Mar 20 2025
Nurture
Porter Robinson
I really hated this. The vocal effects were so annoying. The songs were so earnest and trying to sound epic but it's just reeks of garage band presets to me.
1
Mar 21 2025
The Beautiful Letdown
Switchfoot
No thanks you. This was like all rock bands smushed together to make some incredibly bland.
2
Mar 24 2025
Emotional Mugger
Ty Segall
I enjoyed this, it was varied and interesting. Can't say I'd listen over and over but definitely fun.
4
Mar 25 2025
Come On Come On
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Didn't mind this. It was varied enough and some good lyrics but a bit too much mum music
3
Mar 26 2025
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Big Thief
A beautiful album, I love it. I love how it's clearly Big Thief style but they really tried some newer experimental stuff and sounds in this one. Great choice.
5
Mar 27 2025
10,000 gecs
100 gecs
Thank you, I hated that so much.
Now and again it would do something that sounded like it had the potential to be good. Frog on the floor was okay and did some okay bits. I got my tooth removed felt a bit ska and fun but the vocals were so grating. Whole thing sounded like an A-level students just getting drunk on effects and trying whatever the hell they like.
1
Mar 28 2025
Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
Courtney Barnett
Great album, I love it. Favourite song is Depreston, it really gets me going that one.
5
Mar 31 2025
Cleopatra
The Lumineers
This was okay. The vocals annoy me but I guess it's just not my thing, doesn't mean it's bad. Overall it all sounded fairly the same.
3
Apr 01 2025
Sing To God
Cardiacs
I didn't hate this. I nearly did, but I found some of the music was really good. Didn't really mix with the lyrics but generally it was interesting.
3
Apr 02 2025
"Awaken, My Love!"
Childish Gambino
This album is such a belter. It's so catchy and imaginative, really love it.
5
Apr 03 2025
Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise
The Dear Hunter
I found this all a bit meh. I hated the album cover, but that's by the by, it was generally just a bit flat for me, but I also couldn't really find a reason to dislike it either.
3
Apr 04 2025
Madvillainy
Madvillain
I really liked this.
4
Apr 07 2025
Fuzz
Chucklehead
This was great fun. Not sure I'd listen to it again but I can imagine seeing this band at a festival and absolutely loving it.
4
Apr 08 2025
Re
CafΓ© Tacvba
I didn't really hate this but it was quite all over the place, didn't really know what to make of it.
2
Apr 09 2025
L'autre...
Mylène Farmer
I liked this, it was pretty cool and reminded me of bits of other artists.
4
Apr 10 2025
Bloody Kisses
Type O Negative
I can't say I hated this but I just found it quite boring.
2
Apr 11 2025
Hadestown
AnaΓ―s Mitchell
Now I love this album. I've seen the show 3 times and I really like Anais Mitchell. However, I can imagine this is hard to enjoy without context.
But overall, I first heard this in 2011 way before the broadway version was done and I loved it. The music is so good, great story telling, great vocals. Big fan of Anais Mitchell.
5
Apr 14 2025
PoesΓa BΓ‘sica
Extrechinato y Tu
I liked this a lot. Great fun!!
4
Apr 16 2025
Sublime
Sublime
Well I absolutely love this album. Listening to this album as a kid lead to some many bands that I love. Sublime were such a great starting point for me getting into ska and punk etc. This album has some absolute classic bangers but also some great deeper cuts. There are so so many bands that I love that were influenced by Sublime.
5
Apr 17 2025
King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown
King Tubby
This was fine, a bit repetitive but good background music.
3
Apr 18 2025
Sailing The Seas Of Cheese
Primus
Ermm, I know Primus but I find them hard to enjoy. It's neither side of the comedy/serious side for me to understand if I'm honest.
3
Apr 21 2025
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
I really liked this. Good old rock 'n' roll but didn't felt cliche.
4
Apr 22 2025
Ultra Blue
Hikaru Utada
This was quite fun, I enjoyed listening to it sure but I can't imagine I'd go back to it
3
Apr 23 2025
Music For People In Trouble
Susanne SundfΓΈr
This was nice but I got a bit bored.
3
Apr 24 2025
Songs Of A Lost World
The Cure
This is a banger, a real soundscape, I loved it.
5
Apr 25 2025
The Great Outdoors Jam
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
I really enjoyed this. This would be absolute perfect late night festival party vibes, real good.
4
Apr 28 2025
The Hazards of Love
The Decemberists
I generally say I like the Decemberists but I definitely don't love that. I felt this album was a bit all over the place. It has some fantastic bits but it wasn't cohesive enough for me
3
Apr 29 2025
Night Drive
Chromatics
I really enjoyed this. Good fun. It did sound a little simple in places and it reminded me of what the kind of thing everyone starts making when they Garageband or Ableton but it was cool.
4
Apr 30 2025
Gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha!
Gotcha!
Ermmm, this was okay. It was quite varied and interesting but I can't say it was that good.
3
May 01 2025
Somewhere In The Between
Streetlight Manifesto
I absolutely adore this album. It was a proper formative album for me. I was massively into this as a teenager and I still love it. I do think it holds up really well. Streetlight are a very good group of musicians, they make ska punk but with proper musical style. The basslines are so good, the music changes rhythm all the time, lyrics are fantastic. It feels a shame to me that they can get banded together with Less Than Jake and Reel Big Fish (who I do also love), but they are completely different.
5
May 02 2025
Please Don't Take Me Back
Martha
I bloody love this album. In fact, I was wearing my Martha tshirt whilst listening.
I don't know what it is about Martha but they really get me going. I think their lyrics and style just fit my demographic perfectly. It's that style of grown up po-p-punk, emo indie and taking that same style and feeling but it's grown up with the audience,
5
May 05 2025
22, A Million
Bon Iver
I'm really that big a fan of Bon Iver. I can see why this is good though, it's very imaginative and varied and what not. But for some reason it doesn't click with me. Also I've always found the song names really up themselves, get a grip.
4
May 06 2025
Come And Get It
Rachel Stevens
Okay that was surprisingly good. It wasn't all brilliant but it was pretty good. It felt very Kylie or Sophie Ellis Bextor. I imagine that's the kind of thing they were trying to get on board with at the end.
I especially enjoyed the lyric 'I'm going to stand the test of time'. Sorry Rachel, you didn't, unless you meant appearing on this challenge.
4
May 07 2025
Enema Of The State
blink-182
This is a banger of an album, really takes me back.
5
May 08 2025
Bob Mould
Bob Mould
This was okay. It was quite forgettable. He sounds like Michael Stipe.
3
May 09 2025
Transatlanticism
Death Cab for Cutie
People bloody love Death Cab for Cutie. I understand why but I just found this quite wet. It was all very similar too. But it didn't annoy me.
3
May 12 2025
A Salty Dog
Procol Harum
This was cool. I really liked the blues tracks, they were great
4
May 13 2025
Boxer
The National
Oh yes one of my favourite albums. Absolute banger in my opinion, really atmosphere, great lyrics, lovely sounds, banging.
5
May 14 2025
Human Racing
Nik Kershaw
This was eye-wateringly bad. Complete dross. Terrible lyrics, horrible sounds. I guess the only redeemable thing was his voice isn't bad. This is 80s landfill music and deserves to stay on the landfill in my opinion.
1
May 15 2025
Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Steven Wilson
This was wild, really all over the place, but that were bits that I loved. There were also bits I hated. But overall I think it was a very well put together album and did keep my interest.
4
May 16 2025
Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones)
Jai Paul
I generally really liked this. I found a bit of the production hard to listen to. Some of the sounds popping in and out was quite jarring, but it had some nice beats and was really interesting, a cool album for sure.
4
May 19 2025
A City Dressed In Dynamite
That Handsome Devil
I did like this, it was pretty different. A really cool voice and good fun.
3
May 20 2025
When Smoke Rises
Mustafa
I liked this a lot, it was cool, chill and nice.
4
May 21 2025
Dogrel
Fontaines D.C.
This was good. I generally don't ever listen to Fontaines D.C., not sure why because I can see why this album is great.
4
May 22 2025
Rip It Off
Times New Viking
Bloody hell, can you get any more lo-fi? It was like being on hold to a punk dentist office.
But I did like it, cool stuff.
3
May 23 2025
Up
Great Big Sea
Yer Nan's favourite new 'rock' band. She saw them on the final episode of this series of Countryfile.
1
May 26 2025
Toxicity
System Of A Down
So this really isn't my kind of thing and I found it quite abrasive in places, but I can certainly appreciate why people love this album, it's got a lot of depth and variety and very well written songs, just not my genre.
3
May 27 2025
Oncle Jazz
Men I Trust
I liked this a lot, reminded me of Khruangbin. Was a bit samey overall but I did enjoy it. Great to have on while reading or just chilling.
4
May 28 2025
Grace And Danger
John Martyn
This was cool. I can't say it was amazing but I definitely enjoyed the listen.
3
May 29 2025
From The Lions Mouth
The Sound
I don't know any cultural significance of this band but to me it sounds like a lot of bands of this era but not quite as good. It's a great album but just not as good as others.
3
May 30 2025
Nuyorican Soul
Nuyorican Soul
This was great fun. I looked up the album and my goodness a lot of musicians worked on this. I really recognised the second track but couldn't place it, I think it must be sampled or used in a film somewhere.
4
Jun 02 2025
Spilt Milk
Jellyfish
This was alright, nothing special to me though. Sounded a bit like the Darkness, I wonder if this album influenced them.
3
Jun 03 2025
O
Damien Rice
Not bad. I was never really into Damien Rice when he was big but I totally get why people loved him.
3
Jun 04 2025
Ruin
The Amazing Devil
Well this was epic. I can't say I'd want to listen again but I do appreciate it. Would make a great soundtrack for the Witcher. Very earnest.
3
Jun 05 2025
Currents
Tame Impala
This is a belter. It felt like such a fresh sound when it came out. I really love it
5
Jun 06 2025
Phantom Power
The Tragically Hip
This was so bland.
1
Jun 09 2025
Silence Yourself
Savages
This was great! I'd never heard of this band but will definitely listen again.
4
Jun 10 2025
City Of Evil
Avenged Sevenfold
Eugh this is just so boring. It's all the same and it's wet as hell.
1
Jun 11 2025
Give Up
The Postal Service
This sounds so dated to me now. I never really liked it at the time and always found this band really wet. But I can see why people like them and they are certainly talented song writers but it's just not for me.
3
Jun 12 2025
Dilate
Ani DiFranco
I loved this. It reminded me of Fiona Apple, Alanis Morrisette and Anais Mitchell. It was good. When the Amazing Grace started I thought it was going to be shit but she did it really well.
4
Jun 13 2025
Get Fucked
The Chats
Ah I bloody love the Chats. They are so good. Really nice simple punk, great fun silly lyrics. All I love.
5
Jun 16 2025
Discosis
Bran Van 3000
That was fun! No what I expected. It was really varied and entertaining.
4
Jun 17 2025
Home Sweet Home
Kano
Wow this was awful. So basic and boring lyrics. Just 'I'm great, me and my crew are big and cool and sometimes we go out and then we go here and I was born to be rich and I'm a cool kid'
I really can't stand this basic London rapper nonsense.
1
Jun 18 2025
A1A
Jimmy Buffett
I liked this. It's familiar stuff to me but it was happy and warming and generally quite nice.
3
Jun 19 2025
Eye
Robyn Hitchcock
I flipped between hating this so much and then thinking actually it was quite good. But on the whole I lent towards hating it. I felt that the stupid lyrics only feel permissible because of the jaunty singing. It wasn't the worst thing ever but really nothing special.
2
Jun 20 2025
WORRY
Jeff Rosenstock
Jeff!! So this was the album I wanted to submit but it was already in here.
Possibly my favourite album of all time. It's so well crafted, the lyrics really get me going and I listen to this album so much, I always put it on when I'm stressed or need a pick me up. Jeff is an absolute hero and I love all his work from Arrogant Sons of Bitches to Bomb the music industry and all his solo stuff. He's such a gem of the music industry and continues to released bangers and stay true to his ethics. His lyrics evoke so many feelings to so many people in different situations and I can always find a way to relate. Bloody love him.
5
Jun 23 2025
A Black Mile To The Surface
Manchester Orchestra
I didn't mind this but it wasn't really my thing.
3
Jun 24 2025
Choirs Of The Eye
Kayo Dot
This grew on me through, at first I wasn't really in the mood but after the first two tracks I was with it. Really good stuff.
4
Jun 25 2025
Emotion
Carly Rae Jepsen
I was expecting this to be a banger of a pop album, especially after that Rachel Stevens one was so good, but it was all a bit meh. It was fine, but really didn't do anything special.
2
Jun 26 2025
People
The Burning Hell
This was good fun. After a while I found it a little jarring but overall I did really like it.
3
Jun 27 2025
Last Splash
The Breeders
Great stuff, love the Breeders
4
Jun 30 2025
Stop Making Sense
Talking Heads
An absolute classic, such a great live album. The ordering of this show is so good with the build up and it just keeps the energy so high, I've watched the film so many times.
5
Jul 01 2025
Pop
GAS
This wasn't bad. I don't think I was in the right mood for it but trying to ignore that. It was a nice ambient album.
3
Jul 02 2025
Blue Is The Colour
The Beautiful South
So this is a weird album, Don't Marry Her and Rotterdam are both fantastic songs. But the rest of the album is pretty rubbish, it's really bland and boring. Rotterdam feelings like a completely different band. I wanted to like this album, I remember my parents playing the Beautiful South a lot and I know the songs but most of it is naff.
2
Jul 03 2025
Chocolate & Cheese
Ween
This was fun and fine but nothing special.
3
Jul 04 2025
Spirit of Eden
Talk Talk
This was alright, it didn't blow me away but was nice enough.
3
Jul 07 2025
Racine carrΓ©e
Stromae
Horseshit
1
Jul 08 2025
Telefone
Noname
I really enjoyed it, it was a nice bop.
3
Jul 09 2025
All Hour Cymbals
Yeasayer
This was okay, I enjoyed it but it didn't blow me away.
3
Jul 10 2025
Γnima
TOOL
Just bland and boring.
2
Jul 11 2025
Afraid Of Sunlight
Marillion
Hmm, nothing special, too earnest for me.
2
Jul 14 2025
Nightbirds
LaBelle
Great fun
4
Jul 15 2025
Comfort To Me
Amyl and The Sniffers
Wahey, I picked this! I love this album and love Amyl and the Sniffers. Great music, excellent vocals, heartfelt lyrics but also a bit tongue in cheek, cool guitar breaks but generally nice and simple structures.
5
Jul 16 2025
Sound Awake
Karnivool
I found this really boring.
2
Jul 17 2025
Tales Of Mystery And Imagination
The Alan Parsons Project
I get why people like this but it's just not my kind of thing. It's not bad, I just wouldn't choose to listen to it
3
Jul 18 2025
Nail
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel
I didn't love this but I did enjoy it in places. Can't say I'd want to listen again but it was interesting.
3
Jul 21 2025
Pony Express Record
Shudder To Think
Pretty forgettable to me.
2
Jul 22 2025
Cor-Crane Secret
Polvo
This was cool. Reminded me of lots of other bands in places. Wasn't amazing but still a good listen.
3
Jul 23 2025
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
I love GY!BE. They are excellent and very nice to have as background music. I saw them a few years ago and it was incredible. Personally I prefer Luciferian Towers as an album but I know this one is their most popular. None the less it's a certified banger!
5
Jul 24 2025
Watch Out!
Alexisonfire
I was ready to really hate this but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, still not great though...
2
Jul 25 2025
Continuum
John Mayer
I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would. Definitely one I'll put on again. I thought it was going to be really lame but it was great
4
Jul 28 2025
McDonald and Giles
Ian McDonald
That was good, quite varied but pretty cool.
3
Jul 29 2025
Angel Dust
Faith No More
It wasn't bad but I didn't love it. It was varied for the genre which was cool but sometimes went places I didn't enjoy.
3
Jul 30 2025
Blade Runner
Vangelis
A really amazing soundtrack, love it.
4