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Black Sabbath Master of Reality

blink-182 Enema Of The State

Brand New The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me

Catch 22 Keasbey Nights

Circle Takes The Square As The Roots Undo

Converge Jane Doe

I swear to God that this is the perfect album for a girl breaking your heart. The lyrics, the music, the atmosphere...It's all there. I just wish this record didn't mean as much to me as it does, because my heart can't take it anymore. Thank you Jacob Bannon. Sometimes I wish I could grasp the emotion and pain that you express in this album. Then again, at other times I realize that that is a burden my body doesn't want to bear.

Cynic Focus

Dark Tranquillity The Gallery

Death Human

It is quite simply put, the greatest expression of traditional Death Metal ever written. Albeit only 34 minutes in length, Chuck Shuldiner?s 4th studio album with his legendary band named Death is the embodiment of what Death Metal, and all extreme metal should strive for. There is no wasted time, no weak riffs, nothing that isn?t inspiring and powerful. From the beginning ferociousness of Flattening Of Emotions, to the ending cascade of Vacant Planets, these 8 songs showcase the ingenuity of the premature subgenre, while still being able to go beyond the constraints of it to unseen territory, that many could argue have yet to have been equaled. Not to mention that the fact that this beast was written by the Godfather of Death Metal, in a time as early as 1991, speaks enough for itself.

Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me

Jay Mascis is most likely my favorite guitarist. He takes the most simple of ideas and expands of them, he flows with the music, and he showcases his talent in the most subtle and most powerful moments that one can. With his slight country draw, his wailing leads, and consistent songwriting, he has proven Dinosaur Jr to be the premier Indie Alternative Rock band of the last twenty years, yet he would not be anywhere if it were not for their legendary 1987 album, You’re Living All Over Me. Although it may never reach the same highs as his later works, it’s production may be lower, and his voice may be a bit off key, the Dino composed 10 songs that work more solidly together than any other outing of the entire 1980s (what a shitty decade). His lyrics are always simple, sweet, and genuine. The basslines never stray far enough outside the rhythm guitar, and the drums never take center stage, but it is in this album that Dinosaur Jr. is one band rather than a single man project, it is the embodiment of their energy and raw sound. 8 songs that add upon each other’s strengths, leading into the most chilling song they ever put out, Poledo. Quite simply put, creepy and confusing, it is a window into a different part of Mascis that is never shown again. It fades out with a long drone, into a cover of Just Like Heaven by the Cure, and they do it so much better than Robert Smith could have. Plus Lou Barlow’s growling mixed in with alternative music is just awesome.

Elliott Smith Either/Or

GZA Liquid Swords

Have A Nice Life Deathconsciousness

Jesu Silver

John Frusciante Niandra Lades And Usually Just A T-Shirt

King Crimson Red

Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd

maudlin of the Well Bath

Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Nick Drake Pink Moon

Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse

Pg. 99 Document # 8

Radiohead OK Computer

Sigur Ros ( )

Thrice The Artist In The Ambulance

Ulver Bergtatt

4.5 superb

7 Angels 7 Plagues Jhazmyne's Lullabye

And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar

Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion

At the Drive-In Relationship of Command

Bear vs. Shark Right Now You're in the Best of Hands

Between The Buried And Me Colors

Black Sabbath Black Sabbath

blink-182 blink-182

Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman

Converge You Fail Me

Converge Petitioning The Empty Sky

Converge When Forever Comes Crashing (Remastered)

Cynic Traced In Air

Death The Sound of Perseverance

Deerhunter Microcastle

Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030

Dinosaur Jr. Beyond

Dinosaur Jr. Farm

j mascis gets a blowjob from his guitar and makes it sound good for an hour

Dismember Like an Ever Flowing Stream

Dream Theater Images and Words

dredg El Cielo

Gospel The Moon is A Dead World

Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast

Iron Maiden Killers

Jesu Jesu

John Frusciante Shadows Collide With People

John Frusciante Curtains

John Frusciante The Empyrean

Killing The Dream Fractures

maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map

Megadeth Rust In Peace

mewithoutYou It's all crazy! It's all false! It's all

Opeth Blackwater Park

Panopticon Collapse

Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here

Queens Of The Stone Age Rated R

Radiohead The Bends

Rome Flowers From Exile

Sights And Sounds Monolith

Sigur Ros með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

Quite possibly the most surprising release of 2008, having followed the almost uninspired 4th studio album by Icelandic Post-Rock legends Sigur R?I did not think that this would show anything more than a continued downward trend. In fact I played the opening song Gobbledigook once, and immediately turned it off thinking that it was nothing more than crap. Then after my visit to UT in early November, I was asked why I don?t listen to happy music by two of the women I went to see there. I was quite simply put, offended. A day later from returning from the trip, I put this album back on and was completely and utterly floored by it. With A Buzz In Our Ears We Play Endlessly is quite simply put, a more powerfully hopeful record than anything I?ve ever heard before. From the playfulness of Inn??Syngur Vitleysingur, the unforeseen epic nature of Festival and ra B?r, to the lamenting hope of All Alright, Jonsi Birgisson creates the perfect environment for a reflective and joyous beauty. That even in the darkest and most subtle times, we can smile and listen to our music.

Suffocation Pierced From Within

Summoning Oath Bound

Summoning Minas Morgul

Sun Kil Moon April

Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway

The Allman Brothers Band Eat a Peach

The Allman Brothers Band Idlewild South

The Mars Volta Frances the Mute

The short listed giant named Frances the Mute more than met anyone's expectations to follow De-Loused in the Comatorium. The Mars Volta switched to a stronger progressive rock approach with more tone and pace changes, song intricacies, and song lead ins. Cassandra Gemini, the album closer, is a 32 minute monster and a masterpiece of prog rock. After a few strong listens, it has become a looking forward to what I call the magnum opus of the album and The Mars Volta thus far. But that aside, the rest of the album shouldn?t be discarded either. The entire album has a Latin flare to it that is undeniably enjoyable and relieving to hear. Cyngus...Vismund Cyngus and L'Via L'Viaquez are both great songs that have long outros that feature talking, birds chirping, post rock elements, and near ambience. This effect takes getting used to, and in my opinion is a little long between tracks 3 and 4, but still done quite well. The Widow, the radio hit of the album, is very entertaining, and the album's equivalent of Televators, but its ending is just too damn long. After such a great track, the music editing and effects just drag on for two minutes without change, a slight disappointment. Lastly, Miranda That Ghost Just Isnt Holy Anymore is an extremely beautiful slow song that is the most emotional and experimental of the five tracks. I wish it's beginning was shorter once again, but i have learned to put up with this. This album is an absolute must have, a grower that nestles into your heart with each listen. The Mars Volta define themselves with their sophomore effort.

The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium

Thrice Vheissu

Unbroken Life. Love. Regret.

Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters

Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars

4 excellent

Agalloch The Mantle

Alcest Souvenirs d'un autre Monde

American Football American Football

Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom

At the Drive-In Vaya EP

Atheist Unquestionable Presence

Baroness Red Album

Between The Buried And Me The Silent Circus

Black Sabbath Mob Rules

Black Sabbath Dehumanizer

Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks

Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago

Buried Inside Spoils Of Failure

Converge No Heroes

Converge Axe To Fall

Cursed III: Architects of Troubled Sleep

Dark Tranquillity Fiction

Dark Tranquillity Damage Done

Dark Tranquillity The Mind's I

Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin

Dinosaur Jr. Where You Been?

At first the album seemed linear, one-angled, and it dragged on a bit towards the end. Yet, upon further, deeper listens, the music began to speak to me in a different way. It doesn't grasp the listener at the first, or second, or maybe even fifth listen. But suddenly it becomes different notes, different vocals, different music on that Nth listen. On that Nth listen it just fits, it works, and it hit me. Where You Been is a deeper and more complex album than you would initially realize on first listen. It might boil down to be alienating at first, Johnson's inaudible bass may begin peeve you, or simply J Mascis doesn't end up having your style of voice. Yet, the impurities of this album is what makes it so honest and fascinating. There is no heart wrenching pain, no hidden messages, no joyous celebration, no over-production. It's crude, unperfected, surface oriented alternative rock. Yet, whenever i spin this CD, it makes me just want to sit down and...smile.

Dio Holy Diver

Disillusion Back To Times Of Splendor

Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane

Do Make Say Think Other Truths

DOOM MM ... Food

Dream Theater Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From a Memory

Drudkh Blood In Our Wells

Drudkh Forgotten Legends

Drudkh Microcosmos

Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics

Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP

Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse

Entombed Left Hand Path

Funebrarum The Sleep of Morbid Dreams

this has WAR, 666% HEILWORTHY RIFFS, and a sprinkle of AAARRRGGGGHHHH

Garden of Shadows Oracle Moon

Godflesh Streetcleaner

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada

Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity

Gorguts Considered Dead

Iced Earth The Glorious Burden

In Flames Whoracle

In Mourning Shrouded Divine

Iron Age The Sleeping Eye

Iron Maiden Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Isis Wavering Radiant

Jaga Jazzist What We Must

Jesu Why Are We Not Perfect?

Jesu Pale Sketches

John Frusciante DC EP

John Frusciante The Will to Death

Judas Priest Painkiller

King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King

Knut Challenger

Krallice Krallice

Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun

Mastodon Crack the Skye

maudlin of the Well Part the Second

Mesa Verde The Old Road

Mew Frengers

Modern Life Is War Witness

Moonsorrow V: Havitetty

Mortification Scrolls of the Megilloth

Mortification Mortification

Mortification Post Momentary Affliction

Mos Def The Ecstatic

My Education Bad Vibrations

My Heart To Joy Seasons In Verse

Neurosis Times of Grace

Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe

Off Minor Innominate

Off Minor Some Blood

Opeth Still Life

Pg. 99 Document #5

Pig Destroyer Terrifyer

Porcupine Tree Fear Of A Blank Planet

Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream

Queens Of The Stone Age Songs For The Deaf

Radiohead Hail To The Thief

Radiohead Kid A

This album is given so much praise for its shock value and uniqueness. It's not as unique as people make it out to be either. The album starts off with some of its more electronic influenced songs, pulls out a jazzy/bass-driven song, brings in a beautiful acoustic ballad, How to Disappear Completely, that is haunting as it is moving. The next three songs can wane on anyone's patience as they either deliver nothing new, or are a crappy attempt at ambiance (treefingers). Then we get to the highlights. Idioteque is the most accessible, fun, and yet deepest lyrics of the album, and yet has all the stops of extreme electronica. Then is Morning Bell which drops the ball from amazing to just good, and then the album concludes on the wonderfully emotional Motion Picture Soundtrack. It's a beautifully moving track reminiscent of 'A Day in the Life' by the Beatles. This album takes some good listens to get into, but it keeps you hooked from then on.

Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come

Rush 2112

Rush Moving Pictures

Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape

Sigh Hangman's Hymn

Skycamefalling 10.21

Solstafir Kold

Sombres Forets Quintessence

Steven Wilson Insurgentes

Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood

Summoning Stronghold

Symphony X The Odyssey

The Allman Brothers Band Beginnings

The Beatles Abbey Road

The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic

The Mars Volta The Bedlam In Goliath

The Mars Volta Octahedron

The Music Welcome To The North

Different than the previous debut album, Welcome to the North's pace is much quicker, precise, and an all around better record. It's quality is spread pretty cleanly through the eleven tracks, and the jam band rock is easily described as both fun and satisifying for those deep listeners. However not the most original of the British Indie bands, The Music only offers a different tone. Their almost calming ambience on some tracks is very nice. It's a hard difference to describe, but whatever it is, it's there, and it brings the record to a very solid outcome. This is by far the best album i ever bought on accident.

The National Boxer

The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground and Nico

Thrice The Alchemy Index: Vols. I and II...

Transatlantic Bridge Across Forever

Ulver Nattens Madrigal

Underoath Define the Great Line

United Nations United Nations

Weekend Nachos Unforgivable

Windir Arntor

Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade

Yes Close To The Edge

Zao The Funeral Of God

Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest

3.5 great

Adebisi Shank This Is The Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank

Agalloch Pale Folklore

Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain

Animal Collective Strawberry Jam

Animal Collective Feels

Arcade Fire Funeral

Arcade Fire Neon Bible

Arghoslent Incorrigible Bigotry

Arsis A Diamond for Disease

At the Drive-In In / Casino / Out

Baroness Blue Record

Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell

Blackfield Blackfield II

blink-182 Blink 182 Greatest Hits

Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema

Botch We Are The Romans

Brutal Truth Evolution Through Revolution

Burzum Det Som Engang Var

Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

Capsule [US] Blue

Castevet Summer Fences

Coalesce 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening

Coalesce Functioning on Impatience

Comadre A Wolf Ticket

Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen

Dark Tranquillity Character

Dark Tranquillity Haven

Death Individual Thought Patterns

Death Symbolic

Desidia Desidia

Dinosaur Jr. Bug

Dinosaur Jr. Without a Sound

Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst

Dream Theater Train of Thought

dredg The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion

Electric Wizard Dopethrone

Elliott Smith Elliott Smith

Eminem The Slim Shady LP

Explosions In The Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place

Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles

Foo Fighters The Colour And The Shape

A very solid performance by Dave Grohl Inc. indeed. I personally think its there stand out album with such tracks as "My Hero", "Monkey Wrench", and my personal favorite "Everlong". However, unlike most Foo Fighter's albums, there are other songs you wont skip. The first 11 songs are pretty strong, and i find none of them filler. Maybe Doll isnt the most appropriate minute and a half opener to Monkey Wrench, but its fairly good, and it's not too sappy like Grohl's later efforts at the acoustic. Anyway, this is must for any Foo fan, Nirvana fan, and just Alternative rock jock in general. However, after Everlong i would quickly press stop. The last two songs make me cringe with mediocrity.

Genghis Tron Board Up The House

God Is An Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To

Gorillaz Demon Days

Gray Ghost Deep In The Shallow End

Harvey Milk Life... The Best Game in Town

Hope For The Dying Hope For The Dying

Hopesfall The Satellite Years

Hot Cross Cryonics

Iced Earth Horror Show

In Flames Colony

Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights

Intronaut Prehistoricisms

Iron Maiden Powerslave

Iron Maiden Piece of Mind

Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time

Jeff Buckley Grace

Jesu Conqueror

Jesu Sundown/Sunrise

Jesu/Battle Of Mice Jesu/Battle Of Mice split

John Frusciante Inside of Emptiness

John Zorn Naked City

Johnny Foreigner Grace And The Bigger Picture

Josh Reichmann Oracle Band Crazy Power

Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance

Judas Priest Stained Class

Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny

Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye

Kylesa Static Tensions

Kyuss Welcome To Sky Valley

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin I

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV

Long Distance Calling Avoid The Light

Lynyrd Skynyrd Second Helping

Madvillain Madvillainy

Magrudergrind Magrudergrind

Melvins Houdini

Meshuggah Catch Thirty-Three

Metallica Ride the Lightning

This is an absolutely amazing album. Not only does it constitute as one of the greatest Metal albums of all time, it brings forth a new intricacy into Thrash Metal, with some tracks verging on Progressive. For starters the sound and production in this album is leagues better than Kill 'Em All. It feels like a Metal album as the tone of the guitars explode into your ears. Every song on this album is top notch, with Creeping Death and Escape being the closest thing to filler. If you call really good songs instead of amazing songs filler... Anyway, the two highlights are the heart-wrenching Fade to Black, describing a man's travel into death. The string arrangement by Hetfield is absolutely amazing, followed by the heavy burst of Kirk's metal guitar rampage. The other is The Call of Ktulu. Although it is no Orion, it defines the album's progressive and thrash elements with a certain edge and power that hadn't been created by a metal band yet, in my opinion. Ktulu powers along for 8 solid minutes riffing, switching time signatures into a more ballad-like approach (if you can call it a ballad), and then returns with the wail of another Kirk solo. Now this might seem familiar, but if sounds like nothing 1984 had ever heard.

Minus The Bear Menos El Oso

Mirrorthrone Carriers of Dust

Mirrorthrone Gangrene

Modern Life Is War Midnight in America

Moonsorrow Verisäkeet

Morbid Angel Altars of Madness

Moss Tombs of the Blind Drugged

Motorhead Overkill

Each of these songs are purely fun and nostalgic (even though this album was released 11 years before i was even born). Their simple, raw nature is what makes each one of them so individualistic and appealing. From the raspy speech to grinding guitar chords, excellent drumming, and headbanging bass 'riffs'. To anyone who loves their classic metal origins, buy this album. In its veins lie some of the real roots of metal in its purest form. One word can summarize this album. Baddassery.

Motorhead Ace of Spades

Muse Origin of Symmetry

My Bloody Valentine Loveless

Nas Illmatic

Nick Drake Bryter Layter

Nirvana In Utero

Obscura Cosmogenesis

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Vol. 1

Opeth Morningrise

Pain Of Salvation Remedy Lane

Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb

Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd Animals

Porcupine Tree Deadwing

Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring

Porcupine Tree In Absentia

Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun

Pulling Teeth Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions

Radiohead In Rainbows

Wow, by all means of the word surprised, I am surprised. This album has astonished me with its beauty and dexterity. It is a mold between Hail to the Thief and OK Computer, returning the use of traditional instruments such as the guitar and piano. It is quite mature and evenly recorded, not a single bad track. Easily the album of the year and a classic to come. A wall of sound, echoes, and sound manipulation has made this album produced extremely well, yet at the same time, real. This album is beyond all expectations that I had, and I'm sure anyone had.

Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication

Regina Spektor Far

Relient K Forget and Not Slow Down

Reverend Bizarre In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend

Rush A Farewell to Kings

Rush Permanent Waves

Sigur Ros Takk

Slayer Reign in Blood

Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain

Slough Feg Ape Uprising

Spires Flowers and Fireworks

Stevie Ray Vaughan Couldn't Stand the Weather

Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten

Suffocation Blood Oath

Summoning Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame

Summoning Dol Guldur

Sunny Day Real Estate Diary

Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy

The Allman Brothers Band Brothers and Sisters

The Allman Brothers Band The Allman Brothers Band

The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha

The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

The Mars Volta Amputechture

There isnt as much to say about this album as there was about the two predecessors. The first four songs are quite strong and have taken a more "precision first" and an almost jazzy influence. Asilos Magdalena is the middle eastern string arrangement that makes me skip it everytime, except i have to give it credit for the good lyrics that it contained. Then is Viscera Eyes, the more radio friendly song from their At-The Drive In days which is great, but doesnt offer as much growth as the rest of The Mars Volta's work. Next, Day of the Baphomets tops the list on the level of experimentation, and it seems to switch time signatures the most out of all. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but it is just simply put, “a grower” and isn’t easy to get into at first. Lastly, El Ciervo Vulnerado is a little repetetive at times, without the same flare as Vicarious Atonement, but still is a powerful track and is a good ending to Amputechture. Even though a slight drop in performance for Omar and Cendric, it is still an overall great album, and is a must for any Mars Volta fans or prog rockers.

The Mars Volta Tremulant

The Music The Music

Having listened to Welcome to the North first, i already heard the more precise and perfected sound of The Music. However, that isnt to say their self-titled album isnt good. They have a different tone to most British rock bands, and although somewhat underground in name and fame, they hold a very nice effect over all that seems natural and seemingly mainstream at times. It's a good album that only really trips up on the track Getaway, but its still a good buy for those who are British Indie/Jam fans.

The Sawtooth Grin Cuddlemonster

The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave

The Who Tommy

Throne Of Katarsis Helvete - Det Iskalde Mørket

Unbroken Ritual

Waldo Wittenmyer & The Wall Of Sound Let's Get Connected

Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain

Yes The Yes Album

Yes Relayer

Yo La Tengo I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

Yo La Tengo Popular Songs

Zao (Self-Titled)

Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here

3 good

Ahab The Divinity Of Oceans

Aletheian Dying Vine

Ametsub The Nothings Of The North

Arcturus The Sham Mirrors

Arsis A Celebration of Guilt

As I Lay Dying Shadows are Security

As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You

Asphyx Death... The Brutal Way

At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul

Becoming the Archetype Terminate Damnation

Black Pyramid Black Pyramid

Black Sabbath Vol.4

Black Sun Aeon Darkness Walks Beside Me

blink-182 Take Off Your Pants and Jacket

Blonde Redhead 23

Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited

Borknagar The Olden Domain

Burzum Aske

Candlemass Nightfall

Carcass Necroticism:Descanting The Insalubrious

Children Of Bodom Something Wild

CKY Volume 1

Coldplay X&Y

Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains

Dan Deacon Bromst

Darkest Hour The Eternal Return

Darkthrone A Blaze In the Northern Sky

Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger

Deerhunter Weird Era Cont.

Dinosaur Jr. Green Mind

Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur

Dio The Last in Line

DOOM Born Like This

dredg Leitmotif

Eagles Hotel California

Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits

Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk

Envy / Jesu Envy/Jesu Split Ep

Envy side was kind of a disappointment in my eyes. All three songs featured fairly standard post rock song structures. The first song had Japanese spoken word, which worked against the song, and the heavy post-hardcore build up at the end of the second song felt severely out of place. The third Envy song was by far the best, but still nothing that great. As for Jesu, the first song takes a fairly standard, yet still good, Jesu idea and played it for way too long. 13 minutes of an electronica heavy loop, with only mild guitar distortion leads to a song twice as long as it should be. Nearly every other Jesu song over 10 minutes surpasses this one. However, the second Jesu track completely saves the split in my opinion. A fantastic , heart-warming track that still keeps the nihilistic attitude of past Jesu releases. The double bass buildup towards the end was definitely the kicker, seeing as its something Broadrick hasn't yet tried with his new project thus far.

Excoriate On Pestilent Winds...

Fen The Malediction Fields

Gorod Process of a New Decline

Grizzly Bear Veckatimest

Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know

Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting

Intronaut Void

Japandroids Post-Nothing

Jesu Lifeline EP

jj jj n° 2

John Frusciante A Sphere In The Heart Of Silence

Laconist Adveniat Infernus

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III

Linkin Park Hybrid Theory

Living Sacrifice The Hammering Process

Martin O' Donnell Halo 2, Vol. 2 OST

Mastodon Remission

Megadeth Killing is my Business..

Metallica Master of Puppets

mewithoutYou Brother, Sister

Mirrorthrone Of Wind and Weeping

Mogwai Happy Songs For Happy people

Muse Absolution

Neuraxis The Thin Line Between

Nirvana Nevermind

Olivia Tremor Control Music From The Unrealized Film Script...

Passenger Action Passenger Action

Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother

Plus 44 When Your Heart Stops Beating

Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II

Rage Against the Machine The Battle Of Los Angeles

Red Hot Chili Peppers BloodSugarSexMagik

Considered a landmark in Funk Metal and Alternative history, Blood Sugar Sex Magik is considered the Magnum Opus of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I partially agree with the former statement. This is the magnum opus of the RHCP as we know them by 1991. The first 13 songs rock like hell, but starting with The Greeting Song, the RHCP provide their age old problem of filling the tail end of the album with unneeded and mediocre filler. Apache Rose Peacock isnt an album ender, but anything is better than ruining the last tracks of an album. I dunno, im not a fan of the last four tracks. It really brings the album down for me.

Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium

What surprised me about Stadium Arcadium is that there is none of the old 'Red Hot Filler' that plagues the second half of the album like in BSSM, Californication and By the Way. Sure there a 3 or 4 songs that I dislike, but for the peppers to pull of a 28 track double album like this blew me away. They pull from all of their styles, extreme funk to slow jam to an almost ballad-like approach. The first two songs are very easily the highlights of the album next to "Readymade", "Wet Sand", and the title track, but nearly ever song on here is enjoyable and well crafted. Another noticeable thing is that the amazing Frusciante /actually/ showcases his talent on more than one song. Unfortunately, that doesn't take away from the fact that there aren't enough great moments to outweigh the just good moments. Inevitably, the album consists of too many just "slightly-better-than-filler" tracks.

Rush Signals

Rush Hemispheres

Saetia A Retrospective

Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy

Sigur Ros �gætis Byrjun

Slint Spiderland

Slough Feg Hardworlder

Smashing Pumpkins Gish

Sol Let There Be A Massacre

Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb

Sum 41 Does This Look Infected

Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be

Taking Back Sunday Louder Now

Taking Back Sunday New Again

The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour

The Decemberists The Crane Wife

The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart

The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin

The Thermals Now We Can See

The Who Who's Next

These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove

Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III and IV...

Tiamat Wildhoney

Ulcerate Everything is Fire

Urna Iter Ad Lucem

Weezer The Blue Album

Why? Eskimo Snow

Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Zao Liberate Te Ex Inferis

2.5 average

A Silver Mount Zion 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons

Absu Absu

AC/DC Highway To Hell

AC/DC Back in Black

Being one of the best selling and most legendary albums of all time is more than enough reason to purchase this album. However, it's main notary is that AC/DC and Brian Johnson were able to come back from the devastating loss of Bon Scott with an even more powerful album than the last. Not to mention that Back In Black and You Shook Me All Night Long are amazing anthems which have become a pure definition of AC/DC and the 70's rock n' roll they represent (Irony aside of its '80 release). The difference between Back in Black and Highway to Hell is that this album doesnt have the consistent good filler songs that Highway to Hell had. Particularly Givin the Dog a Bone and What Do You Do For Money Honey are a foreshadowing of Johnson's weak and clichéd lyrics later in the 80's. However, that aside, when the song was good...it was amazing, non-stop rock n' roll.

Amorphis Silent Waters

Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine

Arch Enemy Wages of Sin

Architects Hollow Crown

As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us

As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse

At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement

Audioslave Out Of Exile

Audioslave Audioslave

Battle of Mice A Day of Nights

Battles Mirrored

Becoming the Archetype The Physics Of Fire

Black Flag My War

Black Sabbath Paranoid

Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Boston Boston

Box Car Racer Box Car Racer

Carcass Heartwork

Children Of Bodom Hatebreeder

Coalesce OX

Dark Tranquillity Skydancer/Of Chaos And Eternal Night

Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca

Eagles On the Border

When it comes down to this album, On the Border has some very nice tunes and catchy hooks, but all in all, the great songwriting ability of the Eagles doesn't always shine through. Too often do they find themselves rehashing the same old material, or they exhibit their obligation to a southern jam. Intended to be fun, they often drag and bore, losing at the song's most obvious purpose. The album is also often plagued with clich? unoriginal lyrics about love. Being from a time where love and women are all that is sung about in popular music, the Eagles contribute yet another album that would have been lost with the test of time had it not been for their future releases and great singles.

Embrace Of Thorns Atonement Ritual

God Is An Astronaut Far From Refuge

Godspeed You! Black Emperor F# A# ∞

Green Day American Idiot

Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction

High on Fire Death Is This Communion

Iced Earth Burnt Offerings

Iced Earth Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked Pt. 1)

Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism

In Flames The Jester Race

Incubus Morning View

Incubus Light Grenades

Insect Warfare World Extermination

Interpol Antics

J Dilla Jay Stay Paid

Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced

Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue

Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing

Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy

Lynyrd Skynyrd Street Survivors

Mastodon Blood Mountain

Megadeth Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

Metallica Kill Em All

Misfits Walk Among Us

Modest Mouse Good News For People Who Love Bad News

Mumakil Behold The Failure

My Chemical Romance The Black Parade

Nirvana Bleach

Bleach is an "Alright" album. It doesnt get more above average than this really when it comes to rock. It starts fairly solid with Blew and Floyd the Barber, then gives a more Alternative foreshadowing with About a Girl, and it slowly gets more and more mediocre. It helps that Nirvana made this, i'm sure, but the album isnt too exciting for non-Nirvana fans. Then again, for $600, i guess this record is a "masterpiece" in some retrospects. It also makes one wonder how Nirvana jumps from this album to their next Magnum Opus, Nirvana in just two short years. One has to wonder...

No-Man Schoolyard Ghosts

Opeth Ghost Reveries

Oranssi Pazuzu Muukalainen Puhuu

Fantastic Ideas, but extremely dry album that drags

Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz

Peste Noire Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor

pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You!

Poison The Well The Tropic Rot

Porcupine Tree Signify

Primordial To The Nameless Dead

Propagandhi Supporting Caste

Radiohead Amnesiac

Radiohead Pablo Honey

Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine

Relient K mmhmm

Relient K Two Lefts Dont Make a Right But Three Do

Riverside Anno Domini High Definition

Sum 41 All Killer No Filler

Summoning Lugburz

Talk Talk Laughing Stock

The Beatles 1

The Beatles Let it Be

The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal

The John Butler Trio Grand National

The New Pornographers Twin Cinema

The New Pornographers Mass Romantic

The New Pornographers Electric Version

The White Stripes White Blood Cells

The Who The Who Sell Out

The Who The Who Sings My Generation

Thom Yorke The Eraser

Toby Driver In the L..L..Library Loft

TV on the Radio Dear Science

Underoath Lost In The Sound Of Separation

2 poor

AC/DC High Voltage

When it comes to straight up, hardcore, and simple rock n' roll, High Voltage is a milestone. First released in 1975, its main songs are quite catchy, memorable, and above all, exciting to listen to. AC/DC is awesome. But it suffers where they also lack. Depth. Little Lover and She's Got Balls are stupid lyrics with a decent riff behind them, and The Jack's cool blues theme barely boosts it to an above average song with its also shallow poker lingo. But with that aside, It's a Long way to the Top is one of AC/DC's most famous songs ever, along with personal favorites of TNT and High Voltage. When AC/DC does it right, they do it damn good.

AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

To me Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is by all means equal in entertainment and playable to its predecessor High Voltage. It's title track along with Rocker are the stand out tracks, and overall the album seems to cohere better than High Voltage. However, there is no monstrously awesome song that serves as a climax or milestone in the album. Not to mention it has Squealer and Big Balls which brings the whole album down with its ineffective double entendres and almost annoying lyrics. Although this album receives high praise as their #3 release, I think it?s the weakest of Bon Scott's.

Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals

All Shall Perish The Price Of Existence

Amon Amarth Fate of Norns

Amorphis Eclipse

Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper

Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion

As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest

As I Lay Dying Beneath The Encasing Of Ashes

As I Lay Dying A Long March: The First Recordings

Asia Asia

Audioslave Revelations

August Burns Red Messengers

Bathory Hammerheart

blink-182 Dude Ranch

Burzum Burzum

Children Of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll

Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet

Coldplay Parachutes

Def Leppard Hysteria

Dr. Dre The Chronic

DragonForce Inhuman Rampage

DragonForce Sonic Firestorm

Eagles Of Death Metal Death By Sexy...

Eminem The Eminem Show

Foo Fighters Foo Fighters

Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand

Green Day Dookie

In Flames Clayman

Incubus Make Yourself

Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening

Jimi Hendrix Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland

Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward

Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies

Kroda Fimbulvinter

Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti

Linkin Park Live In Texas

Linkin Park Meteora

Lostprophets Start Something

Lynyrd Skynyrd Nuthin Fancy

Mastodon Leviathan

Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

Megadeth So Far, So Good...So What!

Metallica ...And Justice for All

I'm sorry, i just finished this album again...start to finish...and these tracks seem to run all together and sound so similar. They weren't given the same effort, have the same beauty, and nothing memorable when it comes to hooks. The musicianship is amazing, and Kirk's solo's have never sounded so good, but once you get past that, there is really nothing deeper to find in the record. Everything is surface based. Excluded from these thoughts are Blackened, the title track, and One of course. One is absolutely amazing. I think any Metal fan should purchase the album just for these tracks, but be prepared to grow tired of the recycled guitar sounds and riffs throughout the whole second half of the album. Where's my bass guitar?

MGMT Oracular Spectacular

Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West

Muse Black Holes and Revelations

This album could have been great. Starlight through Map of the Problematique is absolutely killer to listen to. However my main problem with this album is firstly it alludes to the slow song overdose on Showbiz. Secondly, the political theme. There is a difference between a political song and a political album to me. A political song is one's opinion and holds the same weight as a girlfriend to that person at times, but a political album about their disproval over two guys seems really shallow. Take a Bow, Soldier's Poem, and Exo-Politics suffer because of the blatant overdose of hatred for these people rather than disagreement and their frustration with it. I don't take lightly on such shallow abuse of one's ability to communicate their ill-conceived opinions on something they really have no intelligence about. But that's just me. If you took a hacksaw to this and came out with six songs, it would be one of my favorite EP's ever, but not so much as an LP.

Muse Showbiz

A good starter album for Muse, one of my favorite bands by the way, but its problem is that its less of an album and more of a collection of songs. The flow lacks and its cohesiveness leaves a little to be wanted. Showbiz followed by Muscle Museum are the main stand out tracks, and the first nine songs stand fairly well seperately as songs, but the last three really lack. They are slow and plainly put, unentertaining…my main falldown with the album.

My Chemical Romance Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

Opeth Watershed

Pharoahe Monch Desire

Pink Floyd The Wall

Primordial The Gathering Wilderness

Protest the Hero Kezia

Queens Of The Stone Age Queens Of The Stone Age

Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire

Red Hot Chili Peppers By The Way

This is worst and has most filler of all of the Red Hot Chili Pepper's albums with Frusciante. By the Way starts off with an absolutely stellar song, followed by another 5 great songs, and then hits a brick wall and remains average to above average at best (minus Venus Queen). By the Way also offers the most radio-friendly selection of songs (if RHCP weren't friendly enough), but this effort comes out as more of an entourage of half-baked slow songs for the RHCP. Don't get me wrong, they are good songs since Flea, Frusciante, and Chad Smith help make the Peppers possibly the most talented band of the '00's, but for the Peppers, they should also make music on par with their style and talent.

Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between

The Clash London Calling

The Clash The Clash (UK)

The Decemberists Castaways and Cut-outs

The Good, The Bad & The Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen

The New Pornographers Challengers

The Weakerthans Reunion Tour

The White Stripes The White Stripes

The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan

Thrice The Illusion of Safety

Thrice Identity Crisis

Trophy Scars Bad Luck

Wardruna Runaljod - gap var Ginnunga

Wintersun Wintersun

Xerath Xerath I

1.5 very poor

Abigail's Ghost d_letion

AC/DC Let There Be Rock

AFI Decemberunderground

All Shall Perish Hate. Malice. Revenge

Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow

Arch Enemy Rise Of The Tyrant

Arsis We Are The Nightmare

Atreyu A Death-Grip On Yesterday

Boston Don't Look Back

Children Of Bodom Follow the Reaper

CKY Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild

Def Leppard Pyromania

Demon Hunter Demon Hunter

Eagles Of Death Metal Peace, Love, and Death Metal

Eminem Encore

Foo Fighters One By One

Foo Fighters In Your Honor

Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless

Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I

Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II

Impending Doom Nailed. Dead. Risen

Jay-Z The Black Album

Kansas Leftoverture

Kansas Point of Know Return

Kanye West Graduation

Kasabian Kasabian

Keane Under The Iron Sea

Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache

Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage

Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door

Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish...

Lostprophets Liberation Transmission

Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica

N Sync No Strings Attached

Nirvana Incesticide

Ohana Dead Beat

Pantera Cowboys From Hell

Pantera Vulgar Display Of Power

Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe

Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's The Sex

Shadows Fall Of One Blood

Slayer World Painted Blood

So Many Dynamos The Loud Wars

The Decemberists Her Majesty

The White Stripes Elephant

The White Stripes De Stijl

Whitechapel This Is Exile

ZZ Top Tres Hombres

1 awful

AC/DC For Those About To Rock...

AC/DC Powerage

After Forever After Forever

All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects

All-American Rejects Move Along

Angels and Airwaves I-Empire

Architects [US] Vice

Art Brut Art Brut vs. Satan

As I Lay Dying As I Lay Dying/American Tragedy

Atreyu Suicide Notes And Butterfly Kisses

Atreyu The Curse

Atreyu Best of Atreyu

Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor

Backstreet Boys Millennium

Black Eyed Peas Elephunk

Britney Spears Blackout

CKY An Answer Can Be Found

Creed Greatest Hits

Def Leppard On Through the Night

DragonForce Valley of the Damned

Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left To Lose

Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better

Girl Talk Feed the Animals

Gorillaz Gorillaz

Guns N' Roses GNR Lies

Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely

HIM Dark Light

Hollywood Undead Swan Songs

Incubus A Crow Left Of The Murder

Journey Escape

Kasabian Empire

Korn See You on the Other Side

Linkin Park Reanimation

Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight

Anyone that gives this above a 2 is insane, or being forced. I hate politically charged albums. They are so shallow and inconceivably limiting. Don't care if i agree with you, just don't sing about it.

Linkin Park/Jay Z Collision Course (The Ulitmate Mash-Up)

Metallica Metallica

Metallica St. Anger

Muse The Resistance

My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought...

Pearl Jam Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam Ten

Queens Of The Stone Age Era Vulgaris

Ramones Ramones

Red Hot Chili Peppers Mothers Milk

"A wide array of hardcore funk metal" is the best deion i can think of. Mother's Milk is fairly refined without really being precise. Johnny Frusciante guitar doesnt wail and doesnt melt your face off like he will in the future, but the rhythm and funk levels are still pretty spot on. Chad Smith and Flea are as excellent as ever, but the really problem is Anthony Keidis. He has yet to develop a singing voice, and for those fans of the later RHCP, this is a major turnoff. An even larger hindrance to the album's success is Keidis's lyrics. It doesn?t possess anything besides surface meaning, and the hooks of the fun songs are lacking. Not to mention there is a fair share of filler that seems rushed and not taken care of. Higher Ground is the obvious track pick, but besides that, you have to dig way too hard to find some other good music for non-funk fanboys.

Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any...

Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com

System of a Down Steal This Album!

The White Stripes Icky Thump

Tool 10,000 Days