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...'like the Beatles, only with bad complexions and no girlfriends'.
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If you like him, you’ll love this.
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The Dame's return-to-form soundtrack to Hanif Kreishi's novel-turned-TV series is...
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Still the best album the band never made...
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Madchester as we know it was born.
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Madchester's high water mark.
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...there was no other British group making music quite like this in 1985.
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Still as unbowed and unwashed as ever...
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Each track indeed bounces and sways with great alacrity.
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An album about political confusion in the USA from the former professor of Film and...
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In Camera can be seen as something of a minor triumph, a perfect complement to the...
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Giant Steps is still “dripping with poise, attitude and melody.”
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Amid the synth brass and shocking machines, however, the quality of his writing and...
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The best thing about the music here is that these are living and breathing songs not...
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These 17 tracks offer everything pop should – excitement, thrills and some cracking...
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Cardiff's most famous post-punk band reissued in tasty expanded form...
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Now approaching their 30s(!), Tim Wheeler and co's last proper album is true to form.
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Scouse art noise terrorists return with an oblique but rewarding sixth album...
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...Sounds very much of the now, something that a Macca album hasn't done in a while.
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A murky, dark and chilly eighth studio set from the Stones.
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A landmark album that stands up to repeated scrutiny and overexposure.
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The band's final album with Gabriel is a conceptual masterpiece...
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The spirit of experimentation is never far away – Eno’s stamp is all over the record.
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...the group was unafraid to go disco, go art, or just play fine, fine pop.
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The Smiths remains an incredible statement of intent.
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Simply put, the greatest Smiths album.
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Regardless of what it all became, we still have this exemplary record.
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...scintillating post-modernism, a blazing trail of the future and the past.
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...finally demonstrated David Bowie's enormous potential to the listening public
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...it sounds like it’s been recorded in a garage this very morning.
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Although it is somewhat overlooked today, Fear demands repeated listening.
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...this captures the group at their fleeting best...
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...the album that put Led Zeppelin into homes around the world...
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An album of incredible depth and texture.
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...the last of the classic-period Queen albums...
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Established the Stones as 'The Greatest Rock'n'Roll Band in the World'.
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Rubber Soul demonstrates how The Beatles were beginning to exploit the recording studio.
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Perhaps The Beatles’ most ambitious studio album.
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A marvellous set-piece finale for the group.
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The arrangements are stunning throughout...
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...holds together very well, adding further to the mystery of the legend of Pink Floyd.
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Marks Syd Barrett's final recordings and the birth of their 'space rock' direction.
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Everything about Meddle is allowed to breathe and grow.
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...there are some very beautiful tunes nestling amid the pomp...
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'Young Americans' has always occupied a troublesome niche in David Bowie’s catalogue...
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...It's rather like a well-made gateau; perfect at the right time of the day, but too...
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Magazine were an absolute gift for lovers of cerebral pop.
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The Fall are the last true perpetrators of the post-punk spirit. It is only you that...
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The uneasy balladeer, the spectral presence – Peter Hammill is at his early best on...
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Momentarily, Heaven 17 were the coolest band on the planet...
