How well I knew this album already out of ten (HWIKTAA): 3 High points: Motherless Child, Please Be With Me (reminds me a bit of CSN), Let It Grow Meh point: Willie and the Hand Jive, Get Ready Notes: Great live feel to the production. Overall a pretty boring and slow album with a couple good tracks.

HWIKTAA: 1 High point: Willie the Pimp! I could listen to this kind of jamming forever. No wonder Trey is such a fan. Low point: can't pick one. It's all good.

HWIKTAA: 5 High point: "LA Woman" and "Riders on the Storm" are great and justly famous, but the real hidden gem here is "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)". Jim's psychedelic rap supported by the band in full acid mode. Awesome stuff. Low point: "Cars Hiss By My Window" is kind of phoned-in. Not a bad song, just not a lot of effort there, and it overstays its welcome.

HWIKTAA: 5

HWIKTAA: 10 Easy five.

HWIKTAA: 10 His peak. A 70s pop masterpiece.

HWIKTAA: 1 Very pretty music. Would listen to again.

Just not my thing. I guess I don't dig the "I want to sound like I don't give a shit" style of vocals.

Not the best post-OK Computer (In Rainbows) offering from Radiohead, also not the worst (King of Limbs). I haven't listened to this album for a long time now, and I think I know why. Very little of it has stuck with me as being "essential Radiohead songs." 2+2=5 might be the closest, but if you asked me to give you a list of 20 Radiohead songs you should know, even that one wouldn't make the list. A decent album that just hasn't aged well.

Pleasant and pretty background music. Nothing earth-shattering.

Does anyone sound more like the 60s than the Byrds do? Good album, but I’m not convinced it’s their best.

Enjoyable EDM.

Good for what it is, but incredibly repetitive (the nature of the genre, I suppose).

Just not my thing. I suppose it has some musical merit, and some of the melodies are pretty, but everything just kind of ran together.

Not quite as good as LA Woman but still a fun bunch of songs by Jim & the boys. Roadhouse Blues is always a riot to listen to.

Some very famous songs and some filler. Like the Byrds, not many bands sound like the 60s like CCR do. Good album.

While "Music for the Masses" is my favorite of Depeche Mode's albums, "Violator" is their absolute peak. They are in TOP FORM. No skips (unlike MftM). Favorite songs (in no particular order): Halo (ok, that's my favorite), Personal Jesus, Clean, Policy of Truth.

Pre-Gilmour Floyd. Mesmerising stuff. Syd Barrett’s psychedelic ge jus on full display. The first four tracks are fantastic, drenched in LSD and full speed ahead. I love this album!

Pre-disco Bee Gees, a period for which they’re (perhaps unfortunately) not remembered as often. It’s pretty baroque pop with lots and lots of string arrangements. Ultimately the album is a bit too long for me, they’ve said what they need to eight songs in. “The Greatest Man in the World” is a gorgeous song.

A hip hop landmark. Busta on “Scenario” is historic. Great album and one I (not normally a hip hop listener) can hear over and over again.

40 years later this remains an astounding, if at times problematic, piece of work.

Pleasant but boring. Not my thing.

Perfect, timeless voice. Beautiful music.

One of the greatest pop albums of the 2000s. This is their peak.

I didn’t know a single song on this album but it still cooks.

Beautiful, ethereal contemporary country music. I love this album.