Experimental psychedelic stuff, it was a first listen so hard to fully appreciate but this is nowhere near as good as some of their later albums.

This is the first album thrown up by the generator and I'm familiar with David Holmes and a lot of his work without really listening to many albums. I enjoyed this, right up my street with 'Gritty Shaker' a song I already knew coming into this thanks to the Ocean's 11 soundtrack. At nearly an hour long, the runtime is a touch long but much to like here, contrary to many of the reviews. 'Don't Die Just Yet' is the highlight for me.

Never heard this before but Chicago Blues is right up my street, and feels like I’ve been listening to it for years.

This album is very long! Perhaps I wasn’t in the mood but found this a real slog.

I’d give this 3.5 stars if I could.

An album I already knew, a very good and enjoyable listen, although NC&TBS have better albums.

Being a double album, it certainly takes longer to get to know, but this was a 3rd listen and this is really up my street. Abbatoir Blues has an amazing 4 track run of There She Goes My Beautiful World/Nature Boy/Abbatoir Blues/Let the Bells Ring.

Enjoyed this very proggy album, maybe the vocals weren’t quite my thing else I’d have scored higher, although further listens might also help in that regard.

This is good and could probably push to 4 stars with repeated listens, there just was a lot of similarity across the tracks.

Not my thing really but clearly they are very good at what they do.

A bit underwhelming, production is quite noisy with vocals quite far back but that’s flipped in the 2nd half of the album, but the vocals aren’t that strong.

An all time wonderful performance

This is strong for the first 8 or so tracks but it outstays its welcome at over 1 hour long, else it might have made 4 stars.

Very important and influential album

It’s not my thing but an easy listen and clearly an influential record for its genre.

Sounds very 80s and very of its time. I liked parts of this but overall I don’t have an urge to revisit so it just didn’t land for me.

I know a few of the songs because of Nirvana but had never heard the album before. The instrumentation is good and there are good songs here, except the vocals are weak and it often lets it down which is a shame.

Not my thing really but appreciate the craft and the production quality. However, Kanye is a dick, to say the least.

Loved the vibe of this, the penultimate track was top notch (Cavaleiro do Cavalo Imaculado) in fact I’m going to listen to that song again.

Enjoyed this, one to return to. Requiem is a good track

This is a fairly easy going album, it gently rises and peaks towards the end. It’s good but not great.

This is pre-disco era Bee Gees and whilst that might in some ways might sound promising, it’s actually not. I could at least have endured the disco stuff but this was warbling folky nonsense. At times it sounded a bit Beatlesesque and that’s about as much positivity as I can muster.

Mostly passed me by whilst listening to this

Almost Cut My Hair is brilliant. Album is decent on the whole; this was a first listen but not sure when I’d come back to this

Bland, overlong and boring…apart from Pinball Wizard. Might have to stick to the greatest hits.

I was a fan of Korn back in the day but I have not really listened in the last 20 years. They certainly have a unique style and probably merit their place in this list but I would question whether I'd choose this album or one of their debut or Life is Peachy. Having listened again, I don't really see the appeal for me these days but nonetheless, a decent album that was of its time.

Experimental psychedelic stuff, it was a first listen so hard to fully appreciate but this is nowhere near as good as some of their later albums.

Excellent, can definitely feel Bowie’s influence on this album. Perfect Day and Walk on the Wild Side are all timers and Vicious is great too. First listen for me so will be revisiting for sure.

Some great songs on here, particularly Violet although it’s not a great album on the whole. I enjoyed listening to it though.

I quite liked this, especially “Death to Everyone” and may well return to this. Some of it passed me by but I was also a bit fed up working in the office and it was really hot which may have affected my mood! 🥵

Must have been a heavy one last night, it felt like a bit of a blur. I came to with the taste of rust in my mouth and the throb of metal on metal rattling through my ribs. The morning sky was the colour of wet cement, and when I rolled over, I realised I was lying on a pile of bent rebar. A crane swung overhead like a lazy predator, its hook creaking in rhythm with the pounding somewhere deep in the construction site. Berlin. Or at least a version of Berlin where buildings are born screaming. I stumbled between stacks of sheet metal, every step setting off an accidental percussion section — clanks, scrapes, and the hiss of steam that might have been a warning or just the city breathing. Somewhere in the scaffolding above me, a man in black was bashing a steel plate with a hammer, his movements slow and deliberate, like he was tuning the air itself. Then it hit me: this wasn’t just a construction site. This was Kollaps. Not a recording, not a performance, but a living, shuddering organism. The bass wasn’t coming from a speaker — it was the ground itself groaning. Voices echoed from tunnels, not sung so much as chiseled out of the concrete. Every sound was sharp enough to cut the skin, yet arranged with a precision that made it feel… inevitable. A rusted shopping cart rolled past on its own, rattling like a snare drum. Somewhere beyond a wall of corrugated steel, someone was sawing through metal piping, the shriek blending perfectly into the next “track.” I had no idea where the musicians were — maybe they were the cranes, the bulldozers, the pipes. Maybe they were the wind between half-finished walls. When I finally found an exit, I realised there wasn’t one. The fence was just another loop in the sound. Berlin had swallowed me whole, and I was trapped inside the album — a place where collapse wasn’t an accident but an art form. If Kollaps is music, it’s music that doesn’t need you to listen. It will keep happening, hammering and grinding, long after you’ve left. That is, if you ever do.

Sounds fresh and enjoyable all these years on. It all sounds effortless, I’m not sure if this is my favourite J5 album but it’s certainly very good. It could be a few tracks shorter for my money but minor quibble as the quality never drops really.

Scottish psychedelic folk is exactly as good as it sounds. The album cover tells you everything you need to know about this album.

Cinematic and lush as ever from Air. My go to would still be Moon Safari but always loved “Playground Love”

I’m not generally a reggae fan but there’s always classics in the genre and this is excellent. Half the album is well known hits so it feels impossible to have a bad time here. Waiting in Vain has always been a favourite of mine but there are some great album tracks like Natural Mystic and the 7 min epic title track. Essential listening.

Easy listening downtempo electronic, this was an album I was into back when it was released and owned it, however, I hadn’t listened for many years so it was great to revisit.

Not heard this before but quite enjoyed, it’s not the level of the likes of Automatic for the People, this album feels quite subtle and understated in many ways and ended up listening twice to help appreciate it more. Solid but it feels like they are operating within themselves and I know there is more to come.

Not heard of Laura Nyro before, this was inoffensive 60s pop but perhaps that does it a slight disservice, it’s soulful and at times it promises to deliver something I’d really like but alas, it falls short. Can understand the appeal but it’s not for me.

This album is over the top, over produced, cheesy and everything you’d expect from Meat Loaf. The opening to You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth is absolutely ridiculous. Bat Out of Hell saves it from 1 star treatment.

Afro Cuban jazz - what’s not to like? Oh yeah, right of course, but I still liked it and it’s clearly influential. Despite a relatively short run time, it still dragged a bit. It feels best listened to as background vibes.

I can’t believe I actually liked this at the time, I’ve not listened in a good 20 years so I guess it was fleeting. It was popular and a bit different at the time, and being a concept album made it stand out a bit more but in listening now, it’s a poorly executed mess of an album where he loses a grand and finds it again whilst in between that, portrays a character that you simply don’t care about. So revisiting this and yep, it’s not for me - I generally hate garage and a lot of the “singing” or “rapping” here as it’s terrible. Blinded By the Lights is just about the only decent track. Overall I’m not sure it has stood the test of time.