The first 2 days

I actually finished the first post on Nov. 1, but Margaret and I rushed off to a movie before I had published the post. So I didn't actually post it until I woke up Sunday morning.
Here's what I've listened to the last 2 days.
Electric Light Orchestra, "Strange Magic" (1991), first one. I'll go about 2,900.
Luther Vandross, I Don't Want to Be a F (1991). I was driving Samantha's car, in which a long song name doesn't scroll across the display. Based on the lyrics, it's actually "I Don't Want to Be a Fool". I gave it 4,800, but based on what I heard today, I'd move it up to about 4,400. I didn't know that Luther was deceased until I heard Downtown Julie Brown say he was.
Naughty By Nature, "O.P.P." from 1991. 4,950.
Also from '91, Jesus Jones or Haysus Jones, "Real Real Real". 4,900 on this one. At least it has some music. Downtown Julie pronounced it Jesus.
She was running down the Back in the Day Replay for 1991 on Sirius XM Channel 9. She made a joke when she said, "This is Downtown Julie Brown with big hits. I said big HITS."
Number 6 actually was recorded in 1990 according to the Sirius information. It was not Extreme's greatest hit, but rather "Hole Hearted". I said 4,700, but later moved it up to 4,200 because I like the lyric "There's a hole in my heart that can only be filled by you."
No. 5, Bryan Adams, "I Can't Stop This Thing". 4,300.
Natural Selection, "Say Anything". A generous 4,700, which means it should be 4,700 and something.
Mariah Carey was No. 2 with "Emotions". About 4,250. She had that ridiculous high-note thing going for her.
Karyn White, "Romantic", who knows? 4,220 to get it ahead of Mariah.
On Sunday, I listened to Sirius XM Channel 10 on the way to Texas Motor Speedway.
The Raconteurs, "Steady As She Goes". Never heard it before, give it about 4,650.
Howie Day from '04 with "Collide". About 4,800 with that one. It has some promise but is very repetitive.
From '09, Taylor Swift with "You Belong with Me"-Ee-Hee. In honor of Samantha, I'll give that 2,900. She and I would sing it together if it came on the radio while I was driving her to middle school.
Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz, I think it's from '03, and it's not Flo Rida's "Low" but "Get Low", and it's 4,700.
From 2002, No Doubt and "Hella Good". But it wasn't. In order to be hella good, it would have had a lot more Gwen Stefani and a lot less techno music.
From '06, John Mayer, "Waiting on the World to Change". I started at 3,100 and went on to 3,200 and 3,300. If I heard it more, I might even drop it down farther.
Beyonce, "Single Ladies", '08. Women like it, so in honor of them I'll give it 4,500. I just remember M-Tex singing, "If you like it, then you should have put a ring on it," before we were married.
Bon Jovi, "Who Says You Can't Go Home". A little bit country, and my Bon Jovi feelings are a little lukewarm anyway. I'll go 4,800.
Lady Gaga -- speaking of lukewarm or less -- and "Paparazzi". It's got some musical merit. I'll go 4,100.
2000, Matchbox 20, "If You're Gone". Sounds pretty sappy. I'm going 4,850.
Jay-Z, '04, "99 Problems". Make it 100 problems. 4,900. Or perhaps off the top 5,000 list. It's not musical, and the message isn't positive. More like how not to get arrested, or how to get off if you do.
From '06, Jack Johnson. Give him 3,900 for Erin. She was a big fan. I think she saw him perform in New York, maybe at the time she saw Nick Lachey's brother. Thinking of that instance reminds me of how her cousin's best friend's stepsister's boyfriend, or something like that, was the ugly guy from 98 Degrees.
From '05, Kanye West with "Gold Digger". It's quite a bit better than "99 Problems," so around 4,650.
From '04, Sarah Connor, "Bounce". She's got some stuff going on beneath a predictable beat, so I'm going 4,550. And wasn't Sarah Connor in "Terminator"?
Puddle of Mudd, '02, "She Hates Me". There's some rock in it. I was thinking they're a Christian rock band, but probably confused them with Jars of Clay. I'm going to go about 4,600.
That's 24 in 2 days, an average of 12. To get to where I want to be, ranking more than 5,000, I'd need to average 15 or more songs per day. There will be some repeats over the course of a year. I'm thinking there could be cases where my moods could produce significant differences in how I rate the same song at different times. My overall hope is that I'd be fairly consistent if I forget that I've already rated a song several months before.
A note on the rankings. I also have spent time over the past year trying to gauge how high I'd rank songs. So I do have some frame of reference at least in the back of my mind. If I'm going to rank 5,000 songs, each 1% of that consists of 50 songs. I hope to hear more than 5,000, so some of the marginal ones ranked in the low 4,000s will be dropped off the list, mentioned as being worse than the 5,000 or perhaps given a 5,000-plus number.