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Last Active 11-11-09 3:44 pm
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Average Rating: 3.86
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Objectivity Score: 62%
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5 classic
Brand New The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
Circle Takes The Square As The Roots Undo
Converge Jane Doe
Elliott Smith Either/Or
Fear Before The Always Open Mouth
Off Minor Some Blood
Pg. 99 Document # 8
Radiohead OK Computer
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come
Sigur Ros ( )
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb

4.5 superb
AFI The Art of Drowning
Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose
Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Arcade Fire Neon Bible
Arcade Fire Funeral
At the Drive-In In / Casino / Out
Between The Buried And Me Alaska
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Ceremony Still Nothing Moves You
Ceremony Ruined
City Of Caterpillar City Of Caterpillar
Converge Petitioning The Empty Sky
Converge When Forever Comes Crashing (Remastered)
Cursed One
Damien Rice O
Daughters Hell Songs
The main thing to know about this cd is that it shouldn't be in the grind section. Daughters have definately taken a step away from the grind/noise/hardcore band people fell in love with. This new attempt is a good musical effort, but the vocals are really love or hate. The only way to really experience the new Daughters is to check them out yourself; listen to fiery from their myspace to check out vocals. The weird mix of grindy instruments (yah i made up a word) and acid tripping elvis vocals can be entertaining if looked at in the right light.
Daughters Canada Songs
Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust
dredg El Cielo
Elliott Smith XO
Elliott Smith Roman Candle
Elliott Smith Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith Figure 8
Envy A Dead Sinking Story
Every Time I Die Hot Damn!
Give up the Ghost We're Down Til We're Underground
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute
Hot Cross Cryonics
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights
Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye
Look What I Did Minuteman For The Moment
Minus The Bear Planet Of Ice
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West
Mono You Are There
Mos Def Black On Both Sides
Nirvana In Utero
Orchid Gatefold
Orchid Chaos Is Me
Paint It Black New Lexicon
Past Lives Strange Symmetry
Pg. 99 Document #5
Radiohead Amnesiac
Radiohead In Rainbows
Rx Bandits ...And the Battle Begun
Sigur Ros Takk
Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans
Sufjan Stevens Illinois
Sun Kil Moon April
Tera Melos Tera Melos
The Blood Brothers Crimes
The Blood Brothers Young Machetes
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity
The Fall Of Troy Ghostship Demos
The Locust Safety Second, Body Last
The Locust New Erections
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute
The Microphones The Glow pt.2
The Microphones Mount Eerie
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear, Sad, Nuclear
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel
First time listening through, I can't help but think that this is the one cd i've purchased so far this year that has lived up to every expectation I've had for it. It brings together the sheer brutality of Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses and the technicality and vibe of Nuclear, Sad, Nuclear and still has the ability to thoroughly differentiate itself from both of the previously stated albums. The vocals have made progression, along with all the instrumentation. This entry is more technical, more brutal, and all around a great progression from the band. There is so much more in this that their previous music didn't offer (from clean singing vocals at the end of Sleeping With the Fishes, See? to an upbeat acoustic breakdown in Paper Weight Pigs). Don't hesitate to check this out.
The Roots Game Theory
The Roots Rising Down
The Strokes Room On Fire
Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary

4 excellent
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Source Tags and Codes
108 A New Beat From A Dead Heart
A Black Rose Burial An Awakening of Revenants EP
AFI Black Sails in the Sunset
AFI Sing the Sorrow
Against Me! Searching for a Former Clarity
Against Me! Crime, As Forgiven By..
Alkaline Trio Good Mourning
Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha
Annuals Be He Me
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
Beirut The Flying Club Cup
Between The Buried And Me The Silent Circus
Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God
Botch We Are The Romans
Brand New Deja Entendu
Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors
Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People
Converge You Fail Me
Converge No Heroes
Cursed II
Cursed III: Architects of Troubled Sleep
Cursive The Ugly Organ
Damien Rice 9
Department of Eagles In Ear Park
Dillinger Four C I V I L W A R
Ed Gein Judas Goats & Dieseleaters
Elliott Smith From A Basement On The Hill
Elliott Smith New Moon
Elliott Smith Live at Largo
Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon
Every Time I Die Last Night in Town
Explosions In The Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone
Explosions In The Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
Funeral Diner The Underdark
Gatsbys American Dream Ribbons and Sugar
Genghis Tron Board Up The House
Ghastly City Sleep Ghastly City Sleep
Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To
Head Wound City Head Wound City EP
HORSE The Band R. Borlax
Hot Cross Fair Trades And Farewells EP
Hot Cross Risk Revival
Idiot Pilot Wolves
Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog
Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds
Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain
Los Campesinos! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses
Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long
maudlin of the Well Bath
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map
meandhimcallitus Loss
Me and Him Call it Us has always stood out a bit for me, and I loved their first release. Well I loved the four actual songs from the first release, and the ambient filler wasn't really my thing. This new record has mix of spastic grindcore and heartfelt screamo that grasps you in from the first bloodcurdling scream, not to mention there are 14 actual songs this time (13 new songs and a re recording of Peter Jennings from their first cd). More chaotic, better production, more emotional, and definitely one of the better bands out there doing this type of music. Give a listen to Sarsaparilla, The Anticipation is Killing me, Cut-Throat Cardiac arrest, or P.S I love you to get a feel for the album.
Mihai Edrisch L’un san l’autre
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica
Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom
Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?
Muse Absolution
Norma Jean Redeemer
Orchid Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow!
Pg. 99 Document #14: Singles
Pg. 99 Document #7
Poison The Well You Come Before You
Protest the Hero Kezia
Pulling Teeth Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions
Queens Of The Stone Age Songs For The Deaf
Radiohead Kid A
Radiohead I Might Be Wrong [Live Recordings]
Rancid ...And Out Come The Wolves
Refused Refused Are F*cking Dead
Russian Circles Enter
Tartar Lamb Sixty Metonymies
Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth
The Blood Brothers Burn Piano Island, Burn
The Blood Brothers This Adultery Is Ripe
The Blood Brothers March On Electric Children
The Dead Weather Horehound
The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is A Dead Scene
The End Elementary
The Fall Of Troy Doppelganger
The Fall Of Troy The Fall Of Troy
The Fall Of Troy Manipulator
The Locust Plague Soundscapes
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta Tremulant
The Microphones It Was Hot We Stayed In The Water
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosey Red Glasses
The Riot Before Fists Buried In Pockets
The Strokes Is This It?
These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove
Thom Yorke The Eraser
Trash Talk Trash Talk
Trash Talk Plagues
Two Gallants Two Gallants
Villa Vina Colony Collapse
Weatherbox American Art
A mixture of Hot Cross and Say Anything, with just enough math rock thrown in for good measure, Weatherbox creates a sound all their own. Mildly poppy and bouncy, with enough emotion to keep your attention for a good while. While it may suffer from awfully similar riffs from time to time, and songs that seem to go on slightly too long, American Art has substantially more pros than cons. The riffs may seem oddly similar at times, but Weatherbox has a way of changing things just enough to make each song seem fresh. The raw emotion of "Atoms Smash" sets the mood for the rest of the album, "Moments Before..." sounds like a modified Hot Cross song, and "Trippin the Life Fantastic" brings it to an end with a bouncy pop song. On top of that, they actually have something to say. Four out of five thumbs up.

3.5 great
Against Me! New Wave
Angel Eyes Something to Do with Death
Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare
As the Sun Sets 7744
Band of Horses Cease to Begin
Between The Buried And Me Colors
Bright Eyes Lifted or the Story is in the Soil...
Bright Eyes Cassadaga
Circa Survive Juturna
Converge Unloved And Weeded Out
Darkest Hour Deliver Us
Death Cab For Cutie Transatlanticism
Death Cab For Cutie We Have The Facts And We\'re Voting Yes
Ed Gein It's A Shame That A Family Can Be Torn Apart By...
Enon Grass Geysers... Carbon Clouds
Every Time I Die The Big Dirty
Every Time I Die The Burial Plot Bidding War
Fear Before Art Damage
Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life
Gallows Orchestra Of Wolves
Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth
Genghis Tron Cloak of Love
Guster Keep It Together
Heavy Heavy Low Low Everything's Watched, Everyone's Watchin
Heavy Heavy Low Low Turtle Nipple and the Toxic Shock
HORSE The Band The Mechanical Hand
Hot Cross A New Set of Lungs [EP]
In Pieces Learning to Accept Silence
Interpol Antics
Iron And Wine The Creek Drank the Cradle
Isis Oceanic
Job for a Cowboy Doom EP
Kidcrash Jokes
Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow
Maroon 5 Songs About Jane
meandhimcallitus The (C:) Drive Of Love Stories
Modest Mouse Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Mount Eerie No Flashlight
Murder by Death In Bocca Al Lupo
Muse Black Holes and Revelations
Norma Jean O' God The Aftermath
Pinback Summer in Abaddon
Queens Of The Stone Age Over the Years and Through the Woods
Radiohead Hail To The Thief
Refused Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent
Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's The Sex
The (International) Noise Conspiracy Armed Love
The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine
The Dillinger Escape Plan Under The Running Board
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works
The Locust The Locust
The Locust Flight of the Wounded Locust
The Number Twelve Looks Like You An Inch Of Gold For An Inch Of Time
The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds
The Strokes First Impressions of Earth
The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes White Blood Cells
This Will Destroy You Young Mountain
Underoath Define the Great Line

3 good
Anti-Flag Underground Network
Anti-Flag For Blood and Empire
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am....
Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen
Between The Buried And Me Between the Buried and Me
Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave Or Die In Long Island
Cattle Decapitation Karma.Bloody.Karma
Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well
Circa Survive On Letting Go
Helmet Betty
Jaguar Love Take Me to the Sea
Neon Blonde Chandeliers in the Savannah
Sufjan Stevens Enjoy Your Rabbit
The Good Life Help Wanted Nights
The Number Twelve Looks Like You The Number Twelve Looks Like You EP
The Red Chord Prey for Eyes
The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger & The Duke
The White Stripes Elephant

2.5 average
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil
Bad Religion New Maps Of Hell
Drop Dead, Gorgeous In Vogue
Fall Out Boy From Under The Cork Tree
From First to Last Heroine
Heavy Heavy Low Low Courtside Seats to the Greatest Fuck Of
Hellogoodbye Mush Slowly And Gauc EP
The Dillinger Escape Plan Plagiarism
Underoath The Changing Of Times

2 poor
Drop Dead, Gorgeous Worse Than A Fairy Tale
HIM Love Metal
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety

1.5 very poor
Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Sum 41 Underclass Hero

1 awful
Hawthorne Heights The Silence In Black And White
William Control Hate Culture

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