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5.0 classic
Alice in Chains Dirt
Bjork Homogenic
Bjork Debut
Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest
Boards of Canada Geogaddi
Boards of Canada Music Has The Right To Children
BT Ima
Bubblegum Octopus The Album Formerly Known As
Why TAFKA isn't shit: (A) There is plenty of excellent 8-bit tunes here (B) It sounds ridiculous, but the vocal formula actually works (C) There's plenty of charm, along with catchy ass melodies, underneath the surface (D) Bleepy-bloopy enough for Nintendocore fans (E) Rapid and berserk enough for grind-type fans (F) Lots of cutesy ideas here, like Cat Machines, God's pink lazers, and little spiders trickling upon your toesies (G) Sometimes brutal, sometimes even pretty sad, but always passive-aggressive (H) Totally fucking weird and spontaneous (I) Easy to digest for listeners with short attention spans (J) Even moments that would normally be retarded are appealing somehow (K) Silly for sure, but can shift to more serious themes seamlessly (L) Like a chihuahua, its cute and lovable, but it has a little bark as well (M) Rarely repetitive (N) When you give it a chance, is actually really good music
Cryptopsy None So Vile
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma
Flying Lotus Los Angeles
J Dilla Donuts
Kate Bush Hounds of Love
Megadeth Rust in Peace
Metallica Ride the Lightning
My Bloody Valentine Loveless
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd Animals
Pizzicato Five Bossa Nova
Innovators of a retro Japanese pop genre "shibuya-kei", Pizzicato Five were considered the creators of this combination of 60's music, jazz, French ye-ye, funk, acoustic, lounge, soul and pop, with Bossa Nova being their magnum opus. What's essentially their "breakthrough release" is very much so a spectacular listen and what's considered the band's second "classic" record, also a classic for the genre. Listen to "Peace Music", "Sweet Soul Revue", "Sweet Thursday", "Magic Carpet Ride" or "My Name Is Groovy" to get a good taste of their vibrant pop aesthetic. A brilliant hybrid of several genres keeps variety and liveliness strong points of the album, with gorgeous vocals from Maki Nomiya. Truly engrossing, catchy and satisfying, every song clever in its own way.
Shiina Ringo Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana
Soundtrack Katamari Damacy soundtrack
With some eccentric electronic instrumentals, male and female/English and Japanese vocals with a lively presentation, absurd doses of catchiness, and a charm and upbeat sound unlike anything else, Katamari Damacy has a truly interesting soundtrack that should not be missed. In fact if you haven't played the game, pick this up anyway for something special and quirky
Soundtrack Jet Set Radio OST
The Knife Silent Shout
I was won over by Like A Pen, the song that got me into this band. Music video is so interesting.rAs a whole, best album I've picked up in a looong time. Love it
The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
The Smiths Hatful of Hollow
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
TOKiMONSTA Creature Dreams
Utada Hikaru ULTRA BLUE
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan YT//ST

4.5 superb
Alice in Chains Jar of Flies
Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album
Armistice Armistice
Bjork Vespertine
Bjork Post
Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase
BT This Binary Universe
With roots planted in progressive house, Brian Transeau has built a beautiful new sound for himself. From the organic ambiance of the rain to the hyper-processed electronic melodies, This Binary Universe's sound is cohesive and fully realized. You can see snowflakes falling outside the window on "Dynamic Symmetry", or taste the tears from the pianos of "The Internal Locus". Rich and engaging, BT creates a masterpiece in progressive electronic music that any fan of electronica should check out right away.
Burial Untrue
Cocteau Twins Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins Treasure
Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles (II)
Very few kinds of electronic music tickle me the way Crystal Castles does. Superior to their previous record, but these are both gold to me. Lots of fun to listen to, my favorites are Celestica, Baptism, Vietnam, Pap Smear, Not In Love, Suffocation, Year of Silence, Violent Dreams...i might as well just name them all:P love this
Ellen Allien & Apparat Orchestra Of Bubbles
Everclear So Much For The Afterglow
Fever Ray Fever Ray
Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes
Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport
Gonjasufi A Sufi and a Killer
Gorillaz Demon Days
Guernica (Japan) Shinseiki e no Unga
InfinitiRock 17years
Jun Senoue Sonic Adventure Original Soundtrack
Jun Senoue Sonic Adventure 2: Multi-Dimensional Soundtrack
Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker OST
Kona Triangle Sing a New Sapling Into Existence
Lapalux Nostalchic
Lapalux When You're Gone
Lone Emerald Fantasy Tracks
Lone Lemurian
Madvillain Madvillainy
Metallica ...And Justice for All
Metallica Kill 'Em All
Metallica Live Shit: Binge And Purge
Mistabishi Drop
My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything
Nas Illmatic
Nile Annihilation of the Wicked
Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy X: Original Soundtrack
Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy X - Piano Collections
Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack
Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VIII: Original Soundtrack
Nujabes Metaphorical Music
Nujabes Modal Soul
Orange Pekoe Orange Plastic Music
Perfume Triangle
Perfume Complete Best
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Primus Frizzle Fry
Radiohead OK Computer
Salyu x Salyu S(o)un(d)beams
Shiina Ringo Shouso Strip
Sigur Ros Ágætis Byrjun
Smoke Room Vol. 2
Smoke Room Vol. 1
holy motherfuck this rules
Soundtrack We Love Katamari Soundtrack
a bit more quirky and experimental than the original, but We Love Katamari has excellent variety, catchiness, charm and avant-garde flare unlike anything else heard in video games. it also makes for a rock solid listen for people who never played the game. Check this out now
Sudatsuga Hain-Ba Sun Hex
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary
Taking Back Sunday Louder Now
The Future Sound of London Lifeforms
The Knife Shaking the Habitual
fcking awesome
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Suicide Machines Destruction By Definition
The Weeknd House of Balloons
TOKiMONSTA Midnight Menu
If there is one thing that TOKiMONSTA can do well, its create songs that start out sounding one way, then step-by-step, blossom into something much greater than you originally expected, and the reward is phenomenal.
Utada Hikaru DEEP RIVER

4.0 excellent
2562 Fever
Aira Mitsuki C.O.P.Y.
Alice in Chains Alice in Chains
Alkaline Trio From Here To Infirmary
American Football American Football
Amy Winehouse Back To Black
Analogue Monsta Boom
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam
Asobi Seksu Citrus
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen
Aves Feathers
Blackbird Blackbird Summer Heart LP
blink-182 Enema of the State
Blu No York!
Boards of Canada Twoism
Bonobo Black Sands
Boom Clap Bachelors Kort For Dine Laebor
Boris New Album
BT ESCM
Bubblegum Octopus Bad Happy
Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein
Capsule (JPN) Fruits Clipper
Cecil Cinema Scope
Chelsea Wolfe Ἀποκάλυψις
Chevelle Vena Sera
Chevelle Wonder What's Next
Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper
Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll
Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?
Children of Bodom Something Wild
Children of Bodom Hatebreeder
Clark Body Riddle
Claro Intelecto Reform Club
Clazziquai Project Love Child of the Century
Converge Jane Doe
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind
Cornelius Point
Daft Punk Discovery
Danielson Ships
Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Death Grips The Money Store
Deb Parallel Moons
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....
Downliners Sekt We Make Hits, Not The Public
DZA Five-Finger Discount
Ellen Allien Berlinette
Everclear Sparkle And Fade
Flying Lotus Pattern+Grid World
Flying Lotus Reset
Flying Lotus 1983
Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing
Girls' Generation The Boys
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute
Gold Panda Lucky Shiner
Gorillaz Gorillaz
Gorillaz Plastic Beach
Green Day Dookie
Gretchen Lieberum Siren Songs
Grimes Visions
Grimes Geidi Primes
Hiromi Spiral
Honey is Cool Crazy Love
Honey is Cool Early Morning Are You Working?
Humming Urban Stereo Baby Love
Iron Maiden Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden Powerslave
Islands Return To The Sea
Izmo Early Night
Jeff Buckley Grace
Jenny Hval Innocence Is Kinky
John Coltrane Giant Steps
Justice Cross
Kimbra Vows
Kode9 and the Spaceape Black Sun
Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express
Kraftwerk Computer World
Kraftwerk Autobahn
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Pamyu Pamyu Revolution
Late Night Alumni Haunted
A genuinely soothing and ultimately satisfying piece. Becky's sultry vocals, like whispers, sedate the listener through breezy tracks like "Epilogue" and "Moonwalker" while turning more active songs like "In the Ashes" into silky dance melodies. A couple songs fall short, but Haunted is a pleasant, relaxing experience.
Lone Galaxy Garden
Its aesthetic is a logical step forward from his previous 2 releases, yet it's executed with such radiance and virtuoso that nothing left behind can be called anything other than what Matt Cutler does best.
Lone Everything Is Changing Colour
Lone's raw, Boards of Canada-sounding debut album isn't quite the fully defined "Lone" sound, but what's here is still unique and thoroughly enjoyable nonetheless.
Lone Ecstasy & Friends
Low Leaf Alchemizing Dawn
Low Leaf Chrysalis
Mad Season Above
Massive Attack Mezzanine
Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Meg Maverick
Now this chick knows what she's doing. Pick this up, any J-pop nuts reading this.
Megadeth Countdown to Extinction
Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?
Melt Banana Bambi's Dilemma
Metallica Master of Puppets
Midori Aratame Hajime Mashite Midori Desu
Midori Shinsekai
Midori First
fuck yea
Millencolin Pennybridge Pioneers
miss A A Class
My Bloody Valentine m b v
Neon Indian Era Extrana
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral
Nirvana In Utero
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York
Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy IV: Original Soundtrack
Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII Piano Collections
Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VI: Original Soundtrack
Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
Oh Land Oh Land
Opeth Blackwater Park
Opeth Ghost Reveries
Orange Pekoe Crystalismo
Perfume JPN
Pg. 99 Document #8
Pink Floyd Meddle
Pink Floyd The Wall
Pizzicato Five Overdose
After releasing 2 mint releases, This Year's Girl and Bossa Nova, the band suffers from "follow-up syndrome"; the pressure is on, and its difficult to best or even compare to a classic record (or in their case, 2 records), so an expected sense of being "burnt-out" comes with their 1994 album Overdose. They take the experimental approach this time, diving further into styles like electronic and soul. Still a worthy addition to the band's discography, if a bit disappointing.
Pizzicato Five Happy End of the World
Pizzicato Five This Year's Girl
You probably came here because of "Baby Love Child", but there's much more to This Year's Girl than Futurama notoriety. Arguably their best album next to Bossa Nova, Pizzicato Five show off their definitive sound here, and introduce their leading songstress Maki Nomitya to their party. This Year's Girl is a shibuya-kei classic, unifying everything the band has done in the past adding the sweet vocals of Nomiya to their mix. A fully-realized, thoroughly enjoyable effort from the group.
Pizzicato Five Bellissima!
Bellissima! is a great follow-up to Couples, featuring groovy, smooth pacing and appropriately easy-going songs with all-male vocals. Simultaneously danceable and relaxing, a fun and enjoyable pop record reaching out to the jazz and soul tendencies the band would later perfect.
Pizzicato Five Playboy and Playgirl
Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Quadron Quadron
Quasimoto The Unseen
Qypthone Montuno No. 5
Radiohead In Rainbows
Radiohead Amnesiac
Rush Permanent Waves
Salva Complex Housing
Sawa Welcome to Sa-World
school food punishment riff-rain
Sepalcure Sepalcure
Serani Poji One Room Survival
Shabazz Palaces Black Up
She Coloris
Sigur Ros Takk...
Sigur Ros ( )
Smoke Room Caramelism
Sonic Coaster Pop Super Miracle Circuit
Sonic Coaster Pop Future Electro Star
Soundgarden Superunknown
Stone Temple Pilots Purple
Stone Temple Pilots Core
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb
Strike Anywhere Change Is a Sound
Sublime Sublime
Sudatsuga Blue Moon Saiyeed
Suffocation Pierced from Within
System of a Down Toxicity
System of a Down System of a Down
Syzygys Complete Studio Recordings
Teebs Ardour
The Avalanches Since I Left You
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Birthday Massacre Violet
The Flashbulb Arboreal
The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life
The Flashbulb These Open Fields
The Knife Deep Cuts
The Knife Silent Shout-An Audio Visual Experience (Live)
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Offspring Smash
The Offspring Ixnay on the Hombre
The Smashing Pumpkins Gish
Thriftworks Rainmaker
Tool Lateralus
Tool Aenima
Utada Hikaru HEART STATION
Voice of the Seven Woods Voice of the Seven Woods
Weezer Pinkerton
Weezer The Blue Album
Winter Into Darkness
XXYYXX XXYYXX
ZZ Top Tres Hombres

3.5 great
A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart [Re-Issue]
A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart
While I don't particularly like the rest of A Day To Remember's discography, For Those Who Have Heart really isn't a bad album at all. It actually makes a pretty solid pop-punk record, with plenty of catchy vocals and decently fun vibes overall. The hardcore segments and breakdowns are quite cheesy for the most part, especially on "A Shot In The Dark", and unfortunately they're all over the entire album which makes it quite repetitive, but they at least convey a sense of energy and vitality that drives their music forward. The pop tendencies are there but they aren't as powerful as they are on Homesick (which is a good thing), and the more hardcore-oriented sections aren't as pretentious and do a much better job sticking to the punkier side of the genre. The result is something very catchy and decently memorable, seeing the band in the best shape of their career.
Air France On Trade Winds
Alice in Chains Facelift
Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue
Alice in Chains Sap
All That Remains The Fall of Ideals
Animal Collective Centipede Hz
Autechre Tri Repetae
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil
BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG
bansheebeat Galactics
In a Benn Jordan fashion, bansheebeat brings IDM to outer space with this calming, electric EP. Galactics delivers the ambiance of a space station, and wouldn't sound out of place in Xenosaga. Rather than going for a feeling of emptiness or infinity, the EP simply lights up and pulses for the listener, taking the "emptiness" out of space and filling it with the lunar bases/space hotels of the future. "Above the Stratosphere" is the charming highlight, filled with eclectic melodies and an easygoing, exotic percussion. In its entirety, the album gives a warm, if processed, sensation of living around technology.
bansheebeat Wutai
Bibio fi
Something nostalgic, warming, bittersweet, precious and twisted is at work somewhere in this folk piece.
Bibio Ambivalence Avenue
Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath Paranoid
blink-182 Dude Ranch
blink-182 blink-182
Boards of Canada Hi Scores
Boris Pink
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Capsule (JPN) Sugarless GiRL
Captain Murphy Duality
Catch 22 Keasbey Nights
Chappie New Chappie
Coldplay Viva La Vida
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
Converge When Forever Comes Crashing
this feels more balanced than Petitioning the Empty Sky: less classic songs and less dud ones too. That said, When Forever Comes Crashing basically follows in the same steps as its predecessor, delivering very technical hardcore/metalcore with attitude, energy and a tad more experimentation.
Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky
"The Saddest Day" is the best song on the album by a lot. This is probably the worst thing that could happen to the album however. Seeing that it's so superior to the much shorter songs in the center, which range from great ("Forsaken") to good ("Dead", "Shingles) to awful ("Buried but Breathing"), it can be a pretty unbalanced listen as a whole. Though it may be better in individual bursts (even for the album's modest length), its hard to deny the musicianship present here, being a great, highly-technical metalcore album that's a lot of fun despite its questionable flow.
Crystal Castles (III)
Cymbals That's Entertainment
Dark Angel Darkness Descends
Death Grips Exmilitary
Deb Million Dollar Girl
Downliners Sekt Hello Lonely, Hold The Nation
Enya A Day Without Rain
fLako The Mesektet
Flipper's Guitar Camera Talk
Florence and the Machine Lungs
Florence and the Machine Ceremonials
FlyamSam Bootleg Beats
Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape
Foo Fighters Skin and Bones
Geamala Forking Paths
Girls' Generation Girls' Generation
Glasser Ring
Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About
Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl
Goto Mariko 299792458
A solid, more straightforward rock album from the unique singer. Sadly, she doesn't flex her characteristic squalling vocals enough and subsequently fails to deliver her usual barrel-of-monkeys surprises, leaving a bit to be desired.
Green Day American Idiot
Green Day Warning
Not terribly robust or clever, but it's so damn catchy. Among my favorite of Green Day's records. May be too poppy for some loving Green Day's punkier past.
Green Day Insomniac
Halcali Cyborg Oretachi
Hourmelts Twenties = Love
Hyetal Broadcast
Hyuna Bubble Pop!
Ikue Mori One Hundred Aspects of the Moon
iNTRiKeT The Woods
Japandroids Celebration Rock
Jeremiah Jae Raw Money Raps
Jonwayne Bowser
Julio Bashmore Everyone Needs A Theme Tune
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience
Keaver and Brause The Middle Way
Ken Ishii Sleeping Madness
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Moshi Moshi Harajuku
There?s something sinister dwelling deep inside the heart of J-pop. Behind the cute, bubbly exterior sleeps a hostile, wide-eyed, predatory devil spawn tempting us into sin. We all know it. You think those trance-inducing candy-pop singers are really that cute by nature? No ordinary human being does that on purpose. It?s a sick, demented ruse veiling black souls filled with deceit and bloodlust burning passionately like a hellfire. The sad thing is how they?ve already won. There exists legions of devoted fans that have fallen prey to these wicked entities. Catchiness is to sloth as the child-like, innocent pop songstresses are to lust. We?re going to burn in hell for this.
Lagwagon Let's Talk About Feelings
Late Night Alumni Empty Streets
Lifetime Hello Bastards
Lights The Listening
Lights Siberia
Lone Cluster Dreams
Lone Echolocations
Low Leaf GiGA GAiA
Lukid Foma
Lullatone Soundtracks for Everyday Adventures
Lullatone Plays Pajama Pop Pour Vous
M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts
Madlib Shades of Blue
Maki Nomiya Pink no Kokoro (Pink Heart)
Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What!
MEISHI SMILE LUST
Metallica Metallica
Mizca ♡UFUFU♡
Modest Mouse Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Morning Musume 3rd Love Paradise
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine
Nirvana Nevermind
Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy IX: Original Soundtrack
Oh Land Fauna
Opeth Damnation
Opeth Orchid
Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears
Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard Of Ozz
Panabrite The Baroque Atrium
Paramore Brand New Eyes
Paris Match Volume One
Paris Match PM2
Pearl Jam Vitalogy
Pearl Jam Vs.
Perfume GAME
Pizzicato Five Pizzicato Five TM
Pizzicato Five Romantique
Pizzicato Five The Sound of Music
Pizzicato Five's third U.S. release is simply a collection of previously released material mostly from their albums Bossa Nova and Overdose. The tracklist is nice, and for the most part is a solid entryway for newcomers to the band, particularly for the U.S. demographic. It's not particularly hard to find or expensive either, and so if you are planning on getting into the band The Sound of Music is a decent place to start, though Made in USA is better. Existing language barriers haven't been lifted, however.
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet
Primus Pork Soda
Radiohead Kid A
Radiohead The Bends
Radiohead The King of Limbs
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles
Refused The Shape of Punk to Come
Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture
Rosetta A Determinism of Morality
Not really my genre of music, and this album hasn't persuaded me to dig into it any deeper, but this was surprisingly powerful and enjoyable.
Royksopp Melody A.M.
Rustie Glass Swords
Sasha Xpander EP
Scuba Triangulation
Secede Tryshasla
Serj Tankian Harakiri
Serj Tankian Elect the Dead
Shigeto Full Circle
Shlohmo Bad Vibes
Sketch Show Loophole
Slipknot All Hope Is Gone
Soundgarden Badmotorfinger
Stendeck Sonnambula
Stendeck Scintilla
Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican...
Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom
Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be
The All-American Rejects Move Along
The Answering Machine Lifeline
The Beatles Abbey Road
The Birthday Massacre Walking With Strangers
The Flashbulb Love As A Dark Hallway
The Offspring Americana
The Smashing Pumpkins Adore
I didn't quite care for this album as much as their earlier work, but there are some excellent tracks here. Perfect and Blank Page are among SP's very best, tho I never quite got Ava Adore at all
The Sugarcubes Life's Too Good
The Used Artwork
The Used In Love and Death
The Used The Used
Thrice The Artist In The Ambulance
Thrice The Illusion Of Safety
Thundercat The Golden Age Of Apocalypse
If there was a little bit more substance to this album (i.e. more vocal-driven songs, a few more memorable moments, more "meat"), it would be one of my favorite Brainfeeder records.
TOKiMONSTA Cosmic Intoxication
TOKiMONSTA Bedtime Lullabies
TOKiMONSTA Half Shadows
Twine Twine
Tycho Dive
Definitely an improvement over Past is Prologue. Takes some steps forward in terms of providing a bubbly-nostalgic atmosphere.
Underoath Define the Great Line
Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation
United Nations United Nations
YGATM YGATM
Zeigeist The Jade Motel
Zero 7 Simple Things
Zero 7 The Garden
Great vocal work carried by a soothing yet lively electronic platform sees Zero 7's poppy The Garden keep up a trend of solid music. While not as warming as Simple Things, there's plenty here for electronic enthusiasts and acoustic pop lovers alike.

3.0 good
A Day To Remember Homesick
Adele 21
Anacrusis Screams and Whispers
Anna Calvi Anna Calvi
Apparat Walls
Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead
Armor For Sleep Smile For Them
Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Bjork Biophilia
Bjork Volta
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
blink-182 Cheshire Cat
blink-182 Greatest Hits
Boards of Canada Acid Memories
The album consists of songs they've re-released under different names on later albums to greater success, making this not worth checking out for most listeners. The small collection of songs here is still good though, even if we've seen them all before on superior albums.
Boards of Canada Trans Canada Highway
Boards of Canada Boc Maxima
Capsule (JPN) MORE! MORE! MORE!
CocoRosie Coconuts, Plenty of Junk Food
Converge You Fail Me
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles
Cut Copy In Ghost Colours
Demdike Stare Tryptych
Ellen Allien Sool
Ellen Allien Stadtkind
Emay Adam
Everclear Songs From An American Movie, Vol. 1
Everclear Songs From An American Movie, Vol. 2
Fall Out Boy From Under The Cork Tree
Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose
Foo Fighters In Your Honor
Fortune Howl Spectrum Analysis
Green Day Kerplunk
Guido Anidea
Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction
HeartsRevolution Switchblade EP
Highways Enjoy The Little Things
Hiromi Place To Be
Similar to Bjork's Medulla, Hiromi composes an album entirely from her favorite musical instrument and abandons everything else. Also like Medulla, Place to Be is obviously more barren than her previous works, for better or worse, and the resulting album is one best suited for fans and is by no means her defining moment.
Jes Disconnect
Take your gift cards to JCPenny or the mall and go buy things. Wear big sunglasses and a Gucci purse, and whiten your teeth so when you smile, you shine. Girl, you got it goin on. Now go drive your goddam son to school its 10 degrees outside for Christ's sake.
John Coltrane Stellar Regions
Kap Bambino Blacklist
Kettel Volleyed Iron
Kuchiroro Golden Love
Lady Gaga The Fame
Lady Gaga The Fame Monster
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park Meteora
Long Arm The Branches
Lullatone Little Songs About Raindrops
Lullatone Songs that Spin in Circles
Machinedrum Room(s)
Matt and Kim Matt & Kim
Matt and Kim Grand
Matt and Kim Sidewalks
Metric Synthetica
Misfits Famous Monsters
Moby Play
My Chemical Romance Like Phantoms, Forever
My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought...
Nirvana Bleach
Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy V: Original Soundtrack
Owl City Of June
Owl City Maybe I'm Dreaming
Ozzy Osbourne Diary Of A Madman
Panic! At the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Paramore Riot!
Paramore All We Know Is Falling
Paris Match After Six
Paris Match Type III
Paris Match Flight 7
Pearl Jam Ten
Pizzicato Five Couples
A good debut, if a little pale. This is P5 not fully-pieced together yet, and while its pretty decent for the most part, there's a noticeable absence of the charm and fluidity found on later albums.
Pogrom Multicultural Degeneration
Poison the Well The Opposite of December
Rise Against Appeal to Reason
Saves the Day In Reverie
Screen Vinyl Image Strange Behavior
Serj Tankian Imperfect Harmonies
Set Your Goals Mutiny!
Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront
Silverstein Arrivals and Departures
Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand
Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror
Slipknot Iowa
Stone Temple Pilots Shangri-La-Dee-Da
Sucrette Bon Voyage
Sun Glitters Everything Could Be Fine
Sundrenched Beat Studies Vol. 2
Sweet Vacation Pop Saves the World!!
A pretty flower of a J-pop album lacking it's own color.
Swimming With Dolphins Water Colours
Swimming With Dolphins Ambient Blue
System of a Down Mezmerize
Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends
Testament The New Order
The Gaslamp Killer Breakthrough
The Knife The Knife
The Kooks Konk
The Korea Chariots Of The Gods
The Nocturnes A Year of Spring
The Postal Service Give Up
The Used Lies for the Liars
The White Stripes Elephant
Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures
Thursday War All the Time
Twine Violets
Tycho Past is Prologue
Utada Hikaru Exodus '04
Utada Hikaru This is the One
definitely not up to par with her previous albums, but I kinda like it anyway
Velour The Velvet Collection
Washed Out Life of Leisure
Wavves King of the Beach
Yoshinori Sunahara Lovebeat
Yukari Fresh Trefoils Hat
Yukari Fresh Yukari's Perfect!

2.5 average
A Day To Remember Old Record
AFI Sing the Sorrow
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold
Bjork Medúlla
blink-182 Buddha
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow
Coltemonikha COLTEMONIKHA
Demdike Stare Liberation Through Hearing
Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists
Disturbed Indestructible
Does It Offend You, Yeah? You Have No Idea What You're Getting You
Doshy Suspiria
Ellen Allien Thrills
Evanescence The Open Door
Gold Panda Companion
Hawthorne Heights Hate
Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely
Hollow Pigeons Letters to Kiko
Kap Bambino Zero Life, Night Vision
With Kap Bambino, you'll find some tunes part charming, part cacophony that you'll have to accept the group for what they are, and if you do, you'll find some solid energy and attitude similar to Crystal Castles. This album, however, seems to contradict what keeps Kap Bambino listenable, dragging the group down to a fault.
Kap Bambino Love
Lambent Smoothness Extract (Deep Night at Ishigaki)
Laura Stevenson A Record
Lullatone Alarms and Ringers
Metallica Load
Metallica Death Magnetic
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Mono/Poly Paramatma
Mr. Fingers Amnesia
"Can You Feel It" is one of my favorite nighttime songs ever. I don't know what the fuck's wrong with the rest of the album though.
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
oOoOO oOoOO
Opeth Heritage
Panic! At the Disco Pretty. Odd.
Panic! At the Disco Vices & Virtues
Pizzicato Five By Her Majesty's Request
Staying close to the style they acquired with Bellissima!, By Her Majesty's Request ultimately plays it safe without changing too much. The record has some sillier moments compared to their last effort, which is the start of a trend the band would carry onwards. Unfortunately the album is a bit flat, and there are instances of less-than-successful experimentation with electronics and ye-ye. Plus, the album isn't very engaging, and doesn't do much to differ from Bellissima!. Still a decent record though.
Primus Antipop
Radiohead Pablo Honey
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Silverstein When Broken Is Easily Fixed
Siriusmo The Uninvited Guest
Slipknot Slipknot
Sparks The Rescue Eyes to the Sun
Stone Temple Pilots Stone Temple Pilots
Sucrette C'est si bon plus
Sundrenched Beat Studies Vol. 1
System of a Down Hypnotize
Taking Back Sunday New Again
The Damned Things Ironiclast
The Knife Hanna Med H Soundtrack
The Ting Tings We Started Nothing
Three Days Grace One-X
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety
Weezer Make Believe

2.0 poor
A Day To Remember And Their Name Was Treason
All That Remains Overcome
All That Remains This Darkened Heart
All Time Low Put Up or Shut Up
Anthrax Sound Of White Noise
Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare
Band of Skulls Sweet Sour
blink-182 Neighborhoods
Well, here you have it. New blink material.
BT Emotional Technology
Chiodos Illuminaudio
Chris Cornell Euphoria Morning
Dashboard Confessional A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs
Dimlite Prismic Tops
Disturbed The Sickness
Foo Fighters One by One
Foster The People Torches
Four Letter Lie Let Your Body Take Over
How To Destroy Angels How To Destroy Angels
Jes High Glow
Lady Gaga Born This Way
Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish...
Linkin Park Minutes To Midnight
No Doubt Tragic Kingdom
Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy II: Original Soundtrack
Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy: Original Soundtrack
Oasis Heathen Chemistry
Owl City Ocean Eyes: Deluxe Edition
Owl City Ocean Eyes
Quite a step back for Young. He sees himself in his ocean-loving state of euphoria sprinkled with vanilla and sea salt. He's really just taking his refined Maybe I'm Dreaming sound and selling himself out a bit. While it isn't awful (see "Umbrella Beach", "Cave In", "Tidal Wave"), its still a largely goofy electronic album appealing to the sugary-sweet-at-heart and little else.
Picnic Kibun Fiebre Tagada
Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium
Saosin Saosin
Siriusmo The Plasterer of Love
Soft Metals The Cold World Melts
Insidiously boring, plain and uninspired. Occasionally The Cold World Melts finds a catchy spot to tickle you with, but there's too little to excite within the songs, and that's not enough to keep it afloat from wallowing in a pool of Glasser/The Knife copycats. I'll be fucked if the cold world does melt.
The All-American Rejects When the World Comes Down
Three Days Grace Three Days Grace
Weezer The Red Album
You Love Her Coz She's Dead Inner City Angst EP

1.5 very poor
3OH!3 Want
Across Five Aprils Life Underwater
Aiden Our Gangs Dark Oath
Alesana Where Myth Fades to Legend
All Time Low So Wrong, It's Right
Atreyu The Curse
Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor
Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly
Avenue D As Free As We Wanna Be
Egypt Central Egypt Central
Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion
Hawthorne Heights Skeletons
Hawthorne Heights The Silence In Black And White
ick
Hit The Lights Skip School, Start Fights
Hollywood Undead Swan Songs
Juj Slack
Lukeing Forward Wandering In Urban Fog
Metallica ReLoad
My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of...
Owl City All Things Bright And Beautiful
"Potential" is an interesting word. It foresees achievement and failure simultaneously. It never means an artist is guaranteed to utilize their potential, nor does it mean they are doomed to failure. With the assumption of potential comes either satisfaction or disappointment, a prognostic at best.rWhen Owl City, young and naive, released the bubbly and respectable Of June and Maybe I'm Dreaming, I had hopes that he could somehow make his gooey lyrics and dreamy aesthetic work, maybe coming to the realization that instrumentation should be more prominent than vocals, or that "sweet", "delicate" and "effeminate" had an extremely fine line. Ocean Eyes was a slump, going in the direction I had hoped he didn't head for, trying too hard in terms of ambition. It's sad to say All Things Bright and Beautiful is even worse, though it's just how it is. "Potential" was a flickering flame come his 2009 breakthrough, but now it's snuffed out completely. Benefit of the doubt? High expectations? Maybe so. I'm sure it's not that hard to write less ridiculous songs that don't aim for simplistic daydreamy appeal ("Alligator Sky"? "All Things Bright and Beautiful"? Come on) or erect themselves as the "cake and icecream" of electronic music though. Even still, it's my fault, not his.
Puddle Of Mudd Come Clean
Scars on Broadway Scars On Broadway
Yellowcard Paper Walls
Yellowcard Lights and Sounds

1.0 awful
3OH!3 Streets of Gold
A Day To Remember Homesick [Re-Issue]
so like...do all these victory records bands really gain anything by re-issuing not-that-old albums all the time? it just seems like they want to add to their lineup of albums, so instead of working on new albums, they just work on old albums
Aiden Knives
Aiden Conviction
Aiden Nightmare Anatomy
All Time Low Nothing Personal
Angels and Airwaves I-Empire
Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper
Blood on the Dance Floor Evolution
Boys Like Girls Love Drunk
brokeNCYDE I'm Not A Fan, But The Kids Like It!
brokeNCYDE The Broken
brokeNCYDE Will Never Die
brokeNCYDE Guilty Pleasure
Bruno Mars Doo-Wops & Hooligans
Bullet For My Valentine Scream, Aim, Fire
Bullet For My Valentine Fever
DragonForce Inhuman Rampage
DragonForce Ultra Beatdown
Hawthorne Heights Fragile Future
HNC Anti Music
It is possible to anti-dig something?
Karmin Hello
goodbye
Ke$ha Animal
Ke$ha Cannibal
Metallica St. Anger
Never Shout Never What Is Love?
One Direction Up All Night
Paty Cantu Afortunadamente No Eres Tu
Susan Boyle I Dreamed a Dream
Susan Boyle The Gift
Theory Of A Deadman Scars and Souvenirs
Tokio Hotel Scream
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