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).

Lyrically this album is an absolute masterpiece. Easily my favourite album by Bob Dylan.

basically why Nile Rodgers has had something to do with all music in the 80s

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.

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.

I really enjoyed this album. Smooth lounge act sounds, fun bouncy lyrics full of joy.

I really enjoyed this album. Lots of jazz, funk and soul. The vocals are fantastic.

Absolutely superb album

Big fan of basically anything Pixies or Frank Black related

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.

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.

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.

Disco

Didn't get chance to listen to it all. But thought it was generally good.

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.

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.

enjoyed this, i cant place where ive heard the opening track before.

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.

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.

The energy in his performance is pretty amazing. it must have been amazing to be in the crowd

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.

i always forget U2 are a really good band

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.

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?

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.

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.

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).

Probably one of the best and most significant albums of all time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.