Sep 10 2025
Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan
Lyrically this album is an absolute masterpiece. Easily my favourite album by Bob Dylan.
5
Sep 11 2025
We Are Family
Sister Sledge
basically why Nile Rodgers has had something to do with all music in the 80s
4
Sep 12 2025
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Imagining what it would've been like when this album first dropped. Basically the birth of heavy metal, especially as around the time Deep purple and Black Sabbath were starting out.
You can hear a lot of the blues in there, with a lot of Robert Johnson style guitar playing.
Its by no means Led Zeppelin's best but its probably one of the best debut albums. and it just blew the doors so wide open for every hard rock and heavy metal band to follow.
5
Sep 14 2025
Hot Fuss
The Killers
I get why Mr. Brightside fills dancefloors and gets everyone singing along, but its at best alright.
The rest of the album is mediocre. Songs are well crafted, but dreary, uninteresting, and generic.
It’s like someone took Interpol, stripped away everything interesting and shoved a synthesizer in.
2
Sep 15 2025
Beach Samba
Astrud Gilberto
I really enjoyed this album. Smooth lounge act sounds, fun bouncy lyrics full of joy.
3
Sep 16 2025
Diamond Life
Sade
I really enjoyed this album. Lots of jazz, funk and soul. The vocals are fantastic.
4
Sep 18 2025
Pretenders
Pretenders
3
Sep 20 2025
Is This It
The Strokes
Absolutely superb album
5
Sep 21 2025
Teenager Of The Year
Frank Black
Big fan of basically anything Pixies or Frank Black related
4
Sep 22 2025
Urban Hymns
The Verve
This album really means a lot to me. I’ve listened to it more times than I can count and it’s one I often turn to whether im feeling sad, or my heads just in a weird place
It captures a generation just as much as Oasis do. I’ve seen Richard Ashcroft live a couple of times now and when he drops into the Verve tracks you can feel it ripple through the whole crowd.
The Drugs Don’t Work is probably my favourite. From what I know it’s about Richard’s dad when he was dying of cancer and every single time it leaves me in tears.
Aside from Bittersweet Symphony the obvious big ones are Sonnet and Lucky Man but for me the next best track is The Rolling People.
There isn’t a single song I’d skip. The whole thing is amazing, powerful and beautiful.
5
Sep 23 2025
My Generation
The Who
It's certainly of it's time, bluesy riffs and very 60s style harmonics, but you can hear the roots punk, and its quite easy to draw a straight line from The Who to the Sex Pistols and The Clash.
3
Sep 24 2025
Kind Of Blue
Miles Davis
This is such a great album to dip your toes into jazz. Its easy listening, well spaced melodies, and nothing insane going on.
It's nothing like say Charles Mingus or Frank Zappa. But it is blissful and calming.
4
Sep 25 2025
C'est Chic
CHIC
Disco
4
Sep 26 2025
Phrenology
The Roots
Didn't get chance to listen to it all. But thought it was generally good.
3
Sep 27 2025
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie
I think I first heard this album when I was around 12 or 13, and it turned me into a full on Bowie obsessive.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a more perfect opening and closing to an album than Five Years and Rock 'n' Roll Suicide at least not in the world of rock operas or theatrical albums. The way it explores Ziggy's journey through identity, gender, isolation, and the pressures of being a personality in a toxic world. Topics that are even more relevant today.
Even though David Bowie has been gone for nearly a decade, his work was way ahead of its time and the world still hasn't caught up.
This album is perfect to me and is easily one of my top five. It’s special because Ziggy Stardust and Bowie in general made me want to dive deeper into music. I owe so much of my musical journey and discoveries to him and this album.
I try to avoid putting musicians on pedestals, but Bowie is one I can make an exception for.
Favourite songs: Moonage Daydream, Lady Stardust and Rock 'n' Roll Suicide.
5
Sep 28 2025
Everything Must Go
Manic Street Preachers
I've never been a fan of James Dean Bradfield's vocals, and im not a massive fan of the manics generally.
But besides that this is a really great album. A design for life is the main banger, Kevin Carter is also brilliant.
ive seen them live before now, and these songs do hit a bit differently then.
ive always preferred Super Furry Animals and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci of the 90s welsh bands that were fairly big at the time.
3
Sep 29 2025
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Small Faces
enjoyed this, i cant place where ive heard the opening track before.
3
Sep 30 2025
Bitches Brew
Miles Davis
This is the kind of jazz I really love. There's less structure, much less composition. It's all about experimenting and seeing where they end up, and for me is what jazz is all about.
It’s not free jazz, but it's freer and looser than Kind of Blue.
The musicians constantly playing off each other. For example In the first track, the trumpet starts picking up on what the drums are doing, then the guitar, bass, and keys fall in, and suddenly it locks into a solid groove.
Then it breaks apart again, with everyone going their own way. That pattern keeps repeating coming together, breaking apart so each track feels alive, growing, and shifting in all kinds of directions. But it doesn’t just descend into utter chaos and insanity like true free jazz. There’s always an underlying groove holding it all together.
5
Oct 01 2025
Shleep
Robert Wyatt
I'd only really heard the name Robert Wyatt, never actually listened to him until now.
Sort of jazz / prog rock thing. There’s some weird shit going on throughout, at times it feels like a fever dream (in a good way), but then right in the middle of it all you’ll get these really beautiful melodies.
It reminds me a lot of Can (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_(band)) it's kinda hypnotic, a bit self-indulgent, a bit pretentious but interesting to listen to.
Apparently Brian Eno produced it and you can definitely hear the Eno-y atmospheric style, and Paul Weller did bits on it as well, which is cool.
Overall I rather enjoyed it, but I do really like conceptual stuff like this, and I'm going to have to go give Soft Machine a listen now.
3
Oct 02 2025
Live At The Harlem Square Club
Sam Cooke
The energy in his performance is pretty amazing. it must have been amazing to be in the crowd
4
Oct 03 2025
Vanishing Point
Primal Scream
Atmospheric, kinda psychedelic, krautrock sounds.
I wouldn't say it's anywhere near to being as significant as Screamadelica. But its quite a distinctive change from their acid house/alternative rock stuff.
Overall good record though.
4
Oct 04 2025
Achtung Baby
U2
i always forget U2 are a really good band
3
Oct 05 2025
Slippery When Wet
Bon Jovi
basically the pinacle of 80s radio rock really. It's all big and cheesey. Guitarist loves pinch harmonics.
It's a good album, it does what it's supposed to do. Just not to my taste.
3
Oct 06 2025
White Light / White Heat
The Velvet Underground
It’s always good listening to The Velvet Underground you can hear where a lot of the late 80s alternative rock bands got their sound from. Like the use of feedback, fuzzy guitars and rough production syles.
There's also a 17 minute song about taking drugs and getting a blowjob, whats not to like?
4
Oct 07 2025
Grace
Jeff Buckley
I adored this album when I first heard it at around 15. If I were reviewing it then it would be an easy 5 stars as It is utterly brilliant. However now when I listen to this album it is all very twee. So it's lost a star.a
Jeff’s voice is incredible, and Grace is probably where you hear him use it to its fullest. It’s easily my favourite track on the album.
The Hallelujah cover is beautiful too. As much as it surpasses the original, I think it's important to remember it takes a miserable bastard like Leonard Cohen to write a song like that.
It's tragic that this album is all we got from before he died, as I think he would've been spectacular.
4
Oct 08 2025
Tigermilk
Belle & Sebastian
Wonderful band, wonderful album.
The songs are beautifully crafted, gentle vocal melodies and easy acoustic guitars wrapped in layers of different arrangements.
Each track feels warm and tender, like being pulled into a big, lovely hug.
3
Oct 10 2025
The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe
This was fucking brilliant.
There’s so much going on Sgt. Pepper’s, Prince, James Brown, and Ziggy Stardust vibes all over it. The whole album feels not far from Frank Zappa's Joe’s Garage, a wild mash-up of genres, dystopian future setting, use of characters and story to deliver it's metaphors and messages
Favourite track: Come Alive (War of the Roses).
5
Oct 11 2025
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Probably one of the best and most significant albums of all time.
5
Oct 12 2025
Deja Vu
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
3
Oct 13 2025
Ágætis Byrjun
Sigur Rós
I'm a big fan of the whole post rock scene. Huge atmospheric and orchestral tones. Play it loud let it fill your head.
If you liked this, I would highly recommend Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
4
Oct 14 2025
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand
Great album, chunky riffs, has a slightly rough production value to it.
The songs are fun, energetic. Aside from Take Me Out which naturally is the best song, I think Michael is the track I've always enjoyed the most.
4
Oct 15 2025
Snivilisation
Orbital
I'm surprised this is the Orbital album given to listen to over the Brown Album, but this album is great, Orbital are geniuses, and I'm just going to listen to a bunch of 90s acid house stuff for the rest of the week.
4
Oct 16 2025
Face to Face
The Kinks
It doesn't contain as many hits as their first couple of albums, and village green preservation society is easily the best Kinks album but it's still very enjoyable.
It would be fair to think you're listening to the Beatles, but thats just the style of the time. The Kinks are a bit more raw, using overdrive effects, (effect is a loose term as I think Dave Davies basically just stabbed his amp with a knife.)
Good album, brilliant band.
3
Oct 18 2025
Born In The U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen
its a shame americans took the title track of this album and made it about patriotism rather than what Bruce is actually is saying.
I don't think it's his best work, but it's still very good, The River for me is the best Bruce Springsteen album
3
Oct 21 2025
Disintegration
The Cure
I've never been that into The Cure, however I do think they are a brilliant band. I just find that their music kinda just makes me feel absolutely nothing.
That being said I still rate the album very highly, because it is absolutely immaculate, and beautifully crafted, as is with most of The Cure's work. Their songs just make feel absolutely nothing.
4
Oct 22 2025
The Sensual World
Kate Bush
She’s an amazing singer with incredible range and emotion in her voice. I’m just not a big fan of the progressive rock style, which makes it a bit less enjoyable for me.
I could sit and listen to Kate Bush just singing for hours though.
3
Oct 23 2025
The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails
I love this album, the weird time signatures, the distorted electronics and guitars. It’s chaotic, poetic and intense, but some parts still manage to feel surprisingly gentle, capturing Trent's inner torment and self-destruction in a really powerful way
Trent Reznor is just a unique figure in music. His work stands completely on its own, you can’t compare it to anything else, because nothing else is like it.
3
Oct 24 2025
Hearts And Bones
Paul Simon
Paul Simon is probably one of the best melody writers. Each song in this is just exquisite. The only problem with the album is that it's not Graceland.
4
Oct 25 2025
Play
Moby
I feel like i keep mentioning Brian Eno, but theres a lot of big nods to him in Moby, especially in songs like porcelain.
The album is bissful and lovely to listen to.
3