#250 for 2025 — A musical journey
This is probably a bad idea.
So, it’s 2025. Things are looking pretty terrible, and that’s before every elder millennial realises that we’re actually into the 26th year of this century. The one after the one we were born in.
This week Rolling Stone published THE 250 GREATEST ALBUMS OF THE 21ST CENTURY SO FAR, as we’re a quarter of the way through the 2000’s. Now this list is, as any of these sort of lists are, debateable. A quick scan shows they’ve got two Fiona Apple albums but neither are Fetch The Bolt Cutters, and Justified by Justin Timberlake didn’t make the cut.
This year I promised myself I’d be writing more for fun, and this list provides a handy framework for a project that should give me enough to do, time to do it in, and get me back to writing regularly.
So, I’m going to listen to every single album on the list in reverse order. Twice. At least. Oh, and the original releases. No extended or deluxe editions. Just the record as it was, when it came out.
I won’t be reading any contemporary or retrospective reviews of the records and will just write as much, or as little, as I need to about it.
Those are the only guidelines I have for this one, and I aim to get to the #1 record by the end of this year. It’s Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’, in case you were wondering.
So, see you shortly for NSYNC’s No Strings Attached (2000) which came in at #250.
This is probably a bad idea.
