An entire genre defined in album. Solid

Like or dislike the man or the music, some poignant tracks on there. Feels a little samey and “dramatic naughtys film sad moment” back half of the album skippable but the first half you forget how many of those tracks were on one album

Talking Heads shaped so much. The sheer versatility of their sound of art school punk. I’m more familiar with Speaking In Tongues when they dipped more into “popular” pop but you can feel the foundation of it here with the Eno twist. Mind reminds me a lot of David Bowie - Heroes. Album makes me wish I could see them live. Life During Wartime would be superb.

Opening with a solo drum intro starts the album as it means to go on. It might be punk, but from the opening it is more melodic than English people shouting over guitar. You can understand how they inspired The Jam with the rhythm guitar on Remote Control. Police & Thieves is brilliant and White Riot is a standout, poignant message wrapped in a catchy melody that you can't help feel fuelled by. Perhaps more of a me problem but towards the latter half of the album it gets samey. There's only so many times you can hear ohohoh chants. Just because I said I liked the strawberry mousse pot doesn't mean it needs to be pudding for the next 6 months (ruminating on a conversation with my mum when I was 9). A band and album that shaped generations of music and despite the fatigue as it went on, a lot of these tracks would make it into a playlist. Just maybe not back to back.

my dad once said to me "Thing about Stevie, he has some of the best songs ever written... But some of them are absolute shit". Fulfillingness' First Finale is certainly the former. I've lost count of the amount of times I've listedened to Songs in the Key of Life, one of my all time favourites. But this is fantastic and gets better every time. It's insane to think you can have so many incredible tracks and there's no sameyness. A welcome listen.

A live album always feels like a tough listen. What I will say is when it comes to they golden year of soul, you can feel the energy in the room and it would have been amazing to be there. Cooke's voice is amazing and doesn't faulter at any point. Chain gang is such a great song and was already a regular listen. Big Sam Cooke fan, would score higher if it wasn't a live album.

I don’t think I was in the mood for hearing 12 people playing different songs. I am a fan of funk and you can’t get more funk than funkadelic.

Sing us a song you're the piano man (I know it's not on the album but allow it). Billy Joel is one of the greatest musical talents of all time. I would listen to his music from front to back-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack. He says he put his madness into his music; he must have had a lot of madness. It's hard to pick a favourite song. I regularly think how great it would be to be able to smash out Vienna or She's Always a Woman on one of those piano's at a station. Faultless 5 stars.

Feels appropriate given the sad passing of Brian Wilson. The songwriting and musical talent is undeniable. It's all so upbeat and it's easy to see why it's a solid feel-good-advert soundtrack option. God Only Knows is one of my favourite songs from the band and I've not really stepped much beyond that. This journey confirmed why. So unique but not my vibe

I’ve seen Fatboy Slim live at Soho House festival aka Valhalla for Patagonia picante pricks. I’d been drinking hard seltzer like water and eating with gluttonous indulgence like a jarl in a silk shirt. I was eating rotisserie chicken, the weather was brilliant and I could expense a taxi home. That was the intended listening experience. Here’s my summary based on hearing it driving kids to Saturday school and not being one bite away from gout in a Gunnersbury Park. • if bootcut jeans and brown shoes were music • every song is 2 minutes too long • most tracks are a never ending intro • Advert music for divorced dads • I can hear the shell necklace It may be seminal and further show how iconic the British music scene is that a lad from a rock band in Hull can be a 90s big beat superstar DJ. I was 11 when this came out, it felt rebellious and you went with it. Nostalgia of a simpler time makes me want to like it but I’m old now, and I don’t like this.