Reviews by james_mir

Usually, when I get some electronic album, I already start it with a 1-star rating, ready to go; it's definitely the music genre that less interests me.

However, for this one, I can say that I kind of like it. The rock elements here and there really made it for me. It's the first electronic album from the list that I really intend to listen to again someday. It's strange to see that the other "The Chemical Brothers"' album is 1-star. Should I give them another chance?

It's still Michael Jackson, which means that it's impossible to be a bad album (yeah...yeah), but it's far from his best, and it's still a bit repetitive for my 2023 ears.

From my point of view, this is an excentric release for this list, so I think it's pretty hard to evaluate it using the same metrics.

As a Jazz album from a monstrously talented pianist, it's perfect, and it also works very well as background music, but it lacks some diversity that I'm used to getting from the albums on the 1001 list. It's understandable since it was a live presentation that should not be released as an album, but still, it was, and it was included on the list.

Her voice already deserves my 4-star rating; even so, this is very far from her more recent releases.

I still didn't "get" it. It's an excellent Jazz album, but I still need to listen to more from Frank Zappa to understand why he is so well-received as a genius.

Some years ago, it was easy to turn on the Radio on any station and find a thematic block of songs for a "Flashback" or "Romantic session." Yeah, I guess some of these radios just put on this album on repeat. Even with more meaningful lyrics, it sounds like any other 80s pop.

It's not bad. It's just meh!

This is her best album. Experimentalism in just the right amount so as not to be boring but relevant.
Enjoyable!

This is really awful. When I thought a generic folk/indie was terrible enough, they started with some unexpressive and generic country influence.
To put the last nail in their coffin, Wikipedia says that Bush was a fan. That was all I needed to rate it with 1 star.

It deserves its spot on the list. For me, this is not in discussion.
However, it's very far from a good album. The production quality is not so good, the lyrics are much less "dangerous" these days (although I'm sure it was crazy to release it around the 80s), and the modern extreme metal is much better than this one. I would like to see more examples of extreme metal on the list.

This is the 3rd Tim Buckley album I got from the list (until now). I'm absolutely sure he doesn't deserve 3 spots on the list, although this is the best one. It's more uptime and interesting musically.

The best of Tim Buckley. Now I understand, and we can agree to avoid more Tim Buckley on the list, right?

It's so generic that I already forgot it. I'll rate it with 2 stars to not be unfair; maybe it was just my memory not working well.

The worst from Bowie is still great and better than 90% of all other stuff.

It's an OK album with a clear highlight on "You Can Leave Your Hat On."
Forgettable, but I'm unsure if the album's objective was more than that.

I didn't like it at first when it started, but I guess it was a manner of mood since I was kind of enjoying it, and I reached the end of the album. It's not outstanding, but it's a warm song for the background in the cold days.

I unlike it as much as I was expecting. I can't say they don't have a point.

This is not as good as "Funeral," which showed me that I should pay attention to Arcade Fire again, but it's a lovely album, sadly a bit longer than necessary. Nevertheless, I don't think Arcade Fire deserves 2 (or more?) spots on the 1001 list, especially given the amount of different stuff that was released around the globe until 2010 (Yes, the list is VERY English-centric, but we can always dream of seeing this excellent Arcade Fire album replaced by something interesting from Latin America for example)

It's pretty hard to evaluate this one, but receiving the different kinds of stuff on the 1001 list is very interesting. It's like a cleaning session from the amount of "same album" from the 80s that sometimes runs the list.

I think it was the first time I listened to some almost pure instrumental album, and I didn't find it boring. It's far from my favorite album from the 1001 list, but it deserves a fair 3 star rating for the production.

I should know what my rate will be even before I start it, and I also don't need to wait 1 hour to know that it will be 1 star. It's not the most generic electronic album that I have here, but still boring.

It was interesting to listen to this album. It's slightly different from the standard R&B and hip-hop from the 2000s, even being forgettable.