Post by halo19 on Mar 19, 2013 13:37:34 GMT -4
Yeah, the place has slowed down for most part, but why not.
I'm just thinking in summary of the last 8 years I've been listening to music. Also, things seem so similar and different at the same time as then even personally.
I know 2005 was the last year I did in by far the longest running of my personal charts, so I tried to see what my chart would look like had I calculated in reversed points rather than the way I did. Unlike some years, every song did indeed chart, but not everything was in that order. I actually generally preferred the look of that to the one I ended up posting. (I found out that I actually extended my 2004 year-end from just 100 songs but not 2005. 218 songs made it in all. I could post it via spoiler if anyone cared.)
Then I looked at 2006, lol what a mess for me that was as far as following current music. After 2 months of hearing nothing, I was trying to catch up with some of that, and then I finally had the money to not only get back a lot of the disastrous loss of CDs in 2005, but I also got a lot of stuff I had wanted at least since currently to all maybe six years back that I hadn't gotten. When I look at the three charts I posted while trying to revive it, I can see why I didn't lol. Also, these days I primarily listen to new music via Spotify, YouTube and whatever I have in my local music library, while I hadn't completed such a transition by then, at least not fully.
By comparison, I was pretty caught up during 2007, but I was still acquiring so much music that if I wasn't listening to something for at least a month or two prior, I pretty much forgot about it (or at least how little parts were supposed to sound, not the full songs themselves). I was still catching up, but the abundance of new music was also kind of a challenge.
In a way I wish I did have a personal chart in (mid)2006-2007 because I think then that I wouldn't have forgotten about some of the songs I definitely knew and enjoyed, as well as parent albums.
That pretty much evened out by the next year, but I remembered talking about what a drought current music was in that summer. If not for the likes of Portishead and Thrice, I maybe would have given up on new music. (!) Post-script: Ironically, though, I saw probably more concerts this year than in any years previous by far (and 2009 was even; 2011 not bad either).In the fall, I revived my chart through all of 2009, which I think is pretty cool in retrospect.
Then 2010 personally (changing the topic) was a big f***ing mess personally and I could write a book about that aspect. I did listen to radio a little bit again during the summer. Still, I put the personal charts to the side and found some of the previously-mentioned problems with the current songs. I feel like keeping track of songs via personal chart is by far the easiest way to remember current music and that's the main reason I ever regret stopping.
Since then, things have looked up by comparison, facebook-status drama be damned. 2011 was my year of using Rhapsody months before Spotify was available in America and it helped me find a lot diverse and new favorites at the time. Even the charts were looking good then.
The news of the loss last year maybe came across as getting lemon juice stung in the eyes and arguably the band that's defined my taste for this whole period so much have stepped down as a full-time band
, but sometimes life just has to be taken for what it is.
Honestly, if it wasn't for discussing music as well as hearing it, I wouldn't be on the Internet near as much. To paraphrase They Might Be Giants, that's the only way I know how to be me.
I'm just thinking in summary of the last 8 years I've been listening to music. Also, things seem so similar and different at the same time as then even personally.
I know 2005 was the last year I did in by far the longest running of my personal charts, so I tried to see what my chart would look like had I calculated in reversed points rather than the way I did. Unlike some years, every song did indeed chart, but not everything was in that order. I actually generally preferred the look of that to the one I ended up posting. (I found out that I actually extended my 2004 year-end from just 100 songs but not 2005. 218 songs made it in all. I could post it via spoiler if anyone cared.)
Then I looked at 2006, lol what a mess for me that was as far as following current music. After 2 months of hearing nothing, I was trying to catch up with some of that, and then I finally had the money to not only get back a lot of the disastrous loss of CDs in 2005, but I also got a lot of stuff I had wanted at least since currently to all maybe six years back that I hadn't gotten. When I look at the three charts I posted while trying to revive it, I can see why I didn't lol. Also, these days I primarily listen to new music via Spotify, YouTube and whatever I have in my local music library, while I hadn't completed such a transition by then, at least not fully.
By comparison, I was pretty caught up during 2007, but I was still acquiring so much music that if I wasn't listening to something for at least a month or two prior, I pretty much forgot about it (or at least how little parts were supposed to sound, not the full songs themselves). I was still catching up, but the abundance of new music was also kind of a challenge.
In a way I wish I did have a personal chart in (mid)2006-2007 because I think then that I wouldn't have forgotten about some of the songs I definitely knew and enjoyed, as well as parent albums.
That pretty much evened out by the next year, but I remembered talking about what a drought current music was in that summer. If not for the likes of Portishead and Thrice, I maybe would have given up on new music. (!) Post-script: Ironically, though, I saw probably more concerts this year than in any years previous by far (and 2009 was even; 2011 not bad either).In the fall, I revived my chart through all of 2009, which I think is pretty cool in retrospect.
Then 2010 personally (changing the topic) was a big f***ing mess personally and I could write a book about that aspect. I did listen to radio a little bit again during the summer. Still, I put the personal charts to the side and found some of the previously-mentioned problems with the current songs. I feel like keeping track of songs via personal chart is by far the easiest way to remember current music and that's the main reason I ever regret stopping.
Since then, things have looked up by comparison, facebook-status drama be damned. 2011 was my year of using Rhapsody months before Spotify was available in America and it helped me find a lot diverse and new favorites at the time. Even the charts were looking good then.
The news of the loss last year maybe came across as getting lemon juice stung in the eyes and arguably the band that's defined my taste for this whole period so much have stepped down as a full-time band
, but sometimes life just has to be taken for what it is.Honestly, if it wasn't for discussing music as well as hearing it, I wouldn't be on the Internet near as much. To paraphrase They Might Be Giants, that's the only way I know how to be me.
