Monday, November 24, 2025

Al Green - Gets Next to You: 8 (A-)

Al Green - Let's Stay Together: 8.5 (high A-)

Al Green - Livin' for You: 9 (A)

Al Green - One in a Million: 8.5 (high A-)

Al Green - Love Ritual: Rare & Unreleased 1968-76: 8 (A-)

Al Green - Don't Look Back: 8 (A-)

Al Green - I Can't Stop: 8 (A-)

Al Green - Higher Plane: 9 (A)

Outkast - Idlewild: 7 (B+)


Upped a notch for general regard. And because I have it and don't feel like letting it go, which says something.

Outkast - Speakerboxx/The Love Below: 8 (A-)

Outkast - Stankonia: 9 (A)


For some reason I have the release with this alternative cover, instead of the "standard" one:

Outkast - Aquemini: 8 (A-)

Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager: 8 (A-)

N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton: 7 (B+)

Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein: 7.5 (high B+)

Sunday, November 23, 2025

XTC - King for a Day [maxi-single]: liked

This has two mixes of the title song, plus "Toys" and "Desert Island."

Diblo Dibala - Amour et Souvenir: notation

This is on Discogs and Spotify with different covers, like this, respectively:



This is the French issue of Super Soukous, although the Spotify version has an extra song, “Mabele Simarro,” which is unremarkable.

M.I.A. - Kala: 8 (A-)

M.I.A. - Arular: 8 (A-)

Rod Stewart - The Rod Stewart Album: 8 (A-)

Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley: 8 (A-)

Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story: 9.5 (high A)

The Rolling Stones - Live/Compilations: batch review and notation

As I've posted before, I think the Stones are the greatest band in rock history, although this is mainly on the strength of their Taylor-era work. I like their early and later work, but to me it pales in comparison. For this reason, I guess I am not a Stones completist (although I obviously have all their studio albums). Also because they release so many titles -- same thing with Dylan and Neil Young. Anyway, these are the live ones I have and have not yet posted about:

Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!
Stripped
Live Licks
Brussels Affair: Live 1973
Some Girls: Live in Texas '78 [Blu-ray]
Ladies & Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones [Blu-ray and bootleg DVD]

These are the live ones I do not have but am still evaluating or have evaluated in the past but haven't posted about:

Got Live If You Want It!
Love You Live
Still Life
Flashpoint
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus [saw video; only six Stones tracks]
No Security
Shine a Light [saw ideo - I would stream the audio, but I'm not seeing it on Spotify]

I also have You-Know-What Blues on bootleg DVD.

These are the compilations I have:

Big Hits: High Tide and Green Grass
Flowers
Through the Past, Darkly: Big Hits Vol. 2
More Hot Rocks: Big Hits & Fazed Cookies
Metamorphosis [I have this on vinyl]
Sucking in the Seventies
Rewind: 1971–1984
Jump Back: The Best of the Rolling Stones
Forty Licks

Randy Newman - Bad Love: 7.5 (high B+)

Randy Newman - Harps and Angels: 7 (B+)