1000 Times Yes

196)Flo Rida/R.O.O.T.S: Miami hip-hop gets drunk, wanders into trendy club, forgets the way home.=4.5

195)Jim Jones/Pray IV Reign: Same blogworthy punchlines, same decent beats, same ubiquitous singles, way less sales.=6.5

194)Babe, Terror/Weekend: A dreamy blur of Panda Bear textures, rolled flat and smoked.=6.5

193)Keri Hilson/In A Perfect World: Another great talent sabotaged after Timbaland started saving his best beats for his own records.=5.5

192)Slim Thug/Boss Of All Bosses: Back to basics, Houston style—is it wrong to say he was more interesting in the hands of Skateboard P?=6

191)Bela Fleck/Africa Sessions – Tales From the Acoustic Planet Vol. 3: The banjo was invented in Africa, so why play it like a kalimba?=6.5

190)Ekkehard Ehlers & Paul Wirkus/Ballads: Dissonant mosquito lullabies create DVD-quality film noirs.=7

189)Doves/Kingdom Of Rust: Usually wimpy Brit-rockers find interesting new life somewhere between “Planet Rock” and “Knights of Cydonia”=6.5

188)The Paper Chase/Someday This Could All Be Yours Vol. 1/Apocalypse indie-clang turns down pots-n-pans, turns up rapturous melodies.=7

187)Kid 606/Shout At The Döner: Glitch terrorist aims for dancefloors by unearthing satanic messages in B-52s and Detroit Grand Poobahs.=6