2/24/2023 0 Comments Headlights ep tor miller iturnesYes, we were sad and geeky enough to record our listening history over 365 days, with all the complications that brings multiple listens to one CD on a car journey and forgetting how many times we played it, part plays of albums etc. The idea was simple - our favourite must be the one we had played the most. The positions of each album was simply but carefully calculated based on the number of times we’d played the album that year, the results being modified to account for the number of months since the album first reached our ears. However, our end of year list wasn’t just one short rushed blog post decided on the spur of the moment but a reasonably weighty series of posts ( see here). As Bob suggests, charts are very British thing, ‘fuel for a nation obsessed with train numbers and cricket statistics’. It’s what Bob Stanley in his epic tome The History of Modern Pop would describe as ‘competition, excitement in league table form, pop music as a sport’. Towards the end of 2014, like every blog / website / music fan that likes to make sense of the musical year and document things for future reference, we published our end of year album list.
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