Out of competition.

Great debut album, wonderful songs, from the beginning one highlight after anogher with "Cracking", "Freeze Tag" and Marlene On The Wall". Maybe not the whole album can hold the tension from the first three tracks, but in the end there is another banger, my absolutely favourite song of the album with "Knight Moves", just pay your attention to the beautiful interplay between voice and flute. In particular the fingerpicking acoustic guitar is a perfect match ... read more

The Cult's second studio album is a nice post-punk album/hard rock one and contents some successful singles with "Rain", "Revolution" and "She Sells Sanctuary". For my taste whereas "Brother Wolf, Sister Moon" and "Phoenix" are the most audilicious songs of Love.

Trouble Down South is a great song but everything else on the album doesn't catch me the same way. In general Fear and Whiskey is a pretty good alt-country / folk rock album with residuals of post-punk,

Scritti Politti's second studio album Cupid & Psyche 85 sounds a bit like a failed cooperation between Prince and Michael Jackson.

Some incredible covers with Neil Daimond's "Solitary Man", U2's "One", Palace's (aka Will Oldham aka Bonnie Prince Billy) "I See a Darkness" or Nick Cave's "The Mercy Seat" followed by some Cash's earlier songs and a traditional results in an irresistable country-like album. Maybe American Recording III was something like a legacy because it was the second last album which was published before Johnny Cash's death, recorded ... read more

just overwhelming

Glenn Gould's 1955 interpration of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations was a musical paradigm and a revolution for the performance of late baroque music, because Gould broke some unwritten rules and added an own signature to Bach's composition. 26 years later he recorded the Goldberg Variations again, a bit slower and less energetic. For my taste I prefer the interpretion of the 22 years young Canadian piano wizard but the later one is almost a masterpiece.

I like Joni Mitchell very much but the overboarded arrangement on her seventeenth album doesn't really fit my taste. Fortunately her overwhelming voice remains and outshines the orchestra - and the album closes and appeases with the title song, one of the best songs ever, which is above the orchestral arrangement and beside any question.

The second installment of Musick to Play in the Dark is certainly not the best album of Coil, but alone the incredible track "Ether" is worth to wish this album as a part of my collection.

Sade Adu's fifth album (and the first after eight years) beads eleven smooth songs like a string of pearls, not too sophisticated and not too trivial to be a true listening pleasure.

Eminem's "The Marshal Matters LP" contents the hip hop hymns "Stan", "The Way I Am" or "The Real Slim Shady" and in adition some personal favourites of mine with "Kim" and "Amityville". Not everything on this album can touch me like the above mentioned tracks but all in all it's a remarkable hip hop album.

The second las albums of Talk Talk with the title Spirit of Eden is an unprecedent increasement of a band's musical development from the earlier radio friendly pop rock to sophisticated and subtle post-rock, continued and crowned by there final album The Laughing Stock in 1991. Already the 1988 album is one of the best albums of the year and a treasure in my vinyl collection
But I have to note an oddity in addition: It's my second review where I critic a critic's rating and ... read more

Yellow, Spies, Sparks, Shiver, I like this songs so much, in addition a great debut album almost without unnecessary fillers, therefore 90/100 including kinda personal nostalgia.

The musical legacy of Mac Miller remains overwhelming and contents a great deal of surprises. What a pleasure to listen to this in early 2025 posthum published album of this brilliant artist. R.I.P. Mac and thanks for your music.

At least I like the debut album of this excellent artist.

He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms… by the Canadian formation A Silver Mt. Zion is an overwhelming post-rock experience and therefore one of the best debut albums ever, though it is not really a debut because the members Sophie Trudeau, Thierry Amarand and Efrim Menuck had made experiences with another band, in particular GYBE, before. In addition it's remarkable that the album was recorded for Efrim's that time late dog Wanda. ... read more

Excellent album from the Brazilian band Azymuth with a stunning blend of South-American rhythms and jazz. The 2-CD version published by Far Out Recordings is worthy alone with the first two tracks "Melô dos Dois Bicudos" and "Wait For My Turn" and therefore absolutely to prefer, though not available on vinyl.

Paul Simon's fourth solo album after the split-up of Simon & Garfunkle provides the first collaboration between the two artist with the second track "My Little Town". There are more remarkable songs on "Still Crazy After All These Years" as the title song, the overwhelming and maybe one of the best Simon songs ever "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover", the jazzy-lively duet with Phoebe Snow accomponied by The Jessy Dixon Singers "Gone At Last". ... read more

Thirty-five minutes finest mid 70th art rock, with ELO's fifth longplayer Jeff Lynne and his bandmates literally "Face(d) the Music" and provided eight more pleasantly melodic but even subtle arranged and produced songs. In particular the string arrangements are remarkable beside the guitar driven tracks such as the opener "Fire on High" or "Poker", where the guitar riff at minute 1:15 / 1:50 / 2:59 makes me think of Led Zeppelins "Kashmir". My top ... read more