Good music times, bad music times.

Do you ever look through your library -- when organized under the 'date added' tab (im assuming you 'all' use itunes) -- and have certain chunks of albums that you bought around the same time and think hey, that was a great string of music I had going there. Equally I have chunks where I cringe a little; misinformed and/or hasty (ie based on one good track) decisions resulting in a bunch of music I don't listen to anymore and didn't after the first spin.

My best chunk was definitely last summer (most not released last summer): Ryan Adams "Heartbreaker," Feist's "The Reminder," Rihanna "Good Girl Gone Bad" Innocence Mission "We Walked in Song," Nicole Willis and the Soul Investigators "Keep Reaching Up" and David Gray's "Flesh"

Not to mention the albums I bought of Dan Deacon, Girl Talk (late, admittedly) and The Field just a month before.

Worst chunk: Lucky Jim's "All The King's Horses" (album before that was fabulous, this was a big stinker) Kings of Leon "Because of the Times" Bob Dylan "Highway 61" a ridiculous amount of Pink Floyd that wasn't so much bad as overwhelming, as since I don't really have a rock sensibility (and certainly not psychedelic rock at that) it was just a lot of work to even approach it. Mostly I'm good about 'working' to enjoy music but I wasn't really having it with the Floyd. Also Matthew Herbert's "Scale" which is actually a great album but not the kind of thing I've ever had an inkling to throw on since the first few times I heard it. OH and Esthero's terrible, terrible Wicked Lil Girls album. I should have known from the album title. Again, on the strength of two songs I liked. And the fact that I loved her "Breath from Another" LP.

For interested sake, my current chunk is a Best Of Louis Armstrong, the Diplo/Santogold dub (see below), James Blackshaw's latest (see below), and a DLake mixtape that I've yet to grow fond of.