Rated 6/10
Understand why it's on the list. Clearly very influential guy and a great voice. I just found it all a tad too similar, didn't wow me.
Favourite song: I Feel So Good
Least: I've Got My Mojo Working
Rated 8/10
If you asked me before I started what album would have the song I'd heard the most I probably would have guessed a Taylor Swift album or maybe Paul Simon's Graceland. But the title goes to Tapestry by Carole King and my annual Gilmore girls watch through- seven seasons, 153 episodes, at least four complete watches of the show (maybe 5 or 6...) I might have heard Where You Lead more than any other song ever. Sure I prefer that version- recorded almost 30 years after this one with her daughter but whatever version this song feels like the start of something lovely, familiar and comforting.
Favourite song: Where You Lead
Least: Smackwater Jack
Rated 8/10
Think I have to be in the right mood for the whininess of Radiohead. Definitely warmed me to them that they named the album The Bends because it felt like they "came up too fast" getting famous so quickly from Creep. They have such a distinctively Radiohead sound and it just happens to really match the mood of re-re-rewriting a proof on a rainy Glasgow day.
Favourite: Just
Least: My Iron Lung
Rated 8/10
It's 2011, I'm 9 years old and on holiday. We're driving back to where we've been staying along winding costal roads after a long day of swimming and sightseeing and eating. My sisters iPod touch has the middle seat in the back of the rental card with two sets of headphones plugged into it and Adele's 21 plays on repeat, just as it did on the flight there and will on the flight home.
Fourteen years later I still remember every word of the album- I also remember how travel sick I got on that journey.
Favourite song: Rumour Has It (Or almost any of the songs dependent on the day)
Least: One and Only
Rated 8/10
Some of the songs were too techno for me but still an incredible album. Enjoy the Silence and Personal Jesus are such iconic and brilliant songs.
Favourite song: Enjoy the Silence (also love Personal Jesus)
Least: World In My Eyes
Rated 6/10
When I saw the name and album cover I assumed I would hate the album but I ended up having quite a good time. Still not super my thing, bit too loud and lyrically uninspiring.
I also had a great time reading Dave Mustaine's wikipedia page- what a strange man, gotta be careful if you sing along to the Conjuring or you might accidentally put a hex on someone!
Favourite song: Peace Sells
Least: Good Morning/Black Friday
Rated 6/10
It's fine. Think there are lots of much better albums on the list and while it's definitely not the worst one we've had it just doesn't stand out at all to me.
Favourite song: Helpless
Least: Slick
Rated 6/10
Some of the warbling weirdness ventured a little too far into the strange (and annoying...) for me. But there were some songs I really liked!
Favourite song: This Women's Work (also really liked Love And Anger)
Least: Rocket's Tail
Imagine 7 years before she divorces her husband (your close personal friend George Harrison) you write a series of love songs for Pattie Boyd, only to treat her like absolute shit when you do get together (after nearly a decade of pining!). Also you're a racist and an anti-vaxxer.
Anyway, while I don't think we'd get on I do think the music is good. It could do with some trimming, a few less guitar solos and I think some of the covers feel out of place. But Layla is such a great song.
Hope Pattie's having much better luck with her third husband.
Favourite song: Layla
Least: Have You Ever Loved A Woman
Rated 6/10
Songs written purely for the purpose of guitar solos. I liked all the songs but it would have been nice if there was just one without the minute long guitar break.
Favourite song: Pictures of Home
Least: Highway Star
Rated 8/10
Fun! Think they should have kept the old band name- The Cheating Housewives! Makes you nostalgic for a time where America was the cool place where movies were set and not the dystopian place in the news.
Favourite song: Say It Ain't So
Least: Your Love is Like Las Vegas
Rated 6/10
Too long!! And Sylvia Plath is such a weird song- had a performative male vibe to it, I could very much picture this man on the tube reading poetry in the hopes that girls think he's deep.
There are some bangers on the album though- american road trip music, just think it needed more editing.
Favourite song: Gonna Make You Love Me
Least: Sylvia Plath
Rated 6/10
So very very 80s, obviously I've heard Take On Me before and I'm not sure I gained anything by hearing the rest of the album.
Favourite song: Take On Me
Least: Living a Boy's Adventure Tale
Rated 4/10
Liked the first couple songs, then it got a bit too weird for me. Great voice, just not for me.
Favourite song: Human Behaviour
Least: Violently Happy
Rated 6/10
I did some reading both of and about the lyrics to really understand what he was crafting with this album and I can see why people rate it so so highly, there's a lot of lyrical depth that is easy to miss on first listen. That being said there were some songs I just didn't enjoy listening to- I found the voices he gave some characters annoying, the line "shit don't change until you wash yo' ass" might be a good message but its not fun to keep hearing and I understand For Free? is meant to be a metaphor but the way the woman is presented gave me the ick.
I'm glad to have listened and learnt about it and there were songs I really enjoyed but as a whole I won't be coming back to the album.
Favourite song: i
Least: U
Rated 8/10
It definitely gets a bit repetitive, found that most of the songs that I hadn't already heard blended together a bit. But I had heard quite a few of them before and it's still a good mellow album and deserves its place on this list.
Favourite song: Yellow
Least: Parachutes
Rated 8/10
Sometimes has a bit of Elbow feel to it (which I'd never complain about), I really like his voice, overall a really gorgeous album that I'm glad to have heard for the first (but definitely not the last) time!
Favourite song: Halfway Home
Least: DLZ
Rated 10/10
The only album I gave 5 stars to the first time I started this project (to be fair I didn't review many albums), an incredible voice, stunning lyrics, just truly iconic album.
Favourite song: Why?
Least: Baby Can I Hold You
Rated 8/10
Very close to being 5 stars. Really liked this album, lots of great songs and while I'd heard a couple most of them were new to me. I'll definitely be listening to the whole album again!
Favourite: The Dark of the Matinee
Least: Tell Her Tonight
I much prefer the softer songs to the rocky ones, but overall I really like the album.
Favourite song: This Mess We're in
Least: The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore
