| 4.5 superb |
| Anouk Sad Singalong Songs |
| Anouk is one of those rare artists that can change her style whenever she wants, but still manages to release something superb. Why people still consider her a rock chick is beyond me, as her last 3 albums are not rock at all. But this one is as far away from rock as possible for a pop album. It consists of 10 symphonic songs. And yes: 'Birds', her contribution to this years Eurovision Songcontest, is there as well. For all you disbelievers: sometimes this contest does yield some very beautiful songs. This is by far the best thing the contest has given us this millenium. Check out this great album! |
| Anouk Symphonica in rosso |
| The concert itself was great. Anouk and her 'regular' swedish co-writers did a great job in choosing the songs and arranging them for the inclusion of the orchestra. The rating would have been a 5, if only the feeling I got being at the concert would have translated completely in the recordings. Unfortunately for instance the highlight of the concert (For bitter or worse) loses a bit of impact due to the lack of depth in the recording, especially when the orchestra is in full war mode. Stil, a superb album. |
| Blur Parklife |
| Blur The Best Of (Special Edition) |
| David Bowie The Platinum Collection |
| Bowie rules and this compilation shows why. Great 3-disk overview of his work until ca. the mid 80's. |
| Depeche Mode Ultra |
| This album deserves far more credit than it gets. As stated by others, it is nothing short of a miracle that the album is created anyway, since they only wanted to try and record a couple of songs for a greatest hits/singles compilation. Every time I listen to it (which is quite often and far more than a lot of other DM-albums) it still moves me. Highlights are Home (of course), It's no good, Barrel of a gun and Insight. |
| Depeche Mode The Singles 86–98 |
| From the three singles from Black Celebration to the four from the highly underrated Ultra and the new 'Only when I loose myself', it contains a constant string of fantastic songs, which represent the commercial and (according to many) artistical highlight years of DM. |
| Depeche Mode Remixes 2: 81-11 |
| Love, love, LOVE most of the remixes. The big difference from Remixes 1 is the fact that this 3 cd-box contains 14 new remixes, including remixes from former members Alan Wilder and Vince Clark. |
| Depeche Mode Delta Machine |
| Two days on and I have to up the rating to 4.5. This is one superb album. I'm even starting to get my grips on 'Soft Touch/Raw Nerve'. |
| Depeche Mode Enjoy the Silence |
| dEUS In a Bar, Under the Sea |
| Einsturzende Neubauten Strategies Against Architecture III |
| The EN-album I keep getting back to, coming from the area I liked them best. This compilation contains some of their best songs like 'Die Interimsliebenden', live/alternative versions (Blume, French version) and soundscapes like Installation Nr. 1. |
| George Michael Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael |
| George Michael Listen Without Prejudice |
| I first heard this classic GM-album when I was in college and couldn't stand him. But from the moment the album was played by a fellow student, it blew me away. I had to have it myself. A couple of months later I bought it, being my first ever cd. George finds his true form combining great ballads and some up tempo songs, using grand orchestration. |
| Goldfrapp Tales Of Us |
| After giving it more time I have to up the rating. This is as supers as Felt Mountain, if not better. |
| Mansun Six |
| Maria Mena Viktoria |
| Maria rules, that's all I can say. Even if only for the excellent duet Habits, you should get this album if you're into female vocalists that need some profound listening before you get it. Don't be fooled by the first two songs, though. They can appear somewhat lightweighted at first, but from song 3 Maria hits you in the face hard. |
| Martin Gore Counterfeit (EP) |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love |
| Prince Sign o' the Times |
| Recoil Selected (Limited Edition) |
| Great collection with the choices from Alan Wilder himself. Special attention should be given to disc 2, which contains a coherent set of remixes from Recoil. It shows that Recoil is very much a vehicle for soundscapes, much more that it is a song driven project. |
| Recoil Bloodline |
| The Recoil album I still listen too over and over again, allthough it is a bit too divers (ranging from Bukka White to Moby, via Toni Halliday from Curve). |
| Recoil Unsound Methods |
| Spoken word meets doomy soundscapes. Superb album from the former musical wizard of Depeche Mode. |
| Suede Dog Man Star |
| Sugababes Catfights and spotlights |
| Absolutely superb album with the best song they ever recorded (Can we call a truce). The only reason it is not excellent is the bonus track 'Like a star', which is horrible. |
| Taylor Swift 1989 |
| More listening sessions in, I'm even more impressed. So I had to add an extra 0.5. |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The Smiths Singles |
| This compilation shows why The Smiths are (were) so critically acclaimed. Every song is good or better than good. |
| Urban Dance Squad Mental Floss for the Globe |
| Will Young Let It Go |
| The big fourth album, which can stand the comparison with the fourth albums from George Michael (Older) and Pet Shop Boys (Behaviour). Mostly minor key songs about lost love. Superb! |
| Will Young 85% proof |
| Months after its release I still very frequently play the album. This one is Will in true great form. Love it. |
| 4.0 excellent |
| Alison Moyet Hoodoo |
| Alison finds her true form on this album. Songs like My Right A.R.M., This House and Wishing You Were Here still give me shivers. And the more upbeat songs aren't far behind. |
| Anouk For Bitter or Worse |
| Anouk To Get Her Together |
| Once again Anouk deals with her life situations in her songs. And once again she takes a step away from her rock chick phase that I hated. This album shows further progress in her singing as well as the instrumentation she uses. Excellent album. |
| Arvo Part Te Deum |
| Love this one. If you're a classical singer, make sure you at least once get to sing something by this composer. It is a treat. |
| Basement Jaxx Remedy |
| Blur The Best Of |
| Blur 13 |
| Blur Midlife: A Beginner's Guide To Blur |
| Blur Blur 21 |
| Jeez, I can't believe I rated it the lowest of all raters up until now. It is an excellent box set, but it all seems a bit to much. Thank God for Spotify and random play. That's the only way I seem to be able to get a good sample of the album each time I want me some Blur . |
| Brad Shame |
| Brad Interiors |
| David Bowie Bowie at the Beeb |
| Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion |
| Depeche Mode 101 |
| Depeche Mode The Singles 81→85 |
| Depeche Mode Remixes 81–04 |
| Depeche Mode Spirit |
| dEUS The Ideal Crash |
| Eels Beautiful Freak |
| Eels Electro-Shock Blues |
| Einsturzende Neubauten Tabula Rasa |
| One of the best albums by EN. Esspecially the first five songs of the album kick so much ass. |
| Erasure Chorus |
| George Michael Older |
| Goldfrapp Felt Mountain |
| Goldfrapp Silver Eye |
| Ilse DeLange The Great Escape |
| The country is gone and all of a sudden she appeals to my taste. Listen to beautiful songs like 'The great escape' and 'Don't you let go of me' and be amazed. |
| Ilse DeLange Incredible |
| A logical next step after the transition she made on album 'The great escape'. Ilse really finds her form on this album. Lots of great songs, with the centerpiece 'Adrift' as the absolute highlight. |
| Justin Hurwitz La La Land OST |
| Kyteman The Kyteman Orchestra |
| Living Colour Stain |
| Madonna Ray Of Light |
| Madonna Something to Remember |
| Mansun Attack of the Grey Lantern |
| Maria Mena Weapon In Mind |
| Another excellent Maria Mena output. I don't care for 'You make me feel good' and 'Fuck you' is getting a bit tiresome, but the rest is still highly enjoyable. |
| Maria Mena Growing pains |
| Once again a great album from Maria. The hard beats from her last album Weapon In Mind are tuned down a bit, making this album a more natural transition between Weapon In Mind and its predecessor Viktoria. Highlights are the gospel infused opener Good God, Leaving You and Confess.rWarning: this is a breakup album, so if you're not into those themes, please avoid this one. |
| Martin Gore Counterfeit² |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Even if only for the more than nine minutes that 'So What' gives you, this album deserves the rating 'Excelent'. |
| Paradise Lost One Second |
| Pearl Jam Vs. |
| Pet Shop Boys Behaviour |
| Pet Shop Boys Fundamental |
| Pet Shop Boys Discography: The Complete Singles Collection |
| Peter Gabriel Secret World Live |
| PJ Harvey Rid of Me |
| PJ Harvey Is This Desire? |
| Portishead Portishead |
| Portishead Roseland NYC Live |
| Primal Scream XTRMNTR |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Recoil Liquid |
| Soul II Soul Club Classics Vol. One |
| Spice Girls Greatest Hits |
| Suede Sci-Fi Lullabies |
| Suede The Best Of Suede |
| Sugababes Taller In More Ways |
| Sugababes Overloaded: The Singles Collection |
| Somehow the Sugababes are able to produce a string of great singles, without falling into the trap of repeating themselves or sounding to modern to be out within 6 months. If only they could have continued this line after the amazing Catfights & Spotlights. |
| Take That The Circus |
| The Beatles 1967 – 1970 |
| The Carpenters Christmas Collection |
| It sounds a lot like a Disney medley, but the lucious arrangements combined with great choir-like vocals and the heavenly voice of Karen Carpenter make this one of the best Christmas albums of all time.rThis release contains both Carpenters Christmas albums. Disc 1 contains more of the 'traditional' Christmas songs, whereas disc 2 is more of a concept album containing lots of classical influences combined with some jazz arrangements. |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
| The Cure Staring at the Sea |
| The Prodigy Music For The Jilted Generation |
| Trijntje Oosterhuis Wrecks We Adore |
| Trijntje Oosterhuis Walk along |
| Trijntje worked with Anouk again on this album. The songs themselves feel more live and hint more towards the soul roots of Trijntje (or Traincha as she's known in foreign countries) than on Wrecks we adore. This album deserves a lot of followers, because of the songs which Anouk wrote and the vocal qualities of Trijntje. Don't care for the title track though, which was the Dutch submission for the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. |
| Troye Sivan Bloom |
| Too bad the album is so short, only 10 songs at a length of 34 minutes. But this is a big step up after the already great Blue Neighborhood. |
| UB40 Rat In The Kitchen |
| Waylon After all |
| A Dutch singer on the infamous Motown, that must be good. You know what: it's more than good, it's excellent. Modern soul with an old-fashioned instrumentation. |
| Will Young Echoes |
| Will reinvents himself with the help of Richard X. Superb dance beats with the magnificent voice of Will. |
| Will Young The Hits |
| Twelve singles and two new songs, which give an excellent overview of Will's single-career up until 2009. Use it to get familiar with his style and voice and then check out his albums. |
| Yazoo Upstairs at Eric's |
| Yazoo In Your Room |
| 3.5 great |
| a-ha Scoundrel Days |
| a-ha Stay on These Roads |
| a-ha Headlines and Deadlines: The Hits of a-ha |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Alison Moyet Raindancing |
| Her second coming after Yazoo split up. Great album from a great vocalist. |
| Anouk Who's Your Momma |
| Arcadia So Red the Rose |
| How come that three members of Duran Duran are able to make a better album than the full band ever did? This album is consistant in song structure and sound and is quite atmospheric. To bad they only made one album. |
| Blur Blur |
| Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish |
| Blur The Great Escape |
| Dave Gahan Hourglass |
| Agree with everything Kaleid said in the review. This one is far better that Paper Monsters and shows the growth of Dave as a writer (allthough he co-writes the songs with Andrew Philpott and Christian Eigner) and in his sense of direction. I'm not that big on Deeper and Deeper, though. |
| David Bowie No Plan |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Depeche Mode Playing The Angel |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses |
| Depeche Mode Some Great Reward |
| Depeche Mode A Broken Frame |
| The review from analoguecrazy4 is spot on. Two weak songs and a lot of foresight in what was to come. Great album and one I put on quite regularly. |
| Depeche Mode Construction Time Again |
| Depeche Mode The Best Of - Volume I |
| Depeche Mode Sounds Of The Universe |
| Depeche Mode Catching Up with Depeche Mode |
| Depeche Mode Touring the Angel: Live in Milan |
| Depeche Mode Live in Berlin |
| dEUS Worst Case Scenario |
| dEUS Vantage Point |
| Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) |
| Forgot about this one. Great album with mellow flows and ditto sounds. |
| Duran Duran Notorious |
| Duran Duran Big Thing |
| Duran Duran Decade: Greatest Hits |
| Editors In This Light and On This Evening |
| Einsturzende Neubauten Halber Mensch |
| Einsturzende Neubauten Silence is Sexy |
| Erasure I Say I Say I Say |
| Erasure Wild! |
| Faith No More King For A Day... Fool For A Lifetime |
| Faith No More Who Cares a Lot? |
| Frankie Goes To Hollywood Liverpool |
| Strange to see myself give a higher point for Liverpool than for WTTP, but this album deserves more praise. The whole of the album is far more consistant than WTTP and contains some hidden gems like Lunar Bay and Kill The Pain. |
| George Michael Faith |
| George Michael Twenty Five |
| Hooverphonic Blue Wonder Power Milk |
| Kylie Minogue X |
| Kylie Minogue Aphrodite Les Folies - Live in London |
| Whether you like her or hate her, you must admit this is the thing she does best. I really like the rock version of Can't Get You Out of My Head. |
| Leftfield Leftism |
| Madonna The Immaculate Collection |
| Madonna Erotica |
| Madonna GHV2 |
| Maria Mena Apparently Unaffected |
| Maria Mena Cause and Effect |
| Maria goes from pop to something extra without losing the good pop songs. Excellent album. |
| Martin Gore MG |
| Being a long time fan of the instrumentals MG penned for DM (love all the acronyms), I have been a bit disappointed with the instrumentals from the last couple of DM-albums. And now Martin comes up with an entire instrumentals album. I must say the first few listenening sessions make me hopeful I will grow into the album, allthough I don't have an instant feeling of 'classic' with any of the songs. Perhaps hearing Brink more will change that. |
| Matt Cardle Time to Be Alive |
| Don't know why exactly, but this album is growing on me big time. |
| Melanie C Northern Star |
| Melanie C Reason |
| Melanie C Beautiful Intentions |
| Melanie C The Sea |
| Once again Mel gives us a change in her musical direction, and gets away with it. This album contains a lot of great songs and has more diversity than her previous record This Time. To bad for the few songs (i.e. (One on One) that don't do it for me, though. |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken |
| Nine Inch Nails Fixed |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks |
| Nitzer Ebb Body of work |
| A great collection of singles (cd 1) and remixes (cd 2) of one of the best EBM bands that came from the 80's. |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy |
| Pearl Jam rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003) |
| Pet Shop Boys Please |
| Pet Shop Boys Very |
| Pet Shop Boys Actually |
| Pet Shop Boys Introspective |
| Pet Shop Boys Concrete |
| Pet Shop Boys Relentless |
| Pet Shop Boys Pop Art Mix |
| The Pop and Art discs contain a rich cross-section of their singles up until 2003. Too bad the Mix disc is not that impressive. |
| Pet Shop Boys Alternative |
| Peter Gabriel So |
| Peter Gabriel Us |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea |
| PJ Harvey Dry |
| Placebo Without You I'm Nothing |
| Placebo Once More with Feeling |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Portishead Third |
| Prince Parade |
| Prince Love Symbol Album |
| Prince Lovesexy |
| Prince Diamonds & Pearls |
| Prince The Hits/The B-Sides |
| Propellerheads Decksandrumsandrockandroll |
| Pulp Different Class |
| Recoil subHuman |
| Recoil 1+2 |
| Recoil Hydrology |
| Sam Smith The Thrill of It All |
| Satchel EDC |
| Satchel Family |
| Scritti Politti Cupid & Psyche 85 |
| Soulwax Much Against Everyone's Advice |
| Spice Girls Forever |
| Stromae Racine Carrée |
| Even if only for Formidable, people should try this album out. |
| Suede Suede |
| Suede Head Music |
| Much more electronics than on their previous albums, which makes a big plus. |
| Sugababes Angels with Dirty Faces |
| Sugababes One Touch |
| Even when you should only consider the fantastic single Overload, this album is great. Remember the original members of the Sugababes were only 15 and 16 back then and did contribute to the songs already. Plus: they could actually sing and harmonize. |
| Sugababes Three |
| Great continuation of the succes the Sugababes had with Angels with dirty faces. The combination of up-tempo songs and ballads (Maya is fantastic) works very well. Somehow the Sugababes always seem to be able to bring something extra to the term girl-band and delivering albums and singles the have something special to them. |
| Take That Progressed |
| How come the extra EP for Progress is that much better than the cd? Imho, they brought back the best things about Wonderful World and The Circus to a degree, being the harmonies and the good songs. |
| Take That Wonderland |
| Taylor Swift Reputation |
| Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog |
| The Common Linnets The Common Linnets |
| The Common Linnets II |
| The Cure Greatest Hits |
| The Cure Paris |
| The Cure Mixed Up |
| The Cure Show |
| Trijntje Oosterhuis We’ve Only Just Begun |
| Troye Sivan Blue Neighborhood |
| UB40 Labour of Love |
| UB40 Signing Off |
| UB40 UB44 |
| UB40 Geffery Morgan |
| Underworld Second Toughest in the Infants |
| Various Artists For The Masses |
| Will Young Friday's Child |
| Will Young Keep On |
| Will finds his form on this album. Another transition album, after his first change from Pop Idol winner to the second album 'Friday's Child'. |
| Yazoo You and Me Both |
