| 4.5 superb |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Anthrax Among The Living |
| Bad Religion No Control |
| Bad Religion Against the Grain |
| Basil Poledouris Conan The Barbarian |
| Black Flag Damaged |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| Awake tends to push away more than it attracts, but it's emotionally depressive attitude yields more rewarding listens than any other in Dream Theater's discography. |
| Electric Light Orchestra Eldorado, a Symphony |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Fates Warning No Exit |
| Fates Warning Parallels |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son |
| John Coltrane Blue Train |
| Joy Division Closer |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Judas Priest Stained Class |
| King Crimson Discipline |
| King's X Out of the Silent Planet |
| King's X Gretchen Goes to Nebraska |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Motorhead Ace of Spades |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Anger, apathy, and the hopeless hidden cry for help. Trent Reznor's dance-like debut is much more than it seems. Filled with 80's snyth hooks and underground portentous feelings, Pretty Hate Machine is one of the most serious lyrical albums I've ever heard, and it hits home and the soul, especially when you can't even feel it. Suffering faith, loss of hope and a love that feels lost are all put into an album that defies what we cant say or express ourselves. Sometimes we fall so low in life that we just lose everything, and this album is exactly that. |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Pantera Vulgar Display Of Power |
| Placebo Without You I'm Nothing |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese |
| Primus Pork Soda |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime |
| Queensryche Empire |
| Empire may have as much commercial acclaim as the underground acclaim of Operation: Mindcrime, but the effort is far more cold, calculated, and captivating than it's predecessor. In fact, the entire album is composed of hits, from the gliding Jet City Woman and The Thin Line to the title track and the exotic Della Brown. Then of course there's the massive crossover hit Silent Lucidity, and once you've heard it completely then you're hooked on Queensryche. Just be sure to check off One and Only as one of the band's most underrated songs. |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Rush Permanent Waves |
| Rush Counterparts |
| Type O Negative Bloody Kisses |
| Voivod Nothingface |
| X Japan Art of Life |
| Art of Life is a progressive metal song that encompasses classical elements, and questions life itself. It's melodies are complex, and it's instrumentation is intricate. From the moments of piano grandeur to the enthralling power metal influence, Art of Life is guaranteed a classic from the first listen. |
| 3.5 great |
| Bad Religion Recipe for Hate |
| Bad Religion New America |
| Bad Religion New Maps Of Hell |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me |
| There is this raw passion that drives BTBAM's debut. It's crude, intense and it doesn't let up. It may not be as evolved to a stature of perfect proportions or produced to an extent that warrants a seamless flow of thrashing drums and guitar solos, but everything is in a well deserved balance. This debut needs more recognition. |
| Billy Joel The Stranger |
| Cyndi Lauper Shes So Unusual |
| Dave Matthews Band Before These Crowded Streets |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Electric Light Orchestra Face the Music |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Fleetwood Mac Tusk |
| Hole Celebrity Skin |
| Hole My Body, The Hand Grenade |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast |
| Jim Matheos First Impressions |
| Joy Division Substance |
| Judas Priest Killing Machine |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kate Bush The Sensual World |
| King's X Faith, Hope, Love |
| King's X Dogman |
| Lady Gaga The Fame |
Lady Gaga seems to give an aura off with her album...
Just Dance - im a bimbo
Love Game - im a slut
Paparazzi - i have morals
Poker Face - but im bisexual apparentally
Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) - ill dump your ass cause....
Beautiful, Dirty, Rich - im a bitch!
The Fame - and im famous!
Money Honey - best be trollin'!
Starstruck - cause im a star,
Boys Boys Boys - and a secret transexual
Paper Gangsta - im like a gangsta
Brown Eyes - and a sweetheart
sounds great.
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| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Damnation |
| OSI Blood |
| OSI Fire Make Thunder |
| OSI has their compact established sound, but there's less of a progressive approach with Fire Make Thunder. Kevin Moore's electronically influenced Chroma Key tends to put a lot of vibe into the album, but nobody really shines here except him. |
| Paatos Kallocain |
| Placebo Meds |
| Pretty Girls Make Graves The New Romance |
| The guitars are flashy and the arrangements of heavy punk and odd drum patterns push others off the stage and into the stand. The New Romance is Seattle art rock at it's finest |
| Primus Tales from the Punchbowl |
| Royal Hunt Paradox |
| Scorpions Virgin Killer |
| Sean Callery 24: The Soundtrack |
| Filled to the brim with emotional cues, heart-pounding action beats and mind racing drama, the soundtrack to the acclaimed TV show 24 (as cliche as it sounds) is one of the greatest soundtrack albums youll ever hear. What Sean Callery has created captures what made the TV show even more exciting, through symphonic world-collapsing mental trauma and onto heroic "last minute stands". The 24 Soundtrack ranges from seasons 1-3 and dosent contain a single bad note. Every song is an intreguing listen and a sturdy backdrop to any situation. The wonderful thing about the album is it could vary well turn any other TV show into the 24 mood just from the music itself. Its a special and unique trait for a soundtrack composed entirely by computer. The strings may be synthisized, but the emotion is not fake. |
| Spinnerette Spinnerette |
| Stryper To Hell With the Devil |
| Styx Paradise Theater |
| Styx Crystal Ball |
| The Cult Sonic Temple |
| The Doors Morrison Hotel |
| The Doors L. A. Woman |
| The Killers Day & Age |
| The Squirrel Nut Zippers Hot |
| Tool Lateralus |
| U2 The Joshua Tree |
| U2 War |
| Voivod Angel Rat |
| 3.0 good |
| Anthrax I'm The Man |
| Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First |
| Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction |
| Bad Religion The Process of Belief |
| Bad Religion Generator |
| Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse? |
| Bad Religion Back to the Known |
| Bad Religion Into the Unknown |
| Bad Religion The Gray Race |
| Bad Religion The Dissent of Man |
| Bad Religion True North |
| Chroma Key Graveyard Mountain Home |
| Coldplay Parachutes |
| Coldplay X & Y |
| Days Of The New Days of the New II |
| Days Of The New Days of the New |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity |
| Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events |
| Dream Theater? No, this is a LaBrie and Petrucci duet album with two wizards respectively named Rudess and Mangini and their pet Myung. |
| Editors The Back Room |
| Electric Light Orchestra Time |
| At times I wonder if ELO was screwing with us when they released Time. Amongst it's prog-pop sound are Jeff Lynne's tight harmonies and a symphony of epic proportions, and I know that Richard Tandy was the real master and inventor of the synthesizer. |
| Electric Light Orchestra Out of the Blue |
| Electric Light Orchestra Discovery |
| This album isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Yeah, its disco. Yeah, it's just as goofy as ABBA. Still, the tracks "Shine a Little Love", "Last Train to London", "Don't Bring Me Down", "Diary of Horace Wimp", and "Confusion" are all band hits, and they take up more than half the album. Even the bonus track isn't that bad. |
| Eminem Recovery |
| Sure, its not the Marshall Mathers LP, but this music is as dense as he's gotten since then, and ill be damned if anyone thinks this is worse than his previous album. We were promised Relapse 2, but what we got surpassed that by a massive amount. Recovery is Eminem re-activated after 10 years of drug suppression and lyrical focus that makes it even easier to criticize Relapse and mourn Encore. |
| Engine Engine |
| Engine Superholic |
| Fates Warning Awaken the Guardian |
| Fates Warning Inside Out |
| Fates Warning FWX |
| Fates Warning A Pleasant Shade of Gray |
| With an intricate account of depression, A Pleasant Shade of Gray is a consummate masterpiece of contemporary songwriting, a concept album unlike any other that shows pain can be beautiful. |
| Fates Warning Still Life |
| Fear Factory Digimortal |
| Fleetwood Mac Tango In The Night |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death |
| James LaBrie Static Impulse |
| Judas Priest Sin After Sin |
| Kansas Vinyl Confessions |
| With the new recruitment of John Elefante, Kansas took on a new spirit. Many of the band members had claimed to have dreams and nightmares of God calling to them to become Christian believers. The band soon erupted into a breakup, with members converting to Christianity, but strangely Vinyl Confessions doesn't come off as pressuring as the CCM industry it would inspire. "Play the Game Tonight", "Right Away" and "Chasing Shadows" are all solid numbers for Kansas, played even to this day at their concerts. |
| Kate Bush The Dreaming |
| King's X King's X |
| Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster |
| Lords of Acid Our Little Secret |
| Our Little Secret is a sexually charged array of industrial pop that succeeds it's predecessor at times, but it doesn't save it from being highly immature. |
| Lords of Acid Voodoo-U |
| Megadeth Youthanasia |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| OSI Free |
| Pain Of Salvation Remedy Lane |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven |
| Petra Beyond Belief |
| Petra More Power To Ya |
| Petra Not Of This World |
| Placebo Sleeping With Ghosts |
| Sleeping With Ghosts is the Placebo album that could have used a lot more work. It's depth never pierces the skin, that's why Plasticine is arguable in the fanbase. It's the only song that sticks out. The Bitter End is an amazing track that bridges the gap from Black Market Music, but Special Needs and English Summer Rain get drowned out with the rest of the album. |
| Placebo Placebo |
| Placebo Battle For The Sun |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream |
| Primus The Brown Album |
| Primus Antipop |
| Queensryche The Warning |
| Queensryche Promised Land |
| Queensryche Tribe |
| Queensryche Queensryche EP |
| Rush Vapor Trails |
| Rush Fly by Night |
| Rush Hemispheres |
| Rush Hold Your Fire |
| Rush Power Windows |
| Rush Snakes & Arrows |
| Sean Callery 24: Seasons 4 & 5 Soundtrack |
| Soundgarden Louder Than Love |
| Styx Pieces of Eight |
| Styx Cornerstone |
| The Birthday Massacre Violet |
| The Killers Sam's Town |
| The Killers Sawdust |
| There's no doubt that Sawdust has some of The Killers' best material. A fair portion exerts itself above any of the band's previous hits (Tranquilize, Shadowplay, Move Away, Sweet Talk), but the excess amount of junk and half-polished material makes the album just as lowly as their studio albums. |
| The Killers Battle Born |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells |
| Tool Undertow |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Type O Negative Life Is Killing Me |
| U2 Achtung Baby |
| U2 Boy |
| Voivod The Outer Limits |
| Washed Out Within and Without |
