Ragged brilliance. Shine a Light is the highlight.

8/10 Have I even heard this before all the way through?

Dear god this is awful. He can't keep an idea in his head for more than 20 seconds.

You've got to really like the whole operatic thing to get this.

I don't like the voice. I don't like the rhythms - always meant to disrupt rather than groove. I don't like the guitar - squealy or grungy. Just dull. Satisfied people's idea of what dissatisfied people want.

It's not a coincidence that I avoid REM (whereas WAR was a total surprise out of nowhere). One of them was alright to begin with but just turned into the usual REM dirge. It might be Stipe's earnest droning voice. It might be the instrumentation (but no - the band are perfectly good. It's definitely Stipe. He's whining.

Lots of familiar hits and songs that sounds exactly like the hits. It's the falsetto harmony that's grating.

Churns along "Hey we've got John Lennon's mellotron" "Hey we can do harmonies" "Hey, we can start a new bit of the song every 20 seconds" Two standout tracks - "I Want Her She Wants Me" sounds like Belle & Sebastian and "Time of the Season" sounds like it's another band and another album altogether.

One of my favourite albums ever. Grasps your attention. Never lets you rest but changes from song to song rather than within songs. Don't understand why Sunday Morning has three times as many pays as all the other songs. Waiting For The Man is awesome. All Tomorrows Parties and Venus In Furs sound like no other songs before or since.

Acceptable pop

Lovely. A couple of bangers. Strong, confident and wavy. Really liked it. Don't need t hear it again.

I'm angry that I've been forced to listen to this. American Effing Pie FFS.

I preferred the instrumentals. didn't touch the sides.

Perfect. It's a filthy hot summer day and this slid through my evening like a balm. Only ever heard it in in compilations before but as a single piece it's excellent.

Astonishing contrast between the Hit (with the greatest tambourine ever) and the rest. Couldn't wait for it to end.

This was lovely. Really admire those great voices. Poor songs and three part harmonies less so.

Like a lot of these albums, I find it interesting because it's important rather than because it's engaging. Heaven 17's best tracks are on The Luxury Gap. On this, they've clearly got a soft political message to make and they're very experimental with the electronics.

Curiously muddy. Lacking dynamics. Backing singer doesn't lift it. Loads of great rhythms and grooves. Didn't feel the samba so much. Even Taj Mahal isn't as good as that brilliant live version. Nevertheless, four-to-the-floor Brazilliance!

Absolutely banging! Young confident relentless soul. Superb! If a little showbiz in the bits between.

Maybe someone else find this grating voice and flabby songs entertaining but not me.

Wimpy and witless.

Chewy, challenging, some moments felt White Light White Heat-ish

Ragged brilliance. Shine a Light is the highlight.

School went mad when he played Roundhay park in Leeds. I'd never heard of him. I was surprised by how many of these songs I knew. The rhythm on I'm on fire is good.

This is the missing piece of Roxy Music - the bit that was taken out between Virginia Plain and Slave To Love. The good bit.

Unexpectedly good. Stays into rawk now and again, but quickly finds its indie/avant garde way. No reason at all to call the band that.

Listened to this with Fred in the car ion the way to watch the cricket in Manchester. Apparently, it's a seminal work of UK Garage. Some of the vocals are very good soul but the musicality really lacks groove and feeling.

Barely noticed it.

Loved this. Like the Waterboys with Trashcans drummer and Paul Simon of vocals. Very high quality.

One of the best albums ever made. Side one is incredible.

I'm sure this is great if you're a heavy. Paranoid stands out a mile, partly because all the other songs are much slower than I expected. Played while driving through Birmingham, past Villa Park a couple of days after Ozzie died.

Great album.. Great songs. A band really excited about what it was capable of. A lot happened after this, but at this point, Oasis were fantastic.

I enjoyed this. Much more musical than I thought it was going to be.

I get that they're being experimental, and I appreciate that, but they're not much fun. They're not angry, they're just a bit whiny.

Great. From Bowie's most creative period. Loads of great songs. Lust For Life is amazing and Fall In Love With Me is a new find.

Much better than I thought it was going to be. Bat Out Of Hell is a banger and All Revved Up is a find. Some absolute overblown claptrap in there as well.

Wonderful. Cool groovy, calm and controlled.

Dominated by the title song. Can't hear what's so good about the album tracks. You can smell the heroin, though!

Surprisingly brilliant - not the annoying papery Neil Young voice I'd been expecting. Soared into Bunnymen magnificence at times.

Surprised by how much I liked this. Really good rocky blues. Didn't get bogged down by the genre. Not to much of that slow, guitar-lead stuff. On the other hand, how long can a song be? At 23 mins, that last song is longer than some albums!

Not as good as it should be. Only a couple of tracks have real upbeat driving grooves that I would call funk. But what do I know?

Oh please make it stop. It looks like I'll have to listen to about 20 rap albums while doing this. I have no idea what makes them good or bad. Jonny tells me to listen to the lyrics but they are just swearing and posing. This music just seems made to aggravate and alienate me!

I guess all the songs are on Nevermind.

In another life, I'd have been a big fan of Arcade Fire. The voice is much stronger than expected and thenoise is great. If slightly U2ish.

Like having your brain cleaned out with a bottle brush to the ears. Left me reeling.

Loads of variety. Sometimes urgent and compelling, sometimes gentle and twee. Didn't even mind the rap too much.

Nice. Well crafted. A band that moved to Leeds (they get a star for that). Voice is distinctive but that doesn't necessarily make it great.

Obviously full marks, but it's not one of my favourites - some classics but no bangers. Here, There and Everywhere is awesome. Paul at Samba said that his sister was a big Beatles fan until she heard Tomorrow Never Knows and then she just stopped liking them!

Surprisingly good. Got to keep the customer satisfied is immense.

Strange and exciting. A couple of crackers. Interesting voice.

bouncy fun atmospherish forgettable

Some of this landed. I like the idea of heavy sound and folky vocals.

I hope there aren't many if these. Good chugga chugga in the guitar but clunky song writing and volcals.

This album started well and got progressively worse. I'd been planning a "pleasantly surprised" type of review but then Lake of Fire happened. Never really recovered after that.

Loved that. Bangers galore!

A lot to like. Crossover point between Primal Scream and Cocteaus. Should have been a 4AD band.

Didn't touch the sides. I think Jonny has an ironic playlist of this sort of stuff. Seems quite early, so maybe this was groundbreaking in 2014?

Banger after banger! Turned out I knew all the words without knowing it. I sang along like a sleeper agent being activated. Sing...blue silver!

Loved this - felt like a companion piece to Exile On Main Street. Dirty and frayed at the edges.

Scary voice.

OK

People went mad for this. One or two good songs at best.

Who write good songs but some of these are tedious. The 15 minute medleys are tough to endure but Shake It All Over was brilliant.

I'm sorry Jonny, I just don't get it. It's like listening to someone read out a list of words. It's so far away, I can't hear what's good about it.

No idea what that was about.

Sometimes he gets his voice going full blast and it's great other time it's just bland shouting. The last five minutes of the last track is appallingly self indulgent.

A real bassist! Otherwise... more rap.

Brilliant work. Great sound. Variable quality - Message To You is incredible, there were a couple lime Do The Dog that might be worth playing and the album version of Too Much Too Young was a tough listen.

Oh this was a treat. I'd been thinking that it is objectively the worst Orange Juice album because of all the 80s synths and saxes and Zeke doing African songs. But it's really a proper Orange Juice album with great song on it. Not perfect, but better than most.

Lots of rappin'

Some bangers, no complete clangers, just a bit of album filler, more than made up for by Thank You, Found a Job, Take Me To the River and The Big Country. Two guitars hard at work.

This was lovely. Bought it while on sabbatical in 2002 but haven't listened all the way through for years. Really good.

Great fun. Never heard an album like it. Really inspiring.

Who knew Led Zep are really just a folk group? With a guitar! Apart from the amazing Rock m Roll, this is very well sculpted overblown claptrap. Stairway To heaven chief among them. The great relief being that I won't have to listen to it again (it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be).

This album contributes little to the pantheon. It almost passed me by by a couple of Thrills type bits and a decent closing track saved it from being completely without merit.

I'll be going on about this at length. The people who selected this album know nothing about the Waterboys. The first three albums are miles better and considerably more distinctive. This was the point when they went all Irish twiddly-dee-dee and I was so upset about it that I wrote to the record company and got a lovely letter from a PR lady called Mary. What I didn't know at the time was that Karl Wallinger had left and the glory days were over.

A bit headachy. Heard a lot of songs that I sort of knew (eg Breathe)