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