| 4.5 superb |
| Al Jarreau Breakin' Away |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill |
| Alexander O'Neal Hearsay |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks: Music from the Limited Event Series |
| Beck Sea Change |
| Big Brother And The Holding Company Cheap Thrills |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks |
| Bobby Brown Don't Be Cruel |
| Carole King Tapestry |
| Chaka Khan I Feel For You |
| Chuckii Booker Niice 'n Wiild |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Disclosure Settle |
| Eels Beautiful Freak |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
| Funkadelic Funkadelic |
| George Benson In Your Eyes |
| George Michael Listen Without Prejudice |
| Gomez Bring It On |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach |
| Guy Guy |
| Isaac Hayes Hot Buttered Soul |
| Isaac Hayes Black Moses |
| Isaac Hayes Shaft |
| Janet Jackson Janet. |
| Janet Jackson Control |
| Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys |
| John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band |
| Justice † |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kanye West Yeezus |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Lorde Melodrama |
| Madonna Like a Prayer |
| Madonna Celebration |
| Marvin Gaye In the Groove |
| Marvin Gaye I Want You |
| Michael Jackson Dangerous |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York (DVD) |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below |
| OutKast Stankonia |
| Paul McCartney Tug of War |
| Prince 1999 |
| Prince Parade |
| Prince Love Symbol Album |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Santana Santana |
| Sigrid Sucker Punch |
| Sly and The Family Stone Stand! |
| Sly and The Family Stone Dance To The Music |
| Sly and The Family Stone There's A Riot Goin' On |
| After listening to the album again I think my initial rating (2.5) was harsh. I still don't think it is as good as the other Sly albums, a lot of the songs are encased with drugged up, political themes and they lose the fun displayed on the earlier albums, even 'stand!' had moments of optomism but this is full on apocalyptic funk. Encased in these social themes are some excellent songs, 'Luv 'n' Haight is funky genius, 'Family Affair' is the only song that appears fully upbeat and 'You Caught Me Smilin'' is the only personal song in the overall universal theme of the album. This is still a great album, but a classic? Maybe, there is something I'm just not hearing. |
| Sly and The Family Stone Fresh |
| Small Faces Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake |
| This album is a strange mix of a Cockney Knees Up and psychedelic fantasy. The first side contains mostly Cockney numbers, however the first song (the title track) is a great psychedelic instrumental, 'Rene' and 'Lazy Sunday' are sing a long numbers that initally appear annoying but turn out to be too catchy to ignore. The 2nd side tells the story of 'Happiness Stan' a surreal story steeped with strange imagery. Although, the album is very light hearted, 'Mad John' is a dark tale of an outsider not fitting in. The last track returns to the optomistic tone ('Happy Days Toy Town'). The album doesn't quite live up to American psychedelia but is still an interesting concept. |
| Solange A Seat at the Table |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Stanley Clarke School Days |
| Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy |
| Stevie Wonder Innervisions |
| Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life |
| Stevie Wonder Music of My Mind |
| Stevie Wonder Fulfillingness' First Finale |
| Sting Bring on the Night |
| The Band The Band |
| The Beach Boys The Smile Sessions |
| The Beach Boys Smiley Smile |
| The Beatles Help! |
| The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 2 |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Crazy World of Arthur Brown The Crazy World of Arthur Brown |
| The Isley Brothers 3+3 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced |
| The Mothers of Invention Freak Out! |
| The Mothers of Invention Over-Nite Sensation |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend |
| Vampire Weekend Contra |
| Vampire Weekend Father Of The Bride |
| Van Hunt What Were You Hoping For? |
| Van Morrison Astral Weeks |
| Wings Band on the Run |
| 4.0 excellent |
| Aaliyah Aaliyah |
| Al Jarreau We Got By |
| AlunaGeorge Body Music |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me |
| Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino |
| Azealia Banks 1991 |
| Basement Jaxx The Singles |
| Beck Mellow Gold |
| Beck Mutations |
| Beck Guero |
| Bee Gees Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack |
| Beyonce 4 |
| Beyonce Beyonce |
| Beyonce Homecoming |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot |
| Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? |
| Bjork Debut |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde |
| Bruno Mars 24K Magic |
| Calvin Harris Funk Wav Bounces, Vol. 1 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Safe As Milk |
| Cream Disraeli Gears |
| Curtis Mayfield Curtis |
| Curtis Mayfield Roots |
| D'Angelo Voodoo |
| D'Angelo Brown Sugar |
| D'Angelo Black Messiah |
| Diane Coffee My Friend Fish |
| Disclosure Caracal |
| Electric Six Fire |
| Erykah Badu Mama's Gun |
| Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh |
| Father John Misty Pure Comedy |
| Father John Misty God's Favorite Customer |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up |
| Fleetwood Mac Tusk |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats |
| Frank Zappa Lumpy Gravy |
| Funkadelic Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain |
| Funkadelic Standing on the Verge of Getting It On |
| Funkadelic Let's Take It to the Stage |
| George Harrison Dark Horse |
| George Harrison Brainwashed |
| George Michael Faith |
| George Michael Older |
| Gil Scott-Heron Small Talk At 125th And Lennox |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere |
| Gomez Liquid Skin |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Gorillaz Humanz |
| Grace Jones Slave To The Rhythm |
| Guy The Future |
| Herbie Hancock Head Hunters |
| Iggy Pop Post Pop Depression |
| Jack White Boarding House Reach |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid |
| Janelle Monae The Electric Lady |
| Janelle Monae Dirty Computer |
| Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation 1814 |
| Jimi Hendrix First Rays of the New Rising Sun |
| John Lennon Double Fantasy |
| John Lennon Walls and Bridges |
| Justice Audio, Video, Disco |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo |
| Kendrick Lamar Overly Dedicated |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster |
| Lady Gaga Joanne |
| Led Zeppelin Presence |
| Lorde Pure Heroine |
| Luther Vandross Never Too Much |
Vandross' debut album isn't exactly the most experimental of post-disco albums, but it has all the
ingredients that make up a strong R&B release. Deep grooves and a heart wrenching, epic 7 minute
version of Dionne Warwick's 'A House Is Not A Home' make this a glitzy, conventional, yet
competent album perfect for the casual coffee bar listener. The world famous title track is the
clear stand out.
Track Picks: 'Never Too Much', 'Sugar and Spice (I Found Me A Girl)', 'Don't You Know That?',
'I've Been Working', 'She's a Super Lady', 'You Stopped Loving Me', 'A House Is Not a Home' |
| Madonna Like a Virgin |
| Madonna Music |
| Madonna Madonna |
| Mark Ronson Uptown Special |
| Marvin Gaye Moods of Marvin Gaye |
| Caught somewhere between the contraints of Motown and Gaye's desire to be a jazz singer, Moods Of Marvin Gaye is an interesting listen and is as varied as a generic motown album is likely to get. I find the jazz numbers brilliant, 'Night Life' and 'One For My Baby' are the pick of the bunch. The motown is great as well, 'I'll be Doggone' and 'Ain't That Peculiar' have boundless amounts of energy. This album isn't without its faults, mainly down to production constraints but it was still a great suprise. |
| Marvin Gaye Here, My Dear |
| Marvin Gaye In Our Lifetime |
| Marvin Gaye Trouble Man |
| Marvin Gaye Midnight Love |
| Maxwell Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular |
| MGMT Little Dark Age |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| OutKast Idlewild |
| Parliament Up for the Down Stroke |
| Paul McCartney McCartney |
| Paul McCartney Memory Almost Full |
| Paul McCartney Flaming Pie |
| Paul McCartney Driving Rain |
| Paul McCartney Twin Freaks |
| Paul McCartney Chaos and Creation in the Backyard |
| Peter Gabriel Melt |
| Prince Sign o' the Times |
| Prince Dirty Mind |
| Prince Controversy |
| Prince Around the World in a Day |
| Prince Graffiti Bridge |
| Prince Diamonds & Pearls |
| Prince The Black Album |
| Prince 3121 |
| Prince Plectrumelectrum |
| Prince HITnRUN Phase Two |
| Prince The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale |
| Quicksilver Messenger Service Happy Trails |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Raphael Saadiq The Way I See It |
| Raphael Saadiq Stone Rollin' |
| Return to Forever Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy |
| Rick Astley Whenever You Need Somebody |
| Rick Astley Hold Me in Your Arms |
| Rick James Come Get It! |
| Rihanna ANTI |
| Ringo Starr Ringo |
| Robbie Williams I've Been Expecting You |
| Robbie Williams Sing When You're Winning |
| Robbie Williams Escapology |
| Robert Cray Strong Persuader |
| Sam Sparro Sam Sparro |
| Scritti Politti Cupid & Psyche 85 |
| Sigrid Don't Kill My Vibe |
| Sleigh Bells Treats |
| Sly and The Family Stone A Whole New Thing |
| Solange Sol-Angel & The Hadley Street Dreams |
| Sparks Kimono My House |
| Steely Dan Pretzel Logic |
| Steely Dan The Royal Scam |
| Stevie Wonder Hotter Than July |
| Stevie Wonder Where I'm Coming From |
| Tame Impala Tame Impala |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker |
| Tame Impala Lonerism |
| Tame Impala Currents |
| The 1975 A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships |
| The Band Music from Big Pink |
| The Beach Boys Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) |
| The Beach Boys Wild Honey |
| The Beach Boys Friends |
| The Beach Boys 20/20 |
| The Beach Boys Surf's Up |
| The Beach Boys Sunflower |
| The Beatles Please Please Me |
| The Beatles Live At The BBC |
| The Beatles Anthology 3 |
| The Beatles Anthology 1 |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night |
| The Beatles Love |
| The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 1 |
| The Beatles On Air: Live at the BBC Volume 2 |
| The Carpenters Ticket to Ride |
| The Carpenters Carpenters |
| The Clash London Calling |
| The Darkness Permission to Land |
| The Doors Strange Days |
| The Doors Waiting for the Sun |
| The Jacksons Triumph |
| The Kinks Something Else by The Kinks |
| The Mothers of Invention Absolutely Free |
| The Mothers of Invention One Size Fits All |
| The Mothers of Invention Uncle Meat |
| The Mothers of Invention Burnt Weeny Sandwich |
| The Traveling Wilburys Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 |
| The Who Who's Next |
| The Zombies Odessey and Oracle |
| TLC CrazySexyCool |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City |
| Van Hunt On The Jungle Floor |
| Van Hunt The Fun Rises the Fun Sets |
| Wham! The Final |
| White Denim Corsicana Lemonade |
| Wings Wild Life |
| Wings Red Rose Speedway |
| 3.5 great |
| Aaliyah Age Ain't Nothing but a Number |
| Aaliyah One in a Million |
| AlunaGeorge I Remember |
| Atoms for Peace Amok |
| Azealia Banks Fantasea |
| Basement Jaxx Remedy |
| Beck The Information |
| Beck Morning Phase |
| Beck Colors |
| Beyonce Dangerously in Love |
| Beyonce B'Day |
| Beyonce Lemonade |
| Big Boi Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors |
| Bob Dylan Bob Dylan |
| Booker T. and The MGs Green Onions |
| Bootsy Collins Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band |
| Carole King Music |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" |
| Chuck Berry Chuck |
| Chuck Berry After School Session |
| Courtney Barnett sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit |
| Curtis Mayfield Back to the World |
| Curtis Mayfield Sweet Exorcist |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Dennis Wilson Pacific Ocean Blue |
| Diane Coffee Everybody's a Good Dog |
| Donald Fagen Morph the Cat |
| Donald Fagen The Nightfly |
| Donald Fagen Kamakiriad |
| Donald Fagen Sunken Condos |
| Donny Hathaway Everything Is Everything |
| Drake Views |
| Erykah Badu Baduizm |
| Erykah Badu Worldwide Underground |
| Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. One: 4th World War |
Easily the album which leans most heavily towards hip-hop in her discography, with jarring audio
fragments, bizarre interludes and themes of social desolation which all add up to create a
challenging, disturbing, avant-garde listen. Not quite the classic I was hoping for, its
disjointed and frustrating structure put it on a par with Worldwide Underground for me.
Track Picks: 'Amerykahn Promise', 'The Healer', 'Me', 'Soldier', 'The Cell', 'Twinkle', 'Master
Teacher', 'The Hump, 'Telephone', 'Honey' |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. |
| Frank Sinatra In The Wee Small Hours |
| Frank Zappa Sheik Yerbouti |
| Funkadelic Tales of Kidd Funkadelic |
| Funkadelic Hardcore Jollies |
| George Harrison Living in the Material World |
| George Harrison Extra Texture (Read All About It) |
| George Harrison Thirty Three & 1/3 |
| George Harrison Cloud Nine |
| George Harrison George Harrison |
| George Michael Patience |
| Gil Scott-Heron I'm New Here |
| Gil Scott-Heron Free Will |
| GOOD Music Cruel Summer |
| Gorillaz The Fall |
| Harry Styles Harry Styles |
| Jackie Lomax Is This What You Want? |
| Jamiroquai The Return of the Space Cowboy |
| Jamiroquai A Funk Odyssey |
| Janelle Monae Metropolis: The Chase Suite |
| Janet Jackson The Velvet Rope |
| Janet Jackson Unbreakable |
| Jeffrey Osborne Jeffrey Osborne |
| John Lennon Imagine |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience |
| Justin Timberlake Justified |
| Kanye West Graduation |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. |
| Kesha Rainbow |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts |
| Lady Gaga The Fame |
| Lady Gaga Born This Way |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Led Zeppelin Celebration Day |
| Lindsey Buckingham / Christine McVie Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie |
| Love Love |
| Madonna Confessions on a Dancefloor |
Combining disco camp and heavy-hitting contemporary dance beats, Confessions is very much a
postmodern escapade right from the get go. The first track, 'Hung Up' samples ABBA, but also sends
the middle of the road Swedish outfit pulsing into the present. The album doesn't get increasingly
darker as it goes along no matter how Madonna has tried to spin her artistry in press
releases.Unless you count a guy singing in Yemenite as somehow disturbing. Proof that you need
some form of ballad or easing of the pace to really create a classic, but the near-hour of
thumping dance tracks is a joyous, if slightly monotonous experience.
Track Picks: 'Hung Up', 'Get Together', 'Sorry', 'Future Lovers', 'I Love New York', 'Let It Will
Be', 'Forbidden Love', 'Jump', 'How High', 'Push', 'Like It Or Not' |
| Madonna True Blue |
| Madonna Who's That Girl |
| Marc Evans The Way You Love Me |
| Mark Ronson Version |
| Mark Ronson Late Night Feelings |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Maxwell Embrya |
| Maxwell blackSUMMERS'night |
| MGMT Congratulations |
| Michael Jackson HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I |
| Michael Jackson Xscape |
| Muddy Waters Electric Mud |
| N.E.R.D. In Search Of |
Their sometimes abominably clunky lyrics are hard to ignore, but this re-release with live
instrumentation rather than the synthesizer- heavy sounds of the early version give this
postmodern genre mash-up a real kick. Any derogatory comments towards women are clearly laced with
ironic ridiculousness ('Now girl kiss her boobs/And you kiss her boobs too'), but I do feel
sometimes perhaps Pharrell does go a little too far. A delightfully smooth ride if you manage to
avoid much of the vocal delivery.
Track Picks: 'Lapdance', 'Things Are Getting Better', 'Tape You', 'Run To The Sun', 'Baby Doll',
'Am I High', 'Bobby James','Stay Together' |
| N.E.R.D. Seeing Sounds |
| N.E.R.D. NO ONE EVER REALLY DIES |
| Nick Jonas Nick Jonas |
| Nick Jonas Last Year Was Complicated |
| OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik |
| OutKast ATLiens |
| OutKast Aquemini |
| Parliament Osmium |
| Paul McCartney McCartney II |
| Paul McCartney Thrillington |
| Paul McCartney Press to Play |
| Paul McCartney Flowers in the Dirt |
| Paul McCartney Run Devil Run |
| Paul McCartney Egypt Station |
| Peter Gabriel Us |
| Pharrell Williams G I R L |
| Prince Planet Earth |
| Prince Lovesexy |
| Prince Batman |
| Prince Chaos and Disorder |
| Prince Emancipation |
| Prince Art Official Age |
| Prince Originals |
| Quicksilver Messenger Service Quicksilver Messenger Service |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Robbie Williams Life Thru a Lens |
| Sade Diamond Life |
| Sam Sparro Quantum Physical Vol. 1 |
| Sly and The Family Stone Life |
| Smokey Robinson Smokey |
| Solange True |
| Solange When I Get Home |
| Soundtrack (Film) Black Panther The Album |
| Sparks Halfnelson |
| Sparks A Woofer In Tweeter's Clothing |
| Sparks Propaganda |
| Sparks Indiscreet |
| Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill |
| Steely Dan Gaucho |
| Stevie Wonder Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants |
| Stevie Wonder In Square Circle |
| Take That Progress |
| Talking Heads Once in a Lifetime - The Best Of... |
| The Band Stage Fright |
| The Beach Boys Today! |
| The Beach Boys Party! |
| The Beatles Anthology 2 |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale |
| The Beatles With the Beatles |
| The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk |
| The Carpenters Close to You |
| The Carpenters A Song For You |
| The Carters Everything Is Love |
| The Doors The Soft Parade |
| The Doors Morrison Hotel |
| The Jacksons The Jacksons |
| The Jacksons Destiny |
| The Jacksons Goin' Places |
| The Kinks Face to Face |
| The Rolling Stones Aftermath |
| The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones |
| The Temptations Psychedelic Shack |
| The Temptations All Directions |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| The White Stripes The White Stripes |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan |
| Tony! Toni! Tone! The Revival |
| Tony! Toni! Tone! Sons of Soul |
| Troye Sivan Bloom |
| Van Hunt Van Hunt |
| Whitney Houston Whitney Houston |
| Whitney Houston Whitney |
| Whitney Houston I'm Your Baby Tonight |
| Whitney Houston My Love Is Your Love |
| Wings Venus and Mars |
| Wings London Town |
| Wings Back to the Egg |
| Zayn Mind of Mine |
| Zebra Katz DRKLNG |
