Reviews by james_mir

This is not a 5-star album, but my 15-year-old me will thank me. I thank you for picking this one to complement the original list.

Quite boring. I enjoyed the one picked from the original list much more. Honestly, I'll not get what it's about Sufjan Stevens.

To me, all live albums but 2 or 3 give me the same impression. Maybe it was fun to be there, but a record of the presentation made with poor production will almost always be a bad choice for a listening session.

Well, they know how to play a guitar, right?

I enjoyed it, but much more as background music rather than something special.

I have mixed feelings about John Mayer. Even though I am not a specialist in guitars or guitarists, I understand when I see people praising him for his talent, so why can I not see any of this talent in his songs? They are so generic and bland that I only remember him when I see someone else talking about him, like now on the list.

It's ok, almost good, but far from what I call essential

This is far from something I would search by myself, even as a metal fan (or almost). However, I subscribe to this whole challenge for this kind of stuff.

Nightwish is not my favorite gothic metal band, but Once is one of their best, and the original list indeed misses a lot on metal subgenres, especially on my so-loved gothic side. Great addition, great band, great album

Country right? Country for REAL. It makes things a bit tough for me to enjoy, but I'll assume that it is some kind of classic that was missing in the original list and save my 1-star for worse things.

Never heard about them and enjoyed it a lot. I don't think it's something essential, but it's worth it a chance on the list

It's not the best of Pink Floyd to me, but it's an easy classic.

I really enjoy The Stooges (as it's possible to see in their 3 albums on the original list), but I can't stand this live version with such poor production. Maybe it has a historical value, and I bet it was awesome to be there during the recording, but I'll hardly listen to this record again.

Indeed, there is a lack of metal albums on the original list, especially the kind of metal albums more eccentric like this one. When I got the second TOOL album on the user's list, I expected to fill this gap. It was done, but I was expecting so much more from a band with a significant number of followers and defenders that the failure to achieve my expectations made this album a bit worse for me than it probably truly is.

Is it good? Yes
Is it essential? Probably not
My rate of 4 stars makes sense? No, I'm sure

Even though it is not precisely one of my favorites of all time, I can recognize something important when I see it.

Was it supposed to be different from the original list or some kind of weird complement to it?

I love the cello, and I'm the audience for cello versions of famous songs on YouTube. But no, just no!

This may be a strange thing, but this is an album that I don't like at all, but at the same time, I can enjoy listening to it the whole day. Hard to say why, but that is it.

Target: 80s classic pop. Result: A bit of the time, kind of generic 2010s pop.

If I had unlimited powers and someone asked me to create an album to represent my vision of 2000s rock, I'd not reach as good results as they did here for the good and bad sides of 2000s rock.