Reviews by deepee

I discovered the music of JMJ while living in France in the 1980s.
In my opinion his masterpiece album is Equinoxe. Believe me, the next time you are driving someplace with beautiful scenery, put that album on and feel the majesty of it all.
This album predates it though, which is probably why it was selected.
Music that you really need to sink into. Close your eyes, let it take you on a journey. It was ahead of its time, definitely deserves a listen.

My kids were all up in my grill about not giving five stars to To Pimp a Butterfly. But now I’m even more glad I didn’t because this album is a much better listen! All the stars!

When an album starts with one of the greatest songs of all time, the rest is bound to feel like a let down. Which is true of this album, but after listening to it several times, the rest is also very good.

This album includes the song Fame, which is my favorite Bowie song. However, it also contains a very undeniable cover of across the universe. David Bowie did not need to be doing covers. Some early disco tunes that sound a bit dated now but were surely ahead of their time in release. But Young Americans itself is a great song. Probably a 3.5 but I’m going to round up,

I like some tap but there has to be a good underlying groove. Didn’t feel it on this one, and not into the subject matter so it’s a miss for me.

I can imagine Elvis Costello ending up in my “controversial artists” list, but for a good reason. It’s not that the quality of his work is ever poor. It’s that Elvis is not afraid to explore different musical genres according to his personal interest over the years. I have seen him several times in concert, some were “amazing!” and some were “meh” to me, because the musical styles were very different. Sometimes he and I are not on the same wavelength. Not the case with this album though!
This is his 5 star album for me. He truly hit the target with this one.

Electronic club music from the 90’s. Feels odd to just sit and listen to it for this project. Wasn’t meant for that.
Bumping, certainly would get me on the dance floor.

smooth high-pitched vocals over more energetic electronic background music.
Not bad but nothing spectacular for me.

Got some important topics in here. But overall it’s just not grabbing me like I want it to. Probably partly because I’m not a jazz fan. Not an album that I instantly want to listen to again.

Não, obrigado

I wanted to like this, but just couldn’t get very into it. Felt repetitive towards the end. Not my jam.

Unpopular opinion: My favorite Zeppelin album is In Through the Out Door. That’s my easy five star album. But unfortunately it did not make this list and there is NO WAY Led Zeppelin is not getting five stars from me. So this is the one. It probably deserves 5 stars even if it isn’t my favorite.

What a relief! Was dismayed to see Frank show up after suffering through a Mothers of Invention album last week.
This album is a pleasant, mainly instrumental, bit of jazzy psychedelic rock music. Turns out not having Frank’s vocals was an essential improvement.
Impressive guitar work here.

I suppose this album is all about the lyrics. Los off story songs. But the monotone nature of his voice makes me not able to listen for very long. Most of the songs are musically indistinguishable from each other.
As a person whose enjoyment of music comes mainly from rhythm and melody, this one is not for me.

It turns out these guys were nowhere near as good a as 12 year old me thought they were.

Thank goodness for Julio hanging out by the schoolyard. Without him this album would be a stone cold one star event.

Well here I am folks! The female in 2024 who has never listened to a Taylor Swift album- until today.

This is very low energy. So bland. I know I’ve heard her be more pop on the radio. Not gonna lie I dozed off in the middle and had to go back and listen to a song I missed. (Dorothea everybody wants to be ya 🤨)

She has made more money than anybody else for so long now. I’m going to give her the benefit of doubt that she has better albums than this one.

This is a lovely album. I had never listened to it, though I recognized about half of the songs from radio play. I have a feeling I will come back to this one. It isn’t as anthemic as some of their others, and isn’t overly-ambitious. I mean all that as a compliment. This is a U2 album with heart in it, which is when they are at their best.

I don’t know how I missed this band first time around, though a few of the songs do sound familiar. This is some very danceable shit!
I know it’s not PC but I miss those big drum machine sounds.
The bass player in this group deserves some big props!
Hard to sit still with this one. Wish i were back in the club.

I know this one gets all the glory. But I lived through this guy’s career from back when he was little Michael dancing and leading the Jackson 5. And I remember being so sick of this album being overplayed. It’s good, very good even. But I’m sticking with my opinion that Off the Wall is his solo best.