Ohhh this is one all my Talking Heads favourites are from.
I enjoyed the overall mood, however the specific instrumentation didn't really do it for me.
Yeah this is a lovely time! Perfect for a hot summer day. Great.
Just don't know if I was in the mood for this one. A solid sound, but wore out its welcome on this listen.
I really was just put off by the album cover I think. So many great songs here that I'd heard covered/sampled elsewhere that I'm only hearing in their actual form for the first time here. Not my favourite Radiohead but still very good.
Hell yeah! Really does feel like two different albums. Standout track: My Favourite Things
Perfectly fine! Hasn't blown me away.
Didn't want to like this, a few tracks did stand out. Can see why it was big in its time.
I miss Amy. Truly wonder where her career would have gone.
Frank stands out for its more modern production compared to B2B. The shift to working with Ronson & the Motown-style arrangements really brought her vocal performance alive and feel more iconically her, but Frank feels more intimate and raw.
Standout track I Heard Love Is Blind.
Ohhh so when people talk about the blues they mean this
Man. Some bangers here. Some miserable ones. A soundtrack to my teenage years when everything felt so very important. Can definitely see why the ones I heard on the Greatest Hits album made it there, and the others are the album tracks.
Such a shame that I can't hear any of it without thinking about who Morrissey's become and what he represents.
Standout track: Boy With A Thorn In His Side.
A perfectly good album! Tricky to rate, because it's such a foundational album everything here has been used, reused, overused, and parodied so many times that nothing feels fresh here. It's more a collection of tropes. But that's not the album's fault, y'know? That's what happens when you're a pioneer and a visionary 70 years ago. My favourite lyrics are the over the top ones (as per my favourite Fats track I'm Gonna Sit Right Down) some of the other writing slides by a little for me.
Standout tracks: So Long, Trust In Me.
As strange listen for December 23, sitting between Wonderful Christmastime and Winter Wonderland. Never heard of this artist, have no idea what scene they're from. Crisp production makes the potentially muddy guitars sound alive and fresh, would never have guessed early 90s. Didn't mind the overall vibe, although I maybe wasn't in the right mood overall on this listen for something this dark and loud.
Standout tracks: In Like Flynn, Get Down
Ah man, just great. Great production, tight delivery. I can see how Queen Latifah became who she became.
Standout tracks: Wrath of my Madness, The Pros, Ladies First
I mean, really it's undeniable. My internet-poisoned instinct is to try and make fun of something this earnest, but... this man really wants to fuck. He wants *us* to fuck. He's a missionary for missionary (if not something freakier).
Incredible production, never noticed the backing vocals. Loved it, am going to be seeking out a vinyl copy somewhere.
Only cons: very easy to poke holes in the sexual politics. Very funny to have a 'I'm sad we're divorced' song that include 'I even put up with your bitching.'
Standout track: Keep Gettin' It On
Yeah fun! Can't see myself listening to it regularly but I'm glad I spent this time with it.
First album of 2026. Something of a dreamy start to the album, and therefore the year. Hell Is Round The Corner stands out sonically, Abbaon Fat Tracks stands out for different reasons (glad I was wearing headphones). Another perfectly fine album, but doesn't blow me away.
I think this works better in a throng of sweaty people in a club than in my headphones in the countryside. I like a lot of Happy Mondays, I don't think this album captures my favourite side of them. Martin Hannett's blurry production works well on Joy Division, but not here.
Standout track has to be Wrote For Luck (but there's a reason the remix became the hit)
You wonder if Bowie just woke up one day with a particular sound in his head and went 'yes, this will be the next album'. I liked this well enough, not sure I can see myself revisiting it.
Standout track: TVC15. I wasn't expecting to hear a voice repeatedly urging me to transition, nor for that voice to be Bowie's, but here we are.
A good album from a great band that sort of slipped by me on this listen. The production really didn't grab me this time around.
Standout tracks: Everybody Hurts.
I was really ready to enjoy this, but apart from the the obvious (Hurt), none of these really grabbed me as much as I was hoping for. Glad to have listened though!
I'm very happy for the people that this is for! I'm not one of those people.
Yeah gorgeous! I love this. I think this summer I've been given a lot of angry rock albums and something more in this vibe is what I'm after. My apologies to Linkin Park et al that I have been reviewing negatively.
A heavy hitter! This is probably exactly what I was thinking of when I signed up for this: a classic album with iconic singles but one where I'd never sat down and listened to the whole thing through. Great. Do the slower synthesiser ones grab me? Not exactly. Do the 7-minuters hold my attention the whole way through? Not really. Am I glad I listened to the whole thing? Absolutely.
