911 - Metallica - S&M (1999): Campest Metallica LP? Closer to Broadway than Symphonic Metal, I love the band but there's zero here which is superior to the source - I'd rate Lulu over this. Interesting as a pre-poptimism moment where this collab was deemed necessary to be "serious" 2/5 #1001albums

Love this!

Holy Wars into Hangar 18 is definitely the best 1/2

Tarkus does give a bit of a bait and switch with the cool-ass cover - borderline unlistenable. Rust in Peace may be my favourite thrash metal album end-to-end, certainly from the big 4

Love this record, comfortably within the best of the year

Thanks for heads-up! Will be a great venue for her

I have a Sansa Clip which does the job for basic usage (I use it from time to time for running). Plays albums in order etc. Not sure how available they are now but found this - www.televisionhouse.co.uk/sandisk-sdmx... (this is a more advanced version of mine)

Feel like there's been a lot of great stuff in the past few weeks but in the attempt to avoid recency bias - Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer: Different Rooms