The first list: 9 personal favourites,

living rent-free in my heart

I've loved many of these albums long before the experiment began (some I even have on vinyl), and having a reason to re-listen to them was a real gift. And yes, sadly here are only two Radiohead albums. My only advice about this list — you should hear (or re-hear) these albums right now. Seriously, I mean it

The second list: 9 least favourite albums,

that I never wish to listen to again

Firstly, for me as an auditory person, it's extremely challenging to listen to all of the 'hard' music, simply because artists often tend to scream and make some unpleasant and annoying sounds — and it instantly makes my anxiety alive. Second, it turns out I really hate the harmonica timbre (which is why I can't stand almost all of Bob Dylan's songs)

The third list: 9 most amazing findings in this top,

that were completely unexpected

Surprisingly, I've never listened to any of these records before (and now they are an inseparable part of my daily music routine). I have experienced the same perplexity with every album on this list — how could no one have told me about it?

Overall playlist

In case you're wondering 'wow, it should be so exciting to listen to all of this music' but you don't have a 3,5 free days — I've picked one song from every album and made the overall playlist. It's 'almost 100' and not 'exactly 100' songs because both Spotify and Yandex Music don't have comprehensive worldwide music libraries.

But yes, it's still about 10 hours of great tracks! Enjoy

How this experiment has changed

my daily music routine

1. I've started to listen to albums instead of songs. Sure, I still listen to playlists made out of different songs or tend to randomly shuffle through my music library sometimes, but albums are completely different in perception. The unique atmosphere of the whole record is much more impressive than a couple of your favourite tracks played in a random order. These are obvious words, but they are true. Moreover, I've noticed that it makes me less impatient and anxious, because I don't have to worry about 'oh what should i play next', I'm just enjoying the incessant music flow
2. I've started to talk more about music with my friends. As a musician and a sound producer, I discuss music all the time, but the experiment gave me a reason to dive deeper into these conversations. ' — I've just listened to the second Bjork album — Oh wow, I loved it so much in my teenage years! Did you like the synth sound?' And just like that, you have a nice two-hour dialogue and more great-music-that-is-a-must-listen advices
3. I've become more friendly towards genres that I usually don't like. Yes, we now all tend to mix all types of music and could listen to techno, Miles Davis, Skryabin, Tropicália and Taylor Swift in one day. I'm not an exception. But earlier I had never noticed that I tend to avoid whole pages of music history, such as 90's american rap ('GZA, who is he?'), country or classical rock. However, while I was initially uneasy with the sound of these genres, they have now become a great place to find new music solutions and experiences — and that feels nice
4. I've become more attentive even while listening to music that I'm extremely familiar with. It's an interesting paradox — the more you listen to the track, the more difficult it is for you to hear it from the new perspective. And these hours of unfamiliar music have unexpectedly worked as coffee beans in a perfume store
5. Connecting with new music became easier. Studies claim that at some point, people tend to stick with their old music preferences and can't fully experience new tracks. The ability to love new music is a sort of a skill you have to develop to prevent hanging out in the cultural library of your youth. I believe that the experience of this experiment helps a lot
6. I've released that I'll do all that I can so I don't have to listen to even a single more Bob Dylan's song in my life. Really, I've heard almost 50 of them without skipping a second. Enough is enough