Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll (2004)

So who is Mylo? I'm not sure I've ever heard of him/her/them. But the idea that anyone in 2004 thought they could destroy rock and roll, despite decades of failure by others, is quite audacious of Mylo. Just please don't be rap or dance. I'll even take country if it means I don't have to listen to rap or dance.

Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto [featuring Antônio Carlos Jobim] (1964)

I recently reviewed an album featuring Stan Getz and... it was 'aight. Probably my favorite part of the album is how it was kept short and sweet, therefore I didn't get bored. Boredom is a pretty large problem with most jazz, so if this new Stan Getz feature can keep it short and sweet maybe I'll like this one too, and can sorta call myself a Stan Getz fan.

Adam And The Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier (1980)

This is not promising. An album that looks like that and was released in 1980? Sigh. Without addressing the kind of music I'm sure to hear going forward, what the hell is up with this album cover? It looks like a still from a music video shown on a tube TV, paused by a cheap VCR, and taken on a Polaroid. They probably could have achieved the same effect by snapping a live picture of Adam (I'm guessing it's Adam) with Vaseline smeared on the camera lens.

The Divine Comedy - Casanova (1996)

Given the name of this band, the title of the album, and the cover photo, I get the feeling I'm in for some pretentious Warhol-esque bullshit on the level of The Velvet Underground. The only saving grace is the year the album was released. 1996 wasn't exactly the height of pretentiousness unless you were a grunge band writing songs about teen suicide. So I'm hoping Casanova leans more in the direction of say Rufus Wainwright when it comes to high art. That's assuming The Divine Comedy is a high-art type of act and not just some crappy grunge band. I honestly have no clue what this is going to be.

Solomon Burke - Rock N' Soul (1964)

Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - Winter In America (1974)

This album appears to be largely out-of-print and as such I've pieced it together from various sources. Hopefully I have found the official album versions of this material and not crappy live versions, bootlegs of outtakes, or the dreaded cover posing as the real thing.

Electric Light Orchestra - Out Of The Blue (1977)

ELO, or the Electric Light Orchestra as they honestly thought anyone would write out, has two songs everyone knows- an instrumental called "Fire On High" and that song where they really don't want Bruce to upset them. Apparently they wrote entire albums of music that might be worth listening to. Or maybe just one in the case of my Big List. Or maybe none, depending on how I feel about it.