| 5.0 classic |
| blink-182 Blink-182 |
| Not as fun as "Dude Ranch" "Enema of the State" or "Take Off Your Pants and Jacket" but this album has something definitely unique about it. Blink has always had really fun albums to listen to with your friends and party with, but they never really "did it" for me. This one, however, really has it all. It has energy (Go), fun songs (Feeling This), cathartic songs (I Miss You, I'm Lost Without You), good vocals (All of This), and straight up good songwriting (Asthenia). It's really a flawless masterpiece that marks a great end to age of Blink-182. Truly Wonderful. |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo |
| Fast, chaotic, and emotional, As the Roots Undo is probably the single greatest Emo record ever made. Ever track on here is not only solid, but some of the best music I have ever heard. As a whole, the album is extremely unified and swells, climaxes and concludes much like a great novel. If you haven't heard this (and who on Sputnik hasn't nowadays) I highly recommend it. |
| Defeater Travels |
| Travels is unrelentingly energetic, somber, heartbreaking, empowering, and beautiful. I can only really say that this album is encompassing. When I listen to Travels, I am unable to give it a past listen. It fully absorbs you, whether you like it or not. The moments that give you chills, the moments that make you want to scream, the moments that make you shudder all encompass you and make this album truly developed. Oftentimes I simply tell one to give this a proper listen and to not dismiss it as "background music" but with Travels it is near impossible to do such a thing. Even in the car this album can take you away from your responsibility as a driver when you realize the nature of "Everything Went Quiet." It's truly wonderful the way they assembled this, and the impact it has on the listener is astounding. |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy |
| This album holds No Quarter on your genitalia. Absolutely kick ass. |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| This blows "Choirs of the Eye" out of the water. Toby Driver's best work by far. A truly classic album if there ever was one. It has a unique sound that seems to blend all genres under a layer of metal and ambiance. Wonderful. Classic. |
| Modern Life Is War Witness |
| I really can't even find anything even remotely average with this album. It just makes me want to break shit and scream at the world. I guess in that sense, it fulfills its purpose flawlessly. |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| To try to describe my love for In the Aeroplane Over the Sea really won't do it justice. I may seem like I'm jumping on the bandwagon giving this a 5, but it really deserves no less. At its climaxes and mellow moments, it really hits you like no other album truly can. Mangum's voice is conventionally terrible, but it fits the music and lyrics so well that I would not trade it for even the most angelic of voices. |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| I'm just gonna go ahead and say it... This is really the best album ever made. Ever. Everything is flawless about this album. The concepts, the lyrics, the music all seems to fit perfectly right. Upon the first time hearing this masterpiece I can tell it was in a totally different vein than all other music. If there was a rate above 5, this would be the only one I would put there, but since there isn't, a Classic rating will have to suffice. |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
| This deserves it. I can't find any flaws with this album, and I have been debating whether to move it into my 5 club for the longest time now. After tonight, listening to it while walking in the snow through my busy town, I can't help but give it a 5. It is so magical. |
| The National Boxer |
| If OK Computer didn't exist, I would be hard pressed to find an album as flawless as Boxer. Every note seems to be perfectly placed, and the entire feel of the album is wonderful, and yet unattached. But that's why you love it so much, because it isn't quick to accept you, and vice-versa. But once that connection is made, it is wonderful, in every sense of the word. Every note is flawless. Boxer is a masterpiece. |
| The Who Quadrophenia |
| Though this album is often praised for being a wonderful concept album, at its core it is really just a collection of wonderful songs. Though it clocks in at 80+ minutes, it never seems to drag. There is essentially every aspect of The Who's greatness on this album, from the emotional outbursts of the final track, to the catchiness of "The Dirty Jobs" to the straight parody on "Bell Boy." It has a wonderful flow, where every song seems to be perfectly placed, adding to the overall feel of the album. A truly astonishing record that has stood the test of time. Only Love can bring the rain. A true classic. |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind |
| Just a collection of great songs that are always there for you when you are feeling down... which is probably more often than not when you're 17 like I am. Lately, it has just been exactly what I need and I feel like it's cemented itself into my heart forever. If I hadn't heard of so many other people falling in love with this album for the exact same reason, I could swear it was written specifically for me. |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor |
| I'm 5ing this. I really can't find anything even average with this album. The more I listen to it, the more I love it. My favorite from 2010 by a long shot. Very unique sound on here too, and every track is solid. Whether it be a tale of hopelessness, happiness, drunkenness, or plain stupidity, The Monitor is undeniably a wonderful piece of music. Its greatness lies partly in its subtleties, and partly in the overt music. At a first glance, it is a wonderful record. Upon further listening, it reveals itself as an astonishingly beautiful piece of music. Flawless. Flawless. Flawless. Flawless. Flaw-Less. Get it as soon as you can. |
| 4.5 superb |
| A Bunny's Caravan Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose |
| AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms |
| Billy Joel The Stranger |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run |
| Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Dangers Anger |
| Defeater Lost Ground |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights |
| I feel as though the reason this album is so breathtakingly wonderful is not simply because it is a collection of great songs, (which, however, it is) but how it seems like two completely separate yet coherent albums. EMPTY DAYS takes the listener back to the likes of Travels, while SLEEPLESS NIGHTS shows a new side of Defeater, a much more melodic and soothing side. However, despite these two entities within the album, they are distinctly intertwined within the Defeater storyline. This makes for one hell of an album, and one hell of an entertaining listen. |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| dredg El Cielo |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True |
| Florence and the Machine Lungs |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| Joanna Newsom Ys |
| Kidcrash Jokes |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask OST |
| La Dispute Untitled |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| When rating this album, I couldn't help but give it an amazing score. Emotional post-hardcore at its finest. |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. |
| Le Pre Ou Je Suis Mort Le Pre Ou Je Suis Mort |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Between this and Houses of the Holy for Zeppelin's best. I think, although Houses is overall more consistent, this just has a classic feel to it. |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals |
| Mew Frengers |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| Michael Jackson Thriller |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth's magnum opus. This destroys Blackwater Park. It's really the perfect metal album. It has catchy riffs, poetic lyrics, a great voice, and one of the coolest concepts that I have ever heard of. The music is so embodying of the concepts behind this album. I mean, honestly what is more metal than a man exiled from his city for heresy, and only to go back to be persecuted even more? It deals with the struggles and anguish the character is feeling, and encompasses it nicely the way only Opeth can do. |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall |
| Patti Smith Horses |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Queen A Night at the Opera |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People |
| R.E.M. Murmur |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Sigur Ros Untitled 1 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation |
| The epitome of cool. This album is cooler and more indie than your favorite album |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| The first ska album I ever heard, and definitely the best. Every track is solid as hell, and the album flows extremely nicely. Kalnoky's voice really perfects the picture, as it suits the album perfectly. |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound |
| Well I absolutely love this album. I really haven't been listening to anything but for weeks now. It's very odd that I would give this a 5 as it isn't in the vein of what I usually adore, but if this isn't the catchiest thing I've ever heard in my life... I really like this, and even if it makes its way out of my 5 club eventually, I will always adore it. |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| What can I really say about this one. It is definitely Omar and Cedric's best work to date. Every song is not just wonderful, but fulfilling and a vital piece of the puzzle that makes De-Loused in the Comatorium the wonderful masterpiece that it is. If you haven't heard this yet, you really need to. |
| The National High Violet |
| The National Alligator |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Thermals The Body, The Blood, The Machine |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site |
| The Who Who's Next |
| Tigers on Trains Grandfather |
| I can't even begin to explain how beautiful this is. Please listen to it as soon as you can. I can't stop at the moment. |
| Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool Ænima |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World |
| Trophy Scars Goodnight Alchemy |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
