My Instant Song [Single] - MONOEYES
Two bonus songs means LOGMAN has to purchase. Especially since they played When I Was King at Fireball Fest, so I needed it to complete the playlist!
Highlights: My Instant Song, When I Was King, What I Left Today
8/10
My Lives - Billy Joel
Things kick off with a few demos from the 60s. They are very poor quality and heavily influenced by The Beatles. They actually end up sounding like a band that is copying a band that is trying to sound like The Beatles. Then Joel goes solo and it gets all 'Paul McCartney meets Ray Charles' - in a good way! Not sure he needed to make a reggae version of any of his songs. And this whole set could be a lot shorter if they did not include so many final album cuts. Then we get some fairly average live cuts, and things close out with Billy Joel trying his hand at classical compositions. I guess.
Highlights: I Go to Extremes (Live), The River of Dreams (Alternate Version), Zanzibar, Christie Lee (Demo), Captain Jack (Live)
6/10
My Own Destruction - ELLEGARDEN
Yes please. Hosomi making silly songs about dating a woman twice his age, and sandwiching it between an angry diss at his ex AND one of the most emo songs in the entire ELLEGARDEN catalogue was a choice. A good one! I am not sure if you realise this, but I quite like this ELLEGARDEN band.
Highlights: 右手, Jamie, Under Control, おやすみ
9/10
My Soul - Coolio
This is only C U When U Get There. I'll C U when I get more Coolio!
8/10
MY STORY - Ayumi Hamasaki
When that first chorus for About You kicks in, it is just massive! Like everything on this album. Every song has so much emotion just pouring out of it - even the instrumentals and the quiet chill-out tracks like HAPPY ENDING. I could be wrong, but this feels like her most guitar rock-centred album; there is some dance pop and some R&B style in here - it is Ayu, so you will always get diversity - but it just feels like 90% of the songs were written on guitar. Which accounts for why this album is just full of the tastiest most perfect guitar solos. And her vocal performance is just perfection. I want to break the marathon just to listen to this album again. M is for Moments Is A Perfect Song? M is for My Favourite Album?
Highlights: Moments, winding road, About You, GAME
9/10
M started with Ayu and ended with Ayu. And the Ayu albums in-between were the friends we made along the way...
"Albums" listened to so far: 1145
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