I've fallen in the trap where I stopped listening to new music for a long time and just listen to what I listened to back in high school and college, with a few exceptions. To help break that and expand my horizons, I'm going to make it a point to bring music back into my life. I'm starting with the 500 greatest albums of all time, as judged by Rolling Stone. As far as the rankings go, I think the list has a lot of problems, but with 500 albums, it also can't be all bad as a whole and is sure to push me out of my comfort zone.

I think I need to listen to each album a few times. We tend to like what's familiar, so it could take a few listens to really "get" a certain artist or album. I want to give them a fair chance. I saw someone else talk about listening to this list, and they not only didn't listen to things more than once, but they allowed themselves some skips... and they skipped some absolute bangers.

I just finished up my first listen of What's Going On by Marvin Gaye to start things off. I went with Apple Music to find all this and am glad I did. When I looked at YouTube Music and Spotify they had new "deluxe" releases, where Apple Music still had the 1971 original. I assume this trend would have played out throughout the whole list, which would have driven me crazy on other services. I don't need 5 remixes of the single to sully a classic album I'm trying to listen to on repeat.