Had "Fuck Tha Police" stuck in my head all day. Overall decent album with some hip hop classics and a few gems that I wasn't aware of. Personal highlight "Parental Discretion Iz Advised"
Listened to this 5 times in a day, belter album. Órla asked me to skip to the next song during "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 2" as the synths were making her anxious.
I remember having this on my iPod 20 years ago as I was trying to smooch a girl called Eimear at the time, and this was her favourite album. Never did get to smooch Eimear, but young love is fleeting, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is forever.
Art Garfunkel was absolutely carried by Paul Simon throughout his career, Paul outshining him at every single opportunity. No wonder he went solo tbh. Not my favourite S&G album but definitely some bops on there
I had no idea Mariah Carey's "Without You" was a cover 🤯
Some recognisable tunes on this one, I remember Coconut from an old advertisement but don't think I'd ever listened to the full song until today. Is Coconut racist? Drum break in Jump Into The Fire makes me want to fight
Will definitely listen to this again.
Some of the demos sound like Brett from Flight Of The Conchords
Some next level 'separating the art from the artist's required today regarding Kanye, but oh my god the production quality of this album is unreal. Personal highlights were Chi-City and The Food.
This has gave me an appetite for hip-hop again
I thought this was shit but maybe I'm just in a bad mood today.
The Wikipedia article states "New Wave laid the groundwork for what would subsequently become Britpop", and that's a crime that should never be forgiven. I hate songs where the chorus is just the name of the song repeated, and this album is a serial offender (see Bailed Out, American Guitars).
I normally give the daily album a few spins, but one will do for this guy. Maybe I'll come back to it.
Unreal, couldn't get enough of this. I knew some of the hits from this but never listened to the album in full and it really surprised me. Wasn't expecting the shredding on Broken. This will enter heavy rotation.
Whoever put a 3+ hour box set of jazz on this list needs to take a long, hard look in the mirror.
I get it, Ella had an amazing voice and was a jazz pioneer, but there are a few tracks on this compilation that sum up my feelings about today's pull:
Who Cares?
I Can't Be Bothered Now
Suffered through this in hopes the 1001 Albums Gods smile upon me tomorrow.
A breath of fresh air after yesterday's 3-hour jazzathon.
Went for a big cycle up the Mournes and played this twice, brilliant stuff. Absolutely love the jangly guitars in this. The drums in the outro to Happy Death Men are unreal.
She's a good lad thon Bjork, not my favourite album of hers but there are some goodies on here, Play Dead is still a banger.
Bjork has a different understanding of tonality than the rest of us, and she's right and we're all wrong.
Irresistible urge to boot Mothball in the head during this one 🦶
A few classics on here, No Sleep Til Brooklyn still a favourite.The sample flip on Slow Ride 🙌 RIP MCA
Bonkers that Coldplay used to make such good music, instead of pumping out shite stadium singalongs and uncovering CEO's doing the dirty.
I audibly sighed when I seen today's album and I'm a big enough man to admit I was wrong. Lovely album, I forgot how good Shiver was, High Speed is also a bop.
Chris Martin; If you're reading this (and I know you are) please have a conscious uncoupling from doodling on yerself whilst writing life-affirming stadium anthem bullshit and go back to this.
oh baby dem harmonies ❤️
there's a wee guitar harmonic in You Don't Have To Cry that tickles my brain, and the vocal harmonies in Helplessly Hoping are next level. Beaut album
The opening track 'Krautrock' really be testing a mothafucka patience at 8am this morning.
The rest of the album was OKAY, it definitely doesn't sound like it was released in the 70's, it was definitely ahead of it's time but also I don't really care
U2 are the most overrated band on the planet and OH MY GOD THERE ARE 3 MORE U2 ALBUMS ON THIS MOTHERFUCKER 🤬
See if my algorithm now thinks I want to listen to U2, I'm gonna headbutt Bono
Don't think I'd ever listened to a full Supergrass album before this and it was great
I can't believe I used to think Black Sabbath were corny when I was a teenager. What an enormous knob I was.
Vol 4 is a masterpiece, Snowblind and Cornucopia might be my 2 favourite Sabbath songs.
RIP Ozzy 🤟🦇
As soon as Sound Of Silver appeared this morning I knew it was going to be a five star straight away, but I listened to it 4 times before lunchtime anyway just to be sure. This album gives me the energy of a 17 year old.
My first 5-star rating, masterpiece.
Sighed out loud, stuck it on, enjoyed the singles more than I expected and the rest was fairly wank.
Surprised myself by actually enjoying some of it, but it shan't be spun again today.
Definitely not the energy I needed today, a good album, loved the beats, but a bit snoozy in parts. Thought I would have loved this album from back to front but it just didn't really do it for me.
pretty forgettable start to the album, Balloon Burning is a banger and makes me want to move at high speed.
I listened to the album and looked at the year it came out and thought "I bet this was recorded at Abbey Road" and it fuckin was.
the crazy echoey drum break on Baron Saturday makes me want to play Donkey Kong Country and I'm not sure why
Thoroughly enjoyed this pumping throughout the house all morning, and YouTube Music kept playing bolero music and I kept listening. Great stuff, very easy to listen to, nothing majorly exciting but enjoyable nonetheless.
Really enjoyed this, Siouxie had some setta pipes on her sir
this album got me HORNED UP!
slappa da beyass
Short and sweet funk odyssey, hard de beat
This whole album felt like Kate Bush was trying to put Kate Bush herself, trying a bit hard to be kooky and experimental.
Wasn't absolutely blown away by this, but it's an incredible feat of fuckery putting the best song on the album (Night Of The Swallow) directly after the worst song on the album (The Dreaming). Her vocals are crazy good throughout, songwriting suffered on a few tracks, but overall NAT TOO SHABBY
I liked lil bits of Autobahn but, just like the road, it's long bro. Rest was meh
Genuinely embarrassed that I used to listen to this as a ten year old with my parents within earshot. I begged for this album for Christmas, I think my parents actually might have taken it off me after hearing some of the lyrical content. Found myself cringing a bit at it today, I don't think you'd get away with writing an album like this these days. Am I woke?
Some bangers on here right enough though, Stan still slaps, but there's so much filler too.
Fuck I love Pavement.
I always preferred Crooked Rain but I think Slanted might have made it's way into the top spot.
I love Black Sabbath. Evil Woman is literally the only miss on this album, everything else is top notch.
Fave track is N.I.B which apparently stands for Niggas In Barcelona
Fuck yes, so good, enormous amount of clinkers on this. Fills my body with the fury of a million suns.
I actually enjoyed this but I have no real urge to listen to it again. I like the bing, boing-boing bing bong song
wtf is a big sand anyway? a rock?
this was pretty boring, we get it dude, you want to be Neil Young.
wasn't an awful listen, but a swing and a moss nonetheless
Decent album, however a lot of the songs sound the same. Makes me want to play Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 on the PS2 even though there was no The Clash on the soundtrack. The punkier songs are very Ramones coded, thoroughly enjoyed the more stripped back songs like Hate & War, which felt very on-the-nose considering the current state of the world.
This most definitely fucks, absolutely loved this. Never listened to a full Steely Dan album before and this has turned me into a fan. Can't wait to hear more. I ordered this on vinyl, easy 4
Knopfler can play the absolute shit out of a guitar. Sultans still bangs, and I discovered plenty of other bops on this album. Will defs listen to this again
I feel like Beck wrote most of the lyrics to this album as they were coming out of his mouth, and while not necessarily always a bad thing, may have resulted in some of the shittest lyrics I've ever heard in my life at times.Still, lots of cool in this album, some chunky delicious guitar tones and hip-hop style beats. vgvg
(I'm just now noticing the album cover is one of those dreadlock dogs jumping over a post, I always thought it was a bale of hay getting fucked over a fence lol)
Every time I listen to the song American Pie, it has an extra verse added to it. Love when this comes on in a bar, everyone is singing along for the first 2 verses, then dead silence cause nobody knows verses 3 through 26. Great fuckin tune though.
Never heard the rest of the album before, aul Don could write a song hi, Vincent is beautiful. Overall a very enjoyable listen
Q-Tip has a flow like no other, absolutely one of my favourite rappers. Good album, a few classics but also a couple of tracks that didn't really go anywhere which cost it a star
Weird album, mad mix of like fake reggae and joke songs, some great guitar on this (Bring On The Night was a highlight), but the one constant was Stuart Copeland's drums. Man can make the most basic 4/4 drum beat super interesting. Probably won't listen to this again tbh, can't hear anything by Sting without thinking about him in the middle of one of his marathon shaggin sessions
A great album, Lauryn Hill is such a god damn talent
Great album, haven't listened to this in years, sudden urge to buy a MicroKorg now.
I didn't mind this as much as I thought it would tbh, could have done without that god save the queen shite at the end though.
Breaking the law still has one of the thickest guitar riffs of all time
Didn't like it wan bit, such a chore to get through this
Ashamed to admit that I never listened to this album in full before yesterday, mostly due to the post-traumatic stress of having to play and sing Teenage Kicks at every family gathering from 1998-2007.
I really enjoyed this album, lyrically it's a bit weak with the most predictable relentless rhyming couplets from start to finish. Music was great though
Wasn't bad but also wasn't anything to write home about
Used to love this back in the day and I was excited to listen to it, but hi, it did not do it for me.
Some guitar riffs still hold up, but overall it feels a bit lazy and riff-dependant.
Thoroughly enjoyed, something very QOTSA about Neil Gannon's vocal style. Becoming More Like Alfie highlight of the album. Vgvg
Great album, sent me on a bit of an REM sidequest, great band.
Prince was just unreasonably good at music. Fucking great
Never heard this before, great stuff!
This is very Steve Winwood-coded. Some good tunes on here, lots of slappa da bayaass, some shite too though.
Aul Miles sure could suck the fuck outta that trumpet
Some unreal riffage but I cannot stand Mustaine's vocals
Decent, singles were great, rest of the album was very samey
Fair fucks to Johnny Cash for going into a prison and singing songs about being a prisoner despite never having been to prison except for to sing songs about being in a prison.
Enjoyed this, great start and end, middle was a bit samey. Found myself wanting to go back in time just to tune his guitar
Good album, never listened to The Lemonheads before but I'm a fan. Rudderless is a banger
Bad Moon Rising is one of the wackest songs ever and that is a hill I am prepared to die on. Rest of the album was okay
Is this how I discover I've been a closeted R.E.M. fan this whole time?
Great album, not as good as Green but very close. Highlights: Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite, Nightswimming
That was painful, didn't enjoy it for a single minute
Love a bit of Motown ❤️ Good album, very easy to listen to
I like a bit of Wu-Tang but this didn't do it for me. Some decent moments but mostly poo
Fuckin great stuff, made me want to punch the sky
Pretty forgettable, doesn't hold a candle to Massive Attack.
Aftermath has one of the worst, most out of place samples I have ever heard in a song, so jarring every time it triggers
A good percentage of this album is on my buckin playlist, so listening to this had me at half mast most of the day.
Good shit, real solid baby makin' music.
"We have Led Zeppelin at home"
Great stuff, I want to buy a synth now
Enjoyed this aye, some solid tunes
Pure pop perfection, loved this from the first time I heard it many moons ago, still love it now.
Edit: I've come back 6 days later and changed this from a 4 to a 5, because I've listened to this album every day for the past week. Slipping Through My Fingers made me cry in the car yesterday.
Decent, I don't normally care all that much for Neil Young but I enjoyed the bluesyness of this.
I don't think I'd actually heard another Motorhead song beyond Ace Of Spades and it was actually decent, but very samey throughout. Maybe I'd heard the whole album before but I just thought Ace Of Spades played 12 times in a row?
Some bangers on here, we need a Fugees revival
Enjoyable but forgettable. Diet Glen Campbell
This was agonising. Rod Stewart seems cool but his music is utter wank
I hate the Rolling Stones
Another album that I feel is on this list because of a single song. Not a bad album like, just beige as fuck hi
Not a bad album by any means, just a total snooze fest. Production can't be faulted though
Some good tunes but it's all blues baby
I'm just not a Kraftwerk fan I'm sorry Cathal
Kinda like a bad Pavement record, vibed with some songs and hated others
Fuckin great, an album that deserves to be listened to from start to finish.
MIDNIGHT!
The title track is overrated, some goodies on here though but plenty of filler too
Little Simz is so good damn good. Great album
Production is great but M.I.A. is a bollix
Didn't hate this as much as I thought I would, although I'm 3 or 4 cans deep. Maybe I only like classic rock with a 0.09 BAC.
Fell down a mad Wikipedia wormhole while listening to this. Go check out Brian Johnson's website if you want to be transported to a pre-javascript internet
not my favourite Bowie album but it's got my favourite singles. non-single tracks are a bit boring
Didn't think I'd like this as much as I did, one of these days I'll learn not to judge a book by it's cover. Class stuff, dead cheesy, lyrics are both naff and genius at the same time.
This was good, only knew the single so I was pleasantly surprised with the rest of it.
Enjoyed this way more than I thought I would. Brought me back to my Fallout playing days
*insert gif of captain america ageing rapidly*
FUCK I'M OLD
Great album, Green Day's best
King Crimson jogged so The Mars Volta could run. Enjoyed all the psych proggy stuff, wasn't a major fan of the Pink Floydy bits, a good album overall but it's no In The Court
Not my thang, she had a great voice but some of her songs were pretty wack
Hot take: Queen have like 3 good songs and none of them are on Sheer Heart Attack.
Not absolutely awful but there's nothing on here that'll bring me back. Imagine devoting your life to this and rabbits like.
NEXT!
I feel like I should have enjoyed this more than I did
I felt like I was stuck in an aul tavern in the 1600s with some wench in the corner who didn't know when de fuck up. earned a star because 1 or 2 songs weren't utter wank. the rest was utter wank
great, delicious, exactly what I needed after being double parked with yesterday's shite
about as easy listening as it gets, just not very exciting
Enjoyed it more than I thought I would, good fun
I don't care who I upset when I say this, the Rolling Stones are ass and the world needs to move on.
Fully great, maybe better than Yoshimi?
I'll absolutely listen to this again no sweat
Sitting here patiently waiting for the boys to discover psychadelics...
Some bops on here for sure, I just think I'm more a "The Best. Of The Beatles" fan
"Jimi! Jimi, it's Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Hendrix. You know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this!" Good shit
Franktastic.
Such a good album, would have been 5 stars if it wasn't for some of the filler. I still remember hearing Pyramids being debuted on the Zane Lowe Radio 1 show and having my mind blown.
Also, why didn't he put Novacaine on this album?
Muy bien, Take On Me still slaps, The Sun Always Shines On TV is a highlight. will listen again
BAD MUSIC. NOT AWFUL BUT STILL VERY BAD
Flashbacks to Guitar Hero 3 where Sunshine Of Your Love was my least favourite track. Okay album though, a bit flat by today's standards.
What the fuck was that last song haha
Absolutely class, spun this multiple times, trying my best not to get obsessed lol
FØNK
Gud
The balls on Nile Rodgers making default guitar tone his signature sound lol
