Sly & Robbie - Sly and Robbie Present Taxi: 8 (A-)

The Stills-Young Band - Long May You Run: 7 (B+)

Sly & Robbie - Underwater Dub: 7 (B+)

#import

Joe Henderson - Power to the People: 7.5 (high B+)

# [jazz]

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu: 8.5 (high A-)

Christgau really screwed the pooch on this one. Kept me from listening to it for years.

Elvis Presley - Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old): 7 (B+)

#country

The Dukes of Stratosphear [XTC] - Chips From the Chocolate Fireball: liked

Compilation of album Psonic Psunspot and 25 O'Clock [EP]

Altin Gun - Ask [honorable mention]

:-)

Tierra Whack - World Wide Whack: liked

:-)

Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven [honorable mention]

:-)

Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive: 8 (A-)

Man did this one kick in on a fourth listen. Upped from honorable mention.

Sheer Mag - Playing Favorites [honorable mention]

:-)

Donna Summer - Another Place and Time: 7 (B+)

#r&b

Section 25 - Always Now

:-(

Trouble Funk - Live [1981]: 7 (B+)

Cover image is from the 1996 CD re-issue on Infinite Zero. The original release was "white label" and so did not have a cover, apparently. #gogo/live

Mofungo - End of the World: 8 (A-)

Cassette-only from 1981. I don't collect cassettes, really, although I've retained a few. So even though I usually don't do this for albums at this grade, I did purchase the digital files on Bandcamp and had Kunaki make me up a CD, pictured above. The sound quality is, of course, awful. Upped a notch for being such an obscure artifact.

Burning Spear - Live in Paris: 7 (B+)

Burning Spear - Reggae Greats [placeholder]

As a major fan, I already have all these tracks, and won't be taking the time to rate the gestalt.

Burning Spear - Hail H.I.M.: 7 (B+)

Burning Spear - Resistance: 7 (B+)

The Stylistics - Rockin' Roll Baby: 7 (B+)

Copies of this used are prohibitively expensive for an album of this grade, so I'll skip it, even though there was a remastered CD issued in 2001. Not sure why the hate from Christgau on this one.

The Stylistics - The Stylistics: 8.5 (high A-)

I have this on vinyl.

The Stylistics - The Best of The Stylistics: 9 (A)

Tabu Ley Rochereau - Kaful Mayay (Maze I Love You): 7.5 (high B+)

Songs are listed on "cover." This is one of those seemingly streamable-only Tamasha releases, with no entry I could find on Discogs. The outstanding lead track "Maze" is on the comp African Pearls - Congo 70: Rumba Rock. The latter is not to be confused with the comp African Pearls 1 - Congo: Rumba on the River. I have both. The other outstanding track is the final (two) "Kaful Mayay," which is on the first The Voice of Lightness comp, which I obviously also have. As for the other tracks: The other three of the first four tracks are on this album (with the track "Mr. Malonga" also being on The Voice of Lightness Vol. 2, which I have, as "Monsieur Malonga"):

Obviously, I'm not going to buy the above for the high prices it goes for, especially when I already have the two best tracks out of four. The only other track I have not discussed is "Fololo," which is from the Belgian-only vinyl release from 1981 called Tanga Tanga. The title track was apparently a single-only release, and I reproduce the cover here only because it is so cool:

And I wouldn't buy the release that is the subject of this post, even if it were available other than streaming, when I already have the majority of it.

The Abyssinians - The Best of the Abyssinians: 7.5 (high B+)

# [comp] Note same cover photo shoot as photo on my edition of Satta Massagana.