Reviews by james_mir

I shouldn't, but I enjoyed this incredible bland album!

It's a good album, considering that it's a death metal one. Interesting to "learn" about the origins of such an important style, even when it's far from what I really enjoy. 3 stars

Pretty standard from a musical perspective, but much more interesting than half of the list (the original 1001 and the user's list).

too country-i for my ears, but not totally waste of time

The users of this site really enjoy Canadian music, even when it's not Canadian at all! 🙃

I found this album slightly worse than the one selected for the official list, but still good enough for background music while working. Nothing else really stood out to me.

Great songs (for the deaf and non-deaf), but a bit longer than they should be to be perfect.

(I'll not check 'cause I'm lazy, but it would be curious if the album length was precisely the duration of a trip from LA to Joshua Tree. (I'll) never know)

Do not ask me why, but I have loved this band since the first time I listened to them. This is not my favorite album, but I'l left a 5 before finishing it.

A few times amusing, but too often annoying.

Electronic music is not for me, but I see value in some albums, mainly when they push the boundaries into novelty, which electronic artists do a lot. I felt it with this album, since it has a nostalgic feeling, but it's a modern nostalgia, based on video game and electronic device sounds (something in the line of vaporwave, but less dreamy).

It's a pitch that it's also too irregular to be a good album. Some songs are totally underwhelming compared to the rest of the album, and we didn't need 1 hour of it, for sure.

These songs based on samples are indeed interesting (and apparently appealing to the list's public, since I got "MOMENTUM" some weeks ago, which follows the same approach), but it's also a bit tiring. However, when I check that this is a 1989 album, it becomes more interesting to me and more appropriate for the list's general purposes. They were ahead of their time and deserve an extra point from me.

Fun in the first or second songs, but it becomes repetitive quite quickly, considering it's a record under 30 minutes.

The album could easily be summarized in one phrase: "not bad, but unbelievably predictable."

I've listened to this album so many times that it's become annoying, and I must say I only know this band because another user added it to the list.

It's not a good album. It's 1 star. However, I must give it credit for some experimentation out of my usual box, and another credit for not being US/UK. It leads my final note in 3 stars, not bad.

It's hard to evaluate such a recent album when framing it alongside classical and essential stuff, but it's enjoyable, even if it's a bit XXI-century bland pop-rock.

It deserves some credit for being so different from the standard black metal. I'll not go back to it so soon, but it was a good listening experience.

Reggae is not in my comfort zone, and I'm sure about it. However, this album is quite calm and soulful, so I ended up enjoying the ride. Also, it deserves another credit to represent this genre, so underrepresented on the original 1001 list (even not enjoying it, I can recognize that only 10 or 12 albums may fit well in a reggae category, and it's a shame for the book), and this one looks like an important one to be missed.

It's maybe too long to really stick with me for its full length, but it's an impressive hardcore from the early emo days.

Dream Theater, right? Always impressive and very often tiring.

Others did before, did after, and did it (usually) better.

Some time ago, in the official 1001 list, I gave a 5-star rating to a band/album named "The United States Of America". When this album started, I was really afraid to give another 5 stars, and now I'm giving it to the President.

It'd be a shame to me to praise a country like that so much 🙃, especially in 2026.

Happily (?), this one was a good album, but it ends up not being a bit repetitive and derivative to my ears.