Bo Diddley transmuted the juba hambone beat into rock ‘n’ roll, inspired by blues legends like Howlin Wolf and then ruthlessly plagiarised and whitewashed by everybody from Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley and the Rolling Stones to George Michael, The Smiths and Guns ‘N’ Roses. ‘Bo Diddley’ and ‘Go Bo Diddley’ are his first and second albums, released in the late fifties and containing his biggest charting singles like the self-titled banger ‘Bo Diddley’.

They’re also, somehow, the 455th Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring good shouts and hot takes on everything from Robbie Williams, The Ed Sullivan Show, ZZ Topp, ‘I Want Candy’ and the big four of eighties funereal doom. All that plus a fruitless edition of Secret Posho and a scintillating incarnation of Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Kicked out of his childhood home by his religious father for the hideous crime of listening to Jackie Wilson, Al Green was hustling in a bordello when he was discovered by the bandleader Willie Mitchell. He went on to be inaccurately described as the Last of The Great Soul Singers, and defined the Memphis soul sound of the early seventies with the ten steamy hot slabs of utilitarian jamming that comprise this Greatest Hits. It’s generally regarded as one of the best ‘best of’ records in the history of recorded music.

It’s also the 456th Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine’s 2020 list. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring cool comments and white-hot takes on everything from the drumming of Al Jackson Jr., the pavlovian response of all Scottish comedians to ‘Reet Petite’ by Jackie Wilson, porridge-based bath attacks, and the non-goodness of religious music, to the accusation that Al Green once shoved his secretary through a glass door. All that plus Quizzz, Secret Posho, and Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Her powerful cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” made her a global superstar, but when Sinead O’Connor tore up a picture of The Pope during a musical performance on Saturday Night Live as a statement about child abuse within the Catholic Church, she became infamous. Abused by her family and by the nuns at the Magdelene Laundry she was sent to for shoplifting, she channeled the rage wrought by her tragic upbringing into a career of genre-pushing art that seamlessly melds the personal and political to great commercial and critical success. I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, released in 1990, is undoubtedly the epoch and apex of that acclaim.

It’s also the 457th Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail did a deep dive on it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featured topics include: Irish passports, Joe Pesci, Frank Sinatra, Madonna, In Tua Nua, Ton Ton Macoute, U2, Bob Dylan’s 30th Anniversary Tribute Concert at Madison Square Garden, and “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus. All that, plus Secret Posho, as well as the first edition of brand new segment “Tattoo Woohoo or Tattoo Boohoo?” on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Born in a trailer park in rural Alabama, Jason Isbell was taught to play music by his family, then went on to become a guitarist and songwriter for the Southern rock band known as the Drive-By Truckers. However, the demon drink got the best of him and he lost both his band and his wife. After a pair of mediocre solo records, he gave up the booze and found love again before recording the modern classic of country-fried roots music that is 2013’s Southeastern. He dominated the Americana Music Awards that year, winning Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Artist of the Year due to Southeastern’s handcrafted cliche-defying song-writing artistry.

Southeastern by Jason Isbell is also the 458th Greatest Album of All Time according to Rolling Stone. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featured topics include: Liam’s own recovery from alcohol and drug addiction, the British rapper Plan B, pre-Civil War-era murderers, fatigue, the Budget IBIS in Portsmouth, and whether not liking the genre of ‘country music’ makes you a class traitor. All that and more on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor was a teenager when she released “Royals” as a single under the stagename Lorde. But where the Kiwi electro-popstar’s first album had a swaggering half-cut gait, her second record - 2017’s Melodrama - is an MDMA-inspired Greek tragedy of epic proportions: soaring ecstatic bassy highs and cripplingly self-criticising comedowns.

It’s also the 460th Greatest Album of All Time according to Rolling Stone magazine. This week Christopher and Liam listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featured topics include: Jack Antonoff of fun., Solar Power’s album cover, the Hunger Games franchise, synesthesia, the fear, Palestine, and the short stories of Ray Bradbury. All that, plus more installments of Secret Posho, Quiz, and the Bop Shop Test, on episode 41 of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

After collaborating with Kanye West on his cold electro-pop record 808s & Heartbreak, Kid Cudi followed up his megahit debut mixtape A Kid Named Cudi with this conceptual arena-rap sad-stoner magnum opus song-cycle. Beloved by the likes of Pete Davidson and Timothee Chalomet, this Common-narrated record went on to inspire a generation of Cudi devotees including Tyler The Creator, Travis Scott and Kevin Abstract with its frank emotional honesty.

It’s also the 459th Greatest Album of All Time according to Rolling Stone. This week, Christopher and Liam listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featured topics include: the music video for the Crookers remix of Day ‘N’ Nite, working in a shoe shop, Kids See Ghosts, Achewood, the subject of mental health in hip-hop, and Henry Winkler. All that plus another installment of Secret Posho in the 42nd complete episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!