Stained Class: The album where Judas Priest finally started to get recognized as being one of the best and most important figures in the metal scene. Although the two albums preceding it have received their own status over the years as being some of the best early metal albums, it was really this album where Priest became the legends they are known as today, when they made an instant classic that would influence many bands that would move the genre forward even more.

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Y'all say Bird Seed is Whitehouse at their best, but Buchenwald is clearly the superior record.

Sure, this high-pitched feedback isn't anything new or inventive for Whitehouse, with every single album they released prior to Buchenwald having pretty much the exact same sound, but I think that this is the peak of their early sound, at least at the moment. Bennett's vocals are at their most aggressive and their most unhinged, and the instrumentals are actually consistently engaging, and just as ... read more

Lou Reed loses his mind and creates the harsh noise genre, and I lose my mind and give it a positive review.

Okay, me giving this album a score like this was predictable. It's no secret that I've been noise's bitch for the past month or so, so it shouldn't be surprising that I ended up liking one of the most influential and famous albums in the genre, especially considering it was made by a guy who I've given two perfect scores to. But let's be real here, hating on Metal Machine Music is one ... read more

Sin After Sin is Judas Priest finally finding what worked for them. After an odd mixture of experimental, prog, and generic heavy metal in their debut, and a pretty straightforward hard rock album in Sad Wings, Priest finally find the sound that would work for them and make them the heavy metal legends they are today, and even though Sin After Sin itself isn't all that impressive in the grand scheme of things, there's still more than enough to make any rock and metal fan want to return to it ... read more

One of Dylan's masterpieces, Highway 61 Revisited is perhaps his most famous album. This record is home to so many great tracks, so many songs that are frankly some of the best songs ever written, and is definitely one that disappoints. This is one of those albums that has gained so much respect and appreciation over the years that before you hear it you may think it's overhyped, but then you actually listen to it and realize that it's just as amazingly written, beautiful and phenomenal as ... read more

Whitehouse's sophomore project is pretty much more of the same. If you've heard Birthdeath Experience, then there's pretty much no reason for you to hear Total Sex. It's pretty much just the same sound, only with a very small step towards the sound that they would use from Erector onwards, that being heavy vocal effects used to completely distort the vocals, making them extremely difficult to hear.

At first, the reverb used on Bennett's vocals seem to be like an awful decision. Although they ... read more

Lou Reed's fourth release is quite the divisive album. This is one of those albums that you either love or you hate, and it really doesn't help that it was released after the two albums that are widely regarded as his masterpieces. And honestly, coming off of the absolute gem that was Berlin, I was hoping for an album that was just as strong as that one, but even though this album doesn't even come close to reaching the heights of either Berlin or Transformer, it's still an enjoyable album in ... read more

Whitehouse's debut is certainly an odd one. It's clear that Bennett and Co. have the potential, and they have a clear objective. Even at these early stages, it's clear as day that they aspire to be one of the most unsettling and unrelentingly offensive music acts you could ever listen to, but at this point in their career they just don't know how to go about it. We know that they wouldn't perfect their sound until their third album, Erector, and compared to everything released after that ... read more

The Beach Boys return one final time, bringing back Brian Wilson as the producer, to have a good, proper farewell. And for the most part, they succeed.

Okay, this album isn't the most exciting, innovative or interesting album in The Beach Boys' extensive catalog, but it really doesn't need to be. It doesn't need to be an ambitious, groundbreaking, experimental masterpiece. With That's Why God Made The Radio, the band set out to make an album that uses their old pre-Pet Sounds experimental ... read more

The Beach Boys re-record a bunch of their classic songs with country singers taking over the lead vocals. If you wanted to hear Beach Boys songs with a more country sound and with vocalists that are much worse than The Beach Boys themselves, then maybe you will find some enjoyment out of this, but I don't see how anyone could have wanted this.

There are a decent handful of vocalists here that do genuinely bring a good performance, but for every Lorrie Morgan in Don't Worry Baby, you get an ... read more

Well, if you wanted to hear Mike Love rap, then this is the album for you. I don't know why you would want that, but the choice is there for you.

Y'know, this was my most anticipated Beach Boys album since Holland. I was really looking forward to hearing this disaster play out. Now that I've heard it, I feel like I'm going to puke from the cheese seeping out of this thing. I don't even think I need to elaborate much on what makes this album so bad. This is such a fall from grace for this band. ... read more

I'm probably one of the only people who would defend this album while also admitting this is one of the worst releases this band ever came out with.

Listen, I get why everyone despises this album, and I am honestly one of the many who see this as one of the absolute worst albums under The Beach Boys' name. But, I mean, it's just difficult to truly hate this album. It's just a glorified compilation album. There are only three original songs on here, granted all of which are horrendous, but the ... read more

The first album The Beach Boys released after the death of founding member Dennis Wilson leaves me thinking one thing - "They really should have quit when their founding member died."

Without Dennis, the group sounds lifeless. They sound like they're only doing this so that they can continue making money. They just replaced one of their most important members with a drum machine and continued their journey into the embarrassing synth pop group that they became in the '80s and '90s. ... read more

Bringing It All Back Home marks the point where Dylan went from being a pretty basic folk rock act with highly impressive lyrics to a lyrical genius with an amazing band backing him.

Honestly, I don't think this is his best work, or even one of his best works. Personally, I'd say that Freewheelin' is miles ahead of this both on a lyrical standpoint and on a musical standpoint, and seeing how he has a ton of other releases that came after this that are much better received, this may end up ... read more

Y'know, as I get deeper into the embarrassing late Beach Boys catalog, I'm finding it harder and harder to act like I genuinely hate what I'm listening to. Albums like Keepin' The Summer Alive are unquestionably bad, and I think that anyone with functioning ears would agree. But the thing is, as bad as it is and as embarrassing as it is when compared to the classics that this group has under their belt, I just can't really despise projects like this. It's inoffensive, and it honestly sounds ... read more

The Beach Boys' Light Album commits the sin of being far too inoffensive and competently made that you can't hate it, but far too boring for you to like it.

The thing with L.A. is that it is a well made album. As boring, bland, predictable and generic as it is, and as much as it sounds like a collection of disjointed songs that sound like what you would hear on a classic pop radio station, it is at least well performed and well produced. Bruce Johnston returning as a full-time member for the ... read more

Fuck you, Lou Reed. Fuck you for making this album. I hate it. It's so fucking beautiful but has such a heart-wrenching story that every single time I hear it I end up feeling depressed for the rest of the day. Fuck you.

After producer Bob Ezrin told Reed that he wanted him to flesh out one of his stories more, Reed decided to take one of his best solo songs up to that point - Berlin - and turn it into its own concept album. The result is a jaw-dropping, gorgeous rock opera with which tells ... read more

Everyone thinks that The Beach boys only got bad once Brian Wilson left the band, but this album proves everyone wrong. M.I.U. may be known as the Mike Love album due to most of the songs being written by him, but with a lot of help from Brian Wilson and Al Jardine it's unignorable that this album can't solely be blamed on Love. Some of the worst songs on here were written by Wilson himself; y'know, the mastermind behind the group's best works.

With that said, while this is unquestionably one ... read more

I feel sorry for those that genuinely think this is a good album. You must have a very limited knowledge of music to think that this is the standard of music someone as talented as Eminem should aim for.

This album is yet another example of how far Eminem has fallen. The guy used to be such an entertaining rapper who was always amazing in his abilities but for the most part lacked any compelling lyrics. But in the past the cringeworthy lyrics were forgivable due to the humour that Em was ... read more

Everyone who claims that Bowie's worst point in his career was his self-titled debut have clearly never heard Tin Machine's second album. It actually pains me listening to this album. This is Bowie at his worst lyric-wise (yes, even worse than Never Let Me Down), this is Bowie sounding his most exhausted and like he'd rather be any other place than where he is, and this is by far the most uninspiring instrumental performance out of any of his albums. This album is just a dull mess that I can ... read more