it's really funny how I keep going "laurel hell isn't as good as her other stuff, and my general opinion of her music has been slowly cooling down" and then it's my most-listened album for two months in a row

also I caved and donated $5 to get the 10x10 square. because starting job and having long commute has made me listen to a lot more music. I kinda prefer the presentation of just the top 25 though. (plus mastodon's compression makes this illegible so I split it into 4. which sorta fucks with the order but whatever)

april (a little bit late)

shoutout to the best album name

may

and that makes one full year

I know this site just pulls from the scrobble count on last.fm but I wonder if there's a way to actually rank by number of times listened to album instead of by tracks. a couple of these are only so high up because they have a higher track count

except Burn Pygmalion, which I probably couldn't dislodge if I tried. it's a real "listen to this too much and show your whole entire ass to all your friends" kind of album

I guess I could do this manually by getting this list with playcounts enabled and divide by number of tracks on album. might do this tomorrow

june

july

1. also generated a 10x10 chart and cropped it to top 60
2. created a little addendum with what were probably my top 6 albums this month, but I was listening on my mp3 player and couldn't find these city pop compilations on openscrobbler

august

and again, expanded to top 60

september

I think there are a lot of things I listened to this month that I forgot to update through last.fm, but this is a valid sampling that makes me look a lot cooler

october

ah fuck, I forgot november. anyways, here's december

and here's a 10x10 for 2022

:|

okay top 100 artists. I guess it's pretty normal, but it's funny seeing the first 10 or so being artists I listened to on repeat, and then the rest as a result of listening to one or two albums all the way through once. (with the exception of the Revue Starlight artists peppered in there, where I listened to like 2-3 songs over and over)

also I tried to use openscrobbler to get things when I listened on vinyl or cassette, but I forgot probably like half of the time

I probably should be making new threads for this each year, but instead you get giant thread. here's january top 25 and top 50

february, top 25 and top 50. I know it's silly to include both, but I like the 5x5 square

smarch. listened to the new 100 gecs approximately a hundred times and it got me in a hyperpoppy mood

april

may. 5x5 and 10x10

june, a day late

@prumm uwa uwa-oh

@harley yes! that's the first track on the album, actually. it's sorta separate from the main theme of the album but I like it a lot too

@prumm oh what website is this

@inarguableaxis it pulls the info from last.fm, so you have to set that to scrobble from wherever you listen to music to get this to work https://www.tapmusic.net

@prumm thank you!

@prumm hey that's me!!!!

@Aleums :D

@prumm ☝️ lesbian

@Aleums what is the truth

@prumm both can be true

@prumm pointing at the abrahammer and pawgchamping

@turntechcatfish you did that!! :3 I really liked it, I was jamming out at my desk in a way I usually don't with mashup stuff

@prumm burn pygmalion =:D

@cormoranthine hehehe if you scroll through the thread, Burn Pygmalion shows up at least every other month for like two years lmao

@prumm immediately drawn to the golf themed VW album. i have to listen.

@prumm what do u think of the yaeji album

@prumm have I ever told you you have great fucking taste

@Aleums thank you! I'm trying not to be genuinely surprised by the compliment, haha

@prumm it's good shit!! I'm not emotionally affected by mitski in that way but there's lots of cool stuff I recognize here and lots of things I've heard really good things about. also there's lots of different kinds of things which I always admire

@prumm were there any standouts that really impressed you this year, or things you thought you would like but were disappointing?

@Aleums disappointing: Jubilee by Japanese Breakfast (actually from 2021 but whatever.) I saw her live in 2018 and her previous albums are decent. this newest one was nominated for a grammy, but for some reason it just completely washes off of me to the point that I can only recall like one song. I think she gets frequently compared to Mitski, but notably I feel like her music has zero anger and relatively low intensity. they're just like... generic indie pop with a few catchy disco vibes

@prumm I feel the same for sure. my favourite of her songs have been the forgettable shoegazey ones, which I can get elsewhere

@Aleums my thoughts exactly! there are a lot of artists I get into whose early albums are shoegazey or otherwise have lo-fi noise rock-ish crunch, and then as they get bigger and more popular they sound more clean and poppy in a way that's less interesting to me. it's funny that Laurel Hell was my most listened album this year, because it really exemplifies this trend and I was a little disappointed. it did come out when I was feeling peak divorced though, so props to her for the timing

@prumm have you ever heard tanukichan? It's pretty generic nugaze but its very well produced and the songs are quite nice. Would fit along with some of the other stuff here