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Average Rating: 3.68
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5 classic
Bad Brains I Against I
Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique
Catch 22 Keasbey Nights
Descendents Milo Goes to College
Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me
Frodus And We Washed Our Weapons In The Sea
GZA Liquid Swords
Miles Davis Kind Of Blue
Minutemen Double Nickels On the Dime
Misfits Walk Among Us
Nick Drake Pink Moon
Operation Ivy Energy
Pere Ubu The Modern Dance
Pixies Surfer Rosa
Quicksand Manic Compression
Quicksand Slip
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Stiff Little Fingers Inflammable Material
Sun Ra Lanquidity
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary
The Specials Specials
The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat
Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet
Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You

4.5 superb
A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders
Adolescents Adolescents
Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose
Angry Samoans Back From Samoa
Archers of Loaf Icky Mettle
Bad Brains Rock For Light
Bad Brains Bad Brains
Belong October Language
Brian Eno Discreet Music
City Of Caterpillar City Of Caterpillar
cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD
Codeine The White Birch
Dalek Negro Necro Nekros
Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Decahedron Disconnection Imminent
Deftones White Pony
DJ Shadow Endtroducing
Elliott Smith Roman Candle
Envy A Dead Sinking Story
Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left...
Eric Dolphy Out To Lunch
Face to Face Don't Turn Away
Face to Face Face to Face
Faraquet The View From This Tower
Fugazi End Hits
Fugazi Red Medicine
Fugazi 13 Songs
Funeral Diner The Underdark
Gorilla Biscuits Start Today
Helmet Meantime
Helmet Betty
Husker Du Zen Arcade
Indian Summer Discography
Jakob Jakob EP
Jesus Lizard Liar
John Coltrane A Love Supreme
k-os Joyful Rebellion
Kidcrash Jokes
Local H As Good as Dead
Local H Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles?
Lync These Are Not Fall Colors
Mark Hollis Mark Hollis
Matthew Good Band Beautiful Midnight
Matthew Good Band Hospital Music
Matthew Good Band Avalanche
Matthew Good Band The Audio of Being
Maximillian Colby Discography
Minor Threat Complete Discography
Mission of Burma Vs.
Nick Drake Five Leaves Left
North of America Brothers, Sisters
Pixies Doolittle
Polvo Today's Active Lifestyles
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine
Reaching Quiet In the Shadow of the Living Room
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come
Rites of Spring End on End
Rival Schools United By Fate
Rockets Red Glare Rockets Red Glare
Sharks Keep Moving Sharks Keep Moving
Shipping News Save Everything
Sole Selling Live Water
Sole Bottle Of Humans
Sonic Youth Sonic Nurse
Sonic Youth Sister
Sonic Youth The Eternal
Steel Pulse Handsworth Revolution
Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb
Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between
Strike Anywhere Change is a sound
Sublime Sublime
Swell Maps A Trip to Marineville
Swell Maps Jane From Occupied Europe
Swervedriver Mezcal Head
Talk Talk Laughing Stock
Team Sleep Team Sleep
The letters organize Dead Rhythm Machine
The Out Circuit Pierce The Empire With A Sound
The Out Circuit Burn Your Scripts Boys
The Saddest Landscape Lift Your Burdens High For This is Where We Cross
Tim Hecker An Imaginary Country
Tim Hecker Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again
Tom Waits Rain Dogs
Tool Lateralus
Tool's Lateralus is their best album. Edging out Aenima in terms of brilliance, the band all seems to be at their peek on this release. Maynard James Keenan delivers his most captivating and beautiful vocal performance on songs like "Ticks and Leeches", "Lateralus" and the amazing scream of "The Grudge". The band's ability to show variation is what sets this album apart from others and Tool's sublime ability to mix the melodic with enough heaviness to satisfy the metal heads is astounding. This is where Tool shines the most and the trilogy at the end rounds off a superb album, beautifully.
Unwound New Plastic Ideas
Unwound Repetition
Unwound Challenge For a Civilized Society
Welcome the Plague Year Welcome the Plague Year
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I
Wire Pink Flag
World's End Girlfriend Dream's End Come True
Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss
Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Yusef Lateef Eastern Sounds

4 excellent
A Day In Black And White My Heroes Have Always Killed Cowboys
A Minor Forest Inindependence
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step
A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory
Agalloch The Mantle
Agent Orange Living In Darkness
Amusement Parks On Fire Amusement Parks On Fire
And The Furies Say And The Furies Say
Andrew Hill Black Fire
Art Brut Bang Bang Rock & Roll
Bad Brains Quickness
Bad Religion Suffer
Balmorhea Rivers Arms
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms
Bane The Note
Ben Frost Theory Of Machines
Black Flag Damaged
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
Caribou Andorra
Cat Power Moon Pix
Cease Upon the Capitol Untitled
Chevelle Point #1
Cyann and Ben Happy Like an Autumn Tree
Dalek Absence
Dalek Abandoned Language
Day for Airstrikes Secret Whale
Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist
Deaf Center Pale Ravine
Deaf Center Neon City EP
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist
Dianogah As Seen From Above
Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
Elliott Smith XO
Elliott Smith Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith Either/Or
Eluvium Copia
Eluvium Lambent Material
Engine Down Under the Pretense of Present Tense
Face to Face Big Choice
Face to Face How to Ruin Everything
Fennesz Endless Summer
Flying Lotus 1983
Fugazi Repeater
Fugazi The Argument
Fugazi In on the Kill Taker
Glenn Branca The Ascension
Gogol Bordello Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
Gorillaz Demon Days
Hammock Maybe They Will Sing For us Tomorrow
Handsome Handsome
Harmonia Musik von Harmonia
Hella Hold Your Horse Is
Helmet Strap It On
In Pieces Lions Write History
Isis Oceanic
Jakob Solace
Jesus Lizard Goat
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Now I Got Worry
Joy Division Closer
Kodan Armada A Collection Of Songs
Latyrx The Album
Lifetime Hello Bastards
Local H 12 Angry Months
Lungfish The Unanimous Hour
M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts
Matthew Good Band Underdogs
Minor Threat Out of Step
Mofungo Out of Line
Moss Icon Lyburnum
Mustard Plug Evildoers Beware!
My Bloody Valentine Loveless
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
One Block Radius Long Story Short
Only Crime To The Nines
Orange 9mm Pretend I'm Human
Orange 9mm Driver not included
Orange 9mm Tragic
Our Lady Peace Naveed
Pennywise Pennywise
Pg. 99 Document # 8
Portraits Of Past 0100101110100011100100100
Quicksand Quicksand
Radiohead OK Computer
Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire
Rancid ...And Out Come The Wolves
Red Hot Chili Peppers BloodSugarSexMagik
Replikants This is Our message
Replikants Slickaphonics
Robert Glasper In My Element
Serge Gainsbourg Histoire de Melody Nelson
Sleepytime Trio Memory Minus
Slint Spiderland
Smart Went Crazy Con Art
Snapcase Designs for automotion
Snapcase End Transmission
Sonic Youth Dirty
Sonic Youth Goo
Sonic Youth Rather Ripped
Sonic Youth A Thousand Leaves
Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising
Stereolab Refried Ectoplasm
Stop it!! Self Made Maps
Strike Anywhere Exit English
Strike Anywhere Iron Front
Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom
System of a Down System of a Down
Ten Foot Pole Rev
The Beta Band The Three EPs
The Cassettes 'Neath the Pale Moon
The Clash London Calling
The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out
The English Beat I Just Can't Stop It
The Evpatoria Report Golevka
The Evpatoria Report Maar
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
The Flatliners Destroy To Create
The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Let's Face It
The Pietasters Oolooloo
The Pietasters Willis
The Planet Smashers Mighty
The Planet Smashers Unstoppable
The Rakes Capture/Release
The Stooges Fun House
The Suicide Machines Destruction By Definition
Thurston Moore Psychic Hearts
Tim Hecker Radio Amor
Tool Aenima
Widely considered to be their Magnus Opus, Aenima is a terrific and a brooding release from the boys of Tool. Everything seems cohesive and feels like a natural progression throughout the disc. Highlights include the underrated and hushed "H." and "Jimmy" and the dark but epic "Pushit". At times though, the filler can be somewhat unnecessary. One thing the band manages to do perfectly is balance their epic and foreign song structures with a sense of humor. Excerpts like "Dier Von Satan" and "Message to Harry Manback" accentuate the underlying message of the music. To keep an open mind.
TV on the Radio Young Liars EP
Unwound Fake Train
Unwound A Single History: 1991-1997
Urinals Negative Capability... Check it Out
Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett
Walking Concert Run to Be Born
William Basinski Melancholia
Yo La Tengo Popular Songs
Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
Youth of Today Break Down The Walls

3.5 great
Alexisonfire Alexisonfire
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am....
Armchairpolitician Seven Segment Decoder
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
Bad Brains I and I Survived
Bad Religion No Control
Bats & Mice Believe it Mammals
Bear vs. Shark Right Now You're in the Best of Hands
Beneath Augusta You Gotta Come Down Sometime
Big D And The Kids Table Strictly Rude
Big D And The Kids Table Good Luck
Bloc Party Silent Alarm
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People
Built To Spill Ultimate Alternative Wavers
Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein
Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um
Chevelle This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)
Dead Meadow Dead Meadow
Deadbeat New World Observer
Death [Punk] ...For the Whole World to See
Defiance, Ohio Share What Ya Got
Dilatazione Too Emotional For Maths
Dirty Three Horse Stories
Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust
Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime
El Ten Eleven Ten Eleven
Erase Errata Other Animals
Ex Models Zoo Psychology
For the Mathematics The New Science
Frantic Mantis Data is Not Information
Gastr del Sol Camoufleur
Giraffes? Giraffes! More Skin With Milk-Mouth
Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere
God Dethroned The Toxic Touch
Good Riddance Ballads from the revolution
Gospel The Moon is A Dead World
Grails Red Light
Hoover The Lurid Traversal of Route 7
In Pieces Learning to Accept Silence
Japancakes Waking Hours
Jets to Brazil Orange Rhyming Dictionary
Joy Wants Eternity You Who Pretend to Sleep
K'naan The Dusty Foot Philosopher
Labradford Mi Media Naranja
Lakes of Russia Stars Decorate the Fire
Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen
Linkin Park Xero
Local H Pack Up the Cats
Matthew Good Band Last Of The Ghetto Astronauts
Matthew Good Band Vancouver
Max Richter The Blue Notebooks
Medications Your Favourite People All in One Place
Miles Davis Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis Sketches of Spain
Niobe White Hats
Nirvana In Utero
None More Black This Is Satire
North of America The Sepultura EP
Oleander February Son
Our Lady Peace Happiness is not a fish that you can catch
Picastro Red Your Blues
Pixies Trompe Le Monde
Primal Scream Screamadelica
Quiet Village Silent Movie
Rage Against the Machine The Battle Of Los Angeles
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication
Rodan Rusty
Scapegoat Wax Okeeblow
Seaweed Four
Sigur Ros ( )
Sonic Youth Murray Street
Sonic Youth EVOL
Spitvalves Fine Print At The Bottom
Strike Anywhere To Live in Discontent
Strike Anywhere Dead FM
Strike Anywhere Chorus of One EP
System of a Down Toxicity
The Antlers Hospice
The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment
The Depreciation Guild In Her Gentle Jaws
The Innocence Mission The birds of my neighborhood
The Make-Up In Mass Mind
The Mark Of Cain This Is This
The Toasters Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down(DLTBGYD)
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground and Nico
Themselves The No Music
Tool 10,000 Days
Tool always has a way of making the fans expect for something epic and so far in their careers, they have done so. 10'000 days has been a bit of a mis-step for the band. It starts off promisingly with the impressive "Vicarious" and continues on in a lacklustre fashion towards the epic "10'000 days" which manages to create an eerie feeling never achieved by Tool's music. But as the album goes on, one can feel that the band ran out of ideas and added songs like "Lost Keys" and "Vigniti Tres" just to keep their reputation for long records. The visceral and downright insane "Rosetta Stoned" and the beautiful "Right in Two" salvage the record and help 10'000 days be a passable (for Tool standards) yet great record.
Tyondai Braxton Central Market
U.S. Maple Long Hair in Three Stages
Unsane Unsane
Unwound The Future of What

3 good
2 By Bukowski What A Long, Strange Journey This Has Been
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms
Abandoned Pools Humanistic
Antipop Consortium Arrhythmia
Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare
Ativin German Water
Black Flag In My Head
blink-182 Dude Ranch
Break The Silence Near Life Experience
Built To Spill Keep It Like A Secret
Chevelle Vena Sera
Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes
Clikatat Ikatowi Orchestrated and Conducted By
Crime In Stereo The Troubled Stateside
Deep Puddle Dynamics The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel
Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030
Dinosaur Jr. Beyond
Explosions In The Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
Firefly Summer The Classic EP
Four Hundred Years Transmit Failure
Frodus Conglomerate International
Fudge Tunnel Hate songs in E minor
Fugazi Furniture
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To
Green Velvet Whatever
Jesu Conqueror
Joan of Arc Boo! Human
Joni Mitchell Blue
Lars Frederiksen And The Bastards Viking
Lars Frederiksen And The Bastards Lars Frederiksen And The Bastards
Less Than Jake Hello Rockview
Library Tapes Höstluft
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory EP
LITE Phantasia
Nirvana Nevermind
Only Crime Virulence
Our Lady Peace Clumsy
Patti Smith Horses
Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium
Russian Circles Station
Sigur Ros með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Skankin Pickle The Green Album
Sonic Youth Washing Machine
Streetlight Manifesto Keasbey Nights
The Dears No Cities Left
The Germs M.I.A.: The Complete Anthology
The Go! Team Proof of Youth
The Nation of Ulysses 13-Point Program To Destroy America
The Skatalites Hi-Bop Ska
Tom Waits Foreign Affairs
TRUSTcompany The Lonely Position of Neutral
Unwed Sailor The Faithful Anchor
We're From Japan! 48 Minutes, 7 Seconds, Then The Open Air
Young Widows Old Wounds

2.5 average
Bad Brains Build A Nation
blink-182 blink-182
Chevelle Wonder What's Next
Circle Takes The Square As The Roots Undo
Ef Give Me Beauty...Or Give Me Death!
Foals Antidotes
Fort Minor The Rising Tied
Four Hundred Years Suture and Other Songs
Gifts From Enola Loyal Eyes Betrayed The Mind
Helmet Size Matters
Helmet Aftertaste
Jandek Blue Corpse
Killradio Raised on Whipped Cream
Linkin Park/Jay Z Collision Course (The Ulitmate Mash-Up)
Loscil Plume
M83 Saturdays=Youth
Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Our Lady Peace Spiritual Machines
Pilate Into the West
Russian Circles Enter
Sleepmakeswaves In Today Already Walks Tomorrow
Sonic Youth Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star
Sonic Youth Destroyed Room: B-Sides And Rarities
The Impossibles Anthology
The Mae Shi Terrorbird
TRUSTcompany True Parallels
Unwed Sailor The White Ox

2 poor
Bad Brains Rise
Bad Brains God of Love
blink-182 Enema Of The State
Catch 22 Permanent Revolution
Helmet Monochrome
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Our Lady Peace Healthy In Paranoid Times
Slough Feg Atavism
The Fiery Furnaces Widow City
The Shins Wincing the Night Away
The Trews House of Ill fame
The Trews Den of Thieves
Theory Of A Deadman Gasoline
Time of Orchids Namesake Caution
Unwed Sailor Little Wars
Yellowcard Lights And Sounds

1.5 very poor
Linkin Park Meteora
Our Lady Peace Gravity
Three Days Grace One-X

1 awful
Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing
Coheed and Cambria Live At La Zona Rosa
Hawthorne Heights The Silence In Black And White
Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely
Limp Bizkit Results May Vary
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight
Linkin Park Reanimation
Paris Hilton Paris
Simple Plan No Helmets, No Pads... Just Balls
Simple Plan A Small Package for You
Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any...
Tegan and Sara The Con

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