11. mari boine - it ain't necessarily evil (mungolian jet set remix)

12. still going - still going theme

13. badly drawn boy - promises (beyond the wizard's sleeve remix)

14. radiohead - jigsaw falling into place

15. thom yorke - the eraser (xxxchange remix)

16. burial - archangel

17. paulo olarte - solo tu (isolee remix)

18. simian mobile disco - i believe (prins thomas remix)

19. the studio - life's a beach (prins thomas remix)

20. sly mongoose - bad pulse

― jermainetwo, Monday, 24 December 2007 04:23 (eighteen years ago)

shit, i can't believe i forgot it:

-1. pantha du prince - saturn strobe

― jermainetwo, Monday, 24 December 2007 04:25 (eighteen years ago)

21. liars - pure unevil

ok, fuck, i'm giving up too much fucking good music this year. i'm just gonna keep listing until i get tired.

22. thomas fehlmann - schaum

23. spoon - the underdog

24. wild rumpus - musical blaze up (rub 'n tug remix)

25. touane - the action painter

26. alex gopher - brain leech (25 hours a day remix)

27. caribou - eli

28. pantha du prince - asha

29. dominik eulberg - lotuseffekt

31. feist - i feel it all

32. rufus wainwright - lost in tiergarten (supermayer remix)

33. le dustsucker - it all comes down

34. dj koze - mariposa

35. holy ghost! - hold on

36. kollektiv turmstrasse - grillen im park

37. why? - good friday (boards of canada remix)

38. matias aguayo - argento

39. m.i.a - paper planes (esau mwamwaya 'tengazako' remix)

40. poni hoax - antibodies

41. chromatics - running up this hill

42. jamie lloyd - movin' in (brennan green remix)

43. animal collective - peacebone

44. animal collective - fireworks/essplode

45. matthew dear - don & sherri

46. shocking pinks - cutout

47. von sudenfed - the rhinohead (pilooski edit)

48. stimming - funkworm

49. touane - chamber

50. stewart walker - fernbank '91 (robag wruhme remix)

51. osborne - outta sight (this should actually be number 4 or something)

52. quiet village - desperate hours

53. nathan fake - you are here (four tet remix)

54. the tuss - synthacon 9

55. joakim - lonely hearts

56. the oscillation - head hang low

57. fairmont - flight of the albatross

58. supermayer - the art of letting go (ewan pearson 'daft funk' remix)

59. shit robot - chasm

60. black moth super rainbow - jump into my mouth & breathe

61. pikaya - jedi

62. maps - to the sky (loving hand remix)

63. hercules & love affair - roar

64. liars - sailing to byzantium

65. free blood - the royal family

66. lcd soundsystem - freak out (no point listing 'someone great' now, it shoulda been top 10)

67. motorcitysoul - space katzle (jerome sydenham remix)

68. the antlers - ease river berlin wall

69. efdemin - bergwein

70. liars - freak out

okay, i'm tired now.

― jermainetwo, Monday, 24 December 2007 04:58 (eighteen years ago)

so are we.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 24 December 2007 05:13 (eighteen years ago)

Top Tracks in the last 12 months

1 ~ Gino Soccio – Remember (12" Version)
2 ~ Wassermann – W.I.R. (Das Original)
3 ~ Isaac Hayes – Disco Connection
4 ~ Common Factor – Get Down #3
5 ~ Rocking Horse – Love Do Me Right (Rub 'N' Tug's Rocking Arse Re-Edit)
6 ~ Roni Griffith – Spys
7 ~ Peter Jacques Band – Fly With The Wind
8 ~ Hott City – Feelin' Love
9 ~ Autechre – Fold4, Wrap5
10 ~ Third World – Now That We Found Love

last.fm otm!!

― ☪, Monday, 24 December 2007 05:23 (eighteen years ago)

Classic.

For me at least. I compulsively list, rank, organize etc. everything, not just music. It articulates things in a way that is digestible in retrospect, and engages reflection on things you would have let slide into the forgotten depths of the back of your mind.

that being said I spent what is probably an embarrasing amount of time putting together this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/AbXy6001/2007list.jpg

anyone cares, you can hear it in megamix form here

― mehlt, Monday, 24 December 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

Classic? Including links to everything on your list so we can easily check out stuff being mentioned.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Monday, 24 December 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

Classic. For me at least Jesus, I happened to make a mix of those tracks, in case anyone was curious as to what they sounded like. If that is really such a faux-pas post of sorts I apologize, I'm really not trying to make myself out to be some sort of list authority for everyone to revere.

If that wasn't in reference to my post(because I'm really not sure), then please disregard what I just wrote.

― mehlt, Monday, 24 December 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

No, I meant, it's classic that you included a track mix. It was a compliment.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Monday, 24 December 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

Haha. I read "Classic?" as "Classic? Are you serious!" and "Including links to everything on your list so we can easily check out stuff being mentioned." as saying "and in addition you give links to everything!"

Oh my, I must really not be sleeping well. . . My apologies there.

― mehlt, Monday, 24 December 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

Defensive mehlt is defensive.

― The Reverend, Monday, 24 December 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

You know me too well.

― mehlt, Monday, 24 December 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

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