Weirdly, kind of the best place I could have started for this. Would I listen again? No. But what good would it have done me to have started with Is This It? and gone 'Huh, yeah, still think the Strokes are pretty good'? Driving, percussive - my god, is it percussive - and the sort of thing I'd never have actively sought out. Problem is that I don't really see where this sits. It's not compelling in the way where the emotion is immediately intelligible, even if the words aren't. It's almost too raw in that way. But it's not easy enough to listen to where it can sit in the background. Highlight Track - Rhapsodia Del Maravilloso.

Yeah it turns out that this simply cannot be rated in any meaningful way, because if you listen to this while smashing through the Lakes as the sun's going down on a train home from Glasgow then there is literally nothing finer to have on. Best song: Big Iron. But that was the opener during a particularly idyllic stretch. And A Hundred And Sixty Acres is a bit crap, so it benefits in retrospect from that.

Genuinely mad how many of the tunes on this would be absolutely sensational singles from any other album.

Before he started crooning about the milk going off on his spaceship, Alex Turner really was an incredible storyteller.

Man, I think this is the first one where I've gone 'just not for me this'. Jump and Panama are listenable but there's not a single tune elsewhere I'd go back to. Best song: Jump

Feels weird that I'd never encountered this. Never even heard of it. Sounds like it's ripped straight from a rom-com-that-everyone-thinks-is-good soundtrack. Huge span in terms of what it covers. Oh, California is a bit sub-Lehrer and some of it gets a bit show-tuney, but Love's Enough was just a really decent simple love song. Best song: Love's Enough.

I don't know if this is because I've never been that big a Stones fan, or because I'm a big woke liberal who found 'Under My Thumb' a weird listen, but I enjoyed this a lot less than I thought I would? Paint It Black is good, there's good guitars and some fun experimental stuff here but I think I went into this with high expectations and they weren't met.

Didn't enjoy this and didn't finish it. Feel bad to say but just didn't sit with me at all.

Went into this thinking I'd hate it. The Wall is fine but, in my view, just not as good as people make out. It's not as bad, either - I find a lot of the critiques of it overwrought. But I actually enjoyed this far more than I thought I would. Would go back and listen to this *as an album* again, I reckon.

Loved it. Not to knock Scott-Heron's poetry or whatever but I think the thing I liked *most* was actually Brian Jackson's instrumentals here? Would enjoy this almost as much if it was just a faintly jazzy/soul instrumental album. Best Song: Rivers of my Soul

Christ, looked at the backstory to this. Don't know if I can separate story from the art here, found it really interesting in that context but don't know if I'd have had as good a time without it?

Absolutely woeful, made tolerable by being very very short.

I enjoyed this during listening but very little stood out afterwards. Maybe I had this one while really absorbed in writing, maybe it's a forgettable album - and I kind of lean to the second because I did that with 'Heaven or Las Vegas' but came back to it.

Absolutely YES boys. Delighted to have found this. Makes me want to rent a large car with no top and drive it to California. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down is a weird listen, even though the instrumentation is great.

Oh no please don't make me like Wings.

Banger after banger mate. Second instance though of 'Christ this is horrible' on the old gender politics side. Sixteen? Just bad! A bad song with bad vibes! Everyone knows the Big Two on this but Tonight also really good. Best track's still Lust for Life though.

Previously I noted that I don't dislike Pink Floyd, I dislike Late Pink Floyd. This made me hate The Who, despite enjoying 'Who's Next'