Retro Albums of the Year 2010's: 2020

[LithoJazzoSphere]

This is going to be a fascinating exercise.  Even though I tend to be a bit more song-focused than album-focused, there are tons and tons of albums that I know I like, but can't necessarily single out a particular track on, so it'll be a dilemma of if I can squeeze in time to listen to them again, skim a bit to see if one stands out, or just leave them off entirely. 

[SoundscapeMN]

I feel like we'd need some sort of cap like only top 20 songs

Yes, this.

what we could do, if we wanted to actually come up with a Cumulative Ranking for each year (which was intended, but never done with this topic), is maybe say Vote up to 20 or maybe say 30 songs max per year.

But if people like myself, find I'm leaving off a lot, just include however many more songs in your list. But after Song #20 or #30, those songs wouldn't be counted towards a Voting Ranking for songs for that year.

The 1 song per artist? yeah I suppose also might make sense, just so we don't end up with something like all Scenes From a Memory songs in the Top 10 for 1999 or whatever.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

I almost always impose the one song per artist restriction on my own lists anyway.  Though I fudge it sometimes with collaborations and such. 

[SoundscapeMN]

what I'm also unsure about is where to start.

This topic began with 1965. And I recall a lot of people struggled or didn't have much in the 60's or even 70's.

It might be different for songs vs albums? Of course "The Album Era" began around those years, which before that, popular music was known for Singles, not Albums. So some may find more actual songs to vote for in the 60's, than they did albums.

I dunno, it might even be worth creating a Poll just to see.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Would it be insane to start backwards, from 2022, and just keep going until we collectively give up? 

[Lethean]

The 1 song per artist? yeah I suppose also might make sense, just so we don't end up with something like all Scenes From a Memory songs in the Top 10 for 1999 or whatever.

But what if I didn't listen to 20 different albums that year?  If I only listened to 10, I couldn't have say 5 songs from my favorite album, 3 from the next, etc to get to 20?

[SoundscapeMN]

The 1 song per artist? yeah I suppose also might make sense, just so we don't end up with something like all Scenes From a Memory songs in the Top 10 for 1999 or whatever.

But what if I didn't listen to 20 different albums that year?  If I only listened to 10, I couldn't have say 5 songs from my favorite album, 3 from the next, etc to get to 20?

yeah..there's also the issue that if say The Beatles had both Sgt Peppers and Magical Mystery Tour in the same year, this rule would only allow you to vote for 1 song between both albums.

[TAC]

I'm getting an ice cream headache. Why don't we just list our Top 25 for the year and move on.