Yeah, it’s fun, I like fun, alright?
I like a best of, I like being told what to listen to.
Shoot me, this is a good band and they have bangers.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Supply And Demand
Good good what a voice, just elevates your mood. Some great songs here, can’t deny that Dolly is one of the GOATs.
4.6/5.0
Best Song: She’s Never Met A Man (She Didn’t Like)
Is there a limited number of riffs? Maybe.
Do I care? No, I love this album. It’s a 5
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Legs
This is definitely an album.
1.0/5.0
Best song: Mr Blue Sky I guess
This is more like a 4.75. Ferocious, unstoppable, world-at-their-feet behaviour.
I guess, -0.75 for the blonde braids.
imagine waking up NYD 1996 and listening to this for the first time.
world building music.
4.5/5
Loud, funky, angry, fun, groovy.
All you need really isn’t it
4.5/5
Stand!out Track: You Can Make It If You Try
Mad music, not really my scene of jazz and overall I felt quite stressed listening to it. Maybe that’s the point.
L.A Noire chase scene, reminded me of the betrayal I felt in that game.
3.0/5
Probably Morrissey’s best solo effort, the miserable bastard that he is. Full of bangers tbf.
Close to AFD levels of debut albuming, although if Blizzard Of Oz doesn’t count then neither can this.
4.3/5
Best song - Suedehead cmoonnnnnnn
Lovely stuff tbf, Cohen-esque lyrics
I mean really what is not to like?
Fave song: Marlene On The Wall
Rating: 3.9/4.0
Yeah fucking hell it’s good
Some bangers on this, although i prefer David Lee Roth’s cover of Just A Gigolo.
Great voice, great tones, gets a bit samey for me. But perhaps im a luddite.
3.5/5
Best Song: Night Train
Yeeeeeeeeaasaaahh this is some good stuff, creates an instant vibe and keeps you there throughout. Smooth, developing sounds.
4.6/5
Best Song: No Heroes/New Forms
More albums should be 15minutes long.
Youth rage humour and recklessness.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Live Fast Die Young
I think I know every single word on this album. Probably one of the ones that changed me when I first heard it.
4.9/5.0
Best Song: She’s Leaving Home/A Day In The Life
It’s alright innit. Goes on a bit, when songs include other songs it gets a bit silly.
21stC Schizoid Man is a massive riff, though.
3/5
Best Song: 21stC etc
Man what an album. Sometimes when you listen to someone at the top of their game, it really pulls you in.
4.5/5
Best Song: Maseru
Man what an album. Sometimes when you listen to someone at the top of their game, it really pulls you in.
4.5/5
Best Song: Maseru
This really does have it all, it’s got so many genres packed in. With perhaps one of the best openers of all time.
It’s a 5 from me.
Best Song: Really? I’m not typing that out. Cba
Lyrics by David St Hubbins. This was a struggle, there’s better Aerosmith albums.
2.1/5.0
Best Track: Love In An Elevator
Yeah I love this band so much. Fantastic album not my favourite from Talking Heads but class nonetheless 4.8/5.0
Best Song: Take Me To The River
Some bangers on here, some fillers, some brain rot too.
That solo at the end of Sisters Of The Moon, mind. Phwoar.
A sturdy 4.0/5.0
Best Song: Sisters Of The Moon
Yes perfect morning music, groooves for days.
Best track: Let’s Stay Together, one of the best openings to a song and album.
5.0/5.0
Easy 5/5 for me fucking love this album, no skips, every second.
5/5
Best Song: The Needle And The Damage Done
Unreal album from an unreal band, they’re just so bloody good
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Sorted For E’s And Wizz
A 5* album from a 5* band - it’s fun, non stop and EVH shreds
5/5
Best Song: Panama
Its quite a lot longer than i seem to remember it, The Verve are not a one song band.
That being said there is some filler
4.3/5.0
Best Song: The Drugs Don’t Work
Hey Van what’s your favourite lyric?
“La la la la la la la la la gypsy la la la la la la la la woman la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la…”
Lots of nice sounds on this album, he knew what he was doing but you can tell when he got bored.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: And It Stoned Me
This feels harsh as i do like Belle and Sebastian, and they’re nice songs but idk maybe I just wasn’t in the mood for twee pop. I wasn’t in a Pixar film this afternoon
2.3/5.0
Best Song: She’s Losing It
God listening to this makes you feel so cool.
5/5
Best Song: Pusherman
Might just be in my top 10. NY really is one of if not the best.
Maybe I’m a soft touch on the ratings. Dishing out 5s for fun.
5/5
Best Song: Powderfinger/Hey Hey
Another fantastic start to my day. The best VH album.
5/5 no notes
Best Song: Ain’t Talking Bout Love
Things I’m sure of after listening to this:
1. His name is Kid Rock
2. I don’t fw country rap
1/5
Best Song: Only God Knows Why - because what the actual fuck is this?
Bowie obviously one of the goats but theres a few skips on this album. Maybe i’m just not cool enough.
4.7/5.0
Best Song: Life On Mars - jesus christ, this song is just unbelievably good, can only dream of ever writing something like this.
This is just not for me. Wishy washy, cheesy, and largely boring.
Surely even he got bored of some of these lyrics?
Redeeming features????? He’s got a decent voice, some of the music was fun.
1/5
Best Song: ugh idk, No Direction, maybe? Who cares?
Now we’re talking!
Anotherc album that makes you feel cool. Instantly cultivates a vibe.
4.6/5.0
Best Song: Deacon Blues
I feel like every Bowie album is at least a 4, most are branching on 5.
Love the musicality in this album, the band feel a bit more like they’re the attraction and Bowie is just running around then singing about random shite.
4.8/5.0
Best Song: Sound And Vision COME ON
Yes I am driving my car it is the titles music to someone’s day.
Generally quite mid 80s stuff with some bangers thrown in. The guitar tones are fun and the bassist is on his own level
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Call Me Deacon Blue
Lots of very nice sounds and beautiful singing. Bert Jansch is a pretty sopectacular guitarist. I’m not sure why this doesn’t quite hit the spot for me. It’s obviously very good.
3.5/5.0
Best Song: Sally Go Round The Roses
Best Song Sunday Bloody Sunday
A thoroughly decent album, but it didn’t leave a massive mark on me. Got a bit bored at times.
3.1/5.0
Best Song: Sunday Sun?
There are some great songs on this album. But then the rest is quite wishy washy.
And most of them just go on too long, they could all be a minute shorter at least.
Just shut up, John.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Jealous Guy
There are some great songs on this album. But then the rest is quite wishy washy.
And most of them just go on too long, they could all be a minute shorter at least.
Just shut up, John.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Jealous Guy
This might be the perfect album for sitting on a bus on your way to work in autumn with a sprained ankle and a dream.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Babylon/Please Forgive Me
This is my kind of jazz. So smooth. So cool. So delicate. Mustn’t touch it
5.0/5.0
Best Song: the entire album is one great song
What a voice, what an album.
Sade’s voice could chill me out at any given time i think.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Cherry Pie
Some nice tunes on this. Nothing that’ll end the world, but just… nice stuff. It’s a nice album. Well done Paul, you’re out on your solo career. Nice.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Peace Like A River
A very middle of the road hair metal album with some frankly cooked production choices. Pour Some Sugar On Me is fucking massive though.
3.1/5.0
Best Song: Pour Some Sugar On Me
What is there to say, fucking adore Kate Bush. Any chance to dive into her world is gripped by both hands.
8.0/5.0
Best Song: Jig Of Life/Hounds Of Love
One of the most influential albums going. Still feels fresh and raw now. Undeniable 5
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Trash
Yeah fairplay he is good. Also do enjoy recordings in the time that no one had properly grasped what to do with stereo.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: In The Ghetto
Like…. It’s okay. There’s some fun riffs. Great great great opener that then just sort of keeps going a bit too long. And at one point there’s a drum solo that just did absolutely nothing. The Joe jonas of drum solos. Why did everyone have to do a drum solo at one point what was that all about?
2.5/5.0
No best song they were all pretty much the same.
Holy moly. Gotta be up there as one of the best double albums ever.
Twists turns riffs and also 1979.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Tonight Tonight//1979
This album JUST creeps in to be a 3/5 as it has 3 of Iron Maiden’s 5 good songs.
They’re a real shrug shoulders band for me, like someone’s drawn a caricature of metal.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: The Number Of The Beast
It’s music that I left in my teenage angst years but that whenever I happen upon I remember how much I loved it and realise how much I still do love it. Nostalgia in its best and purest form.
Lots of riffs lots of FUN and tbf a lot of lyrics that stayed relevant.
Best Song: Wake Up
Remember when everyone sounded like this. This album made me fondly realise that those times are long behind us.
There is a nice atmosphere to this album, it’s a bit long. A bit over-laboured? (Boring)
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Ragged Wood
NIN are so bloody moody and cool aren’t they. A band that sound like no other, and instantly create a mood. But it varies, it amps you up and it cuts you down. I’m angry and want to xry angry tears at you.
4.75/5.0
Best Song: March Of The Pigs
Yeah, there’s some good sounds on thid. Some tracks i really got into. Stop trying so bloody hard to be cool though, freak.
3.5/5.0
Best Song: Aladdin’s Story
The desperation of a band trying catch more lightening in a bottle, whilst falling apart between eachother and within themselves. The result is something moody, heartbreaking, eye opening… it’s Joy Division and I’m an emo, it’s a.
5.
5.0/5.0.
Best Song: A Means To An End
Yeah i liked this. It feels a bit samey at times, i mean the 60s in general really. Great voice, some great riffs. Would’ve been a 3 but that last track blew me away.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Shanghai Noodle Factory
I love this album, it holds a special place in my heart as the beginning of my personal music taste. Still holds up, it’s not their best but it’s their first, as it is a first for me also.
4.7/5.0
Best Song: Rock The House
Great band, what a voice Chris Cornell had. Although there are some big hits on this album it’s not my favourite of theirs. Something about it doesn’t fully click into gear.
4.3/5.0
Best Song: Fell On Black Days
I like the Beatles and this is an impressive album, in the sense that they’re only like 17 or whatever and they’ve got about 40000000 songs on it. Can see that the Lennon/McCartney partnership had power.
But it is long, and as an album somewhat incohesive.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: All My Loving
I think for about a song and a half I thought this album could he a vibe I would get on board with, the twee guitars made the autumn leaves seem a bit more colourful. But soon the guitars became samey, boring, dull. And I realised the sky was indeed grey.
2.0/5.0
Best Song: Are You Happy?
I wish I could’ve heard this for the first time when it came out and changed the game. A great album and the sort of music you can put on near any time.
4.6/5.0
Best Song: The Model
The White Stripes were very very very good and this album is front to back proof, simple but great songs.
4.7/5.0
Best Song: We’re Gonna Be Friends
One of the best around, if not THE best, no notes, could listen to this on repeat all day and I just might.
10.0/5.0
Best Song: C.R.E.A.M
So many great tracks on this album and they’re all 10 seconds long, what’s not to love?
Unreal stuff and pretty out there on its own, game changer.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Mannequin
Very coooool beats was nice to hear the full tracks of some of these, having heard them sampled in other tracks. It sounds very of its time which is no bad thing.
4.3/5.0
Best Song: Época
Really do love this album, such a voice and so many songs that just make you yearn, it’s a real yearning album.
4.5/5.0
Best Song: These Days obvs
Musical theatre students, just cannot get along with Queen. Shoot me.
1.0/5.0
Best Song: Killer Queen is aight
An album that I think everyone embraces at some point and which is so accessible to anyone to enjoy. A vibe creator, it puts you in the right spot. Allthough I can only ever hear Chief Wiggum’s voice during Jammin’
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Waiting In Vain
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes indeed yes.
A world building album, full of songs independant but linked together.
4.8/5.0
Best Song: Come On! Feel The Illinoise! Part 1: The World’s Columbian Exposition Part 2: Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream
Yes indeed this is a 5* album. A modern marvel. So much great stuff going on here and on top of it all a voice that glues into your mind. Got so much time for Michael Kiwanuka.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Living In Denial
This didn’t quiye hit the spot for me, it wasn’t bad or terrible, I didn’t lose interest, but it didn’t fully grip me. I like the sounds and the riffs, and the singers voice is unique.
2.8/3.0
Best Song: America (She Can’t Say No)
Best Song: Living In Denial
Another OK album, I couldn’t really get into it properly and found myself a bit bored at times. Superstition alone pulls it into 3.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Superstition
Unreal album. So many fucking unbelievable songs on this, including Free Bird which just never gets old. A stone cold classic.
Free Bird: Simple Man
Never listened to Style Council before but I did quite enjoy this. It’s a little bit all over the place but I enjoyed that. It’s quite good reading music. Still think Paul Weller is a bellend though.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: that one where they tried being really cool
Jay-Z has never really been one of my favourites of the genre but perhaps I need to give him more time???
Enjoyed this, real NY sound to it, got a bit long in the tooth at time but overall good.
3.7/5.0
Best Song: The Ruler’s Back
One of the coolest scenes music has ever had. And this is a seminal album from that very scene. It’s moody, atmospheric and extreeeemly chill. Topped off with one of kind vocals that ring true and stay with you. On the edge of haunting.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Sour Times
Bit dull tbh. Sunshine Of Your love alright for a bit but that also wears thin.
And Clapton is a ponce. The sound, although being straight up blues, is quite unique. For that reason it branches into 2/5.
2.0/5.0
Best Song: Sunshine Of Your Love
This is the sort of album that’d make me proud to be English. If I was so afflicted. A cool, trippy album. With a wealth of awesome tracks. The Kinks were the coolest band around at the time, and still are.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Village Green
Just might be the best band of all time. Weird, whacky, wonderful and Welsh. The whole album is a dreamy trip. It’s not even their best one
5.0/5.0
Best Song: It’s Not The End Of The World
It’s the greatest debut album of all time, it’s AFD, of course it’s 5*.
Haters will say that it’s not a no skip album, but it’s simply not true. The album keeps pace start to finish with varying grooves and riffs that all feel quite breathless and voiced with the excitement and life of a group who’ve just collectively discovered they have potential.
Without this album there’s no Generation Terrorist, and by degrees set the groundwork for grunge, and so it’s invaluable in my eyes.
5/5
Best Song: Welcome To The Jungle/Rocket Queen
This was fun, a left step from what we’ve had and, in a sense, been building up to this week.
This type of music always amuses me, the fact that it’s (I believe) microtonal and so there’s notes that you don’t normally hear in western music is so cool. We never get those ones!!
Lots of fun genres covered with some really cool grooves and just good music, the cover of imagine gave me a jolt. The album itself did drag on a bit, started feeling a bit bored towards the end.
3.8/5.0
Best Song: El Bab
Kind of just got bored of this tbh, a few big hits just about bring it over to a 3.
Undeniably great guitarist, wasn’t quite a songwriter
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Little Wing
The bass player on this album was coooookin. Good old pop rock n roll.
Not listened to much Elvis Costello before, maybe I should!
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Pump It Up
It’s better than the Cream album, but it’s too long, with few and far between decent bits. Layla is overblown imo, the riff/chorus release is undeniably class but that’s it. It’s too long. Too bloody long, stopped listening in the weird end-of-a-sitcom series bit.
2.1/5.0
Best Song: Bell Bottom Blues
Yeah it’s one of, if not his best. A pop album with songs that you can’t help enjoying. An opening track that is very hard to beat.
He wasn’t called the king of pop for nothing, shame about the noncing.
4.8/5.0
Best Song: Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough
Yeah, nah.
It’s just slop I think, Blank Space is a highlight and for that reason it’s branched into a 1.5. I forgot how sick of Bad Blood I’d gotten. I’ve got bad blood with Bad Blood. The rest of the tracks are one and the same.
1.5(just) / 5.0
Best Song: Bad Blood
Brian Johnson’s first album with ACDC. I find it mad that Bon Scott had only died about 8/9 months before.
It’s a good album, you know what you’re getting with ACDC and they’re good at it. It’s by no means in their top albums but it’s a solid head banger album. Also Hells Bells is a great opener.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Shoot To Thrill
Another quite middle of the road Beck album, there’s some quite cool production and I enjoyed some of the music and the lyrics but all in all nothing really grabs me. I think I just don’t like Beck that much, shoot me.
3.5/5
Best Song: Farewell Ride
So much modern UK Rap/Grime etc can be linked to this album and the scen it helped birth. It’s so modern british/dare i say english in such a great way. Remember finding it so interesting when i first heard it, which wouldn’t have been when it actually released but was soon after. A great album.
4.8/5.0
Best Song: Wot U On?
Very coool lo-fi and very 00’s music. It suited a bike ride to work very well, which has become one of the major factors in my ratings on this process.
Quite a few moments in here where I recognised samples, or indeed whole songs, that i hadn’t heard for a long time. Which was cool.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Eple - transported me straight back to 2001/2 in a great way
Quite nice to have two electronic albums on the bounce. This album is pretty good, felt a bit like i was in some sort of early century video game, like Jet Set Radio Future (which was a FANTASTIC game). Definitely an album with filler tracks, but the filler tracks kept the vibes up, at least.
3.8/5.0
Best Song: Music Makes You Lose Control (Lrd Remix)
I got tired of this so quickly. Bat Out Of Hell, I’d Do Anything For Love are obviously good but they are so fucking long. Maybe i’m missing the point but all I know is I was glad when it finished.
2.6/5.0
Best Song: Bat Out Of Hell
Well what can i say really, the dons, its The fucking Band. Multiple listens to this today, The Weight is one of the best songs of all time. Tears Of Rage comes in at #2, and is an unbelievable opener.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: The Weight/Tears Of Rage
I havent got the head to write a proper review, and tbf if I listened to this album right now I’d probably hate it. It’s weird, it’s interesting, it’s mildly inaccessible. It’s Sonic Youth find their sound and (yesterday) I loved it.
4.2/5.0
V v v enjoyable stuff, was particularly nice to listen to in fragile mentality. I probably need to spend some time learning more avout jazzzzzzzzzzzz. And then i’ll be even MORE cool GOD I’d be unbearable.
4.3/5.0
Best song: Samba Dees Days
It’s no maggot brain, but it is fun. Funkadelic i think are the epitome of that cool funk sound, groove and look. Took me bloody ages to find the right album though and that did annoy me.
3.5/5.0
Best Song: groovallegience
Gotta be one of the coolest to ever do it, and also one of the best.
I always forget how amazing Marvin Gaye’s music is, his voice has a timbre that is unmatched, it’s so full of feeling.
All the tunes are cool, moody, emotional and sexy almost regularly at the same time.
4.5/5.0
Best Song: Keep Gettin’ It On
Another Bowie album, another great day. He’s just so cool isn’t he, shows the power of cocaine, when you pack so much into a tight 6 track album.
Station To Station into Golden Years is an amazing 1-2, with Stay keeping the pace up later on in the album.
4.8/5.0
Best Song: Golden Years obviously
I actively disliked this album, I do approach each one with an open mind but found this long in the tooth and a bit tired. They sounded bored at times, their chat was shite and has aged poorly, and on top of all that one of them is a nonce.
Redeeming moments; Keith Moon IS a good drummer and the production/recording of the rhythm section helps give the live energy a real boost, the kick sounds like it’s coming for your gut. The medleys towards the end were actually quite good, Amazing Journey/Sparks was good and My Generation is an undeniable track so at least they ended on a good note.
1/5
Best Song: Amazing Journey/Sparks
Fuck Roger Daltry and Pete Townsend, and fuck their shite on stage banter.
This was a fun trip back to the 00s for me, Klaxons were slightly out on their own in the indie scene, pushing the dancier rave scene.
Rock/indie bands don’t make people want to hit the dance floor anymore, and I think that’s a bad thing.
There’s a great bass sound throughout this album, it’s gritty and messy - it’s indie sleaze. The hits are big, the rest is a bit filler.
3.3/5.0
Best Song: Atlantis To Interzone
I love this album and when through an intense phase of listening to it all the time. For me most early 70s albums are ripping off this sound, and it’s a great sound to rip off.
Nearly nothin but gas, but it reaches into 5 for me because the big songs are just so fucking big.
5/5
Best Song: Satellite Of Love
Bowie reaching the late stages of his career which is where I think his entire art form and ingenuity really started becoming really impressive, and becoming something bigger than himself. This isn’t my favourite Bowie album but it’s moving, emotive and there’s something about his aging voice which really lays the words in.
4.5/5.0
Best Song: I’d Rather Be High
Yeah this is a huuuuuuuge album, so fun and super evocative of the time it’s from. What’s this? Fun music? Optimism? Where’s it all gone ?????
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Praise You
About as harsh as post punk gets. Everything about this album is so well crafted, it all describes itself and promotes what it’s supposed to be and what it’s about. Which begs the question - what is it about?
I dunno.
Nick Cave’s got one of the best voices around and is simply a very very very cool guy.
4.0/5.0
Best Song: Big Jesus Trash Can
A no nonsense Christmas album, gets the day going, doesn’t get annoying. What more do you want?
4.5/5.0
Best Song: they’re all the same
The good songs on this album really are great. Gangsters, Too Much Too Young etc etc. But that’s kinda it for me, I think Ska is a genre that had a place in my younger heart, feels a bit lost on me now. That being said Terry Hall is a real MVP.
3.6/5.0
Best Song: Gangsters
It’s fun, it’s groovy, it’s engaging. I could listen to this album at a party, I could dance to it, and I could do a days work to it. It’s just good stuff. Never heard it before but it’s definitely staying in the library.
4.5/5.0
Best Song: Meus Filhos, Meu Tesouro
Yesyeyseyyeysydysyeysyeysyeys get me to South America and get me on the cocktails
4.8/5.0
Best Song: Ojos
Such an insanely good, funky album. Some of those synth?organ?guitar? Solos and tones are just unreal, love it. Love it love it love it
5/5
Best Son: Summer Breeze
There’s some cool gospel-choir style backing vocals throughout this album which I did quite enjoy. And a couple of song highlights such as Mainline Florida and Please Be With Me. There’s also a completely unnecessary cover of Bob Marley.
2.0/5.0
Best Song: Please Be With Me
Might just be my favourite Neil Young album, has so many songs that I just utterly love. Kicking off with Cinnamon Girl, a riff that rhythmically embeds itself in you so that 4 hours later you’re still tapping along to it, slightly headbanging to it.
He really is the GOAT, I love it. It’s a perfect album, it’s 5.0/5.0.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Down By The River
What a band, they may have ripped a lot of it off but the energy, attitude and production makes up for it. A couple of dud tunes but the hits? What hits they are.
5.0/5.0
Could (and have) listened to this all day
Best Song: Colombia
He is just so good, every album so far is perfect. This album evokes feelings that reflect the title so well. Heart break, hiraeth.
5.0/5.0
Best Song: Southern Man
Could (and have) listened to this all day
Best Song: Colombia
This album didn’t do much for me, felt quite same-y. Saying that there are some stand out tracks. English Rose is a stunning song, and also ‘A’ Bomb In Wardour Street among others. I’m starting to realise The Jam were alright like, weren’t they?
3.2/5.0
Best Song: English Rose
This was decent, maybe not fully my thing but I did appreciate a lot of it, at points I did start feeling like I was in a Simon Reeve documentary, and he really annoys me.
3.0/5.0
Best Song: Amandrai
