The Grateful Dead - The Very Best of the Grateful Dead: 7 (B+)

#bestof

Nicki Minaj - Queen Radio, Vol. 1: 7.5 (high B+)

Docked a notch for bloat. #bestof

Rod Stewart - A Night on the Town: 7 (B+)

Motorhead - Bomber: 7.5 (high B+)

Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese: 8 (A-)

Fairport Convention - Full House: 8 (A-)

Scotty Moore/D.J. Fontana: All the King's Men [Sweetfish, 1997]: 7 (B+)

#roots/blues/r&b

Mikey Dread - Best Sellers [Rykodisc, 1991]: 8.5 (high A-)

Excellent, overlooked best of. I need to finish up listening to his catalog. Anyone who had a hand in Black Market Clash (and Sandinista) deserves respect. I haven't given him enough shrift.

Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Weekend: liked

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The Fall - I Am Kurious Oranj: 8 (A-)

Tom Ze - Imprensa Cantada [2003]: 7.5 (high B+)

Completely unavailable for anything approaching a reasonable price. I might be docking it a notch for bloat, in which case it's #miscarticles. Even if I uppped it a notch, it's #import anyway, but it grew on me, just like the man said.

The Fall - Perverted by Language: 7 (B+)

I have the 1998 CD release on Castle, with four bonus tracks opening and one outtake closing.

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain: 9 (A)

Their best regular-issue album, after One Nation, in my view. Yeah, "Wars of Armageddon" is on the lame side, and the title track is maybe overrated, but it earns its 9 (A) and stands up to many, many plays. A definite classic. I sprung for the 2026 CD remaster on Westbound/ORG Music, with the cover pictured above.

Black Oak Arkansas - Black Oak Arkansas [Atco, 1971]: 8 (A-)

I'm going to use the old standby that this was reissued on CD in apparently unremastered form, in which case I usually don't go back to the original vinyl. If cheap copies were available, I might make an exception, but I'm not seeing that. Thanks to Tom Hull for pointing this one out. Around a dozen plays.

Ass Ponys - Under Cedars and Stars [EP]: liked

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Motorhead - No Sleep at All: 7 (B+)

Upped a notch for general regard, and collected even though #live, because it's Motorhead.

Amanda Shires - Nobody's Girl: 8.5 (high A-)

Afghan Whigs - Soft Control: 8.5 (high A-)

Chuck D as Mistachuck: Celebration of Ignorance: 8.5 (high A-)

Why is no one noticing that this genius is doing some of his best work ever as he approaches seventy?

Unholy Modal Rounders - Unholier Than Thou 7/7/77 [Don Giovanni, 2024]: 8 (A-)

 

The Fall - Cerebral Caustic: 8 (A-)

Albert Hammond Jr. - AHP [EP]: liked

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Galaxie 500 - On Fire: 8 (A-)

Galaxie 500 - Today: 7.5 (high B+)

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Manfred Mann's Earth Band [Polydor, 1972]: 8 (A-)