Neil Young - Harvest (1972)

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1972)

YAY!!! More David Bowie! The world would be a much better place with more David Bowie, regardless if he were to release awesome music (Station To Station) or somewhat meh music (The Next Day). I obviously hope for the former, but I'd be OK with the latter right now too, as the best new album I've heard lately was by some band called XTC.

Al Green - Let's Stay Together (1972)

Mmmm... early 70s funk-pop. This is the kind of music that gives you a warm feeling in your chest, unless you are some kind of demon spawn from hell. I've only listened to half a song and I already want to love Al Green. I'll stay together with you Al, as long as you keep playing this music for the rest of our lives.

Shalimar film soundtrack - Music by Rahul Dev Burman (1978)

I might be a little out of my league with this one. I'm never sure how to rate music that is so far outside of my culture, and Bollywood is about as far from my culture as I can imagine. Even genres like rap or country that I didn't grow up with at least tend to be in my native language. Music like afrobeat or samba are typically in other languages but usually follow similar musical structures I'm used to. But music from eastern cultures like India or China are much different beasts, and I just might not have the ear to really understand the difference between the good and the bad.

Bobby Womack - The Poet (1981)

Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove (1978)

Thus far this has been the hardest album for me to locate. It's not available on any streaming service. Amazon has no new or used CDs for me to buy. Even my new best friend Murfie, which has thankfully helped be find other people who are willing to sell me their copies of obscure or hard-to-obtain used versions, lets me down when it comes to this album. Why doesn't Funkadelic want me to listen to One Nation Under A Groove? Are they being lazy about reissuing their back catalog? Are they trying to drum up the legendary status of their most popular work? Or do they think this album is so atrocious they're essentially trying to delete it?

The Bees (A Band Of Bees) - Sunshine Hit Me

This album was listed in my queue as being by The Bees, but the album I downloaded through Murfie identifies them as A Band Of Bees. Supposedly the former is their real name and the latter is their American name. I hope that doesn't mean the albums are different in some way. The cover art is the same, hopefully the track listing and mixes are the same too.

Prince - Purple Rain (1984)

I've had this one stuck in the queue for a while. It's really hard to obtain Prince's music over the internet. I finally broke down and paid for a copy through Murfie.com, which is a great service. You buy CDs through them and they send you high-res downloadable copies for backup. Not that I couldn't rip my own FLACs off the disc they're sending me, but that disc won't get here for a little while and in the meantime I have my own FLACs to listen to :)

Hugh Masekela - Home Is Where The Music Is (1972)

Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session (1988)

The Trinity Session opens with a lovely rendition of the traditional folk tune "Mining For Gold" sung a capella by lead vocalist Margo Timmins. All I can ask for is more of the same. Ms. Timmins has a beautiful soft and full alto voice, perfect for a soothing lullaby, a powerful epic, or anything in between.

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.

Earth, Wind, & Fire - That's The Way Of The World (1975)

Carole King - Tapestry (1971)

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory (1970)

Jethro Tull - Aqualung (1971)

I'm skipping ahead a bit because I don't really feel like doing the next album on my list right now, it being a dance music album. Since I was going online to find a cleaner copy of Jethro Tull's epic "Aqualung" and the Aqualung album was on my big list, I decided to just acquire a copy of the full album and do my review.

Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking (1969)

Laura Nyro - Eli And The Thirteenth Confession (1968)

Curtis Mayfield - Superfly (1972)