A few album ratings – Part 5

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Charles Bradley – No Time for Dreaming (January 2011)

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Enigma – MCMXC a.D. (December 1990)

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Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel… (June 2012)

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The Head and the Heart – The Head and the Heart (April 2011)

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John Fogerty – The Long Road Home: The Ultimate John Fogerty/Creedence Collection (November 2005)

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George Thorogood & the Destroyers – Greatest Hits: 30 Years of Rock (May 2004)

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Bill Withers – Live at Carnegie Hall (November 1972; recorded October 6)

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Oscar Peterson Trio with Milt Jackson – Very Tall (1962)

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Chilly Gonzales – Solo Piano II (August 2012; on par with Solo Piano, vol. 1, as Gonzales, 2004)

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Antony and the Johnsons – Cut the World (August 2012; recorded live September 2-3, 2011)

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Toadies – Play.Rock.Music (July 2012)

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Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me (February 2010)

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Elsiane – Hybrid (May 2007)

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Aimee Mann – Lost in Space (August 2002)

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Fine Young Cannibals – The Raw & the Cooked (1988)

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Linkin Park – Living Things (June 2012)

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Teen Daze – All of Us, Together (June 2012)

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Pilotpriest – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (June 2012)

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Puscifer – “V” is for Vagina (October 2007)

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Us3 – Hand on the Torch (November 1993)

Part 1 (March 11, 2011)
Part 2 (July 26, 2011)
Part 3 (January 11, 2012)
Part 4 (June 11, 2012)

In the past six months, I’ve mainly been scrobbling music through MOG and iTunes on my phone. Below is a fairly accurate list of my top artists in that time period (in parenthesis: number of times I’ve listened to tracks by that artist).

********** (206) Fiona Apple
********* (193) MUTEMATH
****** (131) Rufus Wainwright
****** (131) Lisa Marie Presley
***** (110) Charles Bradley
**** (90) Pilotpriest
**** (82) Silversun Pickups
**** (82) William Fitzsimmons
**** (77) Toadies
*** (74) Gotye
*** (73) Enigma
*** (72) David Guetta
*** (72) Led Zeppelin
*** (65) Andrew Bird