As 2016 dawns, it's amazing to note that we've just hit
views: that's a
Quarter of a MILLION, people!
It's surely a tribute to perseverance and misplaced optimism and blind stubbornness that people keep coming back to this journal, hoping against hope that there'll be something to interest them,even though its history clearly tells us otherwise. So thanks for keeping the dream alive, and one day, who knows? You may actually find something here you'll like!
For 2016, though, with the demise of Metal Month I intend to try to post more here, making it mostly (though not completely or solely) a journal for the review of discographies, to tie in with my new thread as well as my own personal preferences. This is not to say there won't be other material, but as of now I haven't really much written for here, and I do have other journals that I have been also neglecting, so for now I'm going to concentrate on discographies.
At the moment, these are the ones I have. They're in alphabetical order, but that doesn't mean that's how they'll be reviewed. Also, these discogs will not follow the pattern of last year's, ie done in one go and nothing posted in between. This year, and all subsequent years, I'll be doing it like in "Bitesize", where I review the first album from one discog, the first from another, then a third, then maybe back to the second from the first, if you know what I mean. I'll be mixing it up, but the discographies will of course always be in order. As more are recommended to me via the new thread I will of course add them. As each is done, I'll post a progress report as I go through them.
Note: I've had one of my trademark changes of heart. It seems silly to carry on the same discography in both journals, so any that I'll be doing here that are currently running in "Bitesize" will be just transferred here and will no longer appear there. Not all of the discogs will, of course, but those that are chosen for the larger project will be removed from "Bitesize", other than any reviews that have already been posted. There's simply no point in my doing two separate full reviews, one long and one short. I may add others to "Bitesize", I may not, but any that are now going to run here will only run here. If I've already started one in "Bitesize" which is now being transferred here, I will of course rewrite the reviews for any albums already done there.
The CURRENT LIST
Bathory (The Batlord)
Black Sabbath
Blue Oyster Cult (The Identity Matrix)
Richard Dawson (Frownland)
Dire Straits
Steve Earle
Eagles
Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)
Fleetwood Mac
Hawkwind
Höyry-Kone (grindy)
Journey
Motorhead
Nine Inch Nails
Alan Parsons and the Alan Parsons Project
Queensryche (Anteater)
Chris Rea
Roxy Music (Pet_Sounds)
Rush
Sigh (mythsofmetal)
Supertramp
Threshold
Judie Tzuke
U2 (Neapolitan)
Robert Wyatt (Plainview)