10.0

I suggested that I might have a long post about the concept of the 10.0 (or 5 stars, or what have you) rating for a record album, but I've had plenty of other things to attend to today.

Suffice it to say that if I were handing out big-number merit badges, by glancing at what I have listed in iTunes as my thirty favorite albums, here are those that could potentially receive the ultimate rating (as always, this consists only of what I've heard a lot):

• Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights
• My Morning Jacket: At Dawn*
• Sigur Rós: Ágætis Byrjun
• Dismemberment Plan: Emergency & I
• Modest Mouse: The Lonesome Crowded West
• Weezer: Pinkerton
• DJ Shadow: Endtroducing...
• Belle & Sebastian: If You're Feeling Sinister
• Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska
• Wire: Pink Flag
• Nick Drake: Pink Moon
• Velvet Underground: Loaded*
• Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited*
  
  * = Other albums by the same artist could be considered.

And, I think my 15,000th song added to iTunes will certainly be "All You Can Eat" by the Fat Boys.