1001 Albums Summary

Bit dull and dreary. Overblown and not in a way that appeals to me.

Another album that doesn't go anywhere. Nice noises, but an hour of it isn't for me.

Title track is a masterpiece. Most of the points for that. The rest is overlong, not very interesting. Often sounds like a soundtrack to a planetarium show. Welcome to the Machine is awful.

Started strong, drifted off a bit after the first three songs. Probably won't listen again

I mean... 5 stars obviously Amazing, good enough to excuse when the bike horn comes along in You Still Believe in Me. Not listened to it in full for years till now. Gives me goosebumps. It's impossibly beautiful.

Going in blind, I don't know any songs from this. Title track really good. And then gradually I started hating it more and more. Considered a point for the influence on blur, but I just dislike everything about it from track 2 till the end. The sound, the singing voice, the drumming, the songs, everything.

Only know the one single from this. Can't believe he was in his forties when they made this. Only Janie's Got a Gun is surprising at all. The rest is fine, what you'd expect, Love in an Elevator is plenty 80s soft metal for me. It's ok. Won't listen again.

Another one that I don't think I've ever heard any of before. It's pretty incredible. I think it would be a definite 5 star if I were American. But I'm not, so I admire it rather than it speaking to me. 4.

It's a vibe. I feel like I'm in a 70s TV show. If you want your funk uncut, you found it.

It's two albums, both with no idea left out. It feels like it never ends. There's probably a great album in there.

Never heard of this. It's background music to a bar 20 years ago, or a scene from a film where the protagonist is in a taxi and it's raining. Pretty average.

Interesting, never listened to this before. Confirmed I just don't like Neil Young. Thought a Hot in Herre was going to break out at one point, but no such luck. It's ok.

Looking forward to hearing all of this. I'd be impressed by any album that can claim a better opening track than the title track here. It's just sublime. The rest is easy to listen to, he has a beautiful voice. Nothing overstays its welcome, and at 34 minutes, neither does the album. 4/5

I don't hate it. I didn't enjoy it.

I don't think I know the xx, but I know the name. Intro is beautiful. There's a lot of New Order in there, with distracted vocals on top. Shelter comes along and I think I'm starting to get hooked. Infinity reminds me of that Chris Isaak song, but doesn't work for me. The last couple of songs not grabbing me. It's ok.

Another Kinks album so soon? Better than the other one, but I don't like.

Can't work out why this is on the list. It's fine.

Borderline 5. I love the way their voices sound together, so I enjoyed listening to it. Owned it in a box set, but not sure I ever listened to it all before. Some classics (Scarborough Fair, Homeward Bound, 59th bridge street) a terrific run of For Emily, A Poem on the Underground and Silent Night to finish. But a few less interesting songs, and I really didn't like A Simple Desultory Philippic.

Never heard of her, never want to. So bland it makes me want to punch a wall.

Absolute madness.

Starts good (Wearin That Loved On Look), ends good (In The Ghetto). Plus Suspicious Minds is in the bonus tracks. In between it veers towards the club singer (particularly I'll Hold You In My Heart) and occasionally the more excruciating bits of the 68 TV special. Not my bag, but it's alright.

I love this, I've always loved this. Easy 5 stars. It's hilarious, so completely inconsequential but beautifully told at the same time. Blinded By The Lights is incredible, and the tracks with guest voices just make the whole album better. I love love love it Agree that Original Pirate Material has aged better and should be on the list, but as well as this absolute classic not instead.

I actually quite like the music, but I so so hate Jim Kerr's voice it overwhelms any points it might have got. I don't suppose there's an album of instrumental versions?

Gotta Get Up and Driving Along - nice start. Without You - absolute banger. Jump Into The Fire is great and rocks with an admirably insane mix. I'll never Leave You could have been Brian Wilson. That's not bad - the rest is less fun but has enjoyably deranged moments.

Almost every track is a half a minute of music in a song that lasts four minutes. Then the same, without a beat, with a beat, with a beat and some synth strings, without a beat but with strings etc. No real progression. There's a reason it all worked in adverts - those snippets are pretty good. An hour of it is way too much. It's ok if you don't want to listen to music, just to cover the silence and thoughts in your head. I guess that's why it sold so many copies. South side is good though, but then Machete comes along and is like a weak Prodigy copy.

Horseshit. Just appalling nonsense.

It's fine. Nice songs.

Stunning voice, over pub blues

This is absolutely fire. Love it.

Some good beats but man, there's a lot of it. The chatting bits are especially tedious. I liked when it finished.

Good vibes, good flow, good beats, and the sun is shining in London.

Not totally classic blur but an interesting step into experiments, especially from Coxon. The bangers are there, (Beetlebum, Song 2, On Your Own), some classics (Killer For Your Love, MOR, Death of a Party), some good freakouts, some out and out weird ones (Theme From Retro, Essex Dogs) and a Coxon solo effort seemingly dropped in from a different record entirely. Not listened to it end to end in a long while. I enjoyed it. Except the pointless "hidden track" obviously.

Decent enough background music. No idea if I listened to the right album to be honest, but I got the idea.

Nice. Very mellow protest album

Title track great. Dunsford's Fancy is nice. The rest is either like The Pogues but boring or worse (Sweet Thing, and especially The Stolen Child). Didn't enjoy it once the first track was over.

Underneath all the electronics, the key to this album is purely great tunes. Only the title track is a bit too form over content. It's astonishing how something that could be austere and impersonal becomes beautiful. This aside from making synthesisers sound like this in the 70s. This is a great album.

Track A - mega cool Track B - sounds like Charlie Brown's teacher is telling him off Track C - I'm in New York and it's night time. It's raining and the roads are bright with reflected light. Down these mean streets we must go. Track D - wtf? Who invited the flamenco dancer? I'm getting Police Squad vibes. A curate's egg.

Knopfler is a really good guitarist and the guitar tone is sweet. But he doesn't seem to have any confidence in his singing voice here, and other than Sultans of Swing it just passes by without leaving an impression.

I have never heard of Turbonegro, and when it started I thought it must be a spinal tap style comedy record, but weird to be on here. Then it became more like if Wyld Stallyns were real. Or more generously, if Generation Terrorists era Manics were really stupid. I guess it's glam punk metal. It's an album that makes me wonder whether to continue with this list at all. Charitably, maybe if you were a 15 year old boy when this came out and it was your first exposure to rock music, you'd have some affection for the way it made you feel.

Overblown but decent

Too much Robert Plant. Great riffs, great grooves. Too much everything. Then too much Robert Plant again. Too many filler tracks. Kashmir is awesome, be better if he shut up even more. He's like a demanding puppy squealing because he can't bear anyone else getting any attention.

Ah it's ok. Makes sense it was only fleetingly in the book.

Loved this when I was 12. Side one holds up pretty well, side two bit less interesting. Feels like I should be in a planetarium.

Amazed to discover I didn't completely hate this. It's fast drums like they've just discovered how to do the double kick bass and are going to use it all the time, man shouting and then a slightly incongruous twiddly guitar solo. Every time something interesting happens like in Angel of Death or Epidemic, it goes back to formula. Man shouting about mutilation, lots of fast drums and then twiddly guitar solo. Sometimes hilarious when he tries to fit too many words in for the speed of the music, special mention for Reborn here. The deliberately unpleasant lyrics just wash over you after a while. I didn't know them before today, but the two big songs are definitely a cut above the rest. Angel of Death especially - the lyrics are genuinely unpleasant and the music actually rocks.

Heavy on the flange pedal, goo stuff. Bit samey but a decent noise

Pub blues, and when Lane is singing, there's nothing interesting at all. Rod has a bit of something about him, and makes Stay With Me into a banger. All in all a bit nothing much, then an egregious version of Memphis, Tennersee shows up.

Boring 80s rock by numbers. Why not a proper Cult album?

Good stuff. Good vibes.

Not for me

Not really listened to any of his stuff before other than those you can't ignore. Some of the beats here are nice. The lyrics move between glorifying and being self pitying about his lifestyle, sometimes in the same track. Not much other than that, the American obsession with guns is in full effect. Drags on if you get bored with that shit.

This feels more like an interesting experiment than a fully fledged album. It's not unpleasant, but nothing really goes anywhere. I really prefer music to soundscapes.

It's alright. Production seems a bit flat - I think I remember at the time maybe only hearing the songs I know on Under A Blood Red Sky where they sound MUCH better. That sounds like an exciting band, whereas this doesn't much to me. I prefer Sunday Bloody Sunday without a violin. It's not changed my general ambivalence towards U2.

The songs I knew, I didn't like. I dislike the Sesame St energy of Wordy Rappinghood, and the "James Brown" cringe of Genius of Love. But pretty much everything else about this is great (until Booming and Zooming which is bad). It's got such a great vibe all the way through, just love it. Very surprised by how good it got.

A step up from landfill indie, at its best wants to be Brianstorm but isn't.

I don't understand it, but I don't dislike it.

Unfair, but this isn't a patch on the Pixies albums that preceded it. Lots of tracks, mostly absolutely fine but I think the dub ones should probably have been left in the studio as an experiment gone wrong. I can't really remember any of them except Headache.

It's good

I know nothing of Stephen Stills except he is in the Neil Young musical universe, so have not explored further. This is alright. Meat and potatoes 70s dad music but done well, especially side 1. When there's a bit of gospel or Booker T on the organ in there, it's better, where he just plays blues it's a bit dull. It's not a great album though. Eric Clapton on a song called "Go Back Home" though... Do we think he didn't see the lyrics and just assumed it was his kind of thing?

One that I really should have listened to before, but never have. Great tracks: Station to Station, Golden Years, Stay Less enamoured of the others, but that gives it a solid 4 stars

Impossible to stay still listening to this. Great vibe all the way from start to finish.

Beautiful stuff.

Initial reaction. Tedious Led Zep style rock... More than ever they sound like they just happen to have been formed in Seattle. Positive - Cornell is way better than Robert Plant. Then Head Down comes along which is something a bit different, Black Hole Sun (I admit is better than the Moog Cookbook version) is great, then back to the grind. Am I really only halfway through this? Double check this isn't some extended reissue version... no, it really is 70 minutes long. Kickstand is like a tea break, then back to work for another 20 minutes. Is this what you had when we were were listening to Britpop?

All I knew of New York Dolls is that Morrissey was a huge fan. It sounds like Iggy, Bowie, Pistols, Reed, Ramones, Bolan, Faces all at once. All the people influencing and influenced by it are in there, but I can't say it's particularly great. I bet they were amazing live.

Had never heard any of the songs on this - and it's really good. Boogie On Reggae Woman is a blast, You Haven't Done Nothin' is amazing, They Won't Go When I Go is deranged but in a good way. Sun is shining here today, and this is the right album.

I mean, the vibe and the playing on this is impeccable, and yet ... I find it hard to say whether I enjoyed it. There's stretches where it sounds like he's left the band to play while he goes off for a cig - the band is incredible though. And the song where it's so hard for him because he's forced to cheat on his woman made me laugh. The length of time it takes for him to say "I'm about to sing a song" before By The Time I get To Phoenix is insane. A truly heroic amount of filler. And yet... A lot of the time I'm thinking it's really good, especially side 1.

This is my bag. It never settles down into one groove but is packed with great tunes. Novocane -> Jack Ass -> Where It's At is an incredible run of songs.

Nothing to see here.

Like an Elvis impersonator. Then sings about chaining his girl to a wall. Last song is good.

I like everything about it except his voice. It's not that it's bad or objectionable, just devoid of any flourishes or almost any personality, which may be the aim. I kept imagining how it would be if it was being sung by John Cale. This could be why I much preferred this to what little Nick Drake I've heard before, there's much more going on. I liked it. I need to listen to it a bit more.

Another that I'm glad to have listened to, but not disappointed when it eventually finished. I got Odelay the other day, and occasionally this is like that but without the songs. I didn't hate it, but I didn't much enjoy it. Listened to the Bjork song it sampled afterwards, that was good.

At its best, it's like a Gary Numan vibe. Never been a massive fan, but I listened twice which is an indication of something. It was alright but loses a point for having the same name as his other albums. What a wanker.

Opening three songs are undeniable bangers. Just incredible, I'm wanting it to carry on surprising me, but it doesn't. On those songs, and In God's Country, Bono's voice matches the general feel of the song, on the others it just grates on me. Still those three songs are amazing, the rest I can overlook. Had definitely had enough by the end.

Counterpoint: unfortunately it isn't the beats and lyrics that they fear. This is Red Hot Chilli Peppers if they rocked and were filled with the impotent rage of youth at an unfair world. It's not their fault that every band who copied them sucked. And it really rocks. I remember listening to BBC Radio 5 at breakfast time in 2009 and they had invited RATM on to perform live because someone decided Killing In The Name should be number one as a protest against Simon Cowell 🤷‍♂️. I still remember Sheila Fogerty shouting "get rid of it" as at 9 in the morning, they not unexpectedly didn't do what they'd been told and sang the full lyrics. Almost spilt my tea.

I was a Suede guy, loved (and bought) the singles from the first album and before when they came out, but never quite got this album. I went straight to Bernard Butler's solo album which is brilliant. Listening now, I thought I still didn't get it... Until the second half - from New Generation onwards I loved it. It all just clicked, the pretension, the voice, Butler's incredible guitar work. The whole thing wears its influences very heavy, but there's nothing wrong with that.

If thou likest thy folk music, thou shall like this. Best consumed in small batches.

No build up, straight in with Bridge Over Troubled Water. There's at least your first four stars already. It's an insanely good song. Then some pleasant silly songs, at least a couple more stone cold classics, and one weird one. I think it was the only good album my parents owned. It's a 5 from me.

Really good. They're such a tight unit, Foxton's bass is great and Weller is very angry. You can hear echoes of The Beatles and The Who, and then The Place I Love is Blur, In The Crowd could almost be Lemonheads but with a Tomorrow Never Knows guitar solo. English Rose comes out of nowhere and is lovely. I'm not feeling all of his suburban rage against the wage slaves, but it's still got a lot of great songs on it. Down In The Tube Station At Midnight is terrific.

Never listened to this whole album before. Listened to the UK track listing. It's fabulous. Can't imagine what this would have sounded like to 1967 ears. Amazing rock music that's the best of its time and then 3rd Stone from the sun sounds like it's got a controlled version of European Son or Sister Ray thrown in. Loved it. Listened to the US version. Better.

If you want something that goes on for ages and then you hear Layla, watch Goodfellas.

I don't know why, but I was not expecting something this rich, mellow and accessible. It's like one of those orchestral soul albums of the 70s but with a bit of edge and a modern feel. It's great. A real album as well, it works as a whole.

Another band I've never listened to before. Their manager apparently said “Look, record two more records like this, and you’ll be big stars.” Hmmm.... I like the guy's screeching, and the drone and feedback bits obviously Velvet inspired like Blow Daddy-O, but the interesting bits don't quite make up for the anti-music tracks like Thriller!. Still, much rather this that a double album of Clapton.

Wasn't looking forward to this, but when it started off a bit like Trout Mask, I thought "hello, have I misjudged it?" But then it went to the endless twiddly nonsense shit I was expecting. And then a church organ came along. I like Rick Wakeman because he knows how preposterous this stuff was, but that doesn't make it a pleasure to listen to. Overblown nonsense can be good when done with humour, this ain't doing it for me.

More 70s pub rock. I guess we wouldn't have Spinal Tap without it. I do enjoy Smoke On The Water, especially the lyrics just being a step by step factual account of how they ended up using the Rolling Stones mobile studio at a substandard hotel. Respect to funky Claude.

Never heard of this band. Perfectly acceptable 00s indie music, with that drum sound. And then he starts singing. Oh my god. I really can't take to it. When the other guy sings it's fine but not massively interesting, but the falsetto wailing just makes me laugh. There's something not very savoury about a lot of the lyrics too, maybe it's a character being played but it's not good enough to get away with it.

This is wild. You cannot listen to this while doing anything else. You cannot have this on in the background. You might hate it.

Side 1: pretty damn good. Don't Bother Me is a highlight. (And obviously All My Loving.) Side 2: hmm, some of the covers don't quite work, but finishes with Money which is perfect. From this to Happiness Is A Warm Gun in 5 years is still mind-blowing.

Love Damon but a whole album of this gets a bit much. The singles are great, and the bonus track Soulchild remix of 19-2000 is amazing.

Another Johnny Cash prison album on the list? Ok This one's better. Song selection is insane. Again, didn't hate it, didn't love it.

The yanks really love their guns, eh? It's good but starts to get tiresome - at about Heat. I did persevere and made it to hear him rhyme Yonkers with bonkers, and the line "I love you like a fat kid loves cake".

Bleak, nihilistic, repetitive.

Never heard of this guy. Like a lugubrious Nilsson and They Might Be Giants mixed together. The voice suits the songs and the production is nicely lush. I like it.

I like Julian Cope, and I like good pop songs.

The inspiration for Wyld Stallyns make their debut. It's a weird thing - a bit like the Slayer album, the guitar solo stuff is often just plonked on top of whatever the rest of the song is doing. He's undoubtedly doing difficult things, but you don't need it slathered all over everything. Eruption is particularly egregious. It's just that annoying bit on stage at the end of a song when the guitarist wants to show off - but they put it on the album as a real song. Janie's Cryin' has him scale it back a bit, and it's better for it. But then there's nothing very interesting going on. I'll see what I think when I get the album where he discovered the synth. I did not enjoy this.

Good blues, good energy, he makes the guitar sing. Can't tell the songs apart but who cares?

Perfect for falling asleep on a plane to. I won't go back to the ones I slept through.

Singles are bangers, rest is boring

When side 2 has Freddie, weirdness and rock... Why have I just listened to Roger Taylor and Brian May singing boring songs on side 1???

If you liked Gravelsnd but not Paul Simon, this would be perfect.

John Martyn - Solid Air I quite enjoyed this, expected it to be more folky but it was quite jazz tinged. Pleasant.

Absolutely straight up AC/DC. No nuance, no nothing. All rawk. I enjoyed it.

I got two Cure albums in a week when I was on holiday, so left them for later. This was the first, and I like it a lot. A Forest is obviously majestic, and the sound through the whole album is admirably gloomy. The fact this was done and dusted in a week is remarkable.

Nuggets like garage rock. Too many covers, but pleasant enough.

He can write a mean lyric. Can't sing them though.

This is great, all interesting and the singles are absolutely gold.

I liked the bits when he wasn't singing. An upbeat Motherless Children is an odd choice. Otherwise dull.

Struggling to get through an album of this. I think it's good, but man it's bleak. Second Cure album in a week and struggling with both. Finally back to it - it's good but too bleak for me. I prefer a bit of pop to take the edge off my Cure

Good clean fun

It's a good vibe, quite enjoyed it Interludes are always annoying though, and it goes on for ever.

It's just there. Someone wants to be Lennon.

Didn't expect the steel drums. Good start, good end, won't revisit the middle. Hated Happy Day.

Track 1: Great - he's found the synthesiser! This is going to be fun. Track 2: Jump - driven by the synth. Awesome. The guitar solo actually fits the music even. Track 3 - 6: Where's the synth gone? Did they hide it from him and force him to play those stupid solos with too many notes? Track 7: It's baack. I'll Wait. This is a good tune. Tracks 8-9. Boooo. Is a good album gone bad.

Wild to think there was a time when someone decided " Let Me Entertain You" should be the 8th track, not the opener it obviously should be. Angels is up there with Mr Brightside as one of the songs that literally everyone in Britain will sing along to. Difficult to judge something like that. But it's a typical pop album, a few absolute bangers, and a lot of lesser songs. The highs are high though.

I wasn't expecting to enjoy this much, but I wasn't expecting to dislike it quite this much. I remember their cover of I Don't Wanna Talk About It which was fine but dull I had to go and look at what the drum machine he used cost back in 1988, and it was £999. It sounds so bad and cheap now. It's all over everything and just turns boring background music into something much worse. Just use drums. It sounds like a bad double act in an old folks home that no-one is listening to. Final track, Apron Strings ditches the drum machine and it's such a relief. Doesn't get it an extra star though. I hated this.

Very nice. No idea if it's good

Well it's only a single album, so that's a good start. Whole Lotta Love - the Top of the Pops version was better. It was all riff, no singing, no stupid cymbal solo in the middle, no Robert Plant sounding like he's about to sneeze. I thought that was going to be the good song. Then ooh baby baby, Robert Plant does his thing. I no like. Some of the music is good, but that godawful wailing over the top makes it unlistenable. Baby. Moby Dick started well, no singing, but it's then a drum solo? WTF? There's a version on the deluxe album that misses the drum solo and the singing, 99 seconds long that's great. This is worse than the other led zep album I've had on here.

This is banging.

A real mixed bag - starts off funky as hell, Runaway Child, Running Wild is ten minutes long and great. Then half of it is 3 minute pop songs, Motown smooth, which are also mighty fine. More than I expected and a nice listen.

I'm informed that this "is a folk rock album exploring themes of anger, alienation, nihilism and cautious optimism." Oh great, that with Neil Young's whiny voice. For some reason I find him less whiny and annoying here than usual. Still didn't like it though.

Some great pop songs, and a strong voice. What more do you need?

If Radiohead teamed up with Neil Hannon. I'm up for it.

What a load of old wank.

Would be 5 without the drum solo

Side one - like a good John Cale 70s album. Really enjoyed it. Side two - like a Brian Eno album. Nothing happens. Final track Spider & I is gorgeous though.

This is just sublime. Everything working together perfectly from start to finish. Oh Daddy is maybe the only slight dip.

I think I've been told enough times who they are now. Great fun.

Run DMC was my album yesterday and they improved walk this way A LOT. This was average.

Lovey the orchestral sweep of this with the indie vibe. Killing Moon is rightfully a classic.

The best at what it is. Just that.

The whole of side 1 is great. Just the right amount of indulgence and weirdness, but it really grooves. Side 2 is alright, but the Gumbo Variations starts to drag a bit and It Must Be A Camel veers a bit far into "two time signatures playing at the same time" weirdness for me. I think maybe I need more Zappa in my life.

Parts kitschy 70s nonsense, part interesting to listen to. Can't honestly say I enjoyed it.

Extttra point for influencing the Beastie Boys

Awful. Despite the cover.

The original Everybody's Talking, and some lesser country/folk stuff. Plus a weird freakout. Not bad.

Noisy but 2hiny

Messed up Beach Boys sung with a messed up voice. Title track especially messed up. I like it.

"Moving like a tortoise full of rigor mortis." The title track and Express Yourself are absolute bangers but halfway through you get the message and have been told enough times who they are. The yanks sure love their guns.

Front loaded with absolute classics - you just have to move. Thoroughly enjoyed this.

Bang average, I was so happy when the algorithm gave me some Monkees after this as if to say "now this is what they were trying for". Very dull. The exception is the title track which is sublime, comes out of nowhere and I had to check it wasn't a cover version.

Musical theatre madness . Good fun

I don't like Neil Young. This is my third Neil Young album. It was the worst... So far.

It's fine. Nothing spectacular.

50s gangsta rap.

My third Talking Heads albums, and I still don't like them as much as I think I should.

Extended Bowie universe, guy who clearly idolises Dylan plays glam rock and it sometimes works. I've always liked All The Way To Memphis, but never noticed the casual racism until today. Ho hum. The rest is better when the vocals are double tracked, the guitar tone is great. The last song (I Wish I Was Your Mother) comes out of nowhere and is beautiful - proper Dylan like and the lyrics are nicely odd but give a really sad, poignant end to an album that it shouldn't fit on, but does.

There's a lot of this. They're another band that bands I like were influenced by, but all I hear is a really good noise (especially on the Bob Mould ones), but without the great tunes. Sometimes it's like Teenage Fanclub without the tunes, sometimes it's like Monster era REM without the tunes. I quite liked having it on, and I'm convinced if I was 2 years older and American, I would love this band. I'll try another album of theirs.

Fun

I like this. I hope never to be in the mood to love this.

Really good, love the voice, love most of the songs. Drifts a bit towards the end.

Better than most of the 70s rock on here, really good vibe.

It's ok, good to hear the original of Plateau. Can hear the Nirvana in there, but I prefer Nirvana.

This is fun - better when he's singing than rapping. Could do with an edit, but the production is great

Is this a joke? I thought once the 20 minute space opera was over it might get better, but the Bangkok drug song was worse. I've always avoided Rush because I've heard tell of long drum solos, which is a sure sign of a band disappeared up itself. I was not wrong.

This is great, feels like a proper album but with proper tunes and massive beats. I prefer the up beats of the first 6 tracks than the more chill of the rest. But it's all good.

I laughed at the song where he seemed surprised that when he shot his best friend and wife they were bleeding a lot and then couldn't work out why he was in handcuffs. Every song could be background music in a clothes shop that I would want to leave.

Production that sounds very typical of the time, not objectionable but nothing special, but Dusty's voice is just incredible. She lifts 24 hours from Tulsa into stratospheric levels, Anyone who had a heart is amazing - I only knew it from Cilla's version which is horrific. She really is special, even singing songs that are so familiar.

Man, this sounds like shit in both mixes. I gave Fun House 5 stars but didn't really enjoy this. It sounds too far towards standard rock or Bowie's glam rock to be anywhere near as fierce as the previous album. And it sounds awful. Did they record it on a dictaphone?

It's just someone pissing around with samples when it wasn't easy, but behind it is some groovy shit and on top is a German guy ranting. It's batshit crazy and a lot of fun, and not what I expected. However, the last track goes on forever and is batshit crazy in a less good way.

It's music for drinking tea and doing the crossword on a Sunday morning, and I've thoroughly enjoyed doing just that while listening to it.

Oh my god, that's the funky shit. There's bits of everything on here, and it feels like they threw every idea they were working on onto the CD but it's all Beastie. Even when it goes all Eugene's Lament. Sure Shot, B Boys Makin' With the Freak Freak, Sabotage, Get It Together - it's that kind of party

Wall to wall 90s anthems. It's nowhere near as good as Definitely Maybe, but it still hits the spot. It continued downhill from here - there's a reason that 20 out of the 23 songs on their tour setlist are from the era of those two albums.

Bit of a soft spot for this one - even if it drifts off a bit towards the end. Great songwriting, beautiful harmonies, like an audio hug.

Had to listen on headphones because my dog HATED Scentless Apprentice. This is probably superior to Nevermind - Steve Albini worked magic.

This is funky, angry, and a bit weird. Track 2 is a hell of a title. I thought Sex Machine was starting to drag on a bit, when I looked it had only been going for 3 minutes, and was a 13 minute song. Overall a good listen.

A real chore to get through. Nothing on side one has any interest beyond how the drum machines of the day sound awful. "You're just another pwart of me" is annoying. Man In The Mirror is pretty much unlistenable, especially now. I Just Can't Stop Loving You and Smooth Criminal rescue a point.

Every now and then I've tried listening to this because it's "a great album" and lots of artists that I like say it's one of the greatest albums of all time. Yet again today, it's done absolutely nothing for me. His very deliberate phrasing when singing just leaves me cold. I quite like the drums.

I don't really like his voice but this is a solid album, with good jangly guitars.

It's fine, but one paced, only really makes sense in a club in the 90s.

Fun, great songs, perfect harmonies, all in 29 minutes. I loved all of it.

40% truly great, 50% average blues with an annoying fake American voice, 10% a bit paedo.

Perfection. Another Steve Albini masterwork.

I did not get any enjoyment from listening to this. What it told me is that this kind of psychedelic rock is no more enjoyable in small portions than in large portions.

Ah, I've no idea. Didn't enjoy it but I don't have a clue what I'm listening to. Didn't make it all the way through.

Nevermind and Screamadelica are as old now as this was when they were released. Do those albums sound as old as Sinatra seemed in 1991??? This is as you'd expect, every song is the same, like the background to a mob restaurant in Goodfellas. Or like the music that plays when Pepe Le Pew is romancing a cat who has walked under some dripping paint again. It rolls along pleasantly.

An old American man singing old American songs, slowly. I guess the music would be fine as background music in a really old fashioned restaurant, but the old man singing would be distracting. Actually I just checked and I can't believe this is being sung by a 44 year old. He sounds like he's about to keel over at any moment. I found this painful to listen to.

Bit funky, bit preachy, much boring.

New York, New York was a good start but there's a LOT of bland after that. Not particularly objectionable, but I guess I really just don't like country music.

Not listened before, I think I checked out with Kid A. When this is good, this is pretty good, as long as you like listening to his voice. When it's bad (I'm looking at you Pulk/Pull Revolving Door) it's really bad.

This is like giving me two hours of Peruvian nose flute music.

I really was not expecting what I got with this album. Wasn't expecting such good, repetitive electronic music. Wasn't expecting such bad lyrics and singing. Definitely wasn't expecting the song from the Marc Jacobs Daisy advert. Johnny is comically bad, Cheree is really good, but the singing is consistently awful. Frankie Teardrop could have been good with a different singer, like a Velvets drone song. Some of the rest sounds like Sigue Sigue Sputnik.

Ah this is still great. Not listened in decades probably, but singing along with every word and every out of tune note. Seriously good work from the whole band, and the right blend of nastiness and playfulness from the dickhead up front. Loved it

Well this was bad in a bad way, but I have to thank it for one thing only. I was thinking in almost every song "why hasn't the producer told them to leave something out?" Whether it's the drummer constantly putting flourishes where they aren't needed (and I mean constantly), songs that go on about 100% too long (most of them), the track that is solo guitar. Some reviews are rapt in amazement that it was performed without effects pedals, as if it wouldn't have sounded better without a guitar or any recording equipment. When they threaten to break into a tune, it makes you wish they were playing one of the insipid songs that ended up bring their legacy. But no, it always goes back to sounding like a double album of the pinball music from Sesame Street. It would have got two stars if it wasn't for the "I can make my guitar sound like I'm throwing it down the stairs for 6 minutes" track. What do I have to thank it for? I wondered which producer was responsible, and a wiki link took me to the same guy's year owning the Caribous of Colorado soccer team who genuinely had the most unhinged kit I have ever seen. Seriously worth checking it out.

An hour of a twat telling me how he's the best and how much money he's got isn't going to work for me. This is one of those albums where the world was a bit better before I heard it. He's undeniably a better producer than rapper, but then he tries singing and he really can't do that. One of those rare albums where the world seems a worse place after having listened to it.

Never heard of Donald Fagen. Track one - ironic dystopian yacht rock. I could like this. The rest of the album I realised it was still playing the same unobjectionable stuff twenty minutes later while leaving absolutely no impression on me. It's fine. I made me idly muse about musicians who want absolute perfection in every sound of every instrument, obsessed over every tiny detail, then sing over the top in a voice that can't really reach some of the notes.

Obviously the best cover of all time. Music is sometimes great, sometimes average, but don't think you could lose half of it to make a single album.

Most tracks sound like pastiches of other bands. It's ok, has Stepping Stone but the last track is awful.

Again, when you have Freddie, why the fuck are Roger Taylor and Brian May singing lead vocals on anything? You're My Best Friend is gorgeous, Bohemian Rhapsody is overblown and ridiculous. May's guitar tone is always sublime and absolutely unique. It's great to hear an album full of mild insanity, even when the tunes are mostly forgettable. I did enjoy the story of them writing a song complaining about their ex manager taking all their money, calling him every name under the sun. So he sued, settled, and took some more of their money.

Listening back to this, all I'm thinking is USE DRUMS!!!! Every song that has the best drum machine of the day instead just sounds terrible. Side 4 seems to be immune from this, but doesn't have the best tunes. This hasn't stood the test of time. I didn't really enjoy it much, despite having a few great tunes scattered throughout. I'm quite disappointed.

I remember this being NME's absolute obsession when it came out, and I just couldn't see it. Listening back now, it's very good. I preferred it to the Husker Dü album I've had, at its best it was like an American Teenage Fanclub. The Act We Act, Changes, and If I Can't Change Your Mind are great stuff.

A double album of plodding country tinged Springsteen isn't doing it for me

I know nothing of Elliott Smith beyond the name ringing a bell, always assumed he was an earnest singer songwriter. Pretty much. I didn't dislike it, would have preferred more like Cupid's Arrow.

Side One is wall to wall greatness. I don't remember ever listening to it before, but I think I must have owned it when I was a young man because I know all of these, and could pretty much sing along with Bob Dylan's 115th Dream. What a song that is. The acoustic side two doesn't hit me quite as hard, but finishes strong.

When the beats are good (Light), this is enjoyable fusion, but that's not often. Some of the pads are very of their time which is fine but doesn't make for a satisfying listen. Can't say I'll be re-listening.

I don't know who needs an 11 minute plodding blues rock Heard It Through The Grapevine

My heart sinks when I get something from the Neil Young extended universe, but I'll give it a go. After all, there's no actual Neil Young here. It's decent, folk with a merest hint of rock. Nice harmonies, but generally pretty antiseptic. Helplessly Hoping is a cut above the rest. It's wonderful and beautiful. Surprised me, made me glad I kept listening.

On the previous album he sings "can't get enough of sweet cocaine", and I don't know what else he's had in the four years between the albums but he sounds rough from the first beat. This is like a drunk man singing over lift music. The last track is interesting, playing with tape looped guitar and birdsong, but that's about it.

Only know Sweet Love which is nice. This is pleasant enough, easy to listen to, soulful music. And she can really sing. Apparently in 1986 this was NME's second best album of the year, after Parade. I can't see it myself, but also in the top 10 were Control by Janet Jackson, Evol by Sonic Youth, Word Up by Cameo, Graceland, Bend Sinister by The Fall, Raisin' Hell by Run DMC, The Queen Is Dead and Mantronix. Weird list.

This is fabulous - I know everyone involved hated the production but I love it. I love her voice, I love the guitar work, I love that it's all slightly shonky. Fairest Of The Seasons, These Days, I'll Keep It With Mine are particular highlights.

The good songs all sound the same - but I love the synth with blues rock guitar on top. It just drives the songs along. Surprised by how good this sounded. When they deviate from the formula (I Need You Tonight, Thug) it's nowhere near as good. But Gimme All Your Lovin', Sharp Dressed Man, Got Me Under Pressure, Legs are just pure stupid fun. The thing is, as an 80s kid, the fact that it had synthesizers all over it instead of bass guitar and whatever else never struck me at the time. That was just music. Loved it - but in smaller doses than a whole album.

Smooth. Loved Blue Rondo A La Turk, enjoyed Take Five until it turned into a drum solo. Drum solos are NEVER WELCOME. Kathy's Waltz sounds like the different instruments are playing different tunes but it works. Overall it feels like my level of jazz. It's not too challenging but keeps you on your toes.

I wish the synth player left some of the buttons alone. It sounds ahead of its time but you probably had to be there. All over the place.

The man's absolutely right - it can't be no fun to be shot with a hand gun. Love the keyboard sounds, love the groove, but don't love a whole album of his voice. Sorry.

I really like New Order when Peter Hook's bass is going for it. Thing is, on the songs when he's not, there's better Ibiza records than this. And when he is, there's better New Order songs than these. I enjoyed it, but I didn't love it. I remember watching The Other Side Of Midnight back in 1989 and "New Order" performed with Hook pressing a button on a computer for all the other parts and he played the bass. That was the future right there. Anyway, that dong didn't make it onto the album.

This is good stuff, and there should be more compilation albums in the book. Imagine how good a Monkees compilation album could be rather than the weird choice that actually made it in. All the songs are the same , but they're short and punchy and the album is here and gone before it gets annoying.

It's punchy, it's sharp, it's a bit weird, it's a bit pretentious, I like it. Dark of the Matinee and Take Me Out are brilliant.

I couldn't stand it. Started skipping through the songs once it was another dull track with her whispering and occasionally warbling over the top. Eventually had to take a break even from that. At its best, there's some chill tracks to listen to while the sun is setting (My All and the most of Fly Away before sleigh bells unfathomably come along)... but only if you got an instrumental version and didn't have to listen to her ruining them. Which would kind of negate the purpose of a Mariah Carey album.

Sunday Sunday on Sunday. Such a joy to listen to this all through. The sound of a band really finding its feet. Maybe Miss America and Resigned aren't quite up to scratch and the interlude should be split out from Chemical World naff but everything else here is great. All four of the band members hitting heights and showing ambition, using strings, brass and things like a melodica where it makes sense. Particular highlight: the guitar sound on Oily Water. Love it. There's a reason when they played Wembley there were 6 of these songs on the setlist.

The beats are ok on this, pretty much what I'd expect - they roll along nicely. But do I really need to know that he had the "cleanest, meanest penis"? It's pretty laughable that the only thing I heard that they censored was where he said that he'd kill a pregnant woman and they censor the word "pregnant". Woah, step too far there boys. Wouldn't want to be too unpleasant. Also, who ever told Diddy that he could rap, he's so bad. When Method Man comes along, he's a cut above. Even if it still is gun loving nonsense. Skits are, as always, painfully embarrassing. And it's so long. Oo-er missus.

On the cusp of 70s/80s soul - it's better where it falls on the 70s side like Stand Up which is great, really funky. I quite liked Secrets - comparing his girl's secrets to the Colonel's chicken recipe or his mum's apple pie. Just My Imagination has a really weird country vibe with a spooky sound in the chorus. Odd. He's got a great voice, even when singing nonsense.

Woah - taken by surprise by this. Never listened to Megadeth before, and all the metal albums I've had suffer from letting the drummer show off, and letting the guitarist show off when they don't add to or even fit with the song. That is not the case here - it is all proper songs and the guitar solos actually work with the rest of the music. The first two tracks are amazing, the rest don't quite live up to them but still go insanely hard.

Listening to this is like catching up with an old friend. Haven't seen them in a while and it's nice to spend time them. Great songs, recorded simply with no frills. I like it a lot. Will probably be a while before I listen to it all the way through again though.

All My Friends. One of the great songs of this century so far. They came along when I wasn't really listening to much new music, so didn't hear it at the time, but their Glastonbury performance the other year was amazing. I really like this album.

More 70s pub rock. I quite enjoyed You Don't Love Me, but thought they'd strung it out a bit after it had come to a natural finish. Looked at the app and it still had 12 minutes of aimless noodling to go on that song alone. Just STOP. Would have been bearable if it hadn't been a double album made up of only 7 songs stretched out for ever. I feel like I deserve a medal or something for making it through.

I kind of understand a bit more why people like jazz

There's a great album in there, and it ends with three absolute bangers, but I'm not listening to Hendrix for 15 minutes noodles with drum solos.

Just the best. I still love Evan Dando after all these years - the three 90s albums are all great. This one, with Juliana Hatfield's backing vocals, is exquisite. Every song a banger - or whatever the slacker equivalent would be. It must be stressed that this album should be listened to without the addition of Mrs Robinson which would come along and ruin the vibe after Frank Mills.

I preferred the Pere Ubu record

What's going on with the jews harp? Just twanging away annoyingly in half the songs. Anyways, I like Lenny, but this is hit and miss. And that twanging loses a star.

Loved it when I was 15. I'm not 15 anymore

I don't want to hear Ray Charles singing these boring country songs. But he's still the coolest. Imagine releasing an album called "The Genius of Ray Charles" two years into your recording career.

Don't know what I'm in the mood for today, but it's not this. Apparently it was compared to Pet Sounds when released. I can hear that some of the instrumentation sounds like the song Pet Sounds, but that's about it. Not the tunes, to my ears. Definitely not the singing. I really like Up With People though.

There's just too much of it - and not enough decent tunes. It does have Mr Blue Sky though.

Eight Miles High plus some lesser tracks. I like The Byrds but this doesn't do it for me.

Decent enough American dad rock. Don't understand the love for them.

Great stuff. I can understand that if you aren't British and have never heard of this legend, it might be a bit much.

Perfect example of 80s British pop music. If Tears for Fears listened to Chic and then tried to make yacht music. The singles are great, the rest is fine.

Two great songs, the rest ok. I'm never going to be a massive Dylan fan.

I expected some fey British indie. I did not get it.

Didn't expect another Pere Ubu album on the list but glad to hear it. More sound effects, less anti-music than Dub Housing.

Such a tight band and a great groove. Love the sound of a clavinet through a wahwah pedal

Couple of songs great, overall too earnest.

Some great work from Marr and Rourke on here, but the title track is a bit weak.

Super smooth.

The opening (title) track really floored me, I didn't know this was so late in his life and his voice just works so well with the music and the poetry. The rest of the album was a good listen too. When the algorithm gave me Famous Blue Raincoat straight after, the difference in his voice was quite something.

Didn't grab me, seemed very samey, minor chords and country vibes.

An all time favourite.

Singles superb, others less so

I loved this when it came out, but it's too long and has some annoying skits.

I enjoyed this, never heard it before.

Amazing voice, great backing singers, superb songs. I'm talking my way into a 5 star I think.

This guy wants to be Dylan, I think as I hear the opening notes. Then it's all downhill. Terribly dull.

Enjoyed this - slightly mad.

If this is what the yanks were listening to while we enjoyed ourselves with Britpop, maybe this is their Shed Seven.

It's a bit all over the place, especially side one just feels thrown together. But then it finishes with Til I Die and Surf's Up. These are so good that they are going to redeem almost any flaws. There's a version of Til I Die that I prefer on the Don Was produced Brian Wilson album from 1995. His voice 25 years older suits the song perfectly.

Pleasant enough. So Hard is very good.

Can hear the Joni Mitchell in here, but with a massive production. Not what I was expecting. I enjoyed it. Where do I know Once I Was Alright from? Ah... The 1975.

What a voice.

I never really got them.

Oh yes. Bobby Gillespie on drums not being able to do anything more than keep time, surf tunes and lots of noise. Oh yes. It's soo good.

Great flow, amazing production but the lyrics get very tiresome.

Chill Balearic sundown vibes. I like.

Well, it's better than the other EBTG album on here. This had sundowner vibes, but just is not very good. I did not enjoy.

I heard the drummer get wicked.

This is fine. Serviceable Britpop but from 1999?? Very Liverpool.

It's well done and all, but I didn't really enjoy it. Too jazzy, not yacht enough for me. Much like when I got the Donald Fagen one, it baffles me when every detail has obviously been obsessed about, then this weak voice sings over it. When Michael McDonald shows up with backing vocals three quarters of the way through, it's like "YES this is more like it". But that's only one track. I liked the De La Soul one, too.

Noisy, bluesy. If Beck only liked rock music.

I liked it a lot - would never have heard of it without this. I love the beat - reminds me a bit of Bhundu Boys.

He got no flow.

Don't know how much is nostalgia, but this is a bit of me

When the beat takes you it's a blast. When it doesn't, five minutes seems a long time.

It's just hypnotic

Probably the best one of the four Neil Young albums I've been served so far.

Listened to the version with Touch Me I'm Sick on. That and In N Out Of Grace are brilliant. When they sound like The Stooges it's incredible. When they sound like Soundgarden, less so.

Like if Ride wrote songs that could be used in Masterchef. "I'm sorry Mark, but your souffle just didn't work today. I'm afraid you're leaving us." I like it.

This is absolutely fine. Fun. Ahead of its time probably but a real historical artifact more than particularly enjoyable.

What a great noise. You've got to like his whiny voice to enjoy it...

Weird, and not always good weird. I think he probably influenced other people I'm not particularly a fan of.

I mean, if you keep threatening to shoot your lovers if they leave you.... maybe it's not them that's the problem? This is not redeemed by the music in any way. It's just basic and plodding.

Exceedingly stupid from start to finish. The relentless idiocy about guns, girls and booze but coming across like wannabe braggarts is so deliberately stupid that I wonder about how scandalous it was all viewed as back then. Maybe the live shows tipped it over into becoming what they were laughing at. Also love the slight obsession with Mr Ed.

Just sounds confused. It's not hardcore, it's just average metal with a bit of average funk. There must be better albums by this band.

Just the right amount of freakiness in the blues.

If I heard this being played by a band in a pub I would: a) not be surprised b) not go in Almost went for one star because of a horrible drum solo.

This is a great fun listen. Not my favourite Pogues album, but still good. Caused me to read about the Birmingham Six and the quote from Lord Denning rejecting one of their civil cases go any further is staggering: "If the six men win, it will mean that the police were guilty of perjury, that they were guilty of violence and threats, that the confessions were involuntary and were improperly admitted in evidence and that the convictions were erroneous. ...This is such an appalling vista that every sensible person in the land would say: It cannot be right that these actions should go any further." Genuinely couldn't conceive of police corruption.

This is really good - would never have imagined in 1983 that Depeche Mode would become global rock stars, and it even seems unlikely with this album. It's gloomy and electronic but the tunes are great and the production is perfect. And the cover is beautiful.

I just love Gruff's voice. This is a bit all over the place / very eclectic but there are some absolute cast iron tunes in there. They are consistently ambitious. The celery player is pretty good too.

A lot of it feels like a Reed solo album - Beginning To See The Light even sounds like pre-Velvets Lou Reed song factory stuff. But Moe's drumming and Murder Mystery make it a Velvets album through and through. Not listened in a long time, I liked it even more than I remember.

Just like getting another 70s blues rock album with an annoying singer. Until Milk, which has some synth on it and shows up how bad his voice is. Then Soft and Velvet Snow sounds like decent 2000s indie but still with that voice. The Bucket is the best on here - a really good hook and a tune that doesn't stretch beyond what he can sing. I like that.

Yet another from the extended Neil Young musical universe. Not too much Neil Young in this one though. At its best, it sounds a bit Paul Simon, a bit Hollies (strangely), but it's not really cohesive and a bit dull as a full album.

To get away with this nonsense it's got to sound like everyone is an absolute virtuoso. There are moments in track 2 when they manage it, when it's just drums, a bit of organ and the sax isn't trying too hard, but I don't think it's possible to be a stylophone virtuoso. Track 1 is truly awful. Track 2 is mostly ok, like a 70s soundtrack and occasionally quite listenable. Track 3... The singing and lyrics make me wish it was another 18 minute instrumental. Oh my god it's horrible. It's actually painful to listen to. I'm determined to make it to the end, because how can this go on for 19 minutes??? Oh great, more stylophone. I don't care if it isn't actually a stylophone, it's probably not because there's too many notes. Finally it's (genuinely) good to get to some speeded up and slowed down violin that sounds like The Clangers. That's what the song was missing. Holy fuck this is terrible. Track 4 starts more interesting with a bit of electronic drone, but then goes into average jazz rock plus more stylophone again. This one is ok or maybe it's all relative at this point. I'm not a fan.

So they all sound the same, but that's not entirely a bad thing.

Sounds very British but with an American R&B voice on top. The music is a good vibe, and she's got a good voice. Maybe the tunes aren't quite there, but I quite liked it.

Very good. Good noisy, good tunes. Kracked was great, Poledo less so, and good to hear the 1989 student indie disco fave Just Like Heaven as a bonus track.

It's a vibe, but not my vibe. Preferred the other one.

Expertly produced pub blues. But I can't take a double album of Jagger.

I enjoyed this - it's self indulgent and makes you realise what made the Beatles albums great was a bit of variety and quality control in with the brilliance. The best tracks on here would obviously be Beatles songs, down to the personnel and the production. I also absolutely love Cookie Monster.

Never really got Tom Waits - a stripped down Beefheart with all the good and bad weirdness that implies. Then every few tracks, along comes a country love song with a tortured sounding protagonist. This is an hour of that. It's alright but I don't get anything much from it. Maybe another one of his on here will do it.

I'm always staggered by the list of songs Carole King wrote, it's a ridiculous list of greats. The writing here is pretty much faultless - Smackwater Jack is a bit odd. The production is perfect, the musicians are great. The only thing is that some of these sound better with stronger voices. But I thoroughly enjoyed this.

Mad jazz but without an annoying jazz drummer. I don't know what it is, but I don't hate it. It's not an easy listen.

These guys are pissed off. Boring as anything, but that one sound they have definitely rocks.

Beautifully produced, a great guitar noise. I do find it drags a bit, though, without the hook of an actual song structure.

Funky and jazzy with African beats. Perfect for a sunny day.

Perfectly velvets adjacent and a bit stupid. Nuggets like and lovely.

It's the best. End to end, not a duff note. I still remember how wild it felt to hear them play Don't Stop live - you'd think that the same song forwards and backwards couldn't work and yet... And then finishing with I Am The Resurrection is perfect. (Obviously Fools Gold shouldn't be included as it wasn't on the original release. Even though its magnificent.) Mani, Reni and Squire together at that moment was just some kind of magic. I'm convinced that at any other time, Reni wouldn't play like that, which turns them into more than just another band. What an album.

Where Lenny hit perfection. Sparse and very importantly no Jew's harp in evidence. He's become very confident in his voice here, which makes his lyrics come alive.

UB40 - Signing Off Surprised by how much I enjoyed this. Maybe it's the hot weather, but it's got the right vibe. Only the cover of a Randy Newman song hinted of future horrors that lay in store from the band.

I really liked this one. It felt cohesive and adventurous with getting too outlandish. Liked the general atmosphere of it.

This is fine, it's just sort of there. Music to be played in a restaurant thirty years ago that was already not as good as it once was. I don't think it would be better without Sinatra, it's orchestrated for him despite the bossa nova being more suited to Jobim. But the sun is shining and it's got a nice vibe.

The only songs of interest are those not written by Sting. Mother is like a slap around the face, but not in a good way. Miss Gradenko is really good, apart from the "Nobody But Us" bit which sounds awful. Every Breath You Take is no less creepy for the repeated listens, and the rest is just boring standard 80s pop.

Another sunny day record. Pure vibe, essence of Kate Bush and Cocteau Twins in there. I don't really understand why a record that is so unlike their other records would be included, but it was nice.

Perfectly listenable and pleasant jazz with a bit of a bluesy edge. If someone tells me this is great, I'll happily believe them. I just can't tell. The songs don't feel like they are as long as they are. Also, I don't think Jimmy makes the mistake of letting the rhythm section have long solos.

It's alright, they were always journalists' favourites rather than actually good.

Mind is a bit blown that the US TV company decided to do an edition of The Beatles cartoon with Tomorrow Never Knows.

American Mumford and Sons.

It's just not very good. Average listenable beats and no flow. The usual "I'm the best and will shoot you" nonsense. He rhymes sister with histor y. Maybe that's one of the "rhymes like semen" he later mentions, whatever that means. The lyrics on that last song Statik dropped its final star.

It's ok, nothing more. Got a bit bored with an hour of them messing around.

I did not enjoy this. The lead singer's voice annoyed me, I really didn't enjoy the Monkees one, and one of the other songs sounded like it was about to turn into Save Your Love by Rene and Renata. I remember The Rockingbirds doing a much better fake American schtick than this. Must give them another listen.

This is great, but not exactly a pleasurable listen. Nigel Godrich is a master at misery with strings. The production is immaculate. It feels like a sad Beck album if Air replaced the samples.

Autobahn is just genius. Impossible that it's over 50 years old. The blend of electronic music with flute and guitar is beautiful. 22 minutes of greatness. Side 2 is a bit less interesting, but Kometenmelodie 2 is really good.

I prefer my surf songs with Bobby on drum and more noise but this is pretty damn good. Probably better written songs than Psychocandy, but less of an air of danger. About You is just a pretty pop song, done straight (give or take a line about people dying in their living rooms) and is lovely.

I always thought Surfer Rosa was superior... But maybe I was wrong. This is just great pop music, with a bit of trademark quiet/loud. The way Kim Deal's voice works perfectly with Black Francis is a wonder of the modern musical age. I love it.

I couldn't bear to listen to it in English - weird because I think the earlier single Tilted is an amazing song. In French I really enjoyed it. Pure pop, 80s vibe. Nothing that grabs me like Tilted, though.

Title track is a bit bluesy, but the rest is standard country getting drunk and pining after the woman you lost.

More Neil Young. I still don't like Neil Young. First couple of tracks, I thought "this is ok, maybe this is the album where I understand what it is people hear". But then it went back to his whiny norm. Probably his best I've got - I said that about the last one too, maybe I'm just accepting it now

Funky prog. Quite enjoyed it, especially when the Latin beats come in.

I prefer Justine Frischmann's voice, but this is good stuff. Good when it's punk, good when it's a bit ahead of its time (Mannequin). The start of Different To Me sounds very like Rest Assured by The Lemonheads. This is a good thing.

This album is an absolute mess. Many songs that aren't up to standard, just a general lack of editing of some really weak songs, but better songs like Not Guilty and Junk didn't make it. And a not particularly interesting "sound collage" polluting the last side. Actually I could do without most of side 4.

The singles are incredible, Butler's riffs are strong. But I'm not finding it as irresistible as I expected.

Enjoyed a lot - but what's going on with the 80s video game effect that pops up every now and then? Also, I assume the lyrics in Spanish are as banal as when he sings in English, but it sounds so much better when you don't understand.

Very Bowie, I prefer it when it's less glam rock. Very good.

Don't know why they're so concerned about someone jailbreaking their phone.

All a bit silly, but he's royalty isn't he?

Very surprised that I liked it so much. Nice and weird - except Giggy Smile which was rubbish.

I love her voice, but this didn't do much for me.

Fun, I don't know if it was good but I enjoyed it.

What if Beck was shit?

Mostly fun, again no idea if it's good. And got Rod Stewart to give royalties to UNICEF so that's good.

It's fine, I can't imagine it being anyone's favourite album. I liked 1975.

Just exceptional

The Streets with guitars. I like.

Imagine how unfunny Jerry Sadowitz would be if there was one word he wouldn't say for fear of causing offence. He's a great rapper, when it's good (my name is), it's good but most of this just gets boring. How many rape fantasies is too many in one work? Pretty low number for me.

I don't know what happened between this and Cosmo's Factory with its 11 minute Heard It Through The Grapevine, but this is great. No pissing about, just 29 minutes of good music. Who doesn't like Bad Moon Rising?

Blues rock as good as I've heard. Never knew ZZ Top were going in the early 70s. The bonus live versions show how good they were before going with backing tracks.

It's ok, I've never really got into REM. I think I once owned this but never actually listened to it.

There are no redeeming features here.

Great songwriting, not very involving performance.

This goes hard.

Fun but one tone really. Hombre and Galang a bit special.

Maybe you had to be there... Fortunately I was there, and this is one of the great albums documenting an incredible time in British music. A jangly indie pop band meets Boys Own records, a club scene that is very welcoming to all (for one good reason) and ends up with an album that is still Primal Scream regardless of how little of them is actually left on the record. All of a sudden, indie kids could listen and dance to anything. How it came to be that it was them that got ended up being adopted by the scene and making this music with Andy Weatherall could be as much to do with Gillespie's personality. Watching the documentary about the making of the follow up to this (Give Out But Don't Give Up) when they went to Memphis work with the Muscle Shoals rhythm section shows how they all love him too, despite him seeming to be so out of place.

I can see why people love this, especially if you are of the right age, but I've never been able to enjoy Joy Division. Glad I've finally listened to it all the way through, confident I never will again.

Overblown nonsense, but when it hits the mark, it's such good fun. Let's Go Crazy, Take Me With U, I Would Die 4 U are joyous.

Very surprised there was such a lot of the annoying metal guitar noodling. When they give that a rest and play a song it's good but then along he comes with his hammering the strings and ruins it. Drummer is too metal too. The next album is much better.

I don't know why this exists. It's generally not very good versions of good songs, plus Hurt which is great, and some songs about murder which seems to be his speciality. Points for Hurt, and some of the others are ok.