Some great harmonies and melodies and a surprising amount of variety track-to-track. Apparently I like Simon and Garfunkel?

A bit too mellow for me. And the songs blend together a bit due to the piano parts having similar patterns around each chord progression. But I like the mix of instrumentation and how orchestral some songs feel as well as the different sections in each song. Feels very ahead of its time.

A classic album that spawned a whole genre. Songs are all very similar in structure but they're so short and high energy that it works. Would have been incredible to hear them live. Some real bangers on here but I'm not going to put the while album on regular rotation.

I'm not a country fan at all. This was inoffensive but not something I would listen to again.

Smooth blues rock with some silky guitar work. Just listening to this makes me want to learn to play fingerstyle. What an amazing debut album!

Really enjoyed a few of the first songs but it started to drag a bit by the end.

Not bad! Has all the ingredients of many of their later hits but missing a bit in the execution.

A real mixture of rock influences on this, but overall a bit messy and unmemorable.

Some great harmonies and melodies and a surprising amount of variety track-to-track. Apparently I like Simon and Garfunkel?

Absolutely iconic album and an enjoyable listen. Taken in the context of when it was released and the impact it had on music since then it deserves a 5. But as a standalone listen today, it's great but not perfect. There are a lot of fantastic ideas on here but they're not really developed fully.

One of my all time favorite albums and the one that was my introduction to Priest. I love the simple but hooky guitar riffs and soaring vocals. Every track on here is great.

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would, but it's not something I'm going to return to.

He's a good singer and the music is fine but a bit boring. I enjoyed it more on my first listen when I wasn't paying attention to what he was saying. Overall this is listenable but not something I want to come back to.

I'd never heard the Smiths before but this was pretty good. Guitar, bass and drums are all highlights on different songs.

A lot of fun to listen to. It sounds so clean and strange but it's also quite catchy. I really enjoyed the contrast between the raw vocals and the artificial instrumentation, particularly in Neon Lights. Most of the songs last for a little too long though.

It's easy to listen to, the songs are all fine and produced very well. But I find it to be a bit too unadventurous and unexciting.

Interesting listen but not something I want to return to. On some songs it feels like she wrote the lyrics and music separately and then jammed them together even when the timing didn't match up. Maybe it's too high brow for me or maybe I'm just not a fan of this style of singer/songwriter folk music.

Some great Latin rhythms and melodies with some other influences creeping in. But most of the tracks don't quite come together in a way that clicks for me. Also really a pain to listen to since it wasn't available on Spotify for me.

Fun and high energy album with elements of pop-punk and 90s alt rock. I might come back to a few songs from this one.

This is a bit hard to review. Obviously he's a fantastic singer, and every individual song on this is great, but the album as a whole is a slog to get through since there is no variety whatsoever and the songs are very simple. The production is also showing it's age since all the instruments other than vocals sound very thin and tinny, like they're recorded from another room.

A couple of songs were ok and a few more had interesting beats but otherwise I didn't enjoy this much at all. Ending with a 12 minute outro is a bold move.

Good: I really enjoyed the lush harp and orchestral arrangements with their odd progressions and timing. Mixed: The lyrics are written in a beautiful but dense poetic style that makes it hard to follow without paying full attention. Bad: I did not enjoy the unevenly paced, baby-voice singing. And to make things worse, she drops in the occasional squeal that kept me on edge the whole time. I get the feeling this might be the kind of acquired taste that turns into a 5/5 after a few more listens but for now I'm moving on.

I'd never heard any of these songs before, but I enjoyed it more than I expected! History in particular is a great song.

Great album. I love this style of disco and funk even though I don't listen to it often. There were a few forgettable songs but also some that are amazing.

Really enjoyed this! Eerie, atmospheric, crushing, but also patient and upbeat at points.

Some of the psychadelic tracks aren't bad but I found most of this pretty hard to listen to. It doesn't seem to have any cohesive genre or theme either, crossing folk, rock, country, psych rock and what seems to be an ad for private jets. It veers between too experimental and too boring with very little in between.

Another huge surprise. She's an amazing singer and the songs are so smooth and lush. Son of a Preacher Man is fantastic but Windmills of Your Mind was a real stand-out too.

Solid psychedelic rock from the 60s. Still pretty enjoyable to listen to today but it also doesn't really stand out.

It's fine. There are a few good songs but I found it a bit boring.

I didn't enjoy this as much as Murmur but it was ok. Orange Crush and Stand are head and shoulders above the rest of the songs on this album.

It was ok but none of the songs really clicked with me

I can't think of a time when this would be something I want to listen to. Not catchy or groovy enough to want to dance, not chill enough to put on in the background, not interesting enough to focus on. And some of the songs really drag on for way too long.

Much more enjoyable to listen to than Blue. Still a bit too folksy for me though.

The funk songs were fine but too long without going anywhere. I didn't enjoy the ballads at all

Such an interesting and inventive album. There are a couple of great songs on here that stand well on their own but this is an album that works better as a unit. It's not something I'd want to listen to all the time though.

It was ok but a bit boring

This was a seminal album for me in my teenage years and brought back a lot of good memories. It still holds up well in my opinion, with a great mix of high energy punk tracks and slower ballads. I love how ambitious it is with the rock opera meta-story but most tracks hold up well on their own as well. St Jimmy and Holiday were my favorite tracks as a kid and upon revisiting the album I've learned that I had great taste.

Smooth and sophisticated electropop. But way too vocal-focused for me.