The author's problem is he's cast his net way too wide. Even if we limit ourselves to e.g. Rolling Stone Magazine's "Top 500 albums of all time", it would take

The author's problem is he's cast his net way too wide. Even if we limit ourselves to e.g. Rolling Stone Magazine's "Top 500 albums of all time", it would take a decade to deep-listen all 500. With that much super-high-quality music, which has stood the test of time and left its mark on culture, the author is making a huge mistake by wasting so much time on the ridiculous obscura he keeps name-dropping in the article.