Reviews by james_mir

This is a strong album. I'm sad I didn't listen to it before. I've always been a fan of desert blues, even though I didn't know it 🤪.

It's strange how something released in 1988 can sound much more outdated than other albums on the list that are more than 60 years old, but that is what happened with Jane's Addiction for me.

I can see the qualities, and 1 or 2 songs are still great, but the album as a whole is a product of the 80s and should be kept there.

I'm always complaining about the 1001 list being so US/UK-centered, and to my surprise, the last two weeks have been quite diverse in terms of the music from other countries delivered to me. It was necessary to wait for more than 900 albums, but it happened.

For this album itself, I was totally not expecting a class about Indian music given by a sitar virtuoso musician, but the best things in life are those we didn't ask for.

When the first song started, I thought it would be a fun rhythm and Blues session with a pinch of Bluegrass, and I was happy with it, but it did not deserve much attention.

Suddenly, around the middle of the album, I started to listen to some experimentation, which I had not expected to hear. It increased my evaluation a bit, proving it not as another useless album but something worth my time.

Far from perfection, it's sad that I never heard about the album or the band.

I was unprepared for another Genesis, and I was not expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. Now, give me more.

There's nothing to say about the album itself. Of course, it is five stars.

It is interesting to listen to it closer to the end of the 1001 challenge (I have a bit more than 100 albums to finish) because it's easy, fun, and quite interesting to see the influences used by the Beatles in the album, as well as how much they influenced other artists (almost all) that we also have on the list.

This good album will not stay on the 1001 list for long. I'm pretty sure it can be replaced by "Lemonade" or even "Cowboy Carter" in the next edition (especially the second, given the book authors' love for country music).

However, it is here, and it was a good listening session. It's nice to note every breakthrough from Beyoncé's last albums being born here and there, along with the songs of this album.

There is this big elephant in the room with the problem of uncredited covers and plagiarism, but if Zeppelin deserved five stars in an album, it is this one.

Since I've already received Zeppelin I on the site and gave it 5 (it's a fantastic album), I'll keep this with 4.

The younger me would enjoy it so much, but today, it's almost background music for busy days when I don't want to spend too much time thinking about what I'm listening to.

Is it really too late to stop, Van? (I know that was obvious.) It's the third album from Van Morrison I've got from the list, and I increasingly feel it deserves 3 stars. It's not bad at all, and it's pretty enjoyable sometimes, but it's always the same.

This is the kind of music I want to discover, even when I don't thoroughly enjoy it. I liked the mixture of styles. The version of "Imagine" was not offensive to me (although the song itself is already saturated). I liked the Algerian French accent in some songs.

It's far from something remarkable to me, but its inclusion on the list is fair, and it was a good listening session, with more than a lot of British underground electronic music from what the list is falling in love with.

I had a very similar feeling listening to this one that I had while listening to "Apple Venus Volume 1" previously on the list. It starts very generic and without highlights but slowly grabs my attention, showing exciting songs with excellent arrangements and different instrumentation that definitively deserve a spot among the 1001 discs I would like to know before I die. I think "Apple Venus Volume 1" may be better, but now I can't finish this challenge without giving five stars to them in at least one album.

I'm not sure I listened to the correct album. Still, I got one on Deezer credited to "Various artists" that followed almost the same track list I got on the Wikipedia page (just out of curiosity, that also has another one with the same cover and 3 HOURS of electronic music...😂😂😂...)

Anyway, it will probably not change my opinion. It is the kind of generic electronic music that may have had some importance in the '80s/'90s, but it just sounds like nothing important in 2024.

I was quite excited for this one. It's interesting to check if this is indeed one of the worst albums of the 1001 list since when I started the list, I think it was the last of the global list.

Finally, it is not so bad. The list has at least 10 albums worse than this one that comes to my mind immediately.

Indeed, I think the list has enough Nick Cave ( always inpredictable), but as a post-punk band, they did an almost good job. Good experience.

This was a pleasant discovery of good old-fashioned rock in the exact tense I enjoy listening to. Maybe it's a bit generic, but who cares? I'll forget it next mont, so I don't care at all, it was a nice session.

I enjoyed the upbeat of this gangsta rap, which is not typical for me since usually, the themes highlight more to my ears than the music, but the outdated lyrics hit hard on me this time, so I can't rate it with more than 3 stars.

I know that this kind of album should be respected for its historical importance, but it's something that I will hardly listen to again (fully, at least) in the years coming due to its lyrics.

When I received it, I thought: "Do we really need a third Echo And The Bunnymen album on the 1001 list?" I was not expecting this kind of album; where did all this rawness go in their later albums? They are a good group, but this album should be much more highlighted than any of their latest releases. Their debut is the best for me.

Who do you think I am to say something about this album?

Nowadays (maybe because of the last 900+ new albums in my life), I have mixed feelings about prog rock. This one was nice to listen to, but I still don't know if I can say that I LIKE it.

Listening to it without knowing the artist, I cannot bet a good guess on Peter Gabriel. Thinking of Peter Gabriel songs that I know, this is not the type of album I was expecting.

This is a clear mismatch, but it was an enjoyable mismatch.