Having owned both Greates Hits albums by Queen, I'm ashamed to say that I've never listened to a full album of theirs. I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest fan of Queen, although I clearly enjoy the hits.
Overall, I liked this album and will definitely revisit it again. The best track for me is "Now I'm Here", just a great rock song.
"Killer Queen" is a classic of course and instantly recognisable as a song that is one of their most played.
"Stone Cold Crazy" is one I know well as it's often credited as a big influence on Thrash Metal, a genre I love.
"Tenement Funster" is the song that has had the biggest impact on me as I didn't know Roger Taylor had such a great voice, I mean I know he harmonises in a lot of songs, but this blew me away. It made me realise how talented these guys really are and I already knew they were talented. Don't get me wrong, he's no Freddie, but the man can sing.
It made me feel a little guilty that I'd not given their albums a try before as I imagine that there are lots of gems to be unearthed amongst their extensive back catalogue.
Overall I'd give it 8/10 will listen again. There are just some elements of Queen that mean I'm not always in the mood for them. It's just a little too upbeat and whimsical for me at times, that's why it's an 8.
Always quite liked Billy Joel, but never listened to a full album.
I was glad that this album had "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" as it's a song a like very much. It's where Billy is at his best for me with his storytelling.
There are the other big songs "Just The Way You Are" and "She's always a Woman" which I of course like.
Overall I enjoyed the album, but it's the hits that stand out for me. A great album to put on when people are around for a meal, but not one I'd listen to repeatedly myself.
7/10, the hits carry it, and there is no doubting the talent, just doesn't blow me away.
I'll give this 8/10. Great to work to, some classics on here that will be familiar to everyone.
I'll be buying this album on vinyl as it's a great album to have on in the background when people are around.
Can't give it higher even though I loved it as it wouldn't be in my general rotation of music that I listen to, but I still rate the album very highly.
I bought this album when it was released. I initially loved the album, although I always found the vocal effects a little jarring.
Due in part to the albums popularity and my early to late 20s period of pretentious music snobbery, (which at one point found me in a small venue buying an album by an artist that performed in a wedding dress and wobbled cardboard for part of the perormance which was as objectively crap as it sounds in retrospect), I decided I no longer liked this album.
For years I've maintained that position, largely because it's been over 20 years since I gave it a chance again.
Well, what an idiot I've been, and this is why pretentious music snobbery gets you nowhere.
I maintain that I find the vocals jarring, but I get they fit the aesthetic of the music. Some of the songs are overplayed, but that doesn't take away from how good the album is.
I've always said I'm eclectic, but sometimes when I decide I don't like something, I can be very stubborn about changing my mind.
Overall, 8/10. I will be buying this on vinyl. It loses marks because of the vocals, but that's just a nitpicking part of me and because it doesn't match 10/10 albums I will have on my list.
Easy top marks for this album. I love the production and listening with headphones enhances the experience as you can hear each instrument individually.
I'm a big metal fan, so this is an album I've listened to before. Some classic tracks, the opener just fills you with dread.
The Wizard is a jukebox favourite of mine.
My first 10/10 album! Hugely influential and still sounds great to this day.
I'm not the greatest fan of hip hop, but I respect the genre and recognise that this is a very good album.
Overall I enjoyed the album, it's an easy listen and oozes cool. It's just not an album I would play on a regular basis. I can't think of a stand out track that gripped me, the vibe felt similar all the way through.
6/10 for me (3 stars on the app). Can't rate it low as the talent and production is undeniable, just not for me.
A good album that sounded like a heavier version of 80s REM, but without the catchy hooks.
I enjoyed the album, but it's not one I'm overly bothered about listening to again.
3 stars from me because I appreciate the impact they had on 90s music and they can clearly play and create good music. It just didn't blow me away.
I've seen Bjork live and she's an amazing performer. I love quite a few of Bjorks songs, but I've really got to be in the mood for her.
I thought this album was good, and I'll listen to it again. It's just a little too ambient for me, but I think it will grow on me if I give it repeated listens.
For now, it's a 3/5. Great voice, great production, but just too ambient and slow for me at this moment.
This album is massively carried by 3 outstanding songs and they are the 3 songs that everyone knows.
The rest of the album is just slightly edgier, but ultimately generic 80s hair metal.
There is no doubting of the ability on display here.
Honestly those 3 songs are so good that it's a shame the rest of the album is (to me) so average.
3/5 stars, purely for those 3 songs, you know what they are, I don't need to say them.
This is not on Spotify so I had to listen on YouTube. I like electronic music, and I quite enjoyed this, but it's not a stand out album for me. There are much better EDM/IDM albums from the 90s out there.
3/5 for me.
Really quite enjoyed this. A couple of very recognisable tracks that I think most people will know, "Blue Rondo a la Turk" and "Take Five", the latter probably the most famous.
I can tell that this album was influential on other artists, particularly in the Prog-Rock field and perhaps beyond into Metal.
I've not really explored Jazz as a genre before, but every time I listen to it, I enjoy it.
Solid 4 stars for me and will revisit in the future.
Recognised the voice straight away as King Louie from Jungle Book.
Good album to listen to whilst working, but it's not really my style.
3/5 clearly talented, but not something I'd choose to listen to again.
I had a girlfriend many moons ago that was massively into folk music, so I have heard this before.
It's a good album, but I've really got to be in the mood for folk music, and this style in particular. I love the music that was influenced by folk and one of my favourite genres of music is folk metal.
I find this type of folk great live, or when played at home with other people around, but on my own it's just a little boring.
3/5 great talent and ability, just a little boring for me.
Great album. I really like the stuff I've heard by The Doors so it was nice to finally listen to an album.
Will definitely listen to this again.
4/5 for me.
I love live albums from this era and it always amazes me how good they sound.
I only know a few Frampton songs, and they were on this album. Absolutely loved the album closer and just got the sense that this was an artist and band enjoying themselves.
4/5 Really enjoyed it.
I remember the advert to launch this album. I was playing FIFA on a monitor in the room whilst the wife was watching X-Factor. I pretty much instantly went to Twitter to see if everyone suspected it was Adele. It was a great viral moment.
I like some of Adeles songs, Hello is a pretty decent song, but I wouldn't say I'm a fan or that bothered overall. There is no doubting her impact though and that's why that ad was so effective.
3/5 some good songs, she has a great voice and I recognise her contribution to music. Overall not for me though.
Probably one of the best album openers of all time with Hotel California.
The rest of the album is mainly middle of the road soft/country rock that does very little for me. Inoffensive and easy to listen to, but just a bit boring to me.
Life in the Fast Lane is a fun track though.
3/5 Mainly for Hotel California, but also because they are great musicians.
I remember seeing Ratamahatta on The Chart Show in the UK when it came out. It was the heaviest thing I'd ever heard and the video was amazing.
I was already into Rock, Alternative, Grunge etc, but this was my initial toe dip into heavier music. I eventually bought the album and enjoyed it, but I wouldn't say I was fully blown away by it back then.
I'd actually started getting into their earlier stuff and found that I enjoyed Beneath The Remains and Arise more.
I had a friend that relentlessly played Chaos AD and it grew on me, which made me revisit Roots. Both albums grew on me and whilst I still feel that Arise is Sepulturas best album, Roots is still a 5 star album to me.
I love the tribal fusion with metal music and I don't think it's been done as well since. The drumming in this album is so raw and yet perfect at the same time. Initially I missed the technical guitar solos, but now I wouldn't change the solos that are there for anything else as they just work.
5/5 A perfect album that I've listened to many times.
I've been meaning to listen to this for a while. I've always liked You Can Call Me Al and there are a few Paul Simon songs that I've liked over the years.
He's a great musician with a diverse range of influences which come across clearly in this album.
It's just a little too upbeat for me, but great nonetheless.
3/5 You Can Call Me Al is a fun track and it's an easy listen, but just a little too upbeat for me.
Wonderfully bonkers, but not quite my cup of tea.
Will still give 3 stars though.
I've always been aware of the cult following of the Grateful Dead. I knew it was their live music they were famous for rather than their studio work.
I was quite excited to give this a go, and was left utterly disappointed. As a fan of prog rock, I'm used to long songs that have virtuoso elements to them, this was not like that at all.
There is some talent here, but for the most part it felt like several guys just turning up with their instruments and playing whatever they want individualy with complete disregard for whatever else was going on around them.
A 7 minute track called feedback that is just feedback! Absolutely ridiculous, but kinda funny at the same time.
I know they are a jam band and not prog rock, but the fact they have 2.7m monthly listeners on Spotify and Kimg Crimson only have 1m is absolutely mental to me.
2/5 It's not quite a 1, there was one bluesy track that was ok that shows they can play, but the rest was over indulgent nonsense that I guess you had to be there with a shitload of drugs for.
Slipknot - Slipknot
Even though I love metal, I largely ignored this when it was released, mainly because Slipknot fans were insufferable at the time.
Slipknot fans back then were like the Arsenal fans of the metal world (maybe they still are, I'm ignorant to it these days). They honestly believed Slipknot invented extreme music and that there was no band more shocking or extreme.
Revisiting it in later life, I've started to appreciate this album. After seeing endless drum covers of Eyeless on TikTok, I've began to appreciate Joey Jordison as a drummer, even though I did feel that some of his stage show theatrics were gimmicky back then.
It's just missing some solos for me, but I understand it doesn't fit the aesthetic of the album.
4/5 for me, just missing some solos, but I get why.
One of my most listened to albums of all time. Whilst I like their later work, they never came close to topping this masterpiece.
Not one duff track on this album and it seems wrong to give an album called Ten 5 stars, but I'll give the 5, knowing in my heart it's a 10/10 album.
Heard a lot about this album over the years, but never gave it a listen. Today was the day.
It takes something truly special to stop me in my tracks these days, but that opening track just blew me away. I can see why this has received so much praise over the years.
Super Stupid is great too, with clear influence from Jimi Hendrix.
I really enjoyed the album, but it just falls short of 5 stars. The last track is meandering yet somehow stationary at the same time. As an almost 10 minute closer, you'd expect it to be a main focus of the album just like the opener.
4/5 Overall brilliant, but the last track lets it down.
Not sure how I felt about this one. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either. Just seemed to be there inoffensively in the background.
3/5 nothing really stood out, but it wasn't a difficult listen.
Another influential band that I've never listened to until today.
I ended up listening to this several times as it is amazing. I can see that it influenced a lot of artists that followed.
Definitely going to be adding this to my rotation from now on and will likely buy on vinyl.
5/5 amazing album.
I was only familiar was Two Tribes and Relax before listening to this album.
I quite liked it for the first half of the album. Then there were several cover songs that I just felt messed with the flow of the album. I also felt that was too many covers to make this a stand out album for me.
The Power of Love is of course a great song, but by that point I was wanting what felt like an overbloated album to be over.
3/5 Great when it hits hard, but too many covers to be lauded and way too long.
Easy 5 stars. I bought this when it was released and played it to death.
It's been a while since I've listened to it, so it was like welcoming home an old friend that's been away for a while.
5/5 SuperCALIFORNICATIONexpialidocious
I should really like this album as it's a genre of music that is amongst my favourites, but I found it to be just ok.
Apart from Englad, I didn't really feel there was a track that stood out.
3/5 Not bad, not great.
I've always heard great things about Elvis Costello, and some of the tracks I've heard I've enjoyed.
This has Pump it Up in which is a really infectious song.
3/5 Overall it was good, but not something I'm desperate to listen to again.
So I kinda got delayed listening to this. I started it, then when to the football and had to pick it up the next day. Initially it was going to be 3 stars off my first impressions with an acknowledgement of how influential Kraftwerk have been to electronic music and other artists.
Anyway, I listened to it in full the next day and it just grew on me. Then I hear all the parts sampled by other artists, and I'm like, if this band didn't exist, we would have missed out on so much good music.
Definitely a great album, not quite a 5, but a strong 4.
Solid album from my early 20s. Some great tracks on here that instantly transport me back to going out and putting money in the jukebox.
I get the drumming fits the sound overall, but it's a little one note and repetitive throughout their repertoire.
4/5 I like a bit more complexity to my drumming.
I mean Papa Was Rollin Stone earns enough stars on its own for this album.
Great album that isn't too long and probably has one of the coolest songs of all time on it.
The album oozes cool throughout but not quite a 5 for me as it's not up there with my favourites of all time. It's a good 4 though.
Was initially going to give this 3 stars as I'm not really a glam metal fan, but as it went on, there were some catchy hooks and great technical ability that drew me in.
So I gave it another spin and I quite enjoyed it overall the secondtime. Good rock album to play whilst working.
4/5 some great solos and catchy hooks. Just that element of cheese that means it's a soft 4, but 4 nonetheless.
