These bad dudes hitting with a quick and killer EP. Pretty much just 8 awesome dance tracks. DNA has to be one of their most complete songs and MIC Drop is just straight heavy hip-hop.
Highlights: DNA, Best of Me, Pied Piper, MIC Drop
9/10
Love. Angel. Music. Baby. - Gwen Stefani
I was never a big fan of this album, outside of a few songs. Listening back some 20 years later and bah gawd her appropriation of Japanese is such a super lame way to try and be cool. Bitch can't even pronounce Harajuku properly. And lyrically this stuff is about as shallow and braindead as you could possibly achieve. Unbelievably, the best part of this album features Andre 3000. I guess negative x negative = positive.
Highlights: Long Way to Go, What You Waiting For?
4/10
LOVEppears - Ayumi Hamasaki
This album is just one big hardcore dance party. Like, this dance beat kicks in and never stops! Even on a song like And Then that is all dark and moody - it still makes you want to dance your socks off. Which would be weird, because how does that happen without losing our shoes? Do your socks just melt because they were made with cheap cotton? Anyways, in spite of Ayu's voice on this album, it is just killer. Always much better than I ever give it credit for.
Highlights: Who..., And Then, End Roll, Fly High
8/10
LOVEppears/appears 20th Anniversary Edition - Ayumi Hamasaki
Did someone say dance party?!? When I see dance mixes labelled something like "EURO Mix", I wonder if that is how they would mix it in Europe. Like, is this how music is European clubs actually sounds? Anyways, these megamixes are kind of fun. The "Millenium Mix" of A Song for xx sounds very much like the album version. And from there, it is just appears, WHATEVER and immature mixed in different ways. And because that was too diverse, the final disc is just appears. I guess that was the original release or something? I would not know - in the year 2000 I was too busy listening to Limp Bizkit and Eminem to know what an Ayu was!
Highlights: being transported back to a Euro dance club circa-2000 which is something I never experienced so have absolutely no nostalgia for it.
6.5/10
LOVEppears/appears 20th Anniversary Edition [Disc 1] - Ayumi Hamasaki
And then we are back to the beginning with the original album, but remastered for the 20th anniversary. Hence the big box set. Sadly, it is the only Ayu album that has been afforded such treatment. I was really hoping they might do something similar for MY STORY, but alas. I have this and the original release on here because there are genuine differences in the audio - this almost appears to be an actual remix, but I could be wrong. I have certainly heard appears enough today...
Highlights: Who..., And Then, End Roll, Fly High
8/10
Loverboy - Loverboy
I really should check out the rest of this album, but of now I will just enjoy the groove of Turn Me Loose. Great song.
8/10
Lovesexy - Prince
This album is such wonderful popfunkrnb. So much fun and danceability.
Highlights: Eye No, Lovesexy, Alphabet St., Glam Slam
8/10
Lyricist Lounge Vol. 1 - Various Artists
I only have the song Oh No by Mos Def, Pharoahe Monch & Nate Dogg. And it turns out I even have this on the wrong album? That is shocking. Almost as shocking as how cool this song? Pharoahe Monch has the coolest line of the week.
8/10
Turns out I also messed up my numbering last week and tried to force myself to listen to an extra 10 albums? Not on my watch!
"Albums" listened to so far: 1052
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