| 5.0 classic |
| AC/DC T.N.T. |
| An album full of intent, attitude, and - even at this early stage in their careers - fulfilled potential. Containing two of AC/DC's most recognisable songs in the album-opener and the title-track, T.N.T. is often overlooked due to never being released outside of Australia. But this is a costly oversight, as it's up their with the band's very finest work. Each of the nine songs can stand alone as a solid effort if nothing else, and Bon Scott is at his defiant best on the mic. This is one of the iconic Hard Rock albums of all time, with a couple of the most iconic Rock 'N' Roll songs of all time. Nothing short of brilliant. |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend |
| Crowded House Recurring Dream |
| A collection of the best work from Crowded House, this is a truly memorable album from start to finish. The incredible song-writing ability of the Finn brothers gave the House an entire catalogue of classics, and they are all on this album. The feeling flows between optimism and hope & desperation and despair effortlessly: this album is absolute gold. |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Millencolin Pennybridge Pioneers |
| NOFX The Decline |
| An 18-minute song with no chorus. Sounds a little ambitious, no? It is, but NOFX pulled it off. For me, this is one of the greatest songs ever written. It is an 18-minute Punk symphony, something that Green Day would have liked to have written, but couldn't. The bass work of Fat Mike is outstanding, arguably his best. The lyrics are emotive and thoughtful throughout, while the backing harmonies and instrumentals are sensational. This is Punk Rock at its absolute finest. |
| NOFX So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes |
An often-overlooked album in the extensive NOFX catalogue, this is arguably their finest. SLATFATS showcases some of the band's best song-writing abilities with some of the most adept musicianship seen at this point in their career. The ska influence is obvious, and Hefe's trumpet is given little rest. But it's the variation where this album comes in to its own. Moving from genuine Punk Rock to Ska to Jazz (sometimes in the same song), this album offers up something new at every turn. Even the length of the tracks is the most varied on any NOFX record.
Monosyllabic Girl is the best Punk song under 60 seconds ever, The Desperation's Gone is a brilliant, inspired, fast Punk song and Flossing A Dead Horse is genuine jazz. The record moves along at lightning speed - aided by the numerous short tracks. It's an energetic, fun and creative album, different to any other NOFX record, yet equally at home next to The Decline or Punk In Drublic. |
| Pearl Jam rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003) |
| Pete Murray See the Sun |
| Rage Against the Machine Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope |
| Regina Spektor Far |
| Strung Out Exile In Oblivion |
| A sensational offering from one of the most innovative Punk bands going around. Coming off the back of their hardcore/metal EP, Strung Out combined elements of melodic Punk, hardcore and metal with blistering guitar work and unbelievable hooks to create this masterful album. 'Blueprint Of The Fall', 'Her Name In Blood', 'Anna Lee', 'Vampires' and 'Never Speak Again' are some of the best Punk songs of the last five years. |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
Abbey Road. The best album ever made. That is all.
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| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Beatles 1 |
| A compilation of 27 of the best songs from one of the best bands of all-time: how can you go wrong? |
| The Kooks Inside In/Inside Out |
| The Police The Very Best of Sting & The Police |
| The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. |
| U2 The Joshua Tree |
| An album that has three of the best songs of the late '80s as its first three tracks is a classic in my book. Certainly, tracks 4-11 aren't "classic" material, but it doesn't really matter. The album-opener is one of the best songs ever, and tracks 2 and 3 are up there with U2's best ever songs. Bullet The Blue Sky is also a worthy track, but obviously completely overshadowed by the best opening 15 minutes to an album ever. There are other moments of brilliance but for the first three songs alone this gets a 5. The rest could be Ashlee Simpson playing a ukulele while on speed and it still wouldn't matter. |
| 4.5 superb |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell |
| AC/DC Back In Black |
| AC/DC High Voltage |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| Audioslave Audioslave |
| Bad Religion All Ages |
| Bad Religion Suffer |
| Bad Religion The Process of Belief |
| Billy Joel The Stranger |
| Billy Joel Greatest Hits Volume I & II (1973 - 1985) |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State |
| This is the Pop-Punk album. This was the one. All The Small Things. The influence of that song shouldn't be understated. And for those born in the mid-'80s like myself, this album was a pseudo-soundtrack to the teenage years. From spots on American Pie to being played at every party, ever, this album was huge. And with fairly good reason - this is just about as good as Pop-Punk as there had been. The singles were just made for radio and the bedrooms of 15-year-olds. And songs like Mutt, Wendy Clear, Adam's Song and What's My Age Again? are genuine classics. This was almost a genre-defining album, and it's certainly one of the best Pop-Punk albums ever. Arguably the band's best, at least equal with Dude Ranch, if not better. |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Exodus |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Coldplay Parachutes |
| Coldplay Live 2003 |
| Coldplay X&Y |
| Coldplay The Blue Room |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Crowded House Woodface |
| Daft Punk Musique Vol. 1 (1993-2005) |
| Dire Straits Sultans of Swing: The Very Best Of |
| Elton John Madman Across the Water |
| Elvis Presley Elvis: 30 #1 Hits |
| Eric Clapton Unplugged |
| Faces Ooh La la |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor |
Rating a Foo Fighters album 4.5? Well this rating goes for the first album only. I had heard mixed reports of this before I got it. I wasn't sure what to expect. What I got was the best Rock album the Foos have released. Certainly a different direction to the earlier stuff - a continuation of One By One. But - crucially - an expansion on the One By One sound. This is fuller, harsher, more passionate. Dave lets it all out, and these 10 love-inspired Rock tracks are brilliant. The guitars are heavy, the singing is abrasive, the drums are unrepentant, and the sound is huge.
The raw, unadulterated title-track is one of the best heavy and fast love songs of recent years, and Best Of You is one of the Foos' best songs ever. There isn't a weak moment here on the first disc - it's as solid an album as they have produced. And End Over End continues on from where Come Back left off on One By One. Great album.
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| Frank Sinatra My Way: The Best of Frank Sinatra |
| Frenzal Rhomb A Man's Not a Camel |
| Green Day Nimrod |
| Guns N' Roses Greatest Hits |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... |
| One of the strongest first halves of an album of the decade. The first seven tracks are all great. The chilled interacts with the full-on superbly on this album. Brandon's vocals are again outstanding and Ben Kenney replaced Dirk Lance admirably on the bass. Obviously different from but as good as their previous two studio albums. My favourite tracks are A Crow Left Of The Murder, Agoraphobia, Talk Shows On Mute and Sick Sad Little World. Arguably their finest album, and certainly worthy of a place in any collection. |
| Jack Johnson In Between Dreams |
| Jackson Jackson Tools For Survival |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American |
| John Butler Trio Sunrise Over Sea |
| John Butler Trio Grand National |
| John Butler Trio Living 2001-2002 |
| Jose Gonzalez Veneer |
| Lagwagon Let's Talk About Feelings |
| Led Zeppelin Remasters |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Live Throwing Copper |
| Maximo Park Our Earthly Pleasures |
| Metric Fantasies |
| Midnight Oil 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 |
| Midnight Oil 20,000 Watt R.S.L |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Millencolin Kingwood |
Millencolin certainly aren't the poppy skate-punk band they were ten years ago. They have matured into predominantely a Rock band, with obvious Punk roots. And that's where Kingwood is so important. It confirms their new direction, and expands on Home From Home, surpassing the 2002 album in ambition and quality. The variation is the greatest we've seen from the Swedish foursome, with Hard Rock coalescing with genuine Pop Punk tunes marvellously. The sound is mature and polished, yet there is still the energy and enthusiasm that has served MC so well for nearly 15 years.
There are moments of brilliance on here (such as Farewell My Hell, Birdie and Mooseman's Jukebox to name but a few) and the album is solid from start to finish. The album Millencolin needed to make, and they certainly delivered. |
| Millencolin Machine 15 |
| Missy Higgins The Sound of White |
| Missy Higgins On a Clear Night |
| Neil Young Greatest Hits |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds No More Shall We Part |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| NOFX Punk in Drublic |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Pearl Jam Vs. |
| Pennywise Full Circle |
| Pennywise Straight Ahead |
| Pennywise Live @ The Key Club |
| Pete Murray Feeler |
| Pete Murray Summer At Eureka |
| Powderfinger Odyssey Number Five |
| Powderfinger Internationalist |
| Powderfinger Fingerprints: Best of 1994-2000 |
| Pulp Different Class |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Rage Against the Machine Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium (DVD) |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela 11:11 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas |
| Soundtrack (Film) Trainspotting: Music from the Motion Picture |
| Strung Out Live in a Dive |
| Strung Out Twisted By Design |
| Strung Out Blackhawks Over Los Angeles |
| Strung Out Agents of the Underground |
| Taylor Swift Taylor Swift |
| Taylor Swift Fearless |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Doors Strange Days |
| The Doors The Doors |
| The Doors L.A. Woman |
| The Doors The Best of The Doors |
| The Living End The Living End |
| The Offspring Greatest Hits |
| The Police Outlandos d'Amour |
| The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers |
| The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed |
| The Rolling Stones Aftermath |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| U2 Achtung Baby |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb |
| U2 The Best Of 1980-1990 |
| Xavier Rudd Food In The Belly |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones |
| 4.0 excellent |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap |
| AC/DC Powerage |
Powerage is a strange one in the AC/DC collection. Personally it's right up there for me as one of the band's better albums, yet it continually draws criticism from many AC/DC fans. Riff Raff is just a cracking song - the main riff is as catchy, bluesy and rockin' as it gets and Bon's vocals are as piercing as ever. Sin City is another highlight, with the memorable yet mellow hook "I'm going down... To Sin City" prominent.
Powerage isn't all brazen attitude and power, with a more tempered sound and several slower songs. While this is effective in distinguishing it in the AC/DC catalogue, some of the momentum is lost at times, and the energy doesn't carry throughout the album like on T.N.T. or Highway To Hell. Nonetheless Powerage is a solid record with some timeless AC/DC classics and one of the band's best Bon Scott-era releases. |
| AC/DC Live |
| Acid House Kings Sing Along With Acid House Kings |
| Air France No Way Down |
| Angus and Julia Stone Chocolates & Cigarettes |
| Angus and Julia Stone A Book Like This |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Arctic Monkeys Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys |
| Bad Religion No Control |
| Bad Religion Generator |
| Bad Religion Against the Grain |
| Bad Religion Tested |
| Band of Horses Cease to Begin |
| Ben Folds Five Whatever and Ever, Amen |
| Ben Harper Live From Mars |
| Biffy Clyro Puzzle |
| Biffy Clyro Only Revolutions |
| Billy Joel Piano Man |
| Birds Of Tokyo Universes |
| Black Flag Damaged |
| blink-182 Blink-182 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch |
| blink-182 The Mark, Tom and Travis Show |
| blink-182 Greatest Hits |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm |
| Blonde Redhead 23 |
| Blue King Brown Stand Up |
| Blue King Brown Blue King Brown |
| An energetic, thoughtful, inspired and funky 35 minutes. This debut serves up six tracks full of feeling, big percussion solos, heart-felt vocals and potential, potential, potential. Water is simply a great song. It's catchy, funky and powerful. The variation of the album provides a platform for the band to explore just about any genre they wish, and they do so adeptly. Moving from The Doors-inspired keyboards to Jamiroquai-inspired funk beats, Blue King Brown are a bright prospect in Australian music and this statement of intent looks like being only the beginning. This is some great Roots, Funk and World music. |
| Blur Parklife |
| Blur The Best Of |
| Bob Dylan The Best of Bob Dylan |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club |
| Clint Mansell and Kronos Quartet Requiem for a Dream |
| Cold Chisel Chisel |
| Coldplay Prospekt's March |
| Crowded House Temple Of Low Men |
| Daft Punk Human After All |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 |
| Dan Sultan Get out while you can |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs |
| Descendents Cool to Be You |
| Descendents Milo Goes to College |
| Descendents Liveage! |
| Descendents Everything Sucks |
| Diana Krall The look of love |
| Diana Krall The Girl In The Other Room |
| Donavon Frankenreiter Pass It Around |
| Elton John Honky Chateau |
| Eric Clapton Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton |
| Eric Clapton The Cream of Clapton (US) |
| Everclear Sparkle And Fade |
| Faces A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...To a Blind Horse |
| Feist The Reminder |
| Florence and the Machine Lungs |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters |
An often-overlooked album from the Foos. The Colour And The Shape is largely credited as their first great album, but this gem is equal to just about all of its successors. It's certainly a different sound from later albums, but it's as effective as any of them. The raw, grunge-inspired Rock is half-way between Nirvana and later Foo Fighters, in the best way imaginable.
As the sounds of a guitar lead being plugged in to the amp kick-off the album, you get the sense that a new and successful career had just begun. This Is A Call is a truly mid-'90s song, somewhere between Smashing Pumpkins, Everclear and Nirvana. But these influences don't muscle Dave's own style out of the limelight. After all, this is Dave. The album is marked by his own unique songwriting and rasping vocals, aggressive drumming and dirty guitars mixed with mellow breaks and intros.
This Is A Call, Big Me, Alone + Easy Target and Good Grief are some of the Foos strongest stuff from the '90s and help make this a stand-out album in the Foos collection. |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Foo Fighters Skin and Bones |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand |
| Frenzal Rhomb Meet the Family |
| Gotye Like Drawing Blood |
| Green Day International Superhits |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Green Day Insomniac |
| Grinspoon Guide to Better Living |
| Grinspoon Easy |
Back in '99 this album was huge in Australian music, particularly in the Alternative and Rock scenes. Ready 1 still gets airplay. This was the album that took Grinspoon from a large underground band to a moderate mainstream band. The loose Rock and carefree attitude is reminiscent of Oasis, Arctic Monkeys and Queens Of The Stone Age, even if the musical parellels are much stronger with the latter.
Secrets is a brooding and heavy Rock piece that is one of the best Aussie songs of '99, following on from the strong opening. The pace is slowed with the mellow Rock Show, and the Rage Against The Machine-inspired insrumental track Overdriver shows a hint of diversity. Overall this is a consistent album with some memorable hooks and some catchy riffs, even though the band's influences seem to have far more impact on the record than they should. Violent And Lazy shows the ability of the Spoon to write a marketable, catchy Rock song had evolved and Violent is a certain album highlight. Undeniably a solid record but ultimately lacking the diversity or ambition that could have seen it become a truly modern-day classic. Nonetheless, it's one of the best Aussie records of '99. |
| Grinspoon Best in show |
| Grinspoon Pushing Buttons |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I |
| Hilltop Hoods The Calling |
| Probably the defining album of popular Australian Hip-Hop. And pretty much rightly so. This is one of the best Hip-Hop albums ever, with the best Hip-Hop song ever - Illusionary Lines. The lyrics are socially relevant and as we have come to expect the delivery is brilliantly Australian. Testimonial Year is a great 'opener' (at track #2) and The Nosebleed Section - although completely worn out in Australia - is still a superb poppy Hip-Hop song. The sampling is used effectively and the hooks will have you trying to master the lyrical delivery. The Sentinel is a fitting closing track, rounding out a great album. |
| I'm From Barcelona Let Me Introduce My Friends |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View |
| Jack Johnson On and On |
| James Brown The 50th Anniversary Collection |
| Jamie T Kings and Queens |
| Jamiroquai A Funk Odyssey |
| Jamiroquai Travelling Without Moving |
| Jamiroquai High Times (Singles 1992-2006) |
| Jimi Hendrix Experience Hendrix: The Best of Hendrix |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures |
| Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light |
| John Butler Trio Three |
| John Butler Trio Live at Saint-Gallen |
| John Butler Trio John Butler |
| John Butler Trio One Small Step |
| Jonsi Go |
| Jose Gonzalez In Our Nature |
| Justice †|
| Kate Miller-Heidke Curiouser |
| Kings of Convenience Riot on an Empty Street |
| Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak |
| Kings of Leon Because Of The Times |
| Klaxons Myths of the Near Future |
| Ladyhawke Ladyhawke |
| Lagwagon Resolve |
| Lagwagon Blaze |
| Lagwagon Double Plaidinum |
| Lagwagon Live In A Dive |
| Laura Marling Alas, I Cannot Swim |
| Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions |
| Lily Allen Alright, Still |
| Mates of State Re-Arrange Us |
| Maximo Park A Certain Trigger |
| Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
As if anything more needs to be said about this album - what, 19 sound offs and more than 1000 ratings?
Metallica have always been the most accessible metal band on the planet. And so it is that Master Of Puppets is a rockin', powerful album - aside from any labels of genres. The power and energy are brilliant and the guitar work is - as always - both stunning and pensive.
I generally hate anything with screaming and 'Death Metal' is arguably my most disliked genre. As long as you can handle some serious Rock - heavy guitars and full-blooded energy - this album will not offend your ears. Something I can say about few metal albums. But then again, this is more what I call "Hard Rock" than "Metal". Battery is a brilliant opening track, and the quality is spread throughout one of the most consistent albums you're likely to hear. The title-track, Sanitarium and Orion are other notable highlights.
People label this as "essential for metalheads" or whatever - no, this is one of the essential metal albums of all time, regardless of what type of music you like. |
| Metallica Load |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Metallica S&M |
| Metric Live It Out |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular |
| Midnight Juggernauts Dystopia |
| Millencolin Home From Home |
| Millencolin Life On A Plate |
| Missy Higgins Scar |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More |
| Muse Absolution |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| Mutemath Mutemath |
| Nelly Furtado Loose |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Boatman's Call |
| Nikola Sarcevic Roll Roll And Flee |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| Nirvana Nirvana |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom |
| No Doubt The Singles 1992-2003 |
| No Use for a Name Making Friends |
| NOFX The War on Errorism |
| NOFX Pump Up the Valuum |
| NOFX White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean |
| NOFX Never Trust a Hippy |
| NOFX I Heard They Suck Live!! |
| NOFX They've Actually Gotten Worse Live |
| Noisettes Wild Young Hearts |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy |
| Pearl Jam Backspacer |
| Pennywise About Time |
| Pete Murray A Year In The Sun |
| Phoenix (FRA) It's Never Been Like That |
| Phoenix (FRA) Alphabetical |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| Powderfinger Double Allergic |
| Powderfinger Vulture Street |
| Powderfinger Dream Days At The Hotel Existence |
| Powderfinger Golden Rule |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine (DVD) |
| Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Live at Slane Castle |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Regurgitator Unit |
| Ryan Adams Heartbreaker |
| Say Hi Numbers & Mumbles |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon |
| Snow Patrol Eyes Open |
| Soundtrack (Film) Moulin Rouge! - Music From Baz Luhrmann's Film |
| Strung Out An American Paradox |
| Strung Out Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues |
| Sublime Sublime |
| Tegan and Sara So Jealous |
| The Avett Brothers I and Love and You |
| The Basics Stand Out/Fit In |
| The Beach Boys The Platinum Collection: Sounds of Summer Edition |
| The Beautiful Girls Learn Yourself |
| The Beautiful Girls Ziggurats |
| The Clash London Calling |
| The Clash The Essential Clash |
| The Doors Morrison Hotel |
| The Doors Waiting for the Sun |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound |
| The Hives Tyrannosaurus Hives |
| The Hives Veni Vidi Vicious |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Killers Day & Age |
| The Kinks The Ultimate Collection |
| The Kooks Konk |
| The Living End White Noise |
| The National Boxer |
| The Offspring Smash |
| The Postal Service Give Up |
| The Presets Apocalypso |
| The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers |
| The Raconteurs Consolers of the Lonely |
| The Roots The Tipping Point |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Smiths The Smiths |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The Subways All or Nothing |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave |
| The Temper Trap Conditions |
| The Verve Urban Hymns |
| The Verve Forth |
| The Wombats A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind |
| U2 The Best Of 1990-2000 |
| U2 War |
| U2 Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago |
| U2 Boy |
| U2 Under A Blood Red Sky |
| U2 No Line on the Horizon |
| Unwritten Law Unwritten Law |
| Unwritten Law The Hit list |
| Unwritten Law Swan |
| Van Morrison The Best Of Van Morrison Vol 1 |
| Violent Femmes Violent Femmes |
| Washington I Believe You Liar |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Weezer The Blue Album (Deluxe Edition) |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother |
| Xavier Rudd To Let |
| Xavier Rudd Solace |
| Xavier Rudd White Moth |
| Xavier Rudd Good Spirit |
| Xavier Rudd Live At The Grid |
| Xavier Rudd Dark Shades of Blue |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Is Is |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! |
| You Am I #4 Record |
| 3.5 great |
| AC/DC The Razors Edge |
| AC/DC Let There Be Rock |
| AC/DC '74 Jailbreak |
| AC/DC High Voltage (Australia) |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose |
| Angus and Julia Stone Heart Full of Wine EP |
| Angus and Julia Stone Down the Way |
| Annie Anniemal |
| Annie Don't Stop |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Architecture In Helsinki Fingers Crossed |
| Arctic Monkeys Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Audioslave Revelations |
The third and last album for Audioslave was always going to be the defining release of their career. Not because it is their legacy or anything complex like that - it was defining because Out Of Exile just wasn't that good. Another bad record would have been the end. As it turns out this was the end, but not because it's a bad record. The sound had evolved yet somewhat returned to the power of Audioslave (the album), resulting in authoritative and commanding tracks like Revelations, One And The Same and Original Fire.
The 'Slave returned to their powerful Rock roots with Revelations, and it's clear it's what they did best. Morello is once again more prominent and the album feels more polished with much less 'filler' than Out Of Exile. Perhaps not quite as consistent as their self-titled album, but a return to form and a worthy album in any collection. Revelations gave Audioslave the credibility and legitimacy they deserved. |
| Avril Lavigne Under My Skin |
| Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing |
| This is an incredibly frustrating album. The potential for Avril to take the next step and make a truly memorable record was there. It still is. But at the moment that all it is - potential. Unfulfilled potential. Why she has persisted with the immature crap that blights the record is beyond me. Some say for irony, some say it's as a piss-take. Personally I couldn't care what it's for if it sounds bad. And Girlfriend sounds bad. The verses of The Best Damn Thing are an abomination. But this is where the frustration and contradiction comes in. The chorus of the same song is as catchy as any Avril song, and decent Pop-Rock. rThe fragile When You're Gone is one of the few tracks that's solid the entire way through. Everything Back But You is the most 'Punk' song Avril's just about ever done. It's not bad. A strong middle-section of the album is then wrecked by the awful I Don't Have To Try. The album gets stronger after the awful opening, and there are catchy hooks all over the place. And that's not more than you would expect, but they're still there. All in all this is better than her first album, about the same as the last one, and no where near as good as it could have been.r |
| Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First |
| Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction |
| Bad Religion New Maps of Hell |
| Basement Jaxx Remedy |
| Basement Jaxx Rooty |
| Bedouin Soundclash Street Gospels |
| Bernard Fanning Tea & Sympathy |
| Billy Joel Storm Front |
| Billy Joel River Of Dreams |
| blink-182 Cheshire Cat |
| This was almost the perfect Pop-Punk debut album. It is almost the album Dude Ranch became. There are some really great moments on here, like the re-hashed Carousel and the album highlight (and one of Blink's best songs) M+M's. The infectious Poppy Punk sound that went on to become Blink's trademark is apparent in tracks like Touchdown Boy - which has a tangible Dude Ranch sound - but the overall sound is rushed and unrefined. There is too much filler, with the songs re-recorded from their self-titled album making little impact and failing to distinguish themselves from the originals (with Carousel the obvious exception). However Wasting Time is one of Blink's strongest songs from the early days and an often-overlooked gem, hiding down at track 12. A solid album that set the foundation for better things to come. |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm Remixed |
| Bloc Party A Weekend in the City |
| Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Natty Dread |
| Britney Spears Circus |
| Cassius 15 Again |
| Chris Isaak Best Of Chris Isaak |
| Crowded House Time On Earth |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles |
| CSS Donkey |
| Cut Copy In Ghost Colours |
| Daft Punk Homework |
| Death Cab for Cutie You Can Play These Songs With Chords |
| Descendents 'Merican |
| Dido No Angel |
| Dido Life For Rent |
| Digitalism Idealism |
| Does It Offend You, Yeah? You Have No Idea... |
| Donavon Frankenreiter Donavon Frankenreiter |
| Donavon Frankenreiter Recycled Recipes |
| Eels Hombre Lobo |
| Eskimo Joe A Song Is A City |
| Eskimo Joe Black Fingernails, Red Wine |
| Evermore Dreams |
| Fatboy Slim You've Come a Long Way, Baby |
| Foo Fighters One by One |
| Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand |
| Frenzal Rhomb Sans Souci |
| Frenzal Rhomb Forever Malcolm Young |
| Frenzal Rhomb Not So Tough Now |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere |
| Grinspoon New Detention |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II |
| Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy |
| Hot Chip The Warning |
| Hot Chip Made in the Dark |
| I'm From Barcelona Don't Give Up on Your Dreams, Buddy! |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades |
| Jack Johnson Brushfire Fairytales |
| Jackson Jackson The Fire Is on the Bird |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control |
| Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers |
| Justin Timberlake Justified |
| Kasabian Kasabian |
| Kasabian West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum |
| Kelly Clarkson Breakaway |
| Kings of Convenience Versus |
| Kings of Leon Youth and Young Manhood |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night |
| Kylie Minogue Ultimate Kylie |
| Kylie Minogue X |
| La Roux La Roux |
| Lagwagon Hoss |
| Lagwagon I Think My Older Brother Used To Listen |
| Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You |
| Lisa Mitchell Wonder |
| Live Secret Samadhi |
| Live The Distance To Here |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child |
| Maps We Can Create |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane |
| Mates of State Bring it Back |
| Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Take a Break |
| Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Blow in the Wind |
| Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Are a Drag |
| Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Have a Ball |
| Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Love Their Country |
| Michael Buble It's Time |
| Michael Jackson Thriller |
| Millencolin Same Old Tunes |
| Millencolin For Monkeys |
| Millencolin The Melancholy Collection |
| Moby Play |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Muse Showbiz |
| Mystery Jets Twenty One |
| Nikola Sarcevic Lock-Sport-Krock |
| No Doubt Return of Saturn |
| No Use for a Name The Feel Good Record of the Year |
| NOFX 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough |
| NOFX Ribbed |
| NOFX Heavy Petting Zoo |
| NOFX The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us) |
| NOFX Wolves in Wolves' Clothing |
| NOFX Coaster |
| Norah Jones Come Away with Me |
| Oasis Don't Believe the Truth |
| Passion Pit Manners |
| Pearl Jam Binaural |
| Pearl Jam Riot Act |
| Pennywise Land Of The Free? |
| Pennywise Pennywise |
| Pennywise Unknown Road |
| Pink M!ssundaztood |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Mexico City (DVD) |
| Rancid Let's Go |
| Rancid Indestructible |
| Rancid Life Won't Wait |
| Razorlight Razorlight |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch |
| Regina Spektor Songs |
| Regurgitator Mish Mash! |
| Royksopp Melody A.M. |
| Ryan Adams Love is Hell |
| S Club 7 The Greatest Hits Of S Club 7 |
| Shihad The General Electric |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Silverchair Frogstomp |
| Silversun Pickups Pikul |
| Snow Patrol Final Straw |
| Snow Patrol Live And Acoustic At Park Ave. |
| Sting Ten Summoner's Tales |
| Strung Out Crossroads and Illusions |
| Strung Out The Element of Sonic Defiance |
| The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha |
| The Beatles Please Please Me |
| The Beautiful Girls Morning Sun |
| The Beautiful Girls We're Already Gone |
| The Cult Electric |
| The Fratellis Costello Music |
| The Gaslight Anthem American Slang |
| The Killers Sam's Town |
| The Libertines The Libertines |
| The Living End Roll On |
| The Living End Modern Artillery |
| The Living End From Here On In |
| The Offspring Ixnay on the Hombre |
| The Offspring Americana |
| The Police Zenyatta Mondatta |
| The Presets Beams |
| The Rapture Pieces Of The People We Love |
| The Roots How I Got Over |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Zero |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist |
| The Smiths Singles |
| The Smiths Hatful of Hollow |
| The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| The Subways Young For Eternity |
| The Ting Tings We Started Nothing |
| The Vasco Era Oh We Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside |
| The Vines Highly Evolved |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump |
| The Whitest Boy Alive Rules |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Tokyo Police Club A Lesson in Crime |
| Tokyo Police Club Elephant Shell |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science |
| U2 Rattle and Hum |
| U2 The Unforgettable Fire |
| U2 October |
| U2 U218 Singles |
| Unwritten Law Here's to the Mourning |
| Unwritten Law Elva |
| Unwritten Law Music In High Places |
| Van She V |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| White Rabbits Fort Nightly |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother EP |
| Wolfmother Dimensions |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell |
| Yelle Pop-Up |
| 3.0 good |
| AC/DC Black Ice |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black |
| Architecture In Helsinki In Case We Die |
| Architecture In Helsinki Places Like This |
| Audioslave Out of Exile |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go |
| Basement Jaxx Crazy Itch Radio |
| Beyonce Dangerously in Love |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket |
| Bloc Party Intimacy |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells |
| Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera |
| Christina Aguilera Back to Basics |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah |
| CSS Cansei de Ser Sexy |
| Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen |
| Datarock Red |
| Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes |
| Delta Goodrem Innocent Eyes |
| Donavon Frankenreiter Move By Yourself |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree |
| Fatboy Slim Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars |
| Fight Like Apes ...And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose |
| Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better |
| Gabriella Cilmi Lessons to Be Learned |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Green Day Kerplunk |
| Green Day 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours |
| Grinspoon Thrills, Kills + Sunday Pills |
| Grinspoon Alibis & Other Lies |
| Gwen Stefani Love. Angel. Music. Baby. |
| Hilary Duff Most Wanted |
| Hilltop Hoods The Hard Road |
| Jack Johnson Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for Curious George |
| Jamiroquai Dynamite |
| Josh Pyke Memories & Dust |
| Joss Stone The Soul Sessions |
| Kaiser Chiefs Employment |
| Kasabian Empire |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys |
| Katy Perry Teenage Dream |
| Klaxons Xan Valleys |
| KT Tunstall Drastic Fantastic |
| Kylie Minogue Light Years |
| This was the reinvention ablum for Miss Minogue. This was the one that got her back in to the charts in a big way, with Spinning Around serving admirably as the lead single. Her career had seemingly nose-dived with the poorly received Impossible Princess, but this album set up the huge success Kylie has seen since the turn of the century. The highlight is probably the dreamy On A Night Like This, set over a truly late-'90s Dance-Pop beat. The album falls away slightly after the first two tracks, but maintains the upbeat, sugary Dance-Pop throughout. This was the album that turned Kylie's career towards its most successful period, certainly since the late '80s, and arguably, ever. The album is centred around the singles, tracks 1, 2, 7, 8 and 13. While the singles are, for the most part, all at least decent Pop songs, this leaves the rest of the album feeling empty and lacking quality. Nonetheless this is a serviceable Pop album. |
| Kylie Minogue Fever |
| Madonna The Immaculate Collection |
| Madonna Like a Virgin |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Metallica Reload |
| Michael Buble Michael Bublé |
| Michael Jackson Bad |
| Michael Jackson Dangerous |
| Midnight Juggernauts Secrets Of The Universe |
| Muse The Resistance |
| Nelly Furtado Whoa, Nelly! |
| New Young Pony Club Fantastic Playroom |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! |
| Nirvana From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah |
| NOFX S&M Airlines |
| of Montreal Satanic Panic in the Attic |
| of Montreal The Gay Parade |
| Pennywise The Fuse |
| Pennywise From The Ashes |
| Pennywise Reason to Believe |
| Peter Bjorn and John Writer's Block |
| Pink I'm Not Dead |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age |
| Queens of the Stone Age Over the Years and Through the Woods |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades |
| Razorlight Up All Night |
| Regurgitator Tu Plang |
| Sara Bareilles Little Voice |
| Silverchair Diorama |
| Sneaky Sound System Sneaky Sound System |
| Snow Patrol A Hundred Million Suns |
| Spice Girls Spice |
| Sting Mercury Falling |
| Strung Out Another Day In Paradise |
| Sugar Army The Parallels Amongst Ourselves |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| The (International) Noise Conspiracy Survival Sickness |
| The (International) Noise Conspiracy A New Morning, Changing Weather |
| The (International) Noise Conspiracy Armed Love |
| The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk |
| The Futureheads News and Tributes |
| The Living End State Of Emergency |
| The Offspring Splinter |
| The Offspring Conspiracy of One |
| The Police Ghost in the Machine |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth |
| The Veronicas The Secret Life Of... |
| U2 Pop |
| Weezer The Green Album |
