Could this EP be any more Ayu? It just needs one of her angry heavy Linkin Park style tracks, otherwise it has everything else you would expect; fun pop, funky grooves, big rock ballads. Absolutely awesome.
Highlights: Memorial Address, HANABI ～episode II～, ourselves
9/10
Memorial Beach - a-ha
I hesitate to use the word dark here, but this is more artsy and blues-rock than their previous work. Like, they've clearly been listening to some grunge, but it has not totally overtaken their complete sound. And it really works for me! This album makes me appreciate their all-around musicianship.
Highlights: Move to Memphis, Cold as Stone, Between Your Mama and Yourself, Lie Down in the Darkness
7/10
Merry Christmas - Mariah Carey
Ms. Carey could sing to me the full screenplay of Avatar and the ingredients of a tin of baked beans and I am sure I would sit there all doe-eyed. Merry Christmas!
Highlights: All I Want for Christmas is You
6.5/10
Messin' with the Boys - Cherie & Marie Currie
I did briefly mention The Currie sisters many years ago. The performance in that video is the stuff! This album is so far removed from The Runaways - like a Peter Criss album is to a Kiss album. The reissue is certainly overkill and unnecessary. The world does not need 1288 versions of Cherry Bomb!
Highlights: Since You've Been Gone, Messin' with the Boys, Elaine, This Time
7/10 for the original album, 6/10 for the reissue
Meteora - Linkin Park
Sometimes you just feel like a bit of angry LP doing the angry LP thing. There is something comforting about it, I think. Any album where Mike Shinoda raps lots gets my approval. More on that tomorrow...
Highlights: Lying from You, Nobody's Listening, Numb, Figure.09
7.5/10
Midnite Vultures - Beck
Weird noises, silly lyrics, some funky basslines and the occasional actual hooks. I can appreciate his attempt to make a silly Prince album - and in parts it totally works. But, like, I have Prince. And Flight of the Conchords doing silly Prince.
Highlights: Milk & Honey, Mixed Bizness, Debra, Sexx Laws
6/10
Mike + the Mechanics - Mike + the Mechanics
This is only the song All I Need is a Miracle. It is some sort of 80s staple.
7/10
Milk and Honey - John Lennon/Yoko Ono
If ever an album out there needed to be re-recorded it would be this. Normally I am somewhat against that sort of thing, but in this case I wholeheartedly support it. Hell, bring in McCartney if you must and have him record some backing vocals; the songs being unfinished means Lennon's vocal performances are less than what he was aiming for. There are some pretty decent songs here. They just needed to be... finished.
Highlights: Nobody Told Me, I'm Stepping Out, Grow Old with Me
6.5/10
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