David Bowie- The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust... (1972) ****
Queen- A Night At The Opera (1975) ****
David Bowie- The Buddha Of Suburbia (1993) ****
Moby Grape- S/T: Stereo (1967) ****
Tom Verlaine- S/T (1979) ***1/2
Al Green- The Reverend: Personal Playlist (2025) ****
Boston- S/T: Kevin Gray Master (1976/2010) ****
The Vibrators- Pure Mania (1977) ***1/2
7 comments:
The Buddha never disappoints.
You're right. It's such an interesting record. I am always surprised by how much I enjoy it.
I'm seeing a lot of 4 star records but don't recall seeing anything higher. What's an example of a 5 star record
The 4 stars aren't grading the record. I don't think "Buddha Of Suburbia" is as good as "Ziggy," but I really enjoyed it as much as I did everything else. I think the Tom Verlaine is a 4 star record, but I really loved listening to the Moby Grape and so the Verlaine didn't hit me the way it usually does.
I've use 5 stars in the past, probably the first time I heard the Kevin Gray "What's Going On?"
I understand these are today's how I feel/enjoyed the record, of course. That is the only way that the Moby Grape isn't five stars. Or Ziggy for that matter.
That said, I like four Bowie records more than Ziggy.
this is posted on the upper right of the page:
"Now Playing" started out as nothing more than me writing down what I listen to everyday. It was another way to start a conversation. It took some time to take off, and now has been getting a good number of hits and comments. To be clear, Now Playing is NOT me grading records. It's me grading the listening experience. I created a Pete Townshend playlist that consisted of 15 songs that I love, so why did it get three and a half stars instead of four? Maybe the sequencing. Maybe I wasn't in the mood. Who knows? Robert Palmer's "Drive" recently came out on vinyl for the first time and man, did it sound great! Four & a half stars! I still like five Robert Palmer albums more. Got it?
It's not unthinkable that a three -star record could get a five star spin, or vice versa.
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