The Chemical Brothers - Loops of Fury [EP]: liked

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Laurie Anderson - Let X=X: 7.5 (high B+)

With Sexmob [Sex Mob]. This is #live, but I may reconsider if it starts getting more attention over the coming months. Also, a little overlong (1 hr 34 min) for a show (for me), but also for an album. Also, very large portions of this are spoken-word. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I do really focus on music. And on the tracks when the band gets going, they really rock out. I wonder what this would sound like boiled down to only the more musical tracks? Two-disc physicals are available though, so we shall see.

The Three Johns - Volume: notation

Has Atom Drum Bop, The World by Storm, the Brainbox EP. I have the first on vinyl, and a CD of the second. I will grade these all separately as time permits. This also contains everything that's on (Crime Pays… Rock and Roll in the) Demonocracy - The Singles 1982-1986. 

I would also like to hear Eat Your Sons [Tupelo, 1990], but there are no digital copies or streams that I can find, and I'm not paying the prices being asked for a physical sound unheard, considering that the admittedly limited number of reviews I can find of it (Hull, AllMusic) are not encouraging. I did sample the few tracks I could find on YouTube.

Dim Subooteyo - Lakeside: notation

I'd love to hear this one day, but prices are just too high to hear sound unheard. A Jon Langford (Mekons) "side project." Apparently this was the only release under this band name.

The Killer Shrews - The Killer Shrews: 8 (A-)

Peter Laughner - Peter Laughner [Koolie EP, 1982]: 7 (B+)

This is #miscarticles, but it's too expensive even if it came in a couple notches higher.

Bobby Bare Jr.'s Young Criminals' Starvation League - From the End of Your Leash [Bloodshot, 2004]: 7 (B+)

#country [De-shelved]

Latin Playboys - Dose: 8 (A-)

The Hold Steady - A Positive Rage: 8 (A-)

The Hold Steady - Stay Positive: 8 (A-)

The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday: 8 (A-)

The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America: 9 (A)

Los Lobos - Kiko: 8.5 (high A-)

Los Lobos - How Will the Wolf Survive?: 7.5 (high B+)

Collected for general regard, even though #chicanorock.

Los Lobos - Colossal Head: 8 (A-)

Various - Putumayo Presents: Puerto Rico: 7.5 (high B+)

#multiartistcomp

Los Lobos - Wolf Tracks: The Best of Los Lobos: 7.5 (high B+)

#bestof

Fatboy Slim - On the Floor at the Boutique: 7 (B+)

#electronic

Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank [Maxi-Single]: 8 (A-)

Really an EP, with four tracks at 20 minutes. I got this so that I had the title track, before I went ahead and got You've Come a Long Way, Baby.

The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole: 8 (A-)

Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars: 8 (A-)

Sam Fan Thomas - Sam Fan Thomas [Kanibal/Sonodisc, 1986]: notation

I believe that this is the album that AllMusic guide reviewer John Storm Roberts lists as Si Tcha, which is the lead track on the pictured album. Although he has the date as 1994, he indicates in his review that the album is originally from the mid-1980s, so this is probably it. Anyway, Hull seems to have this as reissued in 1994, although there is no record of that on Discogs, but that's another indication that this is what Roberts was reviewing.

Anyway, I found a copy online for dirt cheap and was very excited to get it and play it, but when it arrived the disc inside was Makassi, which is a different album entirely and I already have. Oh well, I got a full refund and will retain this as a keepsake. I could not find the tracks anywhere to download and play, so thus far it is unheard by me. The lead track is also sometimes listed as "Sitcha," I believe, to complicate matters further.

Bob Bert - Beach Bongo Bloodbath: 7 (B+)

More of an EP really, at 26 minutes, but with 14 tracks they call it an album.

James McMurtry and the Heartless Bastards - Live in Aught-Three: 8 (A-)

Marti Jones - Used Guitars: liked

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