She's doing great! Just a bit of handful now that she's crawling around and trying to walk!

How do you feel about Aesop Rock?

God that new Ghostbusters theme is awful though. Holy crap.

How could I forget The Beasties AND Outkast?! Disgusting.

Oh I LOVE this track! I spent quite a long time listening to it in order to integrate it into The CZ Mix Season 1 (which is still happening, just taking a while due to my job and daughter being crazy.)

I remembered last night that I forgot to put Anais Mitchell on my list. Her Hadestown definitely makes my list for greatest of the past 16 years.

I'm the same way. I think that the tracks that are good are SO good that it elevates the whole thing, but there are some real low points.

I'm a big defender of all of Kanye's records. I think they all have something interesting or genuinely great in them, but I think MBDTF is his most ambitious but also his most consistent effort.

All the standards really:
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36 Chambers - Wu Tang
Liquid Swords - GZA
Black Star - Talib & Mos Def
None Shall Pass - Aesop Rock
Acid Rap - Chance The Rapper
R.A.P Music - Killer Mike
Good Kid M.a.a.d City - Kendrick
Days With Dr Yen Lo - Ka & Preservation
Beats, Rhymes & Life - Tribe Called Quest
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I highly recommend both Carly's albums Kiss and E.MO.TION. and Taylor's Red and 1989 are both very much worth a listen.

I like its boozy swagger but it's never been one of my fave Kanye tracks. I still don't know much CAN, despite you mentioning them at least once a day every day for 20 years.

I agree that he has a tendency to inconsistent, and there's at least one thing that holds his albums back from greatness (the skits on Graduation, the inconsistent lyrics on Yeezus, etc.), but I don't think MBDTW suffers from that. It is a consistently great work with some of the most inventive production of Kanye's…

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Oh man, I forgot St Vincent, Caribou AND Sufjan. Unforgivable. I'd definitely put Carrie & Lowell in my top 50

most will be quiet and relaxing. Tronquil, as it were.

I supposed I can't really talk, having put Lemonade on my list. I don't think I'm ever gonna lose interest in Blackstar either.

I really thought about putting both Blackstar and Helplessness Blues in my list, but I thought Blackstar might be suffering from some recency bias and I haven't listened to Helplessness Blues in a while & thought it probably wasn't as good as I remember.

Oh I also finally finished Perlstein's Nixonland, which is an incredible book on the American public, conservatism and, of course, Richard Nixon.

Yeah, Flawed But Ambitious is something I've really come to appreciate. I wasn't quite so forgiving as a young man, so maybe that's why FS/LS doesn't have as high a place in my estimation as it should.

I might have a little Justin party at my desk this afternoon. Thinking about FS/LS has really made me want to revisit it.