| 3.0 good |
| Bauhaus In the Flat Field |
| Billy Bragg William Bloke |
| BUCK-TICK Arui wa Anarchy |
| BUCK-TICK Razzle Dazzle |
| BUCK-TICK 13-kai wa Gekkou |
| BUCK-TICK Sexy Stream Liner |
| BUCK-TICK Cosmos |
| BUCK-TICK Taboo |
| BUCK-TICK Sexual XXXXX! |
| It made for an awkward listen at first spin---bad production, worse vocal takes---but it did prefigure everything that were to occupy the young band's interest in the (brilliant) near future (for future): angular post-punk with spidery lead guitars that indulges in both traditional melodicism and futuristic forays into the fringes of tonal consonance, and lyrics that tried to touch on the deeper aspects of love and sex (which achieved its intended goal successfully, unfortunately, only on their albums that are released after 1990). Not their best pre-90's album, but it's a pretty decent one. |
| Daoko Thank You Blue |
| Depeche Mode Playing The Angel |
| Doja Cat Hot Pink |
| Failure Wild Type Droid |
| Fugazi The Argument |
| Gackt Crescent |
| Ippu-Do Normal |
| Jodeci The Past, The Present, The Future |
| Johnny Marr Fever Dreams Pts I-IV |
3.4 the first Johnny Marr record that I actually enjoy. But yeah, gone are all the "genre"-
bending, classic-rock-pastiched post-punk he's known for, and the newer styles he's employing here
aren't particularly great---midtempo, new-wave-y pop songs with rudimentary riffing, crap lyrics--
-but the vocal melodies are catchy enough. |
| Luna Sea SHINE |
| Luna Sea Luv |
| Manic Street Preachers Gold Against The Soul |
| Manic Street Preachers Send Away The Tigers |
| Muse The Resistance |
| Nick Drake Bryter Layter |
| Paramore Riot! |
| Peter Murphy Ninth |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps |
| Placebo Never Let Me Go |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Sleater-Kinney One Beat |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 |
| The Clash The Clash |
| The Smile A Light For Attracting Attention |
| String and brass arrangement sounds a bit like the poppy fusion jazz thing going on with David Sylvian in the mid-80s, Jonny's playing more guitar, which is always good, the "angry" lyrics are cringe. Wish it could've been more uptempo. |
| Tokyo Jihen Kyoiku |
| Tricot AND |
| U2 Zooropa |
| Wilco Star Wars |
| Wilco Wilco (The Album) |
