Re: How many albums do have from the top 100 of each decade?
Now there is help for you all. I have started to add links to amazon.com. A suggestion to where you can buy the albums, hopefully to a good price.
I hope you don't think I have become greedy. I have wanted to keep the site non-commercial, but my aim with the site is to provide music recommendations, and I think the site is more helpful when it doesn't only answer the question "what albums?" but also suggest "how to get them".
Re: How many albums do have from the top 100 of each decade?
Are you being paid to add these links? If not, I think you could be. They certainly don't take away from the excellence of the site, and if they add some money to your pocket for all the work you do and that we all appreciate so much, more's the better!
Re: How many albums do have from the top 100 of each decade?
Numbers from each decade
60s - 33
70s - 29
80s - 35
90s - 44
00s - 50
The gradual increase is probably due to my age (started earning a steady income in the early 90s) and the fact that for the past couple of years I've been getting CDs for free to review.
The only drop off was the 70s. That just wasn't my decade, man.
Re: How many albums do have from the top 100 of each decade?
This is quite a good site you have going here.
My numbers for the top 100 of each decade:
60s - 100
70s - 100
80s - 99 (don't want Slayer)
90s - 99 (somehow missed the Orb)
00s - 64 (slipping there)
Re: How many albums do have from the top 100 of each decade?
1960s - 4 (there are 3-4 more I want to get)
1970s - 6 (there are only 1-2 more I want to get)
1980s - 12 (at least 5 more I want to get)
1990s - 27 (with a few more to get)
2000s - 16 (with a few more to get)
I thought with the massive update, it would be a good time to update this.
Let's see how it goes...
60s: 5
70s: 34
80s: 25
90s: 13
00s: 21
Overall top 1000: 139
Overall top 2500: 225 (9 from the 60s, 59 from the 70s, 79 from the 80s, 45 from the 90s, 33 from the 00s)
Conclusions: I took a hit from the big update as I don't have much jazz or world music at all (yet). I have more albums from the 80s, but more highly acclaimed albums from the 70s. I need to keep collecting!
Re: How many albums do have from the top 100 of each decade?
Considering my stats the '80s are definitely the "weak" decade for me.
But the fact is these two lasts years I've enjoyed a lot of '80s stuff but not especially albums which are in the top 100.
As a "pure" pop fan, the best of the '80s is according to me bands like XTC/Dukes Of Stratosphear, Prefab Sprout, Squeeze, Split Enz, The Spongetones, Rain Parade, The Blue Nile, The Smiths or Aztec Camera.
Re: How many albums do have from the top 100 of each decade?
Oh, if we're counting 'currently owned' and not 'have ever owned', subtract like 10-20ish from each of the groupings.
When work slows down I have the tendency to take a huge pile of CDs I don't listen to any more to Newbury Comics and come out with two or three shiny new ones and no net loss of funds.
Ooh didn't know how many i had, i counted and it was pretty surprising the final results! The majority of the ones missing to complete 100 From the 80's, 90's and 00's are hip-hop albums. I really tried to like it, to love it, but it didn't work, it's truly not my area or my jam, but i do recognize that hip-hop is music, and it's not because i don't like it that means is bad or not genius, many of them are really genius, i just can't appreciate like other people. From the 60's, the 70's and the 50's i didn't know about them, next vacation i'll sure check them out.
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I only count albums I have digital copies of. Frankly, I can't remember everything I taped from friends onto cassette decades ago that are currently sitting in my attic.
Oddly enough, the list of albums I own has less to do with how much I like them and more to do with availability. I live in sort of a retirement community in FL with a population of about 100k, so we obviously don't have as big of a record selection as a record store in a big city.
my counts are low compared to others. From the top 100 of the 90s, I have 10 (did have 11, but sold my cassette copy of Autoomatic For The People). Other decades, less.
This was way more balanced than I thought it would be. I thought the 60s and 70s would have far more than any other decade, especially since I have about twice as many songs from those decades on iTunes compared with the 80s.
Also, I'd say about 90% of the albums were in the top 50 for their respective decade. I really need to find some gems in the 51-100 zone for each decade.
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40s: 1 (but there are only 3!)
50s: 29
60s: 94 (can't believe it isn't 100, I do know all the other 6 though)
70s: 93 (well I was a teenager in the 70s...)
80s: 75 (too many metal and hiphop titles)
90s: 78 (same)
00s: 84 (no idea why this is so high