Average Rating: 3.13 Rating Variance: 1.06 Objectivity Score: 95% (Very Balanced)
Sorted by Rating | Sort by Name5 classicAgalloch Pale FolkloreBlack Sabbath ParanoidBlack Sabbath Heaven and HellBo Burnham Bo BurnhamBo Burnham is the greatest man to have ever walked the planet.Converge Jane DoeCryptopsy None So VileCynic Traced In AirDJ Shadow EndtroducingGZA Liquid SwordsKayo Dot Choirs of the EyeKyuss Blues for the Red Sunmaudlin of the Well BathMegadeth Rust In Peacethis is fucking thrash at its god damn best. I don't care if this mini-review is too fucking short, its the truth.Mobb Deep The InfamousNas IllmaticOpeth Blackwater ParkPrimus Frizzle FryPrimus at their most metal. Frenzied Hick funk bass playing with Pedalized Guitar playing and Tech Metal drumming, Frizzle Fry is the most wacky, insane, odd ball release that Primus has or ever will release. Queens Of The Stone Age Rated RRadiohead Kid ASystem of a Down System of a DownThe Mars Volta De-Loused in the ComatoriumThe Notorious B.I.G. Ready To DieTool AenimaWu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)4.5 superb2Pac Me Against the WorldA Tribe Called Quest Midnight MaraudersA Tribe Called Quest The Low End TheoryAgalloch The MantleAugury ConcealedBig L Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and DangerousBrother Ali Shadows On The SunCamel MirageCanibus Rip The JackerCannibal Corpse Hammer Smashed Face (EP)Converge No HeroesConverge Axe To FallDe La Soul De la Soul Is DeadDe La Soul 3 Feet High And RisingDeath Cab For Cutie TransatlanticismDJ Muggs Vs GZA GrandmastersDr. Dre The ChronicEl-P Fantastic DamageEminem The Marshall Mathers LPEric B. & Rakim Paid in FullGhostface Killah Supreme Clienteleif you don't like this album... you know the rest fag. my mini-review is too short, yada yada yada.Guns N' Roses Appetite For DestructionIsis Wavering RadiantJay-Z Reasonable DoubtJeru the Damaja The Sun Rises in the EastJohn Frusciante The EmpyreanKing Crimson In the Court of the Crimson KingKool G Rap & DJ Polo Live and Let DieMadvillain MadvillainyMastodon Blood MountainMeshuggah Destroy Erase ImproveMF Grimm American HungerMiles Davis Bitches BrewMobb Deep Hell on EarthMr. Bungle CaliforniaMuse AbsolutionMuse Origin of SymmetryOpeth DamnationOutkast AqueminiPharoahe Monch DesirePharoahe Monch Internal AffairsProtest the Hero FortressProtest the Hero KeziaRaekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt IIRise Against The Sufferer and the WitnessSlick Rick The Great Adventures of Slick Rickone of the better and most humorous story-tellers hip hop has to offer puts out a really amazing album, who'da funk?Suffocation Breeding the SpawnThe Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating InfinityThe Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is A Dead SceneThe Roots Rising DownWolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars4 excellentAgalloch Ashes Against the GrainArtifacts Between A Rock and A Hard PlaceAZ Doe or DieBig Pun Capital PunishmentBlack Sabbath Vol.4Black Sabbath Mob RulesBrother Ali The Undisputed TruthBusta Rhymes The ComingBusta Rhymes E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event):The Final World...Cannibal Corpse KillCircle Takes The Square As The Roots UndoClipse Hell Hath No FuryThere are moments on this album, where I start to think "DAMN, how many different ways can you rap about coke?" Apparently enough to give this 4 stars out of 5, duh.Converge You Fail MeCream Disraeli GearsCynic FocusDavid Banner Mississippi: The AlbumDe La Soul Are You In?Del The Funky Homosapien Both Sides of the BrainDJ Shadow The OutsiderDOOM MM ... FoodMM... Food is a funky, cool, easy going hip hop album from MF Doom. His flow lazy pushes around a lush environment while spitting some more lyrical tongue twisters and GZA-inspired bizarre, food-oriented metaphors. DOOM Operation DoomsdayDOOM Vaudeville VillainDr. Dre 2001Dr. Dre is the embodiment of the west coast persona; riding round, shooting fully loaded glocks, fucking bitches, smoking weed, repeat. Dr. Dre helped make some of the West Coasts biggest stars, and on his, made superstar rapper Snoop D-O-Double-G. As a producer, he is among the best in hip hop, completing live orchestrations of samples instead of just taking the sample and then using it. With 2001, Dre is asking all of his newest buddies he helped make famous to help him loop his own album together, and boy do they do the job well. Guest appearances from Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, Eminem, and Kurupt help make the album a west coast banger, while Dr. Dre continues his G-Funk genius, with each beat smooth and easy, while the production remains crisp and fresh-sounding. 2001 is another Dr. Dre wonder, and while it may not be quite as good as The Chronic, 2001 is an excellent hip hop album full of funky beats, excellent production, and fun as hell gangsta raps that will keep up for hours listening. El-P I'll Sleep When You're DeadEminem The Slim Shady LPEric B. & Rakim Follow the LeaderGhostface Killah FishscaleGreen Day DookieHeltah Skeltah NocturnalHORSE The Band Desperate LivingHORSE The Band R. BorlaxHouse of Pain House of PainJay-Z The Black AlbumJay-Z The BlueprintJedi Mind Tricks Servants In Heaven, Kings In HellJedi Mind Tricks Violent By DesignJeru the Damaja Wrath of the MathJohn Frusciante Shadows Collide With PeopleJohn Frusciante CurtainsKanye West Late RegistrationKayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper TongueKeith Murray The Most Beautifullest Thing In This WorldKillah Priest Heavy MentalI admit what i said about Killah Priest on the Masta Killa sound-off was a little silly, but it applies to most of this guys career other than like two exceptions. This is one of them, with mostly deep, moody dark instrumentals for Killah Priest to spit his incredibly knowledge and show off his mind too. This another album that colors me impressed, this is actually BETTER than a lot of actual Wu solo albums. Kool G. Rap 4, 5, 6Krallice Kralliceraspooptin needs more semen on his poop deck. As for this album, it somehow managed to appeal to both hipsters at pitchfork and metalheads at sputnik, that already counts for something, not to mention the good music that is on this disk. Cold Calculated Black Metal that never lets go until the end? Hell yes! A Black Metal album that manages to hold my attention until it closes? I've Been Waiting! This album rules.Kyuss ...And The Circus Leaves TownLL Cool J Mama Said Knock You OutMasta Killa No Said DateMasta Killa isn't really the most exciting member of the Wu, but in terms of debut solo albums, he's actually got one of the better ones. Basically, he reinvites everyone in the Wu, including some Wu Affilation rappers like Method Man's baggage carrier Streetlife, and the broke-on-the-street rapping preacher Killah Priest, and manages to be the highlight of all of it, all the while only letting the RZA outshine him once with his smart as hell verse on "School". Color me impressed, this album is the shit.Mastodon Crack the Skyemaudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body MapMegadeth EndgameMeshuggah obZenMetallica ...And Justice for AllMethod Man TicalMethod Man and Redman Blackout!MF Grimm Scars & MemoriesMF Grimm & MF DOOM Special Herbs and Spices Volume 1Ampersands are gay. Luckily this album isn't. Oh yeah this is better than the usual DOOM album because MF Grimm is a better rapper than DOOM.Miles Davis Kind Of BlueMudvayne L.D. 50Nas It Was WrittenNas God's SonOne Day As A Lion One Day As A Lion [EP]Opeth Still LifeOpeth WatershedOpeth Ghost ReveriesOutkast ATLiensPrimus Pork SodaQ-Tip The RenaissanceQ-Tip Kamaal The AbstractLyrically, Kamaal the Abstract isn't that complex or even abstract, its the music that makes this weird and beyond what is normally done in hip hop. We have millions of rappers pledged as saviors who are simply playing by the books originally written by the likes of Rakim and EPMD and ect. for influential hip hoppers, but Q-Tip is taking the jazziness of Tribe to the next level here, with improvisational keyboard playing mixed with funky guitar playing, with some occasionally dark undertones for emotional depth. I can sort of see why people at the record label wouldn't want this released: it's really not an album that would follow up the booty shaking club popping Amplified, and it feels more like a follow up to The Renaissance rather than the predecessor, as his use of more concise was beginning to show its face. There are some moments that scream monotony, but this mixture of Rap, R&B, Jazz and Funk that leans more on jazz and funk than anything else, Q-Tip showes what he can truly do. R.A. The Rugged Man Die Rugged Man, DieRadiohead OK ComputerRedman Muddy WatersRedman Doc's Da Name 2000i love me some Redman like all the time G. This album is one of his best, but be forwarned, the skits, just like all of his, are pretty damn STUPID.Rise Against Appeal To ReasonRise Against Siren Song Of The Counter CultureRoyce da 5'9 The AlbumRZA The Birth of a PrinceSauce Money Middle Finger USean Price Jesus Price SupastarSean Price Monkey Barz"I got a dime bitch that lives in Japan/black belt, sucks dick, chops bricks with her hand" Secret Chiefs 3 TraditionalistsSlipknot Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)Snoop Dogg DoggystyleSole and the Skyrider Band PlastiqueSystem of a Down Steal This Album!The D.O.C. No One Can Do It BetterThe Fall Of Troy Ghostship DemosThe Fall Of Troy DoppelgangerThe Lonely Island IncredibadThe Mars Volta The Bedlam In GoliathThe Mars Volta TremulantThe Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than AloneThe Roots Game TheoryWolves in the Throne Room Malevolent GrainWolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade3.5 great50 Cent Power of the Dollar50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin'A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of RhythmAbstract Rude RejuvenationArctic Monkeys HumbugArsis We Are The NightmareAZ Pieces of a ManBetween The Buried And Me ColorsBetween The Buried And Me AlaskaBetween The Buried And Me The Silent CircusBeyonce B'DayBloodbath The Fathomless MasteryBusta Rhymes When Disaster StrikesCam'ron Purple HazeCanibus Miclub: The CurriculumCanibus 2000 B.C. (Before Can-I-Bus)Chamillionaire Ultimate VictoryChris Cornell Euphoria MorningConsequence Don't Quit Your Day JobCryptopsy Blasphemy Made FleshCurren$y Fast Times at Ridgemont FlyD12 Devil's NightDavid Banner MTA2: Baptized in Dirty WaterDeath Cab For Cutie Narrow StairsDisturbed Ten Thousand FistsDJ Shadow The Private PressDOOM Venomous VillainEighteen Visions Until the Ink Runs OutEminem The Eminem ShowGhostface Killah The Big Doe RehabGhostface Killah Bulletproof WalletsGhostface Killah Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald CityGreen Day NimrodGreen Day KerplunkGuilty Simpson Ode To the GhettoGuns N' Roses Chinese DemocracyGuns N' Roses Use Your Illusion IIGuns N' Roses Use Your Illusion IGZA Pro Toolsthe ratings on sputnik makes this seem like GZA's worst album. I believe "7 Pounds" would care to disagree.Harvey Milk Life... The Best Game in TownHe Is Legend I Am HollywoodHORSE The Band A Natural DeathHORSE The Band The Mechanical HandHouse of Pain Truth Crushed to Earth Shall Rise AgainIn Vain The Latter RainIron Maiden Virtual XIIsland OrakelJay-Z American GangsterJim Jones Pray IV ReignJohn Legend EvolverJohn Legend Get LiftedJohn Legend Once AgainKanye West The College DropoutLil Wayne The Drought is Over Pt. 6: The ReincarnationLil Wayne Dedication 2Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's YouLL Cool J RadioLudacris Theater of the MindLudacris Back For The First TimeMastodon LeviathanMetallica Kill Em AllMethod Man 4:21... The Day AfterMethod Man and Redman Blackout! 2MF Grimm The Hunt For The Gingerbread ManMF Grimm & MF DOOM MF EPMr. Bungle Mr BungleNas UntitledNecrophagist Onset of PutrefactionFor a band that thrives off of pure wank power, this album is pretty FUCKING awesome. This just a fun album to air guitar to, nothing more.Ol' Dirty Bastard Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty VersionPantera Cowboys From HellPantera Vulgar Display Of PowerPrimus Sailing the Seas of CheeseQueens Of The Stone Age Songs For The DeafQueens of the Stone Age produce an album that is overall much better its predecessor in every area of technicality, working together, and perfecting that mainstream sound, and yet, it?s so much worse in overall actually value that you begin to wonder what went wrong. It?s quite simple really what went wrong with Songs for the Deaf, the band wrote too many songs, along with annoying filler songs like ?Hangin Trees?, ?Six Shooter? and ?Another Love Song?. This album also isn?t too ambitious; it just relies on old tricks and dips them in a heavier and darker sound. With Songs for the Deaf, all Queens is trying to do is make a purely hard rock effort with none of that experimental noodling nonsense that at times was borne into Rated R, and although is far more technical and straight forward, is just way over long, and at times rather unentertaining. Ras Kass Van GoghRas Kass's best album if only because not only does it contain some of his best songs, like the socially aware and at times hilarous "TV Guide" and the bleak atmospheres of "Understandably Smooth" and "Jack Frost", but this album also contains most of Ras Kass's best beat choices. However, i'd be damned if this album didn't contain some AWFUL songs too (i'm looking at the lackluster "Ah-Ha", the ill-minded southern and west coast mixture of "Sex", and, of course, "Back It Up", which is easily one of the worst songs in Ras Kass's entire catalog). RZA Digital BulletShwayze ShwayzeSlaughterhouse SlaughterhouseSlayer Reign in BloodSnoop Dogg Tha DoggfatherSystem of a Down MezmerizeMezmerize is, surprisingly enough, one of the better System albums. It's a pure joy to listen to, and for the first time adds Daron to the picture with enjoyable results. The songs are frantic as usual for System, and are much more diverse than the repetitive and somewhat bland Toxicity, but the problem with this album is that Daron takes a large part on the lyrical assault, and to put it simply Daron's lyrics sound like an angry retarded 6th grader writing about politics (and by politics, I mean pornography). It is a shame that after this album came the giagantic turd and complete failure Hypnotize, but in reality, this is among System's better efforts.T-Pain Thr33 RingzT-Pain Rappa Ternt SangaThe Dillinger Escape Plan Ire WorksThe Dillinger Escape Plan Miss MachineThe Fall Of Troy ManipulatorThe Fall Of Troy In The Unlikely EventThe Mars Volta Frances the MuteThe Notorious B.I.G. Life After DeathThe Number Twelve Looks Like You MongrelUGK UGK (Underground Kingz)Ulver BergtattWolves in the Throne Room Two HuntersWu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang ForeverWu-Tang Clan 8 DiagramsXzibit Restlesspeople underrate this because this guy hosts Pimp My Ride, but for the most part, its pretty solid. Xzibit started out a pretty competent MC. This is among his better albums, and along with his first two albums, some of the better stuff ever released out of the West Coast.3 good2Pac All Eyez on Me50 Cent CurtisA Tribe Called Quest Beats, Rhymes And LifeBeyonce Dangerously In LoveBody Count Body CountBusta Rhymes The Big BangCam'ron Crime PaysCam'ron Come Home With MeCannibal Corpse Tomb of the MutilatedCattle Decapitation The Harvest FloorThis is a good album, but its hindered by the fact that its all been done before and the fact that there are way too many interludes. Other than that, this is a good death metal album with a rush of influences and mostly smart songwriting choices.Children Of Bodom Something WildClipse Lord Willin'Coheed and Cambria Good Apollo...No World For TomorrowDavid Banner The Greatest Story Ever ToldDavid Banner CertifiedDeath Cab For Cutie The Open Door EPDMX It's Dark and Hell Is HotDMX is a complicated character whose skills and emotions vary wildly. This is some of his better stuff, and "Get At Me Dog" is one of my favorite late 90s rap songs of all time, but it's pretty inconsistent, ranging from incredibly violent to reflexive, and from awful to amazing. DOOM Born Like ThisDOOM's still the MC he always was, and sounds even more energized than he ever was here. The problem is that his own instrumentals are kinda bland and boring. Jake One and J Dilla occasionally brings the head, but it seems like DOOM made all of his beats back in 2000, and he's just now run out of that stock and made beats for the first time in nine years. There are sparks of brillance, but its mostly boring and disappointing.Drake So Far GoneDream Theater Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From a MemoryEdge Of Sanity CrimsonEminem RelapseInsane has some of Slim's sickest flows ever, and some of the rhymes are pretty nice here or there, but a some of the beats are some of Dre's laziest.Ghostface Killah IronmanGhostface Killah More FishGreen Day WarningGZA Legend Of The Liquid SwordHavoc The KushHeaven Shall Burn AntigoneHeltah Skeltah D.I.R.T. (Da Incredible Rap Team)Horned Almighty Contaminating The DivineHORSE The Band Pizza EPInspectah Deck Uncontrolled SubstanceJay-Z Kingdom ComeKingdom Come isn't really as bad as i remeber it being, in fact there are a lot of really good tracks scattered here. "Dig A Hole", "Show Me What You got", and "Anything" suck an inevitable amount though.Jay-Z Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. CarterJay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock LifeJay-Z In My Lifetime, Vol. 1Jedi Mind Tricks Visions of GandhiJedi Mind Tricks Legacy of BloodKayo Dot Blue Lambency DownwardKillah Priest Black AugustKool Keith Black Elvis/Lost in SpaceKurupt The Streetz iz a MuthaLamb of God Ashes of the WakeLil Wayne Tha Carter IIILudacris Word Of MoufMetallica Death MagneticMetallica Master of PuppetsMobb Deep Murda MuzikMr. Bungle Disco VolanteNas Hip Hop Is DeadNecrophagist EpitaphOpeth DeliveranceOutkast StankoniaPapa Roach InfestPiglet lava landPrimus Tales From The PunchbowlProdigy H.N.I.C.Protest the Hero Fortress (Instrumental)Q-Tip AmplifiedA lot of these really funky and bouncy beats feel wasted by Q-Tip's abandonment of positive rapping and his focus on generic gun toting and girls asses. "Breathe & Stop" is catchy as fuck, not gonna lie though.Queens Of The Stone Age Era VulgarisQueens Of The Stone Age Lullabies to ParalyzeQueens Of The Stone Age Queens Of The Stone AgeRas Kass Soul on IceRas Kass has got one of the best flows in the rap business. Too bad some of these beats aren't even deserving of the worst weed carriers.Redman Dare Iz A DarksideRhymefest Blue Collarfuck Kanye West for just letting this guy go and release an album like this. Although this is admittedly pretty good, he deserves better than most of these lame productions and asinine hooks. Jay is to kanye as Sauce Money is to Rhymefest. They both have a lot of potential and in the end both got some anal sex and an album that sold minimal amounts of units and having their name never heard in the industry AGAIN.Royce da 5'9 The Revival EPRZA RZA as Bobby Digital in StereoScar Symmetry Holographic UniverseSlim Thug Already PlatinumSpoon Ga Ga Ga Ga GaStyles P Time Is MoneySystem of a Down ToxicityThe effort that broke System to the mainstream is also among their most bland and boring efforts. Sure, "Prison Song" and "Needles" are among System's best songs, but the overbearing amount of boring filler on the album makes this album way overlong and weak at times. It starts off well and ends perfectly, but the mid section is raped with these weak filler songs that just go to show how badly System can ruin themselves. The fact is the band is truly brilliant, but they definitely need to stick to making real songs, instead of the boring filler that invades the album many a time. T-Pain EpiphanyThe Fall Of Troy Phantom on the Horizonthe production on this is horrific, but other than that, this is fairly good. Fall of Troy's worst easily, but still retains the energy of Ghostship Demos.The Fall Of Troy The Fall Of TroyThe Game Doctor's AdvocateThe Game The DocumentaryThe Game LAXThe Killers Day & AgeDay & Age is a grower. At first, it sounds like a jumbled mess, but later, it still sounds like a jumbled mess, but an incredibly catchy and enjoyable one. Basically, Brandon Flowers runs wild with songwriting quirks and gimmicks and makes the best out of it, writing some of the best and at times worst ("Human", "Joy Ride") songs of his entire career. Day & Age is a wonderful record if you let it sink in, other wise you're just a party pooper pooping on a party.Tool LateralusU-God DopiumUlver KveldssangerYoung Jeezy The Inspiration2.5 averageA Tribe Called Quest The Love MovementAsher Roth Asleep In The Bread AisleAvenged Sevenfold Waking the FallenB Real Smoke N MirrorsBig L The Big PictureBone Thugs-N-Harmony E 1999 EternalBorn Of Osiris The New ReignBusta Rhymes GenesisCake Comfort EagleCam'ron Killa SeasonCanibus For Whom The Beat TollsCannibal Corpse Evisceration PlagueChris Cornell Carry OnCoolio Gangsta's ParadiseWE BEEN SPENDIN MOST OUR LIVES LIVING IN A GANGSTAS PARADISE WE BEEN SPENDIN MOST OUR LIVES LIVING IN A GANGSTAS PARADISE WE BEEN SPENDIN MOST OUR LIVES LIVING IN A GANGSTAS PARADISE WE BEEN SPENDIN MOST OUR LIVES LIVING IN A GANGSTAS PARADISECradle of Filth MidianDissection Reinkaosso Dissection's only surviving member decided to play mediocre, minimalistic melo death. GREATDJ Muggs Vs GZA Grandmasters: Remix AlbumDMX Grand ChampEmperor Anthems to the Welkin at DuskFour Horseman The Horseman Projectthis is pretty bad except for Ras Kass and Canibus. Killah Priest is mostly lazy here, and pretty much re-states my previous beliefs about him, aka on the street rapping preacher, and Kurupt just isn't that good of a rapper. I recommend he should be replaced by Royce Da 5'9". That would make a lot more sense. Also teh beats sounds like they were made by the guy at Subway who makes beats during his smoke breaks. Ghostface Killah The Pretty Toney AlbumGojira The Way Of All FleshGojira are a talented band no doubt, but they tend to drag things way too long, and this album is no exception. It is very hard to get half-way through the album, much less the whole album, and it's nearly impossible to enjoy it all that time. Sure the music is very heavy and technically well-done, but the album just starts to lose it's shine power about 3 songs in, and then just continues to drone and drone.GZA Beneath the SurfaceHavoc Hidden FilesHeltah Skeltah Magnum ForceHouse of Pain Same As It Ever WasI Set My Friends On Fire You Can't Spell Slaughter Without LaughterImmortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 2Jadakiss Kiss of DeathJadakiss The Last KissJadakiss's rapping is on-point most of the time, and occasionally there are some good beats, but this is mostly bad. A good majority of the beats are mediocre synth-led paint-by-numbers rap instrumentals, and the guest appearances other than that of Ghostface Killah and, surprisingly enough, Sheek Louch are all mediocre. That and the fact that this just doesn't fit together well as an album just makes The L.O.X. leaders third album is completely average. Jay-Z The Dynasty: Roc La FamiliaOther than Freeway, Jay-Z, Just Blaze, and Kanye West, all of the cast sucks arse. Memphis Bleek continues to prove my theory that Hovie just picked any old street cat in New York to be his successor, Beanie Sigel is just one of the most boring MC's to pick up the microphone, and Amil was dropped fairly quickly from Roc-A-Fella for a very very very good reason. That said, the beats are mostly bangin.Jim Jones Hustler's P.O.M.E. Deluxe EditionJin The Rest Is HistoryLamb of God SacramentMasta Killa Made in BrooklynMetallica Ride the LightningMethod Man Tical 2000: Judgement DayMuse Black Holes and RevelationsMuse The ResistanceNas STILLmaticNas came back bigger than ever lyrically, Stillmatic is consistently killer lyrically, no doubt. the problem, though, is that the beats are consistently worse than anything even Nastradamus would accept. "Ether" was acceptable because, like that bitch in the Ludacris song, that beat just got out tha way, but that's the stand-out, most of the rest of the songs just crappily interpolate with Nas's newly refound lyrical prowess. *Sigh*Nas Street's DiscipleNine Inch Nails The Downward SpiralObscura CosmogenesisOpeth Apostle In Triumph Demo [1993]Outkast SouthernplayalisticadillacmuzikPantera Far Beyond DrivenPharrell In My MindProdigy H.N.I.C. Pt. 2Puddle Of Mudd Come CleanPuddle Of Mudd FamousRaekwon ImmobilarityHere, Raekwon is lyrically the most immense he ever was, it's to bad that the instrumentation here is uniformly awful, dull, and boring, driving attention away from one of the best lyrical performances from any member of the Wu-Tang.Rakim The 18th LetterI love rakim and all, but he's kinda crusin half the time here, and when Rakim cruises, he sounds like that guy on the street that just raps for about a buck or two so he can get a coke and some chips. This album is pretty much half 5 star material and half 1 star material and i'm going to have to say it does NOT work well as an album. Plus the skits are AWFUL.Ras Kass Institutionalized Pt.2Slim Thug Boss of all BossesSlipknot IowaStone Temple Pilots PurpleSuffocation Despise the SunSystem of a Down HypnotizeWhat the hell happened? Mezmerized was one of the band's best efforts, mixing Serj's grandioso vocals and Daron's "party all night" personality perfectly. Now with Hynotize, Daron takes over the album with Serj merely being a peasant in comparison. The music attempts to be frantic, but simply bores the listener out of their minds, and boring efforts such as "Lonely Day" offer nothing but Daron's loud and obnoxious voice and his terribly written lyrics. "Moving Moutains" is the only song on Hynotize that still has its weight on any past System, and even then it is not too special for the orignal band. How could a band fall so far in a matter of months? who knows, but from an army of listener's views, Daron's Emperic control of Hynotize is what brings all the problems.The Black Dahlia Murder UnhallowedThe Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnalguys i have to agree, this is pretty amazing. In fact, its amazingly... BORING.The Mars Volta AmputechtureUlver Nattens MadrigalYoung Jeezy Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 1012 poor2Pac R U Still Down? (Remember Me)August Burns Red MessengersAvenged Sevenfold City of EvilAZ 9 LivesBig Pun Yeeeah BabyBig Pun sounds so uncomfortable over these incredibly polished beats.Black Sabbath Headless CrossBlack Sabbath The Eternal IdolCanibus Mind ControlCappadonna The PillageSome of the Wu-Tang Affilation Producers and even The RZA provide Cappadonna some of their better beats. Mixed down just enough to sound Wu-like, some of the beats even bring back memories of 36 Chambers, an album this fool had nothing to do it. The problem, this album is just an army of wasted beats, abused on a rapper with absolutely NO skill. seriously. "Plus I stay dipped like the first day of school/Blood pool kid with the low cut fade/My darts is number one playtime is over/Black October, my debt still correct ". throughout the album, the listeners continue to wonder what if these decent beats were handled by competent MC's.Children Of Bodom Follow the Reaperdude, play that narly riff again. Okay, now make variations of that riff and make an album from it. Then memorize a bunch of Mozart and classical dudes and play that on your guitar for the solos. Don't worry, you can get the fancy keyboard guy to do most of the work. Now get a drummer and a bassist. Nothing to fancy, just two guys that will follow the guitars around and play fast beats. That's good. Now let the guitarist sing. Not sing, but make him scream, make him scream like a little boy trying to be a black metal voice while singing and growling, all of this at the same time. That's fucking essential, if we don't have that, we're just a power metal band, and no one wants that! We'll call ourselves: Children of Bodom. FUDGING BROOTAL POWER METAL BAND.Cryptopsy Whisper SupremacyD12 D12 WorldDel The Funky Homosapien Eleventh HourDisturbed IndestructibleDivine Heresy Bringer of PlaguesDMX Flesh Of My Flesh, Blood Of My BloodDragonForce Ultra BeatdownElvis Presley Elvis: 30 #1 HitsEminem Eminem Presents: The Re-UpEminem InfiniteEminem shows a lot of promise here, but the potential is ruined by some awful Illmatic-wannabe beats, a lot of em's collaborators, and the fact that Em just isn't that great at this point. Slim Shady EP is kinda nice, with his style more developed, this is the tale of a talented but ultimately under developed MC trying to create a classic and instead of doing so, sounding like a white kid trying to re-create all of those great east coast records released around this era. Equilibrium SagasFlo Rida Mail on SundayFlobots Fight With ToolsG-Unit Terminate On SightGreen Day American IdiotGreen Day 21st Century BreakdownGunther PleasuremanIce Cube Lethal InjectionIn Flames A Sense of PurposeInspectah Deck The MovementJay-Z The Blueprint²: The Gift & the CurseJay-Z The Blueprint 3Nevermind this shit sucks. Only a few good tracks spread around some really awful shit that makes "I Know What Girls Like" sound awesome in comparison.Jim Jones Hustler's P.O.M.E. Standard EditionJim Jones is somehow charismatic enough to make "We Fly High" and "Reppin Time" work despite their mediocrity, and "Jungle Music" is pretty nice, but the rest is just kind of a mess. Kanye West 808s And HeartbreakKanye West GraduationKardinal Offishall Not 4 SaleKiD CuDi Man On The Moon: The End Of DayIf Kid Cudi and Drake are the future of hip hop, i want to take a time machine back to the dinosaur age and stay there. There are so many modern MC's that are much better than both of those 'experimental' assholes, and if people noticed them maybe they'd get good productions. Just a waste of the occasionally interesting beat that usually appears every other track.Lil Wayne 500 DegreezLinkin Park Hybrid TheoryMaster P Ghetto DMeshuggah IMetallica ReloadMethod Man Tical 0: The PrequelMike Jones Who Is Mike Jones?Ol' Dirty Bastard Nigga PleaseOutkast Speakerboxxx/The Love BelowOutkast IdlewildRa Black SunRadiohead Pablo HoneyRaekwon The Lex Diamond StoryRedman MalpracticeScar Symmetry Pitch Black ProgressSeether Finding Beauty in Negative SpacesSeether Karma and EffectSex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's The Sex Shadows Fall The Art of BalanceSlipknot All Hope is GoneSlipknot try to hard to replicate themselves on past albums while throwing every 'new' idea on a wall to see what sticks, and ultimately what we get is a scatter shot mash of good ideas in metal being poorly abused by indecisive bastards!The Eyes Of A Traitor A Clear PerceptionThe Mars Volta Scab Dates [Live]The Notorious B.I.G. Born AgainThe Notorious B.I.G. Conspiracythis really shouldn't be in the B.I.G. section cuz this album actually had very little to do with B.I.G., and more to do with Lil' Kim's shenanigans. And thus, it is an infinitely worse record because of itThom Yorke The EraserTool 10,000 DaysTrivium AscendancyU-God Golden Arms RedemptionTo make an odd comparison: Wu-Tanger U-God's album is just as bad as Pseudo-Wu-Tanger's Cappadonna, and almost for the same reasons. U-God's flow is legions better than Cappadonna's, and although his rhymes are absolute GIBBERISH on this album as well, at least it sounds more pronounced and intelligent than Cap's ever would. The problem here is that U-God's ear for beats suck ASS. Most of the beats here, from wu affilates, sounds dialated and dull, not fit for any member of the friggin G-UNIT, much less the weakest member of The Wu-Tang Clan. Some smart choices, including the Marvin Gaye sampled first single "Bizarre" and the RZA's militant anthem "Dat's Gangsta" are enough for you to just download those songs and forget the rest of this album exists.Xzibit Man vs. MachineYoung Jeezy The Recession1.5 very poor50 Cent The MassacreA Skylit Drive Wires...And The Concept Of BreathingAbigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand SunsBehemoth DemigodBeyonce I Am... Sasha FierceBeyonce makes a terrible pop album with only one redeeming factor: a single good song in the midst of boredom and lack of good ideas. With this double EP, Beyonce tries to suckle out of nearly every R&B and pop trend, and what we get is a load of crap with one success, and that one success is, ironically, the thing that she has done best: being herself.Black Sabbath ForbiddenBusta Rhymes Back on My B.S.Canibus Hip Hop 4 SaleCanibus Can-I-BusChildren Of Bodom HatebreederChris Cornell ScreamDiddy No Way OutDisturbed BelieveDisturbed The SicknessElvis Presley Elvis PresleyEminem EncoreFlo Rida R.O.O.T.S.Flyleaf FlyleafHeaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part I:The Final Resistance)Inspectah Deck The Resident PatientJedi Mind Tricks A History of ViolenceJohn Frusciante Smile From the Streets You HoldLamb of God WrathLinkin Park/Jay Z Collision Course (The Ulitmate Mash-Up)Metallica MetallicaMetallica LoadMobb Deep InfamyMobb Deep Amerikaz NightmareNas NastradamusNine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IVOl' Dirty Bastard The Trials and Tribulations of Russell JonesPantera The Great Southern TrendkillPuddle Of Mudd Life On DisplayRZA Digi SnacksScars on Broadway Scars On BroadwaySlipknot SlipknotSlipknot proved themselves to be a diverse and interesting band on Vol.3, but everything that made Vol.3 a great effort isn't seen much on the hazzy nu-metal effort Slipknot. Bored, Drop D,C, and B-ed power chords and hoarse, immature shouting plague this album, which essentially could be the diion of a perfectly average nu-metal album, plus the overbearing amounts of members and the fact that no member is really really good at what they do except for Joey. and Even then, Joey is hella overrated. The fact is, this is just slipknot at their worst. Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.Snoop Dogg Da Game Is to Be Sold Not to Be ToldThe Black Dahlia Murder MiasmaThe Black Dahlia Murder DeflorateDeath Metal done in the dullest way possible... ooo look a shiny thing!The Notorious B.I.G. The Notorious B.I.G. DuetsToo Short Get Off the StageTrivium ShogunI almost cried when I saw the average rating for Shogun was higher than it was for Ascendancy. Shogun, simply put, is the incredibly bland mixture of the Metallica rip off album The Crusade and the over wanked piece of metalcore crap Ascendancy, all of which combined equals an over wanking group of Bullet For My Valentine rip offs. The riffs show potential, but as usual with Trivium, are quite stale and thrasy, and while solos show off some skill, but are rushed and are merely average for the genre they belong to. The rest is pure crap, as Matt Heafy uses all of his terrible vocal techniques, yelling, hoarse screaming, high pitched cleans, and Hetfield-esqe harsh cleans. The fact is, Shogun maybe the worst metal album of the year, displaying stale riffs and a mediocre group of musicians ripping off Metallica and becoming the shadow of their former selfs. Only get this if you are truly a Metallica/Trivium/BFMV fanboy, otherwise, avoid this like bird flu.U-God Mr. Xcitementfuck this... get Dopium and gtfo the interweb. seriously.1 awful3 Doors Down 3 Doors Down50 Cent War Angel LPBlack Sabbath Born AgainCanibus C True Hollywood StoriesChildren Of Bodom Blooddrunka shitty power metal band at the end of their shitty rope. Not even the guitar playing can save this one from crap songwriting and crap introduction of Thrash influence. In fact, the only real thing that has changed is that this album has gone from 'Power Metal' level of repetition to 'Thrash Metal' repetition, which I can assure you is much much worse. Oh yeah, and Alexi is trying to sound even heavier: BAD NEWS KIDS.Divine Heresy Bleed The FifthHeaven Shall Burn AsunderHeaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 2: Bildersturm - The Visual Resisidk haven't listened to this but if this is what i think it is, a slightly worse version of the first Iconoclast, then this is probably gonna be the rating. also ninjuice is a party pooper.Linkin Park Minutes to MidnightLinkin Park, a band that started out mediocre, finishes off this uninspired effort with a yuck. Boring song structures, poor execution, awful music, just everything that could go wrong did. And to think, they got rid of most of the bad aspects of their music and become even worse.Metallica St. AngerMobb Deep Blood MoneyNine Inch Nails Year ZeroOl' Dirty Bastard Osirus: The Official Mixtapethis competes with Inspectah's most recent mixtapes for the worst Wu-Tang release ever, this is just kind of embarassing.Sonic Syndicate Only InhumanSonic Syndicate Love and Other DisastersUntitled (E. Harris) 99 Great Needle Drops and LiftsWinds Of Plague Decimate The Weak
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