Thursday, January 1, 2026

Collected, but not necessarily shelved or graded yet (some with provisional grades) 2026

List made in 2026, but acquisition could have been many years ago ... decades, a half a century, even:

Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
Pearl Harbour - Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost Too
Otis Redding - Original Album Series [Pain in My Heart; Sings Soul Ballads; Otis Blues/Sings Soul; The Soul Album; Dictionary of Soul]
Buddy Holly - Gold [aka The Buddy Holly Collection (1993)]
Bootsy Collins - Original Album Series [Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band; Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!; Bootsy? Player of the YearThis Boot is Made for Fonk-N; Ultra Wave]
Brian Eno and Karl Hyde - High Life [8 (A-)] [final listen shelf]
John Lennon - Wonsaponatime [8 (A-)] [final listen shelf]
Aesop Rock - Black Hole Superette [8 (A-)] [in cart awaiting decent price]
Suicide - Half Alive [final listen shelf]
Suicide - Attempted: Live at Max's Kansas City 1980 [final listen shelf]
Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin? [7 (B+)]
The O'Jays - Ship Ahoy [8 (A-)]
Odyssey the Band - Back in Time [8 (A-)] [final listen shelf]
Al Green - Soul Survivor; Explores Your Mind
Al Green - Have a Good Time [7.5 (high B+)]
Al Green - Full of Fire [8 (A-)]
Al Green - Truth n' Time [8 (A-)] [Xgau originally gave B+ when it came out but appears on his decade-end 1978 A-list; also pretty high up on his Dean's List for the year]
Joy Division - The Best of Joy Division
Peter Perrett - The Cleansing [8 (A-)]
Dean Wareham - That's the Price of Loving Me [8 (A-)]
Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock: The Album
Lupe Fiasco - Drogas Wave [8 (A-)] [final listen shelf]
Bryan Ferry - These Foolish Things [8 (A-)] [final listen shelf]
John Lennon - Mind Games [8 (A-)] [in cart]
Lily Allen - West End Girl [8 (A-)] [in cart, awaiting CD release]

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