The final two songs are fantastic. The rest suffers from a decided lack of Brian Wilson's influence.

One-sided triangle.

First two songs are great. Then it's a slow, long decline into too many notes filling up every bar of music.

Boring and basic.

I wanted to enjoy this so much more than I actually did! I owned this double CD as a teenager, and was hoping it was stand the test of time...but nope. Truly a bloated, 'we-need-an-editor' album. Just look at the listens for each track on streaming platforms. The singles on this one have over 25, 50, and 70 (!) times as many listens as the most of the deep cuts. Yikes. Long live Siamese Dream...

'Band on the Run' would be a great song if you only had to hear it once, instead of 6,347 times.

Funky, baby.

Thought this would be more fun. I get including London Calling, obviously, but the debut instead of Combat Rock or Sandanista seems like a mistake. Oh well...

Let's yawn together.

Sure, it's great, but they still hadn't reached their peak yet. They were knocking on the door of true genius, but Taxman, Good Day Sunshine, Doctor Robert, etc. are still stuck in their early mode of songwriting. For me it's Sgt. Pepper's when the five-star albums begin.

Perfect Day is a perfect song. The rest is just fine. Seems like a 'time and a place' record.

Absolute masterpiece.

This 5 comes with an asterisk. Yes, it's a little bloated, yes, the skits are lame, yes, we don't need Puffy as a hype-man... But Biggie's lyrical gift and his flow are just unreal. Absolute classic of an album.

I love rap, but I've just never enjoyed Chuck D. Sorry!