Reviews by leon1001

I liked the movie better.

Based on the reviews I thought that I was goint to hate this album. If you like rock music you are going to listen to some country singers, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson most of the times but the most popular songs dont sound as country as this one, the thing that I saw more complains about were the lyrics, yes, it has a lot of country cliches just like a slayer album has metal cliches, a Motly Crue has glam rock cliches, a Cypress Hill has rap cliches. It's not self councious about being what it is, it doesn't try to change to appeal to other audiences, it wants to be a country album and at that it does a good job, at the same time I wonder if this is as good as the genre can be if its part of the 1001 albums. Anyway, I liked the simple songs, the instrumentation, even on the song that sounds like mexican norteño.

Cómo no le voy a poner 5 estrellas so este disco me hizo darme cuenta que stamos flotando en el espacio, que la felicidad te hace llorar, que todos los que conozco algún día morirán y en lugar de decir todas tus despedidas hazles saber que te das cuenta de que la vida pasa rápido. Es difícil hacer que las cosas buenas duren.

Buen disco. Horrible portada.

Estoy muy viejo y fuera de onda como para si quiera intentar entender esta música.

4 estrellas para black magic woman, 2.5 para el disco en general. Un momento brillante dentro de un disco muy genérico.

Albumiño exelentiño

I was expecting to like this album because I liked Fragile but it was really boring. Maybe it was added to the list as an album with historical value for what was to come for the band.

More brit pop. But I cant be unbiased with this one, I listened to it in highschool and it was my door to understanding what britpop was.

Based on the reviews I was expecting something much worse and this is not bad, it's quite good actually but it's more brit pop, makes me wonder if most of the critics were English that there are so many brit pop albums in this list. I guess that's the problem with a 1001 list of anything, you are not only listening to the album you are comparing the album to what you've listened to and what you are expecting to listen to and I hope I can listen to a lot less brit pop.

Some good moments but not enough or good enough to justify this long of an album.

Old people music... I loved it.

The only song that I had listened by the pretenders was the Ramones cover "something to believe in" in the "We're a happy family" tribute album. It was the quietest, slowest song in the album but it was one of the best. If they were part of the punk movement before being considered new wave, that is a good way to classify them, like the softest part or punk but still really good. The whole album is good, not one song seems out of place or made to fill space but not one single song was that good to consider this as a great album.

I really liked it. At its best moments it made me think of how could sound a female led and more conventional tool but at its worse it made me think of a very generic nu metal band and that range it's too wide. Still I'm glad I discovered this band. Almost a month within this project this is the first new album I discovered that I really enjoyed

Waaaay to folky for me.

Someone said they it deserved 5 stars just because Gimmie shelter and it has some of the best songs in their career but it also has some weak moments.

Horrible. Boring, over sentimental on every song. You would expect someone that looks as such a loser as in the cover at least learned to write good songs but the lyrics seemed to be written by a highschool boy that wants to write poetry. This album makes me wonder if finding new music is worth listening to music this bad.

Loved it. I hadn't eve heard her name before, I wasn't expecting much but it was a pleasant surprise. Not every song is a master piece but it has enough great moments and the album as a whole is cohesive enough to be called a great album.

2.5 ⭐
Talking about brit pop this Super Furry Animals album wasn't supposed to be one of its best examples, there is no recognizable voice, there is not one memorable melody but is no supposed to be ignored either. It's just... acceptable. An ok debut album by a band that endure the test of time by being an ok band and were for better or for worse part of a movement that for some time dominated the music environment.

Another rock and roll album with covers? This rolling stones boys will be over before they put out anything worth listening to.