Reviews by tallis12

Enjoyed this grunge concept album, only thing stopping me from adding this to my frequent rotation is the vocals get a bit wearing.

Enjoyed this good rock opera, like the different vocalist for different characters brings it to life more.

This isn’t my cup of tea, but I do agree with the sentiment that for all the world music on the list there isn’t enough J-Pop or K-Pop hence agree this is a fair submission.

This isn’t a bad album, but for something that comes out in 2009 it sounds too much like it’s 70’s influences to be anything that special in my view. If I’m going to listen to hard rock I’d rather listen to the classics than this.

One of the great UK 00’s indie albums, was very underrated at the time, but now it’s almost overrated in certain circles given the rerelease and
The push from the radio X crowd.

Still a good album that is already in my frequent rotation. So happy to see this today.

Really enjoyed some of this album, but it also got a bit tedious for my taste. Glad I listened but wouldn’t rush back.

Never heard of Mustafa before but James Blake is right up my street, so really enjoyed this short but sweet album, love his vocals, straight into my frequent rotation, great suggestion.

Even after completing the 1089 album, I never clicked this wasn’t in the book, it should have been absolute masterpiece.

Sorry didn’t enjoy this one.

Never heard of Chromatics before, but really enjoyed this, late night ambiance can see me coming back to this more.

“Cause music is bigger than words and wider than pictures.”


This was my submission, so it’s probably a bit obvious that I’m giving it five stars. If you can please listen to this album as it’s meant to be heard: loud as fuck.
Here is my reasoning behind why I submitted this album: I wanted my choice to be a Scottish band, and a band that didn’t have any albums on the original list. I chose Mogwai because I think post-rock is a little underrepresented on the original list. We had Sigur Rós, Tortoise, and Slint, but it feels like Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor are obvious omissions.


Young Team isn’t even my favorite Mogwai album; I would rank Come On Die Young and Happy Songs for Happy People above it. However, I think it’s their most important album, being their debut and their introduction to their quiet-loud dynamics and mesmerizing guitars. Hence, in my opinion it’s deserving of the list.

The standout song from this album for me is “Mogwai Fear Satan,” probably their most epic song. Also, “Like Herod” needs a special mention.
If you enjoyed this, please check out the rest of their music. Clearly, this is a biased view, but I don’t think they have a bad album.

This certainly is a unique album, but just really isn’t to my taste. Remove the vocals and you have a much better album in my opinion

Big velvet underground vibes on this album, which isn’t a bad thing. Good album can see how it influenced a lot of the punk music that would quickly follow, worthy of this list, will I come back to it, I’m not so sure.

Had muddy waters at Newport yesterday, so good to get a direct
Comparison to another live album,
This is good, but has the pitfalls of what I don’t like about love albums. The CD version is also far too long. But more than worthy of this list

Some classic blues from the master of them. Brilliant album, a great live album but I still prefer the studio format.

This is the best output Iv heard from Aerosmith, a really good hard rock album. One that deserves to be on this list. Not quite sure it makes my frequent rotation for now.

Out of the 5 who albums on the list, I think we can do without this one. The adverts just come across a bit lame now. I can see for miles is a great song but the rest of the album doesn’t match up to it.

This isn’t a bad album but really baffles me that there are two doves albums on this list, (only 1 arctic Monkeys and 1 strokes album) one Doves album would have been more than enough.

Another fine example of their being far too just Morrissey on this list.

The Smiths albums and maybe one solo album would have been plenty thank you.

A modern day RnB masterpiece, though shocked this is now 12 years old, maybe no longer modern day. With Blonde being 8 years old too now, we really need another album Frank!