Cream of the crop/Rice of the top:

• Richard Hell - "Love Comes In Spurts": Can another song even come close to that title? Not even. Shame Quine died a while ago, guy could shred.
• Smog - Been reading a lot about this guy -- seems like an enigmatic character, at once guarded and super-arrogant. It's kind of annoying that Bill Callahan (yes, "Smog") gives such terrible interviews and is so standoffish with the press -- he's a genius with the pen, it'd be fun to hear him talk about it. Any of his records are hottness.
• Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material - side A: Haven't gotten to B yet, had to hear
  Chocolate City by Parlament. So-so. This one I was thinking about after the fact more, for sure. Paint-by-numbers pop-punk at this point, but gruff vocals and raw spirit-of-'77 jazz this jawn up.
• 33 1/3 books: I read Endtroducing... and There's A Riot Goin' On in the past three days. Endtroducing... is the better read even though it's only really one long interview and the writer doesn't actually get to the record until a 1/3 of the way in. No joke: doesn't even drop the name until like page 25 or something. Still -- Riot goes track by track. I thought it'd be more about Sly melting down and doing massive amounts of PCP, play-by-play style and writing genius songs. Endtroducing... is a very well conducted interview with a smart guy, who just happened to put together a world class record.