The man who’s singing sounds like a chicken. There is no future for this band.
Reelin in the years and Do it again. Classics. Yacht rock.
Layla. Classic. Clapton was a bit of a shit to George Harrison though wasn’t he?
It was unfair to take this photo while the man was yawning. Having said that, he has good top teeth. The bottom teeth are either missing or hidden.
Like ‘Enter the dragon’ the old Bruce Lee film. Only not, because it isn’t a film it’s some angry men shouting.
She has excellent cheekbones.
Now this though. All time classic and my introduction to Queen (thank you Christine Ward’s brother).
I avoided them at my freshers’ ball. That is my main connection to this feeble synth doodling. Undeservedly revered.
I’m double vaxxed against it.
Can you imagine a date with the Everly Brothers? Would you choose Don or Phil or both?? I would pick whoever the lad is in the orange cardigan thing. The other one is too busy ringing dial-a-disc.
I have never heard of this before.
Damon building up to his creative peak but already at his prettiness peak.
I’m not of the jilted generation so this is not for me.
Stunning. One of his best.
The title track is better than Dylan’s version. This is the sound of an era.
He’s got lovely shiny hair and he’s looking “wry.”
“themes of cultural decline, dysfunctional sexual relationships, fear of intimacy and recreational drug use.” He seems like a right laugh.
“The song "Great Expectations" uses the first phrase of the main theme from the second movement of Beethoven's Sonata Pathétique.” Fancy.
“The album is named after the discredited pseudoscience of phrenology, the study of head shapes.” Excluding the recently discovered “pammy” head.
Comedy album. Zero points.
Red Starr, writing for Smash Hits, gave the album a generally positive review, describing it as a "bleak nightmare soundtrack". Starr described the lyrics as "mysterious" and "doomy."
“Previously unheard lyrics written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, put to music written and performed by British singer Billy Bragg and the American band Wilco.”
“Fred Neil is the second album from Fred Neil, a pioneer folk rock musician.” In this one he captures an unwilling child for the photo shoot.
‘The record includes Jansch's best-known tune - "Needle of Death", which was inspired by the death of his friend, folk singer Buck Polly.’ Another cheery choon.
‘Combining thrash metal, funk, hip hop, rap metal, progressive rock, synthpop, carousel music and hard rock.’ Something for everyone apart from music lovers.
I don’t like rock and roll.
“Depression, pain, anger, anti-social behavior, relationships, drug addiction (primarily heroin), war, death, and other emotionally charged topics.” Yay! Get the party started!
“In yoking this intricate dance music to his sophisticated New Yorker sensibility, Simon created a bridge that neither pandered to nor patronised either culture.”
The Village Voice jokingly referred to the band as "the best of the wah-wah mannerist groups, so dirty they drool on demand", while complaining that "all the songs sound alike.”
“Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine has named the album, among others, as an influence for his band's seminal You Made Me Realise EP.” What an accolade *rolls eyes*.
“One of the band's earliest known live performances was supporting The Stone Roses at the London School of Economics on 2 December 1988.” Well I never.
‘The album's lyrical content encompasses Donovan's increasing ability to portray "Swinging London" and give listeners an insider's look into the mid-sixties pop scene.’
“The wildness that should liberate great rock is so well-controlled that when it appears it seems to have been inserted just to prove the music is rock.”
“As slick as the music is, the lyrics are unvarnished and Morissette unflinchingly explores emotions so common, most people would be ashamed to articulate them."
“Young is a strange artist and I am not all the way into him yet, but this record is haunting.”
“Only a curmudgeon could reject a group that synthesizes the innovations of Environments and David Seville & the Chipmunks.”
“If there's one question to be raised with the album, it's that it's all simply so lush and nice that on some levels it fails to excite."
"The emotional travails of two clueless punks—one passive, one aggressive, both projections of the auteur. There's no economics, no race, hardly any compassion."
“Frequently recalling U2 at their bloated worst. This record is no cause for celebration. It's a slab of nothing, a media spectacle for the terminally impressed."
“Dancefloor positivity idealized and politicized, most militantly on this third album, which surfaced just in time for a BLM moment we're free to pray lasts approximately forever.”
“Junk syncretism (kitchen-sink eclecticism? styleless mish-mash?)”
“Unfinished Sympathy… one of the most moving pieces of dance music ever, able to soften hearts and excite minds just as keenly as Bacharach or McCartney.”
“This album continues the band's trend away from sampling and towards live instruments.”
“L'eau rouge is the second album by industrial band The Young Gods, released in September 1989 by Play It Again Sam Records. It is usually referred to as their masterpiece.”
“The murkiness of the quiet, largely instrumental reflections that take over side two [don’t diminish] side one's oblique, charming tour of the popular rhythms of the day.”
“Feckless improvised rock, or is it folksong-based jazz?’”
“An average rock album – lyrically pedestrian and with a sonic policy swerving from the play-safe to the over-indulgent.”
“Michael Franti's "intellectual grasp thrusts him immediately into pop's front rank.” I BLOODY LOVE MICHAEL FRANTI.
“A singles-plus filler cash-in that proves a fascinating time capsule of rap's early attempts with the album format"
“Musically, Hieronymus Bosch as postindustrial atheist; lyrically, Transformers as kiddie porn.”
"In some quarters it was the album that seemed to seal Cohen's reputation as being something of a downer, to say the least."
“An honest and thrilling listen because of its musical tunings and anthemic songs about post-irony and confusion-as-sex.” But also boring AF.
“American history wells up when Aretha sings” - President Obama
“Impressive primitivism coming from a 45-year-old rock icon.”
“A unique mix of different rock values… speed and musicianship, flash and dirt… it changed hard rock's sensibilities at the time.”
“Owing to the cover, nine of the eleven leading record store chains refused to carry Nothing's Shocking. It was issued covered with brown paper.”
“The album received a mostly positive reception, and has since been called a high-water mark of the glam metal era.”
“Musically, there is beauty, horror, surprise, chaos, order. And that is the world; and that is what The Beatles are on about. Created by, creating for, their age.”
“The album's power lies in its calm music, since it provides an elegant support for Davies' character portraits and vignettes.”
"Superproducer 'Mutt' Lange sculpted AC/DC's rough-granite rock into chart-smart boogie on this album."
Oddfellows Local 151 is one of my favourite REM songs. “A fiery statement, and its memorable melodies and riffs are made all the more indelible by its righteous anger.”
“When you make music and write songs, you have to know about the messages. From the messages, you know what the instruments are and how to put them together.”
“The Rascals (initially known as The Young Rascals) was an American rock band, formed in Garfield, New Jersey, United States, in 1965.” No, me neither.
“A work of pulverizing perfection.”
“The album features only instrumental songs and features Steve Cropper playing a Fender Telecaster.” Fancy.
“I guess the appeal here is the inevitability of it all.”
“A dark sensual record that combined Sioux's pained lyrics with smartly evocative grooves.” But not as good as Join Hands.
“If you're looking for nuance, you're pretty much out of luck.”
“The duo's essential, career-defining insight is that the problem with disco the first time around was not that it was stupid but that it was not stupid enough."
“At first I hated it for its weakness and its lack of energy and I still dislike these qualities. But then I began to respect the album's honesty.”
“Utterly pretentious, unbelievably monotonous.”
“Brings jungle to a new level of cross-fertilization.” But not as good as Vivaldi.
“Sayonara to a messy 1969.”
“Chock-full of precise, memorable melodies delivered with style and humour.”
“Largely a stripped down and more personal sounding record.”
“A brilliant, thoughtful, startling and joyful example of popular music"
“The Black Crowes are to the early Rolling Stones what Christian Slater is to the young Jack Nicholson: a self-conscious imitation, but fine enough in its own right.”
“A retrograde stylistic shift in the American underground.”
“Embraced folk-rock, pop/rock, pop, and soul, and also reflected the kind of care that acts like the Beatles were putting into their records at the time.”
“Geddy Lee of Rush includes this album among his favourites.”
“A product of the 1980s, with highs like 'Take On Me' and 'The Sun Always Shines on TV.”
“Like two shy teenagers, eyes cast downward, awkwardly talking to the ground.”
“It was released to high critical acclaim.”
“It remains a beloved bright spot in a discography with more than its share."
“Morrison's gliding vocal presence –arty and self-absorbed though it may be – provides focus.”
I don’t like Elvis. There, I’ve said it.
“The album introduced Femi Kuti and afrobeat to an international audience.”
“This is a brilliant album which underlines once and for all that the Beatles have definitely broken the bounds of what we used to call pop.”
“Sinatra often mourning lost love and sounding a bit desolate but ultimately hopeful.”
“Raining down Delta beatitude.”
“Still obviously a product of its time, a snapshot of mid-'90s life in the UK.”
“The most complete jazz album ever recorded.”
“Established Prince as the greatest rock and roll musician of the era — as singer-guitarist-hooksmith-beatmaster, he has no peer.“
“A muddy load of sluggish, unimaginative rubbish heavily disguised by electricity and called American rock.”
“Bowie will live on long after the man has died. For now, though, he's making the most of his latest reawakening, adding to the myth while the myth is his to hold.”
“Essential listening for anyone interested in the Wu-Tang Clan.” Not me, then.
“A humping great tower block of a hugely infectious dance chorus.”
“The Edge named it his favourite album of 1995.”
"Paranoia, schizophrenia, degradation, pill-induced violence and suicide" and Reed's "spoken and shouted" performance.”
I never got what people saw in her. Just stop with all these crap albums.
“Solid soul-tinged pop songs, including 'My Ever Changing Moods,' 'Headstart for Happiness' and 'You're the Best Thing.’”
“A country pop record, Golden Hour also contains elements of disco, electropop, electronica, and yacht rock.” Ugh.
“Songs such as "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Street Fighting Man" became rock radio staples for decades to come.”
“Better as manifesto than as music.”
“A long and whining road.”
“Sounding like a digital ELO."
“The tension between Byrne's compulsive flights and the sinuous rock bottom of the music is the focus.”
“An energised, infectious romp around contemporary little England, by way of an exuberant trawl through a highly-coloured patchwork of its pop past.”
“Undoubtedly sounds quite profound to 14-year-old ears.”
“Mainly covers of popular songs of the day characterized by the prominence of bongo drums, conga drums, rock drums and brass.” A thing I actually never needed to hear.
“Music of drama, depth, intensity and, believe it, funkiness.”
‘Guy Garvey has said: "I grew up listening to every Genesis record. I learned to write harmonies by listening to Peter Gabriel.”’ Still sound like cack though, mate. Music for people who don’t like music.
“Deeply weird, feverishly emotional, wildly enthusiastic.”
“Attitudes, tones, put-on sneers, and audible grins.” Whatever.
“An acquired but enduring taste.” Smooth.
“Teetering near the precipice of sanity.”
“Contains the group's number one single "That'll Be the Day" and its Top Ten hit "Oh, Boy!." Other Crickets classics include "Not Fade Away," "Maybe Baby," and "I'm Looking for Someone to Love."
One of the greatest albums ever recorded. Sublime.
"Very weird. She's obviously trying to become less commercial” - Neil Tennant
No. Who chooses these mediocre things?
“The album infuriated the government, setting off a vicious attack against the Kalakuta Republic (a commune that Fela had established in Nigeria), during which one thousand soldiers attacked the commune. Kuti was severely beaten, and his elderly mother was thrown from a window, causing fatal injuries.”
“Come Find Yourself is the debut studio album by the American band Fun Lovin' Criminals. It was released on February 20, 1996 by Chrysalis Records.”
“An album of staggeringly rich, mature music, inner questioning hand in hand with rock and roll at its fiercest, its finest, its most honest, rock and roll at its naked, most stimulating prime.”
“Showed that we now have a black artist in Britain with the same sort of vocal range, originality (in fact even greater originality in terms of musical influences) and lyrical sensitivity as Joni Mitchell.”
“The group does rock with a certain trashy appeal.”
“The pulse of America and much of the rest of the world moves irregularly, beating in time to the tough strut of 'Billie Jean', the asphalt aria of 'Beat It', the supremely cool chills of 'Thriller.’”
“The album marked a change in the band's sound, with them abandoning their earlier grandiose rock sound for a mixture of traditional Irish music, traditional Scottish music, country music, and rock and roll.”
“I Can See for Miles features one of Keith Moon's greatest performances and one of the best drum parts ever on a rock record.”
One of the greatest punk albums of all time.
“It turned out that all the Monkeys needed to conquer the world was scrappy, lager-fueled tunes about being young and bored in a bleak steel town.”
“Owens' Bakersfield honky tonk sound at the height of its freight-train rumbling powers.” Nice jacket though.
“All Mod Cons firmly established Paul Weller (and the Jam) as a major talent (and band).”
“An album that isn't worth your time or money"
“A phenomenal debut, capturing a songwriter and musician whose words were as rich and clever as his music.”
Folk rock.
Folk.
Rock.
No.
Sorry what though now? Where’s the good music on this list?
Bleak. Brilliant. One of the best opening tracks of any album ever.
That’s a very firm “no” from me.
I’ve heard of them but I never want to hear them.
