Reviews by james_mir

This was just strange. It's not strictly jazz, not precisely blues, not exactly hip-hop (Wikipedia lists it, so...), and it doesn't look like any experimentalism mixing everything. Being so, it's pretty hard to evaluate it. It's not annoying to listen to it, but it's also not eye-popping. Yeah, I think I got the perfect three stars...

Musically it is interesting, but it's not so nice to listen to it.

I don't know if this is a masterpiece or two masterpieces. Maybe three masterpieces if I consider the combo "Hey Ya!"+"Roses" are a third masterpiece by themselves.

It was a great album; however, the new albums from Kendric also overcame it. Even being really good, it's not possible to give it more credit than "To pimp..."

This was a lovely experience. It sounds a bit outdated in 2023, but it's just the normal outdated and not some bizarre ancient as is the case for many other albums on the list.

I don't know if there is more arrested development on the list, but I'm sure I'll listen to their echoes on many other more recent hip-hop albums.

It has some potential but it ends up just being generic and annoying.

Being a country album already indicates that I'll listen to the same song for 30 to 50 min, but this is just the usual when country albums are picked for me on the list.

Despite that feeling, I think we have good work on this album, given the time it was released. The instrumental work is well done, and the voices are not annoying, even when singing annoying songs. The gospel section of the album was a surprise for me, but it was also good enough for a gospel country.

I'll probably forget this album in some weeks, but I'm happy for not having another bad experience with country music.

The first time I listened to Elliott Smith was on the 1001 list a year ago or so ("Either Or" album). At that time, I enjoyed it, but I was unprepared for how much this was way better than "Either Or."

It reaches me this time.

I don't think it's a perfect album, but everything from the lyrics to the production is well done and caught my attention and emotions.

Somehow, I miss this type of light R&B that was so common during the 2000s. At the same time, I wonder how something can be so generic that it is forgettable 1 second after finishing the listening session.

They deserve one extra star for being a bit ahead of their time.

Old but g.... Wait, it's just old anyway

It's not so remarkable, but it's pretty good.

It's clear they were much ahead of their time, but even listening to it at the "right time," I still didn't like it. They influence a lot of good people according to the Wikipedia page, so they deserve some extra points, but not a new listening session.

It started with a total potential to be a good and modern R&B, but it ended up being just a strange mix of 2000s pop and electronic music. It's not for me!

I think we never have enough Def Leppard, but I guess I would enjoy it much more if I had listened to it some years ago.

I liked it much more than I expected, maybe because "Sex on Fire" was huge on my corner during my teenage years, but we never know. Perhaps I like Kings of Leon.

I think it's impossible to listen to something from the 50s in 2023 that doesn't sound at least a bit outdated. I appreciate the effort of the book author to keep this kind of classical stuff on the list, but it's pretty hard to find the real hidden gems among the albums from that time.

Whenever I receive something unknown on the 1001 list, I can bet on country or electronic music, and my chances are almost 80% that I will be correct.

This one was country; as usual, every song is the same.

This album deserves an extra star for the clever use of some instruments in the last songs and for effectively portraying the country mood in the tunes, which is quite challenging to find in some other country albums on the list (they are terrible).

It was far from the quality I found in the "Holy Bible" that I got some months ago on the list, but still an honest indie rock album that was enjoyable.

After almost 800 albums, I finally found one enjoyable electronic album that was not included in the list only because of its importance in music history. Maybe it happened because the book author insisted on selecting so many electronic examples.

Even a broken clock is correct two times a day. It's a 3.5 stars.

This is an excellent album, but I think I got it here a bit late on the list. Getting such an influential album after listening to many albums influenced by it is much less impressive.

It's an album that deserves attention, but listening to it with some contextualization is mandatory.