Reviews by magsmusic

This album screams hippie drug-tripping rock. I only knew Sunshine of Your Love, so the rest was new to me. Beyond that one I enjoyed Strange Brew, Tales of Brave Ulysses, SWLABR, and Outside Woman Blues.
There lyrics were interesting and very descriptive and symbolic, likely connected to their trips, which was really impressive and neat (most of the time). Dance the Night Away wasn't overall my favorite but the picture they were weaving with the lyrics was well done.

I liked the Cisco Kid and Where was You At. Four Cornered Room had a good political message and appropriate lyrics and music. Instrumental jazz/funk is not always my thing, but I really liked City, Country, City because it made sense and worked as a cohesive song but also as solos. The World is a Ghetto was also a good song and the music conveyed emotions and music in an amazing way.

Never heard of this group or album so I did a little reading. I don't hate this album but I don't see how there is soooo much love for this album. It isn't bad, but it isn't anything amazing. I also don't really get the connection to the 12 dreams. Some songs on their own were okay, but overall it was slightly disjointed to me, and not in a good way.
I liked Animal Zoo, Street Worm. I sort of liked Nature's Way and Mr. Skin, but they were also a little repetitive.
I didn't dislike it but it I didn't love it and probably won't make me investigate them move. Just another psychedelic album.

Somehow this group can be polarizing, but honestly they are just fun. I don't know where they fit into the evolution of disco and the music scene in the 70's but honestly they are just fun and something to dance to. Even their slow songs I can't help but shake to. Is there anything life changing here, no, but sometimes just dancing and smiling is enough! The fact that they are still known today speaks something to being able to write a catchy fun song.

Very 80's, it is interesting how some music just oozes that time period and I would say this album does that.
I liked Arch of a Diver and While You See a Chance. After a while though the 80s sounds just blended together and nothing seemed super special. Each song was also just a little long.

This was a classic album that was good to listen to as a full album and not just the hits. Spotify wouldn't let me listen to Disc 3 so I am focused on 1 and 2.
One weird observation The Trial sounds like Jack Skeleton! His lament song had to have been inspired by the Trial. It sounded just like it could fit perfectly into the Nightmare before Christmas!
There were the obvious classics that were great (Run Like Hell, Young Lust, Another Brick in the Wall, Mother). I also really liked Goodbye Blue Sky and it was one I never heard before. I also liked some of the middle songs that transitioned between and gave you a better idea of the entire feel of the album. There were a couple that I did not enjoy or were just out there (Empty Space and Vera) but overall it was a great album, and really should be included on lists like this one.
Didn't like Empty Spaces, Vera
Obvious ones I like Run Like Hell, Young Lust, Another Brick in the Wall, Mother

I couldn't listen to the majority of Disc 3

I didn't mind Tom Violence, Shadow of a Doubt or Secret Girl.
The rest had too much of a performance piece vibe for me. The sounds weren't all bad, I just felt like they should be along with an art installation or a performance. On their own they felt unfinished. Some were totally lost on me, like Into the Kingdom, and didn't really fit into the whole album.

This is not the first Bowie album to follow the Bowie format. They start with traditional Bowie songs and move into these instrumental sections, making them somewhat disconnected as an album but I am sure it is because he wants these other songs to get noticed and out to the masses. I liked Joe the Lion and Heroes. The rest were good but were just a little too far out there for me to love.

I am not sure where I am at with this one. It started okay (kind of liked Caligari's Mirror) but then it just got weird and borderline painful to listen to. I didn't hate the content and meaning, just too much of everything. Maybe I am getting old but half the time I couldn't even understand him.

She has a beautiful voice and super deep, symbolic beautiful lyrics. It was super unique and different. The scifi feelings imparted on classical, hip hop, R&B and afrocentric sounds was really interesting. The only criticism is there might have been a little too much on the album and it didn't all seem to flow all the time. But it really did feel like it could be the soundtrack to a scifi musical about a droid looking for love.

This guy had energy! I can only imagine he sweat like his album cover when he performed because it is so full of life, energy, fun and emotion. Nothing is super deep, but its so fun it doesn't need to be. This is music you can dance to and have a good time! While no piece on its own is spectacular, all together it is!

Reminds me of what Rage Against the Machine tries to do. Focusing on societal issues that are important and needs to be discussed. But this falls shorts in some ways. The lyrics are good and tackle important topics but are so straightforward with no symbolism. The beats weren't bad, but had a high school and unpolished vibe. I could also see how they can be polarizing, by talking about the hypocrisy and issues within the culture that is the typical rap audience. Overall I can see some glimmers of good and influential in the album.

This one to me was just good. I want to like it more because the songs tackle some tough topics (misaligned wealth, drugs, exterminating native populations, etc.) but for some reason they just miss slightly to me.
Absolutely love Tiny Dancer!

I do not listen to jazz at all so I am completely unaware if this is good, bad or influential in the jazz world.
What I do know is I like it. I don't listen to jazz because I don't feel like it has a flow, I feel like it is all over the place and the instruments don't really work together but do their own thing. However, for me this was totally different, worked together and made sense in coherent musical pieces.
It was different because it was more electric and not just jazz band instruments, which was also cool and a different experience.
It did give me the vibes of background music in an elevator or a store, but it was still enjoyable.

I was once on a bus at Disney World having a deep discussion about Coldplay and if you could just like Coldplay or if you could only love or hate Coldplay. At that time I was not a Coldplay fan arguing it all sounded the same. Chris Martin's voice is so distinct yet always the same, and the instruments just always have the same balance of everything. I was also in my 20s and wasn't drawn to the existential lyrics.

Listening to a whole album also some variety (I would argue Martin's voice is still one note). I liked the guitar on Shiver and Spies and Sparks were interesting. Now that I am older I appreciate the lyrics more now.

They have grown on me but I don't love them. So future self wins the battle declaring you can just 'like' Coldplay.

She has such a beautiful voice, that is so effortless and yet passionate and emotional. So much love and pain in the album, truly a classic and beautiful album.

This is so iconic and good. It is not trying to be too overboard but just simple and chill (if that is a thing in rap). The other thing I appreciate is that its not too much. So many rap artists just go so hard and far with themes of violence, superiority, misogyny. Yes those themes are here, but at a level that matches where culture was at this time without. Dre may not be as big as his proteges but this shows why he was able to recruit such amazing talent, because he is good and knows what he is doing.

It was through and through late 80s early 90s and feels like each song came straight out of a movie I watched growing up. Good, nostalgic but nothing stunning. Sort of blended together as it went on.

This feels so Bowie and so good. It was cohesive made sense and was fun. Musically everything worked together and had such a unique beautiful quality. Love Changes, Pretty Things and Queen Bitch

So I really hoped that this would be in Portuguese so I wouldn't have to really pay attention to the lyrics. Overall comment what is it with metal singers singing like they really really really need to cough? That singing just ruins it for me and takes out the originality of the vocals, making all metal sound the same. Also they just repeat scream the same lines over and over...the repetitiveness lyrics just make the songs longer without adding much. All of the songs just sound the same after a while.

Metal rant done...I read reviews which lead me to reading the lyrics for the songs. That helped and there is some beauty there and refreshing to see them speak of real world issues.
I liked tiny parts of Ratamhatta...the parts that showed the Brazilin influence. Jasco and Itsari were really cool.
I can see how someone could give this a 3 or 4 (maybe) but I really can't listen to this again.