Reviews by 1001mjanzai

Another band I’ve heard about but never got the opportunity to hear.
This is a well produced album of rock based songs.
The amount of variety keeps this album interesting to listen to.
By this point they’re a few albums along in their career so it would be interesting to listen to all the preceding albums to hear their evolution.
A better knowledge of this band and their music as well as more spins of this album will surely raise the rating in the future.

Yet another band I know of but never got to hear much from.
I really only know the song True Faith, which I absolutely love with it’s ominous and dark feel and was likely exposed to it from music video shows on tv because of that amazing video, as I rarely heard them on the radio.
Some of these songs have an electronic feel to them and some have a live band feel.
The songs themselves sometimes feels happy and upbeat and sometimes dark and dramatic.
Although nothing really stood out upon first listen I did enjoy listening to this album and look forward to getting a few more spins in and also exploring more of their catalogue in the future.

Wow what a pleasant surprise!
As someone not well versed in soul music, it was mind blowing to come upon this album and see that it’s made up of only four mostly long tracks.
The Bar-Kays as the rhythm section!
Isaac Hayes singing, playing organ and conducting the band live!
String section overdubs!
Kind of a psychedelic vibe throughout this whole album and the tempos are all fairly slow and steady.
Great to learn about this album and looking forward to future replays.

A uniquely distinct band that I only know from the 80s and am unfamiliar with the earlier stuff from the 70s.
Nice to hear the beginning of where they evolved their sound from.
This album is well recorded and lays out all the quirky songs nicely in the mix.
Maybe sounds a bit dry but it sure helps to highlight the great bass lines by Tina Weymouth!
I’m enjoying my first spin through this but feels like it will take a few listens to really understand these interesting and creative songs.
Makes me wish I was in my early 20s in 1977 and hearing this on college radio and in the nightclubs at the time!

Nice!
There’s so many great songs on this album!
And what a distinct and powerful voice!
As is usually the case with these 80s pop albums there’s a few songs that don’t have the same quality as the hits but that makes the hits sound that much more impressive.
It was nice to listen to this album again and even though her voice is just out of my range, it sure was fun to sing along and to try to reach some of those notes!

huh so a second album by The Cure this week…
I heard Pornography for the first time this week and loved it!
However this one seems a bit under cooked to me but it is interesting how they progressed from this to the aforementioned album.
This album still has a very uniquely melancholy sound to it though and the sparse and dry production reveals the starkness of the songs as well as the distinct voice of Robert Smith.
A good album and perhaps I’ll learn to love it more upon further spins but for now I would say that I only need one Cure album on this list and that would be Pornography.

One of those bands I’ve heard of but never got to hear until now.
A beautifully plodding, synth supported rock album on the soft and gentle side but with a lot of tasty electric guitar work.
Kinda sounds like a mid-80s Canadian folk-rock album or something like that.
Definitely want to spin this a few more times as well as listen to more of their catalogue.
For now though it doesn’t strike me as necessary listening but who knows after multiple spins?

Great album!
I haven’t heard this in ages and even then only heard a couple of times so great to listen to it again.
Such a great singer and songwriter!
…and holy crap, Cheech and Chong are on the last song!

Don’t know what happened to the notes I put in here when I listened to this album but I did enjoy it very much.
I have not had the chance to listen to the earlier albums by The Cure so I’m glad this came up as I enjoyed it very much.
I’m looking forward to hopefully one day sitting down and listening through their catalogue as I think they’re a great band with a distinct sound.

Oh thank goodness, absolute redemption from yesterday!
Here we go straight into one of the great albums of all time!
Every song is great with a lot of diversity and the track order works very well.
Such great songs and vocal performances!
This album is definitely one of my faves from her great catalogue.

As my first album I feel like I’ve been pranked because this is kind of a terrible album.
And what a terrible album cover!
Most of the music here is not good.
The only tracks worth listening to are the one’s with guest vocalists, so tracks 3, 6, 11, 12.
This album does not belong on this list (might not even make the top 10,001) and should be removed.
Ok I guess I should look forward to tomorrow because it can’t get much worse than this can it?