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Bad Astronaut Houston: We Have a Drinking Problem
Bad Brains Bad Brains
Quite easily the best hardcore album ever. Super fast, concise, adrenaline-fueled rage with a message. And a couple of great reggae tunes thrown in too. Don't listen to anything that fool below me says, these guys are by far the most musically talented hardcore band out there even today. Dr. Know is probably the best punk guitarist in history bar-none, H.R. was the most possessed, manic frontman ever at the time, and the rhythm section smokes it. Nothing has touched it in the whole 26 years since its recording and that should say it all.
Bad Religion No Control
Cave In Jupiter
Deftones White Pony
Faith No More Angel Dust
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute
There isn't much more to say that hasn't been said - Worship & Tribute is, by far, one of the landmark, must-have post-hardcore albums of all time and for good reason. While perhaps not as good as EYEWTKAS song-to-song, as an album this flows like no other. Absolutely amazing lyrics, incredible rhythms, some of the best vocal work this side of Mike Patton, and the best genre-jumping you'll hear on one CD. From the aggressive, unrelenting "Stuck Pig" to the soft inflections of "Must've Run All Day" to the crushing melodies of "Trailer Park Jesus", to the climatic tension of "Two Tabs Of Mescaline"... I could go on forever about the near-perfection of W&T, but instead I'll say this album slays without quarter and you owe it to yourself to get it NOW.
Minus The Bear Planet Of Ice
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral
Prince Sign O' The Times
Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes
Radiohead OK Computer
Radiohead Kid A
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come
Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
Strung Out The Element of Sonic Defiance
The Beatles The Beatles
Weezer Pinkerton

4.5 superb
A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide
Alice in Chains Dirt
Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged
Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue
Haters are gonna hate, but this record is undeniably good. The combination of Cantrell and DuVall on vocals, while not quite reaching the heights of the Layne years, do AIC's legacy more than just a little justice, and personally I think DuVall's vocals add a new dimension and twist to the AIC sound while Cantrell's singing keeps that classic sound. Musically this is vintage AIC, complete with crushing riffage and oppressive atmosphere. And it's REALLY heavy, probably their hardest record yet. Just repeat after yourself: this kicks the crap out of anything in modern rock today, Layne's dead, and despite that fact, Black Gives Way To Blue is still really good.
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
Bad Astronaut Twelve Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment
Absolultely stunning album. It's not Houston, We Have A Drinking Problem (a personal classic and near-perfect album), but considering that half of the album was recorded post-humously without Derrick Plourde, AND that the album was considered unlistenable for a while, Joey Cape gains new respect here. From the guarded optimism of "Good Morning Night" to the jarring trainwreck rock of "Best Western", the haunting, folksy acoustic melodies and brooding strings of "Minus", and all the way to the eight-minute masterpiece of "The F Word", Cape and Co. pulled out all the stops here to give Derrick and Bad Astronaut their final send offs. Not surprisingly, Plourde's signature drumming leaves an unmistakable mark on the music, reminding everyone that he was truly a giant among men. The album has a truly schizophrenic quality here, with the post-Derrick tracks sticking out, but the incredible catharsis present here will truly touch anyone with a heart who's ever lost someone. Despite its unfinished/broken sound, this is arguably Cape & Bad Astronaut's finest performance. Buy this NOW.
Bad Brains Rock For Light
Bad Brains I Against I
Bad Religion Against The Grain (re-issue)
Bad Religion The Process of Belief
Bad Religion Generator
Bad Religion Against the Grain
Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique
Between The Buried And Me Colors
Boston Boston
Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends
Botch We Are The Romans
Brand New The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
Brand New Daisy
Brand New follow up everyone's favorite record, TDAG, with a very dense, strange record that's sure to alienate their pop fanbase that nutted over Deja Entendu and may even confuse those that loved the previous record. BN do away with most of the pop hooks and have instead focused their energies on a record that is lean, mean, and at times jarring to listen to, but not without it's own level of brilliance. Songs like "Vices" and "Gasoline" merge raw noise breaks with Lacey's piercing screams (sounding very reminiscent of In Utero) whereas songs like "At The Bottom" and "Bought a Bride" often come across as a mix of the newer sound with flashes of TDAG. I guarantee a lot of their fans will hate this, but those who like growers are going to love this, and Daisy is a strong record as any to go out on.
Candiria Kiss The Lie (Vinyl/Digital)
Candiria 300 Percent Density
Coheed and Cambria Second Stage Turbine Blade
Coheed and Cambria Neverender DVD
Converge Jane Doe
Converge Axe To Fall
Godfuckingdammit Converge, I was all set with my 2009 AOTY until you came and done fucked my shit up sideways! In all seriousness, Axe To Fall after even one listen pretty much destroys any and all competition for the top honors, and aside from Jane Doe (and that might be tentative) this is the best shit this band has EVER written. I don't know how Converge got even more brutal AND catchy at the same time and I don't care - this record eats the competition, shits them out and beats the pile with a sledgehammer. Fuck I might even give this a 5, which happens to be the same amount of fingers that fit into radianteclipse's vagina!
Cynic Traced In Air
Dag Nasty Can I Say (Reissue)
Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist
Dead Kennedys Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters
Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist
Pretty damn near incredible album. There's really so many great moments on this record it's hard to list. It's not quite at the level of White Pony (and really, what is?) but it's most likely second-illest. Chino's singing is better than ever with some truly awe-inspiring moments ("Combat", "Cherry Waves", "Rats!Rats!Rats!"), Chino and Stephen's guitar interplay is the best yet (and possibly last since Eros is all Stephen), Chi actually writes some sick basslines ("Cherry Waves"), Frank Delgado puts out his finest keyboard/DJ work yet, and Abe is as smooth and sick as ever. The strongest part of the album is the experimentation, though. The sonic backdrops provided by Delgado work perfectly with the ambient, major-key melodies that litter this record. Not to mention that there's hardly a single weak track on the whole album (with the obvious exception of "Pink Cellphone" and the monotonous, pointless inclusion of Serj on "Mein"). The second-best Deftones record and a personal fave.
Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion
Depeche Mode Violator
Dr. Dre The Chronic
dredg El Cielo
Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime
Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime [Reissue]
Drive Like Jehu Drive Like Jehu
Eagles Hotel California
Eric Clapton Unplugged
Gatsbys American Dream Ribbons and Sugar
Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About
Gospel The Moon is A Dead World
Green Day Dookie
Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction
Helmet Meantime
HORSE The Band The Mechanical Hand
HORSE The Band Desperate Living
1-2-3 H the B, 1-2-3 H the B. HORSE the motherfucking band, motherfucker. Yeah this rules
Hot Cross Cryonics
Hot Cross Fair Trades And Farewells EP
Incubus S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Jane's Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual
Jeff Buckley Grace
Jerry Cantrell Degredation Trip Volumes 1 & 2
Completely and criminally neglected, this album may just be the best AIC album never released since 1992's Dirt. Simply put, more people should listen to this. Amazing songwriting, nostalgia (the vocal harmonies are simply awesome and pure AIC), haunting atmosphere and mood (the album was dedicated/written right after the tragic death of Layne Staley), and a stellar rhythm section (provided by none other than Rob Trujillo of Metallica/Suicidal Tendencies/Infectious Grooves on bass and Mike "Puffy" Bordin of Faith No More/Ozzy fame) make this album the one that Alice In Chains should've gone out on. Cantrell proves that he was the real man behind the curtain in a LOT of AIC's best material, and the result of Degradation Trip 1&2 is simply that both discs are better than just about all modern rock/alternative rock out today. Covers so many moods and styles with great guitar riffs/solos and highly emotive singing courtesy of Cantrell. Get this right effing now.
Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix Axis: Bold As Love
John Mayer Continuum
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King
Lagwagon Let's Talk About Feelings
Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II
Lifetime Jersey's Best Dancers
Lifetime Hello Bastards
maudlin of the Well Bath
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map
Megadeth Rust In Peace
Metallica Master of Puppets
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister
Michael Jackson Thriller
Minor Threat Complete Discography
Modern Life Is War Witness
Muse Origin of Symmetry
Nine Inch Nails The Fragile
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York
Nirvana In Utero
Nirvana Nevermind
NOFX The Decline
NOFX So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes
NOFX Punk In Drublic
NWA Straight Outta Compton
Opeth Blackwater Park
Outkast Aquemini
Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel (III)
Pink Floyd The Wall
Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Poison The Well The Tropic Rot
Wow. Fucking wow. This album RIPS. Definitely what Versions should have been. Amazing guitar work, insane drumming, some highly-improved clean vocals and a crushing, oppressive atmosphere, along with some varied songwriting and highly seductive melodies. The coolest thing is that just about everyone wrote these guys off years ago, but The Tropic Rot should change that pronto. Could be the best post-hardcore of the release of the year. We're waiting, Glassjaw.
Prince Purple Rain
Propagandhi Supporting Caste
Umm did anyone really doubt this would be spectacular? Supporting Caste is pretty much the ultimate Propagandhi record. It combines the aggression and brilliant guitar of TETA with the longer, epic prog moments hinted at on PCL (check out the insane rhythms of "Night Letters") combined with the catchy songwriting of Less Talk, More Rock. Only turned up to 11. The musicianship is just unf*ckwithable and the lyrics as always are intelligent and in-your-face. The first half of this record is pretty much classic while the second half even in its weaker moments slay most other bands' full-lengths. The strongest aspect of the record is undeniably the guitar interplay between Chris and The Beaver, which should by all means blow your mind if you have a pulse. The album, unlike Potemkin, never gets too long in the tooth and wastes not one second or falls flat musically. Might just top TETA with time and it flat-out blows Potemkin out of the water. Album of the year contender without a doubt.
Queens Of The Stone Age Songs For The Deaf
Quicksand Slip
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine
Rush Moving Pictures
Slayer Reign in Blood
Slayer South of Heaven
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation (Deluxe Edition)
Soundgarden Superunknown
Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood
Stevie Ray Vaughan Couldn't Stand the Weather
Stone Temple Pilots Purple
Strung Out Exile In Oblivion
Strung Out Live in a Dive
Strung Out An American Paradox
Strung Out Twisted By Design
Television Marquee Moon
The Beatles Abbey Road
The Beatles Revolver
The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is A Dead Scene
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity
The Fall Of Troy Ghostship Demos
The Police Synchronicity
The Police Regatta de Blanc
The Police Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings
The Police Certifiable: Live In Buenos Aires (CD/DVD)
After a 23-year absence, The Police return in (almost) all of their former glory. One of the best things about this live album is the extended jams, solos, and re-arrangements that breath fresh air into the old songs ("Wrapped Around Your Finger", "Driven To Tears", "King Of Pain", and the "VIMH/WTWIRDYMTBOWSA" medley simply destroy the old album cuts), which of course still sound fresh even today. Sting's bass work is stronger than ever and pushed up in the mix. Stewart Copeland is still a drumming prodigy and the star of the show, playing tastefully and unloading the heavy artillery when needed. Andy Summers fiery playing belies his 64 years of age, tossing off solos left and right along with his trademark chorus/effect-laden chordal patterns. The band truly sounds amazing, hands-down. Despite a few stumbles ("Don't Stand So Close To Me" is a bit too pedestrian, "Truth Hits Everybody" is about half-speed, and Sting can't quite hit those notes like he used to) the band is tighter and better than ever before, and like Sting said, they were really good to begin with. Simply put, there aren't any bands like this around anymore and that's a shame.
Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures
Thrice The Illusion of Safety
Thrice The Alchemy Index: Vols. I and II...
Thrice Vheissu
Tool Aenima
United Nations United Nations
F*cking insane grindcore meets Thursday meets Daryl Palumbo ripping his vocal chords to shreds over some insanely technical guitar riffs and insane drumming, with some killer melodies thrown in to make it sexy. Finally, a Daryl P. side project that doesn't suck ass. But yeah, T.S.R.
Weezer The Blue Album
Weezer Blue Album Deluxe Edition

4 excellent
30 Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds to Mars
311 Transistor
311 311
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms
A Wilhelm Scream Ruiner
A Wilhelm Scream Mute Print
A Wilhelm Scream A Wilhelm Scream
AFI Sing the Sorrow
AFI All Hallow's EP
AFI Black Sails in the Sunset
AFI The Art of Drowning
Alice in Chains The Essential Alice in Chains
Alice in Chains Alice in Chains
Alice in Chains Jar of Flies
Anthrax Among the Living
At the Drive-In This Station is Non-Operational
At the Drive-In Vaya EP
At the Drive-In In / Casino / Out
Bad Astronaut Acrophobe
Bad Religion Live at the Palladium (DVD)
Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First
Bad Religion Suffer
Beastie Boys The Sounds of Science (Anthology
Beastie Boys Aglio e Olio
Beastie Boys Ill Communication
Beastie Boys Check Your Head
Beatallica Beatallica
Between The Buried And Me The Silent Circus
Between The Buried And Me Alaska
Between The Buried And Me The Great Misdirect
While IMO this doesn't top the ambition and overall feel of Colors, The Great Misdirect is easily BTBAM's most fluid, cohesive listen yet. The tech is off the charts and I'm happy they're putting the metalcore on the backburner for a more progressive sound. Really really awesome stuff.
Black Star Black Star
Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God
blink-182 Dude Ranch
Botch American Nervoso
Brand New Fight Off Your Demons (Untitled Demos)
Brand New Deja Entendu
Candiria Surrealistic Madness
Candiria Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Candiria Toying With The Insanities Vol. 1
Candiria Toying With The Insanities Vol. 2
Cave In Perfect Pitch Black
Cave In Planets of Old
Cave In Until Your Heart Stops
Choke Slow Fade Or: How I Learned To Question Infinity
Sprawling, catchy, magnificently written, and progressive in the truest sense of the word, this band (and album) caught me completely by surprise. Choke just may be Canada's best-kept secret. Take a little Rush, a little Thrice, and some Drive Like Jehu time signature change-ups and sprinkle a heap of melody, and you've got these guys in a nutshell. Beautiful ambient parts mesh with furiously tense, interweaving guitar parts that never seem to repeat, hard-hitting drumming with subtle meter/time shifts all over the place, and a vocalist who oftentimes doesn't seem to be singing the same song the band is playing, and yet it all makes perfect sense. And when the swirling maelstrom of noise comes together, it will send chills up your spine. BUY THIS ALBUM.
Choke There's A Story To This Moral
Circle Takes The Square As The Roots Undo
City Of Caterpillar City Of Caterpillar
Coheed and Cambria Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV...
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Converge When Forever Comes Crashing (Remastered)
Converge You Fail Me
Converge Petitioning The Empty Sky
Cream Disraeli Gears
DangerDoom The Mouse & The Mask
Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin
David Gilmour Live in Gdansk
Dead Kennedys Bedtime For Democracy
Death By Stereo If Looks Could Kill, I'd Watch You Die
Death By Stereo Into the Valley of the Death
Death By Stereo Day of the Death
Death By Stereo Death Alive
Deftones Around The Fur
Depeche Mode Playing The Angel
Depeche Mode Music for the Masses
Depeche Mode Black Celebration
Depeche Mode Sounds Of The Universe
Descendents Milo Goes to College
Dillinger Four C I V I L W A R
DMX It's Dark and Hell Is Hot
dredg Leitmotif
Eric B. & Rakim Paid in Full
Eric Clapton From The Cradle
Fair To Midland Fables From a Mayfly
Faith No More King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime
Faith No More The Real Thing
Fear Before The Always Open Mouth
Fear Before Art Damage
Finch Say Hello To Sunshine
Easily the best and most underrated Finch album. Say Hello To Sunshine is a much darker, heavier affair, forgoing the pop-punk stylings of their debut album (the incredibly overrated What It Is To Burn). Everyone in the band stepped up their game here, especially Nate with his vocals. He has a Mike Patton Jr. thing going here and he pulls it off pretty flawlessly. The band's rhythm section has improved tremendously, favoring odd-time signatures and sudden meter shifts while the two guitarists trade off with some killer, off-kilter guitar riffs reminicient of Thrice making love to The Mars Volta. Aside from a few semi-clunkers (Hopeless Host, Bitemarks And Bloodstains), this is about as flawless mix of post-hardcore, prog, and alt-rock as you'll get.
Finch Finch (EP)
Frodus And We Washed Our Weapons In The Sea
fun. Aim and Ignite
Garbage Garbage
Gatsbys American Dream Gatsby's American Dream
Gatsbys American Dream Volcano
Give up the Ghost Year One
Glassjaw El Mark EP
Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere
Good Riddance Bound by Ties of Blood and Affection
Green Day Nimrod
Green Day Insomniac
Green Day Kerplunk
Heiruspecs A Tiger Dancing
Hella There's No 666 In Outer Space
House Of Blow Myspace Songs
HUM Downward Is Heavenward
Husker Du Zen Arcade
Ignite Our Darkest Days
Ignite A place called home
In Flames The Jester Race
In Pieces Lions Write History
Incubus Make Yourself
Isis Panopticon
Japandroids Post-Nothing
Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
Jawbreaker Dear You
Jeff Beck Blow By Blow
Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix First Rays of the New Rising Sun
John Mayer Where the Light Is
John Mayer Trio TRY! John Mayer Trio in Concert
Judas Priest Painkiller
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye
Kid Dynamite Kid Dynamite
Kid Kilowatt Guitar Method 1996-1999
Kidcrash Jokes
Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing
Kiss Kiss Kiss Kiss
Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun
Lagwagon Resolve
Lagwagon Blaze
Lagwagon Double Plaidinum
Lagwagon Hoss
Lagwagon Trashed
Lagwagon Live In A Dive
Led Zeppelin Presence
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin I
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III
Lifetime Lifetime
Lifetime, after a ten-year break, are back and in charge again. Forget FOB, Bayside, etc... this is the real pop-punk deal. Sweet-like-candy hardcore with heartfelt lyrics, breakneck tempos, and all-around incredible energy. This album pretty much picks up right where Jersey's Best Dancers left off... this album could've easily been made in 1999 and if it had, I'm pretty sure Lifetime would be far bigger than the underground (yet highly influential) cult following they have. It's not quite as good as Jersey's Best Dancers (which I consider a melodic-hardcore masterpiece), but more than effective on its own rights. If you even remotely like pop-punk or hardcore you owe it to yourself to get this now. Welcome back guys.
Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything To Nothing
Marathon Marathon
Mastodon Leviathan
Mastodon Crack the Skye
ZOMG this album doesn't own, it rapes your soul! And stuff. To be honest, this is probably Mastodon's most cohesive album yet. The hooks are better than ever, Brann lays back just enough to let everyone else shine a bit more, and both guitarists have stepped the game up considerably with some quite awesome guitar solos. Buuuuuuuuut the vocals still suck 50% of the time, the concept is incredibly mind-numbingly retarded (I mean seriously read the excerpt from Brann Dailor on Wikipedia), and some of the songs go a little too far up their own asses. Otherwise, solid, kick-ass metal record but there's no way in hell this is 2009's Traced In Air as there's no comparison to that record.
maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible
maudlin of the Well Part the Second
Album is really really good. But a little less first half "Heaven And Weak", a little more second half "Heaven And Weak" next time dudes. Not to say it isn't great - it most certainly is - but one of the best attributes of motW was how they juxtaposed crushingly heavy sections with absolutely beautiful passages in the blink of an eye. The record is quite pretty but I want some fug in there too.
Megadeth Endgame
Metallica ...And Justice for All
Metallica Ride the Lightning
Metallica Live Sh*t: Binge and Purge
Metallica S&M
Metallica Death Magnetic
Method Man Tical
Michael Jackson Off The Wall
Millencolin Pennybridge Pioneers
Million Dead A Song to Ruin
Minus The Bear Menos El Oso
Minus The Bear Highly Refined Pirates
Minus The Bear They Make Beer Commercials Like This
Minus The Bear Acoustics
Minus The Bear do it again, offering up a collection of their staple tracks (along with a brand new one) and giving them the acoustic once-over. Many of the tracks stay very true to the original arrangements, but considering that many of MTB's riffs are sampled/looped, the fact that it's all transcribed onto acoustic is pretty cool. Unlike many bands who just throw a few generic open chords together to make the "Acoustic Version", MTB go the Thrice route and re-arrange the songs, some with just enough subtleties ("Knights"), others a complete reworking ("Burying Luck", "Throwin' Shapes") to effectively make them sound fresh and new.
Minus The Bear Into The Mirror EP
Minus The Bear return from 2007's brilliant Planet Of Ice with this teaser EP, consisting of "Into The Mirror" and "Broken China". The former song sounds kind of like a sleazy porn film, bolstered by sparse, staccato keyboard chords and complete with plenty of references to coke ("There's a mirror for the 'cane in the bathroom"). The song itself may be one of the catchiest MTB has written yet. "Broken China" is probably the heaviest and weirdest MTB song released so far, with heavy downbeats and some awesome guitar freakouts in the bridge. Appetite whetted yet? Get it now since it's only $2.
Misery Signals Mirrors
Misery Signals Controller
While it doesn't smack you in the earhole like Mirrors did front-to-back, Controller is Misery Signal's most polished, complete outing, and Karl's vox absolutely slay. The band have stepped it up in the melody department while simultaneously coming up with some of their most punishing riffs and songs ever. Possible heavy/metal record of the year, at least until Deftones/Glassjaw/Metallica (yeah j/k) drops, anyways.
Mr. Bungle California
Mr. Bungle Disco Volante
Muse H.A.A.R.P
Muse Black Holes and Revelations
Muse Absolution Tour [2004]
Muse Hullabaloo [Live CD or DVD]
MxPx Let It Happen
Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine
Nine Inch Nails And All That Could Have Been
Nine Inch Nails Year Zero
Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV
Nine Inch Nails Broken [EP]
Nine Inch Nails The Slip
The increasingly prolific Trent Reznor does it again. A scant two months after the release of his massive Ghosts I-IV album, Reznor drops The Slip (for free no less). This is some of the man's strongest work in years, combining the slick atmosphere and sonic landscapes of Ghosts and The Fragile with some of With Teeth's pop/rock aesthetic. While it's no The Downward Spiral or The Fragile (and really, stop expecting the sequels fanboys), the songwriting is more accessible and focused than Year Zero and stronger overall than any of With Teeth. The end result is a great record that is arguably Reznor's finest work in the last eight years.
Nirvana From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
Nirvana Incesticide
No Knife Riot For Romance!
No Knife Fire In The City Of Automatons
No Trigger Canyoneer
No Use for a Name Making Friends
No Use for a Name Hard Rock Bottom
No Use for a Name More Betterness!
NOFX Never Trust A Hippy EP
NOFX The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us)
NOFX 10 Years Of Fuckin' Up
NOFX Pump Up The Valuum
NOFX I Heard They Suck Live!!
NOFX White Trash, Two Heebs, And A Bean
NOFX Ribbed
NOFX 45 Or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough
NOFX They've Actually Gotten Worse Live
NOFX Coaster
After spending some quality time with the album today, I've changed my mind a bit. Through-and-through it doesn't touch the mid-90's stuff, but Coaster is definitely the best record NOFX has done since Pump Up The Valuum. While it's their most mid-tempo, poppy outing yet, the songs are all overwhelmingly good, minus a few clunkers ("Creeping Out Sara", "The Quitter"). "Eddie, Bruce & Paul" might just be the best song the band has done since the SLATFATS days (musically, not counting The Decline), the variety of music is excellent, and the songwriting is what Wolves In Wolves' Clothing and War On Errorism should have been. The true star of the record is El Hefe, who proves his name by laying down some REALLY excellent solos and leads all over the place and it's about time Fat Mike let his skills really shine. It's no Punk In Drublic or SLATFATS, but Coaster is a more than worthy addition to NOFX's catalogue.
NOFX/Rancid NOFX/Rancid - BYO Split Series Vol. 3
Oasis Whats the Story Morning Glory
Operation Ivy Energy
Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Pantera Vulgar Display Of Power
Pantera Cowboys From Hell
Parkway Drive Killing With A Smile
Pearl Jam Ten
Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon...
Pennywise Straight Ahead
Pennywise Full Circle
Peter Gabriel Up
Peter Gabriel So
Peter Gabriel Us
Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel (II)
Prince Musicology
Prince 1999
Prince LOtUSFLOW3R
Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits
Public Enemy Fear Of A Black Planet
Queen A Night at the Opera
Queens Of The Stone Age Rated R
Queens Of The Stone Age Over the Years and Through the Woods
Queens Of The Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze
Radiohead The Bends
Radiohead Hail To The Thief
Radiohead In Rainbows
Rage Against the Machine Live At The Grand Olympic Auditorium (DVD)
Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire
Rancid Rancid [2000]
Refused Refused Are F*cking Dead
Refused Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent
Righteous Jams Rage of Discipline
Rise Against Revolutions Per Minute
Rush Permanent Waves
Rx Bandits Mandala
Santana Abraxas
Saosin Translating The Name (Death Do Us Part)
Sepultura Beneath the Remains
Shadows Fall The Art of Balance
Shai Hulud That Within Blood Ill-Tempered
Silversun Pickups Swoon
Slayer Christ Illusion
Slayer Seasons in the Abyss
Slayer Still Reigning
Slayer Decade of Aggression
Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Smashing Pumpkins Rotten Apples
Snoop Dogg Doggystyle
Sonic Youth Murray Street
Sonic Youth Goo (Deluxe Edition)
Sons Of Abraham Termites In His Smile
Soundgarden Badmotorfinger
Sparta Porcelain
Sparta Wiretap Scars
Spinal Tap This Is Spinal Tap
Stevie Ray Vaughan Soul to Soul
Stevie Ray Vaughan Live at Montreux: 1982 & 1985 (DVD)
Stevie Ray Vaughan In Step
Stevie Ray Vaughan The Sky Is Crying
Sting Ten Summoner's Tales
Stone Temple Pilots Core
Stone Temple Pilots Thank You
Strung Out Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues
Strung Out Agents Of The Underground
Very very good record. Melds the pop with the punk/metal superbly and does it a lot better than Blackhawks Over Los Angeles did, but in general has a bit more of an aggressive edge than the aforementioned album while retaining a distinct melodic nod to their Twisted By Design/STWB days, so musically it seems to be the culimination of Strung Out's long and celebrated line of stellar releases. One very cool thing is the production, which while distinct is quite raw and the virtual opposite of the gloss and overproduction (especially on vocals) of Exile and Blackhawks. Jury's still out on whether it will stack up to Exile In Oblivion, AAP or Element, but this is hovering right around them. Here's to 20 more years dudes.
Sublime Sublime
Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom
Suicidal Tendencies Freedumb
Superjoint Ritual A Lethal Dose of American Hatred
System of a Down Steal This Album!
System of a Down Toxicity
System of a Down System of a Down
Television Live @ The Old Waldorf, San Francisco 6/29/78
The Beatles Let it Be
The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles Rubber Soul
The Beatles Rubber Soul (US)
The Black Keys Attack & Release
The Clash London Calling: Legacy Edition
The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine
The Doors The Best Of The Doors
The Fall Of Troy The Fall Of Troy
The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound
The Lawrence Arms The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta The Bedlam In Goliath
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute
The Nation of Ulysses 13-Point Program To Destroy America
The Nation of Ulysses Plays Pretty for Baby
The Ocean Precambrian
The Offspring Ixnay On The Hombre
The Offspring Smash
The Police Outlandos d'Amour
The Police Zenyatta Mondatta
The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger & The Duke
The Strokes Is This It?
The Who Who's Next
The Who Tommy
The XX xx
Thin Lizzy Jailbreak
Thrice If We Could Only See Us Now
Thrice The Artist In The Ambulance
Thrice Red Sky EP
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III and IV...
Thrice Beggars
Thrice continues to surprise with Beggars. The album is definitely a bit more uptempo (in spots) than either Vheissu or The Alchemy Index, but unlike past works, Thrice has learned how to really groove within a song as opposed to letting the structure control the music ("All The World Is Mad", "The Weight"). The band has also continued their unabashed love of Radiohead ("Circles", In Exile") and has almost completely jettisoned their post-hardcore past, with the exception of "Talking Through Glass" (which just may be one of the best songs they've ever done). Let's face it, Thrice will never put out Illusion Of Safety 2. The record does slip a little with some of the slower, quieter numbers as they all sound very similar to one another, and the album lacks the epic production/composition of Vheissu and Alchemy, but this record is far and away the most cohesive work they've done since Vheissu.
Thursday A City By the Light Divided
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits
Tomahawk Tomahawk
Tomahawk Mit Gas
Tool Lateralus
Trophy Scars Hospital Music
Trophy Scars Bad Luck
Tub Ring The Great Filter
U2 Achtung Baby
U2 War
U2 The Joshua Tree
Underoath Define the Great Line
Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire
Unearth The Oncoming Storm
Van Halen 1984
Van Halen Fair Warning
Wes Montgomery The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
White Zombie Astro Creep: 2000 -- Songs of Love, Destruction, a
ZZ Top Eliminator

3.5 great
311 From Chaos
311 Soundsystem
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step
A Static Lullaby A Static Lullaby
Alexisonfire Alexisonfire
Alice in Chains Facelift
Anamanaguchi Dawn Metropolis
Anberlin Blueprints For The Black Market
Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal
Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen
Bad Brains Build A Nation
Bad Religion The Gray Race
Bad Religion All Ages
Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction
Bad Religion Recipe for Hate
Bad Religion Back to the Known
Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
Bad Religion New Maps Of Hell
Battles Mirrored
Beastie Boys To the 5 Boroughs
Beastie Boys Licensed To Ill
Beloved Failure On
Between The Buried And Me The Anatomy Of
Billy Idol Idol Songs: 11 of the Best
blink-182 blink-182
blink-182 Enema Of The State
blink-182 Cheshire Cat
Candiria What Doesn't Kill You...
It's pretty disgusting when a band as revolutionary in sound as Candiria is gets absolutely no respect or recognition outside of the NYC hardcore fans. Candiria showed everyone on this record that they had quite the melodic side as well, mixing their mathy hardcore-meets-jazz-meets-metal sound with some honest-to-God pop sensibilities ("Remove Yourself" is INSANELY catchy). Carley Coma's vocals improved tenfold, capable of going from guttural roars into smooth melodic crooning. The band themselves have become even better, with Kenneth Schalk laying down some truly awe-inspiring grooves amidst the crazy technical drumming. Newcomer Micheal MacIvor's bass lines provided a newfound melodic counterpoint to John LaMacchia and Eric Matthew's palm-muted angular riffs. While labeled by many as a "sell-out" (and there are definitely cheesier moments that are clearly trying to be overtly radio-friendly), What Doesn't Kill You... brought a whole new dish to Candiria's table, which contributed to the alt-metal assault of their final record (and IMO, magnum opus), Kiss The Lie. So yeah get this.
Candiria The C.O.M.A. Imprint
Casket Salesmen Sleeping Giants
Cave In Antenna
Cave In Tides of Tomorrow
Chevelle Wonder What's Next
Chevelle Point #1
Children Of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll
Classic Case Dressed To Depress
This album has a definitive "it" factor. While not the most original band to ever come along, Classic Case do the whole emocore/post-hardcore thing with a surprising freshness, keeping it heavy and ultra-melodic without overdoing either aspect. You'll hear a wide variety of musical tastes all throughout this record - some Glassjaw, a little Quicksand, even some U2 and The Police are in there. Nary a scream to be found here, which is great and (sadly) unusual for a post-hardcore group. These dudes write some seriously catchy songs without sacrificing the tech or emotion... listen to "Revival", "Elegy", or "Hospitalized" to get a fair idea of what you're in for. Some seriously excellent drumming here, too, courtesy of Durijah Lang (of current Glassjaw fame), decent lyrics, and overall excellent musicianship (they actually solo!). Look for some big things in the future by this band (new album Losing At Life out on 2/20/07).
Clipse Hell Hath No Fury
Coheed and Cambria Good Apollo...No World For Tomorrow
Coheed and Cambria Live At La Zona Rosa
Coldplay Viva La Vida
Converge No Heroes
Corrosion of Conformity Animosity
Darkest Hour Deliver Us
David Gilmour On An Island
De La Soul 3 Feet High And Rising
Dead Kennedys Mutiny On The Bay: [Live]
Death By Stereo Death for Life
Def Leppard Pyromania
Deftones Deftones
Denali The Instinct
Denali Denali
Depeche Mode Ultra
Descendents Cool To Be You
DMX Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My Blood
Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Eric Clapton Journeyman
Faith No More Album Of The Year
Faith No More This Is It-The Best of Faith No More
Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux
Forgive Durden Wonderland
Foxboro Hot Tubs Stop Drop and Roll
Foxy Shazam The Flamingo Trigger
Fugazi 13 Songs
Funeral Diner The Underdark
Gang Of Four Return The Gift
Ghostlimb Bearing & Distance
Gnarls Barkley The Odd Couple
Gogol Bordello Super Taranta
Green Day American Idiot
Green Day International Superhits
Green Day 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours
Greg Graffin Cold as the Clay
Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy
He Is Legend 91025
Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know
Hopesfall A Types
Hopesfall Magnetic North
HORSE The Band R. Borlax
HORSE The Band A Natural Death
Hot Cross Risk Revival
Hot Snakes Audit In Progress
In Flames Come Clarity
In Flames Reroute to Remain
Incubus Light Grenades
Incubus A Crow Left Of The Murder
James Brown Live At The Apollo
Jerry Cantrell Boggy Depot
Jimi Hendrix Blues
John Mayer Battle Studies
Album's really really good but it's no Continuum. I see this being a grower though.
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Plastic Fang
Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young
Jurassic 5 Quality Control
Kanye West The College Dropout
Kanye West Late Registration
Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache
Lagwagon Duh
Lagwagon My Older Brother Used To Listen To Lagwagon
Lamb of God Sacrament
Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door
Led Zeppelin Coda
Mad Caddies Rock the Plank
Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses
Mastodon Blood Mountain
Matchbook Romance Voices
Matisyahu Live At Stubb's
Metallica Metallica
Metallica Kill Em All
Mike Patton and The X-Ecutioners General Patton Vs The X-Ecutioners
Minty Fresh Beats Jaydiohead
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Mos Def The New Danger
Muse Showbiz
Muse Hullabullo Soundtrack
Mute Math Mute Math
MxPx Life in General
Nine Inch Nails With Teeth
Nirvana With the Lights Out (Boxed Set)
No Doubt Tragic Kingdom
No Use for a Name !Leche Con Carne!
No Use for a Name All The Best Songs
No Use for a Name The Feel Good Record of the Year
NOFX War On Errorism
NOFX Heavy Petting Zoo
NOFX Surfer EP
Only Crime Virulence
A very very good album, although it falls short of expectations. I mean, come on! Let's all consider that this band is
made up of vocalist Russ Rankin (Good Riddance), drummer Bill Stevenson (those little bands Black Flag, Descendents,
ALL...), guitarists Aaron Dalbec (Converge, Bane, Hagfish) and Zach Blair (GWAR, Hagfish), and bassist Doni Blair
(Hagfish, Armstrong). I mean this should be the best f*cking hardcore band EVER. And even at this seemingly 50%
effort, they churned out a record as excellent as Virulence. The album is far more focused and heavy than To
The Nines
could've hoped to be (although the first record is in fact very good). Their next album is what I'm really
looking forward to. It's a bit of a letdown that this album shat on Good Riddance's latest record, considering how great
Russ' voice and lyrics are here. A must-buy for melodic hardcore with a dissonant edge, not to mention absolutely
superb musicianship (especially Bill's drumming) and lyrics.
Opeth Watershed
Outkast ATLiens
Ozzy Osbourne Live and Loud
Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel (IV, or Security)
Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel (I)
Plus 44 When Your Heart Stops Beating
Poison The Well Versions
Poison The Well You Come Before You
Prince 3121
Prince Batman
Prince MPLSoUND
Probot Probot
Propagandhi Less Talk, More Rock
Propagandhi How to Clean Everything
Protest the Hero Fortress
Rage Against the Machine The Battle Of Los Angeles
Red Hot Chili Peppers BloodSugarSexMagik
Refused The EP Compilation
Rise Against The Unraveling (Re-Issue)
Rise Against Siren Song Of The Counter Culture
Rise Against The Unraveling
Saetia A Retrospective
Shadows Fall The War Within
Shadows Fall Of One Blood
Shadows Fall Fallout From The War
Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure
SikTh Death Of A Dead Day
Slayer Hell Awaits
Slayer World Painted Blood
LOL at the people bitching as to why Slayer didn't change their sound. Uh fucking A Thor you gave Christ Illusion a 4 and this is virtually the same record, maybe give or take some br00tality + a ridiculously shit mix courtesy of the guy that killed Death Magnetic (yeah you fucking asshole Greh Fidelmann, you fucking suck and never get near a mixing board ever again). Dudes this age are usually planning their check-out ticket, not delivering thrash that (no matter how crap compared to RIB/SOH) still kicks the crap out degenerates like Metallica and breaks necks everywhere.
Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist
Sonic Youth Rather Ripped
Sonic Youth Goo
Soundgarden Down on the Upside
Sparta Threes
Spinal Tap Break Like The Wind
Spinal Tap Back From The Dead
Stone Temple Pilots No.4
Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music...Songs From The Vatican...
Strung Out Crossroads and Illusions
Strung Out Blackhawks Over Los Angeles
Sublime Acoustic - Bradley Nowell & Friends
Sum 41 Does This Look Infected
Sum 41 Half Hour Of Power
System of a Down Hypnotize
System of a Down Mezmerize
Team Sleep Team Sleep
Testament The Gathering
The Beatles A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles Please Please Me
The Black Keys Thickfreakness
The Fall Of Troy Doppelganger
The Fucking Champs III
The Fucking Champs V
The Fucking Champs IV
The Mars Volta Tremulant
The Network Money Money 2020
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel
The Offspring Americana
The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds
The Police Ghost In The Machine
The Police Live!
The Prodigy The Fat Of The Land
The Strokes First Impressions of Earth
The Strokes Room On Fire
The White Stripes Elephant
Thin Lizzy Bad Reputation
This Is Hell Sundowning
This Is Hell This Is Hell EP
This Is Hell Misfortunes
Thrice Identity Crisis
Thrice Come All You Weary EP (iTunes)
Thrice Best Buy CD Sampler
Thursday Common Existence
By far the most consistent record Thursday has done since War All The Time. Common Existence is a focused, aggressive record that more or less erases the doubts anyone had following their last lukewarm effort. The screamo-meets-Envy sound attempted on the Thursday/Envy Split is now perfected and pays off in spades. Although there are still a few minor production flaws, songs like "As He Climbed The Dark Mountain", "You Were The Cancer", "Friends In The Armed Forces", and "Unintended Long Term Effects" show why Thursday is and always will be a head above their post-hardcore brethren. Now go tell Daryl to finsh the f*cking Glassjaw record, Geoff.
Tool 10,000 Days
Tool Undertow
Tool Opiate
Trocadero Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue
Unearth The Stings of Conscience
Van Halen Van Halen
Van Halen Van Halen II
Velvet Revolver Contraband
Weezer Maladroit
Whole Wheat Bread Minority Rules
Zozobra Bird of Prey

3 good
30 Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie
A Static Lullaby ...And Don't Forget to Breathe
A Wilhelm Scream Benefits of Thinking Out Loud
AFI I Heard a Voice DVD
AFI Shut Your Mouth + Open Your Eyes
AFI Answer That And Stay Fashionable
AFI Very Proud Of Ya
Alexisonfire Crisis
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil
Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Bayside The Walking Wounded
Beastie Boys Hello Nasty
Beastie Boys The Mix Up
Bigwig Stay Asleep
Blaqk Audio CexCells
blink-182 The Mark, Tom, And Travis Show
blink-182 Buddha
Bloodhound Gang Hooray For Boobies
Box Car Racer Box Car Racer
Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
Bullet For My Valentine The Poison
Chevelle This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)
Chevelle Vena Sera
Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes
Chickenfoot Chickenfoot
Children Of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?
Chimaira Impossiblity of Reason
CKY Volume 1
Classic Case Losing At Life
Coheed and Cambria Live at the Starland Ballroom (DVD+CD)
Darkest Hour Hidden Hands Of A Sadist Nation
Darkest Hour So Sedated, So Secure
Death Cab For Cutie Transatlanticism
Deftones Adrenaline
Depeche Mode Exciter
Depeche Mode Some Great Reward
DMX ...And Then There Was X
Drist Orchids And Ammunition
Eagles Long Road Out Of Eden
Every Time I Die The Big Dirty
Fall Out Boy Infinity On High
Fall Out Boy From Under The Cork Tree
Fall Out Boy Take This To Your Grave
Glassjaw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang EP
This is the album where Glassjaw began to really start to develop it's current sound. Not to mention the Hannukah Grinch, Justin Beck himself, plays the drums on this album/lineup. "Star Above My Bed" and "Black Coffee" are some of their fan-favorite songs and display a staggering mix of power where good ol' Long Island HC came together with Glassjaw's growing fascination with Stillsuit-style post-hardcore, which continues even into their current-day sound, tremendously on Worship And Tribute. This EP is notoriously hard to find, but can be found on Glassjaw.net if I'm not mistaken. A more-than-worthy listen to anyone who even remotely likes post-hardcore.
Glassjaw The Don Fury Sessions 1&2
Green Day Warning
Green Day Shenanigans
Green Day 21st Century Breakdown
They're not getting a free pass on this one. Whereas American Idiot was a fresh new take on the Green Day sound (for the most part), this record takes BJ Armstrong's obsession with The Who just a little too far. The consistency is simply not there and while the melodies and songwriting are all pretty standard-issue Green Day (i.e., catchy and fun), there's no musical substance underneath the proceedings. And come on, 18 songs of three-chord jams? They could have taken six off and it would have been much better in the end. And wtf is with these lyrics? Armstrong was never a literary wordsmith but these are TOYPAJ blink-era bad, if not worse. Overall, not shit but certainly GD's weakest album in a long time.
Hatebreed Supremacy
Hatebreed Perseverance
He Is Legend I Am Hollywood
Head Automatica Decadence
HORSE The Band Pizza EP
HORSE is back a scant year after the release of The Mechanical Hand with the Pizza EP. The good news? It's
HORSE. The keyboards are in full swing here, serving up deliciously twisted melodies (check out the bridge and outro
of Crippled By Pizza) and walls-of-sound that serve as sonic backdrops to Dave Isen's fleet guitarwork. Band-wise,
everything's tight. The not-so-good? The songs here just aren't anywhere as good as their previous work. I mean
Pizza NIF is great, Werepizza and Antipizza rock, and the TMNT theme is absolutely classic, but the super-clean
production takes a lot of the aggression out of HORSE's sound, the drumming is off in parts (they've since kicked Eli
out), and David Isen's manic guitar work from The Mechanical Hand is nowhere to be found here, not to mention
the guitars are buried in the mix to the point that you can barely hear them. Oh yeah and Werepizza is too damn long
and doesn't really go anywhere. Maybe the lessened quality is because EVERY song is literally about pizza, but it
seems HORSE is taking an even more commercial tack this time around and I'm not sure that's a great idea. Hopefully
their new album (out in 2007) will be a bit better.
Incubus Morning View
Isis Wavering Radiant
Jimmy Eat World Bleed American
Jimmy Eat World Clarity
Kanye West Graduation
Lagwagon Let\'s Talk About Leftovers
Linkin Park Meteora
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
LOURDS LOURDS
Matchbook Romance West For Wishing EP
Midtown Living Well is the Best Revenge
Modest Mouse Sad Sappy Sucker
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West
Moneen The Theory of Harmonial Value
Mute Math Armistice
MxPx Teenage Politics
MxPx Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade
Nervous Light of Sunday 弱心光景
New Found Glory New Found Glory
New Found Glory From the Screen to Your Stereo
Nine Inch Nails Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D
Nirvana Bleach
No Use for a Name Keep Them Confused
No Use for a Name The Daily Grind
NOFX Wolves in Wolves' Clothing
NOFX S&M Airlines
NOFX Pods And Gods EP
Panic! At the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Papa Roach Infest
Pennywise Unknown Road
Pennywise Land Of The Free?
Protest the Hero Kezia
Album is MAD overrated but not total garbage. The singing can be pretty unbearable at times in how he overuses
that pop-punk warble mixed with hair-metal backup harmonies and flagrant, ridiculous dramaticism that would
make Matt Bellamy and Freddie Mercury wince simultaneously. The guitarists have some serious jack-off
competitions seemingly every other bar, seemingly trying to fit as many crazy sweeps into one second as possible
(regardless of sense/purpose/taste), the drummer plays the same ol' hardcore/thrash cut-time beats with little
variation, and the music/lyrics reek of religious lofty pretentiousness. In other words, a great Victory Records band.
And the production, especially on the drums, sounds completely fake and ProTooled up. Oh yeah is there bass on
this record? Despite all of that, it's hard to ignore the band's talent and knack for catchy melodies and progressive
experimentation. They will certainly be huge in the future with their mix of pop-punk, metal, thrash, and
progressive styles so long as they reign in their giant egos. But come on people... we have all heard this music
before, somewhere, sometime, probably better done and Kezia isn't half as innovative or classic as anyone says it is.
Puscifer V Is For Vagina
Queens Of The Stone Age Era Vulgaris
Rancid Indestructible
Rancid Let The Dominoes Fall
Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness
Rob Zombie Educated Horses
Saosin Saosin EP/Warped Tour EP
Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release)
Shadows Fall Threads of Life
Slayer God Hates Us All
Smashing Pumpkins Judas O
Smashing Pumpkins Machina II - Friends and Enemies of Modern Music
Sonic Youth A Thousand Leaves
Story of the Year Page Avenue
Strike Anywhere Exit English
Strung Out Another Day In Paradise
Sum 41 Chuck
Sum 41 All Killer No Filler
Superjoint Ritual Use Once and Destroy
Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends
The Beatles Help!
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works
The Fall Of Troy Manipulator
The Mars Volta Amputechture
The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
Thrice First Impressions
Tomahawk Anonymous
Transplants Transplants
U2 No Line On The Horizon
Underoath The Changing Of Times
Weezer The Red Album
Weezer Raditude
Holy crap, Weezer put out a record that's mostly listenable?! I've accepted that they'll never return to the brilliance of Blue and Pinkerton, but for a modern Weezer with four relatively crap records under their belt, this isn't bad at all, but it's also not great either. There's very few standout tracks - the most obvious being "If You're Wondering" and "I'm Your Daddy", along with "Trippin' Down The Freeway - but everything is pretty much just middle-of-the-road 'good' to f*cking terrible ("In The Mall" srsly what the fuck?). The lyrics are laughably bad (which I believe is quite intentional; the guy's an English major from Harvard for Christ's sake), and it's unabashedly pop, but Rivers writes a catchy fucking tune. And "Get Me Some" fucking shreds with the sw33t lixx.
Welcome the Plague Year Welcome the Plague Year
Will Haven The Hierophant
Yellowcard Ocean Avenue

2.5 average
A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart
A Day To Remember And Their Name Was Treason
AFI Decemberunderground
Armor For Sleep What To Do When You are Dead
Atreyu Suicide Notes And Butterfly Kisses
Bad Religion New America
Bad Religion Tested
Bayside Sirens & Condolences
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (Bonus Tracks)
Blues Traveler Four
Brand New Your Favourite Weapon
Chevelle Live From The Road
Circa Survive On Letting Go
Death By Stereo Death Is My Only Friend
Death Cab For Cutie We Have The Facts And We\'re Voting Yes
Depeche Mode Construction Time Again
Depeche Mode Speak And Spell
Dream Theater A Change of Seasons
Eighteen Visions Obsession
Good Riddance My Republic
Hatebreed Rise of Brutality
Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies
Lucky Boys Confusion Commitment
Matchbook Romance Stories and Alibis
Metallica Load
Metallica Reload
Midtown Forget What You Know
Minus The Bear Interpretaciones Del Oso
Here's a perfect example of why the majority of remix albums suck. Menos El Oso was a quality album that was better left alone. The album was spectacular in almost every way. The myriad of DJs/artists present here on Interpretaciones Del Oso simply miss the mark 80% of the time on this record. When they're not completely stripping any vestige of resemblance from great songs ("Hooray", "The Fix"), they're butchering it with ill-advised sampling and/or unnecessary "ambience", oftentimes mixing the vocals right out of the track in question. The only remix I truly didn't despise was "Drilling", which kept the original vibe/melody while changing everything else. The rest? Go listen to Menos El Oso instead and avoid this like the plague.
Muse The Resistance
Album isn't horrible but by far Muse's weakest effort. While it's definitely very well-made (i.e., spent a lot of money on super-sparkly production), there's a lack of rock on this one and too much keys/piano. Musically it's still Muse, only watered-down, and not even in the same league as Absolution or OOS. "Unnatural Selection" is easily the best song on the record (probably because it sounds like an Origin cut), but "MK Ultra" (did anyone else see that title and think "cheesy fighting game title"?) is pretty awesome too. "Exogenesis" is pretty overrated, certainly not the album-saver people are hailing it as, but definitely one of the highlights even if it kinda falls on its face.

The first half unfortunately does a great job of killing the momentum for this record, as "Uprising" is by far the worst opener Muse has written as of yet and "Resistance", while catchy, is musically ho-hum. "Undisclosed Desires" just sucks, flat-out, and sounds like a bad Depeche Mode b-side with even worse lyrics. And let's not forget "I Belong To You" which seems to be the most tepid song this band ever wrote. What happened to the dope guitar riffs? Dominic's drumming on BHAR? The dynamic songwriting? Interesting, varied production? Truly versatile music? And did I mention the lyrics are REALLY bad on this record? Mr. Bellamy, your band is already huge and you didn't need to dumb your music down so the stupid American teenyboppers that will forget your song in one week would "get" it. Stop jacking off, realize that you'll never be Chopin or Freddie Mercury, let your bandmates shine for once and come back in a few years when you freshen up, please.
MxPx The Ever Passing Moment
New Found Glory Sticks and Stones
NOFX Liberal Animation
Rise Against Appeal To Reason
Saosin Saosin
Smashing Pumpkins Machina: The Machines of God
Story of the Year In The Wake Of Determination
Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be
Taking Back Sunday Louder Now
The Ataris End is Forever
The Ataris Blue Skies, Broken Hearts, Next Twelve Exits
The Fall Of Troy In The Unlikely Event
Music = really tech and still not as catchy/fun as their old stuff
Vocals = stop fucking singing Thomas Erak you SUCK! I don't care what your French vocal-coach girlfriend tells you, she's lying and you suck!
The Offspring Splinter
The Offspring Conspiracy Of One
The Used In Love and Death
The Used Maybe Memories
The Used The Used
Trivium Ascendancy
Weezer Green Album
Yellowcard Lights And Sounds

2 poor
A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe
A Static Lullaby Faso Latido
Aiden Rain In Hell
Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper
As I Lay Dying Shadows are Security
As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse
Atreyu Fractures In the Facade of Your Porcelai
Bad Religion No Substance
The absolute worst Bad Religion album since Into The Unknown. Says a lot, but they'd rejuvenate themselves with
The Process Of Belief
. But there's about two good songs on this, and neither of them are even as good as the b-
sides from Stranger Than Fiction. So yeah, don't bother.
Bad Religion Into the Unknown
Bayside Bayside
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
Easily the worst post-Dude Ranch blink album. I used to like it a lot when I was 17 but I quickly realized how contrived, tasteless, and flat-out uninspiring this album is, even compared to Enema Of The State. The songwriting is rushed and simply horrid at times ("First Date") and they blatantly recycle old riffs instead of learning how to play guitar a little bit (compare the riff of "Online Songs" to "Boring" from Dude Ranch... almost completely identical). Travis is still good as always but most of this album bites it hard. Not surprising considering Tom/Mark said it only took them two weeks to write the whole thing.
Depeche Mode A Broken Frame
Drowning Pool Sinner
Finch What It is to Burn
Head Automatica Popaganda
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight
Metallica St. Anger
New Found Glory Catalyst
NOFX Maximum RocknRoll
Pennywise From The Ashes
Pennywise The Fuse
Shaquille O'Neal Shaq Diesel
Sonic Youth NYC Ghosts & Flowers
The Ataris So Long, Astoria
The Ataris Welcome the Night
The Blood Brothers Crimes
Transplants Haunted Cities
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety
Weezer Make Believe
Yellowcard One for the Kids
Yellowcard The Underdog EP
Yellowcard Midget Tossing

1.5 very poor
Aiden Our Gangs Dark Oath
Aiden Nightmare Anatomy
As I Lay Dying Beneath The Encasing Of Ashes
Atreyu A Death-Grip On Yesterday
Atreyu Best of Atreyu
Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well
Glassjaw Impossible Shot

1 awful
Atreyu The Curse
Fall Out Boy Fall Out Boy's Evening Out With Your Girlfriend
Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely
Hawthorne Heights The Silence In Black And White
Kill Hannah For Never & Ever
I guess the best way to describe this band, and their subsequent albums, is the live show I saw last night. They along
with Strata opened for 30 Seconds To Mars. I'd heard the single "Lips Like Morphine" and thought "hey, that chick-
fronted band isn't too good". And when the guitarist came out onstage, I was like "damn... that's not a girl."
Surprisingly, neither is the singer, although looking at them/listening to them, you'd never be able to guess. They
all wear more makeup than just about any girl I know. As for the music, take the absolute worst levels of mascara-
induced, No-way-they-can't-possibly-be-men crying-fit hilarity of the uber-l33t Hot Topic screamo crowd, mix it
with post-80's new wave garbage and you basically have this in a nutshell. Painfully derivative, shamelessly scene, and
encompassing far too many gag-inducing cliches that make 90% of modern music suck horribly, this album is better
left in a dark corner of a crack den, which is just how the band would probably like it. In a dark corner, I mean.
Macho Man Randy Savage Be A Man
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
Plain White Ts Every Second Counts
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It
Spin Doctors Pocket Full of Kryptonite
Doo-do-do!!! Da dip da doo da dubba wubba wubba wubba oh my GOD what in the hell am I listening to?!? Why does this music exist??? Terrible music from a band that spent too much time hitting the bong and not enough time on a.) good music b.) not scatting c.) writing songs without horrible pop-culture references to Superman. Great beer coaster.
Vanilla Ice To the Extreme

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