When are Americans going to realise that country music simply isn't as important as they think it is

Instantly makes you 290% more horny for your sister

Tedious slog. Maybe you had to be there.

Repetitive, uninspired, insipid, there is absolutely nothing to enjoy about this low-energy emo rubbish unless you need something to make guests leave your party when it's getting late.

Shit Mining

It's alright. Probably the peak of post-punk, and not necessarily in a good way. Each track sounds like any other Talking Heads track, very little variety. The Gary Numan's Chameleon bass feels very out of place.

Buttery smooth hiphop. Can still hear the hiss of the vinyl that they sampled the beats from. Creamy vocals, easy to digest. Not a huge amount of variety, but honestly how much can you do with a crumby old Akai and some battered records.

You have to really like Dolly's wobbly voice and steel guitars to get through this one with a smile on your face. Far too American, far too boring, and only trace amounts of musicality. Lovely bass though.

Repetitive, uninspired, insipid, there is absolutely nothing to enjoy about this low-energy emo rubbish unless you need something to make guests leave your party when it's getting late.

World music-y, chill, fun, with some absolute slammers.

This is a flawless psychedelic blues album that doesn't put a single note wrong. The mastering is fantastic and gives an extra-dimensional quality that you just don't find in the modern day.

Any album that starts with such a beautiful FM electric piano is worth its weight in gold to me. This album also has some of the best vocals mastering/mixing/recording I've ever heard, and the overall sound design is nothing short of genius. It's not an album for everyone, but it's right up my street, and the mastering quality cannot be denied. Aside from this, it's hugely musically varied. Not every track is a banger, but it's easy enough to leave playing and still enjoy it.

Yeah it's alright. Gets boring after 5 or 6 tracks though, and by the end I was completely over it. Too long with too little variation, sounds like any cookie-cutter country/blues/rock album that many others before have done better. It's the McDonalds of rock albums.

Luscious tones and lovely singing, this is how to do a folk album properly. Has plenty of variety, but it lacks a sense of excitement which could've rounded it off. Excellent dynamics though.

Not the right album if you're introducing someone new to hip-hop. Several stone-cold classics, excellent (if uncharacteristic) mixing/mastering, and a great all-round album for connoisseurs, but let down by the too-laid-back beats that don't match the lyrics. I could've done with the aggression turned up a little bit. Unfortunately, this leaves it trailing its contemporaries. Still great, though.

Count Basie didn't invent big band, but this album is a flawless presentation of everything that makes it great. You'd have to be properly miserable to not enjoy this.

I'm just not interested in live albums. Not sure why anyone would want to listen to a crumbier version of perfectly good studio music unless you were actually there. I'd prefer this song list as just a compilation of the album versions. The live music doesn't add anything, and strips off a lot of polish. Only giving this 2 because at least the songs are good.

Nice tones, good recording quality, musically fascinating, good variety. Doesn't hold up very well in the modern day, and just feels like classic boomer rubbish now. Guitarist only knows one picking pattern, but the bassist is fun to listen to. The music this inspired is better.

Opening with a ring modulator is a brave move. I love the use of African percussion and vocal effects in the intro, too. Outkast weave in a lot of heavy plosives into their recordings, which gives them quite a unique feel. The aggressive beats and overdiven guitar and synth puts across the same emotions of their lyrics. This album also has Ms Jackson, a massive international hit, which was a soft introduction for huge swathes of people into hip-hop. Their buttery smooth rapping is the icing on the cake.

I pressed play and thought it was a blues album. I've never been so disappointed so quickly. Love the stereo effects; there's some decent mastering for 1963, but can't help feeling like the out-of-time, super quiet kick panned far left ruins things a little bit in Night Life. I liked the super chill, laid back blues of Night Life, but the country is bollocks. Started strong and rapidly dropped off musically, but Ray's voice is lovely at least. And how many songs need to start with violin chord stabs? Come on, lad, you've got a full band. Use them.

Utter dogshit.

Short, enjoyable bit of latin funk. As soon as it finished, I listened to Low Rider though.

This is where the line blurs between best albums and most impactful albums. Yeah it's great, yeah it changed the world of music, but there's very few unique ideas and outside of nostalgia and studying popular music history, there's very little reason to listen to this in the modern day.

I enjoyed this a lot. Greatest album ever? Don't think so, but it's pretty special. I'm a fan of anything that uses unconventional instruments to build its sonic landscape in a unique way. Bass playing is top notch too.

Goths in the 1980s had it rough.

Camp fun, slides down the ears.

Peak 2009. Not in a good way. There is nothing memorable about this wishy washy rubbish, but equally it wasn't offensive.

Crikey that was a good album. Excellent jazzy blues all the way through. I'm a big Kenny Burrell fan already, so it was bound to resonate with me.

I've never listened to Neil Young before. I have now realised that was no true loss to me. Painfully dull.

Bob didn't invent reggae, but this album helped refine it. Excellent groove throughout, with luscious bass.

I'm not sure what I just listened to, but I thought it was excellent. Love to have that much variety in an album.

Placebo did it better.

Tedious slog. Maybe you had to be there.

Such a fucking good album. A rare case of the original being the best.

The OG of stealing black music and giving nothing back

Brits do it better. But track 3... ~hits from the booooong~ is all I could think about.

Hey, Americans, country music isn't anywhere near as important as you think it is.

I think this is one of the sexiest albums that's ever been written. All About Love is a highlight, but it really exposes the struggles of 1970s recording technology with a lot of clipping on the drums and trumpets. That's kind of part of the charm though.

Raw, pure. Essential listening for anyone with the simple gift of ears

Boogie Pimps did Somebody to Love better. White Rabbit is a total slammer, but the rest is easily forgettable. I wanted to like this album more than I did.

Music has moved on, and it wasn't even that good when it was new.

Hippie bullshit.

Smooth, but the skits are irritating.

All the hope of the sixties wrapped up in one album. Sorry it never worked out like you wanted, boys.

I'd rather pick the dried shit out of a dead sheep's fleece and use it as a toothpick than listen to this utter wank again.

Yeah it's alright.

A lotta screaming and not really getting anywhere. It's pretty powerful and fun though.

Decent shoe-gazey rock album. Not much to it, but what it's got is fab.

Not ambient enough to be enjoyable

Finally, some good fucking music

45 albums in and already a second Neil Young effort. Are there really so few artists out there that we have to have such a density of this whiney gobshite's music? It's just not that fucking good, is it? The mastering on this album is bad even for 1974. I'm so bored of this shit that I can't even be bothered to criticise it more. Catatonic.

Michael Stipe's voice is fantastic. I forget how much I love R.E.M.'s melodic tones. Love this album. Love the instrumental experimentation. That being said, it leaves a lot of excitement on the table.

This is the boulder that Planet Rock has been leaning on for decades. Total slammer, I LOVE IT, AND I NEED IT

Shit Mining

Trigger Happy TV! I can't listen to this without picturing Dom Jolly winding people up. It's also pretty good.

I quite enjoyed this. Instrumentation kept me interested, and the tone seemed playful and joyful when it needed to, and morose at other times. Reminded me of Pulp in a lot of ways.

This is exactly the kind of thing I signed up for. I didn't really like it that much, but in a sea of country and Brit pop, this is a welcome break.

It's pretty cool for an American rock album. Enough variation to keep it interesting, but lacking in power.

Giving this 5 because I love it, but it's mainly fun to piss off boomers and yanks

My last favourite track is the title track... The rest is great though.

In a sea of mediocrity, Frankie Goes To Hollywood tried to do something special.

I'm not miserable enough for this

Starts strong and falls off a bit, but really enjoyable soft rock jaunt

When are Americans going to realise that country music simply isn't as important as they think it is

White guys playing black music but worse.

Boring album held up by a few legendary tracks. If it was released today, it would be considered loser indie trash; does this make it ahead of its time?

It's fun but what's it doing in this list?

It doesn't matter who you are, where you came from or what you think, this is without a shadow of a doubt up there in the top three most important albums ever been laid down

Fuck yes, some proper music

Yeah it's alright

I few stinkers but I enjoyed this

Boring as fuck

Not actually listened to this before but that was really good. High energy, fun, interesting, very listenable.

One of the better psychedelic blues albums I've heard. Very Doorsy

I've listened through this album hundreds of times by now. It is practically solely responsible for shaping my late teens. I can't not give it 5/5.

I'd never been inclined to listen to the rest of this album, regardless of how often ~that~ song is pushed in classic rock playlists. This is some bottom-of-the-barrel Blackpool working-man's-club bullshit.

When I was younger, I heard Girlfriend In A Coma sung to the tune of Tiptoe Through The Tulips on Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. Kinda ruined the original for me, but the album is still great. 1 star because Morrissey is a racist lunatic.

Kinda loved this, but could've done with being about a third of the length

This album made me regret being born with ears.

Textbook how to have fun with writing an album

Way better than I expected, but that's not saying an awful lot

Some of the best percussion recording of the 1970s. Proper fucking music, this.

Of all the pedophile rapists in the world, Robert Plant is certainly one of them.

Biggest bangers, but the rest of the album could do with a little more fun

Kraftwerk changed the course of music for the rest of eternity. I just wish they could've done it with a bit more pizazz.

He ain't much without Lennon. Poor lad.

Yeah it's alright

The tube in his mouth was a fashion statement

"Where Is The Line" she asks. It's outside Dignitas, full of people who listened to this.

Took them a while to get good...

Stunning thrash, redefining the whole genre.

Never been a huge fan of New York punk, but this is pretty cool

Punky, cool... Too cool for me.

Never heard an 808 work so hard. Sublime.

Lovely and well recorded, just boring and unintelligible.

Yeah it's alright. Not the best Cure album, but not intolerable.

Delicious music. Yum yum.

I hadn't properly sat down to listen to a Cure album before, and I'm glad I did. I loved the ambient feel of this.

Boring

No

Number one on the list of bands I don't particularly like, but hugely respect/appreciate.

Better than I expected. I liked it more than my spellchecker did.

Masterful dynamics, gets a bit boring.

I get it, but it could've done with a decent beat.

Hard to give this anything other than 5 stars, but I can't recall a single track and it lacked standout moments...

Not sure about this one.

Americans trying to sound like Brit rock. Shit.

Very Björky

Reminded me of Mclusky, so I went and listened to Mclusky instead.

Instantly makes you 290% more horny for your sister

Yesterday's was Creedence Clearwater Revival, then this today... I'm ready to be a conscientious objector.

I thought this was going to be about Bugs Bunny. I was wrong.

Funky shit

Meandering, pompous

If you listen to Animal on its own, it's a good song. If you listen to it in the context of the whole album, it's an absolute banger. Didn't expect to love this as much as I did

Pretty cool. Amazing what you can do with an S1000 and an Amiga.

Jazztacular

It's just a bit shit, really.

Underwhelming, but gets an extra point for sampling The Selecter.

Iconic? Yes. Important? Yes. Good? No.

All the best hits from The Doors but slightly different

Domestic battery doo bee doo bee doo

I thought "Beck" was just Jeff being lazy, but I guess not. It's not terrible but I'm not desperate to listen again.

Radiohead's like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're going to get.

Maybe if I was camping, deliriously drunk,I might've enjoyed this.

Lovely, like full cream music.

Finally, something fun. Not the best album ever, but cool, light, well put-together.

If this was released today, nobody would batter an eyelid. But it wasn't, it wasn't even released in the 70s. Extremely futuristic.

Difficult. Would've enjoyed this at 14, but I'm not 14 now.

Just a bit boring.

Wasn't expecting to fall in love today

Yeah it's alright

Soft. Nice. I feel like the woman in an old Dove Soap advert.

They sentenced me to 41 minutes of boredom.

Thought this was going to be way sexier than it was. I love Bryan Ferry's voice though, so it gets points for that.

Bit shit

Sound of my early teenage years, possibly one of the first albums I "listened" to. Still holds up as a classic example of naughties British rock.

Synth gods, but this one fell flat for me

Don't think I'd listen again, but it's cool as fuck

Cute, fun, enjoyable if a bit long and samey. Can see why people ate this up in the 80s.

Music for gods, by gods.

Just another Brit rock album, but kinda fun

I was expecting more from such an established name in music history. Regardless can't change my rule that all child-fuckers get 1 star.

Meg White is my generation's Ringo Starr

Good fun, for sure. I'd never listened to 10cc before, and I regret that now.

Bob Dylan changed the world, but so did cholera

Some call this musical masturbation. Well, joke's on you because I like masturbation.

I fear no jazz

Smoother than a mercury milkshake

Absolutely superb.

I guess if you absolutely had to choose a Dylan album to listen to, you'd choose this one.

I can't be the only one who thinks this whole album would be better if it was performed with steel drums instead of synths.

This sounds like I recorded it.

Empty, tinny... Maybe it's a lyrics thing.

Legendary slammers carrying a good album.

Is this where the trope of man-standing-with-guitar-with-one-leg-on-a-wall began? Either way, less offensive than most country albums, and even a little fun.

Not worth the effort it took to find

I really wanted to like this more than I did

Like a curry that wasn't spicy

Liking PJ Harvey makes you cool. Shame the music isn't that good. Skip to We Float then turn it off.

You had to be there to enjoy this. And if you were there, I'm sorry to hear that.

Felt like this album was all over the place, like a bunch of sketches thrown together with not a great deal of overarching narrative. Great music, but not enough consistency.

Great if you like Morrissey

Really enjoyed this.

This was a rock album that sold like a pop album. I listened to the CD on repeat back in the day, but I've grown up and it hasn't

It's alright, but I don't get the fuss. Mick Hucknall winds me up too.

Perfect for hip-hop samples. Lovely to sit through.

This album gave me a boner.

Liquid shit. You don't have to be a racist to steal black music.

Somebody get him a new microphone. Nice cover art tho

Squeezing so many straight-up hip-hop bangers onto one album must've been exhausting.

Tonally gorgeous, great production, but the songs are just a bit shit.

Americans complaining about the amount of Brit-pop here can shut the fuck up

"ah, so that's where those tunes come from" the album

Cheap and uninspired sampling tricks that were boring in 1995; this has been done a million times before and a million times better.

Yes, she can sing, it's just that it sounds like a distressed seal.

Took a break from domestic abuse to write the most iconic piano intro of all time. Spent the rest of the time recording mediocre blues and Beatles B-sides.

Whizzing along at 200 smiles-per-hour

Americans getting boners - live

Historically significant but there's not much to enjoy about it these days.

He listened to The Beatles and thought they would be better if they sounded shitter

Yeah it's alright. Not much variety, but at least it sounds nice

They really worked out those kinks

Every song sounds basically the same, but at least it's cool. Would've lapped this up if I was 30 years older than I am.

PJ Harvey if she was from South America

Masterclass in songwriting, recorded almost completely without soul.

Every teenager's songwriting notebook since 2002. Boring as fuck.

This is a great album to me, but I wonder what it'd be like going in blind... Oh well. A review isn't about what others think.

I get Radiohead. The textures of this album are gorgeous. That doesn't stop it from being depressing as hell though.

I wanted to love this, mainly because I think it'd make me intelligent, but I just couldn't.

Stealing black music then he has the gall to go on a racist rant. Idiot. "Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded, and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking Jamaicans and fucking … don’t belong here, we don’t want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. We are a white country. I don’t want fucking wogs living next to me with their standards. This is Great Britain, a white country. What is happening to us, for fuck’s sake?"

Don't know how to review this masterpiece. It's tricky.

It's not offensive, but for the life of me I can't work out why they made this album. Doesn't feel tight in the slightest.

Take any song, put it in a classic rock playlist, and it will never be skipped. Does this mean they all sound the same? I guess so, but they all sound great.

Impossible to have a bad word to say about this soul masterclass.

Boring and depressing

Yeah it's alright, but not sure I'd say it's one of the top albums ever

This is the kind of utter shit listened to by 13-year-old girls after they've had an argument with their mum

This is one of them albums that everyone told me is great, so I never bothered to listen to verify as it seemed so unanimous. I guess I was missing out.

The 37th chamber

I thought I'd grown out of pink, but this felt fairly modern and mature.

This isn't it

It was fine, but didn't excite me

Drab dogshit, shut the fuck up you whiny bastard

Nice break from all the country. I enjoyed this, but not sure I'd listen to it again.

Delicious timbre, my ears drank it like tawny port, yum yum yum. My only question is: are you allowed to "enjoy" grunge?