The other day on the rateyourmusic subreddit, someone brought up how many of your "Masterpiece" albums (5-stars?) does rym have an avergae rating at 3.30 or lower? I only found 1, but actually I missed a couple. It just had me wondering what they all are rated at on rateyourmusic. Which of course is hardly the be-all-and-end-all and changes/gets updated regularly.
All Media Reviews
The media market is huge, thus the need for a media review market.
This is our little contribution to that field.
Saturday, December 21, 2024
5-star Albums compared to RYM Average Rating
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Modern progressive Art Rock Videos, Stage 2 (year-by-year)
MPAR History Videos Gameplan:
1990's Origin Part 1
1990's Origin Part 2
2000-2024?
1960's Origin
1970's Origin Part 1
1970's Origin Part 2
1980's Origin Part 1
1980's Origin Part 2
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
The Divided States of America
It's what Trump wanted.
If I could leave the country, I would totally do it.
My best optimism is Trump's removed per the 25th Amendment, at least within the 1st 2 years of his term, if he's not before then. He could quite easily become so far gone and demented, Congress and the Senate will not have a choice.
President Vance until January 2029, doesn't sound much better, but anything would be better than Dumpy.
However, regardless at the point Dumpy is gone, the fact likely will be70+million people reside in the Divided States of America and could easily try and bring on another candidate who will do mostly the same abhorrent approach to the country.
At least a percentage of the people who
a) Didn't vote
b) Voted for Trump
c) Voted 3rd Party
including those who made the Palestinian stance a priority and didn't consider how supporting Russia taking over Ukraine and potentially the rest of the Eastern Block and even more are going to very likely regret and ruin what they did here.
Their staying home, giving a Protest vote, or thinking of purely how the economy and a misguided perception of the border is going be fixed by Dumpy, is in-effect likely the be the opposite. Tariffs? yeah, we very likely will head back into a Recession if not worse. And those pea-brains who blamed the now lowering-inflation numbers on Biden..yeah yal are gonna be eating some mother-fucking-crow.
It wasn't Kamala's Bad Campaign..it was people staying home and not being impressed by her and the Misogynistic, Racist population in the DSoA couldn't vote for a Woman or a Black Woman to be president. Even if they didn't vote for Dumpy, they indirectly did in that the NUMBERS WERE NEEDED TO OUTWEIGH THE CULT.
155 Millions voted in 2020. Biden Won. The Strength in Numbers showed.
As of 8:25AM 11/6/24 139,121,153 reported Votes. With Nevada and Arizona not officially called.
41 Million Gen Z voters alone were newly elgible.
edit: 8.9 million, so be it tho.
345,426,571 Total Population of the DSoA (Mid Summer 2024)
approximately 78.% lof the Population is 18 years or older = 269,432,725 DSoA 18 or older are conceivably eligible to vote.
269,432,725 - 139,121,153 = 130,311,572 WHO HAVE/DID NOT VOTE. Or at this point around 48.4%.
48%+ Didn't even Vote. Nearly half the eligible population. And while the 155 Million that voted in 2020 was only 60% of the approx eligible who voted, that is approximately 8% less than in 2020.
8%, while hardly a massive % of people. very easily would prove the true Will of the People. But those 130 million people who didn't even vote obviously didn't despise Dumpy enough to care. And are not happy enough with how the DSoA has recovered from COVID and what she said in her campaign.
FUCK EM ALL (this is art!)..and yet both the Divided States of America and also the Globe (Climate Change? yeah, Dumpy and his mindless administration aren't gonna help) are in-turn being Fucked over as well.
And History is going to show that.
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Concerts Ranked By Artist/Band (Incomplete)
This is basically an (14 years later) Update of This LIST on my rateyourmusic page
But it is a semi-accurate ranking of all the artists/bands I've seen and how many times. However the Local Names, the number is not really close to accurate (I've see Dean Magraw likely 30 or more times, and Greg Herriges maybe 20 or more alone. The Cloud Cult number is also likely off by a bit).
14 Dream Theater
13 King's X
11 The Dear Hunter
11 Fair to Midland
10 The Monkees/Micky Dolenz Celebrates The Monkees
8 dredg
8 Josh Rouse
8 Ours
8 Rush
8 The Family Crest
7 Between the Buried and Me
7 Local Natives
7 Mutemath
6 Courtney Yasmineh
6 Dean Magraw's Red Planet
6 Kansas
6 Yes
5 California Guitar Trio
5 Exit Stage Right (Rush Tribute)
5 Greg Herriges
5 Jon Anderson
5 Kimbra
5 Marillion
5 Mayer Hawthorne
5 Opeth
5 St.Vincent
5 Steve Hackett
4 Annuals
4 Brice Plays Drums
4 Bubblemath
4 Cloud Cult
4 Far From Falling
4 Lehto and Wright
4 Mew
4 Porcupine Tree
4 Ramona Falls
4 Three
4 Umphrey's McGee
3 As Tall As Lions
3 Bend Sinister
3 Between Two Skies
3 Boiled in Lead
3 Brute Heart
3 Cate Le Bon
3 Collective Unconscious
3 Deng Ol' Tri'ole
3 Fates Warning
3 Foals
3 Galactic Cowboys
3 Iced Ink
3 Jean-Luc Ponty
3 Judgement Day
3 Kaddisfly
3 Karnivool
3 King Crimson
3 Menomena
3 Michael Nesmith
3 Micky Dolenz
3 Minus the Bear
3 Nicole Atkins
3 Pain of Salvation
3 Scale the Summit
3 School of Seven Bells
3 The Mars Volta
3 The Reign of Kindo
3 The Who
3 Timbre
3 Vedera
3 Warpaint
3 XTC An All Star Tribute
3 Zappa Plays Zappa
2 Alex Lilly
2 Amanda Palmer
2 Behemoth
2 Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer
2 Bent Knee
2 Biffy Clyro
2 Big Wreck
2 Billy Cobham
2 Brainstorm
2 Brooke Waggoner
2 Capital Cities
2 Caroline Smith
2 Chromeo
2 Coheed and Cambria
2 Cynic
2 Dakota Dave Hull
2 Debashish Bhattacharya
2 Deep Purple
2 Devin Townsend Band
2 East of the Wall
2 Edguy
2 Elgin Foster
2 Elvis Costello
2 Enslaved
2 Eric Hohn
2 Evergrey
2 Everything Everything
2 Field Report
2 Fitz and the Tantrums
2 Genders
2 Greg Howard
2 Howler
2 Into Eternity
2 Intronaut
2 Iron Thrones
2 Jimmy Gnecco
2 John Wesley
2 Kamelot
2 Katatonia
2 Laura Mackenzie
2 Lost Mind Found
2 Marc Anderson
2 Marcus Wise
2 Margot and the Nuclear So and So's
2 Media Addicts
2 Men Women and Children
2 Miracles of Modern Science
2 Nektar
2 Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets
2 Nomia
2 O'Brother
2 Orphaned Land
2 Other Lives
2 Ozric Tentacles
2 Paper Route
2 Pat Metheny Group
2 Periphery
2 Portugal the Man
2 Protest the Hero
2 Prudence Johnson
2 Queensryche
2 Raphael Saadiq
2 Reading Zero
2 Return to Forever
2 Rising Side
2 Robert Randolph and the Family Band
2 Russian Circles
2 RX Bandits
2 Sacred Ground (beef)
2 Savatage
2 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
2 Soap performs Pink Floyd's Animals
2 Steven Wilson
2 Styx
2 Super Pilots
2 Thank You Scientist
2 The Apples in Stereo
2 The Australian Pink Floyd
2 The Bewitched
2 The Bird and the Bee
2 The Book of Right On
2 The Faceless
2 The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra
2 The Helio Sequence
2 The Mercury Tree
2 The Musical Box
2 The New Pornographers
2 The Polyphonic Spree
2 The Red Paintings
2 The Royal Veil
2 The Stepkids
2 The Velvet Teen
2 The Victor Wooten Band
2 Total Babe
2 Tuxedo
2 Typhoon
2 Under the Influence of Giants
2 Vasen
2 We Valedictorians
2 Whose Live Anyway
2 Wishbone Ash
2 Zero Hour
1 10 Years
1 69 Eyes
1 Aaron and the Sea
1 Active Child
1 Adagio
1 Adam Levy
1 Adrian Belew
1 Adrian Bellue
1 Aficionado
1 After Crying
1 Agalloch
1 Airlands
1 Alan Parsons Project
1 Alcest
1 Al Di Meola
1 Ali Shaheed Muhammad
1 Allegaeon
1 America
1 Amy Courts
1 Anathallo
1 Anathema
1 Andy McKee
1 Anekdoten
1 Angra
1 Animals as Leaders
1 Animosity
1 Animus (Dream Theater tribute)
1 Anthony Cox
1 Antoine Dufour
1 Anton
1 Apostle of Hustle
1 April Bauer
1 Arsis
1 Axis Mundi
1 B!
1 Bad Veins
1 Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
1 Baroness
1 Battlefields
1 Battles
1 Beat Club
1 Beledo
1 Ben Butler and Mouse Pad
1 Beneath the Massacre
1 Benjy Ferree
1 Ben Noble
1 Best Friends Forever
1 BigElf
1 Big Fresh
1 Bill Bruford's Earthworks
1 Birds of Avalon
1 Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
1 Bireli Lagrene
1 Black Belt Eagle Scout
1 Black Mountain
1 Blind Guardian
1 Blind Pilot
1 Bloc Party
1 Blondfire
1 Blood and Sun
1 Blues Traveler
1 Boogie Wonderland
1 Boston
1 Brian Just
1 Brian Wilson
1 Brian Wright
1 Bruce Springsteen performs Pete Seeger
1 Buffalo Moon
1 Café Accordion Orchestra
1 Cage
1 Cage the Elephant
1 Canadian Brass - Orchestra Hall Minneapolis, MN
1 Canon Blue - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
1 Caravan
1 Casanatra
1 Cataldo
1 Charlie Engen Recital
1 Cherub
1 Chick Corea
1 Chon
1 Chris Isaak
1 Chulita Vinyl Club
1 Circa Survive
1 Circus Maximus
1 Cloak Ox
1 Closure in Moscow
1 Codeseven
1 Cold Colours
1 Cory Wong
1 Cotton Jones
1 Crimson Glory Tribute
1 Cue the Doves
1 Cygnus and the Seamonsters (Rush Tribute)
1 Dalek
1 Dappled Cities
1 David Cassidy
1 David Cross and Lark's Tongue band
1 Davy Jones
1 Dawes
1 Dead Letter Circus
1 Deerhoof
1 Delta Spirit
1 Delta Sleep
1 Dethklok
1 Deus Ex Machina
1 DFA
1 Diablo Swing Orchestra
1 Diane Jarvis
1 Dimmu Borgir
1 Dir En Grey
1 Djam Karet
1 Do Make Say Think
1 Doves
1 Dreamscape
1 Duran Duran
1 Dysrhythmia
1 Earthrise
1 East Meets Jazz
1 Eastside
1 Echoes of Eternity
1 Echolyn
1 Editors
1 Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
1 Eight-Head
1 Eight Bells
1 Elected
1 Elvis Perkins
1 Emanuel
1 Emerson Lake and Palmer
1 Emma Pollock
1 Empires (IL)
1 Empires (MN)
1 Empress Of
1 Enchant
1 Envy on the Coast
1 Eric Clapton
1 Etheria
1 Event
1 EXTC: XTC's Terry Chambers
1 Fall From Grace
1 Faun Fables
1 Fiction Plane
1 Field Mouse
1 Figurines
1 Fishbone
1 Fool's Gold
1 Foreign Born
1 Fountains of Wayne
1 Foxy Shazam
1 Frank Boyle and His Eminent Acoustic Entourage
1 From Monuments to Masses
1 Gamma Ray
1 Gary Puckett
1 Gatherers
1 Gay Witch Abortion
1 Generationals
1 Genghis Tron
1 George Brooks Summit
1 George Duke
1 Gerard
1 Giant
1 Goblin
1 God or Julie
1 Godspeed You Black Emperor
1 Gojira
1 Gotye
1 Grand Archives
1 Grant Lee Phillips
1 Greg Laswell
1 Hall and Oates
1 Hammer of the Gods (Led Zeppelin Tribute)
1 Happy the Man
1 Harakiri
1 Hardcore Crayons
1 Hart Lieberman and Smith
1 Head Automatica
1 Heatdeath
1 Herbie Hancock
1 Hiromi's Sonic Bloom
1 Horse the Band
1 House of Fools
1 Hoven Droven
1 Hurdy Gurdy
1 Ian Anderson
1 Il Balletto Di Bronzo
1 Iluvatar
1 In the Presence of Wolves
1 Ion Vein
1 Isildurs Bane
1 Ivy Levan
1 Jag Panzer
1 Janelle Monae
1 Janet Jackson
1 Janus
1 Jason Hart
1 Jason Richardson
1 Jeff Kashiwa
1 Jenny Dalton
1 Jeremy Messersmith
1 Jerusalem and the Starbaskets
1 Jethro Tull
1 Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
1 Job for a Cowboy
1 Joe Satriani
1 Johnna Morrow
1 John Paul Jones
1 J Roddy Watson and the Business
1 JT Bates and Jim Anton
1 Kaki King
1 Kari Tauring with Drew Miller
1 Karmic Sound System
1 Kasabian
1 Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground
1 Keeper of Kalessin
1 Kill the Vultures
1 Kyng
1 Lacuna Coil
1 Lamb Lays with Lion
1 Laminated Cat
1 Larry Coryell
1 La Torre dell'alchimista
1 Laura Stevenson
1 Laura Veirs
1 Led Zeppelin 2 (Led Zeppelin Tribute)
1 Leprous
1 Liquid Tension Experiment
1 Lisa Bouchelle
1 Little Tin Box
1 Live - Myth Maplewood, MN
1 Living Colour
1 Machinery Hill
1 Mae
1 MAKR
1 Malajube
1 Malicious Mischief
1 Manchester Orchestra
1 Marilyn Manson
1 Marketa Irglova
1 MC Divinity
1 McKinley James
1 Meg and Dia
1 Memoryhouse
1 Meridian Incident
1 Metropolis
1 mewithoutYou
1 Michael McDonald
1 Michelle Willis
1 Middle Class Rut
1 Mindflow
1 Mindless Self Indulgence
1 Miriodor
1 Misery Signals
1 Moke
1 Morality Crisis
1 More is More
1 Mother Falcon
1 Motopony
1 Murzik
1 Muse
1 My Gold Mask
1 Mystery Palace
1 Nachito Herrara
1 Naive Thieves
1 name
1 Narrow Vines
1 Natalie Lovejoy
1 Native Construct
1 Neal Morse Band
1 Ne Obliviscaris
1 Nexus
1 Night Terrors of 1927
1 Nile Rodgers
1 Nirmala Rajesakar and Marcus Wise
1 Nonpoint
1 Nordic Nomadic
1 North Star
1 Nurses
1 Obsidian Tongue
1 Oceans
1 Odds Vs.
1 Oklahoma
1 Oliver
1 Omni
1 Onward
1 Opus Dai
1 Oregon
1 Orphan Bloom
1 Our Lady Peace
1 OvrFwrd
1 Pagan's Mind
1 Par Lindh Project
1 Particle
1 Patches
1 Paul Fonfara
1 Peregrine Perspective
1 Person to Person
1 Peter Frampton
1 Peter Gabriel
1 Peter Noone
1 Phil Collins
1 Plain Jane Automobile
1 Podunk
1 Poison Control Center
1 Poncho Sanchez
1 Pop Evil
1 Power of Omens
1 Preoccupations
1 Primus
1 Prissy Clerks
1 PVT
1 Quadrant 4
1 Rachel Z
1 Radiation City
1 Radical Face
1 Randy Brecker
1 Raul Malo
1 Redemption
1 Red Pens
1 Remember Shakti
1 Renaissance
1 Resident Hero
1 Robert Fripp and the Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists
1 Robyn Hitchcock
1 Rocco of the Snow
1 Rocky Votolato
1 Roger Hodgson
1 Rogue Valley
1 Ronny Chieng
1 Rooney
1 Rosi Golan
1 Royal Hunt
1 Roy Haynes
1 Royston Langdon
1 Rush Heads
1 Ruth and Rosie
1 Sabaton
1 Salubrious Invertebrae
1 Samantha Sidley
1 Samuel Lockridge
1 Saul Williams
1 Saves the Day
1 Say Anything
1 Scott Henderson Trio
1 Scotty Horey
1 Serotone
1 SikTh
1 Silent Force
1 Single Channel Stereo
1 Sirintip
1 Skindred
1 Sloan
1 Snarky Puppy
1 Soft Machine
1 Something to Burn
1 Sons of Valory
1 Spaced Out
1 Spiral Architect
1 Spock's Beard
1 Squid
1 State 4
1 Steel Prophet
1 Steely Dan
1 Stella Roma
1 Steve Miller Band
1 Steve Sklar
1 Stevie Wonder
1 Sting
1 Stolas
1 Strange Names
1 Strange Relations
1 Sunbathe
1 Superhumanoids
1 Superior
1 Surfer Blood
1 Syd Arthur
1 Symphony X
1 System of a Down
1 Tad Morose
1 Tapping the Vein
1 Tears for Fears
1 Tei Shei
1 Tender Meat Lighted
1 Tera Melos
1 The Agonist
1 The Antlers
1 The Appleseed Cast
1 The Besnard Lakes
1 The Birthday Massacre
1 The Bob Pat Band
1 The Champions of Nothing: Kevin Gilbert Tribute
1 The Clientele
1 The Cloud Room
1 The Contortionist
1 The Darcy's
1 The Decemberists
1 The Depreciation Guild
1 The Dixie Dregs
1 The Dodos
1 The Fall of Troy
1 The Felix Culpa
1 The Flower Kings
1 The Funeral and the Twilight
1 The Gatino Quartet
1 The Great Confinement
1 The House Harkonnen
1 The Human Empire
1 The Joy Formidable
1 The Lonely Wild
1 The Loose Cannons
1 The Mavericks
1 The Midnight
1 The Moody Blues
1 The Mools
1 The Most Serene Republic
1 The New Amsterdamns
1 The Number Twelve Looks Like You
1 The Old Believers
1 The Petesons
1 The Pointer Sisters
1 The Police
1 There Are No Words
1 The Receiving End of Sirens
1 The Redwalls
1 The Ronald Reagans
1 The Safety Fire
1 The Star People
1 The Swell Season
1 The Turtles
1 The Underground Railroad
1 The Warning
1 Thinking Plague
1 Thin Lizzy
1 This Will Destroy You
1 Threshold
1 Throw the Fight
1 Tim Reynolds
1 Tim Sparks
1 Torche
1 Toto
1 Transatlantic
1 Trend 86
1 Trent Romens
1 Trevor Sensor
1 Tried for Fine
1 Tub Ring
1 Tu Fawning
1 Umami
1 Umi
1 Under the Sun
1 uneXpect
1 Van Halen
1 Vektor
1 Visideon
1 Voivod
1 Vulnerata
1 Vulvox
1 Walter Martin
1 Watercolors
1 Water From Your Eyes
1 What's That? (Radiohead Tribute)
1 White Denim
1 White Williams
1 White Willow
1 Wilkinson James
1 Witchden
1 Within Reason
1 Wolfhoppers
1 Wolf Parade
1 Wuthering Heights
1 Wynton Marsalis
1 Xylouris White
1 Yo-Yo Ma
1 Young Widow
1 Z-Puppets
1 Zebulon Pike
1 Zombi
1 Zoso: Led Zeppelin Tribute
Friday, August 9, 2024
Music of the Year Radio
Hypothetical if I could curate my own Radio Station (and I could sort per Spotify Playlists, except there's a lot of music of course not on Spotify, but YouTube might be a better option).
Thursday, April 18, 2024
MPAR Slideshow Chapter 3 2010-2014
2010
1/9/2010 Lehto & Wright - Children's Songs
2/24/2010 東京事変 [Tokyo Jihen] スポーツ (Sports)
3/2/2010 Dirt Poor Robins - The Last Days of Leviathan
3/8/2010 JazzkamikazeSupersonic Revolutions
3/9/2010 Emanuel and The Fear Listen
4/5/2010 Typhoon - Hunger and Thirst
4/6/2010 The Gloomcatcher - Slow Chorale
4/6/2010 The River Empires The River Empires (Epilogue)
4/13/2010 Judgement Day - Peacocks / Pink Monsters
4/20/2010 The Apples in Stereo - Travellers in Space and Time
5/1/2010 Timbre - Little Flowers
5/10/2010 Foals Total Life Forever
5/14/2010 Dead Letter Circus - This is the Warning
5/18/2010 Janelle MonáeThe ArchAndroid
5/31/2010 Anathema We're Here Because We're Here
6/2/2010 Bend Sinister - Spring Romance
7/27/2010 Menomena - Mines
7/27/2010 Timmy Sean Songs From & Inspired By Noisewater
8/3/2010 The Reign of Kindo This Is What Happens
8/24/2010 Everything Everything - Man Alive
9/6/2010 Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante
9/6/2010 Oceansize - Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up
9/6/2010 Revere - Hey! Selim
9/14/2010 Light Chasers Cloud Cult Light Chasers
9/22/2010 22 Flux
10/12/2010 Sufjan StevensThe Age of Adz
10/18/2010 Pure Reason Revolution - Hammer and Anvil
10/25/2010 WarpaintThe Fool
2011
2/1/2011 Hotel of the Laughing TreeTerror and Everything After
2/7/2011 Stateless - Matilda
3/8/2011 Typhoon - A New Kind of House
4/25/2011 dredg - Chuckles & Mr. Squeezy
5/29/2011 Brice Plays Drums - I Laugh at Your Greener Pastures
6/14/2011 The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum: The Complete Collection
6/28/2011 Falling Up - Your Sparkling Death Cometh
6/20/2011 Battle Circus - Battle Circus
6/27/2011 *Shels - Plains of the Purple Buffalo
7/8/2011 Tangled Thoughts of Leaving - Deaden the Fields
7/15/2011 Meniscus - War of Currents
7/25/2011 Mercies - Three Thousand Days
8/19/2011 Gotye - Making Mirrors
8/29/2011 Vows Kimbra Vows
9/26/2011 Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
10/4/2011 Bruce Peninsula - Open Flames
10/4/2011 Mutemath Odd Soul
10/11/2011 3The Ghost You Gave to Me
10/14/2011 Team MeTo the Treetops
11/7/2011 Jimmy Gnecco The Heart: X Edition
12/6/2011 Miracles of Modern Science - Dog Year
12/30/2011 House of Fools Versus the Beast
2012
1/13/2012 Forest Park - Forest Park
1/13/2012 Northern Abbey - Northern Abbey
1/30/2012 Pepe Deluxé Queen of the Wave
2/25/2012 British Theatre - EP
3/26/2012 Flying Colors - Flying Colors
3/27/2012 The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
4/16/2012 Anathema Weather Systems
4/24/2012 Bruce Peninsula - Of Songs
4/24/2012 Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears - Daffy's Elixir
5/1/2012 Ramona Falls Prophet
6/1/2012 GathererSo Be It
7/10/2012 Bend SinisterSmall Fame
8/16/2012 Brice Plays DrumsMan the Animal Cannon
8/18/2012 Mike Linden - Bubble & Squeak
8/20/2012 British Theatre - Dyed in the Wool Ghost
8/27/2012 Archive - With Us Until You're Dead
9/11/2012 Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft OrchestraTheatre Is Evil
10/15/2012 Godspeed You Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
10/23/2012 VuvuzelaThe Hollow Choir
11/27/2012 Hotel of the Laughing Tree - Mammoth Skin Pt. 1
2013
1/28/2013 Biffy Clyro - Opposites
1/29/2013 Local Natives Hummingbird
2/11/2013 Foals - Holy Fire
2/25/2013 Steven WilsonThe Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
3/5/2013 Cloud Cult Love
3/5/2013 Brooke Waggoner - Originator
4/2/2013 The Dear Hunter Migrant
4/2/2013 The Dear Hunter - The Migrations Annex
5/4/2013 Ours - Ballet the Boxer 1
5/20/2013 Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
6/7/2013 The Red Paintings - The Revolution is Never Coming
7/30/2013 The Reign of KindoPlay With Fire
8/20/2013 Typhoon White Lighter
9/10/2013 Janelle Monáe The Electric Lady
10/7/2013 Revere - My Mirror / Your Target
11/19/2013 Dirt Poor Robins -The Raven Locks Act 1
2014
1/24/2014 Major Parkinson Twilight Cinema
1/31/2014 Dream the Electric Sleep Heretics
2/25/2014 The Family CrestBeneath the Brine
3/11/2014 Bend Sinister Animals
3/13/2014 Grimus Emergence
4/17/2014 Moron Police - Defenders of the Small Yard
4/22/2014 Hotel of the Laughing Tree - Mammoth Skin Pt. 2
5/12/2014 Archive - Axiom
6/4/2014 AnathemaDistant Satellites
6/9/2014 Fjokra - Thoughtsteps
6/10/2014 Umphrey's McGee - Similae Skin
7/15/2014 Nomia - Iron and Rust
7/29/14 sElf - Super.Fake.Nice
8/15/2014 KimbraThe Golden Echo
8/18/2014 Imogen HeapSparks
8/27/2014 Team MeBlind as Night
9/9/2014 The Tea Party The Ocean at the End
9/3/2014 The Mercury Tree Countenance
9/15/2014 iamthemorning - Belighted
9/19/2014 Markéta Irglová Muna
9/30/2014 Dirt Poor Robins - The Raven Locks Act 2
10/28/2014 Clone Clone
11/11/2014 Bent Knee Shiny Eyed Babies
11/17/2014 Nordic Giants - Build Seas, Dismantle Suns
12/25/2014 Gavin Castleton - Travelight
MPAR Slideshow Details 2005-2009
2005
2/1/2005 Through the Broken City Bend Sinister Through the Broken City
2/4/2005 God is an Astronaut - All Is Violent All Is Bright
2/7/2005 Karnivool - Themata
2/8/2005 People For Audio - And This Will Be Our Homecoming
2/14/2005 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
3/1/2005 The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
3/8/2005 Kaddisfly Buy Our Intention; We'll Buy You a Unicorn
3/22/2005 The Decemberists - Picaresque
3/28/2005 Porcupine Tree Deadwing
4/25/2005 Klimt 1918 Dopoguerra
4/26/2005 The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse
4/26/2005 Time of OrchidsSarcast While
4/2005 Margot and the Nuclear So & So's - The Dust of Retreat
5/24/2005 Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World
6/21/2005 dredg Catch Without Arms
6/27/2005 The Chap - Ham
6/2005 Cloud Cult - Advice From the Happy Hippopotamus
7/5/2005 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
7/12/2005 The Ebb & Flow - Time to Echolocate
7/18/2005 Imogen Heap Speak for Yourself
8/23/2005 Greg Herriges - It Plays Me
8/23/2005 Neverending White Lights Act I: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies
8/23/2005 The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
9/13/2005 Sigur Ros - Takk...
9/19/2005 Oceansize Everyone Into Position
9/19/2005 Mew And the Glass Handed Kites
9/20/2005 Coheed and Cambria Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV: Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
10/11/2005 Kiss Kiss - Kiss Kiss
10/10/2005 Pure Reason Revolution - Cautionary Tales for the Brave
12/5/2005 Lehto & Wright - The Thrashing Machine and Other Stories
2006
1/19/2006 MutemathMutemath
1/25/2006 東京事変 [Tokyo Jihen]大人 (Adult)
2/7/2006 Malajube - Optical illusion
2/25/2006 Anathallo - Floating World
3/7/2006 Mason Proper - There is a Moth in Your Chest
3/14/2006 Men Women and Children - Men Women and Children
3/21/2006 The Appleseed Cast - Peregrine
3/21/2006 Opus Dai - Tierra Tragame
3/27/2006 Menomena - Under an Hour: Music for Modern Dance
4/10/2006 Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third
4/17/2006 Scott Mathews - Passing Stranger
4/21/2006 OSI - Free
5/2/2006 Tool - 10,000 Days
5/16/2006 Russian Circles Enter
5/21/2006 Gotye - Like Drawing Blood
5/22/2006 Archive - Lights
6/5/2006 Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
7/3/2006 MuseBlack Holes and Revelations
8/8/2006 Under the Influence of Giants - Under the Influence of Giants
9/12/2006 Kunek - Flight of the Flynns
9/12/2006 The Mars Volta - Amuptechture
9/26/2006 The Dear HunterAct I: The Lake South, the River North
10/2/2006 The Crane Wife The DecemberistsThe Crane Wife
10/14/2006 Aereogramme My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go
10/18/2006 Kacica - Kacica
10/17/2006 Annuals - Be He Me
10/25/2006 Mutyumu - Mutyumu
11/7/2006 Fair to Midland - The Drawn and Quartered EP
2007
1/2/2007 Cavil at Rest - Orion Way
1/16/2007 The Apex Theory - Lightpost
1/23/2007 Menomena - Friend and Foe
2/6/2007 Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City
2/6/2007 Kiss Kiss Reality vs. the Optimist
2/12/2007 Blackfield Blackfield II
2/21/2007 Sheena Ringo - 平成風俗 (Heisei fūzoku)
3/2/2007 Radical Face - Ghost
3/6/2007 House of FoolsLive and Learn
3/6/2007 Kaddisfly Set Sail the Prairie
3/26/2007 The Antlers - In the Attic of the Universe
3/31/2007 SilverchairYoung Modern
4/2/2007 Fields. Everything Last Winter
4/10/2007 The Meaning of 8 Cloud Cult The Meaning of 8
4/10/2007 The Apples in stereo New Magnetic Wonder
5/14/2007 Battles Mirrored
5/15/2007 People for Audio The New Ancients
5/22/2007 The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
6/1/2007 Janelle Monae - Metropolis: Suite 1 The Chase
6/4/2007 Biffy ClyroPuzzle
6/12/2007 Fair to MidlandFables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True
6/13/2007 Pepe Deluxe - Spare Time Machine
6/18/2007 *Shels - Sea of a Dying Dhow
6/19/2007 The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army
6/19/2007 Stateless - Stateless
7/10/2007 St. Vincent - Marry Me
7/17/2007 Strata - Strata Presents the End of the World
7/24/2007 ThreeThe End Is Begun
8/7/2007 The Receiving End of SirensThe Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi
8/20/2007 Minus the BearPlanet of Ice
8/20/2007 The Reign of Kindo - The Reign of Kindo
8/21/2007 The New Pornographers - Challengers
9/6/2007 Centaur Rodeo - Tongues of Flame
9/11/2007 Jared Micah and Hats - T.C.H.T.O.B.
9/12/2007 Woven - Aftermath EP
9/18/2007 Time of Orchids - Namesake Caution
9/25/2007 Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring
10/2/2007 The Most Serene Republic - Population
10/23/2007 Far-Less - A Toast to Bad Taste
10/30/2007 Neverending White LightsAct II: The Blood and the Life Eternal
10/2007 The Ebb and Flow - Attack & Decay
10/1/2007 Oceansize Frames
11/1/2007 100Ft Snowman - 100Ft Snowman
11/6/2007 Sigur Ros - Hvarf-Heim
12/31/2007 Distrails - Virginia Creeper
2008
1/22/2008 Black Mountain - In the Future
2/11/2008 Apes and Androids Blood Moon
3/24/2008 FoalsAntidotes
3/30/2008 KacicaMosaic
4/1/2008 Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears - Flight of the Knife
4/8/2008 Cloud Cult Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)
4/15/2008 Ours Mercy (Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy)
5/13/2008 The Myriad - With Arrows, With Poise
5/19/2008 Demians - Building an Empire
6/13/2008 Tangled Thoughts of Leaving - Tiny Fragments
6/17/2008 Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer
5/19/2008 The Chap Mega Breakfast
8/11/2008 Late of the Pier Fantasy Black Channel
8/26/2008 The Reign of Kindo Rhythm, Chord & Melody
8/0/2008 Opus Dai - Touch the Sun
8/2008 Warpaint - Exquisite Corpse
9/10/2008 Lehto & Wright - Between the Jigs and the Reels
9/11/2008 Adebisi Shank This Is the Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank
9/13/2008 Amanda Palmer Who Killed Amanda Palmer
9/23/2008 The Age of Rockets - Hannah
9/23/2008 Mason Proper - Olly Oxen Free
9/23/2008 Woven - Designer Codes
9/25/2008 夢中夢 [Mutyumu]イリヤ -Il y a-
10/7/2008 Annuals - Such Fun
10/7/2008 Margot and the Nuclear So and So'sAnimal!
10/7/2008 Margot and the Nuclear So and So'sNot Animal
10/21/2008 ¡Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta! The Stiletto Formal ¡Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta!
10/21/2008 Bend Sinister Stories of Brothers, Tales of Lovers
10/31/2008 Nomia - Nomia EP
11/7/2008 God Is An Astronaut - God Is An Astronaut
11/18/2008 AnathalloCanopy Glow
11/26/2008 Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
2009
1/18/2009 Sound & Shape - The Love Electric
1/20/2009 Umphrey's McGee - Mantis
2/2/2009 note. - my city of ghosts, stars and hours
2/3/2009 Shelter Red - Strike a Mortal Terror
2/10/2009 Malajube - Labyrinthes
2/17/2009 Sholi - Sholi
3/3/2009 The Antlers - Hospice
3/3/2009 Bruce Peninsula A Mountain Is a Mouth
3/9/2009 Pure Reason Revolution - Amor vincit omnia
3/10/2009 Greg Herriges - Telluric Currents
3/23/2009 Grammatics - Grammatics
3/24/2009 Falling Up - Fangs!
3/30/2009 Archive- Controlling Crowds
4/24/2009 Long Distance Calling - Avoid the Light
5/14/2009 maudlin of the Well - Part the 2nd
5/18/2009 My Latest Novel - Deaths and Entrances
6/9/2009 dredg - The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion
6/21/2009 Grimus - Panikon
6/23/2009 The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life and Death
7/7/2009 Kiss Kiss - The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left
8/18/2009 As Tall as Lions - You Can't Take It With You
8/4/2009 Cale Parks - To Swift Mars
8/18/2009 Mutemath - Armistice
8/18/2009 Ramona Falls - Intuit
8/19/2009 Mew - No More Stories / Are Told Today / I'm Sorry / They Washed Away // No More Stories / The World Is Grey / I'm Tired / Let's Wash Away
10/6/2009 Brooke Waggoner - Go Easy Little Doves
10/7/2009 Murder By Death - Finch
10/26/2009 nosound - A Sense of Loss
10/26/2009 Oceansize - Home & Minor
11/2/2009 Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
11/9/2009 Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
12/2009 Distrails - Dry Flies
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Kevin Gilbert THUD Tracks Videos
So I finished this series on my YouTube channel last week. Finished sharing the last video yesterday on Social Media.
And while time can tell how far it reaches, the numbers as of right now tell the story.
I'm pretty proud of this, having analyzed and given somewhat thoroughly every track in depth for Thud, an album I do love. I mean it is from Kevin Gilbert who is a super unknown name, but still people at least seek his music out on YouTube (even though most of it is not there right now).
I just feel like what James Bickers said about things going right under people's noses. Thud is a great record that a lot more people should know it, including so many of these other versions. But as of right now, they would have find a download somewhere or buy them from the Estate..or on ebay or discogs or whatever.
But they should. I dunno, there's not much more I can do. And I will look to do this again I think at the point the Shaming Multi-Disc comes out.
People want to sleep on brilliance and great content..their loss I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh and the View Count numbers are not correct as I have given evidence of how YouTube's new-ish algorithm removes views.
Video 1 - When You Give Your Love to Me 47 Views, 6 Likes
Video 5 Tea for One 34 Views, 4 Likes
Video 7 The Tears of Audrey, 27 Views, 4 Likes
Video 9 All Fall Down, 16 Views, 3 Likes
Video 10 Song for a Dead Friend 21 Views, 3 Likes
Video 11 Kashmir, 20 Views, 4 Likes
Video 12 Waking the Sun, 27 Views, 3 Likes
Video 13 Until I Get Her Back, 36 Views, 5 Likes
Video 14 Miss Broadway + Big Heart 17 Views, 3 Likes
Friday, April 5, 2024
Modern Progressive Art Rock SLIDE SHOWS update...
Instead of trying to make a super long involved and edited documentary series of videos about the history of
Modern Progressive Art Rock
which I intend to try to do
I may be able to sooner, make some slide shows which will hopefully take a fraction of the time.
I love and feel it's worth the time/effort, I could be making the slide shows 1st and then do the longer narrative with more images later.
and here's a bone I suppose
Slide Shows showing Chronologically with Release Dates:
-Chapter 1: Pre-2000 which is ballooning to be dozens of albums somehow, lol. But the amount of work doing slide shows seems to be quite less
-Chapter 2: 2000-2004
-Chapter 3: 2005-2009
-Chapter 4: 2010-2014
-Chapter 5: 2015-2019
-Chapter 6: 2020-2024
The biggest thing right now beyond the labor of creating the slide shows with the images including the dates is trying to include some kind of MUSIC.
I want and intend to do narrating over them, but that more likely will be done for the longer story of these.
These are just like a short form doc, and the biggies will be later.
Unsure, it may be based on how much time I have to put into it and how impatient I get. But testing some of the slide shows last night definitely has boosted my motivation even more for this project.
And who knows, if these go well, I could start making these in more regularity about any number of music or entertainment topics.
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Rebranding or New Branding on YouTube?
This idea has crossed my mind several times recently, and even come to think about it, going back many years.
And it was suggested to me by someone on reddit.
Creating a new channel with a new name, or maybe multiple new channels with new names.
I mean it would mean having to notify all the stuff on Social Media about the changes/new channels, etc, but at this point, what am I really losing?
I probably would keep all the Social Media accounts, but change the names.
If I do this, when? I could do it soon, or I could at least wait until a few things happen
a) Finish the THUD tracks videos, which is almost done
b) Finish the AOTY Series of Videos, which unfortunately could be many months. However I suppose I could either
1) resume those on the new channel
2) kind of skip doing videos for each year, and just publish the lists in here and maybe link or even make 1 video showing the link.
Launch the new channel and my hope would be to put something up about the MPAR slide show thing I've been working on
Launch another channel with the Movies of the Year stuff and my Favorite Movies List
NAMES?..unsure, but I'm brainstorming
more to add later..
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Bullshit YouTube View Count
Fuck You YouTube.
Someone at YouTube screws around with this, or they update the algorithm to subtract/deduct/reduce Views that are done by Bots or something. Lovely.
now it say 3 Views again. Again, WHAT. THE. FUCK. YOUTUBE?
Part of me at this point hopes nobody ever watches these videos per than I would have 0 expectation.
BOT Views?..fuck
2 FUCKING VIEWS!!!! REALLY YOUTUBE??? You and your highly flawed Algorithm that falsely removes View numbers go can go fuck yourself!
"No Views" 20 hours later. Yeah..I myself viewed it 3 times on 3 different browsers and YouTube accounts.
BROKEN RECORD....
Monday, March 25, 2024
How Great was 1985 for Movies?
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
YouTube Channel Plans as of 3/20/24
-Finish Kevin Gilbert THUD Tracks Videos;
-All Fall Down
-Song for a Dead Friend
-Kashmir
-Waking the Sun
-Until I Get Her Back
-Extras; Big Heart + Miss Broadway
-Finish Albums of the Year Series
1985-2022 or 2023?
-Minnesota Prog/Art Rock List Video
-Bands/Artists I don't like video(s)
-Continue doing Album Milestone Anniversary Videos (April-December, 9 videos)
-Continue doing 2024 Album Release Calendar Update videos. How many? 5-30?
-Movie Review Videos
-Top 10-50+ Movies of all Time Video(s)
-Movies of the Year Videos once Albums of the Year videos are done
1970? - through 2023? maybe more, depends.
epic list. Unsure how far I will go back, but I would anticipate it being similar to the AOTY videos.
-Random catalog Release Videos..maybe SHORTS for TIKTOK and/or YouTube?
once AOTY Videos are done...2000+ per unlimited really
-React to Top 10 Spotify videos?
-React to ProgArchives names included or missing videos?
-MPAR Slide Show w Voice documentary
..once the AOTY videos are done, this could be a focus. It also will likely be a long, epic amount of work. However, some testing, early examples may be worth sharing aka A Rough Draft sample, etc. More/new equipment? also just using software more extensively
-Psych movies Podcasts on PsychicCrapfest with John
Videos instead of Audio Podcasts, time permitting of course on the Psych Podcast YouTube Channel
-Concert and Event reviews Videos
-Record Store Day Video
-Vinyl/Music Collection Update Videos
Monday, March 11, 2024
10 Years on YouTube Stream Today NOON (Central)
I likely will not go over all of the lists in the Stream per time, which suggests I'll make at least 1 separate video with some of the stuff I don't get to.
Oh, and I lost another Subscriber last night, lol. I tell ya..I wish I could get rid of the Subscriber numbers altogether.