Monday, January 1, 2024

Purchased, but not necessarily shelved or graded yet [some have provisional grades] 2024

List made in 2024, but purchases could have been made many years ago ... decades, a half a century, even:

Toots and the Maytals - Funky Kingston/In the Dark [8 (A-)/7.5 (high B+)]
Eek-A-Mouse - Mouse Gone Wild [7.5 (high B+)]
Yuck - Yuck [on to-be-filed shelves]
Friday Night [Serengeti/Hi-Fidel] - Friday Night [9 (A)]
The Twilight Singers - A Stitch in Time [8 (A-)]
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden [7.5 (high B+)]
Occidental Brothers Dance Band International - Odo Sanbra [7.5 (high B+)]
Idle - Downers Pharmacy [8.5 (high A-)]
Pylon - Gyrate [7.5 (high B+)]; Chomp [7.5 (high B+)]; Hits
The Clean - Getaway [7.5 (high B+)]
Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol [8(A-)]
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
Fontaines D.C. - Romance [7 (B+)]
The Clean - Anthology [9 (A)]
Morgan Wade - Obsessed [8 (A-)]
LL Cool J - The Force [9 (A)]
Various - The Rough Guide to the Music of Mali & Guinea
beabadoobee - This Is How Tomorrow Moves [8.5 (high A-)]
Megadeth - Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?
Anthrax - Among the Living
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Bembeya Jazz National - Wa Kele [8 (A-)]
Corin Curschellas - Valdun Voices of Rumantsch [8 (A-)]
The Pop Group - Y [7.5 (high B+)]
The Unholy Modal Rounders - Unholier Than Thou: 7/7/77 [8 (A-)] 
Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth [7 (B+)] [final listen shelf]
The Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Brothers Band; Idlewild South
Rail Band - Rail Band 2: Mansa [8 (A-)]
Kiss - Alive IIThis Is How Tomorrow Moves
Fleetwood Mac - Future Games; Bare Trees; Mystery to Me [as part of Original Album Series.]
Britney Spears - Britney Jean
Black Uhuru - Liberation: The Island Anthology [8.5 (high A-)] 
Mory Kante - Sabou
Sentridoh - Free Sentridoh (Songs From Loobiecore) [actually played expanded, digital-only version, which Barlow identifies as "lou barlow - free sentridoh - songs from loobiecore (expanded)." Will replay the obviously shorter CD version when it arrives and grade that. I suspect it will be 7 (B+), but not # [lofi] for sentimental/collector reasons.]
The Dead Weather - Horehound
Bela Fleck - Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3: Africa Sessions [8.5 (high A-)]
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Talking Heads - Naked [7 (B+)]
Neil Young - Fork in the Road [7 (B+)]
Staff Benda Bilili - Tres Tres Fort; Bouger Le Monde
Okute - Okute
X - Smoke & Fiction [7.5 (high B+)]
Kim Gordon - The Collective
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
Giant Sand - Selections Circa 1990-2000
Lady Sovereign - Jigsaw [8 (A-)]; Vertically Challenged [8 (A-)]
Tinariwen - Aman Iman
Nils Petter Molvaer - Baboon Moon [8 (A-)]
Nils Petter Molvaer - Original Album Classics [Recoloured - The Remix AlbumNP3; Streamer (Live); ER; and Re-Vision]
Syran M'Benza - Immortal Franco: Africa's Unrivalled Guitar Legend
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Patterson Hood - Murdering Oscar
Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information, Vol. 3
Miranda Lambert - Platinum; Four the Record
Nellie McKay - Normal As Blueberry Pie--A Tribute to Doris Day
Dusty Springfield - The Very Best of Dusty Springfield [8.5 (high A-)]
The Embarrassment - Blister Pop
Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie/Charles Mingus/Max Roach/Bud Powell - Hot House: The Complete Jazz at Massey Hall Recordings [can't seem to locate my copy of this one]
Black Uhuru - Black Sounds of Freedom [with Uhuru in Dub and Love Crisis]
Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
Greg Dulli - Random Desire [8 (A-)]
The Twilight Singers - Powder Burns
Ella Fitzgerald - Ken Burns Jazz
Billie Holiday - Ken Burns Jazz
Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
Tool - Opiate
TV on the Radio - Young Liars
Joan Jett - Flashback; I Love Rock n' Roll
Hot Chocolate - Original Album Series
Various - The Best Punk Album in the World ... Ever!
Various - Dance Floor Divas: The '70s 
Ella Fitzgerald - Love Songs: Best of the Verve Song Books
The Go-Betweens - Spring Hill Fair
L.L. Cool J - All World
Mutabaruka - The Ultimate Collection
Jerry Butler - The Best of Jerry Butler: 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection
Steppenwolf - All Time Greatest Hits
Peter Tosh - Scrolls of the Prophet: The Best of Peter Tosh
Anais Mitchell/Jefferson Hamer - Child Ballads [8 (A-)]
Be Your Own Pet - Mommy
Jemina Pearl - Break It Up [7.5 high (B+)]
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin' [7.5 (high B+)]
Rosie Tucker - Sucker Supreme [8 (A-)]
dB's - Stands for Decibels/Repercussion; Falling off the Sky
Fugazi - Furniture [EP] [8 (A-)]
Fugazi - End Hits [7.5 (high B+)]
Girl Talk - Unstoppable; Secret Diary
Iasos - Interdimensional Music
Big Black - The Hammer Party
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Various - African Connection, Vol. 1: Zaire Choc!
Various - The Daisy Age
Various - ESPN Presents Slam Jams, Vol. 1
Various - Girl Group Greats
Various - Motown: The Classic Years [same as Motown Classics Gold]
Thomas Anderson - Hello, I'm From the Future
Metallica - Metallica; Master of Puppets; ... And Justice for All
Funkadelic - Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
Various - Deconstructing Beck
Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
Parliament - Gold
Marvin Gaye - Here My Dear/In Our Lifetime
Rockpile - Seconds of Pleasure
Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness
Various - High Explosion: DJ Sounds From 1970 to 1976 [9 (A)]
Lou Reed - Rock and Roll Heart; Growing Up in Public [part of Original Album Classics box]
Pet Shop Boys - Introspective; Behavior; Please
U-Roy - Rasta Ambassador
XTC - English Settlement [8 (A-)]
Shakira - Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran
Placebo - Black Market Music; Sleeping with Ghosts
The Libertines - All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade
Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us [7.5 (high B+)]
Amanda Shires - Down Fell the Doves
African Head Charge - Environmental Holes & Drastic Tracks 1981–1986 (My Life in a Hole in the Ground; Environmental Studies; Drastic Season; Off the Beaten Track)
Goodie Mob - Soul Food
Chic - Chic-ism
Queen - Greatest Hits [8 (A-)]
Various Artists - Ragga Ragga Ragga! 2003 [8 (A-)]
Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future [7 (B+)] [Normally, this would be # [folk/country], but since she’s actually more alt-rock with Big Thief, I bought it.]
Dwight Yoakam - The Very Best of Dwight Yoakam [8 (A-)]
The Eagles - Hotel California and Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) [swiped from my spouse]
Donna Summer - Endless Summer [8 (A-)]
Kool Keith/Big Sche Eastwood - Magnetic Pimp Force Field
Analog Brothers [Kool Keith/Ice-T] - Pimp to Eat [8 (A-)]
Mr. Nogatco [Dr. Octagon [Kool Keith]] - Nogatco Rd. [8 (A-)]
Various - Latin Thing, Dakar Sound Volume 3
The Church - Under the Milky Way: The Best of the Church [8 (A-)]
Megan Moroney - Lucky [8 (A-)]
Best Coast - Fade Away [EP] [7.5 (high B+)]
Dr. Dooom - Dr. Dooom 2 [7.5 (high B+)]
Cracker - Kerosene Hat [8 (A-)]
John Prine - Crooked Piece of Time: The Atlantic & Asylum Albums (1971-1980)
Horace Andy - In the Light
Naughty by Nature - Nature's Fury
Scientist - Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires
Kool Keith - Feature Magnetic
Cracker - Kerosene Hat [7.5 (high B+)]
Blondie - Eat to the Beat
Young Fathers - Tape One/Tape Two [EPs]

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