Miranda Lambert - Palomino: 8 (A-)

White Denim - Exposion: 7.5 (high B+)

The cover of Workout Holiday appears to be a detail of this. I like this, which is a "re-worked" version of Workout Holiday, slightly better.

K'Naan - Troubadour: 8 (A-)

K'Naan - The Dusty Foot Philosopher: 8 (A-)

White Denim - Fits: 8 (A-)

Please see review of Workout Holiday.

White Denim - Workout Holiday: 7 (B+)

I could have sworn I own (or owned) this. But I can't find any record of it. It's from the pre-streaming days (and pre-blogging days), so possibly I bought it and sold it back. Or, some reviews said it was all over the Web at the time, so maybe I played it that way. In any event, listening to it now, for 3 more times almost certainly, I don't recognize many of the songs.

And then I figured it out: I have the version of Fits that has Exposion as a freebie. Exposion is a "re-worked partial re-recording (?)" of Workout Holiday. Since I am keeping Fits, I therefore have a "reworked version" of Workout Holiday and so won't be picking this up, not at this grade, and not since I like Exposion a hair better. Please see separate review of Exposion.

Rhett Miller - batch review

Deshelved the following, which means that, after repeated listens, I considered them "liked," or 7 (B+) or 7.5 (high B+) and #altcountry:

Rhett Miller

The Believer

The Instigator

Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall: 8 (A-)

Jay Reatard - Blood Visions: 7.5 (high B+)

Black Uhuru - Positive Dub: 7 (B+)

Normally I would pick this up at this grade. However, half of this is on the CD version of Positive, which I have. So I'd be getting this for the other four tracks. The other four tracks are good, certainly, but not worth the prices being asked (unless you don't have the other four tracks).

Mobb Deep - The Infamous: 8 (A-)

AC/DC - For Those About to Rock: 7 (B+)

 

#metal

Young Dolph & Key Glock - Dum and Dummer 2 [liked]

:-)

Charlie Parker - Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Charlie Parker Collection: X stars

No good full-cover images on the web that I could find. The subtitle on this one seems like it could very well be the truth. In a desperate grab for cash in my youth, I sold this off to buy something else, I don't remember what, and have regretted it ever since. Just picked up a like-new copy for $10 shipped to replenish my collection. Rhino did an absolutely beautiful job on this one.

Be Your Own Pet - Summer Sensation [EP]: 7 (B+)

Black Uhuru - Sinsemilla: 8 (A-)

Black Uhuru - Chill Out: 7 (B+)

Black Uhuru - The Dub Factor: 7 (B+)

Black Uhuru - The Ultimate Collection: 9 (A)

I'm also in the market for a copy of The Best of Black Uhuru: 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection, which is strangely hard to find. Update: Found one in August 2024.

Missy Elliott - The Cookbook: 7 (B+)

Missy Elliott - This Is Not a Test: 7 (B+)

Material - Secret Life: notation

This contains all the songs on the Temporary Music comp (ie, the first two Temporary Music EPs), plus the four songs on two of their early singles ("Discourse," "Slow Murder," "Ciquri," and "Detached").

Giant Sand - Ramp: 8 (A-)

Slick Rick - The Art of Storytelling: 8 (A-)

Sufjan Stevens - Michigan: 8 (A-)