Yo La Tengo - Upside Down: 7 (B+)

Bob Dylan - Shadows in the Night

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Boz Scaggs - A Fool to Care: 8 (A-)

The Move - Great Move! The Best of the Move: 8 (A-)

Essentially Message from the Country plus "Do Ya."

Yo La Tengo - Fade: 8 (A-)

Justin Warfield - My Field Trip to Planet 9: 9.5 (high A)

Kanye West - Late Registration: 2.5 stars

What do people hear in this? I've made an exception from my standard posting protocol in this case, because the album seems so monumentally overrated.

Fun Lovin' Criminals - Come Find Yourself: 5 stars

Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey: 9.5 (high A)

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks: 10 (A+)

Johnny Thunders - So Alone: 8 (A-)

The Knife - Shaking the Habitual: 3.5 stars

Liz Phair - Liz Phair: 4.5 stars

Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville: 10 (A+)

It took me a ridiculous number of plays with this one for me to start hearing it as the masterpiece that so many people immediately recognized it for. But I finally came around after 10 to 15 plays, and then I couldn't stop playing it for months. Now it's one of those rare albums I will put on at any time and love hearing. That's what a 10 (A+) is to me, after all. Props to my friend Guy for encouraging me to stick with it. He's got great ears and loved it for about a decade before I finally heard it. Of course his name's in the title, so that might have inspired him to pay more attention initially. :-)

Bob Mould - Silver Age: 8 (A-)