Sep 18 2024
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Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
5/5 for this absolute classic.
5
Sep 19 2024
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If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
The Mamas & The Papas
Classic 60’s songs, with Mama Cass’s amazing vocals. Loved it.
4
Sep 20 2024
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Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
4
Sep 22 2024
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Parklife
Blur
5
Sep 23 2024
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Winter In America
Gil Scott-Heron
5
Sep 24 2024
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Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins
5
Sep 25 2024
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McCartney
Paul McCartney
4
Sep 26 2024
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Walking Wounded
Everything But The Girl
4
Sep 27 2024
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Machine Gun Etiquette
The Damned
4
Sep 28 2024
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Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
4
Sep 29 2024
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Truth
Jeff Beck
4
Sep 30 2024
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Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
Loretta Lynn
4
Oct 01 2024
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Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
What a debut. Hard hitting, infectious and full of hits
5
Oct 02 2024
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Golden Hour
Kacey Musgraves
2
Oct 03 2024
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Crazysexycool
TLC
3
Oct 04 2024
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Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective
3
Oct 05 2024
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Moondance
Van Morrison
3
Oct 06 2024
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Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Tortoise
Not my thing..
2
Oct 07 2024
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Scott 4
Scott Walker
5
Oct 08 2024
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Axis: Bold As Love
Jimi Hendrix
4
Oct 09 2024
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Back To Black
Amy Winehouse
1
Oct 10 2024
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You're Living All Over Me
Dinosaur Jr.
5
Oct 11 2024
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The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden
5
Oct 12 2024
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Blue
Joni Mitchell
5
Oct 13 2024
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Sweetheart Of The Rodeo
The Byrds
4
Oct 14 2024
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Who Killed...... The Zutons?
The Zutons
3
Oct 15 2024
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Here's Little Richard
Little Richard
4
Oct 16 2024
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Fred Neil
Fred Neil
5
Oct 17 2024
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...The Dandy Warhols Come Down
The Dandy Warhols
3
Oct 18 2024
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It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
5
Oct 19 2024
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Lost In The Dream
The War On Drugs
3
Oct 20 2024
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Connected
Stereo MC's
4
Oct 21 2024
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461 Ocean Boulevard
Eric Clapton
3
Oct 22 2024
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Thriller
Michael Jackson
5
Oct 23 2024
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The Age Of The Understatement
The Last Shadow Puppets
2
Oct 24 2024
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Mermaid Avenue
Billy Bragg
3
Oct 25 2024
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Giant Steps
The Boo Radleys
3
Oct 26 2024
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1999
Prince
5
Oct 27 2024
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In Utero
Nirvana
4
Oct 28 2024
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The Scream
Siouxsie And The Banshees
4
Oct 29 2024
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L.A. Woman
The Doors
5
Oct 30 2024
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Queen Of Denmark
John Grant
3
Oct 31 2024
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Pink Moon
Nick Drake
4
Nov 01 2024
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Take Me Apart
Kelela
3
Nov 02 2024
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Come Away With Me
Norah Jones
4
Nov 03 2024
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The Bones Of What You Believe
CHVRCHES
5
Nov 04 2024
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Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg
4
Nov 05 2024
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Superfly
Curtis Mayfield
5
Nov 06 2024
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Darklands
The Jesus And Mary Chain
4
Nov 07 2024
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Band On The Run
Paul McCartney and Wings
5
Nov 08 2024
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Peter Gabriel 3
Peter Gabriel
5
Nov 09 2024
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Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin
5
Nov 10 2024
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Bad
Michael Jackson
4
Nov 11 2024
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Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette
4
Nov 12 2024
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Garbage
Garbage
5
Nov 13 2024
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Yeezus
Kanye West
Pointless, self indulgent pap.
1
Nov 14 2024
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Back At The Chicken Shack
Jimmy Smith
4
Nov 15 2024
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The Next Day
David Bowie
5
Nov 16 2024
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Cheap Thrills
Big Brother & The Holding Company
4
Nov 17 2024
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It's A Shame About Ray
The Lemonheads
3
Nov 18 2024
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Blood On The Tracks
Bob Dylan
5
Nov 19 2024
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Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
4
Nov 20 2024
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No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)
Motörhead
5
Nov 21 2024
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Hms Fable
Shack
3
Nov 22 2024
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Black Holes and Revelations
Muse
3
Nov 23 2024
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Station To Station
David Bowie
5
Nov 24 2024
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Arc Of A Diver
Steve Winwood
3
Nov 25 2024
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Second Toughest In The Infants
Underworld
5
Nov 26 2024
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Straight Outta Compton
N.W.A.
4
Nov 27 2024
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Brown Sugar
D'Angelo
2
Nov 28 2024
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Vulnicura
Björk
3
Nov 29 2024
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At San Quentin
Johnny Cash
5
Nov 30 2024
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Blur
Blur
3
Dec 01 2024
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Chris
Christine and the Queens
3
Dec 02 2024
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Honky Tonk Masquerade
Joe Ely
3
Dec 03 2024
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The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
3
Dec 04 2024
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Raw Like Sushi
Neneh Cherry
4
Dec 05 2024
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Dear Science
TV On The Radio
3
Dec 06 2024
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Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan
It’s Bob Dylan!
It’s also… only ok? There’s a few standout tracks, but as always, I feel that Bob writes better poetry than songs. They’re more impactful on the written page.
3
Dec 07 2024
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Bryter Layter
Nick Drake
3
Dec 08 2024
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Le Tigre
Le Tigre
3
Dec 09 2024
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Tubular Bells
Mike Oldfield
4
Dec 10 2024
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Born In The U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen
5
Dec 11 2024
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Want Two
Rufus Wainwright
3
Dec 12 2024
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There's No Place Like America Today
Curtis Mayfield
4
Dec 13 2024
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Bert Jansch
Bert Jansch
5
Dec 14 2024
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Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock
3
Dec 15 2024
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Countdown To Ecstasy
Steely Dan
3
Dec 16 2024
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Tanto Tempo
Bebel Gilberto
2
Dec 17 2024
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C'est Chic
CHIC
3
Dec 18 2024
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Wild Gift
X
3
Dec 19 2024
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Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Aphex Twin
5
Dec 20 2024
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Dummy
Portishead
5
Dec 21 2024
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Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan
3
Dec 22 2024
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Nilsson Schmilsson
Harry Nilsson
4
Dec 23 2024
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Survivor
Destiny's Child
One of the most overrated albums of all time.
Anodyne, over produced, commercially cynical, not a single song on this LP even compares to the likes of the Supremes.
It would be harmless pap, but the cynicism just bleeds through so much.
1
Dec 24 2024
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Bat Out Of Hell
Meat Loaf
4
Dec 25 2024
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Remain In Light
Talking Heads
5
Dec 26 2024
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A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector
Various Artists
3
Dec 27 2024
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Paranoid
Black Sabbath
4
Dec 28 2024
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James Brown Live At The Apollo
James Brown
4
Dec 29 2024
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Meat Puppets II
Meat Puppets
3
Dec 30 2024
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Dirty
Sonic Youth
4
Dec 31 2024
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Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson
3
Jan 01 2025
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Definitely Maybe
Oasis
Overrated, overblown, ego filled shite.
It was football terrace chant shite when it came out, it remains shite now. In fact, I’d say it’s now like dogshit that’s been out in the sun for too long and has gone furry - it’s mouldy, pointless Dadrock for idiots who barely scrape two syllable words together.
Needs to be consigned to the trash heap along with the idiotic brothers Gallagher.
1
Jan 02 2025
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The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Badly Drawn Boy
3
Jan 03 2025
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Music From The Penguin Cafe
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
3
Jan 04 2025
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Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones
4
Jan 05 2025
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Beyond Skin
Nitin Sawhney
3
Jan 06 2025
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Graceland
Paul Simon
4
Jan 07 2025
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Africa Brasil
Jorge Ben Jor
2
Jan 08 2025
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That's The Way Of The World
Earth, Wind & Fire
4
Jan 09 2025
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Da Capo
Love
4
Jan 10 2025
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John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
John Lennon
Overrated, pretentious, overblown, meandering pap.
By this point the drugs had well and truly got hold of Lennon, combined with the talentless Yoko’s influence just ruined one of the countries best song writers.
There’s one outstanding track which earns the one star - Working Class Hero. The rest deserve to be consigned to the bin
1
Jan 11 2025
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Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Ray Charles
4
Jan 12 2025
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Bossanova
Pixies
After Surfa Rosa and Doolittle, I did wonder whether the Pixies could pull three absolutely amazing albums out of the hat - and they did. It’s all there - the growl of Frank Black, the accompanying harmonies of Kim Deal, the guitars of Joey Santiago - and it just works.
The Pixies were, and remain, the GOAT.
4
Jan 13 2025
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System Of A Down
System Of A Down
3
Jan 14 2025
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The World is a Ghetto
War
It’s good, but not War’s best. The title track is a banger.
3
Jan 15 2025
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Slippery When Wet
Bon Jovi
Yes it’s dated now, yes it’s a bunch of cliched AOR staples, yes it has about as much depth as a summer puddle, but I defy anyone to not shout along to Livin’ On A Prayer or Wanted Dead Or Alive if they hear them in the car or in a bar.
And for that it gets 3 solid stars.
3
Jan 16 2025
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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel
Classic 60’s flower power era folksy, gentle songs.
4
Jan 17 2025
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Different Class
Pulp
A great piece of 90’s Britpop!
4
Jan 18 2025
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Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
3
Jan 19 2025
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Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin
There is music before IV came out, and then there’s music after IV came out.
IV set the yard stick for rock for decades - and remains a high point.
Yes, Stairway has become almost a cliche, but so have sayings from Shakespeare, Dickens and Austin - they all share one thing:
Our language, our culture is enriched by their existence.
It’s that good.
5
Jan 20 2025
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Paris 1919
John Cale
I hadn’t heard this before, but I really quite liked it.
Clever arrangements, poetic lyrics, harking back to a feeling of the Roaring 20’s in places, a quintessentially English country feel in others.
A nice collection of well made songs.
4
Jan 21 2025
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Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel
I can’t fault this album at all. It’s a perfect slice of 60’s Americana, perfectly framing the time.
5
Jan 22 2025
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Heavy Weather
Weather Report
3
Jan 23 2025
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Henry's Dream
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2
Jan 24 2025
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Songs For Swingin' Lovers!
Frank Sinatra
4
Jan 25 2025
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie
From the opening bars of Five Years, to the final orchestral chords of Rock N Roll Suicide, Ziggy is the perfect glam rock album.
5
Jan 26 2025
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All Hail the Queen
Queen Latifah
3
Jan 27 2025
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Surf's Up
The Beach Boys
Well… this is a strange one, and didn’t know what to expect.
But crikey, what an album. Dark yet somehow airy, the harmonies the Beach Boys are famous for are there but the lyrical detail fights with the style, to great effect.
It’s not Pet Sounds, but it’s a damn great album.
4
Jan 28 2025
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Cloud Nine
The Temptations
3
Jan 29 2025
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The White Room
The KLF
There are some albums on this list that make me wonder how they justify their place on the list.
The White Room is not one of them.
Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond not only created a seminal album, but also an entire genre of music.
This was one of the first pieces of performance art to crossover into mainstream music, through their clever use of pop hooks and twisting the commercialisation of music into something weird, something novel and fun, but also subversive and cool.
Their use of samples, beats and synths all just works - it’s easy to dismiss it as ‘just another Brit electronica album’ but that misses the fact before the KLF they didn’t really exist as they do now - this broke the mould.
The hairs on my neck still stand up when I hear the start of 3AM Eternal and What Time Is Love - powerful floor filling bangers that have stood the test of time.
The KLF, also know as the Timelords, the Justified Ancients of MuMu - changed the face of music forever with one album.
The White Room.
5
Jan 30 2025
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When I Was Born For The 7th Time
Cornershop
What a terrible album. The only reason this ever got coverage was for the Fatboy Slim remix of Brimful of Asha.
1 star.
1
Jan 31 2025
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Kenza
Khaled
3
Feb 01 2025
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Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
5
Feb 02 2025
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Fear Of Music
Talking Heads
5
Feb 03 2025
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Step In The Arena
Gang Starr
3
Feb 04 2025
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Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
3
Feb 05 2025
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Rio
Duran Duran
4
Feb 08 2025
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Scott 2
Scott Walker
4
Feb 09 2025
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Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
50 Cent
2
Feb 10 2025
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Smash
The Offspring
5
Feb 11 2025
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Moving Pictures
Rush
4
Feb 12 2025
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Medúlla
Björk
3
Feb 13 2025
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At Mister Kelly's
Sarah Vaughan
3
Feb 14 2025
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Grace
Jeff Buckley
4
Feb 15 2025
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Moon Safari
Air
5
Feb 16 2025
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The Blueprint
JAY Z
3
Feb 17 2025
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Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Adam & The Ants
4
Feb 18 2025
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Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Not a great fan of Neil Young, so this was a bit of a slog, a few decent songs, but very nothing to light a fire.
3
Feb 19 2025
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Call of the Valley
Shivkumar Sharma
I’d never heard of this album, but I’m glad I have now.
The composition, artistry and themes are wonderful, the mix of influences just works so well.
Loved it.
4
Feb 20 2025
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Loveless
My Bloody Valentine
3
Feb 21 2025
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Real Life
Magazine
4
Feb 22 2025
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Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix
4
Feb 23 2025
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D
White Denim
3
Feb 24 2025
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The Holy Bible
Manic Street Preachers
4
Feb 25 2025
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The Cars
The Cars
3
Feb 26 2025
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White Ladder
David Gray
Hasn’t aged well - a few decent tracks, but nothing special.
3
Feb 27 2025
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Want One
Rufus Wainwright
3
Feb 28 2025
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Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
3
Mar 01 2025
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The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd
5
Mar 02 2025
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Behaviour
Pet Shop Boys
3
Mar 03 2025
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Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room
Dwight Yoakam
3
Mar 04 2025
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Aqualung
Jethro Tull
4
Mar 05 2025
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Life's Too Good
The Sugarcubes
3
Mar 06 2025
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Metal Box
Public Image Ltd.
4
Mar 07 2025
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Being There
Wilco
3
Mar 08 2025
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Surfer Rosa
Pixies
4
Mar 09 2025
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Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes
2
Mar 10 2025
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Arular
M.I.A.
Just didn’t grab me.
2
Mar 11 2025
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Vol. 4
Black Sabbath
4
Mar 12 2025
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Bitches Brew
Miles Davis
4
Mar 13 2025
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Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Raekwon
3
Mar 14 2025
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Copper Blue
Sugar
3
Mar 15 2025
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From Elvis In Memphis
Elvis Presley
5
Mar 16 2025
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Songs From The Big Chair
Tears For Fears
5
Mar 17 2025
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Damaged
Black Flag
4
Mar 18 2025
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Morrison Hotel
The Doors
3
Mar 19 2025
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Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3
Mar 20 2025
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The Visitors
ABBA
4
Mar 21 2025
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Rock 'N Soul
Solomon Burke
2
Mar 22 2025
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Tres Hombres
ZZ Top
3
Mar 23 2025
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You've Come a Long Way Baby
Fatboy Slim
5
Mar 24 2025
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The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
The 13th Floor Elevators
3
Mar 25 2025
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Boston
Boston
4
Mar 26 2025
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If I Could Only Remember My Name
David Crosby
3
Mar 27 2025
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My Aim Is True
Elvis Costello
4
Mar 28 2025
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Tom Tom Club
Tom Tom Club
4
Mar 29 2025
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The Joshua Tree
U2
4
Mar 31 2025
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Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches
Happy Mondays
4
Apr 01 2025
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Talking Book
Stevie Wonder
5
Apr 02 2025
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Dance Mania
Tito Puente
3
Apr 03 2025
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Broken English
Marianne Faithfull
Eurgh, no matter how much I’m told she was a trailblazer, a wild spirit and huge influence, I just can’t abide Marianne Faithful.
1
Apr 04 2025
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Happy Trails
Quicksilver Messenger Service
3