Reviews by magsmusic

It is always wonderful to get an album you are familiar with and already love. It makes the experience a little bit different and really force you to focus on it deeper. Stevie Nicks is an angel and her vocals are unique and so full of character emotion. However, we can't overlook Christine. She has such a beautiful voice and is the hidden gem in the group. The songs lyrics are just so amazing and deep. Favs are the Chain, Gold Dust Women and You Make Loving Fun. There sound, even today, is so unique and different but so wonderful. The other thing that stands out with this group (and album) is how much is written about break ups and romance and they were all romantically intertwined with one another and members of the band and crew. They worked on these songs separately about their own emotions and they can all get together and flawlessly work through those emotions to create a really special beautiful album.

This is the second by K.D. Lang and I enjoyed this one so much more. Her voice and emotions really drew me in so much more. I could imagine being there in the room with her and her voice really draw me in and appreciate the songs. Nothing felt forced and was completely natural. It flowed so effortlessly. One thing that I noticed about this album I have never seen in music before was how she sang in such a beautiful soprano voice that is so feminine but when singing she could evoke the feelings of masculine presence and then switch that essence in the next song. Tears Don't Care Who Cries Them had such female energy but then Stars Don't Get in Your Eyes was so Masculine. Same with I'm Down to my Last Cigarette to Busy Being Blue. But it was still all her, seemed to go together and flow into these varying sides of her.
Quirky note...Did anyone else think I wish I didn't love you sounded like I'll be home for Christmas?

Its really pretty, I think I would have really enjoyed it more if I could have been sitting around a fire or out in nature but overall it was still enjoyable.

Wow, I totally get why this album was on here because they were a super group and the impact they had on 2000's music was so big (good or bad). These three are pop culture icons, and Beyonce recently became the second female musician billionaire. One cannot deny at least one of the albums by these ladies should be on this list.
But in retrospect, this is sooooo 2000's cringe pop culture, from the outfits they are wearing, to the movie and actress name drops, to the female empowerment followed immediately by female catty slut shaming. They took everything in the 2000's and created a brand, a persona, a lifestyle, a phenomenon that oozed everything girls wanted to be and boys wanted their girls to be. If Cosmo and Essence birthed the perfect females it would be these three. They are talented in dancing and singing, as well as making songs that pop culture wants and pays for. Not sure in retrospect I would call it good quality music but man back in the day I danced and sang along to these songs with the rest of the world!

Another meh...it started okay, but then it was like they got too high to keep making the music and just faded into strumming along with no particular place to go. It wasn't unpleasant but just really not interesting

The song London Calling is one of the most iconic and I would say best punk songs. To me it embodies everything punk but is also not so far out there that it makes it unlistenable. So I was really excited about this album, but honestly the rest didn't hold up to that song. It kind of became more commercial, more rock, more subdued as it went on. I do like it but songs like The Right Profile and Lost in the Supermarket didn't have the edge I expect from punk music. This album was way better then the other one in the project, but not punk enough to make it a 5.

Meh, good background music to a day of working around the house. Nothing jumped out as amazing but nothing was bad.

I enjoyed the vibes but it really felt a little all over the place.

He writes some deep lyrics about some important things. They do really push the envelope and really pushes some things. However, the music gets boring and so slow and dull. I know he is folk rock and he likes the style, but just amping it up half a notch really would have brought a lot more to this album and pulled me in more to truly enjoy it.

So I am not sure why this album is here. This is a group that is one step above garage band, local celebs but shouldn't really be on a list like this (think Local H for Chicago). They are fine, but nothing amazing. On a rope wasn't bad but it was similar to a lot of stuff out there. These guys likely hustled hard and just got in front of the right person on the right day.

I don't know why but this really seemed to be an ode to his real personal life. It was interesting to listen and really think about what he was going through and writing about. It made it a lot deeper and more beautiful.

I like her sound, but I think she is a little too free and open for me to love it.

Nice, but really just background music. It was pretty but nothing super special.

Meh...they start to all sound similar. I know they are iconic but it just isn't that amazing in today's world.

So much Steely Dan. In the world of music they have their own flavor and style and they do make me feel like I am on yacht, with the Caribbean in the background. There are some hits that are enjoyable, but they also just grow old after a while. But nothing is unpleasant or not enjoyable.

It was good, nothing super surprising or different but pleasant.

Based on the album cover I thought this would be a lot more hippie and slightly more pretentious. It lives up to the pretentious nature but not so much the hippie. It is very emo early 2000's. Mostly it is fine, but nothing spectacular. Every song started to sound the same and his semi-whiny voice just didn't do anything for me. Crumb by Crumb started to show something a little different and a good mesh of his emo vibe and the hippie vibe the cover shows, but then it started to really drag and it was so far in the album to make me really enjoy the album. Plus then we moved into Old Whore's Diet (almost 9 minutes long!) and that did me in. I was on the fence of a 3 but then that last song just pushed me over into blech

The meancholyness to this drew me in but also haunted me from the start. I then read it was written while he was dying and released literal days before his death. It was really haunting and a man reflecting on his life. The only thing I wish he was able to reflect on more positives of his life and the beauty he brought into it for so many people. But then again maybe that wasn't the real him, so many colorful bright stars also have a darkness to them (not bad dark, sad dark) and maybe he really embraced that here in those last moments, he really showed the world that while he was colorful he had that darkness that was hard to shake. Overall beautiful and an honor to listen to a man's final thoughts.

This was pretty, chill and a great way to start the day. The music had happiness, sadness and movement.

At first I thought it was someone making fun of the French accent because it seemed so over the top to be true, but it wasn't. Also the first song maybe two, not bad but then it was this death metal with a sleazy french men breathing down my neck. Felt a little more like a horror movie and what a French serial killer would play for this victims. I will give it a 2 only because it was musical at least and didn't hurt my ears, it just gave me straight up creep vibes.