Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats and Saturday Night Fever

Throbbing Gristle's lp 20 Jazz Funk Greats is certainly endearing. opener '20 jazz funk great' rattles along well to drum machine and whispery vocals. 'Beachy Head' is good also, industrial sounds and keyboards set the sinister tone of the album early. 'Still Walking' is synth industrial experimental, with drum machines. 'Tanith' an instrumental track. 'Convincing People' a track of ghostliness and eeriness with Genesis P. Orridge sings 'theres several ways/ to convince people' eery stuff. followed by instrumental tracks and 'Hot on the heels of love' is the best of them, a synth laden electro beat driven magical number. 'Persuasion' is experimetal as they come. with p. orridges lyrcis coming through over a girl laughing. 'walkabout' is another synth driven electro storm of a track. 'what a day' is the best track on the album with an industrial pulse going through it with p orridges lyrcis over the top 'what a day what a day what a day all day'. 20 Jazz Funk Greats is probably their best work as it transpires mere industrial as an experimental genre into something synth electro driven with drum machines, thats pop, that has pop edges,quite soft but quite mysterious at the same time. its experimental but still has some synth pop drive to it. for one of the Uks most original bands.  10/10

Saturday night fever the soundtrack is so dancey . opener stalin alive will get you dancing on your feet. and night fever will keep you grooving. what bugs me about this album is that it really doesnt pick up from there so i'm going to say its good for a party but for artistic merit not so good. it really doesnt hold well as an album more or less a collection of bee gee singles and other instrumental tracks and some sung by other lesser known artists 8/10

Yukihiro Takahashi - Neuromantic and Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor

Yukihrio Takahashi's lp euromantic is certainly a worthwhile listen. guitars by Roxy Musics's Phil Manzanera, opening track 'Glass' is quick highlight and 'Grand Espoir' follows on nicely, 'Connection' and 'New (Red) Roses' are great tracks. perfect little synth pop gems. with nice guitar. 'Drip Dry Eyes' is good too. all in all its a solid album with great tracks, great drumming great singing. good music, great synth sounds and guitar sounds. 8/10

Yellow Magic Orchestra's album Solid State Survivor is a little gem. it features highlights including 'Rydeen' and 'Technopolis' and a cover of the Beatles song Day tripper which i think is actually better than the original track. all in all its quick little number of high paced songs and great musicianship. 8/10

Modern Talking - The 1st Album and Kraftwerk -Trans Europe Express

The First album by Modern Talking is a 'how to do perfect Italo-Disco lesson'. brilliantly devised and produced this is a blast. the first four songs 'You're My Heart , You're My Soul', 'You Can Win If You Want', 'Theres Too Much Blue In Missing You' and 'Diamonds Never Made a Lady'  are perfect emotionally deep Synth pop songs. Incredibly catchy hooks my only trouble is that they don't go for long enough and could be given disco extended mix treatment. 'Lucky Guy' is another Highlight. 8/10

Kraftwerk's Sixth Studio Album is a ride through Desolation. a bleak pouring out of no emotion and robot prowess. The Track 'The Hall of Mirrors is just a bleak sounding haunting electro ballad about movie and film stars changing their appearance in the Hall Of Mirrors. Showroom Dummies is another highlight as here we find Kraftwerk and their most unhinging and seriously in your face. 9.5/10

David Bowie - Lodger and David Bowie - Station To Station

David Bowie's Lodger is an interesting listen, and it is the third in the series of Berlin albums. like Low and Heroes, Bowie is on form but we do not hear any instrumental tracks on Lodger, instead its just sung songs. highlights include Boys Keep Swinging, DJ and Look Back in Anger. 8/10 

  

Station to Station is a classic album, its Bowie in his best career highlight form with tracks such as the title track, Word on a Wing and TVC15. excellent blending of genres such as disco and post punk. STS is clearly one if not the best Bowie album , alongside Low and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. 9.5/10

Dirty Beaches - Drifters/Love Is The Devil

                                    This album hits you are like a bullet whilst you gather yourself in its wake. opener 'Night Walk' rocks along to a funky bass riff. the whole double lp is atmospheric, just this neon daze you find yourself in. its lo fi, its raw. reminiscent of even Suicide or even early Ducktails. 'Casino Lisboa' is another highlight where the vocals sound like Alan Vega crossed with Ian Curtis. I think as a whole it serves its purpose to reinvent music in a way that has atmosphere and it holds your attention for long enough. 8/10

Donna Summer - I Feel Love

   
                                                     A great point in popular music.

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico and Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup

The Velvet Underground's debut includes songs in genre's such as lounge rock, proto punk and noise rock. it opens with 'Sunday Morning' probably the most commerciable song on here, whilst Nico turns up on 'Femme Fatale'. 'Run Run Run' rocks along to a proto punk beat with a very good guitar solo and feedback very lo fi.. a highlight is definitely 'Heroin' which is simply stunning. it closes with 'European Son' which is simply noise rock as good as it gets. to take away with, TVU&N was released in the 60's, and even bands today are striving for what TVU achieved , lo fi punk rock songs and lounge pop gems. influencing bands like Stereolab and Psychedelic Horseshit. any music critic not worthy this the highest of accolades clearly lacks any sort of credibility. and we are still listening to it in 2013. 10/10