21:03 - Apothecary I'd rather listen to 10 albums and find 2 that really stick out and speak to me than blast through 50 for the sake of saying "I listened to 50 albums" but not being able to say which were the best
21:00 - Apothecary I dunno, maybe some people can just speed digest music like that, but I've never found myself able to, personally
20:57 - Apothecary I still don't get how people make yearly album lists with like 200 + releases in them. And I really hesitate to believe that if someone listens to that many albums per year they're actually listening to each one in full
20:37 - musclassia There's been a good amount of worthy stuff so far, and there's promising stuff to come, but I feel like overall I've found more albums I really felt strongly about in previous years, and my favourite find this year was from 2014
20:34 - musclassia Even with my best efforts, there's only so much I can hear, and I'd say I haven't been at my most commited this year, but I've still listened to about 150 new albums so far, across a fairly broad range of subgenres
20:29 - musclassia But life commitments, listening to previously discovered music, discovering music from previous years, and general enthusiasm ultimately limit how much people can discover
20:25 - musclassia As far as "X year is a good/bad year goes", if you hear literally everything that comes out with any kind of reputation and enjoy every sub(sub)genre of metal then you'll probably find enough you love
