Reviews by james_mir

I think that I'm in a classical week!

I know Sam Cooke by name but I never heard a whole album from him and now I have a new favorite album for my list of best albums. Nuff said!

This is another of that cases where is pretty hard to rate. While this is classical and influenced almost everything, it's also a little bit repetitive. I need to give it 4 stars, even knowing that it should be 5.

It was very nice (and unexpected) to get utterly instrumental jazz that does not look like a revolution or something like that. I didn't expect this "normal" jazz album on this list.

It was a pretty lovely album and it's worth it, for sure although I believe that I'm suspect. This is the exact type of song that I like to discover.

Altough a little bit repetitive, it's not a bad release. It's funny because some songs from the same decade sound so fresh and songs like those from this album sound so...old fashion.

This is not necessarily bad, there are plenty of old-fashioned songs that are still great in 2022. These ones are fine but not great and that's nice. Sometimes, we need to listen to nice songs that are not classical quintessential music.

She had a great and powerful voice. I'll probably look for other releases from her.

It was a very unexpected album. I already heard "Paper Planes", but the rest of the album was very interesting. Normally, I don't like a high mixture of styles exactly because it gives less personality to the album, but this one was an exception. The different styles of music are used in the right place.

Apparently, the 1001 book's author was very into electronic (and related synth styles) music when he/they wrote the book. I'm reaching 1 year following 1 album per day and it's almost impossible to spend 1 month without some electronic album.

Well, about this album itself, it's kind of amusing. It's hard for me to say that I liked it, but it's not annoying like some other electronic albums. I hope to learn more about this style and finally get what is all about and why so many electronic/synth albums like this one are important for music history.

Nothing so much different from ordinary independent 90's rock with the addition of a little bit more screaming. Probably it was kind of revolutionary for 1992.

Nothing so bad, but not memorable!

I never heard about Spiritualized and didn't have much information about "space rock", but I loved this album.

The last songs are a little bit exaggerated for my taste, but the first songs are more than a good reward to receive for these last songs. I rate it with 4 stars for the whole album, but absolutely 5 stars for the first half of the album.

It's very nice to note that the late 90s (that I lived and liked very much) still have these hidden gems to find out.

The exact same (absurdly amazing) hard rock song for 1 hour.

I didn't have the right feeling to really enjoy this live album, but it's very likable and impossible don't to note how much influent (also influenced by their predecessors) it is.

Somedays I miss hard rock like this, even not being so good

Musically impeccable. For me, this album almost deserves 5 stars. The only problem is the lack of variability among the songs. They are amazing, but it looks like a 40 min long song instead of an album.

This is the second "Dire Straits" that I got on this list and it's much better than the other one. The guitar here is incredible.

Is this just a REM from an alternate universe where every song is not so good?

It's strange to listen to an album that I never heard about, even recognizing almost every song. This could be good or bad depending on the listener.

In my case, this is good.
An unknown classical

It was nice to listen to this first Eagles release, but for me, this album is the definition of "not so bad and not good enough".

A perfect 3 stars album.

This was absolutely unexpected for me. Totally different from Simon's previous works, with a lot of influence from other song styles, and very nice songs. The kind of album that shines in the crowd of mediocre albums around.

However, for me, it's still far from a perfect record. It lacks a little bit of Simon's personality.

It's easy to note the importance of the album and how it resounds even these days in pop music.

Maybe i'm not in the right vibe for it, but it sounds like a very generic 90's pop rock.

Ok. It's nice for a 1-hour long guitar solo.

Because of my last experience with Massive Attack, I was expecting a 1-star album with annoying electronic music that just takes too long to be enjoyable.

I'm happily surprised that this was not exactly the case. It's still far from my preference for music, but I didn't hate these 45 minutes as I expected before. I believe that the hip-hop and reggae influence in some songs helped a lot to be an almost enjoyable album.

This was a great surprise. An album with a soul!

This was totally unexpected for me. Based on the cover and album name, I expected something absolutely different.

And I loved it!! It was a great piece of music! The lyrics are exactly fit for the chords, the songs are great and everything works like a charm on almost all songs.

I'm reaching 350 albums at this challenge and I was missing this kind of completely unknown album that deserves 5 stars.

This is a very impressive record with much more consistency than I thought at first. I already knew "Mr. Blue Sky" and some other songs, but never had listened to it as a whole album and it makes much sense listening to it in this way.

The final result is a little bit repetitive, but it's definitively a great album.