I have off and on made videos for My Blog's YouTube Channel over the years. I have recently tried to make videos more often just to include more content.

I will include and update periodically the (mostly music/music collection) videos I post on YouTube, most of which are me talking about and showing my physical collection of many of my favorite bands and artists.

I will go on record as being a fan of many, but NOT ALL of these bands.

Blurbs and other musings in the blog
https://allmediareviews.bl...ms-of-year.html

from the blog

blog entry

Not a 100% definitive perfect album list, and these are placed in chronological order, not ranked other than:

Top 3:
Brave
The Shaming of the True
Blood Moon

the others are not something I try and think too much to rank given these are all a perfect 5-stars.

Of course if any more show up, i'll republish this, etc.

also the live, compilations and double album (maudlin of the Well) makes me see this as 63 albums, 60 others after those top 3.

A **** 1/2 list may be in the works in the near future...

Write-up and Blurbs plus an Anticipation List in the blog

More Here in the blog

It's midseason and here's my list which is vaguely accurate. More in
the Blog Entry of course.

Per the recent entry: Artists Recommended if You Like/For Fans of THE DEAR HUNTER.

Blurbs included in the blog.

Blog entry with blurbs

a bit of an update/modification (on individuals specifically) to this list

Write-up and some Blurbs (Top 10)
http://allmediareviews.blo...ms-of-year.html

A list of in many cases, favorites of mine, that it baffles my mind given that most people of the mainstream music consumers have never heard any of these songs.

A Summary is in my blog linked below, along with a list of albums I haven't heard and a Calendar/Anticipation list for the rest of the year:
http://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/2016/05/2015-2016-midseason.html

Full List with some Blurbs

Here's another Albums Countdown list per the all media reviews Blog

No Numbering, and the Order is not an exact set-in-stone rankings, etc.. except to say the albums at the bottom I really like a lot (check my ratings).

Here's the list in the Blog with a write-up and blurbs.

This is not an exact order (1 reason why there's no numbers), but vaguely accurate, and as I wrote in the blog, there's certainly some albums I had to not include that in time, I may question why, etc, of course.

Blog Entry w/ some Blurbs

There are likely a ton more of these, but initially these are the ones I've come up with.

It's just a name I suppose, but other than Minus the Bear, I find more or less all of these bands annoying, and their names probably have a fair amount to do with that.

Is it a trend? or maybe it was like 5-15 years ago?

I hope it has stopped/ended as the whole "[Proper Noun] the [Common Noun]" band/artist name comes across as annoying and self-important.

It's not the only hotbed for many of my recent favorite artists, but it continues to have or produce musicians and artists I happen to get rather into.

How/Why?..I'd love to know.

and for the record, save for the Michael Nesmith appearance and the Battlestar Galactica episode, I'm not into Portlandia. Way too trendy, and not really all that funny.

Just a Preliminary List of Names/Titles.

Videos

Blurbs and details are included here:
http://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/2014/12/2013-2014-albums-countdown.html

85-55: Not really in much if any order
54-22: Vaguely in order at best
21-1: In order for the most part