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Newer Post Older PostSUNDAY, APRIL 05, 2020
Music Library Master List A-E
Pause: do iTunes library at BB King; 2008-2020 done
My Library of Albums -- This isn't a list of every album I've ever owned
or listened to...not even close. Instead, my Library includes all the
albums I keep in my personal collection, all the albums of artists I
admire (whether I liked every album or not) and any albums I liked
(three stars or more). Once upon a time, if you walked into my home
you'd see bookcases filled with compact discs. Later you'd have to
browse my hard drive for digital downloads. Now, with so many titles
accessed via streaming, you'll just have to take my word for it. These
are the albums that make up my virtual library.
If you want a list of favorite albums by year, go here:
BEST ALBUMS OF THE YEAR MASTER LIST
And now...
MY LIBRARY OF MUSIC -- A MASTER LIST
ABBA
ABBA Gold ****
ABC
The Lexicon Of Love *** 1/2
Look Of Love: The Very Best Of ABC ***
The Lexicon Of Love II ***
AC/DC
Highway To Hell *** 1/2
Back In Black ****
Rock Or Bust ** 1/2
BRYAN ADAMS
Bare Bones ** 1/2
Shine A Light **
JOHN LUTHER ADAMS
Become Ocean ****
Become Desert *** 1/2
OLETA ADAMS
Third Set * 1/2
RYAN ADAMS
Heartbreaker *** 1/2
Gold ****
Demolition
Rock N Roll ** 1/2
Love Is Hell
Cold Roses ***
Jacksonville City Nights
29
Easy Tiger
Cardinology ** 1/2
Ryan Adams ** 1/2
1989 ***
Prisoner ***
Big Colors **
UMUT ADAN
Bahar ** 1/2
ADELE
19 ***
21 *** 1/2
25 ***/
CHRISTIAN SCOTT aTUNDE ADJUAH
Ancestral Blues *** 1/2
AFGHAN WIGS
Gentlemen *** 1/2
Do To The Beast **
SHARHABIL AHMED
The King of Sudanese Jazz *** 1/2
PRISCILLA AHN
When You Grow Up ** 1/2
AIR
Moon Safari ***
AIR SUPPL Y
Ultimate Air Supply ***
AMBROSE AKINMUSURIE
When The Heart Emer ges Glistening *** 1/2
On The tender Spot Of Every Calloused Moment ** 1/2
ALABAMA SHAKES
Boys and Girls ** 1/2
Sound and Color ***
THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT
Eye In The Sky (1982) **
Ultimate Alan Parsons Project ** 1/2
THE ALARM
The Best Of The Alarm ** 1/2
DAMON ALBARN (see also Blur and Gorillaz)
Mali Music *** 1/2
The Good, The Bad and The Queen *** 1/2
Everyday Robots *** 1/2
PABLO ALBORÁN
Prometo ** 1/2
JASON ALDEAN
My Kind Of Party ** 1/2
Night Train ***
Old Boots, New Dirt ** 1/2
They Don't Know ** 1/2
Rearview Town ***
9 **
ARTHUR ALEXANDER
You Better Move On ** 1/2
ALGIERS
The Underside Of Power ** 1/2
TONY ALLEN
Rejoice! (w Hugh Masekala) *** 1/2
THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
1971 Filmor e East ****
A Decade Of Hits: 1969-1979 *** 1/2
Brothers And Sisters
GREGG ALLMAN
Low Country Blues ***
HERB ALPER T
Whipped Cream & Other Delights *** 1/2
Christmas Album (1968) ****
Over The Rainbow *
DAVE ALVIN AND PHIL ALVIN
Common Ground ***
Lost Time ** 1/2
AMADOU AND MARIAM
Sou Ni Tilé
Wati
Dimanche à Bamako *** 1/2
Welcome To Mali
Folila ***
La Confusion ** 1/2
LES AMAZONES D'AFRIQUES
Republique Amazone **
SAM AMIDON
Sam Amidon **
TORI AMOS
Little Earthquakes
Under The Pink
Boys For Pele
Midwinter Graces *** 1/2
EAST ANDERSON
Delilah ***/
ERNESTINE ANDERSON
Swings The Penthouse ***/
LAURIE ANDERSON
Big Science *** 1/2
Mr Heartbreak *** 1/2
United States Live ****
Home Of The Brave ***
Strange Angels ****
Bright Red
Life On A String
Homeland ***
Landfall (w Kronos Quartet) ** 1/2
BOB ANDREWS
Shotgun ***
THE ANDREWS SISTERS
Greatest Hits ****
The Original Hits *** 1/2
Complete Bing Cr osby and Andr ews Sisters ****
The Chesterfield Recordings (w Glenn Miller) *** 1/2
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
Meriweather Post Pavilion ***
THE ANIMALS
The Animals ***\
KEREN ANN
101 ** 1/2
ANNIE AND THE BEEKEEPERS
My Bonneville ***
ANOHNI (SEE ALSO ANT ONY AND THE JOHNSONS)
Hopelessness ***
ANTIBALAS
Antibalas *** 1/2
ANT ONY AND THE JOHNSONS (see also Anohni)
I Am A Bird Now *** 1/2
Another World ep *** 1/2
The Crying Light ***
Swanlights ** 1/2
FIONA APPLE
When The Pawn... *** 1/2
Extraordinary Machine
Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords
Will Serve You More Than Ropes Ever Will *** 1/2
Fetch The Bolt Cutters *** 1/2
KHAIRA ARBY
Timbuktu Tarab ***
ARCADE FIRE
Funeral
Neon Bible
The Suburbs *** 1/2
Reflektor ** 1/2
Everything Now **
DAVID ARCHULET A
David Archuleta ** (but single "Crush" is ****)
Winter In The Air ** 1/2
Therapy Sessions **
ARCTIC MONKEYS (see also The Last Shadow Puppets)
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not *** 1/2
Favourite Worst Nightmare *** 1/2
Humbug ** 1/2
Suck It And See **
AM *** 1/2
Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino *** 1/2
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG
Foreverly (w Norah Jones) *** 1/2
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
The Complete Hot Fives and Sevens ****
Complete Decca Singles 1935-1946 ** 1/2
Ella and Louis
Ella and Louis Again
I've Got The World On A String
Meets Oscar Peterson (1957) ****
Louis Under The Stars
Porgy & Bess (w Ella Fitzgerald) ***
Bing and Satchmo (1960) ***
The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstr ong on Verve ****
The Standard Oil Sessions **
OLAFUR ARNALDS
Some Kind Of Peace *** 1/2
P.P. ARNOLD
The New Adventures Of P .P. Arnold ***
ASHE
Ashlyn ***
GREG ASHLEY
Another Generation Of Slaves *** 1/2
ASIA
Asia ***
Alpha **
Phoenix **
Gravitas **
NICOLE ATKINS
Neptune City *** 1/2
Mondo Amore ** 1/2
Goodnight Rhonda Lee ** 1/2
Italian Ice **
ATOMS FOR PEACE
Amok ***
SETH AVETT AND JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD
Sing Elliot Smith ***
THE AVETT BROTHERS
Four Thieves Gone
Emotionalism ***
I And Love And You *** 1/2
The Carpenter ** 1/2
Maggie And The Dandelion ***
True Sadness **
Closer Than Together ** 1/2
VIJA Y AYER
Accelarando *** 1/2
AZTEC CAMERA
High Land, Hard Rain *** 1/2
Knife
Love
Stray
BABYF ACE AND TONI BRAXT ON
Love, Marriage and Divorce ***
BACK DOOR SLAM
Roll Away ***
(see Davy Knowles)
BACKSTREET BOYS
The Hits ***
BAD BUNNY
X100Pre *** 1/2
Oasis (w J Balvin) ***
YHLQMDLG *** 1/2
Las Que No Iban A Salir ***
El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo *** 1/2
BADFINGER
No Matter What: Revisiting The Hits **
BADL Y DRA WN BOY
Banana Skin Shoes **
ERYKAH BADU
New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) *** 1/2
New Amerykah Part Two (Return Of The Ankh) ***
But You Caint Use My Phone **
JOAN BAEZ
Joan Baez
Joan Baez, Vol. 2
Joan Baez/5
Noël
Diamonds and Rust
Day After Tomorrow *** 1/2
Whistle Down The Wind ***
DAN BAIRD
So Low ** 1/2
ANIT A BAKER
Rapture
The Best Of ** 1/2
Christmas Fantasy **
CHET BAKER
The James Dean Story ** (but vocals on "Let Me Be Loved" good)
Playboys aka Pictures Of Heath (w Art Pepper) ***
(Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen To You ***
Chet Baker In New York
Chet Baker In Milan
Chet Baker With 50 Italian Strings
The Best Of Chet Baker Sings ****
JULIEN BAKER
Turn Out The Lights ***
KELSEA BALLERINI
Unapologetically ***/
J BAL VIN
Vibras ***
THE BAND
Music Fr om Big Pink ****
The Band ****
Stage Fright ** 1/2
Cahoots *** 1/2
Moondog Matinee
Before The Flood (w Bob Dylan)
Northern Lights -- Southern Cross ***
The Basement Tapes (w Bob Dylan) ****
Islands
The Last Waltz ****
BAND OF HORSES
Cease To Begin
Mirage Rock ***
THE BANGLES
All Over The Place *** 1/2
Greatest Hits *** 1/2
AZEALIA BANKS
1991 *** 1/2
MATTHEW BARBER
The Family Album ** 1/2
BOBBY BARE
Darker Than Light ** 1/2
SARA BAREILLES
The Blessed Unrest ***
What's Inside: Songs From Waitress *** 1/2
More Love: Songs From Little Voice, Season One **
BJ BARHAM
Rockingham ** 1/2
COURTNEY BARNETT
Double EP: A Sea Of Spilt Peas *** 1/2
Sometimes I Just Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit *** 1/2
Lotta Sea Lice (w Kurt Vile) *** 1/2
Tell Me How You Really Feel ***
MANDY BARNETT
Winter Wonderland ** 1/2
A Nashville Songbook **
Every Star Above ***/
RICHARD BARONE
Cool Blue Halo *** 1/2
Sorrows and Promises: Greenwich Village In The 1960s ** 1/2
THE BARR BROTHERS
The Barr Brothers ***
KENNY BARRON
Book Of Intuition *** 1/2
THOMAS BAR TLETT
Shelter ***
KISHI BASHI
Lighght ***
BASTILLE
Bad Blood ***
CHRIS BATHGATE
Salt Year ***
JON BATISTE
The Music Of John Lewis (w Wynton Marsalis) ***
THE BEACH BOYS
The Beach Boys Christmas Album **
Today! ***
Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) ***
Beach Boys' Party! *
Pet Sounds ****
Smiley Smiley *** (esp side two)
Wild Honey **
Friends *** 1/2
Sunflower ***
Surf's Up ** 1/2
Holland ** 1/2
Endless Summer ****
Sounds Of Summer *** 1/2
That's Why God Made The Radio ** 1/2
BEACH HOUSE
Teen Dream ***
7 ***
JEFF BEAM
Venus Flying Trapeze ***
JOHN BEASLEY
MONK'estra Plays John Beasley *** 1/2
BEASTIE BOYS
Licensed To Ill *** 1/2
Paul's Boutique ****
Check Your Head *** 1/2
Ill Communication *** 1/2
Hello Nasty
To The 5 Boroughs
The Mix-Up
Hot Sauce Committee Part Two ***
Beastie Boys Music ****
THE BEA T SEE THE ENGLISH BEA T
THE BEATLES
Please Please Me *** 1/2
With The Beatles *** 1/2
A Hard Day's Night ****
Beatles For Sale *** 1/2
Help ****
Rubber Soul ****
Revolver ****
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ****
Magical Mystery Tour ****
The Beatles (White Album) ****
The Beatles (White Album) Esher Demos on 2018 boxed set ***
Yellow Submarine *
Abbey Road ****
Let It Be *** 1/2
The Beatles 1962-1966 (Red Album) ****
The Beatles 1967-1970 (Blue Album) ****
Past Masters, Volume One *** 1/2
Past Masters, Volume Two ****
Live At The BBC ***
Anthology 1 *** 1/2
Anthology 2 *** 1/2
Anthology 3 *** 1/2
Yellow Submarine Songtrack ****
1 ****
Let It Be...Naked ***
The Beatles In Mono ****
The Beatles Stereo Box Set *** 1/2
The Beatles Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Boxed Set ****
BEAU BRUMMELS
Bradley's Barn ***
THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH
Carry On Up The Charts: The Best Of The Beautiful South ***/
BECK
Mellow Gold ** 1/2
One Foot In The Grave ***
Odelay *** 1/2
Mutations ***
Midnite Vultures ** 1/2
Sea Change ****
Guero
The Information
Modern Guilt ***
Morning Phase *** 1/2
Colors **
Hyperspace *** 1/2
BEDOUINE
Bedouine ** 1/2
THE BEE GEES
Horizontal
Odessa
Best Of Bee Gees
Best Of Bee Gees, Vol. 2
Main Course
Saturday Night Fever (various artists) *** 1/2
Spirits Having Flown
Bee Gees Greatest
BEIRUT
Gulag Orkestar
The Flying Club Cup
March Of The Zapotec
No No No **
ADRIAN BELEW
Mr Music Head ** 1/2 ("Oh Daddy" a keeper)
DRAKE BELL
Telegraph ***
It's Only Time *** 1/2
Ready Steady Go! ***/
The Lost Album ***
Sesiones En Casa ***
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN
Tigermilk
If You're Feeling Sinister
Lazy Line Painter Jane
The Boy With The Arab Strap
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
Storytelling
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
The Life Pursuit
How To Solve Our Human Problems Part 1 EP ***
Days Of The Bagnold Summer ***
THE BELLE BRIGADE
Just Because ***/
BEMBEY A JAZZ NA TI0ONAL
Bembeya
The Syliphone Years ****
JORGE BEN
Samba Esquerra Novo (1963) *** 1/2
Jorge Ben ****
Fôrça Bruta
Negro é Lindo
Ben
10 Anos Depois
Gil e Jor ge (w Gilberto Gil)
Africa Brasil
ALEC BENJAMIN
Narrated For You ***
These Two Windows ***
BEN L'ONCLE SOUL
A Coup de Reves *** 1/2
TONY BENNETT
The Beat Of My Heart *** 1/2
I Left My Heart in San Francisco ****
Tony Bennett At Carnegie Hall ****
When Lights Are Low ****
If I Ruled The World: Songs For The Jet Set ****
The Movie Song Album ***
Snowfall ** 1/2
The Tony Bennett/ Bill Evans Album ****
Together Again (w Bill Evans) ***
Astoria: Portrait Of The Artist ***
Perfectly Frank ***
Steppin' Out *** 1/2
Here's To The Ladies ** 1/2
Tony Bennett On Holiday ***
The Playground **
A Wonderful World (w kd lang) *** 1/2
Duets: An American Classic * 1/2
A Swingin' Christmas (w Ciount Basie) ***
Cheek To Cheek (w Lady Gaga) ** 1/2
The Silver Lining: The Songs Of Jerome Kern *** 1/2
Love Is Here To Stay (w Diana Krall) *** 1/2
GEORGE BENSON
The Best Of Geor ge Benson **
Walking To New Orleans **
Beyond The Blue Horizon * 1/2
DIERKS BENTLEY
Up On The Ridge ***
BERNHOFT
The Morning Comes ep ** 1/2
CHUCK BERR Y
The Gr eat 28 ****
Chuck * 1/2
BEST COAST
Crazy For You *** 1/2
The Only Place ***
Fade Away ***
BET A BAND
The Three E.P .s ****
The Beta Band ***
Hot Shots II
Heroes To Zeros
Year Of Love ** 1/2
BET A RADIO
Seven Sisters
Colony Of Bees *** 1/2
Ancient Transition *** 1/2
All Remains ep ***
Way Of Love ep ** 1/2
THE BETHS
BETTER OBLIVION COMMUNITY CENTER
Better Oblivion Community Center ***\
ANDY BEY
American Song *** 1/2
Ain't Necessarily So *** 1/2
BEYONCÉ
Dangerously In Love ** 1/2
I Am...Sasha Fierce **
4 **
Beyoncé ** 1/2
Lemonade ** (visual album ***)
B-52'S
The B-52's
Wild Planet
Bouncing Of f The Satellites
Funplex
JUSTIN BIEBER
Under The Mistletoe ** 1/2
BIG BOI
Boomiverse ** 1/2
BIG MA YBELLE
The Complete King, Okeh and Savoy Singles ***
BIG ST AR
#1 Record
Radio City
Third/Sister Lovers
In Space
BIG THIEF
Capacity ** 1/2
Two Hands **
BILL & THE BELLES
Happy Again (produced by Teddy Thompson) ** 1/2
RYAN BINGHAM
Roadhouse Sun **
JADE BIRD
Something American ***
BJORK
Utopia ***
BLACK CROWES
Before The Frost...Until The Freeze *** 1/2
BLACK HOLLIES
Softly Towards The Light ***
THE BLACK KEYS
Brothers ***
El Camino ***
Turn Blue ** 1/2
JAMES BLAKE
James Blake ***
The Colour In Anything **
ART BLAKEY
A Night In Tunisia ****
Moanin' ****
CARLA BLEY
Life Goes On *** 1/2
PAUL BLEY
Play Blue: The Oslo Concert ***
MAR Y J BLIGE
London Sessions *** 1/2
THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA
The Gospel At Colonus cast album ****
There Will Be A Light (w Ben Harper)
Atom Bomb
Down In New Orleans ***
Talkin' Christmas (w Taj Mahal) **
Work To Do (w Marc Cohn) ** 1/2
CHARL Y BLISS
Guppy *** 1/2
BLONDIE
Parallel Lines *** 1/2
The Best Of Blondie *** 1/2
Ghosts Of Downloads ** 1/2
LUKA BLOOM
Head and Heart **
MIKE BLOOM
King Of Circles *** 1/2
JAKE BLOUNT
Spider Tales *** 1/2
BLUE MAGIC
Blue Magic *** 1/2
THE BLUE NILE see also P AUL BUCHANAN
A Walk Across The Rooftops ****
Hats ****
Peace At Last ***
High ** 1/2
BLUR
Leisure
Modern Life Is Rubbish
Parklife
The Great Escape *** 1/2
Blur
13
Think Tank
The Magic Whip ***
THE BO KEYS
Got To Get Back ***
BOMBA ESTEREO
Ayo ***
BOMBINO
Agadez ****
Nomad *** 1/2
Deran ***
JUSTIN BOND
Dendrophile **
BONES
Skinny *** 1/2
Powder *** 1/2
HateT oBreakItT oYou ***
Disgrace ***
Seabed (w Chris Travis) ***
IFeelLikeDirt ***
Damaged Goods ** 1/2
Remains ***
BON IVER
For Emma, Forever Ago *** 1/2
Bon Iver ***/
22, A Million
i, i ***
BONNIE PRINCE BILL Y
Singers Grave -- A Sea Of Tongues ** 1/2
BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN
Bonny Light Horseman ***
BONOBO
Migration **
BENJAMIN BOOKER
Benjamin Booker *** 1/2
JAMES BOOKER
Classified **** Expanded Edition *** 1/2
BOOKER T AND THE MGS
Uptight ** 1/2
The Road From Memphis (a Booker T. Jones) ** 1/2
BOST ON
Boston
Don't Look Back
Third Stage
Life, Love and Hope **
DAVID BOWIE
David Bowie/Space Oddity
The Man Who Sold The World
Hunky Dory ****
The Rise and Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars *** 1/2
Aladdin Sane *** 1/2
Pin Ups
Diamond Dogs
Young Americans
Station To Station *** 1/2
Low ****
Heroes ****
Lodger ****
Scary Monsters *** 1/2
Let's Dance ***
Tonight ** 1/2
Never Let Me Down
Tin Machine
Tin Machine II
Black Tie White Noise **
Outside
Earthling
Hours
Heathen
Reality
The Next Day
Blackstar *** 1/2
Lazarus EP *** 1/2
AL BOWLLY
Proud Of You ***
BOY AND BEAR
Moonfire *** 1/2
BOY GEORGE
This Is What I Dub Vol. 1 **
CHARLES BRADLEY
No Time For Dreaming **
Victim Of Love ***
Changes **
BILL Y BRAGG
Tooth and Nail ** 1/2
Mermaid Avenue Vol I (w Wilco) *** 1/2
Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (w Wilco) *** 1/2
Mr. Love & Justice ** 1/2
Shine A Light (w Joe Henry) ***
JAY BRANNAN
Goddamned ***
BRAN VAN 3000
The Garden ***
TONI BRAXT ON AND BABYF ACE
Love, Marriage and Divorce ***
JACQUES BREL
Ces Gen-la aka Jef (1966) ***
PHOEBE BRIDGERS
Punisher ***/
LEON BRIDGES
Coming Home **
Good Thing ***
BRIGHT EYES (SEE ALSO CONOR OBERST)
Lifted, or The Story is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground *** 1/2
A Christmas Album ** 1/2
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning *** 1/2
Digital Ash In A Digital Urn
Cassadaga ** 1/2
The People's Key ***
Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was ***
BROADW AY SHOWS
See Cast Albums at bottom of list
BROCKHAMPT ON
Saturation **1/2
Ginger ***
Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine ***
PETER BRODERICK
Home *** 1/2
Partners **
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
Hug of Thunder **
DAVID BROMBERG
The Blues, The Whole Blues and Nothing But The Blues ** 1/2
MARC BROUSSARD
Marc Broussard *** 1/2
DANNY BROWN
Old *** 1/2
DENNIS BROWN
The Crown Prince Of Reggae: 1972-1985 ***
JACKSON BROWNE
For Everyman ** 1/2
Late For The Sky ***
The Pretender ***
Running On Empty *** 1/2
Lawyers in Love ** 1/2
Lives in The Balance ** 1/2
World in Motion ** 1/2
I'm Alive **
Love Is Strange (w David Lindley) ***
Standing In The Breach ** 1/2
ROLANDO BRUNO
Bailazo ** 1/2
BTS
Map Of The Soul: Persona **
MICHAEL BUBLÉ
Nobody But Me ** 1/2
PAUL BUCHANAN (see also The Blue Nile)
Mid Air ****
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
Go Insane *** 1/2
Out Of The Cradle ***
Under The Skin ** 1/2
Gift Of Screws ** 1/2
Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McV ie ** 1/2
BETTY BUCKLEY
1967
With One Look
Heart To Heart
Ghostlight
Hope ***
HAROLD BUDD
The Pearl (w Brian Eno) *** 1/2
Mysterious Skin (score) *** 1/2
Another Flower *** 1/2
THE BUDOS BAND
Long In The Tooth ***
BUENA VIST A SOCIAL CLUB
Buena Vista Social Club ****
BVSC Presents Ibrahim Ferrer *** 1/2
At Carnegie Hall ***
Mambo Sinuendo w Manuel Galbán ***
BUFF ALO SPRINGFIELD
Buffalo Springfield ***
Buffalo Springfield Again ***
Last Time Around *** 1/2
JIMMY BUFFETT
A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean ***
Living and Dying In 3/4 Time **
A1A * 1/2
Havana Daydreaming **
Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes ** 1/2
Son Of A Son Of A Sailor **
Volcano **
Coconut Telegraph ** 1/2
Somewhere Over China **
One Particular Harbor ** 1/2
Riddles In The Sand **
Songs You Know By Heart *** 1/2
Last Mango In Paris * 1/2
Floridays * 1/2
License To Chill ***
Buried Treasure, Vol. 1 **
Life On The Flip Side ** 1/2
Songs You Don't Know By Heart ***/
JAKE BUGG
Jake Bugg ***
Shangri-La ***
On My One **
Hearts That Strain * 1/2
BUIL T TO SPILL
There's Nothing Wrong With Love ** 1/2
PAUL BURCH
Words Of Love: Songs Of Buddy Holly ***
SOLOMN BURKE
Rock 'n' Soul *** 1/2
Don't Give Up On Me *** 1/2
Make Do With What You Got *** 1/2
Nashville ****
BURNA BOY
African Giant ** 1/2
BURNING SPEAR
Marcus Garvey *** 1/2
Garvey's Ghost *** 1/2
ANDY BURROWS
Reasons To Stay Alive (w Matt Haig) *** 1/2
KATE BUSH
The Kick Inside ****
Lionheart ***
Never For Ever ***
The Dreaming ***/
Hounds Of Love ****
The Sensual World *** 1/2
The Red Shoes **
Aerial ****
Director's Cut ***
50 Words For Snow ** 1/2
HENR Y BUTLER
Vu-Du Menz (w Corey Harris) *** 1/2
Viper's Drag (w Steven Bernstein) *** 1/2
THE BYRDS
Mr. Tambourine Man
Turn! Turn! Turn!
Fifth Dimension
Younger Than Yesterday
The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968) *** 1/2
Sweethearts Of The Rodeo ****
DAVID BYRNE
My Life in The Bush Of Ghosts (w Brian Eno) ***
Rei Momo ***
Uh-Oh
David Byrne
Feelings
Look Intoo The Eyeball
Grown Backwards
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (w Brian Eno) ***
LAURENT CABASSO
Gabriel Pierne: Chamber Music For Piano and Violin (w Gaetane Prouvost)
(2008) ***
THE CACTUS BLOSSOMS
You're Dreaming **1/2
DANIEL CAESAR
Freudian *** 1/2
Case Study 01 ***
CAFÉ TACUBA
Jei Beibi ** 1/2
CAGE THE ELEPHANT
Melophobia *** 1/2
Tell Me I'm Pretty ***/
Social Cues ***
BILL CALLAHAN
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle ** 1/2
Shepherd In Sheepskin Vest ***
CAMILLO
Mis Manos ***
GLEN CAMPBELL
Ghosts On The Canvas *** 1/2
Adios ***
LARR Y CAMPBELL AND TERESA WILLIAMS
Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams *** 1/2
Contraband Love *** 1/2
LEWIS CAP ALDI
Bloom *** 1/2
CAPT AIN BEEFHEAR T
Trout Mask Replica *** 1/2
Doc At the Radar Station *** 1/2
GEORGE CARLIN
AM/FM *** 1/2
BRANDI CARLISLE
By The Way, I For give You *** 1/2
CAROLINA CHOCOLA TE DROPS
Genuine Negro Jigs *** 1/2
MAR Y CHAPIN CARPENTER
The Things That We Are Made Of ** 1/2
Sometimes Just The Sky **
The Dirt and The Stars **
THE CARPENTERS
Close To You **
Carpenters (The Tan Album) ** 1/2
A Song For You ** 1/2
Now and Then ** (but side one and title track ***)
The Singles (1969-1973) *** 1/2
Horizon ** 1/2 (side one very strong)
A Kind of Hush **
Passage * 1/2
Christmas Portrait ***
Made in America **
Voice Of The Heart * 1/2
THE CARS
The Cars *** 1/2
Candy-O ***
Shake It Up ** 1/2
Heartbeat City ***\
Greatest Hits (1985) *** 1/2
CAR SEAT HEADREST
Teen Style ***
Teens Of Denial *** 1/2
BETTY CAR TER
Ray Charles and Betty Carter *** 1/2
JAMES CAR TER
Caribbean Rhapsody ***
RON CARTER
Chemistry (w Houston Person) ***
ELIZA CAR THY
Big Machine ***
MAR TIN CAR THY AND ELIZA CAR THY
The Moral Of The Elephant ** 1/2
NEKO CASE
Middle Cyclone ***
The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight ***
Hell-On ***
PETER CASE
Peter Case *** 1/2
The Man With The Blue, Post-Modern, Fragmented Neo-T raditionalist Guitar
** 1/2
Flying Saucer Blues
HWY 62 **
The Midnight Broadcast ***
JOHNNY CASH
The Christmas Spirit *
At Fulsom Prison ****
At San Quentin *** 1/2
Johnny Cash Is Coming To Town ** 1/2
Water From The Wells Of Home **
The Mystery Of Life **
American Recordings ****
American II: Unchained *** 1/2
American III: Solitary Man *** 1/2
American IV : The Man Comes Around ****
Unearthed (boxed set) ****
My Mother's Hymn Book ****
American V: A Hundred Highways *** 1/2
American VI: Ain't No Grave ***
Out Among The Stars **
ROSEANNE CASH
Seven Year Ache
Somewhere In The Stars
Rhythm and Romance
King's Record Shop ****
Interiors ****
The Wheel
Black Cadillac *** 1/2
The List ***
The River and The Thread
She Remembers Everything *** 1/2
EVA CASSIDY
Songbird ** 1/2
NICK CA VE
Murder Ballads *** 1/2
The Boatman's Call *** 1/2
No More Shall We Part
Nocturama
Abattoir Blues/The L yre Of Orpheus
Dig, Lazarus, Digg!! *** 1/2
Push The Sky Away
Skeleton Tree ***
Ghosteen *** 1/2
Idiot Prayer (Nick Cave Alone At Alexandra Palace) ***
Carnage ***/ (w Warren Ellis)
CELESTE
Not Your Muse ***
SARAH MAR Y CHADWICK
Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby ** 1/2
KASEY CHAMBERS
Rattlin' Bones (w Shane Nicholson) *** 1/2
Wreck and Ruin (w Shane Nicholson) *** 1/2
Bittersweet **
Dragonfly *** 1/2
Campfire *** /
CHANCE THE RAPPER
Coloring Book *** 1/2
TOM CHAPLIN
Twelve Tales Of Christmas * 1/2
MICHAEL CHAPMAN
50 ***
BILL CHARLAP
Love Is Here To Stay (w Sandy Stewart) *** 1/2
Double Portrait ** 1/2
Something To Remember (w Sandy Stewart) ***
The Silver Lining: The Songs Of Jerome Kern (w Tony Bennett) *** 1/2
Notes From New York **
RAY CHARLES
Ray Charles At Newport
The Genius Of Ray Charles
The Genius Sings The Blues
Soul Meeting (w Milt Jackson)
The Genius After Hours
The Genius Hits The Road
Dedicated To You
Genius+ Soul + Jazz
Ray Charles and Betty Carter *** 1/2
Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music ****
Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music Volume Two ****
Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul
The Spirit Of Christmas **
The Birth Of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm and Blues Recordings
****
Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection ****
The Complete Country and Western Recordings *** 1/2
Genius Loves Company **
Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959) *** 1/2
Ray Sings, Basie Swings **
CHA THAM COUNTY LINE
Strange Fascination **
CHEAP TRICK
Bang, Zoom, Crazy ...hello ** 1/2
In Another World *** 1/2
CYRUS CHESTNUT
Journeys *** 1/2
THE CHICKS AKA DIXIE CHICKS
Wide Open Spaces ** 1/2
Fly ***
Home *** 1/2
Taking The Long Way Home ***
Gaslighter ***
THE CHIEFT AINS
Irish Heartbeat (w Van Morrison) *** 1/2
The Bells Of Dublin *** 1/2
San Patricio ***
TYLER CHILDERS
Purgatory ***
CHILDISH GAMBINO
Awaken, My Love! ** 1/2
COREY CHISEL
Cabin Ghosts ep ***
Old Believers ***
THE CHORDETTES
Collection 1951-1962 ** 1/2
TIM CHRISTENSEN
Honeyburst! *** 1/2
Pure McCartney *** 1/2
CHROMEO
White Women ***/
CHRONIXX
Chronology ***
ERIC CHURCH
The Outsiders ***
Desperate Man ***
Soul ** 1/2
CIMARRON
Orinoco ***
THE CIVIL WARS
Barton Hollow ***
The Civil Wars *** 1/2
ERIC CLAPT ON
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs *** 1/2
Unplugged *** 1/2
From The Cradle **
Riding With The King (w BB King) *** 1/2
Play The Blues (w Wynton Marsalis) *** 1/2
Happy Xmas * 1/2
BRANDY CLARK
12 Stories ***
Big Day In A Small Town **
Your Life Is A Record *** 1/2
GAR Y CLARK JR
This Land **
GUY CLARK
My Favorite Picture Of You *** 1/2
PETULA CLARK
From Now On ***/
SONNY CLARK
The Sonny Clark Trio *** 1/2
KELL Y CLARKSON
Piece By Piece ***
Meaning Of Life ** 1/2
THE CLASH
The Clash *** 1/2
Give 'em Enough Rope *** 1/2
London Calling ****
Sandinista!
Combat Rock ***
PATSY CLINE
Patsy Cline (1957) *** 1/2
Showcase (1961) ****
Sentimentally Yours (1962) ***
The Patsy Cline Story ****
Patsy Cline's 12 Greatest Hits ****
ROSEMAR Y CLOONEY
Tenderly
Blue Rose *** 1/2
Ring Around Rosie
Swing Around Rosie
Fancy Meeting You Here (w Bing Crosby)
Rosie Swings Softly
Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie!
Rosie Solves The Swingin' Riddle
Sings Country Hits From The Heart (1963) ** 1/2
Love *** 1/2
Do You Miss New York? *** 1/2
Still On The Road *** 1/2
Demi-Centennial ***
Dedicated To Nelson ***
White Christmas
Brazil (w John Pizzaerelli)
COCONUT RECORDS
Nighttiming (2007) ** 1/2
LEONARD COHEN
Songs of Leonard Cohen ****
Songs From A Room ***
Songs Of Love and Hate **1/2
New Skin For The Old Ceremony **
Death Of A Ladies' Man * 1/2
Recent Songs ***/
Various Positions *** 1/2
I'm Your Man *** 1/2
The Future
Ten New Songs
Dear Heather
Old Ideas *** 1/2
Popular Problems ***/
Can't For get: A Souvenir Of The Grand Tour ***
You Want It Darker *** 1/2
Thanks For The Dance ***
COLDPLA Y
Parachutes ***
A Rush Of Blood To The Head *** 1/2
X and Y ** 1/2
Viva La Vida or death and All His Friends ** 1/2
Mylo Xyloto **
Ghost Stories ** 1/2
FREDDY COLE
Singin' The Blues ** 1/2
My Mood Is You ** 1/2
J COLE
2014 Forest Hills Drive *** 1/2
4 Your Eyez Only ** 1/2
LLOYD COLE
Rattlesnakes *** 1/2
Easy Pieces
Mainstream
Lloyd Cole
Don't Get Weird On Me Babe
Bad Vibes
Standards ***
Guesswork ***
NAT KING COLE
After Midnight (1957) ****
Songs Fr om "St. Louis Blues" (1958) ****
Destination Moon ** 1/2
JUDY COLLINS
Colors Of The Day: Best Of Judy Collins ** 1/2
Silver Skies Blue (w Ari Hest) *** 1/2
A Love Letter To Sondheim
Everybody Knows (w Stephen Stills) ** 1/2
Strangers Again **
Winter Stories (w Jonas Fjeld) *** 1/2
PHIL COLLINS
Face Value ***
Hello, I Must Be Going! ***
No Jacket Required ** 1/2
...But Seriously **
SHIRLEY COLLINS
Anthems in Eden (w Dolly Collins) *** 1/2
No Roses (w Albion COuntry Band) ***
Lodestar *** 1/2
ALICE COL TRANE
World Spirituality Classics 1 **
JOHN COL TRANE
Thelonius Monk With John Coltrane *** 1/2
Blue Train ****
Thelonius Monk Quartet w John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall ****
Bags and Trane (w Milt Jackson) ***
Giant Steps ****
Coltrane Jazz ***
My Favorite Things ****
Olé Coltrane ***
Ballads **
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman ****
A Love Supr eme ****
Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album *** 1/2
COMMON
The Dreamer , The Believer **
Nobody's Smiling *** 1/2
Black America Again ***
A Beautiful Revolution (Pt 1) ** 1/2
HARR Y CONNICK JR.
Harry Connick Jr . **
20 *** 1/2
When Harry Met Sally ... (soundtrack) *** 1/2
Lofty's Roach Souffle ** 1/2
We Are In Love ***
Blue Light Red Light **
25 ***
When My Heart Finds Christmas * 1/2
She * 1/2
Star Turtle *
To See You **
Come By Me ** 1/2
Songs I Heard ** 1/2
30 *** 1/2
Other Hours: Connick On Piano, Vol. 1
Harry For The Holidays **
Only You **
Occasion: Connick On Piano, Vol. 2
Oh, My NOLA
What A Night! A Christmas Album * 1/2
Your Song *
Smokey Mary
Every Man Should Know
That Would Be Me ***
True Love: A Celebration Of Cole Porter ** 1/2
Alone With My Faith * 1/2
CONNIE CONVERSE
How Sad, How Lovely *** 1/2
RY COODER
A Meeting By The River (w Vishwa Mohan Bhatt) *** 1/2
Talking Timbuktu (w Ali Farka Touré) ****
Chavez Ravine *** 1/2
My Buddy
I, Flathead
San Patricio (w The Chieftains) ***
Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down ** 1/2
The Prodigal Son *
BARBARA COOK
The Broadway Years: Till There Was You
Sings From The Heart
Tribute
No One Is Alone
GAZ COOMBES (see also Supergrass)
World's Strongest Man ** 1/2
Matador ** 1/2
COPELAND
You Are My Sunshine ***
THE CORAL
The Coral ***
Magic And Medicine *** 1/2
Nightfreak and the Sons Of Becker
The Invisible Invasion ***
Roots & Echoes
Butterfly House *** 1/2
The Curse Of Love
Distance Inbetween ***
Move Through The Dawn **
Coral Island *** 1/2
CHICK COREA
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (1968) ***
Return To Forever (1972) ** 1/2
BILL COSBY
To Russell, My Br other , Who I Slept With ****
GAL COST A
Gal Costa (1969) ***
ELVIS COSTELLO
My Aim Is True
This Year's Model
Armed Forces ***
Get Happy! ****
Trust
Almost Blue ***
Imperial Bedr oom ****
Punch The Clock
Goodbye Cruel World
King Of America ****
Blood And Chocolate ****
Spike ***
Mighty Like A Rose ** 1/2
The Juliet Letters *** (but *** 1/2 live)
Brutal Youth
Kojak Variety
All This Useless Beauty
Painted From Memory (w Burt Bacharach) *** 1/2
When I Was Cruel
North **
The Delivery Man
The River In Reverse (w Allen Toussaint) *** 1/2
Momofuku ***
Secret, Profane and Sugarcane ***
National Ransom ***
Wise Up Ghost *** 1/2
Look Now *** 1/2
DANIELIA COTT ON
Rare Child *** 1/2
Woodstock ep ***/
A Different War ep **
JAMES COTT ON
Cotton Mouth Man *** 1/2
COWBOY JUNKIES
The Trinity Session ****
The Caution Horses *** 1/2
Black Eyed Man
Pale Sun, Crescent Moon
Lay It Down
Miles From Our Home
Early 21st Century Blues
At The End Of Paths Taken ***
Trinity Revisited ** 1/2
Demons ** 1/2
Notes Falling Slowly *** 1/2
All That Reckoning ** 1/2
JOHN CRAIGIE
No Rain, No Rose ***
ROBER T CRA Y
In My Soul ***
Robert Cray and the Hi-Rhythm *** 1/2
That's What I Heard ***/
CREAM
Fresh Cream (1966) **
MARSHALL CRENSHA W
Marshall Crenshaw
Field Day
Downtown
Mary Jean & 9 Others
Jaggedland ** 1/2
CHRIS CROFT ON
Hello It's Me! ***
MIKAL CRONIN
Mikal Cronin ***
BING CROSBY
Bing: His Legendary Years (1931-1957) ****
Merry Christmas (1945) ****
Bing Sings While Br egman Swings ****
Bing With A Beat ****
Bing and Satchmo (1960) ***
Shillelaghs and Shamrocks *** 1/2
A Merry Christmas With Bing Cr osby And The Andr ews Sisters ****
Sings Christmas Songs *** 1/2
Bing Cr osby and The Andr ews Sisters: Their Complete Recordings ****
Bing Crosby and Some Jazz Friends *** 1/2
Sings The Great American Songbook ***
Top O' The Morning: His Irish Collection ***
CROSBY STILLS AND NASH (AND YOUNG)
Crosby Stills And Nash ***
Deja Vu ***
SHER YL CROW
Tuesday Night Music Club
Sheryl Crow
The Globe Sessions
Feels Like Home ***
Threads ***
CROWDED HOUSE
Crowded House
Temple Of Low Men
Woodface *** 1/2
Together Alone
Recurring Dream: The Very Best Of Crowded House *** 1/2
Dreamers Are Waiting ** 1/2
RODNEY CROWELL
Diamonds and Dirt
Sex & Gasoline *** 1/2
Tarpaper Skies ** 1/2
Close Ties *** 1/2
Acoustic Classics ** 1/2
Christmas Everywhere **
Texas ** 1/2
AIDA CUEV AS
Arrieros Somos: Sesiones Acusticas *** 1/2
JAMIE CULLUM
Taller ** 1/2
The Pianoman At Christmas *** (great vibe)
CUL TURE CLUB
Kissing To Be Clever **
Colour By Numbers *** 1/2
Waking Up With The House On Fire ** 1/2
From Luxury To Heartache
The Best of Culture Club *** 1/2
Don't Mind If I Do
Life ** 1/2
THE CURE
Standing On A Beach *** 1/2
4:13 Dream *** 1/2
MILEY CYRUS
Plastic Hearts ***\
DABABY
Baby on Baby ***
DAFT PUNK
Random Access Memory *** 1/2
KAREN DAL TON
1966 **
It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You Best *** 1/2
THE DARKNESS
Hot Cakes ** 1/2
Pinewood Smile ***
DAUGHTER
His Young Heart ***
ANTHONY DAVID
Hello Like Before: The Songs Of Bill Withers ***
MICHELLE DA VID
The Gospel Sessions ***/
DAVID AND DA VID
Welcome To The Boomtown *** 1/2
DAVID WAX MUSEUM
Everything Is Saved ***
RAY DAVIES
The Kinks Choral Collection ***
Americana ** 1/2
CEDELL DAVIS
Even The Devil Gets The Blues ***
REV. GARY DAVIS
Harlem Street Singer ***
MILES DAVIS
Birth Of The Cool ****
The Complete Birth Of The Cool *** 1/2
Walkin' ****
Cookin' ****
Relaxin' ****
Workin' ****
Steamin' *** 1/2
Miles Ahead
Milestones
Porgy And Bess
Kind Of Blue ****
Sketches Of Spain *** 1/2
Quiet Nights
E.S.P.
Miles Smiles
Sorceror ***
In A Silent Way
Bitches Brew *** 1/2
Bitches Brew Live *** 1/2
Jack Johnson
DAWES
Nothing Is Wrong ** 1/2
DORIS DA Y
Day In Hollywood (1955) **
Day By Day (1956) ****
Day By Night (1957) ****
Show Time (1960) **
Duet (w Andre Previn) *** 1/2
Annie Get Your Gun (w Robert Goulet) (1963) ****
The Doris Day Christmas Album (1964) ** 1/2
The Essential Doris Day ** 1/2
With Love ***
THE DEAD WEA THER (super group w Jack White)
Horehound
Sea Of Cowards ** 1/2
Dodge and Burn ** 1/2
BLOSSOM DEARIE
My Gentleman Friend (1961) *** 1/2
DEERHOOF
The Magic ** 1/2
DE LA SOUL
3 Feet High And Rising *** 1/2
De La Soul Is Dead
Buhloone Mindstate
and The Anonymous Nobody ... ***
THE DE LFONICS
La La Means I Love You (1968) ** 1/2
LANA DEL REY
Born To Die **
Ultraviolence ** 1/2
Honeymoon
Lust For Life **
Norman Fucking Rockwell! ** 1/2
Chem Trails At The Country Club **
IRIS DEMENT
My Life *** 1/2
The Way I Should
Lifeline
Sing The Delta *** 1/2
The Trackless Woods *** 1/2
BRETT DENNEN
Por Favor **
SANDY DENNY
Sandy
Like An Old fashioned Waltz *** 1/2
Rendezvous
Who Knows Where The Time Goes? *** 1/2
I've Always Kept A Unicorn ***\
JOHN DENVER
Greatest Hits (1973) **
Greatest Hits Volume Two
John Denver -- The Classic Christmas Album
John Denver -- Rocky Mountain Christmas
John Denver and The Muppets: A Christmas Together **
John Denver -- Lime Creek Christmas ***
DEPECHE MODE
Delta Machine ** 1/2
DESTROYER
Kaput ***
JANET DEVLIN
Confessional ** 1/2
TOUMANI DIABA TE
Ali and Toumani (w Ali Farka Toure) ****
NEIL DIAMOND
The Bang Years 1966-1968 ** 1/2
Stones (1971) ***
Hot August Night ***
His 12 Greatest Hits ****
I'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight (1977) **
12 Greatest Hits Vol 2 *** 1/2
Three Chord Opera ***
12 Songs ****
Home Before Dark *** 1/2
Melody Road *** 1/2
All-T ime Greatest Hits *** 1/2
DION
Kickin Child: The Lost 1965 Album *** 1/2
New York Is My Home **
Blues With Friends **
THE DIVINE COMEY
Office Politics **
THE DIXIE CHICKS see THE CHICKS
JOHN DOE
The Westerner ***
FATS DOMINO
Fats Is Back (1968) ***
LOU DONALDSON
Here 'Tis ****
DONOV AN
Sunshine Superman **1/2
Mellow Yellow ***
Greatest Hits ***
THE DOOBIE BROTHERS
Toulouse Street ***
Takin' It To The Streets ***
Minute By Minute ** 12
The Platinum Collection (2007) ***
THE DOORS
The Doors
Strange Days (1967) **
Waiting For The Sun * 1/2
The Soft Parade
Morrison Hotel **
L.A. Woman ***
The Best Of The Doors (1985) *** 1/2
LEE DORSEY
The New Lee Dorsey ***
MICHAEL DOUCET
Lacher Prise ** 1/2
ROSE ELINOR DOUGALL
Stellular ** 1/2
DOUGHBOYS
Shakin' Our Souls *** 1/2
Running For Covers ***
DRAKE
Thank Me Later ** 1/2
The Gift Without The Curse ** 1/2
Nothing Was The Same ***
Views **
What A Time To Be Alive ** 1/2
Scorpion *** 1/2
NICK DRAKE
Five Leaves Left ****
Bryter Layter *** 1/2
Pink Moon ****
A Day Gone By ***
DRIVE BY TRUCKERS
Brighter Than Creation's Dark ** 1/2
DR. JOHN
Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit Of Satchmo **1/2
THE DRUMS
The Drums ***
DUA LIPA
Future Nostalgia *** 1/2
DUFFY
Rockferry ***
DURAN DURAN
Duran Duran **
Rio *** 1/2
Seven and the Ragged Tiger ** 1/2
Notorious **
Big Thing **
Decade (greatest hits) *** 1/2
Liberty **
The Wedding Album **
Thank You
Greatest (greatest hits) *** 1/2
Red Carpet Massacre
Paper Gods ** 1/2
THOMAS DYBDAHL
Songs **
BOB DYLAN
Bob Dylan ** 1/2
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan *** 1/2
The Times They Are A-Changin' ***
Another Side Of Bob Dylan *** 1/2
Bringing It All Back Home ****
The Bootleg Series Vol 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall"
Concert ***/
Highway 61 Revisited ****
Blonde On Blonde ****
John Wesley Harding *** 1/2
Nashville Skyline ***
The Bootleg Series Vol 10: Another Self Portrait ****
New Morning ** 1/2
Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid * 1/2
Planet Waves **
Before The Flood *** 1/2
Blood On The Tracks ****
More Blood More Tracks (official alternate version on boxed set) ***
More Blood Mor e Tracks (New York demos pieced together from boxed
set) ****
The Basement Tapes *** 1/2
Desire ** 1/2
Street Legal *** 1/2
Slow Train Coming ** 1/2
Saved **
Shot Of Love *** 1/2
Infidels ***
Empire Burlesque *** (great songs, poor production)
Biograph *** 1/2
Knocked Out Loaded **
Down In The Groove *
Oh Mercy *** 1/2
Under The Red Sky * 1/2
The Bootleg Series Vol 1-3 *** 1/2
Good As I Been To You *** 1/2
World Gone Wrong ***
Time Out Of Mind *** 1/2
Love And Theft *** 1/2
Modern Times *** 1/2
Together Through Life ***
Christmas In The Heart * 1/2
The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos 1962-1964 ***
Tempest *** 1/2
Shadows In The Night *** 1/2
Fallen Angels ****
Triplicate *** 1/2
Travelin' Through: 1967-1969, Bootleg Series Volume 15 sampler ***
Rough And Rowdy Ways *** 1/2
Shadow Kingdom ("concert" film -- recordings of Dylan singing Dylan) ***
1/2
THE EAGLES
Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) ****
Hotel California ** 1/2
STEVE EARLE
Guitar Town ***
Exit O ***
Copperhead Road *** 1/2
The Hard Way ***
Train A Comin' *** 1/2
I Feel Alright ***
El Corazon ***
The Mountain (w Del McCoury Band) *** 1/2
Transcendental Blues *** 1/2
Jerusalem ***
The Revolution Starts Now ***
Washington Square Serenade ***
Townes ***
I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive ***
The Low Highway ***
Terraplane *** 1/2
Colvin and Earle (w Shawn Colvin) **
So You Wanna Be An Outlaw ***
GUY ***
Ghosts Of West Virginia *** 1/2
J.T. ***
DALE EARNHARDT JR. JR.
It's A Corporate World ***
ANDERSON EAST
Encore **
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
Meteorites **
The Stars, The Oceans and the Moon
BILL Y ECKSTINE
Billy's Best (1958) *** 1/2
HARR Y "SWEETS" EDISON
Ben and "Sweets" (w Ben Webster) *** 1/2
KATHLEEN EDW ARDS
Total Freedom **
EELS
Blinking Lights and Othe Revelations *** 1/2
Hombre Lobo
End Times
Wonderful, Glorious ***
The Deconstruction ***
BILLIE EILISH
Don't Smile At Me ep ** 1/2
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? *** 1/2
ELBOW
The Seldom Seen Kid *** 1/2
ELIZABETH AND THE CA TAPUL T
Elizabeth and the Catapult *** 1/2
JAMES ELKINGT ON
Ever-roving Eye ***
ELLIOTT BROOD
Tin Type ***/
Mountain Meadows ***
Work and Love ***
Ghost Gardens ***
Keeper ***
ELO
Greatest Hits *** 1/2
Alone In The Universe ***
From Out Of Nowhere ***
JOE EL Y
Panhandle Rambler ** 1/2
Love In The Midst Of Mayhem **
EMINEM
The Slim Shady LP *** 1/2
The Marshall Mathers LP ****
The Eminem Show *** 1/2
Encore
Relapse ** 1/2
Recovery *** 1/2
The Marshall Mathers LP 2 *** 1/2
Revival
Kamikaze ***
THE ENGLISH BEA T AKA THE BEA T
I Just Can't Stop It *** 1/2
Wha'ppen? ***
Special Beat Service *** 1/2
What Is Beat? ****
Bounce (featuring Roger Ranking) ** 1/2
Public Confidential ***
BRIAN ENO
Here Come The Warm Jets ****
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) *** 1/2
Another Green World ****
Before And After Science *** 1/2
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (w David Byrne) ***
Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
The Pearl (w Harold Budd) *** 1/2
Wrong Way Up (w John Cale) *** 1/2
The Drop
Another Day On Earth
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (w David Byrne) ***
Small Craft On A Milk Sea ***
Lux *** 1/2
Someday World (w Karl Hyde) *** 1/2
The Ship
Reflection
Mixing Colours (w Roger Eno) ***/
ERIC B AND RAKIM
Paid In Full *** 1/2
GLORIA ESTEF AN
Brazil305 ** 1/2
SHARON VAN ETTEN
Are We There ***
Remind Me Tomorrow **
EUR YTHMICS
In The Garden **
Sweet Dr eams (Ar e Made Of This) ****
Touch *** 1/2
1984 (For The Love of Big Brother) ** 1/2
Be Yourself Tonight ***
Revenge ** 1/2
Savage ** 1/2
We Too Are One * 1/2
Greatest Hits *** 1/2
Peace * 1/2
Thank you, JJ Jackson! For the first and only time, an MTV veejay made a
recommendation and I listened and believed. More cheerleader than anything
else, I don't recall veejays expressing anything other than generic excitement
about each and every video they played and each and every artist they
interviewed. But Triple J, one of the five original on-air personalities at that
channel, slipped up just once. He played the exceptionally catchy song (and
striking video) "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)." The relentless chorus,
the stunning Annie Lennox dressed like a man and sporting that positively
shocking red hair , the synths! It was awesome, it was catchy , it
was...gimmicky? The lyrics were a bit repetitive; they worked but they didn't
necessarily inspire confidence in the songwriters. Maybe they just got lucky .
The song was a great record, sure. But I wondered -- were they a one-hit
wonder , like A Flock Of Seagulls and a million other acts since pop music
began? Back when you forked over a precious $8 just to buy ONE album on
cassette, that was a serious question. Should I buy it? As if he read my mind,
Mr. Jackson said something like, "Hey , that's a terrific song. And if you're
wondering, the rest of their album is just as good!" I think management must
have sent him a memo because I never heard J.J. or anyone else of fering
anything like that comment ever again. The closest they ever got to criticism
after that -- good or bad -- was Beavis and Butt-Head. Heh-heh. But I heard
him, I believed him, I bought the album and indeed, it WAS terrific. As was
their quick follow-up "T ouch." They remained an excellent singles band after
that remarkable, distinctive one-two punch. And if you trim the too-generous,
18 track "Greatest Hits" set from 1991, why you'd have another four -star
album to their credit. (For the record, I'd cut "The Miracle of Love" and both
tracks from "W e Too Are One.")
BILL EVANS
Everybody Digs Bill Evans ****
Sunday At The Village Vanguard ****
Waltz For Debby *** 1/2
Half Moon Bay
The Tony Bennett/ Bill Evans Album ****
Homecoming
THE EVERL Y BROTHERS
The Everly Brothers ** 1/2
Songs Our Daddy Taught Us ****
It's Everly Time *** 1/2
Christmas With The Everly Brothers no stars
The Everly Brothers Sing Great Country Hits ** 1/2
Two Yanks In England ***/
The Hit Sound Of The Everly Brothers ** 1/2
The Everly Brothers Sing * 1/2
Roots *** 1/2
Stories We Could Tell ***
EB 84 ****
Cadence Classics: Their 20 Gr eatest Hits ****
Born Yesterday *** 1/2
Some Hearts ***
EB CD Burnwood (mixtape) *** 1/2
THE EXPLORERS CLUB
Together ***\
The Explorers Club ***
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Music Library Master List A-E
Pause: do iTunes library at BB King; 2008-2020 done
My Library of Albums -- This isn't a list of every album I've ever owned
or listened to...not even close. Instead, my Library includes all the
albums I keep in my personal collection, all the albums of artists I
admire (whether I liked every album or not) and any albums I liked
(three stars or more). Once upon a time, if you walked into my home
you'd see bookcases filled with compact discs. Later you'd have to
browse my hard drive for digital downloads. Now, with so many titles
accessed via streaming, you'll just have to take my word for it. These
are the albums that make up my virtual library.
If you want a list of favorite albums by year, go here:
BEST ALBUMS OF THE YEAR MASTER LIST
And now...
MY LIBRARY OF MUSIC -- A MASTER LIST
ABBA
ABBA Gold ****
ABC
The Lexicon Of Love *** 1/2
Look Of Love: The Very Best Of ABC ***
The Lexicon Of Love II ***
AC/DC
Highway To Hell *** 1/2
Back In Black ****
Rock Or Bust ** 1/2
BRYAN ADAMS
Bare Bones ** 1/2
Shine A Light **
JOHN LUTHER ADAMS
Become Ocean ****
Become Desert *** 1/2
OLETA ADAMS
Third Set * 1/2
RYAN ADAMS
Heartbreaker *** 1/2
Gold ****
Demolition
Rock N Roll ** 1/2
Love Is Hell
Cold Roses ***
Jacksonville City Nights
29
Easy Tiger
Cardinology ** 1/2
Ryan Adams ** 1/2
1989 ***
Prisoner ***
Big Colors **
UMUT ADAN
Bahar ** 1/2
ADELE
19 ***
21 *** 1/2
25 ***/
CHRISTIAN SCOTT aTUNDE ADJUAH
Ancestral Blues *** 1/2
AFGHAN WIGS
Gentlemen *** 1/2
Do To The Beast **
SHARHABIL AHMED
The King of Sudanese Jazz *** 1/2
PRISCILLA AHN
When You Grow Up ** 1/2
AIR
Moon Safari ***
AIR SUPPL Y
Ultimate Air Supply ***
AMBROSE AKINMUSURIE
When The Heart Emer ges Glistening *** 1/2
On The tender Spot Of Every Calloused Moment ** 1/2
ALABAMA SHAKES
Boys and Girls ** 1/2
Sound and Color ***
THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT
Eye In The Sky (1982) **
Ultimate Alan Parsons Project ** 1/2
THE ALARM
The Best Of The Alarm ** 1/2
DAMON ALBARN (see also Blur and Gorillaz)
Mali Music *** 1/2
The Good, The Bad and The Queen *** 1/2
Everyday Robots *** 1/2
PABLO ALBORÁN
Prometo ** 1/2
JASON ALDEAN
My Kind Of Party ** 1/2
Night Train ***
Old Boots, New Dirt ** 1/2
They Don't Know ** 1/2
Rearview Town ***
9 **
ARTHUR ALEXANDER
You Better Move On ** 1/2
ALGIERS
The Underside Of Power ** 1/2
TONY ALLEN
Rejoice! (w Hugh Masekala) *** 1/2
THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
1971 Filmor e East ****
A Decade Of Hits: 1969-1979 *** 1/2
Brothers And Sisters
GREGG ALLMAN
Low Country Blues ***
HERB ALPER T
Whipped Cream & Other Delights *** 1/2
Christmas Album (1968) ****
Over The Rainbow *
DAVE ALVIN AND PHIL ALVIN
Common Ground ***
Lost Time ** 1/2
AMADOU AND MARIAM
Sou Ni Tilé
Wati
Dimanche à Bamako *** 1/2
Welcome To Mali
Folila ***
La Confusion ** 1/2
LES AMAZONES D'AFRIQUES
Republique Amazone **
SAM AMIDON
Sam Amidon **
TORI AMOS
Little Earthquakes
Under The Pink
Boys For Pele
Midwinter Graces *** 1/2
EAST ANDERSON
Delilah ***/
ERNESTINE ANDERSON
Swings The Penthouse ***/
LAURIE ANDERSON
Big Science *** 1/2
Mr Heartbreak *** 1/2
United States Live ****
Home Of The Brave ***
Strange Angels ****
Bright Red
Life On A String
Homeland ***
Landfall (w Kronos Quartet) ** 1/2
BOB ANDREWS
Shotgun ***
THE ANDREWS SISTERS
Greatest Hits ****
The Original Hits *** 1/2
Complete Bing Cr osby and Andr ews Sisters ****
The Chesterfield Recordings (w Glenn Miller) *** 1/2
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
Meriweather Post Pavilion ***
THE ANIMALS
The Animals ***\
KEREN ANN
101 ** 1/2
ANNIE AND THE BEEKEEPERS
My Bonneville ***
ANOHNI (SEE ALSO ANT ONY AND THE JOHNSONS)
Hopelessness ***
ANTIBALAS
Antibalas *** 1/2
ANT ONY AND THE JOHNSONS (see also Anohni)
I Am A Bird Now *** 1/2
Another World ep *** 1/2
The Crying Light ***
Swanlights ** 1/2
FIONA APPLE
When The Pawn... *** 1/2
Extraordinary Machine
Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords
Will Serve You More Than Ropes Ever Will *** 1/2
Fetch The Bolt Cutters *** 1/2
KHAIRA ARBY
Timbuktu Tarab ***
ARCADE FIRE
Funeral
Neon Bible
The Suburbs *** 1/2
Reflektor ** 1/2
Everything Now **
DAVID ARCHULET A
David Archuleta ** (but single "Crush" is ****)
Winter In The Air ** 1/2
Therapy Sessions **
ARCTIC MONKEYS (see also The Last Shadow Puppets)
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not *** 1/2
Favourite Worst Nightmare *** 1/2
Humbug ** 1/2
Suck It And See **
AM *** 1/2
Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino *** 1/2
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG
Foreverly (w Norah Jones) *** 1/2
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
The Complete Hot Fives and Sevens ****
Complete Decca Singles 1935-1946 ** 1/2
Ella and Louis
Ella and Louis Again
I've Got The World On A String
Meets Oscar Peterson (1957) ****
Louis Under The Stars
Porgy & Bess (w Ella Fitzgerald) ***
Bing and Satchmo (1960) ***
The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstr ong on Verve ****
The Standard Oil Sessions **
OLAFUR ARNALDS
Some Kind Of Peace *** 1/2
P.P. ARNOLD
The New Adventures Of P .P. Arnold ***
ASHE
Ashlyn ***
GREG ASHLEY
Another Generation Of Slaves *** 1/2
ASIA
Asia ***
Alpha **
Phoenix **
Gravitas **
NICOLE ATKINS
Neptune City *** 1/2
Mondo Amore ** 1/2
Goodnight Rhonda Lee ** 1/2
Italian Ice **
ATOMS FOR PEACE
Amok ***
SETH AVETT AND JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD
Sing Elliot Smith ***
THE AVETT BROTHERS
Four Thieves Gone
Emotionalism ***
I And Love And You *** 1/2
The Carpenter ** 1/2
Maggie And The Dandelion ***
True Sadness **
Closer Than Together ** 1/2
VIJA Y AYER
Accelarando *** 1/2
AZTEC CAMERA
High Land, Hard Rain *** 1/2
Knife
Love
Stray
BABYF ACE AND TONI BRAXT ON
Love, Marriage and Divorce ***
BACK DOOR SLAM
Roll Away ***
(see Davy Knowles)
BACKSTREET BOYS
The Hits ***
BAD BUNNY
X100Pre *** 1/2
Oasis (w J Balvin) ***
YHLQMDLG *** 1/2
Las Que No Iban A Salir ***
El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo *** 1/2
BADFINGER
No Matter What: Revisiting The Hits **
BADL Y DRA WN BOY
Banana Skin Shoes **
ERYKAH BADU
New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) *** 1/2
New Amerykah Part Two (Return Of The Ankh) ***
But You Caint Use My Phone **
JOAN BAEZ
Joan Baez
Joan Baez, Vol. 2
Joan Baez/5
Noël
Diamonds and Rust
Day After Tomorrow *** 1/2
Whistle Down The Wind ***
DAN BAIRD
So Low ** 1/2
ANIT A BAKER
Rapture
The Best Of ** 1/2
Christmas Fantasy **
CHET BAKER
The James Dean Story ** (but vocals on "Let Me Be Loved" good)
Playboys aka Pictures Of Heath (w Art Pepper) ***
(Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen To You ***
Chet Baker In New York
Chet Baker In Milan
Chet Baker With 50 Italian Strings
The Best Of Chet Baker Sings ****
JULIEN BAKER
Turn Out The Lights ***
KELSEA BALLERINI
Unapologetically ***/
J BAL VIN
Vibras ***
THE BAND
Music Fr om Big Pink ****
The Band ****
Stage Fright ** 1/2
Cahoots *** 1/2
Moondog Matinee
Before The Flood (w Bob Dylan)
Northern Lights -- Southern Cross ***
The Basement Tapes (w Bob Dylan) ****
Islands
The Last Waltz ****
BAND OF HORSES
Cease To Begin
Mirage Rock ***
THE BANGLES
All Over The Place *** 1/2
Greatest Hits *** 1/2
AZEALIA BANKS
1991 *** 1/2
MATTHEW BARBER
The Family Album ** 1/2
BOBBY BARE
Darker Than Light ** 1/2
SARA BAREILLES
The Blessed Unrest ***
What's Inside: Songs From Waitress *** 1/2
More Love: Songs From Little Voice, Season One **
BJ BARHAM
Rockingham ** 1/2
COURTNEY BARNETT
Double EP: A Sea Of Spilt Peas *** 1/2
Sometimes I Just Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit *** 1/2
Lotta Sea Lice (w Kurt Vile) *** 1/2
Tell Me How You Really Feel ***
MANDY BARNETT
Winter Wonderland ** 1/2
A Nashville Songbook **
Every Star Above ***/
RICHARD BARONE
Cool Blue Halo *** 1/2
Sorrows and Promises: Greenwich Village In The 1960s ** 1/2
THE BARR BROTHERS
The Barr Brothers ***
KENNY BARRON
Book Of Intuition *** 1/2
THOMAS BAR TLETT
Shelter ***
KISHI BASHI
Lighght ***
BASTILLE
Bad Blood ***
CHRIS BATHGATE
Salt Year ***
JON BATISTE
The Music Of John Lewis (w Wynton Marsalis) ***
THE BEACH BOYS
The Beach Boys Christmas Album **
Today! ***
Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) ***
Beach Boys' Party! *
Pet Sounds ****
Smiley Smiley *** (esp side two)
Wild Honey **
Friends *** 1/2
Sunflower ***
Surf's Up ** 1/2
Holland ** 1/2
Endless Summer ****
Sounds Of Summer *** 1/2
That's Why God Made The Radio ** 1/2
BEACH HOUSE
Teen Dream ***
7 ***
JEFF BEAM
Venus Flying Trapeze ***
JOHN BEASLEY
MONK'estra Plays John Beasley *** 1/2
BEASTIE BOYS
Licensed To Ill *** 1/2
Paul's Boutique ****
Check Your Head *** 1/2
Ill Communication *** 1/2
Hello Nasty
To The 5 Boroughs
The Mix-Up
Hot Sauce Committee Part Two ***
Beastie Boys Music ****
THE BEA T SEE THE ENGLISH BEA T
THE BEATLES
Please Please Me *** 1/2
With The Beatles *** 1/2
A Hard Day's Night ****
Beatles For Sale *** 1/2
Help ****
Rubber Soul ****
Revolver ****
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ****
Magical Mystery Tour ****
The Beatles (White Album) ****
The Beatles (White Album) Esher Demos on 2018 boxed set ***
Yellow Submarine *
Abbey Road ****
Let It Be *** 1/2
The Beatles 1962-1966 (Red Album) ****
The Beatles 1967-1970 (Blue Album) ****
Past Masters, Volume One *** 1/2
Past Masters, Volume Two ****
Live At The BBC ***
Anthology 1 *** 1/2
Anthology 2 *** 1/2
Anthology 3 *** 1/2
Yellow Submarine Songtrack ****
1 ****
Let It Be...Naked ***
The Beatles In Mono ****
The Beatles Stereo Box Set *** 1/2
The Beatles Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Boxed Set ****
BEAU BRUMMELS
Bradley's Barn ***
THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH
Carry On Up The Charts: The Best Of The Beautiful South ***/
BECK
Mellow Gold ** 1/2
One Foot In The Grave ***
Odelay *** 1/2
Mutations ***
Midnite Vultures ** 1/2
Sea Change ****
Guero
The Information
Modern Guilt ***
Morning Phase *** 1/2
Colors **
Hyperspace *** 1/2
BEDOUINE
Bedouine ** 1/2
THE BEE GEES
Horizontal
Odessa
Best Of Bee Gees
Best Of Bee Gees, Vol. 2
Main Course
Saturday Night Fever (various artists) *** 1/2
Spirits Having Flown
Bee Gees Greatest
BEIRUT
Gulag Orkestar
The Flying Club Cup
March Of The Zapotec
No No No **
ADRIAN BELEW
Mr Music Head ** 1/2 ("Oh Daddy" a keeper)
DRAKE BELL
Telegraph ***
It's Only Time *** 1/2
Ready Steady Go! ***/
The Lost Album ***
Sesiones En Casa ***
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN
Tigermilk
If You're Feeling Sinister
Lazy Line Painter Jane
The Boy With The Arab Strap
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
Storytelling
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
The Life Pursuit
How To Solve Our Human Problems Part 1 EP ***
Days Of The Bagnold Summer ***
THE BELLE BRIGADE
Just Because ***/
BEMBEY A JAZZ NA TI0ONAL
Bembeya
The Syliphone Years ****
JORGE BEN
Samba Esquerra Novo (1963) *** 1/2
Jorge Ben ****
Fôrça Bruta
Negro é Lindo
Ben
10 Anos Depois
Gil e Jor ge (w Gilberto Gil)
Africa Brasil
ALEC BENJAMIN
Narrated For You ***
These Two Windows ***
BEN L'ONCLE SOUL
A Coup de Reves *** 1/2
TONY BENNETT
The Beat Of My Heart *** 1/2
I Left My Heart in San Francisco ****
Tony Bennett At Carnegie Hall ****
When Lights Are Low ****
If I Ruled The World: Songs For The Jet Set ****
The Movie Song Album ***
Snowfall ** 1/2
The Tony Bennett/ Bill Evans Album ****
Together Again (w Bill Evans) ***
Astoria: Portrait Of The Artist ***
Perfectly Frank ***
Steppin' Out *** 1/2
Here's To The Ladies ** 1/2
Tony Bennett On Holiday ***
The Playground **
A Wonderful World (w kd lang) *** 1/2
Duets: An American Classic * 1/2
A Swingin' Christmas (w Ciount Basie) ***
Cheek To Cheek (w Lady Gaga) ** 1/2
The Silver Lining: The Songs Of Jerome Kern *** 1/2
Love Is Here To Stay (w Diana Krall) *** 1/2
GEORGE BENSON
The Best Of Geor ge Benson **
Walking To New Orleans **
Beyond The Blue Horizon * 1/2
DIERKS BENTLEY
Up On The Ridge ***
BERNHOFT
The Morning Comes ep ** 1/2
CHUCK BERR Y
The Gr eat 28 ****
Chuck * 1/2
BEST COAST
Crazy For You *** 1/2
The Only Place ***
Fade Away ***
BET A BAND
The Three E.P .s ****
The Beta Band ***
Hot Shots II
Heroes To Zeros
Year Of Love ** 1/2
BET A RADIO
Seven Sisters
Colony Of Bees *** 1/2
Ancient Transition *** 1/2
All Remains ep ***
Way Of Love ep ** 1/2
THE BETHS
BETTER OBLIVION COMMUNITY CENTER
Better Oblivion Community Center ***\
ANDY BEY
American Song *** 1/2
Ain't Necessarily So *** 1/2
BEYONCÉ
Dangerously In Love ** 1/2
I Am...Sasha Fierce **
4 **
Beyoncé ** 1/2
Lemonade ** (visual album ***)
B-52'S
The B-52's
Wild Planet
Bouncing Of f The Satellites
Funplex
JUSTIN BIEBER
Under The Mistletoe ** 1/2
BIG BOI
Boomiverse ** 1/2
BIG MA YBELLE
The Complete King, Okeh and Savoy Singles ***
BIG ST AR
#1 Record
Radio City
Third/Sister Lovers
In Space
BIG THIEF
Capacity ** 1/2
Two Hands **
BILL & THE BELLES
Happy Again (produced by Teddy Thompson) ** 1/2
RYAN BINGHAM
Roadhouse Sun **
JADE BIRD
Something American ***
BJORK
Utopia ***
BLACK CROWES
Before The Frost...Until The Freeze *** 1/2
BLACK HOLLIES
Softly Towards The Light ***
THE BLACK KEYS
Brothers ***
El Camino ***
Turn Blue ** 1/2
JAMES BLAKE
James Blake ***
The Colour In Anything **
ART BLAKEY
A Night In Tunisia ****
Moanin' ****
CARLA BLEY
Life Goes On *** 1/2
PAUL BLEY
Play Blue: The Oslo Concert ***
MAR Y J BLIGE
London Sessions *** 1/2
THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA
The Gospel At Colonus cast album ****
There Will Be A Light (w Ben Harper)
Atom Bomb
Down In New Orleans ***
Talkin' Christmas (w Taj Mahal) **
Work To Do (w Marc Cohn) ** 1/2
CHARL Y BLISS
Guppy *** 1/2
BLONDIE
Parallel Lines *** 1/2
The Best Of Blondie *** 1/2
Ghosts Of Downloads ** 1/2
LUKA BLOOM
Head and Heart **
MIKE BLOOM
King Of Circles *** 1/2
JAKE BLOUNT
Spider Tales *** 1/2
BLUE MAGIC
Blue Magic *** 1/2
THE BLUE NILE see also P AUL BUCHANAN
A Walk Across The Rooftops ****
Hats ****
Peace At Last ***
High ** 1/2
BLUR
Leisure
Modern Life Is Rubbish
Parklife
The Great Escape *** 1/2
Blur
13
Think Tank
The Magic Whip ***
THE BO KEYS
Got To Get Back ***
BOMBA ESTEREO
Ayo ***
BOMBINO
Agadez ****
Nomad *** 1/2
Deran ***
JUSTIN BOND
Dendrophile **
BONES
Skinny *** 1/2
Powder *** 1/2
HateT oBreakItT oYou ***
Disgrace ***
Seabed (w Chris Travis) ***
IFeelLikeDirt ***
Damaged Goods ** 1/2
Remains ***
BON IVER
For Emma, Forever Ago *** 1/2
Bon Iver ***/
22, A Million
i, i ***
BONNIE PRINCE BILL Y
Singers Grave -- A Sea Of Tongues ** 1/2
BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN
Bonny Light Horseman ***
BONOBO
Migration **
BENJAMIN BOOKER
Benjamin Booker *** 1/2
JAMES BOOKER
Classified **** Expanded Edition *** 1/2
BOOKER T AND THE MGS
Uptight ** 1/2
The Road From Memphis (a Booker T. Jones) ** 1/2
BOST ON
Boston
Don't Look Back
Third Stage
Life, Love and Hope **
DAVID BOWIE
David Bowie/Space Oddity
The Man Who Sold The World
Hunky Dory ****
The Rise and Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars *** 1/2
Aladdin Sane *** 1/2
Pin Ups
Diamond Dogs
Young Americans
Station To Station *** 1/2
Low ****
Heroes ****
Lodger ****
Scary Monsters *** 1/2
Let's Dance ***
Tonight ** 1/2
Never Let Me Down
Tin Machine
Tin Machine II
Black Tie White Noise **
Outside
Earthling
Hours
Heathen
Reality
The Next Day
Blackstar *** 1/2
Lazarus EP *** 1/2
AL BOWLLY
Proud Of You ***
BOY AND BEAR
Moonfire *** 1/2
BOY GEORGE
This Is What I Dub Vol. 1 **
CHARLES BRADLEY
No Time For Dreaming **
Victim Of Love ***
Changes **
BILL Y BRAGG
Tooth and Nail ** 1/2
Mermaid Avenue Vol I (w Wilco) *** 1/2
Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (w Wilco) *** 1/2
Mr. Love & Justice ** 1/2
Shine A Light (w Joe Henry) ***
JAY BRANNAN
Goddamned ***
BRAN VAN 3000
The Garden ***
TONI BRAXT ON AND BABYF ACE
Love, Marriage and Divorce ***
JACQUES BREL
Ces Gen-la aka Jef (1966) ***
PHOEBE BRIDGERS
Punisher ***/
LEON BRIDGES
Coming Home **
Good Thing ***
BRIGHT EYES (SEE ALSO CONOR OBERST)
Lifted, or The Story is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground *** 1/2
A Christmas Album ** 1/2
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning *** 1/2
Digital Ash In A Digital Urn
Cassadaga ** 1/2
The People's Key ***
Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was ***
BROADW AY SHOWS
See Cast Albums at bottom of list
BROCKHAMPT ON
Saturation **1/2
Ginger ***
Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine ***
PETER BRODERICK
Home *** 1/2
Partners **
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
Hug of Thunder **
DAVID BROMBERG
The Blues, The Whole Blues and Nothing But The Blues ** 1/2
MARC BROUSSARD
Marc Broussard *** 1/2
DANNY BROWN
Old *** 1/2
DENNIS BROWN
The Crown Prince Of Reggae: 1972-1985 ***
JACKSON BROWNE
For Everyman ** 1/2
Late For The Sky ***
The Pretender ***
Running On Empty *** 1/2
Lawyers in Love ** 1/2
Lives in The Balance ** 1/2
World in Motion ** 1/2
I'm Alive **
Love Is Strange (w David Lindley) ***
Standing In The Breach ** 1/2
ROLANDO BRUNO
Bailazo ** 1/2
BTS
Map Of The Soul: Persona **
MICHAEL BUBLÉ
Nobody But Me ** 1/2
PAUL BUCHANAN (see also The Blue Nile)
Mid Air ****
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
Go Insane *** 1/2
Out Of The Cradle ***
Under The Skin ** 1/2
Gift Of Screws ** 1/2
Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McV ie ** 1/2
BETTY BUCKLEY
1967
With One Look
Heart To Heart
Ghostlight
Hope ***
HAROLD BUDD
The Pearl (w Brian Eno) *** 1/2
Mysterious Skin (score) *** 1/2
Another Flower *** 1/2
THE BUDOS BAND
Long In The Tooth ***
BUENA VIST A SOCIAL CLUB
Buena Vista Social Club ****
BVSC Presents Ibrahim Ferrer *** 1/2
At Carnegie Hall ***
Mambo Sinuendo w Manuel Galbán ***
BUFF ALO SPRINGFIELD
Buffalo Springfield ***
Buffalo Springfield Again ***
Last Time Around *** 1/2
JIMMY BUFFETT
A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean ***
Living and Dying In 3/4 Time **
A1A * 1/2
Havana Daydreaming **
Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes ** 1/2
Son Of A Son Of A Sailor **
Volcano **
Coconut Telegraph ** 1/2
Somewhere Over China **
One Particular Harbor ** 1/2
Riddles In The Sand **
Songs You Know By Heart *** 1/2
Last Mango In Paris * 1/2
Floridays * 1/2
License To Chill ***
Buried Treasure, Vol. 1 **
Life On The Flip Side ** 1/2
Songs You Don't Know By Heart ***/
JAKE BUGG
Jake Bugg ***
Shangri-La ***
On My One **
Hearts That Strain * 1/2
BUIL T TO SPILL
There's Nothing Wrong With Love ** 1/2
PAUL BURCH
Words Of Love: Songs Of Buddy Holly ***
SOLOMN BURKE
Rock 'n' Soul *** 1/2
Don't Give Up On Me *** 1/2
Make Do With What You Got *** 1/2
Nashville ****
BURNA BOY
African Giant ** 1/2
BURNING SPEAR
Marcus Garvey *** 1/2
Garvey's Ghost *** 1/2
ANDY BURROWS
Reasons To Stay Alive (w Matt Haig) *** 1/2
KATE BUSH
The Kick Inside ****
Lionheart ***
Never For Ever ***
The Dreaming ***/
Hounds Of Love ****
The Sensual World *** 1/2
The Red Shoes **
Aerial ****
Director's Cut ***
50 Words For Snow ** 1/2
HENR Y BUTLER
Vu-Du Menz (w Corey Harris) *** 1/2
Viper's Drag (w Steven Bernstein) *** 1/2
THE BYRDS
Mr. Tambourine Man
Turn! Turn! Turn!
Fifth Dimension
Younger Than Yesterday
The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968) *** 1/2
Sweethearts Of The Rodeo ****
DAVID BYRNE
My Life in The Bush Of Ghosts (w Brian Eno) ***
Rei Momo ***
Uh-Oh
David Byrne
Feelings
Look Intoo The Eyeball
Grown Backwards
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (w Brian Eno) ***
LAURENT CABASSO
Gabriel Pierne: Chamber Music For Piano and Violin (w Gaetane Prouvost)
(2008) ***
THE CACTUS BLOSSOMS
You're Dreaming **1/2
DANIEL CAESAR
Freudian *** 1/2
Case Study 01 ***
CAFÉ TACUBA
Jei Beibi ** 1/2
CAGE THE ELEPHANT
Melophobia *** 1/2
Tell Me I'm Pretty ***/
Social Cues ***
BILL CALLAHAN
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle ** 1/2
Shepherd In Sheepskin Vest ***
CAMILLO
Mis Manos ***
GLEN CAMPBELL
Ghosts On The Canvas *** 1/2
Adios ***
LARR Y CAMPBELL AND TERESA WILLIAMS
Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams *** 1/2
Contraband Love *** 1/2
LEWIS CAP ALDI
Bloom *** 1/2
CAPT AIN BEEFHEAR T
Trout Mask Replica *** 1/2
Doc At the Radar Station *** 1/2
GEORGE CARLIN
AM/FM *** 1/2
BRANDI CARLISLE
By The Way, I For give You *** 1/2
CAROLINA CHOCOLA TE DROPS
Genuine Negro Jigs *** 1/2
MAR Y CHAPIN CARPENTER
The Things That We Are Made Of ** 1/2
Sometimes Just The Sky **
The Dirt and The Stars **
THE CARPENTERS
Close To You **
Carpenters (The Tan Album) ** 1/2
A Song For You ** 1/2
Now and Then ** (but side one and title track ***)
The Singles (1969-1973) *** 1/2
Horizon ** 1/2 (side one very strong)
A Kind of Hush **
Passage * 1/2
Christmas Portrait ***
Made in America **
Voice Of The Heart * 1/2
THE CARS
The Cars *** 1/2
Candy-O ***
Shake It Up ** 1/2
Heartbeat City ***\
Greatest Hits (1985) *** 1/2
CAR SEAT HEADREST
Teen Style ***
Teens Of Denial *** 1/2
BETTY CAR TER
Ray Charles and Betty Carter *** 1/2
JAMES CAR TER
Caribbean Rhapsody ***
RON CARTER
Chemistry (w Houston Person) ***
ELIZA CAR THY
Big Machine ***
MAR TIN CAR THY AND ELIZA CAR THY
The Moral Of The Elephant ** 1/2
NEKO CASE
Middle Cyclone ***
The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight ***
Hell-On ***
PETER CASE
Peter Case *** 1/2
The Man With The Blue, Post-Modern, Fragmented Neo-T raditionalist Guitar
** 1/2
Flying Saucer Blues
HWY 62 **
The Midnight Broadcast ***
JOHNNY CASH
The Christmas Spirit *
At Fulsom Prison ****
At San Quentin *** 1/2
Johnny Cash Is Coming To Town ** 1/2
Water From The Wells Of Home **
The Mystery Of Life **
American Recordings ****
American II: Unchained *** 1/2
American III: Solitary Man *** 1/2
American IV : The Man Comes Around ****
Unearthed (boxed set) ****
My Mother's Hymn Book ****
American V: A Hundred Highways *** 1/2
American VI: Ain't No Grave ***
Out Among The Stars **
ROSEANNE CASH
Seven Year Ache
Somewhere In The Stars
Rhythm and Romance
King's Record Shop ****
Interiors ****
The Wheel
Black Cadillac *** 1/2
The List ***
The River and The Thread
She Remembers Everything *** 1/2
EVA CASSIDY
Songbird ** 1/2
NICK CA VE
Murder Ballads *** 1/2
The Boatman's Call *** 1/2
No More Shall We Part
Nocturama
Abattoir Blues/The L yre Of Orpheus
Dig, Lazarus, Digg!! *** 1/2
Push The Sky Away
Skeleton Tree ***
Ghosteen *** 1/2
Idiot Prayer (Nick Cave Alone At Alexandra Palace) ***
Carnage ***/ (w Warren Ellis)
CELESTE
Not Your Muse ***
SARAH MAR Y CHADWICK
Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby ** 1/2
KASEY CHAMBERS
Rattlin' Bones (w Shane Nicholson) *** 1/2
Wreck and Ruin (w Shane Nicholson) *** 1/2
Bittersweet **
Dragonfly *** 1/2
Campfire *** /
CHANCE THE RAPPER
Coloring Book *** 1/2
TOM CHAPLIN
Twelve Tales Of Christmas * 1/2
MICHAEL CHAPMAN
50 ***
BILL CHARLAP
Love Is Here To Stay (w Sandy Stewart) *** 1/2
Double Portrait ** 1/2
Something To Remember (w Sandy Stewart) ***
The Silver Lining: The Songs Of Jerome Kern (w Tony Bennett) *** 1/2
Notes From New York **
RAY CHARLES
Ray Charles At Newport
The Genius Of Ray Charles
The Genius Sings The Blues
Soul Meeting (w Milt Jackson)
The Genius After Hours
The Genius Hits The Road
Dedicated To You
Genius+ Soul + Jazz
Ray Charles and Betty Carter *** 1/2
Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music ****
Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music Volume Two ****
Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul
The Spirit Of Christmas **
The Birth Of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm and Blues Recordings
****
Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection ****
The Complete Country and Western Recordings *** 1/2
Genius Loves Company **
Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959) *** 1/2
Ray Sings, Basie Swings **
CHA THAM COUNTY LINE
Strange Fascination **
CHEAP TRICK
Bang, Zoom, Crazy ...hello ** 1/2
In Another World *** 1/2
CYRUS CHESTNUT
Journeys *** 1/2
THE CHICKS AKA DIXIE CHICKS
Wide Open Spaces ** 1/2
Fly ***
Home *** 1/2
Taking The Long Way Home ***
Gaslighter ***
THE CHIEFT AINS
Irish Heartbeat (w Van Morrison) *** 1/2
The Bells Of Dublin *** 1/2
San Patricio ***
TYLER CHILDERS
Purgatory ***
CHILDISH GAMBINO
Awaken, My Love! ** 1/2
COREY CHISEL
Cabin Ghosts ep ***
Old Believers ***
THE CHORDETTES
Collection 1951-1962 ** 1/2
TIM CHRISTENSEN
Honeyburst! *** 1/2
Pure McCartney *** 1/2
CHROMEO
White Women ***/
CHRONIXX
Chronology ***
ERIC CHURCH
The Outsiders ***
Desperate Man ***
Soul ** 1/2
CIMARRON
Orinoco ***
THE CIVIL WARS
Barton Hollow ***
The Civil Wars *** 1/2
ERIC CLAPT ON
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs *** 1/2
Unplugged *** 1/2
From The Cradle **
Riding With The King (w BB King) *** 1/2
Play The Blues (w Wynton Marsalis) *** 1/2
Happy Xmas * 1/2
BRANDY CLARK
12 Stories ***
Big Day In A Small Town **
Your Life Is A Record *** 1/2
GAR Y CLARK JR
This Land **
GUY CLARK
My Favorite Picture Of You *** 1/2
PETULA CLARK
From Now On ***/
SONNY CLARK
The Sonny Clark Trio *** 1/2
KELL Y CLARKSON
Piece By Piece ***
Meaning Of Life ** 1/2
THE CLASH
The Clash *** 1/2
Give 'em Enough Rope *** 1/2
London Calling ****
Sandinista!
Combat Rock ***
PATSY CLINE
Patsy Cline (1957) *** 1/2
Showcase (1961) ****
Sentimentally Yours (1962) ***
The Patsy Cline Story ****
Patsy Cline's 12 Greatest Hits ****
ROSEMAR Y CLOONEY
Tenderly
Blue Rose *** 1/2
Ring Around Rosie
Swing Around Rosie
Fancy Meeting You Here (w Bing Crosby)
Rosie Swings Softly
Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie!
Rosie Solves The Swingin' Riddle
Sings Country Hits From The Heart (1963) ** 1/2
Love *** 1/2
Do You Miss New York? *** 1/2
Still On The Road *** 1/2
Demi-Centennial ***
Dedicated To Nelson ***
White Christmas
Brazil (w John Pizzaerelli)
COCONUT RECORDS
Nighttiming (2007) ** 1/2
LEONARD COHEN
Songs of Leonard Cohen ****
Songs From A Room ***
Songs Of Love and Hate **1/2
New Skin For The Old Ceremony **
Death Of A Ladies' Man * 1/2
Recent Songs ***/
Various Positions *** 1/2
I'm Your Man *** 1/2
The Future
Ten New Songs
Dear Heather
Old Ideas *** 1/2
Popular Problems ***/
Can't For get: A Souvenir Of The Grand Tour ***
You Want It Darker *** 1/2
Thanks For The Dance ***
COLDPLA Y
Parachutes ***
A Rush Of Blood To The Head *** 1/2
X and Y ** 1/2
Viva La Vida or death and All His Friends ** 1/2
Mylo Xyloto **
Ghost Stories ** 1/2
FREDDY COLE
Singin' The Blues ** 1/2
My Mood Is You ** 1/2
J COLE
2014 Forest Hills Drive *** 1/2
4 Your Eyez Only ** 1/2
LLOYD COLE
Rattlesnakes *** 1/2
Easy Pieces
Mainstream
Lloyd Cole
Don't Get Weird On Me Babe
Bad Vibes
Standards ***
Guesswork ***
NAT KING COLE
After Midnight (1957) ****
Songs Fr om "St. Louis Blues" (1958) ****
Destination Moon ** 1/2
JUDY COLLINS
Colors Of The Day: Best Of Judy Collins ** 1/2
Silver Skies Blue (w Ari Hest) *** 1/2
A Love Letter To Sondheim
Everybody Knows (w Stephen Stills) ** 1/2
Strangers Again **
Winter Stories (w Jonas Fjeld) *** 1/2
PHIL COLLINS
Face Value ***
Hello, I Must Be Going! ***
No Jacket Required ** 1/2
...But Seriously **
SHIRLEY COLLINS
Anthems in Eden (w Dolly Collins) *** 1/2
No Roses (w Albion COuntry Band) ***
Lodestar *** 1/2
ALICE COL TRANE
World Spirituality Classics 1 **
JOHN COL TRANE
Thelonius Monk With John Coltrane *** 1/2
Blue Train ****
Thelonius Monk Quartet w John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall ****
Bags and Trane (w Milt Jackson) ***
Giant Steps ****
Coltrane Jazz ***
My Favorite Things ****
Olé Coltrane ***
Ballads **
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman ****
A Love Supr eme ****
Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album *** 1/2
COMMON
The Dreamer , The Believer **
Nobody's Smiling *** 1/2
Black America Again ***
A Beautiful Revolution (Pt 1) ** 1/2
HARR Y CONNICK JR.
Harry Connick Jr . **
20 *** 1/2
When Harry Met Sally ... (soundtrack) *** 1/2
Lofty's Roach Souffle ** 1/2
We Are In Love ***
Blue Light Red Light **
25 ***
When My Heart Finds Christmas * 1/2
She * 1/2
Star Turtle *
To See You **
Come By Me ** 1/2
Songs I Heard ** 1/2
30 *** 1/2
Other Hours: Connick On Piano, Vol. 1
Harry For The Holidays **
Only You **
Occasion: Connick On Piano, Vol. 2
Oh, My NOLA
What A Night! A Christmas Album * 1/2
Your Song *
Smokey Mary
Every Man Should Know
That Would Be Me ***
True Love: A Celebration Of Cole Porter ** 1/2
Alone With My Faith * 1/2
CONNIE CONVERSE
How Sad, How Lovely *** 1/2
RY COODER
A Meeting By The River (w Vishwa Mohan Bhatt) *** 1/2
Talking Timbuktu (w Ali Farka Touré) ****
Chavez Ravine *** 1/2
My Buddy
I, Flathead
San Patricio (w The Chieftains) ***
Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down ** 1/2
The Prodigal Son *
BARBARA COOK
The Broadway Years: Till There Was You
Sings From The Heart
Tribute
No One Is Alone
GAZ COOMBES (see also Supergrass)
World's Strongest Man ** 1/2
Matador ** 1/2
COPELAND
You Are My Sunshine ***
THE CORAL
The Coral ***
Magic And Medicine *** 1/2
Nightfreak and the Sons Of Becker
The Invisible Invasion ***
Roots & Echoes
Butterfly House *** 1/2
The Curse Of Love
Distance Inbetween ***
Move Through The Dawn **
Coral Island *** 1/2
CHICK COREA
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (1968) ***
Return To Forever (1972) ** 1/2
BILL COSBY
To Russell, My Br other , Who I Slept With ****
GAL COST A
Gal Costa (1969) ***
ELVIS COSTELLO
My Aim Is True
This Year's Model
Armed Forces ***
Get Happy! ****
Trust
Almost Blue ***
Imperial Bedr oom ****
Punch The Clock
Goodbye Cruel World
King Of America ****
Blood And Chocolate ****
Spike ***
Mighty Like A Rose ** 1/2
The Juliet Letters *** (but *** 1/2 live)
Brutal Youth
Kojak Variety
All This Useless Beauty
Painted From Memory (w Burt Bacharach) *** 1/2
When I Was Cruel
North **
The Delivery Man
The River In Reverse (w Allen Toussaint) *** 1/2
Momofuku ***
Secret, Profane and Sugarcane ***
National Ransom ***
Wise Up Ghost *** 1/2
Look Now *** 1/2
DANIELIA COTT ON
Rare Child *** 1/2
Woodstock ep ***/
A Different War ep **
JAMES COTT ON
Cotton Mouth Man *** 1/2
COWBOY JUNKIES
The Trinity Session ****
The Caution Horses *** 1/2
Black Eyed Man
Pale Sun, Crescent Moon
Lay It Down
Miles From Our Home
Early 21st Century Blues
At The End Of Paths Taken ***
Trinity Revisited ** 1/2
Demons ** 1/2
Notes Falling Slowly *** 1/2
All That Reckoning ** 1/2
JOHN CRAIGIE
No Rain, No Rose ***
ROBER T CRA Y
In My Soul ***
Robert Cray and the Hi-Rhythm *** 1/2
That's What I Heard ***/
CREAM
Fresh Cream (1966) **
MARSHALL CRENSHA W
Marshall Crenshaw
Field Day
Downtown
Mary Jean & 9 Others
Jaggedland ** 1/2
CHRIS CROFT ON
Hello It's Me! ***
MIKAL CRONIN
Mikal Cronin ***
BING CROSBY
Bing: His Legendary Years (1931-1957) ****
Merry Christmas (1945) ****
Bing Sings While Br egman Swings ****
Bing With A Beat ****
Bing and Satchmo (1960) ***
Shillelaghs and Shamrocks *** 1/2
A Merry Christmas With Bing Cr osby And The Andr ews Sisters ****
Sings Christmas Songs *** 1/2
Bing Cr osby and The Andr ews Sisters: Their Complete Recordings ****
Bing Crosby and Some Jazz Friends *** 1/2
Sings The Great American Songbook ***
Top O' The Morning: His Irish Collection ***
CROSBY STILLS AND NASH (AND YOUNG)
Crosby Stills And Nash ***
Deja Vu ***
SHER YL CROW
Tuesday Night Music Club
Sheryl Crow
The Globe Sessions
Feels Like Home ***
Threads ***
CROWDED HOUSE
Crowded House
Temple Of Low Men
Woodface *** 1/2
Together Alone
Recurring Dream: The Very Best Of Crowded House *** 1/2
Dreamers Are Waiting ** 1/2
RODNEY CROWELL
Diamonds and Dirt
Sex & Gasoline *** 1/2
Tarpaper Skies ** 1/2
Close Ties *** 1/2
Acoustic Classics ** 1/2
Christmas Everywhere **
Texas ** 1/2
AIDA CUEV AS
Arrieros Somos: Sesiones Acusticas *** 1/2
JAMIE CULLUM
Taller ** 1/2
The Pianoman At Christmas *** (great vibe)
CUL TURE CLUB
Kissing To Be Clever **
Colour By Numbers *** 1/2
Waking Up With The House On Fire ** 1/2
From Luxury To Heartache
The Best of Culture Club *** 1/2
Don't Mind If I Do
Life ** 1/2
THE CURE
Standing On A Beach *** 1/2
4:13 Dream *** 1/2
MILEY CYRUS
Plastic Hearts ***\
DABABY
Baby on Baby ***
DAFT PUNK
Random Access Memory *** 1/2
KAREN DAL TON
1966 **
It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You Best *** 1/2
THE DARKNESS
Hot Cakes ** 1/2
Pinewood Smile ***
DAUGHTER
His Young Heart ***
ANTHONY DAVID
Hello Like Before: The Songs Of Bill Withers ***
MICHELLE DA VID
The Gospel Sessions ***/
DAVID AND DA VID
Welcome To The Boomtown *** 1/2
DAVID WAX MUSEUM
Everything Is Saved ***
RAY DAVIES
The Kinks Choral Collection ***
Americana ** 1/2
CEDELL DAVIS
Even The Devil Gets The Blues ***
REV. GARY DAVIS
Harlem Street Singer ***
MILES DAVIS
Birth Of The Cool ****
The Complete Birth Of The Cool *** 1/2
Walkin' ****
Cookin' ****
Relaxin' ****
Workin' ****
Steamin' *** 1/2
Miles Ahead
Milestones
Porgy And Bess
Kind Of Blue ****
Sketches Of Spain *** 1/2
Quiet Nights
E.S.P.
Miles Smiles
Sorceror ***
In A Silent Way
Bitches Brew *** 1/2
Bitches Brew Live *** 1/2
Jack Johnson
DAWES
Nothing Is Wrong ** 1/2
DORIS DA Y
Day In Hollywood (1955) **
Day By Day (1956) ****
Day By Night (1957) ****
Show Time (1960) **
Duet (w Andre Previn) *** 1/2
Annie Get Your Gun (w Robert Goulet) (1963) ****
The Doris Day Christmas Album (1964) ** 1/2
The Essential Doris Day ** 1/2
With Love ***
THE DEAD WEA THER (super group w Jack White)
Horehound
Sea Of Cowards ** 1/2
Dodge and Burn ** 1/2
BLOSSOM DEARIE
My Gentleman Friend (1961) *** 1/2
DEERHOOF
The Magic ** 1/2
DE LA SOUL
3 Feet High And Rising *** 1/2
De La Soul Is Dead
Buhloone Mindstate
and The Anonymous Nobody ... ***
THE DE LFONICS
La La Means I Love You (1968) ** 1/2
LANA DEL REY
Born To Die **
Ultraviolence ** 1/2
Honeymoon
Lust For Life **
Norman Fucking Rockwell! ** 1/2
Chem Trails At The Country Club **
IRIS DEMENT
My Life *** 1/2
The Way I Should
Lifeline
Sing The Delta *** 1/2
The Trackless Woods *** 1/2
BRETT DENNEN
Por Favor **
SANDY DENNY
Sandy
Like An Old fashioned Waltz *** 1/2
Rendezvous
Who Knows Where The Time Goes? *** 1/2
I've Always Kept A Unicorn ***\
JOHN DENVER
Greatest Hits (1973) **
Greatest Hits Volume Two
John Denver -- The Classic Christmas Album
John Denver -- Rocky Mountain Christmas
John Denver and The Muppets: A Christmas Together **
John Denver -- Lime Creek Christmas ***
DEPECHE MODE
Delta Machine ** 1/2
DESTROYER
Kaput ***
JANET DEVLIN
Confessional ** 1/2
TOUMANI DIABA TE
Ali and Toumani (w Ali Farka Toure) ****
NEIL DIAMOND
The Bang Years 1966-1968 ** 1/2
Stones (1971) ***
Hot August Night ***
His 12 Greatest Hits ****
I'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight (1977) **
12 Greatest Hits Vol 2 *** 1/2
Three Chord Opera ***
12 Songs ****
Home Before Dark *** 1/2
Melody Road *** 1/2
All-T ime Greatest Hits *** 1/2
DION
Kickin Child: The Lost 1965 Album *** 1/2
New York Is My Home **
Blues With Friends **
THE DIVINE COMEY
Office Politics **
THE DIXIE CHICKS see THE CHICKS
JOHN DOE
The Westerner ***
FATS DOMINO
Fats Is Back (1968) ***
LOU DONALDSON
Here 'Tis ****
DONOV AN
Sunshine Superman **1/2
Mellow Yellow ***
Greatest Hits ***
THE DOOBIE BROTHERS
Toulouse Street ***
Takin' It To The Streets ***
Minute By Minute ** 12
The Platinum Collection (2007) ***
THE DOORS
The Doors
Strange Days (1967) **
Waiting For The Sun * 1/2
The Soft Parade
Morrison Hotel **
L.A. Woman ***
The Best Of The Doors (1985) *** 1/2
LEE DORSEY
The New Lee Dorsey ***
MICHAEL DOUCET
Lacher Prise ** 1/2
ROSE ELINOR DOUGALL
Stellular ** 1/2
DOUGHBOYS
Shakin' Our Souls *** 1/2
Running For Covers ***
DRAKE
Thank Me Later ** 1/2
The Gift Without The Curse ** 1/2
Nothing Was The Same ***
Views **
What A Time To Be Alive ** 1/2
Scorpion *** 1/2
NICK DRAKE
Five Leaves Left ****
Bryter Layter *** 1/2
Pink Moon ****
A Day Gone By ***
DRIVE BY TRUCKERS
Brighter Than Creation's Dark ** 1/2
DR. JOHN
Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit Of Satchmo **1/2
THE DRUMS
The Drums ***
DUA LIPA
Future Nostalgia *** 1/2
DUFFY
Rockferry ***
DURAN DURAN
Duran Duran **
Rio *** 1/2
Seven and the Ragged Tiger ** 1/2
Notorious **
Big Thing **
Decade (greatest hits) *** 1/2
Liberty **
The Wedding Album **
Thank You
Greatest (greatest hits) *** 1/2
Red Carpet Massacre
Paper Gods ** 1/2
THOMAS DYBDAHL
Songs **
BOB DYLAN
Bob Dylan ** 1/2
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan *** 1/2
The Times They Are A-Changin' ***
Another Side Of Bob Dylan *** 1/2
Bringing It All Back Home ****
The Bootleg Series Vol 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall"
Concert ***/
Highway 61 Revisited ****
Blonde On Blonde ****
John Wesley Harding *** 1/2
Nashville Skyline ***
The Bootleg Series Vol 10: Another Self Portrait ****
New Morning ** 1/2
Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid * 1/2
Planet Waves **
Before The Flood *** 1/2
Blood On The Tracks ****
More Blood More Tracks (official alternate version on boxed set) ***
More Blood Mor e Tracks (New York demos pieced together from boxed
set) ****
The Basement Tapes *** 1/2
Desire ** 1/2
Street Legal *** 1/2
Slow Train Coming ** 1/2
Saved **
Shot Of Love *** 1/2
Infidels ***
Empire Burlesque *** (great songs, poor production)
Biograph *** 1/2
Knocked Out Loaded **
Down In The Groove *
Oh Mercy *** 1/2
Under The Red Sky * 1/2
The Bootleg Series Vol 1-3 *** 1/2
Good As I Been To You *** 1/2
World Gone Wrong ***
Time Out Of Mind *** 1/2
Love And Theft *** 1/2
Modern Times *** 1/2
Together Through Life ***
Christmas In The Heart * 1/2
The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos 1962-1964 ***
Tempest *** 1/2
Shadows In The Night *** 1/2
Fallen Angels ****
Triplicate *** 1/2
Travelin' Through: 1967-1969, Bootleg Series Volume 15 sampler ***
Rough And Rowdy Ways *** 1/2
Shadow Kingdom ("concert" film -- recordings of Dylan singing Dylan) ***
1/2
THE EAGLES
Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) ****
Hotel California ** 1/2
STEVE EARLE
Guitar Town ***
Exit O ***
Copperhead Road *** 1/2
The Hard Way ***
Train A Comin' *** 1/2
I Feel Alright ***
El Corazon ***
The Mountain (w Del McCoury Band) *** 1/2
Transcendental Blues *** 1/2
Jerusalem ***
The Revolution Starts Now ***
Washington Square Serenade ***
Townes ***
I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive ***
The Low Highway ***
Terraplane *** 1/2
Colvin and Earle (w Shawn Colvin) **
So You Wanna Be An Outlaw ***
GUY ***
Ghosts Of West Virginia *** 1/2
J.T. ***
DALE EARNHARDT JR. JR.
It's A Corporate World ***
ANDERSON EAST
Encore **
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
Meteorites **
The Stars, The Oceans and the Moon
BILL Y ECKSTINE
Billy's Best (1958) *** 1/2
HARR Y "SWEETS" EDISON
Ben and "Sweets" (w Ben Webster) *** 1/2
KATHLEEN EDW ARDS
Total Freedom **
EELS
Blinking Lights and Othe Revelations *** 1/2
Hombre Lobo
End Times
Wonderful, Glorious ***
The Deconstruction ***
BILLIE EILISH
Don't Smile At Me ep ** 1/2
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? *** 1/2
ELBOW
The Seldom Seen Kid *** 1/2
ELIZABETH AND THE CA TAPUL T
Elizabeth and the Catapult *** 1/2
JAMES ELKINGT ON
Ever-roving Eye ***
ELLIOTT BROOD
Tin Type ***/
Mountain Meadows ***
Work and Love ***
Ghost Gardens ***
Keeper ***
ELO
Greatest Hits *** 1/2
Alone In The Universe ***
From Out Of Nowhere ***
JOE EL Y
Panhandle Rambler ** 1/2
Love In The Midst Of Mayhem **
EMINEM
The Slim Shady LP *** 1/2
The Marshall Mathers LP ****
The Eminem Show *** 1/2
Encore
Relapse ** 1/2
Recovery *** 1/2
The Marshall Mathers LP 2 *** 1/2
Revival
Kamikaze ***
THE ENGLISH BEA T AKA THE BEA T
I Just Can't Stop It *** 1/2
Wha'ppen? ***
Special Beat Service *** 1/2
What Is Beat? ****
Bounce (featuring Roger Ranking) ** 1/2
Public Confidential ***
BRIAN ENO
Here Come The Warm Jets ****
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) *** 1/2
Another Green World ****
Before And After Science *** 1/2
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (w David Byrne) ***
Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
The Pearl (w Harold Budd) *** 1/2
Wrong Way Up (w John Cale) *** 1/2
The Drop
Another Day On Earth
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (w David Byrne) ***
Small Craft On A Milk Sea ***
Lux *** 1/2
Someday World (w Karl Hyde) *** 1/2
The Ship
Reflection
Mixing Colours (w Roger Eno) ***/
ERIC B AND RAKIM
Paid In Full *** 1/2
GLORIA ESTEF AN
Brazil305 ** 1/2
SHARON VAN ETTEN
Are We There ***
Remind Me Tomorrow **
EUR YTHMICS
In The Garden **
Sweet Dr eams (Ar e Made Of This) ****
Touch *** 1/2
1984 (For The Love of Big Brother) ** 1/2
Be Yourself Tonight ***
Revenge ** 1/2
Savage ** 1/2
We Too Are One * 1/2
Greatest Hits *** 1/2
Peace * 1/2
Thank you, JJ Jackson! For the first and only time, an MTV veejay made a
recommendation and I listened and believed. More cheerleader than anything
else, I don't recall veejays expressing anything other than generic excitement
about each and every video they played and each and every artist they
interviewed. But Triple J, one of the five original on-air personalities at that
channel, slipped up just once. He played the exceptionally catchy song (and
striking video) "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)." The relentless chorus,
the stunning Annie Lennox dressed like a man and sporting that positively
shocking red hair , the synths! It was awesome, it was catchy , it
was...gimmicky? The lyrics were a bit repetitive; they worked but they didn't
necessarily inspire confidence in the songwriters. Maybe they just got lucky .
The song was a great record, sure. But I wondered -- were they a one-hit
wonder , like A Flock Of Seagulls and a million other acts since pop music
began? Back when you forked over a precious $8 just to buy ONE album on
cassette, that was a serious question. Should I buy it? As if he read my mind,
Mr. Jackson said something like, "Hey , that's a terrific song. And if you're
wondering, the rest of their album is just as good!" I think management must
have sent him a memo because I never heard J.J. or anyone else of fering
anything like that comment ever again. The closest they ever got to criticism
after that -- good or bad -- was Beavis and Butt-Head. Heh-heh. But I heard
him, I believed him, I bought the album and indeed, it WAS terrific. As was
their quick follow-up "T ouch." They remained an excellent singles band after
that remarkable, distinctive one-two punch. And if you trim the too-generous,
18 track "Greatest Hits" set from 1991, why you'd have another four -star
album to their credit. (For the record, I'd cut "The Miracle of Love" and both
tracks from "W e Too Are One.")
BILL EVANS
Everybody Digs Bill Evans ****
Sunday At The Village Vanguard ****
Waltz For Debby *** 1/2
Half Moon Bay
The Tony Bennett/ Bill Evans Album ****
Homecoming
THE EVERL Y BROTHERS
The Everly Brothers ** 1/2
Songs Our Daddy Taught Us ****
It's Everly Time *** 1/2
Christmas With The Everly Brothers no stars
The Everly Brothers Sing Great Country Hits ** 1/2
Two Yanks In England ***/
The Hit Sound Of The Everly Brothers ** 1/2
The Everly Brothers Sing * 1/2
Roots *** 1/2
Stories We Could Tell ***
EB 84 ****
Cadence Classics: Their 20 Gr eatest Hits ****
Born Yesterday *** 1/2
Some Hearts ***
EB CD Burnwood (mixtape) *** 1/2
THE EXPLORERS CLUB
Together ***\
The Explorers Club ***
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