| 4.5 superb |
| AFI All Hallow's E.P. |
| Beach House Bloom |
| Beyonce Beyonce |
| Beyonce Homecoming |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
| Bobby Bland Two Steps from the Blues |
| Breathless Chasing Promises |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska |
| City and Colour Sometimes |
| City and Colour Bring Me Your Love |
| Danzig Danzig III: How The Gods Kill |
| Darkthrone Old Star |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) |
| David Bowie Young Americans |
| David Bowie Let's Dance |
| Dr. John Gris-Gris |
| Earth Primitive and Deadly |
| Electric Light Orchestra Greatest Hits |
| had this on cassette and listened to it probably 1 billion times. i've heard it so many times that i have trouble hearing these tracks out of order from the album |
| Elton John 17-11-70 |
| Elton John Madman Across the Water |
| Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road |
| Emmylou Harris Roses in the Snow |
| Esoteric A Pyrrhic Existence |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. |
| Frank Zappa Halloween 73 |
| Frank Zappa Halloween 73 Highlights |
| Frank Zappa The Grand Wazoo |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain |
| Gram Parsons GP |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Grief Torso |
| Grief Dismal |
| Japan Quiet Life |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak |
| Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill |
| Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions |
| Masada Yod |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Melvins Bullhead |
| Melvins Houdini |
| Metal Church Metal Church |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Michael Jackson Thriller |
| Michael Jackson Off the Wall |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way |
| Miles Davis Sorcerer |
| Miles Davis Agharta |
| Miles Davis Live Evil |
| Miles Davis Miles at the Fillmore 1970: Series,Vol.3 |
| this is the Miles stuff i adore. just cookin' constantly. imagine being at this concert |
| Naked City Naked City |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below |
| Parliament Mothership Connection |
| Parliament The Clones Of Dr. Funkenstein |
| Paul Simon Graceland |
| Paul Simon Paul Simon |
| Peter Gabriel Car |
| Peter Gabriel Scratch |
| Peter Gabriel Melt |
| Pharoah Sanders Karma |
| Prefab Sprout Steve McQueen |
| Prince Sign o' the Times |
| Prince Controversy |
| Prince Purple Rain |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Rick James Street Songs |
| Seregost Halls of a Nameless King |
| great dungeon synth, perfect music for descending into the catacombs and slicing in half the dread monks doing their dark bidding |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bookends |
| Simon and Garfunkel Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme |
| Simon and Garfunkel Sounds of Silence |
| Snowspire A Spire Enshrouded |
| evocative dungeon synth that burrows deep and never lets go |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| The Band Music from Big Pink |
| The Band Stage Fright |
| The Band Rock of Ages |
| The Beatles 1967 – 1970 |
| The Beatles 1962 - 1966 |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love |
| The Isley Brothers 3+3 |
| The Jayhawks Tomorrow the Green Grass |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come |
| The Smiths Louder Than Bombs |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool Ænima |
| Weeping Moon Vampyric Sorcery |
| ideal dungeon synth for me: lo-fi, atmospheric, dark, percussive. truly worthy of questing to a forlorn castle to partake in inhumane rituals |
| Windhand Grief's Infernal Flower |
| 4.0 excellent |
| AC/DC Back In Black |
| AC/DC Flick Of The Switch |
| AC/DC High Voltage |
| Adele 25 |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset |
| Alexisonfire Crisis |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor |
| Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark |
| Bell Witch Longing |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks |
| Catherine Wheel Ferment |
| Celtic Frost Morbid Tales |
| Chic Risqué |
| "Good Times" is such a banger. I don't know how I lived before hearing that song. |
| Circa Survive Juturna |
| Commodores Machine Gun |
| David Bowie Lodger |
| Dio Holy Diver |
| Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt Trio |
| Dr. John In the Right Place |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone |
| Elton John Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player |
| Elton John Elton John |
| Elton John The Complete Thom Bell Sessions |
| Elton John Tumbleweed Connection |
| Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison Sextet Illuminations! |
| great stuff except for "Aborigines Dance in Scotland" which sounds like the terrible early ECM stuff i avoid |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Faye Webster Atlanta Millionaires Club |
| i can't stop thinking about this album. i just keeping coming back to it over and over and over. heard a riff that reminded me of the second track (the best song) and had to relisten to the whole thing |
| FKA Twigs Magdalene |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats |
| Frank Zappa Joe's Garage |
| Funkadelic One Nation Under a Groove |
| Funkadelic Let's Take It to the Stage |
| Gargoylium Mon Royaume |
| Genesis Selling England by the Pound |
| Genesis Foxtrot |
| Genesis Nursery Cryme |
| Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I |
| Guster Goldfly |
| Guster Lost And Gone Forever |
| Guster Keep It Together |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| Jackie McLean Action |
| Jessie Ware Devotion |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds |
| k.d. lang Shadowland |
| Kanye West Yeezus |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy |
| Led Zeppelin The Song Remains the Same |
| Linda Ronstadt Heart Like a Wheel |
| Lush Spooky |
| M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth |
| Marc Ribot Asmodeus: Book of Angels Volume 7 |
| Marillion Script for a Jester's Tear |
| Marillion Misplaced Childhood |
| Marillion Marillion.com |
| Marillion Marbles |
| Marillion Anoraknophobia |
| Marillion Holidays in Eden |
| most of my high rating is for the suite of songs at the end of the album. stunning stuff |
| Masada Live in Sevilla 2000 |
this is my first real introduction to Zorn. i had heard a song here and there, i think, but no
album all the way through. this is excellent, much more accessible than i had been expecting.
sure, there's some sqwonking and some squealing, but it never felt like, say, Coltrane's
"Interstellar Space" in its abstractness. The sqwonk and squeal feel less like confrontation than
*texture* for the overall composition. you can feel the melody even if you can't pick it out and
hold the whole thing in your head. plus, i mean, how good is Joey Baron? just the bee's knees.
This is just great stuff and I can't wait to dive into more of Zorn's massive, but not unwieldy
discography. |
| Masada Tet |
| Medicine Shot Forth Self Living |
| liked this a lot. lots of "wall of sound" and noise and atmosphere |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew Live |
| Miles Davis Pangaea |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood |
| New Order Power, Corruption and Lies |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| OutKast Stankonia |
| Parliament Up for the Down Stroke |
| Paul Simon There Goes Rhymin' Simon |
| Paul Simon Still Crazy After All These Years |
| Peter Gabriel So |
| Peter Gabriel Plays Live |
| Peter Gabriel Passion OST |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd Echoes |
| Probot Probot |
| I'll always be grateful to Dave for introducing these bands to me |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Rainbow Rising |
| Ray LaMontagne Trouble |
| Richard and Linda Thompson I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight |
| mostly i was surprised by how modern the musicianship and production sounds. the vocals definitely recall their era (and the certainly some of the lyrics) but Richard's guitar work is just a blast from the future. |
| Ringare Under Pale Moon |
| Ryan Adams Heartbreaker |
| Sacrilege (UK1) Turn Back Trilobite |
| Sacrilege (UK1) Within the Prophecy |
| Saint Vitus Born Too Late |
| Savatage The Dungeons are Calling |
| pretty fun! i didn't love the singer's voice, but i often don't! |
| Simon and Garfunkel Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. |
| Sleep The Sciences |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Steely Dan Aja |
| Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians |
| Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life |
| Sublime Sublime |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sylvester All I Need |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| that dog. Retreat From the Sun |
| absolutely chilling harmonies abound and some killer minimalist lyrics |
| The Band The Last Waltz |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Body and Thou You, Whom I Have Always Hated |
| The Chameleons Script of the Bridge |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife |
| The Decemberists Picaresque |
| The Mothers of Invention We're Only in It for the Money |
| The Smiths The Smiths |
| The Smiths Hatful of Hollow |
| The Sound Jeopardy |
| The Sound From The Lion's Mouth |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence |
| The Weeknd Trilogy |
| Thou Heathen |
| Tony Williams Lifetime Emergency! |
| Trespassers William Different Stars |
| i appreciate that this album's genesis is just the band's fondness and desire to replicate "Fade into You" a bunch |
| Type O Negative Bloody Kisses |
| Venom Black Metal |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| Wilco Being There |
| Winter Into Darkness |
| 3.5 great |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Worlds Apart |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| A Sunny Day in Glasgow Ashes Grammar |
| i think it might fare better if one treats this as a continuous experience rather than as a collection of discrete songs. very ethereal, very Cocteau, but also synth-y with sometimes a four-on-the-floor beat |
| Adele 21 |
| Alison's Halo Eyedazzler 1992-1996 |
| this was great. found it by user Keyblade's Ethereal Dreamgaze list, which has some other great gems on it. Thanks, Keyblade! |
| Beyonce Lemonade |
| Black Death Black Death |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules |
| Blue Cheer Vincebus Eruptum |
| Bronski Beat The Age of Consent |
| "Smalltown Boy" is perhaps one of the best pop singles of all time and a gay anthem. the rest of the album has its pleasures ("Why?", "Ain't Necessarily So") but it's not quite to the same standard as that one single. |
| Bruce Cockburn Stealing Fire |
| "Lovers" is, for me, a Top 20 song of all time. If lyrics could bring me to tears, this would be the one to do it. Most of the songs here are fantastic, with some worldbeat-infused arrangement and Cockburn's lyrics. A couple songs are a bit embarrassing in their earnestness and directness ("Yanqui", "Nicaragua") which brings down my score, unfortunately. |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Coldplay Parachutes |
| Corrosion of Conformity In the Arms of God |
| the drumming! more metal bands should employ jazz drummers |
| Damien Rice O |
| Dio The Last in Line |
| Elton John Blue Moves |
| Elton John Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy |
| Elton John Here and There |
| Elvin Jones Genesis |
| Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters |
| Fleeting Joys Despondent Transponder |
| another album found via Keyblade's Ethereal Dreamgaze list. this was great; i especially liked the off key distortion rumbling beneath a lot of the tracks. |
| Fleurety Min Tid Skal Komme |
| Floating Points Crush |
| Florist Emily Alone |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose |
| Frankie Goes To Hollywood Welcome to the Pleasuredome |
| The major problem here is that too many of the songs are incomplete sketches. You desperately want the songs shaped a little bit more. The opening to "Two Tribes" is absolutely killer but then the rest of the song goes nowhere. Which is tragic. Especially since when they did write a whole song, it's tremendous. "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" is probably my fav 80s banger. Just 13 minutes of pure perfection. |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Grandaddy Sumday |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
| Guster Ganging Up on the Sun |
| HAIM Something To Tell You |
| Herbie Hancock My Point of View |
| Indigo Girls Indigo Girls |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days |
| Iron And Wine Kiss Each Other Clean |
| Jimmy Somerville Homage |
| pure, pure disco. the companion album, Club Homage, features some mixed bag remixes, but blessedly, the extended versions of 6 of these tracks. immaculate stuff. real horns, real percussion, and Jimmy's soaring falsetto. i wish this album had been 8 tracks instead of 12 and all 8 had been the extended versions. |
| John Coltrane Concert in Japan |
| It's hard to focus on the big picture with Coltrane, I find. It's easier to focus just on a few minutes at a time because, often, so much is happening. This was great, especially the 45 minute long Meditations (and its incredible 10 minute long drum solo). But I didn't love it because I couldn't step back and see a cohesive structure to it, the way you can with other jazz. |
| John Zorn Xu Feng: John Zorn's Game Pieces Volume 1 |
| absolutely wild shit. truly a madman's album. the drumming is predictably phenomenal thanks to the dude from Slayer. at one point, somebody makes his instrument sound like a ringing telephone from the 90s. completely out there |
| Led Zeppelin Presence |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Linda Ronstadt Hasten Down the Wind |
| Linda Ronstadt Prisoner in Disguise |
| Lush Split |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Marillion Seasons End |
| Marillion Afraid of Sunlight |
| Marillion Essence |
| Marillion The Hard Shoulder |
| Marillion Mirrors |
| Masada Alef |
| Masada Gimel |
| Mercyful Fate Don't Break the Oath |
| Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz |
| Misfits Famous Monsters |
| Mogwai Every Country's Sun |
| Mogwai Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait OST |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile |
| NOFX The Decline |
| OutKast ATLiens |
| Peter Gabriel Us |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon- 30th Anniversary |
| Prince Originals |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead Knives Out |
| Radiohead My Iron Lung |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Rainbow Long Live Rock 'n' Roll |
| Rancid Indestructible |
| Ray LaMontagne Till the Sun Turns Black |
| Running Wild Gates to Purgatory |
| a fairly representative work of metal in 1984. not bad. last track is a definite banger |
| Ryan Adams Cold Roses |
| Ryan Adams 29 |
| Ryan Adams Gold |
| Ryan Adams Love is Hell |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Silent Running Shades of Liberty |
| Stumbled across this album about a decade ago, during the heyday of the .rar blogs. Listened to hours and hours of synthpop and post-punk and whatnot and one of the many albums that stood out was this one. It's not some lost gem in dire need of recovery, but it's above average 80s synthpop. Lots of 80s-style guitar and deep sounding drums and the singer sings in that accent that was so popular in the 80s. The album has never been released on CD, as far as I'm aware, despite being distributed by EMI back in the day. You'd think in this era of endless reissues, they'd haul this one out of the vaults and onto disc. Definitely worth a listen if you like 80s synthpop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-d4qvvopyI |
| Skepticism Stormcrowfleet |
| Slow (BE) V - Oceans |
| Sortilege Métamorphose |
| i don't think i've ever heard any French heavy metal before. inadvertently listened to half of the English version because I didn't realize both were included. pretty good. did not love the vocals. |
| Starflyer 59 Silver |
| Sublime Robbin' the Hood |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom |
| Sublime Acoustic: Bradley Nowell & Friends |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji |
| Swell Maps ....In "Jane From Occupied Europe" |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| The Band Cahoots |
| The Band Northern Lights - Southern Cross |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 2 |
| The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 1 |
| The Chameleons Strange Times |
| The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World |
| The Isley Brothers The Heat Is On |
| The Mothers of Invention Cruising with Ruben & the Jets |
| The Raincoats The Raincoats |
| The Secret Sisters You Don't Own Me Anymore |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder |
| The Weeknd Thursday |
| The Who Tommy |
| Thou Magus |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Tool Undertow |
| Type O Negative October Rust |
| Vegard Bewitched by Moonlight Rituals |
| Witch Cross Fit for Fight |
| fun! i liked it. very Judas Priest and the muddy fuzzy production is good texture |
