Reviews by james_mir

This was a nice album, but I don't have too much to say about it.

For me, it's far from "Cosmo's Factory" that is also on this list and is much better. Cool classic 70's rock.

This album is rare. I like very much to listen to these pre-punk albums.

Patti Smith is one of my favourites. Great album

I never listen to it before and reading the Wikipedia article, I got the relevance for John Prine. However, for me, it still looks like a piece of really boring country music.

In the best moments of the album, it remembers me of a bad cover of the worst songs from Bob Dylan.

This was simply great! The vocals, the guitar, the drums, the bass, the whole band, the album cover. Even not liking too much the "live" inserts in the middle of the songs, this still is a great piece of modern music. Enough said!

I can't get what the metal scene has with "The prodigy". For me, it's just the basic electronic music with some new beats that didn't make too much to create good songs.

This is the second prodigy's album that I get in this project and for the first one I gave 2 stars, but now, just electronic music: nice at the party, bad in my ears. Prefer the metal covers from this album, they are much better than it.

Listen to this album these days sounds a little bit old, but keeping in mind the importance of public enemy for hip-hop history, it's very easy to note the importance of it.

I liked to note how much rock samples were used in these early hip-hop songs. For sure, I'm biased, but I believe that more modern hip-hop songs lost this link with rock songs.

It's hard to explain, but however this album and "Parklife" have just 1 year of difference, this album is far away from the quality that I got listening to "Parklife".

The album itself is fun. They have a lot of good experimentation and the songs are fine.

I didn't note anything so much special about it, but I can get a lot of samples that were got from this album to create great modern hip-hop songs, so I got how much it influences modern songs, reason that I think that justifies the presence of the album in this list.

For the album itself, it was a nice experience, but just it.

It's not perfect (far from it). It's not the best thing that happened to the music...

However, listen to it makes me remember my teenage years and so I'll give it 5 stars just for it.

I was not expecting this one. When I read the "synth-pop" style on the Wikipedia page I imagined something so different than what I got.

It's not anything genial or like but it's like some good parts of that "New Order"'s style that are enough good for an album and a good discover.

This is nice. Nothing special, good to know some curiosities on the most famous ABBA album, but nothing more to say.

I understand the rave vibes, but this could be good if each song had 2 or 3 minutes less.

He is not the king of pop without reason.

His sound is still pop and still fresh even after more than 30 years. Not generic pop music, but a really great mixture of jazz and soul music that is extremely catchy!

I'll give it 4 stars because I know that is not the best of MJ yet, but it's a great album.

Almost 1 hour of Mariah Carey?

That is...at least, unexpected.

A good album if you want to listen to the same song for 50 minutes.

That clean and inoffensive hip-hop/pop/soul mix does not mean anything in the end, but I assume that there are some nice songs for some busy days when you won't turn off your mind and do not think or enjoy the music at all.

This was a nice experience. A progressive rock that really looks progressive and sounds erudite.

I liked it, but I didn't love it. Good point for not be a long album. 40/50 min for an album in this style is more than enough for me (especially for progressive music where the albums are frequently too much long).

This is a very specific experience. I know this album and I loved it the first time I listened to it some years ago, but re-listen to it now made me note how much Kendrick Lamar was "raw" and inexperienced when it was launched.

His work as so much better now that even this album being a classic for modern hip-hop, it's easy to note the fails and drawbacks.

An awesome album that, for me, was overcome by the new albums, but it's still a great work.

I never liked too much of Elvis Costello, but this is another surprise brought to me by this project.

I never like it because I never listened to the phase with "The Attractions". This album is the second one of "Elvis Costello & The Attractions" and it's another classical with a lot of references and good songs. It's not so linear and has one or two downsides, but it's definitively a great album!

I'm not sure if I listened to an album from a band or an album from a soundtrack of some generic romantic comedy. These songs are so recognizable like if I listened to them every day, but at the same time, they are new for me.

Well, a pretty fine romantic album, but nothing exactly special.

This was a very different album. I was prepared for something very electronic and 2000's feelings, but I found one of the precursors of the sample used in hip-hop music (maybe).

Is this instrumental? Is this some kind of risk vinyl disk? What it is?

In short, this is far away from the best album on this list and it's not exactly my kind of music, but it makes me realize the purpose of this project (and probably my reason to keep into it).

This is awesome. Enough said