Los Lobos - "... and a time to dance" [honorable mention]

:-)

Run-D.M.C. - Run-D.M.C.: 8.5 (high A-)

 

Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell: 8 (A-)

 

The Meditations - No More Friend [honorable mention]

:-)

Jeffrey Lewis - 12 Crass Songs: 7.5 (high B+)

 

This is #folk/covers, and it's OOP and not available used for reasonable prices anyway.

Tall Dwarfs - 3 EPs

:-) [Contains A Question Of Medical Ethics, Up The Down Staircase, and Sam's Spaniel]

Grant [G.W.] McLennan - Fireboy: 7 (B+)

 

Would definitely pick up a physical, but it's OOP and not available for reasonable prices used. They definitely chose the 3 best songs for Intermission though, which I have in physical.

Run-D.M.C. - King of Rock: 7 (B+)

 

I have this as part of the Original Album Classics set.

Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane: liked

A hair below 7 (B+) in my book.

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra: 7 (B+)

 

#krautrock

Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei [honorable mention]

:-)

Cluster - Zuckerzeit: neutral

:-|

[Toots and] The Maytals - Monkey Man [liked]

:-)

Tackhead - Friendly as a Hand Grenade

:-|

Uncle Tupelo - No Depression [honorable mention]

:-)

Biz Markie - All Samples Cleared!: 7.5 (high B+)

Tom Ze - Fabrication Defect: 7 (B+)

 

#tropicalia

Body Meπa [Meta?] - The Work Is Slow: 8 (A-)

Upped from honorable mention. In a damn cardsleeve though.

Low Cut Connie - Tough Cookies: Best of the Quarantine Broadcasts: disliked

:-(

Pom Pom Squad - Death of a Cheerleader [honorable mention]

:-)

Sons of Kemet - Black to the Future

:-| [Not really qualified to rate this.]

Garbage - No Gods No Masters [Deluxe]: 7 (B+)

 

Weird one. The best songs to me are on the bonus disc of the deluxe edition, although that also has a couple mediocre covers. I would give the standard edition disc an honorable mention and the bonus disc a 7.5 (high B+). So the deluxe edition averages out to 7 (B+). [Choice cut: "Girls Talk."]

Nirvana - Sliver: The Best of the Box

:-| [Various crappy demos and outtakes. Some decent songs. I'll probably cave and buy it eventually, because I appreciate the label doing this for people who don't want the whole box, and it's Nirvana.] [4 listens]

Drive-By Truckers - The New OK [honorable mention]

:-)

Billy Bragg - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry: 7 (B+)

# [proto anti-folk?]

Nirvana - In Utero: 7.5 (high B+)

Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

:-| [Radiohead/U2 clone]

Billy Nomates - Emergency Telephone [EP]: 8 (A-)

 Digital only.

Various Artists - The Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru: 7 (B+)

 

# [chicha/cumbia]

Jupiter & Okwess - Na Kozonga [honorable mention]

:-)

Serengeti - KDxMPC [EP]: liked

9 tracks, 21 minutes. Appended to vinyl reissue of Ajai.

[Tabu Ley] Rochereau & L'Afrisa International: 1971-1977: 7.5 (high B+)

 

Not paying very high prices for used copies at B+.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven: 7 (B+)

 

# [post-rock]

Royal Trux - Cats and Dogs [honorable mention]

:-)

Sarathy Korwar - More Arriving: 7.5 (B+)

 

# [Indo-jazz?]

Redman - Whut? Thee Album: liked

Definitely trails off quickly.

Bun B - Trill OG: disliked

Unfathomable to me how The Source could rate this 5 mics.

Third World - Third World [honorable mention]

:-)

Bob Andy - Bob Andy's Songbook: liked

:-)

James Blake - James Blake

:-|

Spring Heel Jack - Treader: 7.5 (high B+)

 

# [electronic]

Japan - Tin Drum: neutral

Roxy Music rip-off

Hailu Mergia - Lalu Bela [honorable mention]

:-)

Roxy Music - Avalon: 9.5 (high A)

 

Roxy Music - Stranded: 7 (B+)

 

Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System - Tackhead Tape Time

:-|

Drive-By Truckers - Gangstabilly [honorable mention]

:-)

The Rolling Stones - Some Girls: 7 (B+)

 

I never liked this nearly as much as most other people seem to. I have the deluxe version. Second disc is also a 7 (B+).