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Dinosaur Jr. Bug

Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me

You're Living All Over Me is the essential Dinosaur Jr release. Everything that is great about the band can be found here. This is, in a way, the perfect album. YLAOM is fun, catchy, and melodic, while at the same time bleak and depressing. J Mascis has a very fitting voice, and he is one of the best guitarists of his genre. Scratch that, he's one of the best guitarists ever. Songs like Little Fury Things and In A Jar are simply beautiful, and songs like Kracked and Tarpit are catchy and uplifting, yet melancholy at the very same time. This is easily one of the greatest albums of all-time. Dinosaur Jr. is definitely not for everybody, but if you want to become a fan, look here. It's mesmerizing; it's stunning; it's a classic.

Nick Drake Pink Moon

Nick Drake's final album, Pink Moon, is one of my favorite albums ever. One reason why this is great is because the songs come off as upbeat, when the lyrical themes are dark and melancholy, coming straight from Drake's heart. But on top of that, there are at least 100 reasons why this is a classic. On Pink Moon, Nick has no backing band. It's just him and his acoustic guitar. However, he is one of the best acoustic players ever. His playing style is simple yet technical at the same time, and is not easily copied. Also, the album is extremely accessible, and has a notoriously short length, making it an easy listen. Drake has a voice that's quite soothing and relaxing. Overall, Pink Moon is one of the best albums ever made. If the music was as dark as the lyrics, than maybe Pink Moon wouldn't be as wonderful. Anyway, I highly recommend this album, as you will be blown away. It's short, catchy, soothing, accessible, and just a classic album.

Nick Drake Five Leaves Left

Pixies Doolittle

Before I heard Doolittle for the first time, I had always liked the Pixies. On a whim, I bought Doolittle and it was one of the smartest decisions I had ever made. Doolittle has become one of my favorite albums ever, and I have listened to it over five-hundred times. It just never gets old. While there's plenty of alt rock that is bleak and no fun, Doolittle is the opposite. It's fifteen catchy songs with shouting, melody, awesome guitarwork, and a bunch of other stuff. It's like alt-pop. Every single song is catchy and just so fun to listen to. Songs like Wave Of Mutilation and Monkey Gone To Heaven are some of the greatest songs ever, and both are incredibly catchy. If you want a good time, go buy Doolittle right now. It's impossible to dislike, and I'm not joking.

The Beatles Rubber Soul

No band in the history of music progressed and matured like The Beatles did. When they hit the scene in '64, they were pretty bland in terms of song-writing and originality. Sure, they wrote some delightful pop songs, but they could do that forever. After just a short year of being the biggest thing since Elvis, they recorded Rubber Soul and blew everyone away. Nobody, and I mean nobody, could have guessed that The Beatles would end up writing songs like this. Before, nearly all of their songs dealt with love. Not on Rubber Soul. Sure, there are plenty of peppy pop songs dealing with love, but there's a sense of great maturity present that can be found on songs like In My Life and Norweigan Wood. It's not too psychedelic, not too bubblegum poppy, Rubber Soul is just right. It's my 2nd favorite Beatles album, and one of the best albums ever.

The Beatles Abbey Road

I'll keep things simple: Abbey Road is one of the greatest albums ever made. It's cheerful and upbeat yet dark and gloomy at the same time, it has a Ringo Starr drum solo, it has four to five tracks that run together as a single song, it has The Beatles' heaviest and longest song, it was made at a point in time when The Beatles hated each other but it's extremely hard to tell when listening to the album itself, and there are countless other reasons why this is a classic. It's my favorite Beatles album, and it's one of the best albums ever. Not a single bland moment goes by. Oh, and the cover is memorable and filled with Paul Is Dead clues and it's just awesome. Yeah.

4.5 superb

Dinosaur Jr. Beyond

Godspeed You! Black Emperor F# A# ∞

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti

Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible

My Bloody Valentine Loveless

Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Nick Drake Bryter Layter

Nirvana In Utero

Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York

Pixies Surfer Rosa

Radiohead OK Computer

Sonic Youth Sister

Sonic Youth Daydream Nation

The Beatles Revolver

The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour

The Beatles The Beatles

The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin

The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground and Nico

The Velvet Underground Loaded

Weezer Pinkerton

4 excellent

At the Drive-In Relationship of Command

Coheed and Cambria Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV...

Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

Coheed and Cambria Second Stage Turbine Blade

Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River

Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030

Dinosaur Jr. Hand It Over

Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur

DJ Shadow Endtroducing

Iron Maiden Powerslave

Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast

Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix Axis: Bold As Love

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin I

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy

Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go

Metallica Ride the Lightning

Metallica Master of Puppets

Mudhoney Mudhoney

Mudhoney Superfuzz Bigmuff

Nick Drake Way to Blue: An Introduction to Nick Drake

Nirvana Bleach

Nirvana Nevermind

Nirvana Incesticide

Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd The Wall

Pixies Bossanova

Pixies Trompe Le Monde

Radiohead The Bends

Radiohead Kid A

Rush 2112

Rush Hemispheres

Sonic Youth Goo

Sonic Youth EVOL

The Doors The Doors

The Doors Strange Days

The Doors Waiting For The Sun

The Doors Morrison Hotel

The Doors L. A. Woman

The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

The Mars Volta Frances the Mute

The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground

Weezer The Blue Album

3.5 great

Dinosaur Jr. Without a Sound

Dinosaur Jr. Where You Been?

Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island

Radiohead Hail To The Thief

Sonic Youth Dirty

The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat

3 good

Radiohead Amnesiac

The Doors The Soft Parade

2.5 average

Radiohead Pablo Honey

Weezer Green Album

Weezer Maladroit

2 poor

Korn MTV Unplugged: Korn

1.5 very poor

Metallica St. Anger

1 awful

Atreyu Best of Atreyu

Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor

Creed Greatest Hits

Limp Bizkit New Old Songs

P.O.D. Satellite

Weezer Make Believe