Here is a version of The Big Day whose narrative more gracefully articulates both the joys and anxieties of undergoing a life transition as significant as marriage.

You can’t help but feel a little let down or exhausted by the time Reflektor concludes.

This re-edit is the Missy comeback we deserve.

I Am Easy to Find is a long ride with some questionable sequencing choices. A handful of unnecessary moments drag the album down.

A Ghost Is Born is a really difficult album to love. One of our writers tries to fix that.

This was QOTSA stumbling at a crossroads.

The revisions of new generations have gradually lessened the album’s place at the top of the canon, elevating the likes of Revolver and Abbey Road to the top of the heap.

Let’s embrace the themes, cut the slender songwriting and house some homeless B-sides to create a truly cohesive album.

An anti-Rihanna album at the expense of being a Rihanna album.

Of all the double albums you could possibly resequence to eliminate filler or sharpen thematic focus, none is at first blush less ripe for pruning and rearrangement than Sign 'O' the Times.