Reviews by james_mir

Very easy-to-listen music, but it ends up being so generic that it's hard to care with it after 30 min, and it keeps playing.

There is no way to be more old-school than this album. This is not necessarily good or bad, and the album per see is nice, but it is one of the best candidates to be excluded in future editions of the 1001 list. There are a lot of albums that can be included in place of this one.

The best Rod Stewart I've ever listened to, which does not mean so much actually. 3 stars

It's awful; I hated it.

Five stars

This one surprised me a lot! Looking at the cover art, it immediately gives me the impression that I was about to listen to some copy of a copy of the worst of Beast Boys or something like that. In the end, I was kind of right about it (😅), but at least they do a good copy, and they are almost bright with some novelty in their best songs.

Never heard about them before, look like a cover band, sounds like a good cover band and it was a nice listening session. 3

I don't get their importance, even if I don't consider it an awful album. I enjoy the non-English insertions on some songs and the album's general mood, but it is still too much repetitive. 2 starts for me

Reaching 600 albums, I was sure that this was not possible. However, I dislike every song on this album. It's possibly important for music history or some musical movement like the new wave, but it's totally unpleasant.

This is not good for 2023, but it's far from the worst thing I've ever listened to and far from the worst thing I got here on the 1001 list.

Another week comes with another Sonic Youth album on the 1001 list. With one more, I promise to give 5 stars. Keep trying.
For this one, it's not as good as the last SY (we are becoming friends) I received here, but it's not bad.

Attractive covers from some good rock n' roll classics. The original songs are good, like a noisy version of Beatles or Rolling Stones; that was probably the trend when the album was released.

It was an interesting listening session, even though it was not remarkable.

Excepting 1 or 2 songs, it sounds exactly like a Flashback collection from the 80s. I expect to listen to some of these songs in a restaurant or something like that. It's not that bad, but totally forgettable.

Despite some repetitiveness, this is a great, revolutionary album for 1996. The trend of thrash metal mixed with traditional Brazilian music was a huge bet that gave Sepultura a significant part of their success.

I was thinking I received another album from Joan Baez some months ago, but apparently, I imagined it or listened to something very similar. This is precisely the problem of the album, it has some authenticity, but it is still highly similar compared with some other albums from the list. A genuinely 2-star album.

Her voice resembles somehow of Janis Joplin, and it gave me some nice goosebumps that increased my rate to 3 stars

The mysterious album cover inspires some curiosity, especially being a band I've never heard about. However, it's just generic 2000s rock without much personality. 2 stars is enough

It's hard to say that this is not one of the best albums I've ever listened to, but this is my point of view. Hendrix is a master, but listening to his songs in a row like this album doesn't cause an ecstasy sensation like getting some of his live presentations randomly in some social network feed.

Maybe it's a matter of the day's mood, though, I don't know. "Spanish Castle Magic" was new to me, and it is the best song on the album.

C'mon! It's not too bad as it looks by looking at the worst albums on the 1001 list. It is over-egocentric and It lacks originality, lyricism, and production, but it still is important for some music genres(I don't know which genres, since Kid Rock doesn't either. Maybe Nu metal? Rap-Rock? We'll never know)

I think that the interludes are entirely unnecessary, but it's an absolutely fantastic album.

This was very impressive. After listening to 2 albums from Velvet Underground, I had clear expectations for this one when I received it, but it was a surprise to note that the album goes in a completely different direction, and it's great.

This was the first concept album that made me care about the characters. Of course, I've listened to some good concept albums (I received, I think, 4 or 5 on this list), but this one made me think about the characters and listen to the album like a fiction book or something like that.

It sounds so wishy-washy that I almost forget I was listening to it until the third or fourth song. Then I enjoyed it a bit, but it still has a sound that harkens back to the less memorable tracks from the 90s.

It's not the worst thing in the music world but it is entirely forgettable.

PS: The "Iron Man" cover is on the edge of disrespect.

I enjoyed it more than I expected when I received the album this morning. However, it is still repetitive and too much standardized, especially compared to other stuff on the 1001 list. I like to receive new albums (after 2010), but I think that the quality of an album to be included in such a list as 1001 will always need to prove itself over time, and 5 or 6 years is not enough to really be considered an album to be listened to before die.