1001 Albums Summary

1. Railing - 7 One thing that caught me out was the seamless transition into track two at the end. Solid D&B with rap. Very British but unlike other artists at times the D&B is not overly heavy. 2. Brown Paper Bag - 8 Much slower vibe to start than the first one before taking on the full D&B vibes. Not too bad. Slow cooker which I usually like. Reminds me of the Twisted Metal 3 OST. 3. New Forms (feat. Bahamadia) - 6 Vocals move with no meaning and seem random. Beat and tempo are good but this could have probably been way better vocally. 4. Let's Get It On - 8 Classic D&B. If you were to encapsulate what D&B is, this song is it. Solid beats, solid tempo. Just chill and enjoy. 5. Digital - 7 I have the same issues with this song that I did with New Forms, but to a slightly lesser effect. Beat on this track is excellent. 6. Matter of Fact - 6 Solid song but it can get lost on the listen. Beat starts good and the track really mellows out by the end. Feels like filler 7. Mad Cat - 9 Much quicker tempo and really good outro into the next song. Another one that encapsulates both R&B and what made the 90s such a peak for music. Best track so far. 8. Heroes - 6 Pretty baseline song. Vocals are ok. Beat is ok. Nothing about it strikes me as anything special. 9. Share the Fall (Full Vocal Mix) - 5 Vocally ok. Instrumentally ok. Just felt like an average song compared to what else is on the album and I usually love vocal mixes. 10. Watching Windows - 4 Would have been way better if it had the same rap style as the first 2 songs or left an instrumental. 11. Beatbox - 2 Complete change on the album. It's not bad beatboxing but it's such a tone change it feels completely out of place on the album. 12. Morse Code - 5 The song isn't bad and the morse code undertones work well but the beginning is only those tones and it's not pleasant on the ears. 13. Destination - 8 A return to what the album is about. Very good mix of sounds with a constant but very pleasing beat. 14. Intro (Roni Size Reprazent / New Forms) - N/A A filler track to set the tone. Less than a minute. Not meant to be rated to be fair to it. 15. Hi-Potent - 9 Excellent track. Changes pace well, beat is nice, and overall a great D&B track. Best track on the album so far. 16. Trust Me - 7 Solid D&B track. Good beat, good undertones. Just classic 90s sounding D&B. 17. Change My Life - 8 Another solid track. Felt like this could have been a track from JSRF back in the day. Enjoyable piece of music. 18. Share The Fall - 6 Much better than the vocal mix. 19. Down - 8 Another solid D&B track. Really good beat and overtone vocals. Very enjoyable. 20. Jazz - 7 Solid song. Good beat, nice instrumentals in the background. Another all around good D&B track. 21. Hot Stuff - 9 Very good track to listen to. Upbeat with some all around solid sound and a great beat. Right up there with the best of the album so far. 22. Ballet Dance - 8 Great track to end the album on. A really great conclusion to an otherwise enjoyed album. The mix of strings in the song works so well here as does the jazz potions to really bring about why D&B is such a fun genre to listen to when done right. In Conclusion: Drum and Bass didn't really come into the main fold in my opinion until the mid 00s but artists like Chase & Status have New Forms and Roni Size / Reprazent to thank because it laid the foundation for what Drum and Bass is and experimented in an age where dance music was creating a whole new wave of music that took underground clubs in the US and a lot of the night scene in the UK and EU by storm. Albums like this are a classic for what they have done for modern music. Musically the album is put together well with a lot of light to slightly heavy beats, all with tracks of multiple over or undertones that help emphasize the experimental nature of what Drum and Bass was in given the time. I did not like the more popular songs that were released as singles but things like Lo-Fi, modern Drum and Bass, and Dubstep can find inspiration in their roots in this album. Average Rating of Songs: 6.8 Within a 5-Point Scale: 3.4 Rounded Down: 3 stars

1. Changes - 10 Best track on the album by far. The intro is amazing and the highlight of Bowie's amazing vocals after the lead in is really nice. This is just all around one of Bowie's best songs. The constant introduction and ducking of the drum line works perfectly to bridge verse from chorus and highlights the consistent re-innovation of who Bowie was and his personas. The sax at the end is a brilliant way to end the song. 2. Oh! You Pretty Things - 10 Lovely start to the song with the way the piano is played. Vocals are amazing, lyrics are good, and the way the song eventually leads into the full instrumentals are just amazing. Another great track with an extremely catchy chorus. 3. Eight Line Poem - 7 Guitar sounds solid in this song but it's very light and feels like a bridge between the absolute powerful songs elsewhere on the album. Not much that is remarkable about it, but it is a decent enough track. 4. Life on Mars - 10 Absolute belter of a track. Instrumentally it's insanely fun with a really fun piano, drum, and guitar. Lyrically to me it's a bit strange (which I understand is part and parcel for David Bowie) but it's still a great track. The strings that come in at the end of the track are incredible. Overall, way more enjoyable than I remember the tune as being. 5. Kooks - 4 Very weak lyrically. Instrumentally it's not the strongest thing on the album either. All around it's not a bad song and the first verse is very nice but Bowie falls out of tempo at the end of the verse. It's an error repeated in the second verse as well. Overall, not particularly a great song. 6. Quicksand - 7 Really slow burner which Bowie does very well. Enjoyable track on the album. He repeats the Homo Sapiens theme in this song much like he did previously in the album. Tone changes work well here as bridges, much like Bowie does in a lot of his works. 7. Fill Your Heart - 5 Instrumentally I like this track a lot. Lyrically I do not. It's just all over the place and feels like a bombardment of ideas for what the track should have been. It doesn't ever seem to find it's purpose. 8. Andy Warhol - 8 The opening 45 of this track is the weakest part of the album so far but when the guitar finally comes in it sounds amazing. From there the track becomes really really enjoyable. Pace builds even further at the end to an all around enjoyable listen. 9. Song for Bob Dylan - 9 Excellent track. Guitar sounds amazing and the drums help emphasize the vocals when needed. Just a really all around enjoyable track. 10. Queen Bitch - 7 Complete change of tone. Guitar is much heavier than previously in the album. Lyrics in the chorus are a bit random like 90s Aerosmith were, but it's still a decent track to listen to and the verses are well put together. 11. The Bewlay Brothers - 8 Way quieter a track than anything else on the album but it builds to well into the chorus each and every time. The guitar is the real hero of the song but lyrically this is really enjoyable. Great way to end the album. Average Rating: 7.7 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 3.9 out of 5 Rounded Up: 4 stars

I Zimbra - 7 Decent opener. The album is from the late 70s and you can feel the influence of other popular music from the time in this track, mainly Disco from the very beginning. Pretty good vibe. Mind - 6 Bit of a psychedelic track. I had gotten Hunky Dory by David Bowie the day before this album and the similarities are very glaring. Grant it, Hunky Dory is also from the 70s (1971) and it feels like this song might have been inspired by that the way the vocals sound as well as instrumentally how the song goes from verse to chorus and back again. Guitar at the end sounds awesome. Paper - 5 Lyrically it's not a bad track. Instrumentally it's not a bad track. I don't think there's anything in this track that will make me want to listen to it again. Pass over track on the album. Cities - 7 Strong track and probably up to this point the best of the 4. Vocals are nice and remind me of Supertramp in a way. Disco undertones are here again in this song with the way the bass guitar is written into the track. Much more upbeat but overall it's very enjoyable. Life During Wartime - 8 Very good song. Lyrically it's very very strong with the message it is trying to send. Instrumentally it's a great tempo and beat and also incredibly catchy. You will find yourself moving along to this song even if you didn't plan on. Memories Can't Wait - 7 Complete tone change from the previous song but not so much it's out of place on the album considering what's before it. Overall it's a enjoyable song to listen to. The vocals are decent and the instrument builds into the outro very well at the end. Air - 4 Despite reminding me of bands like The Clash, this was a tough track to listen to. Vocals fall in and out of the tempo of the song constantly. You just listen to this with no idea of what the point is or where the song is going. Heaven - 6 Sounds like any average song from the time. This is another gear change for the album and a song with a lot more structure. Tempo is consistent. Vocals stay within that tempo. The problem with it is that this is about the only song on the album (at least so far) that has a rigid structure and so it feels out of place. The song sounds fine but there's nothing particularly remarkable about it either lyrically or instrumentally. Animals - 3 Awful track. Vocally it's like nails on a chalkboard. Instrumentally it has no club what it wants to be: more like Heaven or more like Mind. Vocally it just gets worse as the track goes on as well. Electric Guitar - 4 Track sounds ok. Another one with a bit of structure but everything is meant to sound very electro wavy and the instrumentals actually drown out the vocals at times you can't hear them. Bit too psychedelic for me. Drugs - 2 The worst track on the album is the last track on the album. Lyrically it comes in and out and it barely decipherable for the same reasons Electric Guitar is. Instrumentally there's barely anything there as it's very light on the guitar and the drum but then at times that just stops for some psychedelic sounds before randomly cutting back in. Outro is pretty poor and filled with randomness. Final Rating: 5.4 1001 Albums Final Rating: 2.7 out of 5 Rounded Up: 3

1. Dark Fantasy - 8 Great opening track. This is classic Kayne. Solid flow, all sorts of cultural references sprinkled throughout. Intro is a little too long for my liking but this just a great rap track. The choir coming in and out of the track is really really good. Bridge is a little weak but the beat overall is amazing. 2. Gorgeous (feat. Kid Cudi & Raekwon) - 7 Another good track. The guests on the track work so well in between Kayne's deep raps and they generally compliment him so well. The interesting thing about the track is the guitar and bass, which lead the beat over traditional snares or drums like in most traditional rap. Track feels filled with Kayne's hateful rage, which compliments the dirty sounds of the guitar he has on the track. 3. Power - 10 Best track on the album and probably one of the best tracks Kayne ever made. Drumline is immense on this track. Background vocals lift the track. Lyrically this track is unbelievably strong, drifting between societal problems and Kayne's own struggle to create this very track. It's just an absolutely epic song. 4. All the Lights (Interlude) - N/A Bridge track. Not meant to be rated. 5. All the Lights - 8 Solid track. Instrumentals aren't balanced and a bit overpowering on the track which drowns out of the vocals at times but it's still a good song. Opening verse is the biggest part of the song. 6. Monster (feat. JAY-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver) - 4 The beat on this track is great but it's lyrically very bad. The opening 2 minutes is lyrically some of the worst on the album. Chorus is absolutely dreadful as well. JayZ's verse starts out poorly but ends well. Nicki Minaj's verse is absolutely awful. 7. So Appalled (feat. Kanye West, JAY-Z, Pusha T & Prynce Cy Hi) - 7 Much better track. Lyrically the flow is so much better and the lyrics themselves are so much stronger. Beat is great and this is more a return to what this album has built itself as than the previous track. Last minute is the weakest part of the track. 8. Devil in a New Dress (feat. Rick Ross) - 9 Awesome track. Lyrically it's absolutely amazing. When Kayne is describing the devil in the new dress he fades between rap, signing a line like a gospel song, and then another like it's casual conversation. The imagery the song paints is crystal clear. Instrumentally it's great and the guest verse this time is just as strong as Kayne's at the start of the song. All around excellent. 9. Runaway (feat. Pusha T) - 7 The opening verse is the worst part about this song but the whole second half of the track lyrically is very enjoyable. Instrumentally it lasts too long at the end. Pusha T's vocal are a great compliment to the track. 10. Hell of a Life - 6 The use of auto-tune here is awful. Absolutely kills the choruses but the verse still contains that same flow we've come to love from a Kayne track. Beat and instrumentals are very good. 11. Blame Game (feat. John Legend) - 6 John Legend's vocals really carry the song. Kanye's verses are pretty solid as well. Instrumentally it's pretty sound. The song gets overly repetitive at times after the choruses but overall it's a pleasant listen. The monologue goes on for way way too long at the end. 12. Lost in the World (feat. Bon Iver) - 7 Decent song. Instrumentally and lyrically it's good but it comes to a crescendo around 3 minutes in that's just too many sounds. Track tends to drown itself out because of it. Overall though, a better song than Blame Game with a seamless transition into the final track. 13. Who Will Survive In America - 6 Decent song with a preacher painting metamorphic images with his monologue. The song is short and it's a solid conclusion to an otherwise decent album. Not terribly too much to dissect as the track is only 99 seconds long but overall it's a good way to end the album. Average Rating: 7.2 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 3.6 Rounded Up: 4 stars

1. Blue Suede Shoes - 9 Great sound. This is Elvis' debut album and this is about as strong track you could open the album with. There's a few times where a band or artist who reaches the highest heights start with an absolute classic. "Rock and Roll Star" by Oasis comes to mind as an example but this song is one as well. Really great tempo and all around excellent sound. For the era, it is without little doubt as to why Elvis was so popular and I do believe this has stood the test of time quite well. 2. I'm Counting On You - 5 Much slower song. Not really my style and I'm not very fond of his vocals on the chorus. The background singers makes this feel too much like The Pops as opposed to rock and roll. 3. I Got a Woman - 9 Classic track. My favourite version of this song is the one Ray Charles did, but this is just a great sound to an absolute old time classic of a song. Sound is great and drum is the star of the show here. Really enjoyable track. 4. One-Sided Love Affair - 8 Reminds me of boogie woogie piano style music at the beginning. Really solid swing music which Elvis really became known for. Lyrically it is very good. You will find yourself tapping your foot subconsciously to this. 5. I Love You Because - 6 Pretty sweet love song. Really slower tone, even more so than I Got a Woman. Still, Elvis' vocals are a lot better on this track than on I Got a Woman. All around a solid song. 6. Just Because - 7 Pretty strong opening verse. Instrumentally this is a very enjoyable listen as the instruments are given a good amount of space to have a small jam session for 20-30 seconds between the two verses. Choruses aren't even separated by a tone or shift in a drumline like modern songs. Good track. 7. Tutti Frutti - 7 Great swing to the song but the chorus is a bit strange lyrically. Puts a lot of stress on the instrumentals to deliver but of course they do in spectacular fashion. If there were an unserious track on the album, this would be that track. 8. Trying to Get You - 8 Elvis sounds incredible on this track. Really get a true understanding of his true vocal on this track and it's such an enjoyment. This might be the best thing on the album that actually showcases the full scale of how talented he was. 9. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (Over You) - 7 Overall a good song. Another one of these blues inspired love songs that Elvis really became famous for. The guitars between the verses and choruses sounds fantastic. 10. I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin') - 6 Real slower song. You get small hint of Elvis right at the end but the song is way to melancholic for the album. If there was a track on the album that really struggled to highlight Elvis' talent then this would be that track. 11. Blue Moon (Take 9/M) - 4 The octave and pitch changes are too extreme on this track to really enjoy the slower pace of it. Lyrics are fine and there's not much in terms of instrumentals to pick at, which is fine, but when coupled with the constant peaks and valleys of Elvis here it just makes the track seem like a wash over. 12. Money Honey - 7 Lyrically a good tack and pretty much exactly what the album needed in terms of how it should have ended. The guitar really highlights what that instrument is even capable of doing. It's a great chord that really highlights the change that music was undergoing with an artist like Elvis. Solid track. Average Rating: 6.9 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 3.45 Rounded Down: 3 stars

1. The Village Green Preservation Society - 7 Very good opening track. Lyrics are a bit random and all over the place but the sound is good and the lyrics are what I've come to expect from The Kinks so they don't feel unnatural on this track. Really good sound from the time. 2. Do You Remember Walter? - 7 Lyrically a very fun track. Sounds great and flows very well too. 3. Picture Book - 7 Classic 60s British rock sound. The album is building itself to that era of sound we are so used to hearing through bands like The Beatles. It makes you wonder why The Beatles were so popular but The Kinks arguably were not from the time given the similarities between the sound. 4. Johnny Thunder - 6 Little bit more of a pass over track than the opening three. Still sounds great but the song feels more rigid in flow and the lyrics aren't anything phenomenal that gets you hooked on it. All around, just ok. 5. Last of the Steam-Powered Trains - 7 Instrumentally this is so enjoyable. Lyrics are solid as well. Just a great track. The drum on this is way more prominent. Bridge builds into sounding like a train and it almost immediately reminds me of the Aerosmith track that came about a decade later. 6. Big Sky - 4 The intro before the first verse is outstanding and overall instrumentally this is a fantastic track. Lyrically it's absolutely awful however. Half the verses are barely even signing, just a random monologue. Really wipes any enjoyment of the song out. 7. Sitting By the Riverside - 5 Very quick flash in the pan song. It uses sounds that give it a Parisian-type flair but it's really just a pass over track in the end. It's not bad but there's also nothing remarkable about it and not the sound we've come to enjoy from The Kinks previously in the album. 8. Animal Farm - 6 Second half of this track is much better than the first half but it just feels like another pass over track. More like the sound we're used to from The Kinks compared to the previous track however. 9. Village Green - 4 The tempo and pace feels like it changes twice over in the opening track both with the introduction of Daisy and the yearning for the village green. Because of this, it's hard to get a feel for where the track is heading or what even is going on within it. 10. Starstruck - 6 Better than the previous two tracks but not something you'd get star struck on. Overall it's a solid supplemental track to the album but it's not anything spectacular. I feel as if the solid tempo of the song makes it slightly more enjoyable than it would be otherwise or when compared to the rest of the album. 11. Phenomenal Cat - 1 Absolutely woeful track. It tries to be lighter in pace, sound, tempo, and vocals but it's a complete dud. The worst track on the album so far. 12. All of My Friends Were There - 3 A song that feels like you'd hear it at a Ren Faire but without anything in it that would actually make it a song you'd hear at a Ren Faire. The opening minute sounds great but the rest of the song just goes musically all over the place and back without a reason or a cause. 13. Wicked Annabella - 4 Another track that randomly changes and goes all over the place. Drumline on this is fantastic and you get a hint of that dirty guitar sound, which is quite nice but it cannot carry the song past the dreadful sounding vocals. 14. Monica - 4 Another pass over track. By the time you get used to the pace changes and vocal structure of this pretty chaotic track it fades out. That's not a disappointment in how short it is but just in how all over the place the track tends to be. 15. People Take Pictures of Each Other - 3 Fairly weak track to end the album on. This isn't overall a great song and the parts between the lyrics is horrendous sounding. Overall, not an enjoyable track. Average Rating: 4.9 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.45 Rounded Down: 2

1. About a Girl (Live) - 9 Phenomenal opening track. The guitars sound so incredibly good on this track and the vocals are absolutely on point. Absolutely the definitely of what grunge/alternative rock is. The guitar's sound change on the bridge adds even more to it. Just incredible. 2. Come As You Are (Live) - 10 Just a superb track. Guitars sound so dirty, so incredible on this track. Cobain's vocals really delivery the song as the masterpiece as it is. Drum line does so well to lead the vocals into each line of the chorus. Just all around an all time classic on an all time great live performance. 3. Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam (Live) - 6 The verses do so well to highlight Cobain's amazing vocals but he is absolutely drowned out in the choruses. Instrumentally it's good but it sounds too much like a Renaissance piece the sound Nirvana are really known for. 4. The Man Who Sold the World (Live) - 10 Just an incredibly well written piece of music. The guitar is an incredible sound that I could listen to on repeat for hours at a time. 5. Pennyroyal Tea (Live) - 7 Cobain makes this song sound better than it lyrically is but it's a greatly enjoyable song either way. Guitar doesn't overpower him thankfully and it comes and goes from heavy to light all throughout, but not randomly to the point where the track just feels like a collection of randomness without purpose. 6. Dumb (Live) - 10 Just a phenomenal track. Short but with that great sound that the previous album has already provided. Excellent track to get lost in while doing a deep listen to the album. 7. Polly (Live) - 9 Very dark song with the imagery provided but sung superbly and with a great sound on the guitars on it, particularly the bass. 8. On a Plain (Live) - 10 Another brilliant track. Much like with Polly, there are very structured and timed pauses between in line of the lyrics but within those pauses, the guitar and drums are given a real chance to shine before the lyrics guide the song through. Absolutely excellent track. 9. Something in the Way (Live) - 9 Much slower song from Nirvana but still masterfully played and written. Lyrically it's a smidge too repetitive but it still sounds absolutely brilliant with how well the pace is maintained and amplified by the drums. 10. Plateau (Live) - 8 Complete tone change for the album and while it is not bad and the lyrics paint a wonderful metaphor, the song seems to lose itself a little bit around 2-2&1/2 minutes in. Very melodic but almost with a country undertone that doesn't really feel like it belongs on the album. 11. Oh Me (Live) - 10 Really great slow paced song that you could listen to on repeat many many times over. 12. Lake of Fire (Live) - 8 Chorus is great but the verse makes this feel like it could be a country track misplaced on the album. The sound of the guitar would be the only thing that makes it ensure it's not. The metaphor between the demons in the Lake of Fire and the 4th of July is outstanding. 13. All Apologies (Live) - 10 Very good track. A return to the classic Nirvana sound that opened the album. The fade into the repeated final line of lyrics is done so excellently it drives home the point of the meaning behind the entire song. 14. Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Live) - 10 Stunning ending to the album. The vocals and instrumentals are brilliantly written and they build in intensity for the whole track. You then get dumped into a quiet bridge that makes you wonder if the song will fade out or if you will get the crescendo you've been building to. The track does not disappoint and eventually delivers it to you, exceeding expectations of what it could be that you've been building for the whole first part of the track before coming back down to close. Best song on the album. Average Rating: 9.0 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 4.5 Rounded Up: 5 stars

1. Let's Start (Live) - 9 The sound right at the start is an amazing blast of that almost disco/70s-style guitar mixed drums a great bass line and other instruments that immediately grips your by the shirt at your chest and throws you into what you get the feeling for what might be a brilliant musical journey. There's an excellent sax that's just an awesome sound with the drums and bass only a minute to two into the song before eventually giving way for other instruments to have their moment in the sun. The original album is only 4 tracks as well, so you get the feel that these jam session vibes is what the entire album encompasses but unlike other bands, where jam sessions can sometimes be too long (i.e. Outlaws, Dave Matthews Band) you never like the music loses itself. Best track on the album. 2. Black Man's Cry (Live) - 8 Another great jam session, especially after about 3 & 1/2 - 4 minutes in. The baseline remains very consistent through out and is paired very well with each instrument. Much like the previous track, there are many solos sprinkled throughout including the vocals themselves about two minutes from the end that leads into a crescendo of sound. Overall, a solid jam along song. 3. Ye Ye De Smell (Live) - 7 Not as good a track as the previous two. The skills of Ginger Baker do absolutely shine on this track but there are times where it goes on for too long and actually becomes too repetitive. Song loses itself a little bit in the drum solo towards the end of the track. Outside of those last 3 minutes, the track itself sounds really good. You're ready to move onto the next track before the track itself is. 4. Egbe Mi O (Carry Me) - 8 Solid ending. Love the signing at the end of the track. Musically good and it trudges along enough to not feel too long until you get this wonderful build into the end. Overall a decent track. Average Rating: 8.0 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 4.0

1. Future Days - 7 Solid song. Really slow build but you get this lovely drum sound into some great guitar riffs. Since this is progressive rock, you get vocals but they're never enough to overpower what's building instrumentally and that's just about the perfect touch to add another element without taking away what you're listening to transpire. 2. Spray - 4 Feel like I'm underwater the entire length of the song. Guitar sounds nice as does the light amount of drums but the song just doesn't go anywhere. First the first track is a nice progressive build into some good sounds, this track is a flat plateau of barren music. It gets considerably better at the end of the track, but you have to spend 6 & 1/2-7 minutes to get there only for it to start fading out a minute later. 3. Moonshake - 6 Good sound but a bit of a pass over track due to it's repetitive nature. Really good jamming style sound given that. 4. Bel Air - 2 Jekyll and Hyde song. Opening 2 minutes are good and then the song kinda putters along for another 2 minutes before a random tone/gear change in the track. Those aren't even the only gear changes in the song, which for much of the middle part mellows out into small noises until it finally begins to build into something 12 minutes in. By then, I feel like most people are ready to check out if they have not done so already, myself included. You're then massively disappointed with the ending that the song has eventually built towards, feeling like it's ended prematurely before going on for another minute and a half and attempt to build again ahead of a sudden fade out. Average Rating: 4.75 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.4 Rounded Down: 2 stars

1. Pink Moon - 9 A song I've always heard in highlights and adverts but never knew where it was from. Lovely guitar sound and rhythm with solid vocals. Overall a great song. 2. Place to Be - 8 Very similar sounding both instrumentally and vocally to the first track. Really lovely sounding and Drake's vocals here are fantastic. 3. Road - 6 Very much a pass over track. Guitar sounds fine here and the vocals are okay but very rarely present to influence the song in any way and so you're left with 2 minutes of mainly a guitar going up and down the range. 4. Which Will - 7 Song doesn't quite have the same pop to it at the first two but overall it's still a lovely piece of folk music. Unlike the last track, the vocals very much carry the load here. A great performance. 5. Horn - 1 Absolutely completely useless 82 second piece of music. 6. Things Behind the Sun - 10 Breathtaking song. Just a masterpiece in what folk music is both vocally and with how the guitar leads the tone of the song. 7. Know - 3 Really weak song. The entire opening half of the song is practically able to be thrown away. Vocally it's completely uninspiring. 8. Parasite - 8 The guitar sounds absolutely fantastic on this track. Vocally the metaphoric lyrics are very good. Great track. 9. Free Ride - 7 Overall a good sing lyrically, vocally, and instrumentally. Very easy flow with an all around solid sound. 10. Harvest Breed - 6 Not a huge fan of the guitar sound on this track but it's not overall a bad song. Makes me think there could have been more to it if it was built out more with another verse or two. 11. From The Morning - 9 "And now we rise and we are everywhere" is the inscription on Nick Drake's tombstone and one can only hope his sound continues to resonate everywhere. The track is a great sound to end the album on and really highlights Drake's talent in both singing and songwriting. Average Rating: 6.72 1001 Albums Final Rating: 3.36 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. Sex Beast - 8 Great punk rock sound. Guitar sounds so brilliant in the opening and in the bridges. 2. Preaching the Blues - 8 Great instrumental sound. The constant back forth of the instruments ducking for the vocals and exploding out of them make this a very very fun track. 3. Promise Me - 5 The violin in the background sounds more like a constant annoyance than adding an element to the track. Drums and guitar outside of that sound great. Vocals are good but about eighty seconds in the violin begins to overpower the rest of the track. 4. She's Like Heroin To Me - 8 Another solid track. Drums sound incredible on this track, especially the bass drum on it. Lyrically the song is a lot of fun as well. Just overall a fun track. 5. For the Love of Ivy - 5 Lyrically I think this song is a trainwreck but the drum and bass line make it instrumentally brilliant. Goes on for about a minute too long and the ending is completely unwarranted. 6. Fire Spirit - 5 This needed to lyrically sound better. The lead singer's octave travels all over the place but instead of being into the higher and let down into the lower octaves, instead it's just a random spread of a vocal range. Instrumentally it's as good as the rest of the album. 7. Ghost on the Highway - 6 Pass over track. Nothing about this track is bad but nothing about it is remarkable. 8. Jack on Fire - 2 Awful track. The vocals are all over the shop and it feels like it will just be continuous talk without a break until there suddenly one for the lead to just sign the words "I'm the jack on fire" before continuing this random monologue without a purpose. Instrumentally it is equally as uninspiring. 9. Black Train - 3 Drumline is the only thing redeeming in this track. Lyrically it's way too repetitive and instrumentally it's not super dynamic. 10. Cool Drink of Water - 3 Just 6 minutes of void. 11. Goodbye Johnny - 6 Not a bad track. Instrumentally it's very enjoyable with some brilliant drumming. Vocally it's ok. Structurally the song is a bit random. Ok for the last track on the album. Average Rating: 5.36 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.68 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. Intro - N/A The intros and interludes will not be ranked on this album for obvious reasons. 2. GhettoMusick - 8 Fun song the change from soft to slow at first felt very out of place for me but by the time you listen through to the whole track it makes sense. The rap is very solid as is the chorus which you will unconsciously find yourself belting out at times. 3. Unhappy - 10 Beautiful vocals on the chorus. The verses are exactly the style of rap we've come to love with Outkast over the years. The only reason the song isn't a 10 is because the instruments are a smidge too loud in parts and can overpower the vocals. Instrumentally the bass is excellent and the track is just absolutely a wonderful listen. 4. Bowtie (feat. Sleepy Brown & Jazze Pha) - 9 Another very fun song. A wonderfully balanced mix between singing and rapping, chorus and voice. Beat is amazing and the rhythm is incredibly smooth. Best song out of the opening three. 5. The Way You Move (feat. Sleepy Brown) - 10 I love the way this song moves. This is just an amazing song that encompasses where the genre was going around that era. 90s rap had some harder stuff in it, but a lot of it was born out of pop-style tracks which themselves still had that 80s disco flair to them. This was more what defined R&B in the 00s. You got a sound that's like the vocals of Boys 2 Men while getting that classic rap verse that defined groups/duos like Ill Al Skratch. Just fantastic. A track to put on repeat. 6. The Rooster - 8 Another great track. Just classic Outkast. The flow and the beat are excellent and really help the song change between the fast flowing raps and the melodic bridges & chorus really well. 7. Bust (feat. Killer Mike) - 7 A pass over track. Signing is good, rap is good, beat is great, instrumentals are solid but there's nothing out of this world about the track. 8. War - 9 First minute is excellent and left on an island once the song actually moves into the actual rap but that rap is exquisite. Phenomenal short tack. 9. Church - 10 Rap is amazing but the beat and the chorus, particularly and especially the chorus on this track are unreal. Incredibly well written song. 10. Bamboo (Interlude) - N/A 11. Tomb of the Boom (feat. Konkrete, Big Gipp & Ludacris) - 6 Rap is a different tone than the rest of the album and it doesn't work well here. Beat is alright but change of rappers and tones makes the track feel consistently off the mark. Too many cooks on this track. 12. E-Mac (Interlude) - N/A 13. Knowing - 8 Dirty beat on this but a solid track overall. Signing is quality, rap is very good, and the intermingling of voices is done so well to make the track an enjoyable sound overall. 14. Flip Flop Rock (feat. Killer Mike & JAY-Z) - 9 Strong from Outkast. The rap is quick and great with a beat that's absolutely fantastic sounding. I was a little bit hesitant about Jay-Z's part but he adds exactly the kind of supporting vocals that add a great volume to the track. Solid stuff. 15. Interlude - N/A 16. Reset (feat. Khujo Goodie & Cee-Lo) - 8 Good flow to the song with very good raps in it but overall the beat and rhythm are what carry this song to excellence. 17. D-Boi (Interlude) - N/A 18. Last Call (feat. Slimm Calhoun, Lil' Jon, The EastSide Boyz & Mello) - 6 The chorus is solid on the track but the verses don't sound great at all and that really leaves you with a sense of disappointment. 19. Bowtie (Postlude) - N/A 20. The Love Below (Intro) - N/A 21. Love Hater - 4 An extremely out of place track. Vocals are absolutely overpowered by instruments that sound like they are being played without a clear direction. Overall, the track is not really sounding like it should be on the album at all. 22. God (Interlude) - N/A 23. Happy Valentine's Day - 6 The rap in the second half of the song is fantastic but the opening is incredibly weak. Still, overall it's not a bad song. 24. Spread - 6 Pass over track. Not much to it and I'm not one that really cares for the imagery of the track. The change in tone of what The Love Below entails to what was on Speakerboxxx is not one I enjoy. 25. Where Are My Panties - N/A Speaking track so no rating. 26. Prototype - 7 Better song. Singing on the track is nice as is the beat and overall sound. 27. She Lives in My Lap (feat. Rosario Dawson) - 3 It's just a non-sense of a track overall. Signing isn't impressive on it, instrumentals are bang on average, and it's a track I could do without listening to again. 28. Hey Ya! - 10 This is just a great track. Instrumentally it's absolutely genius and vocally it's just as good. Amazing track to dance to that will easily be stuck in your head. 29. Roses - 6 The chorus is atrocious but the verses are very good. Instrumentally the song is good as well but I can't get past the horrendous lyrics in the chorus. 30. Good Day, Good Sir (Interlude) - N/A 31. Behold a Lady - 9 The bass on this is really enjoyable and the lyrics are just as fun. The verses are really really great too creating a magnificent track. 32. Pink & Blue - 8 Solid song with an AMAZING chorus on it. Just a great smooth track with absolutely enjoyable lyrics. 33. Love In War - 9 Vocals are amazing overtop of a solid beat and really overall enjoyable structure to the song. 34. She's Alive - 5 The monologues are a bit annoying as is the change in octave on the vocals at the very end of the track. Beat is good but the rest of the song is too poor for me to enjoy it. 35. Dracula's Wedding (feat. Kelis) - 9 Lighter song but it works so well. Vocals are almost therapeutic on this track and overall which you could easily overlook it, it's a solid piece of music. 36. The Letter - N/A 37. My Favourite Things - 1 I hate Christmas. 38. Take Off Your Cool (feat. Norah Jones) - 8 Lovely song with some soothing vocals. Bit of a standalone as it's more just acoustic guitar with the vocals but it works well as a wind down track on what has been a long double album. 39. Vibrate - 6 It's not a bad song. The beat is okay and I like the idea of it. It's just a little too repetitive and long. 40. A Life In The Day of Benjamin Andre (Incomplete) - 7 The rap in this is great but instrumentally it's a bit lost. The clapping in it is good but I have no idea what the point of the background sounds are for. Average Rating: 7.31 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 3.65 Round-Up: 4 Stars

1. Oh Boy! - 10 Great song with a great sound and even better lyrics. Really good song that you can't help but vibe and swing with. Just a masterpiece. 2. Not Fade Away - 2 Complete difference from the first track. The instruments unnecessarily pause between each line of the verse, are way too repetitive, and the background vocals are completely soulless. 3. You've Got Love - 1 Horrible bubblegum music. 4. Maybe Baby - 6 A better song than the previous too. Much better flow with the instruments and vocals with a decent chorus and verses. The verses are pretty short and there's not a lot to the song outside of them but it's not terrible either. 5. It's Too Late - 5 You're average love song about a girl upping and leaving a relationship and the sequential missing of that girl. Decent overall but it hasn't stood the test of time. 6. Tell Me How - 6 Instrumentally a decent song and you get a better glimpse at the vocal range and talent of Buddy Holly on this track. Ending is a bit weak. 7. That'll Be The Day - 8 Solid track. Instrumentally it's a lot stronger than the wishy-washy love songs that dominate a lot of the album. The background vocals add a lot of texture to the choruses. 8. I'm Looking For Someone To Love - 7 Good track. Guitar sounds great on this. Having previously gotten Elvis Presley's debut album, you definitely get the same vibe from this track. 9. An Empty Cup (And A Broken Date) - 1 Background vocals have way much more of a part on this track but it just feels out of place. Sometimes they lead the song, sometimes they don't, and sometimes the instrumentals drown them out. Lyrically the song is toothless.. It's a return to really bad bubblegum music. 10. Send Me Some Lovin' - 2 I'm not one for barbershop quartets and this exactly what the song sounds like. Way too much from the background vocals going on in this song, especially for how muted the instrumentals are at times. 11. Last Night - 2 The lyrics sound as if they're almost sung out of key and out of tempo with the instrumentals. Song starts with what is almost a prayer into another "miss you baby blue" style track. Nothing about it works. 12. Rock Me My Baby - 6 The drums so a lot of work for this song and they sound excellent. This is was more the swing type of rock and roll we've come to appreciate from the era. The final minute of the song is way better than the opening minute. Average Rating: 4.67 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.34 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

1. Blister In The Sun - 7 Instrumentally this is a brilliant track. The sound of the vocals is the issue I have with the track here. It's very rough sounding signing and the quiet part at the end of the song becomes hard to follow along with. 2. Kiss Off - 2 Horrendous opening into a very repetitive section into just... random talking? Absolutely no flow to the song. Completely random, completely directionless, completely pointless. 3. Please Do Not Go - 3 Just soulless sounding music. Lyrics are very random in tone, length, and delivery. Instrumentally it's okay but a bit basic. Guitar part in the middle is the only redeeming thing in the track. The mini-monologue towards the end is incredibly annoying to listen to. 4. Add It Up - 8 Much better sound with miles better lyrics than what has previously been on the album. Verses are solid and the chrous is really good as well. The rolling of the drum throughout is great and it makes the transition into the lighter part of the song seamless. Guitar adds a very nice compliment of sound to the feeling of anger and frustration the song portrays throughout before breaking out into a brilliant riff on the bridge at the half way mark. 5. Confessions - 1 Absolutely dreadful song with absolutely awful lyrics. Instrumentally there's not a lot to opine here as the song they are basically played like a funeral procession is going on. Guitar and drums finally kick in brilliantly 3 minutes in but outside of that it's an entirely uninspiring track. 6. Prove My Love - 6 Better song with a lot of fun in the instruments and even the background vocals. Overall a sound track. 7. Promise - 6 Sound is great and lyrically the song is fine. My issue is when the verse is broken with a speaking element like in the first verse. It just breaks the tempo and the feel of what the song is trying to portray. 8. To The Kill - 3 Lyrically the song stumbles all over itself before randomly signing "to the kill". Guitar in second half of the track sounds fantastic but it will randomly veer of course at times both a minute in and at the end of the solo/bridge. 9. Gone Daddy Gone - 10 Outrageously good song. Lyrically it's fantastic and the sounds of all the instruments each add a phenomenal amount of character to the track. The chorus is incredibly catchy to sing to. Just a brilliant track. 10. Good Feeling - 4 The piano on this track is the highlight. It sounds great but the lyrics are hard to follow along with in terms of their message and their meaning. Guitar in the middle sounds good. Other than that, it's a slow burner of a track. 11. Ugly (1983 Rough Trade UK Single) - 6 Overall not a bad track. The guitar sounds so incredibly dirty and amazing on this track. Lyrics follow a great tempo and tune but the verses are a bit odd and lose the plot a bit. Other than that, it's okay. 12. Gimmie the Car (1983 Rough Trade UK Single) - 1 Lyrically this song is abysmal and it's five full minutes of this unfortunately. There's nothing instrumentally that can save this song from being a complete and total abomination. Average Rating: 4.75 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.38 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

1. Jordan, Minnesota - 2 Vocals are completely drowned out. Instrumentally it's very experimental and at times very enjoyable, but overall the song is lacking anything that would make me want to replay it any time soon. 2. Passing Complexion - 6 Instrumentally this is freaking brilliant. The beat and the waning guitar sounds make this a track you will absolutely tap your feet to. Lyrically it's a bit lost but they're never on the track too much to ruin anything on it bar maybe the scream at the end. 3. Big Money - 5 Carbon copy the last song but a little less enjoyment in the instrumentals. Bang on average track. 4. Kerosene - 2 The instrumentals are the only thing keeping this off the bottom rating. Lyrically it's dry, repetitive, and completely boring. 5. Bad Houses - 2 Carbon copy the previous song's critique but this time the vocals are completely drowned out and absolutely pointless being on the track since you can never hear them well enough to make out what they're saying. 6. Fists of Love - 0 I try to keep things within a 1-10 range for tracks... but this was so outrageously and horrendously bad. The lyrics are completely uncompelling while the same riff and drum beat is on repeat for the entirety of the song. Mix in horrible sounding noises like nails across a chalkboard (yes, actual nails across a chalkboard sounding like noises are on this track) and you get something so bad it cannot be awarded a single point out of 10. 7. Stinking Drunk - 3 The guitar in the opening half is amazing but the entire second half of this song from the bridge onward is awful. 8. Bazooka Joe - 3 The opening half a minute to this track is needless. Guitars are outstanding on the track given this between both the chorus riffs and parts in between the verses/choruses. Signing and lyrics, as par for the course for the entire album, leave everything to be desired. 9. Strange Things - 1 A monotonous and incredibly boring track. 10. Cables (Live) - 1 It's just a completely lost song. Guitars on it are peaking and sound very very bad. Lyrics are just non-existent, incomprehensible, or barely even saying anything bar shouting "Rebel!". Average Rating: 2.5 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 1.25 Rounded Down: 1 Star

1. Synchronicity I - 9 What. A. Sound! You're greeted with an amazing array of sound before taking the dive into the track with some amazingly written lyrics. Reminds me of Ian Brown - F.E.A.R. the way it's very short and purposed rhyming but much like in that it works very well. Slightly repetitive in the ending but overall an amazing opening track. 2. Walking In Your Footsteps - 6 Way more repetitive track both lyrically and instrumentally. The verses are what really shines here on just how good they are but the rest of the track leaves a lot to be desired. 3. O My God - 7 Fun track. Lyrically it's pretty average but it's an absolute exploration of sound and part of what made The Police a fun band. The sax in the end to close the song out sounds very enjoyable. 4. Mother - 2 Vocally it's a completely different tone and it sounds absolutely awful. Lyrically the track is just absolutely awful in both the writing and the execution. Instrumentally it's okay but there's not a lot of degrees of separation from the monotonous, making the track overall a pretty bad experience. 5. Miss Gradenko - 6 Interesting track. I can't say it's any masterpiece or even excellent in its composition but I can't say it's a terrible listen either. Just a very strange track with a decent guitar and bass that are the two highlights of the piece. 6. Synchronicity II - 9 Another great sound. Lyrics are vocally a brilliant range and the change in octave and pitch between choruses, verses, and even the lines within is exemplary. Guitars sound absolutely awesome on this track and fade in and out in tensity to match the wide vocal range. Just a brilliant piece. 7. Every Breath You Take - 10 Masterpiece of a track. Guitars and drums lead in a great melody with some of the best lyrics on the whole album. There's a reason this track has stood the test of time, and you pick up on that immediately when listening to it. 8. King of Pain - 8 Solid track. Takes a minute to build into it but the choruses are met with a great guitar sound and the verses move along with a great complimenting bass line. Bridge contains some unique sounds as well that wonderfully add to the track. 9. Wrapped Around Your Finger - 10 Great track. The build into the crescendo is incredible. The fade out is perfect. The lyrics are absolutely awesome to sing along to. This is just an incredibly fun, slower track on the album. 10. Tea in the Sahara - 8 Great slower track. Bass provides such a huge foundation for the song. Vocally this sounds amazing as well. Very enjoyable. 11. Murder By Numbers - 10 Fantastic track! The sound is amazing and lyrically the song is incredibly strong. The vocal range between the lowest point at the start of the track to the heights of the chorus is absolutely stunning. By far and away the best track on the album. Absolutely stunning. Average Rating: 7.73 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 3.86 Rounded Up: 4 Stars

1. The Boy In The Bubble - 9 Wasn't sold on the intro but the song builds so well. Simon's vocals sound incredible and the instruments, while odd, work so well in harmony together. Absolutely fantastic beat on it as well. Solid track. 2. Graceland - 8 Solid song. Really great beat and tempo that will have you tapping your feet without knowing it. Simon's vocals again deliver a wondrous performance here. Bass sounds really great on this track as well. 3. I Know What I Know - 6 Not a bad song but lyrically it falls in and out of tempo and they are not as strong as the opening two track. 4. Gumboots - 3 Not a great opening and not great overall. Instruments are okay but the loud and leading instruments don't really do anything great for the track. Choruses aren't particularly too good either. 5. Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes - 5 Could do without the barbershop quartet on this track and quite frankly without the entire opening minute of the track before this random tempo and pace change into the actual part of the song. "Diamonds on the soles of her shoes" is repeated way too much in the song. "As if everyone here knew what I was talking about" belts out Simon. I don't. I think that's the problem here. 6. You Can Call Me Al - 6 Sounds brilliant outside of the lyrics. Verses are again in and out of tempo and tone. Choruses are solid but the absolutely woeful verses ruin the experience for me. 7. Under African Skies - 8 Much better track. Really wonderful sounding vocals with a wonderful assortment of guitars and strings. Very very enjoyable. 8. Homeless - 2 It's not the nature of the chanting I find an issue with because the chanting sounds very nice; it's just that I don't see a need on the album. It's such a gear change from the rest of the album that the track feels out of place. That's not to say songs need to be the same on an album either but it's just a random chanting track on what's been a folk/tropical/acoustic sounding album. 9. Crazy Love, Vol II - 6 Sound is excellent but the choruses are completely uninspired with how insanely repetitive. Verses are good but as is much the theme with the album some lines have too many words and it makes them feel like they're rushing to catch the end of the instruments playing before moving into the next line. Becomes hard to really follow along when that happens. 10. That Was Your Mother - 9 BRILLIANT sax on this track. Verses again feel rushed but what an amazing sound between the drums and the sax which masterfully falls into a background octave after it's awesome solo. 11. All Around The World or the Myth Of Fingerprints - 5 Lyrics make absolutely no sense for half the track but the signing is lovely and the instruments give this almost a Caribbean vibe. Overall, not a bad track to end with. Average Rating: 6.09 Adjusted To A 5-Point Scale: 3.05 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. Green Light - 8 Cookie cutter pop. Musically it's good and I'm a HUGE house music fan but I don't like the ebb and flow between really rigid verses into the way more shapeshifting vocal bridges into choruses. Vocally I feel like the track is all over the place at times but once you run through the whole song you can kind of see the intention in the different tempo of lyrics. It just makes me wishing there was more to it. Background vocals add a lot of great sound to the track. 2. Sober - 5 It's okay. Lyrically it's pretty boring. Musically it's okay but the tempo change leading into the outro doesn't fit really well together on the track. 3. Homemade Dynamite - 6 Beat is amazing during the choruses but lyrically this is dreadful. Shame because musically this sounds incredible. Easily could have been a 10/10 if the vocals were any sort of quality. 4. The Louvre - 1 Remember when Ke$ha was towards the top of the charts and it was a really terrible standard of music and people only realized this ten years later for some reason? Welcome to that revisited in 2017 with this track. Lyrically it's either extremely repetitive, completely dull, or just drivel. Musically it's just as dull. 5. Liability - 2 First verse was very rushed with the lyrics. Musically there's not much too it and there doesn't need to be, it's a slower song. The piano sounds just fine, but a track in which it's the only instrument means the vocals are emphasized even more and they're just not very good in terms of their lyrical writing. 6. Hard Feelings/Loveless - 6 Miles better track. Instrumentally/musically Hard Feelings is absolutely brilliant. Not sure why this needed to be a joint/combined/double song and not just 2 separate tracks, which is a shame because Loveless is such a dip in quality compared to Hard Feelings. Hard Feelings would be a 9 or 10 out of 10. Loveless is 1. Loveless is completely uninspiring in it's lyrics, which are by far and away the weakest part of that half of the track. 7. Sober II (Melodrama) - 4 Entire second half of the track is just the same lyric repeated over and over and over and over again endlessly. Beat is awesome on the track in the opening half and the build up to the strings is absolutely stunning. But the song itself I could do without. 8. Writer In The Dark - 4 It's an average song. There's not enough there for me to enjoy it but it's not poorly written like other songs on the album tend to be. It's too much of the Lady Gaga/Billie Eilish style for my personal tastes. 9. Supercut - 6 It's a slow burner. Opening minute is a drag to get through but when the song really opens up 2 and 1/2 minutes in it becomes enjoyable. Song does on for way too long but the instrumentals on the final minute during the drown/fade out aren't bad and you can live with the over-extended outro because of it. 10. Liability (Reprise) - 7 It's a decent reprise. Meant to be a pass over track given it's a reprise, you can really enjoy it one your way to the last sound. Sounds excellent. Having said that, this should have been the last song on the album and would have been a great way to close it. 11. Perfect Places - 5 Track was probably written specifically for radio play and it's very easy to tell that but the way the octaves change on the chorus with the sort of gospel like choir signing of it alongside Lorde. Outside of that the track is just generic 2010s pop. Nothing special about it. Average Rating: 4.91 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.45 Rounded Down: 2-Stars

1. Watch That Man - 8 Intro is solid, drums sound great, guitar sounds good, piano at the end is a brilliant addition. All around a great 70s sort of pop-rock like song and an absolutely brilliant way to open the album. 2. Aladdin Sane - 6 Very hard to stay with this song as instrumentally it's absolutely all over the place. Piano playing in the opening is amazing but then it takes this sort of eerie turn half way through. Sax makes an appearance before quickly ducking away and coming back later. The piano playing is great, but it's just all over the shop. 3. Drive-In Saturday - 8 Just a classic sounding Bowie track. Lyrically it's very very strong. The sax doesn't come in and out like the last track and helps undertones very well on the louder parts of the track. Overall, an enjoyable track. 4. Panic In Detroit - 6 It's okay. Drums are good and instrumentally it's enjoyable. Lyrically it's a little too repetitive and you kinda grow tired of the track 3 minutes into it. There's definitely much much better in Bowie's collection of tunes. 5. Cracked Actor - 9 Really good track. Guitars on it sound very very good and lyrics flow so well and are so catchy that you can't help but find yourself signing to them at some point. Absolutely awesome track. 6. Time - 9 Amazing track. Guitar solo on it is immense and sounds incredible. Lyrically it's brilliant too. It just goes on a little too long and repetitively in the final minute and a half. Aside from that, it's the best track on the album so far. 7. The Prettiest Star - 9 Really enjoyable track. Lyrically it's incredibly well structured with another awesome sounding guitar solo/bridge. Sax adds so much to the flair of the song as well and is the perfect instrument to guide the ending fade out. 8. Let's Spend The Night Together - 9 The bridge on the track is awful but the rest of the track is so incredible. Piano is the real highlight of the track here. The first two verses are also absolutely masterful. It's just a phenomenal track. 9. The Jean Genie - 10 Great track. Lyrically the choruses are brilliant while the verses build so well. It has a phenomenal ending to it as well. Guitar sounds so tame but brilliant in helping the pace of the song move along. Drums cannot be forgotten either. 10. Lady Grinning Soul - 10 Superb song to end the album on. The piano here is unbelievably good and the introduction of the guitar at the end of the song just ahead of the outro is absolutely perfect. Bowie's vocals do so well here in how they go from quick to slow, drag out notes for emphasis, and go all over a range of octaves. Absolutely an incredible ending. Best track on the album by far. Average Rating: 8.4 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 4.2 Rounded Down: 4 Stars

1. The Pain of Loving You - 7 Good sound. The intro I'm not overly in love with but the guitar moves along so well, especially in the middle solo. Not a big big country music person, but this is overall a decent track. 2. Making Plans - 3 It's not a bad song but I'm not a fan of it being a trio. This would be a lot better as a solo track. 3. To Know Him Is To Love Him - 6 Decent slow song. Would be great to put on at a dance. Lyrically it's very simple but effective. Instrumentally there's barely anything there to judge. Just an okay slow song. 4. Hobo's Meditation - 7 Lovely sounding instruments and the increase and fade in octaves in the choruses are fantastic. Classic country music sound. 5. Wildflowers - 8 Great track. Solo focus here works great and lyrically the metaphors about the wild flower are excellent. Chorus is the best part of the track. Overall it just sounds solid. 6. Telling Me Lies (with Dolly Parton & Emmy Lou Harris) - 3 Another slow song but this time it's enough to lull you to sleep. It's overall not a bad song, it's just very very simply. Overly simple. 7. My Dear Companion - 5 Guitar solo half way through is the highlight of the track. Another slow song but no where near as slow as the last one. Vocals build well to a crescendo in the last part of the track before fading into good background vocals. 8. Those Memories Of You - 9 Awesome track. Guitar sounds so incredibly good and lyrically it's an easy song to sing to. The strings in the bridge are an excellent touch. Best track on the album. 9. I've Had Enough - 1 It's a lullaby. 10. Rosewood Casket - 5 Decent country music track (if not a bit morbid in it's lyrics). Instrumentally it's extremely simple but the guitars are given a little bit of space to explore into during the bridge. Overall, it's okay. 11. Farther Along - 5 Really good work on the vocals going from one singer to the other. Decent track to end on given the selection on the album. In conclusion the album is decent for country music but it's just way way way too slow. There's not enough variety in the style of composition of the tracks that makes getting to this point a real slog. As for the track itself, it's one of the better slow songs with a solid build up into the final chorus. Almost a gospel like inspiration on the track. Average Rating: 5.36 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.68 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. Signing Winds, Crying Beasts - 8 Really love the synthesizer and the guitar sounds great. The build up and out into the next track is flawless. 2. Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen - 9 Lyrics are extremely simple and very repetitive, but the instruments are very clearly what lead the track. That's the intention at least and the guitar on Black Magic Woman is superb. Overall the sound is great on it. When the track picks up into Gypsy Queen it feels out of place until the guitar comes in more and the song crescendos. Fantastic piece of music. 3. Oye Como Va - 11 Musically this is a brilliant track. The guitar, the organ-like synthesizer, the very brief lyrics. Everything about this track is stellar. Absolutely unbelievable sound. 4. Incident at Neshabur - 9 Guitar sound is just outstanding on this track. I'm running out of superlatives to label these tracks because they all just sound so very very very good. The pace change is a bit sudden on it but it leads to some more awesome notes from the guitar. Piano is a lovely addition at the end of the track. 5. Se a Cabo - 8 Excellent. Just all around excellent. 6. Mother's Daughter - 10 Instruments are great on this track but unlike the rest of the album, it's got a lot of lyrics in it and they are exquisite. Santana's voice sounds really really good as does the excellent use of the drums, which often rolls the song both in and out of the lyrical parts of it. All of this before an amazing guitar solo to end the track. 7. Samba Pa Ti - 9 Slower song and an awesome listen. Guitar is the star of the show and builds up into the track brilliantly before becoming a full fledged solo. I originally was only going to give this a 7 or an 8 before that absolutely stunning guitar at the end. 8. Hope You're Feeling Better - 10 Lyrics are very very repetitive but how can you not love a song with that amazing a solo in the middle of it? And if that's not enough for you, you get another lovely one at the end. Instrumentally this is a complete masterpiece of a track. 9. El Nicoya - 6 Bit random to end the album on this track. It's also completely random given what else has been on the album. There's not much to it. Very simple lyrics and very simple instrumentally but I cannot be too harsh on the track because it's only 90 seconds. Average Rating: 8.89 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 4.45 Rounded Down: 4 Stars

1. So Far Away - 2 Completely monotonous in it's lyrics, the drums, and especially in the chorus. I want this song to stay so far away from me. It's very very boring. 2. Money For Nothing - 9 The guitar is really what you come here for and you're not disappointed. Brilliant sound. Lyrics contain some pretty heinous stuff which I understand for the era wasn't considered that and I also understand the meaning behind them in the track but it doesn't make listening to them any easier in the modern day. 3. Walk Of Life - 10 Vocals sound very good here and the guitar leads the song brilliantly. Very easy to find yourself singing along to it. 4. Your Latest Trick - 7 Sax sounds amazing on this track. Slower track which highlights the vocals more and they sound good on this piece. There's a few lines that are really rushed on the track where I think the verses suffer but overall, not that big or significant. 5. Why Worry - 5 Song is just way too long. Lyrically it's fine, instrumentally it's fine but it's so slow and so long it feels like I'm being lulled to sleep. Could have been 4 minutes. 6. Ride Across The River - 7 Interesting vibe on the track. Instrumentally it's very enjoyable over the 7 minutes. Lyrically it's a bit too simple. Still, you can't go wrong when the guitar plays out like it does on the end of the track. 7. The Man's Too Strong - 8 Guitars sound immense on this track. It builds and fades in and out of the more intense parts wonderfully. Very enjoyable. 8. One World - 10 Best track on the album. Guitar between the verses is brilliant. Drum line is amazing. Absolutely excellent sound. 9. Brothers in Arms - 9 Brilliant sound. Slower song but it's given the guitar space to really dominate the sound and it does so perfectly. Synthesizer at the end is excellent. Average Rating: 7.44 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 3.72 Rounded Up: 4 Stars

1. Public Service Announcement - N/A There's a few of these skits and what not on the album. Like any other album before it, they will not be rated. 2. My Name Is - 10 Eminem's flow on this track is incredible. He sounds on this track exactly how he does years and years later and his ability to move between lines is unmatched nor degraded by time. It's a brilliant introduction to the album and he goes from past experiences to raging at things in his life effortlessly. An all-time classic. 3. Guilty Conscious (feat. Dr. Dre) - 8 Very good opening minute moving between Dre (the good conscious) and Slim Shady (the bad conscious). Multiple scenarios as well, although some very grim in their description. The flow is impeccable and the piano adds an insane beat to the track. 4. Brain Damage - 9 The verses are an insane trip of imagery. The ending fade is the only part of this track that isn't enjoyable as it just repeats the line for too long. Still, it's a great track with the high quality raps on it. 5. Paul (Skit) - N/A 6. If I Had - 7 The verses are much better than the choruses here. They pain some personal, some relatable pictures of what happens in urban cities with people trapped in poverty-stricken neighbourhoods in the United States. It's a very powerful track in that sense but I feel the choruses lose that a little bit. 7. '97 Bonnie & Clyde - 5 The rap doesn't have as great a flow on this track but the verses are still alright. The choruses I could do without and they seem just like something that you have to get through in order to continue the story. 8. Bitch (Skit) - N/A 9. Role Model - 10 Flow is insane on this track. The move in and out of rhyme is incredible and the metaphor about role models after coming from the background Eminem did is stunning. Just a brilliant track. 10. Lounge (Skit) - N/A 11. My Fault - 3 The rap and flow is good but the lyrics and topic isn't anything phenomenal to worth listening to this song again. Choruses are painful to listen to. 12. Ken Kaniff (Skit) - N/A 13. Cum on Everybody - 7 Second verse is incredibly strong. It's a great look into the mindset of Eminem on this track and reminds me of why no longer associates with the Grammys or anything Hollywood related. Third verse is also pretty strong. 14. Rock Bottom - 10 Brilliant song. It really helps paint how bad poverty can be and how it leads to crime. It covers all the simple problems that slowly descend into the chaos of what rock bottom actually is. Phenomenal track. 15. Just Don't Give A Fuck - 7 Flow in the verses, especially the second verse, is excellent. Choruses are okay. Beat's not bad so overall, it's not a bad song. It's enjoyable but there's also much better on the album. 16. Soap (Skit) - N/A 17. As The World Turns - 8 Flow is good but the chorus struggle with the forced puns of soap opera titles. Still, the flow and rap on the verses is unmatched for almost three full minutes and Eminem continues to verbally assault those in life he would wish ill will on. An extremely angry track, you can hear his decent into unfiltered anger as the rap progresses in the track, which is a brilliant use of the medium of rap. 18. I'm Shady - 6 It's okay. The flow is fine but it comes and goes in its effectiveness. It's a track about setting the record straight, which it does, but it's not anything phenomenal. 19. Bad Meets Evil (feat. Royce Da 5'9") - 10 Brilliant performance from Royce Da 5'9" on this. His verses are exemplary and really exactly what guests on tracks should be. He's given so much space to match the rap and flow from the previous tracks on the album from Eminem. The story sections leading in and out are a nice addition to the track. Just all around an excellent piece of music. 20. Still Don't Give A Fuck - 10 What a strong to end the album on. The flow, the anger, the pure unrestrained personal grievances the track is one of the best on the album. It's absolutely what makes Eminem what he is and his music so popular. Average Rating: 7.86 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 3.93 Rounded Up: 4 Stars

1. Thunder Road - 8 Springsteen's vocals are a little hard to understand or make out on the track, but instrumentally this song is excellent. It gets increasingly better as the track progresses. 2. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out - 9 Very good track. The piano is the unsung hero of this song personally. It sounds amazing and the chorus is one line repeated but not enough to make the song redundant. All around a good track. 3. Night - 6 Instrumentally it's a great sound. I cannot, however, make out a word of what is being sung on this track. Vocally it just sounds completely incomprehensible. 4. Backstreets - 5 This song has the exact same problem Night does. Bruce is bellowing out his vocals but the hoarse nature of his voice down the lyrics into the loud bombastic music and make them almost impossible to follow. Guitar solo in the middle of the track is excellent, as is the piano that maintains the beat throughout the track. It's even greater on the bridges, which vocally are understandable but extremely repetitive, too much so. 5. Born to Run - 10 A summer anthem this. Arguably Springsteen's greatest ever track. Instrumentally it's outstanding and vocally it's was more understandable than the previous two tracks, with catchy lyrics that will make you want to sing along with it in full volume. The sax solo adds so much flavour to the track and is a classic Springsteen touch both in his line of work and on this album. Fantastic track. 6. She's The One - 6 Another mainly incomprehensible track but not entirely and the instrumentals are very enjoyable. 7. Meeting Across The River - 4 Vocally it's the weakest song on the album, even if it's way more understandable than the other tracks. I don't find Springsteen's voice historically to be all that great and this album has really highlighted that. Despite some excellent tracks like Born to Run, it's filled with a lot of songs you have to blow over because you just can't understand them and the ones that you do, like this track, it sounds as if octave and pitch are struggled to be held onto through the longer, final words of the lines no matter if they're found in the chorus or verse. The real strength of Springsteen is in his use the instruments he selects and how well they perform in harmony with each other. 8. Jungleland - 10 Best track on the album by far. Absolutely brilliant piano to start the track before an superb greeting of the other instruments. It's accompanied by an body moving guitar solo that elevate the song further. The sax raises the song up even further, leading to a wonderful collection of music. The ending two minutes somber but complete. Excellent track. Average Rating: 7.25 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 3.63 Rounded Up: 4 Stars

1. Young Americans - 10 The sax opens the track brilliant before the amazing vocals of Bowie lead the track. As it progresses, it continues to build into amazing sound. Everything about this track is so enjoyable to listen to. 2. Win - 7 The instruments in the open are great. Bowie's vocals are ok but lyrically the song is a bit random. It's not his strongest stuff by any stretch of the imagination. Background vocals add a lot of good sound to help you get through the track. 3. Fascination - 10 Guitar sounds great in the opening part of this track and Bowie's vocals are incredibly addicting to listen to. Background vocals are an awesome flavour and Bowie's vocals do an amazing job of leading in the drums and remaining instruments. Overall the track sounds amazing. 4. Right - 10 AMAZING guitar and sax on this track. The best track on the album by far. Bowie's vocal range is explored very well on this track as well. It's an amazing vibe with an incredible sound. 5. Somebody Up There Likes Me - 10 Brilliant instruments to open. The sax solo with piano support is absolutely incredible. Bowie's vocals are great and the background vocals elevate this song yet again. The wailing sax is brilliant during it's second solo in the bridge. Fantastic track. 6. Across The Universe - 8 It's a decent track. The vocal change in Bowie's style on this track is definitely out of place for the album and this could have easily been a track on Aladdin Sane as opposed to here. It's not a bad track overall, bit repetitive if anything but overall it's decent. 7. Can You Hear Me - 9 Brilliant ending with the vocals. A very smooth song. Sax is the star of the show here. Solid stuff. 8. Fame - 10 Brilliant track to end on. The waning vocals shouting fame with long spaces for the instruments to breathe is a superb touch. Outstanding track to end the album on. Average Rating: 9.25 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 4.63 Rounded Up: 5 Stars

1. 1/1 - 2 This sounds like a song that got rejected entry into the final release of the game Mini Metro. It's just ambient sound, a piano with no direction. Actually critiquing the music unlike Brian Edo's wishes: the piano builds up into some notes that are too loud and the music's volume is very unbalanced on the track, which can make it painful to listen to if you're not careful enough with the volume on in your headsets. On top of this, it goes on for far far too long. 2. 2/1 - 0 Mind numbingly boring music. Like monk chanting but without any character, change in tone, change in pitch, or change in octave. 3. 1/2 - 1 If you combined the first two tracks you'd get this song. That's literally all it is. 4. 2/2 - 2 Loud and obnoxiously droned out brass instruments with no clear direction or purpose. They just wane on and on for nine minutes. Average Rating: 1.25 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 0.63 Rounded Up: 1 Star

1. Introduction By Fats Gonder/ Opening Fanfare - N/A It's an introduction so it will not be rated. Please note that the instrumental bridges will not be either. 2. I'll Go Crazy - 9 Great song. Brown's vocals are impeccable. The blaring trumpets between the lines, concluding the chorus. Amazing song. Classic big band style music. 3. Try Me - 5 Pass over track. The vocals too minimal, too repetitive, and the instruments subdued so as not to drown Brown out. It just never gets going anywhere. 4. Instrumental Bridge #1 - N/A 5. Think - 6 Frantic song. Random clapping that sounds like it should be there for the whole song, which is under 2 minutes in length it will randomly stop. Instruments at times have the same randomness to them outside of the verse. Brown almost mumbles his lines instead of sing them. Overall, could be a lot better. 6. Instrumental Bridge #2 - N/A 7. I Don't Mind - 6 I don't mind this song. It's slower, little bit barbershop quartet until the very end. Nothing spectacular. 8. Instrumental Bridge #3 - N/A 9. Lost Someone - 3 Brown's voice is impeccable but the song is pointless. It just goes on and on and on and on with no real purpose. 10. Medley: Please Please Please/You've Got The Power/I Found Someone - 8 The medley starts great with a burst of sound before mellowing out in the later parts. Brown is insurmountable in his excellence on the track. It's exactly as a medley should be. 11. Night Train - 6 The beat is great, the tempo is good, the pause in the middle is unnecessary. The lyrics aren't anything phenomenal, just naming random places in the United States along the east coast. Average Rating: 6.14 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 3.07 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. Hells Bells - 10 Great sound. Guitar sounds amazing, including the solo in the bridge which is just excellent. The intertwined percussions on the drums sounds excellent. The lyrics are words you'd absolutely belt out along to when listening. Outstanding opening track. 2. Shoot to Thrill - 9 Another great sound. Bridge is really weak on the track but the opening 2-3 minutes are freaking excellent. The lyrics in the chorus is what really carries the track, along with the phenomenal drums. Guitar in the outro is another highlight. 3. What Do You Do For Money Honey - 9 Verses are great on this track. More great guitar and drum sound that encompasses what classic rock is. Solo in the bridge is the best of the 3 tracks so far. 4. Giving The Dog A Bone - 4 Guitar and drums are great but the track is lyrically way way too repetitive and completely uninspiring. 5. Let Me Put My Love Into You - 8 The choruses are alright but it's another exquisite guitar solo in the bridge. Enjoy the first verse a lot as well. Overall a decent song. 6. Back in Black - 11 Normally, I would penalize a song for being this repetitive but this is such a classic and the rifs, the solos, the drums are so legendary and iconic. It's just an all-time great track. 7. You Shook Me All Night Long - 10 Great verses and an even better sing-a-long classic of a chorus. Guitar sounds amazing between the lines of the choruses. Drums sound brilliant with the tempo they upkeep. Solo again in the bridge is one of the best on the album. 8. Have A Drink On Me - 10 Guitar sounds amazing in the intro and the build up is just sublime. The first verse is particularly enjoyable as well. Overall, a great track. 9. Shake A Leg - 8 Instrumentally I really enjoy this take but lyrically I find it a bit of a pass over track. It's not anything phenomenal. It's a good track if you like AC/DC's sound and you can enjoy it for that, but outside of that it's just another track on the album. 10. Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution - 7 It's got a great ending and I love the message of the song. Instrumentally it's okay. Lyrically it's a big average is all. Certainly not the best thing on the album but not a bad track to end it on either. Average Rating: 7.80 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 3.90 Rounded Up: 4 Stars

1. Wild Flower - 9 Vocals are alright on this track. It has a solid intro and a great guitar solo on the bridge. It's very very of it's era. The late 80s kind of hard yet still pop rock style that appeared out of Britain, also found in artists like Billy Idol. Overall, an enjoyable track. 2. Peace Dog - 6 Instrumentally it's good but lyrically it's a bit lost. It's hard to follow and even harder to understand. 3. Lil' Devil - 7 Bit repetitive but much better and easier to follow than the last track. Lyrically you'll find yourself singing along to the chorus quite a bit. Guitar rounds great on this track. 4. Aphrodisiac Jacket - 9 Song starts well enough. Lyrically it's a bit all over the place but the pausing in the middle of the song feels very unnecessary. Guitar solo is great though as are the drums and the supporting guitar. Really instrumentally a very enjoyable listen. 5. Electric Ocean - 3 Lyrically and instrumentally this song is uninspiring. It's a pass over track. The words have no meaning. Pair this with the fact that the sound isn't as good as the rest on the album and you get a kind of very boring song. 6. Bad Fun - 7 It's a fun song. Lyrically it's a bit simple in it's messaging, which is a theme for the album but the drum line is really fun on this track and the guitar compliments that stutter in between lines brilliantly. Chorus is a lot of fun. Overall a solid track. 7. King Contrary Man - 5 Chorus is boring. Guitar solo is enjoyable. The way the bass guitar is on this reminds me almost of Highway Star by Deep Purple but without a lot of the fun that made that track a classic. The bridge on this track is dull. 8. Love Removal Machine - 4 Elevator music kind of song. Boring, nonsensical, absolutely a pass over track. Guitar solo is the only enjoyable part of the track. 9. Born To Be Wild - 10 An all time classic. Great guitar, brilliant lyrics, awesome track. Not much more needs to be said about it. 10. Outlaw - 10 Another awesome track and the best on the album. Guitar sounds so great with the tempo it leads the track with. Also has a great ending. 11. Memphis Hip Shake - 3 Annoying song. The first half of it very average in both sound and song. Then you get to the ending and it's monotonously repetitive to the point where you're ready for the track to just end. Average Rating: 6.64 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 3.32 Rounded Down: 3

1. Wheels of Confusion/The Straightener - 9 Solid vocals paired with an absolutely massive lead guitar. Great riffs are paired with a solid drum that leads the track between the pleasing verses and great instrumental segments. This is a double track, which Wheels of Confusion being the shining song of the two. Having said that, The Straightener is a purely instrumental part of the song and it's brilliant with an awesome guitar solo. 2. Tomorrow's Dream - 8 Solid track. Great good vocals and a great guitar sound. The percussions on the drums sound excellent. Overall a pleasant sound. 3. Changes - 11 Brilliant song. I heard the Charles Bradley cover and it's just as good. Lyrically it's an unbelievable song. Instrumentally it's just as strong. Incredible piece of music. 4. FX - 0 Pointless piece of music. 5. Supernaut - 8 Solid song. Mostly instrumental but they're very good outside of the bridge which I find a little bit dull. Lyrics, when they are there, are great. 6. Snowblind - 9 Incredible guitar right at the halfway mark of the track and again in the outro. Absolutely amazing sound. It tone changes twice in the track which one the second one comes a bit without warning but it eventually builds back into the great sound we've come to love from Black Sabbath. 7. Cornucopia - 6 Another song with a tone shift half way through. Song instrumentally just feels too all over the place. Can't really get into it because all the tempo and beat changes. Leaves you exhausted with it by the end. 8. Laguna Sunrise - 7 Pure instrumental but a great sound. Acoustic guitar sounds really nice alongside the strings. 9. St. Vitus' Dance - 7 Lead guitar is so nice on this track and leads the song well. The lyrics leave a little to be desired in the first verse, but overall it's a decent track. 10. Under The Sun - 8 Decent song. Really great drum line on it but the octave of the lyrics is really off-putting in the middle part of the song. Almost reminds me of a track on the SNES game Uniracers. Ending sound on the guitars and drums is really good. It's a solid way to conclude the album. Average Rating: 7.30 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 3.65 Rounded Up: 4 Stars

1. Summer Babe (Winter Version) - 6 Guitars are nice but the lyrics are just random. It's just a bang average song. Nothing phenomenal but nothing horrible. 2. Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite At :17 - 4 Awful sounding vocals with lyrics that make absolutely no sense and are monotonously repetitive in the choruses. There's glimpses of niceties in the track but not enough to warrant a second play of it. 3. No Life Singed Her - 0 If I never hear this song again in my life, I'll be happy. 4. In The Mouth A Desert - 2 Lyrically this track is awful. Sound is okay but not anything groundbreaking. If budget Nirvana existed, this song would an example of such. 5. Conduit For Sale! - 0 Horrendous opening into a very unpleasant verse. The chorus is literally just "I'm trying" being yelled over and over again, which increases in octave as the song progresses. I'm trying to like this album too, but it's just not happening. 6. Zurich Is Stained - 8 Much better sound, much better lyrics. Significant improvement but the slower tempo suggests this will just be a reprieve before going back into the previous sounds of the album. Still, for what it's worth this track is nice. 7. Chelsea's Little Wrists - 1 This song is all bogged down by the need to be something different. Sound in it is strained but lyrically it's an abomination especially the ending. 8. Loretta's Scars - 3 Instrumentally this is a lot better than previous tracks but lyrically it still lacks anything and everything that would make this track enjoyable. Sick guitar solo at the end though. 9. Here - 2 A very bad song. Much slower tempo on this track as well but unlike Zurich Is Stained, it's lyrically extremely poor in quality. 10. Two States - 1 Guitar solo at the end of the opening verse is the only redeeming thing about this song. Lyrically it's devoid of any character. 11. Perfume-V - 5 Lyrics are a bit repetitive but it's a much better song overall. Very enjoyable to sing a long to. Light enough to be able to enjoy it and move on. 12. Fame Throwa - 1 Another nonsensical track. Instrumentally it's absolutely all over the place as well. Noise for three minutes before the next track. 13. Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era - 5 Lyrically it's way too repetitive and simple, repeating only one line of lyrics constantly. Having said that, the track is mainly instrumental in nature and the opening is very strong. The middle part of the track which sees more instruments introduced into it becomes a bit too much sound but overall it's not a bad track. Ending is also too abrupt. 14. Our Singer - 2 The song is just too random despite a great opening building into it. Also ends way too abruptly. This is the track that would basically decide whether or not you'll like Pavement. If you listen to this and enjoy it, you'll enjoy the album. If you don't, skip the album. You will not miss out on anything. Average Rating: 2.86 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 1.43 Rounded Down: 1 Star

1. Suite II Overture - N/A Interludes/Overtures will not be rated. 2. Dance or Die (feat. Saul Williams) - 6 It's not a bad song but it's just not the type of pop or music I'm big into. Very hard to follow the lyrics in this track because of the auto tune effect on it. Guitar solo in the bridge in unbelievable though. 3. Faster - 6 Catchy song. The tempo and beat are awesome on this track. Vocals in the verses are very very enjoyable but the choruses leave a bit to be desired. The middle part of the song is nowhere near as enjoyable as the first half and ending of the track.. "I'm shaking like a Skittle" is such an awful lyric too. 4. Locked Inside - 7 The sound is like that of Jesse J/Pixie Lott. It's not bad and there's parts of the vocals that are really enjoyable. Sounds like it should be on a summer vibes album or a DOAX soundtrack. Much like other tracks however, there are too many tone/tempo/beat changes. It becomes hard to understand whether you're on the same track or have moved onto the next one as the album contains seamless transitions. 5. Sir Greendown - 5 It's an okay song. The quality of the sound of the vocals is great but the actual wording of the vocals is a bit average. Song sounds exactly as much. 6. Cold War - 5 The tone/tempo change in between the middle of the versus ruin the enjoyment of the experience after what is an amazing chorus. Guitar solo at the bridge is okay. 7. Tightrope [Big Boi Vocal Edit] (feat. Big Boi) - 6 Tempo, beat, and instrumentally this song is absolutely brilliant. Lyrically it has strengths and weaknesses that balance each other out to find somewhere in the median. Decent track. Bridge in particular is pretty bad over all. 8. Neon Gumpo - 1 Pointless track. 9. Oh, Maker - 4 Another decent track. Nothing vocally or instrumentally fantastic about it. It's of a different tone from the first eight tracks of the album. When you think the track ends at first it doesn't, spawning instead a pointless instrumental section that's completely out of place on the track. 10. Come Alive (War of the Roses) - 5 Great track until the screeching, way too high octave signing at the back of the second chorus, into the bridge, and leading into the outro. Drums and guitar are amazing on this track and it's instrumentally one of the best on the album so far. 11. Mushrooms & Roses - 1 The entire sound of the track is unpleasant. The vocals are given an unnecessary reverb effect that drowns them out entirely. The guitar solo is nice but suffers from the same effect, essentially swallowing the song in a puddle of incomprehensible noise. 12. Suite III Overture - N/A 13. Neon Valley Street - 3 The chorus is way too repetitive and the verses have the terrible reverb effect on them, not not as bad and pronounced as in Mushrooms & Roses. Guitar solo in the bridge to outro is absolutely incredible however. Brilliant sound to end the track on but you have to struggle to get there. 14. Make the Bus (feat. Kevin Barnes & Of Montreal) - 1 Lyrically it's not a good track. The sound of the vocals with the effects on them is undesirable. Instrumentally the track is all over the place as well. The track is a complete tone change. It's Ke$ha like in its construction. That's not a compliment. 15. Wondaland - 4 Vocally it's unpleasant it's unpleasant in the verses. The structure of the song between chorus and verse and back is ok. The chorus is very catchy though and that's the most enjoyable part of the song. 16. 57821 (feat. Deep Cotton) - 3 It's just not my style of music. It's a well written track, a very well written track at that. This one just comes down to it being not the sound and style of music I enjoy. 17. Say You'll Go - 5 Second half of the song is brilliant but the first half is hit and miss. Piano in the second part is very very enjoyable. 18. BaBopByeYa - 6 The opening 2 and a half minutes are outstanding and if the album contained more of that, it would have been rated better. The tone change is a bit of a break of what has otherwise been a phenomenal sound. It thankfully doesn't ruin anything unlike in previous tracks and helps build and elevate the sound, particularly the vocals. This is until the track fades into the second half of the song and another tone change which isn't as enjoyable as the boisterous vocals and jazzy undertones in the first half of the track. They eventually make their return, but you're long waiting for the track to end by this point. Average Rating: 4.25 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.22 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

1. Peter Piper - 9 Amazing hip hop. Great flow to the lyrics and the beat is immense. This is what spanned the sound we love today. 2. It's Tricky - 10 An all-time classic. Flow is unmatched in this track. Absolutely legendary sound. 3. My Adidas - 7 Flow is great, beat is great, and some of the lyrics are awesome. The topic of the song is a bit uninspiring but overall it's not a bad track. Probably could have been shorter. 4. Walk This Way (feat Aerosmith) - 11 Exactly how a crossover/guest/sample should be. Amazing track combining two completely different forms of music. It is so hard to do, but it is completely masterfully on this track. Another all-time classic. 5. Is It Live - 7 This is a really good example of what made this album so game-changing. The rhymes within structured rhymes. The bridges of lyrical rhymes that connect one standard line of the verses to the next. Vocal lyrical poetry. 6. Perfection - 5 It's just not as strong as previous tracks. It's not bad but the lyrics are a lot less hype and a lot less strong than previously. Too repetitive as well in the second half of the song. 7. Hit It Run - 6 Solid hip-hop. Lyrically it is better than Perfection and the flow is a little bit better. Has some solid scratching and beat boxing in it as well. Enjoyable track. 8. Raising Hell - 10 Brilliant track. The drums are made to sound like that of a gun and the flow and beat is incredible. Mixed with a great sounding guitar that's given space to dominate the song with a great solo, this track is everything great about another mix between rock and hip-hop. 9. You Be Illin' - 6 Beat is amazing! Lyrics leave a bit to be desired. The purpose of the song is just kind of lighthearted but also meaningless. Chorus is very repetitive. 10. Dumb Girl - 4 It's just not a great song. It's lyrically not great but the beat just isn't as enjoyable as other tracks on the album either. Bit of a pass over track. 11. Son of Byford - N/A Track is too short to warrant a rating. 12. Proud to be Black - 7 Much better than the previous 2 rated tracks. A return to what is so enjoyable about Run-D.M.C. Lyrically the flow is great, the message is great, and the beat is solid. Mix in some excellent scratching and you get an all around decent track. Average Rating: 7.45 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 3.73 Rounded Up: 4 Stars

1. Albatross - 1 Vocally it does not sound good and the guitars are pleasant at times, noisy at others. Lyrically it's hard to follow as well, with a lack of meaning or any substance in the lyrics themselves. 2. Memories - 1 It's more of the previous track: lyrics I cannot follow or that have no real purpose. Vocals I do not enjoy. Bass line is solid on this track but the rest of the instruments are not enjoyable. 3. Swan Lake - 3 Rinse and repeat. Guitars and drums are more enjoyable on this track. 4. Poptones - 3 The non-singing parts are better than the singing parts. 5. Careering - 0 Dreadful sound. 6. No Birds - 2 Guitars are nice at times. They are the only highlight for the track. 7. Graveyard - 1 Noise with no structure. 8. The Suit - 0 Horrendous track. The vocals sound insanely dull and lyrically it's not strong at all. The worst track on the album. 9. Bad Baby - 2 Bass is a lot more enjoyable on this track but it is the only redeeming thing about it. Vocals are just as bad as any of the others. 10. Socialist - 2 Purely instrumental track. 11. Chant - -1 I seriously debating giving this a -1 and as I listened to more absolutely was convinced to give it the score. It is the worst track I've listened to so far in the 1001 Albums Challenge (Day 34). Pure noise. 12. Radio 4 - 0 Purely organ-like music. Now I love a good organ (example: Dancing Mad from Final Fantasy VI), but this is just slow and melodic. As if I was in a church but not even the Lord himself can save this album or the rating I will bestow upon it. Average Rating: 1.17 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 0.58 Rounded Up: 1 Star

1. Motion Sickness - 8 Yes, the lyrics are very repetitive but instrumentally/musically it's an incredibly fun song. Very good beat that builds very nicely at the opening before the lyrics even arrive and peak in a wonderful collection of vocals and sound. Solid opening track. 2. How Do You Do? - 8 More great sound. The beat builds well into the chorus, which is an explosion of sound that you cannot help but dance to. It's a great take on an almost house-style of music that dominated the clubs in the 90s and 00s. To me, that is the best sub-genre of EDM music and the base with which all EDM eventually returns to. This is a solid track as an example of that. 3. Don't Deny Your Heart - 4 Cheesy bubblegum electro pop. 4. Look At Where We Are - 6 It's an alright love song. Little bit repetitive, little bit simple, but it's effective and got some great sounds in it overall. A decent track. 5. These Chains - 10 Solid track. Good vocals and great sound. The change between chorus and verses are excellent as is the beat. This is excellent EDM and a highlight of what the genre is. 6. Night and Day - 6 Beat is really really good but lyrically it's all over the place. Lyrically it's almost as if the second half of the song is completely different from the first. Overall a decent track but with better lyrically direction it could have been a lot better. 7. Flutes - 11 Amazing sound with an excellent build. Best track on the album so far. Lyrically it's got a solid flow as well. Amazing piece of music that got more than two plays right out the gate. 8. Now There Is Nothing - 3 Lyrically all over the place after what is an incredibly weak opening. Sound isn't nearly as good as the previous track either. Probably the worst track on the album so far. 9. Ends of the Earth - 7 Decent track overall. Beat is amazing, vocals are good, lyrics are good. This isn't anything that will blow your mind but it's pretty enjoyable. 10. Let Me Be Him - 10 Great track. Really enjoyable vocals that reminds me a lot like the best of Tame Impala. Musically it's really enjoyable too. 11. Always Been Your Love - 6 It's an okay song. The bridge is the worst part of it and kind of a bit of a dead spot in the song but outside of that it's a very standard song. Nothing bad or exceptional about it. Average Rating: 7.18 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 3.59 Rounded Up: 4 Stars

1. So Many Sides Of You - 10 Bobby Womack's vocals are incredible on this track. The bass is amazing and the drums brilliant lead the track from one line to the next. The background vocals help define this track as a classic soul track. Absolute perfection this track. 2. Lay Your Lovin' On Me - 9 Sax solo is amazing as are the vocals. Really great track with some amazing bass on it as well. Brilliant piece of music. 3. Secrets - 5 Lyrically it's just not as strong. I don't need a significant portion of the song, any song really, to be dedicated to Kentucky Fried Chicken or apple pie. 4. Just My Imagination - 6 Solid love song. Bass sounds great and the lyrics are solid. It's not anything that will blow you away but it's a decent track. 5. Stand Up - 7 Instrumentally this song is a lot more fun than the previous track but lyrically it's a lot weaker, at least in the verses. Choruses are fun at times but it's not enough to really say the entire track is an enjoyable experience. Instead it's just a okay, middle of the road track. 6. Games - 7 Solid track. Pretty simple lyrics but still sung brilliantly and the instrumentally it's a very enjoyable song. The piano is a lovely accompanying instrument and the drums are paired to well with the vocals on this track. 7. If You Think You're Lonely Now - 6 Really weak opening lyrics. It's not a bad song but there's much much better on the album already. 8. Where Do We Go From Here - 7 Decent song to end the album on. Enjoyable albeit a bit repetitive at times it's a lot slower a track than the highest rated ones on the album so far. Solid sound overall. Average Rating: 7.13 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 3.56 Rounded Up: 4 Stars

1. Sun It Rises - 4 Banjo and guitars sound good but lyrically it's a forgettable track. The kind of track that just mellows out into a background sound, like the type you'd hear in a department store fitting room. 2. White Winter Hymnal - 5 It's exactly like the first track in terms of the critique I have. Instruments are a little heavier this time, including an electric guitar, but the structure is exactly the same as that first track. 3. Ragged Wood - 7 Much better sound both vocally and instrumentally. All around a decent track, even with a more mellow tone from the start of the song that leads into the bridge, which builds well. Solid stuff. 4. Tiger Mountain Peasant Song - 6 It's an okay song. Vocally it's great, instrumentally it's very simple. Lyrically it's good. Not anything that will rock your socks off. 5. Quiet House - 1 It's way too repetitive. By the end of the three and a half minutes you are almost begging for the track to turn over. 6. He Doesn't Know Why - 8 The piano at the end feels unnecessary but it still sounds nice and overall this is a good sounding track. Vocals on it are really enjoyable and the highlight of the song. 7. Heard Them Stirring - 7 It's a hymn and there are no actual lyrics. Having said that, the sound is quite pleasant and the beat of the drum is the highlight of the track. Enjoyable even if overly simplistic. 8. Your Protector - 9 The vocals are solid on this track and the drum has an amazingly quiet role in helping push the song along in a very good fashion. The strums of the guitars sound excellent. 9. Meadowlarks - 10 Lovely song. Lyrically strong, instrumentally a brilliant tone that sets the mood for what is a grim metaphor. Best track on the album. 10. Blue Ridge Mountains - 8 Fun sounding song but the tempo pace between the quick parts (which are brilliant) and the slow parts tend to suck the life out of the song a little bit. It's not that the song shouldn't have them, but they're too frequent and sudden that it becomes hard to enjoy just how good the full crescendo of instruments are. 11. Oliver James - 2 Vocals dominate the track but lyrically it doesn't hold up. The track is confusing in its meaning and does not have much instrumentals to offer as a rebut. Those instrumentals also cut out before the vocals at the only thing left to lead the track. Weak song to end the album on. Average Rating: 6.09 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 3.05 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. No Action - 2 Bad pop rock music. Lyrically it's a cardboard cutout song with a boring chorus. 2. This Year's Girl - 4 It's a cross between budget Bruce Springsteen and budget Beach Boys. The vocals don't sound great at all. Instrumentally it's ok. Bubblegum pop rock. 3. The Beat - 2 It's more of the same problems as the first two tracks. Lyrically this track is all over the place and none of it makes sense. 4 - Pump It Up - 10 Great sound on the guitars and the drums. Solid lyrics accompany them as well. All round a great track. Deserves to be on a sports game like NHL. 5. Little Triggers - 3 Very repetitive and boring of a track. Vocals sound awful on it. 6. You Belong To Me - 1 Sho whop do whop rock. A lot of it hasn't stood the test of time from the stuff released in the 50s. This is absolutely no different. An age of music well and truly gone. 7. Hand In Hand - 2 It's the sound of his voice I definitely don't like the most. Singing "hand in hand" more than ten times over and over and over and over again is not helping matters. 8. (I Don't Want To Go) Chelsea - 1 This song absolutely makes no sense and Costello's vocals do it no helping. It's the pronunciations of the words and emphasis on specific syllables that turn me off from the artists and the song. 9. Lip Service - 2 It's a budget Beach Boys track. I'm not one who particularly likes The Beach Boys either so it washes over me as an annoying track more than anything else. 10. Living in Paradise - 1 More cardboard cut out bubble gum pop rock. "Oooo I loved you baby but now it's over" music. The kind you've already heard a million times done better. 11. Lipstick Vogue - 2 Same exact thing as the previous track but with better drums on it. 12. Night Rally - 0 Lyrically this track is abysmal. Starts extremely poorly before the verses come in but the lower vocals in the bridge do paint Costello as a great singer and then the track just repeats "night rally" over a dozen times. 13. Big Tears - 1 Vocally and lyrically this is a tough track to get through. Instrumentally it's a very cookie cutter track. 14. Radio, Radio - 3 Lyrically and instrumentally a much better track. The vocals still sound bad but overall it's a significant improvement from the songs before it on the album. Average Rating: 2.43 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 1.21 Rounded Down: 1 Star

1. Sail Away - 5 Lyrically it's very strong at times. "We will cross the might ocean in the Charleston Bay" is a great line. The rest of the lines about America are a bit dull. Instrumentally the piano and strings are a fantastic sound. 2. Lonely At The Top - 5 It's a good concept for a song but it's lyrical execution is very poor. You don't really understand why it's "lonely at the top". Very simple song but just too simple at times. 3. He Gives Us All His Love - 3 Slow Jesus music. The strings are nice but it's just so over-simplistic and unnecessary. 4 - Last Night I Had A Dream - 6 Musically and instrumentally this song is fantastic. Such an amazing sound. Lyrically it's incredibly weak, especially in the chorus. Outro's guitar sounds excellent. 5. Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear - 7 Solid track. Very upbeat with decent lyrics and piano play that makes this a very light hearted, happy, and enjoyable track. 6. Old Man - 11 Beautiful song. It will move you to tears. 7. Political Science - 7 Solid song with a good meaning wrote very well to make it's point perfectly. As a satire, it's a solid track. 8. Burn On - 3 It's not a bad song I just don't understand the point of it. Instrumentally it's fine and lyrically it's okay. It's just very random. 9. Memo To My Son - 7 Solid track. Very upbeat and enjoyable. 10. Dayton, Ohio - 1903 - 5 Vocals sound good and the piano is solid. Very simple song however that passes by very very quickly. 11. You Can Leave Your Hat On - 2 Another completely random song in its lyrical composition. The instruments are extremely monotonous on the track and as such it just doesn't go anywhere. 12. God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind) - 3 The intention of the song is very good but the track itself is just all over the place. At times brilliant, at other times lost, and at other times a struggle to listen to much like the lyrics try to paint the world as. The album would be better off if this was dropped off the end of it. Average Rating: 5.33 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.66 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine - 10 Brilliant vocals and an amazing sound with the bass, guitar, and drums. Really strong opening track. Absolute belter of a chorus too. 2. Mr. Brightside - 11 An all time great. The verses are exquisite but the chorus is an absolute masterpiece of song writing. The percussions on the drums as so much to the sound of the track as does an absolutely incredible bass track. Just perfection in a song. 3. Smile Like You Mean It - 10 Another great track with amazing lyrics in the verses. The guitar waning undertone is a brilliant touch. Bass again pins the track down with an amazing sound that it guides through. Guitar solo in the center of the track is solid. Bridge is very good as well but the outro is particularly fantastic. 4. Somebody Told Me - 10 Verses are really solid but the chorus' flow is exquisite and a real break from the opening three tracks on the album. Sound of the instruments is brilliant with the drums building and fading where needed superbly. Great track. 5. All These Things That I've Done - 11 Brilliant opening with a superb introduction by the drums. The guitar buildup is absolutely legendary. The flow of the verses are amazing and the way choruses are insanely good. The middle drop down into the building bridge is absolutely historic. Best track on the album. 6. Andy, You're A Star - 9 Solid sound. Much more repetitive track than anything previously but the guitars are in rhythm perfectly with the lyrics. Chorus is really solid. 7. On Top - 6 It's a good sound but lyrically it's a bit stale. 8. Change Your Mind - 8 Decent track. The guitar leads in very well before the bass is given the spotlight ahead of the drums inclusion. Great bass track leads the whole song and the lyrics are brilliantly flowing from line to line. Solid stuff. 9. Believe Me Natalie - 5 Middle part of the track is very confusing. Flow of the vocals is the weakest it's been on the album so far. Opening two minutes is very very good but it's too many tone changes in the track it just becomes hard to follow. 10. Midnight Show - 9 Good song. Some of the lyrics in it are magnificently written about the art of deception relationships can take on. Overall it's very enjoyable. 11. Everything Will Be Alright - 4 Way too repetitive a track. Musically it's very good and the guitar solo in the outro is enjoyable. Lyrically it's just very dull. 12. Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll - 5 Instrumentally this song is a lot more fun than the last track but lyrically it's just way too repetitive. Song would have been better had it been two minutes instead of four and a quarter. Average Rating: 8.91 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 4.45 Rounded Down: 4 Stars

1. Hello Morning - N/A Track is under a minute and more a warm up track than anything else so it would be harsh to rate it. 2. Assassins - 4 Decent sound at times but at times also really drowning in itself. This is MUCH better noise rock than the previous albums from the genre I received in this challenge. 3. Dracula Mountain - 2 Some nice instrument play in this but the song is too long and it wears on you after two and a half minutes. 4. 2 Towers - 0 It just a monotonous droning that never ends. Opening minute is a terrible sound. 5. On Fire - 0 The sound just isn't good with the guitars peaking and screeching unpleasantly very often throughout the track. 6. Crown of Storms - 2 The main rift is awesome in this track but everything else in it is a waste of good vinyl. 7. Longstockings - 0 Guitar sounds like one of those terrible high school recorders kids would buy for band before slipping into pointless, directionless, and riftless noise during the second half. 8. Wonderful Rainbow - 1 The track builds to nothing and still contains random guitar peaking/screeching. 9. 30,000 Monkies - 0 Literally just noise. No purpose, no meaning, no concept, no quality. 10. Duel In The Deep - 0 No clue why this even exists. Average Rating: 0.9 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 0.45 Rounded Down: 0 Stars. 1 star is given as 0 stars is not an eligible rating to give.

1. Court and Spark - 5 Lyrically solid, instrumentally good. Overall a solid opening track to the album. Not anything fantastic but not anything poor either. Just a decent track. 2. Help Me - 7 Great sound. Vocals and guitar are absolutely exquisite on this track. Beat takes a little to get used to but overall it's a good track. 3. Free Man In Paris - 6 Another nice and lovely sound of vocals and guitar. Just like the track before it. 4. People's Parties - 2 Vocally this sounds great but the speed and tempo crash into each other. For example some lines lyrically are in line with the music and other others are sped up and sung really quickly so as to fit the sentence in before the guitar is one it's chords. The longer held notes at the end do not sound good either. Leaves the track feeling too rushed. 5. The Same Situation - 4 Solid but overall average song about searching for love. Nothing remarkable. 6. Car On A Hill - 7 Jazzy track unless the previous 5 on the album. The sax sounds great, as does the piano. Lyrically it's the strongest track on the album so far. Just an overall great track. 7. Down To You - 4 Another song that lyrically feels very rushed. The tempo of the lyrics make the song feel miles all over the place. Background singers feel out of place with how the opening two minutes are as do some of the instruments. Just not a great track. 8. Just Like This Train - 4 Instrumentally it's a bit odd. The pitch is gets too high on a lot of the ending rifts to the lines, at least too high for my liking. Vocals are less of the all over the place style of the previous tracks I've struggled to get through but still threaten at times to return to that random pattern. Overall just an incredibly odd song. 9. Raised on Robbery - 9 Brilliant track. Much more jazzy than anything else on the album but brilliant. Lyrically strong, musically a joy, overall just a solid track with a lot of love about it. 10. Trouble Child - 4 Again the pace is all over the place and the track becomes extremely hard to enjoy because of it. The lines of the verses just crash into each other because of this. It just feels like it could have been better written. 11. Twisted - 2 Like one of those bad solo singers in an underground coffee shop. Again the pace loses itself at times and it happens during the time when Joni's pitch reaches it's highest, which only drowns the actual words out into sound. Lyrically it's very weak on top of that. Forgettable track. Average Rating: 4.90 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.45 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

1. Around the World - 7 Good sound. The guitars sound great but some of the lyrics are very very weak on the track, particularly in the opening verse and in the bridge. Could have been a lot strong but the flow of the track is fantastic. 2. Parallel Universe - 10 AMAZING sound. The vocals do so well and the guitars are absolutely stunning. Just a great track. 3. Scar Tissue - 9 Great sound. Lyrically the choruses are amazing and the guitar in the bridge is absolutely superb to listen to. 4. Otherside - 11 I sung this song all throughout uni. Absolutely belter. Lyrics and instruments all sound excellent. Brilliant track. 5. Get On Top - 4 Lyrically this track is absolutely awful. Guitar sounds excellent on it but it's not enough to look past the bad lyrically performance. 6. Californication - 10 An all time classic. Brilliant vocals, especially in the verses. These are met with an excellent undertoned guitar in the verses and a crescendo of awesome rock sound in the choruses. 7. Easily - 5 It's an average, okay song. Lyrically it's a bit simple. Instrumentally it's not as loud and enjoyable and unique as the previous tracks. A pass over track. 8. Porcelain - 4 It's just an average middle of the road slow song. 9. Emit Remmus - 3 The rifts on this are excellent but lyrically it's very boring. Vocally it doesn't sound very good. 10. I Like Dirt - 1 Lyrically it's the weakest track on the album. Very lyrically a pointless a track. 11. This Velvet Gone - 8 Much better track. Love the verses and the choruses, especially the way the guitar goes from chord to chord. The drum's percussions leading the undertone of the song through the verses is brilliant work. It adds to what a chorus really should be: the main message of a song that is meant to be bellowed out louder than the rest. Solid work. 12. Savior - 7 Guitars at the opening are an amazing sound. Drumline is led brilliant by the deep base that helps build in and out of the lower bridge at the beginning. Sleigh bells probably don't need to be one the track however. It makes the bridges feel really out of place. 13. Purple Stain - 1 Pace of the song is painful to listen to and the lines about California are toothless. Verses are the worst part of the track. 14. Right on Time - 1 Way too repetitive and the lyrics are insanely hard to keep along with. Worst track on the album. 15. Road Trippin' - 7 Chords and the bass are the highlights of the track. They're absolutely brilliant and the addition of the strings is absolutely perfect. Lyrically okay, the sound of the vocals and the range used is excellent. Solid ending to the album. Average Rating: 5.87 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.93 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. The Fear - 8 A track that's like a modernized Tears for Fears. Lyrically it's a good track with a great guitar sound. Very enjoyable opening experience. 2. Dishes - 3 Lyrically it's not a strong song. Everything else about it is alright but given it's a softer, slower song the vocals dominate most of the sound and they are very uninspiring. 3. Party Hard - 4 Instruments often drown out the vocals that are too low in octave to really enjoy fully. Guitar sound in the verses does sound quite good but it should not come at the cost of the vocals in the first verse. Lyrically this track isn't anything fantastic. 4. Help The Aged - 8 Classic Pulp sound on this track. Really enjoyable sound with a building of the guitars and lyrics that traverse a large landscape of vocal sound to culminate in an excellent track. Best track of the opening four. 5. This Is Hardcore - 9 Another solid building track with an awesome guitar sound. Really really solid title track and lyrically one of the best on the album. 6. TV Movie - 6 Decent song that slowly builds into a crescendo of a chorus until fading out. Overall a solid slower song. 7. A Little Soul - 6 Decent track with a great underpinned chord to lead the verses. Choruses are alright but the middle part of the track is a bit lost in pace vocally. 8. I'm A Man - 9 Quintessential Pulp track. Great guitar sound backed by an excellent drum. Vocals build into the choruses incredibly well on this track. Awesome song. 9. Seductive Berry - 2 Lyrically it's not a great song and vocals are at sometimes drowned out by the background singers and guitars. Forgettable track. 10. Sylvia - 5 It's okay. The louder parts of the track in the second half of it are fantastic but the opening slower parts are very lost. Ends on a great note though. 11. Glory Days - 4 Lyrically it's pretty bad but the guitar leading the track is quite enjoyable. Just feels like a bit of a random song in the verses until you reach the glory days line to lead out of the verses into the bridge. 12. The Day After The Revolution - 7 Drum is superb on this track and adds a great beat. Lyrically it's decent but the song's constant moving from high to low to high to low in the middle of the verses themselves make you feel a bit lost during the track. The guitars are very enjoyable and can help you get through some of the more almost annoying parts of the track. 13. Like A Friend - 8 Solid closing track that builds well. Enjoyable lyrics and a fantastic guitar to accompany an excellent crescendo of the percussions on the drums. Average Rating: 6.08 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 3.04 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. Out on the Weekend - 6 It's simply. Overly simple. The guitar sounds very lovely but it's restricted to a very very simple chord that feels like it wants to express itself further before having to give way to what is a brilliant harmonica. When the harmonica stops, the monotony of the second verse resumes, taking way the most joyous part of the song. 2. Harvest - 3 An even more simplistic song in both lyric and instrument. Gone are the bigger chords on the guitar and the enjoyment of the harmonica from the previous track. 3. A Man Needs a Maid - 1 Just an awful track. 4. Heart of Gold - 5 Instrumentally great but lyrically a bit boring. Harmonica is used incredibly effectively on the track. Guitar sounds excellent as well. 5. Are You Ready For The Country? - 6 Solid sounding guitars. Piano is a lovely touch as well. Lyrically it's good as well. Nothing that will overwhelm you but not bad either. 6. Old Man - 5 Another decent track that's right in the middle in terms of quality. I'd say mediocre but too many people think that's a negative. Chorus is very good to be fair to the track. 7. There's A World - 2 The orchestral sound is excellent but lyrically it is extremely weak. "We are leaving we are gone" is part of an example of that. On top of that the orchestra drowns a line or two out here or there. Then the song slows down and it just feels like random lines made to rhyme with each other with no purpose or meaning. Just overall a weak track. 8. Alabama - 7 Great track. Guitar sound is superb on the track and the vocals sound really good. Chorus is very enjoyable as well with an awesome guitar solo leading out of it. Best track on the album. 9. The Needle and the Damage Done - 7 Great slow track. Vocals are awesome and the guitar builds and fades brilliantly in and out of the vocals. 10. Words (Between the Lines of Age) - 6 Good sounds but it is essentially just a minimal amount of lyrics before a jam session. The jam session is decent and eventually ends back into another verse. All around an okay track. Average Rating: 4.80 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.40 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

1. Bawitdaba - 10 Brilliant track. The verses are incredibly solid and the sound is just awesome. Absolute great deep and loud rock sound that was given a nice and length intro to build into. Superb way to open the album. 2. Cowboy - 9 Awesome sound. Everything about this track sounds and is placed perfectly. The background vocals add an amazing sound to dump out of the choruses. Kid Rock's flow is superb during the verses. The guitars and drums sound amazing. All around a great track. 3. Devil Without A Cause - 11 Great track. Amazing guitar underpinning each line of the lyrics, which have an impeccable flow. Opening verse is absolutely massive. Chorus is solid as well. 4. I Am The Bullgod - 8 Instrumentally fantastic. Lyrically it's very weak at times. The track comes and goes lyrically because of this between solid flow and very off lyrics. Overall not a bad track. 5. Roving Gangster (Rollin') - 5 Lyrcially very weak. The MC beatbox drop after the first portion of the track was fantastic. Instrumentally a strong track but the complete pause in the middle of the track was unnecessary and ruins a lot of the enjoyment of it. 6. Wasting Time - 2 Lyrically it's the weakest track so far. Background vocals that sing the chorus are the highlight of the track but overall it's not a great piece. 7. Welcome 2 The Party (Ode 2 The Old School) - 0 Instrumentally it's okay but lyrically this is absolutely horrible. 8. I Got One For Ya' - 3 Chrous is nice but the rest of the song lacks any quality. Verses are pretty weak. Instrumentally it's alright but the compliation feels a bit out of place compared to the rest of the album. Outro is also not enjoyable. 9. Somebody's Gotta Feel This - 4 It's an okay song. It's a little bit simple in the track's construction and overall that makes it a bit of a pass over track. Definitely a return to the kind of tracks the album has opened with. 10. Fist of Rage - 3 Exact same problems as the previous track only exemplified. Instrumentally a lot better however. Bridge is particuarly enjoyable. 11. Only God Knows Why - -1 Autotuned atrocity. 12. Fuck Off - 0 The great flow from the opening tracks returns but the lyrics are not up to snuff. The opening verse is like giving an edgy teenager a mic and telling them that anything they say is okay so they just say obscene stuff for the sake of pushing the envelope. The bridge is the same thing. Eminem is the highlight of the track. On top of that, the track should have ended 4 minutes in but then there's random voicemail notes on the end that are absolutely useless being on the track. 13. Where U At Rock - 4 Much better and a lot like the opening tracks. Has a pretty weak opening but if gets better lyrically the deeper you get into the track. 14. Black Chick, White Guy / I Am The Bullgod - 4 It's alright for a closing track. Bit too long and the song loses itself in the story at times before completely changing tone back to I Am The Bullgod. Average Rating: 4.43 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.21 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

1. Strange Brew - 6 Vocals are good. Remind me of Supertramp a bit with how they are although yes I'm aware that band are about a decade after this album. Guitars sound awesome, especially the solos their given in the bridge. Solid track. 2. Sunshine of Your Love - 10 An all time great. Guitars are amazing on this track and underlined by an excellent drum sound. Verses are absolute belters that you can't help but sign loudly. Superb track. 3. World of Pain - 5 Lyrically it's a bit uninspiring but the guitars are excellent and overall it's not a bad track. Solid sound. 4. Dance The Night Away - 4 Bit too psychedelic a rock track. The bridge is excellent when the instruments all pull back to let the guitar have 5-10 seconds of a small solo. 5. Blue Condition - 2 Slow and monotonous with a lot of random gibberish in it. Guitars are much more muted on the track and it makes it sound almost like an Elvis 50s track in it's composition. 6. Tales of Brave Ulysses - 10 Amazing track. Guitars sounds incredible and the drum line again is fantastic. Vocals do an amazing job to paint a story of the ancient Greek man. Superb track. 7. SWLABR - 8 Great track. Reminds of a Jimi Hendrix piece. Guitars are the highlight of this short track. 8. We're Going Wrong - 2 Too simplistic a track. It's a complete pass over during the album listen. 9. Outside Woman Blues - 4 Guitars are great on this but lyrically it's way too simplistic. Enjoyable but not a track you'll be putting on repeat outside of the rifts. 10. Take It Back - 1 Awful song. Three minutes of just a way-too repetitive song. 11. Mother's Lament - 1 No clue why this is on the album. It's like a saloon style song almost. Odd way to end the album. Average Rating: 4.82 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.41 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

1. Bookends Theme - N/A The song is too short to be rated. The Reprise will also not be rated. 2. Save the Live of My Child - 2 The background vocals are too loud and the background instruments are too loud as well. Vocals are drowned out on almost the entire track. 3. America - 5 Decent track that's a staple sound for Simon & Garfunkel. Great guitar with light vocals. Nothing phenomenal about the track but it's not poor by any stretch. 4. Overs - 4 The opening verse is poor but then the song improves from there. Not much too it outside of the lyrics and one guitar. 5. Voices of Old People - N/A It's not a song. 6. Old Friends - 4 Average song. Not enough to it lyrically and the strings are overpowering at times without being orchestral or moving enough. They just hold onto notes too long. 7. Bookends Theme (Reprise) - N/A 8. Fakin' It - 6 More in line with the traditional Simon & Garfunkel sound that's stood the test of time. Solid vocals with great instrumentals. More of an upbeat song as well. 9. Punky's Dilemma - 4 Lyrics are good but the track could do without the random sound effects. Before you brush off their annoyance the track fades out. 10. Mrs. Robinson (From "The Graduate" Soundtrack) - 10 An all time classic. Great guitar sound with excellent lyrics. Vocals sound great. By far and away the best track on the album. 11. A Hazy Shade of Winter - 8 Reminds of a song you'd hear from The Mamas & The Papas. Solid beat and guitars with decent lyrics and a solid pace and flow. Decent track. 12. At The Zoo - 6 Lyrics are okay. Instrumentally it's good. It's just a very strange topic and song to end the album with. Nothing bad and it is enjoyable in its overall sound. Just a bit strange. Average Rating: 5.44 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.72 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. One Hundred Years - 10 Vocals can be drowned out a little but they are brilliant and the sound from the guitars is so good. The chords on them are excellent and they are underpinned by a deep and excellent drum. Superb track. 2. A Short Term Effect - 6 It's alright. The sound is good but I feel like the drum is almost exactly the same as the first track. It's harder to understand what he's actually singing on the track as well. 3. The Hanging Garden - 7 Faster drum this time but a quintessential sounding song from The Cure. Pretty good sound but this time it's the drums that are the leading instrument. 4. Siamese Twins - 5 Lyrically very random but otherwise a decent track. The tracks are becoming a bit too monotonous in their composure though. They kind of all sound the same, which is okay if tempo or beat changes. Tempo has slightly but beat has very much not. 5. The Figurehead - 6 It's more of the same solid guitars and drum. Sounds almost exactly like the opening 2 tracks. 6. A Strange Day - 6 Rinse and repeat. 7. Cold - 8 Different pace and tone and very enjoyable. Much slower than the rest of the album but that bass has such a hypnotic and incredibly gripping sound. It makes you feel as if you're preparing for an epic. 8. Pornography - 2 Collection of noise to end the album which is extremely disappointing. The noise also drowns out any and all vocals. Average Rating: 6.25 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.13 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. God! Show Me Magic - 6 Great instrumentals but the lyrics is one line repeated endlessly. Could be a lot better but the sound of the music itself is decent. 2. Fuzzy Birds - 3 David Bowie but without the quality. Verses have some strange sound effect on the vocals that make it sound like someone underwater is trying to sing to you. Instrumentally it's okay in the choruses but barely there in the verses. Not a great track. 3. Something 4 The Weekend - 7 Better sound with enjoyable verses. Almost reminds me of the better tracks from The Beatles. Choruses are the wrong octave/pitch and it makes the words undecipherable. 4. Frisbee - 4 Again the guitars and drum sounds great. The lyrics are what make this very unenjoyable. The verses aren't even that bad but the choruses are drowned out and led out with some random vocal sounds that just don't belong on the track. 5. Hometown Unicorn - 8 Decent sounding song. Kind of a throwback to 70s/80s Brit pop-rock bands but overall a great and enjoyable track. 6. Gathering Moss - 4 Bit of a pass over track on the album. Overall it's very average. 7. If You Don't Want Me To Destroy You - 9 Solid track. Drums lead in and out of the lyrics brilliantly. The collection of strings alongside the guitars is lovely. Very fun. 8. Bad Behaviour - 6 Fun song until the bridge which is way too high pitched on the guitars and contain random sound effects. Outside of that, it's a very fun track. 9. Mario Man - 7 Sound is good. Vocals are bit too melodic but they're not bad and the bridge has an absolutely insane guitar solo that is worth the price of admission. 10. Hangin' With Howard Marks - 7 Lyrics are terrible but the guitar is awesome. Drum also helps lead the song in and out of the tone changes on it. Both guitar solos are the absolute highlight of the track and for good reason, they're excellent. 11. Long Gone - 2 Lyrics are way too repetitive and the track just goes on for too long. Easily could have been a three minute track extended to five with random noises and guitar plucking. Completely unnecessary. 12. For Now And Ever - 3 Another track that's just too repetitive both lyrically and instrumentally. Better sound on the guitars than Long Gone but still not enjoyable. Average Rating: 5.50 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.75 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. Where Do The Children Play? - 6 Decent song. Very good lyrics and the guitar is great. It's not anything phenomenal but it's not poor by any stretch. 2. Hard Headed Woman - 6 Decent song. I'm not a huge fan of how notes are held vocally both on this track and in Where Do The Children Play? Overall it's not bad though. 3. Wild World - 4 Vocally it just doesn't sound as good at the previous two tracks. 4. Sad Lisa - 3 Not a great song lyrically, especially the opening verse. Strings in the bridge are a wonderful addition to the track. 5. Miles From Nowhere - 8 Lyrically brilliant. Fantastic building and digressing of the instruments throughout the song. 6. But I Might Die Tonight - 5 Average track. Very short but still effective. Not anything too much either way. 7. Longer Boats - 7 Solid track. Vocally brilliant even if the chorus is very repetitive. Introduction of the drums at the end is excellent. 8. Into White - 1 Lyrically too random. Instrumentally very simple. Boring track. 9. On The Road To Find Out - 9 The drums are fantastic and compliment the song so wonderfully. Guitar sounds great and the clash of the percussions add a huge flavour to what is otherwise an excellent track. Lyrically it's superb. Best track on the album. 10. Father And Son - 3 Instrumentally fantastic, the song has lyrics which don't keep pace or structure. The concept of the song is nice but the lyrics are so overly simply it's hard to get through it. 11. Tea For The Tillerman - 6 Decent track to end on. Very very short track as well. Choir is an excellent effect on the end of the track. Average Rating: 5.27 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.64 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. Across The Great Divide - 7 Fun song. Instruments compliment each other very well and lyrically it's very enjoyable as well. Just a fun track. 2. Rag Mama Rag - 6 Another fun track. Lyrics could be better but instrumentally the song is awesome. 3. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - 9 Great track. The solo verses in the collection of the band signing in the choruses is brilliant. Just an awesome sound. 4. When You Awake - 3 Not as great a track and the vocals get drowned by the instrumentals a bit. Lyrically is just doesn't sound as strong. 5. Up On Cripple Creek - 6 Decent track. Comparable to the opening two songs on the album. Not a huge fan of the bridge or outro, which just feels like voids they didn't have any ideas on how to fill. 6. Whispering Pines - 2 Not a fan of this track. Lyrically I just don't understand it and I'm not 100% fond of the way the vocals sound either. Forgettable track. 7. Jemima Surrender - 4 Instrumentally great but outside of that there's nothing really special about the track. 8. Rockin' Chair - 3 Another instrumentally decent track but otherwise lyrically boring listen. 9. Look Out Cleveland - 7 Fun track. Instrumentally starts like a boogie-woogie style track before the song kicks into the vocals. Lyrics are very fun. Overall, super enjoyable. 10. Jawbone - 4 It's an okay track. The constant pace changes are a bit annoying and are hard to get used to but the verses are enjoyable. 11. The Unfaithful Servant - 5 Decent song. Very middle-of-the road. 12. King Harvest (Has Surely Come) - 7 Solid finish to the album with a great sound. The guitars are the highlight but the vocals are also very enjoyable. Average Rating: 5.25 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.63 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. Tom Sawyer - 11 An all time classic. Guitars fit so nicely between the lines of lyrics in the opening verse before they all join in with the drum creating an excellent transition into the chorus. Lyrically the song is so insanely strong. The tone shifts are not something I'm a fan but they're so measured and eased into on this track it makes it work to perfection. Gem of a song. 2. Red Barchetta - 8 Solid track, especially instrumentally. The guitar in the middle part of the track is very good, even if it's drowned out the lyrics. Overall, a good track. 3. YYZ - 8 Solid sounding track. Important to note this is a purely instrumental track and that there are no vocals on it at all. Having noted that, it's a great sound but a bit all over the place at times. Still, a solid track. 4. Limelight - 9 Guitars sound excellent on this track but it's the drums that really shine. They are fantastic and it culminates with excellent vocals and lyrics. Very solid track. 5. The Camera Eye - 7 Alright song with a great bridge into the outro but the track goes on to long and isn't lyrically strong enough to justify eleven minutes. Instrumentally it's good and the drums and guitar lead it well. Without the ending solo it's a 5 out of 10. 6. Witch Hunt - 8 Solid track. The drum and guitars have an excellent sound that compliment each other the whole way and guide the constant tone of the lyrics perfectly. Just a fantastic track. 7. Vital Signs - 8 I don't like the intro to the track but once you get past that part it's solid. A tad too repetitive at times, the guitar and bass are superb on this album and really help the track become quite enjoyable. Drum is as ever so excellent on this track as it is on the rest of the album. Average Rating: 8.43 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 4.21 Rounded Down: 4 Stars

1. Lost At Birth - 8 Song is a bit all over the place but the beat is excellent and the flow is superb. Lyrically it's very good just a bit too repetitive at times. Great sound overall. Insanely fun track. 2. Rebirth - 10 Track is only 60 seconds but what an insanely good flow with superb lyrics. Massive tune. 3. Nighttrain - 9 Great rap. Insanely fun track and the percussions do so well to add to the metaphor of the nighttrain. Lyrically it's probably the strongest track so far. 4. Can't Truss It - 7 Flow in the second half of the track is great but it struggles in the first half. Lyrcially not as strong but the last two minutess are still very much enjoyable. 5. I Don't Wanna Be Called Yo &$!% - 5 Instrumentally the most brilliant of the opening 5 tracks. Lyrically the worst. The song is lyrically is incredibly stale. 6. How To Kill A Radio Consultant - 10 Another strong track. Brilliant lyrics and superb flow. Just a top quality rap. 7. By The Time I Get To Arizona - 6 I don't understand the references of New Hampshire and Arizona in the track so the intro is completely lost on me. Flow is decent as is the beat and the sound but it's a bit of a pass over track. It's just not nearly as strong as anythign else on the album before it except "I Don't Wanna Be". 8. Move! (feat. Sister Souljah) - 8 Outro is the worst part of the track but the flow throughout the track is excellent. Lyrically it's very good with a great beat underlining the whole track. 9. 1 Million Bottlebags - 6 Verses are great but the choruses are a beat weak and the conversations sprinkled within the track work very well on the topic of the track but don't add any significant quality to it. Not a bad track by any stretch, but there's better on the album. 10. More News At 11 - 5 Too repetitive a track. I love the idea and the sprinkling of the news cast throughout the track. Makes it very unique and enjoyable but the chorus is kind boring. 11. Shut Em Down - 7 Decent flow but the chorus is too long and simple. Track kind of bores itself out. 12. A Letter To The New York Post - 7 Verses are great and I definitely agree with the message. The New York Post blows. Having said that, it's a solid track but suffered by the history lesson about The Post. 13. Get The F... Outta Dodge (feat. True Mathematics) - 9 Great track. Amazing lyrics with an equally as amazing beat. Track is short, simple, and fun. 14. Bring The Noize - 3 A rock trap with rap lyrics over it. It's not bad but it's definitely the weakest thing on the album with how much the lyrics almost crash into each other and eventually get too fast to remain comprehensible. Chorus is completely uninspiring. Average Rating: 8.33 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 4.17 Rounded Down: 4 Stars

1. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' - 9 Extremely catchy song. Musically brilliant, Jackson's vocal range is explored in almost full effect here. It's a range that's absolutely exquisite. It's a little bit too repetitive in parts and the track goes on for too long at the end. 2. Baby Be Mine - 9 Brilliant jazzy pop track. Instrumentally this song is superb and even better than the last track. Just a ridiculously good track. 3. The Girl Is Mine - 5 The duet is very good but the lyrics are just too simple. It's not a bad track, but it's definitely not a track that's ever going to be anything but just an album track. 4. Thriller - 11 An all time classic. Instrumentally flawless and ironic. Lyrically every note has been sung by everyone at some point in their lives. Need more be said? 5. Beat It - 11 Another call time classic. Amazing music video on this too as a side note. Instrumentally very good but lyrically outstanding. Guitars on this are absolutely outstanding. 6. Billie Jean - 11 An all time great. I couldn't choose between this and Thriller for best track on the album but they're awfully close and equally as iconic. Music video is equally iconic. 7. Human Nature - 5 Instrumentally it's a bit of an odd sounding track. Jackson's vocals are fantastic but lyrically it's not as strong as the other tracks and the fact that it comes right after Billie Jean causes the track to be completely overshadowed. Definitely a pass over track that wouldn't come back to listen to again. 8. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) - 10 A return to the great tracks of the album. Vocally strong, instrumentally it's a lot better than Human Nature and lyrically as well it's a lot better. The "na na na" part in the middle the song is something I would normally slam but it's just the right amount of it so as to add character to the track and not dull it out with repitition. Solid track. 9. The Lady In My Life - 10 What an awesome slow track that highlights the full vocal range of what Jackson had to offer as a singer. Instrumentally it's a brilliant smooth jazz kind of track that gives Jackson a load of space on the second half to explore the highest ends of his range without overdoing it like many other pop artists run into trouble of doing. Excellent track to end the album on. Average Rating: 9 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 4.5 Rounded Up: 5 Stars

1. Sky Saw - 2 Pretty rough sounding instrumentals outside of the bass guitar that's been reduced to a bland coffee shop background music sound. Lyrically the track is lost. Ending violins are a ear-bleeding pitch of sound. 2. Over Fire Island - 3 Sounds like a rejected Super Mario background music track. 3. St Elmo's Fire - 3 It's a pretty weak track. Piano starts well but none of the other instruments sound particularly great. Lyrically it's okay at times and lost at others. Gutar is nice but the track is so random you wonder why it's on there. 4. In Dark Trees - 7 Decent track. Instrumentally pretty good. Reminds me almost of Minecart Madness from the Donkey Kong Country soundtrack but still, a really enjoyable track. 5. The Big Ship - 5 Not a bad song but it sounds like it would just mainly be used for a photo montage. 6. I'll Come Running - 2 Lyrically absolutely awful. Guitar sound is okay but it's pretty much bad elevator music. 7. Another Green World - 4 Sounds like a Minecraft theme with guitars. Way too short lived and simple a track. 8. Sombre Reptiles - 4 Another way too simplistic track devoid of both quality and purpose. 9. Little Fishes - 0 The soundtrack to an area in a really MMORPG. That's what this sounds like. 10. Golden Horse - 2 Might as well be a lullaby. Really dull song. 11. Becalmed - 3 Slow building ambient music. It's calm, but it's also just three minutes of what feels like a funeral procession. 12. Zawinul/Lava - 1 This is the track that shows you exactly where "Ambient 1/Music for Airports" came from. Sounds just like something off that album. 13. Everything Merges With The Night - 2 Just way too simplistic a track. Monotony in a song. 14. Spirits Drifting - 1 Another funeral procession of a song. Average Rating: 2.79 Adjusted to 5 Point Scale: 1.39 Rounded Down: 1 Star

1. Hotel California - 11 An all time classic. Lyrically a masterpiece, instrumentally it builds so well from the elongated intro and through the verses. Bridge is absolutely stunning, with a superb guitar solo that world class. Just an amazing track. 2. New Kid in Town - 7 Decent track. Instrumentally and lyrically it's okay. I don't think it's anything phenomenal but the sound is good and it's a well structured track overall. Does get a little repetitive towards the end of the track. 3. Life in the Fast Lane - 7 Another decent track but I feel like the presentation of the lyrics is a little weaker than what it could have been. Guitar solo at the end is amazing but the transition from the chorus into it is very weak. 4. Wasted Time - 10 Brilliant track. Lyrically very strong and instrumentally loud and soft at exactly the right moments. The strings are the perfect addition to the guitars and drums, accompanying them in setting a brilliant mood for the track's message. 5. Wasted Time (Reprise) - N/A Reprises are not to be rated. 6. Victim of Love - 10 The guitar is fantastic on this track. Lyrically it's a lot slower and the flow is extremely rigid but lyrically the verses are incredible and that's what makes this track so enjoyable. If Hotel California wasn't the opening track, this would be the best one on the album. It's excellent. 7. Pretty Maids All in a Row - 6 It's not a bad song but it's just no where near as strong as others on the album, mainly lyrically. Instrumentals are good for their limitations in it being a slower and more melodic track. The pass over track of the album. 8. Try And Love Again - 11 Brilliant track. Lyrically it is absolutely moving. Instrumentally it's got a great sound that gives the track an incredible mood and builds superbly throughout the track. Stunning song. 9. The Last Resort - 7 Decent track to end with. Lyrically it's strong at parts but weak in others (mainly when they sing about God). Instrumentally it builds well into a wonderfully fading outro. Average Rating: 8.63 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 4.31 Rounded Down: 4 Stars

1. Sunday Morning - 5 Not a great sound vocally and instrumentally there's not a lot to it to critique to begin with. It's not a bad track. 2. I'm Waiting for the Man - 6 Good sound. Bit too melodic in the lyrics but the track moseys along well enough. 3. Femme Fatale - 6 Lyrically very very strong. It has too much of that early 60s/late 50s rock and roll doo-wop sound. The barbershop quartet type of track. Other than that it's enjoyable. 4. Venus In Furs - 9 Lyrically great but the wailing of the guitars and violins are excellent. Instrumentally the track is absolutely fantastic. The tone change into the chorus is superb. Great track. 5. Run Run Run - 6 Guitars sound good but the track has not stood the test of time. Lyrically it's not anything more than average in the verses. Choruses are significantly better. Third verse is also quite enjoyable. 6. All Tomorrow's Parties - 4 Lyrically it's not a good track but the piano and the guitars do very here to recover some enjoyment out of the track. Percussions sound solid as well and the constant unwavering drum beat also adds good flavour to the track. 7. Heroin - 10 Artistically brilliant. Everything about this track feeds into the theme: the wailing of the guitars into their classic riffs, the lyrics starting start forward before exploding into a diatribe of topics, the octave of the collective sound rising and falling. Excellent track. 8. There She Goes Again - 7 Lyrically good until the outro. Instrumentally very good too. It's an enjoyable track overall and one of the better ones on the album. 9. I'll Be Your Mirror - 2 It's just too slow and melodic. Lyrically uninspiring, the track will put you to sleep more than anything. 10. The Black Angel's Death Song - 0 Instrumentally horrible. The violins and guitars screech unpleasantly throughout the entire song and vocally it's more of a preaching track rather than singing. Awful sound. 11. European Son - 4 More a jam track to end the album which is not really an ideal way for it to end. The guitars going from riffs to screeching isn't hugely enjoyable. The track also goes on for too long without the jam changing barely at all. Average Rating: 5.36 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.68 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. Over & Over - 7 Vocally fantastic. There's a huge simplicity in the drums and guitars but they sound excellent and the perfect tempo and volume for the track. Solid slow song. 2. The Ledge - 8 Fun song. The pace and tempo are brilliant and the lyrics make this a really really enjoyable change of pace from Over & Over. 3. Think About Me - 6 Little too simplistic song for me. Not bad the guitars sound really good but overall it's not got the same bite as the opening two tracks. 4. Save Me a Place - 3 Another track that's too simplistic and even more so than Think About Me. It sounds too much like a lullaby and isn't interesting enough of a track to keep your interests for very long even though the track is less than three minutes long. 5. Sara - 10 Great track. Lyrically brilliant it builds instrumentally so well through each verse and chorus until a fantastic outro fades it all out. Superb listen. 6. What Makes You Think You're the One - 6 Great sound on the guitars and drums but lyrically a bit dull and uninspiring. 7. Storms - 10 What a brilliant track. It's slow but just absolutely outstanding in every way. Classic Fleetwood Mac sound and lyrics. Superb track and the best one on the album so far. 8. That's All for Everyone - 6 Instrumentally it's a really really enjoyable track. Lyrically it's a really really boring track. 9. Not That Funny - 6 Bit of a quirky song that's instrumentally okay just a little bit of a departure from the rest of the album. 10. Sisters of the Moon - 11 Great track. This is peak Fleetwood Mac in sound. Guitars are absolutely stunningly brilliant on it, especially in the bridge. Vocally an incredible track as well, Stevie Nicks' voice helps elevate the track to another level. The solo at the end is absolutely incredible as well. 11. Angel - 7 Solid opening song to the second album on this double album. Nicks' voice really guide this track well. The guitars provide a lovely accompaniment alongside a fantastic drum line. 12. That's Enough for Me - 7 Fun quick track. Short and sweat and instrumentally a lot of fun. 13. Brown Eyes - 5 Pretty stale and repetitive. Wouldn't blame anyone for listening to it once and never doing so again. 14. Never Make Me Cry - 6 Decent slow song. Everything there is good in terms of the composition. Not anything phenomenal but not a poor track either. 15. I Know I'm Not Wrong - 8 Lyrically not the best but the guitars sound excellent on this track and the brief solo at the end is the perfect culmination of sound. Solid track. 16. Honey Hi - 5 Very much a pass over track. Short and not much to it at all. Honestly just feels like album filler. 17. Beautiful Child - 3 Not really lyrically a song I enjoyed very much. Incredible slow tempo as well means there's not much the track is supposed to be offering outside of the vocals/lyrics. 18. Walk a Thin line - 3 Another pass over track. Offers absolutely nothing to add to the album. 19. Tusk - 6 Complete tone change but it's alright. Instrumentally it's very good but the background noises detract a bit from the song. 20. Never Forget - 6 Bit repetitive at times it's a decent track with a good sound. Not a bad track to end the album on. Average Rating: 6.45 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.23 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. Inspiration Information - 6 Lyrically it's completely random but instrumentally it's absolutely brilliant. The guitars and synthesizers give this a very Jimi Hendrix-mixed-with-disco vibe that's surprisingly very enjoyable. Guitar solo in the bridge is simple but fun. 2. Island Letter - 3 Slower track but very stale. The lyrics make it sound like it was a struggle to write something within the rhyming scheme for some of the lines. Instrumentally it's okay but not anything phenomenal and the part without lyrics starting half way through the song is very repetitive and light it could lull you to sleep. 3. Sparkle City - 6 Decent song. Lyrics are fun but that bass guitar is what you come for and it doesn't disappoint. Short bursts of the other instruments help provide a little more character to the track but the bass guitar is what leads it and is the most enjoyable part of the track. The way the vocals slide up and down pitches is really excellent as well. 4. Aht Uh Mi Hed - 8 This is a fun track. Lyrically solid, the sound of the vocals leads the song well but the sound of the intro before those vocals are introduced is awesoem and sets the tone for the entire song. The tone change into the bridge is also very enjoyable as is the introduction of the acoustic guitar at that point. Overall a fun track. 5. Happy House - 5 90s vibe a little bit with this track but it's very quick and the instruments aren't given enough of a freedom to explore the 82 seconds. Lyrically it's okay. Not anything fantastic. 6. Rainy Day - 4 Standard coffee house background music. 7. XL-30 - 3 Mario stage background music at parts, church organ filler at others this is just album filler. Pretty dull track. 8. Pling! - 1 Standard coffee house background music but unlike Rainy Day, not an enjoyable version of it. 9. Not Available - 3 The song builds so well for almost the entire opening minute into what felt like was going to be a fun track with an enjoyable sound. Then it just hard stops and a second later starts with a completely different sound that feels like you've had money snatched out of your hand. Ruined the entire enjoyment in the track practically. Average Rating: 4.33 Adjusted to 5 Point Scale: 2.17 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

1. Don't Worry About It - 5 It's okay. Lyrics are sometimes good, sometimes too generic. Instrumentally it's alright as well. Nothing phenomenal or terrible on this track. 2. Fly or Die - 3 Drums are really pleasant on the track but the lyrically writing is absolutely abysmal. Leave this track in 2004. 3. Jump (feat. Benji Madden & Joel Madden) - 1 This is as if the song should be on a Kids Bop album but the artist isn't a kid anymore and decided to be edgy by slipping a swear in or two. It's not very good. The outro in particular is horrible. 4. Backseat Love - 1 Way too repetitive and just not a great track in general. Lyrically it's incredibly bland. The background vocals are particularly very poor. 5. She Wants To Move - 3 Painful to get through the absolutely dreadful lyrics to enjoy the tempo beat and sound on the rest of the track. 6. Breakout - 3 The choruses before the constant monotonous repetition of "breakout" are very good but the verses are terrible and the bridge even more so. Instrumentally good, the track cannot recover from the awful lyrics on the rest of the song. 7. Wonderful Place (Contains Hidden Track/Waiting For You) - 5 Lyrically still very weak, the instrumentals are too loud and completely drown out some of the vocals throughout the higher parts of the song. Waiting for You is significantly better however and is quite enjoyable. 8. Drill Sergeant (Contains Hidden Track/Preservation) (feat. Lenny Kravitz) - 3 Significantly better song but still lyrically not the best thing on the album, or even that enjoyable. Preservation is however not a great sound no enjoyable in any sense. 9. Thrasher (feat. Lenny Kravitz) - 6 Guitars are great on this track as are the added strings. The constant "ohh" is rather annoying but other than that it's a pretty solid track. Verses and choruses are a lot strong on this track. 10. Maybe - 7 Hands down the best thing on the album. A complete track. I'm not cringing at some of the lyrics and the instrumentals burst with sound at just the right moments in order to supplement the lyrics so well. The busts of guitar riffs in and out is great. 11. The Way She Dances - 2 Lyrically this track is horrible. They ruin any enjoyment from the rest of the sound on the track which isn't bad but nothing to really exalt either. 12. Chariot Of Fire (Contains Hidden Track/Find My Way) - 0 Really unenjoyable. Find My Way isn't great but it's more in line with a She Wants to Move in terms of the quality. Chariot of Fire is the worst piece on the album. Really forgettable track on what's been a forgettable album. Average Rating: 3.25 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 1.63 Rounded Up: 2 Stars

1. Badlands - 6 I can never full understand what Bruce Springsteen is singing. His voice is okay but it's just never fully comprehensible and that detracts from every song that suffers from this problem. Badlands is one of those songs. 2. Adam Raised a Cain - 4 Same issue as Badlands but instrumentally better. Having said that the chorus is just "Adam raised a cain" over and over again. It's rather uninspiring and leaves a lot of need for the verses to be excellent. You can't understand them though and so the song suffers from that. The guitar riffs that fill the track are superb however. 3. Something in the Night - 7 A better and more comprehensible song. The tone/pace change in the middle is well executed and the sound around that softer part is very good. Lot to like about this track. 4. Candy's Room - 3 Lyrically the start is awful and then you just can't make out what the second half of the song is about at all. Really unpleasant track. 5. Racing in the Street - 4 Instrumentally good but lyrically all over the place. Makes the first half of the track very much a snooze. 6. The Promised Land - 7 The middle part of the track without the vocals is brilliant. Harmonica is an excellent leading instrument throughout that part which leads into a solid bridge. 7. Factory - 3 Monotonous song. Very dreary and too straight forward. Not anything overly fantastic. 8. Streets of Fire - 5 Vocally it sounds awful and you can't make out almost anything before the chorus/guitar solo. It is an incredible sound on the guitar that makes up for that partially. 9. Prove It All Night - 6 Standard decent sounding track. You can actually understand Springsteen on this track but it's not anything super fantastic instrumentally until you get to a rather solid sax solo that transitions wonderfully over to guitar. 10. Darkness of the Edge of Town - 7 The best track on the album. Second verse is very enjoyable as well. Instrumentally there's a lot to like here from the boisterous drums to the supporting piano all working together in excellent harmony. Average Rating: 5.20 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.60 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. Supervixen - 7 Solid track with an interesting sound. It's like electric guitars that are fed through a synthesizer that alters the sound. It's very enjoyable and the riffs on the altered guitars still sound great. 2. Queer - 7 The pitch change in the middle part of the song I am not a fan of and it kind of ruins the experience for me but I understand its purpose. Outside of that, the song is fantastic. 3. Only Happy When It Rains - 9 Great track. Lyrically it's very very strong. A bit repetitive at times, instrumentally the sound is a brilliant complement to the dreary tone of the vocals which all serve to drive the point home. Brilliant track. 4. As Heaven Is Wide - 10 Great track. Everything about it is awesome: the build up, the sound, the lyrics, the vocal flow. The riff in the background throughout the verses is superb. Really fun son. 5. Not My Idea - 4 Lyrically very weak in the choruses as is the final verse as well. Really makes the track feel like a disappointment. 6. A Stroke of Luck - 7 Decent track with a solid sound. Bass is what is really enjoyable on this track and it sets a fantastic pace and tone. Verses are better than the choruses on the track but that doesn't necessarily mean they're poor. 7. Vow - 6 Song is a little too bubblegum pop styled for my liking. Sound is okay. Lyrically it's okay. There are parts of it that are a lot of fun. There are other parts of it you wish were better. 8. Stupid Girl - 10 This is arguably the best known track off this album and it is for a reason. It's an excellent track. I would still take As Heaven Is Wide over it but that doesn't detract from the quality of this song. The piano-styled instrument adds an insane amount of value to the track, which is underpinned by a brilliant bass. Awesome song. 9. Dog New Tricks - 6 Another middle of the road song. I just feel like it could be lyrically a lot better. The vocals coming out of the second chorus are awful. Guitar lead is the best part of the song. 10. My Lover's Box - 10 Great track. Lyrically absolutely fantastic and the choruses are the best part. The riffs are so brilliant, especially in the middle part of the track. Overall just superb. Best track on the album. 11. Fix Me Now - 7 Good song. Not anything phenomenal but not anything bad and there's a lot to enjoy here with the guitar solo in the middle of the track. Riff that introduces the verses is also very enjoyable. 12. Milk - 8 Vocally the range is superb on this track. Lyrically it's a bit simple. Instrumentally it is as well but still very enjoyable and the strings to end the album are an excellent touch. Solid stuff. Average Rating: 7.58 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.79 Rounded Up: 4 Stars

1. Luv N' Haight (Single Version) - 9 Great track of funk. The guitars sound so good and the background vocals were definitely of the era. But this kind of gospel inspired music, whether rock or funk or house or disco, I am very weak for. It is some of my favourite and it's all throughout the track. 2. Just Like a Baby - 5 Budget James Brown of a track. It's much slower but the vocals are very unappealing on it. You're ready for it to be over well before it is. Pass over of a track. 3. Poet - 7 It took me a few times to see what I should rate this but overall it's not a bad track. Overall it's not bad and is a decent vibe/funk. 4. Family Affair (Single Version) - 3 Lyrically this is dreadful. Instrumentally it's not strong enough to get past the vocals, which unlike other tracks, dominate the sound of what is on this piece. 5. Africa Talks to You ("The Asphalt Jungle") - 8 Great jam session with some awesome sounds. Vocals are very of the era with the way they will sound like a disco track. Overall, enjoyable. 6. There's a Riot Goin' On (silent) - N/A It's 4 seconds of dead air. 7. Brave & Strong (Single Version) - 6 Not a bad track. The signing can be overbearing at times but it's nothing too bad. It sounds like your standard James Brown like track. 8. (You Caught Me) Smilin' (Single Version) - 4 There's not enough on this track to really say it's anything significant in quality. Lyrically it's boring. Instrumentally it's too cookie cutter. 9. Time - 6 Decent sound. Another one that comes and goes in enjoyment but not anything overly to dislike about the track. 10. Spaced Cowboy - 4 I could do without the yodeling. Everything else about the track is great, especially the harmonica solo in the bridge and the bass in the intro. 11. Runnin' Away (Single Version) - 2 Lyrically the weakest track on the album. Really dull track. 12. Thank You for Talkin' to Me, Africa - 7 Good song with some decent jams to end the album. This is the kind of stuff I wish was on more of the album overall, especially given the juxtaposition of this against the track before it. Still, good funk track. Average Rating: 5.55 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.77 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. The Changeling - 6 Decent track with a good sound. Drums are very enjoyable on this track. Lyrics are... odd. Not bad, not great, just a little odd. Bridge is a really big highlight of the song. Overall, a decent track. 2. Love Her Madly - 7 Lyrically a better track than The Changeling. Overall it sounds great and it a really fun track. 3. Been Down So Long - 8 Lyrically very enjoyable with an awesome guitar solo in the middle of the track. The beat/pace set by the guitar riffs, bass, and drums are excellent and guide the track magnificently. 4. Cars Hiss by My Window - 3 Lyrically not anything fantastic and vocally I could do without the outro, which very unpleasant sounding. Instrumentally it's a much slower song, meaning the vocals have a lot more weight on the track than on others. 5. L.A. Woman - 11 Brilliant track. It's just so much fun to listen to. Lyrically fantastic, instrumentally addicting, this track has everything you'd want in a classic 70s rock song. 6. L'America - 1 Track is way too all over the place. Instrumentally it's just not enjoyable but lyrically it's horrible. Tempo changes about 3 times throughout the song and it's just so hard to get into the groove of it. 7. Hyacinth House - 6 Decent song. Nothing phenomenal about it to rave about but a solid album track. 8. Crawling King Snake - 7 Track gets better as you get further into it. Opening is a bit weak but overall it's not a bad track at all. Very enjoyable. 9. The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) - 1 Absolutely dreadful track. Pace is not enjoyable and neither are the lyrics. Album could have done better without this on it. 10. Riders on the Storm - 11 An all time classic. Brilliant track with amazing vocals and a really enjoyable set of instrumentals including some absolutely stellar solos. Superb ending to the album. Average Rating: 6.1 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.05 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. Ghost Rider - 2 Instrumentally this is okay lyrically it's very poor. Snoozefest of a track overall. 2. Rocket USA - 0 Mind-numbingly boring track. If you listen to the opening ten to fifteen seconds, you've listened to the entire track. 3. Cheree - 0 Exactly the same problem as Rocket USA. 4. Johnny - 1 Lyrically very poor but there's more to it at least than Cheree and Rocket USA. Instrumentally it's something that would play in a dark room in as a form of mental torture. 5. Girl - -1 Torturous track to listen to. Absolutely brutally bare bones and simple with no good lyrics or vocals in it. This might have sounded cool or edgy if you were a teenager and even then by the time you'd be nineteen you would think it sucks... because it does. 6. Frankie Teardrop - -2 I wouldn't wish listening to five minutes of this track upon my worst enemy, let alone the full ten. This is just atrocious musical writing, composition, and mixing. I could also do without the topic/message of the song. 7. Che - 0 Instrumentally it's almost exactly the same as Frankie Teardrop. Lyrics are drowned out on this track so you can barely make them out, but they're so intermittent as well that it makes you feel like the whole song is just a wash. Average Rating: 0 Adjusted To 5-Point Scale: 0 Not Rounded: 0 stars. 1 Star is given as 0 stars is an ineligible rating.

1. Debaser - 5 Okay opening track. Vocals don't sound great on it but the guitar on it is awesome as are the drums. 2. Tame - 6 Carbon copy the problems with Debaser I have on this track as well. It's just slightly better sounding. 3. Wave Of Mutilation - 10 Solid track. Great vocals and even better instruments. A classic. 4. I Bleed - 7 What alt rock should be in a track. Lyrically it's not the strongest. Vocally it's not the strongest... but it does the trick. Instrumentally it scratches the itch for rock with a good sound and tone changes in the vocal are right on brand. Enjoyable. 5. Here Comes Your Man - 6 It's not a bad track by any stretch of the imagination but it is a bit like a Beach Boys track and I am not a fan of that style of rock. Slightly too bubblegum pop for me. 6. Dead - 2 Just an awful sounding song. Lyrically just as poor. 7. Monkey Gone to Heaven - 6 Opening verse is horrendous and the chorus is too repetitive but otherwise it is alright. 8. Mr. Grieves - 11 All time classic. Was a baseball staple for me growing up. Instrumentally brilliant, the vocal range and variety is fantastic. Definitely a song you will be belting out. 9. Crackity Jones - 10 Lyrics are so random but the sound is so excellent and it's just a great track overall to absolutely let go and jam to. Brilliant track. 10. La La Love You - 5 Lyrically very weak. Sound is otherwise enjoyable but it's a bit of a pass over track. 11. No 13 Baby - 5 Vocally sounds horrible at times. Instrumentally pretty decent especially the guitars on the end of the song that eventually fade out. 12. There Goes My Gun - 4 Instrumentally but the title of the track is basically the only lyrics repeated endlessly. Not great. 13. Hey - 9 At times this track threatens to lose me but overall the sound of the instruments are fantastic. The lead guitar is absolutely out of this world. Lyrically it could a lot better but it's not the worst. Very enjoyable overall. 14. Silver - 4 Vocally very unpleasant. Can't even make out the lyrics. Amazing guitar riff right at the end as the fade out begins. 15. Gouge Away - 7 Decent track. Amazing guitar sound on it makes this track quite a great sound. Lyrically it's enjoyable as well. Solid ending to the album. Average Rating: 6.47 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.23 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. Blackened - 7 It's a good sound with decent sound. My biggest issue with the track is how absolutely rigid the pace and structure of the lyrics are. They feel confined into a tiny space between the head drumming and quick guitar riffs. When the track changes tone the lyrics are still very rigid in their construction despite being given more space become the focal point of that part of the track. 2. ...And Justice For All - 10 Just an all time classic. The riffs, the solos, the vocals, the lyrics. Perfection. 3. Eye of the Beholder - 8 Decent track and lyrically very well written. Instrumentally it's an excellent sound with a superb sound all throughout the more than six minute song. 4. One - 8 Amazing opening four and a half minutes with a superb intro. Absolutely awesome guitars. The tone change isn't great but the guitars riffs and solos in the heavier final three minutes make this a solid and enjoyable track. 5. The Shortest Straw - 3 Lyrically not great. Feels like a forgettable track on the album and just not anywhere near the quality near the previous three tracks. 6. Harvester of Sorrow - 7 Standard heavy metal track. Not bad but nothing to rock your socks off. Does have an amazing guitar solo in it though. 7. The Frayed Ends of Sanity - 7 Lyrically it’s okay. Another good-but-not-great track. Sound of the instrumentals is good. Bass drum towards is the end is awesome. Fantastic guitar solos on the end as well. 8. To Live Is To Die - 2 Really meaningless intro. The track then immediately gear changes with no build up or need. It then just kind of meanders around with no purpose containing riffs and drums that eventually fade into the same thing we had in the intro but again with no come down or need. 9. Dyers Eve - 3 The same problems Blackened have exist on this track in the chorus. The track doesn't really get enjoyable until about two minutes in but the riffs between verse and chorus and too quick and too packed. Average Rating: 6.11 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.06 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - 4 Cookie cutter song. Nothing overly fantastic about this track will make me play it again a second time. Not a fan of the vocals or their sound except for the part right around three and a half minutes in. The choir-like signing doesn't strike a big cord with me. 2. Marrakesh Express - 5 Lyrically a joy the song is a lot of fun but instrumentally it has not stood the test of time. The sound is defintiely of it's era but for me, not fantastic. 3. Guinnevere - 6 Guitar sounds so lovely on this track. Again I'm not huge on the sound of the vocals, but it's the guitar that I really enjoy on this track and it is fantastic. 4. You Don't Have to Cry - 5 Lyrically very strong. Instrumentally it's somewhere between Judy Blue Eyes and Guinnevere. Not a bad track. 5. Pre-Road Dawns - 4 The main guitar on this track is superb. Intro is absolutely outstanding. Lyrics are very boring and vocally sound very unpleasant. 6. Wooden Ships - 4 Another track with an excellent guitar sound and some amazing solos on it. Bass is also really good as a compliment. Could do without the rest of the stuff on the track however. 7. Lady of the Island - 1 Nothing about this track is appealing. The vocals nor the lyrics. It's a slower, lighter song so there's not much in the way of instrumentals to even critique. 8. Helplessly Hoping - 2 Vocally not great. The guitar sounds lovely but it's the only instrument on the track. 9. Long Time Gone - 5 The verses sound fantastic vocally before the chorus is the opposite end of enjoyment. The tune is a bit catch though and overall it's not a bad track. Pretty middle-of-the-road stuff. 10. 49 Bye-Byes - 2 Not a great track to end the album off with. It's just not got enough in there that I enjoy on any aspect of the composition. Average Rating: 3.80 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 1.90 Rounded Up: 2 Stars

1. Flying High - 7 Solid sound with great guitars on it. Lyrically it's enjoyable. Overall a solid track with a lot to enjoy. 2. Not So Sweet Martha Loraine - 5 Sounds like a budget Beatles. Instrumentally in the verses the song is too simple. Makes the track grow very stale very quickly. 3. Death Sound Blues - 10 Brilliant blues track. Guitar sounds brilliant on it. The maracas on the track also add so much flavour to it. Vocally and lyrically fantastic. Super listen. 4. Happiness Is a Porpoise Mouth - 3 Aside from the albeit extremely brief guitar solo in the middle of the track, it is way too monotonous to enjoy. The song is under three minutes but still moves at way too strained a pace to really get into it. 5. Section 43 - 5 Not a bad track but a bit dry. Sounds like the theme tune to a country-styled town in a Final Fantasy game. Not that memorable. 6. Super Bird - 9 Brilliant track. Really fun lyrics and instrumentally it's just as fun. Just a superb listen. 7. Sad And Lonely Times - 2 It's just a boring track. Lyrically it's not inspiring and the instruments return to the type of country/bluegrass sound on the album that isn't as enjoyable as the rock and roll that is. 8. Love - 4 More like a James Brown track than anything else. It's not bad but it's very cookie cutter in terms of its composition. 9. Bass Strings - 5 Decent slow track with good vocals. Lyrically it's a bit too... a bit too odd for my liking but still a decent sounding track. 10. The Masked Marauder - 0 Awful track. The lyrics are literally just "la la la" for three minutes without any good guitar solos or anything to make up for it. 11. Grace - 3 Bit of a lullaby. Slow, long, and can put you to sleep. Average Rating: 4.81 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.41 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

1. Singapore - 2 Yarrrrr! You're a pirate! Song sounds much like that if you know the song I'm referencing. Not greay vocally. Instrumentally very boring. Could be easily confused with a 90s Disney track. 2. Clap Hands - 3 Instrumentally more interesting but still lacking compelling lyrics. 3. Cemetery Polka - 1 Yarrrr! The pirate returns! Awful sounding track. Like one of those tracks that you'd hear in a musical that would lose all the parts of the audience that are there and not personally head-over-heels for musicals. 4. Jockey Full of Bourbon - 1 You can't make out half the lyrics he whispers them so quietly. Breathy song more than singing. 5. Tango Till They're Sore - 1 Lyrically it falls in and out of pace consistently. If AI were to make a song about New Orleans, this would be the result. 6. Big Black Mariah - 1 I have no idea what those noises are at the start of the track. To be fair you can barely make out what the lyrics are once the singing does start. Really bad vocal sound. 7. Diamonds and Gold - 2 The pirate returns and again sounding like he's speaking through a 1930s radio. Not an inspiring track lyrically. 8. Hang Down Your Head - 4 Budget Bruce Springsteen. 9. Time - 2 Way too repetitive a track, especially in the chorus. Instrumentally there's not really anything there to critque since it's a lot slower and softer a track. 10. Rain Dogs - 2 Song is way too slow pace it comes off as strained as the vocals. Really poor overall. 11. Midtown - 5 Decent jazz tune instrumentally, even if it feels like a public radio or coffee shop vibe. 12. 9th & Hennepin - -1 Absolutely awful track. It's not even a singing track, it's a talking one. Pointless piece of music. 13. Gun Street Girl - 4 One of the better tracks on the album. Better writing and better beat with an interesting collection of instuments. It's still not anything great but it's 100% a welcome change. 14. Union Square - 3 Better but still not vocally sounding great. Instrumentally it's decent. 15. Blind Love - 2 Budget and bad Bruce Springsteen. Way too repetitive lyrics. 16. Walking Spanish - 6 Terrible lyrics. Sax is amazing on the track but the brass is the only redeeming thing. 17. Downtown Train - 2 It's a return to the budget Bruce Springsteen after a song reprise. Lyrics again just repeat the same line over and over again monotonusly in the chorus. 18. Bride Of Rain Dog - N/A Track is too short to be rated. 19. Anywhere I Lay My Head - 0 You can't make out what he's signing because his voice is just way to hoarse. Just listen to this track. If you like it, you'll like the album; if you don't skip listening to it. Average Rating: 2.11 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 1.05 Rounded Down: 1 Star

1. I Love Your Lovin' Ways - 7 Great blues track. A distinct 60s vibe on the instrumentals, Simone's vocals elevate this track so well. Very enjoyable opening track. 2. Four Women - 4 I'm not a big fan of this track lyrically. The piano on it is a great sound, complemented well by a solid bass. Overall, the track is just too stale. 3. What More Can I Say? - 6 Song builds very well. Simone's vocals go up and down in octave flawlessly while helping the tracking build and ease with great enjoyment. 4. Lilac Wine - 8 Piano is superb on this track and guides it brilliantly. The tone and lyrics are superb. They are a little weak in the opening but build into an absolutely beautiful arrangement. Excellent track. 5. That's All I Ask - 8 Another solid jazz track. Simone's vocals are superb on it as are all the supporting instrumentals. Lyrcially it's very strong and really enjoyable. 6. Break Down And Let It All Out - 7 Another very enjoyable track. A little repetitive at times, the tone and pace are very fun and Simone's vocals are so enjoyable you will find yourself moving to this track even if you never intended to. 7. Why Keep On Breaking My Heart - 5 Definitely a track that feels like it's a little more stuck in its era. Simone sounds solid on the track but the background vocals and more tropical vibe of the instrumentals make it very apparent the song has aged quite a bit. 8. Wild Is The Wind - 5 Track goes on for too long I feel and Simone's vocals need more help in the second half of the track. They're way too isolated and not as enjoyable as on the rest of the album. Really makes the track feel more like a lullaby than anything else. 9. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair - 2 The song is just too repetitive. Doesn't really go anywhere. 10. If I Should Lose You - 3 Again Simone's vocals are too isolated and drawn out where they don't need to be. Piano at the outro is brilliant. 11. Either Way I Lose - 5 An alright conclusion. Much better blues/jazz song with better sounding vocals and instrumentals that compliment Simone the whole way. Lyrically this track is brilliant. Piano and sax combo at the end is superb. Average Rating: 5.45 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.73 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. Everything In Its Right Place - 9 Classic track. Amazing intro and build into the lyrics which start very mellow and very slowly. They are a little too repetitive but the track is a slow builder of a song, almost like a house music track. Very enjoyable. 2. Kid A - 7 Vocally you can't understand it but that's intentionally part of the charm. Instrumentally the track is very moving, giving you a great sound and experience over the four almost five minutes. 3. The National Anthem - 6 The bass and drums are superb on this track. Absolutely fantastic sound from them, but the brass is so misplaced. It feels so random and unnecessary and it ruins the enjoyment of the parts of the song it's on. It also goes on for too long at the end. 4. How To Disappear Completely - 10 Another brilliantly building track but this time one that really highlights the best of the vocal range of Thom Yorke. Instrumentally it's a serenading track that takes you on a journey that you feel compelled to take. Superb piece. 5. Treefingers - 3 Ambient track that can put you to sleep. Not much more to say about it. 6. Optimistic - 11 Legendary track. Vocals are so amazing on this track but they give way to a superb intro, bridge, and outro that really elevate this track with some amazing guitar sounds. The best track off the album. 7. In Limbo - 8 Lyrics are a little repetitive but they sound great and while the track starts out really with too much sound instrumentally it eventually fades into a lovely melancholic track. Could really listen to this multiple times. 8. Idioteque - 7 Solid track. Vocally it's good. Not at great as the two songs preceeding it but still a solid track. Instrumentally it's not as strong either but it's still very enjoyable. Drums on it are awesome. 9. Morning Bell - 8 Solid melancholic track with wonderful vocals that lift you through the song. Just all around enjoyable. 10. Motion Picture Soundtrack - 8 Beautiful slow song. Not a huge fan of the harp on the track but overall builds really well into a wonderful crescendo of vocals that really drive home the lyrics and then fade out into just the harp. Superb. 11. Untitled - N/A Less than a minute and will not be rated. Average Rating: 7.70 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.85 Rounded Up: 4 Stars

1. Search and Destroy - 7 Decent track. Vocals aren't the best but it's still very enjoyable. Riffs in the opening lose themselves a bit, it's almost like a pitch change ten to twenty seconds in after an excellent opening. Brilliant guitar in the bridge/outro concludes the track. 2. Gimmie Danger - 7 Great sound with awesome vocals it actually takes a while to build until you get the absolutely stellar bridge with some unbelievable riffs in it. Solid track. Worth a replay just for that bridge alone. 3. Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell - 4 Good riffs and sound but vocally it's pretty poor. Can't even make out the lyrics and even when you do it's just gibberish. 4. Penetration - 4 Lyrically it's absolutely dreadful. The guitars in the background sound excellent but they're overlaid by some horrible vocals. Not an enjoyable track. 5. Raw Power - 1 Just really bad cookie cutter rock that bridges into some white noise before you get the guitar solo. By that point, you're done with the track and ready to move on. 6. I Need Somebody - 7 Solid sounding track with great lyrics. The guitar in the choruses between the lines is superb. The pace is exquisite as well. All of this takes place before another brilliant burst of a guitar solo in the bridge. Very enjoyable track. 7. Shake Appeal - 6 Decent track. Lyrically it's a bit repetitive but overall it's still a fun track especially with the great riff underpinning the whole track. 8. Death Trip - 6 Another decent track with an overall great sound. I have about the same critique for this track that I have for Shake Appeal, it's just slightly less repetitive. Overall a solid ending to the album. Average Rating: 5.25 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.63 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. Hanging on the Telephone - 10 Insanely fun track. Vocally it's very strong, lyrically it's well written, instrumentally it sounds great. I love the way the drums and bass keep everything in line with each other. Superb track. 2. One Way Or Another - 8 I was never overly in love with this track but I cannot deny it's quality. It's very catchy and instrumentally it's very good. I was never a fan of the low and high ends of the vocals. Still, it's a solid rock song. 3. Picture This - 6 Sounds like a slightly more updated version of a 60s rock track. It's not bad but it's not anything phenomenal either. 4. Fade Away And Radiate - 7 I love how the song moves from the more melancholy parts to the more filled ones. Guitar does this really well with some excellent mini-solos. Overall, a good track. 5. Pretty Baby - 6 Exactly the same problem Picture This has. Vocals are fantastic but it's way too close to doo-wop rock for me to really say I love the track. 6. I Know But I Don't Know - 3 Lyrically this track is awful. It's a nothing burger of a song. 7. 11:59 - 7 Solid track overall. Really good instrumentals overall with a good pace, this track is just a fun swing-type of rock. 8. Will Anything Happen - 9 This is what punk rock should always sound like. Brilliant track with an amazing sound really fun vocals. 9. Sunday Girl - 6 Not the best track lyrically on the album but it's got a fun sound and guided well throughout by a superb guitar. 10. Heart of Glass - 11 Just an all time classic. Guitars are amazing. Drumline is legendary. Vocals are heavenly. Just an all time great. 11. I'm Gonna Love You Too - 6 Bubblegum pop but with a great drum and guitar to underpin it, especially the guitar solo after the first chorus. You can see the influence this had on later artists like Pink or Avril Lavigne. 12. Just Go Away - 9 Some of the lyrics in the verses are outstanding. "If you talk any more you could win an award from the Federal Communications Board" is outrageously good a line. Brilliant track to end the album on. Average Rating: 7.33 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.67 Rounded Up: 4 Stars

1. The Things That Dreams Are Made Of - 4 It's really of its era. It's very much a track that hasn't stood the test of the time. It's just so rigid in its composition and the vocals are very monotone in nature. Like a poor version of a Tears For Fears track. 2. Open Your Heart - 1 Lyrically it's pretty poor and instrumentally it's even poorer. Really bad track. This hasn't aged well. 3. The Sound Of The Crowd - 4 More really cheap synthpop. Just really aged like milk kind of music. 4. Darkness - 4 It's alright. Kind of bubblegum pop, kind of cheap synthpop. It's enjoyable but it's not anything phenomenal. 5. Do Or Die - 6 Instrumentally and lyrically a lot better even if it is a little repetitive at times. Genuinely the best track on the album so far. 6. Get Carter - 0 Terrible sounding track. There's only one instrument and it sounds like nails across a chalkboard. Like a rejected Chrono Trigger song. 7. I Am The Law - 1 Instrumentally this is awful. Overall the lyrics are boring as well. It's like a cheap/budget David Bowie. 8. Seconds - 1 Extremely repetitive and dull. A track that could put you to sleep. 9. Love Action (I Believe In Love) - 4 More of a melancholic song. Repetitive and very cheesy, cardboard cut-out lyrics. Forgotten with the passage of time and for good reason as there's not anything remarkable about the track. 10. Don't You Want Me - 8 The more memorable song on an otherwise forgettable album, it's very 80s sounding but it somehow survived the test of time. Probably the only good track off the album. Average Rating: 3.3 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 1.65 Rounded Up: 2 Stars

1. Finest Worksong - 6 It's not a bad song is but a bit repetitive, especially in the bridge. Instrumentally it's a solid track. Really enjoyable sound on it. 2. Welcome To The Occupation - 6 Standard R.E.M. sounding track. Vocals okay, instrumentally okay, lyrically okay, it's nothing phenomenal but nothing poor either. The melody and pace are the most enjoyable parts of the track. 3. Exhuming McCarthy - 5 It's okay. Starts instrumentally brilliantly but that quickly fades into a less enjoyable sound. Lyrics aren't anything inspiring. 4. Disturbance At The Heron House - 5 Exactly the same problems and critiques as the track before it. Guitar solo is very enjoyable on this track however. 5. Strange - 5 Vocally it sounds rather unpleasant but lyrically it's a lot of fun and instrumentally it's really enjoyable. It's just the grainy rather strained nature of the vocals that keeps this track from being a great one. Almost like a budget Oasis. 6. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - 10 The pace of the song and the quickness of the verses is what makes this track so fun. Absolutely legendary track. Lyrically brilliant. The best track on the album so far. 7. The One I Love - 3 Lyrically very boring, it's a completely forgettable track outside of the awesome guitar in the bridge. 8. Fireplace - 2 Even worse vocals and lyrics than The One I Love. Extremely repetitive and boring. The sax, while nice, feels immensely out of place on the track. 9. Lightnin' Hopkins - 2 Vocally very unenjoyable and lyrically not really anything great. Instrumentally the drums are brilliant but they're the only pleasant thing on the track. 10. King of Birds - 3 Lyrics are just rando and at times good, at times completely pointless. The drum is fantastic on this track but that's about it. Sounds like a Renaissance Faire track. 11. Oddfellows Local 151 - 5 Lyrically a lot better but vocally the sound is still unpleasant. Instrumentally a solid track and the guitars sound excellent. They really lead the track well. Average Rating: 4.73 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.36 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

1. Don't Go Near The Water - 1 Lyrically this track is awful. It's so unpleasant the rest of the track, which is very light and melodic, cannot make you look past the terrible writing. 2. Long Promised Road - 4 It's overall a bit better that Don't Go Near The Water but the lyrics are still a little weak at parts and instrumentally this is almost more like Buddy Holly & The Crickets 1950s style than 1970s style rock outside of the bridge, which has a solid guitar solo in it. 3. Take A Load Off Your Feet - 1 Really poor. Instrumentally not great, lyrically poor, it's a completely forgettable and uninspiring track. 4. Disney Girls (1957) - 2 The bubblegum pop I've come to know The Beach Boys by. The thing is, it's not a particularly great style of music. An absolute lullaby. 5. Student Demonstration Time - 6 Guitar solo in the middle of the song is the best part about it. Lyrics aren't horrible but aren't great either. The pace and tone are way too dated. Still the second half of the song is much more enjoyable when the background choir comes in. 6. Feel Flows - 3 Instrumentally odd. It's not bad but it's not instrumentally fantastic. Vocally it's a little bit of that bubblegum pop or do-wop style that I don't tend to enjoy about The Beach Boys. 7. Lookin' At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song) - 5 Instrumentally very enjoyable and lyrically so at the beginning as well until the lyrics just fade into onomatopoeia. I love the sound of the lead guitar on this track and it's paired very well with the bass, which really lead the song on well. Just felt the ba ba ba and bip bip bip part of the lyrics are so unnecessary. It killed the enjoyment of the track for me. 8. A Day In The Life Of A Tree - 1 Incredibly boring track. Lyrically boring, instrumentally it sounds like a track you'd hear at a county fair. The worst track on the album so far. 9. 'Til I Die - 1 A lullaby. Lyrically extremely weak and repetitive. 10. Surf's Up - 2 Like two songs in one, the second of which is very melancholic and contains gibberish for lyrics. It's very cookie cutter barbershop quartet like Beach Boys, which I have never been a big fan of. Not a great track to end the album. Average Rating: 2.6 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 1.3 Rounded Down: 1 Star

1. Summer's Cauldron - 5 Average rock song. Lyrically okay, instrumentally okay, vocally okay. There is nothing overly remarkable about this track. 2. Grass - 4 It's not great vocally. I think the sound of the vocals is what I take most issue with here. Instrumentally it's fine, and the outro fade is enjoyable but overall this is just a boring track. 3. The Meeting Place - 3 Vocally unpleasant. The guitar and drums sound very good but the lyrics seem so random. It is as if they're trying to paint a metaphoric scene but use too many metaphors in the process of doing so. 4. That's Really Super, Supergirl - 1 Absolute cheese. 5. Ballet For A Rainy Day - 1 Vocally and lyrically very poor and way too inconsistent. 6. 1000 Umbrellas - 2 A little bit stronger in the vocal performance but still littered with inconsistencies and underwhelming lyrics. 7. Season Cycle - 1 Like a very poor Beatles track, which there's over five albums of them in this challenge so I'm sure we'll get to those too. Still, it's bubblegum-like 80s pop rock with poor lyrics and uninspiring instrumentals. 8. Earn Enough For Us - 1 If hippies sung about working a 9 to 5. That's about all this song is in a nutshell. And no, it doesn't sound good. 9. Big Day - 1 Rough sounding track. Lyrics are all over the place. Vocally it doesn't sound great either. 10. Another Satellite - 0 It has the same problems as Big Day but it's even worse sounding. 11. Mermaid Smiled - 3 Vocally it doesn't sound good but it's lyrically better written than the last two tracks. The guitar on the track is quite enjoyable. 12. The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul - 4 Much more fun track. It gets a little repetitive but it's still significantly better than a lot of the previous half of the album. 13. Dying - 2 Lyrically very repetitive. The pace is ok and is maintained well by the guitar but the track isn't particularly great. 14. Sacrificial Bonfire - 0 Just a random song with very random lyrics. The pace is all over the place and the insturments constantly come in, out, and stutter between with it. Also I don't know who the lead singer is but after fourteen tracks I think it's safe to say I think his voice is awful. 15. Dear God - 8 Lyrically this is miles better than anything else on the album. Really solid track and the instruments help the track and its theme magnificently. Average Rating: 2.40 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 1.20 Rounded Down: 1 Star

1. Out the Lies - 4 Starts with an interesting chant in the first half before some wonderful piano. The problem with the track is that it is a speaking track and not anything sung on it. I'm not a big fan of speaking tracks at all. 2. Stop Dem - 8 Really good instrumentals. Goes on for about 20 seconds too long but vocally the effects are brilliant. Really good track. 3. Hard Life - 6 Decent track. The vocals are superb and the effects on the vocals that eventually reiterate and become the bridge is a wonderful effect. It's too repetitive from the bridge onwards vocally but the instrumental change is excellent and the piano is a lot of fun before we're led into some brief speaking. 4. Don't Shoot Guns Down - 1 Repetitive. I understand the concept and point and message of the track which I agree with, it's just a very poor execution of it. 5. Wildfires - 9 Superb vocals. This is a simplistic track performed masterfully. Great bass, supporting claps and drums, and an outstanding voice lead to a superb track overall. 6. X - 2 The main vocal is awful as it fades between half-singing, whispering, and speaking. Background vocals are nice but the only make one brief appearance. 7. Sorry Ain't Enough - 6 Instrumentally this is absolutely fantastic. It looses me with how repetitive the lyrics can be and, when coupled with the slow pace, makes the track feel a little dragged out. Overall though, not a bad track. 8. Black Is - 1 It's a speaking track with barely any instrumentals. 9. Bow - 6 It's okay. Vocally it's enjoyable at times and a little stale in others. Instrumentally it's amazing. 10. This Generation - N/A It's like a reprise so it will not be rated. 11. Why We Cry Why We Die - 2 Instrumentally good, lyrically it's boring. It's just the title repeated endlessly over and over again through the whole track. 12. Black - 3 The female vocals on this track are the highlight. The rest is extremely dull music. The main problem is the female vocals are very very brief reprises from the monotony of the rest of the track. 13. Us - N/A It's a reprise if anything. 14. Eternal Life - 6 Very repetitive lyrically at times in the beginning but instrumentally absolutely amazing. Synthesizer on it is incredible. Acapaella didn't need to be one. Keeping the beatt and synth through that part would have been a better option. 15. Only Synth in Church - N/A Too short to be rated. 16. Monsters - 10 Absolutely brilliant track. Lyrics are superb, instruments are amazing both in synth and an absolutely excellent bass. Beat is excellent. Just an incredibly superb track. 17. June Child - N/A It's a reprise. 18. Miracles - 6 A bit too all over the place vocally. There's parts of it that are enjoyable and parts that aren't. Not too bad a track overall though. 19. Hold Me - 2 Really dull track with barely anything to it. 20. Pray Up Stay Up - 7 It's really repetitive but the beat and piano are absolutely awesome on the track you don't mind the lyrics as much as on other tracks on the album. Fun track. Average Rating: 4.94 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.47 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

1. Forever - 6 Some of the sound effects aren't enjoyable but the overall beat and sound is solid. Decent techno track. 2. Are We Here? - 8 Brilliant track. Really great beat, really good sound, really fun listen. Quintessential techno. 3. I Wish I Had Duck Feet - 5 Bit of an odd track. Not as strong as the previous two but not unenjoyable. 4. Sad But True - 9 Brilliant techo. Awesome beat, awesome sounds, and a really great track to move to. Superb. 5. Crash and Carry - 8 Another great techno track. Really good beat and sound that makes this a great track to listen to. 6. Quality Seconds - 6 It's not bad but it almost borders on hardcore EDM which I'm not a fan of. Reminds me slightly of a track you'd find on a UT2004 clan made custom fragging arena map. 7. Philosophy By Numbers - 8 Some more good sounds. It comes and goes on just how enjoyable the track is and it's certainly a lot odder than Sad But True or Crash and Carry but it's still very good. 8. Kein Trink Wasser - 4 Way to instrumentally over-repetitive and the song goes on for so long it's a real struggle to get through its entirety. It's not the worst techno track but it's not anywhere close to the quality elsewhere on the album. 9. Science Fiction - 6 Solid techno track. Decent beat with good instrumentals. Not the best thing on the album but a decent track overall. 10. Attached - 8 Solid techno trach with great builds, digression, and then more builds. Solid track to end the album on. Average Rating: 6.80 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.40 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. Wanted Man - 9 Solid opening. Amazing opening in fact. Cash sounds amazing on this track. Lyrically it's brilliant and the guitar sounds excellent. The crowd play is also excellent given how this is a live album. 2. Wreck of the Old 97 - 7 The vocals get drowned out a little but the pace of the song is great and the guitars do so well in between the lyrics. Good track. 3. I Walk The Line - 7 Very simple yet fun song. Is over in a flash but it's a solid song. 4. Darlin' Companion - 6 It's a solid love song but I don't think it's lasted the test of time. I think it's a solid track but it's definitely overshadowed by the first three tracks on this album. 5. Starkville City Jail - 9 This is a fun track. Just overall a really fun track lyrically that tells quite an amusing story. Great track. 6. San Quentin - 10 Brilliant track, especially given the environment and the album. Absolutely fantastic crowd play as well from Cash on the track. 7. San Quentin (Reprise) - N/A It's a replay of San Quentin. 8. A Boy Named Sue - 8 Interesting song. At times it's just talking at other times singing and at some times pure comedy. It's brilliant. 9. (They'll Be) Peace in the Valley - 10 Excellent track with some incredibly strong background/supporting vocals. Superb track. 10. Folsom Prison Blues - N/A The actual singing part is only twenty seconds long so it is too short to be rated. Average Rating: 8.25 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 4.13 Rounded Down: 4 Stars

1. Where The Streets Have No Name - 11 Brilliant track. Vocally excellent, lyrically superb, instrumentally a masterpiece. This track is fantastic and an all time classic. 2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - 10 Fantastic track. Absolutely brilliant sound and absolutely moving lyrics. Superb listen. 3. With Or Without You - 10 The build on this track is absolutely excellent. It's just an absolutely outstanding sounding track. 4. Bullet The Blue Sky - 8 It's significantly better instrumentally than lyrically. The guitar sounds amazing, and the bass is pitched so low it's a beautiful combo with the at times heavy drums. Solid song. 5. Running To Stand Still - 9 Great slower song with another superb build before a calm down in the bridge. Just a great track. The harmonica at the end is a brilliant addition to start the fade out. 6. Red Hill Mining Town - 5 It's okay. Not anything phenomenal but not a poor track. Lyrically and instrumentally it's completely middle-of-the-road. 7. In God's Country - 7 Solid sounding track. Very good tempo that's kept well by an excellent guitar. Very enjoyable. 8. Trip Through Your Wires - 7 Another decent sound tracking. Great drums on it which do so well to keep you moving through the song well. 9. One Tree Hill - 8 Decent track. Great build on it but I'm not a fan of the random screeching/screaming James Brown-like lyrics in the bridge. Outro is fantastic. Very uplifting sound. 10. Exit - 9 Great track. Really beautiful building sound through the bass that passes onto the drums. Beautiful lyrics that keep the tone of the song right in line with the brilliant guitar riffs in the bridge. 11. Mothers Of The Disappeared - 4 Instrumentally it's okay but it 's the weakest song on the album. Not much to it outside the instrumentals and the vocals aren't particularly too great. Bang average track. Average Rating: 8.00 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 4.00 No Rounding: 4 Stars

1. Never Let Me Down Again - 9 Really fun song with a great sound. Lyrically it's a lot of fun as well. Excellent opening track. 2. The Things You Said - 8 Much slower but still really enjoyable song, especially instrumentally between the verses and choruses. Brilliant vocals also help elevate the track. 3. Strangelove - 6 Not as strong a track. Instrumentally there are some highlights but lyrically it's significantly weaker than the previous two tracks. 4. Sacred - 8 Another fun track. Really great lyrics help guide the song through some brilliant sounds. 5. Little 15 - 6 It's not a bad song but it's not as enjoyable and the topic feels really weird. Instrumentally it sounds a little too much like a abandonded haunted carnival scene. 6. Behind the Wheel - 8 Solid track. Very good beat, with great sounds, and solid vocals. It's a little too rigid in its composition but it's all around a good track. 7. I Want You Now - 4 Vocals are good but all the background noises are a horrible disturbance and makes the track seem overly edgy. 8. To Have and to Hold - 6 Decent track. The lyrics aren't phenomenal but the sounds on the track are nice except for the left over sounds from I Want You Now. Overall, it's okay. 9. Nothing - 10 Excellent track. Flipping brilliant chorus on it as well. Really good sound on it as well. 10. Pimpf - 4 Feels so out of place on the album. It's not horrible instrumentally but it's extremely repetitive. Average Rating: 6.90 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.45 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. Seven Nation Army - 11 What more can be said about this track that hasn't already been said? An all time classic. It's just a sound that is legendary. 2. Black Math - 8 Solid sound with some really good lyrics. They're drowned out a bit which is what I dislike about the track, but overally it's a great sound. 3. There's No Home For You Here - 5 It's incredibly inconsistent. There's parts the vocals are the highlight of the track as the instruments give away. There's other parts where the vocals are drowned out. On top of this, the lyrics are too repetitive. 4. I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - 4 Lyrically very weak. The drums are brilliant on this track but the vocals absolutely are tough to listen to. 5. In The Cold, Cold Night - 7 Decent slow track with great vocals on it. Solid reprise from the last two tracks. 6. I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart - 6 It's a good song. The problem that arises within it is the lyrics don't fit the pace and they are sped up to try and fit them within the chords. This throws the enjoyment of the song way off as it feels like it's constantly building before losing itself over and over again. 7. You've Got Her In Your Pocket - 5 His voice isn't great on this. Lyrically it's fine. Instrumentally it's one instrument, which is okay. But his vocals are really weak on this track. 8. Ball and Biscuit - 9 Lyrically way too repetitive but instrumentally absolutely brilliant. Great guitar solos and sound with a hugely enjoyable drumline to compliment. Awesome track. 9. The Hardest Button to Button - 6 Again way to lyrically repetitive, especially in the second half of the track. 10. Little Acorns - 2 Just an awful song. Terrible concept, terrible lyrics, terrible execution. 11. Hypnotize - 10 Awesome short track. Really what I've come to enjoy about The White Stripes. Superb sound. 12. The Air Near My Fingers - 6 It's okay. Nothing about this is going to blow you mind but it's also not unenjoyable. 13. Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine - 9 Brilliant track. Great sound, great fun lyrics, and an all around belter. Solid stuff. 14. It's True That We Love One Another - 4 It's a nice song but vocally it doesn't sound great and overall it's way out of place with the rest of the album. Could have been left off the album entirely. Average Rating: 6.57 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.29 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. Juanita: Kiteless: To Dream Of Love - 10 Brilliant sound. It it actually three tracks combined into one, but the sounds on each are so good. It sounds like quintessential Underworld and quintessential EDM. Fantastic stuff. 2. Banstyle / Sappys Curry - 8 Another combined track with Sappys Curry being the longer of the two. It mellows out a bit during the second half of the track before eventually building back into a great finish. Banstyle is absolutely awesome. 3. Confusion The Waitress - 7 Instrumentally it's a brilliant sound with some awesome beats under toning the track. Lyrically it's a bit stale. 4. Rowla - 10 Great EDM sound. A brilliant track to dance to. 5. Pearl's Girl - 10 Brilliant track. Amazing 90s EDM sound. This is absolutely a classic and would be immense in any set and on any track listing. 6. Air Towel - 9 More great EDM sound. Brilliant beat and pace on the track that will keep you moving throughout it. Really great sound. 7. Blueski - 8 Instrumentally it's very good but unlike anything else on the album. Still very enjoyable. 8. Stagger - 8 Solid track to end the album. Not as EDM-based as it contains a lot of heavy drums in it but still enjoyable. Average Rating: 8.75 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 4.38 Rounded Down: 4 Stars

1. Message In A Bottle - 11 Fantastic vocals. Brilliant instrumentals. Superb lyrics. An absolute all-time classic. 2. Reggatta de Blanc - 7 Lyrically there's really nothing on the track but it's still great. Instrumentally it sounds fantastic and the quick burst of drum rolls adds a lovely touch to the track. 3. It's Alright For You - 8 Brilliant guitar solo and sound. Much like a continuation of Reggatta de Blanc in terms of the song's composition but this time with some lyrics. They are a bit competitive but they do not dominate the track so it's not as big as an annoyance. 4. Bring on the Night - 8 Another solid track. Really enjoyable sound and really enjoyable lyrics. Right in line with It's Alright For You. 5. Deathwish - 7 Instrumentally it's really really good but lyrically it's probably the weakest of the last three tracks. Still, it's a tone change and a good one. Lot of fun none-the-less. 6. Walking On The Moon - 6 Sounds like a tropical-vibe kind of track. Not bad. Lyrically a bit strange at times but overall it's okay. 7. On Any Other Day - 2 Lyrically this is absolutely awful. Vocally it sounds very bad as well. A complete depart from the previous six tracks. 8. The Bed's Too Big Without You - 9 Instrumentally it's not as fun as other tracks on the album but lyrically it's also one of the strongest. Very strongly written track. 9. Contact - 4 Another lyrically poor track and the sound is not as enjoyable at all, especially in the lower octave parts. 10. Does Everyone Stare - 6 It's bang average. Not bad lyrically although very repetitive. Overall it's a decent track. 11. No Time This Time - 6 Not a fan of the effect on the vocals. It detracts a lot from an otherwise very fun track. Overall a solid song to end the album however. Average Rating: 6.73 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.36 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. Suzanne - 4 Lyrically this is so random. At times it feels like it's brilliant and at other times it loses you. There's barely any respite between the lyrics as well. It just seems like a constant droning of lyrics that gives you no time to figure out what's exactly going on in the song. 2. Master Song - 5 It's a decent track. Lyrically it's very bang average. The strings and small brass, particularly the brass at the end of the track are small lovely touches. 3. Winter Lady - 6 Another decent track. Much better written than the previous two, but nothing so far has been anything overly phenomenal. 4. The Stranger Song - 5 Lyrically a little bit perplexing. Not a bad song but again, nothing excellent that would warrant another play. 5. Sisters of Mercy - 4 Exactly the same kind of track as the first four. 6. So Long, Marianne - 6 Very enjoyable track. Background vocals add a lot of great sound alongside a brilliantly paced guitar. Lyrically it's also the strongest on the album so far. 7. Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye - 5 Decent love song. Nothing remarkable about it but lyrically it's very enjoyable. 8. Stories of the Street - 5 Much better sound on the guitar and good vocals. Lyrics are a bit strange at times. 9. Teachers - 4 The guitar on this is amazing but lyrically and vocally this is unpleasant. 10. One of Us Cannot Be Wrong - 3 Just not an enjoyable track in any aspect. Average Rating: 4.70 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.35 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

1. Beyond This World - 10 Brilliant hip-hop. Absolutely wicked beat with amazingly well paced lyrics. The switching between the brothers and how they're queued up to enter the track is superb. 2. Feelin' Alright - 5 The rap is good but the "doo doo doo" part I could do without and there's way too much of it on the track. Beat is solid. 3. Sunshine - 7 Decent rap. Not as superb as Beyond This World but it's without the "doo doo doo" part from Feelin' Alright. Sometimes the rap feels a little lyrically forced though. 4. What "U" Waitin' 4 - 8 Great beat and pace. Lyrics are very enjoyable as well. Solid track. 5. "U" Make Me Sweat - 5 Beat is great but I'm not a fan of the lyrics. It's an okay track. 6. Acknowledge Your Own History - 6 The rap is very good as is the supporting singer in the bridge. The beat is okay. Overall musically it could be better but it's a solid track nonetheless. 7. Belly Dancin' Dina - 4 It's not great. The rap just feels lyrically the weakest thing so far. 8. Good Newz Comin' - 4 Purely instrumental. It's okay. 9. Done by the Forces of Nature - 7 Good rap with some lyrics that are incredible at times. It mellows out a bit in the second half of the track. 10. Beads on a String - 7 Another solid rap with a decent beat. 11. Tribe Vibes - 6 Good track with a solid vibe. It's not 100% stood the test of time with the way it sounds but it's still enjoyable. 12. J.Beez Comin' Through - 4 The rap is good but it's nothing fantastic. Definitely no where close to the best thing on the album. 13. Black Woman - 4 The rap starts out strong but the entire last minute to two are not anything great. A pass over track. 14. In Dayz "2" Come - 7 Solid rap with some strong lyrics and a good beat. 15. Doin' Our Own Dang - 9 Very fun track with a great sound. Really solid lyrics and a just overally an amazing track to dance to. 16. Kool Accordin' "2" a Jungle Brother - 2 Pointless track to end the album. Average Rating: 5.94 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.97 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. Slow Burn - 7 Instrumentally and vocally very strong. Lyrically very forced and random at times. Still a very good and enjoyable track. 2. Lonely Weekend - 6 Instrumentally very good but lyrically extremely repetitive. Very much a good track that felt like it could be a lot more if the title line was just repeated for two minutes. 3. Butterflies - 9 Brilliant country song. Absolutely awesome from the sound to the vocals to the lyrics. Superb track. 4. Oh, What A World - 7 The autotone part is the only thing keeping this song from a ten. It's very good and really inspiring otherwise. 5. Mother - 4 It's a pretty stale slow song. 6. Love Is A Wild Thing - 10 Brilliant track. Excellent lyrics and a brilliant sound make this song absolutely fantastic. Musgraves does have an amazing voice for a track like this too. Simply superb. 7. Space Cowboy - 7 Standard country song. Some really fantastic lyrics on this track. It's good. 8. Happy & Sad - 8 Brilliant country track. I don't usually like an upshift in octave through the bridge, I usually like a guitar solo or a more mellow bridge. This and Space Cowboy both have that upshift and which I don't necessarily enjoy it in Space Cowboy, it works really well here with the lyrics that guide it the whole way. 9. Velvet Elvis - 5 Drums are really good but it feels like the guitar is being suffocated on this track and lyrcially it's no where near the other stuff on the album. 10. Wonder Woman - 6 It's a good track. It's nothing phenomenal but it's well written and enjoyable. 11. High Horse - 6 Not so much a country song as it is a pop song but overall it's not a bad track. 12. Golden Hour - 4 It's okay. It's not really a great track. Feel lyrically very forced. Insturmentally it's good. 13. Rainbow - 10 Brilliant slow song. Really enjoyable love song. Fantastic way to end the album. Average Rating: 6.85 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 3.42 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. The View From The Afternoon - 6 Great guitar sound with some excellent drums but they drown the lyrics out a bit and the song seems to stutter stop twice which makes it hard to really get into and enjoy it fully. 2. I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor - 10 Brilliant track. Lyrics are so metaphoric with so many references before a brilliant chorus. The guitar riffs are supreme and are all underpinned by a brilliant drum that is willing to both set pace and roll the song in and out of the next part. 3. Fake Tales of San Francisco - 7 Great instrumental sound. At times the lyrics are excellent and at times they are too repetitive. Still a very enjoyable track. 4. Dancing Shoes - 6 It's an alright track. Nothing overly to rave about but still enjoyable. Right in line with The View From The Afternoon. 5. You Probably Couldn't See For The Lights But You Were Staring Straight At Me - 4 Average track. It's not lyrically poor but it's just a snoozer of a track. Definitely one to pass over on the album. 6. Still Take You Home - 7 Very fast track but with a good sound. The lyrics brush up against being too fast to comprehend but they never actually go over the line of becoming incomprehensible. Enjoyable song. 7. Riot Van - 6 Lyrically it's very good. Lot slower a song and it's very much a rebellious youth kind of track. Not bad but not the best thing on the album. 8. Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured - 7 It's a decent track. Right in line with The View From The Afternoon and Dancing Shoes. I am a huge fan of the bass on this track, which I feel elevates the track a little bit more. 9. Mardy Bum - 9 Very good song. Love the lyrics and I feel like the instruments guide the track well, even through the slowing more calming bridge into the outro. 10. Perhaps Vampires Is A Bit Strong But... - 8 Good track. Love how the vocals have given way to the instruments which have so much space to just continue on and they do so very well into about two to three different directions. 11. When The Sun Goes Down - 11 The line about Roxanne is absolutely brilliant. Overall, this is a supremely well written track. The instruments and intro so absolutely fantastically as well. 12. From The Ritz To The Rubble - 6 Good track with a good sound. Lyrically I find the track hard to follow a little, which is the intention but it hasn't done anything to up my enjoyment of the track. 13. A Certain Romance - 11 Incredible tack. Instrumentally it's a masterpiece. Lyrically it's incredibly strong. If you've ever been through a hard breakup, you've listened to and maybe even cried to this track. It's an instant classic. Best track on the album by far. Average Rating: 7.54 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.77 Rounded Up: 4 Stars

1. Soubour - 7 Really good guitar play on this track. Beat on this track is also fantastic. It's just a super fun listen. 2. Irganda - 6 The vocals on this and the guitar sounds nice but the beat just makes the track sound like it's a little too fast paced and rushed. 3. Al Hassidi Terei - 6 The quicker parts are very good while the slower parts are repetitive in the lyrics. Brilliant guitar on the track as well. 4. Sekou Oumarou - 4 There's not a lot to this track. Vocally it's very good but instrumentally it's a little bit stale. 5. Nick - 9 Brilliant track. The guitars sound so good and I love how the signing goes from lead to the group in unison and back to the lead absolutely flawlessly. Superb. 6. Ai Tchere Bele - 5 The lyrics sound a little overpowered by the guitar on this track. The sound is still good but it's just hard to get into the rhythm of the track. 7. Wayei (feat. Kaira Arby) - 5 It's a bit repetitive at times. Bit of a pass over track. Sounds good, but just goes on for a little bit to long. 8. Petit Metier - 6 Decent slower song that builds nicely into a decent sound. Lyrically it falls off a bit but it's not all too bad. An okay track. 9. Jolie - 6 Another slow burner that builds well. It's a decent track. The sound at the end is brilliant and made the track worth the wait in the built up to the end. 10. Desert Melodie - 5 I understand the significance of a track like this but I do think there are significantly better tracks on the album. Overall not bad but not as enjoyable a sound as what is on the front of the album. 11. Mali - 6 Good sound to end the album. The vocal exploration of range on this track is the highlight. Average Rating: 5.91 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.95 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. The Cisco Kid - 7 Repetitive lyrics but still an enjoyable sound none the less. For a soul/funk track it's very good. 2. Where Was You At - 6 Another good soul/funk track. Kinda confused by the pitch change in the middle of the song that then quickly removes itself just as abruptly as it came in. Outside of that, it's a decent track. 3. City, Country, City - 8 Brilliant jam track with loads of great instrumentals to love throughout. Superb track. 4. Four Cornered Room - 3 It's just a boring track. Like a really bad coffee shop jazz vibe. 5. The World Is A Ghetto - 6 Decent jam but the intro is very slow and it's very hard to get to the most enjoyable part of the track which is after about three to four minutes in. 6. Beetles In The Bog - 5 Fun track to end the album off with but definitely not as great in lyrics, vocals, or instrumentals as The World Is A Ghetto. Average Rating: 5.83 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.92 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think) - 3 Like a bad cheesy 50s/60s rock song. Vocals are drowned out by the instrumentals during the verses and crash into each other during the choruses. 2. Man at C&A - 2 Very uninspiring track. Instrumentally not much a direction and lyrically completely lost. 3. Hey Little Rich Girl - 3 Instrumentally it's okay but otherwise it's not the best track. "Now little rich girl, that's why you're in this song" is genuinely not a great piece of writing and generally whenever a song mentions itself, it's a particularly weak point of musical composition. It's very hard to pull off well and this track is another example of one that does not. 4. Do Nothing - 4 It's a simple enough song that's it's not bad but it's nothing phenomenal. A bit of a pass over track. 5. Pearl's Cafe - 1 Very poorly written song. The part where the whole group comes in to repeatedly sing "it's all a load of bollocks" is a particular low point. 6. Sock It to 'Em J.B. - 5 The concept of the song is fine but when it retorts to just reciting the movie title names it's a bit underwhelming. 7. Stereotype / Stereotype, Pt. 2 - 5 Part 1 is overall good. Part 2 has a talking part that's not a very good quality. Instrumentally it's pretty enjoyable. They bad and good parts are in complete balance in the track. 8. Holiday Fortnight - 6 Purely instrumental track but with a great sound and tempo. All around enjoyable. 9. I Can't Stand It - 3 Vocally it sounds awful. Lyrically it's not a great piece of writing. Instrumentally it's okay. No idea why the good nights had to be at the end of the track either. 10. International Jet Set - 3 Way too many tone changes. Sounds like a spooky wannabe Halloween track but without any really spooky lyrics. Just all around poor. 11. Enjoy Yourself (Reprise) - N/A It's a reprise so I will not rate it. Average Rating: 3.50 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 1.75 Rounded Up: 2 Stars

1. Exp - N/A It's an intro skit essentially. Shouldn't be rated because of that. 2. Up From The Skies - 5 The guitar sound is great for the psychedelic vibe that Jimi Hendrix usually always is. The vocals are quite soft as well on this track that aide that vibe. Overall it's a decent track. 3. Spanish Castle Magic - 8 Great rock sound. The guitars are brilliant, the bass is brilliant, and the solo in the outro is absolutely awesome. Great track. 4. Wait Until Tomorrow - 6 The choruses feel too chaotic but the verses are excellent in sound and composition. Drum is brilliantly highlighted on the track. 5. Ain't No Telling - 6 It's a fun and fast track. It's very short as well but still a good and enjoyable sound. Lovely bass is coupled well with the drums on this track to keep the pace so well. 6. Little Wing - 6 A more psychedelic track. Very good lyrics and the instruments are alright but this track didn't blow me away. Guitar solo in the outro is excellent. 7. If 6 Was 9 - 3 Lyrically the weakest thing on the album. Instrumentally it's all over the place. Drum solo is brilliant but it's such a struggle to get through the song to it and afterwards the soliloquy isn't enjoyable. Neither is the fact that the vocals are not balanced well in volume and actually go up and down on the track. 8. You Got Me Floatin' - 7 Good guitars and a great voice from Hendrix. I like how the background vocals are used on this track as well. Solid stuff. 9. Castles Made of Sand - 6 The guitar solo in the bridge was excellent but lyrically the second verse is really poor. Instrumentally it's just too random a track to fully enjoy it. 10. She's So Fine - 7 Guitar solo outro is excellent. Song itself is okay. It almost reminds me of a Beatles track a bit with the vocals. Overall, enjoyable. 11. One Rainy Wish - 8 The line about the woman stealing his heart away is so brilliant and the guitar through that part is superb. Really great sounding track. The verses are very enjoyable as well. Excellent track. 12. Little Miss Lover - 6 I love the guitars on this track, particularly the bass. They sound excellent both in the solos and short bursts between the lyrics that we hear. Lyrically I didn't find it anything superb. It's a track meant really only for the guitar sound. 13. Bold as Love - 6 Lyrically I don't find this track to be anything spectacular but what was spectacular is the incredible bridge. The guitar and drums are massive on this track and you can't help but get swept away by them. Average Rating: 5.69 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.85 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. Bodhisattva - 7 It's a decent track. It's a fun kind of swinging/swingers kind of rock. The drum paces the song well and the lyrics are alright if not slightly on the more repetitive side. Still the piano does so well as a compliment to the track and the rock solos are simple but effective. 2. Razor Boy - 3 Elevator music. 3. The Boston Rag - 5 Reminds me almost of The Band. It's a decent song with some fun guitars in it. Nothing else really stands out as remarkable or memorable about the track. 4. Your Gold Teeth - 3 It's very random and instrumentally it's a lot like elevator music again. 5. Show Biz Kids - 7 The lyrics can be very repetitive at times but the instruments are given so much space to play it doesn't really ruin the track. Speaking of the instruments, the lead guitar is absolutely fantastic on this track. There are some absolutely excellent solos. Brilliant sound. 6. My Old School - 6 Lot of a good fun on this track. Lyrcially it's the best thing on the album but the loud guitars from Show Biz Kids have been left behind for a lot more brass and swing. There are some great guitar solos as well on this track but a mit more muted. Overall it's a decent track. 7. Pearl of the Quarter - 5 Decent track. Nothing phenomenal about it but it's well written and enjoyable none the less. 8. King of the World - 5 Another decent track. Guitar play on it is nice and it reminds me of a more mellow track from Jimi Hendrix. Still it's okay. Average Rating: 5.13 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.56 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. Ramble Tamble - 6 Good rock song. Instrumentally it builds really well and is a great sound. The way it slows into the outro is also really good. Very enjoyable for an opening track. 2. Before You Accuse Me (Take A Look At Yourself) - 6 Just a good old rock and roll song with a classic, timeless 60s/70s sound. 3. Travelin' Band - 8 Great short song with an amazing sound and the awesome vocals we've come to know from CCR over the years. Really fun track. 4. Ooby Dooby - 5 Lyrically awful but instrumentally one of the best things on the album. It's so easy to move to the brilliant guitars but the Ooby Dooby makes it seem like a track that hasn't aged well from the Dave Clark Show era. 5. Lookin' Out My Back Door - 6 Lyrically one of the better ones on the album. All around a decent sound and track. 6. Run Through The Jungle - 7 Great track. Love the lyrics on this specifically but the opening sound is so enjoyable and sets the tone so well for the track. 7. Up Around The Bend - 7 Very good song. Enjoyable on all fronts and the guitar rift both to open and between the chorus and verses is definitely the highlight. 8. My Baby Left Me - 5 It's a cookie cutter "love is gone" kind of track. Million of them have been made throughout the decades and there's nothing to separate this from the rest of them. 9. Who'll Stop The Rain - 8 Brilliant track. Love everything about this including the lyrics, how the background vocals come in and out, and how the guitar fades out to end the track. Excellent stuff. 10. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - 10 Heard this a million times via a cover. Hated all of those covers. But this original track is excellent. It's perfect in it's more muted sound and the drums between the chorus and verses are superb and that's just the opening 4 minutes. After that you're treated to just some awesome guitar and drums that provide a billing you can get enjoyably lost in. 11. Long As I Can See The Light - 7 Very good track. Love the saxophone on this track, which was a pleasant surprise. Great way to top off the album. Average Rating: 6.82 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.41 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. Chan Chan - 11 Lyrically fantastic, the guitars set such a brilliant pace you can't help but feel soothed by the incredible sound on this track. Absolutely amazing track. 2. De Camino a la Vereda - 6 It's okay. The beat and pace is good and the lyrics are alright but it's not nearly as fun a song as Chan Chan. 3. El Cuarto de Tula - 8 It's a good song but it goes on a little too long for my liking. I feel like around the four and a half minute mark when the song tends to mellow out would be a brilliant point to just fade the track out. Still, it's a good sound and the trumpet is superb on it. 4. Pueblo Nuevo - 3 It's just the piano for a long time and it keeps out of key. Not a very enjoyable an instrumental track. 5. Dos Gardenias - 5 Decent slower track. Vocals are really good on it but it's nothing that's going to blow you away. 6. ¿Y Tú Qué Has Hecho? - 4 It's a bit of a lullaby. The instruments sound excellent but vocally it's so low in pitch it could really descend you into sleep. 7. Veinte Años - 5 It's okay. Another slower track but this time the vocals are better than the previous track. Nothing huge but nothing bad. 8. El Carretero - 6 Decent track with some brilliant guitar play in it. Vocals are solid too and very very catchy. 9. Candela - 10 Really fun track. You will find yourself easily dancing and moving to this track. It has an amazing collection of sounds and vocals on it that make it insanely fun to groove to. 10. Amor de Loca Juventud - 7 Very good track. It is perfectly balanced between the vocals and the instruments, which are given a lovely amount of space to take over the track until the next verse. 11. Orgullecida - 4 It's an average track with some good trumpet sound on it but it's nothing exceptional and it's a bit of a pass over track on the album. 12. Murmullo - 3 The track eventually just descends into humming. It's not anything great to begin with. Piano on it is nice however. 13. Buena Vista Social Club - 5 Good instrumental track. 14. La Bayamesa - 4 Okay track to end the album. Bit slower and sounds like a funeral track instead of the rest of the upbeat stuff that's been on the album. Average Rating: 5.79 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.89 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. Sure Shot - 7 Solid hip hop track with a brilliant flow and beat. Excellent opening track. 2. Tough Guy - N/A Too short to be rated. 3. B-Boys Makin' With The Freak Freak - 8 Love the chorus on this track and the effects on the voice on them. Quintessential hop hop. 4. Bobo On The Corner - N/A Is like an interlude. 5. Root Down - 3 Bit too repetitive and not really a track that goes anywhere. The bass is enjoyable but lyrically is extremely weak. 6. Sabotage - 11 An all time classic. The mix of the heavy rock with hip hop sound is outstanding and executed flawlessly on this track. 7. Get It Together (feat. Q-Tip) - 8 Solid song. Q-Tip being cued in and his rap is particularly enjoyable but the verses are really enjoyable as well. The background instruments are brilliant. 8. Sabrosa - 5 Decent instrumental track with a good beat and some brilliant bongos on it. 9. The Update - 6 The piano interjecting is very good as is the bass on the track but the effect on the vocals is too strong and it detracts from the lyrics and overall enjoyment of the song 10. Futterman's Rule - 6 Decent instrumental with some great guitar and drumming sounds. 11. Alright Hear This - 5 Brilliant intro but the actual main part of the track is a bit of a pass over song. It's just not as strong as what else is on the album. 12. Eugene's Lament - 2 Not a good instrumental track. 13. Flute Loop - 6 Nice short rap with some really good scratching. 14. Do It (feat. Biz Markie) - 6 Another decent rap with a good beat. Biz Markie doesn't make as big or huge an impression as the track featuring Q-Tip, but it's still solid. 15. Ricky's Theme - 7 Very good and chill instrumental track. Belongs on any lo-fi playlist. 16. Heat Attack Man - 1 Awful sounding track. Like a punk track more than anything else. 17. The Scoop - 6 Decent rap. The bass is really the star of the track here. The effects on the vocals are a little too much here again. 18. Shambala - 6 Good instrumental that builds well and transitions brilliantly into the next track. 19. Bodhisattva Vow - 6 Pretty much the same issue as The Scoop although I feel like the song doesn't start with the effects on it as much. 20. Transitions - 6 Very funky track with some great sounds on it. Decent way to end the album. Average Rating: 5.83 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.92 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. Astral Weeks - 11 I'm not even a fan of Morrison's voice so much but this is just a brilliant track. The instruments guide you weightlessly through some incredible lyrics. 2. Beside You - 3 Really does not sound good. Vocally it's an absolute trainwreck and unlike Astral Weeks there's not an overall sense of the song building or lifting towards something enjoyable. 3. Sweet Thing - 10 Lyrically it's superb. The addition of the strings to help bring in and fade out the outro is an excellent touch. Absolutely incredible track. 4. Cyprus Avenue - 7 It's okay. It builds really well but it's not as grand a crescendo as Sweet Thing or Astral Weeks. Vocally there are times it's not enjoyable but other times it's a joy. Very hit and miss track but it's pretty enjoyable despite that. The way the strings go from flat playing to out of tune to back into flat playing is very clever and works really brilliantly on the track. 5. The Way Young Lovers Do - 6 Good upbeat song with some solid lyrics. It's not like anything else on the album and it's an enjoyable track. The use of brass is pretty good on the track but vocally it goes from being very good to at times a bit of a mess. 6. Madame George - 3 Insanely boring track that's just way too slow and goes on for way too long. 7. Ballerina - 5 Builds really well but at times it just seems like it's not going anywhere. Opening minute and the last three are the most enjoyable parts of the track. 8. Slim Slow Slider - 5 Lyrically very good but the outro is just an unnecessary increase in tempo and pace for ten to fifteen seconds. Makes the outro feel so out of place on not just the track but the album. Overall it's a decent track. Average Rating: 6.25 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.13 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. Highly Evolved - 5 There are things I like and don't like on the track. Lyrics are good, bass is great, drums are superb, guitar sound is excellent. Background screaming is awful and the lead vocals waning out isn't a great sound. 2. Autumn Shade - 5 Instrumentally it's good but lyrically it's pretty poor. The instruments are given an brilliant amount of space on the end of the track to play out a lovely sound. 3. Outtathaway - 6 Vocally it's horrible, lyrically it's good, insturmentally it's absolutely brilliant. The screaming signing type is a style of music I absolutely have no care for, which is exactly what's preventing this track from going from a 6 to a 10. 4. Sunshinin - 3 Instrumentally it doesn't sound as good as there's a lot of noise at the end of the track. Vocally and lyrically it's pretty unimpressive. 5. Homesick - 3 It's just not a very well written track. Instrumentally it's good and the guitar solo in the bridge is awesome, but everything else about the track is either annoying or just unpleasant. 6. Get Free - 8 Great sound. Vocally it's unpleasant in small bursts but it's not bad overall and it's an amazing rock sound. Drums and riffs are defintiely the highlight. 7. Country Yard - 2 It builds well but the opening two and a half minutes are horribly painful vocals to listen to. Really unpleasant track overall. 8. Factory - 2 The guitar solo in the bridge is the only enjoyable part of this track. 9. In The Jungle - 1 It's just very vocally unpleasant. Instrumentally it gets a lot better as the track goes on but you suffer through so much just to get to that point it doesn't feel worth it. 10. Mary Jane - 9 The best thing on the album not because it's vocally enjoyable but because it's a superb collection of instruments and sound. The screaming horror of previous tracks and non-existent here and you're left with this 60s/70s rock sound that's superbly pleasant. Lyrically it's a bit repetitive but it's still a good track overall. The bridge into the outro is absolutely excellent. 11. Ain't No Room - 4 Instrumentally it's very good, especially between the verses and choruses with the guitars and the pace of the drums. Lyrically it's okay. Vocally it sounds horrendous, especially in the choruses and even more so in the absolute car crash sounding outro. 12. 1969 - 2 Instrumentally it's good but that's the only enjoyable part of the track. The vocals, which descend into screaming at times, are some of the worst on the entire album. Awful sound. Average Rating: 4.17 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.08 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

1. Speak To Me - N/A It's an intro track. 2. Breathe (In The Air) - 7 Good slower track with some decent vocals and lyrics. One thing I am noticing is that the transitions between tracks is absolutely world class and a huge enjoyment. 3. On the Run - 5 It's an okay instrumental. There's nothing phenomenal about the track and it's a complete pass over on the album. 4. Time - 10 Good track. Fun lyrics that builds well into an absolutely legendary guitar solo in the middle of the track. It comes down off the build and guitar solo brilliantly as well. 5. The Great Gig in the Sky - 10 Vocally it's incredible and instrumentally it's a masterpiece. Absolutely a monumental track with a huge build and superb descend. Just a great sound. 6. Money - 9 Very good track. Vocally it's good, lyrically it's superb, and the guitar solos with the drums are absolutely exquisite. Awesome sound on this track. 7. Us and Them - 11 Just an all time classic. I used to listen to this while fragging out in Unreal Tournament 2004 so it has some fond memories already. Lyrically it's excellent and the sound all throughout is just top drawer. Amazing track. 8. Any Colour You Like - 9 Great jam song. Brilliant guitar play with some awesome sounds on it and superb as a bridge itself between Us and Them and Brain Damage. 9. Brain Damage - 10 Lyrically this is fantastic. The choir like background voices add so much to the track while the guitar brilliant plays melancholically to help further express the twisted nature and meaning of the lyrics. 10. Eclipse - 11 An absolutely stunning crescendo to an absolutely stunning album. Absolutely superb track. Short, sweet, and draws from the tracks previously on the album lyrically to deliver the perfect ending. A masterpiece of an outro. Average Rating: 9.11 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 4.56 Rounded Up: 5 Stars

1. Bye Bye Love - 10 What a monumental track! The background singers add so much flavour before Ray's absolutely stunning vocals. Lyrically it's brilliant and the big band jazz sound is so excellent. Massive enjoyment throughout this track. 2. You Don't Know Me - 8 Lyrically superb, it's a brilliant slow moving love song. Ray's vocals on this track are incredible. 3. Half As Much - 7 Lyrically it's very good and Ray sounds fantastic on it. It's not a track that will blow you away but it is still a very good one. 4. I Love You So Much It Hurts - 6 It's a decent song but it's a bit like a lullaby and it's definitely not as strong as the opening three tracks. 5. Just A Little Lovin' (Will Go A Long Way) - 7 Good track with some awesome brass in between Ray's excellent vocals. Lyrically it's very good as well. 6. Born to Lose - 5 This would be the pass over track on the album. It's not bad but it's really nothing phenomenal. There are definitely better love songs on the album. 7. Worried Mind - 10 There's a lot of similarities between the way this sounds on the strings and in the background vocals and I Can't Stop Loving You. Having said that, what an incredible piano solo in the middle of the track. This is so enjoyable. So incredibly enjoyable. Phenomenal track. 8. It Makes No Difference Now - 8 Superb track with some awesome lyrics. It's very very slow but the lower pitch of Ray's voice is excellent at keeping you pinned during the slower moments interrupted by only some excellent big band style brass. 9. You Win Again - 6 Strings are good on it as are the vocals, I'm just not a huge fan of the lyrics or the way the outro vocals come in. The song should have closed with Ray. 10. Careless Love - 5 Not a great track despite some incredibly strong vocals from Ray. You really get to hear the full range he had on this track very well. It's just not anything lyrically or instrumentally fantastic. It's the pass over track on the B side. 11. I Can't Stop Loving You - 12 One of the best songs ever written. Period. This song is just a masterpiece; a complete and total masterpiece. When the Metropolis anime movie used this track in it, that was the first time I had heard it. It fit so well in the movie, it fits so well on the album, and it fits in any top songs collection. It's supremely moving, aided by the best strings on the album and guided through the peaks and troughs of Ray's voice. Incredible track. 12. Hey, Good Looking - 10 Brilliant swing type track. Excellent brass on the track really help the fun loving vibes of Ray's voice and the brilliant lyrics that make the song a very enjoyable track. Average Rating: 7.83 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.92 Rounded Up: 4 Stars

1. Save Me - 5 It's okay. Vocally it's very good at times but the higher pitches lose the lyrics a bit. Instrumentally it's slow but effective. 2. The Mind of Love - 2 Instrumentally between the verses is very good but the lyrics are quite dull. The entire sound is corner hipster coffee shop vibes. It's not a great track. 3. Miss Chatelaine - 8 Very fun track but some amazing vocals and lyrics on them. The upbeat tempo and vibe are very refreshing and welcoming. 4. Wash Me Clean - 1 It's not a great sounding track. Notes are held for too long and the song is just way way way too slow. It's very boring. 5. So It Shall Be - 3 Instrumentally it builds well but the rest of the track is very lacklustre. Lyrically it's not anything phenomenal and seems very cookie cutter. 6. Still Thrives This Love - 3 It's more of the same problem that The Mind of Love suffers from. Instrumentally it's a lot better than that track however. 7. Season of Hollow Soul - 1 The track eventually turns into three minutes of the chorus and "la la las" repeated over and over. Very bad track. You could just straight skip listening to it on the album. 8. Outside Myself - 1 The second part of the this track has the exact same problem as the last one. In terms of their composition they're almost carbon copies of each other. 9. Tears of Love's Recall - 2 Almost like The Mind of Love redux. Lyrically it's a little weak but instrumentally it can put you to sleep. 10. Constant Craving - 4 Much better than the last three tracks but nothing really phenomenal and it would be a pass over track on another album. Average Rating: 3.00 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 1.50 Rounded Up: 2 Stars

1. In France They Kiss on Main Street - 6 It's lyrically very good. The guitars on it are brilliant and instrumentally it's a massive enjoyment. My issue is with the constant pace change of the lyrics in the verses. It's as if some lines are well paced and great and others have too many words and forced to crash into each other just to fit and not throw the pace of the track completely off. 2. The Jungle Line - 5 Instrumentally this track is very interesting. It's got some heavy drums and the lyrics are good. It's nothing phenomenal but it's still a decent track. 3. Edith and the Kingpin - 8 Lyrically it's very good but the highlight of the track for me is all the different effects on the instrumentals and how they're used to up and down the pitch of the song. It's like they constantly switch the mood through this absolutely perplexing song that is filled with intrigue more and more as you go through it. Solid track. 4. Don't Interrupt the Sorrow - 5 It's an okay song. There's some parts of it that are lyrically masterful and others that are dull enough you'll zone out of the song. 5. Shades of Scarlett Conquering - 6 It's a good song about loving making and a southern girl. Lyrically solid. Nothing over-the-top phenomenal but it's a good track. 6. The Hissing of Summer Lawns - 6 Decent track. Love how well it's lyrically written and there's genuinely a lot to enjoy here. 7. The Boho Dance - 4 Bit boring a track. It's definitely the pass over track of the album. Very slow, lyrics aren't great, and overall the track just feels like it's all over the place. 8. Harry's House / Centerpiece - 2 It's just all over the place. The pace is rushed on the lyrics in Harry's House like they are in In France They Kiss on Main Street. Then the song shifts rather non-seamlessly into Centerpiece which has an incredibly jazz sound on the piano. Honestly, the piano here is the best part of the entire album. It's amazing... but then the bridge into the outro have a completely different sound that just doesn't fit the track. The track is just absolutely all over the place because of it, sounding in the end like just loose noise before Joni Mitchell returns to the same structure and sound that was in Harry's House. Way way too random a track. 9. Sweet Bird - 1 Joni is too quiet on the track and it's overly simple. The piano is back but it's not the jazzy vibe and the pace and tempo of the piano is too quick, throwing the rest of the track completely off before Joni resumes her vocals. 10. Shadows and Light - 2 I'm not a person who enjoys acapella and that is what this is. Average Rating: 4.50 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.25 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

1. Breadcrumb Trail - 1 The equivalent of noise rock. There's a ton of nonsensical talking in the track before guitars screech over the instrumentals and a waning whiny voice sings the lines. Awful piece of music. 2. Nosferatu Man - 2 The riffs through the central part of the track are enjoyable but nothing lyrically or vocally about this song is anything close to enjoyable. The screeching is still there but it's not as bad as it is on Breadcrumb Trail. 3. Don, Aman - 0 It takes four and a half minutes for the actual music to kick in. By then you're completely asleep with whatever the opening four and a half minutes are and then the music only lasts about thirty seconds. Track is a complete nothing burger. 4. Washer - 4 Vocally horrendous and lyrically dull the only enjoyable part of the track is the awesome soft guitar play between the verses. This lasts for six and a half minutes, constantly cutting out for the lyrics and leaving you wanting more of it. Finally you get a pretty good burst of guitar sound but that only lasts thirty to forty seconds in an over eight and a half minute track. 5. For Dinner... - 0 It's way too slow for a fully instrumental track. Yes it builds into a crescendo but it's not gradual it's more just four minutes of nothingness until the finish. Sometimes the track is so low you'll forget it's even on and playing. 6. Good Morning, Captain - 3 Just a completely uninspiring song outside of the louder moments of guitars which are short bursts of excellent sound. The track goes on for too long without those moments to really be considered very enjoyable. Average Rating: 1.67 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 0.83 Rounded Up: 1 Star

1. The Man Comes Around - 8 Solid track. The way the guitars come in and out in intensity is brilliant. Lyrically it's a little all over the place and a little over-the-top in its metaphoric nature but still very enjoyable. Intro and outro talking points are also quite nice and well done. 2. Hurt - 10 Lyrically it's brilliant. It builds perfectly into the choruses and comes down suddenly but excellently back into the verses after. Superb track. 3. Give My Love To Rose - 7 Pretty grim song in its message but excellently written. It's so sombre in tone and it needs to be given the message. Amazing track. 4. Bridge Over Troubled Water - 5 It's a good song but and it builds well but it's not as striking as the opening three tracks. 5. I Hung My Head - 10 Absolutely fantastic track. Lyrically brilliant, it's just such a well composed track. Best track on the album so far. 6. First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - 5 It's a good love song but it's just a bit too slow for my personal liking. 7. Personal Jesus - 11 Love the fact that Johnny Cash has done a cover of Depeche Mode. It's absolutely excellent as well. The piano's small additions are excellent. The guitar is loud but simple and does a great job of complimenting the cover in Cash's distinct style. Fantastic track. 8. In My Life - 3 It's a bit of a pass over track. Slow but nothing phenomenal and the track is lost quite a bit compared to what else is on the album. 9. Sam Hall - 5 The song is a return to Johnny Cash's absolutely classic style of music. Fun, upbeat, and lyrically pleasing enough. 10. Danny Boy - 10 I was never a fan of this song but it's sung so well and beautifully by Cash on this album it's absolutely breathtaking. The choice of the organ as the sold instrument here is fantastic. 11. Desperado - 8 Solid track with some great lyrics. I'm not sure if there was a need for a supporting singer on this track but it's nothing that detracts from the quality Cash lays over the track. 12. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - 4 It's another pass over track. It's just a bit dull lyrically and the pace and pitch make it sound like nursery rhyme. 13. Tear Stained Letter - 8 Good track with a classic Cash sound and tempo. I feel like Cash loses the vocals a little bit in the second verse. The piano is superb on the track. 14. Streets of Laredo - 6 It's not a bad track. It's reminiscent of what would have been a slower track on any Cash album from any album of his. Lyrically it's very good and the messaging is very clear on what the track is a metaphor of. 15. We'll Meet Again - 5 It's not a bad track and it cannot be underestimated on the importance and imagry of it. Having said that the choice of supporting instruments I'm not a big fan of. Makes the track feel like some random coffee shop background track instead of what it is meant to be. Average Rating: 7.00 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 3.50 Rounded Up: 4 Stars

1. Cecilia Ann - 9 Great instrumental track to open. Some awesome riffs in it that lead the song along the way right from the off. 2. Rock Music - 2 Awful sounding track. Moe noise rock than anything. The guitar's screeching is very unenjoyable as are the overly hoarse vocals. 3. Velouria - 4 It's a bit lyrically uninspiring. Very repetitive, way too much so. Instrumentally it's okay. 4. Allison - 5 It's okay. Better than Velouria but's a pretty average track overall. 5. Is She Weird - 5 Lyrics are very odd at times. They're a little too repetitive but vocally this is an improvement over Rock Music and Velouria. Not a bad track. 6. Ana - 6 It's good but too short. Could have been something more brilliant if we were given more of it since it's significantly better than the previous four tracks. 7. All Over the World - 7 It's a bit repetitive but I love the space the guitars are given to occupy on the track. It's instrumentally really good and there's a lot to enjoy about this track. 8. Dig for Fire - 4 Instrumentally it's enjoyable but lyrically it's very dull and repetitive. 9. Down To The Well - 5 Better lyrically but still just an okay kind of middle-of-the-road sounding track. 10. The Happening - 4 Vocally this sounds awful at times. Guitar sounds excellent between the vocals. 11. Blown Away - 6 Thankfully the vocals take a back seat to an awesome build through some excellent guitar. The second half of this track is some of the best on the album. 12. Hang Wire - 1 Awful sounding piece of music. 13. Stormy Weather - 1 Exactly the same issue with Hang Wire. Lyrically boring and vocally annoying. Just a bad piece of music. 14. Havalina - 6 I know this is horribly repetitive but the upbeat nature of the instruments and the almost choir-like vocals make it a really enjoyable track. Great way to end the album. Average Rating: 4.62 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.32 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

1. Pigs - 4 Beat is okay but the instruments are too loud and drown the vocals out, which contain some pretty nasty slurs in them as well. 2. How I Could Just Kill a Man - 10 Lyrically very good. The flow of the lyrics is superb both into and out of the choruses. Verses have gems of lines littered throughout them as well. Awesome track. 3. Hand On the Pump - 9 Chorus on this track is amazing as is some of the excellent scratching. It's an awesome hip-hop classic. 4. Hole In the Head - 7 Decent rap overall with a good beat and some some lyrics. The chorus while repetitive, is the best part of the track. 5. Ultraviolet Dreams - N/A Track is too short to rate. 6. Light Another - 7 Very good lyrically with a solid flow but the beat and instrumentals are a bit uninspired. Still a very well written track none-the-less. 7. The Phuncky Feel One - 5 It's lyrically the weakest thing so far on the album. There's parts in the verses, particularly the second one, where the lyrics crash into themselves as well. 8. Break It Up - N/A Is an interlude. 9. Real Estate - 6 Decent rap with some solid lyrics but I'm not a big fan of the effect on the vocals. They also get drowned a bit in the bridges/choruses. 10. Stones Is the Way of the Walk - 5 Pass over track. It's lyrically okay, instrumentally good, but nothing that will blow you away. 11. Psychobetabuckdown - 3 Very boring topic on the track that causes the track to just be very repetitive. Really there's much better on the album. 12. Something for the Blunted - N/A It's an interlude. 13. Latin Lingo - 9 Very very clever rap using words from two languages to make a brilliant point about growing up mixed or at the very least, being bilingual. Super track. 14. The Funky Cypress Hill Shit - 8 The "I know you're gonna dig this" part at the very beginning would later be remixed in the video game Jet Set Radio Future. Love that small treat at the beginning of the track. The rap is good and the beat is solid. It's an enjoyable track. 15. Tres Equis - 5 Beat and instrument wise it's very good it's just a bit too short. I feel like this should have been a full 3-4 minute track. 16. Born to Get Busy - 3 Lyrically it's a little bit weak. Then after two minutes it fades before a news story comes in and sees the track out with some sound effects. Generally the album could have ended and probably should have ended at The Funky Cypress Hill Shit. Average Rating: 6.23 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.12 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. Intro - N/A 2. Svefn-g-englar - 9 Maybe this is right place right time for a track given the seasonal depression crushing me at the moment but it's melodic tones speak volumes. It's like a mix of the best of Radiohead and Pink Floyd in a track. The last ninety seconds that contain the beating is needless in the track. 3. Starálfur - 10 Instrumentally a masterpiece, the vocals only come in when needed. Breathtaking track. 4. Flugufrelsarinn - 8 It starts really well and builds even better. Fantastic track. Vocals are definitely the highlight as it reaches a crescendo. 5. Ný batterí - 7 It's fantastic once the drums come in but it's a haul to get there. The part prior isn't bad at all, it's very enjoyable, but it's just such a slow build the song leaves you wishing it was a little stronger. 6. Hjartað hamast (bamm bamm bamm) - 7 It has a lot of the same problems as the previous track but it's not got the bombastic drums. Instead they've been replaced by absolutely otherworldly strings that add an amazing emotion to the track. Not a fan of the noise at the end at all. 7. Viðrar vel til loftárása - 4 The strings to open is fantastic but the chaotic nature of them at the end is unenjoyable and swallows up the fantastic drums that support the track there. 8. Olsen olsen - 7 Brilliant mainly all instrumental track that really builds well and incorporates a lot of variety of instruments. It sounds a bit like a circus or carnival track at times but it's still very enjoyable. 9. Ágætis byrjun - 5 It's a bit of a lullaby. Instrumentally it's very good but I'm really not a fan of how it sounds vocally. Still, the track reminds me of an old village or something in Final Fantasy VII. It's a decent track. 10. Avalon - 4 It feels like the track cannot decide if it is going to be a funeral procession or Also Sprach Zarathustra. Bit of a nothingness track to end the album. Average Rating: 6.78 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.39 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. I Feel the Earth Move - 10 Brilliant track. The piano is certainly a highlight of the track but it's lyrically brilliant as well. The supporting drums and superb guitar are given their own space to shine as well. Everything works so well in tandem with each other on this track. 2. So Far Away - 6 It's a decent love song. I'm not a huge fan of "Ooo I Miss You Baby" tracks because they've been done over and over anymore since the dawn of time. Having said that, this track has some decent lyrics on it and King's vocals are sublime. 3. It's Too Late - 6 Instrumentally and vocally there's a lot to like about this track. I'm not hugely enthralled lyrically by the track but it's simple enough and enjoyable to not be anything that takes away from the track too much. 4. Home Again - 3 "Snow is cold and rain is wet" are pretty poor lyrics. The piano on this track is excellent though so it's not all for lost but it is definitely a pass over track none-the-less. 5. Beautiful - 9 Lyrically strong I love the progressive nature of the drums and piano in the choruses as well as the super bridge into the outro. Awesome track. 6. Way Over Yonder - 7 It's starts out a little too slow for my liking but the addition of the saxophone and outro are both superb, leading to quite and enjoyable second half of the song. 7. You've Got a Friend - 6 I love the way the vocals go up and down on the track ass well as how it ends. It's nothing phenomenal personally but it is a good and enjoyable track. 8. Where You Lead - 6 Some of these verses are extremely strong lines of music. Not a huge fan of the outro on this track; I feel like the song was building to a better conclusion and it's left me wanting a lot more. 9. Will You Love Me Tomorrow? - 6 Solid love song. It's pretty simple in all terms but it's very good. 10. Smackwater Jack - 6 Fun song. Love the swingy-styled blues-like tone on the track. Lyrically it's fine. Reminds me of an old Ray Charles track. 11. Tapestry - 2 Not a fan. It reminds me of that folk-style tha Joni Mitchell is and I'm not really hugely in love with that kind of music. In addition, the constant increase in pitch between the last two verses I also don't enjoy. 12. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman - 3 Not a fan of this cover. It just feels so off key and doesn't reach the exhaulted heights the original does. Average Rating: 5.83 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.92 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. Speed of Life - 5 It's an instrumental but there's nothing overly fantastic about it. There's some interesting but defintiely out of place sounds used on the track. The guitars are in that classic Bowie style though and they're probably the highlight of the track alongside the drums. 2. Breaking Glass - 3 It's a really short but very dull track. Lyrically it's nothing phenomenal and instrumentally it's not very good either. 3. What in the World - 4 Not a very good track. Slightly better than Breaking Glass but it's still lyrically all over the shop and there's some instrumentals used on the track that are unpleasant. 4. Sound and Vision - 5 It's okay. Nothing about this is anything extraordinary. Instrumentally it's a lot more enjoyable than the previous three tracks but it's overall still missing the spark a normal Bowie track has. 5. Always Crashing in the Same Car - 5 It's another okay song. Lyrically it's the strongest so far but it's still nothing overly phenomenal. A lot of this album so far has been very bang average. 6. Be My Wife - 6 I love the way this track starts, especially with the piano. Outside of that it's okay. Not the best love song you'll ever hear. 7. A New Career in a New Town - 4 Fluff of an instrumental track. 8. Warszawa - 7 Much better instrumental track. Very moving at times but also sounds quite dated now. It's still a decent track overall. 9. Art Decade - 3 Like a bad 80s futuristic movie track. Almost like something that belongs on a Blade Runner soundtrack. 10. Weeping Wall - 3 Exactly the same problem as Art Decade. 11. Subterraneans - 4 I like the sax on here but that's about the only redeeming thing on the track. Average Rating: 4.45 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.23 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

1. Fight Test - 7 Fun rock song. The instrumentals are good and I love the drums on it but the vocal range is really the star of the show for this track. Pretty good overall. 2. One More Robot / Sympathy 3000-21 - 6 I'm not going to lambast the randomness of the lyrics because I understand this is like a Coheed and Cambria like album where it's telling a story through each track that progressively builds. Having said that the instruments come and go too much for my liking. Overall though, it's not a bad track. 3. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1 - 3 It's way too simple and repetitive a track. Way too repetitive. The last two tracks is the chorus over and over and over again endlessly. 4. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 2 - 2 Instrumentally it's very repetitive and the scream-o vocals/part of it is a huge turnoff. 5. In the Morning of the Magicians - 6 Instrumentally it's a good song if not a little bit all over the place. It's trying to tell a story that changes twice in tone but each change is pleasant and leads to some decent guitar or drum play. 6. Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell - 4 It's okay. Nothing phenomenal and very repetitive. The track could lull you to sleep. 7. Are You a Hypnotist?? - 7 Drums are fantastic here and the background almost gospel like sound works great with the vocals here. Good song. 8. It's Summertime - 5 It's okay for a track. Nothing phenomenal about it instrumentally of vocally. Very much a a pass over track. 9. Do You Realize?? - 7 It's a lyrically fantastic track. The sound is excellent until the bridge at which point the track lulls a bit before eventually concluding with a great sound. Overall solid. 10. All We Have Is Now - 3 Not a fan of the vocal sounds and the effects that are put on them. Lyrically I'm also not a huge fan either. The pace of the music also changes too many times to really stay with and enjoy the track. 11. Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia) - 2 It's okay but I find it has the same problem in terms of of the pitch changes as All We Have Is Now. Feels like a bad 80s futuristic track. Average Rating: 4.73 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.36 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

1. ★ - 4 The song is really three parts. It's very slow and melodic at the start. The beat of the drums and pace of the vocals seem completely out of sync of each other during this part before a second part that sounds a lot like a more classi David Bowie track takes over. This second part is very good and quite enjoyable before the track returns for a final part where there's a return to the slow and melodic. The slow parts are really unenjoyable. 2. 'Tis A Pity She Was A Whore - 5 Lyrically it's fine. I could do without the really breathy part at the beginning of the track. Instrumentally it's just a bit too all over the place. 3. Lazarus - 11 Art. Phenomenal track with incredible lyrics and vocals. Given this was Bowie's last ever single before he passed, this is an absolutely stunning track. Easily one of his greatest all time tracks. Instrumentally it's incredible. The sax is the star of the show but the guitar strums add so much to the mood and theme. 4. Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) - 6 Instrumentally very very good. Lyrically it comes and goes in quality at times but is overall a decent track/ 5. Girl Loves Me - 5 The middle part of the song is very enjoyable but the intro and the beginning verse are very hard to listen to. The second verse is not much better but the rest of the track is enjoyable. Instrumentally it's very good and it paces itself very well after the second verse. 6. Dollar Days - 7 Instrumentally it's very good but vocally it's brilliant. The lyrics are superb and it's another homage from David Bowie about, at the time, his rapidly approaching passing much like that in the style of Lazarus. The sax on the track sounds excellent and it a brilliant way to bridge the two lyrical parts of the track before coming back in for the bridge and outro. 7. I Can't Give Everything Away - 8 Brilliant instrumentally. The synth, the drums, the sax, the strings all work perfectly in tandem with each other to produce an excellent track. Lyrically the verses are very good while the chorus is just one line endlessly repeated. Overall, a superb ending track. Average Rating: 6.57 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.29 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. Hello There - 5 It's a good intro to a live album but lyrically the track itself is a bit... cookie cutter. Drums are awesome on the track. 2. Come On, Come On - 6 Lyrically good, instrumentally solid. The drums and guitars sound excellent on this track, especially the way the drums keep the pace of the track. There's a cool burst of guitar in the middle that's appreciated as well. Good track. 3. Lookout - 6 Lyrically it's hard to make out what's actually being sung at times but it's not all too bad and instrumentally it sounds very good. Sounds like a standard rock song. 4. Big Eyes - 7 I don't even think this is as good a song lyrically as Come On, Come On or Lookout but instrumentally this track is brilliant. The way the guitar goes up and down is superb. It's such a great sound. Brilliant stuff. 5. Need Your Love - 8 Lyrically it's very simple, almost like a 50s love song and I'm not a huge fan of the vocals but you get four to five minutes of some excellent drums and guitars once you get past them and it's just an excellent listen. Brilliant sounding stuff. 6. Ain't That a Shame - 4 It's like a cheap 50s "baby I love you track". Instrumentally it's good but it just feels and sounds like a cheap love song that have been written a dime a dozen over the last half a century. 7. I Want You to Want Me - 5 It's an all time classic but I've just never been particularly a fan of it. It's got some amazing guitar playing in it however so it's not anything poor or unenjoyable. 8. Surrender - 6 Good song. Instrumentally it's a lot of fun with some superb drumming and decent riffs. Not a fan of how high in pitch the vocals become but it's still an enjoyable track. 9. Goodnight - 7 I love how quirky the lyrics are and how it's the last track (prior to the encore). I love the instrumentals as well. This is just a fun live track. 10. Clock Strikes Ten - 7 Love the lyrics. Like a 60s/70s swing rock track. Reminds me of early Aerosmith a bit. Good sound with some clever guitar lines on it to emulate a grandfather clock striking the top of the hour. Brilliant stuff. Average Rating: 6.10 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.05 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. Lively Up Yourself - 8 Brilliant vocals and a superb guitar lead this track through an amazing vibe that is quintessential reggae. 2. No Woman No Cry - 8 The guitar at the end is the perfect cherry on the top of the cake of this track. Lyrically good, musically great, it's just a solid reggae track. 3. Them Belly Full (But We Hungry) - 7 Lyrically good if a bit simple the track is a solid vibe with some good instrumentals to keep you well entertained. 4. Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock) - 9 Brilliant reggae. Instrumentals are absolutely addicting on this track. Marley's vocals are sublime as well. Super listen. 5. So Jah S'eh - 9 Solid reggae track. Really good sound on it with some excellent lyrics on the track. Quintessential Bob Marley. 6. Natty Dread - 5 Instrumentally it's good but lyrically it's completely lost on me. The lines going from street to street fly over my head. Choruses are okay. 7. Bend Down Low - 8 Really fun track. Solid lyrics and awesome vocals. Instrumentally it's a bit fun but it's definitely the weakest part of the song. Reminds me of a 50s Ray Charles track. 8. Talkin' Blues - 6 Bit of a pass over track. It's not a lyrically or instrumentally as inspiring as anything else on the track. 9. Revolution - 7 The first verse is superb but the chorus is a little too slow and the lyrics in them feel a little too forced. Could lull you to sleep at times if you're not alert enough. 10. Am-A-Do - 4 Nothing burger of a track with a lot of repetitive lyrics. Complete depart with the rest of the album. Average Rating: 7.10 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.55 Rounded Up: 4 Stars

1. Intro - N/A Is an introduction track and will not be rated. 2. Lost Ones - 5 The flow is very good and the lyrics in the verses are great but the choruses are very dull and the bridge between the first and second verse is easily the weakest part of the track. It comes off as filler. 3. Ex-Factor - 9 First of all, what an amazingly powerful voice on this track from Hill. Lyrics are brilliant, especially in the verses, but the choruses are incredibly smooth as well. All this builds to a fantastic guitar outro that is breathtaking. Awesome track. 4. To Zion (feat. Carlos Santana) - 7 I can't get over how good Hill's voice is. What an incredible talent. The lyrics are solid and Santana's play on the back side of the track is phenomenal. 5. Doo Wop (That Thing) - 6 The rap verses are great but the choruses are too poppy for my liking. Overall the rap part is fantastic, especially the opening ninety seconds. 6. Superstar - 5 The verses with the raps are sublime but the choruses are really dull in tone, pass, and lyrics. Bit of an annoying track in this way. 7. Final Hour - 10 Massive track. The flow and the lyricism is supreme on this track. Fantastic verses with some absolutely intense lyrics into a chorus that is simple enough to offer only a small respite before another intense sermon of lyrics. Absolutely brilliant. 8. When It Hurts So Bad - 7 Decent love song with some really solid lyrics. The range of the tone on this track is what is the most impressive for me and Hill navigates it so incredibly well. 9. I Used To Love Him (feat. Mary J. Blige) - 2 Notes are just held for way too long needlessly and it makes the pace way too inconsistent. Really hard track to get into. The background vocals aren't very pleasant and a lot of the time there's a second set of them that tries to go overtop of them that makes Hill have to overpower on top of both and it becomes a complete crash of vocals. 10. Forgive Them Father - 9 The line about everyday people lying to God too is fantastic and lyrically this is an insanely good track. Not a huge fan of the pitch in the chorus but overall it's fantastic. The rap is super strong as well. 11. Every Ghetto, Every City - 3 Tempo is good, pitch is better, but lyrically it's very cheesy. It's a song completely about reminiscing but it just doesn't stand up to the test of time. 12. Nothing Even Matters (feat. D'Angelo) - 1 Really poor track. The clicking/clapping sounds that replace what should be a light snare or percussion is super off-putting. The lyrics are insanely repetitive to the point where the song becomes a chore to listen to, and they eventually crash into each other from both D'Angelo and Hill. Very poor composition. 13. Everything is Everything - 8 The strings on this track are massive. Them setting the pace and beat is a hugely pleasureful touch. The non-rap part of the lyrical are very good. The rap is solid but some of it is a bit over the top. Particularly the part about places Hill has played shows at produces dull moments but overall it's a really good track. 14. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - 4 Hill's voice in this track is excellent but it doesn't necessarily move me. It's just and excellent exploration of her talents as a singer. 15. Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You - 6 It's an okay cover. Some parts are enjoyable, mainly Hill's vocals. Some parts an unenjoyable, like the beatbox opening the track (although on the underside of the track it's great), and Hill's brief MC at the end of the first verse. 16. Tell Him - 7 Fun track. Really good lyrics and a fantastic exploration of Hill's vocals yet again. Fantastic beat and flow on the track make it a great ending to the album. Average Rating: 5.93 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.97 Rounded Up: 3 Stars

1. Fast Cars - 3 Instrumentally this is okay but lyrically and vocally it's absolutely abysmal. 2. No Reply - 2 Same problem as Fast Cars but with even more repetitive lyrics. Drone out of a song. 3. You Tear Me Up - 1 It's just a bad track. It's the same issue with the first two track but despite a solid riff, the instrumentals this time are also very repetitive. 4. Get On Our Own - 3 Much better lyrically than the previous three tracks but the sound of the vocals is like nails on a chalkboard. 5. Love Battery - 2 Too repetitive like You Tear Me Up. 6. Sixteen - 0 Lyrically very weak and the entire final minute and a half to two minutes is just noise and don't even need to be on the track. 7. I Don't Mind - 1 Instruments go out of key. Vocals go out of pace. Not enjoyable. 8. Fiction Romance - 5 Much better lyrically and instrumentally. I am not a fan of the sound of the vocals but overall this is the best track on the album so far. 9. Autonomy - 2 The riffs are great but the song really just boils down to two really short verses, an endlessly repeated three line chorus over and over again, and a few progressive chords. It's not of any measurable quality. 10. I Need - 3 Instrumentally it's good. Lyrically it's good in parts but the whole "I Need" is just too repetitive and the most enjoyable part of the songs are the parts without lyrics. 11. Moving Away From The Pulsebeat - 5 Solid instrumentals, which is what 90% of the track is. Average Rating: 2.70 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 1.35 Rounded Down: 1 Star

1. What's Going On - 10 Such a great track. Gaye's vocals are so smooth on the track and the instrumentals are just in perfect harmony with each other. It's all so subtle to allow Gaye to increase the tone and intensity of the lyrics when needed. Brilliant track. 2. What's Happening Brother - 8 Love the line about the ball club winning the pennant in on this track. Lyrically it's really good. Instrumentally it's right in line with What's Going On. Fun track. 3. Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky) - 5 I'm not as big a fan of this track as the others. It's very mellow but the whole track just feels like a bridge between What's Happening Brother and Save The Children. 4. Save The Children - 3 Listen I love the message but the track is just not great. It's speaking and singing and the tempo, pace, and pitch change too much to really get into the groove of enjoying the song. 5. God Is Love - 9 Great song. Great message, great lyrics, great instrumentals. It is a little bit like an interlude, especially give its short length, but its so enjoyable. 6. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - 4 Instrumentally it's good but it is quite a filler/pass over track. It's just too simple and not really in line with how great the rest of the album has been so far. 7. Right On - 7 Great soul track. Instrumentally it's brilliant. Lyrically it's very strong in the opening part verse or two. The last about three minutes where it changes tone I didn't enjoy as much, but overall it's a fantastic track. 8. Wholy Holy - 2 It's not really a great track. Very spritiual and religious track but lyrically it's not as good as anything else on the album and the fun instrumentals are gone for a more melancholy taste that doesn't strike a great sense of rousing enjoyment. 9. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) - 8 Classic Marvin Gaye. This is exactly the kind of track you come to an album like this for. Absolutely awesome listen. Average Rating: 6.22 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.11 Rounded Down: 3 Stars

1. Freddie's Dead - 6 Instrumentally this is great and reminds me a lot of Duran Duran. Lyrically this song makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. 2. Ma and Pa - 6 Lyrically better than Freddie's Dead and instrumentally fun as well. Nothing out-of-this-world phenomenal but nothing bad either. 3. Question of Life - 7 Fun track. Solid lyrics and the way the line that questions if one will pass the test is unique in every rendition of the chorus. It's an awesome feature that elevates the tone of the track. 4. Pouring Rain - 7 Lyrically very good. It reminds me oddly of a Sade track in the way it's very smooth and has some pronounced brass on it. Really good track. 5. Deep Inside - 3 Not huge on the sound of the vocals, especially the background ones. Everything else about this track is ok but it's a departure from what has been enjoyable about the album so far. 6. Mighty Long Way - 7 Good opening rift that really creates a lot of enjoyment in the track. Guitar is definitely the highlight but the rest of the track is also solid and the lyrics are pretty good too. The compliment of brass is also appreciate on this track. 7. Bonin' In The Boneyard - 8 Fun track. The bass on this is really enjoyable. Lyrically the track is a lot of fun as well. Just a great, upbeat, and fun song. 8. One Day - 2 We are waitening on some better lyrics. Very repetitive and annoying track. Instrumentally it's alright but lyrically it's super weak and it goes from preaching to half singing to singing and all the way back. 9. Subliminal Fascism - 1 Just an awful track. 10. Slow Bus Movin' (Howard Beach Party) - 5 Not a bad song. Lyrcially strong, I'm overall just not a huge fan of the style of track that it is. 11. Ghetto Soundwave - 6 The message is important but it's a rather odd choice of pitch and tone for the track. Overall it's not bad. 12. Change - 6 Solid message and a decent song. Really good way to end the album. Average Rating: 5.33 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.67 Rounded Up: 3 Stars