Reviews by tallis12

Great hip hop album, just dwarfed by some of the other monster albums that came out around the same time

Good album classic songs but the kinks would go on to make better albums

Really good shoegaze album, reminded me of spirtized then I realised the connection

You can smell and see the smoke of the jazz bar on this album, really cool concept and live jazz bar vibes. But Tom does go on a bit for some of the songs, hence I prefer his earlier albums or his more experimental later stuff. Deserves to be on the list though.

The KoL album that’s cool to hate. I don’t think this album is as bad as people make out, it is just cursed given how over played sex on fire and use somebody were at the time. This album did make KoL the biggest band in the world for a short period of time but in my opinion they have never recovered since, their first 3 albums are much better and personally don’t think this one should be on the list on years to come.

Great album, so much raw energy, I prefer fun house, but this is added to my frequent rotation now.

Great album and such a switch for Paul weller from the Jam, the rap song in the middle really lets this album down though and loses it a star, 3 stars should be on the list but won’t be on my regular rotation

Nice talking heads side project, enjoyed this worthy of this list.

Boos mix of styles but kinda just blends into pleasant background music

A pet shop boys albums that deserves to be on the list, not really my personal taste but can respect this is a good album.

Was a fan of the libertines when I was a teenager, proably one of the best U.K. bands from the 00’s Indie scene until the Arctic Monkeys came along. So this is rating has a personal bias to it, a soild 4 star album in my eyes.

As a side note I seen everyone is jumping on the Wikipedia sentence that in 2005 this was voted the 3rd most overrated album of all time. Thought it was worst sharing the results of that poll here of that poll for context:

1 Nirvana - Nevermind
2 Coldplay - X&Y
3 The Libertines - The Libertines
4 Oasis - Definitely Maybe
5 U2 - Joshua Tree
6 Radiohead - OK Computer
7 The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
8 The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
9 Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
10 The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

Apart from X&Y I’d say that list is full of great albums, overrated maybe, but still great none of the less.

Was surprised to see one M.I.A album on the list, never mind two. Meh not surprised if this is removed in later iterations of the book.

Classic early Psychedelic album, up their with the best of the 60’s has its flaws but more than deserves to be on the list.

This is a great album deserves to be on the list and i like smashing pumpkins, but Jesus it’s just too long for me, hence I prefer Siamese Dream.

This album ticks a lot of boxes, sounds way ahead of it’s time, hence clearly very influential on the bedroom pop we hear in the 2020’s, good concept themes, and a comparison to a Rolling Stones classic album. More than deserving of being on the list.

Sighed when I seen an alt country album from 2001, but pleasantly surprised with this one. Deserves to be on the list, but just not enough to add to my personal rotation

Classic album of high quality deserves to be on the list, but I personally prefer Peter Gabriel III, this one just a verge too pop for my personal taste so it just misses out on the full marks

Great comeback album from the shoegaze kings. Really enjoy this album, but it just isn’t as good or as important as loveless. Hence only 4 not 5 stars

Such a meh album, and how I felt when I seen a simply red album this morning. Nothing offensive but such dull music I don’t know why it deserves to be on the list.

Iv not listened to much Ice T apart from his big hits. Enjoyed this more than I was expecting but my bar was pretty low, some of the beats are a bit date vs modern hip hop. Somewhere between a 2 and 3,