Please Note: All currently produced reviews are monitored on the Only Solitaire Blog, which gives the opportunity to access them as soon as they are written and also - yes! - to freely leave comments if you really feel like it. (That way I do not have to add the comments manually, although I reserve the right to purge the blog at will).

As for the site, all the new reviews are stored in one large file, available for downloading as a Microsoft Word version or in an HTML version. New reviews are being added to the file once per week; a detailed schedule of past updates (at the moment, normally one review per day) is available here in Word format. All reviews are new and, for the most part, independent of past writings even when dealing with records already reviewed formerly. The new format leaves no space for reader comments, but I will be glad to see critique, opinions, and corrections in the Only Solitaire Facebook group that everybody is welcome to join.

Thus, in a nutshell:

Only Solitaire Blog | Only Solitaire review timeline

Only Solitaire reviews A-B: DOC version | Only Solitaire reviews A-B: HTML version

Only Solitaire reviews C: DOC version     | Only Solitaire reviews C: HTML version

Only Solitaire reviews: Important Artist Series (.doc only version for now)

Additionally, for the first ten months of 2016, OS featured a series of "Important Album" reviews in special format, unavailable directly on the OS blog, but linked to it. (Currently discontinued, replaced with the Important Artist Series above).

Jan. 03, 2016. Radiohead: OK Computer
Jan. 10, 2016. Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon
Jan. 17, 2016. The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico
Jan. 24, 2016. Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Jan. 31, 2016. Radiohead: Kid A
Feb. 07, 2016. King Crimson: In The Court Of The Crimson King
Feb. 14, 2016. The Beatles: Abbey Road
Feb. 21, 2016. The Beatles: Revolver
Feb. 28, 2016. My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
Mar. 06, 2016. Led Zeppelin: Untitled
Mar. 13, 2016. Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue
Mar. 20, 2016. David Bowie: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders Of Mars
Mar. 27, 2016. The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Apr. 03, 2016. Black Sabbath: Paranoid
Apr. 10, 2016. Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
Apr. 17, 2016. Pixies: Doolittle
Apr. 24, 2016. John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
May 01, 2016. The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
May 08, 2016. The Doors: The Doors
May 15, 2016. Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
May 22, 2016. Nick Drake: Pink Moon
May 29, 2016. The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead
June 05, 2016. Neutral Milk Hotel: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
June 12, 2016. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
June 19, 2016. The Beatles: The Beatles
June 26, 2016. Talking Heads: Remain In Light
July 03, 2016. Television: Marquee Moon
July 10, 2016. Charles Mingus: The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
July 17, 2016. The Clash: London Calling
July 24, 2016. Arcade Fire: Funeral
July 31, 2016. Pink Floyd: Animals
August 07, 2016. Bob Dylan: Blonde On Blonde
August 14, 2016. Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced
August 21, 2016. Nirvana: Nevermind
August 28, 2016. Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
September 04, 2016. Joy Division: Closer
September 11, 2016. David Bowie: Low
September 18, 2016. King Crimson: Red
September 25, 2016: Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks
October 02, 2016: Wu-Tang Clan: Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
October 09, 2016: The Beatles: Rubber Soul
October 16, 2016: Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin

What you see below is the original version of Only Solitaire, mostly untouched since early 2007. This version will no longer be updated, but may serve as an interesting reminder of past times. If the new reviews are occassionally found to be in disagreement with the old ones, please disregard the old version and concentrate on the new one.

Auxiliary Pages

1. Important Technical stuff:

1.1. Introduction page
1.2. New Additions page
1.3. Guidelines to posting comments
1.4. Personal information on the site's maintainer
1.5. Personal information on the site's commentators

2. Ratings and Numbers:

2.1. The General Rating page
2.2. The Ratings System: A Moronically Detailed Explanation
2.3. A Modest Rock Chronology
2.4. My Full Collection In .XLS form

3. Useful goodies:

3.1. Essay page
3.2. Song Analysis page
3.3. Beginner's Course: A Subjective "Rock Anthology"
3.4. Search for the album you want by browsing song titles
3.5. A few links

4. Useless/Obsolete/Nostalgic goodies:

4.1 My Old Musical Creed
4.2 Subjective/Objective lists of outstanding rock albums
4.3. The News page
4.4. Plans for the future [Millennium Version]

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