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5 classic
Animal Collective Feels
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective Sung Tongs
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
I first heard Bon Iver's masterpiece, For Emma, Forever Ago, all the way back in October in 07, where, at my cousin's house, we listened to the album around ten times. I posted a review of it here, where it got little attention. I listened to the album sporadically since then, but it wasn't until February until I manned up and bought this work, and I released how truly great this was. For Emma is the best album of both 2007 and 2008, to be honest, and I would've definitely put it on my top ten of 07 list if I had been exposed to this more. For Emma mostly consists of wintery, minimal folk with elements of soul ("Flume"), pop ("Skinny Love"), and even some gospel ("Lump Sum") to keep it from becoming stale. Iver's voice is high-pitched and beautiful, and complements the minimalism of the album beautifully. And when Iver plugs in ("Team", "Creature Love") and shows off some guitar prowess along with his songwriting skills, the results are nothing less than perfect. For Emma is a masterpiece. Get it.
Burial Untrue
Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless
Elliott Smith Elliott Smith
Eric's Trip Love Tara
An unbelievably emotional and striking release. Eric's Trip may toil in obscurity today, but this opus, mixing distorted rockers, acoustic heartbreakers, and raucous punk, deserves to be remembered.
Guided By Voices Alien Lanes
Guided By Voices Bee Thousand
Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs
Magrudergrind 62 Trax Of Thrash
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister
Minutemen Double Nickels On the Dime
Red House Painters Red House Painters I
Richard Youngs Sapphie
Say Anything Say Anything
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Stars Of The Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline
A two-hour monster that never bores and easily outclasses anything else this Texan two-piece has ever attempted and created before. This is far-reaching ambient/drone that never bores, not even during the seventeen-minute "December Hunting for Vegetarian Fuckface", which is also the greatest song title ever. TRUFF
The Microphones The Glow pt.2
this is a really good album and i want to rate this a 5 but it wont let me
Tom Waits Rain Dogs
Warning Watching From a Distance
basically one of the best metal albums ever and more people really need to check this shit out
Wilco Being There
Wilco Sky Blue Sky
Wilco Summerteeth
Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

4.5 superb
90 Day Men To Everybody
Animal Collective Fall Be Kind
AC's hype machine is rolling again. And, yes, this is fantastic.
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II
Arcade Fire Funeral
Arcade Fire Neon Bible
Arthur Russell Love is Overtaking Me
Arvo Part Alina
Belong October Language
Blackalicious Blazing Arrow
Bon Iver Blood Bank
The perfect aftermath of the masterpiece that was For Emma, Forever Ago. "Woods" isn't bad at all either, you guys just be trippin'.
Bright Eyes Lifted or the Story is in the Soil...
Bruce Springsteen Born To Run
Can Tago Mago
Can Ege Bamyasi
Christina Carter Masque Femine
Common Resurrection
Converge Jane Doe
Cursive Domestica
Cynic Traced In Air
Dan Deacon Bromst
Death Symbolic
Death The Sound of Perseverance
Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030
Discordance Axis Jouhou
Distance My Demons
DOOM Vaudeville Villain
Elliott Smith New Moon
Elliott Smith XO
Elliott Smith Either/Or
Eric's Trip Purple Blue
Purple Blue's a bit more stiched together and uneven than Eric's Trip's seminal album, Love Tara, but the songwriting talents of Rick White and Julie Doiron make this album fantastic anyways. The best part may be the sloppy, nine-minute intro, but the entire album, which shows the band experimenting with a shinier and nicer produced sound, is great. An excellent mix of distorted indie rock mixed with sappy melodic pop.
Fennesz Black Sea
Flying Lotus Los Angeles
Funeral Diner The Underdark
Glenn Branca The Ascension
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Gospel The Moon is A Dead World
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
will probably be a classic on subsequent listens.
Guided By Voices Under the Bushes Under the Stars
Guided By Voices Tonics and Twisted Chasers
Hallucinogen Twisted
Harvey Milk Special Wishes
Had to bump this up to a 4.5. Harvey Milk proves they're the greatest band ever even after a nine or so year absence. The riff on "Instrumental" is probably the greatest thing ever written.
Harvey Milk Life... The Best Game in Town
Harvey Milk Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men
His Hero is Gone Monuments to Thieves
Iron Lung Sexless //No Sex
Jack Rose Kensington Blues
Jack Rose Dr Ragtime & Pals / Self Titled
Jerome's Dream Completed 1997 - 2001
Joanna Newsom Ys
Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender
John Fahey The Yellow Princess
John Fahey Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice)
John Frusciante The Will to Death
John Zorn Naked City
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye
Kidcrash Jokes
Leonard Cohen Songs Of Love And Hate
Lil Wayne Da Drought 3
Da Drought 3 is a lengthy, two-disc mammoth that features nothing more than borrowed beats from other artists and Wayne's creative and very, very stoned rhymes. It has no reason for being as good as it is, but somehow, the album's iceberg-pacing lulls you into a stoned stupor that you just can't manage to get out. If it wasn't for M.I.A., this would easily be the best album of 2007. Roll some blunts, and check out this shit.
Madvillain Madvillainy
Marissa Nadler Little Hells
marissa nadler is completely gorgeous, so its not a surprise that little hells is so beautiful
maudlin of the Well Part the Second
Melvins Bullhead
Melvins Stag
Melvins Houdini
Moss Tombs of the Blind Drugged
Mount Eerie Dawn
easily the best thing phil elvrum's done in years. nineteen slow-burning folk tunes that all contribute to dawn's considerable flow while remaining great songs in their own right.
Municipal Waste Hazardous Mutation
Nadja Radiance of Shadows
Nadja Touched
Nasum Shift
Neu! Neu! '75
Neu! Neu!
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Nirvana In Utero
Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe
Opeth Blackwater Park
Organized Konfusion Stress: The Extinction Agenda
Pavement Slanted and Enchanted
Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Paysage d'Hiver Winterkaelte
Winterkaelte is one hell of a listen--the average song length adds up to fourteen minutes, and there happens to be six of them--but it's well worth it. Blankets of noise, ambience, and Tobias Mockl's bloodcurdling screams seem to make a terrifying listen to the untrained ear, but if you listen closely, you can make out the elegance and beauty hidden under the roar. The ambient parts are calming and relaxing, and when the actual black metal comes in, it's enough to make your heart skip a beat. After a near month of listening to this every night, and as fall and winter starts to blanket my part of the Earth, it's safe to rank this as a truly classic album.
Pg. 99 Document # 8
Philip Glass Einstein on the Beach
Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb
Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard
Polvo In Prism
Propagandhi Supporting Caste
Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
Red House Painters Down Colorful Hill
Red House Painters Old Ramon
Saint Vitus Saint Vitus
Say Anything In Defense of the Genre
I want to know what crack I was smoking when I first rated this album. Repeativeness? Brain-numbing? What the fu[FONT="Verdana"]c[/FONT]k, self? Maybe its because I've been through just as many bullsh[FONT="Verdana"]i[/FONT]t relationships as vocalist/songwriter Max Bemis that I've finally been able to see this album as the criminally overlooked classic that it is. In Defense of the Genre consists of mostly sharp-edged pop punk that briefly touches on the music-executive themes its title seems to convey, with electronica touches and creative hooks and lyrics abound that makes sure the album never gets stale. Lots of s[FONT="Verdana"]h[/FONT]it has been said about the hundred-minute length and the overload of guests, but all I can tell you is that this is Say Anything's opus; it is Max Bemis's testament, and it is without flaws. Pick this up NOW.
Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy
Scarface The Diary
Sigh Hangman's Hymn
Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit
Sonic Youth Washing Machine
Sonic Youth EVOL
Steven R. Smith Tableland
Fucking awesome freaky-assed drone stuff. Smith amazes with a six-part epic that ranks among the best drone stuff I've ever heard, utalizing multiple effects along with strong guitar playing to create a layered and relaxing sound. Good to smoke to.
Steven R. Smith Owl
Owl is the most tuneful work Steven R. Smith has ever made, sacrificing the Charalambides-esque drones of earlier masterpieces like Crown of Marches in favor for twisted psyched-out rock. Smith embraces his Strat more than ever for this album, soaking every track in a whiskey-soaked reverb that tends to ominously contrast with his hopeful vocals. The result is an album that can sometimes be too similar to psych-folk albums by Ben Chasny for comfort, but that never takes away the enjoyment and emotion of this stark album. Smith's most traditional, and possibly his best, album.
Sun City Girls 330,003 Crossdressers From Beyond the Rig Veda
Sun Kil Moon April
Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway
Sunn O))) Dømkirke
Talk Talk Laughing Stock
The Antlers Hospice
This is so damn good. Hospice is an expandable indie album that's as personal and level-headed as it is extravagant. A must get.
The Drones Gala Mill
The Fiery Furnaces Blueberry Boat
A lengthy album bubbling with esoteric instrumentation and featuring unpredictable songs that can shift from distinct electronica to orchestal indie pop to rock, all in the first ten-minute track. Maybe the best indie pop album of this decade, if you can limit this long-reaching work to that simple classification, and one you need to get. Review coming soon.
The Fun Years Baby, It's Cold Inside
The Microphones It Was Hot We Stayed In The Water
The National Alligator
The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave
The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site
Time of Orchids Sarcast While
Tiny Vipers Life on Earth
Tom Waits Orphans
Trespassers William Different Stars
Ulver Bergtatt
Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You
Ween The Mollusk
Wilco Kicking Television: Live in Chicago
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I
William Fitzsimmons Until When We Are Ghosts
Yo La Tengo Popular Songs
how come when i upload album art it always works for me but never for you bozos
also album rules

4 excellent
1000 Funerals Portrait Of A Dream
Some rather good funeral doom metal... full review after repeated listens, but I'm rather liking this.
A Day In Black And White My Heroes Have Always Killed Cowboys
A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of Rhythm
A Wilhelm Scream Ruiner
Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose
Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain
Aidan Baker Green & Cold
Just when I thought I'd heard everything 2008 had to offer, I found this gem. Nadja on a more isolated, easier to listen to scale. The perfect album to listen to when you're taking a bath and reading Catch-22.
Akron/Family Set em Wild, Set em Free
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam
Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album
Arghoslent Incorrigible Bigotry
Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom
Arvo Part Tabula Rasa
Assuck Anticapital/Blindspot
Assuck Misery Index
Atlas Sound Logos
Autechre Amber
Autechre Incunabula
Bat For Lashes Fur and Gold
Battles Mirrored
Benoit Pioulard Temper
Bibio Ambivalence Avenue
Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Black Milk Tronic
Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell
Black Sabbath Master of Reality
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath
Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun
Boris Rock Dream
A long, awesome live release. Boris is smart to play their best songs here--included is high-rate material such as a forty-minute version of "Feedbacker" and "Pink"--and Merzbow adds his typical, awesome, noisy flair to each track. A must-buy for any Boris or stoner-rock-metal-noise-holy-shit-fan.
Boxcutter Oneiric
Nothing is better than discovering an album that not many others have heard, or feel is as great as you do, and completely loving it. I dunno how to explain it well, but you just feel more personal about it, as if that album's your own. I felt this way about Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago, way back in October, and I still kind of do, even if that album has become the most critically acclaimed work of this year. I also feel this way about Boxcutter's Oneiric. Oneiric isn't a very easy album to listen to: combining sharp, angular drums, horror-movie sound effects, industrial-ish distortions, dubstep beats, and altered "singing" straight out of Burial's debut, Oneiric is a smorgasbord of sounds, creepiness, and innovation. The album sustains its hour-plus runtime well due to some of the more creative tracks you'll ever hear: "Bad You Do", which is easily one of the highlights of the album, takes a pristine soul sample, places on top of sluggish ambience, fills out the rhythm section with a drum and bass beat that Goldie could have written, and adds an irresistible funky bass sound that seems like an actual human played it, and not robots. "Chlorophyll" is even more calming, with ear-popping bass that never really speeds up, scratchy synths that are reminiscent of IDM, and crickets. And crickets make any album. To put it simply, Boxcutter's Oneiric is the best album you've never heard. Now get to it.
Brainbombs Obey
Brand New The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors
Bruce Springsteen The Rising
Bruce Springsteen Nebraska
Burial Burial
Burzum Filosofem
Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Caina Mourner
Can Future Days
Can Monster Movie
Charles Bronson Complete Discocrappy
Christina Carter Original Darkness
Church of Misery Houses of the Unholy
Circle Takes The Square As The Roots Undo
cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD
Coalesce OX
With OX, I learned that the only way you can be a good metalcore band is if your band name's definition is "come together" or something of that sort
Coil Musick to Play in the Dark 2
Coldworld Melancholie²
Common Like Water for Chocolate
Converge No Heroes
Converge Petitioning The Empty Sky
Converge When Forever Comes Crashing (Remastered)
Converge Axe To Fall
Cryptopsy None So Vile
Cynic Focus
Dalek Absence
Dalek Gutter Tactics
Darkspace Dark Space II
Darkthrone A Blaze In the Northern Sky
Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon
Davwuh Dystopia
Death Individual Thought Patterns
Death Human
Death in June But, What Ends When the Symbols Shatter?
Deerhunter Microcastle
Derek Bailey Standards
Derek Bailey Ballads
Derek Bailey Pieces for Guitar
DJ Shadow Endtroducing
DJ Sprinkles Midtown 120 Blues
Drudkh Forgotten Legends
Drudkh Autumn Aurora
Dystopia Human = Garbage
Dystopia Dystopia
Electric Wizard Witchcult Today
Electric Wizard Dopethrone
Elliott Smith Roman Candle
Elzhi The Preface
Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse
Emperor As the Shadows Rise EP
Empyrium Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays
Eric's Trip Forever Again
Flying Lotus 1983
Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing
Grew on me majorly over the last quarter of the year. An unbelievable mix of noisy, brain-melting drones with a healthy dose of melody that makes even its more imposing songs (most sit at around the ten-minute mark anyways) easily digestible.
Gang Starr Daily Operation
Gaza He Is Never Coming Back
Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die
Ghostface Killah Ironman
Glenn Branca Symphony No. 1 (Tonal Plexus)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F# A# ∞
Grand Belial's Key Judeobeast Assassination
Grief Come to Grief
Grouper Way Their Crept
Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Guided By Voices Same Place the Fly Got Smashed
GZA Liquid Swords
Have A Nice Life Deathconsciousness
Hood Cold House
Hot Cross Cryonics
Immolation Close To A World Below
Infidel?/Castro! Bioentropic Damage Fractal
Insect Warfare World Extermination
Intrusion The Seduction of Silence
Iron Lung Life. Iron Lung. Death.
J Dilla Donuts
Jack Rose Raag Manifestos
Jack Rose I Do Play Rock and Roll
Jack Rose Two Originals Of...
Japandroids Post-Nothing
Jay-Z American Gangster
Jay-Z The Blueprint
Jaylib Champion Sound
Joanna Newsom Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band
John Fahey Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes
John Fahey is easily one of the greatest guitarists of all time, pioneering a fingerpicking style that would be constantly imitated by artists such as Jack Rose, Sir Richard Bishop, and Elliott Sharp. While I do favor the long-form improvisations of America and Fare Forward Voyagers more than this longer, sprawling album, this is my third favorite work by Fahey, featuring more consise, spookier compostitions. This album was recorded twice, in 1963 and 1967, but the '63 version is much better. The songs are sparser and more crafty, but for your money, just buy the bundle that includes both versions: the differences are vast enough for you to be entertained. One of Fahey's most magical works.
John Fahey America
John Fahey was a hell of a man, an amazing guitarist that spearheaded an entire improvisational movement, and the creator of some of the finest albums ever recorded. America is one of these: a seventy-five minute (if you have the reissue) epic that features some of Fahey's most invigorating playing and his more ambitious tracks. The fifteen-minute "Voice of the Turtle" is a classic for the ages, as is this entire album.
John Frusciante Curtains
John Frusciante Shadows Collide With People
Joshua Fit For Battle To Bring Our Own End
Julie Doiron I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
Kanye West 808s And Heartbreak
Kanye West Late Registration
Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
Kidcrash Snacks
Kite Flying Society [FL] A Discography
Lil Wayne Tha Carter II
Lindstrom Where You Go I Go Too
Low Things We Lost in the Fire
Low Long Division
Lupe Fiasco The Cool
Madlib Beat Konducta Vol 1-2: Movie Scenes
Marissa Nadler Songs III: Bird on the Water
Mastodon Blood Mountain
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map
maudlin of the Well Bath
maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible
Max Richter The Blue Notebooks
Melvins A Senile Animal
Melvins Stoner Witch
mewithoutYou Catch for Us the Foxes
mewithoutYou A to B: Life
mewithoutYou It's all crazy! It's all false! It's all
I just think that it'd be weird as hell if any of these songs were actually played at a Christian campfire
Mount Eerie No Flashlight
Mount Eerie Wind's Poem
Phil Elvrum grew some enormous fucking balls last winter and Wind's Poem is the proof.
My Bloody Valentine Loveless
My Bloody Valentine Tremolo EP
Nadja Thaumogenesis
Nadja The Bungled & the Botched
Nadja Bodycage
Nadja Skin Turns To Glass
Naked City Torture Garden
Nasum Inhale/Exhale
Neu! Neu! 2
Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets
Neurosis Times of Grace
Neurosis Through Silver in Blood
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Henry's Dream
Opeth Still Life
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse
Organized Konfusion Organized Konfusion
Orphans of Cush White Noize
Paysage d'Hiver Nacht
Pg. 99 Document #7
Pg. 99 Document #5
Pissed Jeans Hope for Men
Pixies Surfer Rosa
Quasimoto The Unseen
Reverend Bizarre III: So Long Suckers
Reverend Bizarre In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend
Richard Youngs Autumn Response
Richard Youngs Beyond the Valley of Ultrahits
Saetia A Retrospective
Saint Vitus Born Too Late
Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release)
Scarface The Fix
Scarface My Homies
Scarface Mr. Scarface Is Back
Shugo Tokumaru Night Piece
Sir Richard Bishop While My Guitar Violently Bleeds
Sir Richard Bishop Salvador Kali
Six Organs Of Admittance Dark Noontide
Six Organs Of Admittance Compathia
Skepticism Alloy
Skycamefalling 10.21
Sleep Dopesmoker
Smashing Pumpkins Adore
Smog The Doctor Came at Dawn
Sol Let There Be A Massacre
Songs: Ohia Magnolia Electric Co
Sonic Youth Murray Street
Sonic Youth Confusion is Sex/Kill Yr Idols
Sonic Youth Goo
Sonic Youth Sister
Sonic Youth The Eternal
Steve Von Till A Grave is a Grim Horse
Steven R. Smith Crown of Marches
Suffocation Pierced From Within
Suma Let the Churches Burn
this is so good people who don't like this tend to be sludge-hating christians that wont let the churches burn
Swans Soundtracks For The Blind
Swans were known back in the Eighties throughout the underground for making some of the most terrifying music known to man. Soundtracks For The Blind, the double disk opus that is also Swans's last album, is a very terrifying album. Only while those Eighties, no-wave behemoths Swans released terrified you through sheer noise, Soundtracks For The Blind performs its torture in a different style: pure tension. Nearly two-and-a-half hours of ominous instrumentals, post-rock-influenced build-ups, and Michael Gira's depressing vocals make Soundtracks For The Blind anything but an easy listen, but like many difficult endeavors, it is a rewarding one. A full, more comprehensive review soon.
Talking Heads Fear of Music
Talking Heads Remain In Light
Television Marquee Moon
The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha
The Bug London Zoo
The Dodos Visiter
The Dodos Time to Die
The Drones Havilah
The Field Yesterday and Today
The Field From Here We Go Sublime
The Fiery Furnaces Rehearsing My Choir
The Flaming Lips Embryonic
Just the fact that the Flaming Lips are doing something so different makes this a worthy record. And plus it's really really good. Rating will change as I listen more to this 70 minute behemoth
The Lonely Island Incredibad
The National Boxer
The Notorious B.I.G. Ready To Die
The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat
The Weakerthans Reunion Tour
The Weakerthans Left and Leaving
The Wrens Meadowlands
The XX xx
Thrice The Illusion of Safety
Thrice Beggars
Toby Driver In the L..L..Library Loft
Tom Waits Bone Machine
Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Various Production The World is Gone
Vashti Bunyan Just Another Diamond Day
Von Satanic Blood Angel
Warning The Strength to Dream
Ween The Pod
Ween Pure Guava
Ween God Ween Satan:The Oneness
Why? Elephant Eyelash
Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters
Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade
World's End Girlfriend Hurtbreak Wonderland
Young Widows Old Wounds
{{Sunset}} The Glowing City

3.5 great
A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders
A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory
A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide
Acid Witch Witchtanic Hellucinations
rasputin is really really gay for not liking this and he should go die in a fire
D:
Agalloch Pale Folklore
Aidan Baker At the Fountain of Thirst
Freezing soundscapes from that guy who makes up one half on Nadja. This really can't be listened to as anything more than background music, but it's the most enveloping background music ever created.
Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God
Aussitot Mort Montuenga
Autechre Tri Repetae++
Benn Jordan Louisiana Mourning
Black Milk Popular Demand
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Blut Aus Nord Ultima Thulee
Bruce Springsteen Magic
Burzum Det Som Engang Var
Cam'ron Purple Haze
I love Cam'ron, he's absolutely hilarious and always there with his unique style. This is classic Dipset, the beats go hard, and Cam's lyrics stay with it.
Catfight On A Hotdog Turned Into A Pillar Of Salt
Coil Musick To Play In The Dark
Combatwoundedveteran I Know A Girl Who Develops Crime Scene Photos
Condo Fucks Fuckbook
Yo La Tengo returns, with a different name and same irreverent attitude, with Fuckbook, a mostly cohesive collection of covers that's actually pretty damn good. They also continue to make their case for being the best indie rock band of the past twenty years, which is a case I fully support.
Converge You Fail Me
Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes
Daitro Y
Darkspace Dark Space I
Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger
Dead Can Dance Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun
Death Leprosy
Death Scream Bloody Gore
Dinosaur Jr. Farm
DOOM Born Like This
Electric Masada At the Mountains of Madness
Elliott Smith From A Basement On The Hill
Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Explosions In The Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
Fennesz Endless Summer
Forest As A Song In The Harvest Of Grief
fun. Aim and Ignite
Geto Boys The Geto Boys
Ghostface Killah Fishscale
Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele
Grief Dismal
Guided By Voices Mag Earwhig!
Guided By Voices Vampire on Titus
Harmonic 313 When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence
Harvey Milk My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment...
Harvey Milk The Pleaser
Hellnation Cheerleaders for Imperialism
I Shalt Become Wanderings
Insect Warfare Insect Warfare
Isis Celestial
Jandek Later On
John Fahey Volume 6: Days Have Gone By
John Fahey The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
John Frusciante To Record Only Water for Ten Days
John Frusciante Smile From the Streets You Hold
Lil Wayne Dedication 2
Lil Wayne Tha Carter III Sessions
Madlib Shades of Blue
Madlib Beat Konducta Vol. 5: Dil Cosby Suite
Madlib Beat Konucta Vol. 6: Dil Withers Suite
Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses
Mesa Verde The Old Road
Micachu Jewellery
Mineral EndSerenading
Moss Sub Templum
Moss Cthonic Rites
Mount Eerie Black Wooden Ceiling Opening
Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom
My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything
Nadja Truth Becomes Death
Nadja Trembled
Nadja I Have Tasted the Fire Inside Your Mouth
Nadja Bliss Torn From Emptiness
Naked City Radio
Napalm Death From Enslavement To Obliteration
Nas Illmatic
Nasum Grind Finale
Neu! Neu! 4
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds No More Shall We Part
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In
NWA Straight Outta Compton
Off Minor Some Blood
Opeth Deliverance
P.O.S. Never Better
Pagan Altar Mythical & Magical
Panopticon Panopticon
Patrick Wolf The Bachelor
Pavement Wowee Zowee
Paysage d'Hiver Paysage d'Hiver
Pg. 99 Document #12
Pharoahe Monch Desire
Pharoahe Monch Internal Affairs
Pig Destroyer Terrifyer
Pixies Doolittle
Poison The Well The Tropic Rot
Portishead Third
Portraits Of Past 0100101110100011100100100
Reverend Bizarre II: Crush The Insects
Richard Youngs May
Shocking Pinks Shocking Pinks
Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland
Shugo Tokumaru Exit
Sibylle Baier Colour Green
Six Organs Of Admittance The Sun Awakens
Slaughterhouse Slaughterhouse
Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
Sombres Forets Royaume De Glace
Sonic Youth Sonic Nurse
Sonic Youth SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century
Sonic Youth SYR1: Anagrama [EP]
Sonic Youth Confusion is Sex
Spazz Crush Kill Destroy
Stars Of The Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
Sun City Girls Torch of the Mystics
Talib Kweli Reflection Eternal/Train of Thought
Talk Talk Spirit of Eden
Talking Heads Stop Making Sense
Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food
The Decemberists The Hazards Of Love
The Fiery Furnaces EP
The Fiery Furnaces I'm Going Away
The Microphones Mount Eerie
The Microphones Tests
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Weakerthans Fallow
Thrice Vheissu
Time of Orchids Namesake Caution
Tusk The Resisting Dreamer
UGK UGK (Underground Kingz)
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
Verse Aggression
Ween Chocolate and Cheese
Wilco Wilco (The Album)
Wire Pink Flag
Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars
Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

3 good
Abigor Abigor - Nachthymnen (From the Twilight Kingdom)
Agalloch The Mantle
Aphex Twin I Care Because You Do
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti The Doldrums
Armia Legenda
Bat For Lashes Two Suns
Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Beware!
Bruce Springsteen Working On A Dream
Bucket Full Of Teeth IV
Charalambides Market Square
A weird, double-album length drone album that alternates between the extremely noisy and serene. It's good, but Charalambides let this album get a bit too lengthy for its own good. Good for getting stoned or the extremely patient, but not something I'd recommend.
Circle Takes The Square Circle Takes the Square
cLOUDDEAD Ten
Coil The Ape of Naples
Combatwoundedveteran This is Not an Erect, All-Red Neon Body
Comets on Fire Blue Cathedral
Common Be
Common One Day It'll All Make Sense
Cursive The Ugly Organ
Cut Copy In Ghost Colours
Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains
Dalek Abandoned Language
Darkest Hour The Eternal Return
Darkspace Dark Space III
Darkthrone F.O.A.D.
Death in June Rose Clouds of Holocaust
Deathspell Omega Si Monumentum Requires Circumspice
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist
Deftones White Pony
Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca
DOOM MM ... Food
Elegi Varde
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem Relapse
Empyrium Songs of Moors and Misty Fields
Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab
Ghostlimb Bearing & Distance
Giant Squid The Ichthyologist
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To
GZA Legend Of The Liquid Sword
Hot Cross Fair Trades And Farewells EP
Immolation Unholy Cult
In The Woods... HEart Of The Ages
In The Woods... Omnio
Incantation Diabolical Conquest
Isis In the Absence of Truth
Isis Oceanic
J Dilla The Shining
Jay-Z The Black Album
Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt
John Frusciante The Empyrean
John Mayer Battle Studies
John Zorn The Dreamers
Kanye West The College Dropout
Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward
Krieg Blue Miasma
Leo Kottke 6 and 12 String Guitar
Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen
Lil Wayne Dedication 3
Low Trust
M. Ward Hold Time
Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything To Nothing
Mark Hollis Mark Hollis
Melvins Honky
Melvins Lysol
Mos Def Black On Both Sides
Moss Icon Lyburnum
Municipal Waste The Art of Partying
My Bloody Valentine You Made Me Realise
Nadja Desire in Uneasiness
Nadja Guilted by the Sun
Naked City Grand Guignol
Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Murder Ballads
Nirvana Bleach
Off Minor Innominate
Orchid Chaos Is Me
Pig Destroyer Painter of Dead Girls
Pig Destroyer 38 Counts Of Battery
Pixies Trompe Le Monde
Platinum Pied Pipers Abundance
Portraits Of Past Discography
A long discography that features some great material, but, like most discographies, is ultimately too choppy and long to be really enjoyable. A solid collection of tracks from an underrated band though, despite its seventy-minute runtime.
Quasimoto The Further Adventures of Lord Quas
Red House Painters Ocean Beach
Richard Swift Dressed Up for the Letdown
Saint Vitus The Walking Dead
Scarface Emeritus
Sebadoh Bubble and Scrape
Shining V - Halmstad
Silversun Pickups Swoon
Sir Richard Bishop Fingering the Devil
Six Organs Of Admittance School of the Flower
Six Organs Of Admittance Shelter from the Ash
Sonic Youth Rather Ripped
Sonic Youth SYR3: Invito Al Cielo [EP]
Sonic Youth Dirty
Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising
Sun City Girls Horse Cock Phepner
Sunn O))) Black One
T.I. Paper Trail
Talking Heads Talking Heads '77
Tenhi Kauan
The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death
The Fall Of Troy Doppelganger
The Fiery Furnaces Widow City
The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta!
The Microphones Window
The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death
The Velvet Underground Loaded
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III and IV...
Thurston Moore Trees Outside the Academy
Tiamat Wildhoney
Tortoise TNT
Trophy Scars Hospital Music
TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain
United Nations United Nations
Volcano Choir Unmap
Wilco A Ghost is Born
{{Sunset}} Bright Blue Dream

2.5 average
A Wilhelm Scream Mute Print
Agalloch The White EP
Aghast Consumer
American Music Club Mercury
American Music Club Everclear
Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today
Andrew Bird Noble Beast
Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum
Black Moth Super Rainbow Eating Us
Blackalicious The Craft
Bright Eyes Cassadaga
Bring Me The Horizon Suicide Season
Bruce Springsteen Tunnel Of Love
Bruce Springsteen Born In The USA
Clues Clues
Common Finding Forever
Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen
The first half of Cursive's sixth album is excellent; everything after ranges from god-awful to mediocre. Tim Kasher's lyrics are particularly terrible, returning to the meaningful self-loathing of Domestica without any of the meaning. All that remains is pitiful bullshit. Song-wise, Mama, I'm Swollen is irresistably catchy for its first few tracks, but everything after "Donkeys" is annoyingly overwraught and boring. Songs like "Let Me Up" and "We're Going To Hell" are a bit too self-satisfied and annoying, as if Kasher's depressed, but egotistical about it. A complete disappointment.
Daitro Des Cendres, Je Me Consumme
Darkthrone Panzerfaust
Dead Can Dance The Serpent's Egg
Death Spiritual Healing
Deerhunter Cryptograms
DJ Shadow The Private Press
Eminem The Slim Shady LP
Explosions In The Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone
I Would Set Myself On Fire For You I Would Set Myself On Fire For You
Ildjarn Forest Poetry
Isis Wavering Radiant
Isis Panopticon
Joan of Arc Flowers
John Frusciante Niandra Lades And Usually Just A T-Shirt
Kanye West Graduation
Krallice Krallice
Krieg The Black House
La Quiete La Fine Non È La Fine
Lil Wayne The Drought is Over Pt. 6: The Reincarnation
Lotus Plaza The Floodlight Collective
Low Drums and Guns
Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor
Maps and Atlases You and Me and the Mountain
Mastodon Crack the Skye
Nadja When I See The Sun Always Shines on TV
Napalm Death Scum
Nas STILLmatic
Neil Perry Lineage Situation
Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Nirvana Nevermind
Pixies Bossanova
Raein Nati da Altri Padri
Red House Painters Songs for a Blue Guitar
Saint Vitus V
Scarface Made
Sonic Youth SYR 7: J'accuse Ted Hughes/Agnes B Musique [EP]
Sonic Youth NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Sonic Youth SYR2: Slaapkamers Met Slagroom [EP]
Sonic Youth Sonic Youth
Spires Flowers and Fireworks
Suffocation Breeding the Spawn
Talib Kweli Eardrum
Terror One With The Underdogs
Terror Lowest Of The Low
The Decemberists Always the Bridesmaid EP
The Mars Volta Octahedron
The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground
Thrice The Alchemy Index: Vols. I and II...
Thurston Moore Psychic Hearts
Ween La Cucaracha
Wintersun Wintersun
Wire Chairs Missing
Woods Songs of Shame
Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever

2 poor
Asher Roth Asleep In The Bread Aisle
Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons, You...
Common Electric Circus
Cryptopsy Whisper Supremacy
Current 93 All the Pretty Little Horses
Drudkh Estrangement
Elliott Smith Figure 8
Eminem The Eminem Show
Explosions In The Sky Those Who Tell the Truth...
Fear Before Fear Before
Ghastly City Sleep Ghastly City Sleep
Ghostface Killah More Fish
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O
Guilty Simpson Ode To the Ghetto
GZA Pro Tools
Hot Cross Risk Revival
Jay-Z The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse
Jedi Mind Tricks Legacy of Blood
Jedi Mind Tricks Visions of Gandhi
Lil Wayne Tha Carter III
Lil Wayne The Drought Is Over Pt. 4
Mastodon Leviathan
Melvins Nude With Boots
Mos Def The New Danger
Neurosis Given to the Rising
Protest the Hero Fortress
Raein Il n'y Pas de Orchestre
Red House Painters Red House Painters II
Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes
Sonic Youth A Thousand Leaves
Sonic Youth Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star
T.I. T.I. vs. T.I.P.
Talib Kweli The Beautiful Struggle
Terror Always the Hard Way
Tom Vek We Have Sound
UNKLE War Stories
UNKLE Psyence Fiction
Xasthur Subliminal Genocide
Yonlu A Society In Which No Tear is Shed...

1.5 very poor
Blackalicious Nia
Bowerbirds Hymns for a Dark Horse
Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 2
Machine Head The Blackening
Rise Against Appeal To Reason
Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist
Snow Patrol A Hundred Million Suns
Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions
the last three minutes or so of "aghartha" sounds like someone farting terribly i'm not even kidding it made me laugh so hard. whoever did the vocals here made me lol so hard too.
and yeah this fucking blows.
The Fall Of Troy Manipulator
Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets

1 awful
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead The Century of Self
Between Nighttimes Shiver
Cryptopsy The Unspoken King
Cryptopsy Once Was Not
Eminem Encore
Immortal Technique The 3rd World
Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 1
Jay-Z Kingdom Come
Leathermouth XO
Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Suffocate For Fuck Sake Blazing Fires and Helicopters on the Fro
Bands like Suffocate For Fuck Sake are the reason the word "pretentious" was created. Hell, the full album title here is "Blazing Fires and Helicopters on the Frontpage of the Newspaper. There?s a War Going On and I?m Marching in Heavy Boots". No joke. Now I don't even know if I can fit the rest of my soundoff in here, so to quickly summarize Suffocate's sophomore album is needed: the band takes eight Off Minor songs, extends them to about six minutes each, adds some post-rock Sigur Ros-like ambience, and then adds three minutes of some random pervert speaking in Swedish over EVERY MOTHERFUCKING SONG. Good thing I like Off Minor and Sigur Ros, or else this would be very hard to listen to.

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