Human Canon Ball Relaunched: A Trip Through Time

baystateoftheart · 2017-10-09T13:55:39-04:00

After a long hiatus, I'm restarting my music diary. I'm rebuilding my top 100 slowly and methodically by re-listening to albums, rating each track, and plugging the results into a simple formula. Geeky I know... There have been a lot of surprising results so far, albums I either underrated or overrated due to what I wanted my taste to be. Now I think I'm getting a better idea of what my taste actually is. Below are the results up through 10/9, with a more complete and regularly updated list available here. Releases that aren't BEA eligible and therefore can't appear in my chart are italicized. 3.75 is the cutoff for inclusion on the list. I'm very busy with school, so I won't be able to do write-ups very often. This will be a sparse diary until I graduate and have more free time. Scored Re-Listens Through 10/9 The Masterpieces: Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys 4.93 The Muscle Shoals Sound - Various Artists 4.79 Superfly - Curtis Mayfield 4.79 Good Kid, M.A.A.D City - Kendrick Lamar 4.79 Acabou Chorare - Novos Baianos 4.78 E•MO•TION - Carly Rae Jepsen 4.77 Modern Vampires Of The City - Vampire Weekend 4.75 Spring Fever! - The Pussywillows 4.69 Presenting The Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica - The Ronettes 4.67 Deep Trouble (EP) - EasyFun 4.67 Boxer - The National 4.66 Odessey And Oracle - The Zombies 4.63 Donuts - J Dilla 4.62 The Classics: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie 4.58 Alvvays - Alvvays 4.55 #1 Record - Big Star 4.54 Graceland - Paul Simon 4.54 The Wayward Bus - The Magnetic Fields 4.54 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground 4.52 Forever Changes - Love 4.52 LP1 - FKA Twigs 4.51 Shangri-Las - 65! - The Shangri-Las 4.51 Confusion - Fela Kuti & Africa 70 4.50 Is This It - The Strokes 4.50 This Is Just A Modern Rock Song (EP) - Belle And Sebastian 4.50 The Harder They Come - Various Artists 4.49 Chronic Town (EP) - R.E.M. 4.48 The Smile Sessions - The Beach Boys 4.48 Endless Summer - The Beach Boys 4.47 Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul - Otis Redding 4.42 Myrmidons Of Melodrama - The Shangri-Las 4.42 The Best Of The Girl Groups, Volume 1 - Various Artists 4.42 Since I Left You - The Avalanches 4.42 Beauty And The Beat - Go-Go's 4.41 The Smiths - The Smiths 4.37 Belle & Sebastian Sing Jonathan David (EP) - Belle And Sebastian 4.34 Dog On Wheels (EP) - Belle And Sebastian 4.33 The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground 4.29 Night Falls Over Kortedala - Jens Lekman 4.27 The Strong: Push Barman To Open Old Wounds - Belle And Sebastian 4.20 PC Music Volume 1 - Various Artists 4.16 Strawberry Switchblade - Strawberry Switchblade 4.12 High Violet - The National 4.08 Easymix - EasyFun 4.00 25 All-Time Greatest Bubblegum Hits - Various Artists 3.89 Lazy Line Painter Jane (EP) - Belle And Sebastian 3.87 The Beach Boys Today! - The Beach Boys 3.86 The Merely Solid : 3.. 6.. 9 Seconds Of Light (EP) - Belle And Sebastian 3.73 I'm Waking Up To Us (EP) - Belle And Sebastian 3.51

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I settled on hip-hop, re-listened to this 2010 gem, and bumped it back into my top 5 for the year with an 85.5. But I didn't have time or energy to write about it, or to do more scored listens that week.

I will be focusing any subsequent scored listens on hip-hop, but in all likelihood I'll be writing more about the genre in the canon game, where I am working through major albums in hip-hop history that I haven't heard.
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