My Music Listening Habits for 2025
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My Music Listening Habits for 2025

Its that time of year, when everything rolls over and everyone does wrap up and summary posts. I have done my music wrap up every year for a while now. I did it monthly for a bit but it didn't change enough to be interesting to write about. Hell, it honestly doesn't change much to be interesting annually. It was kind of a big year for buying CDs for me, though not necessarily listening to them. CDs are plentiful on the secondary market, and are easily digitized. I also went and ID tagged all my music, which will be useful…
Twenty Years of Last.fm
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Twenty Years of Last.fm

So this is a bit of an estimate, because there are several pages of songs listed as "Unknown Date". I'm not sure how that happens, but looking at my Scrobble History on last.fm, my first Scrobble was on June 8th, 2005, with the track "Katamari on the Rock" by 三宅優. That would be, the main theme to Katamari Damacy. I can actually see that being my first Scrobble. Afterwards I apparently rolled (aye, get it) into the soundtrack for Cowboy Bebop. Anyway, I've not been super consistent over the years, a lot of my listening has happened in the last…
My Music Listening Habbits for 2024
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My Music Listening Habbits for 2024

I have to admit, this is my own personal favorite post for each year, even if no one else cares. Q look back on my music listening for the year, and how it has, or has not changed or evolved, and a round of trying to make predictions, and then working to not make those predictions self fulfilling in some weird attempt to not be wrong about my predictions. Anyway, lets get it going then, with the 5x5 for albums. Unsurprisingly, Aurora's What Happened to the Heart was my most listened to album. And this doesn't even count time spent…
My Music Listening Habits for 2023
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My Music Listening Habits for 2023

It's that time again, when I discuss my music habits for the year, or at least, parts of it that seem interesting, to me. I'll just start off with the 5x5 chart, from my Last.fm scrobbles. I had some Spotify Wrapped stuff too but it doesn't capture everything and was only for like 3 months of listening, so it's kind of worthless. So, a bit of an interesting surprise, Wolf Alice's Blue Weekend was my top album for the year. I guess I was listening to that one a lot more than I really thought I had been. The same…
The Annual Playlist for 2023
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The Annual Playlist for 2023

A few years ago, I was sorting through some older music, and came across old Mix Tapes and CD-Rs.  It's really fun because unlike digital music, these are essentially static playlists.  This is a window into what I was listening to at that time.  And no, you didn't misread that, Mix Tapes.  and they were mostly from the 90s era.  My first car didn't have a CD player, it just had a cassette deck.  Teenage me would regularly visit the local library and check out a variety of CDs, then spend the week picking out my favorite tracks and recording…
My Music Listening Habits for 2022
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My Music Listening Habits for 2022

It's that time again, when I ramble on about what I've been listening to this year.  I don't use Spotify so I don't have a "cool kids" wrap up to share.  Instead you get this!  A blog post!  And some little 5x5 charts made from my Last.fm.  I kind of prefer starting on Artists over Albums, so without further ado, the top 25 for 2022.  Which unsurprisingly, is relatively similar to my previous years. In a surprise to literally no one, including myself, my top 3 are pretty much the same as they have been for a while.  Aurora, CHVRCHES,…
My Music Listening Habits for 2021
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My Music Listening Habits for 2021

It's time again for my new favorite annual tradition here (until it isn't), my music listening habits for the year. Not a lot of new this year, I'll admit that. Though I sometimes wonder if part of that is that some artists and albums get sort of lost int he sauce of over listening to some of my favorite artists. Anyway onto the break down, I'll split up artists and albums even though they kind of parallel each other. Artists The biggest movers this year were Aurora and CHVRCHES in the number two and number one spot. CHVRCHES has a…