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Johnbobb posted...

I 100% promise this isn't a jab at Fool or Sean, but I feel like this might be the weakest set of 25 so far? Like there are a few albums I really dig (my own nomination included in that obviously) but normally every set of 25 has a handful that I'm super into or really open my eyes to something exciting.

Just means we need some collective game-upping in R7 imo

I add to my ranking as we go along each week, and based on that, my initial numbers tend to agree with your assessment. Most of the top of my list is stuff I'd heard before, with one notable exception which I effusively praised during it's Rank the Tracks week.

My feeling is that we're continuing to get more obscure over time. The initial 10-20-30 weeks of Rank the Tracks was full of well known (and usually, by proxy, well regarded) albums. We still do hit those "classics" occasionally but more often than not the nominations each week are a complete unknown to me. I know Fool's idea with the competitive weeks was that people would put up more "classic" albums to try to win. But in practice...I don't think that's really been the case?

Johnbobb posted...

Also, super appreciate the full playlist! I've been considering trying to put one together with just the top 1 or 2 songs of EVERY album we've done so far

No problem! I did one last cycle, just for myself, to make my re-listens easier. Figured this time I'd share! Come the results topic, I will hopefully have found the time to make playlists for all the previous cycles.

I know Fool did make a list of the #1s earlier on but I don't think it's up to date. It's more work than people realize trying to make topics, track results, and do all the little miscellaneous things. And to then continue to do that every single week!

Sheep007 posted...

I think this is an interesting selection. There's less albums I just straight up didn't care about than in R5 and the bottom ten is a little better, but I think my top fifteen are far weaker overall in comparison. Plastic Beach and The Black Parade were two of my favourite albums full stop, and it's hard to compete with that, even having a nomination of my own. Even the albums I didn't love, I'm glad I got to listen to.

One more relisten of an album I just can't place, the Charlie Brown album and I think I might be done. A lot of albums were far enough apart in opinion on first ratings that they were simple to position. Last ranking I had huge difficulty with all of the 10-20 range (I think having more than six weeks to listen to them all has also done me a lot of favours).

Continuing on from my comment above, but having not done my re-listens yet, this cycle felt very segmented for me. There's something like 9 good/great albums, 11 fine/okay, and 5 I'll likely never listen to again after this.

Like you, my initial listening opinions this cycle felt much less muddied than the last few cycles. Last time, I had a few albums that moved multiple positions on a re-listen; I'm not expecting that this time.