| 5 classic |
| Circle Takes The Square As The Roots Undo |
| Coheed and Cambria Neverender DVD |
| Deftones White Pony |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Starting off with one of my favorite songs of all time, WYWH is another Floyd masterpiece. After Shine On... part one, the band decides to throw in another masterfully crafted song, Welcome to the Machine. With such an opening, it's hard to be able to finish an album like this without it fizzling out, but this is what Floyd does best. Have a Cigar isn't an exceptional track by any means, but the song WYWH is an flawless acoustic-driving song, and the album closes with the later half of Shine On... and it's an unmissable experience. Anyone who hasn't listened to this needs to. A truly classic release. |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Doolittle is an instant classic. From the incredible opening Debaser to the closing Gouge Away, this album is almost none-stop perfection. Frank Black's vocals - abrasive shouts, calm whispers, catchy chorus and...panting (yup) - along with the drums, combined with simple yet catchy guitar and bass, create an original, influential and defining alternative rock album. It's impossible to pick the bestsongs, because the entire album is incredible from beginning to end. |
| Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes |
| A punk masterpiece. Lacking nothing, Propagandhi very well set themselves above everyone. Shredding guitars, perfect punk vocals, incredible drums, and thick basslines...it has it all. Perfect from the beginning, it's hard to see how a band with such talent and songwriting ability can be overlooked. Maybe the lyrics are just too left-winged and political? Whatever the reason may be, it's not enough justification for a band like this. |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Tool Aenima |
| Aenima is by far THE best Tool album. Every (actual) song is incredible: from the less-talked about H. to Eulogy and Third Eye. The fillers may be overdone, but some are quality, like Die Eier von Satan (a recipe in the vein of a Nazi rally) and A Message To Harry Manback. Each instrument brings huge talent to the table, with exceptional drumming, guitaring, and bass work. Maynard's vocals are also an exceptional highlight. It's truly impossible to fault the album in the area of their "real" songs - the only bad point to the album is the six (yes, SIX) filler tracks. |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| 4.5 superb |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| Alkaline Trio From Here To Infirmary |
| Alkaline Trio Goddamnit |
| Alkaline Trio/Hot Water Music Alkaline Trio/Hot Water Music Split |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom |
| Bad Brains Bad Brains |
| Bad Religion Generator |
| Bad Religion Suffer |
| Bad Religion No Control |
| Behemoth Demigod |
| Between The Buried And Me Colors |
| Binary Star Masters Of The Universe |
| Black Star Black Star |
| blink-182 blink-182 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| I'm not much of a black metal fan, but this is definitely the best this genre has to offer. A perfect blend of synth and guitar, brutality and melody, Varg has crafted an exceptional album through and through. The only downside is the low quality production, and if you can't take it, definitely Varg's vocal style. |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights |
| Ceremony Violence Violence |
| The album's title couldn't fit any better - pissed-off, in-your-face, and aggressive-as-fuck hardcore at its best. |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge Petitioning The Empty Sky |
| Converge Axe To Fall |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles |
| Cynic Traced In Air |
| Cynic Focus |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Dan Deacon Bromst |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Hot Water Music Fuel For The Hate Game |
| Hot Water Music Caution |
| Isis Oceanic |
| Isis Panopticon |
| Isis Wavering Radiant |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| This is one of the most awe-inspiring albums I've ever heard. The genre shifts are unexplainable, as is the entire album. The emotion this album conveys is overwhelming, from the heart-stopping vocal shrills of They Aren't All Beautiful, to soft calming beginning of Heaven and Weak. It's truly hard to talk about his album, because it's that incredible and mind-blowing. A true definition of classic. |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Modern Life Is War Witness |
| Operation Ivy Energy |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon |
| What more is there to be said that hasn't been? Songs like Time, Us and Them, and Brain Damage are some of the best songs ever written. Money contains one of the most recognizable basslines in all of modern music. There is no fault to be found, and this definitely deserves its throne atop the "Greatest Record of All Time." |
| Pink Floyd Pulse DVD |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| Portishead Third |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Propagandhi How to Clean Everything |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Rody soars and crawls his way through an epic landscape of slaying, pillaging, and decapitating. From his throaty growls and unreachable highs, his maturity really makes the album what it is - epic. Not content to just write brutal history, Arif pounds the bass through fills and a heavy low-end to remove all those pop comparisons that had arose from Kezia. The masterfully technical guitars gallop through the landscape while providing the backbone for each song. Overall, this is a spectacular album from start to finish. |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Rancid ...And Out Come The Wolves |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom |
| Sublime Sublime |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| Far beyond the average guitarist, Ben Weinman plays extremely complex and technical riffs. Each song is a technical masterpiece, with Ben lightning up each and every song with his fire. Dimitri Minakakis is a ferocious vocalist, screaming his way through each pounding, balls-to-the-wall track. With superb drumming on Chris' side, the album has no weakness. Countless copycats have followed in the wake, ditching everything preconceived as "standard" - time signatures, song structure, and more. A release that will be looked upon as classic in many years. |
| Thrice The Artist In The Ambulance |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Tool Lateralus |
| 4 excellent |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect |
| The best part about 10 Years is the vocals. Jesse Hasek is incredibly emotional and talented, and makes almost every line in the album catchy. A lot of comparisons are made to Tool, which is really justifiable, as the lyrics and vocals are far and above the average normal alternative band. Each track is amazing, and there's almost always a heavy chorus (another similarity to Tool). The bass is thick and always present, and the guitars always make their presence without taking too much away from the vocals. The drums are the same way, pounding through the heavier choruses, yet never get too focused. Overall, every song on here is great, but if I'd have to pick a few it'd be Insects, Wasteland, Cast it Out, Waking Up, Paralyzing Kings...oh damn, just listen to the whole thing. |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose |
| Alkaline Trio Good Mourning |
| Alkaline Trio Alkaline Trio |
| All Shall Perish The Price Of Existence |
| All Shall Perish come at you at full force and never let up. Ferocious blast beats, sweeping technical solos, and intense breakdowns, ASP are the premiere metalcore-fused Death Metal band and this album proves it beyond a doubt. |
| Amon Amarth With Oden On Our Side |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God |
| Aphex Twin I Care Because You Do |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Bad Religion Recipe for Hate |
| Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse? |
| Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms |
| Baroness Red Album |
| Between The Buried And Me Alaska |
| Between The Buried And Me The Silent Circus |
| Big D And The Kids Table Strictly Rude |
| Black Dice Repo |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants and Jacket |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer |
| Burial Untrue |
| Children Of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Coheed and Cambria Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV... |
| Coheed and Cambria Good Apollo...No World For Tomorrow |
| Coheed and Cambria Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 |
| Daft Punk Homework |
| Daitro Y |
| Dan Deacon Spiderman of the Rings |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Deicide Deicide |
| Dethklok The DethAlbum |
| *DISCLAIMER: Unlike the show, my soundoff is 100% serious.* Dethklok - I mean Brendon Small and Gene Hoglan, bring out one of the best death metal albums of all time. The songs lyrics are hilarious beyond believe, and the songs are amazingly well done. The best song on here has to be The Lost Vikings, a song about...lost vikings...which is done in a very Amon Amarth-like style. |
| Dillinger Four C I V I L W A R |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press |
| DJ Sprinkles Midtown 120 Blues |
| Dropkick Murphys The Warriors Code |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Fantomas Delirium Cordia |
| This is definitely not the record for a spin whenever. It's a 74 minute "song" - a musical journey, likened to having surgery without anesthesia - a fitting description. It's not really "music" - random blurps of sounds (medical tools clanking, screaming, clocks), percussion (an effective drum solo at 30:30), and ambience find their way into the record more so than the guitar or bass. There is also a lack of "singing" as it's more of Patton making percussion noises with his mouth, or other sounds. Some might say this is terrible, and shouldn't be considered music, but it's a work of a genius (albeit a very crazy one). It's hard to pin a rating, as there's never really been something like this before. It's a work of art, definitely, and something like this will definitely live on as a cult favorite. |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles |
| Flying Lotus 1983 |
| Gallows Grey Britain |
| Ghostlimb Bearing & Distance |
| Ghostlimb Ghostlimb |
| Gojira From Mars To Sirius |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
| HORSE The Band R. Borlax |
| HORSE the Band seems more like a joke, yet they play incredibly catchy music. Their fusion of 8-bit, techno-ish style synth and hardcore (and sometimes verging on power metal) is incredibly unique and almost every song on here is exceptional - Cutsman is by far one of the best songs I've heard in a very long time. Their mixture of heavy passages topped with a 'beeping' synth make this a very refreshing album in the mix of all this generic metalcore. |
| HORSE The Band The Mechanical Hand |
| Hot Water Music No Division |
| Innerpartysystem Innerpartysystem |
| Isis In the Absence of Truth |
| Justice Cross |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kataklysm In The Arms Of Devastation |
| KiD CuDi A KiD Named CuDi |
| KiD CuDi Man On The Moon: The End Of Day |
| Cudi may be having a bad trip but it'd be hard to make it better for the listener. Maybe if Common could just shut up and let us figure out for ourselves what's going on in Cudi's head. |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing |
| The start of "generic" metalcore or the "Killswitch" style, it's KsE dropping a huge bomb on the metalcore scene. From clean vocals to high-pitched screams and harsh grunts, Jesse Leach is an exceptional vocalist (though some may argue Howard is better), and the emotional clearly pours from his voice. The guitars are ferocious attacks and the drums pound through the speakers with huge force. The most troubling problem from the record is that the ending falls off, as all of the memorable songs (minus "Temple...") are all towards the beginning. |
| Kylesa Time Will Fuse Its Worth |
| Kylesa Static Tensions |
| LO MOdA Replica Watches |
| Mad Caddies Just One More |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Mastodon Remission |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Metallica Kill Em All |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life |
| Mos Def Black On Both Sides |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction |
| P.O.S. Audition |
| P.O.S. Never Better |
| Passion Pit Manners |
| Pharoahe Monch Desire |
| Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer |
| Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard |
| Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits |
| Propagandhi Less Talk, More Rock |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Rancid Let's Go |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Skeletonwitch Beyond the Permafrost |
| Suffocation Pierced From Within |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| The Aquabats The Fury of the Aquabats |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is A Dead Scene |
| The Faceless Akeldama |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone |
| The Offspring Smash |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index: Vols. I and II... |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead The Scars of Ages |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead The Annihilation of Expectation |
| Why? Alopecia |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters |
