- First listen - Better than other Led Zep albums I've listened to - WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS is a great closer - Best songs: WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS, THE BATTLE OF EVERMORE, STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
- Already own on vinyl - Best Sufjan album - Top 10 album of 21st century
- First listen - Better than Californication - Way too long, mix of great and meh songs - UNDER THE BRIDGE is the best RHCP song by a distance - Not a fan of SUCK MY KISS at all - Best songs: UNDER THE BRIDGE, THE POWER OF EQUALITY, FUNKY MONKS
- First Linkin Park album I've listened to - Enjoyed it much more than I expected - Really consistent - Fav songs: ONE STEP CLOSER, IN THE END, FORGOTTEN
- Already listened to this before - Certified classic - Not a huge metal fan, but this album is fantastic - WAR PIGS is one of the greatest openers of all time - Fav songs: WAR PIGS, IRON MAN, ELECTRIC FUNERAL
- First listen - Liked it slightly less than Sound Affects but still very good - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight is the best track on this by miles and is up there with Town Called Malice and That's Entertainment for best Jam song - Fav songs: DOWN IN THE TUBE STATION AT MIDNIGHT, TO BE SOMEONE, ENGLISH ROSE
- First listen - Unbelievably good opening and closing tracks - Few more forgettable ones as well - Most of the middle tracks not really my thing Fav songs: You Can't Always Get What You Want, Gimme Shelter, Let It Bleed
- Never heard an XTC song before - First album from this that I didn't really enjoy - Liked a couple of songs, disliked a couple, meh on most - Fav songs: Grass, Ballet for a Rainy Day
- Already listened before - Very good, but nowhere near as good as The Beatles' best - Paul has the best overall solo output, but I prefer Plastic Ono Band and All Things Must Pass as individual albums - Fav songs: Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five, Band on the Run, Let Me Roll It
- Already listened before - Great 3 tracks to open the album - Rest is good, but samey sounding - Fav songs: With or Without You, Where the Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
- Never heard of this - Not a fan of country, and this is the worst kind of it - Wouldn't listen to any of the tracks again - PS Between writing these notes and actually rating this album, Loretta Lynn died, so I hope the 1 star review isn't what caused it
- First Missy Elliott album I've listened to - Sounds much newer than 20 years old - Not a fan of the talking interludes, but all solid tracks - Fav songs: Work It, Funky Fresh Dressed, Bring the Pain
- First listen to this album - Better than other Led Zep albums I've listened to, and I've liked all of theirs that I've heard - Every song is great - 1st 5* I'm giving to a first listen - Fav songs: Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Good Times Bad Times, Dazed and Confused
- First Primal Scream album I've listened to - Can see why this album is a cult classic - Hard to place what genre it is in a very good way - Doesn't sound anywhere near as old as it is - Fav songs: Movin' on Up, Loaded, Damaged
- Never heard of Le Tigre before - Really impressed - Best tracks are really good - Fav songs: Deceptacon, Les and Ray, Eau d'bedroom Dancing
- Never listened to an ELO album in full before - Expected it to be good from the songs I was already familiar with - Excellent album, just a lot of the songs sound too similar and blend into eachother - Very nearly went 5* - Fav songs: Sweet Talkin' Woman, Mr Blue Sky, Night in the City
- Heard this before - Not one of my favourite Bowie albums, so it's still better than 90% of any other albums ever - Fav songs: Time, Drive-In Saturday, Aladdin Sane
- Never listened to this before even though I like Bragg and Wilco - Genius idea that works really well - California Stars stands out as the best track but consistently really good - Fav songs: California Stars, The Unwelcome Guest, Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
- Never heard of John Grant - Good album, consistently decent songs - Fav songs: Jesus Hates (redacted), Where Dreams Go to Die, Silver Platter Club
- Never heard of The Lemonheads before - Meh - Not a bad album, but I don't really understand how it's on this list as it's very generic sounding 90s alt rock - Doesn't help that the best song is a Simon & Garfunkel cover - Fav songs: Mrs Robinson, Rudderless
- Heard this album once before, years ago - Grown on me a lot - Not a genre I've heard much of but still really good - Fav songs: Glory Box, Sour Times, Wandering Star
- Abba's not really my thing but can't deny they have some great tunes - Would rather listen to Abba singles than a full album of them - Some absolute classics that I've heard thousands of times mixed with ones I've never heard before and I can see why - Happy Hawaii is terrible - Fav songs: Knowing Me, Knowing You; Fernando, Dancing Queen
I don't understand jazz.
- Heard this before - Nowhere near my favourite Bowie, but it's 70s David Bowie so it's an automatic 4* - Fav songs: Young Americans, Right, Fame
- Only knowledge of Steve Winwood before this was Higher Love or Dennis from Always Sunny - Boring 80s pop - Wouldn't listen to it again
- Never heard of this before - Not usually my thing, but some catchy songs - Liked the switching between languages - Fav songs: Welcome to Tijuana, La vie à 2, Desaparecido
- Heard this once before - One of the only albums that regularly appears on all time best lists that I don't get the appeal of - Enjoyed a couple of the songs - The rest didn't click for me at all, maybe one day it will and I'll regret this rating - Fav songs: Ný batterí, Olsen Olsen
- Too old to be my thing but enjoyed it more than I thought I would - Can see the influence on early Beatles - Fav songs: That'll be the Day, Not Fade Away, Oh Boy!
- Never heard of this - Started off decent, got very grating - Too long - Fav songs: Cravo E Canela, Clube da Esquina #2
- Only ever listened to HOLV before - Good album - Would prefer Cocteau Twins if they used actual lyrics, but I can kind of see the 'voice as an instrument' perspective - Fav songs: Lorelai, Beatrix, Donimo
- Don't think I've listened to a full Smashing Pumpkins album before - Enjoyed it, but it's WAY too long - Would probably rate it higher and be more likely to listen again if it was half the length - Fav songs: Porcelina of the Vast Oceans, Thirty-Three; Tonight, Tonight
- First listen - This is the kind of thing I want from this website, good albums from genres I probably wouldn't listen to - More than nice background music - Fav songs: Remind Me, Eple, Poor Leno
- Weird proto-rap - The fact this album came out as early as it did is incredible, and gives it an extra * for me - Fav songs: Buffalo Gals, Double Dutch
- Heard this before - First two tracks might be his best, rest is good but doesn't reach the same level - Fav songs: Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough, Rock With You, Burn This Disco Out
- Heard this before - Classic album - 28 minutes of a man with a guitar hasn't really ever sounded better - Very nearly 5* - Fav songs: Pink Moon, Things Behind the Sun, Parasite
- Listened to this before - Has grown on me with more listens - Two Weeks is one of the best songs of the 21st century but the rest of the album's still good Fav songs: Two Weeks, I Live With You, All We Ask
- Listened to this before - Good, but not as good as REM's best - Fav songs: Exhuming McCarthy, It's the End of the World As We Know It, Dusturbance at the Heron House
- Heard this before - Great album - Not my favourite genre and still one of the best albums of this century - Fav songs: Tears Dry on Their Own, Love is a Losing Game, Rehab
- First album I couldn't finish - Repetitive beats and not great vocals - Felt like I'd been listening for hours - Really questioning the validity of the Mercury Prize if this won
- Never listened to this in full before, but obviously heard most of the songs before - Preferred it to Off the Wall - Some absolute classics on this - Knocking off 1* because of how awful The Girl is Mine is, especially the spoken word bit at the end - Fav songs: Wanna be Startin' Somethin', Billie Jean, Human Nature
- Heard this before - Probably prefer this to every VU album I've heard - Perfect 70s glam rock album - Fav songs: Satellite of Love, Perfect Day, Vicious
- Never listened to this in full before - Similar feeling to most Stones albums I've heard, some really good songs and some that I think are only ok - Fav songs: Wild Horses, Brown Sugar, Sway
- Never heard of this - Very much ahead of its time, obvious influence on Sabbath - Preferred some of the jammier songs - Fav songs: Doctor Please, Second Time Around, Out of Focus
If you like the most generic classic rock imaginable sung by a racist, this is the album for you
- Heard this before - Classic album, so much influence on so many different genres - Fav songs: Are You Experienced?, Manic Depression, Foxy Lady
- First time listening in full - Thought the rest of the album wouldn't live up to the popular songs, but it's all consistently good - Unique sound - Fav songs: Step On, Kinky Afro, Bob's Yer Uncle
- Only ever listened to Nirvana years ago and I wasn't too into it - I get them now, this is excellent - Mad that a live album of covers and random album tracks can be so good - Probably 2nd only to Stop Making Sense for best live album I've heard - Fav songs: Where Did You Sleep Last Night, The Man Who Sold the World, Plateau
- Only ever listened to Pink Moon before - Didn't click for me in the same way as that one, but still enjoyed it - Preferred the songs towards the end of the album to some of the first ones - Fav songs: Saturday Sun, Thoughts of Mary Jane, Day is Done
- Listened to this once before, grown on me since last time - Not as good as Daydream Nation, but not many albums are - Great album cover - Fav songs: Kool Thing, Mary-Christ, Dirty Boots
- Never listened to a 2Pac album in full before - Pretty good, prefer a lot of other 90s rap albums I've heard - Fav songs: Me Against the World, If I Die 2Nite, Fuck the World
- Nice old folk songs - Enjoyed it, not sure I'd listen in full again - Criminal that they didn't call this 'The Album' - Fav songs: The Unfaithful Servant, When You Awake, Look Out Cleveland
- Heard this before - Really good album, just find some of the tracks seem to blend into one - Great Kanye/Dilla production - Intro is a classic - Fav songs: Be (Intro), They Say, GO!
- Heard this before - Classic album - Think how good the opener and closer are makes me like the rest a bit less - Fav songs: Baba O'Riley, Won't Get Fooled Again, The Song is Over
- Only ever listened to Apostrophe before and it was years ago - Not a big fan of instrumental albums - Another one that I could imagine clicking for me at some point, but right now not for me - Fav songs: Willie the Pimp, It Must be a Camel
- Never listened to this before - Starts with a few good pop songs, thought the rest was bad - Fav songs: Independent Women Pt 1, Survivor
- Listened to this before - Thought I preferred some of his other albums, but this is a lot better than I remember - Probably the first of multiple 5* ratings I'll give Springsteen albums - Fav songs: Darkness on the Edge of Town, Candy's Room, Badlands
- Heard this many times before - Radiohead are my favourite band of all time but this isn't one of my favourite albums of theirs - Still really good, might be marking it down because of how good In Rainbows is - The raindrops (x42) - Fav songs: There, There; A Wolf at the Door; 2+2=5
- First listen - Enjoyed it to begin with, but tailed off - Jams are good to a point, but are too long and become background noise - Fav songs: Stormy Monday, Done Somebody Wrong, Statesboro Blues
- Heard this before - Not my favourite Cure album but still really good - A Forest is a classic - Fav songs: A Forest, Play for Today, Seventeen Seconds
- Only ever heard Moon Safari before - Liked it, might have enjoyed it more if I'd seen the film - Good background music - Fav songs: Dirty Trip, Playground Love, Afternoon Sister