Rated count is insanely high, not just because I've been leaning on Rhapsody hard but because I've been doing Impulse's twofer series, where I offer separate grades for each original album as well as for the combined package: basically, I get three grades for one record. This will make for a fairly healthy Recycled Goods later this week. The skeletons follow, but not the write-ups which would be awkward here.
I'll hold back a bunch of other records I'd like to hold these together, and the others don't quite look right mixed in. Been listening to Rhapsody a lot this week, which is always good for the rated count. Also been playing two unnecessary compilations of old music -- one jazz, the other rock and roll -- which are things I can linger on.
I say unnecessary because there's hardly anything in either set I don't have elsewhere. But I never get to what I have elsewhere. I did finally set up a new directory to handle the work in, although I still haven't carried over the defunct JCG 28 material. And I did catalog several weeks of unpacking, which I'll list below. Meanwhile, I've been focusing on Recycled Goods this week, and should have a decent-sized Rhapsody Streamnotes before long -- alas, not much yet to recommend.
But I've barely started with I keep chasing down stragglers from , and more often than not find I've already beaten that horse to death. The only A- addition to the post-freeze list was to correct a bookkeeping omission from way back Beth Ditto's EP.
The only new A- on the new list is one I'm actually somewhat soft on but I do approve of the political thrust. I did at least manage to start a pair of metacritic files for new and old. Not much in them yet -- I have scanned all the usual suspects, but haven't seen much of interest yet. I've made a few minor changes, mostly using 75 as my threshold metacritic point score instead of 80 last year -- still thinking about whether to drop down to 70 usually 3.
