What the heck is this?  My very own billboards of course.   I started this idea in my early teens, when the real billboards sucked ass and I could do nothing but stand by and watch the music industry turn to crap right in front of my eyes.   I spent about 2 years working out exactly how to have the charts work, such that they would cycle up and down, the way the real ones do.     Before the criticism starts rolling in, let me just say that I have taken every kind of crap possible for this, so there is nothing I havent heard yet.  The reason its up here is

Here’s how it works.  Every time I listen to an album, I write it down.  (its not that much work, seriously).  If I cant write it down, I just remember it.  (again, no big deal).  Ok so during a drive I listened to the Monkees, Jimi, and Queen?  Ok I write it down.  At end of the month, the winner gets the gold.  Sometimes theres a runner up or 2.  (or 3, or 4).    The Monthly charts is your basic billboard charts for any given month.  Since there are no ‘sales’ to base the standings on, as per the real charts, we go by a point system (which I refer to as ‘stock’, even though it has no relation to the real-world term ‘stock’).  The ‘stock’ of the winner of that month gets raised by 3 points, runners up get raised by 1.   Every month that the band does not ‘chart’, their stock falls by 1, causing them to eventually fall off the charts if they havent charted for a while.  The reason this works (for me anyway) is that my music listening tendencies are clustered, so that when I’m ‘discovering’ a new band (like Pink Floyd recently) they tend to have a combination of golds and runners up all in a row, relfecting their ‘rise to power’ in the charts.  Others, like, sadly the Beatles the last few years, have slowly seen their ‘decline from power’.  Using this system, its easy and remarkable to note how our (well, ok,  MY) music tastes evolve and grow.  Note however that just because a band did not ‘chart’, does not mean that I didn’t listen to them.  It simply means that I didn’t listen to them ENOUGH to warrant a ‘medal’ that particular month.  I DO listen to a LOT of music, and when that happens, they tend to cancel each other out, and the band that gets the most airplay that month usually has more than significant amount of airplay to warrant their win.    The stats page is a good way to tell when some bands were in their ‘prime’ in my charts, byy analyzing the stream of red columns coming down like something you see in the Matrix.

Ok too much info for ya?  The good stuff is in guiness book of records section.  Good luck deciphering what those mean, I don’t really care to explain all of them, but some of them are self explanitory.  The graph page hold no other purpose than a simple reference of  which bands I like the most, and how much relative to each other.  This graph is obviously constantly changing, and theres no telling who will be the next dominant force on it.    Looking at the current trends (go to the stats page again) sees the gradual decline of Blondie (Ive exhausted their records, and when this happens, ‘growth’ month after month is very difficult to achieve again, unless they have a string of new albums).   Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, the Byrds, and more Kinks (those guys have just SO much music!) look to be the near future dominators, but we’ll see….

Why the heck do I do this?  Well for one, I like to remember when I had my Oasis period, for example, or whatever phase I was in at the time.  For another, looking back at something like a summer vacation in 1997, and seeing who won that month, actually helps bring back memories of the summer I otherwise would forget.  And also, I never have a problem of figuring out why I like Blur more than the Who!  See, this is useful stuff, hehe.  Ok when you get done laughing at me, take a look around.  I don’t really care if you like it or not, cause I dig the system, and it works for me.   J  Then again, you might like it.  I sure as heck would’ve started earlier if I had a system figured out, but I had to figure it out on my own, thus I started when I was 17, not when I was 15 or so, which would’ve helped the Beatles out on these charts a lot.

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