A mix of Neil Young and Paul Simon. Poetic lyrics but ultimately depressing as shit!
Spanish shite. Like the stuff you hear when you're hungover, eating breakfast in a bar in Benidorm
French electro pop - like the stuff you'd hear in a pretentious wine bar in the 90s. "Sexy Boy" stand out track and a favourite of channel 4 dramas.
Very enjoyable. First heavy metal album I've ever listened to. Hi-Tempo, excellent guitar solos! Head bangin' in the shower!
Experimental electro rock. Weird kooky concepts. But not very good.
Some great tunes. "It's a Sin" and "What have done to deserve this" which I had already heard were particularly good surprise track "I want to wake up" my fave.
Some absolute pop music classics!
Hard to pick standout tracks, but for me it's Dirty Diana & I Just Can't Stop Loving You. The album still sounds like nothing else. Imagine being a teenager in 1987 when this dropped! So, the original Bad album is a 5* classic. However, add Pitbull to the mix and unfortunately you lose a star. These added "Special Edition" remixes are massively un called for. As for the unreleased tracks the stand out for me is Al Capone but again none of these add anything to the original 11 tracks.
A strange album. Restrained vocals with an excellent orchestra. The orchestral pieces lift this album, as Holiday's voice sounds increasingly tired. No surprise that this was her last album before she died.
The subject matter is pretty grim. Holiday basically sings about the abuse she has endured as a woman and many many experiences of unrequited/abusive love. The content becomes very samey and is ultimately pretty miserable. I guess that's why they call it the blues.
An inoffensive 28 minutes of Frank Sinatra's dulcet tones with a South American twist. Cool album cover.
Not massively impressed. Surprisingly, a bit boring. Better when Clapton is singing. Best song are the first two on the album, "Strange Brew" and "Sunshine of your Love". Downhill from there.
A cracker! Evocative, emotive, stadium Rock 'n Roll. This album just screams USA! Favourite tracks: Born to Run & Thunder Road.
Classic Hip-hop. Uncle L's flow is unmatched in today's era of rap where you can barely discern the lyrics, LL enunciates every line beautifully. A man before his time, this album doesn't sound like it was made in 1990. Best songs = Mama said knock you out & Round the Way Girl.
Rubbish. The guy is clearly a good musician but his whispery, airy fairy voice really grates. Plu,s the misery in ALL the lyrics just makes this a shit listen. You've gotta wonder if he be anywhere near this list if he hadn't topped himself.
Not bad. I've always been quite scornful of Elbow, as music for mental midgets. However, I must revise this opinion, if only slightly. There are some very beautiful songs on here, the standouts being "Grounds for Divorce" & "Weather to Fly". I also understand their USP more than I did before; LS Lowrys of indie pop. But I still don't really understand them headlining festivals or selling out stadiums.
An absolutely amazing Track 1. 4 tracks of afrobeat jazz. The surprise when the vocals kicked in 5 minutes into the song created an intensity that I'm always searching for in my music. A hugely interesting and enjoyable album - matched only by the story of the man.
Another Jazzy effort. Not unenjoyable but doesn't really do anything for me. The highlight is Track 2 that sounds like Cruella DeVille's theme from Disney's 101 Dalmatians.
First rap album I ever bought. Great album - as relevant today as it was then, maybe even more so. Best tracks: Fu-Gee-La & Ready or Not.
Decent album. Elton is clearly a great songwriter, taking the firm of a Native American, a farmer and I think maybe Jesus at certain points in the album. The issue is, I don't really like his voice and feel in the hands of a different singer, the sings could fly higher. Best tracks: Levon & Indian Sunset.
Shite. Literally just noise. Couldn't even begin to find a thread that I could follow. As I said at the start, shite.
What an album. I loved this! I knew of The Doors, but never really listened to them. Some great songs and The End is an absolute study in drug taking. The only dud track for me was Alabama Song where I could almost taste the LSD. Great album and will be revisiting. Love that 60s organ sound as well. Best tracks: Light my Fire & Take It As It Comes.
I've been aware of Beck since I was a kid. He always won Best International Male at the Brits and MTV awards but Id never really listened to him or knew much of his stuff. After listening to this album I'm pretty much in the same position. Insipid, melodramatic melancholia.
A confusing album. Some nice electro jazz mixed with some weird conversational rants and letters. The Jarvis Cocker, heavy breathing, opening track was also not what was needed at 7:15am. Best track: Miles.
A festival of cultural appropriation! This was a really surprising album and I really enjoyed it! Best song: Double Dutch
Perfectly serviceable soft rock/country album. Lovely voice. Best song: I Shall Believe
Not my favourite iteration of Madonna, a bit too trippy hippy for me! This was Kabalah Madonna and it shows. Best song The Power of Goodbye and Frozen.
Enjoyed this. High energy guitar rock. Sounds more modern than 1970. Best track: Child in Time.
Nice little album. Basically Smooth Radio manifested in album form. I knew Sweet Love but none of the others. Best song: Same Ole Love.
Another artist I'd heard of but never listened to. A decent listen but won't be revisiting.
Stockport's finest! A weird almost spoof like album. Brings to mind Spinal Tap. I imagine it's was seen as experimental at the time but now it just sounds daft.
A decent album. Stewart has an undeniably distinctive voice and takes control of all the songs. However, a full album of his froggy rasp is a bit jarring. Best songs: Country Comfort & Cut Across Shorty
Precursor to Nirvana. 80s punk rock. Not awful.
Not fun at all. Weird and boring.
Not bad. Best track La Grange & Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers.
Sounds massively modern for 1964. A blueprint for all modern female soul/pop/RnB singers. Think Adele but in the 60s. This album must have been a revelation at the time. Best song: When the love light starts shining thru his eyes.
Introspective, ethereal lyrics, mixed with jingly jangly drums and guitars . The first time I've heard of the genre "shoegazing" it basically means the artists and audience all look at the floor and sway as the music plays. To be honest it's not that bad, sounds a little bit like James, crossed with The Stone Roses, crossed with Oasis but without any of their emotional high points. Guitarist Andy Bell has played with Oasis and was lead guitarist in Beady Eye. Best track: Vapour Trails.
I thought this would be a good opportunity to understand the cult of Kate Bush. It was and I don't. Weird, scary and unenjoyable.
Inimitable vocals from the stellar front man but the songs just don't really do anything for me. Best song: Killer Queen.
Enjoyed listening to this in the sun today. Vital Signs with its distinctly reggae flavour is a song I will be revisiting. Best track: Vital Signs.
Gotta admit I didn't listen to all of this but yeh I get it it's Blur.
Nice songs but doesn't really go anywhere. Best track word on a wing.
My second favourite member of the Wu. On this, his debut album Method man wages lyrical warfare on any man that tries to test. The influence of Jamaican soundsystem clash culture and the Wu's inimitable Shaolin, Kung-Fu style production make this album a vicious assault on the senses. Dark, gritty and aggressive, Tical is a stand out album in mid 90s hip-hop. Best track: Bring the Pain & Release Yo Delf.
Incredible artwork and Bat out of Hell is and epic song and the live version at the end of the album is even better. But apart from this the other tracks don't really measure up in comparison.
Excellent, epic and emotional. Better than Born to Run for me and my first 5* review. There's just something about The Boss that just taps into the working man mindset. Melancholy at times, hopeful and uplifting at others, he just gets what it is to be alive.
This was a surprise to me. Cool as fuck. Who knew?!
Mercifully short. Sound and vision is a decent track. Apart from that it was too experimental for me. 2 albums in and I still don't get Bowie.
Not bad. Very of its time. California Dreaming is a stone cold classic though!
Uninspiring dirge for the most part. Give it up was a good song though.
Angsty, American, Teen Rock. Like a cross between Nirvana and Green Day but nowhere near as good as either. Reminds me of every kooky, offbeat, coming of age movie of the late 90s/early 00s.
Sounds like a weird demo tape. 17 second songs, many of them sounding unfinished.
Not as good as "Zombie" but still very enjoyable. Not sure the addition of Ginger Baker does much and the "drum off' at the end adds little for me.
Faux gangsters - not awful but it's baffling to me how this album and group became successful. The harder grittier songs are better than the softer tracks but they are also more cringey. This is seen in all its glory on the best track: King of New York which utters the refrain "free John Gotti". Some decent tracks but zero realism which leaves me feeling empty.
When first listening I thought "I don't like this too experimental, too minimalist, 1 star!" The I listened to "At Elmo's Fire" and thought "actually that's a good tune, 2 stars" Then I listened to "The Big Ship" and I was fucking transported! It makes it into my future movie project soundtrack. Awesome!
Good album, definitely doesn't sound like 1969. Gimme Shelter is top 10 tracks of all time. However, the album peaks with track 1 and never hits that height again.
Guitar, guitar, guitar and more guitar.
Shit band, shit album. Quite like the scientist though.
Not every song hits, but when they do...Wow! Imagine seeing this guy live! All along the watchtower: better than the original???
Third time unlucky for Bowie. Better than the others, some nice musical bit spoiled by Bowie's lyrics. Best song: Lazarus.
Some bloat but a really great album. Jazzie B acting as the master of ceremonies conducting his hip-hop, jazz, soul leaning in whichever way he sees fit.
Great album name that fits the subject matter perfectly! Smooth as fuck, but the long ass intros add little.
Great album! The epitome of cool!
Decent album. Enjoyable. A few different styles. Seemed to be doing impressions of different artists. Spot the Neil Young and New Order.
Overly long, overly shit.
Really enjoyable album for my return to the project. I think I'd have been into these if I was about in the 70s. Brash, swaggering punk rock. Best tracks: Peaches & Hanging Around
Decent album - sun is shining is a tune. Voice grates after a while.
Great album. Brings back memories of long summer car journeys. Evocative, whimsical and timeless. Is there a better song writer?
Big fan of the fact that this was recorded at the Free Trade Hall in MCR and not the Albert Hall as stated in the title. Excellent album however some tracks don't really hit, for example track 1 didn't really do anything yet the ovation is huge, maybe blinded by the man.
Some interesting songs, too rambling and whimsical for me.
Great voice but only a couple of songs really caught my attention, predictably "Holding Back the Years" and "Money's too tight (to mention)
One of the greatest album titles of all time and unlike many other albums, something truly unique. "Stop me if you've heard this one before" is all time classic material but "Girlfriend in a coma" is Moz and Marr at their bleak, melancholy best.
Not a fan of that 60s organ sound. Nothing special.
An Interesting album. With some good times and equally some shite. Literally had to turn some off because of the racket. Weird little story track about a bloke posting himself to the woman he loves and she ends up stabbing him in the head. Compelling.
Great album. I loved this. "Poison Arrow" and "The Look of Love" are both pure 80s pop brilliance! Lead singer Martin Fry is from Bramhall btw.
Puerile rubbish. Some catchy riffs not not my bag.
Good album - Has had a big impact on modern culture: White Rabbit appears in a great scene in Platoon in the underground bunker and Embryonic Journey is the song in the final scene of Friends, quite seismic cultural moments. The best song for however is Today.
Quite boring. Didn't do anything for me.
Politically charged hip-hop. I don't think there's a topic h doesn't touch on: war, drugs, recession, race. Not a relaxing listen but definitely interesting.
Move along, nothing to see here. Boring, angsty grunge shite. Kurt's voice is boring and samey. Best song "Heart Shaped Box". Worst song " Rape Me". Sad bastards.
Not what I expected from Chicago. I am more accustomed to their power ballady rock but this was much more interesting and introspective. Best track: "Beginnings"
Wank. Apart from the anthemic "We Are Young" there's not much to set this apart from any of the sub standard 90s Brit pop. The heavier numbers however, do make them sound like a bit of a British Green Day which isn't a compliment btw.
Not his best but he manages to create rhythm in seemingly random sounds. Very clever.
Superb - Dancing in the Moonlight is an all time classic!
Boring first half but decent second half. Won't be revisiting
DJ Premiere is the be of the greatest producers of all time and Guru is a great MC but there are better Gangstarr albums.
Great album. I think I'd have been a superfan if It was my time.
