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Rating Still More Records

From Hell and Back

Terry Barr
2 min readJul 13, 2022
Photo by Frida Lannerström on Unsplash

I so love that many of you are offering your own rating challenges, like this new one from Jeffrey Harvey:

It’s no longer Monday, so on this Tuesday, I have two for you that will up your pulse slightly, or majorly, depending on where you are and if, like me, you’re almost ready for that post-noontime nap.

Remember, we’re using the old Bandstand 35–98 score, irrelevant and arbitrary though it is, so play along and offer what you will as you listen and bug out on your private dancer floor.

First up.

Before it was a TV show, or maybe after cause I never watched it, there was a band called Arrested Development and they had a sound that reached me from Atlanta, their home base. So from 1992’s 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life, I give you:

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Terry Barr
Terry Barr

Written by Terry Barr

I write about music, culture, equality, and my Alabama past in The Riff, The Memoirist, Prism and Pen, Counter Arts, and am an editor for Plethora of Pop.

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