Article Archives!

This is just a quick post to point out a new section on the right.  I now have a category for pages that collected articles of similar types.  So far, I've only got the two, one for all those Anniversary Articles I spent the last five years writing, and the handful of Retrospective Articles I've pulled together over the years.  I'll do my best to the Retrospective one updated as I continue to make those.

Meanwhile, I'm still working out what my Top 5 will be for 2024, and it's not been easy.  At the same time, I'm planning to do another series of articles where I talk about the Top 5 of years past, going by fives like I did for the Anniversary Articles.  So in February, expect to see a Top 5 for 1970, and then in March a Top 4 for 1975 and so on.  Naturally, my Retro Reviews are going to be full of albums as I listen to as much stuff as I can for each year, so keep an eye out for those as well.

I maybe changing what content I make, but I still see myself trucking on for the next five years, listening to and talking about all the melodic rock and metal I listen to.  There may be even more surprises in the future, but we'll see what I can get to.  Until then, rock on!  \m/

A Minor Update and Moving Forward with 2024

Hey, all.  I hope everyone is rocking and staying warm this winter.  I ended up being hit with a pretty terrible cold to start the year, so I admit I don't have much to talk about right now.  However, I did want to write up a post talking about how things are going to change around here.

Mainly, I will be dropping the New Videos articles.  After doing them for four years, I've lost interest in doing them.  When something becomes a chore to do is usually a sign to re-assess what's going on, and I admit trying to find and watch a bunch of YouTube videos just to find songs worth talking about was starting to become more work than it was worth.  Of course, this means I won't be doing my Spotify playlists for each one.  For now, I think I'll just stick to having a Best Of for the year and slowly build that as I go.

I'm also planning on splitting my Last Played articles into two.  My goal is to separate my reviews of older albums from my articles discussing current albums.  I speculate this will result in a lot more retro review articles, but I think keeping them separate will be useful in the long run.  So keep an eye out for Retro Reviews and New Releases articles in the future.

My Anniversary Articles are not going anywhere, as I plan to carry that on through this year.  However, after that, I will have done an article for every year in the last 55 years, so I'll need to think about what I'll do after that.  I might still go through the years, but focusing on lesser known albums or something, but I still have time to decide.  I suppose it will depend on what excites me into writing stuff when I get there.\

For now, I'm working hard on my Top 5 for 2023 (which has not been easy!), so plan on seeing that at the end of this month.  I also plan on doing some retrospectives and other articles, but these definitely take a lot of time to pull together.  While I might not be as prolific as I was before, I plan to carry on with this blog for as long as I keep finding great rock and metal music to talk about, and I just don't see that ever ending.  Until then, rock on! \m/

New Logo! And Twitter!

Hey, we finally got the design updated with a new logo!  It only took me a few years to get around to it!

Well, actually, I had help with a good friend of mine named Mike West.  It took a while, as he squeezed it between all of his real life work and responsibilities, but I'm glad with how it turned out.

You can find out more about Mike West at his website: https://mwestgraphics.com/

He also has a fun sci-fi webcomic that has an interesting interpretation of wormholes, which can be found here: http://crowdedvoid.thecomicseries.com/  I'm a big fan!

Anyway, now that the blog is no longer that average blue color, it's starting to look kinda nice!  I know I wanted to improve the visual look of the blog for quite some time, and I'm glad to have finally gotten there.  

I've also set up a Twitter account: https://twitter.com/TheRockChampio1  I'll be mainly using it to share my posts there, but if that's something you like to use, then there you go.

That's pretty much it.  In the meantime, I'll just keep on rockin'.  \m/