XGAU FRIDAY 067

XGAU FRIDAY 067 by Chris Drumm on Mixcloud

[artist links to Xgau/song links to album] 

Norah Jones, Cold Cold Heart, 0:00

Moby Grape, Apocalypse, 3:40

Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Jungle Blues, 5:48

John Lennon, Oh Yoko!, 11:31

Japanese Motors, Single Fins & Safety Pins, 15:51

The Clean, Beatnik, 20:14

Kid Koala, Excerpt from Right Side: slew test 2/ mosquito vs. water buffalo/ slew test, 22:11

Low, Just Like Christmas, 28:12

Drake, Headlines, 31:21

The Mekons, Perfect Mirror, 35:17

Otis Taylor, Ran So Hard the Sun Went Down, 39:36

Indeep, Last Night A DJ Saved My Life, 43:29

Kool & The Gang, Fresh, 49:09

The Mountain Goats, Half Dead, 53:33

Johnny Rivers, Knock On Wood, 56:59

60:07

Randomized selections from a very incomplete (yet pretty large) playlist of Robert Christgau’s Honorable-Mention mentions and Choice-Cut choices, as well as other song recommendations or even faint praise from Additional Consumer News and from reviews mostly of albums receiving less than an A-Minus. (A-grade albums being best heard whole.)