I recently started logging albums as I listen on Rate Your Music. Some go to playlists:

• Reruns
• Black Friday
• EZ tunes
• Beats 25
• Tracks 25
• Dixon’s track IDs

And an arbitrary list of recommended albums:

• The Avalanches, Since I Left You; We Will Always Love You
• Against All Logic, 2012 - 2017
• Burial, Untrue
• Talk Talk, Spirit of Eden; Laughing Stock
• Cortex, Troupeau Bleu
• Stereolab, Emperor Tomato Ketchup
• Jeff Buckley, Grace esp. Dream Brother
• Jamie XX, In Colour; In Waves
• Gorillaz, Plastic Beach; Demon Days
• Anish Kumar, A Mixtape by Anish Kumar
• GoGo Penguin, v2.0
• Miles Davis, In A Silent Way
• Chick Corea, Return To Forever
• Mildlife, Automatic
• NEU!, NEU!
• Arcade Fire, Funeral; The Suburbs
• David Bowie, Low
• The Strokes, The New Abnormal
• Interpol, Turn On The Bright Lights
• King Gizzard, pretty much everything, but esp. Butterfly 3000
• Radiohead, pretty much everything, favorite song is Where I End and You Begin

Getting into classical music has been one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever spent time on. The pieces that got me hooked were Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, K. 466, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 58, and Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata, Op. 53 (esp. the third movement). Robert Greenberg’s How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, the Sticky Notes podcast, and the /r/classicalmusic subreddit have been great resources.

A few favorite classical playlists/recordings:

• Classical all timers
• Piano bangers
• Cosmic piano
• Slow movements
• Piano concerti
• Minsoo Sohn’s Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
• Sviatoslav Richter’s Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier
• Mstislav Rostropovich’s Bach: Cello Suites
• Krystian Zimerman’s Chopin: Ballades; Barcarolle; Fantaisie
• Mitsuko Uchida’s Schubert Piano works (esp. Sonatas 19–21 and all Impromptus)
• Martha Agerich’s Schumann: Fantasia Op. 17
• Pavel Haas Quartet’s Janacek String Quartet No. 1 & No. 2
• Quartetto Italiano’s Schubert Last Four Quartets
• Borodin Quartet’s Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets
• Trio Wanderer’s Faure Piano Quartets
• Bernstein’s Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 (the most beautiful slow movement of all time)
• Bernstein’s Mahler Symphony No. 2 (the most epic finale of all time)