L7 - Pretend We're Dead [Warner, 2019]: notation

Digital-only, 25-track comp. From Tom Hull: "10/11 tracks from Bricks Are Heavy, 8/12 from Hungry for Sink, and 7/12 from The Beauty Process." No reason to even listen, as all those albums are easily available and essential in my book.

L7 - Hungry for Stink: 8 (A-)

L7 - The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum: 8 (A-)

L7 - Smell the Magic: 9 (A)

Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind: 7.5 (high B+)

Elvis Costello - batch review

All the following have been shelved for years. I will grade them as I play them in the future, but they would range from 7 (B+) to possibly 9 (A):

    My Aim Is True

    This Year's Model

    Armed Forces

    Get Happy!

    Trust

    Imperial Bedroom

I also have had Blood and Chocolate on the final listen shelf for years and posted separately about King of America. Never been a big fan, personally. He was a bit of a snot to me once at Tower Records in LA in the 1990s, but I swear I'm not holding it against him. We were both picking through some recent Dylan re-issues.

Jubal Lee Young - Squirrels: 7 (B+)

Guy's got a real squirrel problem. #country

The Only Ones - The Peel Sessions Album: 8.5 (high A-)

Aka simply The Peel Sessions on some releases.

Pablo Moses - Reggae Greats: 7.5 (high B+)

Normally, I would skip this as #bestof, and because I have five out of eight tracks (the ones from A Song), so it only gives me three from Pave the Way. I should have just gotten Pave the Way. But I have a copy and will retain it for now.

Swamp Dogg - Best of 25 Years... Or F*** the Bomb, Stop the Drugs: 7.5 (high B+)

Had this when it came out and eventually sold it off. #r&b/oldies/bestof

Todd Snider - High, Lonesome and Then Some: 7 (B+)

Upped a notch and collected in memoriam, despite being #folk.

Body Type - Expired Candy: 7.5 (high B+)

Very close to 8 (A-), but #import even if so. #indiepop

Go-Betweens - Metal and Shells: notation

Seven songs from Spring Hill Fair and five from Before Hollywood. Never issued on CD. Listened once for flow. See separate posts re: each of the constituent albums.

Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet: 7.5 (high B+)

Normally this should be #dance, but I ended up with a copy and will keep it for now. It's right on the border of 8 (A-) anyway, which is what I provisionally rated it when it was on the final listen shelf.

Macka B - Natural Suntan: 8 (A-)

Macka B - Looks Are Deceiving: 8 (A-)

Sabrina Carpenter - Man’s Best Friend: 7 (B+)

#dance

Dingonek Street Band - Primal Economics: 7 (B+)

#neworleans

S.G. Goodman - Planting by the Signs: 7 (B+)

#folk/country/roots

Pablo Moses - A Song: 9.5 (high A)

Love this album cover.

The Delines - Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom: 7 (B+)

#americana/folk

Mission of Burma - Mission of Burma [Rykodisc, 1988]: notation

Interesting artifact. Contains Signals, Calls and Marches and Vs. in their entirety, both of which I obviously have, "Academy Fight Song" (which I have elsewhere), three Vs.-era unreleased tracks that appear on my version of that album, and two cuts from Horrible Truth, which I will post about separately. What a terrible way to hear this band anyway - smaller doses are better. But it was 1988, and a different world.

I also looked into Accomplished, and it's only got tracks from Signals, Vs., and Horrible, although six from the latter this time, which is a plurality here!

Tyler Childers - Snipe Hunter: 7 (B+)

#country

Rancid - batch review

Have had these for decades and will post separately if I ever play them again. Never been a huge fan, but I respect their work:

    ...And Out Come the Wolves

    Life Won't Wait

    Indestructible

Rhett Miller - A Lifetime of Riding by Night: disliked

Four plays