Love it... And don't know what all the hate is about. My criteria for rating albums in this project is very simple... 1) Did I enjoy listening to it? If no, one star, if yes, two stars. Would I mind if I had to listen to it again? If no, another star. Would I actively seek to listen to it again? If yes, another star. Do I want it in my library/collection? If yes, another star. This album got them all, so, five stars. Thank you!

I think this is the first album in the 70-odd that I've been presented with on this project that I feel everyone should listen to at least once in their lives. It is very clear that Ms Hill poured her heart and soul into every recording on the album, and the result is quite beautiful. I would give this album 10 stars if I could and it's definitely going into my Tidal library.

Wow!...just...Wow! Nearly 100 albums in and this project has just handed me the best new discovery yet. Having instilled in me an appreciation of Bob Dylan, an artist whom I once despised, and who I can now listen to and enjoy, it has now revealed to me what kind of an album Dylan could deliver if he could actually sing. Van Morrison's voice is soulful, distinctive, and a delight to listen to. I don't typically enjoy songs with overly abstract or cryptic lyrics, but I was enthralled by every track on this album, to the point where I kept stopping what I was doing just to take the music in. I've not had a great experience with the 60's albums received over the weeks I've been participating in this project, but this one breaks the mold. If I didn't know better, and was told that this was first released in 2024, I think I would believe it without question. It's timeless, and simply awesome - definitely an addition to my Tidal library, and definitely getting five stars from me.

Bloody brilliant... Surprised me totally. Five stars and it's going in my Tidal library.

Based on the albums I've listened to so far, I like this guy's music more than his father's.... WAY more! I loved every second of this album, and was enjoying a wild private party in my headphones while listening to it. Great sax playing and the playful tunes perfectly offset the seriousness of some of the political messages in the songs. I'm adding this to my Tidal library and giving it five stars.

Not bad. A little maudlin and melancholy. Definitely not everyday listening for me.

Just awesome. Added to my Tidal Collections, so it must be good!

Apart from the hit tracks, I found this album notable only for being jarring and messy. Silence was definitely golden at the end of the 40 minutes or so that i spent listening to it.

I liked the second half better than the first half. Highlights? Sunday Girl and Heart of Glass, naturally. Still, all in all, just an OK album for me. I think I could have died happy without having heard it, to be honest.

There is something about Neil Young's singing voice that leaves me a little unenthused, but if I set that prejudice aside, I think this is a hell of a good album. The lyrics, especially on Thrashers, intrigued me sufficiently to do some online research to understand what they represent, and I enjoyed all the tracks enough to give the album a second play, just to make sure I actually did like it. It might not make it into my Tidal collection, so I will rate it a four star album, but I certainly wouldn't mind listening to it again sometime.

It took several attempts to listen to this album, as I kept trying when I was tired and the sound of the water on the Overture lulled me to sleep. Having finally heard it all the way through though, I'm very impressed. It's going in my tidal collection. Five stars from me.

Just great music from Sting and the boys. It's going into my collection. Five stars.

On the first listen, I figured three stars would be generous for this album. But just to be sure, I spent the weekend with it in my headphones, and surprise to say, it did grow on me, so despite not being a big Fleetwood Mac fan, I'm going to give it four.

Bland and forgettable, that's the best I can say about this album. Three stars is generous, but I'll give them up because there was nothing that offended my sense of musical taste.

I liked this much better than I thought I would. It won't go in my Tidal collection, as I'm no big fan of rap music, and I probably won't ever listen to it again, but my journey through the tracks was pleasant enough to warrant three stars, rather than the one or two I expected to give up before I listened to it.

Meh! I like some Indian music. But this? Nah!

The moment I dreaded in this project has finally come - the point when I receive an album that I really don't like, but dogged as I am, will hear it through to the bitter end. This was a painful listen. I appreciate that the \"artists\" were probably off their faces on Acid, but surely there must have come a point when their sensibilities returned and they realised what a godawful cacophony they had created, although, apparently not. My first one-star album. There you go!

I'm shocked, because I really wanted to hate this album, and groaned inwardly when presented with it, since I have ever considered music by the Smiths to be whiny, maudlin junk. But I didn't hate it. In fact, I gave it a second listen, and now I'm even more shocked because I'm going to give it four stars.

Pure genius for sure. An easy four stars. Why not five? Only because this is not a music genre I typically engage with, I am unlikely to listen to it again, and I won't be adding it to my Tidal collection. But nobody can deny the magic of Mr. Charles' voice and genius on the ivories.

Nice, mellow, inoffensive sounds with a cool electronic vibe. Definitely an easy listen, and I might give it another go later. This will be a four-star album for me.

I didn't feel much fire. What rhymes with fire? Dire! Yes, that's what I thought of this album. It takes elements of some of my favourite music genres and turns them into a pile of shite. Inclusion of the slide guitar is just enough to persuade me to give this two stars instead of just one. Just terrible!

WARNING! Do not listen to this if you are contemplating suicide. My god! But this is a maudlin album, but my god! did I enjoy listening to it. Perhaps that says something about my current state of mind. I may reach out for it again one day, but I won't add it to my Tidal library. Another album that I expected to hate, but that will get four stars from me, at least today.

The tracks Tennessee and Friday Night Fever just about elevate this to a two-star album for me. The singing in general is dreadful, and I feel that this album would best be on a list called 1001 albums to listen to that will make you want to die.

It's not in me to give this album any less than the five stars it deserves. Adding it to my Tidal library.

Oh God!! What to do with this package of weirdness. I didn't like it, but I didn't hate it either. Sure, I'll never listen to it again, at least not intentionally, and some of the "music" was laughingly bad, especially the screaming bits. You know what I'm gonna do? Give it three stars, that's what!

Of course it's five stars. It's Led Zep!!

Almost squeezed a fourth star out of me, because I liked the second half of the album more than the first. But... nah! It's three stars from me. Not bad.

Unmemorable, bland, and only the last two or three tracks save it from being a two-star album for me, so I'll grudgingly give it a three.

Oh Dear! On the first track it sounds like someone's trying to sabotage the track by randomly banging on a tin cup, and the rest of the album is not much better. Dreary, dull, and weird, but not in a good way. I didn't like it much, but I suppose I can manage two stars.

It was just alright for me, The co-packaged Streetheart was the better album, I think.

Gave it two listens and it's still just alright for me. Nice music, but just not my cup of tea I guess. Will give it three stars as there's nothing really wrong with it. I'm just not fussed.

This album was an exercise in endurance for me. I think I would have enjoyed it a bit more if I heard most of the songs with the vocals removed. Indeed, it is only some decent musicianship that keeps me from giving a single star. Instead, it just about deserves two, in my view.

Yeah!! I liked this. It gets four stars.

Liked it a lot. Four stars.

Played this with the expectation of trashing it in review and moving on (like many others have), and ended up playing it over and over. Beautiful, ethereal, mesmerising, it's probably been the most surprising album of this project so far for me. It's getting five stars and going in my tidal library.

I enjoyed listening to this album. I'll give it four stars.

Excellent album. It's going into my Tidal library and getting five stars.

Rather discordant in the main, I did enjoy a few moments of this album, so for that I'll give it three stars. But really I see it as a 2.5.

I so wanted to hate this, but I love it. It's getting five stars and going into my Tidal library.

If you'd told me at the time of this album's release, that one day I would add a rap album to my music collection, I'd have called you sick in the head... But the day has come. This one's going in, and getting five stars. I loved listening to it.

Just beautiful. Another album from a genre that I've paid little attention to. That may change now, and this album, for sure, is going into my collection. Five stars from me.

Hmmm!...nice voice and everything, but this type of music just bores me and leaves me cold. Not my cup of tea and I was glad when the album came to a close. I'll give it three stars because she's a top-notch singer, but that's all.

The second half of this album was better than the first half. Still, three stars is the most I'm prepared to offer.

This was a fun album to listen to. Noisy, brash, and with crazy lyrics. I won't be adding it to my collection but I liked it a lot. Four stars.

Good musicianship. Not sure I liked the political commentary, and it just didn't do much for me. Three stars.

Not the kind of melancholia that resonates with me. It's OK to listen to once, but I don't think I'd want two listen any more.

I like Queen, but to my mind, this album has a mix of strong and weak tunes. I think I will add it to my Tidal library, but it's not quite a five-star winner for me.

Love it... And don't know what all the hate is about. My criteria for rating albums in this project is very simple... 1) Did I enjoy listening to it? If no, one star, if yes, two stars. Would I mind if I had to listen to it again? If no, another star. Would I actively seek to listen to it again? If yes, another star. Do I want it in my library/collection? If yes, another star. This album got them all, so, five stars. Thank you!

Nope!...Just nope!!

It's a high three-star album, because I liked it more than Amnesiac, which is a low-three star, but it's a three-star nonetheless. I'd listen to it again, but wouldn't actually seek to do so.

Definitely a Forrest Gump box of chocolates of an album. If I was more enamoured of McCabe's vocals I might have given this five stars. There was some hard candy, some soft centres, and some of those ones that everyone leaves in the box until last. Worth a four, I think.

I'm sure one of the tracks featured fart noises, which is very appropriate as the entire album is shit. One star!

I like Beyonce as a vocalist, so going in, I thought it would be an easy decision to rate this as a five-star album, but in the event I could not. Some of the tracks are very good, but others didn't move me much at all. I think I like the album enough to add it to my Tidal library and give it some more air time, but a four-star rating is the best I can do, I feel.

This project is certainly full of surprises for me. I have always had an aversion to Bob Dylan due to the association of his music with a dark period in my younger days. But in keeping with the spirit of this project, I broke my vow never to listen to his music when this album showed up as my daily offering. And, surprise, surprise, I really enjoyed it. It could even be said to have been a cathartic experience. In fact, I liked this album so much, I'm going to give it five stars and add it to my Tidal library.

I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would. Four stars from me.

One play was enough. This album did nothing for me. Two stars is the best I can afford.

To me, this album seems kind of soulless and just, meh! I'll give it three stars in recognition of the fact that the beachboys were a big deal back in the day, but I won't seek this album out again.

Not really my cup of tea, but there's no denying the talent at work on this album, so I'm going to give it four stars.

Another one that I expected to write off, but which will now get five stars from me. I liked it a lot.

During my initial playthrough of this album, I was frequently interrupted, so had to listen to it a bit at a time over the course of several hours. Initially I didn't like it very much, but about three tracks in, I started to enjoy it. I even saw it as a potential five-star pick. Later in the evening, I was able to give it a full, uninterrupted playthrough, after which I realised that I didn't like it so much after all. In the end, I feel that three stars is appropriate. Perhaps the experience highlights how one's mood and situation affects the appreciation of music, just as much as how music can change one's mood. Interesting!

Good tunes and some good laughs along the way. I enjoyed this album immensely. I'm giving it five stars and adding it to my Tidal library.

The interminable droning of the vocalist handicaps the talented musicianship on this album, ensuring that three stars is the most it will get from me.

Very good. Nice voice, great music, just not my favored genre. But I'll give it four stars.

Great guitar work, which to my mind, warrants four stars on that basis alone. Not so fussed on the vocal work though.

I guess Leonard Cohen is going to appear in my stats as one of those controversial artists, since I enjoyed You Want it Darker so much, and disliked this album immensely. After listening to the aforementioned (Darker), I was really looking forward to listening to more of Cohen's work, but I was to be disappointed, I was glad when this one came to an end.

I like this more than Pet Sounds, which I gave three stars. So I'll give this one four.

Don't like the crappy production and don't like many of the songs either. Two stars from me.

As excellent as I expected it to be. Five stars and it's going in my Tidal library.

I like latino pop music, but salsa not so much. Nevertheless, there is no denying the talent employed by this outfit, so I'll give it four stars.

Bloody brilliant... Surprised me totally. Five stars and it's going in my Tidal library.

I'll add it to my tidal library and give it a few more listens at some point, but for now it's getting four stars.

I like this album. I think David Gray has a very soulful voice. five stars and it's going into my Tidal library.

Jingly jangly excellence. I love it. Five stars and an addition to my Tidal library.

I don't find the music on this album particularly ethereal, as some have described it. And I really don't get the nonsensical lyrics thing. If this is treasure, I think it would be better to stay buried. Two stars is all I'm prepared to bestow on this one.

I'm not really a fan of Bowie's voice, but the music on this album is great, and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Four stars from me, then.

Since embarking upon this project, I've come across too many albums that once played, I couldn't wait for them to end. This is the first album I have listened to that I DIDN'T WANT to end. Just blissful to listen to, and I always thought I hated jazz. May have to reevaluate that assumption. This one is going in my tidal library and getting five stars!

Seems I've become a Dylan fan. This one's getting five stars, proving that my enjoyment of Highway 61 Revisited was not a fluke.

Better than I thought it would be. Not my bag, but I have to admit some of the tracks are very good. I'll give it four stars.

Not so sensational, just kind of meh! Forgettable glam rock with a touch of weirdness that couldn't move me in any way. I'll reluctantly give it three stars, simply because I could listen to it again, although I wouldn't seek to do so.

I think this is the first album in the 70-odd that I've been presented with on this project that I feel everyone should listen to at least once in their lives. It is very clear that Ms Hill poured her heart and soul into every recording on the album, and the result is quite beautiful. I would give this album 10 stars if I could and it's definitely going into my Tidal library.

It's an OK album. A bit too clean and clinical for my liking. I'm glad I gave it a listen, but I won't care if I don't hear it again, so three stars is the best I can do.

Some excellent guitar moments ensure that I could not give this album less than three starts. But unfortunately, Janis Joplin's voice is a taste I have not acquired, and ensures that any more than three stars is an impossibility.

I like this. Great music to play when you're doing stuff and don't want to invest too much attention to your tunes. Very easy listening. Five stars and an addition to my Tidal library.

The Killers - killing it. Love this album! Five stars and an addition to my Tidal library.

What to say about this album? It's importance is not lost on me, and there's no mistaking it's influence on later music across several genres. But that doesn't make it any more enjoyable to listen to from my perspective. I don't like Nico's voice, so the only tracks that I enjoyed at all were the ones with Reed on vocals. At least a couple of the tracks are potential belters, but my enthusiasm for them soon waned when the screeching feedback kicked in. For me, this album is not quite a three star effort, so two is all it gets.

I was expecting more from this album than I got during the experience of listening to it. Sure, It's Metallica, one of my favourite bands, and it's awesome, but somehow not as awesome as I anticipated. Nevertheless, I'll give it five stars and add it to my Tidal library, but I think I prefer my Metallica fix without the orchestral accoutrement.

I'm not familiar with Hawkwind's music, and while I'm not sure I'd particularly want to listen to this album again, and I certainly won't add it to my Tidal library, it is good enough to make me want to explore more of this band's material. I like the music, but the album just seems a bit corny these days, what with the over-dramatic spoken-word interludes and seventies "space noises".

I preferred listening to The Queen is Dead, and that one got four stars, so I have to give this one three.

I was quite happy when this one came to an end. Just couldn't get into it. Mostly came across as discordant, jarring noise with barely discernable lyrics. One extra star for the totty on the cover, bringing it to two stars.

This album is a lot of fun to listen to, and some of the tracks definitely had me rocking out. I'm not going to add it to my Tidal library, but I would happily listen to it again... Therefore, four stars.

I found nothing to dislike about this album, and I thought the vocals were the best parts. It's just not my kind of music.

So amazingly flawed, rough, ready, and honest. Rock and roll at its best. RIP Lemmy. Long live Motorhead.

After enduring a Sepultura album a few weeks ago, I was not looking forward to listening to even a half-hour of Slayer. However, I was surprised, in a good way, as I quite enjoyed this offering from a metal genre that I usually avoid like the plague. I won't be adding it to my Tidal library any time soon, but I wouldn't mind listening to it again sometime.

I found this album sooo boring to listen to. So much so that it actually di di di di did my head in.

I thought the first couple of tracks on this album were awful, but it improved after that. I don't feel compelled to add it to my Tidal library, but I enjoyed it enough to listen again in the future. Four stars.

Isaac Hayes just got a new fan. Five stars and it's going in my Tidal library.

This album doesn't really get off the ground for me until track 6 and onwards, after which I found it really quite good. I won't add it to my collection, but I will give it four stars and wouldn't mind listening to it again.

I'm rating the music, not the man, and for me, this is a five-star album.

In my view, there are some genres of non-English vocal music that can be enjoyed to the full without any comprehension of the lyrics. This album does not fall into that spectrum. I really enjoyed listening to it, but can't help feeling that to appreciate it fully, it's necessary to understand the lyrics. Unfortunately, my French is not up to the job, and, while it seems a little unfair, for that reason I will go four stars rather than five. In reality, though, it's my loss, and I know I would love this album even more if I knew enough French to understand the lyrics.

It's alright. I'm not a big fan of themed Xmas albums, but there's nothing wrong with this, and it's good to play it on Xmas day, as I did.

The whole album is pretty awesome apart from the last track (Act of Contrition), which I didn't like. Nevertheless, it's getting five stars and going into my Tidal library.

Another album that I enjoyed much more than I thought I would - Not quite enough for it to be an addition to my library, but enough for four stars, I think.

Wow!...just...Wow! Nearly 100 albums in and this project has just handed me the best new discovery yet. Having instilled in me an appreciation of Bob Dylan, an artist whom I once despised, and who I can now listen to and enjoy, it has now revealed to me what kind of an album Dylan could deliver if he could actually sing. Van Morrison's voice is soulful, distinctive, and a delight to listen to. I don't typically enjoy songs with overly abstract or cryptic lyrics, but I was enthralled by every track on this album, to the point where I kept stopping what I was doing just to take the music in. I've not had a great experience with the 60's albums received over the weeks I've been participating in this project, but this one breaks the mold. If I didn't know better, and was told that this was first released in 2024, I think I would believe it without question. It's timeless, and simply awesome - definitely an addition to my Tidal library, and definitely getting five stars from me.

Another new addition to my Tidal library. While I don't love all of the tracks on this album, most of them are great, and it's definitely a five-star offering, in my book.

Awesome album. 'Nuff said.

Oh! What fun album... I really enjoyed it, and I think it has aged extremely well. As others have noted, it sounds like everyone involved was truly enjoying the party. It's not going in my Tidal library, but I feel that it's a strong four-star album.

Despite my enjoyment of the Moon Safari album, which I recently listened to, I couldn't get very excited about this offering. Sure, it's OK as movie scores go, but not something I'd want to listen to on a frequent basis.

Even as I type, I'm listening to this album for a second time, because it is puzzling me. I like soul music, or at least, I thought I did, but this album is showing me something, and I'm not sure if it's A) That I just don't really like the timbre of this guy's voice, B) That there are various forms of soul music, and this particular style is not my cup of tea, or C) That I don't actually like soul music after all. I still can't fathom which of the above applies, so perhaps I will learn more about my soul preferences as I get more albums in that vein during this project. The album is nice and everything, but I just can't get into it. I certainly won't be seeking it out again, but it's my problem to live with. I'll give it three stars anyway.

With the exception of Ms Jackson and B.O.B., I found this album boring and laborious to listen to. It's weird because years ago I bought the speakerboxxx album, but haven't listened to it in an age. I wonder if it's just a much better album, or whether my taste has changed so much that I would find that album as full as this one today. I believe it may show up on this project, so I'll wait and then listen to find out.

I'm not a Beatles fan, but there's no denying that this is a good album, in my view at least. Very clean, too vanilla, but good, tight musicianship. To give it less than four stars would be an insult to the talent of the Fab Four, even though I can never love their music.

A funk album, full of funk music all about funk (and a few other things)...Funking awesome. A great new discovery and it's going in my funking Tidal collection.

Another album that I would gladly award five stars if I liked the sound of the singer's voice. As it is, it only gets four.

Based on the albums I've listened to so far, I like this guy's music more than his father's.... WAY more! I loved every second of this album, and was enjoying a wild private party in my headphones while listening to it. Great sax playing and the playful tunes perfectly offset the seriousness of some of the political messages in the songs. I'm adding this to my Tidal library and giving it five stars.

Nice album, but I don't plan on adding it to my Tidal library. Hence, four stars.

Okay, so, before they were let loose in a recording studio, I think that someone should have told these guys that an assortment of random sounds made with musical instruments does not necessarily constitute "music". Furthermore, when such random cacophonies interrupt those few moments where the musicians artistry actually shines through, it makes for an album that's notable only for its weirdness. Needless to say, if I feel like going out for a few drinks and to listen to some cool music, the Penguin Cafe is a venue that I'll surely avoid, especially if I have to strip and wear a penguin's head to gain entry.

In my view, there is such a thing as "too eclectic" in an album. In my view, this album is a prime example of that. Two stars because apart from a couple of tracks, I didn't really like it.. and all the random noises didn't help.

So it was OK. But I like my dance music a bit more modern. Three stars is the best I can do.

What a shame this band didn't enjoy greater longevity. Another new discovery to add to my Tidal library courtesy of this project. What I really like about this album is the neat fusion of traditional and electronic instrumentation. It's getting five stars from me.

A good, solid, soulful album, but I didn't like it as much as the Shaft Soundtrack. I won't be adding this one to my Tidal library, but I will give it four stars.

I'd never heard of this band before, and being typical 60's fare as they are, I wasn't expecting too much. However, the album is better than I expected. I wouldn't want to put it in my library, but I might give it a listen again sometime. Hence it gets four stars.

Plenty of musical talent on display. Not my cup of tea, but worth four stars nonetheless.

There are some great tracks on this album, several of which, in my view, place it ahead of its time. Unfortunately the Leywin Unstan nonfasticle storyloring ruined it for me, otherwise it may well have been a five-stardangly additional in my libricle Tidalyprick.

I don't need listening notes for this, since it has been a favourite album of mine since it was first released.

I like the grungy music on this album, although the screechy violins seem rather unnecessary. At the end of the day, though, the artist's vocal style doesn't really resonate for me, so three stars is the best I can do for this one.

Very pleasant music, especially for background. It actually compelled me to sit back on the terrace and enjoy some late afternoon winter sunshine. I like the more bluesy numbers the most thought. It's definitely a four-star effort from two talented guitarists.

solid blues from a true master. Four stars.