Sep 22 2025
Talking Book
Stevie Wonder
Starts and ends strong; contains ‘Superstition,’ arguably SW’s best-ever track. ‘Big Brother’ is breezy w a lyric that is very relevant to the current moment. Would say tends a bit too saccharine elsewhere. For me this completes the 2 album ‘warmup’ to SW’s peak period: his next 3 albums.
3
Sep 23 2025
Cloud Nine
The Temptations
Starts and ends strong; contains ‘Superstition,’ arguably SW’s best-ever track. ‘Big Brother’ is breezy w a lyric that is very relevant to the current moment. Would say tends a bit too saccharine elsewhere. For me this completes the 2 album ‘warmup’ to SW’s peak period: his next 3 albums.
3
Sep 24 2025
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
5
Sep 25 2025
It's Too Late to Stop Now
Van Morrison
5
Sep 29 2025
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
Heartfelt offering by veteran band unafraid of change in the mid- late 70s. The way Buckingham- Nicks were welcomed with open arms and found their footing to create genuine magic within the gentle confines of this long-running act is the stuff of legend. Concept album of relationships on the rocks with all the light, dark and every shade in between.
5
Sep 30 2025
War
U2
Still sounds ground- breaking even after hearing Sunday Bloody Sunday and New Years Day a million times. Several album tracks I didn’t know, all of high quality foretelling of U2 glories to come.
5
Oct 03 2025
Everything Must Go
Manic Street Preachers
Talented guitarist, competent singer, polished production, but I feel on every track they manage to do very little with these gifts and come up with an overall sound that is to me less Brit-pop and more like Scorpions meets Worship Band.
2
Oct 06 2025
C'est Chic
CHIC
Solid gold disco bangers up front, seriously runs out of juice by side 2, ends up lasting only about as long as I would at Studio 54
3
Oct 09 2025
The Last Of The True Believers
Nanci Griffith
Good country tunes in ultra polite packaging.
3