An enjoyable sub-plot of this is me turning this project into 'How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Dad Rock' because this was great? The folk influences really enjoyable. Immigrant Song an all-timer. Obviously. But the back end, where it's the fellas getting really into folk... great actually.

This is quite samey at the opening, and then 'No Love, No Sympathy' comes in and it is noticeably different, but I just don't quite think he's got the vocals to pull off what he's trying to do.

Genuinely taken aback at how little I enjoyed this.

I mean, it’s the absolute opus by one of the best bands? Listening to this with a more critical ear really brings out just how many people these guys influenced. Hard to hear the opening of cactus with that dirty guitar and not go ‘oh, it’s ‘roll with it’’. Brilliant album.

Like many sensitive young men, I had a pop punk phase, and you really do see the genesis of that here. This must have blown you away if you were say, 10 years older than me. Some really good tunes, lot of filler, gets points due to defining a genre I got into at 13 and cannot bring myself to hate.

I absolutely love Deep Cuts by the Knife, so slightly mad that I didn’t know this was a solo project. Anyway, it’s absolutely brilliant. Moodier and mellower than the Knife but with the exact same ability to really capture a mood and your attention.

If you put aside just how bad 'honky tonk' sounds as a phrase - and that is no mean feat - what you're left with is some very listenable country music with a clear 80s bent to it and some interesting technical parts... but a certain lack of soul, for me.

Very little to say about this one - that's not a bad thing, it's just an album I'd previously listened to before starting this project. Doesn't take anything away from this, though. It's a really, really good album. The jazz influences incredibly enjoyable - possibly the jazziest Steely Dan album?

I've been to Vienna a few times now. And I look around and I go 'I like beer and I like schnitzel and it's all very pretty. Why's it leaving me so cold?'

I should like this. I can see why other people would. But there is something about this that just didn't click for me. The Vienna of albums.

the back of the colin… the thinking man’s front of the colin

youtu.be/dVqqTq-l49E?...

we did a rendition of frankie valli that won us much love from the fans

Fortnum’s and Mason shithousery is really good