Youtube is a hellhole.

They don't usually last forever, but Youtube has some real treasure troves.

• Xearching For Sounds
  Full albums of 80s J-Pop, city pop, (mostly Japanese) jazz, and generally stuff you don't see elsewhere. Real good. Has some looong mixes too I haven't gone through.
• Vinyl and shellac by Starday
  Mostly 20s–50s American music. I particularly like going through the singles.
• Flavi-chan samurai music investigator
  A bit like Xerching: lots of good album uploads, mostly Japanese.
• Eric Rhodes II
  Hasn't updated in months, but has full albums of 80s rarities from all over.
  Sequel channel to Eric Rhodes, which's mostly bass covers, but has a few interesting album and bootleg uploads.
• Music for empty rooms
  Single songs. Rare jazz, soul…
• Inheritance Bloodtype B Legends - Official -
  J-pop stuff off the telly.
• Terminal Passage
  Mostly smooth jazzy funky instrumental stuff?
• yaoiboi92
  Rare stuff, a lot's pretty mid, but worth a shot.
• MrRevisorn
  Good mixes/playlists.
• nattligatoner2
  Rare tracks, synthy.
• DiscoSegreta
  Euro Disco, mostly Italian.

Tips to make Youtube less shit:

• Don't use an account. If you want to follow channels you can us RSS. Google obscures the feed URL, but I use youtube-rss-finder to put a little button in the Address bar.
  • Some people use this kinda thing to set it up so their computer downloads videos they want to watch, so they can watch them offline.
• Use a container in Firefox, and don't store cookies.
• Automatically wipe all the other stuff it stores on your computer with cookie-autodelete, this way you'll avoid it's recommendations.
• Use a browser plugin like blocktube so you can block whichever channels you choose from being shown to you.
• Try clients like Invidious and NewPipe.

To make a video URL start at a particular time you can define it in minutes and seconds by adding &t=XmYs to the end, where X is the minute and Y is the number of seconds, for example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRTSSzccALA&t=1m0s

• Yt-dlp - Great tool for Grabbing YT vids is various formats, or just grabbing the audio.