Can anyone explain how to go about creating a Top100 ever.

 

There are so many good songs what I don't know where to start and seems if I just select singles out of memory then the list would be very incomplete.

I thought about started from about 1980 and listening on youtube to every single that came into the charts.

It works out at many hours, something in the region of 500 hours listening if I was to listen to each single in full.

 

Anyone have any useful ideas on how to do this before I start, especially thoughts from Tip welcome.

 

Well when I did mine, I went through my extensive record collection listing the songs I really liked onto an excel spreadsheet and gradually ranked songs in order and whittled the list down from about 3,700 tracks that way.

 

Mind you, it took me the best part of a year to compile it properly.

I have a firm all time top three, but I wouldn't even dream of compiling a Top 100 as it would be near impossible!

 

Good luck to you though!

I was thinking of compiling mine sometime, but I'm too young to do a proper top 100 ever and it would mostly be compiled of songs from the last decade because that's been most of my life and I have a preference to those songs as I grew up listening to them. I do like some songs from before my time, but I wonder how many would make the top 100. :lol:

 

I'd go about it the way Comply Or Die suggested and get a list of the songs you really like and whittle it down. If I were to do this I'd copy all the songs I have from iTunes into Excel and try to rank them.

I did one when I was about 15 and hadn't hearrd THAT much music. I'd never have time now...nor would I be able to go over everything I've heard in the 16 years since then!

 

The spreadsheet idea seems best - I think I just wrote down all the singles I had, browsed through my compilations and racked my memory for elusive oldies that I hadn't managed to get a copy of which gave me around 300 - then I went through the list looking for the best track each time out of what hadn't been put in the list yet. Took forever and would be much easier with a computer!

start in 1980?... :lol: thats dismissing arguably the best 20 years in music history! :lol:

 

i couldnt do it, ive often thought about it but how can i rate a 60's classic like the yardbirds 'shapes of things', against summut like veracocha 'carte blanche' ?.... they and others, appeal to me in different ways. id find it difficult enough to do it on 60's alone. so to play off genre favs against eachother is to me impossible.

I have a list of my favourite albums and singles. I only put absolute favourites on them. For instance I am currently debating whether to put Take me Out by Franz Ferdinand on. The most recent entry I think is Hate to Say I Told You So by The Hives.

 

Maybe you should not be so ambitious. Start off with those that are your absolute favourites even if you only end up with 10 songs or albums. I have been listening to music for 25+ years and I have only got 75 songs on my list. Plus I don't have them in any order - they are just my favourite 75.

I tried to do one a few years ago but found it such a difficult task. I have a firm top 3, like another poster above, but just when I think I've got an idea of just the top 10 something changes. I'm sure if I did a top 100 I'd constantly be changing it. Plus some songs sound better or worse depending on the mood I'm in so the chart would always be in flux.

I tried to do one a few years ago but found it such a difficult task. I have a firm top 3, like another poster above, but just when I think I've got an idea of just the top 10 something changes. I'm sure if I did a top 100 I'd constantly be changing it. Plus some songs sound better or worse depending on the mood I'm in so the chart would always be in flux.

I think it will change over time, records that mean a lot to you at one point in your life then mean less later on. It should be in a state of flux. I've just looked at mine again and there are records I think I have to take out. I look at it like it's a list of the songs I would take with me on a desert island, the ones it would take me longest to get sick of or that that remind me of a particular place or time. I mean no-one would argue that Zodiac Mindwarp's Prime Mover is one of the greatest singles ever released but it's on my list because it reminds me of a particularly happy time in my life and I love the record to pieces. Which is reason enough to place it in my favourite records.

Edited April 18, 200817 yr by grebo69

I think it will change over time, records that mean a lot to you at one point in your life then mean less later on. It should be in a state of flux. I've just looked at mine again and there are records I think I have to take out. I look at it like it's a list of the songs I would take with me on a desert island, the ones it would take me longest to get sick of or that that remind me of a particular place or time. I mean no-one would argue that Zodiac Mindwarp's Prime Mover is one of the greatest singles ever released but it's on my list because it reminds me of a particularly happy time in my life and I love the record to pieces. Which is reason enough to place it in my favourite records.

yeah, I take your point about the fact that chart should always be in a state of flux. Plus some songs just suddenly grow old quickly while some become favourites down the line, often years later.

 

I agree that liking some songs is guided by how life was at the time the song came out. Prime Mover wouldn't be in my top 100 but it does actually remind me of a happy time in my life, of drunken nights and watching the video on the video jukebox in the Swan pub on Kensington Church Street just down from Notting Hill Gate tube in London!

I have a list of my favourite albums and singles. I only put absolute favourites on them. For instance I am currently debating whether to put Take me Out by Franz Ferdinand on. The most recent entry I think is Hate to Say I Told You So by The Hives.

 

Maybe you should not be so ambitious. Start off with those that are your absolute favourites even if you only end up with 10 songs or albums. I have been listening to music for 25+ years and I have only got 75 songs on my list. Plus I don't have them in any order - they are just my favourite 75.

 

I have a folder like this on my computer - but only for MP3s - there's quite a few on CD / vinyl / tape which aren't in there. It's good to stick the folder in Winamp and put it on shuffle :)

 

must agree with robbie and grebo's posts above. favs certainly do change depending on mood and i agree any fav list should be in a state of flux. i also think you can only properly judge how good a track actually is over time. its always great to hear a fab new tune, and new tracks always sound better.... but it takes time to properly judge how good they are. indeed, some tracks sound better over time then when they were out!

 

jackie wilsons 'higher and higher' for eg... love that song now...

 

i like alot of tracks this centuary... how many will make it to my all time list?... queens of the stoneage for sure, feel good inc, tied up too tight, hey ya, american idiot,.... ??

i too rate the hives :)

start in 1980?... :lol: thats dismissing arguably the best 20 years in music history! :lol:

 

i couldnt do it, ive often thought about it but how can i rate a 60's classic like the yardbirds 'shapes of things', against summut like veracocha 'carte blanche' ?.... they and others, appeal to me in different ways. id find it difficult enough to do it on 60's alone. so to play off genre favs against eachother is to me impossible.

 

This is where I would also face the problem. Different tracks evoke different moods and feelings, none nessarilly being better than the other. One book I've read - which is just absolutely brilliant - is 'This Is Uncool: The best singles since punk and disco', is by Garry Mullholland. He simply starts from 1978 and just simply lists the songs that have stood the test of time for him, and also from a cultural perspective. It's a real great read, and saves the impossibility to list 100 to 1.

Edited April 19, 200817 yr by ScottyEm

This is where I would also face the problem. Different tracks evoke different moods and feelings, none nessarilly being better than the other. One book I've read - which is just absolutely brilliant - is 'This Is Uncool: The best singles since punk and disco', is by Garry Mullholland. He simply starts from 1978 and just simply lists the songs that have stood the test of time for him, and also from a cultural perspective. It's a real great read, and saves the impossibility to list 100 to 1.

 

any chance of posting the list?

You can find it here

 

Rocklist - This is Uncool

Well ive been interested in music since June 2006 that was when i started hearing music that was never really big (ie it barely got any airplay), so ive only missed about 18 months of LOTS of music that isn't included on my personal chart , but obviously ive heard some music since 2000 and ive probably heard about 50% of the top 5's the first half of this decade, and in the 2nd half probably about 85% of the top 5's this half of the decade. And from 2000-2005 i probably have heard about 5% of the songs that missed the top 20, which is barely anything. Ive got lots of music to discover from the 90's and early 00's to complete my chart, but if i keep a personal chart running for as long as i need to (which is an incredibly massive if, and very ambitious), then i should be fine. But then i need to allocate points to songs from before 2007.

You can find it here

 

Rocklist - This is Uncool

 

thanks...interesting.