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Some interesting and challenging ideas on show here Familiarity: 2 – Unknown album Songs I would actively choose to listen to: 2 - Little What can I remember the next day?: 2 - Little Best song: Sweat Loaf

Liked songs: E-pro; Qué Onda Guero; Girl; Go it alone

Breed

Inoffensive, but ultimately forgettable

Solid as an album, better than the sum of its parts

Some big songs on there, but also filler Familiarity: 3 – Know some songs Songs I would actively choose to listen to: 2 - Little What can I remember the next day?: 2 - Little Best song: Sing a Simple Song

The energy in this is nonstop Familiarity: 5 – Deep Familiarity Songs I would actively choose to listen to: 3 - Half What can I remember the next day?: 4 - Most Best song: Paradise City

What a belter of an album. Familiarity: 5 – Deep Familiarity Songs I would actively choose to listen to: 3 - Half What can I remember the next day?: 4 - Most Best song: Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Much preferred the electric first half over the acoustic second Familiarity: 2 – Unknown album Songs I would actively choose to listen to: 1 - None What can I remember the next day?: 1 - None Best song: Outlaw Blues

Only got as far as track 3 - need to revisit

This is just noise, and not the good kind

Solid mixture of rock through this

I didn't dislike the album, but I don't think I found anything musically interesting to warrant another listen.

I quite liked the space rock

Recognised a couple of songs Fave song : chocolate cake

Outside of the "big 2", all a bit dreary

(Pain in the arse trying to listen to this without Spotify)

I didn't really feel like this album went anywhere, and nothing to be found here worth revisiting. Familiarity: [2 – Unknown album] Songs I would actively choose to listen to: [1 - None] What can I remember the next day?: [1 - None}

Just a bit bland Familiarity: [3 – Know some songs] Songs I would actively choose to listen to: [1 - None] What can I remember the next day?: [1 - None}

A bit chaotic, a bit reggae, a bit punk. I enjoyed this Familiarity: [3 – Know some songs] Songs I would actively choose to listen to: [2 - Little] What can I remember the next day?: [3 - Half]

"A lot of noise"

The boss of bossa nova.

I think Run DMC benefit from a collaboration. As influential as it may have been, I am glad hip hop has progressed from this.

This is a great . Trim a few songs and this might have been a 5

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would

Protopunk

Never heard of The Gun Club. Solid punk album.

Not familiar with this album. A few moments but probably too long.

Only thing I knew before listening was Bohemian Like You. This was ok.

A couple of good songs strung together by dreary toss.

I enjoy CCR, but it does all sound a bit samey

Banging start, banging end, dips in the middle but still good stuff

I don't think I've ever listened to a Blur album outside of greatest hits - generally I don't think I was missing too much but credit where it's due there's some fun bits on here. Much more variety of sounds than some of their Britpop peers. Oompah

There is a lot more blues on this than I was expecting. Not a lot of variety though. An excellent background album.

Well this is a bit of nostalgia. You can definitely hear Blur in some of the tracks with just Alburn involved, but add in the collaborations and there's a lot going on. Not sure that I'd be putting any of the non singles on a playlist, but as a whole, very enjoyable.

Completely unknown to me, and not sure what I think of it. The songs on this all have an aspect that i quite like, whether that is a riff, the bass line, the drums; but the other parts of the songs are just a bit pants. I do enjoy that the Wikipedia summary for the album seems to have been written by a ten year old: "It's called that because it's from Ohio".

I heard you like 12 bar blues.

Acoustic versions of some of their slower songs and covers. Just a bit boring.

Björk's singing I can see being a bit divisive, but I quite like the underlying music.

The first song seemed vaguely familiar, but otherwise completely unknown artist. I dig this

Heavy beats to start with, but felt it dipped after that.

I absolutely love this. This is album is a reminder that I should probably listen to more of these albums in stereo and/or through good quality headphones .

Not much of anything - lacking some Young

Rose-tinted glasses perhaps but the opening few tracks are great. Then there is a bit of cliff edge.

Quite the rollercoaster. In isolation you hear BoRhap and think it is all over the place in terms of genres, and then you hear it in this album and it makes more sense. Overall I enjoyed this

Now that's what I call an album cover! I didn't really realise there was more to VM than Brown Eyed Girl, but this album is a cracker.

A consistently solid album. My criticism is exactly that though - if the same song played twice in the album I probably wouldn't notice

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Some good funk tunes, but tailed off a bit

I really don't know why this is on the list

Meh. Nothing interesting here

Not my usual cup of tea, but better than i expected. Still wouldn't call it particularly enthralling however

Knowing nothing about them, I was looking forward to this based on the band's info on Spotify: "Gang of Four is one of the most radically important, and influential rock groups of the last 40 years." I am underwhelmed.

A classic. I think this is the first 20+ minute song on the list. Let there be more

I would have never guessed this was from 1973.

I found myself quite bored listening to this

Other than the first song, everything just sort of blended together. Not very interesting, and definitely sounds a bit dated

Nice mix of classic rock

Some relaxing folk with enjoyable vocals compared to some of of the prior albums

Lots of ideas going on here, but a bit of fun overall

A novel listen? Sure. An album I'll come back to? Probably not.

I don't think I've ever actually listened to an Eminem album. There are some enjoyable songs, but its hard to ignore the rampant homophobia and needless violence throughout. I have no idea how much of this is supposed to be taken literally, what is and isn't in character as Marshall Matters, or if this is supposed to be some sort of meta-commentary, but it definitely hampered my enjoyment of the album. When did i become a woke snowflake?

Music for the snart-sniffer and I'm in the game for some gastromatherapy

I think I understood less than half words, and most of those were variations of words that I daren't type. I did enjoy a cocking gun providing the beat on one of the tracks, and recognised a surprising number of other songs, but I can't say that I got much enjoyment from my listen

Classic Britpop. Can definitely feel the influence of other artists, but also adding in their own spin with the classical (/sampled) instruments.

I tried to find some redeeming features, I really did. There were moments where I thought I understood it, the beat of industrial machinery. And then I'd be out of it again. I think I could probably listen to a single track and get along ok with it, but a whole album is hard going. I think the only reason I'd revisit this album is to annoy someone else.

SIMPLY (bo)RED

It was ok. Inoffensive.

I enjoyed this so much more than their debut

I'm just a basic Britpop bitch

Needing the full 70 minutes is just showing off

I enjoyed it, but (to my ears) this is quite repetitive (and to be fair, there are actual repeats of songs)

I love the groove of CH, it all seems so smooth

Fam was tidy hot sauce

I explicitly gave permission to my wedding DJ to play something from this album and he didn't. What a melon.