Reviews by james_mir

After the first two songs, which are very nice and have an excellent upbeat, the album just falls into a hole of the same reggae-inspired songs without much originality, even with good lyric work. It's not something to be disliked, but it probably is also something not to be remembered.

Metal is the music style I use when I need to feel good, so I can say that it is my favorite genre. Despite the surprising number of metal records on the 1001 list, most of them are classic metal rather than modern releases, so it's hard for me to evaluate them. On the one hand, I love almost all of them, but on the other hand, in the list context, they usually are not astonishing enough to be so well evaluated.

I'll vote with my soul for this one, even though I know this Megadeth album is far from perfect.

Does someone really need to read what I think about this album? Do I need to write something about this album? Does anyone need to write more about this album?

It sounds like classic rock, walks like classic rock, and smells like classic rock. I can bet everyone knows what it is.

Although absolutely far from my comfort zone, it's easy to spot its influence on modern music. It deserves its space on the 1001 list.

This is a pretty impressive piece of work. It's hard to classify, but it's remarkable how an almost poetry session with background ambiance music catches me so much.

It's a very nice album. It's impossible not to compare it with anything from the Beatles, but they highlight the differences well.

On my summary page on the 1001 list website, Shoegaze appears as one of my worst genres. I'm unsure if I agree with this, but I finally discovered what was missing: Shoegaze Orchestral Music (SOM for short).

SOM is delightful. I'm amazed by it.

Hey! What's that noise? It's SOM

It starts with the epitome of the dad rock(which I like but it's pretty outdated). However it ends being a very decent album between the 80s heavy metal and some hair metal that I associate morw to the 90s.

I'll not remember it for a ling time but it was a god listening session

It's possible to make a noise that sounds almost good, but it's still a noise!

The third Dexys Midnight Runners I got on the list, and altough I loved one of them, I'm still unsure if I like the band. Let's wait for the fourth album.

I really learned to respect a bit more electronic music, but 😮‍💨

It's not a bad album, but it has no personality. They need to decide if they are a Beatleesque band, a copy of Dylan's style, or somehow a psychedelic band. Without decision, it looks much more like a Spotify playlist from 70/80 rock rather than an album.

U2 sounds like U2, for the best and the worst

An Irish Celtic folk-punk is everything I wanted, but I didn't know how to ask for it.

I felt the same way about almost all the gangsta rap I got on the 1001 list: I recognized its importance but felt that it was outdated. The same applies here, but for some reason that escapes my understanding, I'll give it one extra star due to some strange feeling. For some reason, their anger kicked better with mine.

When I got it during the morning, I was not excited about it, but it ended up being the best of the solo projects from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young! (I think I've already got at least one from each on the list)

I liked the atmosphere, the lyrics, and the fancy instrumental. Nice job. I'll probably not be looking for more from Stephen Stills so soon, but this one is worth it.

Except for "Take on me," which is the nice song printed in my mind (and I bet in almost everyone else's mind), it's a very generic pop album. I don't know if I'll have more a-ha from the 1001 list, but if not, it's possibly the last time I've listened to some of their albums entirely.

Listening to it, it's clear to me that it's a good album with enough qualities, but it's pretty hard to understand why it is so important to be on the 1001 list. Okay, 1001 is a huge amount of stuff, but I'm sure there is much better and more important stuff out there.

There were highlights in "Violence" and "I’m a Cadillac / El Camino Dolo Roso," which were pretty good.

It's the first time on the list that an album has a self-explanatory name, right? The answer to "What's That Noise?" could be "Just another generic and forgetable 90s electronic album."

One extra star because I learned to respect synthesizer players, and the album's upbeat is nice.