Thanks for my l33t sk1||z with smart playlists in iTunes, I've been pleasantly surprised this past week with Wire's seminal Pink Flag, Eleventh Dream Day's luminous cowpunk indie-rock El Moodio, and Portishead's first. For a thirty-year old album, Pink Flag really holds up with style. Listening to it over headphones (was that the first time I've ever done that?), I realised that it even has good production values. For a punk-rock masterpiece.
Now I need to write a playlist that grabs albums where most of the songs have four stars or more.