Was ok. I could see why the songs that were singles made the singles - they were the highest and lowest points of the album emotionally. Found the rest a bit flat.

Really enjoyed this one - dylanesque musically and good 70s chill vibes

Enjoyed this, would listen again for chill 70s ish vibes. Don’t feel I got much of a handle on the lyrics

4.5 love the variety from high paced indie rock bangers to the softer confusion and remember me. Quite a long album with a couple more scene setting tracks in the middle I enjoyed less but overall a strong choice

My stomach dropped a little at ‘American r&b’ but I couldn’t help the corners of my mouth rising up for the big bold disco beats.

Raw female experiences of Rage (You Oughta Know) Misery (Perfect) Confidence (hand in pocket) Frustration & independence (not a doctor) Optimism (you learn) Layered over grungy 90s vibes. Loved this.

I liked this, would listen again.

I like noise and screaming. But I couldn’t get around this. Maybe if I was in a grungier or punkier mood but I just didn’t enjoy this.

Would listen to this again - but maybe not all of it, and depending on mood as while it’s a metal album the themes, lyricism and highs and lows make it feel a little more complex and deep. First listen - didn’t enjoy really all sounded samey Second listen - enjoyed some lighter and clean vocals The I didn’t want to turn it off Top songs: Sugar, Soil

I love every second of this album. Possibly a soft spot for the first concert I went to but honestly- time to pretend > Weekend wars > the youth is a spectacular 3 track run for an album opening and up there with the best of them. And then bam - the hits - electric feel and kids. Chefs kiss. Back end of the album is definitely less punchy and less widely loved but The Handshake is absolutely cracking and future reflections is a groovy tune. Honestly. So good.

I really wanted to like this, maybe more than I did. It’s got cool sounds but for me it doesn’t go much beyond that as overly long tracks and a lack of lyrics made me less engaged.

Makes sense to me that she’s described in the same breath as Leonard cohen - I thought the association rested in my head solely on the title of So Long Marianne and their being near contemporaries, but turns out it’s rather with the occasionally crude & abrasive and eternally vulnerable & unrestrained storytelling musical style told over soft & dark backgrounds. On first listen the Ballad of Lucy Jordan - not written by Faithfull - stands out from its role on Thelma & Louise and because I love a good synth. Not sure it’s an album I’d put on again but I enjoyed listening to it and will pick up a few singles from it.

Going in Moondance was the only song I knew on this, and fantabulous is too earnest a word for any lyrics to pull off. I ended up preferring the vibe of the rest of the album instead. Tracks - Crazy Love, Into The Mystic, Brand New Day

I love synths but turns out I’m not crazy about the godfathers of synths themselves. Found myself a bit bored through this. Probably would not listen again.

I find this the same that I find Taylor swift in that I can appreciate the artistry and I know so many people love it. But I just don’t enjoy it. I didn’t mind the sound of bitch don’t kill my vibe and poetic justice, and sing about me I’m dying of thirst. Ok ok so a few of them snuck up on me. I put to you the lyrics of backseat freestyle: I pray my dick get big as the Eiffel Tower So I can fuck the world for seventy two hours Damn I got bitches, damn I got bitches Damn I got bitches, wifey, girlfriend and mistress Not for me.

There was a guy at my school who who smoked rollies, went barefoot and was obsessed with the doors. For some reason this album reminded me of this dickhead lecturing people about society.

May be great jazz, but it’s still jazz.

Wasn’t keen on this the first time I heard it. Liked it better the second time, good chill after hours vibes. Not sure I’d return to it though.

Very enjoyable, would pop a few on a playlist but unlikely to enter the rotation album-wise

Praise you is my mums favourite song. It’s a great one but I wasn’t overly excited for the album. How wrong I was - I loved all the beats and silliness here. Rockefeller transcends taste, praise you is a classic and the others are tongue in cheek and delighful. Found it tailed off for me at the end.

Highly grudging - as much as i don’t like Kanye I did enjoy some of this album and especially the flow over the whole thing, and the more soul influences. I think it’s probably good for a rap / hh album that’s just not what I really enjoy listening to. I enjoyed the themes of the songwriting - education, money, power.

It was ok, for very much not a country fan I appreciate her voice and could picture a time where I might enjoy listening to this

Lovely, makes me want to be in a Nora Ephron film in New York in Winter

Maybe I don’t get it. Maybe I just don’t like it. Either way, think I could die happy having never heard this.

The older brother of depressing indie music. Can see how it has influenced so many other artists. Enjoyed it

I feel like I get where this is going - musically interesting and enjoyable, lyrically good to start with but vocally quite unpleasant and not enough to make me want to come back for more

Beautiful harmonies from this early rock and roll duo. The sort of music I like to put on in a sunny morning having coffee. Couple of singles I enjoyed particularly - I only knew Cathy’s clown going in which I find a little plodding in tempo but I enjoyed their slower more melancholic tunes more - Always it’s You and Love Hurts. Similarly ploddy but just gave me the feelings.

Enjoyed where this started, enjoyed where it ended, didn’t love it overall as an album.

Nice sorta what u expected from knowing the single off it

I found this fun. Might have been the run of average albums I got before this making me starved to enjoy something at all but the twisted up guitar, slightly breathy but silky smooth vocals are really working for me - I feel nostalgic for a 90s college experience, despite being born in 95.

What I expected from knowing a bit of dusty and a few of the songs from other artists versions. Would listen again & liked a few singles.

Maybe I’m stuck in a rut, nothing has of yet come along to wow me for a while. This was a nice listen - I could feel the chains of musical connections reaching out from albums before and after this and there’s a couple of good jams on there I grew up with.

Very 80s US bluesy rock inspired by 50s rock. Not crazy about 50s rock so those influences leave me colder. I liked some of the songs a lot like whisky woman (such a doors title and vibe) and city lights - a bit slower more of a pensive bluesy twangy guitar vibe. Probably won’t put this on again but wouldn’t mind hearing it.

Did not enjoy this album. Kinda found it like squeeze but without the humour.

This is why I don’t like telling people what kind of music I like. Give me a genre-defining 80s punk rock band and I’m cold. Give me a 6 minute indie rock song of one man moaning that starts and ends with 30 seconds of, as far as I can tell, random fucking noises, and my brain is like ‘ohh yeah that’s the good stuff’. Would I like it less if I didn’t already know it was popular? Maybe.

Everyone likes this album right? I’m not keen on it but even I like this album. A deserved placing.

Some classics

it’s the Beatles

I enjoyed listening to this album through but I don’t feel like there were any particular standouts.

Cute storytelling, lovely voice.

Really enjoyed this overall album!

Some horrendous phrases and views. But. This was an absolute game changer of a record, as well as an interesting critique of celebrity, influence, the record industry, being a role model and parasocial fan relationships.

- Hmm not sure about this - hey that’s Damon Albarn! I like Damon albarn - anything else to recommend this album? - should it be one of the 1001? - Along with the 3 blur albums for him i would have picked demon days over this

Enjoyed the vibes, not crazy about it. Like the bluesy energy more than the jazzy parts

Bloody loved this like an early and snobbier future nostalgia in the sampling concept.

Not for me

I had Either/Or already, however I actually preferred this and would retroactively downvote the other to 3 too. Ironically for being an album made after he attempted on his own life, I found this more hopeful to listen to.

Really nice little album - 60s acoustic vibes

Feels like a mean rating as I did like this album but I don’t see myself coming back to it. More Than A Feeling is a banger though obvs - was hoping for more forgotten big hitters on the album but didn’t get that.

I listened to this while angrily stomping around the city at sundown on the way to a dnd group. Short of lit outside a dive bar at gone 3am I think it’s a way the album is meant to be enjoyed. And I liked it. Arguably a bit too long and for me, a bit dark - I liked the single Dirt until I didn’t. Goes on the yeah I guess pile at a 3

Jaunty jangly Stones. I prefer the more bluesy souly tracks. Love a half hour album. Top tracks: I’m a king bee (kinda sexy) Walkin the Dog (vibes), You Can Make it if you try (more bluesy)

I didn’t like this at first but it really grew on me, instrumental pop rock opera style. Still found it a bit long.

This was so beautiful I cried.

Based on the title and the album art I thought this would be some sort of ambient electronic so I was kinda surprised by what it actually was. I thought I’d like this - female vocalist, rock / metal, British. But it didn’t really hit for me. Liked - lately

Ah man I like the Specials by Really this album? Just imagining some confused Americans listening to this.

The title made me dread this. The wiki page made me actually pretty excited for it. Turns out, not mad about it. I can see why it has a cult following - not just for the band that broke up as the second album came out - but for the weirdness and intensity of the album itself.

Easy 5 for me. Everything I already know on this album I love, everything else I enjoyed.

My favourite part of this was reading reviews from confused Americans in the comments.

This really reminded me of You Want It Darker - unsurprisingly as they both bookended 2016 and were the final, dark, religiously-overtones swan song albums of two prolific 20th century musician poets before their deaths. Every time I thought I got a handle on this it shifted musically in quite a different direction. I enjoyed the lyrics, and I love David Bowie but I only really loved Dollar Days on this with that sax solo.

I’m not hating this. I’m certainly not liking it though. I’m finding it sonically dull. Very much not to my taste. I like the film samples more than the album. ** If someone was playing this I wouldn’t be like, what the hell are you listening to, but I would be happy when it was over.

Mature, heartfelt, poetic, reflective Pulp, exquisite in the little details. Love: A Little Soul, Party Hard, I’m a Man, Like A Friend Enjoyed less: Seductive Barry

Nice 60s folksy vibes

A really fun indie rock discovery.

Feel like I could love this but didn’t. Maybe because there’s no nostalgia attached. Definitely because of creepy uncle Ernie.

This is just noise and screaming. In a good way.

Unidentified Flying Bangers

Am I starting to like punk?? I blame this project. Bluesy punk is cool.

Singer / songwriter / screamer.

Mmmmm yummy sticky fudgy newly invented metal with a smattering of Ozzy on the harmonica. Get in ma belly. Top tracks: NIB cool solo

All over the place.

Everything I liked on this album was the songs I already knew - the singles etc. I enjoyed some parts of the musicality this contains but overall I think ska is too wack for me.

Thought I would like this. Loved it. Some classic well known Led Zep bangers as well as some more varied, genre busting softer tunes.

I am fed up of this 30 seconds in. Update: it did not improve.

weird but I like it, think it influences a lot of bands I like too

Fine - not my sort of thing. Exactly what you’d expect from the album name and cover.

I don't think this is *bad*, necessarily, it's just really not for me, and I struggle to think who it is for.

Liked the prog rock vibes but honestly got a little bored.

Forgettable country

Not a bad second let alone a bad track.

They could have picked the lion king soundtrack but picked this instead

Enjoyed this rocky metaly melodic RCHP alike vibe

Thought from the cover art it would be a slog of a thing but what a fun little 90s Britpop album.

A couple bangers a couple slower ones

Didn’t pay much attention at first but wow this is warm and lovely. Top tracks: the weight, long black veil, we can talk, chest fever for the organ solo!

Thought this was an easy hate but I liked Straight to You. The rest is kinda weird Hadestown energy.

I have never really listened to Elvis Costello before this, something of a new discovery for me. In my head he was more in the realm of Nick Cave - don't know where I got that from - so was surprised at the poppy chirpy record coming through. I enjoyed listening to it.

Really liked a few of the singles. A pretty odd album overall, funky Bowie

Starts so incredibly that it’s hard not to feel a little let down by the end.

I really enjoyed reading about Poly Styrene and the X-Ray Specs, and this female fronted 70s punk record. Hell yeah

I listened to this on a plane and I can’t fully remember it but I’m pretty sure i enjoyed it, that raspy voice and poppy boingy vibes

Horny dudes fantasy x old school Hiphop. For 65 minutes.