Albums Calendars Update/Plans

So as just below, I finally finished and published the 6 missing Calendars from the 1980's and 1990's yesterday and today.

What's left?

2001 and 2003

and then 2006-2017 I believe.

2001 and 2003 are the next priority, and once those are finished, I likely will go chronologically from 2006. There's a few thoughts about those of course. Starting in the mid 2000's especially, my collection and interest in numbers of artists began to increase by quite a lot, per there became many more titles of albums each year.

And to make calendars on 1 entry that is so long, it may go well over 100 releases, I guess seems a bit too much. So, the thought is to make them 1/2 Calendars instead.

2006 from memory, there were a lot, but not as many as say 2009 where my list that year went over 100.

So I may have to just start looking at the numbers for every year. But my prediction will be most if not all of the calendars will warrant well over 50 releases. Maybe even 100 depending on how much I include.

I.e. for 2006-2017 there will be 2006a and 2006b, etc or something like that. Maybe January-June. I dunno.

How long they may take? I anticipate maybe twice as long as the calendars I've done. So doing that math, 12 years/calendars x 2. Probably 20-25 Calendars worth in terms of time.

Timeframe? not sure, but I suppose a reasonable goal would get them most if not all done by say my wife and my Anniversary in September. But it could be sooner.

But to go along with that and this whole Calendar project, I have decided I want to try and do the same thing with Movies. In here or the other blog? I may just decide to put them in here.

This whole Calendar project has been meticulous and tedious at times, but educational and fun at the same time. And I love Movies sometimes almost more than music, so I am hoping to start doing that and get a lot out of it. I guess I'll see. And I wouldn't rule out posting them in the notmusic blog still, I dunno. But I don't plan to start doing any work on the Movies Calendars until all these albums Calendars are completed.

Oh and the Podcast and/or Videos? yeah, I still mean to do them if possible on YouTube. It may give them a redux or 2nd go-around per say actually which has its merits (i.e stuff I forgot, etc)

Also the One-Stop-Shop MASTER LIST Entry needs to be updated/fixed and definitely will before this is finished.

The Year 1998 Albums Calendar and Rankings

 The year 1998 was a year I was in the thick of Dream Theater fandom I suppose, as I got to see them live for the 2nd time with ELP and Deep Purple.

And of course their new side project Liquid Tension Experiment came out on the heals of Falling Into Infinity, a polarizing record for many. LTE though most loved, and I will admit I did enjoy then, but probably more now as I wasn't as into instrumental rock music up until that point.

But looking at the rankings and calendar, 1998 was quite a deep year, compared to some other years. But at the same time, there doesn't seem to be any all-time favorites.

dredg's Leitmotif is a great debut album, quite original and does not overstay its welcome. And I came to learn about its cool concept/story after enjoying it for awhile. I suppose by default, and my love of dredg, it is my favorite album from 1998. But it's interesting scanning the list, many of the other albums I could easily rank higher than it, as many are albums that are my favorites from said artists (Superior, Jeff Buckley, Chroma Key, VAST, Mansun, Platypus, Pushmonkey).

But it's splitting hairs I guess. I look at this year and calendar as having many (20-25 or more) very good, 3.5-4 star albums. With a few at least bordering on 4.5.

In other words, not Top Heavy, but DEEP and in a matter of speaking.

1. dredg - Leitmotif
2. Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment
3. Superior - Younique
4. Pain of Salvation - One Hour by the Concrete Lake
5. Jeff Buckley - Sketches (For My Sweetheart the Drunk)
6. Marillion - Radiation
7. Shadow Gallery - Tyranny
8. Enchant - Break
9. Angra - Fireworks
10. Chroma Key - Dead Air for Radios
11. Mansun - Six
12. Fates Warning - Still Life
13. Galactic Cowboys - At the End of the Day
14. VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theater
15. Spock's Beard - The Kindness of Strangers
16. Poncho Sanchez - Afro Cuban Fantasy
17. Platypus - When Pus Comes to Shove
18. King's X - Tape Head
19. Valinor's Tree - Kingdom of Sadness
20. Pushmonkey - Pushmonkey
21. Sculptured - The Spear of the Lily Is Aureoled
22. The Gathering - How to Measure a Planet?
23. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
24. Ty Tabor - Moonflower Lane
25. Marillion and the Positive Light - Tales from the Engine Room
26. Steve Hackett - The Tokyo Tapes
27. Soundscape - Man and Machine [EP]
28. Rush - Different Stages
29, Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
30. White Willow - Ex Tenebris
31. Without Warning - Step Beyond
32. Power of Omens - Eyes of the Oracle
33. OHO - Ecce OHO
34. Vincent Gallo - Buffalo '66 Soundtrack
35. Imogen Heap - I Megaphone
36. Al Di Meola - The Infinite Desire
37, Gorguts - Obscura
38. Wondermints - Bali
39. System of a Down - System of a Down
40. sElf - Brunch [EP]

41. The Rubinoos - Paleophonic

42. Poundhound - Massive Grooves from the Electric Church of Psychofunkadelic Grungelism Rock Music
43. Dream Theater - Once in a Livetime
44. At the Drive-In - In/Casino/Out
45. New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
46. Metropolis - Shadows of the Past
47. Lenny Kravitz - 5
48. Lorde of All Desires - The Scent of Malevolence
49. Van Halen - Van Halen III



Poncho Sanchez - Afro Cuban Fantasy
rel January 1, 1998


Thinking Plague - In Extremis
rel January 1, 1998


Shpongle - Are You Shpongled?
\rel January 25, 1998


Freak Kitchen - Freak Kitchen
rel January 26, 1998


Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces
rel January 27, 1998


Marillion and the Positive Light - Tales from the Engine Room
rel January 1998


Madonna - Ray of Light
rel February 22, 1998


Ty Tabor - Moonflower Lane
rel February 24, 1998


Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment
rel March 10, 1998


Van Halen - Van Halen III
rel March 17, 1998


Malice Mizer - Merveilles
rel March 18, 1998


Sculptured - The Spear of the Lily Is Aureoled
rel March 1998


Arena - The Visitor
rel April 20, 1998


Jimmy Page and Robert Plant - Walking Into Clarksdale
rel April 21, 1998


Steve Hackett - The Tokyo Tapes
rel April 27, 1998


Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
rel April 28, 1998


Josh Rouse - Dressed Up Like Nebraska
rel April 28, 1998


VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theater
rel April 28, 1998


Julian Lennon - Photograph Smile
rel May 4, 1998


Lenny Kravitz - 5
rel May 12, 1998


Spock's Beard - Kindness of Strangers
rel May 19, 1998


Jeff Buckley - Sketches (For My Sweetheart the Drunk)
rel May 26, 1998


Sloan - Navy Blues
rel May 26, 1998


dredg - Leitmotif
rel May 30, 1998


Superior - Younique
rel May 1998


Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Left of Cool
rel June 9, 1998


Vital Tech Tones - Vital Tech Tones
rel June 9, 1998


Imogen Heap - I Megaphone
rel June 16, 1998


Anathema - Alternative 4
rel June 22, 1998


Gorguts - Obscura
rel June 23, 1998


The Rubinoos - Paleophonic
rel June 26, 1998


System of a Down - System of a Down
rel June 30, 1998


Power of Omens - Eyes of the Oracle
rel June 1998


Vincent Gallo - Buffalo '66 Soundtrack
rel July 7, 1998


Angra - Fireworks
rel July 14, 1998


Pain of Salvation - One Hour by the Concrete Lake
rel July 21, 1998


Explorer's Club - Age of Impact
rel July 28, 1998


The Appleseed Cast - The End of the Ring Wars
rel August 11, 1998


Poundhound - Massive Grooves from the Electric Church of Psychofunkadelic Grungelism Rock Music
rel August 11, 1998


At the Drive-In - In/Casino/Out
rel August 18, 1998


Al Di Meola - The Infinite Desire
rel August 18, 1998


Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
rel August 18, 1998


Enchant - Break
rel August 25, 1998


Platypus - When Pus Comes to Shove
rel August 25, 1998


Mansun - Six
rel September 7, 1998


The Church - Hologram of Baal
rel September 8, 1998


Death - The Sound of Perseverance
rel September 15, 1998


Pushmonkey - Pushmonkey
rel September 15, 1998


Trans Siberian Orchestra - The Christmas Attic
rel September 15, 1998


Marillion - Radiation
rel September 21, 1998


Mastermind - Excelsior!
rel September 21, 1998


Galactic Cowboys - At the End of the Day
rel September 22, 1998


Shadow Gallery - Tyranny
rel September 22, 1998


Fates Warning - Still Life
rel October 6, 1998


New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
rel October 16, 1998


Five Fifteen - Six Dimensions of the Electric Camembert
rel October 18, 1998


King's X - Tape Head
rel October 20, 1998


Devin Townsend - Infinity
rel October 21, 1998


Cobweb Strange - Sound from the Gathering
rel October 23, 1998


Dream Theater - Once in a LIVEtime
rel October 27, 1998


Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
rel October 27, 1998


Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle - A Space Opera
rel October 31, 1998


The Gathering - How to Measure a Planet?
rel November 9, 1998


Rush - Different Stages
rel November 10, 1998


Metallica - Garage Inc.
rel November 23, 1998


D.C. Cooper - D.C. Cooper
rel December 9, 1998


Ulver - Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
rel December 17, 1998


Chroma Key - Dead Air for Radios
rel December 16, 1998


Blue Canoe - II
rel 1998


Bruford Levin Upper Extremities - Bruford Levin Upper Extremities
rel 1998


Deus Ex Machina - Equilibrismo da insofferenza
rel 1998


Lorde of All Desires - The Scent of Malevolence
rel 1998


Metropolis - Shadows of the Past
rel 1998


Mostly Autumn - For All We Shared...
rel 1998


OHO - Ecce OHO
rel 1998


Steve Smith, Tom Coster and Larry Coryell - Cause and Effect
rel 1998


Soundscape - Man and Machine [EP]
rel 1998


Valinor's Tree - Kingdom of Sadness
rel 1998


White Willow - Ex Tenebris
rel 1998


Without Warning - Step Beyond
rel 1998


Wondermints - Bali
rel 1998


So that does it for the 1980's and 1990's Albums Calendars. I'll add something in a bit about the plans coming up. But in here, it does give me a sense of accomplishment to finish off 2 more decades worth of these and seeing the light finally at the end of the tunnel.