Bouncy bouncy but blandy blandy

Starts with a bang but then slowly runs out of ideas and falls into standard r'n'b plinky plonk.

It’s sort of big standard metal. Not a great album.

This was good, and a great sound and I can see all the reasons why people revere it. But the two problems are the vocal wasn't distinctive, almost too nice, but too plain. Lyrically it's not great either. So it's good but it's not good enough.

It's as if Radiohead had never read a book. I mean the sound is good, but my word the lyrics are terrible. Which, sadly, makes it totally unlistenable.

I had forgotten how much I liked this album. The 1001 albums project had a lot of this kind of music from a time in the USA when a lot wasn't travelling to the UK, but for some reason Blink 182 did, or at least they did to me. I really do think this is a fantastic piece of work, sure it's got less of the edge of earlier Blink 182 but it's musically better, more interesting and more textured as an album. It surprised me how much I really liked this album, though of course with the bias of really knowing it well.

This didn't grab me at all. I get it's place in a movement but it was just a weak nothing in the background. Still, I changed the thermostat whilst listening to it so not all bad.

I'm sorry, this is silly and dreadful.

A lovely mournful hymn to the machines

Rubbish

The interweaving with Elvis Costello is very apparent as others have noted. I have a big soft spot for new wave but this really didn't grab me.

A fairly middle of the road indie album. Nice sound and lyrics but nothing stand out here.

It's possible that there is a never ending well of bang average hip hop albums.

I quite like this. It burst with a bit of energy.

Fairly nice fairly bland funk

I can only assume this was uploaded by The Mountain Goats. It’s the only explanation. Grief this is awful.

Absolute bog standard rock

Fairly unremarkable

Quite a quirky punkish jazzish record.

Quite a good all-round album. Too long though

Oh I really liked this. Good choice. I'll put this on my albums list, definitely.

Perfectly pleasant but very bland

Not my cup of tea at all

Nice enough but lacks any stand out tracks.

I just assumed this was American. One of those bands that you might nod along to low in the undercard at a festival but need to write a few songs.

A slightly whimsical one song moment in about 1985 (not one of these songs) in retrospect is a bontempi organ version of some well known songs with 6th form humour lyrics and nobody should have to listen to this again.

Not great, not terrible, a bit confusing about what it wanted to be but perfectly pleasant to listen to.