So opens with an all time classic and then is just indulgent studio wankery with no great melodies? And this guy dissed the Beatles?!

ah, when cultural appropriation was seen as cool and helpful. never liked it

Clearly quite a show, but the music is a bit too 'gee shucks I'm an outlaw' simple country for me

All very lovely, but I feel quite sick - I'm only 52, not 95 - this is not my bag baby

I don't possess the relevant DNA to enjoy this hibernian folksy drunken Captain Pugwash nonsense. Never liked it - music for people who like you to know they get properly drunk

Not bad, couple of classics, not really my kind of thing

I Just Can't Do It

An old favourite - nice to revisit and one track made it into the wedding playlist

In what world does an avowed Abba hater get 2 albums in the first five on this project? Didn't listen, couldn't do it to myself, even Partridge ironically

Better than I expected, not as bombastic

Not a lot of fun. Other Elvis albums are better

Way better than I thought it might be. A little bit cruise crooner in places, but also really beautiful in others

Duller than I thought it might be

Enjoyed it, groovy

Meh - whiny stuff about shagging gaidos

One legendary tune, several less impressive but not terrible

Interesting, some proper melt solos and stuff, but really quite odd

One of the first non-Beatles albums I ever bought. Still quite a lot of fun

Familiar in places and fun, but not one I'll go back to

Pretty good, pretty generic, nothing outstanding

Lots of Beatles and Who lifts, actually pretty good, would listen again

OK - little on the baggy and samey side - can't believe I've not listened to this before, I'm sure I had the CD!

What a banger - so many excellent samples from before when it was too expensive. Loved it

Some clear high points, lots of meh

Ugh, not for me - terrible low energy emo garbage

An old friend, not as good as I recalled

Not my lane at all. Musical muesli or wallpaper, just so bland. Didn't make it past track 3

Never really got these guys, and this hasn't helped explain how massive or important other people think they are

Better than most - where are the women who can sing like that today? Too many autotuned megastars, too few Darlene Love's or Aretha's

Pretty sure my dad had this on vinyl, not too bad, but quite proggy in parts. Won't listen again

Enjoyed it, didn't star any tracks though

Couple of excellent tracks, not as good as Harvest Moon though. Might listen again

An old favourite, not their best, but better than I remembered - starred at least one track I'd forgotten

Better than I expected - really pretty groovy

They were never my thing, still aren't my thing nearly 30 years later

As ever with Floyd, you need to be in a certain mindspace, but this was the first time I've listened to all of it - can see how it is so popular. Not quite Wish You Were Here, but pretty good nonetheless

Had this on tape when I was in sixth form, and listened quite a bit. Wasn't a Smith's fan, and didn't buy another Morrissey album, but there's a couple of serious tunes on here, and listening in 2021 revealed layers of instrumentation and production I'd not heard before. Suedehead is a proper banger

Just not interested anymore. Someone has forgotten about beats and melody and having a sense of humour

Really enjoyed it - always thought Sheriff was a bit gimmicky - but the rest of the album is good solid drug induced blues. Peak Clapton

my dad owned this for years and I never listened, now I don't understand why not - some weird stuff yes, but also some pretty excellent stuff, reminiscent of late beatles, which is never a bad thing

Better than I expected, very tuneful - will listen again. More hints at the Beatles than I expected

Fun vintage stuff from the world of sampling whatever you want to.

OK - nothing amazing, was never that bothered about them and this doesn't change things

Really can't bring myself to care. They might be seminal, but I think it lacks fundamental melody or sophistication to me - just a lot of stomping and shouting

Oh, now this was really good - smokey jazzy bluesy - right up my street - a couple of tracks added to the favourites list

Already has two stone cold classics, the rest of it was not so special. Wasn't that impressed

Audio wallpaper - a couple of classic tracks, the rest felt like much of a muchness, won't be going on the rotation

How is this on the list? Obscure Aussie Jangle pop from the 90's? I guess the author has a soft spot. I don't

So opens with an all time classic and then is just indulgent studio wankery with no great melodies? And this guy dissed the Beatles?!

I think i owned this - good grungey bluesey stuff

Duller than I expected - couple of hits, but the rest of it was a bit slow and with unexpectedly poor production

Had to download it - not on Spotify. Proper good stuff this - very funky, very groovy and politically on point all these years later

All time classic - owned it on vinyl, and I don't care if he's cancelled, there are some serious tunes on here especially if you go past the obvious ones

Some proper bangers from the old days - better than I remembered and holding up well after 20 years

Not bad, not amazing - won't listen again I don't think

Simply brilliant, as usual. will be listening again and crossing my fingers for a ticket to the return tour - one of the best live bands I've ever seen

Very odd - been in my life for 50 years because my muso dad was on the good drugs. Never listened. Might not listen again.

Really enjoyed it - i guess I'm getting used to Indian music, but the overall vibe was of a chic curry house - one I'd like to eat at!

Too heavy for me - even the famous tracks. I can only work with Black Album Metallica, everything else just feels a bit too aggressive

Tricky to listen now he's dropped off Spotify. Always like a bit of grumbling canadian - this is no different, no absolute bangers though, so just 3 stars

Fun - excellent moody atmospheric opener and then some pretty standard funk by numbers jobs

80's muso nonsense, with that one banger. The rest of it just doesn't have the funk of ABC or the melody of Tears for Fears. Won't be listening again

Familiar, never really been my lane, but not terrible by any means

Familiar, already know and love a couple of the best tracks - rest are a bit meh

Surprisingly good vs what I expected - almost similar to White Denim in the quality of musicianship and how tight the band are. Acceptable punk, but I don't think it really is punk

banger - so much excellent groovy bass happening. quite odd as a concept, but enjoyed the listen

Nice soundscapes - no idea what they're singing about and unlikely to listen again, but not inoffensive

Not as bad as Metallica's listing I had to listen to, but still well short of the melody I prefer in my music

Oh dear. not for me. at all. and I like country music

3rd Polly album in the list, can't be too many more? Supposed to be her best, I think I prefer the edgier stuff - couple of good tunes on here. Not likely to go into my listening rotation though

Had this on tape as a kid from my dad's collection. Weird and seems deliberately jokey and quirky - some interesting tracks in there but feels a bit tiresome generally

Not terrible, not amazing - some very 90's references and attitudes. Clearly very proud of Brooklyn. Will not be listening again

Nope - shouty unsophisticated crap - or at least the first track was. 2nd feels a bit more interesting into the two central massive tunes with more music and less screaming, much better glad I listened to this - I'm relistening already

An old friend, still sounds as good as it did when I was 18, perhaps a bit juvenile, but does that matter. Side 1 is streets ahead of side 2.

zzzzzz - what on earth is this? audio wallpaper, and not especially pretty stuff either

Erm - beats that take me back to being obsessed with Acid Jazz, but four tracks in and I've lost interest. Other people did this better, regardless of the language they rapped in

Does what it says on the tin. Think I owned this on CD, but never really listened because white boy metal rapping is just not good. They can be good when being melodic, but otherwise it isn't my lane. Was happy when Spotify started playing 'similar' music at the end of the album

Not my thing at all - they all sound remarkably similar

Not bad, not as good as the predecessor which I loved as a younger man

Not quite what I thought it would be. Some bangers from back in the day, but not as groovy and not quite as much fun as later albums would be

Loved it when I was a younger man - saw them play it live - not quite as magical through the lens of time, but still pretty good in places. Mad as lorries, and delightfully so

Must be good - except for the track with 41 million listens, as I've had it on repeat for a couple of days now and added one or two liked tracks

Odd - a couple of wonderful beach boys elements, but the rest is just fragments. It was never going to beat or be in the same league as Pepper

Knew more tracks than I thought I would. Never been a big Dylan fan, can't get past the lack of melody having been raised on McCartney. Not terrible though

Some familiar stuff, some batshit crazy stuff, but throughout there is a groove and some insane guitar work. Lots of fun when the songs go for it

Insane to think this was 1969, it is still more innovative and interesting than most of the stuff from the past 40 years - they clearly had much better drugs

An example of how a legacy can be ruined. I loved their first single and didn't even notice how much of a prat Chris Martin could be - he was just posh with some cracking tunes. On a relisten, some excellent standouts and a happy bit of nostalgia - shame subsequent events mean this album is effectively cancelled for people with good taste

Very good - lots of bangers and markers for the future of rock for 1965

Own this on vinyl, from my muso blues fan teenage years. Classic blues - not a lot of variety, I think I only ever really played Mannish Boy

Double listen - nearly perfect in places, almost too twee in others. Never listened before, couple of truly electric moments.

Ugh - never liked him, don't understand how he's held up as a legend

Meh thod man - fine, but far from exciting or interesting

Owned this, kinda liked it when it came out, but really not that good in retrospect. Pretentious

Not bad, bit long winded in places now. Was absolutely massive when it came out - carved out a new genre

Fun in it's own way - nothing ground breaking, but I guess it was 1978. Nothing tagged to be added as a favourite. Don't understand the hype around these guys except for Murica F Yeah

Weird but superb, a couple of spine tingling moments. Who knew that weird guitar jam with latin beats and a lunatic would be so compelling

Not interesting at all, why was this on the list?

One banger, lots of meh - not that interesting to hear disco as an album

An old favourite, but I am not sure I ever listened to it end to end - vinyl was a pain Still good - might prefer later stuff

What a load of nonsense. beats that go nowhere. can't tell the difference between tracks. Not a clue why this is on the list - I'm 100 days in and haven't had anything by the Beatles or Stones

Interesting mix of white boy groove and african stuff - must have been very interesting in the early 80s. Nothing to get too excited about though

Some good beats, clearly setting a template for a lot of what we're still hearing now. Big stars too. He's an angry dude though, lost his sense of humour when he got successful

Yes, all very good and fine, but really not my kind of thing. All sound very samey

More audio wallpaper - washed right over me and nothing annoyed or offended me, but neither did anything grab by attention

Fun samples, vintage beats, but again this is nothing earth or butt shaking. Never heard it before, won't be listening again

An old favourite, just as much fun as it used to be

Very good, top guitar work and not as arty or as wanky as I expected it to be!

Ugh - was never interested in these guys. If this is their best work, then good luck to their legions of fans. I need beat and a melody in order to elevate music above being wallpaper

Good stuff and bad stuff and amazing stuff. Very familiar having a father like mine

Fun for what it is. Was revolutionary, feels very vintage now, and quite misogynist. Again, nothing starred into my favourites

OK, nothing amazing. Much prefer other female singer songwriters

Yes, OK - apparently seminal, but not a patch on Zeppelin, who must have stolen their better tunes

Not bad, but nothing moved me extraordinarily

Absolute classic - with an arc in the middle that is simply peerless

Couldn't do it to myself

Not my thing at all, some well known classics, but I never bought into the whole thing. Music for nutters

I owned this as a student - an investment in a CD, I kind of liked it then but it wasn't a favourite. Listening again, 3 good songs, the rest are less interesting

Fine for what it is, which is something I don't enjoy

Not my lane, I'm sure it's OK for people who like a crooner, but simply too schmaltzy

Not as good as I expected it to be, nothing stood out

Twee twiddlee twaddlee - too lightweight for me

Good stuff, liked it originally, still does goes stuff for me

One great track, couple of other interesting ones, sounds like one foot in the 80s and one in a different time. Not bad, won't be listening again though

Not listened before, excellent stuff - some real classics

Noodly doodly, some familiar elements, but not really my bag

Not terrible. Quite Juvenile. Not likely to ever roll it with my homies ever again

Couldn't bring myself to listen, I can do without the diabetic shock. I liked it back in the day, but I'm as far from torch ballads as I can be at the moment

Not on Spotify - and yes, clearly very pretty, but she does get a bit wearing

Mad as a box of frogs, and about as much fun

Yee haw, not my thing - way too simple

Nah, not interested

Vintage banger, not quite as good as the earlier stuff - and way too popular with mouthbreathers for my elevated sense of musical taste. Cant deny some of the tunes though, however much of a prat he was

I can't do this to myself, the sniggering idiocy of the introduction was enough

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Never heard of it, listened to it, realise why I'd never heard of it.

Fun but not as much fun as Paul's Boutique

It's about time. 150 albums in before the GOAT arrive.

Meh, not bad, not amazing, didn't notice much

What is this? It isn't good

Pretty good - clearly enjoy a jam jazz rock folk album or two. One track added to the roster

An old friend, good but not great

I'm sure he is a genius, but not to me. Can't make it through any of this stuff

Not as good as I expected it to be

I loved this as a teenager - the soundtrack to many a ZX Spectrum gaming session - but listening now, it just feels a bit limp and odd and the opposite of what I find compelling in music

Not good

OK - not listened before, but it is a bit 'grunge by numbers' for my taste

Had this since I was 17 - only ever played 2 tracks. Listening back, I understand why. Lovely where it counts, not that interesting anywhere else

Better than I expected, but not life changing

Fun - couple of monsters, but nothing too earth shattering

Enjoyed it for what it was - surprised I'd missed it for all these years

I don't possess the relevant DNA to enjoy this hibernian folksy drunken Captain Pugwash nonsense. Never liked it - music for people who like you to know they get properly drunk

Excellent stuff - love this vein of southern rock

An album from 1967 that I haven't heard of? Impossible, unless it turns out to be this load of old tosh - what on earth am I supposed to take away from this? Derivative and irritating

Very fun, very funky - but mad as a bag of hammers and feels like I'm a bit too old to get excited about being funked up

zzzzz

Good, manufactured in places, quite samey throughout, but a couple of tracks made me sit up and take notice

Fine for what it is - and a banger is a banger, but not enough bangers here for me

Had this on tape as a kid. I suspect Q Magazine is responsible for me picking it up. Doesn't hold up

Some lovely old grooves, but it is a bit samey and just washes over you

Had this, loved it, but actually, loved just a couple of them. I seem to have gone past this kind of music now

Liked it as a kid, not as much as the predecessors, but feels surprisingly soulful compared to what I remember. Massive nonce or not, he had a rare groove to his music

They never really hit for me - always seemed to be style over substance

Oh.......my........god - dude, I hope these songs all got you laid. Definitely not my bag

A couple of songs missing, but I liked what I did hear

Ugh, nope

You know this - as good as it ever was

Possibly, or probably definitely, the best album of all time

Old school big bang swing jazz - perfectly fine, but not my lane at all

Love the man - tuneful and angry despite that reedy voice

I just can't. This includes one of the most evil songs ever concieved, and a cursory listen includes more of their jaunty irish fiddle and shout 'soul' music

Another band I don't get - their hits are hits for a reason, the rest of the albums add nothing at all, such is the case here. Weird noodly arty stuff, clearly too clever for someone like me

Fun - couple of old familiars. Nothing amazing though

They were never my favourites, too unhappy, but there are some great tunes here if you can look past the wanker out front

Nope, don't get it. Absolute art wank

More fun than I expected - will listen again, good noisy guitar grooves

Had this as a younger man, didn't really embrace it - not as good as their earlier stuff. Dull music for dull people

Ok - I can see why this is a classic and how radical it was for 1972, but the hits are the standouts and I already knew them

I guess it is interesting. It is also background music for a movie or a restaurant and not something I'd ever listen to again

Weird - sleazy lazy boogie that is good when it is one of the hits, and terrible otherwise

Not bad - a bit too whimsical and consistently similar for my taste

Yeah OK - fine - fun in a vintage movie kind of way, but not something I think I'd listen to out of choice on a sunny day

Wonderful stuff - so much better than I expected. How have I gone 50 years without knowing this was there?

Not my thing at all

Much funkier than I expected, quite a lot of fun. The 20 minute drum battle isn't really what you need

Apart from that one track, way too bedroom nerdy woe is me type stuff

The epitome of 90's shabby albums underpinning a couple of club bangers. 2 club classics, everything else is dreck - it was better owning the 12 inch, or CD single with the best tunes and a couple of remixes

Yep, it is amazing, but so covered in sugary instrumentation and sentiment that I nearly got diabetes listening to it

Good in its way, definitely not my lane

Fine, dull, won't listen again

Weird, not terrible and not what I expected at all

Fun bluesey jam marathons - some insane guitar chops, especially for a live album. Not sure I'll listen again though

Fine, a bit twee for me, and I love a bit of country. The tracks Spotify played after the album are more fun.

Not for me

Ugh - it's like a gor blimey guvnor musical. This is why you stick to the hits and not wander around the albums of anyone except the beatles and floyd

Never liked him. Don't like monotone acoustic miserablists. This is the perfect storm of stuff I don't like

Had this as a younger man - never really went into it in detail - preferred the weirdness of A Forest, but this is still pretty good and holds up well

Have listened before, didn't need to do it again. 2 x meltingly good bangers, the rest is just not in the same league. Do The Right Thing is the best way to listen to this music

Not good - dull droney boring

Pretty chilled, seems to be one long groove and some jokes I'm not really listening hard enough to get. Juvenile Funky but not my thing

Not as bad I thought it would be from my memory of their random crap when I was an NME reader, but still - who likes this stuff?

An old friend - at least 20 years now I've just had the two best (for me) tracks tagged. Listening to the rest of it, there's some good and some really not good. I'll be sticking to the two monsters - not Hallelujah though, that's overplayed massively

I should like this stuff, white boy soul, horns etc. Indeed a couple are quite fun, but his voice isn't great and I can still hear the insidious evil of Come On Eileen and too many ruined nights as a kid

Better than TransEurope Express, but the spotify radio shuffle after was much better

Had this for a while, love the killer track - not really listened to the rest of it. Good without being great

Yes, massive, also a couple of super catchy tunes, but also a bit too obvious and worn out. I don't think I'm the target audience for this kind of music

Her schtick has been overplayed to the point where it almost sounds like parody. But I did own this when it came out and loved the smokey jazz chanteuse style before the china white, fags and bad boyfriend ruined her talent

More odd inclusions in this list - there have to be 3001 albums better than this. it's fine, it's even got a funny song, but it doesn't feel like my life is better for having listened to it

Barking mad, almost unlistenable in places, but by far the best thing I've been pointed at in ages

Not good, didn't really notice it as I was working whilst listening

How many five star tracks does it take to get stars? There's 2, possibly 3, on here - and two of the best ever. Still a bit wanky outside those though

A couple of the best tunes ever, but also quite a lot of filler - still worth it

Pretty standard and unremarkable R&B from the sister of someone very talented

Don't need to listen to this one - it's been a part of my life all of my life. Some odd choices in there, but mostly just a wonderful nostalgic journey through some of the best melodies, riffs and harmonies we'll ever hear

Unusually unknown bluesy grooves - really enjoyed it. It is a very much a period piece but there are some tracks here that really groove

Just nonsense - interesting story, but really not worth a listen

Generally, and typically excellent, but gets an extra star for Run Christian Run, which is up there as one of my favourite tracks ever

Couldn't make it past the 4th track. Never liked Nu Metal, and these guys are at the apotheosis of that particular trashheap

Lots of fun - not what I expected, but was tapping my foot. Not entirely sure why this is afro Jazz, but whatever it was, I liked it

If anyone gets close to peak McCartney, is it Paul Simon in this period. Such a strange but wonderful album with some of the best songs they ever produced, and some very unusual other elements

OK - similar to their other stuff, but not as funky or immediate. Won't listen again

More fun than I expected. But then spotify played similar tracks and they were so much better

Clearly seminal stuff, but also it's Elvis, so it's a bit of cultural appropriation and never going to be as good as the Beatles

Meh then, meh now

Interesting band - feels like they'd have been insufferable art wankers at the time, but there's a few fun songs on here

Nope

Nope

Lightning in a bottle - so many familiar tunes from a great songwriter

Add Crazy Horse makes everything better - love these tracks on Arc Weld - love them here

Not my thing - I like a song, or a melody, rather than piano twiddling whilst a tramp menaces me

OK - not keeping any of it to come back to

First track - is nuts Second track - is also nuts

I've always liked the title track, but to be honest, the rest of it verges on unlistenable

I don't care what he did - this was a classic of my youth and still makes me smile thinking about the family just loving all the magic on this

So not my lane

It's Bowie, so it isn't crap, but it's also very much an album produced by a man who's muse left him a long time ago

Some wonderful stuff, some noodly stuff - worth an extra star just for those harmonies

Overplayed and over familiar, but that's for a reason - so many good memories of sitting on a bus on the way to work in Leeds and talking to my mates about how great the music was. Never my favourite band, but their Beatles schtick was better than most others

My spotify tells me I like 6 of the 9 tracks already, so I think this goes into the echelon. True genius at the peak of his powers.

OK - it's REM, and it's early, so not too douchey, but still it all sounds very much of a type

I couldn't in the past, and I can't now - I just don't get Bruce

Stone Cold Classic - introduced me, as an innocent british teen, to all kinds of exotic things. One or two of these songs would make my all time top ten

clearly very important, but it all sits in a very familiar lane and tone - two or three wonderful classics, the rest is just a bit indulgent

Um, not sure about this - one massive tune and a lot of random stuff

Never understood this stuff - despite hailing from the heart of dark gothic stuff. it's joyless miserable posturing

Owned it, loved it back in the day, seen them live a few times - always a party, but the music itself...not so good really - not quite appealing to the lowest common denominator, but close

Don't get it - feels like a token entry - but a lot of them do

It was on, didn't really notice it - how is it on the list?

Music for a bad Spanish restaurant

Seems OK - less challenging for me than the other stuff I've heard. Still not my lane by any distance

Nice moody lane - smooth jazz times

Yeh, meh - nothing stood out here

One absolute banger, and a whole bunch of meh

One or two of my top 20 songs on here, but also a few that are very prone to be skipped

An old familiar favourite

Fine for what it is, again not my kind of thing

Didn't like it when I was a kid. She's immense, yes, but this was poison to my ears back then

Another example of wallpaper music - washed right over me

Just not interested - was never my lane

Yeah, a legend - and a weird dude. Not terrible - it's a rollicking live set, but most of the tunes were done better by others

Household staple from my youth - love all of it, with extra cheese

Fine - not that interesting, and it constantly feels like it's about to kick into a Beatles tune or two

Meh, they weren't really musicians, although I did appreciate finding a tune I used to enjoy on the closing credits of the TV show when I was a kid

1 massive tune, the rest underwhelming, not like his other album on here

Belting - 3 or 4 total bangers here, and not much is better than Warpigs

Ok - nothing too exciting really, even the bangers are a bit dull by now

Enjoyed it - much chiller than I expected

Yeah, there's a reason he wasn't in Pink Floyd anymore

Never been my thing - I like a melody too much, or someone who can actually sing

Can't do this either - bloody lion king graceland nonsense. Yes it is beautiful music, so is throat singing and polka, but I cannot listen to any of it

Just terrible. Been something I've tried to avoid all my life - I simply cannot understand why this is so popular

Period piece - weird acoustic quality - a couple of interesting songs but mostly completely forgettable

All very lovely, but I feel quite sick - I'm only 52, not 95 - this is not my bag baby

Ugh, no. Just absolute no from me. Starting to get a bit sick of the project - too much world music not enough popular music

I don't understand ambient music, or why it needs to exist

Oh baby - five stars all the way

legend returns with...pan pipes...oh dear The rest of the album - nothing got me as excited as his proper blues

Nope, just can't do it. I am allergic to this bloke

Probably my favourite album as a teenager - on constant walkman action in the summer it came out

2 good tunes, the rest is noodly wank fodder

Held out for a long time - they were just too much in the 80s, but now seeing the genius of the early stuff

Harmless - couple of lovely tunes, lots of filler that I no doubt would love if I'd lived with this for 50 years

It's not Ziggy Stardust, is it?

One undeniable banger and a lot of pervy crap

Yeah, couple of good singles, lots of moody beats driven crap otherwise

Feels a bit tokenistic - and is it really worthy of an entry? I wonder what wonderful sixties or seventies album in the original book made way for this collection of meh?

yeah no yeah, it's OK - nothing wonderful in here though

File under Wankers, epic. Not interested in this copycat Gary Glitter

Better than I expected - it's early UB40, so quite moody and not popularist white boy reggae Plus, Food for Thought, immense

It's OK - nothing extraordinary

Ugh. Saccharine Shite

Batshit crazy - quite fun, made no sense

More fun than I expected, proper Bri'ish metal

Nice, fun, but nothing outstanding

Shite shouty deliberately quirky crap, it was always crap - remains crap 30 years later

It's a no from me

Face melting guitars, dripping with rage and energy, still sounds fresh 50 years later

Nothing too exciting here - lots of these now feel like filler rather than seminal

More reggie - simply not interested

Juvenile teenage wank rock - but not entirely terrible

Meh - it is what it is

Better than I expected, but still reggie, and pretty sleazy reggie at that. Louche

Enjoyed it again, like I did before, but still nothing really stands out

Preferred their debut - this is OK, wasn't interesting

An old friend, comfy without being too memorable or making me heart anything new

Was OK - couple of fun tunes, but mostly meh. The blues on the spotify shuffle afterwards were much more fun

Excellent - groovy and modern

Don't even want to listen. Yes, you're angry and you might have dope beats, but life is too short

Hmmmm - not very good, is it? Pretty but pointless

Includes one of my favourite ever tunes, so gets an extra star for that - and for generally being funky in a good white boy way

Clearly quite a show, but the music is a bit too 'gee shucks I'm an outlaw' simple country for me

Up there for GOAT

oh no darling, this is just terrible stuff

Ugh - starts bad and gets less interesting. I'm too young to have suffered this crap at dinner parties - what was wrong with just having Sade on all the time?!

A lot of fun, enjoyed the comparative lack of bombast - felt like a working band rocking hard

Lovely - a nice throwback to a CD that kept me company for quite a while

Couldn't get into it or understand why it is so seminal

Pretty sure i've heard this before, but I was always more of a Ray fan, in fact - I struggle to find much to love in the Dinosaur Jr catalogue these days

Nowhere near as much fun as most of his other stuff, all a bit meh

It was OK - not sure how I missed it, I loved Daft Punk, Cassius etc. - I suspect it was because this stuff is just a bit average really

OK - nothing special apart from the tracks I knew anyway

Loved it on vinyl when it came out. Lifelong acid jazz fan. Met Jay. He was cool.

Ding dang done, 10 four ol buddy - much as I love a Burt Reynolds smuggler chase movie, I'm not sure I want a full album of this stuff, no matter how much a pedal steel can melt my cold heart

Ha, one legend and a load of supermarket music

Pomposity to the fore, rather than songwriting or melody. Only the mighty James Murphy made them sound interesting rather than just another dull as ass American Indie band moaning about something. Cannot understand how high a regard this is held in

His big hits are hits for a reason - the other stuff is dark and odd

Fine, not offsensive, but didn't make me sit up and listen at any point either

Clearly legendary and seminal, but in actual fact, it is pretty dull and samey and not really in the groove that made him a legend

zzzzzz

Half of it missing - curse you Joe Rogan - but still enough wonderful harmonies, guitar virtuosity and songwriting to earn 4 stars. I'll even give Our House a pass, but not for long

Yep - know it, enjoyed it back then - a bit long but not terrible

Rod the God - some great, some meh

I tried to listen to this, but it just disappeared into the background. Deliberately quirky, or feels like it - no bangers and no beauty, won't listen again

Tried to get through it a couple of times, it just doesn't work for me. The calculating earnestness of their influences and output is very disingenuous, always has been. They're copyists rather than innovators - music for people without ambition or imagination. Some of their music is magical, but even that is lost in the face of the zealotry of their believers. The Manchester United of music

Nope

Holy jesus fuck, how bloody miserable is this stuff? His Toy Story schtick got old despite the magic, this is just miserable and all a bit samey

It was pretty ground breaking back in the day, but now just sounds repetitive and lacking imagination. Couple of bangers, but a massive amount of dreck

As good as it gets in modern music - I had a couple of these pinned already - top 100 lifetime streams. The rest of the album is just as good. Into the rotation

Better than I expected - the groove is undeniable, if somewhat repetitive. Odd that I missed this first time around.

Tepid background irrelevance. Clearly whatever particular blend of classic jazz this is, it isn't my lane baby

Better than I thought - not that much hair metal. The Maiden were prevalent on denim jackets when I was young, and I thought they were for thick people. This wasn't anywhere near as crap as some of the stuff coming up on this project

I loved this as a 19 year old - tortured my poor dad to listen to it on the drive to university. But listening now, the bulk of the album is pretty crappy raga type shit rock. The final 4 songs more than make up for it, as mad as they are

All a bit samey really - not that I was expecting prog-style landscapes of sonic magic, but I guess, as garage music goes, it's pretty good. Really dirty grooves with some wonderful touches of guitar magic

Fine - had this, or had Kool Thing, when it was released. It's sonic youth, it doesn't veer far from that course

This was fun, a couple of tunes I knew from elsewhere and popular culture, others I didn't. Ultimately, I will never listen again - but it made a friday afternoons work a little less dull

OK - one Killer tune, and one or two other bangers. The rest of it is pretty standard 70s hard rockin - not bad, not amaze

Never listened to Merle Haggard before - heard of him in movies and stuff, but here we are. 30 minutes of what seems to be the same song, or what sounds like the exact same song, just with slightly faster or slower parts. And boy, it is depressing. Maybe I want to do in jail for the wrongs I done, maybe I don't

Is there a 0 star option? Did not and will not listen to this, just about the opposite of what I consider music to be

OK - nothing special here, didn't even recognise the singles

So annoying that the legend isn't on my preferred streaming service, but youtube to the rescue. Proper this one - couple of timeless classics

Fine for what it is, but it's a no for me.

Interesting, but also not engaging - I was hooked by the Pimp Butterfly one, not by this

Massive - not much more to day. Some filler, but the killer is primo extra good killer

Never knew this existed - very pleased to find it, sleazy groovy fun

Not as brilliant as their moody magnum opus that followed. When they hit their muso peak, they lost their audience, but this has hints of the magic to come.

I like the pomposity of this - knowingly clever and clearly demonstrating prowess. At the same time, only Tom Sawyer has a hook, and that is a pretty proggy hook. Won't be putting the album in heavy rotation, but that mad jazzy rocker is in the 'liked songs' folder.

It was, OK - is also a shadow the magic of Melody Nelson from earlier this week, and for other similar sleaze lounge stuff that came on the shuffle afterwards

Ugh, so dull. Not sure I'd ever want to meet the Teens who have Dreams as anodyne as this whiny lo-fi crap

Oh dear. No thank you "if sex were an olympic sport we'd have won the gold" Yes, I'm sure that's both true and something anyone wants to happen

Nice, chill, moody. Loved finding Paper Tiger earlier this week, and very much a companion piece to Morning Phase, which I loved already

Seems to be missing what made their early stuff reasonably interesting. And that was a stretch

Untouchable, weird and wonderful

They're not what they were - but they're still OK

I was a Beatles kid - Elvis felt irrelevant despite their love for him. This is another collection of good but not great stuff

An Eno album that isn't the aural equivalent of a folding bicycle? (i.e. only for total smug wankers). Seems to be - but Robert Fripp provides the clear highlight - that track was tagged for repeat listening. The rest of it is mad as a lorry, but also quite entertaining

Nice - prefer Wilco going a bit mental with guitars, but this was one of the better recent offerings on this site

Actually and surprisingly really enjoyed this, some cracking tunes

Yes, I'd rather not. The riffing is OK, but the caterwauling really isn't helping

zzzzzzz

Soundtrack to the days in hip cafe's before they discovered charging a tenner for avocado on toast

Like the Muses, hadn't owned this. It's OK - nothing amazing

Hmm - not what I expected. Punk with musicians and instruments. Still not my lane though

OK - nothing to get too excited about. How do you have Rod in your band and decide to sing yourself?

my 16 year old self, discovering this on vinyl after reading about it, as a massive Prince and 60s fan - wow, blown away. Going back at 52 after too many years away, that opening groove - man - sensational. Can do without the odd sesame street vocal singalong moments, but otherwise...

His voice and groove is undeniable, but this is the purest form of divorce core I've ever heard. Not a happy listen

Not bad, made it past the desire to skip after 4 seconds. Will listen again

Enjoyable retro sheen across this - couple of very good pop songs

Amazing in 1994, feels a bit one-note now, the follow up was more interesting

Nope

Could get 5 just for that amazing centre piece, dropped to 4 because it isn't quite enough

Very good, if not outstanding 60s keyboard choral stuff, closing with an absolute worldie

Enjoyed it - won't be going back, but it is like REM without the whining overtones

Never listened, despite all the accolades. Turns out its ok, just not my lane really

It's Radiohead. 4 stars

Oh. So so dull

Legend, but just a couple of her most legendary tracks on this one, as is usually the case

An old friend - couple of serious hotspots, but also music made for people who look like me by people who look like me

Life is too short and there's too much good happy music out there to put myself through more than 2 tracks of this shit

Owned it, but only ever played the first 2 or 3 songs, which must mean something

Never listened to this legendary band, but even being in a huge Crosby, Stills and Nash phase, this just sounds dull and second rate. What a boring set of songs with less than stellar harmonies

A couple of serious nostalgic classics, with a load of less impressive euro synth pop schmaltz

A voice only a mother could love. One banger, all filler

Yee haw - apparently all about murderin a cheating lady, but it was just a bunch of yodelling and strumming. Not my thing

OK - nothing amazing on here. Nice and short though!

Good solid 70s tunes, couple of serious bangers, but also quite indulgent. Enjoying the spotify post album shuffle more

Not bad. Used to think they were the worst thing in the world, and now can see them as being better than most of what was around at the time. However, nothing stood out like Happy House, so moving on. 3 stars

Actually quite peaceful. Not something I'd ever choose to put on and listen to though

Noodly nurdly proper jazz - nice enough but aural wallpaper really

Never really got this stuff, too popular whilst also being too hipster

Oh hell no

Nice funky funny groove driven hip hop

I just don't get it. He sounds so grumpy, and the tunes lack subtelty

Opens strong, very strong. And then... leaves you feeling disappointed

Was a favourite when I was a student. Blatant throwback, even in the late 80s, to the golden age. Still holds some water, but mostly sounds cliche now

Banging, but I think i still prefer Oliver Reed and the tunes from the movie, which introduced me to the material. Thoroughly bizarre as a concept, but with some insanely evocative musical moments

Couple of serious bangers, lots of filler. Amazing suits

Not sure what these guys are, super nerdy, but also capable of moments that can move. Had the 1st track on my liked songs forever, but the rest of the album just washed over me

OK - had wondered about these guys, mentioned a few times by different things that were interesting. Nothing leapt from the listen, a nice solo here and there, but not enough to earn a 'like' on Spotify

Meh

Always a bit weedy and nerdy for me. And the last bloke you'd want to end up being stuck in the kitchen with at the end of a party, man.

Not my lane, but also not completely horrible

Didn't listen. Wouldn't listen. I'm not 12, I'm not American, this isn't for me.

Weird, and then 2 billion streams

2 or 3 good/great tunes. The rest is just dreck

Note quite as perfect as their later stuff, but still some amazing tracks here

Good, but oh so slow and moody. Not really my thing, feels completely devoid of any fun

Opens big. Then really struggles to follow on from that

Not bad, not interesting - 1977 too, quite nasal

Clearly quirky, and I loved Wordy Rappinghood when I was a kid. The rest is just a big pile of wank

Hated them - or more precisely his voice - since I was 12. Almost as bad as Erasure. Instant no

Not bad - but why is this here? There are hundreds of identikit female R&B albums over the years, this is just one more of the same

Oh, here's another world music box ticking one. I don't mind a bit of Tito, but these all sound very similar when on an album - and after 5 or 6 I've lost interest

Had this sprawling beast on CD - you only ever listen to the Shake it and Way You Move tracks - the rest is just nurdling tomfoolery

Lovely stuff, untouchable really - the GOAT of melancholy soul

Pure wallpaper - and nothing more

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Better than I thought it would be, but the hits definitely helped with that

What on earth is this garbage?

More token instrumental bollocks. No thanks

Pretentious tosh really, with one banger. I'm sure it was revelatory, but now just sounds a bit silly. 2 stars

the fuck is this shit?

Shite in 99. Still Shite in 23. Utter Shite really

I know the Eagles are hated and plastic, but I grew up listening to my dad's band play a lot of this stuff, so it is just burned into my soul

Nah, and the big track is so overplayed it isn't worth mentioning. I was a massive indie fan when this came out, and I couldn't get on board with it - dull as fuck

OK, not amazing. Very on point for that period.

Played it whilst working, didn't notice anything interesting at all

Brilliance and schmaltz, as ever - not one of my favourites from his period of magic, but still pretty good

Not good

ah, when cultural appropriation was seen as cool and helpful. never liked it

Yeah, endless nurdly jam band stoner nonsense - struggled to find a song or melody

Tried but couldn't get on with this one

Weird ambient low energy nothing of an album

One massive banger, lots of filler

It's OK

I can't do it, John Lydon might be a ledge, but he's no singer or musician

Tried it twice - it was OK, but nothing remarkable, and not worth recommending to Spike, who loves the bands they're supposed to have influenced

Not bad, couple of fun tunes, nothing warranting a repeat listen

Half decent album by the ultimate singles Queen. Won't be adding to the rotation though

Seminal

Properly, and I mean super properly, shite

I know what it sounds like, don't want to listen to it - the Disney show was better than the reality

Ok - not interesting really

One Blockheads tune, every now and again on the radio, or a playlist, is quite a fun thing. A whole album of the cheery geezer gertcha twaddle is tiresome

An old CD friend, doesn't hold up as well as I'd have thought it might. Certainly not in my top 500

Good, but not seminal, way too much filler

Album title is 100x better than the music

Excellent, but you have to be in the right mood. which is monged.

Not bad, decent tunes, oddly deadpan vocalist

Meh of the highest possible order

Uniformly excellent work by the weird little dude

Not for me, or for many others judging by the number of streams the tracks have, most of which are likely to be the people doing this online activity

critics darlings, did the decent thing as a loyal NME reader. Still just sounds like shite noise

Ah, I remember this - used to be used extensively on the highlights package on UK Channel 4 for the NBA. Bought it on that premise, but turned out just to be a load of deck and sample wankery with no discernable tunes or melody, and therefore really quite pointless as an album

Oh dear, soporific and not in a good way

Simply beautiful songwriting and singing - not quite country, not quite pop. Immensely more wonderful than poor Taytay

Standards in full schmaltz mode, sung by a guy who can't really sing

felt like true rage when it came out. Is it nostalgic rage now? all a bit too much for me at 52 - 30 years later it seems quite silly

Hmmm - complete codswallop

nice classy mellow stuff

Not bad, not great. Couple of great tunes, but not stellar tunes with endless listenability

Jazz Club....nice Ultimate wankery

Better than most punk, but that's not really a glowing accolade. It is still punk, still repetitive basic stuff

Owned this, wouldn't buy it again. Music of a certain time for certain moods and places

Fun stuff, very grooovy baby. Unlikely to listen to it again though

Underwhelming

Love me some Jimmy Smith, but this one is pretty mellow to the point of being not worth listening to

More fucking punk - and I don't care if this is seminal or bleeding edge, it's still shite

Had this when it came out, had a trendy girlfriend into garage, but I found it repetitive back then - now it is just generally repetitive crap with a generic beat. Even the title track, which felt epic at the time, is just dull

Mandatory presence in every charity shop in the Midlands, alongside Travis - you don't find Beatles and Stones CDs being discarded this frequently Therefore, utter shite, without even listening

Not Dummy, nothing is Dummy, but innovative and elegiac enough to stand out

I like the noodly take that some Radiohead does, apparently inspired by this guy. It's weird, and clearly has a quality, but it isn't an album I'll listen to again

Yank Wank

I just can't. Best version of this stuff is from Phoenix Nights. Please stand up

Some groove, some jams way too zonked out for anyone to enjoy straight

Oh dear - one for the weird fetishists

It isn't Revolver or Pet Sounds. But it isn't terrible either, Under My Thumb is wonderful and stands out from everything else here

Always a step beyond Metallica and acceptable metal for me, gave it a listen and...still not for me

Always struck me as music for morons, still seems very basic - designed for meatheads to dance in fist pumping ecstasy after way too much alcohol

This shit has to stop - he's probably worse at singing than Roger Waters, but at least Roger Waters can write a tune...no more Tom Fucking Waits

I remember her being pretty foxy, and those two hits weren't terrible, but the rest of it...ugh

Nah

Crroooooonneeerrr

Yeah, samey, but ever so smooooooth

both mad and crap, and I quite like a bit of bollywood

On a rope, but nothing else worth listening to

Hit and Miss, as usual

Excellent if pretentious stuff

Nuh uh - no Breathe and Stop, not worth it. Did 4 tracks and Stopped

Loved this band before they did this - miserable droney shite

I remember buying and then never playing this CD - one trick pony bollocks

Nope

Dull and pretentious...the James Murphy stuff is clearly much much better

Smooth enough, better than I expected from a band I used to avoid

Automatic 1 star for the ultimate wanker band - by wankers for wankers. He's a classical musician playing at being Radiohead, and his acolytes go on about his skills rather than the quality of his song writing

Tried a few times, but nothing here stood out as being an essential classic relisten

Beer boy bar band boogie. It's OK, but there is no nuance or melody

White hot for a moment in the UK in 1992, and then...poof...gone into 90's fun pub obscurity

Better than I expected - completely missed out on her, mainly because her name is so vanilla. Some fun stuff, but also quite sleepy in places

Nice, but apart from one song, just is wallpaper

How does this have so many listens? Bongo Bong? Christ - its worse than the background music when the fast and furious gang head to Cuba

Should have spent their sunglasses money on a fucking drum machine. How did this stuff get people to riot at live shows?

Not bad, not amazing, but was a decent listen

Nah - so much for a legend

Sassy fun this

Opening track is great, the rest sounds like the best lounge bar band in a groovy hotel - but a lounge bar band nonetheless!

80 minutes of yelling and scuzz, with no swing? No thanks

yawn, meh, bloodless drum and bass under warbling wallpaper

Sub Portishead with a less capable chanteuse, nice beats though

I'm sure this is very good. It doesn't work for me

Bought it as a student, because that's the law. Tried it, didn't really get on with it - Reed's voice in particular is too flat. But undeniably influential - classics everywhere and across pop culture

This is just shite

All the 'songs' sound the same. Not like songs

Not my soul brother number 1, however good he was, it's too lounge for me

Couple of belting bass heavy tunes, not much else. Odd cover of America - not really that interested even after 4 listens

Another seemingly important british band from the edges of punk, which just means it is never that good.

Very good, very much in a lane and quite samey

meh

Blissed out brasilian vibes, but I am not sure when I would ever choose to listen to any of this

Godawful shite, just like the people who like this, in their raggedy jumpers and pints of cider with horse piss covered straw sticking out of it - and that's just the ladies

Fine, but still just as dull and macho as it was when it never interested me the first time around

80 minutes of this stuff? C'mon Common, I don't have the time for that much half decent rap music

Yes, excellent. Screamy Also Beeeeeeeewwwwwwwbbbs

Not riffy enough for me, and Jarvis was too snarky when he wasn't being dirty - the big hits were odious compared to the better bands. Musically this stuff is dreadful

More moody pedal steel country. not sure I get how influential this dude is - apart from teaching Keith how to get properly stoned. Didn't mind it

As bad as I thought it might be

White boi boogie - not great, not terrible

Smooth, the country chanteuse over some nice pedal steel. Not stellar and all in a very similar lane. Coffee shop stuff

Avoided this when I was 15, it isn't any better now - Sting is the best thing on the album. Very worrying how this sold so many CD players considering how miserable it is. Good closing track though

Love it, have loved it for a long time, despite it being a moustachioed cliche. Peak smooth AOR

OK, nothing especially memorable outside the hits, and they didn't get enough of a reaction to get tagged for a playlist

3 nasal harmonica drones in and it's goodnight irene - just can't get past that voice and lack of beauty in what he puts out

So much filler, and no real killer

Yeah, seminal and all that - also music for people who are just old or who have heard this stuff on romcoms

Had this as a teenaged obsessive of the NME and Melody Maker, but never really got it or got on with it. And now I'm over 50, I still don't. Noise doesn't make up for a challenging lack of melody. Extra star for 'Soon'

Grrrr jjjjjggggghhhh grrrrrrnnnnnngggg with a dude mumbling over it

Still as exhausting and knowingly 'clever' 20 years later - as is Justin. One half decent song reminds you that the proper bands delivered four or five per album - and had more than just ironic fun as their selling point

love these guys, but not so much on this album - other stuff is amazing, live in particular this feels like an epilogue

Weird nerdy nasal hollow sounding stuff

Not on spotify, not that interested

Not bad, moody and evocative, or just one note sad lad crooning

Nott for me dawg

Responsible for the worst song in history. Never surrender, never forget This isn't terrible, but still - Come On

Lifelong Beatles fan - from the day the guy was shot, and have only just listened to his solo stuff this year - and for this one, today. The best riff is saved for the meanest song - perfect Lennon move, with George twisting the blade. Enough good here to make the less good fade away

More music that's not for me. Title track much better when remixed for Cafe Del Mar, the rest of it? No gracias mate

Pretty basic 60s stuff, some of it total dross. Most of it really - but no worse than anyone except the very best were producing in 1966

Enjoyed it, didn't 'like' any of it into my playlists, unlike some other 80s stuff - so only 3 stars

Owned this CD, because you were supposed to like Massive Attack - but unlike blue lines, this had no massive bangers. And now it is just dull and completely forgettable

It wasn't as bad as the reviews suggested, or as good as the critics would have you believe

not great, the spotify bio suggests there might be some groove, or blues to this, but there isn't - it's pretty much sub Stones pub rock garbage

Enjoyed it more than I expected - good white boy soul, without his ego getting in the way. The famous tracks are the most annoying, a preview of what was to come. Soundtrack to many a boomers shagathons

Good but not great, and just because she drank herself to death with a smackhead doesn't mean she gets to be better than Dusty Springfield. Plenty of Amy wannabes have stepped into her shoes but left the needle and brandy alone

Didn't listen, couldn't do it to myself - it was shite in the 80s, won't be any better now

No thanks love

Not as strong as I remember it being back when it came out. Still good though

Love a bit of Scitti Politti, but it is all a bit samey and they needed some new disks for their synth, the stabs are a bit repetitive

Chill but dull, I owned this cd back in the day because you were supposed to, not enough piano happy house bangers for me. All a bit samey

Waited too long to do solo Beatles, particularly this one. Became the soundtrack to an epic and sad trip around India, and convinced me that what John and Paul were really missing in their solo work was the melodic genius who put this together. Ignore the jam disc, you don't need it. Listen to the new remastered version and let the vibe of the most but also least ascerbic genius songwriter sweep over you. So much loveliness, so many great riffs that could have been insanely good Beatles tracks if not for ego

I think it was OK - couldn't tell the difference from all the other bloody Elvis Costello I've been made to listen to

Couple of bangers, rest is struggling to be filler

Never listened to them, he's not a good front man or singer - or songwriter it seems. And it seems I was right, this is proper shite

Not my thing at all

Feels like tokenism - great singer and some amazing tunes, but feels out of place alongside Ice Cube and the Shamen - this isn't really on topic

Opens strong and then, what on earth is the rest of it?

Enjoyed this more than I expected - her voice isn't great, but the tunes have an ache to them, and the rage in a couple is very sharp

They were too hip and wanky for me when they were God's Gift - listening now, some decent grooves and guitar work, but they are just as one of the better comments states - Landfill Indie. Plenty of other bands doing this without burning their trackmarks with silk cut

Feels like quota filling, how is this notable for anything other than being mental brazilian physchedila rather than british or west coast trippy bollocks Fun but also proper fucking mental

I guess someone might like it. I certainly didn't

erm, lovely, but also quite samey in the second half

Inexplicably - despite being a Beatles obsessive for 50 years, apart from the odd McCartney release in the early 80s, and Band on the Run - I didn't go anywhere near any of the solo stuff until last year. This isn't Ram, or up with the other immediate post Beatles stuff, but there are moments that sink in and stay. Maybe I'm Amazed is stunning, what could the best backing band in history have added to it? The alternate takes on the archive version are equally cool

All feels a bit formulaic and odd now one of them is treated like a deity - the music here was fun, but isn't fun anymore unless you happen to be smashed off your tits in a shit club

Crooooooooooon you irish fecker

I'm sure this is another seminal collection of cutting edge stuff that actually is bereft of melody or originality - its just 60s garage rock with leather and eyeliner

Yeah baby, accessible metal. I had this beast when I was at Uni - loved the edge to a couple of the billion stream bangers, but honestly couldnt remember any of the filler tracks. Still - worth a few stars for some epic riffery

Oh you can't be serious - I had to hear it to believe how crappy this is. A response to Sgt Pepper and Pet Sounds? Yeah, sure - this has nothing comparable to the worst tracks off those albums. My only issue - 1 star or 2?

Meh indie meh

This is not good. I don't understand American music sometimes.

Guilty by association? Possibly. Was never interested, and after about half the album, won't be listening again. Not terrible, just not my bag

Punk was deliberately shit. So it follows that 45 years later, it is still pretty badly shit - no extra points for boobs

Listened thru a few times, enjoyed it - the flute is an unusual tool, but the grooves on some of these tracks are undeniable. Not sure I'll drop into rotation, but interesting stuff

Enjoyed this. All over the place, but in a good way rather than 11 songs sounding very similar as they can do in this era. Lots of pointers to stuff that will come later. Ride the Wind sounds like proto Steely Dan/Yacht Rock!

If I want to listen to this kind of music, and believe me, I really don't, then I just go for a haircut here in the UK - where all of the gents salons have this playing whilst the football highlights are running

Actually much prefer the mellow and blissed out Goldfrapp albums to the disco bangers. Tales of Us is ethereal and was essential when I was commuting on twice weekly flights to Germany. This is in that vein, and therefore wonderful

Scouse no mark gobshites, more famous for a cover of one of their tunes than anything they ever did. I think I had this and never got to the end of listening to the CD. It's fine, it's just not great in any way

Sub-LAs stuff I'd never heard of, and I liked this stuff

Nurdle - nowhere near baked enough to enjoy this, and not sure I would want to listen to it even if I was

Amazing harmonies, and some classic tunes, but really? Who'd decide to put this funereal dirge on for any reason?

There was a time and a place where this was cutting edge, it's now a curio. One track with any kind of groove, the rest is just angry noise that is kind of exhausting. Should be a 2, but Closer gives it an extra star even if it isn't going onto any kind of regular rotation

Not meaning any disrespect, but all I can hear is the backing music to people ordering many many pints of Cobra and some jalfrezi with naan breads

Listening to the Pixies without the rest of the band doesn't really make it much fun

Did the Spotify thing, which was OK, then the Youtube version as advised, and it was actually less impressive. Not my thing, but interesting nonetheless

Legendary live show turns out to be less amazing than you'd expect. Despite the band being on sensational form, and the recording quality is impeccable, the song selection seems a bit strange - lots of vintage rock and roll and not enough Who bangers. Magic Bus though

Quite liked this - smoky and sleazy country

It's alright, like most White Stripes stuff. Difficult to see past the ego of the guy, but he can produce the odd total banger. Didn't feel like there was one on here to match some of the others. Generally, their stuff can feel two dimensional and slight

Nowhere near as good or cool as hipsters have made them out to be. Again, owned this, got very little play from me even in the pre-streaming, pre-ipod days

Enjoyed this way more than expected - but I'm a Yacht Rocker, and some of the musicians on here are LA studio legends. It was all going so well until the final track, which is just painful synth nonsense

One of those 'legendary' things that you hear about. I've never got Johnny Cash - or why he's so important. All his songs are very very very similar, and aren't heavy on melody or musicianship - but I get how he can be fun, and how it must have been amazing in 1968. But still, this is just three quarters of an hour of a guy singing risque songs to some criminals

Dylan? Nope

Nah bruh

Bloody excellent, but not really compelling

never been my thing, i'm too old to like wank metal, or wigga hip hop

Lots of fun, and familiar from all kinds of movies. Not really my bag, baby, but happy I listened at least once

Can't remember if I'm blaming Melody Maker, NME or Q for me having owned this on cassette for nearly 40 years and only really remembering 2 songs. Near mint copy for sale? This is, not good

Clearly way better than Jane Macdonald, but the choice of songs seems somewhat similar

I bought a copy of this when I was 11 - which is 42 years ago. I still find it wonderful.

As was always the case - great beats and mood diluted by synth tropes and ruined by that nasal snark. They should have hired a singer

I like LCD, I like HotChip - I like this enough to add it to my 'give it a listen' rotation. Never heard of them

OK, but nothing struck me as essential listening

This project has resulted in me ordering a few 'definitive' editions of remastered classic albums so that I can really optimise my enjoyment of the sonic majesty. Not this shite though, sounds like it was recorded through a wall, and whoever was on the noodle wobble jug thingy is sat right next to the only microphone and wouldn't listen to the request to put the fucking thing down

Surprised myself when I bought this when it came out - teenybopper groove. Mainly for the opening couple of tracks - but this is really Pharell's record, not Justin's

Nothing remarkable here - I don't get the hype. These guys are held up as one of the greatest power pop bands - whatever that means. I think it is just that Americans are not good at pop music, because this is pretty uniformly underwhelming

What fresh hell is this? White boy rapping over swinging beats? No fucking thanks

Thank fuck this is only 15 minutes. Fucking terrible 15 minutes

Painful and magical - the recent 6 cd set shows you, similar to the All Things Must Pass set, how fully formed some demos were on take 1, but also how the music transforms through collaboration. Some amazing moments on this - and great to hear a clean Lennon vocal that isn't double tracked

Wallpaper

So full of classics, but just one that I need to keep on rotation and it isn't the big moody title track

Bland - one half decent pop song and 9 dull ones

Track A - a lot of fun Track B - somewhat less fun Track C - mental Mode D, E, F - not sure what is going on

He was an odious sneering prick back when I was reading smash hits. Never listened to anything he did that wasn't forced on me by the radio. The hip hop here is cool, but it isn't McLaren's doing

A favourite for a long time, apart from that one track that's way worser than a ringo one

Weirdly mostly missing from Spotify, but also something I've had on physical media in the past. Boogie wonderland. One album under the same groove.

Never done any Ms Swift listening apart from the Shake It thing. This isn't meant for me - it's fine, but it really will be stuff for my 18 month old daughter to love, not her 50+ dad

Yeah, not for me dog. The acclamation of genius to an old pisshead growling over piano pisses me off more than the music itself

Way better than I expected - lots of mental concept album stuff going on here, and a properly mental backstory

Yeah, groovy and all that - but also feels a bit too influenced by Prince without delivering on this magic

Better than expected - the classics are overplayed. Some of the other stuff is hit and miss, still found one or two that I liked the sound of

Fuck off punks

Not as good as some others, but Dream Home Heartache is alltime excellence

Legends, but this kind of thing ain't my bag baby. Prefer Underworld, because they occasionally use some melody rather than just beats

Couple of massive bangers, for their time, but the rest of it is both a bit mental and quite dull and similar. He doesn't have the best voice.

oh for fucks sake, cheer up lad

Love the Coral mostly - some amazing tracks drawing lineage back to the best of British pop. This album is really quite patchy though

Never liked them. Oi. They have a couple of half decent melodies, but this is music created for people who like to shout along to their favourites, just as they would do on the terraces

Wow, nostalgic. This was in my dad's vinyl collection that I explored after wearing out his Beatles records. Found it odd - found it fun, listening again was quite odd. Blues Variation definitely very fun, but the rest is peak wankerdom by prog monsters

Tried to listen twice, didn't get it and lost focus

Either this is lovely late night melancholia or it is indulgent sad boy guitar wankery. Probably both - all a bit samey, I'm generally too positive a person to love this stuff, but nor do I hate it

First song was fun What followed...not so much

Loved this longer than I care to remember, on vinyl too. How does it sound so brilliant? What being horny really sounds like... doesn't get better than some of these tracks

Exactly as schmaltzy as you think it might be. High quality shmaltz, but despite that voice, it all sounds strangely bloodless Easy listening for stepford wives

It all sounds the same, but it is the best of breed sameyness. Not sure I'd ever consciously decide to listen to this kind of thing - and Tony Bennett had more swing.

Loved this (ha) as a teenager when I discovered it by chance rather than recommendation. However, it's quite flaky in places now I'm 40 years older

It's alright, quite samey and his vocals can get a bit tiring. Better than most american indie music

Great fun, takes me back to being a blues obsessed teen - can't believe I missed this in my initial discovery of the 60's british masters. Some dodgy stuff takes a star off, but the playing on the belters is peerless

Never used to like them, he wasn't my cup of tea. This was reinforced by seeing Johnny Marr deliver blistering versions of his tunes, sung properly, at a festival. Not sure any of them were off this album though - it's OK, but won't be listening again

Ugh more bloody Dylan - and even this, as important as people seem to think it is, isn't universally popular - mainly because this bloke just cannot sing

Nice - perfect vintage pop

It's fine, not my thing at all - subjected to too much BB as a younger music fan, and amount of Wilco magic can take that away

Surprisingly good - funky, when I was expecting sub Joni Mitchell folky stuff. Won't be likely to listen again, but can't fault most of this

American tosswads trying and failing to emulate the Stones and/or the Zep. Just one half decent hook on the whole album of overproduced questionable cock rock. So many better options, even a couple of them are actually American - Skynyrd or CCR The last track is all you need to listen to - rock as a show tune with strings. Mick and Keef would never have stooped so low

Perennial example of an album included because of one massive track. plenty of these from the 80s and 90s too - this is just unlistenable nonsense, but an extra star for that massive song

Yeah, it isn't what it was 10 years ago - feels a bit tepid in places. Influential, but also culpable. And a million miles away from the magic that is proper 80s synth pop

Musically not terrible, they should have got rid of the "singer" and whoever is fucking about with the noise pedals though Won't be listening again

Already had the two bangers marked here, but the rest of the album is pretty sweet too. So much talent, so many pointers to the magic that was coming

Opening tune is from my favourite ever film, but it's not actually that amazing. Rest of the album is similar - sounds weirdly jaunty but also fucking furious, if a glockenspiel solo can sound angry. Better than 95% of us alt rock from the same period - looking at you B52s, you shitwads

Soo boooored Would it hurt to get a singer involved?

Another one trick album - that trick being the track with all the streams, and it's brilliant. The rest feels like standard 1980's filler fare

Zut Alors 28 minutes of my life gone in a swirl of gitane smoke and badly recorded crooneur nonsense. I'm sure this is fun if you get the words, but if it was an English guy with this level of histrionics and that musical backing it would be absolutely awful and nowhere near this list

Three or four works of genius, but some knob twiddling too - not quite the peak of their output

One standout track and then lots of examples of why they needed to be sensational live - that voice just doesn't cut it if the band aren't smashing it

It's fine. I'd never choose to listen to it, wouldn't know it to be different from other similar stuff

Nuts And not in a great way

3 absolute melting classics and 7 standard 60s blues rockers, and one 1 comedy closer Listen to Mr Baker, quite extraordinary what was in the water in the UK to create him, Moon, Bonham, Starr and others

Better than peak Britney - isn't that all that matters?

Cheesier than a triple cheese burger with cheese fries and shake. Without the hair, the spandex or the bikini's, it all sounds a bit too formulaic. Best track is Panama, but that's a jock anthem and feels sub ACDC on all levels. Jump is too synthtastic and just overplayed Hot for Teacher is Beavis and Butthead boogie fun though

Great album - not written for me, but I can appreciate some of the wizardry of the samples and the musicality of his lyrics.

Better than most of the punk that was kicking around - the sax helps, as you can't just thrash that instrument. I think her voice is also much more interesting that most punk yellers. Still, won't ever listen to any of it again

Erm, are the people running this list OK? This isn't peerless pop music - one annoying hit doesn't mean this is a classic album

Overblown production sounds so stilted today - Like a Prayer, Express Yourself etc. were more about the video than the music itself. Extract this music from the hype and scandal of the time and it's just sub-Janet Jackson formulaic tunes with a less than stellar singer

Jesus Christ Almighty - how has this dude made an epic and legendary career out of delivering this kind of country by numbers bollocks?

Half decent. Such a shame he never found a true rocking place for that voice - and became a sad but very rich standards crooner

Don't mind her whole vibe - it's archly gothic and a little stalker/bunny boiler, but every song sounds like the others - and that seems to be the case for her 2024 stuff when compared to this It is all quite soporific too - not really stuffed with party bangers

An old favourite - absolutely loved this as a younger man. Still holds up, but I can see how it might be a bit repetitive

Trad Jazz just ain't my bag baby

Surprisingly nuts - wasn't 100% focused on what was going on, and thought that Spotify was on shuffle. Probably need to listen again, but well behind track on this project...

Damn you - no Zero Star option This is everything that's been wrong with American music for the past 25 years - meatheads making music for other meatheads. Good luck to them and keep them and their fans as far away as possible from my children

It's OK - nothing really reminded me of the intensity of Infected, which seared into my brain as a teenager, and still moves me. Standard 80's agit-groove fare

Liked this, it is simple, it is stupid, but also feels more vibrant than all the other Yank garage rock we are supposed to respect. Excellent guitars, great vibe throughout

How did we have the energy to listen to 80 minutes of this stuff in the 90s? Not top banger stuff, but still pretty fucking banging

Harmless and toothless - they weren't for me when I was an obsessive indie kid of 23, they definitely haven't aged as well as I have for the past 30 years

Nope, always a nope these guys. Where's the melody?

Nice, better than I thought it might be

Enigmatic genius makes album full of weird and wonderful stuff

I'm sure it was sensational and revolutionary when it came out, but thru a 2024 lens it just sounds a bit overblown and full of cliche - even if it was one of the originals, there's a reason this isn't up there with Zep and Cream

I'm allergic to Reggae, particularly the melodic stuff that uni tossers 'love' as they get baked

Meh, moody, some of it quite tuneful - nothing stood out and it felt quite long. Not for me.

Like the hits, very mellow. Didn't really like the guy himself from what I remember. Music for middle class white women who have had a few too many glasses of rosé at the garden party

Weird one, could have been a little like the mighty Jill Scott (who probably isn't on this list), but it falls short. The vignettes are not particularly flattering, and the songs aren't terrible, but they aren't amazing either. Time will judge that this isn't a classic of any type.

Been on the 'should listen to that' list forever, decades. Now I've been forced to, I'm underwhelmed. The big ballad actually felt better when Badfinger did it, Coconut loses out on the Tarantino context, but Into the Fire is a beast even without the helicopters. The rest of the album feels like indulgent filler in a time when McCartney and Floyd and others were dripping with full coverage of both sides

Remember loving the hits, and it was fun to hear the first couple of skits. This was revolutionary - shame rap ended up more on the sexist, gun tilt than this whirligig of old soul and beats

I love the first few bars of one of these songs, so that's worth a star. The rest of it? Influential but also uninspiring and very samey

Felt a bit miserable, and not the best singer - couldn't get into the presumably deep messages she's putting out there. Gave up before the hour was done

Rocking out with your cocking out. Music for meatheads, and the girls who wanted vanilla hair metal. Except Wanted Dead Or Alive - that is epic. East coast cowboys....

A cassette from my youth. Didn't get much play - Killing Moon and Seven Seas aside. Clearly so, as I didn't recognise any of the other songs.

Ah lovely, such a shame they lost their way. Saw them tour this album in a sweaty 3rd room at the Carling Academy in Brum - a few years later there were teenage girls screaming about their Sex being on Fire in the National Indoor Arena and it was time to let the band go

Another album you bought (pre-Ipod days) just for that one track. Because the rest of it is nutso nonsense.

Yes. It does.

Another trip into nostalgia of my cd collection - wasn't that big a fan, but they were very hyped. Opens strong, then a LOT of filler.

Po faced misery guts of a band, generally loved by people who would be boring if you ended up sat with them in the pub. And the Welsh. This one hasn't even got any of their "hits" on it

Nice enough, nothing too exciting or likely to ever be listened to again - standard 90s bedroom twee

Back when these twats were just about tolerable and hadn't fully manifested their god complex...

Not my thing - but 30 years later, it all sounds a bit ridiculous

It's OK, clearly 80s music from the birth of the decade. His voice, sometimes, a bit too much

2 or 3 melting bangers, lots of filler - makes it difficult to score, but Superfly is worth 2 stars on its own

Could have been a 40 minute song - same beat, same guitar, same mad warbling not for me

Different and not obnoxious, but not something I particularly enjoyed. Not going to go look for more Faust, or purchase a CD copy

One monster, but also pretty high quality in some of the other tracks, given how early and formative this was

The McNugget Meal of an album - you know you shouldn't, but damn if it isn't good in the moment of consumption, followed by deep guilt and a promise to avoid doing that bad bad thing again Until...

Always struck me as belonging to that class of intellectual luvvies like Jarvis and those twats from the Housemartins, so never bothered to listen to any of his music. Gets a point for Father Ted, but the rest of it is inoffensive and forgettable

Not for me - good luck to you if you like it, but I couldn't finish it

First track is amazing, an all time favourite. And then we're in a cuban restaurant waiting for a song you recognise. Nice enough - nothing wonderful

Finally took some time to listen to an album that I knew I should try. I love a bit of Jonathan Wilson - Fanfare in particular - and you can see where he gets some of his inspiration, this is beautiful mellow melodic magical stuff. Needs a few listens to soak in, and space to feel it wash over you

Given my age, and being a Brit, I have a soft spot for funky 80's stuff similar to Janet Jackson. A couple of tracks here tickle that nostalgia bone - Girlfriend in particular is nearly groovy enough to be a song Prince might have given to whoever he was trying to bang that month. Worth a star on its own. Rest of the album is fine, without being amazing. Didn't listen to the french version, why would you?

I must have enjoyed this one - 3 straight listens on repeat. Classic Sabbath that I hadn't heard before, not sure why. Proper bostin'

Yeah, it was alright. Opens strong and then....it's all a bit too similar and lacking in oomph

It's alright, nothing amazing

Weird, I generally picked up Foo Fighter CDs as they came out. Yes, it is butt rock, but it is usually fun shouty melodic mindless stuff. Grohl seems like a decent bloke most of the time, which is a rarity. This was, um, OK - no clear bangers

Two big bangers, and even the Passenger is a bit shit really. Not interested in any of the other sub Bowie stuff. He was better with is original mates

Madder than Mad John McMad - but also perfectly pitched in its weirdness.

Yeah, this is sub Randy Newman nonsense, or signposting the objectionable culture theft of Graceland. Someone should really have been harsher when he presented these songs - Cars are Cars all over the world?

Sure it rocks, but it is rock by numbers for knobheads - it was in 1972 and is in 2024, I can't believe anyone loves this music

Bought this on record (not bloody vinyl) rather than tape in 85. Proving to be quite a sensible decision, as it is near mint from never being played. Thanks Q magazine, or NME, or whoever it was who told me this was the new coming. Couple of decent songs, but not what a boy obsessed with Tears for Fears was ready for. Was, and is, music for hipsters wearing black

Starting from a rough spot because this bloke's music is nails on a blackboard for me, even if it sometimes makes you sad in Pixar movies. This is clever stuff, no doubt, but it is still music that feels lacking in the blood, sweat and tears that other stuff gets you engaged with Smart, dry, dull

Had this within 4 days of A Love Supreme, which I'm much more familiar with. It's excellent stuff, but almost too mellow to warrant an immediate replay and 5 stars

Sopor-fucking-ific. I guess it could work for something other than making me sleepy, but I am not sure what that might be

Another case of a cool sound for a big hit becoming massively tiresome across a whole album. Nerd core

As good as it gets for those of us not quite committed enough to get into Jazz properly. An entry drug that is very very good but doesn't mean you're totally hooked.

How many people with the t-shirt, or the poster, ever listened to this. Not bad for what it is, but it's a mess and a long way from the Stooges or the Experience offered in terms of melting their instruments onstage fuck hipsters - the Zombies should be better known than the MC5

Solid if somewhat maudlin white boy soul - possibly the origin of what followed. Good bass and whilst his voice gets tiring, the Boy can sing Won't be listening again

Identikit stuff - couldn't tell where one song ended and the other started. Pleasant enough, but really not anything I'm interested in hearing again. Maybe her man would have done better if she had a bit of variety in her music?

The hits hit good, the rest is terrible filler that no one listens to

Couple of amazing hits, and a lot of indulgent filler. Very well played filler, but filler none the less

Glad to get this shit out of the way Sooooooooo boring

Nowhere near what I thought it might have been, no wonder they all went off and did better stuff

Not really my lane Seemed OK - but I didn't tap my foot or stop to listen at any point

Enjoyed the nostalgia of this - from a time when you had to listen to your CDs over and again. But by god the girl still sounds a few shillings short of a full bag

Does one half decent song make an album 'essential'? I don't think so, especially when it isn't as good as Ultravox and Simple Minds of the same era. Most of this album is pure dreck

Yep, seminal Also very much can be visualised as part of a Tom and Jerry soundtrack, so much pastiche

By some considerable distance the best Drake in music

Not really my thing, but had never heard of them or any of their music, so gave it a full spin. Not bad - nothing into my playlists though. Rock in the punk age, rather than pure punk

Should be good. Should be Portishead with real instruments and a kicking beat. Should be able to remember at least one song from a 25 year old album, but I can't (maybe Secretly), and that's because it simply lacks any killer hooks, melodies or other things to make it something worthy of being cherished

I would instantly be suspicious of anyone who got excited about dancing to this aural wallpaper. It is fine for what it is - a load of other peoples work over a beat, but it is greige in the extreme Fat Boy Bald

Good but nothing extraordinary or special. First 3 tracks not working on Spotify - but their play counts don't suggest Im missing much

Pure shite

Ain't got time for this mate. Go make another Bond movie and spare us 20 minute drum and bass operettas

I had this on CD, but wasn't able to remember any of it. Listening again, oh, so, dull. Where are those squealing guitars Wilco?

I was very much about this lane of music when I was a younger man - a great mix of Michael Jackson without the narcissism and lunacy, and Prince without the lunacy and narcissism. This album isn't control, but Janet doesn't get enough credit for being Beyonce first

Surprised me - I was expecting a load of creole gumbo piano nonsense, not some weird voodoo tone poem Excellent just for being so fucking different

Good to see that whilst God gave her the looks and the talent and gave her the spotlight, it was also very much the case that her choice of songs was dreadful sentimental crap. But I like Honey, and she clearly had a sense of humour making the video

God almighty this is dull stuff with a loud bass

Listened through this a couple of times, watched the video of the title track. The vibe is right in my lane, but I have a visceral reaction to Mr Cocker, he's just not Ferry or Bowie, however hard he seems to try. Makes it difficult to love what could be a stellar album

Ah, a charity shop classic - alongside Travis' The Man Who, and any Robbie Williams CD - this is ubiquitous I also suspect this could be ground zero for the hideous state of modern music, or at least responsible for the moody, vulnerable troubador tribe that eventually became Ed Sheeran and his acolytes? Loses a star for that

Five songs in my liked list, and I'm fussy. He was simply on a different plane to the rest of music, stolen from life and never ever replaced

Stellar stuff as usual, but not quite as gleaming as some of their other albums

Iconic. Love that big bald horny head on my original vinyl, but the second side lacks the power of the first 2 tracks.

Grumpy, soulful and magical in pretty equal measures

I really like an album of theirs that isn't on this list, this was not good - all the worst bits of their other stuff

Not sure what happened here, I loved their 2nd album, which included some of these songs in better versions - one of my early iPod favourites, but this is all a bit meh apart from Get Free

Bruising opener, and some fun in the rest of the tracks without being stellar - quite a few too many quirky tracks

One stone cold classic, 7 other noisy wordless 'tracks'

oh dear, that's not a pretty voice - couldn't make it past the first 6 tracks

Cool 70s songbird country - some cracking tunes and some less cracking

I was deeply scarred by Come On Eileen, so any fiddlers on pop music need to be Charlie Daniels or I'm instantly dismissing them as dungaree wearing ejeets. This is fine, and you can see how some people love the arse off of it. Not me though. Too many fucking fiddles.

Seems very nice, but also quite slow - mostly instrumental krautvibes are not really my lane I've learned today

2 or 3 decent 'songs' but it is pretty relentless pop punk, and not really my bag

Possibly as low as you can get on the scale of 'party banger' music. And maybe too dark for its own good

Far from surprising. I think I had this CD back in the day. Track 1 - heavy rotation, track 2 - decent rotation, track 8 is a banger but it was played out for me in 1997. The rest of the album? Not good

Big chunks missing from Spotify, but I suspect I'm not missing too much given how similar the stuff that is there sounds. Harmless, but hardly earth shattering

An old friend, still sounds just as fresh today - but not really full of killer tracks

s'Alright. Not quite what a 54 year old pasty rock fan from Yorkshire tends to enjoy - fun beats, lots of juvenile stuff here. He can rap, the samples are beautiful, but this is more fun for my 14 year old son

Clapton was decent with the Yardbirds and Cream, a complete mentalist by this point and on his way to serious MOR bollockery by the 80s. Always lauded by blokes who like their cars just a little bit too much. Even Layla is a bit pants compared to other epic 70s guitar monsters

Odd - clearly there's a context here, but the music doesn't feel too dark. Or too inspiring. Late period Bowie is different from most old man rocker stuff, but it still doesn't grab me

1980's equivalent of Gen AI - stealing 95% of your content from actual artists Some decent grooves here and there, but they weren't appealing to me and i was 16 when it came out

Golden Skans is a copper bottomed banger, the rest of it is far from essential - indeed quite generally dreadful. Especially thier mauling of one of the best trance dance tracks in history. Playback was cut short to go find a nice 12 minute Perfecto version of that rather than carry on listening to these hacks

Not their best, but still head and shoulders above most other stuff

This was the album before they got insanely good. Not too many serious bangers or specific moments in here - at least not on a first listen thru