Goal Met – Listen to Top 50 Albums of all Time

OK so this one is bound to generate arguments. I again used ChatGPT to collate a list from as many sources as possible and come up with a consensus top 50. Some of the albums I was familiar with, some I’ve never heard of so I knew this was going to be an adventure.

I actually went out and got some high quality headphones so I could experience them with as much audio fidelity as possible. I was pleasantly surprised at what a difference they made from my $10 amazon headset I was using!

Some of the albums were sonic masterpieces.. While others were a struggle for me. I mean I understand why Patti Smith is highly regarded but her music was a slog the same for the velvet underground. I listened to every song on every album and I feel like I get why some of these are so highly regarded – I mean what’s going on is such a great album that I listened to it again as soon as I was done.

The one thing that this challenge did was improve my Apple music algorithm – I mean it was pretty polluted from my kids asking Alexa to play Taylor Swift and dinosaur songs so injecting the algorithm with some quality music really helped balance the scales!

I got interested in the evolution of music and wish I had followed the movie goal and selected albums from each decade as I think that would have been a more interesting experience but I still managed to dig deep and explore why these albums are so well regarded and how they might be connected to each other.

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