For the past year or so, I've been updating my iTunes music with as much info as I could. In addition to the regular fields like Title, Artist, Album, Year & Genre, I've tried to add BPM, Album Art, Composer, and Comments for every song. the main purpose was to take advantage of the Smart Playlists in iTunes to create playlists from similar songs. The more fields filled out, the more options you have to include or exclude songs.

Discogs was my first discovery in getting the regular fields filled in, and has helped a great deal in organizing my…

balut2000's top albums (overall)

1. Chrishan - Chrishan (572)

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2. James Fauntleroy - James Fauntleroy (385)

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3. Atozzio - Atozzio (325)

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4. Granite State - The RE:Public (273)

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5. Brutha - Brutha (265)

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6. RL (of next) - RL (of Next) (263)

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7. Granite State - The Breaking Point (256)

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8. J. Holiday - J. Holiday (226)

9. Pierre Medor - Pierre Medor (219)

10. Ryan Leslie - Ryan Leslie (216)

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11. Saigon & Statik Selektah - All In A Day's Work (214)

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In no particular order:

1. Beauty - Dru Hill
2. Tell Me - Groove Theory
3. I Belong To You - Rome
4. When You're Ready - Alfonzo Hunter
5. Something In Your Eyes - Bell Biv DeVoe
6. If I Had You - Frankie
7. Feels Like The First Time - Intro
8. If Tomorrow Never Comes - Joose
9. Never Alone - Montell Jordan
10. Softest Place On Earth - Xscape
11. How Can We Stop - Horace Brown ft. Faith
12. If The Mood Is Right - Jade
13. You - Jesse Powell
14. Spill - Link…

I grew up listening and watching 80's music (which I still love to this day), but the music that I really felt was mine was R&B in the early 90's. I was in high school, listening to dubbed tapes (plastic cassettes with music recorded on magnetically wound strips) of Guy, New Edition, Keith Sweat, Boyz II Men, ABC, BBD, uuuh hmmm. Subsequent artists expanded on the New Jack Swing like Intro, Shai, Portrait, Mint Condition, Mary J. Blige, Tony Toni Tone. Then, as I graduated college, before Y2K, my love for emerging artists waned. They weren't putting out music that…

Your music taste usually comes from a few places: What your parents listened to, what your siblings listened to, what your friends listened to, Radio and top 40. They key factor that they all share? You were a kid. Whatever era your grew up in, the music you were immersed in at that time usually dictates your musical taste. As you get older, you may drift away from that taste (especially during "college years"), but you most likely will hold an affinity towards those genres. "The music today sucks." "Artists nowadays have no talent." These are common statements I hear…