Fun, punchy, garage rock with some undeniable bangers, but you've heard one song you've heard them all. Sounds a bit like every advert from 2002-2005. 6.8/10
Pretty boring album, title track and Here I Am are bangers though. 6/10
Riffs, just loads of mint riffs. 8/10
Very shit, pure cheese and at times a pretty difficult listen. I like the music, but Jeff Lynne has to shut up sometimes. CNF 2.1/10
One of the very best skate punk albums, so many bangers. It sounds so much like 1994. 8.5/10
What can you say really???? Faultless? Could listen to it all day on repeat, its going to be the first 5 star.
Pretty bonkers this was 1969, so influential, such an important bit of music. 4.3/5.
Top 3 Jazz albums of all time for me, sounds like psychedelic big band jazz from hell. Feels like you're in a nightmare sequence in a 1940s Disney movie.
Suedehead is right up there with some of the best songs Morrissey has written, but the rest is pretty average I think. It’s an album that like most of Morrissey's solo output asks the question, “Why the fuck am I not listening to the Smiths?”
His best work. So massive, I can’t really explain how much it means to me. Poor boy might be my favourite song of all time. It’s another 5.
Its italian-american spaghetti and meatball-core classics, I want to be in a restaurant called Gino's whilst i listen to this. It's a lot of fun, but its pretty samey as well.
I like it, its obviously a great album, but why does everyone talk about how good it is all the time? There are better drum and bass albums from this time?
Not really my cup of tea, it sounds a bit more like a SNL sketch of a hardcore band than anything. I appreciate how influential they are but they have never really done anything for me. Not a lot of stand outs but i did like World up my Ass.
2.2/5
Love the beginning, love the end, but the middle lacks quite a bit i feel. It feels illegal to give a Beatles album a 3 star but here we are? Fixing a hole through to within you without you ranges from boring, to just quite annoying.
Such an incredible opening four songs though, just banger after banger.
Best Tracks: With a little help from my friends or when I'm Sixty Four.
3.5/5
Its maybe the greatest just pure prog album of all time, the intersection of so many genres. Obviously quite a busy listen, and i haven't listened to it the whole way through in a while, but i had so much fun listening to it again.
4.5/5
A lovely listen, some high peaks but some middle of the road stuff as well.
Really liked Part of a whole and Nomali
3.9/5
Maybe the greatest hipster coffee shop album of all time. Its so listenable, but at times maybe a bit too listenable where it borders on boring.
4.1/5
Never before have men from England sounded so much like Super Furry Animals. A really fun and interesting album, think there is a bit of a lull in the middle but other than that it was absolutely class. 4.5/5
Absolute grot if I'm honest. The only redeeming factor is love in an elevator, because that song is massive. I'm shocked this is on the list.
1.5/5
It’s not my favourite talking heads albums if I’m honest, it’s good, but I don’t even reach for this album, some obvs highlights like take me to the river and the big country
Better than Rumours IMO, its just so many bangers in a row. Personal fav is The Ledge, a me and Eva CLASSIC that.
Massive stuff, really love the title track. What a voice this man has. 4.8/5
I know you’ll hate me for this. But it’s really bad, it’s fart rock, it’s the worst front man of all time and a guy shredding. It’s a band I never understood, I hate the songs Jump and Hot for teacher so fucking much. It’s 1980s USA capitalism and cocaine rock, 4th of July BBQ-core.
Pls don’t leave me.
Controversially, I don’t like this album that much, Ashcrofts voice does my head in and I don’t think he’s a very good song writer. It’s also fucking LONG. But saying that, bittersweet symphony is arguably the greatest British song of all time. 2.5/5
The greatest ever songwriter at the peak of his powers. There isn’t a bad track on here. It’s a sexy, jazzy folky love story about love by an absolute powerhouse and a bizarre nutter to boot. Couldn’t pick a favourite track, genuinely impossible. 6/5
Very nice album, but not their best IMHO. Some obvious standouts, but I don't love this album loads. The State i am in might be there best ever song though? And there is some stiff competition there.
3.8/5
Pusherman is one of the coolest songs of all time. Why do we not exist in a time now where mint artists made albums for movies? 4.2/5
Its an easy 5, its so good. Maybe one of his best albums, you can sill here the influence of this album today. Fair to say no grunge without this album?
Impossibly hard to listen to, the most irritating vocalist of all time, woo-ing and yeah-ing, and huh-ing through some quite irritating guitar flourishes. Some of the solos are fun i suppose. I guess this album is good in a way because it doesn't include Hot for Teacher or Jump. The shoobadoowah's in I'm the one are a particular low point.
Ice Cream Man might be one of the worse songs we have had to listen to so far.
It sounds like worse Aerosmith with better guitar.
I didn't mind Atomic Punk at all though.
Tom's Review - 0.75/5
Eva's Review - "I can see why a young boy would like this." Little dreamer is good, but Ice Cream Man knocked a few points off. 3/5
I mean, it’s kind of fun. It’s mainly bad but there are some fun tracks in here. It doesn’t really sound like anything else, it’s his own white trash nu metal funk hip hop that shouldn’t work but sort of does.
Batwidaba is the obvious standout, but there’s a lot of fluff
Class album, so many highlights. Changes, Oh! You Pretty Thing, Kooks and Queen Bitch are phenomenal songs. You could argue Life on Mars is one of the defining songs of the 70s. Crazy that this isnt even in my top 5 Bowie albums.
Saying that, the bad songs on this album are pretty bad, Andy Warhol, Quicksand and the Bewlay Brothers are just not good songs, which knocks a bit off shine off the album.
4.2/5
Dull, crap soul sung by a bloke with a stupid little voice. Really tough listen, its the music of the aunt your family doesn't really see that much anymore.
1/5
The coolest fucking album in the world. I wish I was in the studio with them doing coke and drinking whiskey. The ultimate vibe of jazz-rock-pop every one is on top form and just killing it, the drum solo in Aja is phenomenal, but that's what you get from Steve Gadd.
Best Song: Peg, an absolute masterpiece, Michael McDonald on backing vocals with a voice like big hairy angel.
Such a cool album, so funky and trippy and weird. This is the peak of his cocaine powers, when he was eating 1 red pepper and drinking 1 glass of milk a day and grams of cocaine. Bands still want to sound like this so bad.
Best song: Sound and Vision, my favourite Bowie song.
Its a kind of music that does nothing for me if i am honest, but saying that if you are after an 80s synthpop album you could do a lot worse than this one.
Best song is Rio obviously.
3.8/5
Its fucking good stuff ennit, Bert Jansch is the GOAT.
"Sunday Bloody Sunday". What a great song. It really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday, doesn't it? You wake up in the morning, you've got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you've got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think "Sunday, bloody Sunday!"
3/5
Not as good as i remember, at its best its very Serge Gainsbourg, at its worst it was quite boring. I imagine it was mint in 2002 though.
Imagine us the most saccharine wanky song of all time, but the rest of the album is fine. It’s not got a lot of highlights or lowlights it’s just fine
Not a very album, but Tiny Dancer is massive. It is definitely not his best album
Its hard to think of a better song than Babylon. The whole album is just incredible though he's such a good song writer. 4.8/5
It's the greatest Jazz album of all time. Cannonball Adderley, James Cobb, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Miles Davis???? The most talented group of blokes that have ever existed. This album just feels like blokes who know what they are doing and know they are onto something huge.
Blue in Green is insane, but i dont think i can pick a favourite. Imagine hearing this in 1959 in some dingy fucking bar in New York. Transportive and atmospheric and just genius music.
100/5
The definitive British soul album, her voice is absolutely insane and every track is just so smooth and sexy. Could listen to this album at any time and it would make me feel better.
Not his best, not his worst. Feels like a mid choice to be on this list. Me and Julio is massive though
To me its like if Motley Crueueue were good. Animal is such a massive 80s banger. Pour some sugar on me is a timeless perverts classic. A lot of the music is kind of samey, yes, but the poor fucker only has one arm. The album is a lot of fun, big time. Sick album art as well.
The greatest ever songwriter in the English language at the height of her powers, this is such a big album, i feel like so much modern music owes a lot to Kate Bush and specifically this album.
I could write 10,000 words on how much this album means to me but no one cares.
Hard to pick a favourite song, but its between Cloudbusting and The Big Sky.
2000/5
Huge, I can't believe its 1973 it sounds so much latter, what a fucking cool band, you could argue that Trash is the first punk song. Davey Johansen was a cool frontman.
He’s good isn’t he, he’s got a lot of massive songs. Don’t feel like this is the best collection of his songs. But it’s not half bad
It was fine, deep purple make fine music, there isn’t a lot to shout about in this but it’s not awful.
Child in Time is fun though
What can you say really, what a world class album. The man is a genius. I’ve forgotten how good this album is, there is so much emotion in this album. What a 90s this band had.
I don’t think I can pick a favourite song, but Zero might be as close to a perfect song as it’s possible to get.
The number of the beast is alright, but this album is a stinker for stinkers. They sound so much like spinal tap or a parody of actual music it’s hard to take seriously. At least there are some decent riffs
There are undeniably some big tracks on here. I’d say half the album is good half is bad, the less said about Tom Morello the better though.
Best track: Bullet in the head
It’s quite a boring album let’s be honest. White winter hymnal is a pleasant song, but I think that’s the best this album can be, pleasant.
Moody, Angsty, Atmospheric, a very good album. Also Hurt is just such a ridiculously good song
There is white bartender somewhere out there who thinks this is the greatest/coolest album ever made. But that’s the problem it’s sort of performatively moody and dark and cool, it just feels a bit lame.
What is there to say really? One of the most influential albums of the era, they really set the tone for British music for the next couple of decades. It’s so powerful and haunting, everything sounds so sparse like it’s played in a big empty warehouse.
Best tracks: Colony or Decades
Not as good as the first album TBF, but I still got a lot of love for Steve Winwood. All his tracks are class, but i'm not as keen on the other guys voice.
50% love and 50 % meh.
Medicated Goo is lush.
3.9/5
They are fun kind of silly songs, lots of good memories attached to them for sure, but its just not really my bag I don't think.
Best song: Clint Eastwood, Obvs
Impossible to not love Chris Cornell’s voice, but most the songs are pretty boring tbf. It’s sounds very of its time, like a lot of grunge albums, but unlike the great grunge albums it not in a good way.
Fell on black days and black hole sun do an incredible amount of the heavy lifting on this album, but they are so good. X
Its just 60s pop, and covers of 50s songs. I can't really say its bad at all, but its not exactly amazing either is it. Its just music, impressive they are so young and stuff and i imagine at the time it was very cool.
Best song: Please Mister Postman, but mainly cus it reminds me of that vine
Absolute guff, there is a reason no one has heard of, or talks about the Beau fucking Brummels, and that is that they stink. Dull as dishwater, dweeb music, the kind of music that you put on whilst driving around San Francisco in the 60s, and hope the Zodiac killer finally puts you out of your misery.
Magic Hollow is the one saving grace on this album.
Just put something 4 the weekend on repeat instead.
No skips, no notes, no nuffink. Its a perfect album, could listen again and again and again. It could be the most influential album of any one genre, like electronic music and dance music doesn't exist without this album. These German lads were about 200 years ahead of their time. Every song is perfect but i think Neon Lights is beyond anything else.
Its good stuff isnt it, this must have been so much fun when it came out. It is maybe the most 2001 album. There are so many good riffs generally i do enjoy the vibe of this album a lot, i think it lacks a bit of quality on the 2nd half of the album though.
Best Track: Fell in love with a girl, obviously.
If not the best hip hop album ever, it is definitely the most interesting, it so so weird and scary and dark, it doesn't sound like anything else. Its such an instant classic, ODB is one of the greatest of all time.
Da Mystery of Chessboxin will always be my personal fav, but i think CREAM is one of the best songs ever.
The best punk album by the best punk band. Three Girl Rumba into Ex Lion Tamer into Lowdown is an insane run of tracks. This album sounds like it came out this year still. It is so beyond its time its unreal. I love this album so much, reminds me of my Dad and Uncle. Its so cool and fun and aggressive, he has one of my favourite voices in music, just lovely shouting.
48/5
Best Track: Mannequin? Three Girl Rumba? Pink Flag? Literally take your pic
I'm sure this is someone's cup of tea but it isn't mine. It sounds like songs I would skip on Fifa street. I can appreciate it but it does nothing for me I'm afraid.
Best Track: Epoca, because it reminds me of Come dine with me.
Its a very nice album, she has such a bizarre and haunting voice. Its a iconic album from the maddest/ coolest time and place to be a musician. These days is one of the most affecting songs of all time as well. I do feel its quite a samey album as well so it doesn't get full marks.
It does suck, i find my self defending Queen a lot, and i don't even like them that much. Killer Queen is good, but this isn't a good album. Its very OTT and the music is a bit cheesy, its just not really for me.
What an album its so good, its a nice start to the album but the second half really cements it as a legendary album. Jamming - One Love is just an insane run of tracks. It really epitomises reggae and the time so well.
Best track: Jamming/ Waiting in Vain
It's so good, this was my favourite album when I was 16 i reckon, still huge for me. It is so emotive and visceral. He is a genius and this is him at the top of his powers. Its such a hipster album obviously, but it moves me.
Also i think it should be an hour longer IMHO.
Too many favourite songs and they all have stupid long titles, so I will say John Wayne Gacey is the best.
Really like this album, its good a very unique neo soul spacey kind of vibe to it. Its a lot of fun, he's such a good songwriter.
Rolling is a great track as is hard to say goodbye.
It was alright. Nothing to write home about. A well made album but I’m not gonna rush to put it on again.
Some bangers, but I’m not a huge fan of this album in general it’s got some of his weaker songs as well.
Superstition is obviously an all time track.
Massive.
It’s one of the best debuts. But I still can’t be fucking arsed to have the conversation. There is no greater ender to an album than Free bird. These southern boys loved riffs so much and the world is a better place for it.
Best Song: Do I need to even put an answer here????
I didn't like this album, its a bit cheesy and muzaky for me. It feels like listening to a slightly better simply red. A Gospel was a low point as well. I'm not a Paul Weller fan at the best of times, but that was a hard listen.
Best Song: Headstart for Happiness.
I do have a soft spot for this album and Jay Z, i don't think its his best but all the beats are so good and i think its very fun. It weirdly sounds so dated though. I enjoyed this listen a lot though don't think I've listened to this all the way through since i was about 14.
Best Songs: Blueprint or Izzo
It’s truly one of the best albums of the 90’s. I can’t imagine how good it felt to listen to this for the first time when it came out. Must have properly felt like a shift, like music was changing. It’s such a uniquely cool album. I remember the first time my brother showed me Dummy (it’s a very older brother album to show someone) it felt like the coolest music i had ever listened to and it still does tbf.
Best song: hard to pick, but Sour Times for me
It stinks, but not as bad as i thought it would. Its the sort of psychedelic music that i don't like and as much as i try i can't separate the art from the artist with Clapton, he's an absolute bell and i can fell it in his dad rock. It's just cheesy riffs to me.
Just unbelievable song, no one encapsulates the ridiculous of being English better than Ray Davies. Its a perfect album, and could very well be one of the best of the 60's. Its so beautiful and funny and playful and sad, its the whole range of what should be good about music. The Kinks will always have such a big part of my heart, and this album has a lot to do with it.
Best Song: The village green preservation society, but special mention for Picture Book and Animal Farm, also Big Sky is insane..... and Starstruck and Last of the Steam powered trains
What can you say that we haven't said to each other a million times before. Its a work of art, its easily there most fun album i think. So many good tracks, by the greatest band ever at the peak of their powers. I don't need to write much for this review, i just love this album so much.
Best Song: I think...... Juxtaposed with you
I would like to start this review my saying fuck Breandan White and fuck Liam McConnachie.
It's a great album, an amazing album even, but I don't think its a perfect album. It has the greatest opener of all time maybe, and there are so many highlights but a few lulls as well... Nightrain/ Anything Goes/ You're Crazy i think hold this back from full marks.
Which unfortunately means it is not the greatest debut of all time.
CASE CLOSED.
Best track: Paradise City
It was a pretty fun album, I think it gets old pretty quickly, but it’s been a bit of a breath of fresh air and pretty different compared to most of the stuff we have listened to so far. He also looks hard as fuck on the album cover.
El Harba Wine was my favourite
It's fine, its your older cousin who smokes too much weed music. He is obviously an incredible guitar player, but his songwriting is not great. I do love little wing and bold as love though.
I like the music, but i really can’t get on board with his voice. He’s a great songwriter and the songs are fun, but I find him grating. Nick Lowe Produced it and he’s the GOAT though.
Pump it up is a great tune though.
It’s my issue and I get that but I can’t enjoy this album at all, partly because I despise Eric Clapton partly because the music is shite old dad rock. Layla is maybe the most overplayed song ever. Goodbye.
It's his best album, before any of the weirdness comes in, just pure funky soul R&B. Its impossible to not want to dance to this. I could listen to it all day, its such easy listening, you can really see why he is the king of pop. What a voice.
Best song: Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough. I think its his best ever song.
A completely mid album. Most of the time this album is annoying but at other times it’s boring. I’m not a Taylor Swift hater, this just isn’t a very good album. Shake it off the one of the all time pop songs.
The good songs are obvs very good, but i do feel there is a lot of filler on here as. Also I always wish i was listening to Bon Scott over Brain Johnson. Let me put my love into you has got to be one of the most repulsive song names of all time as well.
Back in Black is the best song on the album.
Another collection of fine songs, I always thought I liked beck? But he’s pretty average, it’s not a bad album it’s just a bit boring I think.
Best song: Earthquake Weather
Defined an era, defined a sound. One of the most English sounding albums ever. It’s so good, the beats are all insane and he is well funny.
Best track: fix up look sharp
Its decent isnt it, it makes me long for a kind of music that doesn't exist anymore. Eple threw me back into early 2000's and gave me whiplash. No one makes chill out music any more, and maybe that's what the world needs.
Not really, chill out music is boring, a bit like this album.
Can't really fault it, it feels like dance music from a PS2 game. It got me and the old ball and chain dancing in the office on a Thursday morning. Not all the songs were great, but enough of them were very fun and made me enjoy the album a lot.
I didn't like it, but i enjoyed it more than i thought i would. Every song is too long, too annoying and over the top, its funny at times which is the only way i got through it. I did enjoy 2 out of 3 aint bad though, that was a big highlight.
No notes. Its a perfect album, and not even their best. 4 Canadian Dudes and 1 American created the Americana genre. Its such easy listening, Richard Manuel and Rick Danko have two of the most beautiful voices of all time. The whole band is so talented and this album is just amazing. I don't think there is a more influential song than The Weight either, it might be the greatest bit of songwriting ever.
I enjoyed this, you can really feel the influence they had on grunge from this. It was a lot of fun, and super moody. I'm not a huge fan of his voice, but overall i enjoyed this album a fair bit.
Best song: Madonna, Sean and Me
Not my kind of Jazz, its kinda fun, but kinda samey. I could listen to it but its nothing to write home about for me.
You'd be hard pressed to find a sexier album. Marvin Gaye is such an unbelievable songwriter, to the point where he is sort of underrated. He should be spoken about more, saying that i don't think this is his best. Nonetheless it still has some bangers.
Obviously lets get it on is the best song
The cokiest Bowie album by far. First 3 tracks are just absolutely unreal, I feel the next 3 aren't amazing but, still work and are very atmospheric and mad for this album.
Best Track: Golden Years
It's Brexit rock at its finest. It's so fucking long and so fucking boring. At least it has a quick one whilst he's away, which in my opinion is their best song.
It's just not for me, I get the kind of person this is for and the kind of music that it's trying to be, but for me, it's just not it. It all feels a bit try hard, It's very 2007 sounding and feeling, and not in a good way. Golden Skans is a banger though.
Incredible songwriting, he really set the bar for what a song can make you feel and be about. I can't think of two more culturally significant songs to modern music than, take a Walk on the Wild Side and Perfect day. Dark subject matter, but he puts it in the most beautiful way, always.
Best Track: I think it could be satellite of love? Is that mad to say?
Again feel mad to give a Beatles album this rating but it just doesn’t move me in anyway whatsoever, I don’t think it’s bad at all but it doesn’t do anything for me. It’s obviously some perfectly made pop songs, but that is it.
Best song: Norwegian Wood
It’s my least favourite Bowie album we have had so far. I liked a few songs, but this isn’t one of my favourite Bowie sounds if I am honest.
Best song: Heat
So many memories. It’s so fun, I wouldn’t say it’s class the whole way through, but it makes you want to dance.
Best song: right here right now
It’s quite cool, but it sounds like a massive rip off of Pere Ubu to me. I like big Jesus Trash can and Hamlet
So much fun, Jorge Ben is fucking class. Imagine not being able to shake your white boy booty to this.
Funky and fun, it’s maybe a little bit cheesy in a way though? A bit soft jazzy at times, lil something from a restaurant in then 70s in America? It’s very easy listening though, you wouldn’t turn it off, and it gets you tapping your feet.
This was class, it’s more than R&B and funk they are such a good band together, amazing harmonies and Ernie Isley is a outrageous guitar player.
He’s at his best when he sound like JJ Cale, so this isn’t Claptons worst, but it’s still Clapton so it’s not good
Fuck me I forgot what a good album this is, every song is a perfect banger. He’s insane, he does simple stuff better than anyone.
Best song has to be down by the river.
It goes against, what we have said about 5-star albums needing to be wall-to-wall bangers, because, I don't think this is. The good songs are just so fucking good you don't really care about anything else.
Best Song: Live Forever
Another Neil Young album, another 5/5. He is untouchable really, I think this could be his best album. It's so angry and so beautiful at the same time. I think Southern Man exemplifies everything he and this album is about and does it so well.
Decent stuff, all kind of OK with a few stand out tracks, it's not their best album. It also isn't their worst. 'A' Bomb in Wardour Street, English Rose and Down in the Tube Station at Midnight all very strong.
Two legends, but this album isn't really my bag. Very similar songs, and longer than i would like.
Just an absolute hit machine, all funky all good times all of the time. Nile Rodgers is so cool and so important in modern music, he created a sound, a vibe.
Best track: Lost in Music
WHO WANTS THE FUNK. Me I do, I always will, I needs the funk. It's world-class, it's so fun, George Clinton and Bootsy Collins are well funny as well. Toe tapping and shaking my booty all morning.
Best Track: Unfunky UFO
It's a perfectly lovely album, but it's not my usual type of Jazz. Very easy listening and nice to listen to during the day, though. The drum solo in Time Out really scratches my brain in a spectacular way
His voice becomes quite grating after a while. I like some of this album but a lot of it is very similar, the beats are a lot of fun, and there is great use of the Brazilian whistle in there. Also Bongo Bong is so fucking massive
I don’t mind J5, but this album doesn’t do a lot for me. It’s a little bit too much on the conscious hiphop scale for me, overall it’s not a bad album, but I don’t think I’d reach to chuck it on.
She is the best, I miss her so much. It's a very good album, i know it goes without saying but her voice is ridiculous. Amy Amy Amy is a lovely tuene
I do love Bill Callahan, he has so many good songs, as Smog and just as solo stuff, hes such a unique and interesting songwriter and this is a great show case of his abilities. Sometimes though, i feel he tries to be too interesting, where it doesn't quite land, which is also the case here sometimes. But overall its a very good album i think.
Best Track: Eid Ma Clack Shaw
It stinks and i hate it, I'm not going to be grown up about it. Matt Bellamy makes virgin music. Its so lame, every riff stinks, and the music puts me in a bad mood
I liked the first song and the last song. Everything in-between was immensely mid. It wasn't a bad album, wasn't a good album, it was just an album.
Massive Riffs, massive emotions, its such a good album the first 5 songs are just bang bang bang bang bang. A phenomenal band, and this is their best album.
Best Track: Pictures of you
It could be my new favourite live album, I was blown away by it, I don't think I've ever heard a man so in charge of a crowd. He has such a phenomenal voice and presence, singing some absolutely beautiful songs. I enjoyed this so much.
Best Song: Superb Version of Twistin the night away
These guys wrote one song and just ran with it, Luckily that song was decent. It's obviously a massively important album in punk history, don't know if that necessarily means its great, but i do know every song is a lot of fun.
Best Track: Beat on the Brat
