Did everyone get given Sabbath today, the day after Ozzy's death? I mean, it was apt and brilliant and exactly what today needed, so it's a 5

The sitar is such an intense instrument that listening intently to an album of it can be overwhelming, sometimes in a good, powerful way, but overall, for me, in a way that batters my senses. Nice to have a range of cultural influences across my albums though, even if I'm not entirely on board.

I bought his way back after loving Astral Weeks, and particularly Ballerina from that album. It's very different and way more accessible but still a beautiful album and seemingly so full of love. One of my regrets was seeing Van Morrison at Glastonbury and not really engaging with it, an unappreciative 16 year old who didn't know anything except Brown Eyed Girl!

Mitchell's voice is never not beautiful and the arrangements always complement her so perfectly. It's not 'Blue' but very few albums come close to that.

I had the misfortune of growing up around late 90s and 00s U2. This tiff was actually okay.

Not a bad start to the year. Had listened and liked before but not owned. Might purchase if the right price! Jealous guy resonates.

Surprised and pleased. Ben Folds vibes. Not heard of him at all before this I don't think so appreciated the find. Sad to hear about passing at such a young age too

That was brilliant. Starting an album with Chain of Fools like that is outrageous. What a great January pick-me-up on a cold morning. Easily 5 stars. Will purchase for my CD collection.

Never listened to a Genesis album before. It wasn't as bad as I expected, like a softer version of Zeppelin. The theme is a good one, but no songs really caught my attention.

Not my go-to, however, had shared this in class last term as a 10 year album anniversary and had grown to appreciate it a little more than I would have at face value. Happy enough to listen to it again today.

Having listened to Rumours so much, you'd have thought that the follow up would have been heard too. I didn't even really recognise any tracks. I enjoyed it, but seemed a bit bloated and not as rich a sound, or as emotionally charged as Rumours. ,3 and a half if I could.

A bit drab, not for me

A less whiny Oasis. This was actually far better than I would have expected. Have probably heard odd tracks from the group but I would listen again happily. 4 stars just about.

This was good. Then went and listened to all of Brothers in Arms too. Sultans of Swing is absolutely brilliant and worth the high rating alone. The voice ans guitar playing is just lovely.

The first album received that I actually owned, 10 days in. It is one of my favourite albums by the group, and I love the group too. An obvious 5/5 for me.

The start of this album is incredible really. It is hard to comprehend an opening 3 tracks like that. The rest of the album needs some respect too. Absolute 5/5

The found samples within were great. For fans of Endtroducing, I feel this would be liked, and that's me! The opening tracks didn't hook me in completely but it grew well. Whenever the bass hit harder, it was better!

Obviously brilliantly talented and a very pleasant listen. But I wouldn't choose to listen too a whole album of trumpet normally. But I guess that's kinda the point! Some beautiful tracks that I felt needed to be listened to in a far more focused and appreciative manner than through my phone while in the shower. Probably a 2-2.5

Some absolute classics on here and no denying that voice. But what the hell is 'makin whoopie'???!!!! Goes from a 5 star to a 4 just for that track. 'of the times' I'm sure?

Without a doubt, a beautiful voice and some powerful messages. Hard times, having heard the Roots cover was good to hear the original! I didn't actually know it was Curtis Mayfield. Strong album but no super stand out tracks. About a 2.5, but will give a 3

Uninteresting. Not caught me at all. Least favourite yet.

Always a classy, the skits are a bit much now and very dick-based!

Well this was a bit of a challenge. The vocals were difficult to enjoy, engage with or understand. If this had been instrumental it may have managed a 3. I think I'm going for a 1.

First time listening all the way through. Weirdly once got this album accidentally instead of a Funkmaster Flex album after a mix up placing the CDs by the shop assistant. Didn't listen to it then, but this is much better than Funkmaster Flex. Scooby Snacks and Fun Lovin Criminal are the obvious bangers in here but there is a lot of other good quality with a nice sprinkling of brass instruments throughout. Huey Morgan's radio show on a Saturday on 6 music also shows me he knows his stuff and is super eclectic. £1 on music magpie so going to buy!

I bought his way back after loving Astral Weeks, and particularly Ballerina from that album. It's very different and way more accessible but still a beautiful album and seemingly so full of love. One of my regrets was seeing Van Morrison at Glastonbury and not really engaging with it, an unappreciative 16 year old who didn't know anything except Brown Eyed Girl!

I listened to the first 7 tracks. It's not my thing. I can see how it could be someone's hing though. Only a 1 for me though.

This is strong. Quality 90s fare. Powerful voice and some catchy riffs. Stupid Girl weirdly can on the radio on the way home from work today too, which is a top track.

Only 6 tracks, give me more!!

I remember being a snob about this album when it came out and you could choose how much you wanted to pay to download it. I felt that it devalued it at the time and wrongly assumed this meant it would have been made in a less caring way perhaps. I own three other albums and love The Bends and Ok Computer so it's a nonsense that I'd never heard this in full. Needs more listening for me to give it it's full value, which I think is probably quite high. 4, later rising to 5 probably from me.

This was really interesting and would never have been something I would have otherwise chosen to listen to. An intriguing experience and a great premise. Feels like it deserved a film to accompany it!

I'm not convinced that this album truly belongs on the list. There were some nice enough tracks but it hardly felt earth-shattering. I kinda felt like I could have listened to the rather similar-styled Belle and Sebastian and probably any of their albums would have outshone.

Had never knowingly listened before and I have to admit I enjoyed! A great Monday album to get you going. Reading the accompanying notes, it seems they are a lot bigger than I imagined and the album seems pretty well crafted. A strong 3+

I was quite enjoying this until the 18 minute long Aumng, which I have to admit, lost me a little.

The instrumental parts were good! Not massively enjoyable vocals.

Street life is such a tune, and I doubt I've ever listened to the full length track, so that was a pleasure. The rest of the album was pleasant enough!

This had one a half listens. Didn't get all the way through last time. I wanted to go back to it though as enjoyed the first half a lot. Beautiful voice and some very nicely crafted songs.

Soothing and enjoyable half an hour.

Barely a track that doesn't hit hard. Could go without the interludes of 90s hip hop, but worth it for the main content!

As an album of covers, this holds its weight. It would be easy for it to not seem heartfelt and important. Nelson clearly felt strongly about these tracks and his versions felt necessary.

I feel like this seems like the precursor to a lot of music made by a multitude of different artists. Some really great rhythms that sounds like a lot of modern music. Winner.

Haunting vocals and a voice that is probably a bit marmite for some. There are times in this album that it hit well and others where I craved something a little smoother and more fluid. But when it was good it was just right. Not their best album but worth a listen.

Never listened in it's entirety. Only ever really listened to Bad and Thriller as a full piece. Enjoyed this earlier stuff and the joy of it. It isn't the same polished masterclass as later albums but there is still an immense talent being displayed, and not sounding at all outdated.

I've not listened to many live albums, but most of them that I have, have nothing like as unique an audience. It's a brilliant idea, and the choice of songs that are played along with crowd interaction is quite brilliant.

The sitar is such an intense instrument that listening intently to an album of it can be overwhelming, sometimes in a good, powerful way, but overall, for me, in a way that batters my senses. Nice to have a range of cultural influences across my albums though, even if I'm not entirely on board.

This was an absolute tonic. Great album. I have their three that precede this and have somehow managed to go without listening to this. 'Flutes' is a gem, and was blasted with rattling bass in the car. Already purchased for my CD collection before the day is done. Still holds that mix of party and raw heartfelt emotion that all hot chip albums seem to.

Pleasant enough, but didn't do a lot for me

It's fun, and full-on, and energetic and reminds me of skateboarding as a youth.

This was a great throwback to when I used to listen to DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist with Product Placement and Brain freeze. They were regularly spun on my CD player whilst doing my paper round. Arguably, those were better constructed than this. Finding a copy to listen to was also a challenge!!

Brilliant. This is exactly the type of rock I can get on board with. This is what the 70s would have sounded like to me when I picture it. This might however be heavily influenced by the song from the opening to 'that 70s show' being on this album (which was a revelation to me)

Never been big on the doors but nice to listen to an album with what appeared to have a cohesive identity and feel. Seemed to link seamlessly and was enjoyable.

This started a bit shakily, but really grew as the album went on, finishing with a couple of really quite beautiful tracks.

Amyl and the Sniffers must be inspired by these guys somewhat, lots of similarities. It was quite fun and felt much more modern than 1978.

This album has a strong start and finish but gets a bit drab and samey in the middle. It doesn't hit as hard as Funeral or Neon Bible, or arguably even Reflector. But it's still got a lot of great quality within it.

Way too much of this mid-90s dirge. I can see Urban Hymns being on the list, but not sure this one deserves to make the cut.

I'm sure there will be better Bowie albums on this list, and I'm sure I've probably been given one of the lesser choices for my first of this project. Just felt a bit like it was a laborious vanity project that didn't achieve anything.

This was cool. I love it when I get something completely from left field. Never heard of this in any way, and was fully engaged for the duration. Felt like it was probably breaking a lot of ground on the sampling front, so I can see how it may hold some important significance. Regardless, worthy!

Yes please, some classics here. Never listened to an Elvis album in its entirety until today. Love a good rock n roll/pop tune that clocks in at less than 2 and a half minutes, and he is the king for that.

Beautiful, soothing and a perfect example of using music for great storytelling.

My previous Kraftwerk album, 'The Man Machine' is superior to this, I believe. So it was a shame it didn't live up to those levels, but still solid electronica.

What is it about her voice that grates so much? The undulating, whiny nature to large portions of this make it hard work. Whenever I listen to Ironic, I can't help but be reminded by Ed Byrne's comedy bit about her being a 'moaning cow'. That 5 minute sketch watched again on YouTube was more enjoyable than the album listen-through for me

Whilst this probably had some important cultural and musical impact on a lot of bands that I quite like, I don't think it has necessarily held up particularly well sadly. A little bit flat and uninspiring.

Sometimes I think there are albums on the list designed just to make you grateful for the other albums that are actually good. A group of boys get together in their garage, shout 'kuntz' and 'hay' over some poorly constructed tracks.

Sounds like my youth

Oh man, a beauty, after a week of grafting through some dire albums, this was an absolute gem on a Friday. My heart melts at her voice and the stories she can craft for us. I'd heard about her before and a couple of tracks, but that was just... Mighty

Some albums are just perfect aren't they?

A really solid, jazz-infused, pleasure

There can't be many better album starts. Her voice is haunting and full of love and passion. The energy throughout is brimming. A wonderful creation

It sounds a little dated now. Emotion is a great tune and a real precursor to Beyonce's solo stuff

I could listen to this voice all day.

This was one of the first, if not the very first albums I bought with my first teacher pay check. So consistent, amazing guitar and soulful backing vocals in particular. The country / rock mesh is just right.

I love Van Morrison anyway, but the live band with him steals the show here. Strings and brass are beautifully performed to some of his best works.

Ahh, I'm 18 again. Dancing around with a pint of fosters and an endless desire for 'new' music and other new conquests. Some of that new music wasn't always that great though. This is probably one of those. Still... Memories!

Love a bit of Stevie Wonder. Not many tracks I 'knew' but there were some beautiful songs and lovely instrumental parts with the groove that you hope for. Well worth the listen!

Well that was pretty good fun

Nice for some reggae to show up on my list, the album tracks are great and we're so used to a diet of about 20 Marley tracks that it's nice to branch out.

Amazing book ends of Young Americans and Fame. And some quality in the middle too.

Fortunately I was up for a few guitar solos today, because I'm pretty sure that was 80% of the album.

What was it about the 80s and white people trying to do 'Africa' things.. the style of it just feels dated and a bit wrong at times. When it doesn't nick from other cultures it is far more tolerable.

All a little too soft and gentle for me. I feel like this probably has more lyrical worth than I was able to get my teeth into. I had 'Figure 8' as one of my first albums and that album felt a little less soppy with more life in it.

Who knew? Where's the falsetto voices, what happened between these two time periods???!!!

A very strong 3. Didn't expect much from this. A very eclectic range of styles that were all enjoyable in their own right, but maybe felt like it needed to stay more in one or two lanes. Enjoyable listen though!

Absolute behemoth of perfection.

It probably shouldn't get a 5 the be honest. But sometimes music doesn't need to be clever, or created with intelligent musicianship, sometimes it just needs to be anthemic rock.

I think this album helped me to understand Tom Waits a lot more and I think would probably make his studio work more accessible. He clearly has a sharp wit and intelligence.

If I'm having some heavy metal, then give me Metallica every time.

Pleasant enough but sort of passed me by

So gentle and smooth. Like a just-right hot chocolate.

Corr, bit long that one. Nice enough voice of course but double albums are a real slog for this challenge.

Absolute quality.

Lyrically not so great, but in terms of a mash of musical styles coming together to create something unique, it's worthwhile I suppose!

I'm probably not alone in having the first thought of 'ooh, Kanye West sample'. But this album has a lot more to offer than that. Floyd-esque freaky beauty throughout.

This was great at the time and has actually aged really well too. Some intoxicating tunes that might be heavily associated with adverts of the early 00s, but did so because they were catchy, rhythmic, purposeful songs that would be massive earworms.

I don't think I've ever really understood the appeal of Beck, and listening to this didn't change my mind.

Miles Davis is brilliant, this was an unusual listen in the sense that it sort of washed over me and didn't hook me as such, but sort of went deep into me in the background, unknown. I'd like to listen again when not working to see how it feels a second time.

This was revolutionary as a teenager and hit the note of angst-ridden faux gangster 16 year old me. Still has strong vibes.

The 13 minute+ tracks are both the best and worst parts of the album. Such musical skill on show but when they are more concise and controlled and less (don't wish to cast aspersions but probably) heavily intoxicated they are certainly more affective. Can't deny brilliance though.

A fun, short album with some good energy and catchy hooks.

Wow, Zeppelin much? Rod Stewart on vocals, actually liked. Guitar playing outstanding!

This is quite an impressive piece of music and works together as one seamless whole and creates quite an engaging and almost spiritual feel to it. I do enjoy generally listening to this ambient style of music anyway, but this one felt compellingly coherent, playing I suppose to the requirements of the film.

I read some of the reviews of this album before I listened to it and I think a lot of people were a little too scathing of her. Some people seem to have painted her as overly whiny and talking about how it's so hard to exist in the music game as a woman, but I didn't really get that sort of vibe from the album. I felt that there was a lot of interesting content and I thought actually musically, it was quite impressive and not as generic and made in simple software like was suggested by many. So I was overall quite pleased with my listening experience. Comfortable three stars.

I always found it interesting that the band apparently hate this album. I mean, yes, lyrically pretty basic, but their most recent material is far more rudimentary in lyrical terms than this and overloaded with synthetic party-pleasing Calvin Harris vibes. Some of the tracks on this are actually quite beautiful. It's not A Rush of Blood to the Head, but that's in a league of it's own (in Coldplay terms) Oh, and this album is one of my album anniversaries this coming half term in school. 25 years old. What??

So Joplin had stuff before her solo work? There you go, who knew! And the style of the recording, really rugged, matches her rugged voice perfectly. Great album.

Perfect guitar-driven rock, that sounds like it could have been their greatest hits.

Whilst this was great, it was a heck of a slog to get through 4 sides! All of them had a slightly different, unique character to them and to know that the music was mostly performed and written all by himself is quite remarkable. An epic piece.

The best thing for background, but not enough for the foreground.

Smooth as silk on vocals and just glides effortlessly from front to back. Lovely storytelling but really cohesive more than anything.

One or two good songs does not a good album make.

Probably one my most 'local' albums of the 1001, beats that still bang and a voice that is still beautiful. More importantly a stylistic and genre defining piece.

I'm probably more of a Surrender man really. However, this still bangs. Final two tracks are probably my favourite and more expansive.

Undeniably fun, head-banging, sing-a-long madness

This was preferable to my previous Doors album from the list, Morrison hotel. Whilst that felt pretty coherent and well crafted, this felt more honest and true to their aim. Riders on the Storm is about as good a last track on your last album before you die too.

The cover and name didn't make me want to listen. The voice absolutely did. 'That's the bag I'm in' was a great track.

This is that unusual, crazy, but weirdly wonderful stuff that we are after from this isn't it?

There's no questioning Woody Guthrie's lyrical genius and they've pulled it off pretty well here.

My second Aretha generated and still as beautiful and brilliant as ever. Incomparable.

Ordinarily not something I'd hugely get on board with, but the slower pace and country vibes fit my bank holiday weekend camping in the sun with a beer in my hand and headphones on pretty well.

This was a nice change of pace. Holiday in Cambodia is a THPS trip down memory lane that I'm always happy to take. Short enough and meaningful enough content to be a valid piece of content on this list.

Hard to fault. Criminal that they never produced anything close to as good as this again. Fool's Gold beat stuck in my head non-stop for the rest of the day.

Isn't much better than a little Brucey bonus to start your week off. Consistency like few others.

I'd probably like this a lot more if I hadn't been traumatised by the sheer quantity of over-listening of 'sex on fire' in my university days. Which shouldn't make as much of a difference as it does, but it does. Basically just The Strokes but with more of a southern voice and not as clever. So, there better be some Strokes on this list to compensate.

I like this a lot more than I thought I would. It felt a bit dirge-like at the start but it almost took on a hypnotic element.

I'm not particularly in the know around Pixies, and only know the tracks that everyone does. This album felt like a debut album, and like a predecessor to their next great step. Too haphazard for my liking. I'm hoping there is another album on the list from them that can show them hitting their peak?

Mitchell's voice is never not beautiful and the arrangements always complement her so perfectly. It's not 'Blue' but very few albums come close to that.

No. When you play this album and your streaming service follows up with Into the Mystic by Van Morrison and Carey by Joni Mitchell, it helps put this poor showing into even starker perspective.

Wow, this album caught some heat in the reviews. This was the first Blac Key's album I remember listening too, and so I don't pine for their grinder earlier albums and lament the change. I also think that although some of the later tracks do sound a bit samey, there is a lot of quality and pop value to the first half for sure.

I loved these vibes. Sunny day, important messages but such beautiful harmony and brilliant musicianship. What my day needed.

Bloated. But Ice-T is goated. Top gangsta rap, does what you'd expect.

Remarkably haven't listened to this one in full before. One listen in, I feel like I've missed out on this. For all of IV being my favourite, there is a heck of a lot of value in this one too. Gotta probably be a near 5, let's round up!

I had the misfortune of growing up around late 90s and 00s U2. This tiff was actually okay.

Scrapes a 2 because many of the lyrics hit well shortly after the death of the pope.

One of the better British rock contributions of my teenage years, probably deserves a place on the list. There is some great songs and inventive use of vocals and varied accompaniments. I still sometimes sing "You've got to tolerate all those people that you hate," when dealing with some tough ones at work.

I know people will hate Coldplay, but the piano playing and the level of beauty to these songs makes them brilliant. Whilst this album is brilliant in my eye, it is their only brilliant album and they just got worse year on year after this. My favourite tracks on this are actually mostly the album tracks rather than the singles, Green Eyes and Amsterdam are great.

This album has always been loved by me. I went on a very long car journey with a friend and we set the challenge of an album from the 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s where one was from England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. I chose my 10s album as Scotland and went for this absolute gem. Absolutely beautiful album and synth-pop at its finest.

A quite enjoyable and appropriate level of angst for an accompaniment to my weekly Tesco shop.

Not my favourite Tom Waits album, his voice is already a gritty one and this album seems to go to extremes of pushing it beyond what I can cope with comfortably. When he smooths it out a bit, I can get on board more.

Pretty fun, that voice is just smooth as butter.

Okay, this was cool. Very easy listening. That voice man.

I mean I just can't even. That final track will haunt me forever.

Possible to not like a band but quite like an album? Yes.

17 year old hip hop head when this came out blew me away. Kanye and Dilla doing all the beats was always going to hit hard. Common absolutely killed it as well. Didn't need to listen to this again for 5 stars but was a beautiful journey to be taken on once more. Brilliance.

Discovery better be on the list, as it took this album, worked out the kinks and stepped it up on the hard hitting grooves. This one has too much distortion and heavy heavy bass. But was the precursor to something great.

That was great fun. Bolster in the sun is a great opening and then I was in for the ride. I'm sure I'm not alone in finding out that Gone Daddy Gone is not a Gnarls Barkleytrack!

Whilst this obviously has some bangers, it is rather generic at times and there's only so much of the subject matter I can relate to as a 37 year old father of 2

I spent the whole album not knowing any of the Bowie links and just thinking that I had no idea that Iggy's solo stuff sounded so much like Bowie. Bowie was rather good wasn't he. This album was also pretty good.

Literally spent all of last week listening to this album in my class with my year 6 pupils as it was celebrating its 20th anniversary. Blue Orchid is a banging start and it's pretty good tracks all the way through with a good range of tempo and musicianship on show. Actually prefer this to Elephant and their others.

Parklife is my favourite album and encapsulates what was great about them for me: fun, cheeky, hit lines and hooks that become earworms and mundane drudgery of British everyday culture being brought to life.

I wasn't 'spellbound' by this. The opening half was strong but the last half felt too samey.

When I think of 'pop music' this is probably the album that first comes to mind, or certainly is up there. Quintessential pop music.

I hadn't listened to his album in its entirety. Obviously impossible to have missed Psycho Killer. But this is high quality for a debut isn't it. Great to explore in relation to their later work, which suffice to say I was playing for the rest of the day!

2 days in a row of Talking Heads. Debut yesterday and this one today! What a treat. A more mature and confident sound and a desire to talk about some interesting content. Cities is great.

A nice surprise. Good energy. Have to admit the cover made me apprehensive but I got a fair bit of joy, especially the opening 3 or 4 tracks.

I needed a lift on this Monday morning. This put me in a drab mood for the duration.

Well well well was exactly track I needed. Its not my favourite Lennon album and it's not a patch on the best Beatles, but it's still got a lot of value.

Everything just feels a little mismatched and incoherent. 2 stars for reminding me of C&A and Enjoy Yourself.

Soft Radiohead for pussies. Well it just so happens that I'm a bit of a pussy.

This is that just absolute pure, beautiful music that I'm after, joyous.

Holy fuck, I did not expect to love this quite so much. The guitar absolutely shreds. Perfect length album, no overly-long tracks. Meaningful lyrical content. Well, there you go, Megadeth, I didn't know. A lot of time for that cover too.

How can an album full of covers with just extra 'aaaaoooowwws' be worthy of inclusion on this list. Surely 'influence' alone shouldn't count that much.

A beautiful little album. Tracks that are short and sweet, poignant, and of course, beautifully sung.

I'm more of a Parklife man, and this doesn't hold as many obvious hits, but there's no denying that it laid the foundations for greatness and demonstrated the beginnings of what those that love Blur love about them. Oily Water is my favourite track here.

There is an obvious unorthodox beauty to this album. The instrumentation carries the album along in an ethereal state. Whilst I catch glimpses of lyrical genius across the album I get a sense that I'd need to study the lyrics more to recognise just how clever they are, yet that isn't quite how I feel music should be digested. I'm also a sucker for the 3m30-5 min song construction variety which Newsom clearly isn't!

I listto both the English and French ones. I would say just go French, far less stilted and probably closer to their truth. 3/5 but 1 extra because my name is Chris.

Achingly beautiful and dreamlike. Worthy.

Being in the shadow of 'Songs in the key of life' must be hard for any album. Solid Stevie.

I absorbed this album into me whilst running on a North Devon beach in the sunshine and it washed over me brilliantly. Loved it. 'Post' must be on the list as well surely?

It's surprising (to me at least) how poppy, Beatles-like and American early Who was. It's good, probably quite jmportant, but I'm not particularly excited by it.

Gritty, brassy, feels like a live album with some punk-jazz vibes. I'm not sure whether I was necessitated into it mind, but fair play to that raw energy.

A surprising 3 stars from an 80s British band with terrible cover and band name that I'd never heard if and probably will forget about in a week or two. I was expecting complete disappointment so I can't moan. Strings were a surprising inclusion and appreciated.

Whilst this list might be pretty inconsistent on most days, every live album I've had - my 4th now I think - has been a great experience. Getting this bit right for sure.

Get rid of tracks 6-9 and replace with something more worthwhile (ie the rest of the album) and then you get 4 stars.

Organs are cool. Green onions are spring onions so it goes from a 5 to a 4 for that reason only.

I don't really understand why they only finished about 3 of these songs. They all start and then they all finish. I feel like there was potential to this. Quite Shins-y at times. But, just, like... finish a song!!

Dream pop before Beach House cam along and showed you how to do dream pop.

Whilst many might think of The Love Below/Speakerboxxx when it comes to Outkast, this is by far and away their best work. Each track hits. Bombs over Baghdad is a masterpiece. Lots of the features being local artists and it being made in their home town, I think they must have really just hit a perfect moment as artists. Was one of my favourite albums as a teenager and was lovely to revisit today!

An interesting take on the concept of 'England' that required a lot of knowledge and incredible musicianship to craft. Some catchy stuff and a lot of the historical parable-like tales give me Decemberist vibes.

I don't think I'd quite appreciated how Zeppelin, Sabbath are. This album was not as dark as I maybe expected and funking rocked basically.

Two PJ Harvey albums in 3 days, separated by Black Sabbath. I would not have expected to be giving all of these albums 4 stars at the beginning of the week. Such a different album to 'Let England Shake' but there is such brilliance once more. Track with Thom Yorke is perhaps unsurprisingly a standout.

Another album on the list I'm not convinced by. I don't think it's distinctly important. Lyrically okay, musically okay, nasally uninspired vocal delivery. Hopefully it's one of the removed ones across reprints?!

I mean, you can't deny there are some incredible singles on here. 29 mins is a great shout for this project too. 'A hazy shade of winter' did a great job pf packing in a lot for less than 2 and a half minutes. Top track. Bridge over troubled water was always my favourite probably still is, but this is close.

This felt cathartic amidst all the shit that was happening at the end of the Beatles. I think it was a processing album. It was a chance to come to terms with the loss of an important part of his life for the last 10 years. Very interesting, but not necessarily enthralling.

It just felt a little bit on the side of very average to poor punk, that.

I didn't really feel a lot for this in either direction. So, a 3 I suppose? Just not inspiring me.

Raw, I'm a give it to ya, no trivia, I'm like cocaine straight from Bolivia, my hip hop will rock and shock the nation like the emancipation proclamation. Absolute 💯

As a rock opera, unmatched. An epic, sprawling, haunting masterpiece. Take 60% of the songs as individuals and you're probably not keen. But as a whole, brilliant.

Duran Duran but a little darker

How had I never heard the track 'High tide or low tide' before, sounded like it should be one of his best known!! Solid showing all the way through, as you'd expect.

Loved this voice. I'm pretty sure I'd never heard this guy's music before, but his songs sounded instantly memorable. Old man's back again was great.

Did everyone get given Sabbath today, the day after Ozzy's death? I mean, it was apt and brilliant and exactly what today needed, so it's a 5

Im6mot particularly enthused. Influence or not to some great indie bands, I didn't really enjoy.

I mean, it's undeniably funky. The crying on the last track scared the shit out of me when it happened though. A funky beat made terrifying with that and the rest of the shit going on.

One cool muthajazzer

All I ever knew was Toxicity and Hypnotize/Mesmerize, perhaps because this one came out when I was ten. It's not toxicity levels of enjoyment but this still had the fun of those albums and the absolute carnage that I loved too. My wife asked me to turn it down whilst I was making lunch though.

There's some pretty good tracks on here and some seriously heartfelt, passionate song delivery. Tears of Rage and The Weight are obvious highlights.

Ice T and Chuck D vibes. Very political and poetic. Lots of important messages, but the delivery becomes a bit too much for an hour's worth. Better when he intersperses with a little more of the comedy and the variety of vocal delivery.

I'm not all that sure about this inclusion. There are numerous 80s and 90s female pop/soul vocalists who have surely produced more valuable and influential albums. It was 'nice' enough, but mehh.

Not my absolute favourite Stooges album, but the vocal range and delivery always impresses well and it hit the spot pretty well.

Beautiful vocals. Clowns and Happiness are lovely tracks. Goldfrapp were one of the first bands I saw live and at my very first Glastonbury in 2004. Pre this album, but they still hold some significance for me. I also had my first proper snog watching them too, so there's a special place for this group in my heart!

Part of me felt 'pick a lane!' but then the variety was quite cool too. The track about films and aliens made me laugh. Some of the lyrics were madness but also brilliant. Title track was probably my favourite, but it became more engaging in the last half generally.

Banana. Distortion. Risqué lyrical content. Some more distortion. Some great song making hiding amidst the drugs.

It is bloated. A double album always seems either an extravagance or a lack of a good production team who were willing to whittle it down to an appropriate number of tracks. The guitar seems to be grooving very nicely in the first half and, as some other reviews seem to have noted, became less enamouring in the last portions. Still, it's Zeppelin.

Fucking yes man, sitting in sunshine with my 4th pint of the day and this on. Absolutely fucking glorious. What a groove.

When they rock harder it works better.

I can understand people not getting this. But if you've been in a field or tent as a teenager at one of his shows then it'll become clear. Rhythmic, pounding, heartbeat-altering, bowel-bass-rumbling tunes that you will be drenched in sweat after.

This is exactly the sort of culturally important, something-I've-not-listened-to-befpre content that I was hopeful of. Unique in delivery and range, some really beautiful, moving pieces and some significant history captured from a perspective other than the mainstream white western world