1001 Albums Summary

Post No Wave movement heavy influenced documentary of music.Raw and alive.Creative & experimental enough but gives you the idea it's their first album which it isn't.

I heard this album from start to finish without getting bored.Nice transitions of bpms,rhythms,styles,guitars, electronic woos and Thom Yorke's vocals that has so many layers.Overall It soothed my soul.A masterpiece to me."You can try the best you can,the best you can is good enough". It's like a mantra to my head ever since.

Absolutely fantastic album.Unique and fresh.Most of the songs are amazing!

Sweet Blues & Soul the Memphis way!This album makes you love everybody!

This album is definately creative and mixed excellently. From the beggining you know where you getting into. Piggy its autobiographical probably,March of the pings is starting super noisy then it has a dancable bridge and ends up in piano!Heresy is my thing from the album but i can see some Kurt Cobain in some breakdowns. DDD=Dark,Distorted & Disturbing(in a good creative way). 3/5 for me cause some tracks were really difficult for me to listen.

Besides the obvious hit Alright i really liked only one more song: She's so loose.

Dreamy laidback harmonies.No trophy is a pleasant reggae treat.Binnel Bay has exotic elements like a mini trip in Hawaii.Sunshine is a jazzy soul anthem almost instrumental until the end.Lying in the snow really stands out in this album for me,its a masterpiece.60's martini aesthetics in most songs.

School,Dreamer,Rudy and my personal favourite Crime of the century to name a few from this amazing album,They still have the prog elements that i love in this 3rd gem.

Back in the dayz i was really into Dnb.This album was the first that i bought and it really blew me away until this very day.The soundscapes along with the drum programming and the lush vocals is what made this album really timeless like its title and emblematic.Inner city life is a hymn.

Death thrash metal alright but in this album i think i can hear some industrial edges(samples,fx NIN style),bit more experimental and with some tribal drumming like in track Altered state.I also hear some Ministry influences.. Hardcore punk is in there as well especially in tracks like Subtraction and Desperate cry.Although i'm not that much of thrash metalhead i really enjoy this!! Personal pick: Under Siege.

Eagles is maybe one of the few country American rock bands that you can listen to non-stop!Glen Frey has a voice that really soothes your soul!They are so good that in Take it easy for example (that i really love) can play the badjo almost like an arp giving so much energy to the song!So many good songs in this album..Witchy woman,Chug all night,Take the devil,Early bird..A masterpiece.

A magical album from a tremendous country artist.Those popular songs get the willie nelson treatment and a superb production.Georgia on my mind is as dreamy as you wanted and needed.Unchained melody though is an untouchable original win all the way i think it does it justice.Moonlight in Vermont almost gives me those Sinatra vibes,fantastic.

Another one straight outta Compton.. Autobiographical about his teenage years in the dangerous streets of Compton,this second album first time in a major label has so many famous guest appearances and so many famous producers that the result is real gem. Personal picks: Bitch don't kill my vibe, Backseat freestyle which reminded me of those freestyle mixtapes back in the dayz,raw and unfiltered you know.., The art of peer pressure has a more sophisticated sampling and a nice dramatic turn reminding me of oldschool rap probably my fave out of the album, Money trees which stands out has a nice vibe and a Halle Berry reference, Poetic justice has an 80's flava and beautiful female backing vocals, Good kid has a dramatic and nostalgic 60's sampling sound with a distictive killer bass sound while m.A.A.d city depicts the anxiety,madness,the danger of the gun and drugs paranoia in the streets, Swimming pools(drank) is an amazing moody track with an awesome production making you almost a witness in the situation with a shooting in the end, Singing about me,i'm dying of thirst gave me good old Fugees vibes(12:03 minutes mind you). If you were really into oldschool rap like me you so gonna enjoy this!

Alternative rocker John Grant of Czar fame going solo with a folk band was the best thing that he ever did. Marz song is beautiful and melancholic and one of the best in the album with lyrics naming most of the candies globally . Sigourney Weaver is also an amazing song with absolutely fantastic and creative lyrics for one of these dayz when you feel weird in this world. It's easier it's also an amazing track talking to an ex lover with warmth and hope. Outer space is also a dreamy song (that i loved) when you feel you don't belong somewhere in this world. Caramel starts off well with piano and when ''my love'' lyrics begin got me instantly.He says his love is like a caramel and we melt along.This guy is obsessed with sweets in the whole album,titles and lyrics. In Leopard and lamb the violin is out of this world. ''I want to change the world but i can't change my underwear'',that's how Queen of Denmark opens..It really shows the self wondering character of the whole album and the self mocking lyrics as well. Nice alternative change with Supernatural Defibrillator. Last song What Time? has dramatic el.guitar stabs,echoes of random hours repeating and fx ending acoustically making it the best outro for this album.

Swing along with this masterpiece! Ray Charles's genius lies in his ability to sing big band songs and string-backed ballads.Beautiful big band energetic arrangements along with nostalgic,dreamy string ones!What can go wrong?Jazzy magic.I give it a 4/5 cause i'm not really into jazz(yet).

60's lover rock with orchestral parts and Sweet inspirations as backing vocals along with the superb fragile and angelic voice of Dusty Springfield seemed to have it all in an album but according to the sales back then took quite a long time to be appreciated as so many albums in this world.It soothes your soul from the beggining to the very end. Romantic and dreamy.Perfection. Personal picks if i may:Just a little lovin',Don't forget about me,The windmills of your mind,In the land of make believe,I can't make it alone and of course Son of a preacher man which was the hit of the album.

Definately creative lyrics and interesting production it's like a sneak peak in SZA's diary but i struggled from 21 songs to find some gems. Personal picks: The weekend,Supermodel,Normal girl, 20 something,Drew Barrimore(my fave,i wish the whole album was like that),Prom is a breath of fresh air-my second fave

What can someone say about this group and this album which influenced so many,that everybody knows its songs and danced to death to it...Top quality pop.Their songs are still considered hard and complex to play or cover but their genius lies that are so easy to listen and connect to,so i will try to name a few of this album beyond the obvious: My love,my life has those dreamy,angelic harmonies although it talks about breaking up,like a friendly pat in your shoulder that everything is gonna be alright. Dum dum diddle has some Mamma Mia vibes in the refrain. Knowing me,knowing you was the third single out of this album but it's my favourite sorry.That nostalgia in the couples is unbeatable! That's me is my least favourite but boy how creative to have a badjo in it! Why it have to be me?Forget about the synths and the disco vibes,you get an American bar anthem all the way. Tiger has strong drumming making it epic! Arrival has a very familiar melody playing it like a bagpipe or perhaps it's really one in it.Epic. Fernando is a bonus track that starts as a gentle march.You can hear and feel the Andes influence in the orcherstation.Like a sweet lullaby with a disco twist..This song was a bonus in two countries,i remember one of them was Australia. Happy Hawaii(also a bonus track) starts off with ocean waves and it's a praise for Honolulu.Good stuff.

I never heard of this band and i so regret it! Amazing debut album so underrated with punk energy,fluid emotional shifts & rhythmic changes,dark & dramatic edges,unbelievable expressionistic(sometimes almost bjork-ish) vocals(that sometimes gave me some chills) and sharp lyrics that makes it superb and creative from start to finish! I swear i had some Blondie vibes in some songs!10/10.

Perfect,crystal clear production with sardonic lyrics and with such balanced elements that nothing can't go wrong even keeping it's fun factor and it's their debut album!Great band,great album that i, of course own as a vinyl! Most favourite songs: Just what i needed(top favourite),Don't cha stop,You're all i've got tonight(because of the synth in the refrain),Bye bye love,Moving in stereo(for it's creativity) and of course All mixed up(second top favourite. i mean,what a song especially at the end with the synth arps and the sax). Least favourite: I'm in touch with your world.

Welcome to the 90's sound with this incredible band! Deee-lite is the best creative group combining guest artists as Bootsy Colins,Maceo Parker Q-Tip(from a Tribe called Quest),rhythms,samples like the one from 1934 cult film ''black Cat, club attitude, 60's funk grooves, soul vocals, slap bass and wah-wah guitars,trumpets, jazzy and latin piano, fx and almost everything in between!What a band again! The only band actually depicting in sound all their influences and actually naming all of them in the album,so multi-layered and multi-dimensional! With one word: Eclectic. Favourite Songs: Good Beat,What is love(clubbish to death like a trip to Mars with some acid elements).World Clique for the lyrics and the Hacienda vibes, E.S.P for it's genius sampling and rhyming-a very hypnotic club song and the infectious Groove is the heart of course cause there's nothing else like this 'till this very day!,

Funky and groovy as hell!Absolute fun and bliss to my ears!RnB/hIP-hoP never was sexier and boogie-r than in this album!Clever underground naming of songs definatelly ads to the loose fun/funk factor and maybe ispired others like Underworld's Dubnobasswithmyheadman album titling? i mean there is a little something for all in this album,see Who says a Funk band can't play Rock which says it all! 4 stars for me for some of the long plays except for the live Maggot Brain take which is one of the best phychedelic rock tracks i've ever heard and never wanted to end but it does with the crowd chanting ''think it ain't illegal yet''prologuing next song!

Epic debut album from Cyndi Lauper after her band failure. Pop rock,synth pop and new wave in 1983! I wanna say here that besides her distinctive and unique(almost punkish with incredible range)voice,Cyndi is also an amazing musician playing the dulcimer and guitar though not a lead guitarist in her albums. What can you say about an album that contains Girls just wanna have fun and Time after Time(my all time favourite-dreamy song with killer lyrics and that longing feeling and superb use of hihats from start to finish-what)? Full of great energy, nostalgic synths,gated snares,arpeggiated bass and fantastic guitars! Tracks i love beyond the obvious: When you were mine,All through the night(that synth arp kills me though the lead synth nearly destroys the song). This is for 4 stars though because her expressionism and creativity in her voice might gets too much in the rest of the songs.

As i age,i see myself liking more and more and appreciating folk rock especially from that late 60's-70's era. It's this warmth.. This playlist really opens and expands my ears(that i thought there were already there). With that said i really enjoyed this album. Favourite songs: Carried away, Cathedral(has unexpected swifts and a fantastic atmosphere my top favourite), Dark star it's just magical and hypnotic with amazing keys and bongos, Just a song before i go instantly got me with it's amazing lyrics and last song of the album I Give You Give Blind not only slows down but it's fluid with great messages and energy! it's a 3 stars for me cause at times it is too slow for me and the way one of the lead singers sings in some songs really ruins the atmosphere.

Here's the thing:When a band is at their 6th album they want to experiment or show their influences at that time or do a ''concept '' album which in latter case it will either take off or fail. In this case as it is not clear if it actually is one,you don't know how to rate this correctly. I'm in my 25th album ratings or so right now and nothing confused me and troubled me more than this ''concept'' album.I mean even the Bee Gees got confused about the final direction of this. There's definately a strong Beatles influence in here and if you hear this album as a non Bee Gees one and skip the concept factor is pretty good. There are many wrongs though that just ruin the whole atmophere from time to time,like the poor lyrics and Gibbs's falsettos,but overall i enjoyed this although i felt it was two albums in one. Songs that were pleasant to my ears more: Edison(weird for the album cohesion but still good), Melody fair is like hearing a Beatles bonus track cover but also very good, Suddenly, Lamplight, Sound of love(especially towards the end), Seven Seas symphony is an epic instrumental like a score for a movie-very well done with choir in it and everything), I laugh in your face. Never say never again is also a good song but i felt like they are mocking The Beatles sorry, So with that said it's a 3/5 for me.

Glam/hard rock at it's best and here in this album more straight-forward that the previous more progressive ones resulting to a more commercial break-through sound. All songs are amazing but my personal picks are: Brighton Rock(the guitar solos here is just wow), Tenement Funster though it's a Roger Taylor song, the delivery of the band gives justice to his vision, Flick of the Wrist following is a masterpiece,agressive where you need it with amazing lyrics as with all Freddie Mercury songs, In the lap of the Gods makes you wonder about the operatic high range of a voice,so beautiful but the Revisited one made me sing along with the crowd ''wo wo la la la wo-wo wo la la-wah wah ooh'' introducing their final big arena sound, Misfire is only 1:50 long but managed somehow to get me good-it's the guitars, She Makes me is a Brian May song,more of a slow burner,an ode to a woman with nice vibes that they change a bit towards the end getting more darker with police samples and heavy breathing. Extraordinary album.

It's 94 and Britpop certaintly had it's momentum,but though i really liked Britpop bands i was more into Oasis,Verve stuff never really a Blur fan. So i never really heard an entire album only the hits from the radio. Listening to this i liked the following songs excluding the singles: Tracy Jacks(the repetition annoyed me at first but as it progressed it was really nice), End of a century,Badhead,Far out(second favourite),To the end is a moody,60's influenced dreamy number very different to the others,very beautiful, London Loves is great fun with nice guitars but the end could be shorter, Trouble in the Message center is more agressive my top favourite out of this album left me wondering why this wasn't a single, Clover over Dover which i don't know what this means but i really loved it's sound, This is a Low is a hypnotic song with such beautiful tones and guitar playing. Overall is a good album of a great era and a great band that their singles didn't do justice to what they were capable of.

I have to say that i struggled to find some songs out of this album to really like,so barely i'll name a few: All the pictures in the wall Has my fire really gone out? 5th Season Shadow of the sun(7:36!) Hung up. it's a 2/5 for me cause songs could be shorter,yes even the 3:00 min or so ones and the instrumentals were unnessesary.

Blues from Mali are very interesting.Ali Farka Toure's last swan song is a very good album. Let's see it song by song: Erdi starts off with a lot of reverb,bit noisy and with Ali Farka Toure talking it feels more like an intro song, Yer Bounda Fara reminded me of a traditional chinese song for some reason,sounded almost like a ritual, Beto has a sax in it and a repetition in lyrics like a mantra but the female vocals compliments it,and sort of completes it, Savane has a great guitar (among other instruments) through the whole song,french vocals and an almost reggae-ish rhythm,bit long though, Soya has african vocals with a nice rhythm, Penda Yoro (Yoro is a small village in Mali) has a more blues feel that the previous ones very rhythmic and very well played, Machengoidi sounds more like a traditional song, Ledi coumbe wasn't interesting at all. Hanana, again reminded me of Chinese traditional music in a weird way, Soko Yhinka song was a joy to my ears mixing traditional rhythms along with bluesy guitar and great vocals,very hypnotic probably my favourite, Gambari Didi has the King of the Desert Blues reffering to himself and talking throughout the whole song,my least favourite, Banga has a more Arabic, sound of the desert feel with hypnotic repetitions like the music of the Sufis, N'Jarou is a bluesy song with some Soul-funk undertones. Overall it's a great album,i really enjoyed this and heard it without forwarding no song (like i did with the previous Paul Weller one) but i wish i had more knowlwdge to rate this more properly so it's a 4/5 to me.

The Smiths sound is so tight,Johnny Marr's guitar and the rest of the crew but Morrisey's vocals could be better but then again this was their second studio album and in 85 ',punkish vocals gave you a sort of freedom to express more,sometimes in purpose (production shoutout) and i wish this was the case here. So, listening carefully I loved the following songs more: The Headmaster Ritual has a lot of ooh lalalalalala iey in it but it's FIRE, Nowhere Fast has an aligory,i mean the song is full of energy but the lyrics are sad almost suicidal and at the end that worked for me weirdly enough, (i had to listen to this twice to appreciate it but i think it worth it), Well I Wonder has a more dreamy feel with beautiful guitar,bass and drums,very melodic and even Morrissey's vocals really works here adding to the atmosphere,bliss,my favourite,ON REPEAT, That Joke isn't Funny Anymore is a dark,pessimistic song and i liked it for that,maybe too much,definately one of my favourites.ON REPEAT too, Barbarism Starts at Home has that fantastic funky disco rhythm and bass/guitar but it could have been half it's time(6:50!) but on second thought it probably was an attempt to those long extended disco funk numbers so it could maybe be played by djs in clubs but definately not in the radio stations. *I want the one I can't have could be a favourite but the vocals ruined this one for me, *RusholmeRuffians was my least favourite,it bored me to death, *Meat is Murder is a heavy requiem that adds to the concept and is the inspiration on this album and i find creative the cow sampling, i get it,i'm an animal lover myself but i won't go there,to the Vegetarian talk, this was too much for me. So with that said it's a 4/5 to me.

Great songs but most of them covers and not all from black people as we would assume with the 50s racism situation that branched into music too. So Blue Suede Shoes we all remember from Elvis is actually a Carl Perkins song.Fair delivery though,Elvis gave it more energy and the vocals are very close to the original (with a touch of reverb), Counting on you is a slow lullaby with some pam pam pam pam choir in the background,quite good actually, I got a woman is also a cover from the superb Ray Charles and frankly i prefer the original,the line ''she gives me money when i'm in need''is just unbeatable ,2:55 minutes and leaves you hanging from Ray's lips throughout the whole song, too much reverb in Elvis's voice on this one, One sided love Affair though an original,Elvis rambling delivery and heavy accent really ruins it, I love you because was originally a country song by Leon Payne with a string band,what a surprise..BUT in this case Elvis wins, Just Because was a bit boring to me, Tutti Frutti it's a sin even touching this.Little Richard was even playing backwards in the piano while singing,no comparison, Trying to get to you was originally writen by Rose Marie McCoy and Charles Singleton.So yes,you guessed it again it's a cover but this one i really enjoyed it as the original was a stripped guitar/vocal song, I'm gonna sit right down and cry(over you) was a Roy Hamilton original(even covered from the Beatles) but Elvis gave it justice by covering it as a more speed-up energetic number,very clever choice cause this fits like a glove into his voice, I'll never let you go( Little Darlin') is a cover again from Jimmy Wakely and His Rough Riders in which Elvis reminds me of the Beatles,very humble here and dreamy,nice version, Blue Moon(Take 9/m) is also a cover(boy i.m struggling for some original recordings here) from the Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's original(even covered from Sinatra)with a history behind it as the dreamy melody of the song was first conceived for a movie in 1933 and to be sung by Gene Harlow but never was recorded,the same in 1934 for another movie with different lyrics and performer but again didn't happened until it was featured in a movie(I think Manhattan Melodrama) again around that time with different lyrics and a title:''Bad in every Man'',but a gangster shoot outside it's opening forced the creators to re-write it again but this time as a more romantic commercial song ending up with the dreamy ''Blue Moon we all know firstly performed by Ted Fiorito. I think Elvis really nailed it with respect,with an almost whispery,soft,humble and tender delivery and picky almost muted guitar,fantastic, Money Honey was first recorded and released by Clyde McPhatter and The Drifters(oh i have a thing for the Drifters,so good)but i really enjoyed it by Elvis(maybe it was the careful use of reverb on this one). So,after all this analysis i'll give it a 3/5 cause it's Elvis after all but his debut album is mostly a cover album.

This is a legendary hip-hop album.It's an 94' East Coast Boom Bap hardcore NY hip-hop actually. Nas is a natural rhymer,and the whole album is a passionate reflection of Queens street war zone. From the beggining with the Genesis intro you can hear the quality of this album, NY state of mind is a repetitive,monotonous track flooded by Nas's lyricism and i can say he rhymes like a male Lauryn Hill, Life is A Bitch has an excellent sampling including some jazzy trumpets,great atmophere,bliss, The world is Yours has a jazzy sampling,flawess rhyming,back male vocals,i really enjoyed it, Halftime is amazing,the soul funk bass sampling,fluttering trumpets,female vocal and the lyrics,wow, Memory Lane(Sittin' in da Park) has a haunting vocal sample that gave me the goosebumps,so good,the scratching,the lyrics all works out perfectly here like a Swiss watch, One Love is again a more monotonous marimba like sampled track but Nas raps like his life is dependending on it.Least favourite but still good, One time 4 your mind again pushes the weight in Nas with his tight rhyming,the production is minimal, Represent is like a rhyming battle in the streets with his homies,raw and to the point, It ain't hard To Tell got me from the beggining with its famous samples(M.Jackson's Human Nature,Kool and the Gang's N.T hook/riff, and Stanley Clarkes's Slow Dance drums),Nas is again unmistakable here so instantly became my favourite,ON REPEAT. Excellent album,i was bopping my head in most songs,but it's a 4/5 to me for the monotonous ones.

CCR in this album are fearless,you can hear so many influences in each song and boy do they deliver all of them so good! The songs that really made it to my heart mostly are: Ramble Table is one of the best Rock songs i've ever listened especially when it shifts by slowing down at 1:53 and 'till 5:32 where they speed up again ,one of my favourites of all times,the most interesting 7:11 i've ever listened! Who'll stop the Rain,great song, I heard it Through the Grapevine cover( after Glady's Knight first original and Marvin Gaye's treatment) is amazing,showing their Motown influences,John Fogerty's deliver is absolutely fantastic,the heavy bass and drums and the guitar makes this a timeless version with respect, Long as i can see the Light.Fogerty's vocals here can show his ''black'' influences,what a voice! Great album but overall it's a 4/5 for me.

One of the most important hip-hop/rap albums not only for it's scratching artistry and back 2 back rhyming but also for bridging rap with rock. Of course It's Tricky contains samples of "My Sharona" by The Knack and "Mickey" by Toni Basil so there's already Rock elements there,you can see it comin', My Adidas has amazing drums and is always a reminder that back then and even now Adidas shoes and wear are still a hip-hop brand! Walk This Way is a genre-bender.How open-minded these two bands were and still are to come up with such a collaboration,this powerful fresh version, Is it live has James Brown and LL Cool J samples in it,The bongos and cowbells mixing shows some wizadry but it feels empty in comparison with the previous ones, Raising hell is quite interesting because of blending again Run Dmc's hip hop with live Aerosmith guitar solos,my fourth favourite along with the three hits, You be illin' has a Kurtis Blow sample,quite good song, Dumb girl had something hypnotic that i really liked although they seem to have serious issues with that girl! Overall is a good album and for the 4 songs that i liked i will give it a 4/5

Be careful and hear the right album cause i found firstly one with a lot of live versions so i had to find the right studio one. Favourite tracks: Junk Bond Trader,Everything Reminds of Her,Everything means Nothing to me,L.A, Wouldn't Mama Be Proud?,ColorBars,Happiness/The Gondola Man,Can't make A Sound(especially towards the end), It's a 4/5 to me.

Not too many knows that The Thrills are actually an Irish Indie band,and i am not really into Indie at least not this one. Too much of an American accent for me at times and too much of a badjo for me at times and too much jetlag from the visiting all those places. Memorable mention to: Don't steal our sun,deckchairs and cigarettes,one horse town.

Being obviously a music genius,Kanye West lost his sanity somewhere on the road.This album is incredibly creative and every song different,huge thing for a rap album and from a guy that nowadays thinks his girlfriend is a naked installation for the world to excibit.So let's break it down song by song. In Dark Fantasy has a genius sample "can we get much higher?" line from the song "In High Places" by Mike Oldfield, In Gorgeous he sampled Enoch Light and the Glittering Guitars's "You Showed Me". It has this amazing guitar carpet and a hypnotic feeling, In Power he samples King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man," Continent Number 6's "Afromerica," and Cold Grits' "It's Your Thing," with the King Crimson sample being the most prominent in this iconic production,and by adding some mic techniques effects in his voicings gives this what else a dynamic,a POWER, All of The Lights violin and piano intro is out of this world,in the explicit main song he samples "Bam Bam" by Sister Nancy and "Do What You Gotta Do" by Nina Simone,it also has some Jungle drumming and Rihanna's blissful vocals,fantastic,one of my favourites, Monster has amazing drum sampling and some tight rhyming and also contains samples of "On the Bus" from the movie Napoleon Dynamite and "The Hoe's in Church" by LaWanda Page,Nicki Minaj is also a ''monster'' rhymer on this one!Also a favourite,my head was up and down in the entire song!Distorted vocals towards the end along with the melody is also a treat, So Appaled contains samples of "You Are - I Am" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, "Think (About It)" by Lyn Collins, "Can't Knock the Hustle" by Jay-Z ,A dramatic orchestral distillment,absolutely hypnotic and fantastic,f**king ridiculous line might have taken it too far though, In Devil In A New Dress has a blissful 60' soul carpet with Smokey Robinson's "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?"sample, Runaway starts with a one note (and then some) piano and progresses geniously with these piano notes and with a drumming pattern sampled from the song "Expo 83" by The Backyard Heavies,very interesting and wonderful, Hell of A Life starts powerfully with an agressive distorted electronic bass and has beautiful synth arps adding to the dramatic character of the song,here he sampled Black Sabbath's "Iron Man"respectfully, In the Blame Game we got a dreamy,sad and nostalgic feeling,very soothing,here he samples Aphex Twin's "Avril 14th",the sample is a "plaintive keyboard instrumental" from the 2001 Aphex Twin album Drukqs,a pleasant surprise for me as it was for all his entire album sampling from songs/tracks that i already know and love!Unnessesary p*ssy talking in the end though, Lost In The World has a strong ''Woods'' sample by Bon Iver,very well blended though here,energetic and a nice addition,some creative tribal rhythms with bpm changing at the end and preaching adds to the song, Who will survive in America was my least favourite,too commercial for me,it has a sample from Gil Scott-Heron's "Comment #1 which is a bridge,it flows directly from the preceding song, "Lost in the World," which also samples this. A very all-rounded album with amazing production and cameos,never a dull moment in this one,i so enjoyed the sampling which portrays Kanye's influences from all genres.

I really enjoyed Cosmo's Factory more. Memorable mention to; Born on the Bayou,Proud Mary & Keep on Chooglin'.

Alison's Goldfrapp half of the duo has an amazing voice and their influences contains folk,cabaret,pop and of course electronic elements where Alison is the queen with her synths.The result is a dramatic almost cabaret sound with sophisticated coctail music elegance,orchestral James Bond like strings kits and an Aphex Twin fx mood in songs bits.Most of the times you think you can almost hear a Theremin.This album could have been easily a soundtrack to a futuristic film noir if there is such a thing. Songs i enjoyed: Lovely Head is like an experimental 60's song,nostalgic and beautiful, Pilots is quite eerie almost operatic and dreamy with a twist,just a bit, In Deer Stop you need to have patience until the end to see how she tweaks her voice into something magical,to the very end though, In Felt Mountain the high notes along with the more electronic build is amazing reminded me of Balearic sounds ''it's a fine day''song vibes and 60's synth experimentalism,one of my favourites, --Oompa Radar really creeped me out,the weirdest thing ever,starts like a futuristic waltz,has a March turn,ends up like something it could have been played in American Horror series the ones with the circus weirdos,my least favourite-- Utopia is a more powerful electronic bliss,also a favourite,used to play a remix of it back in my Dj days, Overall it's not that good.no surprises there but yet it's sophisticated.At the end i will give it a 2.5, so 3/5 to me.

A female new Wave band(actually they emerged from the punk scene but they evolved into a pop/punk band to be precise) with an early Belinda Carlisle in it and tight playing couldn't be more than an outstanding album that i actually own.And it might still is the only one pop/punk album that had clear vocals..! From the beginning you can hear what you are getting into and i tell you, you won't regret it for even one second! My most favourite songs(excerpt the whole album) are: Tonite,Lust To Love(Blondie vibes right there),This Town(although the refrain could be better),Fading Fast,Automatic(creative and interesting),You Can't Walk In Your Sleep(If You Can't Sleep). This album review really made my day after 2 previous dissapointing ones.It's a stellar record. 5/5 all the way!

Every single Queen's album is an experience itself and you can understand that from the very beginning with the Procession intro.I wish this could have been a Medieval themed concept album though.Like a fairytale going through the darkness and the light.Alas it has enough fantasy in it,so i'm good. My most favourite songs are: White Queen(a bliss to my ears-the lyrics are like a poem), Some Day One Day,Nevermore,The March of The Black Queen. Not my favourite album of Queen but still brilliant. 4/5.

This is a trip back and a treat for me as i love 80's and Duran Duran,in fact i own this record! In Rio what more can you ask,you can hear everything clear,the synth arp,the slappy groovy bass,the amazing guitar,sax,drums(killer hihats) and Le Bon's sexy voice! My own way has amazing drums especially i love the snare and the whole atmosphere,if it was for another band to play this it might not have sounded so good,in synths in particular but it does!Not my favourite but still brilliant! Lonely In Your Nightmare has an amazing guitar and darker swifts serving the title but the melodies somehow are strange,beautiful and hopeful,not a nightmare at all, Hungry like The Wolf has a distinctive rhythmic synth arp and nice groove, discoid vibe,fantastic, In Hold Back the Rain we got amazing synth sounds and a superb disco rhythm with great drums as well,and arpeggiated bass tjat adds a more dynamic approach to this so you can dance, New Religion intro is absolutely fantastic,as it progresses funky bass and epic pads and guitar where needed makes it perfect,the refrain is amazing,the vocals at the rest of the song though are quite confusing, Last Chance On The Stairway has beautiful synths and pads,great lyrics,great song,with some bongos and sophisticated keys at some point,one of my favourites, What can i say for the Save A Prayer with the modulated synth sound,the atmospheric arp (that so many groups sampled),the amazing lyrics and Le Bon's deliver,the guitar,a masterpiece,an all times favourite, The Chauffeur is more experimental and dark but still fun,my least favourite though. Easy 5/5. I need more of those in the list but in the end i'm here to explore more.

Honestly i don't understand why this pop punk album is on the list. There are so many better groups of that era but as with all albums i took a listen and the following songs had some interest. Teenage Kicks,Wrong Way,Billy's Third,True Confessions, 2/5

T.Rex goes to more poppish Glam Rock fields here and it's an influencial album,very different from the previous folk ones,so it's fairly in this list. Hearing the songs one by one now: Mambo Sun is nice,chunky and hypnotic, Cosmic Dancer,great atmosphere and lyrics, Jeepster has so many different elements that results on something very creative,interesting and unique, In Monolith you can hear a soul choir and a distorted guitar,slow paced like a glam blues song, Lean Woman Blues sounds like a distorted Beatles song,the vocals are not that good, Get It On of course was the single out of this album and you can hear why,it's absolutely fantastic, Planet Queen is a nice,moody,rhytmic song with great drums, Girl is a more stripped song,good but not my thing, The Motivator has great effects in the guitars that really works here,really spaced out,great song, Life's A Gas has great lyrics despite it's title. At the end it has a hidden song, The Rip-Off that even has a sax on it and it is my favourite!! Overall is a great album,i heard it at once and it has so many interesting elements.

A nice surprise when you don't even know the existence of this album! A country pop record, Golden Hour also contains elements of disco, electropop, electronica, and yacht rock.And it is so good from start to finish,great album! Slow Burn is so beautiful,crystal clear divine vocals,amazing lyrics and everything else! Lonely Weekend has blissful,nostalgic melodies and pop stucture,really nice vibe, Butterflies is a great song,happy pop times, Oh,What A World got me from the beginning with the vocoder intro,celestial atmosphere,banjo involved beautifully,just magical, Space Cowboy has -as in all songs- strong lyrics,slightly detuned synth at times and a pop country balad structure, Mother is a heavy piano piece,more like a passage, Love is A Wild Thing,is a country pop song with great acoustic guitar and bass,the banjo played as an arp at times is just heaven,nostalgic synth sounds turns this into a masterpiece, Poppish Happy & Sad is my least favourite but still is very good especially towards the end, Velvet Elvis is super powerful and creative with electronica elements,one of my favourites if not the whole album! Wonder Woman has incredible lyrics and as a song is a bliss to my ears, Disco-infected High Horse is absolutely fantastic,it's amazing how she blends it all and it is really working,wow,my head was up and down the whole time especially at the end where banjo involves, Golden Hour,an another love song that has so beautiful lyrics that generates landscapes in your mind, Rainbow is a heavy piano balad,perfect for the end and perfect for her voice range,with a hopeful message. Wow that's an almost perfect album with all songs great and i didn't even know it. Easy 5/5 and more!

It's the second T.Rex album in my list so far and i discover that his sound it's not my thing except some very few exclusions,i mean i only liked ''Rip Off'' from Electric Warrior.Same here,i only liked''Ballrooms of Mars'' from this particular one. Maybe it was the lack of guitar solos or maybe the repetition of lyrics but i struggled again to find a song out of this album, 2/5

This is one of the most influencial Factory records,an emblematic post-punk record that it's unique nature stays forever in this music universe.A true historical moment in music and its evolution.A really fantastic punk material married with astonishing production techniques,a genius cover about pulsar transmitting waves and Ian Curtis dark lyricism that results to a masterpiece. This record is a favourite as a whole but i will try to name my most favourites. Disorder-A very tight song,the guitar and the drums are magical,Curtis's voice is very direct and solid like a friend telling you his secrets,not a dull moment in this as you constantly hear through ''gaps'' amazing effects,fantastic, New Dawn Fades is an another moody,melancholic song with amazing soaring guitars, hypnotic and beautiful,very melodic, Shadowplay is powerful yet desperate,with the haunting line ''to the center of the city waiting for you'', Interzone is a real treat,very dense and very creative with the voicings gives you no room to think, I Remember Nothing is their ''blackest'' distillment with their signature dark tones atmosphere that creeps you out at times but still in a way you still like it. You have to understand that all these New Wave/punk groups back then were heavily influenced by the German's synth experimentalism and i don't mean Kraftwerk only, -that was the obvious- but names like Claus Schultze that was more into the ''dark side of the moon''(excuse the pun) but you get the idea if you are in the know of that influences. Overall all tracks were not that good but as a result is a great album for it's imperfections that created something unique and ahead of it's time and influenced so many artists till to this very day. 5/5

I heard this album so pleasantly,every song had something to say,something to offer,so,so interesting even the trippy ones.Genius guitar playing by Jimi Henrix in all songs and his songwriting is amazing. Who said bluesy psychedelia is boring? My favourites: Spanish Castle Magic, Wait Until Tommorrow (funky as hell), Little Wing (my favourite), Castles Made Of Sand,such an intimate storytelling song, One Rainy Wish, Bold As Love (what a closing song-i can see why the album was named after this). Easy 5/5.I wish i could give more.That's why it's an experience.

Well,you got to have a jazz trained ear to appreciate this last swan song of the great Billie Holiday as it should and frankly i don't.The strings arrangments are heavenly in contrast with the raw vocal but eventually it works at times. Favourites: For Heaven's Sake, I Get Along Without You Very Well,this one was quite interesting, You've Changed,her vocals are the best in this, So Easy To Remember,i wish that wasn't that long though. Overall is 5/5 for Ellis orchestra but 3/5 for Mrs Holiday sorry.

In this album Stevie Wonder experiments with synths and the result is fantastic. Favourites: Jesus Children Of America (that ''shaft'' boogie sound,so good) All in Love Is Fair,the piano,the singing,perfection, Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing,never ever any other artist has convinced me to groove in a latin rhythm(which i hate)before,genius song,genius harmonies, He's Misstra Know-It-All,what a vibe and beautiful lyrics, Golden Lady has the perfect lyrics and it's so dreamy like the ''love boat''. It's 4/5 to me.

ELO was always a band i wanted to dig in more and the more i listen to, the more i like them,by now i'm a huge fan!I also adore vocoders so..,I can clearly hear their German synth influences in this one,maybe that's why they finished this album in Munich. Favourites(all but mostly): Turn To Stone,Queen choir vibes at some point,amazing song, It's Over,when you know how to use the vocoder properly and blend it perfectly in your thing!Fantastic, Night In The City,their genius sampling reminded me of Kraftwerk Autobahn ones, Believe Me Now blends orchestral parts with vocoder as a passage to next Steppin' Out song,genius, Steppin' Out is an astral Beatles balad sung by David Bowie in Mars,absolutely fantastic, Standing In The Rain is just epic! Mr Blue Sky,another epic song especially towards the end,starts as a solid rock number and ends like a symphony with strong choir elements,magic, Sweet Is The Night, The Whale,how creative this band is,amazing, Birmingham Blues. Overall not a single song sounds the same,it was such a pleasure to my ears,such a creative and interesting album. Easy 5/5

Never heard Anthrax before although i knew it as a name.I'm not into thrash anyway but from what i've heard I do prefer Brazilian Thrash metal(Sepultura) over this one for sure. Some songs that i liked though: I'm The Law, Efilnikufesin (N.F.L.),great guitars, Indians could be a favourite, *One World is a nice agressive song but the singing sounds the same in all songs to me so it kinda ruined it, A.D.I/The Horror Of It All,was unexpectedly quite good,i really enjoyed it all 7:49 minutes of it. Overall is a good album not great but i listened to it with interest. 3/5.

Reggata De Black deliberately can be translated as ''White Reggae'' so you get the idea and the inspiration of the band.It's a favourite album of mine.It's their blending of post punk/reggae and Sting's Carribean influenced voice that's magical. Songs Breakdown: Message In A Bottle is a favourite of mine,the addictive guitar riff,the genius drums,Sting's singing..perfection, Reggata De Black is a great intrumental track,very interesting,written to fill space at live gigs but ended up as a separate track,The Police won a Grammy for this,who knew, It's Alright For You it's full of energy especially at the end, Bring On The Night gets you instantly from the very beginning with the melancholic guitar arpeggio,genius, Deathwish,not my favourite but the rhythm and the guitars are out of this world,hypnotic, Walking On The Moon is the second hit from this album that has such an ambience,a perfect reggae rhythm,really spaced out that fairly serves the title, of course a favourite, On Any Other Day is a fun song but my least favourite, The Bed's Too Big Without You has a nice guitar riff,and Carribean/Reggae vibes,Sting almost sounds like Bob Marley here,sort of, Contact is a darker song,post punk vibes here,one of my favourites also, Does Everybody stare,strong piano here,quite creative.manic repetition of the title though is maybe too much. Overall is a great album without all tracks being great ,but their unique style really drags you along the way. 4/5.

I think i've seen a videoclip of Grizzly Bear somewhere before and i knew the name but never heard this album and surely wasn't prepared for what i would find.First impression was WOW what is this?? I have to say here that i'm very well familiar with the Warp Label that released this gem,but more at the electronic side of it, so this is a real treat and a lesson because i hadn't realised back then that this label was even more versatile that i already knew it was.Bass player and multintrumentalist Chris Taylor is a very talented ''one man band'' here.This album gives you the impression of constant improvisation,randomness but it's not.It's precise and this man knows very well what he is doing,it's all arranged and programmed.Experimental yes,that's why it's a Warp album after all,it pushes boundaries but still totally well performed,recorded and controlled. Opening track Southern Point is a Seventh's heaven along with surgeon's precision rhythm changes,complex and beautiful,strong and imagenary, in Two Weeks the choir management is genius,with a virtuosity that depicts heaven,less complex track but still ace, Watch out for those bursts especially towards the end in Fine For Now, Cheerleader is my favourite with rich and fantastic,dreamy instrumentalism choir heaven, and driving guitar and bass with such controlled pitch and tone,the drums is a huge plus, especially at the end going from standard to almost tribal bongos, Dory starts with swirlish choir harmonies which are glued to the progression with his voice,constant change of tones and rhythm, is like hearing a strange Nirvana song going jazzy,there's a bittersweet distillment that really makes this an another favourite for me, Ready,Able is a masterpiece,starting powerfully,progresses dreamy,changes again and ends up in bliss,my most favourite,i really adore the vocals here as well,ON REPEAT,a song that i never wanted to end,how on earth did i missed out this one? I Live with You reminded me of David Bowie,the choir intergration again is a key element here,more experimental than the others but still amazing, Foreground has a beautiful piano accompanied with an equally beautiful voice with Radiohead tone vibes I could easily rate this 5/5 only for the Ready,Able song.Genius album.

I've never heard Louis Prima before nor i ever knew his name.Big Band swing in the 50's was a dance band and this one had a humour as well. How about the songs now: Just A Gigolo has an amazing rhythm(the piano wow) and it's a fave of mine,I Ain't Got Nobody though it's not a fave at all, (Nothing's Too Good ) For My Baby is a nice jazzy fun song and i liked this because of the intergration of the female fantastic vocals, The Lip has the same piano like in Gigolo i think but in different key,humorous conversation like singing duet makes this enjoyable, Body and Soul is a more ''serious''jazzy instrumental number,constant change of rhythm gives it an interesting twist, Oh Marie has an uptempo beautiful rhythm,i laughed a lot with the so called lyrics,fun, Basin Street Blues gets me a ''my baby just cares for me'' vibe with male vocals/When It's Sleepy Town down South really has too much gibberish in an annoying scale, Jump,Jive An Wail is quite rhythmic and fun,50's proper dancing song,clapping hands and men throwing girls up in the air kinda thing,Swinging your heart out, Tango like introed Buona Sera has Italian lyrics and swinging progression(Do Wap-Do Wap),switches in idyllic Tango rhythm again and ends up swinging again with romance vibes, Instrumental Night Train has some interesting breaks and instruments interactions that i really enjoyed, Humorous I'll Be Glad When You're Dead has hilarious lyrics(some raviolli mentioning and meatballs) and fun improvisations from the band. Overall it's a fun jazzy/Big Band swing 50's album that was really easy to review as the songs were short and humorous.

Before crucifing the crooner here due to the selection of covers in this album i might defend her by noticing two-three things.Firstly how brave and empowering for women in the 60's must this album have been and probably still is as some of the originals sung by men were absolutely nailed by Dusty Springfield and shows up her voice range which is the second thing that impressed me here.Lastly few singers internationally can sing covers and the whole project is enjoyable to ears and without making constantly comparisons and in this album is exactly that case.Well,my opinion but i really enjoyed listening to this and i usually hate cover albums. 5/5

Woody Guthrie's vision came to life by the right people. California Stars is a classic by now,a favourite of mine, Way over Yonder In The Minor Key is one of my favourites as well,very beautiful, Stellar performance of Natalie Merchand i think in Birds And Ships, Hoodoo Voodoo is absolutely fantastic, She Came Along To Me,another great song,thank god for Wilco(again), At My Window Sad And Lonely,the lyrics shine here so bright,divine badjo arp strokes,fantastic, Ingrid Bergman,a starstruck little love song, I Guess I Planted,another song i really enjoyed, One By One,fading in with me longing,i knew from the start this one will be on repeat,my top favourite song,i never wanted it t end, Eisler On The Go is like a very beautiful poem,delivered with sensitivity, Another Man's Done Gone is a short piano ballad,a very emotional piece. I will give it a 4/5 cause this project was definately a challenge and it gave justice to Woody Guthrie's vision.That was way more interesting than i thought!

Arcade Fire is a band i love already so i will only try to rate my favourites out of this emotional album-if not all-. We Used To Wait,the intro,the lyrics,contagious refrain,the vocals,the guitars,absolutely fantastic, Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), abba vibes,the synths are out of this world,magic, The Suburbs,obviously but make sure you hear the symphonic (continued,extended) one as well, Ready To Start,the synth kills me, Month Of May is so powerful-non stop, Modern Man,genius rhythm so interesting,Police vibes, Empty Room,i mean the intro..so good!Epic and emotional, Suburban war,the twists in this,wow, Speaking In Tongues ft.David Byrne is one of the bonus and absolutely fantastic,very hypnotic. I don't usually rate deluxe versions but this one was so damn good i just couldn't resist so i highly recommend to do so as well. 5/5.Remember this one won a Grammy and a Brit award that year for a reason.

Long progressive structures in a thrash Metal album can be exhausting.I love Metallica but being the bass mixed low here can result to dryness and always feeling that there's something missing,in contrast to the ambitious,very well played overpowered drums that takes your attention more than it should.The guitars are out of this world but the vocals average (...and anger for all). Funny thing is that i'm hearing the remastered version and still the bass is not enough,at least to me. Favourites: ...And Justice For All, Eye Of The Beholder,genius fade in,interesting drumming with changes of tempos,the guitars again saves the song, One,the best song of this album starts off magically,my favourite,drumming at some point of progression probably immitates shooting-genius-, To Live Is To Die,the guitars shine here from start to finish,my top favourite,i love this even more than One,it's ironic how slower tempos works perfectly with this band,in higher tempos they get lost in monotony at times and in this album in particular. 4/5 because you can't just overlap the insanigly good guitars and drumming(although bit louder mixed than it should).

I found out in the 90's that actually Genesis started off as a progressive rock band and as i really love progressive rock by now i really wanted to hear all of their albums,so thank you list for this one.I also most of my life i'm an electronic music lover so the synth sounds in this album was really a bonus treat.This was the last album featuring Peter Gabriel who basically had the concept idea of a Puortorican man i'm guessing named John and his inner self adventures.I have to say here that except few songs i never felt that concept.Although tracks are strongly glued with one element or another,i felt more like there were triads of songs with same theme.I liked the whole album(yes even the most peculiar ones)but the following really got me.I have to also highlight the virtuosity of the guitar playing,Phill Collins drumming and Peter Gabriel's delivery throughout the album. Favourites: Fly On A Windshield,the synths here gives depth and cosmic quality,the burst in 1:19 is amazing,great guitars as well, Broadway Melody Of 1974 has such a beautiful ending, Cuckoo Cocoon is dreamy,magic flute playing, In The Cage,so weirdly strange and beautiful,Gabriel's delivery is awesome,space synth takes you to another dimension,change of tempo gives it tension,i love how it ends as well, Back In NYC,i'm a synth lover and it totally worked for me as the arp stucked in my head but i know most people will get annoyed by it here, Hairless Heart is an instrumental spaced out piece,one of my favourites,took me to another galaxies, Counting Out Time,some sillyness involved but as it is said when you do music you basically stretch time and that's what i received, Carpet Crawlers,great singing here,great atmosphere,the lyrics just amazing(the carpet crawlers keep their colours),one of my favourites as well, The Chamber Of 32 Doors,great song,i can feel the despair in Gabriel's voice, in cohision with the Chamber,Lilywhite Lilith feels like it continues the story,at both songs you get a Hotel California sort of vibe, Eerie and otherworldly intro of instrumental The Waiting Room maybe completes the story of the two previous ones,progresses in almost creepy and cosmic vibes, The Lamia starts off with melodramatic piano but switches as a medieval storytelling piece,i really loved this one as well, Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats,eerie instrumental piece with epic choir,creates a landscape,could have been used easily in a movie, The Colony Of Slippermen has a a lot of sonic obscurity especially in the first 2 minutes or so but it progresses in an epic spaced out adventure, Obscurity continues with Ravine that has strong Theremin vibes, In The Rapids. What a ride this album was and i enjoyed every single minute! 5/5

Astor Piazolla the virtuoso of bandoneon kind of invented the ''Nuevo Tango'' and gave tango a breath of fresh air with jazz and classical elements.He influenced and created this sub genre if you like,causing the spring of new artists like Bajofondo and Gotan Project.This is a live album and it is recorded in Montreaux Festival,probably referring to the jazz one that is very famous around the world.The tracks are like something you could hear in movies,melodramatic ones or in a 50's coctail party.I have to say though that i don't like at all bandoneon,accordion or Tango in general and also violins that sound bit gypsy to me,so this was challenging for me. Vibraphonissimo has interesting textures,but it has too much vibraphone for me,it sounds like something you could hear though in a film noir mystery movie, Nuevo Tango has tension that kept my interest throughout, Laura's Dream is an amazing intricate composition as well, Operation Tango's tensions gets me a longing feeling to hear what's next to come all the time,very good,interesting background playing and changes of keys,tempos,the piano gets more obvious towards the end and that makes it epic. At times the vibraphone gets too loud in an annoying scale but then i remember that it's a live recording.Also there are certain resemblances to french accordion music that bores me to death.Despite all that i must aknowledge the virtuosity of all elements here and the discipline.Most of the times you forget this is a live recording that's why i will give it a 3/5.

This is the second conceptual live album after the Folsom and i find it genius to say the least to select an audience like this for a live.It definately saved the atmosphere of that particular day in 1969 and that makes it timeless.Albums like this comes out in once in a lifetime so i can fully understand why it's on the list.I saw the official release had 10 songs but i found in youtube an 18 songs version so i'll go with that.There is also a video version with some footage which by the way you should also see.Extra respect for Johnny Cash for not playing what he was allowed to in this.Like he would.I mean this guy was fearless,and every single song had a meaning,the tracklist in this version was the best ever made.And for you to know San Quentin was one of the toughest prisons out there so there was real danger!But then again music has no boundaries.And i think JC contributed more with his music and by showing real respect and humanity to make those prisoners weight more to the good side than the system. Still Miss Someone legendary I Walk The Line Darlin' Companion cover with his wife June Carter! I Don't Know Where I'm Bound for it's meaning Starkville City Jail for sharing his experience,the storytelling that totally resonated with the audience, in video version asks the guards for water and after drinking some,he kicks the tin cup,iconic, San Quentin which is a fantastic follow-up from Starkville and the audience felt important enough to be part of the song,The lyrics made the crowd go wild!And extra credit for the second time! Wanted Man,the Dylan cover which was perfect for the situation,he reffers to Dylan as the greatest song-writer,another historic moment, The Boy Named Sue was also a cover that Silverstein wrote about a friend being bullied for his name which by the way wasn't actually Sue,the title itself though can have so many meanings for each person,genius song,i think JC won a Grammy for this performance,i mean you need to have guts to say the word kill and describe violence in a prison!But in the end is a enpowering song, the Dorsey cover (There'll Be) Peace In The Valley along with the female choir was the perfect song to calm down the crowd sweetly,genius move as well Folsom Prison Blues is the perfect song,the perfect connection to the previous album which also resonated as hell with the crowd, Ring Of Fire was also a courageous move since you literally play with fire when you say fire in a prison, He Turned The Water Into Water although it's a biomatic piece it was so acurate since JC was drinking only water and the crowd was allowed to some tea i think and although he was describing a jesus miracle everybody in this room were kinda wishing they could drink something else,wine perhaps? Daddy Sang Bass for his homage to Carl Perkins that i think had recently passed away,and is a joy to the ears, Closing Medley: Folsom Prison Blues/I Walk the Line/Ring of Fire/The Rebel-Johnny Yuma,although i was a bit dissapointed that San Quentin was excluded this time. 5/5.If this is not 5 stars then what is it? Great vibe,great songs! Just realised in the video version that had already selected songs were some songs i didn't listen to,so make sure you do both versions.

Finally a purely electronic album in the list,well actually the second on my list and i've already rated 62! I pretty much own everything from Underworld and what can i say for this great band that i actually heard a track of during the summer of 2025 in a Sasha/Digweed gig?This album is for the clubbheads,you have to have heard progressive trance,D'n'B and techno of that era to fully understand this. Techno is the sound of the clubs in the first place and still is what you hear in most oldschool djs sets. Tracks breakdown now: Juanita:Kiteless:To Dream Of Love, I can definately hear progression. the snare added late and the hihats and i also hear one track intersepting with the two others from time to time,i also hear a very addictive,haunting melody,this is a club track,a progressive techy trance for those who don't understand what this is,going further there are some acid techno abstact minutes and the melody interrupts dominating in a breakdown and more human vocals come in,builds up and goes high in tech energy and ends with sampling vocals in a 'Technologic' fashion.Basically they mixed all three original tracks to their taste so that justifies the long duration, Banstyle / Sappys Curry starts off with a drum 'n' bass beat,very moody and beautiful and with a lot going on in the background (samples,drops,effects) that keeps the interest throughout the track,nice vocals,sparse guitars from time to time,pads dominate at some point making it more emotional, intergrating with beats and heavy reverbed snare changing beautifully the tempo and guitars come back to shine in a hypnotic manner along with the almost whispery vocals,modulated synths strong presence along with exceptional use of hihats create tension leading to a totally experimental piece towards the end,complicated,diverse and genius track, Confusion The Waitress starts off darkly and powerful,nice hypnotic vocals,great techy structure,modulations throughout the track creates edges and tension, Rowla starts off with heavy synth and everything builds pretty much around it,highly dancable and addictive,constantly modulated bass changes the intensity and the keys of the track,reminds me of Laurent Garnier techno creations,those settings are not random and that's art itself,it kinda results in a acidic heaven,high voltage track-hear with caution, Pearl's Girl was the single from this album,lush pads and melodies,drum 'n'bass structure,nasty basslines, pretty much what Orbital were doing back in the days but more aggressive,vocoder vocals here ads to the power of the track,when pads and synths come back in the breakdown and till the end is like a catharsis,100% emotional,magic, Air Towel has definately some Kraftwerk vibes (Tour De France) from the beginning, it's amazing how they make it their own,maybe it's the silly 'lalalala' sample or the good English vocals, Blueski has the repetitive bluesy guitars intro in case you were missing some and pads underneath harmonises beautifully,ends up totally dry, Stagger starts off with heavy sentimental reverbed and delayed piano,the vocals here are amazing,synths and pads ad limbs to the emotional factor,plucky guitar and heavy reverb at both kick(almost boomy) and snare create something totally diffent towards the end,great electronica track proper for closing this album. I really enjoyed this album and i will give it a fair 4/5 only because i liked the previous ones more.

When this was released i was working in a record shop and we used to listen to all new releases including this album,so i kinda remember each song very well,but i'll have it a go again as i first listened to it when i was 19 and now i'm 46.I remember this was produced by Eno and Lanois again and that the band was kinda experimenting with dance and alternative rock. Beautiful Day is a powerful opening track that always makes me feel good,of course one of the singles back then with high rotation,i mean this had been playing everywhere, Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of It was an another single which i think was nothing special about it, Elevation on the other hand reminded me of the Pop album,great song with high energy, Walk On was also a single and a favourite of mine,reminded me a bit of Natalie Imbruglia's Torn song, Kite was a song that i didn't even remember,quite melodic but again nothing special here except maybe the reversed melody, In A Little While was maybe the most popish of all,but once more quite predictable as most songs, Wild Honey has an almost country/folk rock feel,probably my least favourite, Peace On Earth fades in beautifully but it's boring as hell,kudos for the Peace message though, When I Look At The World was quite interesting as it progresses especially the vibrato synth sounds underneath, New York has an interesting synth/bass/beat intro with intimate storytelling vocals,guitars detune and the song finally bursts with energy,again swifts into calmness,builds and outbreaks again,i liked this one a lot,i wish there were more of these in the album, Grace starts with bluesy guitar and electronica vibes,great synth carpet that comes and goes,but despite all that there's no surprises here,again,quite flat song, The Ground Beneath Her Feet,the closing song has electronica vibes which i love and the guitars are out of this world,the vocals are amazing here too especially towards the end,maybe my top favourite that i'm actually listening again as we speak.I also wish it was a bit longer. Overall is actually a 3.5/5 but i'll give it a 4/5 just for the last song alone.

Well if we separate the person with it's music,this album was and still is legendary,maybe the only one involving so many genres and talking about so many subjects.It was also the last co-produced with Quincy Jones and Mj even wrote the whole album himself excerpt 2 songs.We are talking about a complete artist here although i never searched if he played any instrument at all so i'll keep that open.And his albums production is always ace,they always have the best basses,beats,and here in particular the best pads and synths and that took this album off,i mean it was 1987! Man In The Mirror is a steady classic for me from this album,especially towards the end, I Just Can't Stop Loving You is a super emotional love song that is purely magic from start to finish,Stevie Wonder vibes in this one if i may say, Dirty Diana's guitar and atmosphere are out of this world,i remember this one was on repeat back in the days although i was struggling with the refrain lyrics,also one of my favourites, Smooth Criminal gives you the tension right from the beginning as this talks about something dead serious and it is smoothed out in the bridge and in the refrain,a genius song,the bass and the guitar are emblematic,groovy as hell till the end,Super angry and powerful. A legendary album by a legend,not my favourite of all by now but still it is a nostalgic ride. 4/5

In this album Bowie makes a u-turn from Glam Rock and experiments if you like into Blue-Eyed Soul that it is called nowadays.He tries to blend ''black'' music with white and because it is said that he was the first,this album is considered as a very influential one and is the reason why it's on the list.It is though a very hard task almost impossible back in the days so i can say it was a fair try and a very courageous and brave thing to do as an artist.As this was my first ever listen to this album excerpt the Fame song i will break down the songs one by one: Young Americans reminded me a bit of Grace Jones's La Vie En Rose,the vocals though really downgrades the song here,the line''i heard the news today oh boy'' is a node to Lennon i hope, Win has a seductive lush sax intro,sexy vocals,quite sensual song,the distant sax sounds here really made the difference to me,great song,really impressed me, I think i got some Jimi Hedrix vibes as well, Fascination funky wah wah guitars are amazing,groovy bass as well,i absolutely love the soul vibes and the warmth i get from this one, Right gave me strong Stevie Wonder vibes from the beginning,Bowie is trying very hard to sound ''black'' at times,maybe a bit,too much, Somebody Up There Likes Me starts off beautifully (although the sax starts to hit on my nerves when it hits higher notes-thank god it is mixed low here),quite good song,quite soulful, Across The Universe is a Beatles cover and I think John Lennon plays the guitar here,it's a historical moment,a Bowie's admiration i know, but still the vocals just doesn't feels right to me,Lennon though praised Bowie's version by saying that he liked better this than the original, Can You Hear Me is a beautiful soul song with soft bongos and some orchestral carpeting,low sax playing for sexiness,and dreamy guitar, Fame is the star here,the lyrics and the irony,the most Bowiest song of all in this album and maybe the only one that actually makes Bowie successful at what he wanted to prove,groovy and funky as hell,i remember Eurythmic's take on this one which was actually quite good! Overall it's a good album but i think Bowie didn't quite accomplished what he was trying to show us here,i mean i've read that even he wasn't quite pleased with this album.

I first loved Grateful Dead's sound when i was studying for history of Rock I. We were talking about the hippie's era and what hippie meant musically.We defined that hippie meant virtuosity for the bands and that's exactly what i get here along with complexity.I think in this album GD embraced the fact that each member can play a different melody which is an almost impossible thing to do,especially live. A very liberal thing yes but it can cost in keeping rhythms tight and pleasure to the listener.It is funny though that this one was the first album recorded in 16 separate channels i think, and the levels of the guitar channel for example was piercing my ears in high notes.CAUTION in Feedback song-hear it low.Foremost i must say that there was bad drumming throughout the whole album. The songs now: Ambitious Dark Star has it's up and downs,detunements and tensions but that's kind of music art,it gave me the feel that they destruct and rebuild again although my ears really hurt at times maybe it's the playing maybe it's the master level,it's like phychedelia reachin experimental jazzy levels though,i wish it had more vocals as well which were few but clear and good. St.Stephen has a more tight band sound and i absolutely loved it.Great vocals and nice trippy lyrics as well. The Eleven has long improvisation but in around 3:40 or so it progresses beautifully,you feel it's getting somewhere,vocals pop up as well a bit later and only for a while again.great and complex improvisation closes the song,kind of. Turn On Your Love Light is absolutely fantastic like an Elvis deeped in phychedelia,like Blues Brothers on LSD! James Brown and Jim Morrisson vibes in the vocals too! The drums though, as in every song,could be better.Don't forward or skip this song as it is groovy as hell ( if you can bear the bad drumming). Death Don't Have No Mercy is a slow,moody,bluesy number with some tensions,the guitar solos and keys are quite good here,the vocals though not so much. Feedback starts off literally with band's feedback so be careful with your ears-don't hear loud at any circumstances like i did.It gives a spacey,trippy feel and an experimental tone which is quite artful but way too long!Makes you feel darkness and despair with some odd otherwordly tones. Some high frequencies left me almost deaf but in the end i find it highly creative. And We Bid You Goodnight is a harmonised accapella Jesus loves you sort of thing. I really enjoyed this album more than i thought i would.Later albums were much better though but not live. 4/5

Steve Winwood of Traffic fame goes solo,for the second time.The cover is influenced by Matisse's Icarus i think,quite nice.Is a good album but the synth and pads should either be handled/mixed differently or maybe played by a session virtuoso musician.I've never heard this album before so as i listen let's see the songs one by one. When You See A Chance intro is heavy synth based,as it progresses is totally 80's style Yaht Rock as most describes it.Sometimes i get a Phil Collins vibe.Yes the synths might sound funny but hey there was a clumsiness back in the 80's in that area especially on how to handle vibrato synths or in this case synths in general. In Arc Of A Diver the resonance and loudness of the synth is turning somehow bad but overall is a good song.Remember Winwood plays all instruments here. Second-Hand Woman is pretty good,has funky as hell bass,and synths shine properly.Nowadays french disco house aims hardly for that sound.Groovy. Slowdown Sundown starts off folk-y and beautifully,i suspect the synth that pops up bit later could be better overall in all songs if he just changed the preset.Here he plays something like a lute as well which is very nice.The keys are always good so far. Spanish Dancer synth intro is quite good but bit loud and as it progresses almost covers the song and the vocals in particular.Funny thing is that the synth is fantastic here.If this was mixed and balanced properly maybe it could have been a favourite as i'm a synth lover.The pads really bothered me here though. Night Train as the videoclip also shows (in the intro,the train reference and sounds,the black and white usage) was heavily influenced by Trans Europe Express by Kraftwerk. I can see and hear some Bowie in this one as well.I really liked this one.It has something of a New Romantics sound in it. Could have been an early New Order song or a Hacienda hit. Dust is the last song and i feel like this album could have more.I am a sucker for such 80's songs.Great singing as well,i love Winwood's voice. I got to say i really enjoyed it.80's with it's imperfections but i can hear so many influences. 4/5 because the pads could be better sometimes they almost ruin the vibe,and for the synth handling.

Andre 3000 and Big Boi are hip hop geniusses that redefined the genre. So many influences flow effortlessly and there is something for everybody. Innovative and creative as hell,Funkadelic's fun is there and seriousness as well,virtuosity of Hendrix is there and so many other influences if you take a close listen. So many subjects covered and so many guest appearances. Stankonia btw is the name of their Studio. From the Intro you know where you getting at from the very beggining: vocoders,space echoes,delays and synth streches,moans and hypnotic/meditationary tabla percussion and literal verbal introduction to Stankonia.Bounce baby! Gasoline Dreams along with Khujo Goodie rapper(1/4 of Goodie Mob, cee-lo is 2/4) has an alright alright alright alright energy from the beginning. Fire heavy reverbed(on-off) rhyming in our face,ace distorted guitars,great rhythm,power. I'm Cool interlude is about a sexy freezing chick that takes cold for cool.Cinematic carpet.End of the scene.Neeext! So Fresh,So Clean fantastic rhythm bops and you're already bouncing to it. I absolutely love that they are mocking theirselves but basically anyone that is ''showing off''.Too soulful for me though,surprisingly enough not my favourite respectfully. Ms Jackson is an emblematic Outkast song,the synth riff,the bass,the piano,the snare with the reversed gated fx,and the song has only just began,the tight rhyming,a masterpiece. Snappin' & Trapping',has funky synth,male choir,dark pads,there's so much going on in this one.Along with Killer Mike, J-Sweet gives a powerful,ruff, crazy beautiful mayhem that really works for me,dead interesting and genius. DF interlude is a manic and chaotic one with heavy reverbed and delayed talking.End of the scene.Neeeext!(or should i say Break!) Spaghetti Junction reminded me a bit of the Fugees,trumpet and guitar sampling.Not my favourite but still good,tight rhyming and scratching as well here. Kim & Cookie (interlude) are announced with royal trumpetry as they spill the tea,some birds and choir momentum involved. I'll Call B4 I Cum starts off with an 80's synth drum,sexy synth and silliness that all that stays throughout the whole song.Pretty fun though.Gangsta Boo and Eco are featured in this one as well. B.O.B is a fire ''serious'' song to put us back in.The dystopian synth is amazing.The guitar and the arps really empowers the song more.The rhythm is insane,imitating war guns ends up in drum n bass fashion.As it says ''power music,electric revival''. Xplosion ft.B-Real has a powerful almost spooky vibe. Good Hair interlude has a Mariachi trumpet sampling going on.End of scene,neeeeext! We Luv Deez Hoes ft. Backbone, Big Gipp despite the title is actually referring to all the plastic that women adds in their body.Not my thing but it has something to say. Humble Mumble with my favourite Erykah Badu(remember ''You Got Me'' with Common?),has a strong tropical Caribbean Limbo rhythm and then switches to an amazing oldschool one with scratches and everything,and then all this is combined along with Erykah's heavenly voice.They are basically mixing some jungle sounds as well.Great picky guitar bonus.Genius. Drinking Again interlude is exactly what it says,again with some trumpet carpet but this time jazzy,muted one. ? Is not an interlude although it's duration is under 2 minutes,it's actually a merciless jungle song with spooky vibe and a +2 speed tight rhyming.at about 1 minute or so smartly enough and weirdly changes rhythm and you can hear some boozes pured in glasses. Red Velvet has great emotional sampling,sparse rhythmic elements and electronic structure.There is some genius vocal sampling as well and the scratching at point.The guitar addition makes it complete.Vocal and production's creative polyphony.Absolutely fire. Cruising at ATL interlude has an 80's vibe in those 20 seconds.End of scene,neeext! Gangsta's Sh*t ft. Slimm Calhoun, C-Bone, T-Mo has some genius delays in synths and guitar,they kind of inter-acting here.Quite creative and innovative as gangsta's rap can be very repetative and boring at times,but not here.Not my favourite but kudos to the production team. Toilet Tisha has creative tambourine almost xmas sleigh sound,arps,exceptional pads,vibrato synth,a complex astral funky soul number.The bass slapping is amazing as well here. Slum Beautiful ft. Cee-lo has an amazing innovative rhythm with clapping,reversed guitar extracts throughout the song,and amazing vocals from everybody.Highly creative,and truly spaced out. Pre-Nump interlude says exactly what you expect.*Wedding Bells*.End of Scene.Neeeext.. Stankonia (Stanklove) ft. Big Rube, Sleepy Brown is the best ''outro'' song to finish this incredible album.Soulful vocals and a reggae rhythm that changes into a soul,slow,sexy one from time to time, with amazing guitar that imitates synth pitches, synth nasty bass and emotional pads, fades out and comes back again slowed down half speed and more giving you the real outro. Genius album from 2 geniusses.I didn't like few songs but the majority was fire. 5/5

Dreamy but steamy,that's what i'm thinking as i'm actually hearing this album.Indie/Shoegaze is not for everybody but still there is a virtuosity through the abstract,an album that for the first time the guitar is the hero throughout.I totally understand why it's on the list.It's creative and unique,totally influencial. Hearing this out for the first time i have a ritual to break it down song by song: Only Shallow is a powerful piece with dreamy reverbed vocals and a beautiful melody.The guitars experimentation though can cost your hearing at times especially if you are hearing the whole album loud.Beautiful outro, In Loomer the heaviness of the guitars settings barely leaves you to hear the female dreamy vocals this time,but then again that's the whole point.The guitar to be the star for once even in an entire album.Iliked it a bit more towards the end. Touched is a 56 seconds exploration on the guitar vibrato. To Here Knows When has beautiful structure and heavenly female singing.Abstract and quite symponic.The guitars are not that loud here fairly as there are so much elements going on underneath.Although it's brightness you can feel constantly something dark trying to get in. In When you Sleep,loud guitars "overdrive" comes back in. It's like a blurry powerful dream.Repetition without any noticable changes though could fatigue your ears. I Only Said,here the guitars fuzz covers the male vocals,almost entirely.Feels like the darkness fight the dreaminess of the song.Again the repetition burned my ears.And i'm an experimental of any genre lover. Come In Alone lets the male vocals shine more and that's a pleasure to the ear.feels more like a song than an experiment. In Sometimes the guitar changes and progresses more and gives you a more dreamy feel than the others.One of my favourites. Blown A Wish is my top favourite.There is a whole soundscape throughout the song.The female vocals work like magic here.Coctaeau Twins vibe here. What You Want,has great vocals and probably lyrics but again the guitars want the first place in your ear,badly,and i get it. Soon is the last song and boy do i get Hacienda vibes from the beginning!Great female vocals and very interesting production. Overall is a great album that i really liked although most of the times the excessive guitar loudness,pedals usage and repetition hurt my ears. 3.5/5 but what the heck

This album is the most sincere and the most darkest rap out there.I hope it's everything the persona was thinking and not Eminem.Most of the lyrics are a huge no in every field.I'm not surprised that only My Name Is was out as a single.Still the production is fire i must say and actually takes you in that misogynistic,satirical horrorcore,West Coast,G-Funk trip. 3/5

I was almost praying for a Doors album in this list,and i guess there will be more.This one was their debut,one of the greatest debuts of a Rock band. I grew up with them as my big sister was a fan and i used to write her records in cassetes that i still have.As my sister has passed away i might skip The End song for personal reasons.So much nostalgia,memories, i used to be obsessed and had almost everything of them even the books.This band is a genius as a whole,the jazzy drummer John Desmore,the soulful phychedelic virtuoso keyboardist Ray Manzarek,the guitarist Robby Krieger that can play almost everything perfectly and of course Jim Morrison.Such a unique album that still you can hear and enjoy every song even if you've heard it a zillion times. All songs are classic favourites but there are a few that really brought me tears reminding me how good they still are: The Crystal Ship(one of their best in my opinion,so beautiful,it made me cry,again). Light My Fire (the exceptional keys and guitar solo,sooo good,jazzy & soulful phychedelia at it's best). The End,i finally decided to hear this again after almost 28 years or so for personal reasons.Back in the days we used to listen to this with friends and relatives with no lights except some candles for the experience.Now every lyric line strikes a chord,except the Oidepodian ones.It still gives me the chills. What an album,what an era.Even the Beatles were influenced by this one. 5/5

I think i have reviewed Figure 8 from Elliott Smith in this list and it was my introduction to this artist.I remember rating it 4/5.Now to this one: Favourites: Between The Bars, Pictures Of Me, Rose Parade(haunting crystal clear guitar here), Punch And Judy(very dreamy and beautiful), Angeles(i think this one was either written for a Lars Von Trier movie or just featured in), Cupid's Trick(nice tensions,great guitars), 2:45(great lyics,too bad it progresses only at the end). To be honest the first 3 songs bored me but the rest was fire excerpt the last one.Great album again. 4/5

I've never heard this band before maybe because i wasn't really into Post Hardcore,noisy Indie kind of stuff in the 90's.Quite unique sound i must confess that deferiates this band from the other 90's ones.The only thing that bothered me here were the vocals,i couldn't hear what the singer was singing most of the times,but maybe that was what they were aiming for. Songs breakdown: In Like Flynn,dark and agressive but beautiful with dual bass work,the vocals though can be hardly heard. Go Be Delighted,despite the title, this is dark as hell,marilyn manson vocals vibe here,noise Rock at it's best.I wish the backing vocals could be clearer here. Rockets Are Red,again the low but powerful vocal ruin the song for me at least at it's first part,It kinda gets better later on though.Agressive and interesting despite some monotone parts. Satin Down,slower, strangely doomed and beautiful,vocals are better shined here,the bass is moody and exceptional setting a creepy atmosphere at times,the drums are also great here. Let Me Come Back,highily energetic piece,something you would definately hear in a mosh pit momentum.Great basses and guitars. Learned It,great guitars from the beginning.the backing vocals have more interest than the main.This one sounds clearer than the rest.Great song. Get Down,despair since the beginning.Dark and otherwordly but creates an everlasting longing.the lyrics most of the time are like chanting. Bulletproof Cupid starts off with a powerfull guitar riff and builds slowly around it.Quite interesting sound fx reminded a bit of NIN.More like playing with the faders sort of thing.Some beeped swearing here as well. 7 Seas,nothing special here,a lot of a-has. Billy's One Stop,too noisy for my taste.Drums too damn loud in this one.Towards the end i liked it better though. Bughouse,starts beautifully,more quiet than the rest,great song to end this noisy album.nice vocals as well,like whispering in our ears,has some genius tention moment crafted without raising the tempo but goes back again ending in a quiet fashion. Overall is a good album,didn't fatigued my ears at all and is quite creative and unique.Never heard -so far-something like it before. 4/5

I knew Talk Talk from their hits,as all,but never ever had i heard of this album or this U-Turn in their career which is a historical moment for them.This album is exceptional,well made,well played and surely well produced.Top quality.Again,thank you list! The songs now: Happiness Is Easy,from the beginning with the extended drumming you feel it coming.What a beautiful unique song.Devastating pads,children choir,groovy jazzy bass,great balearic guitar,some bongos involved and exceptional vocals.Creative as hell. I Don't Believe In You,a more straightforward rock number,but again so beautiful,the guitars amazing,resulting as a whole to a very dreamy song. Life Is What You Make It,Hacienda vibes,again amazing guitar and repetative but addictive piano,actually there is an overlay of a second one at some point and of course pads that make it more emotional. April 5th,electronica vibes intro,then unfolds with emotional pads and piano,extremely beautiful and clear vocals,blissful atmosphere with distant trumpets,delayed sensual hihats or breathing sample or maybe both,organ keys here as well gives a love and religion kinda feel.Balearic sparse guitar fragments exactly where needed. Living In Another World,emotional from the beginning with pads and piano,exceptional drum machine usage exchanged at times or topped with percusion,new wavish guitars,ending with harmonica or trumpet solo.heaven. Give It Up,pop rock with distinctive,awesome piano and organ keys at times,awesome guitar part added in the middle and towards the end.Brilliant song as well. Chameleon Day,starts organically with piano and again distant trumpeting,progresses melancholically until the singer shouts at times giving it tentions without changing.My least favourite. Time It's Time,great start with rhythmic elements and strings,progresses adding snare,guitar and choir giving it tention and comes back again to the start.Then comes back again.The harmonica part is pure bliss.Genius.What a closing song.There are intentional detunements in several organs that adds to the creativity.Even flute is added towards the end,i mean what else? Not only didn't this album bored me but on the contrary i felt it ended too soon..I need more of this! What an album,what a band,reinvented themselves courageously in 86' where synth was the king but they dropped it.And my god in their case that was a genius move! 5/5

Wow,this is a real treat.I used to hear this from my multiplayed cassette with one of my cousins back in the days. Mtv wasn't available in Greece excerpt if a Greek channel played some of the videos or the unplugged full performances late at night and at selected days, and only if you had a good signal.Not me. After couple of years only,i managed to see this live through a Tv and i was gobsmacked. Nowdays if you go and hear it choose the video version and if you do, choose the unedited to get the full experience-it's on Nirvana's YouTube-as it contains some bonus rehearsal videos from a few songs plus some comments from the band,not always technical.You can also see Cobain's perfectionism throughout. This is a classic album,i feel like i have to review Doors debut again.I mean this is a highly influential album,one of the best unplugged albums in the world.Someone once said that you can understand if an album is timeless only if you play it with an orchestra,or play it fully organically unplugged and only if it sounds as a country album.Not sure about the latter but you know what i mean.And here is definately that case.I also must say that 6 of the 14 songs in this unplugged were covers but Nirvana made them their own,which empasizes what a great band they were,again.Also there was a celo and accordion included in the session. My favourites now(let's go song by song including all): About A Girl Come As You Are,equally beautiful and powerfull although unplugged,it's Kurt's vocals or maybe his electro-acoustic guitar.. Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam,is a cover of the Vaselines who also covered the original that was actually a Christian song.That shows their influences but also their diversity.Accordion cleverly involved here but i don't know yet if the Vaselines had one in their version. The Man Who Sold The World,a Bowie cover,shows their awe to him and their respect,executed their way and fairly made it their own.Bowie said he was blown away and that he was surprised that Cobain liked his work.He also said he wanted to talk to him but tragically he had passed away at the time. Pennyroyal Tea,is a stellar difficult solo performance from Kurt Cobain which shows he could be a standalone feature as well. Dumb,the cello shines here,this is a favourite of mine a bit more than the others,Cobain says before starting this one that On A Plain was also in the same key but they had to play another one that was in a different key for television purposes.He also says it was better this way because they were like the same song. Polly is also a huge favourite of mine.again slightly more than the others,like with Dumb, i have a thing for the moody ones. On A Plain,the unplugged version has something of the Beatles in it.Fantastic.Also a favourite. Something In The Way,along with the cello here for the first time,Kurt is not shouting,at all,and it feels great. Plateau is the first from the All The Meat Puppets cover trilogy.I still don't know this band,maybe it will pop up on the list.But here Kurt is inviting those two members on stage to play their 3 songs together,and he actually says that Nirvana are big fans of them.While tuning,sort of,they play Sweet Home Alabama intro,fun stuff!The guitars here are magical.Vocals not so much,sorry. Oh Me,the second cover is better,great lyrics,great song,the vocals perfect,i can see why Nirvana were fans. Lake Of Fire is the last cover of the trilogy,great guitars,the vocals-don't crusify me-could be better at times.At the end Kurt's suggests playing In Bloom but that was impossible unplugged. All Apologies,great song but not one of my favourites,it feels like Come as you Are at times but not equally that good.The crowd were yelling some requests and one yeld for Rape Me but Cobain said that ''MTV won't let us play that one''. Where Did You Sleep Last Night,again is a traditional cover that Cobain came up with for the end.Great cover,took me years to find out this one wasn't theirs. The unedited video version showed me how fluid their playlist was 'till the very end of the session,maybe because most of their songs couldn't be played unplugged and that's why they did so many covers that night and turned down audience's requests.It gave me a new perspective of this album but still remains a favourite and a timeless classic.Too bad MTV is closing cause their unplugged series, and not only,were legendary,and this album wouldn't existed. 5/5

I will say it again and it is common with this list:How on earth did i miss that one out?Beautiful phychedelia with electronic creativity,great guitars and fretless bass.Drums were exceptional as well.I also really loved the vocals in every song.So many influences are well combined here:Can,John Cage,Beatles,even some electronic Schultze ones at times. The songs now: The American Metaphysical Circus,experimental cacophony with a circus march on time intro,progresses with outworldly synth astral modulations and beautiful female vocals with a psychedelic rock carpet.The vocals modulate as well through vocoders. Hard Coming Love is an uptempo psychedelic rock with experiments in the guitars in frequencies that might annoy you,and when they do,female vocals comes in and the thing smoothes out.Synth usage here is sparse when needed,more like fxs/bridges. Cloud Song is a more electronic heavy song which is a bliss for me.The vocals here are heavenly.Violin and harp involved makes it float.One of my favourites.Bjork must have been influenced by this one for sure. The Garden Of Earthy Delights, is pure astral psychedelia.Everything works perfectly as a whole here.There is a structure and perfect vocals.Also favourite. In I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife For You,Sugar, i feel like it's a blues song made out of electronics and guitar parts of Can.Beatle-tastic vocals.Circus march at it's ending. Where Is Yesterday starts with heavy choir chanting,the choir harmonises -some guitar delays and feedbacks interfears at times-. Coming Down is a great song in a more experimental fashion with a lot of turns.Very interesting.Great drumming,bass and guitar here.Also a favourite. Love Song For The Dead Che, as communists, i guess this was their tribute.Some accordion involved.Beautiful song with more organic sounds.Beautiful,siren singing. Stranded Time feels like a Beatles song from the beginning.Great changes of tempos.short and sweet. The American Way Of Love: Part I- Metaphor For An Olderman/Part II- California Good-Time..nice American bar song that progresses exprerimentally after harsh guitar solos,comes back in a Beach Boys fashion and ends up again in a dynamic experimental fashion.So much going on in this one especially towards the end.Yep Circus closing again,some vocal repeating and Hollywood strings. Osamu's Birthday(alternate version) has some Chinese creepy notes and John Cage's kinda foley.Chinese fashioned percussion as well.Quite dark.There was no other original version in this album though. No Love To Give is an uptempo phychedelic number with great vocals.nice distant guitar solo ending up experimental.The drumming changed almost in a jungle tempo. I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife For You,Sugar(2),female vocals alternate version.Good but i prefer the first one. You Can Never Come Down,proper funky psychedelia.Great female vocals and catchy lyrics. Perry Pier,strong Beatles vibes here again but with female singing.Dreamy atmosphere.Organ really adds to that 60's phychedelia. Tailor Man,great song again,feels warm with great guitar playing ,a beautiful phychedelic distillment.The drums are also exceptional here.The female vocals -as always- great. Do You Follow Me,another great song,i'm really hooked by the lyrics and the singing.It has a nice dynamic without being loud nor experimental.Brilliant. The American Metaphysical Circus (Alternate Version),it's a darker,more experimental repetition,i prefer the first better.It kinda creeps you out a bit.This one and Osamu's Birthday were my least favourites. Mouse(The Garden Of Earthly Delights)is a bit more twisted than the first especially in refrain parts with vocoder delays.Again, i prefer the first version. Heresy(coming Down),is probably the alternate version of Coming Down.Again i prefer the first one. Overall is a fantastic album that i first discovered here,and as most people say at their ratings,too bad it was the only one from this band. 5/5

I knew Pavement as a band but i haven't heard anything from them 'till now.This album may sounds like it was recorded in the basement but still, i like what i'm hearing.The vocals at times are silly and maybe unsufficcient but sometimes they are good(in Here) or have an intimate storytelling character,an almost punkish attitude and i so tune in.Great drumming here as well. Favourites: Summer Babe (Winter Version),creative drums. In The Mouth A Desert. Zurich Is Stained. Loretta's Scars.Stucked in my brain. Here.Great song.lyrics and vocals. Perfume-V. Fame Throwa. Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era. Overall it was a good album,i mean i liked more than half of the songs. 4/5

9 rappers rhyming in turn was an innovation itself right? Instead of heavy production,this East Coast gem is focused in exceptional back to back rhyming without leaving time for you to get bored.I really liked their whole kung-fu philosophy anyway so that's a treat for me.I also always loved that they used to cover their face(like hip-hop ninjas kinda thing),an underground attitude i really enjoyed in dance scene as well.Sampling is here alright (Can It Be All So Simple)(Protect Ya Neck and the song before it),but mostly monotonous,common thing back then. I really loved 90's hip-hop and i still do,and i always remember myself leaning more to the East Coast side back then. Wu Tang:The Shaolin Masters of Rhyming. The Ninja Clan of hardcore boom bap and East Coast Renaissance. 4/5

I have this one in a LTD Japanese release so you understand how my rating will go.Back then i thought it was a bit too louder than i wanted,but almost 29 years later i find it just perfect.As i used to dj and produce till now i find this highly creative and so many genres and influences inclusive.The selection of samples alone and the Beatles reference show the love for music Chemical Brothers have 'till now,as with every electronic band,dj or producer.So basically you need to have a genre crossing ear to fully comprehend and appreciate this album.Here as also djs they had extra abilities to boost each track and the freedom to combine all the influences electronically.And this was fully supported live,so everything was well programmed and played live if needed which is a genius and a complicated thing to do.That's for the haters that didn't make the effort to hear this album till the very end. Tracks breakdown: Block Rockin' Beats. astral fx sounds, the drums sample of Bernard Purdie's Changes,bass sample from Crusaders'The Well's Gone Dry,and vocal sample by Schoolly D. Loud and funky as hell.Creative modulations on everything from electronic sounds to drums.Electronic psychedelia at the end that reminds me a bit of a Prodigy aggresiveness,Meat Beat Manifesto and big beat wizadry of Fat Boy Slim. We used to listen to this with my brother-in-law who was actually a classic rock fan and we both were headbanging throughout the song.That tells everything. Cohesively in Dig Your Own Hole we got great vocal sampling.distorted guitar throughtout, big beating along with huge fx and modulated synth and funky bass sounds. In Elektrobank they speeded up the drum sample of Hit or Miss by Odetta. Distorted through vocoders vocal sample with delayed big beats along with crazy fx again and modulated synth and bass sounds.Prodigy's Full Throttle vibes.Synthetic funk,electronic hip hop that rocks like hell kinda result.Ends with a serious cut in tempo of the whole track that sounds like a dystopian electro-phychedelia. Piku is like an electro-phychedelia improvisation with crazy sampling,especially there are some hip hop drums with oldschool vinyl fx that intervein at times along with heavy reverbed pads that gives it a melodic texture. Setting Sun begins with a huge drum beat.Crazy modulated synth sounds and fx and Noel Gallagher appears with soulful, echoing and phychedelic vocals. It Doesn't Matter starts with a disco drum machine and heavy modulated sampled vocals.Right after, it builds with techno repetative bass and crazy fx.Later on snare comes in,has a breakdown and a very french tech filter house build up with sparse creative delayed hihats that comes and goes from left to right. The synth at the end of the previous track smartly glues as an intro to the techno Don't Stop The Rock track.The synth here is treated as experiments in a rock guitar.Heavily based and progresses through modulations as all techno tracks. Get Up On Like This gets us back in the electro-funk sampled big beat phychedelia.Some scratching involved.Great vocal sample pick that evolves throughout. Lost In The K-Hole,has experimental drumming intro,very frenchy with intimate male vocals reversed and back straight.Nice pad and synth sounds.Bass is funky as hell.Great drums as well.Really spaced-out and beautiful.One of my favourites. Where Do I Begin has a reversed guitar intro that stays and Beth Orton pops up with sirene vocals.Synths and fx are harmonised in the key of the song complementing it.Some flutes can also be heard.Then all these glue together with beautiful beats.The melody is a sped up and phased sample of Mazzy Star's Give You My Love.I like what they did here,sounds even better than the original.Ends up with heavy distortion blending beautifully with next track's melody as a contradiction.Genius.Another favourite. The Private Psychedelic Reel,has a hindu meditation kinda thing intro that distorts a bit,then huge big beats amplifies it's groove along with the haunting repetative melody sample and the absolutely fantastic and emotional pads.Distant at times,heavily distorted mostly, reverbed oriental sounds invade giving an another texture.Sick fx.Clubbish Breakbeat from Mars that also has earthly oriental samples.One of my favourites also.What a closing track. 5/5

Joni, Kim, Debbie and Kathy Sledge united with Chic's duo and resulted in a classic timeless disco album.Funky man Nile Rodger's contribution can be heard all over this.Even if you didn't know those songs,which i doubt,they were havily multi-sampled by disco house producers and influenced the french filter house ones in particular'till this very day.Highly influencial though vocals are mostly average and a milestone to the disco era and crowd. We Are Family,emblematic disco song that is timeless. Still singing to this when things go rough and we need unity and also a break! He's The Greatest Dancer,Nile Rodgers funky slap guitar delivery can rise a dead man to instantly dance.Maybe he is the greatest dancer they are talking about. Frankie,nice love song.I love the keys in that one. Everybody Dance,nice vibes,''shaft'' guitar intro and at intermissions.Great latin-esque uplifting piano. Lost In Music,emotional with beautiful keys and groovy guitar.One my favourites.I still use the title's term when i'm making music.''I want my melody,melody,melody,melody"! Thinking Of You,beautiful and dreamy from the beginning,sensual and with great lyrics.Reminds me of ''makes me love you'' disco house track that sampled most of the song back in the 00's.The soundtrack when you are in love. True Love's got plucky sounds and a jazzy vibe.My least favourite.A bit of Sade orchestration kinda thing. Brother,Brother Stop,great piano intro.The vocals here shine more than in any other song of this album.A proper ballad.Guitar solo at the end builds tention and reminded me of Michael Jackson's ballads.This was probably a live take. Disco Love 5/5

Legendary Andy Weatherall and Terry Farley were the producers of this album with Weatherall being only a dj/remixer that had never produced anything before and that was the reason why Primal Scream selected him.And they were so right.I was obsessed with Andy's genius dub remixes and quite a fan of acid house,so this album is a real treat for me. Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Buzzcocks and Joy Division.Beach Boys' album Pet Sounds (1966), and Nico's album The Marble Index,'70s reggae and dub among their influences on this album.Some of them you can hear and some of them you can only feel.Coincidentally acid house was the king of the clubs at the time,so all these resulted to this masterpiece. As there are so much going on in this album i will name if not all,most of the samples in each song's breakdown. Movin' All Up sampled You Made a Believer (Out of Me) by Ruby Andrews (1969).Beatle-tastic with congas to it's core,gospel soul choir and a beat underneath.Great vocals. Slip Inside This House, a cover of the 1960s psychedelic song by The 13th Floor Elevators, features Sly(and the Family) Stone's laugh from the end of the song "Sex Machine" (Stand! - 1969) and the Amen break.It also features King of the Beats by Mantronix (1988) and Rollin' Wit' the Lench Mob by Ice Cube (1990) samples.Absolutely groovy and funky.Hacienda vibes,reminds me of Stone Roses,in a heavily reverbed and delayed dub fashion. Don't Fight It,Feel It has sample from Ride Sally Ride by Dennis Coffey (1972).Great female vocals.More danceable that the previous with acid house elements and structure. Higher than the Sun uses a sample from "Wah Wah Man" by the Young-Holt Unlimited Trio,"Get Away Jordan" by Take 6,and Love Theme by The New American Orchestra (1982).Highly emotional,spaced out and beautiful dub.One of my favourites. Inner Flight samples the closing sound on Brian Eno's "The Great Pretender" from the album Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)(1974),the song "Whoa Buck" by C.B. Cook (1958), and Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya by Dr. John (1968).A Lunar,epic outcome with harmonies and sparse guitar and electronics.Absolutely fantastic. Come Together opens with beams and part of a speech given by Jesse Jackson at the Wattstax concert held in Los Angeles in 1972.Also has samples from The Dub Station by Tommy McCook and The Aggrovators (1975).It builds slowly with claps,hihats and delayed rimshots until the epic beat drops.Genius,dubbish and balearic as we call it nowadays.Gives you a hypnotic unity vibe as it progresses more. Loaded came up when Weatherall began remixing "I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have", from their previous album,resulting in creating something new,especially when adding a drum loop from an Italian bootleg mix of Edie Brickell's "What I Am" and a sample from the Peter Fonda B movie The Wild Angels.Also features a sample from The Emotions' "I Don't Want To Lose Your Love".This one was played more than the others in MTV and in the radios.Also in clubs but in a more extended version. Damaged,stripped with guitar and piano,no samples and fx.And it's pretty good.rocking out organically.For a change. I'm Coming Down has a Peep Booth from Paris, Texas (1984) sample.Saxophone,tabla like percussion and Kraftwerk synth while he is ''drifting''.Dreamy and meditating ambient.Then some carefully delayed and layered beats. Higher Than the Sun (A Dub Symphony in Two Parts) has two samples,one from MM 47: Love Song by Mungo Martin (1986) and the other from Shelter Me (Helter Skelter Mix) by Circuit feat. Koffi (1990).Epic otherworldly intro with great pads that builds emotional tention along with carefully mixed vocals,reggae dub beats then comes in and stays with fx. Shine Like Stars,Drum machine 80's style,high synths that evolve with detuning and resonance and then percussion and vocal comes along.Ends with a wave sample.Nice closing track. Genius album that i really enjoyed.I will summarize with what Ben Cardew of Pitchfork assessed: "Its ragtag bag of influences meant Screamadelica sounded a lot like many people, but no one sounded quite like Screamadelica, an album both ahead of its time and light years ahead of the rock/dance curve. 5/5

All these years i've been avoiding to hear the whole album 'cause when it came out i was just a kid and the sledgehammered head soldiers in the videos scared the hell out of me.I do have memories of Another Brick In The Wall playing all the time,when the German actual wall that was splitting East and West Berlin was finally down.It was the perfect soundtrack. Hearing it now,with all my life experiences till now, i realise what a masterpiece i was missing. A conceptual Rock Opera about Roger Water's struggles that Ezrin the producer,avoided it to end up only as a autobiographical piece,resulted as an insight to human behaviour and existence.This was inspired when Waters thought to actually built a real wall between the audience and him or rhe band, because of a stage incident where he spitted to some fans that were irritating him.It was a flashing light,a red flag to his behaviour.Great album with great theatrical moments,with foley and fx that sucks you in this concept.Genius. I really enjoyed all songs as they are all connected(maybe with only exception The Trial) ,but i'll name the ones i really loved: Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1(Alan Parson's Mammagamma vibes). Another Brick In The Wall, Part Two(of course).Here for the first time Pink Floyd used a disco beat. Goodbye Blue Sky. Empty Spaces.Epic. Young Lust. Hey You. Is There Anybody Out There?Is a reference to Syd Barrett that had left the band by the time i think. Comfortably Numb.My favourite,so spaced out and beautiful.Exceptional guitar solo. Run Like Hell(mammagamma vibes again). This album was the last featuring the band as a quartet.Great concept album,one of the best in the world. 5/5

I'm already a fan of Roxy Music so i might have an inclination on positive feedback/rating.This album has songs for everybody,but not everybody can listen to it.Tricky,isn't?Quite genius i say.It has so many influences:Glam,New Wave(before New Wave),Progressive and Art Rock to name a few.The band plays exceptionally the whole time supporting their creative and interesting ideas:Brian Ferry's expressionism and falsettos,virtuoso keys,guitars,bass,drums,sax,flute,horns.. The songs that really impressed me: The Thrill Of It All,powerful with great guitars,piano and awesome from start to finish with exceptional lead vocals.Some''quiet''artful bridges adds to the song especially the backing vocals.One of my favourites. All I Want Is You.New Wave vibes,this could have been a Cars song. Out Of The Blue,this reminded me a bit of Duran Duran and Bowie.Absolutely fantastic guitars(the solos!) and groovy bass,flanger,chorus,reverbs.delays fx treated as art. Bittersweet reminded me in the "quiet" parts a bit of the Crystal Ship of Doors,the vocals resonance.It has theatrical tensions with German lyrics at times which i didn't liked that much though. Triptych,exceptional baroque harpsicord keys,medieval polyphony in vocals.Highly progressive rock elements mixed with Roxy weirdness.Brilliant. Casanova,tongue to cheek,ironic lyrics and the whole band's amazing playing throughout the song. A Really Good Time,orchestral background, some synth arp,bluesy vocals,sweet saxophone.Bliss. Prairie Rose,new wavish with great vibes.Sparse sax in tune and totally in time along with great guitar.Nice bass change at the end. Too bad Brian Eno left,but they did great apart.

The brass section of this big band orchestra was a bit too loud in this album.I just couldn't hear it loud,it really annoyed me.Overall i always enjoy Count Basie's albums.I think it's the second album that i rate from him and his orchestra. Favourites:Double O. 4/5.

Time travelling to1997 i was only 17 and i remember as a huge Prodigy fan that i had bought this album on cd and that i had to work hard to raise money to do so.Good memories.Big Beat with a punkish attitude and a lot of great sampling from Liam and Keith's first time doing vocals for 4 legendary tracks.Maxim did 2 i think.The samples in this album are quite eclectic and shows clearly Liam's influences.I'll try to name all of them,as some were not mentioned in the album's credits. Smack My Bitch Up samples Bulls on Parade by Rage Against the Machine (1996),a riff by Kool &The gang's Funky Man,bass and drums of In Memory Of by Randy Weston (1973) and the vocals of Give the Drummer Some by Ultramagnetic MC's (1988).The video caused a small havoc for women's rights as it was considered as a misogynist one.At times you get a meditation vibe especially with the female oriental vocals.A banger. Breathe samples the video Fx from A Game of Chess Is Like a Sword Fight from Shaolin and Wu Tang (1981)(wait,i rated this whole album already!),Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed by Thin Lizzy (1976),and The Rill Thing by Little Richard (1970).Punkish addictive vocals by Keith on top.Genius. Diesel Power samples The Fuz and Da Boog by Fuzzy Haskins (1976),P.S.K. - What Does It Mean? by Schoolly D (1985)(wu tang influences again),The Manipulator (Dub Version) by Mixmaster Gee and the Turntable Orchestra (1986).The few secs intro reminded me a bit of Air's Sexy Boy intro.Great oldscool guest rhyming by Kool Keith.This one is more like a hip hop track with heavy electronics.Absolutely fantastic. Funky Shit samples the vocals from Root Down by Beastie Boys (1994),horn sample of the Theme From S.W.A.T. by Rhythm Heritage (1975),The Fuz and Da Boog by Fuzzy Haskins (1976),and the Break! vocal sample from B-Boyz's 2,3,break song.Funky ,aggressive and powerful as hell.Modulation ''show off ''skills by Liam. Serial Thrilla contains a reversed sample of Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana (1991),a riff from Selling Jesus by Skunk Anansie (1995),and a sample from Nil by Autechre (1994).I.m pretty sure i hear 4 other samples as well but let's leave it to that,Electro-punkish outcome with Keith on vocals again.Be careful with loudness in this one especially at the end.It's like your laptop is having a seizure haha. Mindfields samples Amen, Brother by The Winstons (1969),basic riff is from Hip's Trip by John Barry (1974)(James Bond OST),King Kut by Word of Mouth feat. DJ Cheese (1985).From Big Beat to Breakbeat.One of my favourites. Narayan guest vocals are from Crispian Mills of Kula Shaker 's fame(somewhere in the middle the Narayan line vocal transforms into a mystic mantra).It also contains samples from Sport by Lightnin' Rod feat. Kool & the Gang (1973),CRYING OUT by Spectrasonics Virtual Instruments (1995)and the amazing piano is a sample from Josephine by The Milwaukee Coasters (1968).I remember back in 1997 that the piano hooked me from the beginning and that instantly made Narayan my top tune from this album. Firestarter samples the vocals from Close (To the Edit) by Art of Noise (1984),the wah wah guitar riff of S.O.S. by The Breeders (1993),and drums from Devotion (The Voice of Paradise Mix) by Ten City (1989).I think i have this one and Breathe as cd singles somewhere..This is the punkiest track of all.I still remember how scary Keith was in the video. Climbatize samples a horn riff from The Horn Track by Egyptian Empire (1991),Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who (1971), and the drums from Air Drums From Outer Bongolia by Jedi Knights (1996) who wanted to sue Prodigy for that ,but XL company of the Prodigy bought the rights from the original song Bongolia by the Incredible Bongo Band ,so they sued Jedi Knights instead,-Ha-.And they were not the only ones.This track is also a favourite.There is a certain funkyness and a hidden psychedelia.Kudos to Liam again for gluing the puzzle in a genius way. Fuel My Fire is a cover of Fuel My Fire by L7 (1994) and has also samples from Katmandu by David Whittaker (1993).Sorry not Firestarter, this one is the punkiest song in this album.Also a favourite and what a closing song! They were named as electronic punks for a reason. 5/5

Before overcoming her breakup with Graham Nash, and as she was already romantically involved with James Taylor,Annie Lennox's idol Joni Mitchell wrote and produced entirely by herself Blue. The crystal clear,accurate,beautiful songs have only piano(but what a piano!), her unique sharp guitar playing, Appalachian dulcimer(Cindy Lauper's also favourite instrument) and of course her amazing distinctive high voice along with her fantastic storytelling lyrics. In January 2000, The New York Times chose Blue as one of the 25 albums that represented "turning points and pinnacles in 20th-century popular music".That's why is on this list and in most people's lists.But of course not only for that, but for all the reasons i said above.I remember the first time i heard this.I was gobsmacked by her talent. Favourites-if not the whole album-: All I Want.High notes gives me chills,still.She's travelling and i'm packing along.The rhytmic guitar playing is out-of this world. My Old Man.The way she plays the piano and sings from major to minor with such ease is phenomenal.It's like alternate feelings instantly. Blue.The piano and the delivery creates a magical piece.So many artists influenced by this and Joni in general,a name that poped up in my head from hundreds as i listen is Tori Amos. River.Talks about Xmas as she geniously plays Gingle Bells first notes on the piano,on a different signature. When she sings Fly she holds the note until next Xmas.Absolutely fantastic.She closes again with Gingle Bells played in a different key. The Last Time I Saw Richard.Her piano playing is amazing to say the least,again.Dreamy strorytelling deliver. This voted-among other things-as the best female album of all times.When pure talent creates and produces the perfect album-I say-. 5/5

First time hearing about Steve Earle and this album and i was pleasantly surprised on how good this was.Hillbilly Highway gave me some Johnny Cash vibes.I love that it was released in 86'.Great production and nothing but boring.A country gem. Favourites: Guitar Town,Goodbye's All We've Got Left,Good Ol'Boy(Gettin' Tough), My Old Friend The Blues,a slower bluesy number that makes his voice shine, Someday,great autobiographical storytelling. Fearless Heart,gave me a bit of Paul Young's Everytime You Go Away vibes.This should have been a single, Little Rock 'N' Roller,builds slowly,a sweet lullaby to his little self.Beautiful. State Trooper (1986/Live At The Park West).wow.Bluesy guitar start with great vocals,gets you from the very beginning! When 80's production meets Country and Blues.Outstanding. 5/5

This album is the turning point for Mariah Carey.Midway it's production a divorse came up with Motola and a heinous conflict with Sony Music.But except all that she could write more mature lyrics and produce the way she wanted,she had Q-Tip,Puff Dadd..sorry Diddy and Missy Elliott in this one.That's why is on this list in case you wondered. Honey,nice breakdown in 3:38 or so.High notes from heaven towards the end. Butterfly,beautiful piano balad.Great lyrics and harmonies as well.A bit of ''Hero'' vibes.Sheer heaven. Vocals are out of this world.Ending singing got me chills. My All,is at the pantheon of balads with great guitar,as ''Unbreak my heart''by Toni Braxton.It's all about the break-up.You can feel her pain.Bring it on sista! The Roof(Back In Time),great hip hop/r'n'b vibes,sensual with many layers of harmonies.Bliss. Fourth Of July,jazzy r'n'b Mariah's style.Not my thing,but still feels good to my ears.A bit of Stevie Wonder vibes.Birds singing at the end. Breakdown,proper r'n'b.Interacting male vocals feels like a lovers conversation.Not my favourite again but feels nothing but boring. Babydoll,same fashion as Breakdown but instead of male vocals we have backing female vocals.Ok that was a bit repetative and boring-sorry. Close My Eyes,great from the beginning,i mean the piano,,wow.Beautiful balad and Mariah's delivery and lyrics are magical.Reminded me a bit of Michael Jackson's balads.One of my favourites. Whenever You Call,strong ''Hero'' vibes in this as well.Fantastic orchestra underneath.Could have been in a soundtrack.Going higher towards the end makes it epic.Also a favourite. Fly Away(Butterfly Reprise),a more eclectic club house remix turn by legendary David Morales and Satoshi Tomiie.Absolutely fantastic.Could have been a great drum 'n' bass remix as well. The Beautiful Ones,great job with sparse delay in snare at times.Bluesy,soulful,Gospel like and spiritual.Very interesting.Again MJ vibes especially towards the end.Great guitar.One of my favourites as well. Outside,how clear the keys are in this one.. Overall it's a great album,except 2 or 3 songs i really enjoyed it,and i'm very eclectic with r'n'b plus it's almost December and Xmas is almost here but i survived a non-Xmas album from MC. 4/5

In this album as White Stripes sound may sounded predictable already,Jack White plays with different technique, replacing electric guitar with piano, mandolin, and acoustic guitar on most songs,as his usual riffs are also replaced by a more rhythmic approach.Let alone his experimentation with marimba in 2 songs. Songs that intrigued me: The Nurse,quite experimental with marimba,piano,snare bursts and sparse guitar.Artful. My Doorbell,innovative singing,Beatles vibes.great soulful,bluesy piano playing. Forever For Her(Is Over For Me),nice vibes from the beginning with guitar,piano and marimba!Genius. Little Ghost is a country song with a mandolin!How creative can they get from that? The Denial Twist,power R'n'R blues!This is funky as hell!Nice video as well. White Moon,great lyrics and bursts keeps it highly interesting.Outstanding piano.Abrupt ending as in most songs. Instict Blues,not much of a Blues fan,but this is fire!Hendrix vibes.I can ''see'' them smashing the guitar at the end! Passive Manipulation,great singing with a meaning intervention. Take,Take,Take.Absolutely fantastic song.As soon as you feel bored, you get a change of rhythm in the ''take,take,take''lines. As Ugly As I Seem has great acoustic guitar playing rhythmically along with percussion only but alas my head was boping the whole time. Red Rain,hard rocking playing bluesy guitar and a bicycle bell?Hell yeah!Some progressive vibes also in the singing?No? Creative and innovative as hell,kept my interest throughout except 2 songs!Out of 13!Fairly they won the Grammy that year. 4/5

While Kraftwerk were recording Techno Pop that year,they managed to find time to re-record live at the studio melodies of Trans Europe Express and rhythmic beats from Numbers for Afrika Bambaataa's album.I want to believe as a fan of both, that they maybe influenced one another.Kraftwerk had acknowledged that the future in dance music was in hip hop and proto-house evolution.So this album is actually a bridge.That's why is on the list. Planet Rock has famously included Kraftwerk recording live ''Trans Europe Express''melody and rhythmic beat of ''Numbers'' on this,instead of just using samples.A historical moment of genius collaboration.Like a jam session that takes a bit too long though.Electro-Funk hip hop result. Looking for the Perfect Beat,has also Kraftwerk ''Trans Europe Express'' melody and some beat re-recorded for the album.And fits like a glove.Long version here again,was probably for club use but i quite enjoyed this one!Powerful and innovative. Renegades Of Funk (The Latin Rascals Remix),The Latin Rascals produced a remix of the original featuring restructured beats, added percussion layers, and extended mixes.Great thing is, that you can hear Kraftwerk influences only in this one but it fits perfectly with the two previous ones. Frantic Situation (Frantic Mix),you can actually hear some proper vocals at times in this one.Great arps. and groovy,funky bass. Who You Funkin' With? has hip hop beats in a more downtempoed fashion.No heavy electronic stuff.Guitar is great along with the scratching every now and then.Contains samples of "Holy Ghost" by Bar-Kays and "Bustin' Loose" by Chuck Brown and The Soul Searchers. Go Go Pop,proper oldschool with Trouble Funk and Tommy boy i think, with great vocals, cow bells and popish disco funk(extended)structure,Brilliant. They Made A Mistake has great electronic elements,beats,some sampled wah wah guitar and again funky bass. Though AB's rapping might sound silly especially with all this fx(it's the 80's though),this is a serious record for that time. 5/5

I always find empowering that a female group does so well,but in this album seems that there's no clear vision about it or about anything.It has some gems in it alright, but overall it's a mediocre to bad album and production and poor lyrics -except a couple of songs- didn't help at all. Independent Women Part 1,boping commercial R'n'B song that except it's empowerement ,i can't listen to anymore.It was everywhere in 2000's so it reached my hearing threshold. Survivor,still on the empowerement side field,better that the previous hit but still i'm too tired of the girl group 00's thing. Bootylicious is the only gem out of this album that i loved back then and i still do. Nasty Girl shouldn't have been in this album.Slut shaming after empowerement?It doesn't make any sense at all.I mean,make up your mind already.God,and this one was a single. Fancy.Now we hate women?Too shame cause i kinda liked the production on this one.. Apple Pie A La Mode.Weird and unexpectably fun. Sexy Daddy.Just awful.A lot of skipping.And i don't skip songs-this was an emergency-. Perfect Man.See notes above.Also,crappy production,and i would have forgive this if it was the first album,but it wasn't.. Independent Women Part II.Un-nessesary.I mean wtf? Happy Face.Finally an uplifting oasis that gives some interest.Quite a pleasant surprise!It's funny what some electronic elements can do. Dance With Me.nice generic R'n'B.Bit boring and long though. My Heart Still Beats.I was a bit worried that this album won't have a ballad.Apparrently it does and it's magical.Strangely enough, this is actually my favourite.Mariah vibes. Emotion.I started to like this one but then i realised that this was a cover of Samantha Sang's Emotion. Quite good,but i prefer the original. Brown Eyes.This one had potential but the lyrics are too overused.If Mariah Carey had the instrumental she would have written fire lyrics and this would have been a number one hit. Dangerously In Love.Great acoustic and wah wah guitar that almost saves it and makes it a favourite of mine. The Story Of Beauty.Too Busy at times.So much going on and not in a good way.Oh,and empowerement is back. Gospel Medley.Great acappella harmonies. Outro (DC-3) Thank You.Unnessesary.The Gospel Medley could have end this better and more beautifully.It will also have a purpose if there was also an intro. 3/5 .For Bootylicious,My heart Still Beats and Happy face.I still can't believe that this album was nominated for a Grammy.I guess sales pushed the voting.

Epic.timeless album that first time had guest musicians,and also had one cover.Let alone the famous ''Joni Mitchel' song.So many artists influenced by this one.If IV wasn't on this list then what?? Favourites: The Battle Of Evermore.This and Stairway To Heaven were the reasons i found out about this album back then.In this song we have guest singing by folk rock singer Sandy Denny(lead singer of Fairport Convention, and briefly of Fotheringay and also a solo artist).What a genius move.And what a band to write such a beautiful song.Time travells you in a medieval castle fighting against the Orcs. Stairway To Heaven.What more to say for their emblemating song?Guitar,flute everything about it is just magical.The sensivity in Robert Plant's singing is phenomenal for a guy with such loud range.And his lyrics..almost makes you cry.Epic. Four Sticks.'Till this very day i haven't heard anything like this. Going to California is a clear Joni Mitchell reference song as Plant had a huge crush on her.He wrote the lyrics to express his admiration, referring to her with lines like "a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair". He also included a clear reference to her song "I Had a King" in the line, "To find a queen without a king".Genius.The guitar and mandolin playing is alike with JM's.For the record she acknoledged this and she was touched by their public admiration, as they were among the few male artists to publicly express appreciation for her work at a time when it was often dismissed as a "women's artist" issue. When The Levee Breaks is a magnificent hard rock re-interpretation cover of the Memphis Minnie blues song.wow.Now i see Beastie Boys drumming influences and of so many other bands.Phenomenal.Watch out at the end for those reversed guitar fxs,so ahead of their time. Man i would have given 5 stars for the two big hits of this album alone, but i so loved it as a whole.As it should. 5/5

Sinatra and Bossa Nova do not mix.Great idea but in the execution it feels awkward to say the least, especially with Jobim's backing native vocals at times. In Dindi however that it feels more like a jazzy intrumental i can see it,but overall i feel like every song(well most of them) is the same,at the same key,the bossa nova is slowed down to a more jazzy tempo and Sinatra is somehow vocally restricted. 2/5

Wow.This got me time travelling back in 1995 in my bedroom,only 16 yo,singing at the top of my lungs the whole album by heart,and i had it on cassette,yes,a cassette.It was the only Britpop album that got me good.I will hear it again with my more experienced ears to see if it will make any difference or change but i don't think it will.The turn in a more baladry structure (although there are loud songs here as well) with big choruses and string instrumentation really struck a chord not only in me,but in the whole universe,and fairly there was such a hype back then.And i don't give a damn about the Gallagher Bros egos.This was a perfect album,from start to finish. Most favourites: Roll With It.''I think i've got a feeling,i've lost inside''. Wonderwall.No matter how hard they try to ''rick-roll'' you with it nowadays,it still remains a masterpiece and an emblematic song of the 90's along with Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. Don't Look Back In Anger.Noel's singing was always better,well most of the times.He just didn't had this attitude. Hey Now!I really love the lead guitar here. Cast No Shadow.This wasn't a favourite of mine back then,but my 46yo self find it great now.''As they took his soul,they stole his pride''. Champagne Supernova.Strangely this was a favourite back then,and strangely still is. Make sure if you listen this on youtube to hear it from Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory? [25th Anniversary Album Playback] where there are visuals for the non video tracks. Nostalgia for the good o'l me,for the good o'l times. 5/5

California Teens (The O.C.) memories.How an album influenced by New Wave and Post Punk especially in that era where there was an explosion of groups like this could be wrong?Great vocals with a wide range,seminal drumming,guitar playing and fx,pads and synth wizadry. Favourites: Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine.The guitars alone kills me.Interesting drumming throughout,synths could have been better. Mr.Brightside.The dinstictive guitar arpeggio haunts me still.From ''Jealousy'' line and on it's just magic. Smile Like You Mean It.You know from the start how amazing this is.The refrain is not my favourite part,but as a whole is wow. Somebody Told Me.Banger. Andy,You're A Star.Mesmerizing and with darker tones,i love it.Bowie vibes. On Top.Epic synth,pads and guitars.Super emotional.U2 vibes at times. Change Your Mind.Pure bliss. Believe Me Natalie.What an atmosphere and with a great ending.Also a favourite. Everything Will Be Alright.Portishead vibes?Strange,dark and beautiful despite the title.A bit long and repetative at times though. Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll.Genius ending song.The bass has it's moments in this one.Maybe the screaming could be avoided but it's Indie Rock 'n' Roll for him. Great album.The Killers killed it. 5/5

Wild Gift is such a creative,interesting,unique punk rock album that i'm hearing for the first time and i absolutely love it.So many influences,so well blended: Roots rock, Country, Blues, R&B, and Rockabilly!Great,clean vocals and harmonies. Favourites: The Once Over Twice.Debbie Harry vibes. Adult Books.60's vibes with a twist.Harmonies from heaven.Bluesy guitar at times.wow.Creative as hell.Nice title! Universal Corner.''Like a woman'' line kills me. It's Who You Know.Banger. Some Other Time. White Girl reminds me of Nirvana!It was sampled by the Red Hot Chili Peppers on their 1989 album Mother's Milk, in the song "Good Time Boys". The Chili Peppers song's lyrics mentioned X's John Doe specifically, "whose voice is made of gold". Beyond And Back.How do they make it work?Perfect. When Our Love Passed Out On The Couch.Epic. wow.I so enjoyed this.No X for this band for sure! 5/5