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Beach Boys Pet Sounds

Oh God. Beach Boys, why did you have to come into my life last? First I was into the Beatles, then I discovered the Monkees. But how did I know that you would blow away anything they would ever do with this record, "Pet Sounds"? The reputation doesn't preceed you because you never really were given a great reputation. The vocal harmonies stand out incredibly here and the music that goes with it is just as perfect. CLASSIC!

BoySetsFire The Misery Index: Notes from the plague years

Brand New Your Favourite Weapon

Coheed and Cambria Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV...

I've been known to go on forever about how much I love Coheed & Cambria, especially here on Sputnikmusic. However, I feel that my fanboy rants are warranted. Just short of the Beatles, Coheed & Cambria is the best band ever to exist. "Good Apollo..." does more than to prove that. The guitar work here is the best the band has ever done. The structures of songs are amazing and Claudio's voice, while nasal, is beautiful. "Good Apollo..." isn't the best from Coheed & Cambria (that honor goes to "SSTB"), but it is still jaw dropping amazing.

Coheed and Cambria Second Stage Turbine Blade

Coheed and Cambria The Last Supper: Live At Hammerstein Ballroom

Coheed and Cambria Good Apollo...No World For Tomorrow

Hopesfall The Frailty of Words

Shadows Fall The Art of Balance

The Beatles Abbey Road

The Beatles Revolver

4.5 superb

AFI Shut Your Mouth + Open Your Eyes

AFI The AFI Retrospective

AFI Answer That And Stay Fashionable

Black Sabbath Master of Reality

Master of Reality is by far the best Black Sabbath album. Many disagree with this statement, but I will forever stand by it. The creativity found here soars above Paranoid, Black Sabbath, and others. The music flows well, is very dark, and Ozzy Osbourne's voice is quite elegant. Going in less than a year from the boring Paranoid to something very nearly classic is surprising, but in fact, reality.

BoySetsFire The Day The Sun Went Out

"The Day The Sun Went Out" was the beggining of where Post-Hardcore heroes BoySetsFire set their mark. The intensity of songs are heartfelt and emotional, but at the same time still raw. "The Day The Sun Went Out" is solid throughout, and a very memorable moment in the bands history.

Brand New The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me

Chevelle Point #1

Coheed and Cambria Live at the Starland Ballroom (DVD+CD)

Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine

Dream Theater Live at Budokan

Emery The Question

From Autumn To Ashes Holding A Wolf By The Ears

Gentle Giant Octopus

Hopesfall A Types

Hopesfall The Satellite Years

In Flames Come Clarity

King Crimson Red

Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells

Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication

Rise Against Siren Song Of The Counter Culture

Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness

Senses Fail Still Searching

The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Beatles Help!

The Beatles Let It Be....Naked

The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour

The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

The Presidents Of The USA II

Thrice Vheissu

U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

Youth Group Skeleton Jar

4 excellent

AFI A Fire Inside EP

Alexisonfire Crisis

Alkaline Trio Crimson

All That Remains The Fall of Ideals

Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal

Anberlin New Surrender

'New Surrender' is basically a maturer version of "Cities" with the members being more confident in their recently discovered knack for variation. 'Never Take Friendship Personal' was admittidely a pop-punk album for the most part, but Anberlin still showed an ability for well-written songs. 'Cities' took it further with a departure from pop-punk to experimental melodic rock. There were a lot of epic moments to 'Cities', and it might tough to find more of those moments on 'New Surrender'. It seems the focus instead was more on song-writing and experimenting with their sound when they recorded the album. It makes appreciating the album as much as I do that much sweeter.

BoySetsFire Before The Eulogy

Burton Wagner A Sentinel's Eyes

Chevelle This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)

Chevelle Vena Sera

Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

Coheed and Cambria Kerrang! / XFM UK Acoustic Sessions – EP

Cold 13 Ways to Bleed On Stage

Deftones White Pony

Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists

Emery The Weak's End

Emery The Question Re-Release

Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits

Fall Out Boy Infinity On High

Gentle Giant Giant For A Day

Green Day Nimrod

Green Day Bullet in a Bible

Hopesfall No Wings To Speak Of

"No Wings To Speak Of" is Hopesfall to it's original core. Post-Hardcore brutality, but also a timid sense of the spacey-ness that would come to stand out on later records, rule on this well-written, four song E.P. The screaming from Jay Forrest is course, and there is little, if not any, 'clean' singing. The next two L.P.'s from the multi-faceted band would prove to trump this small disc space, but any true Hopesfall fan should find it a necessity to find this.

Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick

Jethro Tull Aqualung

Jimmy Eat World Futures

Jimmy Eat World Bleed American

Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light

Live Throwing Copper

Matchbook Romance Stories and Alibis

Megadeth Cryptic Writings

Metallica Metallica

Modest Mouse Good News For People Who Love Bad News

Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica

Mudvayne Lost and Found

Muse Showbiz

Pearl Jam Ten

Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon

Poison The Well Versions

Queens Of The Stone Age Songs For The Deaf

Radiohead The Bends

Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine

Red Hot Chili Peppers Mothers Milk

Red Hot Chili Peppers What Hits!?

Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute

Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley

Rise Against The Unraveling (Re-Issue)

Seether Karma and Effect

Senses Fail Let It Enfold You

Senses Fail Let it Enfold You-Special Edition

Shadows Fall The War Within

Shinedown Leave a Whisper

T.I. Paper Trail

Taking Back Sunday Louder Now

The Beatles A Hard Day's Night

The Blood Brothers Crimes

The Blood Brothers Young Machetes

The Killers Sam's Town

Thom Yorke The Eraser

Thrice The Artist In The Ambulance

Thursday A City By the Light Divided

Underoath Define the Great Line

Various Artists We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to the R

Various Artists Halo 2 Original Soundtrack-Volume 1

Various Artists Masters of Horror

Various Artists Music as a Weapon II-Dvd/Cd

Velvet Revolver Contraband

Yellowcard Lights And Sounds

3.5 great

3 Doors Down The Better Life

People complain how a lot of modern rock is extremely generic and shouldn't be made half the time. I agree. However, when it comes to 3 Doors Down, there's just something about them that makes me almost nearly love them. 'The Better Life' is their debut album and had plenty of songs that were either ballads, or hard rock songs. It's their best album, but still has slight repetitive qualities to it, which makes me have to rate it lower than I want to.

3 Doors Down Away From The Sun

AFI Sing the Sorrow

Alien Ant Farm ANThology

Anberlin Cities

Andrew Lloyd Webber Jesus Christ Superstar: Original Cast

Andrew W.K. I Get Wet

Armor For Sleep What To Do When You are Dead

Atreyu The Curse

Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor

Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil

Beastie Boys Licensed To Ill

Bleed The Dream Built By Blood

blink-182 blink-182

BoySetsFire Suckerpunch Training EP

Brand New Deja Entendu

Bullet For My Valentine The Poison

CKY Volume 1

Converge When Forever Comes Crashing (Remastered)

Creed My Own Prison

Creed Weathered

Fall Out Boy From Under The Cork Tree

Fall Out Boy Take This To Your Grave

Flyleaf Flyleaf

For such a small body frame, Lacey Mosley is a powerhouse on the vocals for Flyleaf. At first, it seems that Flyleaf is just another Christian Hard Rock band, but underneath the surface, there's really great music to be heard here. Songs like "Cassie" and "Fully Alive" are very refreshing songs and really warrant the sudden success of this band. This self-titled debut gets a little wobbly at times with songs like "All Around Me" because Flyleaf's harder songs are better than their attempts at a ballad, but this album still is great quality stuff.

Fozzy All That Remains

Frank Zappa Hot Rats

From Autumn To Ashes The Fiction We Live

Geezer Butler Ohmwork

Godsmack Awake

Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction

Gzr Ohmwork

Head Automatica Popaganda

Heaven Shall Burn Antigone

Hopesfall Magnetic North

In Flames Used And Abused...In Live We Trust

Incubus Alive at Red Rocks (DVD + CD)

Incubus Make Yourself

Led Zeppelin Presence

Life of Agony Broken Valley

Ludacris Release Therapy

Megadeth Greatest Hits, Back To The Start

Motion City Soundtrack Commit This To Memory

Muse Absolution

Muse Black Holes and Revelations

Damn have Muse changed. And for once with a band it's for the better too! Now with "Black Holes and Revelations" it seems that Muse have garnered themselves a sound that definitely will be remembered for a long time to come. Musically? Superb. Vocally? Superb. Lyrically? Well, lyrics aren't that important to really count and good thing I don't have them count. I love this album and it's certainly one of the best of 2006 so far.

Nickelback Silver Side Up

Opeth Ghost Reveries

Powerman 5000 Transform

Queens Of The Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze

Red Hot Chili Peppers By The Way

Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan

Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium

Rush 2112

Rush A Farewell to Kings

Shinedown Us and Them

Styx Big Bang Theory

The Beatles With The Beatles

The Beatles Rubber Soul

The Early November The Mother, The Mechanic, and The Path

Various Artists Tony Hawk's American Wasteland

Various Artists Rock Against Bush Vol 2

3 good

10 Years The Autumn Effect

3 Doors Down Seventeen Days

30 Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie

AFI Decemberunderground

I had never heard a single song by AFI before I heard the single, "Miss Murder". To be quite honest, I loved it and still do. However, that doesn't make the rest of "Decemberunderground" as fantastic. There are some enjoyable moments here and there, but there is a lot of boredom throughout. Compared to older AFI, and not as old, this is definitely the worst material AFI has brought to the table. Some will try and say that just because they changed their sound makes everyone hate them. Not me, this was my first taste of AFI and I'd prefer not to have to taste it again for a long time, except for "Miss Murder".

Alkaline Trio Good Mourning

All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects

All-American Rejects Move Along

Anathema A Natural Disaster

Anberlin Blueprints For The Black Market

Ashlee Simpson Autobiography

Between The Buried And Me Between the Buried and Me

Black Sabbath Paranoid

Black Sabbath Dehumanizer

Candiria What Doesn't Kill You...

Chevelle Wonder What's Next

Creed Human Clay

Disturbed Believe

Eighteen Visions Eighteen Visions

El Pus Hoodlum Rock, Vol. 1

Foo Fighters In Your Honor

From Autumn To Ashes Abandon Your Friends

Green Day American Idiot

Green Day Dookie

Green Day Insomniac

In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape

Jethro Tull This Was

Kanye West Graduation

King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King

Linkin Park Meteora

Linkin Park Hybrid Theory

Live Songs From Black Mountain

Madina Lake From Them, Through Us, To You

Matchbook Romance Voices

Metallica Ride the Lightning

Metallica Garage, Inc

New Found Glory Coming Home

"Coming Home" is not the best album from New Found Glory. In fact, it could and should have been a whole lot better. Yet, this is still an enjoyable album for it's simplicity mostly. Chad Gilbert's vocal stylings aren't that distinct, but still catchy. The rythm guitar playing is cool and bouncy a lot, and the use of keyboards on songs like "It's Not Your Fault" add a nifty extra touch. The worst spot for the album though is it's dismal lyrics. Pick any random song and it's a virtual guarantee that it won't impress in the slightest. Still, "Coming Home" has quite a few songs that are just really easy and fun to listen to. New Found Glory isn't evolving like they should and may have taken a step back, but the end result is good anyway.

Nickelback The State

Nickelback Curb

Nile Annihilation of the Wicked

NOFX Wolves in Wolves' Clothing

Panic! At the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

Pantera Vulgar Display Of Power

Radiohead Kid A

Roadrunner United The All-Star Sessions

Shadows Fall The Art Of Touring (Drunk and S**ty in Every City)

She Wants Revenge She Wants Revenge

Slipknot Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)

Slipknot 9.0: Live

Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.

Stretch Arm Strong Free At Last

The Beatles The Beatles

The Beatles Please Please Me

The Used In Love and Death

Thrice Best Buy CD Sampler

Underoath The Changing Of Times

Unearth The Oncoming Storm

Various Artists Skate & Surf Fest '04-DVD

2.5 average

Atreyu Fractures In the Facade of Your Porcelai

Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone

CKY Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild

Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin

HIM Love Metal

Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing

Lacuna Coil Karmacode

Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come

Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront

Slipknot Iowa

Slipknot Disasterpieces

Stone Sour Come What(ever) May

System of a Down Hypnotize

Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be

The Killers Hot Fuss

Trapt Trapt

Various Artists (Punk) Punk Goes '90s

Wicked Wisdom Wicked Wisdom

2 poor

AC/DC Back in Black

Audioslave Live in Cuba DVD

Audioslave Out Of Exile

Hinder Extreme Behavior

Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish...

Metallica Reload

My Chemical Romance Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge

Nickelback All the Right Reasons

NOFX The Decline

NOFX's "The Decline" is widley regarded as the best E.P. in history. I, however, do not share this view. "The Decline" is basically fifteen-minutes of intense boredom. There is some fun to it. The bass parts contain a few cool lines here and there, but the vocal job is intensely nasal. It gets annoying quickly and by the time it's over with, it's been a compltetely unenjoyable listen.

Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears

Queens Of The Stone Age Over the Years and Through the Woods

System of a Down Mezmerize

Three Days Grace Three Days Grace

Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire

1.5 very poor

Alice in Chains Dirt

Bleeding Through This is Love, This is Murderous

Hawthorne Heights The Silence In Black And White

Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely

Korn Life Is Peachy

Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake

Senses Fail From The Depths Of Dreams E.P

Slipknot Slipknot

The Haunted rEVOLVEr

Trivium Ascendancy

Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety

1 awful

Metallica St. Anger

Nickelback The Long Road

This album may have made super rock stars of Nickelback, but it's still their second worst album yet. The music overall is repetitive and while it has some catchy moments such as Someday, which is one of the greatest songs ever, overall the feeling is 'way too damn bad'. Here's the lodown: nice riffs that are repetitive, catchy vocals...for the first couple minutes of a few songs, and trashy lyrics. Don't buy this, but if you do want a Nickelback album then buy Silver Side Up instead. It's much better.

Nirvana Nevermind

Relient K Relient K

Seether Disclaimer II

Silverstein When Broken is Easily Fixed

Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends

Taking Back Sunday Notes from the Past

0

Jet Get Born

Louis XIV The Best Little Secrets Are Kept

It takes a lot for me to hate an album as much as "The Best Secrets Are Kept". Only one other album warrants as low a score as I think Louis XIV get ("Get Born" by Jet). To be plainly honest, Louis XIV is the epitome of the word turd. Their music is annoying, and the vocals are horrible. This easily is the single worst album ever made.