I want to trip to this

American Girl and Fooled Again favourites! Really cool straight-up American rock music.

Cry Baby is an obvious classic and this has my favourite JJ track on it, Me and Bobby Mc-Gee!

Some really beautiful songs on here, and Murder Mystery is just so ahead of its time!

Ball and Chain is excellent and everything about this is great!

One of the best album's I've ever heard in terms of pure song-writing. Faves are Father & Son, and Wild World, because I'm basic as fuck :)

Definitely got a bit samey but the harmonies were great and the songs were fun!

I hadn't listened to much later era Cohen and the way his voice matured and gained grit was just fantastic! Not a million miles away from Tom Waits/Iggy's radio voice

Insane that Meg’s drumming catches so much flack when this album is mixed the way it is and has Jack White all over it

I loved this more than I could have imagined! Very specific highlight was that crazily panned drum fill on Se a Cabó

A couple of harmonic choices which felt a little too jazzy for the context, but so many amazing songs on here! Highlights: Boogie On Reggae Woman and that weird noise in Bird of Beauty

This has every different kind of rock on it! Punk, psych, & roll, blues! Great fun.

I have no frame of reference for this music!

I first heard this on a slate video and now it’s one of my favourite jazz records

If the sax solo in Jungleland could be another 45 minutes please that would be great!

I'm maybe not enough of a lyrics guy to appreciate this, but the songs are well written and the harmonies are nice :)

The second half of this might be my favourite thing of Bowie's I've ever heard?

Loved this, reminds me of the folksy bits of Pink Floyd

Feeling like an angry teenage fuelled my journey to work

This is a protest rating, the album is fine but I would like Frank Ocean to be able to put Nostalgia ULTRA on streaming services and for the HHGTTG vinyl to be able to use the actual theme song not that shite Tomita-sounding (in a bad way) midi version

Forgettable, over produced, I will never think about this record again as long as I live

Still yet to be convinced of a double album’s length, but if this was edited down a fair bit it would be great!

Incredible to know that his voice could manage a whole set like that with no loss of tone! Favourite - Bring It On Home To Me

I guess I like country music now! Johnny Cash is so funny, charming and charismatic here in both song and talk, what a delight. Favourites - title track, Orange Blossom Special, and Give My Love To Rose

i think i just don't like REM

Karma Chameleon: The Album feat. A Bunch of Worse Songs

I love Britpop, I love Robbie, I will watch the monkey film

This isn't really my thing and I'll probably never listen to the album all the way through but there's something here I can't quite put my finger on that's really good? Like I don't know if the acoustic approach is what puts me off and I'd love these songs played by The Adolescents or something? A 3, but a weak one.

This guy’s really in love and pretty sad about it

A lot of potential and I'm glad, given the band's origins, to find out they're still going, although this very much has a first album feel

Worth it if only for Freebird

Yo, what if hiphop was, like, fun?? Is that anything??

If this was the only album they released that year it would still have been an achievement

lounge country isn’t a genre I know for sure exists, but I like it if it does!

I really hate the new wave vocal style but the sounds and melodies had some cool moments here

This one's really hard. So many of these are stone cold bangers but every track on here INCLUDING those are mired in some of the most dated production and vocal delivery I've heard in a long time. If you're into that, fine, and this is a decent historical document, but I won't be coming back to most of this unless someone puts it on at a party in which case I will go absolutely crazy. 3*

This is the first 'proper' Elvis album I've listened to and it's the closest I feel like I've come to getting it. If I'm right in my understanding this represented a change of approach for him, and it definitely works - having his vocals (excellent) atop these cool soulful instrumentals is a really refreshing take on what I view as the classic Elvis sound and it was a great listen!

Lol I wrote an essay about this in uni It's so crass and gross but pulls it off?

This album absolutely fucken rips

I like a couple of the singles but otherwise this is just not my cup of tea

The Weatherman is great fun, and I'm a sucker for some lap steel

the sax on this album absolutely FUCKS Bowie is doing everything he can and I'm loving it ++ little surprise beatles cover

Sometimes an album just needs to be fun!

The production aesthetic of this doesn't use sounds I like and I'm not a lyrics listener unless I love a record, so while I'm sure this is good it isn't really for me.

I like metal and listen to plenty of it so it’s not a genre thing, this is just so boring

Me: (not being able to under stand a single lyrics) Hell yeah, brother

Overrated but not like "bad". Just keep doing the freak outs, not trying to force those parts and actual songs together?

Nice mix of garage styles, remains cohesive and varied in a way few producer-led albums manage to by bringing in consistent guest vocalists

Great singles and great cover art, 3.5*

Not a patch on Electric Ladyland, but still fine- Hendrix is remembered as one of the best guitarists of all time for a reason!

This is viewed as one of jazz's all-time greats for a reason!

How was this their first album? Such a complete sound, so many bangers, what a treat.

I think I only like old depressed Cohen

What's Golden is an all-timer, and the bars and beats on the rest of this are good fun

There's a lot of "cool" on this album that doesn't entirely make up for some of the clashes in sound, or the fact that a lot of this sounds like one track played through over and over

I want to trip to this

This album needs to exist to leapfrog Bowie from his latter-era floundering to the jewel in the crown that is Blackstar, and for that I am glad it exists, but I'll probably not listen to it again

Cool funk bits, nice psychey sections, and a thirteen minute jam? What's not to like?

Funkier, more alt-rock sounding Minutemen? I mean, yeah, it's not Double Nickels On The Dime, but this is more than worth a listen! Strong 3.5*

I just love the vibe of a Willie Nelson album

A few good songs and quite a few less good ones, all totally dominated by horrible 80's drum mixes. Purple Rain is a brilliant song, but that doesn't save this.

I've tried so hard to "get" this album, I even made a video essay about it, but even though I know each and every point in this thing's favour, something about it doesn't ever quite click for me, a defeated 3*

This is hard bop... that bops!

Horrid vocals, repetitive songs, just bad.

We need to stop pretending and just admit this is a psychedelic rock album

Like most of the Stones' output, this is pretty good, yeah, 3.5*

When Queen are good they're great, and when they're bad they're total shit, 2.5*

A lot of this is good, but a chunk of it is just kinda 'fine', 3*5

Everyone has heard and enjoyed songs from this album. The new sounds created for it are still in use today!

Good but I'm not seeing the same thing that people who label this a classic are, low 3.5*

Stairway is great and everyone needs to accept that, despite that some of this album is meandering and directionless, 3.5*

This is so much cooler than I was expecting! New wave without having that dreadful plastic sound which so came to represent the genre. 4*

This is waaaaay too front heavy but even with that being the case, the a-side is fantastic and the second side is competent... 3*

I feel like this rewards deep and background listening. Really well written, played, and recorded music, that is also great just for vibes.

More albums where the first half is songs and the second half is ambient, please!

This is brilliant only in how forgettable and inoffensive it manages to be. If you want some music that sounds like it's in the background of a schmaltzy scene in a 90's romcom this is for you but otherwise I learnt Everybody Hurts in guitar around '09 and if my relationship with this album had ended there I don't know that I would mind. 2.5*

There are flashes of real brilliance here but they don't quite make up for the rest of the runtime which veers wildly between uninspired and borderline offensive. A light 2.5*

This was absolutely excellent! I'd never heard the full version of 'Rolling Stone from these guys before!

Having listened to, I think, synchronicity (not sure on spelling or if that's just a song) and having found said listening experience a bit whack, this was a nice surprise! Lots of good songs! Strong 3.5*!

Very nice surprise! Turns out when they stop banging on about the beach and lean into arrangement techniques beyond vocal harmonies that the Beach Boys have go some serious chops! High 4.5

Yeah it’s probably nostalgia but I love this album. The only really overlong anniversary reissue where I don’t mind the extra fluff

People who don’t like Moby just aren’t comfortable with sincerity

There are a couple of moments in the back half of this, but even those (Sad Song, I'm looking at you) go on waaaaay too long. Two stars and Lou can thank me for them.

High highs and low, forgettable lows. 2.5*

I read a bunch of reviews that said the long sections that lead into the actual structured bits of the songs are annoying when those are obviously the best bit

Fine but very samey

"Other Assorted Love Songs" really makes the other 13 tracks on here sounds as identical and unnecessary as they are - thanks for the head's up, Eric! 2.5*

Common’s lyrics are great but I think this album is really made by Kanye’s (and occasionally Dilla’s) production. Incredible tunes back to back, 4.5*

I think this loses 1.5 stars because of the back half because after satellite of love this just doesn't do anything for me

I am still yet to hear a double album that wouldn't be improved by being a single disc. 4*

Tight enough in its lyrics focus that this ALMOST feels like an early concept album? I liked a lot of these, and although it can get a bit one-note you've got to remember the time it was made! strong 3.5*

so this is good but it went on forever (writing this not including the japanese bonus track) and doesn't feel quite as focussed and vital as the earlier work. Light 3.5*

This album has a lot of totally fine songs but that's all most of them are. Yeah, there are a couple of greats on there, but it just isn't consistent enough for me to think it's a classic to the extent many people seem to. 3*

The back half suffers a little from three Meat Puppets songs in a row, but beyond that this is complete and utterly fantastic. (I want to say Dumb isn't great, but plenty of people love it so?) 4* but like, almost a 4.5*?

There's a really nice four track run in the middle of this (The Walk - This Is The House) and I like the last one. There's some cool sound selection here too but it still comes to an even 3*

Remember after Blond dropped when everyone was trying to be Frank Ocean?

An early career, undeveloped Miles Davis + bad recording + a collection of singles retrofitted into an album = an interesting curio and document of this period of his career, but ultimately barely a footnote. 2.5*

Annoying 2*, here, because there are little flashes of cool here. Reservations, and that american flag on were pretty cool, but that's the only replayability here, for me.

Some classics but that's all very much confined to the first half, after which point this loses steam a bit. 3.5*

this one's complicated, i've got a big mix of nosalgia, sustained love for trent reznor's production, dislike of camp, and a bit of cringe at my former self who would have loved these bad, bad, BAD lyrics. still, the singles are great and a couple of the album tracks surprised me! 3*

I've heard Back to Black and I think I expected more from this on that basis? Nice production, but definitely something produced a little while before her peak. 3*

You Shook Me has been my favourite blues-adjacent number for years now, an easy 4*

Listened to this a while back and it's a good document but the recording is a bit naff, and I just don't really "get" the whole TL thing. 2.5*

This is very good fun indeed!

Lazy sounding vocals, weak production, dull songwriting, this album has it all! 1.5*

RIP OZZY! Really impressive album where the band, now well established, got an opportunity to show off that there was more to Black Sabbath than doom