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My own approach is to do up a spreadsheet and enter every song nominated with a rating and then to take all the ones rated as ten and winnow the list down to a final A and B List. The handy thing about a spreadsheet is you can re-order them, so after all the nominations are in, I just re-order the list according to ratings bringing all the ones rated 10 to the top. Then I add another column and go through the songs rated 10 and decide whether thy should be A, A or B, B or dropped. The ones I picked as definite As go into the A List. If there are not enough of them, I go through the ones listed as A or B and select the ones needed to fill up the A List. Since I have no qualms about long B Lists, I often produce long B Lists as sometimes I have 50 or 60 songs rated 10.   My columns usually have a narrative thread so I order the songs to fit a narrative. The narrative is derived from the songs themselves. I don't usually have one in mind when I take up the reins of the guru. Often the nominations surprise me and new ideas develop on where to take the column so I try not to go into the writing with a preconceived idea. While personal taste does play a large part in my selections, they are not always songs I like best but songs which fit the topic particularly well and which I like. Occasionally I'll select songs I don't like that much but which are brilliant for the topic. The vast majority of songs I select are ones I have never heard before. - Marconius7