Albummers

Choice: Richey

Choice: Kealan

Choice: Ste

Choice: Rob (actually the earlier album “Chariot”. Unavailable on streaming)

Choice: Marty

Thoughts:
Ste: 4.5 Black stars out of 5

Rob: 4/5

Kealan: 4 and a half starmans out of 5 years

Marty: 5 stars out of 5 men

Richey: 4.5 blackstars out of 5

Choice: Richey

Thoughts:
Rob: 5/5

Richey: 5 Croons out of 5

Kealan: 4.5 rats out of 5 packs

Marty: 1 star for Frank’s voice and 1 star for the lovely orchestra so 2 beautiful musical elements out of 5 whiny little bitches

Ste: 4 cigarettes in the rain out of 5

Choice: Kealan

Thoughts:
Kealan: 4.5 tinkled ivories out of 5

Ste: 3.5 Bennies out of 5 Jets.

Marty: 4 gappy Elton teeth out of 5

Rob: 2/5 ("I'm not giving a whimsical score theme because that's exactly what he wants")

Richey: 4.5 novelty glasses out of 5

Choice: Ste

Thoughts:
Marty: 4 fuck the kids out of 5

Kealan: 3.5 surf’s up out of 5

Richey: 3.5 whammy bars out of 5 🎸🎸🎸

Ste: 4 surfin birds out of 5

Rob: Three beach-boys-run-through-a-boss-ds-1 out of 5.

Choice: Rob

Thoughts:
Ste: 2.8 mystical Belfast strolls out of 5

Marty: 0.25 incoherent preachy moans out of 5

Rob: 3 retroactively applied points out of 5 ("This is good, but it's no masterpiece")

Kealan: 1 haemorrhaging eardrum out of 5

Richey: 1.5 Van wails out of 5 (changed to 1.5 chickenbutts out of 5 after hearing Corrinne's review)

Corrinne: “chickenbutt”

Choice: Marty

Thoughts:
Kealan: 4 jangly guitars and driving drum beats out of 5.

Richey: 4 jangles out of 5

Marty: 4 out of 5 drones shot out of the sky

Ste: 3 delayed bass pedals out of 5

Rob: 2 retroactively applied points out of 5 (again appeared not to like it much).

Choice: Richey

Thoughts:
Richey: 4.9 arpeggiated synths out of 5

Rob: 4.5 'Don't Mess with the Zohan' references out of 5

Marty: 4.3 FABULOUSNESS🥳🎉 out of 5

Ste: 2.8 lonely dances out of 5

Kealan: 3, not doing this Pitchfork scoring that you’ve all suddenly adopted, out of 5

Choice: Kealan

Thoughts:
Marty: 5 out of complete original mind bending thought processes of 5

Ste: 4.5 time signatures out of 5 (and none of them in 4/4)

Richey: 4 microtones out of 5

Kealan: 4.5 or even 5 trail-blazers out of 5

Rob: 1.5 retroactively applied points out of 5 (but seemed not to like it much)

Choice: Ste

Thoughts:
Ste: 4.8 gated reverb lovers out of 5

Rob: 3.5 retroactively applied points out of 5 (mostly for the opening track)

Richey: 4.5 chromatic scales out of 5

Kealan: 4 out of 5 (changed to 4.5 after listening to Red)

Marty: 4.2 neurotic taps of the leg out of 5

Choice: Rob

Thoughts:
Ste: 3.6 quietly chopped onions out of 5

Kealan: 3 random tinkles out of 5

Marty: 3.67 micro dots of heroin out of 5

Richey: 4 calming sound waves out of 5

Rob: 4 non-edited-out ambient noises out of 5

Choice: Marty

Thoughts:
Rob: 4.5 matching jumpsuits out of 5

Kealan: 5 teenage (and adult) Kealan’s out of 5

Richey: 5 needle scratch’s out of 5

Ste: 4.8 dicks in the mashed potato’s out of 5

Marty: 5 Tough Guys out of 5

Choice: Richey

Thoughts:
Kealan: 2.5 "I miss the 90's" out of 5

Marty: 0 out of five confused Marty’s and 5 out of 5 stunned Marty’s = 2.5

Richey: 3 falsettos out of 5

Rob: Album Art: 5/5; Overall 2/5

Ste: 1.5 cutlets out of 5

Choice: Kealan

Thoughts:
Kealan: No score given (5/5 in retrospect)

Rob: 3 relentless staccato hits out of 5.

Marty: 3.5 JIMMY’S!! out of five

Richey: 3 'sorry I didn't get to fully listen, but here's a rating anyway' out 5

Ste: 3.8 jimmys out of 5

Choice: Ste

Thoughts:
Ste: 4 holy breakdowns out of 5

Kealan: 3.5 get some notes in your head out of 5

Marty: 3.5 angry rants out of 5

Richey: 2 angry blokes shouting out of 5!

Rob: 3.5 electric-ouds out of five

Choice: Rob

Thoughts:
Ste: 2 warbley voiced boys out of 5

Kealan: 2.5 out of 5

Rob: three buttered eggs and spiced beefs out of 5 for the Cork bois

Marty: 2 bricks of 5 in the wall of sound

Richey: 2.5 accordions out of 5!

Choice: Marty

Thoughts:

Kealan: 4 skeedledee bops out 5 shubadoobeedoobeedoos

Rob: 4.5 jazzy rimshots out of five.

Richey: 4 jazz finger snaps out of 5

Marty: 4&1/2 fist bumps to Gossard for finding Davis

Ste: 3/5

Choice: Richey

Thoughts:
Kealan: No score given (in retrospect 3.5/5)

Ste: 2.5 polka dots / 5 & a floppy willy nose

Richey: 2.5?floppy paper machete willies out of 5

Marty: 3/5 gold triangles because there’s some class riffs in there with that microtonal gat.

Rob: Two grand-wizard-pearly-kings out of five.

Choice: Kealan

Thoughts:
Richey: 4.5 out of 5

Rob: 4.5 record-label-signing-bonuses-spent-on-interpretive-dance-lessons out of five.
Only not giving 5 because the scale needs somewhere for Hounds of Love to go.

Marty: No score given.

Ste: No score given.

Kealan: Full on 5 screaming harpies for me. Hounds of love can also be a 5

Choice: Ste

Choice: Rob

Choice: Ste

Choice: Kealan

Choice: Rob

Choice: Kealan

Choice: Ste

Choice: Kealan

Choice: Ste

Choice: Kealan

Choice: Ste

Choice: Kealan

Choice: Ste

Choice: Kealan

Choice: Ste

Choice: Kealan

Choice: Ste

Choice: Kealan

Choice: Ste

Choice: Kealan

Choice: Ste

Choice: Kealan