Album # 1100, three mornings in a row starting with The Empress, and we return to that peak era. This album is one where I think it is good and then I listen to it and I am like HOLY MACKERAL WILL IT EVER STOP BEING AWESOME?!? Like, try and find a better opening run than these first five songs. Then the middle eases up a bit, but then towards the end we get one of her best ballads ever, one of her best instrumentals ever, and then some great pop to end things off.
Highlights: HEAVEN, STEP you, Are You Wake Up?, (miss)understood, is this LOVE?
8.5/10
Missing You - K.Will
The next chapter in my random K-Pop song collection. This is a couple of light tracks - a ballad and a bit of a dance number. Not bad. Good voice.
Highlights: Missing You, Hypnosis
6.5/10
The Mix Tape - KRS-One
This is purely The Real Hip-Hop is Over Here. A massive and direct diss at Nelly. Probably one of my favourite diss tracks, because KRS knows how to put some lyrics together. If I were Nelly, I probably would have cried myself to sleep every night for a month, with my face buried in a pile of cash...
9/10
The Mix-Up - Beastie Boys
Instrumental acid jazz fun times from these cats. It is great... but admittedly, a bit disappointing. Only because their instrumentals on all their albums were super awesome, and these are a bit more of a loose jam. Still pretty funky in parts, though.
Highlights: Off the Grid, The Cousin of Death, The Melee, Freaky Hijiki
7/10
The Mix-Up (Bonus Tracks EP) - Beastie Boys
Like the name says, these are leftover tracks they threw online and made suckers like me buy. More of the same, but at least the title track made the cut here!
Highlights: The Mix-Up
6.5/10
Mixed Up - The Cure
There are "extended mix" versions of songs from Disintegration? Imagine adding them to the album. And then doing "extended mix" versions of more songs on the album. Would it ever end? Wait - the "extended dub mix" of Pictures of You is actually shorter than the album version. What a world!
Highlights: Never Enough (Big Mix), Fascination Street (Extended Mix), A Forest (Tree Mix)
7/10
Mixed Up World [Single] - Sophie Ellis-Bextor
A few neat songs by the kitchen disco queen.
Highlights: Mixed Up World, The Earth Shook the Devil's Hand
7/10
Moanin' - Mr. Airplane Man
This is the song Somebody's Baby. This has gotta be somebody else's song, because I have no idea where this came from or what this is or even who this band is.
6/10
Modjo - Modjo
The is purely the song Lady (Hear Me Tonight). I do not know of any other songs by Modjo. Do they have any other songs? Do they need any other songs?
8/10
Monster - R.E.M.
I feel like this album is R.E.M. trying to lean in to that whole 'grunge' thing, when they had been some sort of indie rock band for like 15 years at this point - and actually been doing the major label pop-rock thing for half of that time, anyways. And I know all the grunge bands respected them or whatever... but this just does not work for me at all. Well, the grunge parts; the few parts where they actually produce well-crafted pop-rock songs works nicely.
Highlights: Strange Currencies, What's the Frequency Kenneth?
5/10
Moodring - Mýa
This is purely the Missy produced My Love Is Like...Wo. Because I take Missy in all forms, even if it is just her going "Wo" over a big beat.
9/10
Moondancer - Meco
Meco taking a break from the disco-fied soundtracks to make some of his own disco music. Dracula's coming!
Highlights: Love Me Dracula, Spooky, Devil Delight, Living in the Night
7/10
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