marurun wrote:So not really a top 40 songs so much as a top song by 40 artists.
They aren’t necessarily my “40 favorite songs of all time” or even my “40 favorite songs from each year” or “40 best songs by these artists”. For example, my favorite song from 1997 is/was probably “No Surprises” by Radiohead...but since I also have them in the slot for favorite song from 2000 (“Idioteque”), I went with another favorite from 1997 on the list instead (the Dylan tune). In another example, I don’t think “Wishlist” (1998) is my favorite Pearl Jam song nor is it their best, but if I went with something like “Yellow Ledbetter” (1992) or “Rearviewmirror” (1993) I’d have had to bump off other songs I liked better than those two from each of those specific years.
It’s all very arbitrary, and some years I could have easily put a dozen songs in the slot, but I wanted to have 40 different artists represented, so that was the easiest way to do it.
