This is not an album I listen to often - quite likely my least listened to Ayu album, or at least right up there. It is not necessarily bad or anything - there a few awesome songs and the interludes are really great - but I find it a bit... generic. This whole little period post-Power of Music is her most average. Colours was awesome and put an end to that. I should listen to Colours again...
Highlights: snowy kiss, untitled for her... story 2, Ivy, Bye-bye darling
7.5/10
Love and Fear - Jimmy Barnes
Barnesy's usual brand of Aussie rock, but with more of a modern/updated sound. Which, at this point, is now 20 years-old. Big rock guitars, a few big beats. No rapping on this one, but def some R&B on that one song.
Highlights: Time Will Tell, Temptation, Love Gone Cold
6.5/10
The Love Below - Outkast
Or really an Andre 3000 solo album with Big Boi on a couple of tracks. Look, Imma be real with you with all: I find Andre 3000 really pretentious and annoying. And this album is a lot of nonsense and sex, without actually being sexy, if you know what I mean. In the middle are two certified bangers, but they are just surrounded by the stupidest collection of skits and... whatever this is. None of it feels like actual songs.
Highlights: Hey Ya!, Roses
4/10
Love Demolition - Zowie
I think this is NZ pop? I was given this CD by... someone? And they were given it... somewhere? Clearly a heavy influence from Lady Gaga going on here. It is actually mostly decent. Or at least listenable. Hey - that is a very high compliment for me when it comes to New Zealand music!
Highlights: You Treat Me (Like I'm Software), My Calculator, Nothing Else, Ping Ping
6.5/10
Love Gun - Kiss
This album is just what I needed this morning to get back on track! Just about peak Kiss, right here. Well, I mean, they peaked for like 3 years and it was basically downhill after this, but this album rules the schools.
Highlights: I Stole Your Love, Love Gun, Got Love for Sale, Plaster Caster
9/10
Love is Hell - Ryan Adams
No one will ever convince me this album is as good as people try to pretend it is. I am not saying it is terrible - because I listened to The Love Below this morning, so I know terrible - but it is not the amazing triumph that Ryan Adams fans think it is.
Highlights: This House is Not For Sale, Love is Hell, Wonderwall, Please Do Not Let Me Go
6/10
Love is Hell Rarities - Ryan Adams
Some of these songs are fine. Some are better than some of the songs on Love is Hell. Some are just a continuation of the miserable mediocrity found on Love is Hell. And this version of This Is It is the worst I have ever heard.
Highlights: Gimme Sunshine, I Want to Go Home
5.5/10
Love is Hell: New York Sessions - Ryan Adams
I am going to kill myself...
Highlights: I am dead like Charlie Kirk
5/10
Love Live! School Idol Project - μ's
Oh hey, I did a cleanup of this stuff a few years ago. I actually thought it was last Winter, but apparently time goes VERY quickly! Yeah yeah iDOL is SHiT and all that, but this is exactly what I needed after 3 hours of DRA being a black cloud. These girls are the rainbow and sunshine washing his BS away. I need to learn No brand girls on guitar. And bah gawd that bassline in どんなときもずっと is phenomenal.
Highlights: No brand girls, どんなときもずっと, Wonderful Rush, 僕らは今のなかで
8/10
Love Live! Sunshine - Aqours (and others)
Why, yes - I did a cleanup for these songs the day after doing so for μ's. This was more complex, because I had everything still split across like 4 albums and all sub-unit names are being used for the artists, etc. I may have to watch an episode of this show tonight.
Highlights: 勇気はどこに？君の胸に！, 君のこころは輝いてるかい？, SELF CONTROL!!, Landing action Yeah!!
7.5/10
Love Songs - Ayumi Hamasaki
Start the day with Ayu and end the day with Ayu! I always forget this album actually came out before the Power of Music concert - mostly because there is almost nothing from it performed at that show - and I consider it the start of the 'lame' period of Ayu's career. Well, first lame period. The second would be the last 4 or 5 years. Like most Ayu albums, it is a mix of various styles, but country rock is certainly a first!
Highlights: Thank U, Love song, MOON, blossom, sending mail
7/10
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