Dec 31 2021
Talking Heads 77
Talking Heads
It's weird to think of Talking Heads as a bunch of upstarts, fresh on the scene, bringing their own take on weirdness sounding new and unlike anything else while still feeling kind of punk and new wave. As long as I've been alive, they've kind of been an established band, somebody whom everybody just knows; yet here they are on their debut album just stringing together weird lyrics about the most banal things like modern buildings and reading books, meshing them with some pretty jangly guitars and screechy vocals and bringing that all together in a way that can kind of make me see what it was like to hear these weirdoes for the first time, a whole year before I was born.
This may have actually been the first time I have heard this album from start to finish. Don't think it will be the last.
4
Jan 01 2022
Boston
Boston
Since I only have time to listen to these albums once each day, I feel like this particular offering has more to offer but a lot of the tracks were unknown to me; I need a bit more time to let them sit & settle. Find that space for us both to grow into one another.
But yeah, this was interesting. A band that you know for probably one or two big famous songs... and this whole album demonstrates that this was really how they built their songs. Beach Boysy type vocal harmonies over some really nifty guitar work. Although some of the arrangements can be a little overwrought for my taste, I sense that if I were in the right mood they'd hit the spot quite nicely.
3
Jan 02 2022
Planet Rock: The Album
Afrika Bambaataa
Bizarrely, I was listening to the Swordfish soundtrack earlier today for the first time in absolute years - it has a version of Planet Rock on it, a song I am very familiar with. I was not however, familiar with any of the other songs on this album and it turned out to be startingly inventive, groovy and totally rocking in parts. Wish I could have gotten hold of this way back when I discovered electro for the first time.
4
Jan 03 2022
The Chronic
Dr. Dre
I already own this album, but don't really listen to as often as I think I should and then every time I do listen to it, I get the same response as I did listening to it again for this 1001 albums malarkey - it's really, really, really well put together.
Beautiful beats playing around with some funky synth and just generally brilliantly constructed hip hop. The music is top notch.
The lyrics are ... eh. I'm probably too old to feel the anger oozing out of so many of these. It often just feels like a lot of misdirected rage, but who am I to judge? Some of the songs just sound like macho posturing; a product of their time, perhaps.
Nevertheless, there's some really good flow in here, in amongst all the misogny, swearing and violent fantasies.
3
Jan 04 2022
Virgin Suicides
Air
I enjoyed this, but it didn't really flip my switch. I have a feeling it's the kind of thing that might be more suited to a specific mood and for me it ended up being more background music as I listened to it.
3
Jan 07 2022
Skylarking
XTC
This seems like a pretty accomplished and interesting album... but it's not really doing it for me.
The lyrics are fascinating, the arrangements are fun, I like the singer's voice but overall it's not really my jam. I can't imagine ever listening to this for fun, or in fact, ever again...
3
Jan 10 2022
Maxinquaye
Tricky
Wow, an album I am actually very familiar with. This whole Bristol trip-hop scene thing was actually on my mind yesterday. Thinking about how different areas have specific local cultures that sometimes break through and spread and I was wondering how organic that always is...
Anyway, this album isn't really organic. I gave it another listen just now to see if age had changed my views but no, I still feel it has the same issues. Perhaps in a Spotify playlists everywhere world it could stand even stronger but for me it still feels like it has no flow - each track is pretty good on its own, but put together and they just kind of jar: there's no real cohesive soundscape of the album itself. It jumps from full tilt reinterpretation of "Black Steel" to the dreamy Portishead sampling "Hell is Round the Corner"... and we do stay in that groove for a fair bit but then "Strugglin'" just slams on the brakes without a lot of breaks.
It's a weird little album - the tracks still stand up, the lyrics are often intriguing little snippets of cool and there's lots to enjoy about it, but yeah. Still doesn't work as a cohesive whole for me.
4
Jan 11 2022
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos
This was great... but left me kind of uninterested. Clapton's guitar playing is incredible at times on this album, everything works together so brilliantly. It just didn't grab me as something that I would regularly seek out to put on the speakers. I am fully aware however, that this kind of thing isn't really a judgement at all and is dependent on mood time of day and all kinds of factors... so who knows. Maybe I'll come back to this one day and fall more in love with it.
3
Jan 18 2022
If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
The Mamas & The Papas
This was okay - never really been exposed to much of them outside of their hits. Can't really see myself listening to them often but they do suit a warm summer's day. Minus 1 million points for those incorrect apostrophes, however.
3
Jan 23 2022
Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix
He's a great guitarist but I never got into any of his songs. Thought it might have been an age thing but nah, still don't really get all the love for Hendrix.
Call me a heretic.
3
Jan 25 2022
Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
Very well produced, a couple of great tracks but ehβ¦ yet again, this didnβt really grab me enough to make me want to repeat-listen.
3
Jan 31 2022
The Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips
I own this and occasionally put it on, but itβs another one of those albums I donβt really think too much about until Iβm reminded of its existence in some way. Then when Iβm listening to it I always think I need more Flaming Lips in my life.
This is a great album, I love the weirdness of the lyrics (the whole notion of Race for the Prize is just bananas) and the arrangements arenβt any less interesting. Listening to the whole thing as I am now but with more attention than usual, Iβm struck by the mixing on the drums - theyβre quite high up and very present - and also by the way that there seems to be a basic structure for the songsβ¦ but other than that, they could just as easily be completely improvised around that skeleton for all I know. (The lyrics hint at that, as do some of the instrumental backing bits.) Idiosyncratic is the best description.
4
Feb 01 2022
Bright Flight
Silver Jews
I enjoyed this and there were some real stand out tracks, but it didnβt really fully click with me as an album for whatever reason.
3
Feb 03 2022
Strange Cargo III
William Orbit
Inventive, original and very interesting. I was pretty familiar with this already but it's - despite its listenability and general awesomeness - not an album that finds its way onto the regular playlists round these parts. I am thinking I should probably endeavour to rectify that.
4
Feb 04 2022
Illinois
Sufjan Stevens
Yawn. I'm not getting this at all. I can appreciate the artistry and the lyricism but it's not grabbing me at all to be honest.
2
Feb 05 2022
Grace
Jeff Buckley
This was a revelation, I never really got into Jeff Buckley before - he somehow just completely passed me by in my teenage years. Really enjoyed the textured sounds at work here.
4
Feb 15 2022
At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
I mean, it's Johnny Cash. Can't really be bad to that. Classic live album but I do feel like I need to be in the right mood to listen to this.
4
Feb 22 2022
High Violet
The National
Music was good, didnβt like the vocals. Appreciate the craftsmanship at work but this did nothing for me.
1
Feb 23 2022
Peace Sells...But Who's Buying
Megadeth
Bizarrely, I'd just talked to a colleague about metal and how it felt so incredibly powerful and lifechanging and visceral back when I was an edgy teenager and.... it just doesn't any longer.
It feels a bit tame.
Having said that, Megadeth is still as good as it gets. But I think I've always been more of a Rust in Peace fan, personally.
3
Feb 25 2022
Hotel California
Eagles
I liked this more than I thought I would but it's not the kind of thing I can see myself putting on often...
... although if I ever do get a nice little home to call my own, with a little area I can sit and watch the rain bucket down and batter the windows, I could see this spinning on vinyl as I had a cup of tea and settled into my favourite comfy chair.
4
Feb 26 2022
Dire Straits
Dire Straits
I always read people banging on about Dire Straits and how amazing they actually are but I'm only really familiar with them through the later stuff that has been played to death. (Except for The Sultans of Swing off this album, which I did rate but assumed was just an anomaly.)
I ignorantly thought I was familiar enough with them and just didn't get it the same way as all those people who banged on about them... but this album has proven me utterly completely wrong.
This is astonishingly good. Might pop off and buy this now.
5
Feb 27 2022
Slanted And Enchanted
Pavement
Liked this a lot more than I remember liking Pavement way back when.
4
Feb 28 2022
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Eurythmics
Enjoyable, pleasant enough - some great tracks, Annie Lennox has a fantastic voice... but this album was not really something I would return to repeatedly, I think.
3
Mar 07 2022
Loveless
My Bloody Valentine
I haven't listened to this in a long time. I remember the first time I heard it and it didn't really click with me - I think I'd been oversold on them to be honest. They were total indie darlings at the time.
I still don't put this album on very often but it has grown on me substantially. It's fascinatingly inventive and just really really fun to listen to.
4
Mar 14 2022
Truth
Jeff Beck
This is ... familiar. It's also got this peculiarly timeless feel to it. It feels a lot more modern than 1968 but still with that old bluesy guitar vibe to it.
I must away and find out more about Jeff Beck now.
4
Mar 19 2022
Music in Exile
Songhoy Blues
5
Apr 12 2022
Beautiful Freak
Eels
Remember the two big hits of this album - never really got into Eels at the time but they were never a band I would turn off if their song came on the radio. Novocaine for the Soul still plays in my head on occasion, although I had forgotten about Susan's House until I listened to this. The album is pretty solid but doesn't feel like anything that would make it on to my regular playlist... don't think it would have at the time it was released either, had I bought it way back then. I definitely appreciate the craftsmanship in the lyrics more now than I would have then...
Funny how some things just connect with you and others don't.
3
Apr 13 2022
Tellinβ Stories
The Charlatans
Meh. Never really got the Charlatans. Don't really like Tim Burgess' voice - it's got a similar nasal whine to Liam Gallagher's voice and it cuts right through my patience... They're an okay band, I don't go out of my way to avoid them, but I can't really say they interest me in any way. Couple of good songs that are fine but I didn't make it through this album - North Country Boy nipped my head to the point of needing a decent vocalist chaser.
2
Apr 14 2022
Before And After Science
Brian Eno
This was ... okay. Didn't knock my socks off, didn't make me all that interested in a repeat playing. I do like a lot of Eno's later music when he voyages off into ambient soundscapes. This... was not that.
2
Apr 15 2022
...And Justice For All
Metallica
Pretty sure I listened to this a while ago off my own bat and was surprised at how mellow it actually is compared to my teenage perception of angst fuelled rage driven guitar noise. Although it's far from a chillout album, it all just seems so much tamer nowadays.
3
Apr 16 2022
Van Halen
Van Halen
It's a classic, innit? Not all the tracks hold up but the guitars are still blindingly good.
4
Apr 17 2022
B-52's
The B-52's
Knew a few of these but was surprised to find that this whole album didn't grab me as much as I had anticipated. Perhaps it's a grower.
3
Apr 24 2022
You've Come a Long Way Baby
Fatboy Slim
Well, this is something of a classic - there are some brilliant singles on here and of course, an all time favourite album track, Love Island. There's not really a lot to say about this, except it was great when everybody started getting into Fatboy because I'd been a big beat enthusiast since I bought a weird grey covered Skint record with a name I could barely read and thought it just said FATBOD SLIM... you have indeed, come a long way baby.
4
Apr 25 2022
Like Water For Chocolate
Common
Ha! I don't need to listen to this... I heard Common's latest song on the radio a few weeks back and I think I cracked my issue with him. He's got flow, he's got skills but his songs are just not terribly interesting - for me at any rate - except for those ones with the catchy samples expertly woven into them. So on this album, it's The Light and everything else... just doesn't really grab me in the same way that it does.
I want to like Common more, I really do - even if he did try to kill John Wick.
3
Apr 26 2022
It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3
Apr 27 2022
Rust In Peace
Megadeth
Better than the last Megadeth album I reviewed. Love this.
4
May 03 2022
Synchronicity
The Police
While I technically did not listen to this, I pretty much know this album back to front, having owned it on cassette and having played it to death when I was much younger. It's a funny little album - it sounds very different from what went before and it leans a little more world music. The lyrics too were pretty out there - I always remember that one song that finishes up with a shadow on the door of a cottage on a Scottish loch and it's about pollution ... or environmental damage... or maybe I just completely didn't get it.
I love the title track, Tea in the Sahara and there's another song about some stalkery dude that's pretty good as well.
4
May 04 2022
Dig Me Out
Sleater-Kinney
I really enjoyed this - having recently been listening to their "The Center Won't Hold" album and wondering where all the thrashy guitars and waily vocals went, this was an interesting comparison - I just can't believe I missed this the first time around.
3
May 05 2022
Morrison Hotel
The Doors
3
May 08 2022
Hounds Of Love
Kate Bush
This was different from how I expected it - lots of spoken word and interesting samples scattered throughout. It sounded more modern than I would have thought the whole album would - I mean, I know the big tunes off the album but it was still a pleasant surprise to hear something so fresh and intriguing.
5
May 10 2022
Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age
Liked this a lot - technically brilliant, super tight instruments and just driving powerful tunes. Not always sold on some of their songs but this was a good introduction to a lot of things I'd never heard before and really helped me warm to them as a band.
3
May 22 2022
To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
Know next to nothing about Kendrick - enjoyed some of the flow on this, but nothing really spectacular leapt out.
3
May 23 2022
On The Beach
Neil Young
3
May 24 2022
Moon Safari
Air
Didn't listen but I am intimately familiar with this, having been at university at the end of the 20th century and the start of the 21st.
Beautiful, esoterically weird and just the right thing for the right time but never wrong no matter when it comes on.
4
Jun 05 2022
Destroy Rock & Roll
Mylo
Absolutely fantastic - I have his 2005 essential mix which I still play to death... and yet, somehow never actually listened to this brilliant album. Which I have since ordered.
5
Jun 08 2022
Germfree Adolescents
X-Ray Spex
5
Jun 26 2022
Heaux Tales
Jazmine Sullivan
meh. This really didn't interest me at all. Great voice, interesting ideas - really average execution if you ask me. Price Tags was almost great... but none of this was stand out good to me.
1
Jun 28 2022
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins
Never got into them, always found them a bit pretentious and try hard. Some songs are okay - I suppose, wouldn't turn them off if they came on the radio but eh. Overrated.
3
Jul 05 2022
Chemtrails Over The Country Club
Lana Del Rey
I really like Lana Del Rey but... it was the Born to Die album that I first discovered her and I feel like that sound is more my kind of vibe: dark but bubble gum pop, if that makes any sense. I see that she's continued to deconstruct the American dream with this album but honestly, I wouldn't put this on a 1001 albums list - you'd want to have Born to Die for that. I feel it's a much stronger album all around.
3
Jul 10 2022
Bubble And Scrape
Sebadoh
Quite liked this, not really sure why I never got big into them way back when. Oh yes, yes I do - remember reading about them in Melody Maker and hearing tracks hither and thither but never actually seeing a single Sebadoh anything in any record shops.
3
Jul 11 2022
Mama's Gun
Erykah Badu
3
Jul 17 2022
Go Girl Crazy
The Dictators
Really liked this - not even sure why I am typically unaware that The Dictators exist. They feel like they should be more famous than they are, and I know I've heard them before. This still felt like a bit of a surprise though.
3
Jul 18 2022
Make Yourself
Incubus
Good lord this is terrible.
I mean, technically competent - but it's awful, awful, awful.
Derivative and of no substance whatsoever. I could imagine the only way you'd like this is if you'd grown up with it. Even then it'd have to be a guilty pleasure, surely.
1
Jul 24 2022
ImmigrΓ©s
Youssou N'Dour
2
Jul 25 2022
Rubber Soul
Beatles
3
Jul 26 2022
Parallel Lines
Blondie
I mean ... this album is stellar. Do I have to take notes? I saw it come up and smiled, clicked play and away I went. Unlike Eat to the Beat, this is a straight up all killer no filler album - I often find myself randomly singing bits of tunes off this for no reason; somebody saying it's 59 minutes past the hour is enough to get 11:59 firing off in my head.
5
Jul 29 2022
Moving Pictures
Rush
3
Jul 30 2022
Marcus Garvey
Burning Spear
Not something I would ever normally listen to but seemed to suit the mood perfectly this laidback Friday morning.
3
Aug 04 2022
Melodrama
Lorde
I have this and it's nowhere near as good as her debut. It's pretty dull, if I'm being honest - nothing on it really grabs me in any way. I will give it another go though, since it's popped up in this challenge...
2
Aug 07 2022
Mott
Mott The Hoople
3
Aug 08 2022
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Raekwon
4
Aug 17 2022
Spiderland
Slint
4
Aug 19 2022
Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper
Oh wow. I remember buying this at a car boot sale and I still absolutely adore it. It's pure over the top silly spectacle, a prototype for shock rock - Marilyn Manson did nothing that Alice Cooper hadn't already set in motion. Still put this on and rock out from time to time. It's interesting when you read about Alice Cooper's sound basically changed later on so that they could be more commercially successful - mind you, that doesn't mean that Trash and Hey Stoopid aren't also awesome.
5
Aug 20 2022
London Calling
The Clash
4
Aug 21 2022
Now I Got Worry
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Oh cool, an episode in which I continue to not understand why this band is famous. The guitar work is good. Everything else is just noise, I have never got this band and apparently never will.
1
Aug 22 2022
Odessey And Oracle
The Zombies
Big fan of the Zombies since I was first introduced to them by a massive Canadian singing "Time of the Season" at karaoke in the wee hours of the morning. This was therefore a delightful chaser after the Jon Spencer Blues Shitplosion that preceded it.
4
Aug 23 2022
Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins
Oh nostalgia hard. This is the good shit.
5
Aug 24 2022
Calenture
The Triffids
Meh. Keep waiting for John Cusack to appear behind my shoulder and mope about his lost girlfriend or something.
1
Aug 25 2022
The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Joni Mitchell
Never been much of a fan of Joni Mitchell. She's kind of meh. Pretty voice, some good lyrics but her singing style is yawnsome at best and irritating at worst.
2
Aug 26 2022
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
3
Aug 29 2022
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
3
Aug 30 2022
Oracular Spectacular
MGMT
3
Sep 01 2022
Paul Simon
Paul Simon
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this.
3
Sep 04 2022
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Dead Kennedys
3
Sep 05 2022
2112
Rush
3
Sep 11 2022
Welcome to the Afterfuture
Mike Ladd
I mean... it's okay. It's hardly an album that you need to listen to before you die though is it? It's not groundbreaking or mindblowing - this is all (so far) the same kind of shit I've heard before. It builds off people like Shadow & Dr Octagon and doesn't really beat out its own trail along that path... for my money.
3
Sep 14 2022
Actually
Pet Shop Boys
3
Sep 19 2022
Bandwagonesque
Teenage Fanclub
3
Sep 22 2022
GI
Germs
2
Sep 26 2022
Call of the Valley
Shivkumar Sharma
2
Oct 04 2022
ΓgΓ¦tis Byrjun
Sigur RΓ³s
3
Oct 06 2022
Beyond Skin
Nitin Sawhney
3
Oct 17 2022
Cut
The Slits
Not what I was expecting at all, tbh. Still sounds really fresh too.
3
Oct 21 2022
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Small Faces
4
Oct 23 2022
Rocks
Aerosmith
3
Oct 24 2022
Elephant
The White Stripes
4
Oct 27 2022
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Genesis
2
Nov 04 2022
Superfly
Curtis Mayfield
4
Nov 07 2022
Blue Lines
Massive Attack
4
Nov 13 2022
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand
4
Nov 14 2022
Here Come The Warm Jets
Brian Eno
3
Dec 05 2022
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin
4
Dec 11 2022
Vincebus Eruptum
Blue Cheer
3
Dec 12 2022
Mask
Bauhaus
2
Dec 15 2022
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
Maxwell
3
Dec 18 2022
Country Life
Roxy Music
2
Dec 19 2022
...Baby One More Time
Britney Spears
4
Dec 20 2022
Moondance
Van Morrison
5
Jan 01 2023
Ray Of Light
Madonna
3
Jan 02 2023
Triangle
The Beau Brummels
2
Jan 04 2023
Black Monk Time
The Monks
This was a nice little gem. Really unique but also reminiscent of a bunch of things it probably influenced. I heard Zappa in here, I heard Faith No More in here, I heard a lot of grunge precursors in here...
4
Feb 13 2023
Neon Bible
Arcade Fire
3
Feb 16 2023
Among The Living
Anthrax
3
Feb 18 2023
The Predator
Ice Cube
4
Feb 28 2023
Stankonia
OutKast
4
Mar 01 2023
Elvis Is Back
Elvis Presley
4
Mar 03 2023
Tres Hombres
ZZ Top
3
Mar 04 2023
At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band
3
Mar 05 2023
The Genius Of Ray Charles
Ray Charles
3
Mar 06 2023
At Budokan
Cheap Trick
I don't really need to listen to this - I grew up on it. My uncle played it once, recording it onto cassette from the vinyl. I loved it... Later on I'd pick up a copy on yellow vinyl all for my own. Then I'd move to Japan and sing Surrender or I Want You To Want Me at karaoke; visit the budokan, but never actually be inside. This album wove it's way into the fabric of my life, and I can't imagine not knowing it.
4
Mar 12 2023
Freak Out!
The Mothers Of Invention
4
Mar 14 2023
Close To The Edge
Yes
I just ... never really got Yes.
They're innovative but just... meh. They're like bad jazz for guitarists.
2
Mar 18 2023
Wild Wood
Paul Weller
4
Mar 19 2023
The Last Broadcast
Doves
3
Mar 24 2023
The Fat Of The Land
The Prodigy
3
Mar 26 2023
In Our Heads
Hot Chip
3
Mar 29 2023
Iβm a Lonesome Fugitive
Merle Haggard
3
Mar 30 2023
Bitte Orca
Dirty Projectors
3
Apr 16 2023
L.A. Woman
The Doors
4
Apr 17 2023
Spy Vs. Spy: The Music Of Ornette Coleman
John Zorn
I want to give this less than one star. Ouch.
1
Apr 24 2023
Hail To the Thief
Radiohead
4
Apr 25 2023
Disraeli Gears
Cream
3
Apr 26 2023
Dummy
Portishead
5
Apr 27 2023
Kid A
Radiohead
4
May 16 2023
Is This It
The Strokes
3
May 17 2023
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
2
May 18 2023
Let's Get Killed
David Holmes
3
May 19 2023
Be
Common
3
May 23 2023
Station To Station
David Bowie
4
May 25 2023
Selling England By The Pound
Genesis
1
May 27 2023
Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival
5
May 30 2023
Tarkus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
2
May 31 2023
The Nightfly
Donald Fagen
3
Jun 05 2023
The Only Ones
The Only Ones
3
Jun 25 2023
Graceland
Paul Simon
3
Jun 26 2023
Fred Neil
Fred Neil
3
Jun 27 2023
Who's Next
The Who
4
Jun 28 2023
Dog Man Star
Suede
2
Jun 30 2023
System Of A Down
System Of A Down
3
Jul 03 2023
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips
4
Jul 05 2023
Seventh Tree
Goldfrapp
5
Jul 07 2023
Chelsea Girl
Nico
2
Jul 08 2023
Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod Stewart
4
Jul 09 2023
Trafalgar
Bee Gees
2
Jul 10 2023
Horses
Patti Smith
3
Jul 11 2023
Reggatta De Blanc
The Police
5
Jul 12 2023
Darklands
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3
Jul 14 2023
Ctrl
SZA
2
Jul 16 2023
Superfuzz Bigmuff
Mudhoney
2
Jul 17 2023
G. Love And Special Sauce
G. Love & Special Sauce
what even is this nonsense
1
Jul 23 2023
The Stooges
The Stooges
4
Jul 26 2023
Getz/Gilberto
Stan Getz
3
Jul 27 2023
Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stereolab
3
Jul 29 2023
Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction
3
Jul 31 2023
#1 Record
Big Star
4
Aug 01 2023
Ready To Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
3
Aug 02 2023
Metal Box
Public Image Ltd.
3
Aug 03 2023
Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Adam & The Ants
2
Aug 05 2023
Sheer Heart Attack
Queen
5
Aug 06 2023
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Ice Cube
4
Aug 07 2023
If You're Feeling Sinister
Belle & Sebastian
3
Aug 08 2023
Groovin'
The Young Rascals
3
Aug 09 2023
Darkdancer
Les Rythmes Digitales
4
Aug 10 2023
Music For The Jilted Generation
The Prodigy
4
Aug 11 2023
After The Gold Rush
Neil Young
4
Aug 15 2023
Roots
Sepultura
3
Aug 16 2023
D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle
Throbbing Gristle
2
Aug 17 2023
Solid Air
John Martyn
3
Aug 20 2023
The Man Machine
Kraftwerk
3
Aug 31 2023
Hot Shots II
The Beta Band
3
Sep 05 2023
Buffalo Springfield Again
Buffalo Springfield
4
Sep 19 2023
Brothers
The Black Keys
3
Oct 16 2023
Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
4
Oct 23 2023
Arrival
ABBA
3
Oct 26 2023
Grievous Angel
Gram Parsons
2
Oct 30 2023
Master Of Puppets
Metallica
3
Nov 01 2023
Paranoid
Black Sabbath
3
Nov 27 2023
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
The Incredible String Band
2
Nov 30 2023
The Doors
The Doors
4
Dec 03 2023
Dare!
The Human League
3
Dec 08 2023
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
4
Dec 10 2023
Oar
Alexander 'Skip' Spence
2
Dec 29 2023
A Seat at the Table
Solange
3
Jan 02 2024
Power In Numbers
Jurassic 5
5
Jan 07 2024
All Directions
The Temptations
3
Jan 14 2024
Talking Book
Stevie Wonder
3
Jan 22 2024
Street Signs
Ozomatli
2
Feb 15 2024
Rock Bottom
Robert Wyatt
2
Feb 17 2024
Dirty
Sonic Youth
3
Feb 19 2024
Gris Gris
Dr. John
3
Feb 23 2024
You Are The Quarry
Morrissey
1
Mar 20 2024
Killing Joke
Killing Joke
3
Apr 09 2024
Innervisions
Stevie Wonder
3
Apr 13 2024
Ghosteen
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5
Apr 15 2024
Music From Big Pink
The Band
2
May 01 2024
Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
4
May 07 2024
Your New Favourite Band
The Hives
3
May 19 2024
Vulnicura
BjΓΆrk
3
May 29 2024
Live / Dead
Grateful Dead
2
Jun 01 2024
Juju
Siouxsie And The Banshees
5
Jun 02 2024
Being There
Wilco
3
Jun 11 2024
Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
4
Jun 17 2024
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
3
Jun 20 2024
Blue
Joni Mitchell
2
Jun 25 2024
Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos
5
Jul 05 2024
Henry's Dream
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5
Jul 08 2024
The Who Sell Out
The Who
2
Jul 09 2024
The Trinity Session
Cowboy Junkies
4
Jul 12 2024
Band On The Run
Paul McCartney and Wings
3
Jul 16 2024
Ocean Rain
Echo And The Bunnymen
3
Jul 20 2024
Bluesbreakers
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
3
Jul 22 2024
Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts
The Adverts
3
Jul 23 2024
The Slim Shady LP
Eminem
3
Jul 24 2024
If I Could Only Remember My Name
David Crosby
3
Jul 25 2024
Blunderbuss
Jack White
5
Jul 27 2024
Good Old Boys
Randy Newman
2
Jul 28 2024
Made In Japan
Deep Purple
5
Jul 29 2024
Urban Hymns
The Verve
3
Jul 30 2024
Talking Timbuktu
Ali Farka TourΓ©
3
Aug 02 2024
Come Find Yourself
Fun Lovin' Criminals
5
Aug 04 2024
Crazysexycool
TLC
3
Aug 05 2024
Nilsson Schmilsson
Harry Nilsson
2
Aug 07 2024
Tanto Tempo
Bebel Gilberto
2
Aug 08 2024
Green
R.E.M.
2
Aug 12 2024
Drunk
Thundercat
1
Aug 17 2024
Os Mutantes
Os Mutantes
2
Aug 19 2024
School's Out
Alice Cooper
4
Aug 20 2024
Raw Like Sushi
Neneh Cherry
4
Aug 21 2024
Konnichiwa
Skepta
2
Aug 22 2024
The KΓΆln Concert
Keith Jarrett
5
Aug 25 2024
(What's The Story) Morning Glory
Oasis
When this came out, I felt like I had walked into a room at the tale end of a joke - I didnβt get it. Still donβt - the band does pretty well musically but Liam Gallagher has such a nasally annoying voice I remain baffled at Oasisβ success and continued popularity. All these five star reviews have me mightily flummoxed.
1
Aug 28 2024
Haunted Dancehall
The Sabres Of Paradise
4
Aug 31 2024
The Pleasure Principle
Gary Numan
3
Sep 01 2024
Architecture And Morality
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
3
Sep 02 2024
3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul
4
Sep 03 2024
Post Orgasmic Chill
Skunk Anansie
4
Sep 04 2024
Crocodiles
Echo And The Bunnymen
2
Sep 06 2024
Garbage
Garbage
5
Sep 09 2024
The Coral
The Coral
2
Sep 10 2024
Paris 1919
John Cale
3
Sep 11 2024
Exit Planet Dust
The Chemical Brothers
4
Sep 13 2024
Private Dancer
Tina Turner
3
Sep 15 2024
Oxygène
Jean-Michel Jarre
4
Sep 16 2024
The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden
3
Sep 19 2024
Dust
Screaming Trees
3
Sep 20 2024
Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park
3
Sep 21 2024
Warehouse: Songs And Stories
HΓΌsker DΓΌ
3
Sep 24 2024
Deserter's Songs
Mercury Rev
5
Sep 25 2024
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
4
Sep 26 2024
Parachutes
Coldplay
2
Sep 28 2024
Heroes
David Bowie
3
Sep 29 2024
Blur
Blur
3
Oct 06 2024
Dear Science
TV On The Radio
2
Oct 07 2024
Floodland
Sisters Of Mercy
3
Oct 08 2024
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
3
Oct 12 2024
Moss Side Story
Barry Adamson
4
Oct 14 2024
Chirping Crickets
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
3
Oct 17 2024
Golden Hour
Kacey Musgraves
3
Oct 19 2024
LP1
FKA twigs
3
Oct 21 2024
A Night At The Opera
Queen
4
Oct 22 2024
What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
3
Oct 24 2024
Toys In The Attic
Aerosmith
3
Oct 25 2024
Parklife
Blur
3
Oct 26 2024
Born In The U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen
5
Oct 29 2024
Feast of Wire
Calexico
5
Oct 31 2024
A Grand Don't Come For Free
The Streets
1
Nov 03 2024
Music for the Masses
Depeche Mode
3
Nov 10 2024
In Rainbows
Radiohead
3
Nov 11 2024
Kenya
Machito
3
Nov 12 2024
Rid Of Me
PJ Harvey
5
Dec 11 2024
xx
The xx
4
Dec 14 2024
So
Peter Gabriel
5
Dec 15 2024
The Madcap Laughs
Syd Barrett
3
Dec 17 2024
Liege And Lief
Fairport Convention
3
Dec 19 2024
The Grand Tour
George Jones
3
Dec 22 2024
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
4
Dec 31 2024
Phrenology
The Roots
4
Jan 01 2025
Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
4
Jan 10 2025
Iβve Got a Tiger By the Tail
Buck Owens
3
Jan 12 2025
Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes
3
Jan 18 2025
Pyromania
Def Leppard
3
Jan 19 2025
Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches
Happy Mondays
3
Jan 20 2025
Black Holes and Revelations
Muse
4
Jan 21 2025
Safe As Milk
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
3
Jan 23 2025
All Things Must Pass
George Harrison
4
Jan 25 2025
I See A Darkness
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
4
Jan 26 2025
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Pink Floyd
3
Jan 27 2025
Roger the Engineer
The Yardbirds
3
Jan 29 2025
Life's Too Good
The Sugarcubes
3
Feb 03 2025
Guero
Beck
3
Feb 06 2025
Better Living Through Chemistry
Fatboy Slim
5
Feb 10 2025
Liquid Swords
GZA
3
Feb 11 2025
1977
Ash
3
Feb 12 2025
Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3
Feb 17 2025
Third/Sister Lovers
Big Star
3
Feb 18 2025
Songs From The Big Chair
Tears For Fears
3
Feb 19 2025
Arc Of A Diver
Steve Winwood
2
Feb 20 2025
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen
4
Feb 21 2025
Purple Rain
Prince
4
Feb 22 2025
Lust For Life
Iggy Pop
4
Feb 24 2025
Talk Talk Talk
The Psychedelic Furs
2
Feb 25 2025
Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel
3
Feb 27 2025
This Is Hardcore
Pulp
3
Feb 28 2025
L'Eau Rouge
The Young Gods
3
Mar 01 2025
Take Me Apart
Kelela
3
Mar 02 2025
Nixon
Lambchop
2
Mar 03 2025
Debut
BjΓΆrk
4
Mar 07 2025
Central Reservation
Beth Orton
4
Mar 10 2025
Forever Changes
Love
3
Mar 12 2025
Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills
3
Mar 13 2025
Youth And Young Manhood
Kings of Leon
3
Mar 15 2025
The Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers
3
Mar 16 2025
Dookie
Green Day
3
Mar 17 2025
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
3
Mar 18 2025
New Boots And Panties
Ian Dury
2
Mar 19 2025
Live Through This
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3
Mar 20 2025
Let It Bleed
The Rolling Stones
3
Mar 23 2025
Pink Moon
Nick Drake
3
Mar 24 2025
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Aphex Twin
5
Mar 25 2025
Phaedra
Tangerine Dream
4
Mar 27 2025
Dub Housing
Pere Ubu
2
Mar 29 2025
Revolver
Beatles
3
Mar 30 2025
Emergency On Planet Earth
Jamiroquai
3
Apr 05 2025
Born To Be With You
Dion
3
Apr 06 2025
Pretenders
Pretenders
4
Apr 07 2025
Beauty And The Beat
The Go-Go's
5
Apr 14 2025
Play
Moby
5
Apr 16 2025
Movies
Holger Czukay
1
Apr 21 2025
The Undertones
The Undertones
5
Apr 22 2025
Fuzzy Logic
Super Furry Animals
3
Apr 25 2025
Violator
Depeche Mode
4
Apr 26 2025
Abraxas
Santana
4
May 03 2025
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest
3
May 04 2025
American Gothic
David Ackles
3
May 05 2025
The Joshua Tree
U2
4
May 06 2025
Kollaps
EinstΓΌrzende Neubauten
2
May 08 2025
Brown Sugar
D'Angelo
4
May 09 2025
Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith
3
May 10 2025
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles
3
May 17 2025
Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Bill Evans Trio
3
May 18 2025
Sunshine Hit Me
The Bees
1
May 19 2025
Honky Tonk Masquerade
Joe Ely
2
May 20 2025
Snivilisation
Orbital
4
May 28 2025
Fuzzy
Grant Lee Buffalo
3
May 29 2025
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
TV On The Radio
2
May 30 2025
Haut de gamme / KoweΓ―t, rive gauche
Koffi Olomide
1
May 31 2025
Illmatic
Nas
4
Jun 09 2025
The Score
Fugees
4
Jun 10 2025
Heavy Weather
Weather Report
2
Jun 11 2025
Vespertine
BjΓΆrk
4
Jun 12 2025
Bossanova
Pixies
4
Jun 13 2025
Bug
Dinosaur Jr.
2
Jun 14 2025
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
3
Jun 15 2025
The Slider
T. Rex
3
Jun 21 2025
Second Toughest In The Infants
Underworld
3
Jun 22 2025
Fulfillingness' First Finale
Stevie Wonder
3
Jun 23 2025
Behaviour
Pet Shop Boys
3
Jun 25 2025
A Wizard, A True Star
Todd Rundgren
3
Jun 26 2025
BEYONCΓ
BeyoncΓ©
2
Jun 27 2025
Peter Gabriel 3
Peter Gabriel
3
Jun 28 2025
Mermaid Avenue
Billy Bragg
5
Jun 29 2025
Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan
3
Jul 01 2025
Halcyon Digest
Deerhunter
2
Jul 02 2025
Time Out Of Mind
Bob Dylan
3
Jul 04 2025
Kenza
Khaled
2
Jul 05 2025
Djam Leelii
Baaba Maal
3
Jul 06 2025
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3
Jul 08 2025
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
3
Jul 09 2025
White Blood Cells
The White Stripes
3
Jul 10 2025
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
2
Jul 11 2025
Ragged Glory
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3
Jul 13 2025
Chore of Enchantment
Giant Sand
2
Jul 18 2025
Pacific Ocean Blue
Dennis Wilson
4
Jul 19 2025
More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads
3
Jul 20 2025
Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits
4
Jul 21 2025
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down
The Dandy Warhols
2
Jul 22 2025
John Prine
John Prine
2
Jul 23 2025
Rio
Duran Duran
3