Top Tens Of The Year Introduction: 2003-05

Keeping Tabs On The Music That Defined My Year

Like it or not, people love compiling lists. New Years is an especially frantic time for these lists, usually looking back at the year past and compiling the highs and lows into a nice digestible aid memoir of the arbitrary block of time that's just passed.

I'm not immune to this trend, and over the past few years I've enjoyed sitting down with some alcoholic beverages and looking back at the past year and the music that has been my most played and listened to. In the past I've always put these on my personal blog where they maybe looked a bit out of place. However, now I have this musical space as well, this seems like the best place to stick 'em. I'll leave the past ones where they are. But in future, all new lists will be living here.

Now, being a music fan who's not tied to review the latest and newest releases on a treadmill of publish and move on, you'll notice that most of the stuff in my top tens isn't actually from that year. There are a few in there, but there are also a large proportion of older albums as well.

Being into music isn't just about being into new stuff, often older records will find their way onto your playlists and long may it be so. The music I love has a rich history, and so far I've barely scrapped the surface - so I'm always moving around in my gathering of new music to listen too, up and down the ages - as are any music fans.

It's not just stuff I've only just gotten into, often there music from my past that I've forgotten or ignored. I'll often pick up an old record, dust it off thinking 'I've not listened to that for years', give it a new listen. Sometimes I'll fall in love with it all over again or find a new appreciation for a record that was previously lacking on my part.

Whatever, if it makes the top ten then it's had a special significance for me the last year and I enjoy making the lists. They're great to look back on and see the stuff that was important to me then. My only regret is I didn't start doing it decades earlier, it would be a fascinating to me. Probably not to anyone else, but I enjoy looking at where my head was at and how things have developed.

And as long as I continue to both enjoy listening to the music and talking about it with anyone who's interested, I'll keep doing them. So, without further ado, the first three annual round-ups follow. You'll go to my other blog to read them, but like I said, in future, new ones will be stuck here.

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David Lloyd © September 2006

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