Reviews by james_mir

The difference between "Ok Computer" and this album is whopping. I prefer the first since my taste for electronic music is not so accurate and, usually, I'm not too fond of it. Still, I must assume that some songs caught my attention—a solid 3 stars in my not-so-solid personal rate system.

It's very nice to know a little bit more about the post-punk movement, but it's a very strange and hard-to-follow album.

This was a lovely experience! Roots blues music is perfect for Mondays!
It's not one of the best albums of my life, but is absolutely good to listen to these clean guitars!

I know some songs from Arcade Fire, but this was my first time listening to their debut as a whole. It's a great work, musically and lyrically. I don't have any bad comments about what I've listened to now!

It was delightful to (re)discover a band that was just "a standard indie rock band" until today.

It's far from his best albums for me, but it's a very solid debut from one of the worst persons in the whole world (a great rapper, though)

I liked the idea of the album, I enjoyed a lot some songs, but overall, it was a little bit annoying to reach to the end of this. It's not a bad album, but it's much better to listen to The Who's greatest hits rather than this album.

Much better than I thought at first glance. I was not expecting such solid and personal songs. I was expecting some generic pop songs and was surprised by this potent work. Without this 1001 list, I'd never think about listening to Robbie Williams, but now I'm looking for his newest albums 🙂.

Besides the tremendous single "School's Out," this is a pretty classic album from the 70/80s hard rock and metal scene. Alice Cooper is essential in rock history, but I think this album is not among his best works.

After listening to the other two Velvet Underground albums on this list, this one is pretty "normal." The Wikipedia page says it's a less experimental album than the previous ones, which is nice. It shows the band's versatility and good qualities in almost any music genre.

Not considering "The Murder Mystery," all ballads in this album are enjoyable and easy to listen to. The song "The Murder Mystery" is actually a good break almost at the end of the album to show us that we are still listening to Velvet Underground.

Not the best stuff from this list, but good enough since its historical influence. When I started this challenge, I was kind of afraid of listening to this band and not understanding it. After listening to 3 albums from them, I'm not a fan, but I noted that it is pretty easy to understand good music, no matter how experimental or strange.

It's interesting how this album is so influential for many rock bands after Motorhead, even if it is not a great album. It's too monothematic, musically and lyrically. I enjoyed the long length of almost 2 hours with not-so-good record quality, but it's because is my preferred style of music since I was very young. However, it's not in my list of 1001 albums that people MUST listen to before they die...maybe if the list goes to 2000 albums.

I liked this album, but it's pretty long. It's interesting to see how many different hip-hop styles we have only in one album. It sounds exactly like what I expected for one 90s/2000s hip-hop album. The cultural mixes of the end of the XX century are all here. Reducing 30 minutes and being a little less repetitious would be one of the great hip-hop releases from the last decades.

This is one of the essential pieces of Brazilian music, and I cannot give it less than five stars. All the influences from psychedelic rock and Brazilian traditional rhythms like samba are here, making an impressive album with a lot of poetry in its lyrics.

I love this album!

This is one of my favorite albums since it was one of my first real contact with Bowie's work. I already know him by name and some MTV singles, but this was one of my first listening sessions, some years before started this 1001 list challenge. Since then, I've already listened to other albums from him (because of the list and also by myself) and I'm becoming more and more of a fan.

Usually, I'm not a big fan of live albums, and I'm also unaware of "Cheap Trick." I heard about the band, I know a few songs, but this is all.

And after listening to this album, I must say, "wow." Their energy is contagious even in a record. I'd love to have the opportunity to watch a real live presentation of this band after this album.

You know, they are the Rolling Stones, and no matter what they do, they will perform well. I didn't like so much of this album, even enjoying these bluesy songs from the stones, because I think the album is to monothematic. Sympathy for the devil is an astonishing song that I've listened to so many times that became a personal classic for me (I guess for everyone), but the other songs are just good blues played by the Stones. They can do whatever they want and it's good.

This is a pure sentiment put in music.

Not my cup of tea, but it's a not-intrusive ambiance sounds good to listen to during work hours.

This album mixes "cool! good English folk stuff" and "is this just generic nostalgic 80s songs?".

For me, it's a solid 3-stars. However, since I discovered this band on this list with their first album, it's strange that I gave five stars for the first, with much more solid work, and three to this one, but I'm not a suitable parameter when giving stars/points, so I accept my incongruencies 😁.

Lovely album! Smooth songs for a smooth Friday!

I'm very impressed with never heard about "Machito" before. He made a real contribution to Latin culture and other Afro-Cuban cultures.

I hope to get more of this kind of music here on this list!

It's funny to listen to this album. SOAD was one of my favorite bands during my teenage years, and I still enjoy their music. However, I have never listened to this album as a whole album since today. It was a great experience that reminded me why I liked them 10 or 15 years ago.