New Website Addition – A Work In Progress

Recent visitors to my website may have already noticed a new link just below the top banner photo called “My Collection.”

As I state on the main “My Collection” page…

I currently own more than 6,000 albums in a wide variety of genres. I will slowly be listing each album I own on the accompanying pages, divided by genre (and alphabetically by band within each genre).

PLEASE NOTE: The albums in my collection are not necessarily recommendations. Unfortunately, there are some real “clinkers” in the bunch, although I do have a tendency to purchase only those albums I feel I will enjoy, therefore the “clinkers” are thankfully not in great abundance. Regardless, this is merely a list of what I currently own. I will, however, try to add random notes (including my general album ratings for each item) or link to my formal album reviews or my band “overviews” as time, inclination, energy, and mood allows.

That last line is the most important. Where will I find all that time, inclination, energy, and mood to complete such a major undertaking? We shall see, I suppose, but I hope to make steady progress in the weeks ahead.

I hope visitors to this website (presumably music lovers like myself) will find my lists, notes, and ratings helpful when seeking additional albums to add to their own growing music collections.

Meanwhile, please don’t email me asking for specific pages of a certain genre or a particular letter of the alphabet that I have yet to complete. I’m doing this in a particular order (yes, yes, I’m anal when it comes to list-making, how well I know). I have a plan that will not change, at least not anytime soon, in order to avoid confusion on my part. I’m starting with my favorite music genre, Progressive Rock, and I’ll see how it goes from there. Thus far I’ve added everything from A-M (and #’s also). Should this prove a major headache, I may decide not to complete the full list of everything I own as intended. But again, we shall see what happens. I’m determined to complete at least this one genre for now, and hey, that’s what matters, right?

Meanwhile, have fun perusing the lists as I add them.

And thanks for visiting!

—Zap Niles