I actually listened to the first half of it was amazed how much I liked the first four or tracks. Fun and funky. Thought it was going to be a 4….until it descended into generic rap that just isn’t for me. I’ll quit while I’m ahead and call it a 3.

Back to form with Simon & Garfunkel. Grew on me more and more as it went on. A solid 4 for me, Clive.

There’s some truth in Stevo’s assessment. “Filler” might be a bit much, but the second half is certainly less accessible and geared more towards the purists. But the start is unreal and the impact of the album and some of those individual tracks is unquestionable. A reshuffle of the tracks would make this a pretty seamless top score - and I agree with Joe G that it’s probably a 4.5 - but I gave Elliott Smith a 3, so I think this needs to be a 5.

Pleasant and inoffensive. Unlike yer ma.

Never listened to a Who album before and really enjoyed that. It’s a shame I was reminded of failed Nu Metal band Staind towards the end, but that in turn reminded me of Limp Bizkit, so it evened out.

I’m confident that every single Joni Mitchell album will be 3/5.

I spent 90% of this album convinced I’d give it a 4. Satisfyingly bluesy from start to finish and, irrespective of your music preference, almost impossible to dislike. But blues’ strength is also its weakness. It’s so generically wonderful that it’s surprisingly hard to find blues that has enough of an edge or uniqueness to take it to the highest level. But then I listened to Layla, and I was reminded, 55 years after its release, what a beautiful, timeless and unique/edgy piece of music it was. Arguably one of the greatest songs ever written from a “popular music” perspective. So, I decided that I can’t have this the same as Simon and Garfunkel or below Nirvana. It’s a 5 from me.

I love Janis. I could listen to her wail like a banshee to the background of blues music for hours on end (Zena has previously complained about that actually happening). I enjoyed this so much, I’d like to officially change my ratings of Nirvana and Derek & the Dominoes (Layla is a bit overrated in my opinion) to four stars. This is the new five star standard.

Essentially the same song twelve times. I didn’t like the song.

This is a 5-star album

Even John Thomson’s character in the Fast Show Jazz Club sketches would struggle to put a positive spin on this incoherent, self-important, prog-rocky jazz nonsense.

The music is a 3, the vocals/lyrics are a 1, so I think a 2 is fair. Also, unlike Scott Walker, it has something about it. I don’t know / understand what that is, but I feel like that’s my problem.