"think it's pretty charming despite its charms" - You pulled a Stephen Thomas Erlewine there ("although the Stones would get nastier in the future, they would never again be this nasty")
I think everything on Ziggy Stardust is good except "Rock & Roll Suicide," and everything on Heroes is good except...uh...I dunno, I guess I'm not wild about "Sons Of The Silent Age"? He's got a number of "half good" albums.
Since I've revisited several Bowies within the last year and heard his final statement I suppose I'm going to knock out the rest of the Bowie catalogue that I haven't heard, which would be his pre-Space Oddity stuff, Pin Ups and every album after 1983 except Heathen (which I adore, but we won't talk about that) and Blackstar. Critical opinions of his 2013 album The Next Day seem to be all over the map and that's from reading the reviews of Blackstar!
I don't mean to suggest that I dislike it when the Stones play blues, or blues-rock--I mean it's just that I think they did lots of things and most of the other things I prefer. And Ya-Ya's really only has "Love In Vain."
I also disliked reading a lot of contemporary reviews of Ya-Ya's because they ALL seem to mention Altamont as if it somehow pre-emptively impacted Ya-Ya's, which was recorded like a week prior. "Oh these songs are so THREATENING and SCARY!"--not to me they weren't.
Some of Floyd's "trippy" stuff does bore me, for the record. Depends on what it is.
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