I have a similar system but it's a bit more ongoing.
Since March 2018 I've created a new playlist "[Month Year]" on the 1st of every month, and every time I listen to a song I enjoy (whether it's new or old or whatever - no rules) I add it to that month's playlist. In fact the only "rule" is to never remove a song once it's added.
Then at the end of the year I make 24-song a "Best of [Year]" playlist where I go back and pick 2 songs from each month, in no particular order, to sum up my year in music.
This tends to reflect my music enjoyment (vs listening) much better than Spotify Wrapped, which over-indexes on music I listen to at work or in the car (when I'm often not really paying attention).
I just crossed 100 months back in November or December, and I have to say it's pretty fun to go back and check out a given month/year in the past (much like the author) and revisit what I was into at the time.
This is a really simple yet clever system and I may have to give it a try! I've created vibes-based playlists at points-in-time but otherwise just dump everything to my "like" list on Spotify which is fairly poorly organized after so many years.
Yeah Spotify's "Liked Songs" is that for me.. I just throw stuff in there that I want to keep track of.. I have 3,671 songs in there now so it's not super curated..
I would presume it’s entirely subjective and the significance of each song is encoded in the context of life at that particular time.
There were a couple of months this year where my kids wanted to listen to Sesame Street “Letter L” and “The Word is No” while commuting. Hearing those songs on a playlist would remind me whatever was happening, but would have absolutely no significance to you.
Absolutely.. I do this monthly/yearly thing primarily for me. Some of my friends follow along because I listen to a lot of music so I'm sort of a recommendation engine for them, but I never think about that when I am adding stuff to these playlists.
It's purely to recall and revisit what I was personally enjoying at the time.
I don't really connect music to life events though, like if I go back to May 2022 for example I won't listen to those songs and think "oh I remember XYZ about that time"... It will just be re-discovering some music I had perhaps forgotten about, since I listen to a lot of music and can't really remember all of it.
Since March 2018 I've created a new playlist "[Month Year]" on the 1st of every month, and every time I listen to a song I enjoy (whether it's new or old or whatever - no rules) I add it to that month's playlist. In fact the only "rule" is to never remove a song once it's added.
Then at the end of the year I make 24-song a "Best of [Year]" playlist where I go back and pick 2 songs from each month, in no particular order, to sum up my year in music.
This tends to reflect my music enjoyment (vs listening) much better than Spotify Wrapped, which over-indexes on music I listen to at work or in the car (when I'm often not really paying attention).
I just crossed 100 months back in November or December, and I have to say it's pretty fun to go back and check out a given month/year in the past (much like the author) and revisit what I was into at the time.