NewCC0069: Moby Grape
- Vintage: The Very Best of Moby Grape (93): **** 1/2
- Moby Grape (67): **** 1/2
- 20 Granite Creek (71): *** 1/2
- Wow / Grape Jam (68): ***
- Moby Grape '69 (69): ***
- Moby Grape '84 (84): ** 1/2
- Truly Fine Citizen (69): **
- Live Grape (78): **
This is a new entry in an up-dated series I'm calling the New Critical Consensus. Several people have requested updates of the older series, and since critical opinions shift, I am revamping the entire system. I am averaging the opinions of several excellent music critics to produce a list of each artist's albums. Rather than using a number system, which was perhaps a bit clunky, I will now be using a five-star system. The albums will be listed in a recommended purchasing order, so new fans will have an idea of where the best place to start buying an artist's work is.
These are not my opinions, although, since I have chosen the critics used (and I'm using many), my taste will perhaps seep through a bit.
Terribly nerdy, I know, but maybe this will help people only now beginning to dabble into certain artists' bodies of work.
Scale:
***** - Masterpiece
**** 1/2 - Classic
**** - Great
*** 1/2 - Good
*** - Above Average
** 1/2 - Average
** - Below Average
* 1/2 - Bad
* - Terrible
1/2 - One of the worst albums ever
Would you consider doing Jefferson Airplane? And maybe the first three or four Steve Miller Band albums (although I know you'd do the whole body of work, I'm really only interested in the early San Fran stuff. If it looks like too much work doing all of it, don't worry about it).
Johnny Waco