Arcade Fire - "copycats take note"

Eels - "crazily beautiful weirdness"

OK Computer - "era endeth here"

Hot Licks, Cold Steel and Truckers Favourites by Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen: Western and country.
The Mystery of Love is Greater than the Mystery of Death by Jackie Leven: Big man cries.
What You See is What You Get by Chumbawamba: Quiet shouty quiet.
Surfs Up by the Beach Boys : The water's lovely.
Felice Bros (eponymous): Like big pink.
Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan : He ain't happy.
(Hmmmmmm, harder than it seems....)
Retrospectacle by Supertramp : Unlistenable clap trap
(No, it's quite easy after all)

Nevermind - Quiet Loud Quiet
Metal Box - Dub on Speed
Running In The Family - Wild Thumbs Akimbo
Graceland - Cultural Tourism, Discuss
The White Album - Fabs Indoor Fireworks

Lexicon of Love - ABC: downhill from here
Second Coming - Stone Roses: Took five years
Debut - Bjork: bonkers but great
Life in a Scotch Sitting Room - Ivor Cutler: Scottish poetic genius
Germ Free Adolescents - X-Ray Spex: Underrated punk classic
Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia - Dandy Warhols: one decent tale

I think I'll be coming back with more later...

Sgt. Peppers - Overproduced, yet influential

Pet Sounds - Luscious in mono

Blonde On Blonde - Wordy; mercury music

Otis Blue - Yearning, soaring soul

Astral Weeks - Unorthodox, poetic stirrings

The Band - American music reimagined

Drugs in cellar.

Poetry and drugs

Bookish druggy sex

Piece of shit

Revolver - modern starts here

Songs In The Key of Life - life affirming soul

Some Girls - one last throw

Hymns To The Silence - string driven whinge

Be Here Now - not even close

Not there then

Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants - Will this do?

Accelerate - Please buy this

It says what it is on the tin....

Let It Be
Magical Mystery Tour
With The Beatles

JAMC - Psychocandy - Spectoresque feedback nonchalance
The Stooges - The Stooges - Nihilistic prescient rawness
Nick Drake - Bryter Later - Reluctant jazzy folk
Led Zeppelin II - Overblown psych-blues masterwork

I seem to remember that there is a Fall album from the early 90's which side two has a subtitle of "Notebooks out plagiarists."

The Who - 'Who's Next': No concept! Phew...
The Beatles - 'Anthology 1/2/3': Human after all
Radiohead - 'Kid A': That fooled you
Any Smiths compilation post-split: No purchase necessary

Some years ago I was queueing with my wife outside the late lamented Regal Cinema in Cranleigh Surrey waiting to see Titanic. As we stood in the sunshine in a line of eagerly expectant fans a car slowed as it passed us, a window was wound down and a young wag yelled at the top of his voice "the ship sinks and the boy dies!" Quite right too.

R.E.M.'s "Out Of Time: near wild heaven.
Roxy Music's "Siren": just another high.
The Beach Boy's "Holland"" sail on, sailor.
Bruce Springsteen's "Devils & Dust": long time comin'.
The Smiths' "The Queen Is Dead": bigmouth strikes again.
Led Zeppelin's "4": stairway to heaven.