Wtf? I don’t care how great the singers are, the songs are trash and so is the producer.

Just no

No

Not my thing

Self-indulgent, but at the time, they had a point.

Music - yes Lyrics - 😑

Didn’t listen

Very eighties vibe -yes!

Mixed bag. Probably would’ve enjoyed it when young.

May be the fatger of punk but the kids are better looking.

More innovative than their early pop stuff but still not a great fan.

Why not?

I knew by the cover I’d hate it. Listened to three tracks for 2 seconds each which confirmed my hate. 👎

Oh come on, he’s not that good. Where’s the evolution, man?

2 for being 80s but generic forgettable 80s.

Sounds like cheap Sex Pistols. Just another imitator.

Amazing, unique voice! Some of the songs would be quite ordinary without her vocal talent. A very influential singer, controversial for all the right reasons.

Ravi Shankar was obviously influential on western pop music but i just can’t bear the sound!

Sounds very Van before the booze gt his voice. Quite nice.

Heard of them but never actually heard them til now. Very 60s. I like it.

Yet another Cure soundalike. Great name but couldn't be bothered to listen to more than 10seconds of each track.

Not my kind of music, just couldn't listen to it. Nothing against the artist eho was probably good at her job.

I didn’t know Bush’s music beyond her Wuthering Heights hit til i listened to bit of this album. It doesn’t mean much, her songs, just cute pop music. Meh.

I don't understand what’s definitive of the music. Soft pop, nothing memorable.

More mediocrity. Is this the theme song of people had nothing to offer but very do angry about having nothing yo offer that they decided to punish everyone else?

I keep failing to see whats influential about music that sounds so obviously derivative. Maybe i am just too old for this.

I have to agree with one reviewer who said there is just too much ego in this album. Mixed bag: definitive overall sounds but discordance over-used and yes, lead is bit whiny.

I wasn’t a fan if Cash when he was young, nir of country music but I’d give this album a 6 if I could, compared to most of the garbage on this list. Cash has a quality in his voice at this age that young ones just can’t produce: suffered experience. All the shouting and wailing just can’t match what Cash brings to other people’s songs that transcends the original artist. I’d give it 5 for Hurt alone but Bridge Over Troubled Waters outdoes S&G and that’s saying something. Even Danny Boy sounds okay.

Another one of these influential must-hear bands you’ve never heard of and which sound like a compilation of sux other bands. It was listenable but a bit tedious after a while.

Costello’s voice and style are distinctive, more so than a lot of albums I’ve reviewed on this list. I wouldn't listen again though.

I appreciate the greatness if these three women but I just can’t bear the sound of their voices together.

No, just no. I can’t say more. Other reviewers have summed up the complete waste of talent on this endless noise.

New to me. Must’ve bypassed Australia. Quite like the sound.

I saw one reviewer divided the world into those who love ABBA and those who pretend not to love them. Well, I don't fit into either category. Yes, they've released some all time pop favourites and yes, they're iconic but that doesn't mean I want to listen to them. I took in a few soundbites of three songs and they all sounded like any other ABbA song. Pass.

There a sameness through the the tracks that tells me, yes, its that Coldplay sound, their definitive sound. Is this album influential ? Is Coldplay influential? Not a fan do hard to say.

Another I've never heard of. One listen doesn't justify me to decide whether an album was influential or not if I’ve never heard of them. Who did he influence? Who did he make an impact on? Some niche group? Music critics? I don't mind the voice but again, is his music more different to his contemporaries? Pass

Must be my age but I liked the album, even though I was only a kid when it came out. Easy listening.

Descendants of vikings, these people be. Not quite my thing but certainly different.

Ok but that’s all

Two iconic songs, the rest I can listen to easily, if not more than once. If this had been one of the first albums on this list that I rated, I’d have given it a 3, maybe 2. But Ive listened, or not listened, to such much shit, that Im giving it a 4, just in protest.

Good voice, bit same-sounding across the album though. The album didn't light any fires in me.

I quite liked CSNY but this is fairly forgettable.

Wtf? I don’t care how great the singers are, the songs are trash and so is the producer.

I don’t feel qualified to judge this one. I don't like the music. Like Ravi Shankar’s sitar, it’s like fingernails on a blackboard to my ears but who knows? Maybe he’s a genius.

Mostly laidback easy listening. I quite like it, which is showing my age, I suspect. I’d heard of Country Joe but never heard him. Until I started rating these albums, I didn't realise how much my musical tastes must have been formed by being a child in the 60s, wistfully missing out the hippie years and instead, being forced to listen to dire disco music by the time I was a teen. Giving it a 3 for nostalgia.

Three for the music, one for the racism. Always the question: can you separate the art from the artist?

‘I can’t stand it!’ She warbles. Yes, agreed. Special - not.

I listened to a bit of each track and they’re all a bit samey: The Pogues meets Coldplay playing covers in an Irish pub and The Chieftains walk in for a bit of the craic and for a guest appearance. Nice, but iconic? No.

In the 65 albums Ive rated so far, I can only consider one or two of them as memorable. Vast numbers of derivative tracks, little originality, loads of pretension. There must be some iconic albums somewhere on the list, surely? But this is not one of them.

Well, that was different. Like a palate cleanser in a 50-course meal at a Henry IV banquet. 3 for audio refreshment. What’s next?

I haven’t yet worked out yet whether I’m supposed to rate on whether I like an album, whether I think its iconic of it’s genre and decade or whether i think it’s been highly influential for later artists. Not being a pop/rock professional, I can’t really judge by anything other than ‘like’. So …. It’s nice, she’s talented, what else am i to say? Not going to buy it, though.

I remember I bought this album for the cover - so cool - and then grew into the songs afterwards. But Neil Young makes it, really, cos in retrospect, without his reedy voice shining through, they’re just a nice country rock band. ‘Helpless’ is timeless but I found ‘Country Girl’ meant the most to me, 46 years on from that first listen. Listening laced with nostalgia from my youth.

Not much variety on this album. Springsteen has a good voice but a limited range, both vocal and musical, at least on this album. I was never a fan so I don’t know his other albums. But at least it IS music - unlike some of the albums on this list - so hmmm.. 3

Just pop songs, that’s all. No idea how it gets labelled ‘influential’ or ‘must hear’. I could quite happily have not heard this album before I die.

I’ve taken to checking out the authors of the reviews and it’s fairly clear that if you hate Lennon or Dire Straits, you just love Screaming-Cats-Electrified-By-A-Cattleprod-type music. Lennon seems pretty polarising anyway. If you grew up with the Beatles you usually love him. If you cut your milk teeth on hip hop or punk, you think he was just a bullshit artist. I didn't bother listening to the album as I already knew the key songs enough to remember most of their lyrics. Not my cup of tea now or then. Was the album influential? Probably. Do I need to listen to it all before I die? No. Two stars.

Although I like folk music and can appreciate the craftsmanship in these songs, the album didn’t set my heart beating any faster. A 3 for Linda Thompson’s voice.

Nice pop music, nothing mind-blowing. ‘Weather with you’ very catchy. I remember it now. 3 for the catchy song, 2 for the rest.

‘ In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 497 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time’ says Wikipedia. On one listen, I’m surprised it was that high. I’ll admit, I’ve never heard of this band til now and I didn't need to. It says nothing to me. But I’m increasingly convinced how consequential you think an album is depends on where you were at in your life when you first heard it. Meaning anything you heard in your teens and 20s will probably seem more consequential than when you’re older. I’m probably far too old for it cos it just sounds like the same stuff the neighbourhood boys were bashing out at the local hall in the 70s.

Started out well but became a bit theatrical without the charm. An odd fit but not without some merit.

I didn't remember this album, these songs, til I started playing it - and they were suddenly so familiar that I realised I must have bought it. I know i had one Yes album back then. I’m sure I've Seen All Good People was a hit. Memories of listening to my transistor radio under the bedclothes late on a school night surface. I enjoyed this album for its nostalgia value, but god knows what anyone born after 1980 would make of it. I think their brains are hardwired differently now. A 4 for the memories. Won’t ever listen to it again, though.