Fucking kill me already

Very serene

I love Tom's grungy voice on the upbeat stuff, but I'm not fond of the slower songs, and the way the album keeps flip-flopping between the two is jarring

When I asked for music to swing to this isn't what I meant

UK Garage is very dear to me, it brings me back to a simpler time, where Pokemon was taking the world by storm and a big dome along with a big wheel was being built in London, my childhood was spent listening to a CD of remixed singles by The Artful Dodger every morning before going to primary school. That said, it's difficult to represent a "UK garage" album in this list because the genre was made for singles from various artists to be mixed together, (Garage overlaps with House so often you'd get mixes with stuff like Closer Than Close by Rosie Gaines) an album from one artist doesn't capture the surprise and diversity the genre typically offers. MJ Coles stuff, in particular, is more on the mellow side. For a better Garage experience I recommend looking into stuff like DJ Spoony's mixes on youtube.

This is very nostalgic for me, my parents had this CD at the back of a cabinet, one day I dug it out, started listening, and then held onto it for a while. This album, along with songs in the key of life, is what hooked me onto Stevie Wonder

Mother knows best

Begins as rather ho-hum before unfolding into an epic journey of sound. A tour-de-force!

A harrowing nosedive into the bowels of hell

I was enjoying it right up to A Quick One While He's Away and then I set fire to my computer

Nice music but the lyrics sound like they picked random words out of a hat

Audacious, fiery, unrelenting, calls to mind the works of the dadaist period, the musical equivalent of drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa.

So bland and inoffensive it's torturous.