Reviews by proice

I had very low expectations for this one, electronic is in general not my kind of music, but I surprisingly really enjoyed this one. Definitely one that will go back to.

Top Track - Last Train To Trancentral

There’s a few really good songs on here but also a few that didn’t do much for me at all.

Overall a nice enough listen but not one I’m ever likely to go back to after today.

Top Track - Nothing Can Stop Us

Really enjoyed this one. First track was an absolute banger. Solsbury Hill is a great song but at my old job it used to play on our in store radio so I heard it twice a day for nearly a decade. Tad over played for me lol.

The only track I didn’t like was Waiting For The Big One, by the end of it I was kind of bored.

Top Track - Slowburn, fantastic song

GREAT album, thoroughly enjoyed this one. I’ve had this downloaded ever since I generated Being There so was glad to finally get round to it.

It’s hard to find fault with it, every track hit the mark for me. I’ll be keeping this in my album rotation for a good while.

Top Track - War On War

My second from ATCQ. It took me a track or two to properly get into it but once I did I really enjoyed it. Definitely need to check out more of their stuff.

Top Track - Jazz (We’ve Got)

I was kinda dreading this looking at the runtime but I enjoyed it throughout. There are some absolutely brilliant tracks on here. Yes there are some that don’t 100% hit the mark but there’s nothing terrible on it and with 69 songs they all can’t be absolute bangers.

I didn’t expect much from this but I was pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed it. Nothing on here blew me away or anything but there were also no tracks that I didn’t enjoy either.

Top Track - Can’t Cry Anymore

Mountain Song brought back memories of Guitar Hero. Overall a really good album. One or two bangers away from full marks

I wasn’t looking forward to this one. I absolutely hate the song Layla. Fortunately the rest of the album, for the most part, was a decent enough listen without having anything that blew me away.

Top Track - Keep On Growing

After a rough couple of days this was a vast improvement. This is my second Deep Purple album after Machine Head way back at album 34. While I enjoyed the previous one, I haven’t ever went back to it but I can definitely see myself listening to this one again.

In particular Child In Time is an absolute banger of a track.

So this is number 4 of the 7 Bob Dylan albums on here and you could say I’ve had a love/hate relationship with his music, just without the love lol.

This one started positively though. I actually quite liked Blowin' In The Wind. I was thinking maybe this is the album where it clicks and I start to appreciate his music. That positivity died during track 2, the harmonica during the last 15 seconds went right through me. The album fell rapidly downhill from there and in the end this was probably my least favourite of his so far.

Not for me this one. I said on Saturday with the Faces album I got that I’ve never really liked Rod Stewart and this album confirms it. I just find his music quite boring.

I actually remember when this first came out I kept meaning to go out and buy it. I love Gorillaz and The Clash so I figured with Damon Albarn and Paul Simonon involved it was bound to be good. I never did end up buying it and it turns out I didn’t miss much, this album was DULL.

There legitimately wasn’t anything I found interesting or memorable about it. I will soon forget this album exists in all likelihood.

I’ve never liked Rod Stewart so this one was facing an uphill battle from the get go. First 3-4 tracks I really wasn’t feeling it and we were heading towards one star territory but from Stay With Me onwards it started to pick up.

Stand out track for me by a country mile was Memphis. Loved it and I will make a point to check out the Chuck Berry original later on.

Top Track - Memphis

Started really strong but I started to lose interest by the end. A bit samey

Fuck the hell yeah!!

Headphones went up full blast when this started. Reign In Blood is one of the truly great metal albums of all time. It bookends with two classics in Angel Of Death and Raining Blood but there is absolutely no filler in between.

Through 430 albums I have truly enjoyed discovering so many new artists. It genuinely has changed forever how I listen to music. I grew up on metal though, it will always be my bread and butter and I bloody LOVE this album.

Top Track - Raining Blood

While they’ve never been one of my big favourites, I’ve always enjoyed The Divine Comedy. I started listening to them when I was 7-8 years old once I found out Neil Hannon did all the music for Father Ted, best comedy series ever made lol.

As for the album itself, I do really like it but I think Fin de Siècle would’ve been a better choice for inclusion. It has their biggest hit in National Express and one of their best songs overall in Sunrise.

Top Track - Everybody Knows (except you)

Amazing album. I only knew Wuthering Heights before this so wasn’t sure what to expect but this one blew me away. Every track was great.

I’m a long way from the end of this list but when I rank all my five stars at the end I reckon this will be quite high up the list.

Top Track - Hounds Of Love

I hated this. Everything about it. We can’t have Quadrophenia in the 1001 but this makes the cut cause it was a favourite for the Mercury Prize years ago. Bloody ridiculous lol.

Seriously though it’s just not my kind of music. Even with only listening to the original track listing it still seemed to go on forever. I definitely won’t be doing another listen later.

A few good tracks but nothing that will live long in the memory