Short and Sweet Classic Album Reviews

Well written, well performed and well bored, frankly. 4/10.

What should have been a passing fad that quickly dated has instead become a landmark. Remarkable. 10/10.

Maybe not their most original effort, but if you don't find yourself tapping your foot at this (at least!) then perhaps you have no pulse. 8/10.

Charming period of REM, captured before fame but just as they hit their purple patch. 9/10.

Mr E. briefly finds world outside of himself and shines because of it. 8/10.

The album that should have made Sweet an international mega-star, but somehow didn't. 10/10.

A man simultaneously at the top of his game and plumbing the depths of mediocrity. 7/10.

Like spending an hour down the pub with your quasi-alcoholic favourite uncle. 9/10.

Nobody else could say "Fuck You" with such idiosyncratic style. 10/10.

A great personal achievement true, and it's okay as jazz goes, but no great musical achievement. 7/10.

Country finds itself without credible music of its own, so invents a new genre, and this is the pinnacle of that. 10/10.

The perfect soundtrack to sorrow and loneliness and the hope of recovery. 8/10.

Wild, stylish and so much fucking fun! 8/10.

Cutesy pop fun that nearly improves on the heavenly Simon & Garfunkle - nice! 8/10.

Some consolation for those unlucky enough to have missed R.E.M. performing live. 7/10.

Post drug haze special has little else to stake itself to. 4/10.

Pixies offshoot nearly, but doesn't quite eclipse the original. 6/10.

Scrappy mess of a concept but still something special here. 8/10.

The high water mark for Oasis and possibly Britpop as a whole. 8/10.

Finally, a live album that makes your skin tingle as if you were actually there. 8/10.

Only possible explanation: karmic balance. 1/10.

If ever this man gets put forward for Sainthood, this will be exhibit number one. 10/10.

I might have liked this better if it hadn't have been force fed to me by my always stoned room-mate. 6/10.

Sunrise effort after release from mental institution points to greater things to come. 7/10.

Young's life goes to shit and he's only to happy to let you know all about it. 7/10.

Thieves every major genre of the time and gets away with it too. 8/10.

Funny, contentious and riddled with drug references like train tracks along a vein. 9/10.

A template for practically all indie and alternative music that followed in the next 20 years. 9/10.

Audibly epicurean pop that caresses the ear with sensuality. 9/10.

Do the asinine interludes add to or detract from this? I just can't decide. 5/10.

Simultaneously stands head and shoulders above contemporaneous albums and yet lacks a vital something also. 6/10.

Just like your favourite pair of slippers, in a nice way. 8/10.

Tamer than previous aural assaults and all the better for it. 8/10.

From here it was clear two stars were born, one to become an asshole, the other a legend. 7/10.

Faltering teen dream is hoisted back on the rails and begins ascendency. 7/10.

A cultured trip up Chris Martin's arse. 6/10.

Indifferent, hum drum attempt to recapture earlier sparkle. 5/10.

Fighting the dying of the light with some delightful spunk. 7/10.

Sometimes it's really worth sorting through other people's rubbish. 8/10.

More magnificent music in two sweet volumes than most can carry off in a career. 9/10.

Sometimes forgettable and then shockingly stupefying at the end - curious. 7/10.

Super-stardom carefully avoided and with such class. 9/10.

Cave takes a barely believable step further upwards towards deserving legend status. 10/10.

Old fashioned songs given supernatural power from Cave's charisma. 9/10.

If only the song titles had shown the same inspiration as the song content! 7/10.

In the transition from raw sound to musicianship, some power was lost but much more gained. 6/10.

Kick your motherfucking genre whores out!

Epoch defining and just magical in places. 9/10.

Come on guys, stop running away from what you're good at! 5/10.

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