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Thanks for the feedback, LBC, though I never compared the quality of the two, just noted that Rolling Stones within their 60+ years of career has fewer albums released than SnoopDogg with his 30+ years of career, which I found funny. Dude's been releasing an album a year for many years at this point haha.

Some thoughts about Marvel's Bronze Age comics with cover dates from 1970 to 1974:

Penultimate Ja Rule album "Blood in My Eye" (2003). Pretty average. And, I'm guessing, the song Things Are Gonna Change prompted Eminem to release his own disstrack against Ja.

Fourth Ja Rule album "The Last Temptation" (2002). Another album, of which I heard a song in the 2000s on music channels, though back then I thought the girl is singing "I think the rain is coming back", but it's "reign is coming back" (reign of murder). Ah, a bit better than average, but I liked the last album better in comparison, I guess.

Third Ja Rule album "Pain is Love" (2001). Not as good as his previous two albums. Kinda average, though, it has a couple of songs, which I've heard on VIVA TV/MTV back in early 2000s, so...

Second Ja Rule album Rule 3:36 (2000). Pretty much on par with his first one, the only difference is the first one has more songs that I liked, but on the other hand, the second album has few pretty funny skits.

Started Ja Rule discography. Good thing is that his career was so short, not many albums to listen to 😆Debut album "Venni, Vitti, Vecci" (1999). Banger beats, I like his style of rapping or at least his voice. Okey as far as debut albums go.

Alien movies (granted, have yet to see Romulus, but I doubt they changed the formula) could be so much better, if the space crew could at least pretend to be smart. I mean, I remember a scene in... Prometheus, perhaps, where a robot (Fasbender) literally says straight up how he murdered the crew, and then invites the surviving crew member to follow him in to a dark basement, and the crew member is like "Okey, tokey". And this is just the most blatant example of how stupid the space crew is in Alien franchise.

I have the same observations about this movie as I wrote about Kurosawa's The Men Who Tread on Tigers Tails a year or so back in here - it felt more like a mediocre theatre play than a movie due to unnatural dialogues. I don't think that people speak like that in real life...

Final Sheryl Crow album, which came out last year, Evolution (Deluxe) (2024). It was pretty good, with somewhat changed sound, I guess to follow the current trends in music industry. As always, subjective assessments of each album: 1. Tuesday Night Music Club (Deluxe Edition) (1993) - 7.6/10 [Best songs: Run, Baby, Run; Strong Enough; The Na-Na Song; No One Said It Would Be Easy; What Can I Do For You?; All I Wanna Do; I Shall Believe; Killer Life; You Want More; All By Myself; D’yer Mak’er; I Shall Believe (2009 Remix)] 2. Sheryl Crow (1996) - 8/10 [Best songs: A Change Would Do You Good; If It Makes You Happy; Redemption Day; Oh Marie; Sad, Sad World; Hard to Make a Stand – Alternate Version] 3. The Globe Sessions (1998) - 8.5/10 [Best songs: Riverwide; Maybe That’s Something; Am I Getting Through – Parts 1 & 2; Anything But Down; The Difficult Kind; Members Only; Sweet Child O’Mine; Subway Ride] 4. C'mon, C'mon (2002) - 7.9/10 [Best songs: Steve McQueen; Soak Up the Sun; Safe and Sound; C’mon, C’mon; Over You; Diamond Road; Abilene; Missing] 5. Wildflower (Deluxe Edition) (2005) - 10/10 [Best songs: Perfect Lie; Good is Good; Wildflower; Live it Up; I Don’t Wanna Know; Always on Your Side (feat. Sting); Where Has All the Love Gone (Acoustic Version); Letter to God (Acoustic Version)] 6. Detours (2008) - 6.7 [Best songs: Peace Be Upon Us; Gasoline; Detours; Now That You’re Gone; Love Is All There Is; Doctor My Eyes] 7. Home for Christmas (2008) - 7.5/10 [Best songs: Go Tell It on the Mountain; Merry Christmas Baby; The Bell’s of St. Mary; There Is a Star That Shines Tonight; Long Road Home] 8. 100 Miles From Memphis (2010) - 8.3/10 [Best songs: Sign Your Name; Peaceful Feeling; Stop; Sideways; Roses and Moonlight] 9. Feels Like Home (2013) - 9.2/10 [Best songs: Easy; Give it To Me; We Oughta Be Drinking; Callin’ Me When I’m Lonely; Homesick; Best of Times] 10. Be Myself (2017) - 9.1/10 [Best songs: Alone in the Dark; Long Way Back; Strangers Again; Rest of Me; Heartbeat Away; Woo Woo] 11. Threads (2019) - 7.6/10 [Best songs: Tell Me When It’s Over; Beware of Darkness; The Worst; Wouldn‘t Want to Be Like You; Don’t; Flying Blind] 12. Evolution (Deluxe) (2024) - 8/10 [Best songs: Diggin in the Dirt; Evolution; Don’t Walk Away; Waiting in the Wings] Average album score: 8.2/10.

Well, had the will and the time to actually watch something, and continued on with Akira Kurosawa, this time - Rashamon (1950). A movie about three distinct versions of a murder event, and probably, how you cannot rely on witnesses or something, I don't know, it was boring. Stray Dog, which I saw last, was so much better.

Penultimate Sheryl Crow album "Threads" (2019). It was... alright, I guess? But in comparison to her previous couple of albums nothing spectacular. Mostly country collabs with other artists (like Kieth Richards, Willie Nelson etc.).

Tenth Sheryl Crow album "Be Myself" (2017). Another almost perfect album.

Ninth Sheryl Crow album "Feels Like Home" (2013). A country-music album, which is almost perfect for my tastes... almost.

Seventh and eight Sheryl Crow albums: "Home for Christmas" (2008). It's Christmas songs, at this point, if an artist has more than 4 albums in their discog, they have to have an x-mas album haha; and "100 Miles From Memphis" (2010). Pretty melancholic, but good, I'd say.

Sixth Sheryl Crow album "Detours" (2008). So far, her weakest album. Pretty average in comparison to her previous ones.

Fifth Sheryl Crow album "Wildflower (Deluxe Edition)" (2005). So far, 10 out of 10 from her. Have no complaints about any of the songs.

Fourth Sheryl Crow album "C'mon, C'mon" (2002). Not as good as previous one, but still pretty decent.

Third Sheryl Crow album The Globe Sessions (1998). So far, its her best one.

Second Sheryl Crow album, which was self-titled Sheryl Crow (1996). I'd rate it more or less the same as her first one, but the first one had more songs that I liked.

Robbie is one of those singers whose live voice almost does not deviate from their studio voice. Though, haven't listened to his more recent live performances... He's coming to my country this year. While the tickets are already sold out, I still gonna be near the open-air arena where he will perform, so, I'll be able to hear him in the park just like other artists that perform there haha :D

Re-started Sheryl Crow discog, since I never actually listened to her on Spotify and did not have a possibility to add tracks that I liked to my library all those years back. First album "Tuesday Night Music Club (Deluxe Edition)" (1993). A more than solid debut album, second CD, if I understand correctly without googling is probably covers.

Wardruna - Norwegian folk band (most of their earlier stuff was in Vikings TV show) - released their newest album this year called "Birna" (2025). And after listening to it, first impressions - it's so far their best material. I have nothing to complain about (in part because I don't understand the lyrics, but they sound cool, the rhythm is also head-banging groovy, so...).

Well, I'm back with Bon Jovi, this time - Dry County. The correct lyrics of the passage are: "Across the border, they turn water into wine, some say it's the devil's blood they're squeezing from the vine <...>", however, instead of "vine" I always heard the word "ground" and my mishearing of it is strengthened, because in the chorus Jon sings about oil that's no longer there and the jobs that are not simply available anymore (basically, a dead town - oils gone and now people pack their bags and got out of dodge).

Thirty-second and thirty-third Snoop Dogg albums (which are the last in his discog, thank God): Gangsta Grillz: I Still Got It (2022) and Missionary (2024). Both were okey in terms of quality, nothing special. As always, subjective assessments of each album (this time under spoiler warning cause of very long discography list): Average album score: 6.9/10