Beautifully sweeping around the boarders of insanity.

An interesting mix. Landing somewhere between a cool, international 90s trip hop and cheesy 80s smash pop hits. I’d happily listen again.

Yusss! I’m your face Dimery - you dumb shit! This mediocre, manufactured millennial pop is the perfect response to the dredge through dad rock I’ve just enjoyed/endured. Big 3 stars!

An interesting insight into what was going on in Sweden at the turn of the century. At first I wouldn’t have guessed Scandinavian, (sounded kind of Indian and Irish to me). Nice enough, but nothing I’d listen to by choice.

What is this incel Springsteen madness?

3 or 4 rad tracks on here. The rest of the album is a bit of a letdown for me, but the strength of the singles just about keeps it in the 5 star club.

Big respect to Hikaru for writing, performing and producing the whole thing. Sounded like mid career Madonna to me. For 30mins or so I was happy with four stars for the talent, the underrepresented genre and general inoffensiveness of the music. But unfortunately after about 40mins her voice started to grate on my nerves. A little trimming down and I’d have really liked it

It’s nice to hear “World Music” suggested by people from all around the world, rather than by some middle aged white guy from Croydon.

I think I’m usually more open and understanding with these user submissions but wow, this is borning.

Ugh, like, I’m sorry for your loss and all but do you have to make it everyone else’s problem?

Very cool. Glad to be exposed to some Italian funk. I like it and it’s very good, but I don’t think I can give a 5 as I don’t love it and it’s not quite great.

Oooph, this is right now the middle dad rock. He probably does deserve a place on the list but I struggled to give it my attention. I now know why I know the name but none of the songs.

If there one thing completing this project has solidified for me, it’s that I don’t like Jazz Trumpet. I find it shrill and stressful. But then here’s comes Chet with his beautiful mellow tones to completely shit that theory right out of the water. Nice work Chet.

Sorry but I really did not enjoy this. The vocals just annoyed me throughout. Probably a two star album for me but something else really got on my tits too… what is it with the fucking Irish cosplay of East Coast American? It’s cultural appropriation, a transparent marketing scam, and it makes you look stupid, stop it now. 😮🫨😮

One of the things I learned from this list is the actual definition of krautrock. I had a vision of David Hasselhoff in my mind, 80s, leather, metal studs, mullets and pointy guitars. I was pleasantly surprised to learn its true nature - experimental, electronica from the early 70s. So I was happy to get another example here to expand my knowledge. Unfortunately, this leans too far into “experimental” and ends up as noddling. None of the tracks seem to have much purpose and no-one in the outfit has the ability to write any form of hook. I think I’d rather listen to The Scorpions.

This is all over the place, in what I think is mostly a good way.

I don’t to be too mean, because I think there’s a fair chance OP is a member of or has a strong connection to this band. That’s the only way I can understand this being submitted to the list. It’s 20 years out of date and sounds like a second rate Nickleback.

This is kind of all over the place but not in a particularly good way. Not sure if he wants to murk me or make sweet love and raise my kids?

This is a nice find and extremely pleasant to have on in the background. But it’s in no way exciting or outstanding.

For the first 2 or 3 minutes I was fully on board for being a massive John Mayer fan. The album soon settled down into being “pleasantly boring” and my enthusiasm waned pretty quickly. It’s still “very nice” and I struggle to find anything wrong with it. It’s maybe just a little bit lame?

“The band had reached an unwieldy 15 members. In preparation of the album, they trimmed their numbers to ten” These guys have an odd take on brevity. Sounds like the boring bits between tracks of Entroducing…..

Generic Spiders Music

Decent 60’s psych. At times Beatlesque, but also borrowing from The Kinks and The Zombies. Surprised I’ve not come across it before but I doubt I’ll visit again.

Amy Winehouse does O Brother, Where Art Thou? It’s not doing much for me.

Beautifully sweeping around the boarders of insanity.

Oh lads! You’re bringing me all of this rage and “poetic” angst and fury and all these tumultuous emotions… I’m 44 guys, the best I can do you is tied and annoyed.

This is good. I’m somehow pleasantly surprised but also a bit disappointed. My assumptions on Charli were proven wrong (I though she was just an another annoying Nicki Minaj) figure but then I got myself all hyped up by the comments on here and the album couldn’t live up to it. It’s good but it needs a couple of recognisable bangers to push it to a 5 for me.

Epic, soaring and cinematic. But also boring, annoying and forgettable. Time and a place, I guess, but this weekend wasn’t it for me.

Ooh, that’s a bit much for me. I couldn’t even hack 26mins I’m afraid.

Not as lame as I was expecting. I did visuals for these guys just as this album was coming out and found them pretty forgettable. I was DJing regularly around this time and downloaded a few of these songs but never really played them out. But listening now, a few years down the line, this is…. kind of OK.

I enjoyed this one. I was settling into the 80s homage but just as that was starting to wear thin it switched up enough to keep my interest.

Seemed pleasant enough for 10mins or so but really didn’t hold my attention I’m afraid.

Not really my genre at all but I found it enjoyable in parts. That one song definitely made me smile, but the rest of the album lacked the same humour and didn’t keep me engaged.

An interesting mix. Landing somewhere between a cool, international 90s trip hop and cheesy 80s smash pop hits. I’d happily listen again.

A Master class in repetitive and predictable sample sequencing. Really over-hyped for me. While there’s still a few good memories and a couple of big bops on here, it generally gets a bit boring. Tough to choose between a 3 and a 4 but I’m generally glad it exists.

Middle of the road bangers! It’s slightly depressing that I’m now the key demographic for these miserable little upbeat ditties. To tap my toes and nod my head through a collapsing marriage and a midlife crisis. I kind of want to mark them higher but it’s just so middle of the road it can’t be anything other than a 3.

I don’t know if this sounds like it’s 25 years late or 40 years late but either way: it doesn’t sound very contemporary, it does sound like it’s peaking into the red and I’ve very little desire to get to the end of the album.

What the shit? How am I so far off the popular opinion on this one? This is just naff. Sounds like it was cobbled together by a session band using half baked lyrics from someone who’s had half their brain zapped away by electrodes. Maybe if this was 1969 you could make a case for it being groundbreaking but for 1980… it’s just shit?

Why would anyone want to make those noises? Or listen to them by choice. Gross.

Decent. Occasionally sounded like a cohesive White Album or Cream but then also sounded like a teenage neighbour had just got his first electric guitar so they dug out a tin whistle and xylophone to have a jam. A nice inclusion to the list.

Very cool. Very weird. Very dark. A nice inclusion, I’ll try and listen to more.