A classic. Possibly their peak.

Sorry to say that although it's Kanye, some of the lyrics are moronic and others misogynistic... It's a very strong album. More the production and Nicky Minaj than anything else.

File under "American rock music". As other reviews have said this is pretty generic. I kind of think it's what people who don't like rock music think all Rocky music sounds like. It's the first FF album I've ever heard but I know and like more from the later albums. It's fine but I doubt I'll ever listen again. Best song probably Good Grief followed immediately by the worst Floaty. Exhausted, the closer was quite good. Didn't expect a song about cows.

A classic. Possibly their peak.

First half is a 5/5 then it tails off in tir second half.

Some nice songs but not my cup of tea. Too flowery.

Was going to gibbs it 2 but didn't hate it. Was just bored. I think with mor familiarity I'd give it a 3.

Mildly listenable but rarely memorable. Pyramids and Lost the most interesting followed by the worst song on the album (Monks)

Very much enjoyed the first half but trailled a little. Loved y fact that a 35 minute album has 10 songs and one is 9 minutes.

I've always said Elvis Costello is an artist I respect but don't care much for. This was the first album I've heard of his. It was alright. Some good songs. Bit long. His voice ia mildly annoying but I like him more now.

Perfectly nice in parts, quite relaxing but equally quite boring. Vocalists a bit unmemorable (although a couple of times reminded me of someone else). Can see how Jamie xx is seen as a good music person.

This is the only Prince album I know well. It starts brilliantly in the first two songs and then proceeds to bump down slowly slowly towards a slightly boring conclusion wirh a few higher bounces.

First time I've actually heard this. I'm in yng minority in preferring they're later more melodic stuff which this gradually gets closer too but is still covered in funk. Similar pattern to many of the albums so far: just too long.

Easily enjoyable. Although I realise half the 60s were just covers albums.

Really wanted to give this 3.5. It started off so well, has so much going for it and definitely had more songs that I'm lively to go back to rhan most new things to be here, but some of it was a little rough. As with the little I already knew, the bass in the first track pushes this up for me not down.

Some great songs. Some good songs. Some annoying. Some do all three (Prophet's Song) but all in all tt album which proves to me why I can never love Queen.

It was all the same song. A perfevtlt ok but quite repetitive song.

Bad production. Terrible drums. Terrible vocals. Not sure what I'm missing but not sure I feel I've missed much with Anthrax.

As a metal head scoring this ao highly after Anthrax seems wrong. Biased as I've heard it a lot but second only to AROBTTGH.

Struggle to get into prog Genesis. More and more feel it's really just prog metal I like. This was generally fine but in its length and meandering only partially memorable. On repeated listens I'd probably like it more. But that would take a lot of investment and time...

Some interesting instrumentation but after 4 tracks I knew where it was going and had enough. On the record that it was better than Marilyn Manson

Really a 3.5 but this was dreamy and relaxing, if not a bit incoherent. What Are Their Names the highlight (and I'd only heard live before)

It's brilliant. I like all the songs but some are harder to love than others, but the first half and Jig of Life and others are brilliant. Heard the Levellers cover it the other day.

I liked what this was doing and I suspect I'd have liked it more in repeat listens.

Perfectly enjoyable. I'd probably like it but on repeat listens.

Really enjoyable. Catchy, bright, great guitar lines - slightly surfer rock. Can see they clearly influenced the likes of Lush.

This was fine. Started well then got a bit boring. Did enjoy learning Strange by REM was a cover.

It's a low 4. Some great harmonies and obviously great songs like Somebody to Love and Today. Some don't quite hit. But Signe Anderson"s voice is a marvel.

If this was a studio album I wouldn't have liked it much. Songs are much the same and I've never got into this kind of blues. But the live element and production make this a much better album. Lively.

First album I've not (re) listened to as I know it well enough to not need to. I reckon if I was rating this as a first listen it'd be lower.

It's all over the place but the average is pretty good but too varied to rate higher. Bold to stick the singles so far down. Sound Check the best non single.

Biggest surprise alongside Leftfield so far (maybe I like British electronica after all). Not all stuck but Dirge, Aisha and Lever Street were excellent.

Nope. I started skipping and when I got to Method Man I turned off. Actually I tired Protect Ya Neck. It only improved things mildly. Most of the instrumentation and most of the lyrics were the same so I don't think I missed much.

I like Pixies but only some of this was good. They have a tendency to be noisy and annoying just as much as noisy and catchy.

It's not as good aa Version 2.0 with less top top songs, but overall still a great album. Never get tired of Shirley's approach and the fuzz bass.

I love the Pet Shop Boys. I've been indoctrinated from a young age. Amazingly I realise this is the first time I've listened to a non greatest hits PSB album in full. It's mixed but still a bop around the songs I already knew.

Going to probably disagree with a lot of people but despite rhythm obvious high off Eleanor Rigby and Taxman it's a perfectly nice album with nothing really catching my ear or standing out (not counting Ringo's song). Second half certainly does little.

Going to go against what I've done for other albums. Despite this also being a bit long and lagging at tung end it's hard to fault how much I enjoyed pottering around the house to the first half, and enjoyed finding the out the Prodigy sampled Root Down which was possibly the highlight.

A big ol 3. I thought I recognised half the songs without recognising them (adverts probably) until Glory Box at the end which I obviously did know. And maybe it's because everything sounded the same, slightly monotone but relaxing thing. I can see why people like it and in the right mood (and travelling as I was on trains) sure. But I don't think it lit much in me.

Glorious final album. Dark, beautiful instrumentation.

This was not as bad as I expected, but mostly because I was appreciating the instrumentation (some of it quite novel even for today) rather then Elvis' irritating voice.

My first Led Zep album so biased. Does it have the best songs? No? But it holds together brilliantly and is possibly the best produced LZ album. Range, interesting songs. Highlight being the mandolin on Gallows Pole.

I'm sure with more patience I'd have enjoyed it more, but it was a bit much.

Rather enjoyed this. Only knew y one song before but it was more proggy than their popular stuff.

I like lots of extreme and heavy music. This was the first album on this list I skipped parts of (granted I probably listened to 90% but I had enough on a few songs). There were a songs which were quite alright but, but that it's that extreme (most of it is shock for shocks sake) most of it felt like being mildly assaulted audibly. Glad i was justified in never getting into MM as a teenager.

Great start after the horrors of MM. Trailled a bit towards tuf end.

Perfectly nice apart from the hackneyed blues songs. Never heard JT before but I imagine there is more out there I'd prefer

Honestly? Was pretty bored. But this is the problem with rushing day by day . This of the kind of album that I'd probably love with many multiple listens. Maybe. So it can have a 3 but I found little i enjoyed first time.

Never actually heard before although I knew a lot of the songs. Really enjoyable.

Never got into LCD and was intrigued. I liked it a bit is the best I can say.

Hard to follow that opener but much of the rest also very nice especially the two closers.

Lots of good stuff but (as is SOAD) all over the place and lacking some of the melody of their latter albums.

I've heard this before but never managed to get into it. Fun in parts, boring in others. Realise I don't like Jagger"s voice much is their blues stuff. It's very long too. 2.5 would have been my preference.

Y ever heard They're She Goes. Also didn't realise how old this was! Very much enjoyed.

I did enjoy this in parts but less than i hoped. Again, shorter would be better...

Got better as it went along but much of it was too arty for me.

Rather enjoyed. The really long and funky song especially.

Rootsy, gritty. All good.

Sorry to say that although it's Kanye, some of the lyrics are moronic and others misogynistic... It's a very strong album. More the production and Nicky Minaj than anything else.

I'm biased given I've listened to this forever but actually listened again and heard new things like how some of the other tracks (not HHMM/MMHH) were also recorded live, and a lot of backing vocals and sound effects I'd never heard on Ride Your LLama. It's a mad album. Half the tracks are very trippy lyrically. Then you have Welfare Mothers which I'm never entirely sure about, and the opener and closer ehich are classics. Then a Civil war song. It's great.

It's the Offspring. It's fun. It's catchy. Has some great songs, not as many as later albums, but everything is still massively enjoyable.

Perfectly enjoyable. Great instrumentation. Bits reminded me of Warren Zevon.

Not my favourite REM album but full of atmospheric and lyrically thoughtful songs. I think my favourite track is Monty Got a Raw Deal. But it's REM.

The very definition of a "you only need to listen to the singles". Some astonishingly good singles mixed with some ok and mildly catchy and some downright irritating songs. I think I liked this more when I was younger.

Not largely my cup of tea. I think Martin's review is spot on. A few songs I recall mildly enjoying but hard to remember.

This was a surprise. Obviously only new Born Slippy. This was consistently banging and uplifting and great to work to. For the whole album.

I didn't hate this, but I've never liked them and this didn't massively change my view. Samey and vapid. Not my kind of punk.

Wanted to give this a 4 but a little bit dragged Otherwise tir organ and bass kill. But a solid 3.5.

Not the most cohesive of their first three but a bunch of good, slightly darker, songs.

Not the biggest ska fan. Lots of this was fine. Lots didn't do much for me. Odder than I expected.

It takes a lot to make me like jazz. I like Kind of Blue and there were bits here that I could relax to. Other bits sounded like stereotypical American TV tunes gone wrong.

Biased and prejudiced but it's glorious.

Bliztzkrieg Bop is a bop. Apart from that I actually enjoyed the Sex Pistols more (and that isn't saying much). Whoever produced this album hated drums and, despite me being a bassist, I don't think bass being higher in t mix then vocals was a good plan. Even if Johnny Ramone's voice gets annoying in under 26 mins.

A low 4 but enjoyed this more than I expected, if more for her band then her voice or subject material!

A high 2. I like prog and this had elements of Oldfield/Yes on the first track but a lot less coherent. The rest was a bit of a mess.

Quite a bit was fine. Quite a bit was an audio assault. The last track was probably best.

This started well then I got increasingly bored. At The Drive In they are not.

Catchy and gets in your head. Overproduced and corny sure, but at least it's enjoyable.

I rather enjoyed this. Plenty catchy, not all. And suffered from bring too long and therefore boring in parts.

A couple of tracks, the title track and I think Home at Last were pretty good. The rest was either tedious pseudo jazz or embarrassing (Deacon Blues) to incredibly irritating (I Got the News) pseudo jazz. Not sure I get it.

It's dark but brilliantly crafted. Promised Land universally brilliant and Badlands a brilliant start to any album.

Don't find this nearly as catchy as their follow up. A little repetitive but still very listenable.

Really enjoyable. Mostly funky. Not usually my thing but a high 3.5 so 4.

It's a brilliant album full of brilliant songs, fun the more psychedelic to the more introspective (Lucky Man). Only problem is it's so long that inevitably not everything works so well and some of the latter songs drag. Cut 20 mins and it's a 5 every day of the week.

This was just about the kind of jazz I can listen to while workings snd mildly enjoy.

Ignoring the usual misogyny, this was far more enjoyable as gangsta rap goes. Granted in hindsight it just reminded me of GTA San Andreas but plenty to enjoy here both in the music and in some of the fun in the lyrics.

A low 4. Loads of good but lots also passes me by and I know this album.

I enjoyed this both less and more than I thought I would. Interestingly just listened to the second half coming back from rhy Navy Yard of Brooklyn next to where Biggie grew up. Suicidal Thoughts was a really interesting, honest song to end on.

So wanted to give this a 4 but some was hit and miss. I reckon with more listens the misses would turn more to hits. Love the One Your With is great.

I've listened to Heroes to Zeroes but not this. This was more laid back but that also meant it was less memorable on first listen. Life was the standout. Often amusing too. Almost certainly a 4 with more listens.

Never got into tir Beach Boys bar the odd track. This was at best mostly OK. Otherwise rhy harmonies are excruciating. Ain't no CSNY. Worst was She Knows Me Too Well. At least it was short! Sorry Brian.

So Long, Marianne gets it to 4 alone.

I'm very sorry but it's very good until the last third. Never Let Me Down (bar Jay-Z) is the highlight.

This was fun at least but too fun in parts. Perfectly listenable in t background but not my thing. Low 3.

I can only think I'll like this more on more listens and I already liked it. Perfect in the sun.

It's Radiohead's best album. I acknowledge I'm in a minority of one here but I don't care. It's the best mix of all their electronic and guitar work with mysterious and beautiful songs. Everything works (after multiple listens, mind you). The last few songs are a bit disjointed but I still love them. The middle is the highlight.

This was fine. Mildly fun but the very definition of what you'd expect to hear when told to listen to a country album and did little for me. A high 2.

I was really looking forward to this. And I liked it. But less than I thought I would. I even listened twice to be sure. A bit of a mix, and more punky than expected. A high 3 I think.

Just a lot of fun and a great listen, and that's even without Freebird. What a song.

I know the album well but didn't know what I'd score it so listened again. The first half and the first 2/3 songs are amazing. The last few drag a little. Still a blast but not as good as their debut.

Never heard before. Bits I liked and will probably return to. Bits that were a bit less good. Sounded like Sonic Youth but more low fi.

Take Ain't Talking About Love of this and it's pretty poor. What variation there is (doo wap and 12 bar blues) doesn't help. I don't like Eddie's guitar playing much, it's just noise. Never got the point of Eruption. Billie Jean is his best work.

Giving this a 3 as it was lovely and individual tracks I could enjoy in isolation but a whole album of 1960s spy theme intros is too much. Loved the more African influenced percussion behind the more traditional jazz. Great instrumentation. Just not for me.

After the first song I felt I was going to be bored to death. Tung second song picked up but then only one other did that. I may not like bossa nova. So Nice was comedically bad.

I love Steve Earle. Not heard this in full before. Not his best and I wish El Corazon was recommended so others could have got more variation. But it has Someday. And Fearless Heart. And it's fun.

It's great and has some timeless songs but I don't think it's their best and it sort of falls all over the place in the end. The Boxer remains majestic.

One of the best I'd never heard so far. Consistently glorious. Reminded me of James, the Cure, the Triffids and others. Was There Anything I Could Do? Was a real highlight.

Biased given familiarity. Like Raw Power is lags a bit at the end but the mixing, the sound of the guitars, the percussion is iconic. Then the break with We Will Fall into No Fun. Great stuff.

Turns out I can only handle so much Pixirs. I liked this more than Surfer Rosa and knew more of it but some of it didn't quite stick. Probably a 4 with more listens.

Preferred it to Dummy. Still a little too laid back but unlike some other albums I kind of appreciated how mad it swung around rut genres, even if I was nervous to see it listed as containing doo-wap...

Reluctantly giving this 3. Early Cohen can have the challenge of having so little melody and apart from on a few tracks yurt instrumentation was so basic that it's not as easy a listen as some others, even if some of the songs are brilliantly written.

I can see why this won a Grammy. I can also see why I very much disliked it. Which made sense when I learnt Fagan was in Steely Dan. It sounded like Weird Al doing lounge rock if he wasn't funny. It wasn't therefore terrible to listen to but it was cringey as fuck. Maxine was really bad. Listen to Maxine, Witch Queen instead.

Probably didn't need to listen to this again to score it but I did anyway.

This was a ridiculously consistent album, and that's what they intended, but that's the problem. It's too much. Every song is trying it's hardest to be a big single and it's exhausting. Not all are as good as one another. I ynom Love Bites was most enjoyable and I can see myself listening to that and a few others like Hysteria again but it's a bit much and a bit bland for an hour.

File under "American rock music". As other reviews have said this is pretty generic. I kind of think it's what people who don't like rock music think all Rocky music sounds like. It's the first FF album I've ever heard but I know and like more from the later albums. It's fine but I doubt I'll ever listen again. Best song probably Good Grief followed immediately by the worst Floaty. Exhausted, the closer was quite good. Didn't expect a song about cows.

Turns out I don't really like much of Beck. Most of it was boring to annoying apart from what I already knew. I had to listen in two sittings. Realised I give a 3 for lots of things. Something I don't hate and could listen to some of again , something I appreciate but not like, and stuff that I reckon I'd like a lot more with repeat. listens. This is not the latter.

Some bits a bit repetitive and a slog but others affirmative and catchy, especially Chuck D. The last song was most catchy and I had to spend ten minutes getting to work out where I'd heard "bring that beat back" from Rebel Without a Pause from (Improvise by Jurassic 5).

The classic QOTSA album I'm less familiar with. Probably could be a 4 with more listens but less if it holds on a first proper full listen. Should probably listen again before eating but let's pretend this is 3.5.

Difficult to score this. It was quite varied in a way I liked. There were some really nice tracks (Wildfires, and a couple of others) while others were a bit unfinished. It held together a little poorly, but the overall tone stayed with me. Probably another that would rise with more listens.

I think Dusty in Memohis held together better but this got better as it went along and I realise she had so many big songs even on her first album. Granted they are almost entirely other people's songs so I'm not entirely sure it's her version I know but still. Low 4.

The lowest of 3s. Share comments on Jailbait. Otherwise much as I mildly enjoyed listening, every single song bar 1 or 2 sounded exactly the same.

This was the musical equivalent of cheap plastic. Smile On was basically a bad kids song. Last few tracks got a little better, but Groove is in tug Heart is still a lightweight 90s tune, even if the bass on it was groovier than the rest of the album...

I'll admit like Leonard Cohen I tend to find the more flowery arrangements of Dylan now enjoyable. Desire is my favourite of his albums and the Budokan live album is great. Still, it's got some powerful songs on it, Masters of War bring the pinnacle. Some like BD Blues let it down.

This was interesting and not what I expected. A little corny in parts but I liked the themes and the instrumentation.

Better than the other bossa nova one but alternated between catchy, boring and annoying. The last track was all three.

I really like Yes and love some songs but find it hard to love everything but this was just joyful and I'm sure could become a 5 in time. I've just not listened enough.

It's an excellent album key down by a few fairly more meh songs. Easy 4 though. Uplifting in its way.

As enjoyable as It Takes a Nation... Possibly more so so creeping into a 4 for me. By the Time I Get to Arizona the highlight.

Perfectly nice and enjoyable but only a few tracks really stuck out. Two albums into Taylor Swift I think one of my issues is get production is too polished. Makes things sound too laminated and bland. I reckon I could like this more on repeated listens.

It's a good start but a little meandering. Some great tracks (Babe, Dazed, Communication). How Many More Times great closer (and references Plant's work witj exis Korner and the song Steal Away). Is it a 4? Not quite.

I really liked Betterman, and it shone a new light on some of these songs, like Angels. That and Let Me Entertain You are just brilliant in different ways. I didn't realise Lazy Days (which always gets in my head) and Before I Die we're Robbie Williams. I then looked ahead at his (surprisingly prolific, one album a year) discography and there are ao baby excellent singles (Feel being best) that I might check his other albums out too. This holds up better than a lot of Britpop from the 90s.

It's hard to give an album they goes fro War Pigs to Paranoid to Planet Caravan (if I smoked weed this and Tool's cover of No Quarter would be on repeat forever) to Iron Man any less then 5 stars, even if the second half isn't as good.

Another case of bias. If I hadn't heard this a lot there's no way I'd consider 4 let alone 5 stars. Very much a grower but even thy weirder tracks are a delight. Helped by seeing Lazarus which was build around these songs (the cast version of Valentine's Day is epic).

Not sure how it's taken me 20 odd years to listen to this. I wanted the second half to be more like the first. Still holds up in the latter balf but keeps it from being a 5. Some belting choruses.

It's no Kid A. It's better. Just about a 4 as not everything clicks (Pulk Pull I'm looking at you especially) but Pyramid Song, You and Whose Amy?, I Might be Wrong and Like Spinning Plates (which has Humphrey. fucking Littleton on trumpet) hold it up.

First album I ever bought when I was 11. If I hadn't listened for nearly 30 years I'd probably rate this lower, and like some albums here my tastes have probably changed a bit. As such, I can't give it a 5, but the likes of Breathe, Climbatize (that bass! Which Kula Shaker ruined when they sort of sampled it) and others are great.

I didn't hate it as much as I thought and it was short. That's my positive review.

Perfectly listenable background jazz while working. Aside from the fact the live nature (which wasn't obvious at first) and the subtle background conversation made me think someone was in the house about 3 times.

Take 5 is obviously Take 5. But I wish the rest of the tracks actually had the semblance of a song. I think I preferred Bill Evans.

Seems to be a thing with the Stones. The albums drag. Some great songs (although listening to Mother's Little Helper as an adult leaves a sour taste) but not all of it is that enjoyable.

Not sure why I'm having to listen through for rut umpteenth time to give this a 5. I'm up to Southern Man and it's already there. Really a 4.5 as there are 5 or 6 I rate higher but hey, what can you do. Perfect balance, range, length. Playing. Lyrics. Cripple Creek Ferry is lovely.

Quite enjoyed this more so than the other one but still dragged a little towards the end and only some was memorable.

I take back what I said about this kind of blues. This was very fun.

It's a great collection of songs amd even those I'm less familiar with will probably grow but not sure it quite holds together. The bonus tracks probably didn't help that much. A 4.5.

Meaning to listen to FLC for a long time. Perfectly enjoyable but some of it didn't stick as much. Another that suffers from being a bit long.

It's fine. Very little stuck though.

I happened to listen to this for the first time a few weeks before it got recommended and despite two listens they both were done in breaks. Really wanted to like it more but only some stuck. Chan Chan and El Carretero the highlights.

Wanted to like this more but I think you'd of something they requires a lot of listens to fully enjoy bar rhythm catchy ones.

I think I really quite enjoyed this. Only know the first track from the Faith No More collab as well

This was lovely. I liked the vocals that were not actual words.

This was nice and all but it's so American and feels a bit sterile somehow? Buffalo Springfield are better.

Hard to know what to think of this. Sounded like Radiohead (Kid A mind you) in parts. Was it interesting? Sure. Did I like it? I guess? The kind of thing that would benefit from multiple listens but that I probably don't have the patience for. I'm sure I would if I waa cooler. I'm not.

A low 4. And mostly for the title track.

Hard to know whether to give this 3 or 4 but I'll go with where it will probably be with repeat listens. The singles were as good as it gets for goth synth pop. The rest was a bit mixed but I imagine would grow.

Impossible to give this any other score. It's all over the bloody place. It's way too long and incoherent but has a lot of interesting tracks most of which I can't remember apart from Trigue Lycee and El. Aadyene. The Imagine cover was a particular low point and made no bloody sense.

Started well and I enjoyed a fair bit (and now know where the Hives came from) but it got a little samey.

The first bossa nova album I liked. Ha. And the best of the 3 Pixies albums we've been recommended.

Interesting album, with an important running theme. But just not the kind of thing I'll end up going back to. Few tracks really held me and I had to skip rhythm penultimate song (just because it was not commuting music).

So obviously 5 stars. You're all idiots. Almost everything is 80s clever pop gold. My first 5 star I'd not heard before.

Yep, this was brilliant and I can't believe I'd never heard a single Tori Amos song before. Everything stood up musically, lyrically. Some of it was soul destroying, some hilarious. A lot catchy. First two songs were brilliant. Obviously a lot reminded me of Kate Bush but even more so Joni Mitchell. Silent All These Years could quite easily have been on a Joni album and nobody would have batted an eyelid.

Again, I realise I don't quite like Hendrix as much as I thought. Guitar playing is great but not all of this was gripping.

Yet to find anything that can be described as punk and is from America that I enjoy. Mostly samey, mostly boring, partially irritating.

I take back what I said in the last review: if forgot the Stooges. Bar the Stooges though, again British punk is just better than American punk. While I don't adore this album it has far more going for it than the Ramones or the Dictators. Sharkey's voice is a whole lot more interesting and has a range and the instrumentation (not just guitars!) also adds to it. And it has actual hits.

Giving this a 5 before I even re listen. It's just fun, full of amazing riffs and rocks. A couple of tracks don't hold up (and are a little dodgy - It's Ao Easy, Anything Goes) but doesn't take away from the standard of the rest. Cliche as it is Sweet Child's solo is up there with the best (Baker Street), the basa in Nighttrain kills and the outro of Rocket Queen remains great.

Will lose friends over this but... It's fine but I have a hard time getting excited by much of it. All of it just feels a little off. Doesn't help that the two biggest songs are two of my least favourite Bowie singles.

If the rest of the album had followed the theme of the first song, Darkness Darkness, this could have been an easy 5. Instead it leant into largely predictable 60s American folk rock, with some interesting touches. A low 4 I think.

Tom Waits is ond of my favourite artists. Tom Waits early jazz stuff is my least favourite Tom Waits, well behind ssd folky balladeer Waits and junkyard Waits. Over an hour of him being sort of weird and jazzy is still better than most jazz but beyond Eggs and Sausage only a couple of tracks I could say I really enjoy. Perhaps my least favourite of his first 3 albums. Not sure what the audience is laughing about half the time!

As high a 3 as it gets. Do I like this? Quite a bit, but it's very samey and chugga chugga. Apart from One and... Justice To Live is to Die is the only thing that stands out fot me. I listened twice too. The production being so famously flat doesn't help.

History will question why side 3 of this includes a bunch of completely unnecessary covers. The album is plenty long without them so it didn't need the padding. The first 5 tracks should be half a 5 star album. Two Tribes remains one of my favourite bass lines despite not being a bass. And it features Chris Barry! But after that the bass disappears until the very end. Black Light White Light and the Power of Love restore things but really this could have been a 5 without the covers.

As 3 as it gets. Did I hate it? No. Perfectly nice mostly. Would I turn it off of someone put it on? No. Would I actively listen out for any track they wasn't California Dreamin'? Probably not. The Do You Wanna Dance cover was alright.

Do we really need this much Elvis Costello? Luckily this was by far the best on the list. Still not the biggest fan of his vocals but some bangers on here including I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea.

Like Queen, I've never rated Abba as highly as everyone else in the world. But I've never listened to an album. To my surprise the first recommendation contains not a single Abba song I know. It started well and started interesting. Then it got a bit samey and boring. A low 3.

The last 3 tracks on the album, especially Party Fears Two, were Ok. But the rest was like a drunken tribute act to the most annoying of Bowie. "No" was a song perfectly named.

Nothing Else Matters takes it to 4. The solo to 4.5 and the rest is a rounding. Consistently strong throughout. Sorry, but this was an evolution. I can see why some deride it. It proved that thrash was not the be all and end all and metal could be better.

A high 3. I love Killer Queen. I don't think I'll ever love Queen. Some of the rest was good (Flick of the Wrist) but I just... Don't love Queen.

A low 3. I like John Barleycorn Must Die. This... Is fine but doesn't do that much for me and little stood out. Also Vagabond Virgin sounded pretty dodgy.

Love Nick Cave. Love tug Bad Seeds. Love Grinderman. Don't love thug Birthday Party. Several Sins is redeemable.

I've long known she's neither Madonna's daughter nor Randy Marsh but never listened before. Perfectly nice. I can see why she's popular. It's dark brooding melodramatic pop. Some clever lines (like on The Louvre, although an annoying chorus) and good tunes like Sober II. Probably won't clamour to listen again but still.

Lots to enjoy, although lots sounded the same. Sumthin Wicked the best track.

Perfectly nice again. Can see why she's so popular but even the singles are songs that don't do that much for me.

I was worried this was going to be jazz Joni and luckily that was just the last track. Great instrumentation and thoroughly enjoyable.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Drive-In? Tempted to say a low 4. Could have been shorter.

This started well but then went a bit all over the place. Still I'm tempted to be generous and give it a low 4. One I probably will listen to again.

This is a hard one. I thin on an earlier review for a Led Zep album I said this was their best. I waa wrong. I forget about the second half because despite listening to this album a LOT I always forget half the second half as some of it is so forgettable. If they included only half the songs after Kashmir (Bron au Yr, Ten Years Gone, Sick Again) this would be a 5. Hell, probably if they stopped at Kashmir too. The Rover and In My Time are probably in the top 5 best Led Zep songs.

I love solo Paul Simon, late to the game as I was. Graceland is one of yr best albums of all time. This... I think I'd like more on repeated listens but didn't hit that much first time. It's a bit all over the place.

This started brilliantly. I loved Krautrock. I could listen to a whole album of that sadly much of the rest of t album was somewhat as I feared this record would be. A bit weird (but not aa weird as I expected). I liked some of the weird but it wasn't nearly as listenable as the first track. Giggy Smile probably the other highlight. A Bit of a Pain was aptly named.

The one word I associated with Norah Jones before listening to this? 'Boring'. Afterwards? Still not my thing but I can appreciate the effort. It was listenable, and the musicianship was nice, and even Come Away With Me (which I associated with easy listening boredom) was quite enjoyable. Best song was I've Got to See You Again, largely because of t more interesting instrumentation and arrangement. Oddly I didn't really like the Painter but I liked how the vocals and guitar mixed in my headphones. Also why has nobody ever seemed to have commented that One Flight Down has clearly stolen from How Deep Is Your Love? Also, I also previously thought she was British.

This was generally all the same song, about relationships either going wrong or right. Perfectly nice for what it was but what it was was slow and not my kind of thing. All excellent vocalists, mind you. Father Along the best track.

I've heard this before. But I remember it being better? It's really not that good though, despite bring a prog and psych fan. I would never have originally listened had it not been for Bart Simpson and even the title track is less good over time. My Mirage is ok but song structure and vocals are off. Even rhythm organ in misused. A high 2, but I won't listen again.

I like the Doors but not all of this hits the same highs as Riders on the Storm which is majestic.

I can do twee if it's interesting but too much of this is a bit too slow.

There's so much variation here. The Neil Young and Stephen Stills stuff is all brilliant, with Expecting to Fly and Broken Arrow being transcendental and the Stills stuff rocking. The rest doesn't hold up as well, but overall it's still great.

Not all of it hits thug highs of the singles but it's still a really fun album.

Would this be an easy 5 if I didn't know it so well? Maybe not, but who cares. The definition of British punk being better. They knew how to make music and make a statement and Strummer is a legend. So much variation and so many interesting tracks. How many albums start as well as this too?

I enjoyed this the least of the 3 PSB albums so far. Too slow.

This probably merits more listens. I can see it becoming a 4 in time but I'd need time to invest! First time I've ever listened to a BeeGees album. A lot of it sounded like the Beatles!

The big songs are good. Although I don't really like Sloop John B. The rest I really don't get.

A victim of listening while doing other things but nothing screamed "you need to listen again!" although I did appreciate the occasional use of synth in a 60s folk rock album. Alright, I'll go back some time.

Not the best Kraftwerk album but on a first listen i really enjoyed this. Wasn't sure by the first few tracks but it got better as it went along.

I hate KISS more than almost any other band but I've never listened to a KISS album so how to review this objectively? Well fine, it wasn't a terrible listen. It wasn't a great album though. Vapid, not particularly interesting musically, but fun enough in parts. Beth was the best song and sounded nothing like the rest. I can't give it one star but I don't need to give it much more.

Ah, jazz. I hoped this was going to be that kind of smooth jazz I can handle while doing work. Alabama 3 slightly sold me a lie on that. It was that in parts. Other parts were certainly quite interesting and novel. Other bits were annoying jazz. Can see why Mingus is so respected but too jazzy for me.

I really quite enjoyed this. The syths were excellent. Wasn't the biggest fan of the vocals at first - reminded me of the meh XX singing - but I learned to appreciate the female vox when the boring male vox appeared on two tracks (last track being the worst). Lots of excellent dark pop songs like Tether, Lies, and Science/Vision. Good example too of how some albums are too long. This one wasn't but yurt bonus tracks at the end were all pretty dull. If they were on the album proper it would have brought this down.

Thought I'd like this more but a lot of it I think needs to grow. Beyond tug title track which I vaguely knew not much stuck.

Conversely (compared to the Super Furry I enjoyed this a lot more then I expected. Yes it was dark but it hit home. A low 4 but a definite 4.

After getting over the fact this wasn't the Presidents, lots of the psychedelic stuff was great. Use of synth was welcome and novel for the time. I'm the end the slow tracks and some of the variation dragged things. And any time a man sang.

Generally brilliant. Living for the City lives in my head. Higher Ground and even the slower songs bop.

Definitely benefits from repeat listens and over listened before. Still prefer Amazing Grace but I can dig the longer trippier songs, the sad pretty ones and tiny blown out psychedelic ones.

Rampant misogyny and homophobia abound. But at least unlike a lot on this list Eminem is clearly aware of his surroundings and can be genuinely funny and catchy on some of this. The self awareness still grates when it makes no difference to his approach. And I don't need a 6 minute song about him basically trying to murder his wife when he spent tut second track criticising this on Stan.