Hard to top The Soft Bulletin, but an excellent follow-up. Do You Realize worth the ticket price alone. Memories of Witnness 2003 where they filled in for White Stripes, and were mad craic.
Very enjoyable, definitely hearing that Abbey Road vibe, and excellent name.
Jump into the Fire is a banger, but I'll Never Leave You the highlight, beautiful tune.
Everyone should have this in their collection. The greatest female voice of all-time singing some of the greatest music ever written.
Amazing album. Memories of being 10 and my big sister playing this on repeat and wondering what this voice and music were all about. 'Post' just pips it for me, but together two of the next albums of the 90s and beyond.
Can't be objective, love the Beastie Boys too much. One of the best debuts of all time.
Brass Monkey, Slow & Low and Paul Revere all belters for the non big hit parade.
Not my favourite of theirs, but a lynchpin one for them - changing their sound and direction completely and the single list on it is hard to deny. Solid album like them or not
My favourite Supergrass album. I should Coco is amazing but this was a much more mature sound and songwriting. The title track is one of my favourite album openers, and Richard III easily sits amongst my favourite British rock songs of the 90s - I bought the single on a school trip to Dublin , cruelly kept off Number One by R Kelly, shame on you all.
Can't fault it, wall to wall rock bangers. Questionable lyrics and subject matter now, but the last great rawl album of the 80s - hair metal meeting LA sleaze.
It's So Easy and Nightrain are belters outside the mega singles
Definitely my favourite Zeppelin album, has a bit of all their best styles, class arrangements and just ludicrous performances.
Going To California the highlight, and Misty Mountain Hop and Levee Breaks.ind hearing the latter in Niall Mcgarrigles house when I was 17, game changer. Amazing drum sound.
Solid hip hop slice, ahead of it's time. Rock Box is a clinker
These men are nihilists, there's nothing to be afraid of.
Genre definer, almost worth the hype.
Almost flawless album, contender for best debut of all-time.
Have this on heavy rotation for the last 20 years, spent way too much time trying to learn all the guitar parts, with an unhealthy obsession around 2008.
Never fully warmed to Settle For Nothing but it's still better than most.
Fleeting fan, some brilliant stuff but not my favourite of theirs. More of a 3.5, but again a big signpost for that early punk era. What's My Name my highlight
Not the coolest band for a lot of people but some class stuff. Knopfer is a machine, nearly late Dylanish in the singing, and phenomenal guitar playing. My da had a VHS of Old Grey Whistle Test, and it had a live Sultans Of Swing - watched it on loop trying to get near the guitar parts when I started playing, and he was really chuffed. My da that is, not sure how Knopfer felt to be honest
Great album, was obsessed with Where It's At when it came out, like a precursor to some of Avalanches stuff. All the singles are bangers, and him live at Witnness cemented my love for him and this album. Jack-Ass my favourite of all his tunes, great Van sample, but great lyrics, always come back to it..
Not my favourite REM album, always felt it was a bit disjointed, but it's a real snapshot of their career before and what was to come - there's random polished pop songs, big commercial indie rock, the Out of Time mandolin precursors, and rockier songs like Monster to come. World Leader Pretend probably one of their very best songs, and Orange Crush is still a complete banger.
Their best album. The Dublin gig on this tour solidly in my top 20, a band at their peak. Modern Man and Month Of May two personal favourites, but it's a near perfect album.
PTSD not withstanding, to me it's peak Johnny Cash. The most authentic the band sounded, probably the best lineup too. Class versions of Cocaine Blues, Long Black Veil and Orange Blossom.
Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog is great craic
Probably their biggest album, personally wouldn't say it's their best but it's brilliant. For ages I was just sold on the singles and avoided some of the album tracks but the highs are incredibly so.
Nightswimming, Find The River, Sweetness Follows, Ignoreland, Drive.
Unreal.
An easy five.
Alison worth the ticket alone, but enjoyed some of the early reggae punk vibes
Remember this coming out and being a tiny bit mind blown. An awakening into a whole new genre for me, rnb, hip hop, social commentary and an education, set to complete bangers.
Big shout out to Enya, only found out that was her sample on Ready or Not recently.
If you never played one of these songs at a battle of the bands were ye even in a Strabane band?
Great album, Welcome To Paradise the best
Best British debut album of all time.
Memories of hearing Fake Tales in the Rescue Rooms in Nottingham with my sister and brother in law, thinking they were a bit old (they were 33 😭).
Still Take You Home, Riot Van, and A Certain Romance all perfect.
Suck it Gary.
