Oct 01 2022
The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem
2
Oct 03 2022
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
4
Oct 04 2022
Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson
4
Oct 05 2022
American Beauty
Grateful Dead
3
Oct 06 2022
Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
3
Oct 07 2022
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand
2
Oct 08 2022
First Band On The Moon
The Cardigans
2
Oct 09 2022
Crocodiles
Echo And The Bunnymen
4
Oct 10 2022
The Grand Tour
George Jones
3
Oct 11 2022
Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
3
Oct 12 2022
90
808 State
3
Oct 14 2022
The Man Who
Travis
3
Oct 16 2022
Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
2
Oct 18 2022
Mermaid Avenue
Billy Bragg
3
Oct 19 2022
Wonderful Rainbow
Lightning Bolt
3
Oct 20 2022
Ocean Rain
Echo And The Bunnymen
4
Oct 21 2022
Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division
5
Oct 22 2022
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Frank Sinatra
4
Oct 23 2022
En-Tact
The Shamen
3
Oct 24 2022
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers
3
Oct 29 2022
Pearl
Janis Joplin
3
Oct 30 2022
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno
5
Nov 04 2022
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
5
Nov 05 2022
Aqualung
Jethro Tull
4
Nov 07 2022
Fisherman's Blues
The Waterboys
3
Nov 08 2022
Low-Life
New Order
2
Nov 10 2022
Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones
5
Nov 11 2022
Larks' Tongues In Aspic
King Crimson
4
Nov 12 2022
Diamond Life
Sade
5
Nov 15 2022
The College Dropout
Kanye West
2
Nov 16 2022
Moon Safari
Air
3
Nov 17 2022
Jazz Samba
Stan Getz
4
Nov 18 2022
A Grand Don't Come For Free
The Streets
3
Nov 19 2022
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Eurythmics
3
Nov 23 2022
My Aim Is True
Elvis Costello
4
Nov 24 2022
Ambient 1/Music For Airports
Brian Eno
5
Nov 26 2022
Darklands
The Jesus And Mary Chain
3
Nov 27 2022
Music Has The Right To Children
Boards of Canada
2
Nov 28 2022
More Specials
The Specials
4
Nov 29 2022
The Boatman's Call
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3
Dec 01 2022
The Idiot
Iggy Pop
5
Dec 02 2022
Cafe Bleu
The Style Council
4
Dec 03 2022
Virgin Suicides
Air
2
Dec 05 2022
Doolittle
Pixies
3
Dec 06 2022
Bat Out Of Hell
Meat Loaf
3
Dec 07 2022
Before And After Science
Brian Eno
5
Dec 08 2022
Among The Living
Anthrax
2
Dec 09 2022
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Dexys Midnight Runners
3
Dec 10 2022
Murder Ballads
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Used to like Nick Cave but his recent comments about Palestine have shown him up for the tosser that he is.
1
Dec 11 2022
Revolver
Beatles
4
Dec 12 2022
Buffalo Springfield Again
Buffalo Springfield
4
Dec 13 2022
I'm Your Man
Leonard Cohen
3
Dec 15 2022
Metallica
Metallica
2
Dec 16 2022
Gold
Ryan Adams
3
Dec 17 2022
Rio
Duran Duran
3
Dec 18 2022
Juju
Siouxsie And The Banshees
5
Dec 19 2022
Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan
5
Dec 21 2022
Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3
Dec 23 2022
There's A Riot Goin' On
Sly & The Family Stone
4
Dec 25 2022
Antichrist Superstar
Marilyn Manson
1
Dec 26 2022
A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
3
Dec 27 2022
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles
5
Dec 29 2022
Dub Housing
Pere Ubu
5
Dec 30 2022
I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
Merle Haggard
3
Dec 31 2022
The Stranger
Billy Joel
3
Jan 02 2023
Crazysexycool
TLC
2
Jan 03 2023
Tapestry
Carole King
4
Jan 04 2023
Winter In America
Gil Scott-Heron
4
Jan 05 2023
Behaviour
Pet Shop Boys
3
Jan 07 2023
The Doors
The Doors
5
Jan 08 2023
We Are Family
Sister Sledge
4
Jan 09 2023
Arise
Sepultura
2
Jan 10 2023
Machine Head
Deep Purple
3
Jan 11 2023
Calenture
The Triffids
3
Jan 13 2023
This Is Fats Domino
Fats Domino
4
Jan 15 2023
I Am a Bird Now
Antony and the Johnsons
3
Jan 16 2023
From Elvis In Memphis
Elvis Presley
4
Jan 17 2023
Marquee Moon
Television
4
Jan 18 2023
Homework
Daft Punk
3
Jan 20 2023
Night Life
Ray Price
3
Jan 21 2023
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Dead Kennedys
4
Jan 22 2023
Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
50 Cent
2
Jan 23 2023
Cross
Justice
3
Jan 24 2023
Is This It
The Strokes
3
Jan 25 2023
All Things Must Pass
George Harrison
4
Jan 26 2023
More Songs About Buildings And Food
Talking Heads
4
Jan 28 2023
Rum Sodomy & The Lash
The Pogues
5
Jan 29 2023
The Joshua Tree
U2
3
Jan 30 2023
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Derek & The Dominos
2
Jan 31 2023
Live Through This
Hole
3
Feb 01 2023
Eagles
Eagles
4
Feb 02 2023
Peace Sells...But Who's Buying
Megadeth
2
Feb 03 2023
Fear and Whiskey
Mekons
4
Feb 04 2023
Shaft
Isaac Hayes
3
Feb 06 2023
Colour By Numbers
Culture Club
4
Feb 08 2023
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Sinead O'Connor
3
Feb 09 2023
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5
Feb 10 2023
Parachutes
Coldplay
3
Feb 11 2023
Debut
Björk
5
Feb 14 2023
Heroes
David Bowie
5
Feb 16 2023
Remain In Light
Talking Heads
5
Feb 17 2023
Goodbye And Hello
Tim Buckley
5
Feb 18 2023
Young Americans
David Bowie
4
Feb 20 2023
Dummy
Portishead
3
Feb 23 2023
Club Classics Vol. One
Soul II Soul
4
Feb 24 2023
The Madcap Laughs
Syd Barrett
4
Feb 25 2023
Parallel Lines
Blondie
4
Feb 28 2023
Rain Dogs
Tom Waits
4
Mar 01 2023
Chemtrails Over The Country Club
Lana Del Rey
4
Mar 06 2023
Tres Hombres
ZZ Top
3
Mar 07 2023
Roger the Engineer
The Yardbirds
3
Mar 10 2023
London Calling
The Clash
4
Mar 13 2023
Endtroducing.....
DJ Shadow
3
Mar 19 2023
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West
2
Mar 20 2023
Aja
Steely Dan
4
Mar 28 2023
Soul Mining
The The
4
Apr 01 2023
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
Not quite as good as Paranoid, but still great.
4
Apr 02 2023
Tea for the Tillerman
Cat Stevens
4
Apr 03 2023
Gris Gris
Dr. John
5
Apr 04 2023
Here Are the Sonics
The Sonics
3
Apr 06 2023
...Baby One More Time
Britney Spears
1
Apr 10 2023
Infected
The The
5
Apr 11 2023
Too Rye Ay
Dexys Midnight Runners
2
Apr 12 2023
Walking Wounded
Everything But The Girl
5
Apr 17 2023
Neon Bible
Arcade Fire
3
Apr 18 2023
(What's The Story) Morning Glory
Oasis
2
Apr 22 2023
Frampton Comes Alive
Peter Frampton
3
Apr 25 2023
Tom Tom Club
Tom Tom Club
5
Apr 26 2023
Sound Affects
The Jam
4
Apr 27 2023
The Bends
Radiohead
3
Apr 28 2023
Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3
May 03 2023
In A Silent Way
Miles Davis
4
May 04 2023
Heavy Weather
Weather Report
3
May 07 2023
Mothership Connection
Parliament
3
May 17 2023
Very
Pet Shop Boys
2
May 19 2023
In The Court Of The Crimson King
King Crimson
5
May 20 2023
Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis
5
May 23 2023
Group Sex
Circle Jerks
2
Jun 15 2024
Countdown To Ecstasy
Steely Dan
3
Jun 17 2024
Supa Dupa Fly
Missy Elliott
2
Jun 19 2024
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin
5
Jun 20 2024
Music From The Penguin Cafe
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
4
Jun 24 2024
Freak Out!
The Mothers Of Invention
4
Jun 25 2024
3 Feet High and Rising
De La Soul
4
Jun 29 2024
Natty Dread
Bob Marley & The Wailers
5
Jun 30 2024
Out Of The Blue
Electric Light Orchestra
3
Jul 02 2024
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles
3
Jul 03 2024
John Barleycorn Must Die
Traffic
4
Jul 05 2024
Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4
Jul 06 2024
All Directions
The Temptations
4
Jul 07 2024
Your Arsenal
Morrissey
The man is a turd and makes my skin crawl.
1
Jul 10 2024
BEYONCÉ
Beyoncé
2
Jul 12 2024
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
5
Jul 15 2024
Aftermath
The Rolling Stones
4
Jul 19 2024
Life's Too Good
The Sugarcubes
4
Jul 24 2024
Reggatta De Blanc
The Police
3
Jul 25 2024
Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes
3
Jul 26 2024
Raw Power
The Stooges
What can I say? Just listen to it.
5
Jul 27 2024
Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading
4
Aug 01 2024
Maggot Brain
Funkadelic
4
Aug 05 2024
Rubber Soul
Beatles
4
Aug 19 2024
Faust IV
Faust
3
Aug 21 2024
Entertainment
Gang Of Four
5
Aug 22 2024
Another Music In A Different Kitchen
Buzzcocks
4
Aug 24 2024
At San Quentin
Johnny Cash
4
Aug 25 2024
With The Beatles
Beatles
4
Aug 27 2024
Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan
4
Aug 28 2024
Here Come The Warm Jets
Brian Eno
5
Aug 29 2024
The Cars
The Cars
3
Aug 30 2024
Devotional Songs
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
4
Aug 31 2024
Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys
2
Sep 01 2024
Timeless
Goldie
2
Sep 02 2024
Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
4
Sep 03 2024
Stand!
Sly & The Family Stone
4
Sep 04 2024
Bad Company
Bad Company
One gets the feeling that this band could be so much better if they had just let rip with their abilities, Maybe they didn't want to upset their parents by going berserk with their music and chose the path of mediocrity instead. Sad really. Blandness is OK(ish) in moderation, but these guys take it to the extreme.
2
Sep 07 2024
Here's Little Richard
Little Richard
4
Sep 08 2024
Sheet Music
10cc
4
Sep 10 2024
Hail To the Thief
Radiohead
3
Sep 11 2024
Pink Flag
Wire
5
Sep 13 2024
Slippery When Wet
Bon Jovi
1
Sep 14 2024
Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette
3
Sep 16 2024
Emergency On Planet Earth
Jamiroquai
I could write a whole thesis on this album (and band) but I'll narrow it down to two words - puerile drivel.
1
Sep 17 2024
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
3
Sep 18 2024
Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
3
Sep 21 2024
Frank
Amy Winehouse
3
Sep 22 2024
Space Ritual
Hawkwind
5
Sep 23 2024
Da Capo
Love
3
Sep 24 2024
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
5
Sep 26 2024
Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches
Happy Mondays
3
Sep 28 2024
Synchronicity
The Police
3
Sep 29 2024
Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
5
Sep 30 2024
Snivilisation
Orbital
4
Oct 01 2024
Live At The Regal
B.B. King
3
Oct 02 2024
Two Dancers
Wild Beasts
I had never heard of this band or this album. I hope I never hear them or it again. Music like this makes me consider having my ears surgically removed. However, they deserve 2 stars for trying. Not sure how this made it onto this list.
2
Oct 05 2024
Odelay
Beck
3
Oct 08 2024
Tommy
The Who
4
Oct 09 2024
Ten
Pearl Jam
3
Oct 11 2024
Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
4
Oct 12 2024
Rock 'N Soul
Solomon Burke
3
Oct 13 2024
The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden
2
Oct 15 2024
Sea Change
Beck
2
Oct 16 2024
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
Limp Bizkit
2
Oct 17 2024
Fromohio
fIREHOSE
3
Oct 18 2024
Can't Buy A Thrill
Steely Dan
If all soft-rock albums were as good as this then I'd probably like the genre. They aren't and I don't. However, Steely Dan are definitely the masters of this type of music, and I don't have too much trouble listening to this. They are notorious for their meticulous production techniques and this really shines through on almost all of their albums, which helps.
4
Oct 19 2024
Vol. 4
Black Sabbath
4
Oct 20 2024
Meat Is Murder
The Smiths
2
Oct 22 2024
Ellington at Newport
Duke Ellington
4
Oct 24 2024
Junkyard
The Birthday Party
The Birthday Party sit with The Gang Of Four and The Pop Group as one of the best post-punk bands ever. I know a lot of people just "don't get it", but that's their problem, not mine
5
Oct 25 2024
461 Ocean Boulevard
Eric Clapton
Only one thing worse than a moronic racist, and that is a moronic white racist who has made a career and amassed a fortune out of plagiarizing black music. I present Eric Clapton.
1
Oct 26 2024
Fear Of Music
Talking Heads
5
Oct 27 2024
Stripped
Christina Aguilera
1
Oct 28 2024
For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music
Much better than the first album by this band and far better than anything they produced afterwards ( possibly because of the influence of Eno on this one). This certainly deserves a place on this list as, in my opinion, it is one of the most unique albums of the early 1970s.
5
Oct 29 2024
Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
4
Oct 30 2024
21
Adele
3
Oct 31 2024
Trio
Dolly Parton
3
Nov 01 2024
Rattlesnakes
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
3
Nov 02 2024
Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
The production alone deserves 5 stars.
5
Nov 03 2024
McCartney
Paul McCartney
2
Nov 05 2024
This Year's Model
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
3
Nov 07 2024
Zombie
Fela Kuti
4
Nov 08 2024
Morrison Hotel
The Doors
5
Nov 09 2024
Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan
3
Nov 13 2024
Parklife
Blur
3
Nov 15 2024
Maxinquaye
Tricky
3
Nov 17 2024
Country Life
Roxy Music
4
Nov 19 2024
Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin
5
Nov 21 2024
Dirty
Sonic Youth
I know so many people rave about SY. I never understood what all the fuss was about. They just sound like a hundred other bands that I could name. Just found this a little tedious.
2
Nov 22 2024
Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones
4
Nov 23 2024
Hounds Of Love
Kate Bush
5
Nov 24 2024
At Budokan
Cheap Trick
2
Nov 25 2024
Ray Of Light
Madonna
Usual Madonna drivel made slightly more bearable by William Orbits input.
2
Nov 26 2024
Seventeen Seconds
The Cure
5
Nov 27 2024
Surf's Up
The Beach Boys
4
Nov 28 2024
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols
"Anger is an energy" - John Lydon, Rise
5
Nov 29 2024
Kilimanjaro
The Teardrop Explodes
"Reward" was Ok. Err, that's about it.
2
Nov 30 2024
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
The Pogues
Good, but not quite as good as "Rum, Sodomy & The Lash".
4
Dec 03 2024
Blunderbuss
Jack White
3
Dec 05 2024
Ace of Spades
Motörhead
4
Dec 08 2024
Safe As Milk
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
It's Capt Beefy - has to be 5 stars.
5
Dec 09 2024
Music for the Masses
Depeche Mode
4
Dec 10 2024
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin
3
Dec 11 2024
It's Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Like 80s pop with a hangover. Not for me.
2
Dec 12 2024
A Night At The Opera
Queen
3
Dec 13 2024
Liquid Swords
GZA
2
Dec 14 2024
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
The Incredible String Band
5
Dec 16 2024
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Bruce Springsteen
3
Dec 18 2024
Paris 1919
John Cale
2
Dec 19 2024
Disintegration
The Cure
All normal humans at some point in their lives experience heartache, loss, despair, loneliness, isolation and sadness. This album is for (and about) those times. This ranks alongside "The Head On the Door" as the best Cure album. High spots are Last Dance, Prayers For Rain and The Same Deep Water As You.
6 out of 5.
5
Dec 20 2024
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
If you're going to produce an album of this style, at least make the effort to do it well. To me this just sounds like an immature, middle-class teenager who thinks being angry with their parents is the ultimate revolutionary act. I had never heard of Fiona Apple before. I wish it had stayed that way. I'm not sure this album should even be included in the top 100 trillion albums of all time, let alone the best 1001. Utter puerile drivel.
1
Dec 24 2024
Lust For Life
Iggy Pop
4
Dec 25 2024
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective
Electro-pop at its worst. How people can describe this as "psychedelic" is beyond me. I can only assume that they have been sold inferior acid.
1
Dec 26 2024
Armed Forces
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
I used to like E.C. but after reading his nauseating excuses as to why he accepted an O.B.E. I've lost all respect for him and his pseudo working-class politics.
2
Dec 27 2024
Medúlla
Björk
3
Dec 29 2024
Bright Flight
Silver Jews
2
Dec 30 2024
Youth And Young Manhood
Kings of Leon
2
Jan 01 2025
One World
John Martyn
Along with Solid Air & Bless The Weather, this is one of JM's best albums. Never be anyone like him again. ( He also used to drink in local pub)
5
Jan 02 2025
Felt Mountain
Goldfrapp
3
Jan 03 2025
Hejira
Joni Mitchell
Stunning production and the usual heartfelt lyrics that we've come to expect from Joni. When testing new audio equipment, this is one of my go to albums.
5
Jan 04 2025
Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stereolab
Dire. unimaginative electro-pop. Seriously, what is this drivel doing in this list?
1
Jan 05 2025
Devil Without A Cause
Kid Rock
2
Jan 06 2025
Hot Rats
Frank Zappa
5
Jan 07 2025
Only By The Night
Kings of Leon
Why? Just why?
1
Jan 08 2025
Exit Planet Dust
The Chemical Brothers
2
Jan 10 2025
Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper
4
Jan 11 2025
Kenza
Khaled
Really like this album although it loses a star for being a bit "pop". However, I guess it's meant to be that.
4
Jan 12 2025
Surrealistic Pillow
Jefferson Airplane
4
Jan 13 2025
Maverick A Strike
Finley Quaye
2
Jan 14 2025
The Next Day
David Bowie
2
Jan 15 2025
Palo Congo
Sabu
This is a great album - not the best of it's genre, but still very good. In fact, if this had been better recorded it would have easily got 5 stars. Having said that, the fact that it is still highly enjoyable to listen to now is testament to the original recording using the limited technology available in the 1950s. Anyone who isn't moved by the rhythms on this album needs to check themselves.
4
Jan 16 2025
Traffic
Traffic
4
Jan 17 2025
2112
Rush
Meh.
2
Jan 19 2025
High Violet
The National
2
Jan 20 2025
Dog Man Star
Suede
2
Jan 21 2025
evermore
Taylor Swift
The musical equivalent of wet, grey cardboard.
1
Jan 23 2025
Kenya
Machito
The bass sounds great. The brass sounds great. The rhythm section sounds great. The first album that I've not heard before that truly deserves to be on this list. Excellent choice.
5
Jan 24 2025
Nighthawks At The Diner
Tom Waits
4
Jan 25 2025
The Wall
Pink Floyd
"Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter as the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath the clear blue sky?" This deserves 5 stars for that line alone.
5
Jan 26 2025
Catch A Fire
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Not their best IMO, (that accolade goes to Exodus) but still deserves a 5 by a wide margin.
5
Jan 27 2025
3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of...
Arrested Development
3
Jan 28 2025
The Real Thing
Faith No More
2
Jan 29 2025
Fear Of A Black Planet
Public Enemy
5
Jan 30 2025
Songs In The Key Of Life
Stevie Wonder
3
Jan 31 2025
Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine
Cee Lo Green
2
Feb 01 2025
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Small Faces
4
Feb 03 2025
Live / Dead
Grateful Dead
3
Feb 04 2025
At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band
3
Feb 05 2025
Savane
Ali Farka Touré
5
Feb 06 2025
Band On The Run
Paul McCartney and Wings
2
Feb 07 2025
OK Computer
Radiohead
Mass-produced music industry drivel masquerading as something "alternative". I find it deeply depressing that so many people believe that this is somehow "special" or original. It ain't. It's pretentious shite by and for people with little or no imagination. Completely underwhelming.
1
Feb 08 2025
Elvis Is Back
Elvis Presley
3
Feb 09 2025
Harvest
Neil Young
5
Feb 11 2025
The White Room
The KLF
Anyone who can make a fortune from, and win awards from, the music industry by taking the piss out of the music industry is a genius and deserves 5 stars for that alone. The excellent use of sampling on their previous incarnation's (The JAMs) "What The Fuck's Going On" album deserves another 5 stars. This album continues that theme.
5
Feb 14 2025
Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
Music industry approved pap aimed at white. middle class teenagers who want to play this to upset their parents, believing it to be the ultimate revolutionary action. This album is, not to put too fine a point on it, a bag of shite. Listening to the lyric, one has to seriously question the sexual orientation of someone who hates women this much.
1
Feb 16 2025
Picture Book
Simply Red
3
Feb 17 2025
Moondance
Van Morrison
Mixed feelings about VM. Really like some of his stuff (particularly Veedon Fleece) but sometime when I listen to his other stuff I often feel like "why am I putting myself through this?".
4
Feb 18 2025
The Gershwin Songbook
Ella Fitzgerald
2
Feb 19 2025
The Trinity Session
Cowboy Junkies
4
Feb 21 2025
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
1
Feb 22 2025
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
4
Feb 23 2025
Sweet Baby James
James Taylor
4
Feb 24 2025
Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch
5
Feb 25 2025
Melody A.M.
Röyksopp
3
Feb 26 2025
You Are The Quarry
Morrissey
More forgettable pulp from a bigoted narcissist.
1
Feb 27 2025
Document
R.E.M.
4
Feb 28 2025
Heroes to Zeros
The Beta Band
This makes supermarket music seem dynamic and exciting by comparison. Depressingly unimaginative in the extreme. Who told them it was worth making an album of this tedious bile?
1
Mar 02 2025
Closer
Joy Division
5
Mar 03 2025
Truth
Jeff Beck
4
Mar 04 2025
Axis: Bold As Love
Jimi Hendrix
I can only say that people who "don't get" Jimi Hendrix need their ears syringing.
5
Mar 06 2025
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Spiritualized
3
Mar 09 2025
Court And Spark
Joni Mitchell
This is the album that Jimmy Page and Robert Plant often mention when they talk about their admiration for Joni Mitchell. I personally prefer "Ladies Of The Canyon" from this period of her career, but this, like all of her albums, deserves at least 5 stars.
5
Mar 11 2025
Vulnicura
Björk
3
Mar 12 2025
The Clash
The Clash
Saw them live a couple of times in '79/'80. One of the best live bands I've seen (along with Gang of Four). Definitely one of the best albums of those decades, and totally deserving of a place in this list. Also, The Clash were the only white band ever to play reggae convincingly.
5
Mar 14 2025
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Ray Charles
4
Mar 15 2025
Melodrama
Lorde
3
Mar 16 2025
Hypnotised
The Undertones
4
Mar 18 2025
Femi Kuti
Femi Kuti
4
Mar 20 2025
The Infotainment Scan
The Fall
3
Mar 21 2025
Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction
2
Mar 22 2025
Electric Music For The Mind And Body
Country Joe & The Fish
3
Mar 23 2025
Shleep
Robert Wyatt
3
Mar 25 2025
Permission to Land
The Darkness
3
Mar 26 2025
Selling England By The Pound
Genesis
4
Mar 28 2025
Water From An Ancient Well
Abdullah Ibrahim
3
Mar 29 2025
Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith
3
Mar 31 2025
Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago
3
Apr 01 2025
Grace
Jeff Buckley
4
Apr 02 2025
Take Me Apart
Kelela
5
Apr 03 2025
Nick Of Time
Bonnie Raitt
I've farted more original and interesting sounds.
1
Apr 04 2025
The Colour Of Spring
Talk Talk
2
Apr 05 2025
Dear Science
TV On The Radio
This is a little different, and I'll give it stars for that alone, however, it probably isn't something I'd listen to regularly, but that's just my personal taste.
4
Apr 06 2025
The Rise & Fall
Madness
2
Apr 07 2025
Happy Trails
Quicksilver Messenger Service
3
Apr 08 2025
Yeezus
Kanye West
1
Apr 09 2025
Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
5
Apr 10 2025
Pornography
The Cure
5
Apr 11 2025
Street Signs
Ozomatli
4
Apr 12 2025
Fifth Dimension
The Byrds
3
Apr 14 2025
The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Badly Drawn Boy
Even the artist himself sounds completely bored just performing these songs. Drab, unimaginative and pointless are the three words that spring to mind. About as sparkling and interesting as a slug on mogadon. Please can someone explain not only why this album is in this list, but why it was ever made at all?
1
Apr 15 2025
Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
5
Apr 16 2025
Phaedra
Tangerine Dream
At last, an album that definitely and without doubt deserves it's place here. This should certainly be in the top 50 albums of all time. Rubycon should probably be here too.
5
Apr 17 2025
Graceland
Paul Simon
3
Apr 18 2025
Eliminator
ZZ Top
2
Apr 21 2025
Songs The Lord Taught Us
The Cramps
3
Apr 23 2025
Chris
Christine and the Queens
I don't get pop music and this is the perfect example of why. I just don't understand what anybody gets from stuff like this. I always thought music (or any artform) should at least stir up some emotion or feelings in the listener. Sadly, this has all the raw energy of a piece of wet tissue.
5
Apr 24 2025
Tarkus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
I quite like some prog rock (early King Crimson, PFM etc.) but totally understand why some people hate it. Sadly, I find ELP one of the bands that give credence to that hatred. They are everything that is bad about the genre -pompous, overblown, self-satisfied smugness which really doesn't gel well with my tastes. This one's not for me. One extra star for the cover artwork.
2
Apr 25 2025
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Bragg
2
Apr 26 2025
Djam Leelii
Baaba Maal
Back in the 1980s their was a craze for "world" music which I never really got into. I believe much of it was not very good, but a lot of trendy westerners listened to it because it was "niche" I listened to this album fully expecting not to like it, but was very pleasantly surprised. The intricate and mesmerising guitar work seems to interweave amazingly with the vocals. This is an album I would definitely listen to again. An easy 5 stars.
5
Apr 28 2025
Tellin’ Stories
The Charlatans
The whole genre of "Britpop" is something that I remember with certain amount of distaste (bordering on nausea) - images of Oasis toadying-up to Tony Blair and his "New Labor" cronies, who went in to instigate the deaths of 100,000 Iraqi civilians. This was , musically, a grim time for Britain and should forgotten about as much as possible. I heard nothing about it that remotely interested me, and the false cockney accent of the lead singer of Blur still haunts my worst nightmares! "Cool Britannia", indeed.
1
Apr 29 2025
Reign In Blood
Slayer
2
Apr 30 2025
At Mister Kelly's
Sarah Vaughan
3
May 01 2025
Strange Cargo III
William Orbit
If any album summed up the late 80's/early 90s in the UK this would be it. Love the production on this, and while it is typical of the time, it somehow manages not to sound dated. A great follow-on from William Orbit's more commercial Bassomatic stuff. Definitely a 5 from me.
5
May 03 2025
Faith
George Michael
4
May 04 2025
World Clique
Deee-Lite
Can't quite work-out whether they have had too many drugs or not enough. A fun album though, that doesn't pretend to be anything else.
4
May 05 2025
Psychocandy
The Jesus And Mary Chain
2
May 07 2025
Let It Be
The Replacements
I quite liked this.
4
May 08 2025
Live!
Fela Kuti
4
May 09 2025
The Sounds Of India
Ravi Shankar
5
May 10 2025
Boy In Da Corner
Dizzee Rascal
2
May 12 2025
Mr. Tambourine Man
The Byrds
3
May 13 2025
Astral Weeks
Van Morrison
Not the best VM album in my opinion - that accolade goes to Veedon Fleece, but I can certainly see why this one is in this list. A seemingly timeless album, yet of it's time. Only 4 stars simply because I prefer Veedon Fleece.
4