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Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion

At the Drive-In Relationship of Command

Sometimes, you just dont like an album when you first hear it. That was the case with me and Relationship of Command; I just didn't like it at first. After a year of laying off of it, I gave it another listen, and it absolutely blew me away. The energy on the album is incredible, almost greater than anything you could imagine them doing live. Oh, did I mention that the guys can play their instruments pretty goddamn well? Each member is far more than competent at their instrument, and in combination with the eclectic song structures and Cedric's passionate shouting and screaming, this album is rather brilliant in every fashion.

Ceremony Ruined

Circle Takes The Square As The Roots Undo

So, Circle Takes the Square is rapidly becoming a favorite band of mine. They only have 13 true songs to even choose from, but every single one of those 13 songs is amazing in its own right. The strongest of those come from this, As the Roots Undo. It's epic, its incredibly emotional, it's technically stunning, and the lyrics are pure poetry. It's a triumph of recent times that should be required listening, if not required love.

cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD

Coheed and Cambria Second Stage Turbine Blade

Coheed and Cambria Neverender DVD

I have only listened to three songs but I already know how much I'm going to like this and so do you. Only review needed.

Converge Jane Doe

I fucking knocked this one kids face in once. This album is pretty much like knocking face in for 45 minutes, plus breakdowns.

Converge Axe To Fall

Cursive Domestica

Cynic Focus

Cynic Traced In Air

Listening to "Traced in Air", it isn't some massive evolution from "Focus". However, everything about the band has been tightened in the 15 year layover, and the album is far smoother and more focused, resulting in a much more listenable and flowing affair. The incredible riffs and solos are back, and the vocals are far better and are actually now reason enough to listen. With improved percussion, bass work that while not as show-offy as before is still just as precise, and an incredible overarching sense of beauty, "Traced in Air" is one of the best records of 2008, even with only a night of listening under my belt.

dredg El Cielo

Eminem Relapse

It's hard for me to say this, but the old Eminem every white kid in America used to love just isn't there anymore. With that STUNNING realization out of the way, the Eminem that was essentially hinted to on Encore turns out to not be all that bad, as "Relapse" shows Em experimenting with his flow and voice to create a weird, if still familiar record. While it may be horribly offensive to old fans, the album is filled with oddly appealing raps and lyrics, with the best tracks living up to the potential we all know he still has somewhere in him. "Insane", "Medicine Ball", "Stay Wide Awake" and particularly "Beautiful" and "Underground" are all excellent songs, and despite some awful duds in the early stages of the album, the album is surprisingly solid. Here's to Slim Word of warning to the people though, Eminem is not from the UK still so you may still hate it

Glassjaw Worship and Tribute

HORSE The Band Desperate Living

Iluvatar Iluvatar

In First Person Lost Between Hands Held Tight

King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King

This album holds its place as overall the best album of all time in my book. Listening to it, it really doesnt feel as though it is. Sure, four of the tracks are breathtaking (21st Century and the title track being the choice cuts), but Moonchild has 8 minutes of boring noise. All this matters not; this was the pioneering record of '69, and easily one of the most influential (directly and indirectly) in history.

King Crimson Red

Massive Attack Mezzanine

There are really only two albums you can choose when answering the age old question "Whats your favorite Trip Hop album?" Personally, this would have to be it. Not only does the album work as the perfect atmospheric music for a variety of activities, you can just plain out listen to it and be awestruck by the arrangements and scope of it.

Matchbox Twenty Mad Season

Mad Season is the magnum opus of one of our times most talented singer-songwriter and rock act, and while it would be an absolute delight to see them ever overtake this album, to do so would be nigh impossible. What matchbox twenty have done here is make an album completely devoid of filler, and then also crafting such meticulate pieces that you never want it to stop. While its fairly obvious that my love for matchbox twenty and everything they do may skew my vision slightly, all that originated from this little album right here. While it would be a rare occurrence for one to never have heard Bent or any number of the hit singles matchbox twenty has produced, Mad Season would be the perfect place to start your listening.

Mesa Verde The Old Road

mewithoutYou A to B: Life

It's arguably one of the most emotionally impacting debut records of all time, squeezing every ounce of sorrow and pain out of a relationship that can be imagined. The lyrics, atmosphere and singing almost make the music a non-point (despite its excellence), transcending genre. It's one of the most underappreciated albums on sputnik and all of you should adhere to its greatness immediately.

mewithoutYou Catch for Us the Foxes

mewithoutYou Brother, Sister

mewithoutYou It's all crazy! It's all false! It's all

My problem with the album is that despite all of its good intentions it plain and simple delivers like previous mewithoutYou efforts.

Neurosis Times of Grace

Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm

Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe

Orchid Chaos Is Me

Portrait Discography

Rush Hemispheres

Rush is a silly little band. Geddy Lee has a silly voice, and Alex Lifeson uses entirely too silly guitar tones. It's too bad that Lifeson (along with Lee and Peart) are each among the top musicians for each of their respective instruments, and no where was this showcased better than Hempispheres. The title track is second only to 2112 in Rush's standards, and "The Trees" and "La Villa Strangiato" are both Rush's best single and instrumental (respectively).

Saetia A Retrospective

Say Anything In Defense of the Genre

I totally pop a boner whenever I hear this record. Its really good I dunno it turns me on. Its like the Jessica Alba of musical pieces.

Say Anything Say Anything

Say Anything sell out, but you realize that they've been sellouts forever, and what excellent sell outs they are. Track after track of witticisms and catchy riffs, culminating in the incredible "Ahhh...Men"

System of a Down System of a Down

In 1998, System of a Down came out with a little album called, gasp, System of a Down. Although the singles Sugar and Spiders received airplay, the album never blew up, especially compared to their next effort. However, this is arguably their best output. It is by far the weirdest album they’ve put out, relying for less on the heavy riffs found on Toxicity and beyond, and rather on strange intertwining bass and guitar lines. It’s also the only time you ever really hear Serj growl, and to those who were introduced to the band with Toxicity, it’s quite a surprise. The albums only low point is the extremely repetitive “Darts”, although on an album as strong as this, it still isn’t a bad song (“Life threatening lifestyles” is one of the memorable lines on the album). Highlights include Spiders (Featuring a rare Daron solo), War? (System at their political best), and Mind (Their longest song to date, and also the most haunting). This was one of the most promising debuts of the 90’s, and System followed it up well with…

Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends

Back in 7th and 8th grade, I was pretty much listening to Linkin PArk constantly. Then I go this album (even though I heard it sucked by my num etal-head friends), and I was absolutely smitten by it. I had to hide my love for it due to the obvious reaction I would have gotten, but it really got me into pop punk, along with Blink 182's self titled.

Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be

Taking Back Sunday Louder Now

Taking Back Sunday New Again

The Mars Volta Frances the Mute

So yeah I'm generally a Mars Volta fanboy. Particularly for this album. I get rather agitated and I hit things when someone gives this below a 4.5, and I eat babies whenever I see a 3.5 I black out otherwise. Anyways, this album is pretty goddamn amazing. Despite there being only 5 (6 if you include the single) songs, there's more variety here than on many a more bloated disc (traks wise), with salsa-y L'via juxtaposing with a power ballad in The Widow and a very industrialized song in Miranda. All in all though, it's a rather fantastic album that should be picked up by everyone. Everyone.

The Mars Volta Octahedron

Thrice Vheissu

4.5 superb

A City Safe From Sea Throw Me Through Walls

Some bands just have it. A City Safe From Sea may not have anything to worry about from the Caspian, but they might be treading knee-deep in that shit.

Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill

Animal Collective Fall Be Kind

Pretty sure from here on out, Animal Collective is going to be a band you desperately love, sort of enjoy, or think are really, really stupid. Its pretty certainly the best EP the Co have released, with its fairly condensed running time and fantastic version of "What Would I Want? Sky" being the biggest contributing factor to its excellence.

Animal Collective Spirit They've Gone, Spirit They've Vanished

Asher Roth Asleep In The Bread Aisle

At the Drive-In In / Casino / Out

Blacklisted Peace On Earth, War On Stage

blink-182 blink-182

Brand New Deja Entendu

Clipse Hell Hath No Fury

Clipse make a large return to form with Hell Hath No Fury, and so so with more vigor, skill, and production values than ever before. While you can vaguely tie them in with todays "gangsta-bitch" styling of rap, they do it much better than anyone else; envenomed flows, psuedo-experimental beats, and a sense of majesty T.I. wished he had.

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

Usually, I save 5's for albums that either have huge influential purposes, or in which every song is just so brilliant that it would be unjust to give anything lower. For some reason, Good Apollo has 9 outstanding songs and 5 pretty good ones, yet I can't help but be in love with it. Don't let anyone else deter you; Coheed are staking themselves as the commercial leaders of this new movement of radio prog, and this album has cemented the fact that they're also largely unique and competent as musicians (particularly Sanchez and Stever).

Comadre Burn Your Bones

Converge When Forever Comes Crashing (Remastered)

Darkspace Dark Space III

Deep Puddle Dynamics The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel

dredg The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion

I thought this was going to suck so bad and was ready to absolutely de-hype it to hell but now I think I am going the opposite way. "Pariah" could be the best song they have ever written.

dredg Catch Without Arms

Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime [Reissue]

Embrace Embrace

Fugazi The Argument

Ghastly City Sleep Ghastly City Sleep

Glassjaw El Mark EP

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To

This is a double album. Yet it has 4 songs. Each songs about 22 minutes long, which means its barely a double album. Who cares. This is the peak of what GY!BE does for me; epic and moving music that is really excellent for sleeping to be perfectly honest.

Harvey Milk Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men

HORSE The Band The Mechanical Hand

Hot Cross Fair Trades And Farewells EP

Hot Water Music A Flight And A Crash

In Mourning Shrouded Divine

Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds

Kamelot The Black Halo

Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye

King Crimson Lark's Tongue in Aspic

King Crimson Lizard

Kraftwerk Trans-Europa Express

Ladytron Witching Hour

Ladytron are what one can consider a good Electroclash band; they barely even fit in the genre. However, their mixture of rock, pop, and massive amounts of various electronica influences are almost unrivaled, and their ability to craft songs that stick inside your head can only be described as N*Sync-esque. Easily the best pop release of 2005, and one of the most captivating albums of the century.

Lovage Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By

Machinae Supremacy Redeemer (Underground Edition)

Redeemer is undoubtedly the most impressive album I’ve heard all year, not only because its from some no name bunch of losers from Sweden (seriously, shouldn’t they be playing death metal or something?), but because they’ve truly crafted an inimitable record with an incredible amount of musicianship, songwriting prowess, and overall zest for what they’re doing. Every song they make could (relatively) be a highlight on a good amount of the albums I’ve heard not only this year, but of the past 5. Redeemer deserves to be the album that, at the end of the year, everyone is talking about, and Machinae Supremacy at least deserve to be the band you next check out when you have a few minutes of free time to spare. Oh, but make sure you can miss whatever appointment you’ll have next, as you’ll probably want to go play Space Invaders afterwards.

Make Me Make Me

Maps and Atlases You and Me and the Mountain

What Maps & Atlases have done with "You and Me and the Mountain" is create a more melodic, less flashy, and overall far more listenable version of their trademark sound. The tapping is still here, but with stronger vocal melodies and a great emphasis on songwriting than random wankery. Its a magic EP sure to make Maps & Atlases even bigger than they already are.

maudlin of the Well Bath

Micachu Jewellery

I love Lewis Parry as much as I love this album. If you know the man, then you know this album.

Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will...

"I love my mommy cause she fucked my dad" is all that really needs to be said about this album. Some say its more of a collection of half songs than actual music. Those people are communist. This album is rpetty goddamn amazing, and sans The Downward Spiral the best industrial release of all time.

Moss Icon Lyburnum

Undoubtedly one of the most solid hardcore/emo albums ever released, Moss Icon took the style of music created by Rites of Spring and pushed it even farther into what we call "emo" today. The first band to bring in soft breaks and loud dynamics, clean arpeggiated guitar, and of course the requisite vocals-from-a-guy-about-to-cry. Their only full length, Lyburnum was the perfection of that style of hardcore, and paved the way for later bands like Indian Summer to develop emo even further.

Neurosis Given to the Rising

Nickelback Dark Horse

Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral

If I had to absolutely nail down only one album from the 90's to submit as my number 1, I would likely end up choosing this. Reznor hit his dark and moody plateu here, creating some incredibly dark and emotional music that was both heavy, yet accessible at the same time. It helps that "Hurt" is by golly one of the best songs ever recorded.

Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VIII: Original Soundtrack

Nobuo Uematsu FINAL FANTASY VI Original Soundtrack

Off Minor Some Blood

With Some Blood, Off Minor have perfected their trade so much that its astounding how much they were able to fit into this twenty two minute LP. Drawing mostly from their previous record Innominate, but with enough fresh ideas and slightly reminiscent parts from the days of Heat Death of the Universe to make a fanboy cream his pants, Some Blood ups the ante on the technicality Off Minor have previously shown, with Behar's jazz influenced guitar playing and Roche's surprisingly improved bass work and tone pushing Off Minor to the limit of what they can do. While the rest of the album may be overshadowed by "Practice Absence" a bit, every song here is an astounding portrayal of the chaotic blend of screamo, hardcore and math rock that one would expect and anticipate from one of the true innovators in the genre.

Past Lives Strange Symmetry

The album is "scarier" and arguably more experimental than anything the Blood Brothers ever made. Less genre defying than just plain genreless, "Strange Symmetry" is something of a weird evolution from "Crimes" by the Blood Brothers, an EP with 5 short, direct songs filled with well executed ideas and unique songwriting. You won't hear anything quite like this for a while, so best to get your fill while you can.

pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You!

Poison The Well The Tropic Rot

Remember how Versions was a really cool record, that just ended up not being that good? Well, Tropic Rot is a really cool record that rivals The Opposite of December as being their most focused and aggressive, and You Come Before You as their most interesting and accessible. Besides the mediocre "Celebrate the Pyre", every song here is a hit, in particular...well everything. The light country aesthetic is more fully integrated in the clean sections, which meld seamlessly with the heavy metal sections. It's tough to call this a real metalcore album, but whatever the hell it is, it is fucking great. Could bump up to a 4.5 if it stays on this level of excellence with time.

Radiohead Hail To The Thief

Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II

pretty much the best hip hop album since...oh hey Only Built for Cuban Linx. what a weird fucking coincidence

Rush A Farewell to Kings

Rush Retrospective I (1974 - 1980)

Shining V - Halmstad

V- Halmstad is only a black metal record by the loosest stretch. Progressive black metal may be the best tag for this, and purists are going to absolutely hate it. Shining actively combat stereotypes and standards within the genre, and whether or not they should be applauded for it depends on your idea about the black metal scene. What they deliver with V- Halmstad is a black metal album for people who don’t really like black metal, but have always sort of wished they would. It’s heavy, it’s vaguely intelligent (musically- lyrically the translations I’ve been able to find are hilariously bad), and its got the ability to make you rethink your hate for an entire genre. Then again, Shining probably would want you to say “Fuck black metal” anyways.

Stephen Lynch A Litte Bit Special

Styx The Grand Illusion

Ah, the Grand Illusion. What a splendid album. This was the first album I ever bought of my own accord, and it owns a special place in my heart. It's bombastic, dynamic, and by golly Dennis DeYoung has one of the most homoerotic voices I ever heard. I love it. btw Come Saily Away > You.

Subtle ExitingARM

System of a Down Steal This Album!

Tangerine Dream Phaedra

The Blood Brothers This Adultery Is Ripe

The Blood Brothers Burn Piano Island, Burn

The Blood Brothers Young Machetes

The Fall Of Troy Doppelganger

The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium

The Mars Volta The Bedlam In Goliath

The Rocky Horror Picture Show The Rocky Horror Picture Show

A lot of people don't like The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I think it's a rather fantastic thing to be perfectly honest. Blending rock with jazz with pop with blues, it's actually a stunning musical composition in its own right, with songs that range from impossibly danceable (Time Warp, Hot Patootie) to sad, almost touching songs (Science Fiction/Double Theatre, I Can Make you a Man). Oh, and its about transvestites and stuff. Hot.

The Swell Season The Swell Season

The Thirty Years War Martyrs Among the Casualties

Therapy? Crooked Timber

Tom Waits Orphans

Never hearing more than one or two songs by him, Orphans and its vast scope introduced me to pretty much every aspect I could imagine about Mr. Waits. While Bastards may be the best disc, none of the three are below fantastic, and there isn?t a bad song of note on this sprawling album, while there are innumerable gems.

Trophy Scars Bad Luck

The most focused Trophy Scars outing yet (EP or otherwise), epic in scope yet smooth and incredibly listenable, "Bad Luck" shows the band treading into a slower groove, and creating more noteworthy "crescendos". While "Anna Lucia" is the most obvious standout, the trio of songs "Toronto", "Nola", and "Years so Much" (All six minutes plus) are excellent forays in odd song structures and musical and lyrcial tones. Straight off from "Bad Dreams" through "Good Luck", "Bad Luck" is the culmination of what one small punk band from Jersey can do with enough time and vision. Which is to say, a lot.

Underoath Define the Great Line

Warning Watching From a Distance

4 excellent

108 A New Beat From A Dead Heart

1905 Voice

A Day In Black And White My Heroes Have Always Killed Cowboys

A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide

AFI Sing the Sorrow

Air Talkie Walkie

Alias The Other Side of the Looking Glass

Alkaline Trio Goddamnit

All the Empires of the World ...Will Be Laid To Waste

Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God

Ampere / Daitro Split

Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production of Eggs

Angelo Badalamenti Mulholland Drive (score)

Arcade Fire Neon Bible

At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement

Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons, You...

AVAST! Faultlines

Beach Boys Pet Sounds

Blah blah blah Sgt Peppers was the musical revolution of the 1960s blah blah. Fuck that shit yo, this i where its at. It was a slightly trippy record, but altogether one of the most fun listens I've ever had. Though I havent listened to it for like two years so I don't have quite as much to say about it as I normally would. Well, it basically paved the way for progressive music you could say. But then you could say the opposite. ITs oh so contrived.

Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique

Belle Epoque Wicked Ones and Thieves

Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum

The best album released this year that I have reduced to background music, "Dandelion Gum" is a trippy ass psychedelic/trip hop album that features some heavily upbeat material, and has some great 60/70's vibes going on throughout it. It's a great record to just have playing while you're browsing the internet, taking a relaxing drive down an empty highway, or even watching a low-key movie. A massive improvement over "Start a People".

Blackalicious Blazing Arrow

Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God

Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children

Boards of Canada Geogaddi

Botch We Are The Romans

BoySetsFire The Misery Index: Notes from the plague years

Bruce Springsteen Devils & Dust

The last "great" thing Bruce will ever record. If something akin to this was released during his heyday, it would be compared with Nebraska as his strongest record.

Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology

One of the most "developed" emo compilations I've heard from the early days of the genre, Cap'n Jazz was something special; incredibly catchy, extremely emotional, and great (if sloppy) musicians with a sense for melody and simple-but-effective. Vocalist Tim often sings completely off key, but you'd hardly notice with all the passion in his voice. The ylrics are something else, both relatable and profound (for the most part). While disc 1 is a bit better than 2, its pretty evenly distributed, and you cant fault over 90 minutes of Cap'n Jazz at all.

Capsule [US] Blue

Cease Upon the Capitol Untitled

An eclectic mix of various different types of emo, Cease Upon the Capitol have somewhat adopted the recent post-rock trend that bands have been jumping on for years it seems, Cease Upon the Capitol combine the tension of a band like In First Person with the theatrics and churning/building nature of City of Caterpillar, all the while not overblowing it with songs twice as long as they need to be. Definitely one of the strongest emo releases of 2007, and possibly the only real challenger to the Kidcrash's "Jokes".

Ceremony Violence Violence

Ceremony Still Nothing Moves You

Chamillionaire Ultimate Victory

Chamillionaire produces the hip hop album of the year, in one of the biggest efforts I've heard this side of a Martin Scorsese film. Ultimate Victory is a collection of intelligent raps on current affairs, traditional southern crunk songs about cash and groupies, and discussion on the current state of Hip Hop itself. Featuring one of the smoothest flows in mainstream rap, Chamillionaire is truly the shining gem among all those other "gangsta" rappers out there, up there with the duo from Clipse as the leading figures in popular rap.

City Of Caterpillar City Of Caterpillar

Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

Coheed and Cambria The Last Supper: Live At Hammerstein Ballroom

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

Cold Year Of The Spider

Coldplay Viva La Vida

Combatwoundedveteran This is Not an Erect, All-Red Neon Body

An essential collection of spazzcore/grind songs, this compilation includes everything Combatwoundedveteran did besides their full length, and thus also is everything good that they ever recorded. Gritty as fuck and also ridiculous and sometimes hysterically intense, everyone who wants to pretend to be a hardcore nut should pick this up.

Converge No Heroes

By far the most *** kicking release of the year, Converge drop their second guitarist but continue to be one of the most intense bands on the planet. From the brutal opening tracks, to the near ballad-y ?Grim Heart/Black Rose,? to the almost emocore ?Lonewolves,? this is arguably the most well rounded album Converge have yet to release.

Creedence Clearwater Revival Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits

Crossed Out 1990-1993

Cryptopsy None So Vile

Cursive The Ugly Organ

Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen

I had extreme anxiety coming into "Mama, I'm Swollen". On one hand, the two studio songs I had heard were amazingly catchy and well written, and the live version of "What Have I Done?" was astounding. On the other hand, this is now their 6th full studio record, and I was scared that perhaps Tim Kasher would run out of things to write about. He did. This album is still amazing.

Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes

Daitro / Sed Non Satiata Split

Dangers Anger

Danny Elfman Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Danny Elfman The Nightmare Before Christmas: OST

Dashboard Confessional The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most

Defiance, Ohio The Fear, The Fear, The Fear

Deftones White Pony

Deftones Saturday Night Wrist

Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030

DJ Shadow Endtroducing

Dream Theater Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From a Memory

dredg Leitmotif

Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain

Eels Hombre Lobo

Eluvium Copia

Eminem The Eminem Show

Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP

Entombed Left Hand Path

Envy A Dead Sinking Story

Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left...

Envy Insomniac Doze

Falkenbach Heralding - The Fireblade

Feist The Reminder

Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes

Frank Zappa Zoot Allures

Fugazi 13 Songs

Funeral Diner The Underdark

Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About

Gorguts Obscura

Gorillaz Demon Days

Gospel The Moon is A Dead World

Harvey Milk Life... The Best Game in Town

Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know

Makes me kind of wish I was alive for the days when metal was just fucking metal and wasn't caught up with being heavy as shit or technical as fuck.

HORSE The Band R. Borlax

Ice Cube The Predator

To be completely honest, gangsta rap sucks. Hardcore. However, thats merely in todays society where the gangsta lifestyle has been glamourized. While Ice Cube may have been rather affluent, it's almost impossible to deny this albums absolute amazingness. Cube is one of the most passionate rappers of his day with a sick flow yo, and the production on this album is still nearly untouched to this day. Quite possibly the best hip hop album of all time.

In/Humanity Violent Resignation: The Great American Teenage Su

Incubus Morning View

Integrity Humanity Is The Devil

Integrity was one of the most influential hardcore bands of the early/mid 90s, paving the way for pretty much everything that is called hardcore today. Combining elements of metal into their sound, they along with a few others like Biohazard really pushed hardcore into a new direction and essentially kept the genre alive. "Humanity is the Devil" is perhaps the best output these 'legends' (relatively) released, and features extended songs that don't conform to any formula. While the last track can go fuck itself, everything else here is Integrity's formula played to near perfection.

Jack Johnson In Between Dreams

Jack Johnson Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for Curious George

Jack Johnson Sleep Through the Static

Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorius

Jardin de la Croix Pomeroy

Jethro Tull Aqualung

John Mayer Continuum

John Mayer Battle Studies

Joshua Fit For Battle To Bring Our Own End

Julia [USA] Julia

Combining some parts that sound like a more frantic Drive Like Jehu, others that are reminiscent of Rites of Spring, and then build ups akin to Moss Icon, Julia are a fairly great mid-90's emo band. Songs like "Scarification" and "Untitled" meld all of their sounds together perfectly, while others like "Trigger Happy" are great hardcore songs. While they sometimes get lost in themselves, "Julia" is a great effort that should get mentioned around these here parts more than it does.

Justice Cross

Justin Timberlake Justified

Kamelot Epica

Kanye West 808s And Heartbreak

Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue

maudlin/Kayo Dot continue to grow with this release, which sees a larger shift away from their metal influences and into a more free form category. However, the songs are all still just as epic and gripping as ever; and right from the start you see how much more of a sustained kickass this is than its contemporaries.

Kelly Clarkson Breakaway

King Crimson The Power To Believe

King Crimson THRAK

King Crimson Discipline

King Crimson The ConstruKction of Light

Kodan Armada Ohio Killed the Grey Ghost

Kraftwerk Computer World

Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti

LoveHateHero Just Breathe

Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor

Mago de Oz Finis Terra

Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds Of Fire

Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses

Maroon 5 Songs About Jane

Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long

Massive Attack Splitting the Atom

do people not realize these are all just remixes or are people just retarded the half that arent are basic mixes that arent even going to be what resembles the record durr

Matchbox Twenty More Than You Think You Are

Matchbox Twenty Exile on Mainstream

maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map

Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell

Michael Franti and Spearhead All Rebel Rockers

Michael Jackson Thriller

Minor Threat Out of Step

Modern Life Is War Witness

Natalie Imbruglia Left of the Middle

Neko Case Middle Cyclone

Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets

Neurosis Souls At Zero

Neurosis Through Silver in Blood

Neurosis Enemy of the Sun

Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV

No Doubt Tragic Kingdom

Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VIII: Piano Collections

NWA Straight Outta Compton

Off Minor Problematic Courtship

Ohana Dead Beat

Oingo Boingo Dead Mans Party

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez The Apocalypse Inside Of An Orange

Overview Forty-Four Stone Tigers

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

Pg. 99 Document # 8

Pg. 99 Document #5

pg.lost Yes I Am EP

pg.lost In Never Out

Pink Floyd The Wall

Pink Floyd The Final Cut

Primordial To The Nameless Dead

Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese

Prince 1999

Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime

Quicksand Slip

Radiohead In Rainbows

Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...

Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium

So yeah, I got laid while listening to this album. Pretty much sums up my feelings in a nutshell on the subject. Stadium Arcadium = Sex. Albeit ear sex.

Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication

Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come

Rick Wakeman The Seven Wonders of the World

Rites of Spring End on End

Rush Moving Pictures

Rush Fly By Night

Rush Hold Your Fire

Rush Chronicles

Rush Rush Replay x 3 (dvd)

Rush Snakes & Arrows

Santana Abraxas

Santana Santana III

Satyricon Nemesis Divina

Schoolyard Heroes Abominations

Shakira Oral Fixation Vol. 2

Shakira ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones?

Shipwreck A.D. Shipwreck

Silversun Pickups Swoon

Sinead O'Connor The Lion And The Cobra

Snapcase Progression Through Unlearning

Soundtrack Once More With Feeling

Soundtrack A Clockwork Orange

South Park South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut OS

Stephen Lynch Superhero

Stratovarius Destiny

Stratovarius Intermission

Styx Greatest Hits

Subtle For Hero: For Fool

Sun Kil Moon April

Sunny Day Real Estate Diary

Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite

t.A.T.u. 200 km/H In The Wrong Lane

Tarot Suffer Our Pleasures

Texas is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are?

The Beatles Rubber Soul

The Blood Brothers March On Electric Children

The Decemberists The Crane Wife

While I had enjoyed about half of Picaresque, I hadn?t expected to enjoy The Crane Wife quite as much as I ended up. However, they?ve toned down the excess instruments and gone to a more streamlined, poppy sound that works magnificently for them. It also helps they have an extended track to match the heights of ?The Mariner?s Revenge Song? with ?The Crane Wife 1 and 2?

The Fall Of Troy The Fall Of Troy

The Fall Of Troy Ghostship Demos

The Flower Kings The Rainmaker

The Khayembii Communique The Khayembii Communiqué

The Killers Sam's Town

The Killers Day & Age

Brandon Flower's drops the ridiculous posturing he has had in the past of being a "cool guy", and in the process finds the chemistry with his music he has always been looking for. Incredibly upbeat, catchy, uplifting and well thought out, it's a perfect blend of 80's pop music and a bit of 90's alt brit rock. Each song is filled to the brim with memorable hooks and interesting nuances. Truly a surprising and fantastic effort by a band I had written off as good, but standard pop fare. As a side note, I give this a 4.5

The Locust Safety Second, Body Last

The Locust New Erections

The Lonely Island Incredibad

I figured that the 4 songs released before the album was completed were going to easily be the best material, but I was mistaken. A musically accomplished comedy album, the brilliance of certain songs makes up for the more filler-ish moments on the record. Filled with ridiculous hooks and lyrics, Incredibad is just plain awesome.

The Mars Volta Tremulant

The Nation of Ulysses Plays Pretty for Baby

The Pax Cecilia Nouveau

The Prize Fighter Inferno My Brother's Blood Machine

The Prodigy The Fat Of The Land

The Smiths The Queen Is Dead

The Ting Tings We Started Nothing

The Weakerthans Reunion Tour

These Arms Are Snakes Easter

These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home

These Arms Are Snakes This Is Meant To Hurt You EP

Three 6 Mafia When the Smoke Clears

Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III and IV...

Thursday Full Collapse

Tom Jones 24 Hours

I have no idea how Tom Jones has managed to keep his voice as strong today as it was over 40 years ago when he started, but however he has God bless him. "24 Hours" features Tom Jones having arguably the most fun he has ever had in his epic career, every song feeling like a blast of energy and nostalgia for a new generation of listeners. While it is heavily rooted in 60's and 70's pop and soul, there is a definite new age twist on it that makes it not feel dated. Cuts like "I'm Alive" and "Feels Like Music" are funky pop anthems, while "If He Should Ever Leave You" and "Never" are classic love tunes that we've just come to expect from Mr. Jones. A triumphant collection of new songs, "24 Hours" is just another affirmation that Tom Jones is still the sexiest voice in show business.

Trophy Scars Hospital Music

Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets

TV on the Radio Dear Science

For all the praise Bon Iver gets for being a simple, enjoyable listen, TV on the Radio accomplish all that while creating truly inspiring, eclectic, forward thinking music. Pretentious while not being pretentious; "Dear Science," is an indie album that combines itself with elements of hip hop, electronica and a good 'ol helping of soul to make it the ultimate vision of what the band has always done. Surprise of the year.

Ulver Shadows of the Sun

United Nations United Nations

It's a joke/tribute album featuring some of the most ridiculous music written this year that purists are already starting to hate. However, the combination of Thursday's sound with a real "screamo" bent with some grind musicians being thrown into the mix is an immense one. Arguably the record of the year.

Usurp Synapse Disinformation Fix

VersaEmerge Perceptions

Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

X Japan Blue Blood

Yellowcard Lights And Sounds

Yes The Yes Album

Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans

Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss

You and I Discography

You and I The Curtain Falls

Yusef Lateef Eastern Sounds

3.5 great

...Who Calls So Loud ...Who Calls So Loud

1000 Travels of Jawaharlal Owari Wa Konai

2Pac Greatest Hits

3 The End is Begun

A Wilhelm Scream Ruiner

AFI The AFI Retrospective

AFI Black Sails in the Sunset

Against Me! New Wave

Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go...

Alexisonfire Alexisonfire

Alexisonfire Crisis

Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals

A bunch of really good rock songs. The vocals can be grating and the song formula is pretty consistent and unvariable, but all in all it contains some of the most instantly accessible music alexisonfire have made to date.

Algernon Cadwallader Some Kind of Cadwallader

All-American Rejects Move Along

Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today

An Albatross We Are The Lazer Viking

Angel Hair Pregnant With The Senior Class

Animal Collective Strawberry Jam

Antioch Arrow In Love with Jetts/The Lady Is a Cat

Arcade Fire Funeral

Architects Architects / Dead Swans E.P

Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom

At the Drive-In Hell Paso

Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil

Baroness Red Album

Bars Introducing...

BATS Cruel Sea Scientist

BATS Red In Tooth & Claw

Bayside Bayside

Beastie Boys To the 5 Boroughs

The BEastie Boys had been gone for a while, and the announcement of another project without the Dust Brothers was kind of scary. However, the boys pull it off well; while their production skills have nothing on the Dust Brothers, they still pull it off quite well ("Triple Trouble" has chimes that make me shiver). Their flow, while getting a bit tired, is still as solid as ever, and Adrock continues to shine through as a standout rapper in his own right. The lyrics are a product of the times; political and social commentary that is perhaps a tad bit too preachy. While the album isn't made for repeated listens, it's more than a small bit enjoyable for a few listens here and there.

Beastie Boys Hello Nasty

Beastie Boys Check Your Head

Beck Modern Guilt

Behemoth Demigod

Ben Folds Songs for Silverman

Ben Folds Rockin' The Suburbs

Between The Buried And Me The Great Misdirect

Black Moth Super Rainbow Eating Us

Black Sabbath Master of Reality

Blacklisted We're Unstoppable

Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth

blink-182 The Mark, Tom, And Travis Show

Blu and Exile Below the Heavens

Boards of Canada The campfire Headphase

Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago

BoySetsFire Suckerpunch Training EP

Bruce Springsteen Magic

Burial Untrue

Burton Wagner 21

Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague

Carbon Based Lifeforms World of Sleepers

Castevet Summer Fences

Cave In Until Your Heart Stops

Ceremony Scared People

Chevelle Vena Sera

Chevelle This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)

Children Of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?

Children Of Bodom Follow the Reaper

Christina Aguilera Back to Basics

Circle Takes The Square Circle Takes the Square

Clipse Lord Willin'

cLOUDDEAD Ten

Comadre More Songs About The Man

Converge Petitioning The Empty Sky

Cynic Demo '91

Daitro Des Cendres, Je Me Consumme

Damien Dempsey To Hell Or Barbados

Dan Deacon Bromst

Darkspace Dark Space II

Dead Man In Reno Dead Man In Reno

Death Symbolic

Death By Stereo Death Alive

Demians Building An Empire

Demons and Wizards Demons & Wizards

Destiny's Child #1’s

Dewey Cox Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Dido Life For Rent

Dir en grey Vulgar

Dir en grey MISSA

Dir en grey Withering To Death

Disney Disney's Princess Collection...

Disturbed Indestructible

DOOM Operation Doomsday

DOOMRIDERS Darkness Come Alive

I had a dream last night doomriders had high top nikes, they had diamonds on their necks and diamonds on there mikes

Dr. Dre The Chronic

Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst

DragonForce Valley of the Damned

Eagles Hotel California

El-P Fantastic Damage

Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits

Eminem The Slim Shady LP

Energy Punch the Clock EP

Engine Down Demure

Enochian Theory A Monument to the Death of an Idea

Ensiferum Victory Songs

Envy From Here To Eternity

Envy on the Coast Lucy Gray

Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. 1 (4th World War)

Esoteric The Maniacal Vale

Explosions In The Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place

Fates Warning FWX

Fightstar Grand Unification

Fleetwood Mac Rumours

Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac

Flyleaf Flyleaf

Fort Minor The Rising Tied

Frank Zappa Hot Rats

From First to Last Heroine

Fucked Up Hidden World

Fugazi In on the Kill Taker

Fugazi Red Medicine

Fugazi End Hits

Gaza He Is Never Coming Back

George Strait For the Last Time: Live From the Astrodome

Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab

Ghostlimb Ghostlimb

Ghostlimb Bearing & Distance

Giant Squid Metridium Fields

godheadSilo Skyward in Triumph

Godspeed You! Black Emperor F# A# ∞

Goo Goo Dolls Gutterflower

Gorilla Biscuits Start Today

Grade Under the Radar

Green Day Dookie

Gregor Samsa 55:12

Grizzly Bear Veckatimest

Handsome Boy Modeling School White People

Haram Haram

High School Musical High School Musical

Hopesfall The Satellite Years

Hot Cross Cryonics

Hot Cross A New Set of Lungs [EP]

Hot Cross Risk Revival

Howard Shore The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

I Hate Myself 10 Songs

Intronaut Prehistoricisms

Isis Panopticon

Jack Johnson On and On

Jack Johnson Brushfire Fairytales

Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking

Jason Mraz Mr. A-Z

Jay-Z The Black Album

Jeff Buckley Grace

Jerome's Dream Completed 1997 - 2001

Jessica Simpson A Public Affair

Jimmy Buffett Songs You Know By Heart

Joe Satriani Super Colossal

John Legend Once Again

Joy Division Substance

Jurassic 5 Quality Control

Jurassic 5 Power In Numbers

Kamelot Karma

Kamelot Ghost Opera

Kanye West The College Dropout

Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward

KiD CuDi Man On The Moon: The End Of Day

I've gotta be honest, usually I don't particularly like rap as hyped up as this especially due to the type of rap it "is", but damn if this isn't a damn good record.

Kid Kilowatt Guitar Method 1996-1999

Kidcrash Jokes

Kings of Leon Only By The Night

Klute The Emperors New Clothes

Kraftwerk Autobahn

Krallice Krallice

Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain OST

Ladytron Light & Magic

Last Laugh No Regrets

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV

Les Savy Fav Let's Stay Friends

Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life

Lifetime Lifetime

Linkin Park Hybrid Theory

Look What I Did Minuteman For The Moment

Ludacris Theater of the Mind

Machinae Supremacy Deus Ex Machinae

Mariah Carey The Emancipation of Mimi

Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar

Mastodon The Workhorse Chronicles 2000-2005 (DVD)

Mastodon Leviathan

Mastodon Crack the Skye

Matchbox Twenty Yourself Or Someone Like You

Matisyahu Youth

maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible

maudlin of the Well Part the Second

The first three songs are as good as anything motW had ever put out. Now I just wish the last two were at that same level. It was a nice thing of Driver to do I suppose though!

Maylene and the Sons of Disaster II

Maylene and the Sons of Disaster Maylene and the Sons of Disaster

Maylene and the Sons of Disaster III

Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell

Megadeth Rust In Peace

Mew No More Stories

Michael Andrews Donnie Darko

Michael Jackson Bad

Modest Mouse Good News For People Who Love Bad News

Mono Hymn To The Immortal Wind

Motion City Soundtrack Even If It Kills Me

Murder by Death Like the Exorcist, but More Breakdancing

Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?

Murder by Death Red Of Tooth And Claw

Muse Absolution Tour [2004]

Muse Black Holes and Revelations

My Chemical Romance The Black Parade

N Sync No Strings Attached

Mr. Fountain obviously has no idea what he is talking about. N Sync isn't about the musicianship, and his implication they had any real hand in that is absurd. What this album is pure, unadulterated bubble-gum pop, and arguably the best of the century. "Bye Bye Bye" and "It's Gonna Be Me" are both fantastic, and while there are some terrible songs, overall its an enjoyable collection of pop tunes to blast while you play "Barbie: Equestrian Fun."

Nahvalr Nahvalr

Nas Illmatic

Natalie Imbruglia Come to Life

Native Nod Today Puberty, Tomorrow the World

Navio Forge As We Quietly Burn A Hole Into...

New Found Glory Not Without A Fight

Nine Inch Nails With Teeth

Nine Inch Nails The Slip

Maybe Trent has realized his masterpiece days are over, so he is just going to release a steady stream of solid albums from now on? One would certainly hope so, as this is his strongest traditional album since The Fragile, and perhaps even The Downward Spiral. It's almost what "Year Zero" should have been, a conglomeration of all of his past sounds that doesn't sound redundant and uninspired. Its a different, less angry Trent whose days of youth angst and bitterness are gone, replaced by a sense of uneasy acceptance. Not to say that the album doesn't have Trent's edge, or that it isn't as "aggressive" as his previous albums.

Nobuo Uematsu FFVII: Advent Children OST

Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack

North What You Were

The atmospheric post-metal crap mixed with a grungier sound than most gives the album a life of its own, but the vocals bring down an otherwise spectacularly entertaining and interesting record.

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Vol. 1

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Old Money

Opeth Ghost Reveries

Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...)

Otis Redding The Dock of the Bay

Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Owen At Home With

Pearl Jam Backspacer

Solid rock songs from a solid rock band. three point five

Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon...

Pennywise Pennywise

Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel (III)

Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here

Plus 44 When Your Heart Stops Beating

Porcupine Tree Deadwing

Portugal. The Man Waiter, \"You Vultures!\"

Pulling Teeth Martyr Immortal

Queen Live At Wembley Stadium (DVD)

Quiet Steps Quiet Steps [EP]

Radiohead OK Computer

This was a pretty good album. Sometimes it dragged on a bit, and perhaps had too much going on for its own good. but all in all arguably the best album by Radiohead. If only the vocals were better tbqh.

Radiohead Kid A

Raine Maida The Hunters Lullaby

Ratatat LP3

Red Hot Chili Peppers By The Way

Rifles at Recess To Whisper in Tongues

Rihanna Rated R

Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things

Rise Against Appeal To Reason

Robert Glasper In My Element

Rush 2112

Rush Permanent Waves

Rush Exit...Stage Left

Rush The Spirit of Radio(greatest hits 74-87)

Rx Bandits Mandala

Santana Supernatural

Saosin Saosin

Saosin Translating The Name (Death Do Us Part)

Sarah McLachlan Surfacing

Satyricon The Shadowthrone

Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy

Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure

Shangrala This Is How We Communicate

She Screams Remedy She Screams Remedy EP

Shels Sea of the Dying Dhow

Shining VI - Klagopsalmer

Shugo Tokumaru Exit

Sigur Ros ( )

Skepticism Alloy

Slipknot Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)

Sonic Youth Rather Ripped

Steinski What Does It All Mean?

Stephen Malkmus Real Emotional Trash

Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb

Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between

SuidAkrA Caledonia

Suis La Lune Quiet, Pull the Strings!

Swallow The Sun Hope

Switchfoot Oh! Gravity.

Symphony X Paradise Lost

System of a Down Hypnotize

T-Pain Epiphany

T.I. Paper Trail

Ten Grand This Is The Way To Rule

The Angelic Process Weighing Souls with Sand

The Audition Self-Titled Album

The Beatles Abbey Road

Abbey Road. This was the first Beatles album I had in full, and still my favorite. As a whole, Revolver is better, but there are moments of absolute magic on this record that the Beatles never had pulled off before. The three track suite near the end of the album is both incredibly fun and mesmerizing, while tracks like Octopus Garden and Maxwells Silver Hammer are among my favorite songs of all time. The best Beatles album for sure, and right up there on the all time charts.

The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Beatles Revolver

The Blood Brothers Rumors Laid Waste

The Blood Brothers Crimes

The Dum Dum Project Export Quality

The Faceless Planetary Duality

The Fall Of Troy Manipulator

The Fall Of Troy Phantom on the Horizon

The Game LAX

The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound

The Killers Hot Fuss

The Mars Volta Amputechture

Amputechture is both TMV's most all-around solid work, et it isn't their best. The album itself contains a huge amount of highlights and melds the breakout-pace and style of De-Loused with the vastness and musicianship or Frances, all while taking it a step further in terms of songwriting. However, it isn't anything truly new, and despite the fact that "Tetragrammaton" and "Day of the Baphomets" are two of the finest songs I've heard all year, the album is just a tad bit too long for its own good.

The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 (Re-release)

The Moldy Peaches The Moldy Peaches

The Number Twelve Looks Like You An Inch Of Gold For An Inch Of Time

The Ocean Precambrian

The Postal Service Give Up

The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave

These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove

With "Tail Swallower and Dove" These Arms Are Snakes have toned down the crazyness without sacrificing their X-factor. It's one of the most rock and roll records I've heard all year, heavy hitting and deliciously riff-heavy. They still leave room for just enough experimentation to not get stale. A very good album.

Thrice The Illusion of Safety

Thrice The Alchemy Index: Vols. I and II...

Thrice Beggars

Thursday War All The Time

Time of Orchids Namesake Caution

Tom Waits Mule Variations

Tool 10,000 Days

Tortoise Beacons of Ancestorship

Trash Talk Plagues

Turisas Battle Metal

Twain Harte A Sunny Place for Shady People

Underoath Lost In The Sound Of Separation

It's interesting, no doubt, and filled with the most mature music underoath have made to date. The songs are all tight, compound pieces with very little fluff, and the new ideas all compliment the heavily "Define the Great Line" derived sound well. However, listenability has been lost in the evolution, and there is a distinct lack of the heavyness that made their last record so catchy and enjoyable. Edit: Insert insulting remark to another user here!

Usher Confessions

VersaEmerge VersaEmerge

Vessels White Fields and Open Devices

Xiu Xiu Women As Lovers

Yes Close To The Edge

Yip-Yip Two Kings of the Same Kingdom

Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

Yoko Ono Yes, I'm A Witch

3 good

10 Years The Autumn Effect

2Pac All Eyez on Me

50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin'

A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders

ABBA ABBA Gold

Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 2

Alias Resurgam

Amanda Woodward La Décadence de la Décandence

American Steel Destroy Their Future

And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar

Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha

Arch Enemy Rise Of The Tyrant

Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am....

Army of the Pharaohs Ritual of Battle

As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You

At the Drive-In Vaya EP

At the Drive-In Alfaro Vive, Carajo! EP

At the Drive-In This Station is Non-Operational

Audioslave Audioslave

Audioslave Revelations

Avril Lavigne Under My Skin

Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing

Bad Brains Build A Nation

Baha Men Who Let the Dogs Out

Bayside Sirens & Condolences

Between The Buried And Me Colors

Blacktusk Passage Through Purgatory

Blaqk Audio CexCells

Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth

blink-182 Dude Ranch

Blues Traveler Four

Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Strength And Loyalty

BoySetsFire Tomorrow come today

BoySetsFire Before The Eulogy

Brand New Your Favourite Weapon

Brand New Daisy

If you ever want to hear what a smart guy can do when he tries to make a record as messy as possible, Daisy is probably the place to start with.

Buried Inside Chronoclast

BUS Moving People

Carole King Tapestry

Carpathian Isolation

Cat Power Jukebox

Cave In Perfect Pitch Black

Cease Upon the Capitol Cease Upon the Capitol

Celeste Pessimiste(s)

Celeste Nihiliste(s)

Children Of Bodom Hatebreeder

Chimaira Chimaira

Chris Brown Exclusive

Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera Stripped

Chuck Ragan Los Feliz

Circa Survive Juturna

Combatwoundedveteran I Know A Girl Who Develops Crime Scene Photos

Common Be

Converge You Fail Me

Converge Caring And Killing

Converge Unloved And Weeded Out

Converge The Poacher Diaries

Cursed III: Architects of Troubled Sleep

Daitro Y

Dan The Automator A Much Better Tomorrow

DangerDoom The Mouse & The Mask

Danny Elfman The Corpse Bride

Dark Tranquillity Fiction

Dashboard Confessional Dusk and Summer

Dashboard Confessional The Shade of Poison Trees

Death Cab For Cutie Narrow Stairs

Demons and Wizards Touched by the Crimson King

Dinosaur Jr. Farm

Dir en grey GAUZE

Dir en grey The Marrow of a Bone

Dismember Dismember

Dolores O'Riordan Are You Listening?

Don Caballero Punkgasm

DOOM MM ... Food

DragonForce Sonic Firestorm

Dream Theater Train of Thought

Dream Theater Systematic Chaos

Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings

Eagles Eagles

Eluvium An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death

Emerson, Lake and Palmer Brain Salad Surgery

Emery The Weak's End

Emery The Question

Eminem The Slim Shady EP

Energy Invasions of the Mind EP

Envy / Jesu Envy/Jesu Split Ep

Everclear So Much For The Afterglow

Everybody Else Everybody Else

Feral Children Second to the Last Frontier

Finale A Pipe Dream and a Promise

Fireworks All I Have To Offer Is My Own Confusion

Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life

Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing

fun. Aim and Ignite

Girl Talk Feed the Animals

Girls Aloud What Will The Neighbours Say?

Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere

Godsmack Awake

Godsmack Godsmack

Gojira The Way Of All Flesh

Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl

Goo Goo Dolls Let Love In

Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo

Good Charlotte Good Charlotte

Green Day Bullet in a Bible

Have A Nice Life Deathconsciousness

Have Heart Songs to Scream at the Sun

Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy

Hopesfall Magnetic North

HORSE The Band Pizza EP

HORSE The Band A Natural Death

Hour Cast State Of Disgrace

I Would Set Myself On Fire For You Believes In Patterns

Indian Summer Discography

Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights

Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death

Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy

Jeniferever Choose a Bright Morning

Jenny Piccolo Jenny Piccolo (Full Discography)

John Frusciante Curtains

John Frusciante The Empyrean

Kanye West Late Registration

Kanye West Graduation

Kaospilot Shadows

Kidcrash New Ruins

King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon

King Crimson Starless and Bible Black

King Crimson Islands

King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair

King Crimson Beat

Lamb of God Sacrament

Led Zeppelin Early Days

Led Zeppelin Coda

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin I

Less Than Jake GNV FLA

Limp Bizkit The Unquestionable Truth [Part 1]

Linkin Park Reanimation

Linkin Park Live In Texas

Loma Prieta Last City

Loma Prieta Dark Mountain

Lostprophets Liberation Transmission

LoveHateHero White Lies

Ludacris Release Therapy

Lydia Illuminate

Madonna Like a Virgin

Massive Attack Blue Lines

Mat Kearney Nothing Left to Lose

Meshuggah obZen

Metallica Death Magnetic

Method Man Tical

mewithoutYou I Never Said That I Was Brave

Michael Jackson Dangerous

Midtown Forget What You Know

Mihai Edrisch Un Jour Sans Lendemain

Mindless Self Indulgence Tight

Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling

Muse Origin of Symmetry

My Chemical Romance Life on the Murder Scene

Narrows New Distances

Neil Perry Lineage Situation

Nelly Furtado Loose

Nelly Furtado Woah, Nelly!

Nightmare Of You Nightmare Of You

No Doubt Rock Steady

No Doubt The Beacon Street Collection

Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy X: Original Soundtrack

NOFX Wolves in Wolves' Clothing

November 5th 1955 Bears of the Sea

Oceansize Effloresce

Oceansize Everyone Into Position

Oceansize Frames

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Los Sueños De Un Higado

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Xenophanes

Orchid Gatefold

Paramore Riot!

Paramore Brand New Eyes

This will be revised. Brand New Eyes sounds different than either Riot! or All We Know is Falling, but the differences are fairly irrelevant. It's like listening to the same record as last time: you'll sing along to a bunch of Hayley's hooks, sometimes think there is a cool moment in a song musically, and skip over the slower, ballady type of songs. Hayley Williams can still rule a mic, but the band still plays a little too safe to really compliment her voice beyond mere competence. See, the problem is that while Hayley is a ridiculously accessible singer, the songs are just so boring a lot of the time that the album drags on and on despite its relatively short length. They do pop rock fine, and the singles will be great, but as an album this is merely just fairly okay.

Peaches The Teaches of Peaches

Pedro the Lion Control

Pink I'm Not Dead

Pito Perez Con Más Poder

Placebo Meds

Pokemon 2BA Masta

Porcupine Tree In Absentia

Porcupine Tree Voyage 34: The Complete Trip

Porcupine Tree Fear Of A Blank Planet

Portraits Of Past Cypress Dust Witch

Propagandhi Supporting Caste

Protest the Hero Kezia

Protest the Hero Fortress

Pygmy Lush Bitter River

Quicksand Manic Compression

Radiohead The Bends

Radiohead Pablo Honey

Raein Il n'y Pas de Orchestre

Red Hot Chili Peppers BloodSugarSexMagik

Regina Spektor Far

Her next album I will definitively be able to describe as "more overrated psuedo-intellectual pop".

Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness

Rob Zombie Educated Horses

Rush Rush

Rush Caress Of Steel

Sara Bareilles Little Voice

Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release)

Secret Machines Ten Silver Drops

Senses Fail Still Searching

Sepultura Dante XXI

Serj Tankian Elect the Dead

Shabutie Penelope

Shipwreck A.D. Abyss

Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland

Slayer South of Heaven

Small Brown Bike The River Bed

Snoop Dogg Ego Trippin'

Snow Patrol Final Straw

Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit

Soap and Skin Lovetune for Vacuum

Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes

Soundtrack Spider-Man 2 (Original Soundtrack)

Soundtrack Grindhouse

Soundtrack 28 Days Later Soundtrack

Sparta Threes

Spires Flowers and Fireworks

Skramz isis. This would be a lot better if it wasn't so contrived and long, but I mean for what it is it is pretty great. If you are looking for slow music to headbang too, Spires are a pretty solid choice.

State Radio Year of the Crow

Sublime Sublime

Suede Coming Up

Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed

Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy

System of a Down Mezmerize

System of a Down Toxicity

Tangerine Dream Mars Polaris

Temposhark The Invisible Line

Tenacious D Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny

Terror Rhythm Amongst The Chaos

The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha

The Beatles Help!

The Cape May Glass Mountain Roads

The Clash London Calling

The Cranberries No Need to Argue

The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death

The Decemberists Always the Bridesmaid EP

The Decemberists The Hazards Of Love

The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life

The Killers Sawdust

The Locust Plague Soundscapes

The Monkees Greatest Hits

The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds

The Pink Spiders Teenage Graffiti

The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun

Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures

Thrice The Artist In The Ambulance

Thrice Identity Crisis

Timbaland Shock Value

Tool Lateralus

Tool Aenima

Touche Amore ...To The Beat Of A Dead Horse

Towers Full Circle

Trapt Someone In Control

Wilco Sky Blue Sky

Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary

Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade

I don't know why people go crazy for Two Hunters or this. I guess when an american black metal band doesn't suck it must mean they are amazing.

X Japan Art Of Life

Yaphet Kotto We Bury Our Dead Alive

Yngwie Malmsteen Trilogy

Yo La Tengo Popular Songs

Young Widows Old Wounds

Yuka Tsujiyoko Paper Mario GMS (Disc 1 and 2)

Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here

2.5 average

AFI Decemberunderground

AFI The Art of Drowning

Alanis Morissette Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie

Alexisonfire Watch Out!

Andrew Jackson Jihad People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People

Anthony Green Avalon

Army of the Pharaohs The Torture Papers

Arsis We Are The Nightmare

At the Drive-In El Gran Orgo

Atmosphere God Loves Ugly

Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen

Bayside The Walking Wounded

Beck One Foot in the Grave

Black Sabbath Greatest Hits 1970-1978

Black Sabbath Paranoid

blink-182 Enema Of The State

Bloodhound Gang One Fierce Beer Coaster

Bon Iver Blood Bank

Boomerang Sounds of Sirens

BoySetsFire After the Eulogy

BoySetsFire The Day The Sun Went Out

Britney Spears In The Zone

Britney Spears ...Baby One More Time

Butch Walker Sycamore Meadows

Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet

Chuck Ragan Gold Country

Circa Survive On Letting Go

Creed My Own Prison

Cursive Such Blinding Stars for Starving Eyes

Cursive The Storms of Early Summer: Semantics of

Del The Funky Homosapien Eleventh Hour

DragonForce Inhuman Rampage

Dream Theater Octavarium

Emarosa Relativity

Enter Shikari Take To The Skies

Equilibrium Sagas

Evanescence Fallen

Fall Out Boy From Under The Cork Tree

Fleetwood Mac Tusk

Foo Fighters In Your Honor

Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

Forgive Durden Razia's Shadow: A Musical

Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better

From First to Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Cou

Ghostface Killah Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City

Giant Squid The Ichthyologist

Glassjaw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang EP

Godsmack The Other Side EP

Gorillaz Gorillaz

Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy

Hatebreed Hatebreed

Hopesfall A Types

Hot Hot Heat Elevator

I Would Set Myself On Fire For You I Would Set Myself On Fire For You

Iced Earth The Glorious Burden

Ihsahn The Adversary

In Flames Come Clarity

Isis Wavering Radiant

A few years ago, I listened to a little album called "Panopticon" and I thought it was okay. Boring, tepid, and a little uninspired but it was a time when such was just the norm. A few less years ago, I heard an album called "In the Absence of Truth", which was less heavy but retained all the other weaknesses of Isis' previous work, and was quite underwhelming. Now I hear "Wavering Radiant", and I wonder; when will post-post-rock finally get here so I can stop hearing crap like this. For people too stupid to get it: This sounds like Panopticon and In the Absence of Truth smashed together and it is average generic and uneventful.

Jay-Z Unplugged

Jay-Z American Gangster

Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland

Jimmy Eat World Bleed American

Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light

John Carpenter Halloween 20th Anniversary Edition

k-os Atlantis: Hymns For Disco

Kelly Clarkson Thankful

Kill Your Ex From Words to Motion

La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River...

La Dispute Untitled 7"

Led Zeppelin Presence

Led Zeppelin Latter Days

Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide

Luna Halo Luna Halo

Machinae Supremacy Overworld

Madonna Ray of Light

Matchbook Romance Voices

Midtown Living Well is the Best Revenge

Mirrorthrone Gangrene

Motion City Soundtrack Commit This To Memory

My Bloody Valentine Loveless

My Chemical Romance Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge

N Sync Celebrity

Nas Hip Hop Is Dead

Neurosis Pain of Mind

Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Nine Inch Nails Year Zero

Nirvana In Utero

Nirvana [UK] The Story of Simon Simopath

Oasis Whats the Story Morning Glory

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Megaritual

Opeth Blackwater Park

Orange 9mm Driver not included

Origin Echoes of Decimation

Orthrelm Iorxhscimtor

Pain Of Salvation Scarsick

Paramore All We Know Is Falling

Pelican City of Echoes

Pennywise Reason to Believe

Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon

Poison The Well Versions

Portugal. The Man Censored Colors

If I have ever heard a more self indulgent, repetitive, tiring, and harder to listen to album than "Censored Colors"...wait I haven't.

Primus The Brown Album

Pyramids Following the Tracks, Forcing Motion Thr

Queensryche Empire

Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime II

Queensryche American Soldier

Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers

Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine

Robbie Williams Sing When You're Winning

Rush Roll the Bones

Senses Fail Let It Enfold You

September 22nd Hello, Throne

Showbread Anorexia Nervosa

Sinaloa Oceans of Islands

A terrible disappointment, for the second full length in a row Sinaloa take all the promise they have of reigniting a more traditional emo style's fire and turn it into a tired, monotonous record filled with filler. The attempts at variety hardly work, and unlike previous works the intensity isn't even at a high level anymore. Maybe next time.

Slayer Reign in Blood

Snow Patrol Eyes Open

Sons of Noel and Adrian Sons of Noel and Adrian

South Park Chef Aid: The South Park Album

Spice Girls Spiceworld

State Radio Us Against the Crown

Styx Kilroy Was Here

Sufjan Stevens Illinois

Sum 41 Go Chuck Yourself

Summoning Oath Bound

Switchfoot Nothing is Sound

T-Pain Thr33 Ringz

The Bled Found In The Flood

The Bled Pass The Flask

The Darkness Permission to Land

The End Elementary

The Offspring Complete Music Video Collection

The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger & The Duke

Thrice First Impressions

Thursday A City By the Light Divided

Thursday Five Stories Falling

Thursday Common Existence

When this album is on it's the most mature and overall excellent stuff they've made (Last Call, As He Climbed the Dark Mountain, You Were the Cancer). Slightly progressive in nature and highly "experimental" when it comes to their sound, Common Existence doesn't fail at its attempts to evolve the band, for better or worse. However, most of the songs don't work well, as the acoustic/ambient droning of "Time's Arrow" or the attempt at making another At this Velocity in "Unintended Long Term Effects" prove. Another hit or miss Thursday record, Common Existence is undeniably their weakest overall effort yet, and its time for even the hardcore of Thursday fans to start questioning the amount of juice the band really has left.

Thursday/Envy Thursday/Envy

This highly awaited split lands to mixed opinions it seems. The Thursday side is highly "experimental" and pushes the electronic/atmospheric side of A City By the Light Divided to greater heights, but besides "An Absurd and Unrealistic Dream of Peace" the songs tend to get a bit full of themselves, with closer "Appeared and Was Gone" being the most pretentious thing Thursday have ever done. The Envy side is as mixed of a bag, being solid in its own right but adding absolutely nothing to the cannon of Envy. They keep treading old waters, and its starting to become apparent that water is shallower than any of us wanted to admit. "Pure Birth and Loneliness" stands out but when it comes after the borefests that are "An Umbrella Fallen into Fiction" and "Isolation of a Light Source", it's hard to really care. All in all, a disappointing release from both bands to an extent. Envy prove themselves to be almost irrelevant here, and Thursday despite their best effort still can't reach any sort of real high points. Better luck next time guys.

Tim McGraw Set This Circus Down

U2 No Line On The Horizon

Underoath The Changing Of Times

Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire

Weird Al Yankovic Straight Outta Lynwood

2 poor

2Pac Loyal To The Game

50 Cent The Massacre

50 Cent Curtis

A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart

A Static Lullaby A Static Lullaby

AC/DC Back in Black

Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose

Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge

Anti-Flag For Blood and Empire

Ashlee Simpson Autobiography

Avril Lavigne Let Go

Ayumi Hamasaki Rainbow

Backstreet Boys Unbreakable

Bear vs. Shark Right Now You're in the Best of Hands

Beyonce B'Day

blink-182 Cheshire Cat

Bloc Party A Weekend in the City

Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet

Boys Like Girls Boys Like Girls

Britney Spears Blackout

Cattle Decapitation Karma.Bloody.Karma

Ceremonial Oath Carpet

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

Colbie Caillat Breakthrough

Conducting From the Grave When Legends Become Dust

D12 D12 World

Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain

Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance

Death Cab For Cutie Drive Well, Sleep Carefully: on the road with DCFC

Demon Hunter The Triptych

Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli

Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca

Dixie Chicks Taking The Long Way

Dr. Dre 2001

DragonForce Ultra Beatdown

Eminem Encore

Erykah Badu Mama's Gun

Fall Out Boy Infinity On High

Fleetwood Mac Say You Will

Fleetwood Mac Mirage

Fleetwood Mac Tango In The Night

From Monument to Masses On Little Known Frequencies

A week or two I bitched about Isis this and that and post-rock being dead. Well, if you need any more proof, you can listen to this album.

Godsmack Faceless

Good Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and Death

Gwen Stefani The Sweet Escape

Hilary Duff Dignity

I Am Ghost Those We Leave Behind

Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening

Ja Rule Blood in My Eye

Jaguar Love Take Me to the Sea

Jay-Z Kingdom Come

Jessica Simpson In This Skin (Collector's Edition)

Jessica Simpson Do You Know

Jet Get Born

Journey Trial By Fire

KMFDM Blitz

La Roux La Roux

A Revolution in british pop/electroclash, it's almost as if La Roux and her partners have looked into the future and seen what the world needed next in music and then RECREATED IT but it isn't really recreation because what she was her was her album in the first place. MINDFREAK

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door

Limp Bizkit Three Dolla Bill Y'all

Limp Bizkit Significant Other

Ludacris Chicken 'N' Beer

M.I.A. Arular

M.I.A. Kala

Marilyn Manson Eat Me, Drink Me

Mastodon Blood Mountain

Metallica Master of Puppets

Metallica Kill Em All

Mindless Self Indulgence You'll Rebel To Anything

I'm a Mindless Self Indulgence fanboy to the max. I'm one of the few "serious" music fans (what stfu) who would count an MSI album among their top 10, let alone top 7. So, this album was a massive dissapointment. From the horrendicity of the Rush cover to basically everything else on the album, its a tavesty to MSI's once good name. I remember going to an MSI show, and having lil Jimmy Urine pour piss on me. Yes, I was that lucky boy. Thats how this album makes me feel, except without all the godliness.

Moby 18

Motley Crue Theatre Of Pain

Neurosis The Word as Law

New Found Glory Catalyst

Nickelback Silver Side Up

Nirvana Nevermind

Outkast Idlewild

Panic! At the Disco Pretty. Odd.

Pearl Jam Pearl Jam

Pg. 99 Document #7

Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways

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Portugal. The Man Church Mouth

Portugal. The Man The Satanic Satanist

The album cover has a gross nipple on display. That's almost kind of like what Portugal. the Man have become: a dry withered teet that while gave life to a fledgling "progressive indie rock" genre years ago, is now all scabby and gross from all the suckling. It's nothing new.

Queensryche Queensryche

Queensryche Operation: Livecrime

Queensryche Promised Land

Rise Against Siren Song Of The Counter Culture

Say Anything Baseball

She Wants Revenge She Wants Revenge

Silverstein Arrivals and Departures

Slayer Christ Illusion

Slipknot Iowa

Snoop Dogg Doggystyle

String Quartet Tribute Tribute to The Mars Volta

System of a Down Los Angeles Live

T.I. King

Tegan and Sara The Con

The Bacon Brothers Getting There

The Mars Volta Scab Dates [Live]

The Replacements Don't Tell a Soul

The Streets The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living

The Strokes First Impressions of Earth

Thom Yorke The Eraser

Thursday Waiting

Tool Undertow

Trivium Ascendancy

God those guitarists are orgasmic. In a way. I'll give them that they're incredibly skilled, but goddamn stop jacking your guitar off and compose a decent solo that require you to travel the distance of your fretboard 5 times (in 4 seconds). Mostly everything else is meh on this album, besides the vocals. Imagine even louder, less obnoxious, but even more horrifically destructive screaming than Atreyu. Thats where you'll find the screaming on this album to be. Just even worse.

Trivium Shogun

Trivium go from being a wannabe thrash outfit back to a psuedo metalcore band, and improve on their last horrific outing by making a bad album that is at least listenable. Good riffs abound with little else to call "good" here.

Underoath Act of Depression

Vanilla Ice To the Extreme

Various Artists Snakes On A Plane

Velvet Revolver Libertad

Warrant Cherry Pie

Westlife World Of Our Own

With Blood Comes Cleansing Horror

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones

Zebrahead Broadcast to the World

1.5 very poor

A Day To Remember Homesick

Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper

Angels and Airwaves? More like Angels and Suckwaves amirite? No, but seriously folks, how about them guitar effects? Yeah, they're supposed to make Tom and crew look really neat, but all they really do is make me want to listen to a better band that uses them. Did I mention Tom still can't write a good song by himself worth a shit? Well, he can't. He still also has a very, very boring voice, and we now see the genious that was Mark on the Blink records. If you want pretentious prog, get something by The Mars Volta. If you want catchy pop punk, well, get Blink 182. Just plain don't get this. It has AIDS. AIDS is evil.

Atreyu Fractures In the Facade of Your Porcelai

leik omg there is no base on this album. No seriously, where is it? I don't know. The guitarists are almost passable here, but overreach their goals and end up being pretentious. The vocalist is even worse than on The Curse, which means he should have been executed on this album. The drummer is ok. He lets this album get an extra .5 because I'm a nice guy if you haven't noticed.

Atreyu A Death-Grip On Yesterday

This is the third time Atreyu have been below a 2. Do I like any album I've heard by them at all? No. No I do not. The sad thing Brendan (drummer) shows he is actually probably the best backup vocalist in metalcore, and could actually hold a lot of these popcore songs together if he was allowed too. Instead, teh dinosaur decides to come shrieking back in at every possible waking hour, and leads me to want to go all Godzilla on his ass. I could take him.

Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold

Caliban The Opposite From Within

They sound like heavy Atreyu to me. Yeah, the vocals are ten times better, but when you're muliplying ten by zero, you still get zero. The musicianship is almost solid, but for some odd reason this album doesnt do it for me at all and I get bored about halfway through. The Beoved is a good song, but everything else? Think "You're Beautiful" in badness.

Children Of Bodom Blooddrunk

Listening to this album is so painful that the only way I know how to ease the pain is to kill a kitten. From the generic songs (everything sounds the fucking same, and don't say "BUT THE SLOW SONG" kill yourself), the boring riffing and shredding (and don't say "BUT CLASSICAL SCALES" kill yourself), and Alexi's affront to vocalists everywhere (and don't say...ok well no one likes his vocals on this album KILL YOURSELF), there is nothing of note here for anything but CoB fans.

Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well

Chiodos The Heartless Control Everything

Eiffel 65 Europop

Blue is a genuinely catchy song. Everything else? Well, meh. It's all pretty much trash. They takes good european techno artist ideas (Ladytron and Miss Kittin ftw), and craft it into some weird mainstream pop album, that doesnt have the strengths of either but the weaknesses of well everything. It's boring, overdone, too intricate for its own good, lyrically retarded, and musically you can only dance to it for about 5 minutes. Then you kill yourself. I don't make the rules folks, God does. God hates this album.

Fall Out Boy Take This To Your Grave

Fergie The Dutchess

Glassjaw Impossible Shot

Godsmack IV

Godsmasck have made the same exact album IV times now. Honest,y it was really good the first time, pretty good the second time, meh the third time, and now it's just become sucktastic. There are some generic solos to be had, but when the solos in a Maroon 5 song are better than anything on your album, what is that saying? Combined with typical and generic metal vocals, this albums pretty much summed by saying "turd."

Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless

Oh dear lord its Good Charlotte. So, I really don't have anything against them, really. Their first album is pretty good, and their newest one showed flashes of promise. However, this album is one of the few times I'll scream along with pople in "SELL OUT." It's rather obvious much of the money was meant to just sell records, as evidenced by the completely cliche lyrics, whiney vocals with little emotion, and the generic instrumentation I expect off of a Click Five album. This is pretty bad in all honesty.

Green Day American Idiot

In all honesty, I don't really have many reasons to back up my 1.5 Rating, obviously, every time you have a 1 or 1.5, it means you have a particular distaste for an album, but I honestly can't get past how unoriginal this album sounds. It's like Green Day wanted to pretend they were making musical progress, so they just took a bunch of things they did in the past, took some ideas from better bands, and threw it all together. The thing is, it only really works on Jesus of Surburbia. Yeah, kind of a shitty situation overall.

He Is Legend Suck Out The Poison

HIM Dark Light

Wow god we're up to HIM. There's really not a lot you can say about them. They revel in being some kind of love metal band. Thing is, they don't have any technicality whatsoever, and "love" doesnt describe their overall sound very well. A better title would be "bland and monotonous/pretentious radio rock." Ocassionally there'll be a decent moment, sure, but mostly its the same old boring vocal performances and guitar parts every time. Oh, and the drummers fat. Which means when he takes off his shirt for concerts, woo boy.

In Flames Colony

In Flames Clayman

It Dies Today Sirens

James Blunt Back To Bedlam

It revels in being stereotypical and clich?with oh-so-little room for originality outside of the rather trippy cover art. I honestly cannot find an ounce of real talent to even be able to say the standby line in these circumstances, “He has talent and hopefully he’ll build on that next album” This album may not have originally made to be a major label tool for selling albums, but honestly, the only people I see enjoying this album are housewives in turbulent marriages and pre-teens who just got broken up with because summer came. If you have a strong tolerance for utter manufactured pop, you may be able to tolerate this album. If you like crap for music, well, this is just for you. What I see her is nothing but artificial balladry with the occasional attempt to be edgy; and by golly, it sure does sell records. But I can’t give this above a 1.5

KMFDM Attak

KMFDM Symbols

KMFDM Nihil

Kottonmouth Kings High Society

Hahahahah. It's the Kottonmouth Kings. They're a rowdy bunch of guys. This is teen angst music at its height within the nu metal genre. They rap and stuff, but its really done quite terribly. I honestly havent the faintest what they're talking about, as when I listen to them, I'm too busy being rebellious and telling my parents I wont wash my own clothes to really pay attention.

Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish...

Limp Bizkit Results May Vary

Linkin Park Meteora

Macy Gray Big

Metallica ...And Justice for All

My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought...

I had a big ant prepared for this album. Then I listened to "Our Lady of Sorrows". And I was sad because thats a genuinely good song surrounded by mountains of crap. Everyone here does what they're supposed to do at almost an average level, but overall the songs feel hollow and as if their all missing something. Gerard wasn't even decent on this album, which is one of the few saving graces of their next record. Honestly, dont bother with this. You'll die a happier man. I'm not politcally correct stfu women.

New Found Glory Coming Home

Nick Lachey What's Left of Me

Norma Jean Redeemer

Porcupine Tree On the Sunday of Life.....

Sean Kingston Sean Kingston

Seether Disclaimer II

Oh god I'm broken. Broken when it comes to this album. Honestly, this dude is just a terrible songwriter. The band itself has constructed a high 2-low 2.5 album, being generic but not terrible. But the voalist is absolutely dreadful and boring, and writes some of the most faux-touching and psuedo-emotional lyrics I've seen since Styx. But Styx was awesome. Seether is just a rock band that really should have never of made it big.

Senses Fail Life Is Not A Waiting Room

Silverstein When Broken is Easily Fixed

What do you want me to do here, really? Silverstein are a rather bland pop punk band, with hardcore influences, much in the vein of Hawthorne Heights. While they are slightly better than their contemporaries, it still sounds like a watered down version of Atreyu, aka its watered down suck. That does help the album slightly, as it isn't in your face suck. It's just bad lyricism (cliched and rather shoddy writing overall) and mediocre instrumentation combined with vomit-inducing vocals.

Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any...

It’s more of this mainstream “emo” as the kids call it (I prefer faux-emo in this context), and it’s not even average for that. It’s certainly catchy-how could it not be at this point?-but it also has almost no other merits to it. Those looking for a technicality-don’t get this album. Those looking for a good singer-don’t get this album. Those looking for introspective lyrics-don’t get this. Those looking for moderately catchy, whiney, and accessible music-get about 10 other artists discography’s before you pick this up. Sans Untitled, this album is just the same song on repeat. And that song is I’d Do Anything from their previous. Please, unless you’re really desperate for mediocre radio pop-punk, don’t buy this album.

Slipknot Slipknot

I like new Slipknot. I don't like old Slipknot. What am I ever to do? Oh yes, not listen to this record. My main problem is thats its heavy without any true anger or purpose. Joey's drumming was unfocused around this time, so instead of the skilled yet powerful drumming we'd see late,r he's pretty much a thrash drummer. Albeit with a better mix. The vocals are also pretty shoddy, making me want to take a rather large piece of my hand off every time I hear them. Yeah, I don't like this album very much I think.

So the Story Goes As We March With Victims

Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com

Crank That itself is catchy before it gets overplayed for you, as is Yahhh!, but besides that this is pretty bad stuff, I don't do it really. Yeah its meant to be mindless dance/driving music, but its really just horrible in every aspect besides perhaps the novelty.

South Park Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics

The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma

The Click Five Greetings from Imrie House

The Darkness One Way Ticket To Hell And Back

I believe in a thing called suck. Oh wait wrong Darkness album. Anyways, much like a few other albums in the abtss of my ratings, I had heard a bunch of talk of how this album was actually pretty good. So, when I listen to it, I first went "Huh, this still sucks pretty hardcore man." The vocals aren't what got me as much as the almost Jet-bad music ripoffs, with every song sounding like something out of the 70's or 80's. Honestly, The Darkness should go back to The Darkness. Mommy says she'll be me ice cream if she never has to hear them again.

The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works

Three Days Grace Three Days Grace

Just Like You is a good song. Then there are a lot of bad songs on this album, And that really sucks because I really wanted to like this album. The problem is everything sounds honestly like every other radio rock song I've heard since Pearl Jam first made headway, so I really don't know what to make out of this album. Maybe if I made out with the case it would help. No, it really doesn't. So, its angsty and suffocatingly bad. And the cd case tastes like spaghetti. But that might just be me...

Trivium The Crusade

Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety

So, underOATH used to be really, really, really bad. But before that, they were decent. This is when they were really, really, really bad. It sounds like a pop band trying to be really hardcore and impressive with their musicianship, but instead its faux-christian lyrics (by this point they had begun to shed them) and bland musicianship. Why the 1.5? Spencer is one of the most god awful vocalists I've ever heard. I honestly want to punch Hilary Duff in the mouth when I hear him scream, but since I don't know Hilary Duff, I just punch the picture of her I have in my room, but as theres a concrete wall behind it, my hand just starts to bleed and get infected and stuff...

Underoath Cries of the Past

Weerd Science Friends and Nervous Breakdowns

Wolfmother Wolfmother

1 awful

Aiden Nightmare Anatomy

Oh look at me I'm a pretty little make up wearing fairy. Oh wait you want me to make music? Is it ok if that music sounds like a bad ripoff of My Chemical Romance and Maroon 5 at the same time? Cool. Is it ok if I sound like I have a testicle clamp? Yeah? Right on dude. Oh, and this album is terrible. Buy something by From First to Last if you want something in this vein.

Andrew Jackson Jihad Only God Can Judge Me

Atreyu The Curse

Rawr. I'm a dinosaur. Hear me roar. Well, squak. Wanna know what I sound like on this record? Ok. FOIHSDIGSOIDUFIPSHDIPFGUOGF*GE)GFREOUGFPIUGSDPIG. Thats sexy and catchy right? Yeah my drummers a much better singer but all the kids like to hear me rip apart my vocal chords so I get to be lead Velociraptor. Oh, and my band is like uber generic. Yeah. It's like they sound like a bad metalcore version of Hawthorne Heights. Except we kinda want to be really poppy still so we make really simple basslines and just faux-wank on our guitars. Squawk.

Atreyu Visions

Atreyu Suicide Notes And Butterfly Kisses

Coalesce OX

Daddy Yankee Barrio Fino En Directo

Dust For Life Dust For Life (self-titled)

Equus Osaka Rose

From First to Last From First To Last

Gorillaz Laika Come Home

Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely

I so wish I was "saying Goodbye" to this album. I had heard there was vast improvement on this disc as opposed to the first, so because I'm a dumbass I acquired it. I was pleased to hear...well, none of it. It's pretty much the generic embodiment of generisticity, which isn't even a word, which should indicate just how bad this album really is. Oh and they have 3 guitarists, og which they nee about a keyboard player to accomplish everything they do. Probably to better effect.

Hawthorne Heights The Silence In Black And White

The impressive debut record from Hawthorne Heights features an almost decent song in "Ohio is For Lovers" and then nothing else. Being a true mark that hardcore is getting ready to blow up (but labels refuse to see it and try to sugarcoat it), Hawthorne Heights incorporate a psuedo-TOCS-era Underoath with even more pop punk sensibilities, and a vocalist who should really not be singing professionally anywhere but at a Barmitzvah.

HORSE The Band Secret Rhythm Of The Universe

Insane Clown Posse The Great Milenko

So, um, this is the Insane Clown Posse's best album. It has one good song in "Boogeyman" and then a bunch of pretentious tripe that attempts to be funny at every turn but instead ends up being cliche and redundant. Oh, and their flows are whack and the production/instrumental work is almost as bad as S Club 7. Just distorted. Which makes them so much more edge. Man.

Kidcrash Snacks

Limp Bizkit New Old Songs

Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight

Los Campesinos! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell III

Mike Jones Who Is Mike Jones?

Hey, I'm Mike Jones. I really do just rap about everything other rappers rap abou,t but I have that one song that goes "Who? Mike Jones!" so everybody rips me off like Dave Chappelle. Honestly, I know I'm a very bad MC and even worse lyricist and can't pick beats for the life of me, but I mean, where would we be in todays society if every white kid in high school wasn't able to shout "Who? MIKE JONES!" at every possible moment and have 5 airhead girls giggle profusely?

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Cryptomnesia

Paris Hilton Paris

Queensryche The Warning

R. Kelly Trapped in the Closet (Chapters 1-12)

This would be a good song. Hell, it would be a good two or three songs. The beat is actually pretty nifty, and R. Kelly sounds good for the first 8 minutes or so. But then...you realize its going to go on for over half an hour. And then you get scared. And then you turn off the dvd player. And then you watch the Colbert Report, and its all better. Oh, so anyways, this is just so incredibly pretentious and so impossibly overblown I can't help but give it a 1.

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It

She Wants Revenge This is Forever

Sonic Youth Goo

Spice Girls Spice

So, a lot of people try and tell me/you that this album is good. Those people are phony liars. I decided to listen to this album again after a favorable review on this here site, and I was surprised to find I hated every waking moment of i. Sure, if you can stand their singing, this could be decent pop. But it's mostly female angst and by-the-numbers love lyrics sung by a bunch of women with voices I just can't comprehend people liking. Honestly, I'd say this album is overrated.

The Fray How to Save a Life

The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, The Lord Has Left Us. . .

Weezer Make Believe

0.5

Kidz Bop Kidz Kidz Bop, Volume 9