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.

A couple of the songs were interesting but the rest all blurred together. This is really not my thing

There are some good songs on here but it's a bit inconsistent. Very relaxed and easy to listen to for the most part

There were moments when it started to click, but those were outnumbered by the moments when I just wanted the noise to stop. Overall it's too unfocused. Also a pain to listen to since it wasn't on spotify for me.

The first half is a pretty solid psych rock / pop album, and the second half is an absurd fairy tale concept album with narrated sections full of nonsense words. I love a bit of dumb fun and really enjoyed this, although I don't think I will listen to it again.

Started off strong with a few good tracks but got boring by the end. There's some elements of punk, grunge and pop rock, which are all genres that I like, but it just didn't quite click.

A really enjoyable listen. The music is interesting and the singing is fantastic, although the lyrics are a bit depressing. Sounds like a contemporary (ish) take on 60s style soul and R&B.

I really enjoyed the upbeat funk songs but the rest didn't really click with me

This feels strangely nostalgic even though I don't think I've heard it before. I really enjoyed this. Violin and acoustic guitar is a great combo

It's textbook country rock, which is not a genre I typically like. But it's done very competently.

Loud and in your face from front to back. A really great live album, but I'd still prefer to listen to the studio recordings.

This album has a few amazing songs (Riders on the Storm and Love Her Madly being timeless classics), a few middling songs that are just the basic blues, and then a few weird ones that didn't click with me.

Very interesting album. She's an amazing singer and there's some real variety in style between the songs. They each feel odd in their own way, which is great for a one-off listen but also probably means I won't be coming back to this.

Electronica that's chill to the point of being boring. Didn't click with me at all

I enjoyed the funky beats in the first two tracks but the next four were tough to get through. The final track is obviously hugely influential and I love the beat but didn't enjoy the track as a whole as much as I thought I might.

Pretty great to have on in the background. It's interesting and inventive and easy to listen to.

It's quite experimental and ambient, with lots of sound effects and slow repetitive beats. There were a few songs I thought were ok but this really isn't my thing

I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected! I had Harvest a couple of months ago and was a little lukewarm but I found this a lot more dynamic and fun to listen to. It has an interesting sound due to the mix of live and overdubbed parts.

I don't mind listening to music in another language when the instrumentation is really interesting, but this was a vocal dominated album. She seems like a great singer and it sounded like there were some diverse influences on the music (bossa nova, jazz, rock etc), but this was more inoffensive than enjoyable. Also as other people have pointed out, there may have been a mixup when putting the book together since this is a posthumous compilation album with little to no information about it available online.

I really enjoyed this! It reminds me a lot of The Flaming Lips. Very cinematic and haunting

The first side is fantastic and has some catchy songs but the second side was a bit of a step down. A bit of a varied album in terms of quality and genre, but overall pretty good. Best tracks: Feelin' Alright, You Can All Join In.

Another album that's hard to be critical of since I loved it so much as a teenager. To me it still holds up pretty well though, and I like the mix of influences from metal, rap and electronic music. I do prefer Meteora but Hybrid Theory is still fantastic

The title track is phenomenal and I really enjoyed the whole first side of the album. The second side wasn't quite as good, but overall it was still pretty good for an instrumental album.

It started off strong with The Cutter but the strong reverb + delay on this album made the whole thing blend together and I lost track of where songs started and ended. A bit too boring and samey for me. I thought this was a bit worse than Crocodiles and at this point I'm questioning whether 501 albums would have been a better amount for the book.

The songs are full of energy and it sounds like they would have been a blast to see live. I'm not a huge fan of live albums though, and most of the songs are pretty straightforward. It was a fun listen but probably not something I'll return to.

Pretty decent blues/psych rock album. Janis has a very distinctive voice and even though it was a bit distracting on some of the songs, she's obviously very talented and brings a lot of raw emotion to the music.

There are some iconic songs on here with Changes, Life on Mars and Oh you Pretty Things. But I thought the rest were mostly good but not great.

Shining Star is fantastic and I also really enjoyed most of the other upbeat songs on here. There were a few too many slow ballads for me but the highs are high. Best tracks: Shining Star, Happy Feelin', Africano

Very 90s dance music that makes me want to relax and sleep more than dance. I can see why some people might like this but it's not for me

A fantastic Christmas album. Some great covers from a variety of artists but the cohesive production brings it all together. And it avoids most religious songs which is another pro in my books. I could do without the spoken message from Phil over the last song though.

What a nice surprise! It strikes a really great balance between being chill and interesting. The tracks have a lot of variety but mostly share the same relaxed and cozy vibe. And I like that even though the synths and electronic drums are present throughout, there's also guitar, bass, strings and piano that take centre stage at various points.

A live album at a prison is a pretty interesting idea and this does a good job of capturing the performance and the crowd. But this style of simple country blues is really not my thing and I found the album a bit boring to listen to.

Very fun and heavy rock album. I hadn't listened to a full Queen album before but this was pretty good from front to back. Killer Queen and Stone Cold Crazy are the highlights for me.

It's moody and atmospheric but something didn't really click with me. I think each song felt very long and drawn out because of the way the slow and dramatic vocals (with huge amounts of reverb) sit over the much faster paced tempo of the music.

Even though it's in Portuguese and the recording quality isn't great, the music was really interesting with its mix of samba and rock and it was just plain fun to listen to.

Lots of variety in the track list and even the songs I don't like are at least interesting. Clearly it deserves a 5 for its influence, but for me most of the track list falls into the category of "great but not amazing". Eleanor Rigby is fantastic though

Great funky jazz album. Very easy to listen to

4 of the tracks are phenomenal (So Far Away, Money for Nothing, Walk of Life and Brothers In Arms) but the rest are just okay.

A very strange album. The 5 rock songs on the first half are mostly good with Heroes being an obvious standout. Then the second half is 4 moody ambient tracks with a random funky rock song at the end (which is admittedly pretty good). Overall a pretty fun listen though.

Too slow and too repetitive for me. I didn't enjoy listening to this

Easy 5 stars. Almost every song on here is a classic. There's some nice variety too, with softer and moodier tracks mixed in with folk and upbeat pop tracks.

It's fine but a bit too straightforward and unexciting for me

Slow, spacey and melancholy. I can see why people like it but it's not for me

The songs are mostly good but are a bit too soft and sparse for me. And as an album it's just too long. I love the title track though.

This is a tough one to review. Even though I've never seen the movie the soundtrack does a great job of setting the scene. The main theme is great, but the rest of the tracks are made to be background music and I'm not sure I want to listen to any of them again.

I got 30mins in before I couldn't take it anymore. It's too repetitive, not interesting enough and too chill for me. Most good music communicates an emotion or a feeling or a story, but I'm getting absolutely nothing from this.

I love the energy but most of the songs are too long and repetitive for me. Breathe and Smack My Bitch Up are both great tracks though.

Clearly an important and influential album, but judging purely on how much I enjoyed listening to it today it gets 3 stars. Like a Rolling Stone is fantastic, but the rest are just fine. Overall the album is a bit too slow and vocal-focused for me, with most of the songs being pretty simple blues tracks.

Pretty interesting and reminds me a lot of Beck, but a bit too chill for me. The opening track (Squares) was my favourite upon first listen.

Very chill Brazilian music that wouldn't sound out of place in a bar or hotel lobby. It was fine but not really my thing.

Very 80s sound. I kind of liked the mix of random instruments and sounds coming together to build the melodies, but I wasn't as much of a fan of the vocals. Also the instrumental break in Perfect Way reminds me a lot of one of the Mario themes but apparently this came out first?

Strange album that I liked more on a second listen. The two Synchronicity tracks were pretty good, and Every Breath You Take is good but overplayed.

Pretty straightforward rock/new-wave. It was fine but didn't really click with me. I knew Brass in Pocket before listening to this, which is the only song that stood out to me.

It has a nice variety of genres and moods, with just about every song being fun and interesting. I liked Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme a little bit more though.

I liked the mix of jazzy blues with ballads. He has such a distinctive voice it's really hard to concentrate on anything else though. Does he bring authentic sounding emotion to the songs? Yes. Did the absurdity of his gravelly voice singing a lullaby make me laugh? Also yes. At the very least it was an interesting and entertaining first listen, but probably not something I'm going to come back to.

I'd never heard of 10cc before but this was a lot of fun! Very Zappa-esque in the way they jammed a ton of ideas into each song, most of which feel unusual. And they also clearly didn't take themselves too seriously.

Some great acoustic guitar work but a bit too slow and relaxed for me. I just can't see myself ever wanting to listen to this again. Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard is great though.

My first time hearing Steely Dan and it wasn't bad. There are elements of rock, blues, jazz and pop mixed in. I also like the mix of instrumentation and the clean production.

Very 90s and very chill pop rock. I love the drum parts and I love the mix of instrumentation across the album. The cover of Iron Man and the use of the Black Sabbath riff on Heartbreaker were unexpected but interesting. And Lovefool is a 90s classic of course.

Another album that is extremely important but isn't necessarily as impactful today. Blowin' in the Wind and Don't Think Twice It's All Right are both phenomenal and Oxford Town is great. But the rest of the album didn't really click with me.

Pretty good funk album. Some of the songs were a bit too slow and plodding for me though and overall it was a bit of a mixed bag. Luv N' Haight was great though, and I thought the funky yodeling on Spaced Cowboy was a fun surprise.

The title track has been overplayed to the point where it's hard to judge. Life in the Fast Lane is great, New Kid in Town is ok, the rest weren't bad but were a bit boring.

I like the way they used dissonance, and the complexity and rich instrumentation on some of the tracks. But I think it might take a few more listens to understand this one properly. The first track is the main highlight upon first listen (I Am Trying To Break Your Heart).

Very funky and accessible jazz. Chameleon is an epic track, Watermelon Man is also fantastic and Sly is pretty great too. I didn't enjoy Vein Melter quite as much but I'm still giving this a 5 because the rest of the album already earned it.

This has a lot of the elements of things I like, but it just doesn't come together into something that I enjoyed listening to. I think partly it's the horns, vocals, piano and guitar all fighting over the same couple of octaves and partly that the tracks are all a bit too long. I was very surprised to see this came out in 1969 though.

It took a second listen for me to get into this but I was really loving it by the end. I could do without listening to the slow love songs again but there's a lot of great tracks. And I loved the variety as well, with funky tracks like Housequake and It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night, and chill and intimate tracks like Starfish and Coffee mixed in with the soul and r&b.

There were some really good tracks on here but most went on a bit too long and the second half of the album wasn't great. This album definitely suffers from coming one day after reviewing Sign O The Times, which I think was better in every way. Delirious, 1999 and DMSR were the standout songs for me.

Fantastic album that I've listened to many times before. Just about every song on here is amazing and has something new to share. It's a long album but it shows the band spreading out creatively and bringing their own signature to a number of genres. But also, Bonham is such a beast I'd probably give an instrumental drum version of this album 5 stars as well

I like Talking Heads but I thought this was good and not great. Life During Wartime was the only track that really stood out but maybe that's just because I already knew it.

On the one hand, you would have to be insane to have this on regular rotation. But on the other, I respect the fact that it's completely unique as a work of art in music. I would definitely listen to Pachuco Cadaver, Moonlight on Vermont and Sugar N Spikes if I was in the mood for a laugh. And the more I listen, the more impressed I am with the skill required to pull this off. Particularly from the drummer, who did a fantastic job to tie together all the disparate parts. This would get a 5 for being so memorable but I'm subtracting 1 point because it's way too long, the mixing is terrible and the I don't like the sketches/poems/spoken word parts.

I very rarely enjoy any kind of music where the main drawcard is the lyrics and I didn't enjoy the beats on this album either since they were very straightforward, repetitive and not particularly interesting