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5 classic
Beach Boys Pet Sounds
Brian Eno Another Green World
Elliott Smith Either/Or
Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Pixies Surfer Rosa
Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians
The Beatles Rubber Soul
Tom Waits Rain Dogs

4.5 superb
Bob Dylan Bringing it all Back Home
Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports
Elliott Smith Elliott Smith
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To
GZA Liquid Swords
John Martyn Solid Air
Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III
Minutemen Double Nickels On the Dime
Nick Drake Pink Moon
Pavement Slanted and Enchanted
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd The Wall
Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch
Richard Youngs Sapphie
Saetia A Retrospective
South Park South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut OS
System of a Down Steal This Album!
System of a Down System of a Down
The Beatles The Beatles
The Beatles Revolver
If Sgt. Pepper was the album that changed the world, then Revolver is the album that set the stage. Aside from it's numerous historical perks, no other album in history has varied so much and held such a range of diversity. Songs like "Taxman" flex George Harrison's songwriting muscles while simultaneously slandering the government, and "Eleanor Rigby" is simply one of the most brilliant songs of the century. John Lennon is also in top form with the crawling, slightly sedated "I'm Only Sleeping" and of course, the psychedelic mantra of "Tomorrow Never Knows", while Paul McCartney shines with "Got To Get You Into My Life" and the aforementioned "Eleanor Rigby". Ranging from hard driving rock to baroque-esque piano pop, from motown-like hits to Indian romps, Revolver has got it all, and everything in between. Thanks LSD.
The Beatles A Hard Day's Night
The Clash London Calling
The Unicorns Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Vashti Bunyan Just Another Diamond Day
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

4 excellent
At the Gates Suicidal Final Art
Battles Mirrored
Bob Dylan The Essential Bob Dylan
Cream Gold
Dan Deacon Bromst
Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030
DJ Shadow Endtroducing
Elliott Smith New Moon
Elliott Smith XO
Eluvium Copia
Ghostface Killah Fishscale
Jaga Jazzist What We Must
Jaga Jazzist A Livingroom Hush
Jeff Buckley Grace
John Mayall Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton
LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem
Led Zeppelin DVD
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV
Matisyahu Shake Off the Dust...Arise
Mogwai Young Team
Mos Def Black On Both Sides
Nas Illmatic
Nirvana In Utero
Olivia Tremor Control Music From The Unrealized Film Script...
Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pixies Doolittle
Pixies Pixies Sell Out - DVD
Ratatat Ratatat Remixes Vol.1
Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy
Silversun Pickups Carnavas
Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon and Garfunkel Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Steve Miller Band Young Hearts
Sublime Robbin' The Hood
t.A.T.u. 200 km/H In The Wrong Lane
The Beatles Let It Be....Naked
The Beatles Abbey Road
The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles The Beatles - 1967-1970
The Format Dog Problems
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
Weird Al Yankovic Poodle Hat

3.5 great
At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease
At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul
Bela Fleck and The Flecktones Flight Of The Cosmic Hippo
Cake Fashion Nugget
Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera Back to Basics
Cradle of Filth Dusk and Her Embrace
Cream Goodbye
Cursive The Ugly Organ
Eminem The Eminem Show
Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Evanescence Fallen
Explosions In The Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
Islands Return To The Sea
John Vanderslice Cellar Door
Led Zeppelin How The West Was Won
Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door
Led Zeppelin Presence
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin I
I think it's an incredible album that demonstrates Page's genius not only as a guitarist, but as a producer, arranger, and a little as a kleptomaniac. Nevertheless, This is by far one of my all time favorites, and every track is a ten. So yeah. Buy it and stuff.
Mogwai Mogwai EP+2
Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island
Nirvana Bleach
NWA Straight Outta Compton
Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
Pixies Come On Pilgrim [EP]
Ratatat Classics
Ratatat Ratatat
Red Hot Chili Peppers BloodSugarSexMagik
Steve Miller Band Greatest Hits 1974-1978
Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom
Sublime Second Hand Smoke
Sufjan Stevens Illinois
The Avett Brothers Emotionalism
The gentle folk-rock sound exuded throughout this album does little to mask the underlying punk aesthetic of the group, and the consistently energetic arrangements coupled with the subtle, evocative harmonies to be found on every track exemplifies their cultivated and nurtured pop sensibilities. Add to the mix a penchant for forlorn, love-oriented lyrics, and all these aspects combine to make this an album worthy of more accolades than I alone am capable of providing.

So help me out, dawg.
The Beatles Anthology 1
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles Let it Be
The Beatles Help!
The Decemberists The Crane Wife
The Doors Absolutely Live
The National Boxer
Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind

3 good
AC/DC Back in Black
Akron/Family Love Is Simple
At the Gates With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
Bon Iver Blood Bank
Def Leppard Pyromania
Ghostface Killah More Fish
In Flames Clayman
Korn Korn
Led Zeppelin Coda
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II
Metallica Master of Puppets
Mudvayne L.D. 50
N Sync No Strings Attached
Nine Inch Nails With Teeth
Nirvana Nevermind
Nirvana Greatest Hits
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York
Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz
Panda Bear Person Pitch
Rage Against the Machine The Battle Of Los Angeles
Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits And Videos
Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium
Silversun Pickups Pikul
Slayer South of Heaven
Slayer Soundtrack to the Apocalypse
Sublime Sublime
System of a Down Toxicity
The Beatles Please Please Me
The Decemberists Picaresque
The Decemberists Castaways and Cut-outs
The Haunted The Haunted
The Postal Service Give Up
Three 6 Mafia Most Known Unknown
Various Artists Hava Narghile

2.5 average
AC/DC Highway To Hell
Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone
Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin
Disturbed Believe
Drowning Pool Sinner
Eminem Encore
Green Day Dookie
Guns N' Roses Greatest Hits
I'm From Barcelona Let Me Introduce My Friends
Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland
Korn Issues
Led Zeppelin Early Days/Latter Days
Led Zeppelin The Song Remains the Same
Lit A Place In The Sun
Marilyn Manson Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death)
Metallica Kill Em All
Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come
Neutral Milk Hotel Everything Is - EP
Nirvana Incesticide
Ozzy Osbourne Live at Budokan
Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman
Pantera Vulgar Display Of Power
Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Red Hot Chili Peppers By The Way
Red Hot Chili Peppers Live At Slane Castle DVD
Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street
Seether Disclaimer
Slayer God Hates Us All
Slayer Reign in Blood
Smile Empty Soul Smile Empty Soul
Sum 41 All Killer No Filler
System of a Down Mezmerize
Taproot Welcome
The Haunted rEVOLVEr (limited)
The Haunted One Kill Wonder

2 poor
Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine
At the Gates The Red in the Sky is Ours
Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding
Cream Live At the Royal Albert Hall
Def Leppard X
Disturbed The Sickness
Green Day American Idiot
Marilyn Manson The Golden Age Of Grotesque
Metallica Metallica
Metallica Ride the Lightning
With their second album, thrash titans Metallica began stumbling onto the path that would lead them to superstardom. Often viewed as sort of a rough draft of what would become Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning features many similiarities to it's cohort. However, while it's counterpart offers up something worthy of a listen every now and again, here the group falls dismally short. Featuring slighty less pre-pubescent vocals and still-mediocre drumming, Ride the Lightning is truly average in every sense of the word. Offering up the same bland riffs and formats (most notably in Escape and Trapped Under Ice), Ride the Lightning only truly breaks away from it's painful monotony at the halfway point for Fade to Black and then again for the album closer Call of Ktulu. The rest, my pissed off and/or delighted readers, is merely bad. Ambitious, but bad.
Mudvayne Lost and Found
Nirvana From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears
Ozzy Osbourne No Rest For The Wicked
Project Pat Mista Don't Play: Everythang's Workin
Slayer Seasons in the Abyss
Slayer Show No Mercy
Stereophonics Language.Sex.Violence.Other?
System of a Down Hypnotize
Taproot Blue-Sky Research
Taproot Gift
The Beatles Beatles For Sale
By the time Beatles For Sale was released, Beatlemania was at it's peak, and, having already created such gems as I Want To Hold Your Hand and She Loves You in the singles department and a near perfect album in Hard Days Night, the Beatles had little else to prove. Well, they didn't until they released this travesty upon the masses anyway. Logic would denote that releasing an album filled with sub-par originals and 50's covers is a horrible way to expand your creative influence. Indeed, upon hearing songs like I'm A Loser and Every Little Thing, the truth starts to sink in. This album appears to be little more than a marketing ploy designed to take advantage of the Beatles phenomenal success.
However, despite the abundance of either horrid or just straight average songs, there a few gems to be found here, most notably in Eight Days a Week and the rather slight I'll Follow the Sun. But are they enough? Honestly, no. If this was my first taste of the Beatles, I most certainly would not be eager for more.
TRUSTcompany The Lonely Position of Neutral
Van Halen Van Halen
Van Halen OU812

1.5 very poor
Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper
Black Label Society The Blessed Hellride
John Cena and Tha Trademarc You Can't See Me
If you can believe it, I own a copy of this here.... erm, "album". And I think it gave me cancer. Now, you children know me. Nothing makes me happier than when a no-talent tv star moves his/her preferred medium to the music business in hopes of cashing in even more. But I just cannot allow this smarmy cockhole to go un-diatrabed. Remember those original beats and high-energy tracks the user above mentioned? I'm terribly sorry to be the wielder of this burden, but the fact of the matter is John Cena's innovative beats and frantic vocal style are nothing less than you'd expect from a man who makes his living by play-fighting on national television with dozens of other sweaty men in leotards. Now, even in extreme cases, a horrid album usually has at least one or two songs to half-heartedly pull the dead weight. Not here. Out of the seventeen concussion-inducing tracks on this travesty of an album, not one even makes you re-consider Cena's worth in the music industry. On the plus side, there's not much funnier than hearing John Cena belt out: Cena spittin with the Bump Bump Bump for the Knux Your whole crew gettin dumped dumped dumped with the chumps We rollin like Donald Trump Trump Trump with the bucks Your bitch-ass gettin jump jump jumped cause you suck Notice his subtle use of surrealism when referring to the targets "bitch ass". Impeccablly delivered, innovatively designed. Just like his stage presence.
Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals
Metallica St. Anger
Mudvayne The Beginning of All Things To End
R. Kelly Trapped in the Closet (Chapters 1-12)
Slayer Hell Awaits
Slayer Christ Illusion
Loud, fast, and of course, violent and angry. VANGRY. Yes, yes Slayer we are all aware of the usual gimmick. The question is, how is the music? And, somehow not surprisingly, the answer is bad. Very, very bad. Worst album of the year bad. Sure, the concept of a 9/11 song from a rather, different perspective is interesting, original, and entertaining, but even the shock value of that wears thin rather soon, leaving you with only the bland, dismal music, redeemed only very slightly by the likes of Catatonic and Skeleton Christ. Despite the group's vehement claims that they "never let down their fans or changed", this album is obviously a glaring contradiction to such a statement. But perhaps most pressing of all, the question has to be asked: After 20+ years, what's really that new with Satan? Surprisingly, not much.
The Haunted The Haunted Made Me Do It

1 awful
Adema Adema
Chevelle Wonder What's Next
Insane Clown Posse The Great Milenko
I can't think of a task more challenging than finding a musical group worse than this. If you can get past the utterly obnoxious and obviously inept rhymes (the kind that are thrown in there for a really cheap laugh or used simply because they rhyme), you find yourself faced with unoriginal beats, ridiculously stupid song concepts, and lyrics that any ten year old with a list of swear words and a Mortal Kombat video game could write. It's often said that simplicity sells, and Insane Clown Posse are the beacon of light that proves that theory correct.
Korn Take A Look in the Mirror

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