| 5.0 classic |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep |
This album is difficult to describe because it's very delicate in my mind. It has so much
meaning and beauty to it and yet it is quite the sad record. You hear Cody's voice break
and seep with frustration. You hear the guitars intertwine and cry and sometimes even roar
that just take you away. Everything in the album perfectly ties into everything else and it
all says something. It's a truly beautiful record, might even turn into a 5 for me. And if
you were raised in a Christian home, get this right now. |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Infinitely listenable. I've had this for months and listened to it plenty of times and it just never gets old. Vernon's beautiful soundscapes and harmonies just always scratch me where I itch. It's so personal, yet so universal. The album is truly timeless once it clicks on you. Perfect rainy day album. |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Coheed and Cambria Neverender |
| Cursive Domestica |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| dredg El Cielo |
| Gavin Castleton Home |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Gunther Pleasureman |
| If only more mainstream pop was this genius. Let us hope the rest of the world gets this. This makes my summer so crazy fun! Love. Champange. Sex. Respect. |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand |
| James Blake James Blake |
| Joanna Newsom Ys |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me |
maybe I'm getting ahead of myself, but I can't see how this is any less than a classic.
every song is unique and stands as a fabulous song alone, and still serves the album as a
whole. her progression is absolutely a treat to watch as she takes on her most ambitious
move yet with ease and grace. it looks like this generation has found it's Joni Mitchell. |
| Joao Gilberto Joao Gilberto |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| John Coltrane My Favorite Things |
| John Coltrane Africa/Brass |
| John Coltrane Live At Birdland |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! |
| Quite simply, this is probably my favorite record ever. It's impact on my life has been so gorgeously profound that I could never thank the band enough for what they have done (and I've tried!). It goes beyond the music, the lyrics, everything, and just truly makes you a better person. If you want to find the ways to be a happier person, listen to this record. |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| 4.5 superb |
| Akron/Family Akron/Family |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions |
| Bear vs. Shark Terrorhawk |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground |
| Burial Untrue |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go |
| Circa Survive Juturna |
| Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Daughters Hell Songs |
| This is the sound of a band that has just lost it's mind and my God, it's fantastic. They perfectly balance creativity, insanity, and intensity. And, Lord knows we've all shit ourselves after the opening riff of "Cheers Pricks". Best grind album ever. |
| David Bowie Low |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| Emery The Question |
| Eric Dolphy Iron Man |
| Eric Whitacre The Complete A Capella Works, 1991-2001 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles |
| fun. Aim and Ignite |
| Gavin Castleton A Bullet, A Lever, A Key |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Gregor Samsa Rest |
| Gregor Samsa 55:12 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Hella There's No 666 In Outer Space |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living |
| Howard Shore The Return of the King |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 2 |
| In Pieces Lions Write History |
| Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender |
| John Coltrane Olé Coltrane |
| Kayo Dot Coyote |
| Probably going to become a 5 in a few more listens. This is probably what dying sounds like--and I mean that as a compliment. |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing |
| Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
| Miles Davis Workin' With Miles Davis and the Quintet |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| Off Minor Some Blood |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Piglet lava land |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd Ummagumma |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch |
| Regina Spektor Far |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy |
| Say Anything Say Anything |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre |
| Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Steve Reich Drumming |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary |
| Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| Talk Talk The Colour of Spring |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death |
| Though they aren't covering much new territory, this is still awesome. And the sound is just about as different from their past work as Act I is from Act II. Might not be a crazy new direction, but it's still more awesome Dear Hunter. And who else sounds like these guys anyways? |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound |
| The Gaslight Anthem American Slang |
| The Honorary Title Anything Else But The Truth |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The Mountain Goats The Coroner's Gambit |
| This album is real simple, real raw, and strangely moving. In John Darnielle's expansive discography, this guy is the standout. One of the best folk albums I have. |
| The National Alligator |
| The National Boxer |
| The National High Violet |
| There's this band called the National, and they're really good. |
| The Paper Chase Someday This Could All Be Yours Vol.1 |
| Holy hell this is one of the most satisfying listens I've ever had. It's so damn demented/catchy! |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting We Must Become the Change We Want to See |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool Ænima |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss |
| 4.0 excellent |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam |
| Anthony Green Avalon |
| Aphex Twin Melodies From Mars |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water |
| As Tall As Lions Into The Flood |
| Asheru and Blue Black Soon Come... |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Black Star Black Star |
| Braid Frame & Canvas |
| Brian Eno Another Green World |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors |
| Busdriver RoadKillOvercoat |
| Circle Takes the Square Circle Takes the Square |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar |
| Coheed and Cambria The Last Supper: Live At Hammerstein Ballroom |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Colour Revolt Colour Revolt |
| Daughters Daughters |
| Another soundoff to clutter the already cluttered page of one of the most wonderful releases to come out this year. Daughters has become even more awesome. |
| David Bowie "Heroes" |
| David Bowie Space Oddity |
| David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World |
| Days Away Mapping An Invisible World |
| I'm actually suprised few have heard of this album, because I've had it and listened to it countless times for a few years. They really do have a pretty interesting sound, being charming, spacey, and energetic. And the singer was in Sound Of Animals Fighting, which is how I heard of them. Hopefully more people will check this out, because it rules. |
| Deerhoof Offend Maggie |
| Deerhoof Milk Man |
| Devendra Banhart Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon |
| Devendra Banhart Rejoicing in the Hands |
| Dinosaur Jr. Farm |
whoo hoo am I happy about how great this is! Although this album was intended to be a return to form and a more focused "Beyond", it isn't just a Bug pt. 2. This guy is a revamped Dinosaur Jr. The record takes alot of the old vibe, with the fuzzy infectious pop of their 80's and the solo filled rock of their 90's and blends it all together to make some of Dinosaur's most thrilling songs. This is wonderful and unexpected. One might even call this Dinosaur Sr.
And the album art is fantastic. |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca |
| Dirty Three Ocean Songs |
| Dirty Three Cinder |
| Don Caballero American Don |
| dredg Catch Without Arms |
| Eleventh He Reaches London Hollow Be My Name |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Eluvium Talk Amongst the Trees |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail |
| Emery I'm Only A Man |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Flying Lotus 1983 |
| Four Tet There is Love in You |
| Four Tet Rounds |
| Foxy Shazam Foxy Shazam |
| Fugazi End Hits |
| Fugazi 13 Songs |
| Giraffes? Giraffes! More Skin With Milk-Mouth |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ [Vinyl] |
| Gregor Samsa Over Air |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House |
| Hiromi Time Control |
| Hiromi Spiral |
| HORSE the band Pizza |
| HORSE the band R. Borlax |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival |
| Igor Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 1 |
| Ion Dissonance Breathing Is Irrelevant |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must |
| Jeremy Enigk Return of the Frog Queen |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick |
| Jim O'Rourke The Visitor |
| John Coltrane The John Coltrane Quartet Plays |
| Justin Vernon Self Record |
| Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground |
| Kayo Dot Stained Glass |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| Low Things We Lost in the Fire |
| Lupe Fiasco The Cool |
| Magma Kobaïa |
| Gosh, this is strange! This is probably the pinnacle of zany, quirky, epic prog. The band has an epic sci fi concept that Claudio Sanchez could only dream of writing and to up the pretense, the entire album is in a foreign language invented by the drummer! These dudes mix prog, jazz, krautrock, marching band music, and 20th century classical and it owns! Only thing is, it's long as hell. |
| Meat Puppets Meat Puppets II |
| Meat Puppets Up on the Sun |
| Meat Puppets Mirage |
| Mew No More Stories |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life |
| Miles Davis Steamin' With the Miles Davis Quintet |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People |
| Muse Absolution |
| My Epic Yet |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York (DVD) |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Orbs Asleep Next to Science |
| Panda Bear Tomboy |
| Pantha Du Prince This Bliss |
| pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Rush Hemispheres |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sonic Youth Sonic Nurse |
| Sonic Youth Murray Street |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| Teebs Ardour |
| Tegan and Sara The Con |
| Tegan and Sara If It Was You |
| Tera Melos Untitled |
| The Acorn Glory Hope Mountain |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North |
| The Felix Culpa Sever Your Roots |
| Everything I was hoping from these guys. They've been amazing me at local shows for quite some time now, and that wonder has been delicately pieced together on this immense, layered record. These guys truly need to be heard. |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life |
| The Flashbulb Arboreal |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| Did not expect this. I thought that all was lost after Bedlam, which I didn't like at all. Although they aren't doing the craziness of Frances or Amputecture, they have gone in a beautiful and mellow direction. Vast improvement from the rock wankery of Bedlam In Goliath. You've regained my faith, Omar! |
| The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come |
| The Snake The Cross The Crown Cotton Teeth |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Horses in the Sky |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thursday Common Existence |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| volcano! Beautiful Seizure |
| Xiu Xiu Fabulous Muscles |
| Yes Relayer |
| Yes The Yes Album |
| Yusef Lateef Eastern Sounds |
