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You Love More Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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Rings Around The World
Super Furry Animals
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5 | 2.97 | +2.03 |
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Maxinquaye
Tricky
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5 | 3.05 | +1.95 |
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White Ladder
David Gray
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5 | 3.06 | +1.94 |
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Autobahn
Kraftwerk
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5 | 3.09 | +1.91 |
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New York Dolls
New York Dolls
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5 | 3.12 | +1.88 |
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Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Spiritualized
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5 | 3.15 | +1.85 |
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Junkyard
The Birthday Party
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4 | 2.15 | +1.85 |
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Pink Flag
Wire
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5 | 3.21 | +1.79 |
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Closer
Joy Division
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5 | 3.22 | +1.78 |
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Ace of Spades
Motörhead
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5 | 3.28 | +1.72 |
You Love Less Than Most
| Album | You | Global | Diff |
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Out Of The Blue
Electric Light Orchestra
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1 | 3.63 | -2.63 |
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Sheer Heart Attack
Queen
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1 | 3.63 | -2.63 |
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Black Holes and Revelations
Muse
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1 | 3.59 | -2.59 |
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Queen II
Queen
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1 | 3.49 | -2.49 |
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Live At Leeds
The Who
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1 | 3.31 | -2.31 |
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1989
Taylor Swift
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1 | 3.26 | -2.26 |
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Picture Book
Simply Red
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1 | 2.87 | -1.87 |
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Tarkus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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1 | 2.78 | -1.78 |
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Talking Book
Stevie Wonder
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2 | 3.72 | -1.72 |
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Fulfillingness' First Finale
Stevie Wonder
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2 | 3.57 | -1.57 |
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Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| David Bowie | 6 | 4.33 |
| Neil Young | 2 | 5 |
| Van Halen | 2 | 5 |
| Neil Young & Crazy Horse | 2 | 5 |
| Miles Davis | 2 | 5 |
Least Favorites
| Artist | Albums | Average |
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| Queen | 3 | 1.67 |
| The Who | 2 | 1.5 |
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Fatboy Slim · 2 likes
5/5
Yeah this is a huuuuuuuge album, so fun and super evocative of the time it’s from. What’s this? Fun music? Optimism? Where’s it all gone ?????
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Praise You
The Kinks · 2 likes
5/5
This is the sort of album that’d make me proud to be English. If I was so afflicted. A cool, trippy album. With a wealth of awesome tracks. The Kinks were the coolest band around at the time, and still are.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Village Green
Meat Loaf · 1 likes
2/5
I got tired of this so quickly. Bat Out Of Hell, I’d Do Anything For Love are obviously good but they are so fucking long. Maybe i’m missing the point but all I know is I was glad when it finished.
2.6/5.0
Best Song: Bat Out Of Hell
Queen · 1 likes
1/5
Musical theatre students, just cannot get along with Queen. Shoot me.
1.0/5.0
Best Song: Killer Queen is aight
Röyksopp · 1 likes
4/5
Very coool lo-fi and very 00’s music. It suited a bike ride to work very well, which has become one of the major factors in my ratings on this process.
Quite a few moments in here where I recognised samples, or indeed whole songs, that i hadn’t heard for a long time. Which was cool.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Eple - transported me straight back to 2001/2 in a great way
1-Star Albums (9)
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The Hives
4/5
Yeah, it’s fun, I like fun, alright?
I like a best of, I like being told what to listen to.
Shoot me, this is a good band and they have bangers.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Supply And Demand
Dolly Parton
4/5
Good good what a voice, just elevates your mood. Some great songs here, can’t deny that Dolly is one of the GOATs.
4.6/5.0
Best Song: She’s Never Met A Man (She Didn’t Like)
ZZ Top
5/5
Is there a limited number of riffs? Maybe.
Do I care? No, I love this album. It’s a 5
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Legs
Electric Light Orchestra
1/5
This is definitely an album.
1.0/5.0
Best song: Mr Blue Sky I guess
The Offspring
4/5
This is more like a 4.75. Ferocious, unstoppable, world-at-their-feet behaviour.
I guess, -0.75 for the blonde braids.
DJ Shadow
4/5
imagine waking up NYD 1996 and listening to this for the first time.
world building music.
4.5/5
Sly & The Family Stone
4/5
Loud, funky, angry, fun, groovy.
All you need really isn’t it
4.5/5
Stand!out Track: You Can Make It If You Try
Charles Mingus
3/5
Mad music, not really my scene of jazz and overall I felt quite stressed listening to it. Maybe that’s the point.
L.A Noire chase scene, reminded me of the betrayal I felt in that game.
3.0/5
Morrissey
4/5
Probably Morrissey’s best solo effort, the miserable bastard that he is. Full of bangers tbf.
Close to AFD levels of debut albuming, although if Blizzard Of Oz doesn’t count then neither can this.
4.3/5
Best song - Suedehead cmoonnnnnnn
Suzanne Vega
3/5
Lovely stuff tbf, Cohen-esque lyrics
I mean really what is not to like?
Fave song: Marlene On The Wall
Rating: 3.9/4.0
Nick Drake
5/5
Yeah fucking hell it’s good
Louis Prima
3/5
Some bangers on this, although i prefer David Lee Roth’s cover of Just A Gigolo.
Great voice, great tones, gets a bit samey for me. But perhaps im a luddite.
3.5/5
Best Song: Night Train
Roni Size
4/5
Yeeeeeeeeaasaaahh this is some good stuff, creates an instant vibe and keeps you there throughout. Smooth, developing sounds.
4.6/5
Best Song: No Heroes/New Forms
Circle Jerks
4/5
More albums should be 15minutes long.
Youth rage humour and recklessness.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Live Fast Die Young
4/5
I think I know every single word on this album. Probably one of the ones that changed me when I first heard it.
4.9/5.0
Best Song: She’s Leaving Home/A Day In The Life
King Crimson
3/5
It’s alright innit. Goes on a bit, when songs include other songs it gets a bit silly.
21stC Schizoid Man is a massive riff, though.
3/5
Best Song: 21stC etc
Hugh Masekela
4/5
Man what an album. Sometimes when you listen to someone at the top of their game, it really pulls you in.
4.5/5
Best Song: Maseru
The Avalanches
4/5
Man what an album. Sometimes when you listen to someone at the top of their game, it really pulls you in.
4.5/5
Best Song: Maseru
Spiritualized
5/5
This really does have it all, it’s got so many genres packed in. With perhaps one of the best openers of all time.
It’s a 5 from me.
Best Song: Really? I’m not typing that out. Cba
Aerosmith
2/5
Lyrics by David St Hubbins. This was a struggle, there’s better Aerosmith albums.
2.1/5.0
Best Track: Love In An Elevator
Talking Heads
4/5
Yeah I love this band so much. Fantastic album not my favourite from Talking Heads but class nonetheless 4.8/5.0
Best Song: Take Me To The River
Fleetwood Mac
4/5
Some bangers on here, some fillers, some brain rot too.
That solo at the end of Sisters Of The Moon, mind. Phwoar.
A sturdy 4.0/5.0
Best Song: Sisters Of The Moon
Al Green
5/5
Yes perfect morning music, groooves for days.
Best track: Let’s Stay Together, one of the best openings to a song and album.
5.0/5.0
Neil Young
5/5
Easy 5/5 for me fucking love this album, no skips, every second.
5/5
Best Song: The Needle And The Damage Done
Pulp
5/5
Unreal album from an unreal band, they’re just so bloody good
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Sorted For E’s And Wizz
Van Halen
5/5
A 5* album from a 5* band - it’s fun, non stop and EVH shreds
5/5
Best Song: Panama
The Verve
4/5
Its quite a lot longer than i seem to remember it, The Verve are not a one song band.
That being said there is some filler
4.3/5.0
Best Song: The Drugs Don’t Work
Van Morrison
4/5
Hey Van what’s your favourite lyric?
“La la la la la la la la la gypsy la la la la la la la la woman la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la…”
Lots of nice sounds on this album, he knew what he was doing but you can tell when he got bored.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: And It Stoned Me
Belle & Sebastian
2/5
This feels harsh as i do like Belle and Sebastian, and they’re nice songs but idk maybe I just wasn’t in the mood for twee pop. I wasn’t in a Pixar film this afternoon
2.3/5.0
Best Song: She’s Losing It
Curtis Mayfield
5/5
God listening to this makes you feel so cool.
5/5
Best Song: Pusherman
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5/5
Might just be in my top 10. NY really is one of if not the best.
Maybe I’m a soft touch on the ratings. Dishing out 5s for fun.
5/5
Best Song: Powderfinger/Hey Hey
Van Halen
5/5
Another fantastic start to my day. The best VH album.
5/5 no notes
Best Song: Ain’t Talking Bout Love
Kid Rock
1/5
Things I’m sure of after listening to this:
1. His name is Kid Rock
2. I don’t fw country rap
1/5
Best Song: Only God Knows Why - because what the actual fuck is this?
David Bowie
4/5
Bowie obviously one of the goats but theres a few skips on this album. Maybe i’m just not cool enough.
4.7/5.0
Best Song: Life On Mars - jesus christ, this song is just unbelievably good, can only dream of ever writing something like this.
Simply Red
1/5
This is just not for me. Wishy washy, cheesy, and largely boring.
Surely even he got bored of some of these lyrics?
Redeeming features????? He’s got a decent voice, some of the music was fun.
1/5
Best Song: ugh idk, No Direction, maybe? Who cares?
Steely Dan
4/5
Now we’re talking!
Anotherc album that makes you feel cool. Instantly cultivates a vibe.
4.6/5.0
Best Song: Deacon Blues
David Bowie
4/5
I feel like every Bowie album is at least a 4, most are branching on 5.
Love the musicality in this album, the band feel a bit more like they’re the attraction and Bowie is just running around then singing about random shite.
4.8/5.0
Best Song: Sound And Vision COME ON
Duran Duran
3/5
Yes I am driving my car it is the titles music to someone’s day.
Generally quite mid 80s stuff with some bangers thrown in. The guitar tones are fun and the bassist is on his own level
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Call Me Deacon Blue
Pentangle
3/5
Lots of very nice sounds and beautiful singing. Bert Jansch is a pretty sopectacular guitarist. I’m not sure why this doesn’t quite hit the spot for me. It’s obviously very good.
3.5/5.0
Best Song: Sally Go Round The Roses
U2
5/5
Best Song Sunday Bloody Sunday
Beck
3/5
A thoroughly decent album, but it didn’t leave a massive mark on me. Got a bit bored at times.
3.1/5.0
Best Song: Sunday Sun?
John Lennon
3/5
There are some great songs on this album. But then the rest is quite wishy washy.
And most of them just go on too long, they could all be a minute shorter at least.
Just shut up, John.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Jealous Guy
Elton John
3/5
There are some great songs on this album. But then the rest is quite wishy washy.
And most of them just go on too long, they could all be a minute shorter at least.
Just shut up, John.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Jealous Guy
David Gray
5/5
This might be the perfect album for sitting on a bus on your way to work in autumn with a sprained ankle and a dream.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Babylon/Please Forgive Me
Miles Davis
5/5
This is my kind of jazz. So smooth. So cool. So delicate. Mustn’t touch it
5.0/5.0
Best Song: the entire album is one great song
Sade
5/5
What a voice, what an album.
Sade’s voice could chill me out at any given time i think.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Cherry Pie
Paul Simon
4/5
Some nice tunes on this. Nothing that’ll end the world, but just… nice stuff. It’s a nice album. Well done Paul, you’re out on your solo career. Nice.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Peace Like A River
Def Leppard
3/5
A very middle of the road hair metal album with some frankly cooked production choices. Pour Some Sugar On Me is fucking massive though.
3.1/5.0
Best Song: Pour Some Sugar On Me
Kate Bush
5/5
What is there to say, fucking adore Kate Bush. Any chance to dive into her world is gripped by both hands.
8.0/5.0
Best Song: Jig Of Life/Hounds Of Love
New York Dolls
5/5
One of the most influential albums going. Still feels fresh and raw now. Undeniable 5
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Trash
Elvis Presley
4/5
Yeah fairplay he is good. Also do enjoy recordings in the time that no one had properly grasped what to do with stereo.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: In The Ghetto
Deep Purple
2/5
Like…. It’s okay. There’s some fun riffs. Great great great opener that then just sort of keeps going a bit too long. And at one point there’s a drum solo that just did absolutely nothing. The Joe jonas of drum solos. Why did everyone have to do a drum solo at one point what was that all about?
2.5/5.0
No best song they were all pretty much the same.
The Smashing Pumpkins
5/5
Holy moly. Gotta be up there as one of the best double albums ever.
Twists turns riffs and also 1979.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Tonight Tonight//1979
Iron Maiden
3/5
This album JUST creeps in to be a 3/5 as it has 3 of Iron Maiden’s 5 good songs.
They’re a real shrug shoulders band for me, like someone’s drawn a caricature of metal.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: The Number Of The Beast
Rage Against The Machine
4/5
It’s music that I left in my teenage angst years but that whenever I happen upon I remember how much I loved it and realise how much I still do love it. Nostalgia in its best and purest form.
Lots of riffs lots of FUN and tbf a lot of lyrics that stayed relevant.
Best Song: Wake Up
Fleet Foxes
3/5
Remember when everyone sounded like this. This album made me fondly realise that those times are long behind us.
There is a nice atmosphere to this album, it’s a bit long. A bit over-laboured? (Boring)
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Ragged Wood
Nine Inch Nails
4/5
NIN are so bloody moody and cool aren’t they. A band that sound like no other, and instantly create a mood. But it varies, it amps you up and it cuts you down. I’m angry and want to xry angry tears at you.
4.75/5.0
Best Song: March Of The Pigs
Death In Vegas
3/5
Yeah, there’s some good sounds on thid. Some tracks i really got into. Stop trying so bloody hard to be cool though, freak.
3.5/5.0
Best Song: Aladdin’s Story
Joy Division
5/5
The desperation of a band trying catch more lightening in a bottle, whilst falling apart between eachother and within themselves. The result is something moody, heartbreaking, eye opening… it’s Joy Division and I’m an emo, it’s a.
5.
5.0/5.0.
Best Song: A Means To An End
Traffic
4/5
Yeah i liked this. It feels a bit samey at times, i mean the 60s in general really. Great voice, some great riffs. Would’ve been a 3 but that last track blew me away.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Shanghai Noodle Factory
Gorillaz
4/5
I love this album, it holds a special place in my heart as the beginning of my personal music taste. Still holds up, it’s not their best but it’s their first, as it is a first for me also.
4.7/5.0
Best Song: Rock The House
Soundgarden
4/5
Great band, what a voice Chris Cornell had. Although there are some big hits on this album it’s not my favourite of theirs. Something about it doesn’t fully click into gear.
4.3/5.0
Best Song: Fell On Black Days
Beatles
3/5
I like the Beatles and this is an impressive album, in the sense that they’re only like 17 or whatever and they’ve got about 40000000 songs on it. Can see that the Lennon/McCartney partnership had power.
But it is long, and as an album somewhat incohesive.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: All My Loving
The Beau Brummels
2/5
I think for about a song and a half I thought this album could he a vibe I would get on board with, the twee guitars made the autumn leaves seem a bit more colourful. But soon the guitars became samey, boring, dull. And I realised the sky was indeed grey.
2.0/5.0
Best Song: Are You Happy?
Kraftwerk
4/5
I wish I could’ve heard this for the first time when it came out and changed the game. A great album and the sort of music you can put on near any time.
4.6/5.0
Best Song: The Model
The White Stripes
4/5
The White Stripes were very very very good and this album is front to back proof, simple but great songs.
4.7/5.0
Best Song: We’re Gonna Be Friends
Wu-Tang Clan
5/5
One of the best around, if not THE best, no notes, could listen to this on repeat all day and I just might.
10.0/5.0
Best Song: C.R.E.A.M
Wire
5/5
So many great tracks on this album and they’re all 10 seconds long, what’s not to love?
Unreal stuff and pretty out there on its own, game changer.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Mannequin
Gotan Project
4/5
Very coooool beats was nice to hear the full tracks of some of these, having heard them sampled in other tracks. It sounds very of its time which is no bad thing.
4.3/5.0
Best Song: Época
Nico
4/5
Really do love this album, such a voice and so many songs that just make you yearn, it’s a real yearning album.
4.5/5.0
Best Song: These Days obvs
Queen
1/5
Musical theatre students, just cannot get along with Queen. Shoot me.
1.0/5.0
Best Song: Killer Queen is aight
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5/5
An album that I think everyone embraces at some point and which is so accessible to anyone to enjoy. A vibe creator, it puts you in the right spot. Allthough I can only ever hear Chief Wiggum’s voice during Jammin’
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Waiting In Vain
Sufjan Stevens
4/5
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes indeed yes.
A world building album, full of songs independant but linked together.
4.8/5.0
Best Song: Come On! Feel The Illinoise! Part 1: The World’s Columbian Exposition Part 2: Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream
Michael Kiwanuka
5/5
Yes indeed this is a 5* album. A modern marvel. So much great stuff going on here and on top of it all a voice that glues into your mind. Got so much time for Michael Kiwanuka.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Living In Denial
Throwing Muses
2/5
This didn’t quiye hit the spot for me, it wasn’t bad or terrible, I didn’t lose interest, but it didn’t fully grip me. I like the sounds and the riffs, and the singers voice is unique.
2.8/3.0
Best Song: America (She Can’t Say No)
Best Song: Living In Denial
Stevie Wonder
2/5
Another OK album, I couldn’t really get into it properly and found myself a bit bored at times. Superstition alone pulls it into 3.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Superstition
Lynyrd Skynyrd
5/5
Unreal album. So many fucking unbelievable songs on this, including Free Bird which just never gets old. A stone cold classic.
Free Bird: Simple Man
The Style Council
4/5
Never listened to Style Council before but I did quite enjoy this. It’s a little bit all over the place but I enjoyed that. It’s quite good reading music. Still think Paul Weller is a bellend though.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: that one where they tried being really cool
JAY Z
3/5
Jay-Z has never really been one of my favourites of the genre but perhaps I need to give him more time???
Enjoyed this, real NY sound to it, got a bit long in the tooth at time but overall good.
3.7/5.0
Best Song: The Ruler’s Back
Portishead
5/5
One of the coolest scenes music has ever had. And this is a seminal album from that very scene. It’s moody, atmospheric and extreeeemly chill. Topped off with one of kind vocals that ring true and stay with you. On the edge of haunting.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Sour Times
Cream
2/5
Bit dull tbh. Sunshine Of Your love alright for a bit but that also wears thin.
And Clapton is a ponce. The sound, although being straight up blues, is quite unique. For that reason it branches into 2/5.
2.0/5.0
Best Song: Sunshine Of Your Love
The Kinks
5/5
This is the sort of album that’d make me proud to be English. If I was so afflicted. A cool, trippy album. With a wealth of awesome tracks. The Kinks were the coolest band around at the time, and still are.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Village Green
Super Furry Animals
5/5
Just might be the best band of all time. Weird, whacky, wonderful and Welsh. The whole album is a dreamy trip. It’s not even their best one
5.0/5.0
Best Song: It’s Not The End Of The World
Guns N' Roses
5/5
It’s the greatest debut album of all time, it’s AFD, of course it’s 5*.
Haters will say that it’s not a no skip album, but it’s simply not true. The album keeps pace start to finish with varying grooves and riffs that all feel quite breathless and voiced with the excitement and life of a group who’ve just collectively discovered they have potential.
Without this album there’s no Generation Terrorist, and by degrees set the groundwork for grunge, and so it’s invaluable in my eyes.
5/5
Best Song: Welcome To The Jungle/Rocket Queen
Khaled
3/5
This was fun, a left step from what we’ve had and, in a sense, been building up to this week.
This type of music always amuses me, the fact that it’s (I believe) microtonal and so there’s notes that you don’t normally hear in western music is so cool. We never get those ones!!
Lots of fun genres covered with some really cool grooves and just good music, the cover of imagine gave me a jolt. The album itself did drag on a bit, started feeling a bit bored towards the end.
3.8/5.0
Best Song: El Bab
Jimi Hendrix
3/5
Kind of just got bored of this tbh, a few big hits just about bring it over to a 3.
Undeniably great guitarist, wasn’t quite a songwriter
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Little Wing
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
4/5
The bass player on this album was coooookin. Good old pop rock n roll.
Not listened to much Elvis Costello before, maybe I should!
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Pump It Up
Derek & The Dominos
2/5
It’s better than the Cream album, but it’s too long, with few and far between decent bits. Layla is overblown imo, the riff/chorus release is undeniably class but that’s it. It’s too long. Too bloody long, stopped listening in the weird end-of-a-sitcom series bit.
2.1/5.0
Best Song: Bell Bottom Blues
Michael Jackson
4/5
Yeah it’s one of, if not his best. A pop album with songs that you can’t help enjoying. An opening track that is very hard to beat.
He wasn’t called the king of pop for nothing, shame about the noncing.
4.8/5.0
Best Song: Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough
Taylor Swift
1/5
Yeah, nah.
It’s just slop I think, Blank Space is a highlight and for that reason it’s branched into a 1.5. I forgot how sick of Bad Blood I’d gotten. I’ve got bad blood with Bad Blood. The rest of the tracks are one and the same.
1.5(just) / 5.0
Best Song: Bad Blood
AC/DC
4/5
Brian Johnson’s first album with ACDC. I find it mad that Bon Scott had only died about 8/9 months before.
It’s a good album, you know what you’re getting with ACDC and they’re good at it. It’s by no means in their top albums but it’s a solid head banger album. Also Hells Bells is a great opener.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Shoot To Thrill
Beck
3/5
Another quite middle of the road Beck album, there’s some quite cool production and I enjoyed some of the music and the lyrics but all in all nothing really grabs me. I think I just don’t like Beck that much, shoot me.
3.5/5
Best Song: Farewell Ride
Dizzee Rascal
4/5
So much modern UK Rap/Grime etc can be linked to this album and the scen it helped birth. It’s so modern british/dare i say english in such a great way. Remember finding it so interesting when i first heard it, which wouldn’t have been when it actually released but was soon after. A great album.
4.8/5.0
Best Song: Wot U On?
Röyksopp
4/5
Very coool lo-fi and very 00’s music. It suited a bike ride to work very well, which has become one of the major factors in my ratings on this process.
Quite a few moments in here where I recognised samples, or indeed whole songs, that i hadn’t heard for a long time. Which was cool.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Eple - transported me straight back to 2001/2 in a great way
Les Rythmes Digitales
3/5
Quite nice to have two electronic albums on the bounce. This album is pretty good, felt a bit like i was in some sort of early century video game, like Jet Set Radio Future (which was a FANTASTIC game). Definitely an album with filler tracks, but the filler tracks kept the vibes up, at least.
3.8/5.0
Best Song: Music Makes You Lose Control (Lrd Remix)
Meat Loaf
2/5
I got tired of this so quickly. Bat Out Of Hell, I’d Do Anything For Love are obviously good but they are so fucking long. Maybe i’m missing the point but all I know is I was glad when it finished.
2.6/5.0
Best Song: Bat Out Of Hell
The Band
5/5
Well what can i say really, the dons, its The fucking Band. Multiple listens to this today, The Weight is one of the best songs of all time. Tears Of Rage comes in at #2, and is an unbelievable opener.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: The Weight/Tears Of Rage
Sonic Youth
4/5
I havent got the head to write a proper review, and tbf if I listened to this album right now I’d probably hate it. It’s weird, it’s interesting, it’s mildly inaccessible. It’s Sonic Youth find their sound and (yesterday) I loved it.
4.2/5.0
Stan Getz
4/5
V v v enjoyable stuff, was particularly nice to listen to in fragile mentality. I probably need to spend some time learning more avout jazzzzzzzzzzzz. And then i’ll be even MORE cool GOD I’d be unbearable.
4.3/5.0
Best song: Samba Dees Days
Funkadelic
3/5
It’s no maggot brain, but it is fun. Funkadelic i think are the epitome of that cool funk sound, groove and look. Took me bloody ages to find the right album though and that did annoy me.
3.5/5.0
Best Song: groovallegience
Marvin Gaye
4/5
Gotta be one of the coolest to ever do it, and also one of the best.
I always forget how amazing Marvin Gaye’s music is, his voice has a timbre that is unmatched, it’s so full of feeling.
All the tunes are cool, moody, emotional and sexy almost regularly at the same time.
4.5/5.0
Best Song: Keep Gettin’ It On
David Bowie
4/5
Another Bowie album, another great day. He’s just so cool isn’t he, shows the power of cocaine, when you pack so much into a tight 6 track album.
Station To Station into Golden Years is an amazing 1-2, with Stay keeping the pace up later on in the album.
4.8/5.0
Best Song: Golden Years obviously
The Who
1/5
I actively disliked this album, I do approach each one with an open mind but found this long in the tooth and a bit tired. They sounded bored at times, their chat was shite and has aged poorly, and on top of all that one of them is a nonce.
Redeeming moments; Keith Moon IS a good drummer and the production/recording of the rhythm section helps give the live energy a real boost, the kick sounds like it’s coming for your gut. The medleys towards the end were actually quite good, Amazing Journey/Sparks was good and My Generation is an undeniable track so at least they ended on a good note.
1/5
Best Song: Amazing Journey/Sparks
Fuck Roger Daltry and Pete Townsend, and fuck their shite on stage banter.
Klaxons
3/5
This was a fun trip back to the 00s for me, Klaxons were slightly out on their own in the indie scene, pushing the dancier rave scene.
Rock/indie bands don’t make people want to hit the dance floor anymore, and I think that’s a bad thing.
There’s a great bass sound throughout this album, it’s gritty and messy - it’s indie sleaze. The hits are big, the rest is a bit filler.
3.3/5.0
Best Song: Atlantis To Interzone
Lou Reed
5/5
I love this album and when through an intense phase of listening to it all the time. For me most early 70s albums are ripping off this sound, and it’s a great sound to rip off.
Nearly nothin but gas, but it reaches into 5 for me because the big songs are just so fucking big.
5/5
Best Song: Satellite Of Love
Beatles
4/5
David Bowie
4/5
Bowie reaching the late stages of his career which is where I think his entire art form and ingenuity really started becoming really impressive, and becoming something bigger than himself. This isn’t my favourite Bowie album but it’s moving, emotive and there’s something about his aging voice which really lays the words in.
4.5/5.0
Best Song: I’d Rather Be High
Fatboy Slim
5/5
Yeah this is a huuuuuuuge album, so fun and super evocative of the time it’s from. What’s this? Fun music? Optimism? Where’s it all gone ?????
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Praise You
The Birthday Party
4/5
About as harsh as post punk gets. Everything about this album is so well crafted, it all describes itself and promotes what it’s supposed to be and what it’s about. Which begs the question - what is it about?
I dunno.
Nick Cave’s got one of the best voices around and is simply a very very very cool guy.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Big Jesus Trash Can
Various Artists
4/5
A no nonsense Christmas album, gets the day going, doesn’t get annoying. What more do you want?
4.5/5.0
Best Song: they’re all the same
The Specials
3/5
The good songs on this album really are great. Gangsters, Too Much Too Young etc etc. But that’s kinda it for me, I think Ska is a genre that had a place in my younger heart, feels a bit lost on me now. That being said Terry Hall is a real MVP.
3.6/5.0
Best Song: Gangsters
Jorge Ben Jor
4/5
It’s fun, it’s groovy, it’s engaging. I could listen to this album at a party, I could dance to it, and I could do a days work to it. It’s just good stuff. Never heard it before but it’s definitely staying in the library.
4.5/5.0
Best Song: Meus Filhos, Meu Tesouro
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades
4/5
Yesyeyseyyeysydysyeysyeysyeys get me to South America and get me on the cocktails
4.8/5.0
Best Song: Ojos
The Isley Brothers
5/5
Such an insanely good, funky album. Some of those synth?organ?guitar? Solos and tones are just unreal, love it. Love it love it love it
5/5
Best Son: Summer Breeze
Eric Clapton
2/5
There’s some cool gospel-choir style backing vocals throughout this album which I did quite enjoy. And a couple of song highlights such as Mainline Florida and Please Be With Me. There’s also a completely unnecessary cover of Bob Marley.
2.0/5.0
Best Song: Please Be With Me
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5/5
Might just be my favourite Neil Young album, has so many songs that I just utterly love. Kicking off with Cinnamon Girl, a riff that rhythmically embeds itself in you so that 4 hours later you’re still tapping along to it, slightly headbanging to it.
He really is the GOAT, I love it. It’s a perfect album, it’s 5.0/5.0.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Down By The River
Oasis
5/5
What a band, they may have ripped a lot of it off but the energy, attitude and production makes up for it. A couple of dud tunes but the hits? What hits they are.
5.0/5.0
Could (and have) listened to this all day
Best Song: Colombia
Neil Young
5/5
He is just so good, every album so far is perfect. This album evokes feelings that reflect the title so well. Heart break, hiraeth.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Southern Man
Could (and have) listened to this all day
Best Song: Colombia
The Jam
3/5
This album didn’t do much for me, felt quite same-y. Saying that there are some stand out tracks. English Rose is a stunning song, and also ‘A’ Bomb In Wardour Street among others. I’m starting to realise The Jam were alright like, weren’t they?
3.2/5.0
Best Song: English Rose
Ali Farka Touré
3/5
This was decent, maybe not fully my thing but I did appreciate a lot of it, at points I did start feeling like I was in a Simon Reeve documentary, and he really annoys me.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Amandrai
Sister Sledge
5/5
The big songs on this album are just so insanely big, it’s a greatest hits album. Some of the coolest, sexiest music you can listen to. Voices like honey. Grooves that get you moving.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Thinking Of You
Parliament
4/5
An album to get you GOING.
Yes it’s the funk the funk is here get the funk we need the funk you’ve gotta have that funk we’ve got it, it’s the funk.
4.5/5.0
Best Song: Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication
Best Song:
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4/5
I am somewhat a Luddite in regards to jazz etc - is this jazz? It feels like it. Coffee shop jazz.
Anyway this is more up my street kind of jazz (if it is jazz, and if it isn’t I guess I’ll just go fuck myself).
Had never knowingly listened to this artist until Take Five came on, which I did obviously know, and used to be on every arts and crafts show in the early 00’s.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Everybody’s Jumpin
Ryan Adams
2/5
A lot of this album sounded like it was trying to get used in a montage/narration section in Scrubs. There’s some good songs amongst the chaff but it is very long. I feel I missed the boat with Ryan Adams, and then unfortunately he surrounded himself with controversy. So I never gave him a fair try. having a double album as your second album is ballsy, I will say.
2.7/5.0
Best Song: Nobody Girl/When The Stars Go Blue
Manu Chao
4/5
Loved this album, threw me back a fair few years to my brother showing it to me. It’s fun, energetic, bouncing music. Could listen to it all day, made me dream of the sun shining on my face.
4.2/5.0
Best Song: Bongo Bong
Jurassic 5
3/5
Some very coooooool sounding musics and flows like rivers, the hits were really good, the other songs were like not quite as good echoes.
3.7/5.0
Best Song: A Day At The Races
Amy Winehouse
5/5
Man what a voice, and lyrics of vemom and heartbreak.
It’s hard to find songs i didnt like, or that didnt fit into place, its so good, and its still not as good as Back To Black. What a talent.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: October Song
Bill Callahan
3/5
Very nice music, a silky voice, some borderline lyricism (your partner is a tree?).
Some stuff i recognised and liked, what was new to me i found myself on the fence on.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Eid Ma Clack Shaw
1/5
There’s a couple of stand out songs on this album, unfortunately something about Muse grates on me, it might be Matt Bellamy’s voice, it might be the harmonies.
They have some good riffs; Starlight’s piano, Supermassive Black Hole, Assassain. But the surrounding music/lyrics of the song feel a bit… i dunno, lame?
Sorry Mr Muse
1.5/5.0
Best Song: Starlight/Assassain?
The Young Rascals
2/5
60’s equivalent of landfill indie, pretty bland, inoffensive but also unmemorable.
Felt like library music for 60s nostalgia shows.
Some cool instrumentation on the sitar (obviously) and the flute.
2.0/5.0
Best Song: the last one whatever that was called
The Cure
5/5
One of the best Cure albums, it’s atmospheric, it sets the mood and runs with it, it’s beautiful.
Pictures Of You is so so so so good.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Pictures Of You
Sam Cooke
4/5
Soms good stuff for a Monday morning this. Great voice, great energy, it’s got everything you want from a live album.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Chain Gang(?)
David Bowie
5/5
Never listened to this Bowie album before, but I absolutely loved it. It’s slick, groovy, sexy, moody and it’s now one of my fave Bowie albums.
maybe it’s just because it’s new to me - but it’s is a 5 for me
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Somebody Up There Likes Me
Ramones
4/5
I mean it’s utterly iconic isn’t it, 3 chords and some attitude. Underneath the distortion and noice you find catchy, simple, snapshot of life pop songs.
4.5/5.0
Best Song: Judy Is A Punk
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
1/5
No thanks, even the artwork is terrible, there’s really not much from this album that is redeemable for me. The last song was okay?
1.0/5.0
Pink Floyd
3/5
Now this is prog rock I can get on board with, I suppose it’s less prog than most prog rock.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond is an unbelievable song, as is Wish You Were Here, admittedly there’s some forgettable tracks in between.
3.5/5.0
Best Song: Shine On You Crazy Diamond, pts1-5
Willie Nelson
3/5
Just walking down the middle of that slow sad country road eh?
I like Willie Nelson, and I like some of his music, but this didn’t quite connect for me. It was okay, maybe a bit bland?
His voice is just class, it’s beautiful, and the music certainly does set a mood.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
Christina Aguilera
3/5
The bangers on this album really are bangers, early 00s pop at it its finest with slick pristine production and catchy choruses.
Unfortunately, it’s a double album and it’s over 2hrs long.
The disc1 closer is an interesting exercise in pop hubris, having a song dedicated to your fans that ends with messages from fans saying how great you are is a choice.
3.5/5.0
Best Song: Ain’t No Other Man
Queen
1/5
11 songs that I’d never listened to before.
11 songs that I never want to listen to again.
I simply do not get Queen, is this good? It’s feverish at points.
1/5
Best Song: the last one
Bob Dylan
5/5
Theres a lot of Dylan songs i really really love on this albuk, and its still not even one of his best??????
What a man, imagine writing just one of the songs on this album.
Its all over now baby blue, its alright ma (im only bleeding), maggies farm, tambourine man, SHB!! Christ alive
5.0/5.0
Best Song: It’s All Over Now Baby Blue
The War On Drugs
3/5
Very heavy nostalgia trip on this one, this album was huge amonst my group of friends and we all tried to TWOD almost obsessively at each and every possibility.
The album dragged a bit more than i remembered, i guess the two big hits are right at the start so the momentum feels a bit lacking after??
Maybe im only here for the glory i dunno, i really enjoyed living 10 years ago again for a bit.
3.6/5.0
Best Song: Under The Pressure
Moby
4/5
When did Moby become so irritating and lame?? Was it before or after this groundbreaking amazing album?
The sound of this record is so extremely reminiscent of its time. It’s cool, it feels somehow optimistic even on the slower - or perhaps “sadder” - tracks. And it is cool.
The opening track features on the Holes soundtrack, I was contemplating how good that films soundtrack is on my way to work yesterday.
Porcelain features on numerous adverts for cars, life insurance, it’s on films - it’s everywhere.
This album is without doubt influential and, although reminiscent of a very specific time in history, timeless.
4.5/5.0
Best Song: Run On
Liz Phair
2/5
Feels mid, felt almost like AI slop, is this what they fed the machine?
There was some cool bits I enjoyed more towards the tail end of the album, but for me it felt a bit boring.
2.0/5.0
Best Song: Johnny Sunshine
The Boo Radleys
3/5
Never really listened to a lot of The Boo Radleys, this album was OK, it was pretty good.
A lot of it felt extremely of its time - not necessarily in a bad way, it was cool and kind of nostalgic. At times they pushed the boat out and got a bit weird, which I enjoyed.
But overall nothing really cemented itself in my mind.
3.0/5.0
Best song: Take The Time Around
Motörhead
5/5
Fuck yeah, it’s fast, it’s heavy, it’s largely about shagging, but it’s fun.
Motörhead are one of those bands that really nailed each part of what they were about.
They sounded loud and fast, and wrote songs to match. They sang about drinking, taking drugs, sex, gambling, living life to the fullest and westerns. And they did most of that as often as possible whilst dressed as cowboys.
RIP Lemmy
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Ace Of Spades/Live To Win
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
5/5
Welllllllll what can you say, some iconic songs on this album which from start to finish is just very nice and great.
There’s really not much else to say, it’s just really fucking good like.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: almost cut my hair
Queen
3/5
The best of the Queen albums we’ve had so far, it’s got some decent tracks on it. You’re my best friend and Bohemian rhapsody are stand outs.
Then there’s that awful cover of God Save The Queen at the end, no international anthem has ever been improved with electric guitar, it’s a fact, it never gets better. And GSTQ wasn’t a great anthem to begin with.
If I pretend that cover isn’t there, which I will, then it’s a solid mid tier 3/5 album.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: You’re My Best Friend
SAULT
4/5
V much enjoyed this, it’s cool, the message is strong and the music is slick, well produced and just great. Never listened to SAULT before, but definitely will be doing so again.
4.3/5.0
Best Song: Bow
Maxwell
3/5
This album really passed me by quite ineffectually , it’s not awful, it’s not amazing, its solid background music.
I’m sitting in a coffee shop reading a book etc etc
3.0/5.0
Best song: about halfway through there was a good one
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4/5
First time I’ve listened to a full Siouxsie album, it’s so cool!
Extremely of its time in the best way. Moody, chorus bass, chorus everything, reverb everywhere. Killer vocals from Souxsie Soux, and they’re all catchy songs in their gothic ways. Spellbound is a killer opening track.
4.5/5.0
Best Song: Monitor / Spellbound
Best Song:
The Doors
4/5
Some belters on this album. The Doors really nailed their own sound, like they really do sound like The Doors don’t they?
Its a v good album, good tunes, good runtime, when it closed I wanted more doors to open.
4.5/5.0
Best Song: Peace Frog - holy fuxk what a banger
Frank Ocean
4/5
I remember this album and Frank Ocean being huuuuuuge at the time of this release. But it kind of passed me by.
I enjoyed it, its cool, theres some great stuff going on underneath the lyrics and the lyrics themselves are great, really well crafted and tell the story clearly.
It’s quite out on it’s own in terms of what was out at the time i think, and stands up to task with that.
4.2/5.0
Best Song: Pyramids
Curtis Mayfield
3/5
Thissssss kind of passed me by im sorry to say. I love Curtis Mayfield, maybe I just love the hits, I’m sorry!
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Hard Times
Heaven 17
4/5
Yeah fuck yeah this was good. Funky, weird, futuristic, gothic and electonic all of it. Future sailors
Never listened to any Heaven 17 styff before but deffo will again.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Song With No Name
Pink Floyd
2/5
Wishy washy Beatles LSD era B-Sides. Couple of solid tunes but largely just a bit silly and bland. They moved on to better things.
2.3/5.0
Best Song: Lucifer Sam
Radiohead
4/5
Moody, depressing and atmospheric, its very on brand, its very radiohead.
Its a good album, i dont think i was in the mood for it on the day.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: The National Anthem or whatever
Radiohead
4/5
Is this list trying to make me spiral???
Yeah another v good album, it’s a groundbreaker, everyone knows it, its very very good. Its quite depressing, it’s bleak, but there’s something in the music that holds you afloat.
On this listen I’ve changed my mind and now prefer this to Kid A.
4.5/5.0
Best Song: Exit Music
Robbie Williams
3/5
Okay, theres some major pop slop (Clean) on this album, but theres also some extremely huge bangers and overall? It’s a laugh, it’s fun, it’s cheesy - what else do you want from Robbie Williams?
I think realistically it’s not an album to change the world. But it is an album that offers you a clear and succint view into the heart of british pop culture in 1997, which is essentially what Robbie Williams was.
3.5/5.0
Best Song: Angels, obviously.
Love
4/5
Hell yeah bluesy cool and just extremely good. Also short and to the point, i love a good succint album, why say any more?
4.5/5.0
Best Song: Orange Skies
5/5
I think it’s my favourite Bowie album, just wall to wall bangers. A whole world created. Perhaps the best opener and closer to an album of all time?? Its unreal how good this album is, i love it. What an artist
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Five Years/Rock N Roll Suicide
4/5
Shes so cool isnt she? Lots of really cool tracks, all quite mesmerising, it pulls you in, enchants you and keeps you there.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Horses In My Dreams
R.E.M.
4/5
Fuck yeah finally some R.E.M.
I really like this R.E.M era, fun and groovy and weird, some sounds not dissimilar to Cardiacs. And then along comes Orange Crush, one of their all time greats.
4.5/5.0
Best Song: Orange Crush
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3/5
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs were so cool to anyone who was there at the right time. Maps is such a good song, it’s a stick of indie dynamite written to bring an emotional end to any coming of age drama. No one else needs to write one now, they’ve done it.
The album in full isn’t wall to wall enjoyment, there’s some duds. But it’s incredibly of it’s time in a great way. The 00’s were good !
3.5/5.0
Best Song: Maps
Bon Jovi
3/5
Can I shock you? I think I actually loved this.
It’s a Bon Jovi greatest hits (almost) with an admittedly terrible title.
There’s some real 80s slop on here with ridiculous lyrics but that’s the point i suppose - silly, ridiculous, loud and raucus. It’s stadium rock, or it wants to be.
3.7/5.0
Best Song: You Give Love A Bad Name
Drive-By Truckers
4/5
Hell yeah brother lets fucking go.
A double album with LEGS this is great, and it’s so heavily charged.
4.2/5.0
Best Song: Dead Drunk and Naked
Eagles
4/5
Such a good album, surely the best opening and title track of all time?
Hotel California is the ultimate story song, it’s so good, each part intertwining and keeping you engaged.
Then following that the rest of the album stays on par, beautiful songs. Eagles get shat on quite a lot and perhaps often rightly so, but this album is great. Maybe they don’t always deserve it.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Hotel California
Iron Maiden
3/5
Kind of ineffectual for me, it’s interesting to compare to later Iron Maiden albums. A bit more bluesy, proggy perhaps with hints of what was to come. A band finding their feet.
Prefer these vocals to Bruce Dickinson - I think? Or maybe it’s just different.
Some pure shredding behaviour on this, love to see it.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Remember Tomorrow
Peter Gabriel
3/5
At first I was unenthusiastic about this album, then Sledgehammer came on and I was fully roped in. Give me more synths and glorp bass I want it all.
Not my usual listening but it’s fun and extremely of its time in a good way.
3.5/5.0
Best Song: Sledgehammer
Missy Elliott
4/5
Misssssssss E what a belter, it’s got everything you want from a hip hop record.
Work It has filled club rooms ever since it was released, it’s a staple in the catalogue of any DJ, for nearly any themed night it can slip in. A chameleon.
4.5/5.0
Best Song: Work It
The Jesus And Mary Chain
4/5
The wettest drum reverb you’ve ever heard. Followed by a barrage of distortion and a sneering attitude. It’s very up my street. Darklands is moody, melodic. I prefer their debut, but it’s a solid follow up.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: April Skies
LCD Soundsystem
3/5
it’s a fun dancey album, makes me think of good times in indie discos. But tbf it gets a bit long in the tooth and although there are some huge standouts there’s also a lot of meh.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: All My Friends
Paul Simon
4/5
Really good isn’t it?
Beautiful songs that make you wish you were on holiday. Fretless bass grooves that feel slick and cool, and extremely 80s, underpinning Paul Simon’s lighter than air voice.
4.5/5.0
Best Somg: You Can Call Me Al obviously
Frank Black
4/5
Hellllllllll yeah, the sort of album that makes me want to write more albums. It’s weird and engaging, emotive and loud.
Chord and key changes that just keep coming at you.
Lyrics that stay in your ear, in your mind.
A great album, Frank Black really is a standout artist.
4.8/5.0
Best Song: Freedom Rock
3/5
X are a cool band aren’t they?
This album was good, it was fun, it was punk, jumpy, rocking, and I liked it for those reasons.
Saying that, not much of it really stuck in my mind. I prefer their stuff of Los Angeles (although perhaps that’s a Tony Hawks bias).
All in all, a solid punk(?) album. With an album cover that looks like it should be on a more modern hip hop album.
3.0/5.0
Best song: In This House That I Call Home
Kraftwerk
5/5
An absolutely unreal album, it’s beautiful, it’s perfect. Kraftwerk really fucking changed the world of music.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Kometenmelodie 2
Miles Davis
5/5
Holy moly this is so good. I could listen to this daily for the rest of my life on not tire of it. In fact I might just do that.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: both of them
Keith Jarrett
3/5
I appreciated the music. It was beautiful, emotive, impressive. It moved and flowed and took you on the same journey as everyone in attendance at the concert.
Keith Jarrett’s groans in the background I did not appreciate. Get a room Keith.
3.5/5.0
Best Song: Part II c
Muddy Waters
4/5
I mean it’s Mr Blues himself. The OG. How many bands and artists have name checked Muddy Waters as inspiration?
Would the title have been a euphemism when it was released?
Blues is great, the sound of the harmonica is spine tingling. Loved the album.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: I Can’t Be Satisfied
k.d. lang
3/5
Interesting, some really cool standouts, and a lot of tracks that feel twin peaks esque, and then some filler country.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: I’m down to my last cigarette
Cornershop
3/5
This was OK. There’s some fun and groovy stuff, some great 90s beats and to be fair to them a massive hit. But some of the other tracks really let it don for me. Particularly Funky Days Are Back Again.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Brimful Of Asha
Iggy Pop
5/5
Iconic stuff really isn’t it. Lust For Life might be one of the best running songs of all time. The Passenger is one of my favourite tracks and a stalwart of the THPS game soundtracks. Turn Blue is a mental song.
Bowie’s influence on this record is noticeable but Pop remains front and centre and has one of the coolest voices in music.
5.0/5.0 I want to ow this record rn.
Best Song: Lust For Life
James Brown
4/5
I would’ve absolutely loved to see James Brown in this sort of era. Tightest band around, running the absolute ship.
Tina Turner
4/5
She had some really fucking cool songs did Tina. Not fully my thing but did enjoy this, such a mishmash of different styles coming together. Real kitchen sink pop. And Tina is quite a cool front to it all.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Ball Of Confusion (Shoutout to Sister Act 2)
Fugees
5/5
I don’t really know what to say, one of the best of all time. Lauryn Hill is just supreme.
100/5
Best Song: Ready Or Not
4/5
One of U2’s best but not quite the best. Still, a very good album at the start which slowly peters off after the halfway mark. The first four songs are absolutely unreal.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: With Or Without You
Massive Attack
5/5
Just one of the coolest bands of all time. Not as good as Mezzanine but still a flawless album. Unfinished Sympathy lives rent free in my head and I hope it never leaves.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Unfnished Sympathy
ABBA
4/5
I’m not the biggest ABBA fan, but it’s undeniable that this album is just full of hits. Hits that get stuck in your head all day long. Hits like Money Money Money which then morph seamlessly into the Oompa Loompa song from Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory. Great.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Knowing Me Knowing You (aha)
Dagmar Krause
2/5
Weird. Uncomfortable at times. Her voice is beautiful and the music is in equal parts stunning and jarring. It’s not something I’d listen to again. But I didn’t utterly hate it.
2.0/5.0
Best Song: track4/5
Nightmares On Wax
4/5
Fuck yeah could have this on repeat all day. It’s groovy it’s cool it’s chill it’s nice.
4.5/5.0
Best Song: Bless My Soul
Koffi Olomide
3/5
This was extremely fun to listen to, it’d be hard not to be uplifted by this. Sunshiny tunes.
3.5/5.0
Best Song: Qui Cherche Trouve
N.W.A.
5/5
Game changing album, the first time I heard this I was dumbstruck at how raw, poetic and emotional it was. And it still has the same effect.
Express Yourself will forever hold a THPS4 shaped place in my heart.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Fuck Tha Police
Thin Lizzy
5/5
At the top of their game, cool, loud, great tunes and some sick shreds.
Can’t really get much better in a live album. So fun, just fucking wish I was able to see it live.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: the intro before Jailbreak
Stevie Wonder
2/5
I’ll be honest I got a bit bored during this album. Stevie wonder is iconic and obviously highly revered for a reason. I just didn’t find any of those reasons here.
2.0/5.0
Best Song: You Haven’t Done Nothin
The Black Crowes
2/5
Rubbish tbh, did nothing for me, was this fresh in 1990? Probably not right?
2.0/5.0
Best Song: they’re all identical
Solange
4/5
Yeah listened to this for the first time recently and enjoyed it so much. One of those “woah” moments.
4.8/5.0
Best Song: borderline
Coldplay
4/5
Coldplay obviously gwt a lot of shit for being wet and generally a bit lame. But it doesnt stop them from being a good band, and having written good music.
This is a great album, not their best, but definitely one worth note and worth listening to. Great well crafted songs with lyrics that stay with you.
4.5/5.0
Best Song: In My Place
Bruce Springsteen
5/5
The boss!
I love this album, cinematic music, it tells you full rounded stories and feeds you the emotions. Songs that take left turns but drag you along with them.
It’s a no skipper for me, it’s gonna be a 5
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Born To Run/Thunder Road
Dexys Midnight Runners
2/5
It’s alright. Geno is an absolutely massive tune but outside of that I found it a bit boring, pretentious?? And the lead singer just seems to be a nob
Best Song: Geno
2.0/5.0
Cocteau Twins
4/5
I’m in dreamy poppy synth my heaven. An album of beautiful sounds, gliding guitars and the wettest verb drums you’ll ever hear. Maybe gets a bit samey at times, but the reality is it’s all so pleasant to listen to that I don’t care.
4.8/5.0
Best Song: Pitch The Baby
Yes
2/5
Yes? More like no !!!!!!
2/5
Best Song: Roundabout is a banger tbf can’t deny that baseline
Johnny Cash
5/5
One of the best live albums of all time, I particularly like during the slower songs that he’s been told to do by the label, he just seems to take the piss lol.
The energy of this album feels massive.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Jackson
Black Sabbath
5/5
An album full of so many riffs that it feels like a best of, but then that’s the magic of Sabbath, the band of killer riffs. Planet Caravan is one of the best interluding songs ever written imo, and shows Sabbath’s ability to push the genre that they were themselves creating.
5.0/5.0 not even my favourite Sabbath album
Best Song: Hand Of Doom
Tito Puente
3/5
The Stooges
4/5
Such a cool, moody, loud, raucous album. It gets so weird and jazzy I love it YES give me more thank you.
4.5/5.0
Best Song: TV Eye
Ray Charles
4/5
Good stuff, big bands big horns big blues big rhythm. Ray Charles really knew how to do it. Let The Good Times Roll is such a great opener.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Let The Good Times Roll
The Velvet Underground
4/5
Pale Blue Eyes is one of the greatest songs of all time, it’s so so so good. A perfect song. TVU had a few of those. This album is great, gentle and brutal I love it. I don’t think it’s my favourite, but god they were good weren’t they.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: PBE
Dusty Springfield
4/5
What a voice, so smooth delicate and warming. So many great songs here, I’m ashamed to say I’d only really listened to Son Of A Preacher man before, so really enjoyed getting through a full Dusty album. Loved it
Best Song: Breakfast In Bed
4.0/5.0
Leonard Cohen
5/5
What an album. Unbelievable. Such soft tender songs, so moody. So God fearing. They feel like hymns at times. Lyricism at times umatchable.
I fucking love this record, one of my prized possessions.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Suzanne
Spacemen 3
2/5
A mixed bag of an album, at points I could get into it but other times felt a bit over indulgent and borderline boring.
Psychedelic rock is great n all but you need at least a hint of groove.
2.0/5.0
Best Song: Revolution
Morrissey
3/5
It’s alright, by no means Morrissey’s best work. Lots of Bowie-esque, Lou reedish music behind Moz’s usual lyricism. Some of it good, some of it mid.
It’s just funny having fatty in a song title.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: hmmm
Bob Marley & The Wailers
4/5
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes YES thank you.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Stir It Up
The Police
3/5
A bit of a mess of an album, some real wtf is going on here bits. And then one of the best songs (albeit stalkish) of all time.
Stewart Copeland really is one of the best tubthumpers.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Every Breath
Cowboy Junkies
3/5
This was decent, quite beautiful, the singing is lush. There’s a decent set of covers in there. Particular highlight was I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry. Outside of that though it was a lil bland
3.0/5.0
Best Song: I’m So Lonesome
Shuggie Otis
4/5
Lush lush lush stuff from one of the best. What an epic album closer aswell. Sometimes this sort of music can get a bit lost on me in all honesty, but this kept me engaged.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Freedom Flight
Jazmine Sullivan
3/5
Some really cool bits to this, I don’t think it’s necessarily my thing but I enjoyed listening to it and respect the game. Great lyrics and good production.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: price tags
The Notorious B.I.G.
4/5
Huge huge huge album, some of the skits sent me a bit but god he had flow
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Juicy
Led Zeppelin
3/5
The Vines
3/5
Yeah it was decent. Mad how for a brief period in the 90s all male singers had the same voice.
I don’t know how much of it will stay with me, but I wouldn’t turn it off if someone else had it on?
3.0/5.0
Best Song: 1969
Patti Smith
5/5
Yessssss so beautiful, Patti Smith was a punk and had a stunningly powerful voice, the lyrics are stunning the music is loud I love it all.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Gloria: In Exelsis Dio
The Mothers Of Invention
2/5
There’s no need for this much synthesised cazoo or whatever that sound was. Some of it was cool, some of it aged like milk, on the whole I wouldn’t listen again.
2/5
Best Song: the closer had some really weird bits in it that I’m not sure how I felt about
The Who
2/5
Could do without most of this album tbh. A rock opera? Ok then. At least make it a bit more exciting.
Highlights were Pinball Wizard and 1921. The rest felt tired, over repetitive motifs. Underture can fuck off n all.
2.0/5.0
Best Song: Pinball Wizard
OutKast
4/5
Helllllll yes it’s funky it’s fun it’s got flow it’s got beats you’ve not heard before what else do you want? More of it
4.0/5.0
Best Song: So Fresh, So Clean
Lana Del Rey
3/5
Lana’s voice is so beautiful, almost haunting. I enjoyed this album, I don’t think it’s her best, but it’s still good. The vape at the start of track 1 is iconic tbf.
3.9/5.0
Best Song: Dance Till We Die
Tricky
5/5
Yeah this stuff is just so cool, and feels effortless. I wish I was this cool. Wish I could make tracks like this.
Great album overall, really can’t fault it, didn’t get bored once.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: brand new you’re retro