Goddess on a Hiway

New sound for the time, but all a bit dull

Not quite Dr Dre but entertaining gangsta rap

REM meets Manic Street Preachers without any charisma.

Still sounds fun, original and not dated.

Live music doesn't always sound good on an album. Prime example. Great memories if you were there, just a mis-aligned noise if you weren't.

Sting is an enigma and made for best ofs. He writes some wonderful songs with insightful lyrics, and then every album has a couple of dross tracks.

nice voice, some heart-felt soulful tunes. Some overly processed sounds, some unnecessary "duets" and some dodgy lyrics.

entertaining, with their cocky cockney lyrics.

3 of her best songs on one album! Worth a good review, just for that

Not appeal to me. Don't get all the fuss; doesn't sound any different from any late-80s heavy metal band, other than they take themselves too seriously. Poor man's Metallica? Nirvana it ain't.

Last of peak Pet Shop Boys? Being Boring is a great reflective song. Chilled pop album. 3 songs make their greatest hits collection, so decent return?

Initially loving the in your face '80s glam at its finest. But the album seems a bit like stuff was added as filler around their big four songs. Some filler is good, some not. An EP of their big four would have made for a top record.

They all start like Insane in the Membrane will kick in, even When the Sh** Goes Down, but wrong album. Mah. Funky Hip Hop, but all sounds the same.

I bet Andy Kershaw likes it. Could get a couple of decent deep house /trance tracks out of the album.

It's alright. I'll listen to it. People like it. I get it's ahead of it's time. Who am I to judge?

Better than expected. Not just bog-standard American 90s rock. Some nuance and different styles. Not bad.

Early 90s ambient was my jam. William Orbit never did it for me then nor now. Decent enough, but if you're dipping into the genre, there are better examples to choose.

Genius of a band. Would love to have seen them in their pomp, having to settle for seeing Marr and Morrisey separately. I hope this list also contains other albums of theirs, especially The Smiths. Their Singles is one of the best compilation albums

When Moby got trendy. Decent, but prefer the raw trance /ambient stuff of his earlier days. (Nothing beats Go).

Blister in the Sun! Will carry any album on its own, but the other tunes and lyrics are infinitely catchy and quotable, though end up with the jitters and Gordon Gano's screech messing with your head by the end.

Some tunes not bad. Needs a smoother voice a la Gregory Alan Isakov or Bon Iver. Not sure its an album you must hear.

I feel cooler for listening.

Honestly, disappointed really. California Dreamin' is a top record and The M&Ps come with a reputation for being 60s influencers. Beyond California Dreamin' and Monday, Monday, there's not a lot on here. The kind of band for which a best of album does the trick. Extra rating on the strength of California Dreamin'

A Great album! Never realized I knew this many Cars songs. Would not have picked this as being made in 1978 either - definite trend setter of an album, copied by many during the '80s.

Proper Dad rock. Mark Knopfler a genius with a guitar. Not their best album, but a great debut.

Quintessential for this group! Better than I remember the album too. Fondly remember watching Evan Dando live.

Unfortunately read general reviews on this and to class the album as Britpop is just lazy categorization of non-American early 90s indie/rock. The album itself is mostly unmemorable, with a couple of lively tunes that had potential. Giving it extra stars just to counteract they're-British-so-therefore-BritPop-and-inferior-to-US-rock.

A non-funny Monty Python album. Without Monty Python. Will never listen to again. People liked this? "Finland, Finland, Finland; the country where I want to be..."

Quality Rock and Roll. The originator of pop music. So much better than Elvis.

Can appreciate the musical talent and musical variety on the album. Thoughtful lyrics if unnecessarily crass. Not sure the rapping is all that, and definitely not my scene.

90s Chillpop. College studying. Served a purpose, good for the day, wasn't the best of its genre, pleasant enough. Wrong and Walking Wounded are decent and had great mixes - not the ones included here - the rest is nothing memorable 30 years later. Jeez, that was 30 years ago.

Give credit for genre-defining. Nuthin but a G Thang is class and brought Snoop to the masses. Cool music on some tunes when the funky bassline is allowed to breathe. Angry rapping about record labels is amusing. The rest of the gangsta rap bravado gets tired very quickly.

Nice voices, but cliched, repetitive and whiney.

The songs with Grace Slick as the lead are much stronger than others and the rock numbers better than the acoustic folk stuff. White Rabbit and Someone to Love are seminal psychedelic rock songs. Extra star for the influence they had on others to follow.

It's got some hype this album. Give it 5 stars for its influence. Some good tunes, some very 50s pop sounding Beach Boys songs.

It was alright. The music better than the rapping. Would have thought with the intelligent, diverse music they could be a bit more sophisticated with the rapping, more like Something in the Way of Things. N word needed in every song?

Remember not being fussed at the time. In retrospect, its a good album: not just another grunge album and more accessible than their later experimental albums. Forgot how good High and Dry, Fake Plastic Trees, and Street Spirit are.

Dated rubbish. Sounds like a couple of teenagers and a casio keyboard. Not as good as Human League, OMD, Kraftwerk or the like. One extra star purely for the Fascist Groove Thang, which is ok and has been sampled successfully elsewhere, and has a good message.

Rock and Roll! With its feet in the 60s, it definitely sounds like it could be a later era or in a smoke filled blues bar. Trend-setting rock and catchy guitar songs. Not as good as Who's Next, though.