Reviews by mailia

I imagine this would have been even better had it been recorded at a studio, but it's still great.

Can't say I much enjoyed that.

I was expecting to give this a 1/5 after having heard Sepultura's Roots earlier during the project, but no, this one's actually good. Imagine my fucking surprise.

Starts out dogshit
Then gets less bad
Never gets good

I think this was quite an enjoyable listen.

Had a hard time deciding between 3/5 and 4/5.

It's alright.

Very good but I'd say it's still more of a 4/5 to me than a full 5/5.

This is the most violent jazz I have ever heard in my life. I don't know if it's cheating that I took a break in middle of listening. I get the feeling that John Zorn intended me to be battered for 40 minutes straight. Maybe that's why I consider this to be kinda brilliant. And insane. Much better than the 68th mediocre, 3/5 pop-rock album. I guess I just like jazz way more than I previously thought?

Some of you have basically no sense of adventure, no desire to venture out.

I usually dread whenever a new album comes up on this list, but this is chill.

Meh?

I can understand its inclusion on the list while listening to it, but it doesn't necessarily do that much for me. I imagine not being American doesn't help.

Better than I expected.

I was expecting some very bad metal from the album cover, but it instead was meh rock.

Seems like very generic pop-rock.

The cover art might be better than the album.

It's okay, but that's about as far as I'd go.

I'm not a fan of live albums in the first place, and as far as live albums go, this isn't a particularly good one. It also goes on for too long.

I think this might be the first album past the original 2005 edition of the book that I actually enjoy properly. Maybe those later editions aren't a complete waste of everyone's time.

This is a hard 3/5 if I've heard one.