Rated 10/10
There's something about the production on this that means by the time you get to Lounge Act you feel a bit like you've binged on a big bag of sweets all the same flavour. Still, take any track on its own and it's fantastic.
Streaming kind of ruins the effect of Endless, Nameless. Could they not have added a stretch of silence between it and Something in the Way like on the CD?
Rated 8/10
The handful of hiphop choices are doing their best to drag up my 90s average score. Surprised at how much Wu Tang I could hear in parts of this.
Rated 10/10
I had no knowledge of or context for this. As an old fart muso it was great to be surprised and delighted by something on this. I strongly suspect the 1 star reviewer who described this as elevator music didn't go past the first track or they've been on some fairly frantic elevators. Ach they've made me do an unintended Mick Hucknall reference. Told you I'm an old fart muso.
Rated 10/10
I have never listened to this a lot because it is really too much.
Rated 10/10
I love that thing Stephen Morris of Joy Division and New Order said about how punk in UK took off all over the country because Hawkwind had toured so extensively all over the place in the years before and that they had seeded a few weirdos in every normally ignored town.
Rated 10/10
Nice to see in the 1 star reviews how much Bobby D can still get up people's noses nearly 60 years on.
Rated 8/10
My least favourite of the first six Iron Maiden albums. Side 2 is what makes it.
Rated 10/10
Urban punk Eddie was so much scarier to a junior metal kid than later fantasy Eddie.
Rated 4/10
Do these smartypants only come in beige?
Rated 6/10
Nearly a 4. There are Elvis Costello albums with better non single tracks.
Rated 2/10
So boring it burns.
Rated 10/10
Young me would have dismissed this as MOR cheese but what did I know?
Rated 4/10
Ali Campbell's voice is real nails on a blackboard stuff for me. That aside, I struggle to believe that Lee Scratch Perry didn't record 1001 reggae albums more deserving of a slot on this.
Rated 8/10
Curse you This Mortal Coil. I've been going round for years thinking this was Holocaust, Kanga Roo and a load of filler. Thank you album generator for making me reappraise. Kanga Roo is still one of my absolute favourite recordings though. Down with regular meter, up with perfectly judged feedback.
Rated 4/10
Nice not crucial
Rated 6/10
Like a missing link between the Rolling Stones and Dr Feelgood.
Rated 2/10
Found my mind wandering, wishing I was listening to Slayer or Exodus. I prefer my thrash delivered with a barely hidden sense of glee. This sounds like it hasn't drunk enough fluids or done a poo for days.
Rated 4/10
Nice to be reminded of how great Stillness is the Move is. The rest is more clever than loveable.
Rated 8/10
Tasty bubblegum
Rated 4/10
When I was a teenager listening to The Jesus and Marychain and The Primitives my mum used to shake her head at me and say, "that just sounds like the 60s. Why do young people want to listen to that? Why not listen to something original". But they were my 60s sounding stuff. I didn't want to just listen to old stuff.
When this album came out I realised I was now just a little bit more like my mum. But if you're 10+ years younger than me maybe this was/is exciting.
