The Ultimate PA Album List- 2015/16 Revival!

Thanks for this thread by the way!
Making up the list is big fun and makes me listen to many great things again.
The list itself will still take a while...

By the way, reading somewhere else in this forum I thought the appreciation for classical music is strong here, but I don't see that much in the lists posted up to now. I wonder whether this is a proper reflection of people's taste, or whether they exclude classical for other reasons such as admiration rather for specific works than for albums (but the opening post states we can list works), or some people may just don't think it belongs here (I think it does).

Did you read the OP? He strongly advised not to list classical.

zravkapt wrote: Classical isn't an 'album' genre like jazz, pop or rock is anyway.

Magnum Vaeltaja wrote: I'd be really surprised if anyone else on this site makes a list with nearly as much southern rock in it!

I was just curious how strongly classical music would feature in such an exercise, but as things stand, that's not so clear because some don't include classical because it doesn't score high enough for them whereas some others don't include it for other reasons such as "it isn't an album genre". Well, so be it then, at the end of the day it's anyone's own decision.

Did you read the OP? He strongly advised not to list classical.

If you read the OP again you'll realise that listing specific albums is discouraged but listing classical works (assuming the best interpretation you know) is fine.

Guldbamsen wrote: Damn that was much harder than I thought ....and all I've done is list 200 albums. There's definitely no order yet, and I am struggling to see how I'm ever going to pull that off

So you now have written them down in some random order.
Make a new list on which you start with the first (random) album on your list, and then add further albums one by one, always putting them in "correct" order with those that are already there. This becomes harder the more albums are already there, granted, but I think it remains doable until you reach no. 200.
I know that some albums can just not really be compared and some of the decisions to make there are very hard, in which case you can do just something that feels about right.
Still this will produce a ranking that should be almost as good as it gets in manageable time.
Certainly it's better than looking at a list of 200 and waiting for an order to form in your head.
(Maybe this idea is trivial and nothing new for you and you're agonising about all the decisions that there still are to be made, but in any case it probably can't hurt to post this...)

rushfan4 wrote: Here are my top 250 albums per my ratings in progfreak.

Kazza3 wrote: rushfan4 wrote: Here are my top 250 albums per my ratings in progfreak.   Wow. 250+ albums rated 9/10 or above?!

That is out of 7400+ albums.  I'm bound to think that at least some of them are magnificent or stellar.  Otherwise what the heck am I doing listening to all of this music.

ranking albums is difficult. I just looked back on the list I made a week ago and was astonished by the choices.  Blue Lines before The Yes Album?  What the hell was I thinking?

emigre80 wrote: ranking albums is difficult. I just looked back on the list I made a week ago and was astonished by the choices.  Blue Lines before The Yes Album?  What the hell was I thinking?

That really is so true.  I tend to rank individual albums as I listen to them.   So I might listen to an album and think that it is great and give it an 8 or 9.  But then I look at a list like my top 250 above and think how in the world can such and such an album be on this list...I like it...but it isn't one of my top 250 albums.  It just happened to get a higher ranking on the day that I assigned that ranking.  When you are basically dealing with 5 stars and only the really best and really worst get 5s or 1s it is really hard to differentiate between albums.  The 10 ranking is a little better, but really most things are either 7s, 8s, or 9s.  I try and differentiate levels of like by the decimals, but ranking so many albums makes it very difficult to result in some sort of accurate order without going back and changing things based on comparisons and other rankings....and I've really yet to do that other than maybe at year end when i am compiling my top 10 list for the current year.