| 5 classic |
| Brian Eno Another Green World |
| Built To Spill Perfect From Now On |
In September 1994 Built to Spill released their second album, There's Nothing Wrong with Love which included an unlisted track that was meant to be a joke "preview" of their next album to be released within the next year. Well, it eventually took nearly two and a half years for the band to release it. And yes, it was worth it. It was basically the opposite of what was to be expected after their successful previous record that consisted mostly of more straightforward and fairly short pure indie rock songs. This time Doug Martsch provided songs that take their time to develop. And each of these 8 songs have multiple parts and subtleties that make this record so amazing. Doug Martsch's guitar and vocals alone sound so lovely that sometimes while listening to them I feel like I'm in the middle of a dream that I don't want to end. Not to forget the cello featured in my favourite song "I Would Hurt a Fly".
Perfect from Now On is not perfect, but if I were to make a list of its flaws, I'd find it damn hard. |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Elliott at his best, he can make me cry with any of these songs, just listen to Christian Brothers or St. Ides Heaven and you'll understand me. This album is seen as very depressing, containing maybe just one 'happy song', which is definitely still Smith's trademark. This is what I call a solo-album, since every instrument is played by himself, drums, harmonica, bass, piano, and of course his guitar. Elliott sings with such a beautiful voice and so emotionally. A special thing about the album is that it's all recorded with a fourtracker at his home. This is one of the best albums of the 90s. |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Kingston Wall Kingston Wall II |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| This album changed everything, including my life. It was maybe the most influencial album of the 90s even though so many would argue with Nirvana's Nevermind or such over-rated albums. This masterpiece has the best political message in history, great basslines, hooky guitar riffs, unique solos and especially great lyrics, combined with anger towards the corrupt goverment of the USA. Every single track is brilliant and meaningful. No one will ever make something like RATM's debut album. |
| Red House Painters Red House Painters I |
| Television Marquee Moon |
| Television's debut consists 8 songs that all manage to leave a mark to the history of great music. This album was the introduction to Post-punk, and it changed rock in a great way. It consists guitar solos that I'll probably never get tired of. This was finally the only great release of Television, and without a doubt one of the best LPs of the famous 70s Rock 'n' Roll era. |
| The Zombies Odessey and Oracle |
| 4.5 superb |
| American Football American Football |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister |
| Big Star #1 Record |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People |
| Built To Spill Keep It Like A Secret |
| Built To Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love |
| Can Tago Mago |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory |
| Dandy Warhols Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia |
| Death Symbolic |
| Deep Purple Machine Head |
| dEUS The Ideal Crash |
| Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me |
| Dire Straits Love Over Gold |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing |
| Elliott Smith Roman Candle |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Elliott Smith Figure 8 |
| Elliott Smith From A Basement On The Hill |
| Elliott Smith New Moon |
| Eppu Normaali Akun tehdas |
| Explosions In The Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| This album consists 5 long instrumental tracks that all show different aspects. Drumming on its own is fantastic, and the other three instruments fit perfectly in the chaotic flow. Post-rock at its very best. I like all of their albums, but this is clearly the best, having no single 'con', that can be found from the other releases. Besides the closer "Your Hand in Mine" may be the best instrumental love song ever made. |
| Galaxie 500 On Fire |
| Gang Of Four Entertainment! |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F# A# ∞ |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Gun Club Fire of Love |
| GZA Liquid Swords |
| Hanoi Rocks Self Destruction Blues |
| Inside Out No Spiritual Surrender [EP] |
| Isis Panopticon |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow |
| Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced |
| Joy Division Closer |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| Kingston Wall Kingston Wall I |
| Kyuss Welcome To Sky Valley |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin I |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen |
| Liz Phair Exile In Guyville |
| Love Forever Changes |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds Of Fire |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra Inner Mounting Flame |
| Megadeth Rust In Peace |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells |
| Mineral The Power Of Failing |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Motorpsycho Timothy's Monster |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| 'Loveless' has so many lovers, and it's simple why. It's real drug-taking-music, the only album that ever could accomplish that so well in my opinion. I'm talking about 'shoegazing', that is basically already dead. Well it didn't live for long, but 'Loveless' introduced something that should never be forgotten. Its album cover defines it so well. This album may not be enjoyable at times, but at the right moment you may well feel like it's the best thing you've ever heard, at least I certainly did (not saying I've tried any drugs) |
| Nas Illmatic: 10th Anniversary Edition |
| I decided to get this version of Nas' illustrious Illmatic since it was prized same as the initial version and had (in addition to the original version as the first disc) a bonus disc with remixes of some classics; Life's a Bitch, The World Is Yours, One Love and It Ain't Hard to Tell. It also contained two new previously unreleased tracks, On the Real and Star Wars, to what I honestly didn't have high expectations. Well, the result is what you would think, the extra disc doesn't come even close to the classic songs of the first. That said, the two first remixes are in my opinion well done and that's all I recommend from the extra songs. The two new songs aren't bad, but just don't suit to the 1994 songs since they're done a decade later with a different attitude and unconcerned lyrics. The real Queensbridge atmosphere that made the ten originals so haunting, is to my mind impossible to discern. But if you're one of the numerous fans of the record, you should at least give a listen to the remixes of Life's a Bitch and The World Is Yours. They're very different from the original but definitely haven't ruined them. They may be more suitable for parties in a way, adding a modern flavor to the old school beats as well as changing slightly the choruses. Fortunately Nasty Nas' verses haven't been blemished as they prove the man never lost his immense talent in the decade following his debut. However, the original version is the 'classic' one, so the second disc does in fact lower my rating by a half-star. |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This is Nowhere |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush |
| Neil Young On the Beach |
| Nightwish Oceanborn |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe |
| Olivia Tremor Control Music From The Unrealized Film Script... |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted |
| Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle Of Los Angeles |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers BloodSugarSexMagik |
| Ride Nowhere |
| Rush 2112 |
| Sigur Ros Ágætis Byrjun |
| Silver Jews American Water |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary |
| T. Rex Electric Warrior |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Talking Heads Remain In Light |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre Strung Out In Heaven |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre Bravery Repetition and Noise |
| The Chameleons Script of the Bridge |
| The Chameleons Strange Times |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency and I |
| The Feelies Crazy Rhythms |
| The La's The La's |
| The Left Banke Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina |
| The Microphones The Glow pt.2 |
| The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers |
| The Red Paintings Walls [EP] |
| The Replacements Let It Be |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Strokes Is This It? |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground and Nico |
| Two Gallants The Throes |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You |
| Weezer The Blue Album |
| Wire Pink Flag |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One |
| 4 excellent |
| 13th Floor Elevators The Psychedelic Sounds Of... |
| A Place to Bury Strangers A Place to Bury Strangers |
| Aerosmith Aerosmith |
| Air Moon Safari |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Arab Strap Philophobia |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am.... |
| Audioslave Audioslave |
| Autolux Future Perfect |
| Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| Beulah When Your Heartstrings Break |
| Big L Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous |
| Big Star Radio City |
| Black Lips Good Bad Not Evil |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club B.R.M.C. |
| This album was part of the 'garage revolution' alongside with The Strokes' 'Is This It'. In my opinion this is better from that duo, and has already given influences to many new talented bands such as 'A Place to Bury Strangers' or 'The Black Angels'. Fantastic debut album, the comeback of Psychedelic Rock, B.R.M.C. |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Take Them On, On Your Own |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children |
| Bomfunk Mc's In Stereo |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy I See a Darkness |
| Brand New The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets |
| Brian Wilson Smile |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene |
| Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady |
| Cap'n Jazz Shmap'n Shmazz |
| Catherine Wheel Ferment |
| Chapterhouse Whirlpool |
| Children Of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Children Of Bodom Follow the Reaper |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Cynic Focus |
| David Sylvian Secrets Of The Beehive |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
| Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies |
| dEUS In a Bar Under the Sea |
| Dispatch Bang Bang |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| Dr. John Gris-gris |
| Dune We Are in There You Are Out Here |
| Elliott Smith Live at Largo |
| Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road |
| Eppu Normaali Kahdeksas ihme |
| Experimental Aircraft Experimental Aircraft |
| Explosions In The Sky Those Who Tell the Truth... |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Figurines Skeleton |
| Foo Fighters The Colour And The Shape |
| Galaxie 500 Today |
| Gentle Giant Octopus |
| God Is An Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
| Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Barafundle |
| Guillemots Through The Windowpane |
| Hanoi Rocks Two Steps From The Move |
| Hanoi Rocks Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks |
| Harry Nilsson Nilsson Schmilsson |
| Heatmiser Mic City Sons |
| Heatmiser Dead Air |
| Isis Oceanic |
| Jeff Buckley Sketches for my Sweetheart the Drunk |
| Jeff Buckley Live At Sin-E (Legacy Edition) |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Joy Division Substance |
| Julee Cruise Floating in to the Night |
| Kalmah They Will Return |
| Kashmir Zitilites |
| Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak |
| Kings of Leon Because Of The Times |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night |
| Kingston Wall III - Tri-Logy |
| Knowledge A Gift Before I Go |
| Kraftwerk Trans-Europa Express |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Low I Could Live In Hope |
| Mando Diao Hurricane Bar |
| Mando Diao Bring 'Em In |
| Maps and Atlases You and Me and the Mountain |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| Menomena I Am The Fun Blame Monster! |
| Mew Frengers |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous |
| Moby Play |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Mogwai Young Team |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Nick Drake Bryter Layter |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Oasis Whats the Story Morning Glory |
| One Day As A Lion One Day As A Lion [EP] |
| Outkast Aquemini |
| Ozric Tentacles Strangeitude |
| Pale Saints The Comforts of Madness |
| Paul Simon Graceland |
| Pavement Watery, Domestic EP |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Phantom Buffalo Shishimumu |
| Poets of the Fall Carnival of Rust |
| Quasi Featuring "Birds" |
| Queens Of The Stone Age Queens Of The Stone Age |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Red House Painters Down Colorful Hill |
| Red House Painters Ocean Beach |
| Richard Youngs Sapphie |
| Ride Today Forever |
| Rolling Stones Let It Bleed |
| Royksopp Melody A.M. |
| Rufus Wainwright Poses |
| Russian Circles Enter |
| Ryan Adams Love is Hell |
| Secret Shine Untouched |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's The Sex |
| Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out |
| Sly and The Family Stone Stand! |
| Smog Red Apple Falls |
| Spacemen 3 The Perfect Prescription |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway |
| Swervedriver Mezcal Head |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| Tangerine Dream Phaedra |
| The Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl, Volume I |
| The Ascent of Everest How Lonely Sits the City |
| The Black Angels Passover |
| The Black Heart Procession 2 |
| The Black Keys Thickfreakness |
| The Boo Radleys Giant Steps |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre Methodrone |
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre ...And This Is Our Music |
| The Chameleons What Does Anything Mean? Basically |
| The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole |
| The Cribs The Cribs |
| The Cure Boys Don't Cry |
| The Dismemberment Plan Change |
| The Doors The Doors |
| The Greenhornes Sewed Soles |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy |
| The Kills No Wow |
| The Kills Midnight Boom |
| The Libertines Up The Bracket |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Microphones It Was Hot We Stayed In The Water |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready To Die |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses |
| The Strokes Room On Fire |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| The Windmills Drug Autumn [EP] |
| This is an EP by a relatively unknown English band. The sounds of all the four songs are very well put together and the mixing seems to be near-perfect. The songs mostly resemble the ones used by The Smiths and The Go-Betweens, which are probably the right bands to get the comparison. Here the band provides catchy jangle pop tracks that have an ordinary song alignment. However, unlike in other such records the drums manage to leave a significant footprint to the music, especially in "Want". The vocals are of high quality as well, without being exceptional they are of such type that should apply to nearly everyone. The lyrics are typical for the genre, fitting to the name of the EP. The optimistic opener is followed by the title-track, which for me is the highlight, obtaining a regretful theme with lyrics such as: What a gave up was far more precious/Than what I gave/But by then it was already too late. One of the only bad things about the songs is that they are a bit too recursive, especially songs #1 & 3, which repeat their titles throughout the songs. This is often the case with poppy music, and fortunately The Windmills don't make it as irritating that it would harm the enjoyability of the music. In conclusion, this album is certainly great and consistent, with very few flaws. As for the rating, I was somewhere between a 3,5 and a 4, but I've chosen the latter since I strongly recommend this. Besides, I really like the album cover. It reminds me of lifetime memories, especially of childhood. |
| Tim Buckley Starsailor |
| Tim Buckley Happy Sad |
| Tocotronic Digital Ist Besser |
| Tortoise TNT |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science |
| u.n.p.o.c. Fifth Column |
| UGK Ridin' Dirty |
| Vashti Bunyan Just Another Diamond Day |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Why? Elephant Eyelash |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
