2017 MUSIC CHALLENGES

The last sentence is a non-sequitur. Just reassuring you all that my ears will be cosy.

Listen to at least 300 albums at least once in their entirety that are released between Christmas Eve 2016 and 2017

Peruse at least 20 seconds of literally every single album released in this time

>>69992893
Good luck.

I'm gonna do an album a day

Might start a blog of my thoughts on it

>>69992923
Danke

My real goal is the 2nd part. I think 300 will be a piece of cake. I'm not even done with the first week and I've already heard more than ten and about half of them twice.

>>69992968
What websites do you use to keep up-to-date with releases?

Nothing But Martial-industrial March

>>69992893
Are you including Bandcamp releases in 'all albums'?

Because there are a lot of albums released every day. Feel like you night need to put a qualifier on that

>>69993340
Especially in this day and age I make literally zero distinction. The only real big distinction I make is between EP and LP which I mark at about 25 minutes. Then I basically go 12 minutes and under is actually a 7" single. Number of tracks is totally irrelevant to me.

>>69993054
Bandcamp is a huge one and even difficult to get a complete list even supplementing with Google. I am convinced that all of this is intentionally difficult so that bands can be charged to be put on new release lists no matter what the source like spotify or anything.

So then the most comprehensive list I've ever found is aptly named albumoftheyear.org

Other bigger lists like allmusic are out of control with just simple repressing let alone reissues. Even otherwise excellent genre specific lists like metallum suffer from this problem although nowhere near as much.

Then after that literally anywhere and everywhere I can.

Which reminds me that I think Rum may be the most comprehensive but as I recall they wipe the list almost constantly. So maybe if I just simply stay on top of it from The beginning I'll be good.

Fucking autocorrect

RUM = RYM