Rhymin’ and Stealin’ (10/10) The New Style (9/10) She’s Crafty (8/10) Posse in Effect (7/10) Slow Ride (9/10) Girls (7/10) Fight For Your Right (10/10) No Sleep Till Brooklyn (10/10) Paul Revere (8/10) Hold It Now, Hit It (8/10) Brass Monkey (9/10) Slow and Low (8/10) Time to Get Ill (8/10) 8.5/10

Intruder (5/10) No Self Control (6/10) Start (8/10) I Don’t Remember (8/10) Family Snapshot (7/10) And Through the Wire (7/10) Games Without Frontiers (10/10) Not One of Us (6/10) Lead a Normal Life (7/10) Biko (7/10)

The New Stone Age (6/10) She’s Leaving (6/10) Souvenirs (8/10) Sealand (4/10) Joan of Arc (8/10) Joan of Arc (Maid of Orleans) (7/10) Architecture and Morality (2/10) Georgia (7/10) The Beginning and the End (7/10) 6.1/10

Chan Chan (7/10) Da Camino de la Verada (6/10) El Cuarto de Tula (5/10) Pueblo Nuevo (3/10) Dos Gardenias (7/10) ¿Tú Qué Has Hecho? (6/10) Veinte Años (6/10) El Carretero (6/10) Candela (8/10) Amor der Loco Juventud (6/10) Orgullecida (6/10) Murmullo (5/10) Buena Vista Social Club (5/10) La Bayamesa (4/10) 5.7/10

Missing Pieces (5/10) Sixteen Saltines (6/10) Freedom at 21 (7/10) Love Interruption (7/10) Blunderbuss (6/10) Hypocritical Kiss (6/10) Weep Themselves to Sleep (7/10) I’m Shakin’ (3/10) Trash Tongue Talker (4/10) Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy (3/10) I Guess I Should Go to Sleep (3/10) On and On and On (5/10) Take Me With You When You Go (5/10) 5.2/10

P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up) (3/10) Mothership Connection (Star Child) (4/10) Unfunky UFO (5/10) Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication (5/10) Handcuffs (5/10) Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) (8/10) Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples (5/10) 5/10

Initially thought I was being pleasantly surprised by a genre I rarely give the time if day, but after almost half an hour of the same droning beat carrying over multiple tracks, I was reminded of why that is. Leave Home (7/10) In Dust We Trust (5/10) Song to the Siren (2/10) Three Little Birdies Down Beats (5/10) Fuck Up Beats (N/A) Chemical Beats (3/10) Chico’s Groove (7/10) One Too Many Mornings (6/10) Life Is Sweet (5/10) Playground For a Wedgeless Firm (1/10) Alive Alone (5/10)

‘Stand’ would go insanely hard on Warning by Green Day. Pop Song 89 (7/10) Get Up (7/10) You Are the Everything (8/10) Stand (9/10) World Leader Pretend (8/10) The Wrong Child (6/10) Orange Crush (10/10) Turn You Inside Out (7/10) Hairshirt (6/10) I Remember California (7/10) Untitled (7/10) 7.5/10

Chuck D is a phenomenal rapper. Outstanding flow, great lyricism, and perfectly balances an aggressive tone with a bouncy, rhythmic, and often melodic musicality to his voice. However I feel on this record particularly, he’s let down by tiresome, repetitive beats. And the less said about Flava Flav the better. Countdown to Armageddon (N/A) Bring the Noise (8/10) Don’t Believe the Hype (7/10) Cold Lampin’ with Flavor (4/10) Terminator X to the Edge of Panic (5/10) Mind the Terrorist (N/A) Louder Than a Bomb (8/10) Caught, Can We Get a Witness? (6/10) She ‘Em Whatcha Got (N/A) She Watch Channel Zero?! (8/10) Night of the Living Baseheads (8/10) Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos (8/10) Security of the First World (N/A) Rebel Without a Pause (10/10) Prophets of Rage (8/10) Party for Your Right to Fight (6/10) 7.2/10

Fair play for recording the same song 12 times with slightly different lyrics and convincing everyone you’ve written one of the greatest albums of all time. Tutti Frutti (8/10) True, Fine Mama (6/10) Can’t Believe You Wanna Leave (7/10) Ready Teddy (7/10) Baby (6/10) Slippin’ and Slidin’ (7/10) Long Tall Sally (5/10) Miss Ann (6/10) Oh Why? (5/10) Rip It Up! (5/10) Jenny, Jenny (6/10) She’s Got It (6/10) 6.2/10

4 albums in 4 years is impressive regardless of quality. Being the only Smiths album I’d never heard, with no major/stand-out singles, I wasn’t expecting much. It’s still got a quintessential Smiths sound and the songwriting, while not as catchy as their earlier work, left me neither surprised or disappointed by this effort. It’s pretty good, doesn’t overstay its welcome, and still manages good performances from Morrissey and Marr. A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours (8/10) I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish (7/10) Death of a Disco Dancer (6/10) Girlfriend in a Coma (9/10) Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before (7/10) Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (8/10) Unhappy Birthday (6/10) Paint a Vulgar Picture (8/10) Death at One’s Elbow (6/10) I Won’t Share You (7/10) 7.2/10

Tell Me Why (7/10) After the Gold Rush (5/10) Only Love Can Break Your Heart (6/10) Southern Man (8/10) Till the Morning Comes (N/A) Oh, Lonesome Me (6/10) Don’t Let it Bring You Down (5/10) Birds (5/10) When You Dance I Can Really Love (7/10) I Believe In You (6/10) Cripple Creek Ferry (N/A) 6.1/10

Shania Twain meets Joan Jett and writes a perfectly decent pop-rock album. Bit of a weak start, definitely gets better as it goes. Precious (5/10) The Phone Call (6/10) Up the Neck (6/10) Tattooed Love Boys (8/10) Space Invader (5/10) The Wait (9/10) Stop Your Sobbing (7/10) Kid (8/10) Private Life (6/10) Brass in Pocket (8/10) Lovers of Today (7/10) Mystery Achievement (9/10) 7.6/10

This is, by fad, the worst album I have ever endured. Very little going on musically, and what little there is - is so buried in the mix that it’s a strain to even make it out. Non-sensical rambling lyrics delivered in the most uninterested, lazy, sloppy manor that if I heard someone talk like this in real life I’d want to physically hurt them to make it stop. If that was what these cunts were going for, bravo. You’ve made something so purposefully shit that it lives in an incredibly fine margin - not ‘so shit that it’s good/funny’, but genuinely, puuuuuure, irredeemable dogshit. Fuck off. Ladybird (Green Grass) (3/10) Lost in Music (2/10) Glam-Racket (1/10) I’m Going to Spain (3/10) It’s a Curse (1/10) Paranoia Man in Cheap Sh*t Room (1/10) Service (2/10) The League of Bald-Headed Men (2/10) A Past Gone Mad (1/10) Light/Fireworks (0/10) 1.6/10