As always, everything is rated on the Binary Scale.

• Roger Waters - The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
  Very similar in style to late-pre-breakup Pink Floyd, such as The Wall or The Final Cut. Actually, it’s what late-pre-breakup Pink Floyd would sound like if you replaced David Gilmour with Eric Clapton (who plays guitar on this album)

  Rating: 1
  Choice tracks: “Sexual Revolution”

• Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
  Often billed as “industrial”, Manson just sounds like metal to me. Not constant, cover-to-cover goodness, but enough good songs to make it a worthwhile purchase

  Rating: 1
  Choice tracks: “Great Big White World”, “The Dope Show”, “Mechanical Animals”, “I Don’t Like The Drugs”, “The Last Day On Earth”

• The Who - Who’s Next
  It’s The Who. How far wrong can you go?

  Rating: 1
  Choice Tracks: “Baba O’Riley”, “Bargain”, “Behind Blue Eyes”, “Won’t Get Fooled Again”

• System of a Down - Toxicity
  More metal. I like it, but not as much as the other two SoaD albums (Mesmerize, Hypnotize) that I have.

  Rating: 1
  Choice Tracks: “Prison Song”, “Chop Suey!”

• No Doubt - Return of Saturn
  I’ve decided that I don’t really like No Doubt very much. There’s only a few songs, across several albums, that I even remotely like. There’s only one on this album, “Ex-girlfriend”, but I do really like it.

  Rating: 0
  Choice Tracks: “Ex-girlfriend”

• Cyndi Lauper - True Colors
  I’ve had this on tape since I was a kid, but I’ve long since lost the tape and have been looking for it on CD ever since. It finally showed up at Rasputin’s this week. I liked it then, and I still like it now.

  Rating: 1
  Choice Tracks: “Change of Heart”, “Calm Inside the Storm”, “One Track Mind”

• The Best of Santana
  The Latin-rock classics you’re all familiar with, plus some more 80s-rock style tracks.

  Rating: 1
  Choice Tracks: “Evil Ways”, “Black Magic Woman”, “Oye Como Va”

• Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
  More classics, with their distinctive (yet not quite definable) style

  Rating: 1
  Choice Tracks: “Go Your Own Way”, “Little Lies”

• More Abba Gold
  I’ve discovered that I don’t really like Abba either. Between the first “Gold” compilation and this one, there’s only a handful of songs I like.

  Rating: 0
  Choice Tracks: “Eagle”, “Angeleyes”

• The Who Sell Out
  I recant what I said above. There’s only a couple tracks on this one that I really like. Rael, one of the bonus tracks on the remastered CD, features a passage that would eventually evolve into one of the recurring themes in “Tommy.”

  Rating: 0 (Much as it pains me)
  Choice Tracks: “I Can See for Miles”, “Rael 1”

• Kitaro - The Light of the Spirit
  Moody new-age music, a combination of synth, orchestra, and even a tinge of rock.

  Rating: 1
  Choice Tracks: “Sundance”, “Howling Thunder”