This album sounds like it should be blaring in the grottiest bar imaginable in Blackpool. Some of the songs do sound like a B-Tec Led Zeppelin, and some of the vocals are incredibly grating. I was surprised by how much of this I enjoyed though, some of it is just meat and potatoes rock and roll done well. And sometimes that's enough to make up for their spelling of 'Goodbye'. Best Track: Gudbuy T'Jane Worst Track: How D'You Ride

Stevie legend more like. Good album. Great mix of chill vibes and sexy funky tunes. Best Song: I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever) Worst Song: Big Brother Score: 8/10

David Blowie more like. Good album. The Beatles cover doesn't really work with the vibe, and Bowie is almost overdoing it with the vocals there. The rest of the album though is sleek, luscious, and sexy. The production is immaculate, so many great little details. Best Song: Somebody up There Likes Me Worst Song: Across The Universe Score: 8/10

Arctic Punkies more like. Good album. Love the raw energy and youthful rock bangers in this one. Listening to this I can almost smell the Carling and WKD in the air, and feel the bottom of my shoes sticking to the club floor. I wouldn't want it any other way. Best Song: A Certain Romance Worst Song: You Probably Couldn't See For The Lights But You Were Staring Straight At Me Score: 8/10

Strolling Bones more like. Mid album. I think the band clearly have a lot of energy and vigour - I can imagine they'd be absolutely sick live, but their music has rarely done anything for me. The bangers always feel like they need more punch, and the ballads always feel too meandering. Best Song: I Got The Blues Worst Song: Moonlight Mile Score: 6/10

Kat Seaton more like. Good album. Really immaculate vibes here - and the production is really fantastic on this. Late 60s and early 70s are such a golden era for singer-songwriter music and Stevens' is no exception in making his mark. His voice is gentle when it needs to be but possesses this strong earthy power at times too. Best Song: Father And Son Worst Song: Longer Boats Score: 8/10

Iggy Bop more like. Sick album. I've enjoyed the Stooges before but there's something special about Iggy's collaborations with Bowie, where I think the former's snarl and roughness is complemented by the latter's tenderness and charm. Love the production on this album - the guitars hit so hard and some of the rhythms here are so infectious too. Best Song: The Passenger Worst Song: Turn Blue Score: 9/10

Steely Nan more like. Good album. Can't get enough of the band moving more into jazz fusion at this point in their career. The album is just full of juicy, sexy jams with a bountiful array of instruments and sounds to wallow in. Best Song: Peg Worst Song: Black Cow

Good album. Listened to this a lot as a teenager, probably my first intro to heavier sounding music & it still hits so hard. It's cooled on me a little bit but is still an album full of bangers. Best Track: Something in the Way Worst Track: Endless Nameless

One of the worst albums I've ever heard. This kind of pop punk is really not my thing & just sounds incredibly dated now. Some of the riffs are cool but the vocals are just so hoarse and uninteresting. Best Song: Come Out And Play Worst Song: What Happened To You?

Really lovely album. Just some great, chilled out cowboy vibes for a solid hour. Need to listen to this in the desert sometime. Best Track: Ai Du Worst Track: Sega

Some really great guitar riffs on this - I can imagine listening to some of these a lot and not getting sick of them. Morrissey is a little whiney on this, and his vocals have never really appealed to me, but I think there's some really interesting lyrics in this. A lot of the album seems to be about adolescence, depression, and being suffocated by a hypermasculine school environment. I can see why so many people relate to these songs even when Morrissey seems like the strangest person to have written them. Best Track: Barbarism Begins At Home Worst Track: I Want The One I Can't Have

Clearly a very influential album in gothic and post-punk. It's been really interesting listening to the kind of band who would have inspired Sonic Youth, Pixies, or Nirvana. The music is dark and creeping, with often quite strange changes in key. Kristin Hersh's vocals vary between shrieks and whispers, and her lyrics are these striking tangled poems. I liked it a lot. Best Track: Rabbits Dying Worst Track: Soul Soldier

Such a meat and potatoes rock album lol. I kinda wanted it to be more metal but I think the corny 80s rock works in the right moments. The guitar solos are indulgent and sloppy and fun. Some of the tunes do sound very dated, and the perfect kinda stuff for my ready unsalted playlist, but there is certain kind of fun to it too. Best Track: United Worst Track: Red, White & Blue

There were some good moments on this, but it's a little more sparse compared to sticky fingers. I like some of the darker gothic-pop moments on the album, but it's spread out amongst some quite tedious blues tunes, a lot of which lack energy behind them. Best Track: Under My Thumb Worst Track: Going Home

Feel like this is more fun as background music. A lot of the album is inspired by punk and rock music but just sounds way too clean for me. Most of the album doesn't quite feel like it's doing anything new too. Some songs feel like it takes a page from the Strokes or the Velvet Underground. I mostly wanted it to be more raw. Best Song: Talihina Sky Worst Song: Wasted Time

What a baller album. Probably one of my favourite discoveries since starting this challenge. Hayes' voice is lush and commanding, and he's accompanied by some really gorgeous production and orchestration behind him. I particularly like the last track with how this very bare bones instrumentation goes from unsettling to much more grandiose and beautiful. Best track: By the Time I Get to Phoenix Worst Track: Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic

Not really thinking much of this. I find a lot of the tracks to be quite forgettable and in the absence of anything catchy I feel like the tunes aren't that delicate or interesting either. I like the vocalist with the deeper voice more than the falsetto too - feel like he has much more going on. Best Song: All the King's Men Worst Song: Hooting & Howling

Maybe this album hits different when blazed out of your mind, but my overall opinion is that it is just good. There are some really fun beats, and I think Snoop is the king of vibes based rap, but there are a lot of elements to this that seem to have dated quite badly. He constantly raps about his balls - why? I think he also tries to emulate Slick Rick a few times on this without putting much of his own spin on it. Also the best song has by far the least streams??? Best Track: Serial Killa Worst Track: Lodi Dodi

Good album! I like Steely Dan a lot and there's a lot of fun stuff on this one. I don't think it has the same excessive bliss of the jams on Aja, but there's so many great tunes and playful melodies to keep me happy. It's a short and sweet album too. Best Track: Any Major Dude Will Tell You Worst Track: Monkey in Your Soul

Wild to me that this is a debut album - PJ has such a defined sound at this point and it's electric to listen to 30 years on. It's really fun to listen to - a little grungy, snarly, but also tender too. Best Track: Dress Worst Track: Hair

It might be because we've had 25 years of electronic/sample music since this but I found a lot of the album quite bland and uninteresting. There are some interesting and fun moments on the album, but especially when the Avalanches or DJ Shadow were doing much more unique stuff with sampling in this era, I was left wanting a lot more from this. Best Track: My Weakness Worst Track: If Things Were Perfect

This grew on me so much! I love how concise and vulnerable the lyrics are. I love how the album goes from luscious string arrangements to haunting electronica over the course of the runtime. It's up there with Blood on the Tracks as an all-time great breakup album. Best Track: Lionsong Worst Track: Notget

Good album! I love how this doesn't seem to be confined by genre. It's just high energy instruments and vibes. What more could you want. Best Track: Incident at Neshabur Worst Track: Hope You're Feeling Better

Good album - I don't think it matches the energy of Louis Prima but a lot of this is still really fun tunes. The kind of thing that would be perfect on the radio in Fallout. Best Track: You Done Me Wrong Worst Track: Troubles Of My Own

Lotta fun. The recording is a little rough but there's a lot of energy and charm to this album. Louis Prima is effortlessly magnanimous and I just love the spirit of swing channeling through this. Best Track: I'm Just a Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody Worst Track: Whistle Stop

I guess you had to be there... Best Track: Islands Worst Track: Shelter

Fuck You Bush! Far from Radiohead's best but is a really solid album with a great mix of creepy/delicate tunes and some freakier paranoid anthems. Best Track: There, There Worst Track: The Gloaming

This album sounds like it should be blaring in the grottiest bar imaginable in Blackpool. Some of the songs do sound like a B-Tec Led Zeppelin, and some of the vocals are incredibly grating. I was surprised by how much of this I enjoyed though, some of it is just meat and potatoes rock and roll done well. And sometimes that's enough to make up for their spelling of 'Goodbye'. Best Track: Gudbuy T'Jane Worst Track: How D'You Ride

Enjoyed this quite a bit - nothing like some high energy girlpunk to get you through the day! Best Track: Vaseline Worst Track: S.O.F.T.

Loved this album - it's so high tempo and the energy never quits over the entire runtime. The production is dazzling and the rapping is just as good, energetic, urgent, current, and so forward-moving in hip hop. Best Track: Nighttrain Worst Track: Bring Tha Noize

Good album. This album just keeps on giving & it's probably my favourite of their self titled releases. I think they hit a great balance here between folk and rock & it slaps so much. Best Track: Since I've Been Loving You Worst Track: Hats Off To (Roy) Harper

Loved this so much. I love how much Zappa embraces goofiness in this and ends up fully committing to a sound unlike any other. Such an influential album. Best Track: Peaches En Regalia Worst Track: It Must Be A Camel (only just)

I liked it, but was left a little underwhelmed. The highlights are really high on this, but I found the album as a whole quite a mixed bag. I think Pulp tend to do large, bittersweet, bangers really well, but I do think the more they experiment the less it works. Also I don't feel like album lives up to its title - it could be a lot sexier! Best Track: Like a Friend Worst Track: Seductive Barry

Really fun album. This Elvis guy knows how to make a banging tune - even better than his namesake! Best Track: The Beat Worst Track: Big Tears

Think I'm just gonna have to accept that I'm not that into classic punk. Post-punk and proto-punk both have much more interesting things going on. There's some cool moments on this but I didn't get a lot out of it I'm afraid. Best Track: Memories Are Made of This Worst Track: International Robots

Obviously a great album. Not my favourite Beatles but it has some really incredible moments from both the singles and the B-sides. The 2022 mix also sounds so clean and crisp - what a treat! Best Track: Eleanor Rigby Worst Track: Doctor Robert

Those guys know how to write a tune!! Big Boi and Andre 3000 are such a great artistic match - I hope they keep making music together forever!!! Best Track: B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad) Worst Track: I'll Call B4 I Cum

I get why a lot of people love this album, and I was still thirteen I imagine it would really go off. The production is pretty good here & I don't dislike it. I do find the harmonies quite grating though, and the lyrics are frequently cringe. Best Track: Longview Worst Track: All By Myself

Thought this was quite mid. I think it lags behind a lot of contemporary pop music, especially the Zombies, the Beatles, and the Beach Boys. The orchestral stuff is a bit much, and they also really struggle to find a catchy tune for a lot of this. Best Track: I Laugh in Your Face Worst Track: Seven Seas Symphony

Delightful vibes from the GOATs of dad rock. It's silly and folky and heartwarming. Just what I needed. Best Track: One by One Worst Track: Birds & Ships

Enjoyed this a lot. Could imagine a lot of these riffs in a 00s indie rock song. It's a little punky but has a lot of melody and vibe still. Best Song: How Much More Worst Song: Lust to Love

Ten songs - nearly all bangers. This slaps. Love you Mr. Dan - keep doing what you're doing. Best Track: Only a Fool Could Say That Worst Track: Fire in the Hole

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE GET HIM A GLASS OF WATER HE IS A THIRSTY BOY. NO, IT DOESN'T MATTER IF ITS RUN OFF LUTHER'S BOOT. Good album. Some top tier memes in here - love the egg sucking dog, love 25 minutes, love cocaine blues, stage banter is top tier and Johnny's songwriting tells so much with so little. A lot of fun! Best Song: Folsom Prison Blues Worst Song: I Still Miss Someone

Really sick album - can't wait to listen to more Ride. Worth breaking EU law by turning up my headphones all the way. Love the drums, love the distortion, love all the little melodies, and most of all love the badass cover. Best Track: Vapor Trail Worst Track: Decay

What a dry album. Clapton is just so juiceless, I've listened to this four times and gotten barely anything out of it. Will likely forget soon. Best Track: Mainline Florida Worst Track: Let it Grow

There are some songs I like on this - but the album as a whole is absolutely atrocious. The vocals sound like a nasty exhaust pipe. I think the album succeeds when it gets quieter, but unfortunately everything seems to be chucked in together as loud as possible. The kick drums, synths, power chords, and synths all feel so overindulgent; its like taking a five course meal and drinking it as a smoothie. I do think I might like the album a bit more if it was better mixed though. Best Song: Living on a Prayer Worst Track: I'd Die For You

Good album but I think for the full Jillions experience I need a plate of toast and a mug of tea. Best Track: Mannish Boy Worst Track: I Can't Be Satisfied

He's bloody back. I hadn't heard of any of these tunes but this is such a slick album. He really plays to his strengths while trying new things. I liked it a lot! Best Track: I've Got a Dirty Dirty Feeling Worst Track: Reconsider Baby

Absolutely cursed album. The opening track is one of the most horrid things that has ever befallen my ears. Harry Lime was right about the Swiss - their contribution to culture is a horrid one. I'd be lying if I said the album hadn't grown on me though, and some of it I kinda dig™. Tom Waits meets Oxbow would be a good way to describe it. Best Track: Les Enfants Worst Track: La fille de la mort

Adore this album! So much good vibes. There's a lot of bitter, dark goth rock here that you just want to wade all the way into. A couple of moments feel a little typical of 80s pop but otherwise the band manage to make a sound entirely their own. Best Track: The Killing Moon Worst Track: Crystal Days

He's pretty good at songs isn't he. Fair play. Best Track: Watching the Detectives Worst Track: Pay it Back

No one's doing it like the Duke. I had such a fun time with this, it's a lot more playful than Coltrane or Miles Davis. While I like cool jazz and bebop a lot, it's also fun to just listen to some classic big band stuff and just wince and smile at the atmosphere and just crazy musicianship. The squeaky trumpet blew me away on this - just so so so good. Best Track: Festival Junction Worst Track: Diminuendo In Blue

Pretty sick album. I gotta say that the flow from track to track is pretty impeccable here. There are some great vibe shifts, particularly the ones into The Nurse and Passive Manipulation. I've not listened to much of the band before, but I liked how a lot of the tracks had more of an acoustic approach, and I think it emphasises the bangers even more. Best Track: Take, Take, Take Worst Track: Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)

Not quite 36 Chambers (what is?) but still a really solid bunch of tunes here. I loved the Shaolin interludes but worst part on the album is probably the Tony Stark skit which is just so embarrassing. GZA's flow is pretty understated but has a kind of quiet dread to it that I really liked. The beats are really fun and imaginative too. Especially loved the bouncy synth on 4th Chamber. Best Track: Investigative Reports Worst: Duel of the Iron Mic

Fun album. Some great fuzzy tunes on this, and I think there's little else that I know of that captures the same vibes as this. I do wish it was a little bouncier though, there are some banging tunes on this but I do think the album slows down a little too soon. Best Track: So Easy Worst Track: A Higher Place

Sucks - very much not my thing. Can't believe someone found a lost nametag at kink event and decided to name a band after it Best Track: Thug Worst Track: Sharp Dressed Man

Very cold take but I think this album is good. Better than Meat is Murder. I don't think it's among the best of all time but I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it. Best Track: The Boy With The Thorn In His Side Worst Track: Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

So lovely, late-night tunes to swoon to. Definitely feels like a precursor to Yo La Tango and other sleepy-indie hits. I like the writing style and how personalised this feels, with a lot of the songs being portraits of friends or family members. A few moments are a little bit saccharine, but mostly I think the band finds that sweet spot. Best Track: Tears All Over Town Worst Track: The Night I Heard Caruso Sing

Impeccable vibes. Few albums are this chill. Have been loving having a little read or a sleep to this. I do think that there's jazz that I find more interesting or exciting, but it feels like a significant development from cool jazz into slower pop music. Best Track: Corcovado Worst Track: Para Machuchar Menu Coracao

Some very breezy, very chill vibes. I like how the band commits to such a quiet sound but fills it with so much detail and atmosphere. The covers especially have a lot of uniqueness to them. Best Track: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Worst Track: Walking After Midnight

The concept is a very interesting one, but the music itself doesn't really inspire me much. There are a couple of bangers here, and a few of the chanting tracks were really mesmerizing. I found a lot of the ambient, atmospheric stuff to be really bland though, especially Nostaliga, which ends up coming across like a bad Bjork pastiche. Best Track: Nadia Worst Track: Nostaliga

It's okay. Kinda realising that I'm not too crazy about punk. There are some good tracks here but I do wish there was a little more going on here. Best Track: Anarchy in the UK Worst Track: EMI

Absolutely incredible album - Dusty is a star. I've been listening to this nonstop over the weekend and for a 30 minute album I'm in awe of how rich it is. It's sexy and brooding and dazzling and existential and more. The tracklist flows really well from different moods, with such luscious orchestral instrumentation that compliment Dusty's husky voice so well. Best Track: Windmills of Your Mind Worst Track: No way

Good album. The title track is up there with Common People as an all-timer anthem. Best Track: Born To Run Worst Track: Fire

Such a sick album. Feel like it really lives up to the title with this bunch of sharp, snarly, and incredibly high energy tracks. It's sexy, filthy, lurid, and such a good time. Best Track: I Need Somebody Worst Track: Death Trip

Some of this is very corny but not always in a bad way. Throughout this generator I think the stomp-rock stuff has been the hardest for me to get into, and as with this it's been difficult to tell if it's the album or the genre that's bad. Hysteria is by no means a masterpiece, it's at its worst when it just sounds like a cyberpunk Lynyrd Skynyrd, but I would be lying if I said I didn't have fun listening to some of this. Best Track: Pour Some Sugar On Me Worst Track: Love Bites

Good album. Very nice to read to - shit helps you lock in so well. Best Track: Bhimpalasi Worst Track: Sindi-Bhairavi

I feel a little bit of a hypocrite for being annoyed at the swings this album takes - usually I love big swings. Unfortunately this is one of the most annoying albums I've ever heard - nearly every song starts off promising and then becomes irredeemable trite. There is one song that isn't annoying, and sorry, it isn't Bohemian Rhapsody. Best Track: You're My Best Friend Worst Track: The Prophet's Song

Joni's the GOAT, man. I think very few songwriters manage to reach that kind of intimacy and vulnerability. I'm always finding new things to love from these songs. An all-timer. Best Track: River Worst Track: not a chance. you're 'avin me on

Really fascinating piece of proto-Spiritualized work! I think the influence of Suicide and the Velvet Underground come across a lot more clearly on this - and it's much more psychedelic than the music that comes after it. But I enjoyed a lot - it's soothing and hectic in equal measure. Best Track: Lord Can You Hear Me Worst Track: How Does It Feel

It's okay. Billie has a beautiful voice, and the arrangements are very sleek on this, but I can't help but find this kind of jazz quite dated. I'm glad we've mostly moved on from the Songbook stuff, a little sweetness can be very good but this is much too saccharine for me. Best Track: I Get Along Without You Very Well Worst Track: It's Easy To Remember

Very sick album! Did not know how much of a great combo Leonard Cohen and synths would be. So many of these tracks are brooding, sexy, spiritual, and just so damn cool. Best Track: Jazz Police Worst Track: Take This Waltz

Obviously a groundbreaking album that to this day sounds like a little else. The samples are so slick, the vocals are sexy as fuck, it's a 5 from me. Glory Box is obviously one of the best songs of all time, and just so gender as well - it's a song about embracing femininity and coming into yourself. What's not to love. Best Track: Glory Box Worst Track: It Could Be Sweet

This kinda sucks ngl. A lot of the harmonies are quite naff, and I don't really find their take on R&B that exciting at all. Best Track: I Gotta Find A Way (To Get You Back) Worst Track: I Heard it Through the Grapevine

They said that when this album came out white dads across the world started tapping their foot and nodding along. And I just think that's beautiful. Best Track: Birdland Worst Track: Rumba Mama

Such a spirit-infusing album. It's goofy and fun but also deeply honest and heartfelt. A real achievement, especially considering barely any of their hits are on this. Best Track: Slipping Through My Fingers Worst Track: The Day Before You Came

Speakerboxxx: absolutely slaps. So many bangers, love the brass, the trap drums, the features. It's a bouncing, bopping, fun, and unapologetically Southern rap album. Best Track: Flip Flop Rock Worst Track: Reset The Love Below: I think a great example of when 'concept' takes precedence over 'album', and when trying to make an album into a narrative can actually harm the flow of it as a musical artefact. There are some banger tunes on this, but it's a shame that it doesn't come together all that well. Hey Ya is a miracle of a song, truly earth-shattering - the rest of the album, not so much. Best Track: Hey Ya! Worst Track: Where Are My Panties?

Hasn't aged well I'm afraid! I think the hits on this still stand out, and the album has bangers in it's locker. I don't really think the themes of redemption and forgiveness work at all anymore. I think we've all culturally moved on from this kind of autotune too. The hyperpop era has not been kind to 2010s pop-rap. Best Track: Devil in a New Dress Worst Track: Blame Game

Not gonna relisten but this is one of my favourite albums of all time. Eno and Bowie are one of the all time great collaborations and they make something really beautiful here. It's moody, dark, luscious, and melancholy. An album very close to my heart. Best Track: Subterraneans Worst Track: nada