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Topsters.de - Top100 We all have a general idea of what everyone listens to here, but if you had time I thought it'd be a little fun for everyone to post a collage of their 100 favorite/most loved albums. They don't have to be metal and the site covers the bases for a lot of genres, but if you have some time why not post a collage of your favorite albums here? What albums did you leave out? How have your tastes changed over time from your top ten, down to the various interchangeable albums you have in the lower columns? Do you think your taste will change as you get older/are exposed to other genres? Its ok to have forgotten some too, I left out at least ten maybe more, feel free to post the images here, you can upload them to IMGUR if whatever reason the code doesn't work.

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Re: Top 100 albums collage Cool idea, I'm totally down to do it when I get some time. I'm moving this weekend, and will be pulling my CDs out of boxes when they're all moved, so if the software doesn't work, I may just arrange them on the floor and take a picture. I can't see RtC's though, and Dave's looks like it only has 40 albums on it... Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

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I missed so much though. I just realized that the more music you listen too' date=' even though 100 will nail down a good idea you'll leave out so much. I just realized I have nothing by Tiamat, Unholy, or any other band I failed to recall. It fucking sucks at the same time, haha[/quote'] Tell me about it, I'm nearing the 2,000 album mark, narrowing down to 100 is difficult. I was able to painstakingly do a top 50 albums list about 3 years ago, but my collection may have grown as much as 50% since then. Some tough choices to be made for sure, but it will be fun to it with the artwork involved as opposed to just doing a list. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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It's not a very easy program to use, to be sure. At least in terms of ranking. Mine is a bit muddled and some albums are a bit higher than they should have been. I'll see whether I can post it later on and not kill the forum, but that's a little unlikely.

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I have linked to mine in as file is too large to share or simply too small to see when uploaded from PC. I'll have missed a few off but that's inevitable with these things. I'd probably add some Trouble, Death, (more) Sabbath and perhaps an Athiest album or two. Topsters.de - Top100
Cool, it actually showed up for me that time. Nice list overall. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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I would try this but it does promise to be quite the painstaking process.
It is cool, but you really need to be ablr to devote some time to it. I spent about an hour one day, and then the fucker didn't even save, I haven't tried again since. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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