King Buzzo - This Machine Kills Artists
9-10

How the fuck do you take an Acoustic Guitar and make it heavy? Then again, this is the front man of the Melvins, who helped pioneer Grunge and Sludge Metal. He does whatever the hell he WANTS to do.

The Smiths - The Sound of... 8/10

I still think Morrissey is a tosser, but the Smiths have got some tunes.

Shivkumar Sharma - A Morning Raga Gurjari Todi 8/10
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food 8/10

Ali Akbar Kahn/L. Subramaniam - Duet 9/10
Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century 8/10
Xenia Pestova/Pascal Meyer/Jan Panis - Stockhausen: Mantra 7/10

Zig Zags - Zig Zags - Cool album, thrashy garage rock, Ty Segall crossed with Motorhead.

Toumani Diabate - The Mande Variations 8/10
Ravi Shankar - A Morning Raga/An Evening Raga 8.5/10
Tapiola Sinfonietta/Stefan Asbury/Jean-Jacques Kantorow - Kalevi Aho: Chamber Symphonies No. 1-3 7/10

The Duhks - Beyond the Blue 7.5/10 (I need more time to really digest the record, but I like it)

Nikhil Banerjee - KPFA Berkeley 1967 8/10
Nikhil Banerjee - Madras 1964 8/10

Hariprasad Chaurasia - Raga Patdip/Pahadi Dhun 8.5/10
Kala Ramnath - Touching Air 8/10
Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swinging Lovers! 8/10
Wiener Symphoniker/Vladimir Fedoseyev - Weinberg: Requiem 7/10

Trio Wanderer - Saint-Saens: Piano Trios 1 and 2 7.5/10
Black Prairie - Fortune 7/10

Zakir Hussain/Ustad Alla Rakha - Tabla Duet: Unique Tradition - Rare Combination 8/10

Down - Purple EP Part 2 7.5/10
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin' 7/10

I am listening to the new Jenny Lewis album "The Voyager" because I am a woman on her period. I give the album 9/10 only because I was pissed off at my boyfriend while listening to it.

Hilary Hahn - Bach: Partitas for Solo Violin 9/10
Ali Akbar Khan - Signature Series Vol. 2 8.5/10
Jenny Lewis - The Voyager 8.5/10

Godsmack - 1000hp 8.5/10

The Florestan Trio - Dvorak: Piano Trios Op. 65 and Op. 90 8/10
Vladimir Ashkenazy/Georg Solti/CSO - Beethoven: The Piano Concertos 8.5/10

Spoon - They Want my Soul. 9.3/10

Yesterdays- Pennywise 7.7/10

LaSalle Quartet - Schoenberg/Berg/Webern/Zemlinsky: Complete String Quartets 8/10

King Crimson - Red 7.5/10 (it loses .5 for vocal tracks)

Red is a classic, even if I only ever listened to it once.

I have to say, you can really hear how Tool and bands like Sleepytime Gorilla Museum have been influenced by King Crimson. When you listen to Frame by Frame on Discipline, you can hear the kind of intricate interplay that Tool have in their songs, and on One More Red Nightmare, off Red, you can hear where SGM stole their sound.

Ramnad Krishnan: Vidwan - Music of South India 6.5/10

I just can't get into it.

Tom Waits- Blood Money 8/10

Vasily Petrenko/RLPO - Shostakovitch: Symphony No. 6/No. 12 7.5/10

People seem to have been neglecting this thread during my hiatus, so here are a few of the albums I've been listening to:

Nasum - Helvete 8/10
Nikhil Banerjee - Afternoon Ragas 8/10
Trap Them - Darker Handcraft 8.3/10
Weather Report - Weather Report (1971) 7.5/10
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come 7.9/10
King Crimson - Lark's tongue in Aspic 8/10
Otto Klemperer/Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra - Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem 8/10

Love teen town

Steve Earle - I Feel Alright 7/10
Mamani Keita - Kanou 7.5/10

Finally finished:

Gyorgy Ligeti - The Ligeti Project (5 CD boxset) 7.9/10

Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 3 8.9/10

I really like it, but something stops me from giving it a 9 or more. I'm definitely going to buy his other self-titled albums and So.

Jaz Coleman & London Philharmonic Orchestra- Pink Floyd Symphonic-

10/10

Absolutely fucking gorgeous. If you have any love for Pink Floyd at all, get this shit now.

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OMD - Architecture and Morality 8/10
Revocation - Existence is Futile 7/10

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain 7.5/10
Ali Akbar Khan and Asha Bhosle - Legacy: 16th-18th Century Music From India 7.9/10

Niche market for that last one

That is how I roll: Esoteric, Eclectic, Awesome.

Bad Religion- No Control: 9.4/10

Amazing punk album

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog- Come Poop With Me: 7.6/10

Certainly an acquired taste and only for fans of the character from his NBC Conan days. I like it.

Mina - Il Cielo in una Stanza 7/10

Never heard about them albums. Must be how irrelevant they are

Teddy Thompson - Separate Ways

Pretty good British folk songs. Cheered me up often when I had a bad mood.

10/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p60YyMExsh8

Pink Floyd - The Endless River 7.5/10

Not bad, but I was hoping for better. Maybe I was hoping for too much. :-\

Bush - The Sea of Memories 7/10

Best album since Sixteen Stone, imo.

Converge - Petitioning the Empty Sky 7.5/10
I doesn't touch Jane Doe or their subsequent albums.

King Crimson - Beat 7/10
Not as good as Discipline or Red; its immediate predecessors.

Prince - 1999 8/10

Machine Head - Unto the Locust 7/10