| 5.0 classic |
| 2Pac Me Against the World |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose |
| Agent Orange Living In Darkness |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| AZ Doe or Die |
| Bad Brains Bad Brains |
| Bad Brains Live at CBGB 1982 [DVD] |
| As someone else once said, if you didn't give this a 5, you didn't watch it. |
| Bad Religion Suffer |
| Bauhaus In the Flat Field |
| One of the most influential albums in the entire canon of post-punk acts that swept across Britain in the early 1980s, Bauhaus created the blueprint for gothic post-punk on their debut release. Yet still after all these years, nothing has ever sounded anything quite like Bauhaus or this album, and it holds up just as aggressive, emotional, abrasive, and brilliant as ever. The vocals range from soft whispering to Peter Murphy screaming his lungs out while the guitar has a gothic drone effect that cannot be matched. Yet somehow on songs like "St. Vitus Dance", they take all of these things and make it DANCEABLE! Truly a landmark album and one of the best of the initial onslaught of post-punk acts, highlights include the amazing "St. Vitus Dance", "Stigmata Martyr", "In the Flat Field" and "Double Dare". If you have even a passing interest in gothic music and/or post-punk, you need this album immediately. |
| Beastie Boys Licensed To Ill |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique |
| Big L Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous |
| Black Flag Damaged |
| Black Flag Nervous Breakdown |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Black Star Black Star |
| blink-182 blink-182 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch |
| blink-182 Enema of the State |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan |
| Bob Dylan Blonde On Blonde |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend |
| Boogie Down Productions Criminal Minded |
| Boogie Down Productions By All Means Necessary |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Built To Spill There's Nothing Wrong With Love |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady |
| Can Tago Mago |
| Chuck Berry The Great Twenty-Eight |
| Circle Jerks Group Sex |
| Circle Takes The Square As the Roots Undo |
| Cream Disraeli Gears |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Deja Vu |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Crosby, Stills & Nash |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ |
| Cypress Hill Black Sunday |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust... |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory |
| David Bowie Low |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Depeche Mode Violator |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses |
| Descendents Milo Goes to College |
| Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! |
| Devo Be Stiff |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Elvis Presley The Sun Sessions |
| Elvis Presley Elvis Presley |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| EPMD Strictly Business |
| Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full |
| Fear Before Odd How People Shake |
| The best post-hardcore record of 2004, this album basically is what got me into the genres of post-hardcore, mathcore and screamo in the first place. Every single song is amazing, no way I could ever give this album anything less than a 5. One of the crowning achievements of the entire last decade of punk and metal music in my humble opinion, a classic in every sense of the word. |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Frank Sinatra In The Wee Small Hours |
| Fugazi 13 Songs |
| Gang Of Four Entertainment! |
| George Harrison All Things Must Pass |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Green Day Dookie |
| GZA Liquid Swords |
| Heatmiser Mic City Sons |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade |
| Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted |
| Jawbreaker Dear You |
| Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow |
| Jefferson Airplane Volunteers |
| Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American |
| John Lennon Imagine |
| John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band |
| Joy Division Closer |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Joy Division Substance |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River... |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Led Zeppelin How the West Was Won |
| A serious contender for the greatest live album ever. Everything that made Led Zeppelin the most acclaimed and popular rock band of the 70s as well as one of the most heralded live acts ever can be found within this triple album---the unGodly long jams that routinely went 20-30 minutes yet never got boring for a second, Bonham making his case as the greatest rock drummer ever on his definitive track "Moby Dick", Jimmy Page shredding guitars with violin bows and proving himself as one of the preeminent rock guitarists ever, Jones driving bass lines, and Robert Plant's soaring vocals that define 70s rock as a whole, everything there was to love about this band can be found in the depths of this remarkable album. A must-have for anyone with even a passing interest in that "rock and roll" thing. |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy |
| Less Than Jake Pezcore |
| Love Forever Changes |
| Love Love |
| Love Da Capo |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible |
| Marvin Gaye What's Going On |
| MDC Millions Of Dead Cops |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Michael Jackson Thriller |
| Minor Threat Complete Discography |
| Minor Threat In My Eyes |
| Minor Threat Minor Threat |
| Minutemen Double Nickels On the Dime |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous |
| Moby Grape Moby Grape |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| My Bloody Valentine You Made Me Realise |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere |
| New Order Power, Corruption and Lies |
| New Order Substance |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Nirvana Live At Reading |
| Nirvana Live at the Paramount [DVD] |
| There are not enough superlatives for me to heap onto this project so that I could adequately pay justice to the quality and power of the music and this film, so I'll just simply say that this is a "classic" in every definitive sense of that word. This is a time capsule into one of the most important eras of of rock music, and it encapsulates everything that there was and is to love about Cobain and Nirvana all at once with a perfectly performed set of some of their greatest songs. This is the type of concert that legends are, and have been, made of. Happy Halloween Kurt. |
| NWA Straight Outta Compton |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe |
| Operation Ivy Energy |
| Outkast Aquemini |
| Paul Simon Graceland |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| Pixies Come On Pilgrim |
| Placebo Without You I'm Nothing |
| Honestly just trying to explain how much this album means to me on a personal level is likely impossible, so all you really need to know is that this is some of the most beautiful, melodic, haunting, dark, and cathartic music to come out of the last 20 years. Brian Molko is inimitable and "Pure Morning", "Brick Shithouse" and obviously "Every You Every Me" are some of his best songs. |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us |
| R.E.M. Murmur |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... |
| Ramones Ramones |
| Ramones Ramones Mania |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Refused The Shape of Punk to Come |
| Rise Against The Unraveling |
| Their absolute best work, this is Rise Against at their melodic hardcore best. Everything about this album stands out from the instruments to McIlrath's half-screamed half-crooned vocals and absolutely mesmerizing lyrics, there isn't a weak point to this entire album. "My Life Inside Your Heart" may be the best song RA ever wrote, as it refuses anything less than tearing into your heart and psyche. One of the best modern punk records, period. |
| Rites of Spring End on End |
| Run DMC Run DMC |
| Run DMC Raising Hell |
| Santigold Santogold |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bollocks |
| Snoop Dogg Doggystyle |
| Soft Cell Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| A serious candidate for the best grunge record the 90s ever produced, Soundgarden's third album saw the band break out from their Seattle peers in a way only Nirvana or Pearl Jam could claim similar paths to. Just like Nirvana's "Nevermind" and Pearl Jam' "Ten", "Badmotorfinger" is both a slice of it's time and timeless, truly a masterpiece in the world of alternative rock, highlights include...well almost every single track is a highlight really, but "Room a Thousand Years Wide" may just be Soundgarden and Chris Cornell at their very darkest and best. An amazing album that belongs in everyone's collection. |
| Sublime Sublime |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| T.S.O.L. T.S.O.L./Weathered Statues |
| Tears For Fears The Hurting |
| Television Marquee Moon |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Cars The Cars |
| The Clash London Calling |
| The Clash The Clash (US) |
| The Clash The Clash (UK) |
| The Cramps Bad Music For Bad People |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The Cure The Head on the Door |
| The D.O.C. No One Can Do It Better |
| The Doors Strange Days |
| The Doors The Doors |
| The English Beat I Just Can't Stop It |
| The Exploited Troops of Tomorrow |
| A landmark classic of the entire spectrum of punk, this is both The Exploited and punk rock in general at it's finest, combining incredible little melodies with a raw, blistering form of British punk results in some not only the finest Exploited songs, but some of the best punk songs ever (like "Alternative"). rHighly recommended for anyone with ears and an interest in punk. Truly a classic. |
| The Go-Go's Beauty and the Beat |
| An absolute classic of new wave and alternative music of the 1980s, there isn't a solitary wasted moment on the entire LP from the catchy singles "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got the Beat" to the slow-burning rocker "Lust to Love", this is all gold. I legitimately could count on one hand the number of better songs in the 1980s than "Lust to Love", it's that amazing and brilliant.rTruly a classic album, deserving of the five star rating without a doubt. 80s new wave and pop simply did not get any better than this, and neither did the Go-Go's. |
| The Grateful Dead American Beauty |
| The Gun Club Fire of Love |
| The Hives Veni Vidi Vicious |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland |
| The La's The La's |
| The Lemonheads It's a Shame About Ray |
| The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death |
| The Offspring Smash |
| The Police Outlandos d'Amour |
| The Pretenders Pretenders |
| The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. |
| The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers |
| The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed |
| The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Smiths Louder Than Bombs |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Smiths The Smiths |
| The Smiths Hatful of Hollow |
| The Specials Specials |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses |
| I am appalled by some of the things respected members of this community have said about this album, and how frustratingly wrong they are. This is a classic album in every sense of the word, from the incredibly melodies of "She Bangs the Drums" to the epic magnum opus of rock and roll that is "I Am the Resurrection", this is a classic album in every sense of the word. Don't let the pseudo hipsters who have to go against whatever NME is saying this week try to convince you otherwise, this is a landmark of British rock music and an absolutely STUNNING record from start to finish. |
| The Stooges Raw Power |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat |
| The Who Who's Next |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| Tool Aenima |
| Various Artists Anthology of American Folk Music |
| The amount of sheer emotion that the artists on this compilation are able to convey in their music is simply astounding. Your heart will break over and over again. |
| Violent Femmes The Violent Femmes |
| Wall of Voodoo Dark Continent |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Weezer The Blue Album |
| Wire Pink Flag |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| X Los Angeles |
| 4.5 superb |
| 2Pac All Eyez on Me |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' |
| 7 Seconds The Crew |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders |
| A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of Rhythm |
| AC/DC Highway to Hell |
| AC/DC Back In Black |
| Against Me! Against Me! |
| Amon Tobin Bricolage |
| Superb drum 'n' bass electronica with a heavy dose of jazz, a hypnotic album that you can easily find yourself lost in. Highlights include "Easy Muffin", "Yasawas", "Creatures", "Defocus" and many others. |
| Andrew Jackson Jihad Knife Man |
| Angry Samoans Back From Samoa |
| Anti-Flag A New Kind Of Army |
| Anti-Flag Mobilize |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am... |
| Army of the Pharaohs The Five Perfect Exertions/War Ensemble |
| At the Drive-In Vaya |
| Aus-Rotten The System Works...For Them |
| Probably their best and most consistent album, this is anarcho-punk at it's absolute fucking finest, in the spirit of bands like Flux of Pink Indians, Subhumans, Crass and others but with a much more hardcore-influenced style than those particular bands. This album is a classic and a must-have for any fan of punk or hardcore, as is most of this group's discography. Get it. Now. |
| Aus-Rotten Not One Single Fucking Hit Discography |
| Bad Brains Rock For Light |
| Bad Brains I Against I |
| Bad Religion No Control |
| Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse? |
| Beck Odelay! |
| Beck Mellow Gold |
| Beck Guero |
| Big Black Atomizer |
| Big Daddy Kane Long Live The Kane |
| Big Pun Capital Punishment |
| Black Flag The First Four Years |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Black Sheep A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing |
| Blind Faith Blind Faith |
| blink-182 The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show |
| Blondie Parallel Lines |
| Blur Parklife |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks |
| Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Live in 1975 |
| Bob Dylan Another Side Of Bob Dylan |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' |
| Bob Dylan The Basement Tapes |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World! |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon |
| Bruce Springsteen Born To Run |
| Bruce Springsteen Born In The USA |
| Buddy Holly The Chirping Crickets |
| Camper Van Beethoven Telephone Free Landslide Victory |
| The weirdest, funnest damn indie record of the 80s, this album is atleast 10 years ahead of it's time. It's astounding that songs as absolutely ridiculous as "The Day Lassie Went to the Moon" or their big hit "Take the Skinheads Bowling" could be so mind-blowingly catchy and listenable. One word best describes this entire record, and it's fun. A landmark indie record of the 80s. |
| Choking Victim No Gods, No Managers |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Comeback Kid Turn it Around |
| Absolutely amazing album, one of the best hardcore records of the past decade. |
| Crass Penis Envy |
| Cream Wheels of Fire |
| Cream Fresh Cream |
| Cream 20th Century Masters |
| Cursive Domestica |
| Daft Punk Homework |
| Danger Mouse The Grey Album |
| David Bowie The Man Who Sold The World |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane |
| David Bowie Station to Station |
| David Bowie Heroes |
| David Gray White Ladder |
| De La Soul De La Soul Is Dead |
| Defeater Travels |
| Defeater Lost Ground |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Depeche Mode Black Celebration |
| Depeche Mode The Singles 81→85 |
| Devo Freedom of Choice |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant |
| Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing |
| Discharge Never Again |
| DMX It's Dark and Hell Is Hot |
| Donovan Sunshine Superman |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst |
| Dramarama Cinema Verite |
| The greatest record of 1985 and possibly the entire decade that no one heard. "Anything, Anything" is a legitimate contender for the single greatest rock song ever written and the rest of the album absolutely blazes with energy, melodicism, and a special kind of punk energy only comparable to similar alternative bands of the time like the Replacements or Husker Du. "Emerald City" will haunt you for weeks on end, as elegant and beautiful a song you will ever hear.rHyperbolic? Perhaps. But this album is really that damned good. |
| Eagles Hotel California |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL |
| Eazy-E Eazy-Duz-It |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Songs to Learn and Sing |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain |
| Elastica Elastica |
| Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Elliott Smith Roman Candle |
| Eric B and Rakim Follow the Leader |
| Fatboy Slim You've Come A Long Way, Baby |
| Fatboy Slim Better Living Through Chemistry |
| Fear The Record |
| Fear Before Art Damage |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Fugazi The Argument |
| Fugazi Repeater |
| Fugees The Score |
| General Public All the Rage |
| A tour-de-force of 1980's pop with a new wave edge and the almost care-free brilliance of ex-English beat members Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger. Nearly as good as the Beat were at their best, there isn't a moment wasted on this album from the inescapably catchy hit single "Tenderness" to the laid-back cool of tracks like "Never You Done That" or the driving, heart-on-it's-sleeve anthem "Are You Leading Me On?" there really isn't a moment wasted here. Highest recommendation for any fans of new wave, the Beat, fans of 80s music or anyone looking for an achingly catchy pop album. Oh and did I mention that Mick Jones, freshly booted from The Clash, plays lead guitar for half the album (including most of the singles)? |
| Geto Boys We Can't Be Stopped |
| Ghostface Killah Ironman |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F#A# (Infinity) |
| Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl |
| Gorilla Biscuits Start Today |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep |
| Green Day Kerplunk |
| Happy Mondays Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches |
| Have A Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years |
| Husker Du New Day Rising |
| Husker Du Flip Your Wig |
| Ice Cube Death Certificate |
| Ice-T O.G. Original Gangster |
| Ice-T The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What Yo |
| Incubus Make Yourself |
| Jane's Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual |
| Jay Reatard Blood Visions |
| A modern punk classic, Reatard mixes raw garage rock guitars with aggressive punk vocals and energy and ties it all together with superb moments of power-pop cut into the noisy chaos of it's surroundings. An amazing album from an artist that passed away far too soon. |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint |
| Jay-Z The Black Album |
| Jeru the Damaja The Sun Rises in the East |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity |
| Joe Jackson Look Sharp! |
| John Lennon Shaved Fish |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| KiD CuDi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager |
| It's everything we could have hoped for and so much more. Dark, brooding, experimental, effervescent and ultimately brilliant. This is somehow an even more personal record than his first, reflecting the personal troubles that Cudi has experienced since his first album (mainly his cocaine addiction), and you can hear the sadness, desperation, bravado and torment Cudi releases from his very soul on almost every track. I think it's safe to say this is not only Cudi's best work to date, it's one of the finest hip-hop albums to be released in years. |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| KISS Destroyer |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti |
| Led Zeppelin Celebration Day |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| LL Cool J Radio |
| LL Cool J Mama Said Knock You Out |
| Lou Reed Transformer |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd |
| Main Source Breaking Atoms |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| MC5 Kick Out The Jams |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Method Man Tical |
| Michael Jackson Bad |
| Minor Threat Out of Step |
| Misfits Earth A.D. |
| Misfits Walk Among Us |
| Misfits Static Age |
| Misfits Collection II |
| Misfits Beware |
| Misfits Collection I |
| Mission of Burma Signals, Calls and Marches |
| Mobb Deep Hell on Earth |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Modest Mouse This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To.. |
| Morphine Cure For Pain |
| Mudhoney Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles |
| My Morning Jacket Z |
| Nas STILLmatic |
| Nas It Was Written |
| Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps |
| Neil Young Harvest |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush |
| Neuroticfish No Instruments |
| A superb collection of New Order/Depeche Mode influenced darkwave, really creative stuff that engages you from start to finish with nary a misstep. "Close" and "Skin" would feel right at home on Technique-era New Order, and I mean that in the best possible way because they're amazing songs that make you just want to get up and dance, but almost in a bittersweet manner. Stellar album from an underrated group that carries the torch of the 80s darkwave flame into the 21st century, this is their best release and a forgotten gem. |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| New Order Low-Life |
| New Order Technique |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon |
| Nirvana Incesticide |
| Nirvana From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah |
| Nirvana Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! (DVD) |
| NWA Niggaz4Life |
| O.C. Word...Life |
| Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory? |
| Outkast Stankonia |
| Outkast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik |
| Pantera Vulgar Display Of Power |
| Pete Rock and CL Smooth Mecca and the Soul Brother |
| Phil Ochs I Ain't Marching Anymore |
| Public Enemy Yo! Bum Rush the Show |
| Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet |
| R.E.M. Automatic For the People |
| R.E.M. Reckoning |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Ramones Rocket to Russia |
| Ramones Leave Home |
| Reagan Youth A Collection of Pop Classics |
| Reagan Youth Volume One |
| Refused Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent |
| Richard and Linda Thompson Shoot Out The Lights |
| Richie Havens Mixed Bag |
| Run DMC King Of Rock |
| Run DMC Tougher Than Leather |
| Rush 2112 |
| Santana Santana |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre |
| Scarface Mr. Scarface Is Back |
| Screaming Trees Sweet Oblivion |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You |
| Slayer Show No Mercy |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Souls of Mischief 93 'til Infinity |
| Soundtrack Once More With Feeling |
| Soundtrack Colors |
| Amazing slice of late 80s hip hop at it's absolute best. The title track by Ice-T is one of the early gangsta rap anthems and still one the very best, and all over this soundtrack are some of the best artists at the time like Big Daddy Kane, Eric B & Rakim, Kool G. Rap, MC Shan, etc. Includes the infamous Coldcut remix of "Paid in Full" that's an amazing slice of late 80s hip hop DJ work at it's finest. The only thing holding this album back is a goofy attempt at dub sung by none other than the star of the film Sean Penn, under the guise of the "Decadent Dub Team". Otherwise, a nearly perfect soundtrack for a great film that accurately represents the true "sounds of the street" at the time. |
| Staind Break the Cycle |
| Stiff Little Fingers Inflammable Material |
| Subhumans EP-LP |
| Suede Suede |
| Suicide Suicide |
| Supergrass I Should Coco |
| T.S.O.L. Dance With Me |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 |
| Tears For Fears Songs From The Big Chair |
| The 13th Floor Elevators The Psychedelic Sounds Of... |
| The Adverts Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night |
| The Beatles Let It Be |
| The Beatles Please Please Me |
| The Beatles Help! |
| The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 2 |
| The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole |
| The Church Starfish |
| The Cranberries No Need to Argue |
| The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? |
| The Cult Electric |
| The Cult Love |
| The Cure Boys Don't Cry |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
| The Damned Damned Damned Damned |
| The Doors Morrison Hotel |
| The Doors Waiting For The Sun |
| The Doors L. A. Woman |
| The Doors Absolutely Live |
| The Get Up Kids Four Minute Mile |
| The Hives Tyrannosaurus Hives |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Darklands |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold As Love |
| The Libertines Up The Bracket |
| The Mamas and The Papas If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Let's Face It |
| The National Alligator |
| The Offspring Americana |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land |
| The Replacements Let It Be |
| The Replacements Tim |
| The Rolling Stones Between the Buttons |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Smiths Meat is Murder |
| The Stooges Fun House |
| The Stooges The Stooges |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells |
| The Who Tommy |
| The Who Quadrophenia |
| The Who My Generation |
| The Zombies Odessey and Oracle |
| Thursday No Devolucion |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Toxic Narcotic Toxic Narcotic: 88-99 |
| UGK Ridin' Dirty |
| Ulver Bergtatt |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You |
| Unwound Repetition |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend |
| Wavves King of the Beach |
| X Wild Gift |
| Yazoo Upstairs at Eric's |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 2Pac 2Pacalypse Now |
| 2Pac Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. |
| 2Pac Makaveli |
| 311 From Chaos |
| 311 Grassroots |
| 311 311 |
| 7 Year Bitch ¡Viva Zapata! |
| 7L & Esoteric Soul Purpose |
| Quite simply put, the sound of the Boston Underground of hip-hop. Fantastic production in the vein of Deltron 3030 and fantastic rapping from Esoteric make this album practically a modern classic in the world of underground hip-hop. |
| 88 Fingers Louie Back On The Streets |
| 88 Fingers Louie The Dom Years |
| A Flock of Seagulls A Flock of Seagulls |
| A tour-de-force of new wave and emotion, everyone knows the brilliance of "I Ran" but it's a damn shame not as many know the brilliance of tracks like "Space Age Love Song" and "Modern Love is Automatic", which should have been just as big hits as "I Ran" was if the world were a just place. Don't dismiss this group for their silly haircuts and one-hit-wonder status, this is one of the absolute best new wave albums of the 80s. |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| A Static Lullaby ...And Don't Forget to Breathe |
| Ace of Base The Sign |
| Adam and the Ants Kings of the Wild Frontier |
| Adam and the Ants Dirk Wears White Sox |
| Adolescents Adolescents |
| AFI The Art of Drowning |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset |
| AFI All Hallow's EP |
| Against Me! As the Eternal Cowboy |
| Against Me! Crime as Forgiven By |
| Against Me! Vivida Vis! |
| Agnostic Front Victim In Pain |
| Akala Doublethink |
| Alcest Ecailles De Lune |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L Ame |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| Alkaline Trio Goddamnit |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| Anti-Flag Underground Network |
| Anti-Flag Die For The Government |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Archers of Loaf Icky Mettle |
| Art Brut Bang Bang Rock & Roll |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse |
| ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP. |
| At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
| Atreyu Suicide Notes And Butterfly Kisses |
| AZ Pieces of a Man |
| Bad Brains Black Dots |
| Bad Meets Evil Hell: The Sequel |
| Bad Religion Generator |
| Bad Religion Bad Religion |
| Bad Religion Back to the Known |
| Bad Religion Against the Grain |
| Balam Balam |
| Band of Horses Everything All the Time |
| Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms |
| Baroness Yellow and Green |
| Basement Songs About The Weather |
| Basement I Wish I Could Stay Here |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw |
| Bauhaus Mask |
| Bauhaus Bela Lugosi's Dead |
| Beastie Boys Ill Communication |
| Beastie Boys Check Your Head |
| Beck Modern Guilt |
| Belle and Sebastian The Boy With the Arab Strap |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot |
| Big Daddy Kane It's A Big Daddy Thing |
| Big L The Big Picture |
| Bikini Kill Pussy Whipped |
| Biohazard Urban Discipline |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Black Flag My War |
| Black Flag Everything Went Black |
| Black Moon Enta Da Stage |
| Black Sabbath Volume 4 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants and Jacket |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm |
| Blue Oyster Cult Blue Oyster Cult |
| Blur Blur |
| Blur The Great Escape |
| Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline |
| Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding |
| Bob Dylan Tempest |
| Why the fuck isn't there a staff review for this yet? It's excellent. |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation |
| Boris Akuma no uta |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Box Car Racer Box Car Racer |
| Braid The Age of Octeen |
| Braid Frame & Canvas |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brand New Fight Off Your Demons (The Demos) |
| Brand Nubian One For All |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) |
| Brian Eno Another Green World |
| Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets |
| Brian Eno Before and After Science |
| Bruce Springsteen Darkness On The Edge Of Town |
| Bruce Springsteen Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska |
| Bruce Springsteen Hammersmith Odeon London '75 |
| Bruce Springsteen The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle |
| Bruce Springsteen The River |
| Bush Sixteen Stone |
| Can Ege Bamyasi |
| Canned Heat The Very Best Of |
| Canned Heat Boogie With Canned Heat |
| Capone-N-Noreaga The War Report |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights |
| Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf Big Shots |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next |
| Childish Gambino Royalty |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well |
| Choking Victim Squatta's Paradise |
| Circle Jerks Wild in the Streets |
| Coldplay Parachutes |
| Coldplay Viva La Vida |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto |
| Candidate for their best record yet, with the added benefit of being bloody danceable of all things. Vibrant, sweeping, epic, triumphant, perhaps even a little bit transcendent. This is music to listen to while soaring over an electric Paris night sky. Even a random cameo appearance by Rihanna of all people works. Proper review on the way when this is released in the US/UK. |
| Common Be |
| Common Rider Last Wave Rockers |
| Concrete Blonde Bloodletting |
| Crass Stations of the Crass |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Willy and the Poor Boys |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Bayou Country |
| Currensy Pilot Talk |
| Cypress Hill Cypress Hill |
| Da Lench Mob Guerillas In Tha Mist |
| How can you not love an album featuring the line "I'm glad that Lincoln got bucked in the face, we shoulda been free in the first place"? Over the top mix of early 90s g-funk with a political side, but all very angry and nihilistic. The title track is a classic example of the early 90s West Coast gangsta rap sound. Worth noting that Ice Cube, who produced the album, is featured on several songs along with an appearance by B-Real of Cypress Hill. |
| Dance Hall Crashers The Old Record |
| Dangers Anger |
| Daniel Johnston Songs of Pain |
| Daniel Johnston Hi, How Are You |
| Das EFX Dead Serious |
| David Bowie Lodger |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest |
| Defiance, Ohio Share What Ya Got |
| Defiance, Ohio The Great Depression |
| Del Shannon Greatest Hits |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
| Depeche Mode Speak And Spell |
| Devo Duty Now For The Future |
| Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur |
| Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner |
| Duran Duran Rio |
| Duran Duran Duran Duran |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Crocodiles |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Porcupine |
| Eminem The Eminem Show |
| Eminem Recovery |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Fatboy Slim Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth |
| Feeder Echo Park |
| Feeder Yesterday Went Too Soon |
| Feeder Polythene |
| Finch What It is to Burn |
| Fine Young Cannibals The Raw and the Cooked |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac |
| Fleetwood Mac Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac |
| Damn shame no one remembers the original Fleetwood Mac, the Peter Green fronted version that was probably one of the best damn white blues bands to ever play. Songs like "Shake Your Moneymaker" and "My Heart Beat Like a Hammer" are raw blues-rock at it's absolute finest. Great album here. |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters |
| Freeway Philadelphia Freeway |
| From Autumn To Ashes Too Bad You're Beautiful |
| Fugazi Red Medicine |
| GBH City Baby Attacked By Rats |
| Geto Boys The Geto Boys |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas... |
| Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo |
| Goodie Mob Soul Food |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Gotye Making Mirrors |
| Green Day Nimrod |
| Green Day Insomniac |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
| Harry Nilsson Nilsson Schmilsson |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence In Black And White |
| Hopesfall No Wings To Speak Of |
| Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game |
| Husker Du Candy Apple Grey |
| Ice Cube The Predator |
| Ice-T Power |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust |
| Incubus Morning View |
| Incubus S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Isis Oceanic |
| Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III of IV) |
| Jawbox For Your Own Special Sweetheart |
| Jay-Z In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 |
| Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne |
| Jefferson Airplane After Bathing At Baxter's |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures |
| John Frusciante Shadows Collide with People |
| John Frusciante Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt |
| John Frusciante To Record Only Water for Ten Days |
| John Lennon Rock 'n' Roll |
| Jon Brion Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| It's hard to describe how much Jon Brion's score and the accompanying tracks that make up this soundtrack album mean to me. Just let it be known that the track entitled "Phone Call" is quite possibly the most beautiful 64 seconds of music I've ever heard. |
| Jose Gonzalez Veneer |
| Jose Gonzalez In Our Nature |
| Jungle Brothers Straight Out The Jungle |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control |
| Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| KiD CuDi Man On The Moon: The End Of Day |
| Kid Rock Devil Without A Cause |
| KISS Love Gun |
| Korn Korn |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| Lagwagon Duh |
| Leftover Crack Fuсk World Trade |
| Less Than Jake Losing Streak |
| Less Than Jake Hello Rockview |
| Lil Wayne No Ceilings |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish... |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Lloyd Banks The Hunger For More |
| Local H As Good as Dead |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor |
| Lush Split |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Gimme Back My Bullets |
| M.I.A. Kala |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist |
| Madness One Step Beyond |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go |
| Mansun Six |
| Mantronix Mantronix: The Album |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death) |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Master P Ghetto D |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction |
| MellowHype BLACKENEDWHITE |
| Men at Work Business as Usual |
| Michael Jackson Off the Wall |
| Middle Class Out of Vogue |
| The most important punk record you've probably never heard, this EP by the Middle Class is generally recognized as the first hardcore punk release in the genre's history, and all of the trademarks and building blocks for the scene can be found here: explosive vocals, pulsing guitars and lightning fast drumming. While it isn't particularly the best hardcore record, it's certainly one of the most important and a hidden gem for any fans of punk rock. |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will... |
| Mission of Burma Vs. |
| Modern English After the Snow |
| Mother Love Bone Stardog Champion |
| Motorhead Motörhead |
| Mudhoney Superfuzz Bigmuff |
| My Bloody Valentine Feed Me With Your Kiss |
| My Morning Jacket It Still Moves |
| Napalm Death Scum |
| Nas God's Son |
| Nas Life Is Good |
| Neuroticfish Gelb |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island |
| New Found Glory Nothing Gold Can Stay |
| New Order Brotherhood |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left |
| Nick Drake Bryter Layter |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| Nirvana With the Lights Out |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child |
| Nu Sensae Sundowning |
| Onyx Bacdafucup |
| Outkast ATLiens |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard Of Ozz |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Paul Simon Paul Simon |
Garfunkel who?
Paul Simon's debut is practically a tangible explosion of creative energy and musicianship from one of the great songwriters of the 60s. Gone are the elegant ballads of Bridge Over Troubled Water, as the opening track "Mother and Child Reunion" is an incredible reggae song (and a Top 5 hit in both the US and the UK) that lets you know from the get-go that Simon had far-ranging eclectic interests beyond the folk-rock he had been known for. He mixes a certifiable maelstrom of music mixing reggae, folk, country, blues, psychedelic rock and pop and proved from the beginning that he had so much more to offer the world after the split of Simon & Garfunkel. This is simply an extraordinary record, and one of the few solo records to have succeeded both commercially and critically as well as Paul Simon did. |
| Pearl Jam Vs. |
| Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Pixies Trompe Le Monde |
| Pixies Bossanova |
| Placebo Placebo |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream |
| Propagandhi How to Clean Everything |
| Public Enemy Apocalypse 91 The Enemy Strikes Black |
| Puff Daddy No Way Out |
| Quiet Riot Metal Health |
| R.E.M. Document |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II |
| Reagan Youth Youth Anthems for the New Order |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk |
| Refused The EP Compilation |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy |
| Scorpions Love At First Sting |
| Silverchair Frogstomp |
| Silverchair Neon Ballroom |
| Silverchair Freak Show |
| Slick Rick The Great Adventures of Slick Rick |
| Slick Rick The Art Of Storytelling |
| Slick Rick's real return to hip-hop after his prison sentence, complete with all star production and guest spots everywhere. Rick's flow is as impeccable as ever, and the production is deeper and richer than his classic first album even if the rhymes aren't always up to the same quality as his old work. You don't go to Rick for lyricism though, you go to him for style, and he's got it in spades here. Underrated album. |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Soundtrack Friday (Soundtrack) |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| Strung Out Twisted By Design |
| Sublime Second Hand Smoke |
| Sublime Robbin' the Hood |
| Swell Maps A Trip to Marineville |
| Syd Barrett The Madcap Laughs |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| T.I. King |
| Talib Kweli Quality |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? |
| The 13th Floor Elevators Easter Everywhere |
| The Adicts Songs of Praise |
| The Adicts Sound of Music |
| The Aquabats The Fury of the Aquabats! |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment |
| The Beach Boys Smiley Smile |
| The Beatles With The Beatles |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale |
| The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 1 |
| The Beta Band The Three EPs |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn |
| The Cat Empire The Cat Empire |
| The Chemical Brothers Exit Planet Dust |
| The Clash Combat Rock |
| The Coral The Coral |
| The Cramps Songs the Lord Taught Us |
| The Cranberries To the Faithful Departed |
| The Cult Dreamtime |
| The Cure Pornography |
| The Cure Three Imaginary Boys |
| The Doors The Soft Parade |
| The English Beat Wha'ppen? |
| The English Beat Special Beat Service |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Game The Documentary |
| The Game The R.E.D. Album |
| The Get Up Kids Something To Write Home About |
| The Get Up Kids There Are Rules |
| People giving this a low rating for not being like their older stuff is just bullshit. This is quite possibly their most cohesive and engaging album ever, it grabs you right at the start with the frenetic, nervous energy of "Regent's Court" before doing a total 180 and making their most whimsical and synth-laden song ever in "Shatter Your Lungs", which almost reminds me of good chillwave. Be forewarned, this is a very different band from the emo/pop-punk unit they started out as all those years ago with beloved albums like Four Minute Mile and Something to Write Home About. But that's not a bad thing. These guys have matured, they've grown up, and they've expanded their musical vocabulary. You should do the same and give this album a chance, you won't regret it. |
| The Horrors Skying |
| It's every band from the 80s that you loved, through the drug haze-laced spectacles of the Britpop movement, with a dash or two of classic punk thrown in for good measure. In other words, it's mesmerizing and a contender for album of the year. |
| The Human League Dare! |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Lemonheads Come On Feel the Lemonheads |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear, Sad, Nuclear |
| The Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde |
| The Police Reggatta de Blanc |
| The Police Synchronicity |
| The Police Zenyatta Mondatta |
| The Replacements Pleased To Meet Me |
| The Rolling Stones Aftermath |
| The Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request |
| The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones |
| Great representation of what The Stones were all about in their early days, which was working-class rhythm and blues. You really won't find a better collection of cover songs from this era or any, raw rock and roll at it's finest. I toyed with a 4.5 and a 5 rating, but then I remembered the absolute brilliance of "Tell Me", one of the Stones very first original songs that plays like The Ronettes were a rock and roll band and I had to go ahead and give this album the full five star treatment. Before the legend of the Rolling Stones, there was this---the dirty, funky rock and roll band. |
| The Roots The Tipping Point |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth |
| The Vandals Peace Thru Vandalism |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| The Who The Who Sell Out |
| The Who A Quick One |
| Thursday War All the Time |
| Title Fight Shed |
| Tool Undertow |
| U2 The Joshua Tree |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind |
| Underoath The Changing of Times |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Underoath Disambiguation |
| Vampire Weekend Contra |
| Wall of Voodoo Call of the West |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever |
| 3.5 great |
| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating |
| 2Pac Thug Life |
| 50 Cent The Massacre |
| 7 Seconds Walk Together, Rock Together |
| 88 Fingers Louie Go Away 7" |
| Debut of one of the very best melodic hardcore punk bands of the 90s, this is 88 Fingers Louie at their fiercest and most reckless. All four songs are great, an exhilarating debut. "There's No Way" and "Intellectual Lover" remain two of my favorite 88 songs to this day. |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| Adam and the Ants Prince Charming |
| AFI Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes |
| AFI Very Proud Of Ya |
| Against Me! Searching for a Former Clarity |
| Against Me! New Wave |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains |
| Alice in Chains Sap |
| Alkaline Trio Maybe I'll Catch Fire |
| American Football American Football |
| Amon Tobin Permutation |
| Amphetamine Discharge I Just Wanna Kiss |
| Angry Samoans Inside My Brain |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| April March Chick Habit |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare |
| At the Drive-In El Gran Orgo |
| At the Drive-In Alfaro Vive, Carajo! |
| I'm baffled as to why people don't seem to like this EP more than they do, this is the first example of the true ATDI sound and most of the songs on this EP are awesome, especially "Instigate the Role" which has just an absolutely gnarly riff. Great EP. |
| Aus-Rotten ...And Now Back To Our Programming |
| Aus-Rotten Anti-Imperialist |
| Awolnation Megalithic Symphony |
| Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction |
| Baroness Red Album |
| Baroness Blue Record |
| Beanie Sigel Public Enemy #1 |
| Beastie Boys Hello Nasty |
| Beastie Boys To The 5 Boroughs |
| Beck Sea Change |
| Beck Mutations |
| Beck Midnite Vultures |
| This generation's modern chameleon of rock and roll changes his colors again, this time trying his hand at dirty, sexy, funk music, and as usual he succeeds with flying colors, spinning out another pair of gem singles in the album opener "Sexx Laws" and "Mixed Bizness". The horn section goes wild in an almost Motown fashion, Beck's guitar work has never been catchier and he even manages to impress vocally, showing range he had previously never shown in his singing voice. Yet another home run for one of the greatest artists of the last twenty years. |
| Ben Harper Fight For Your Mind |
| Berlin Pleasure Victim |
| Berlin's breakthrough LP is harrowing early 80s synthpop at it's most exploitative, but also at it's finest. Songs like "The Metro" and "Sex (I'm a...)" are definitive songs in the realm of synthpop and new wave. Though best remembered for their smash hit "Take My Breath Away" from the Top Gun soundtrack, this is their best work and is a must-have for any fan of synthpop and/or new wave. |
| Big L The Archives 1996-2000 |
| Black Flag In My Head |
| Black Flag Slip It In |
| Black Flag Who's Got the 10 1/2? |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
| Black Uhuru 20 Greatest Hits |
| blink-182 Cheshire Cat |
| blink-182 Buddha |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods |
| Blondie Blondie |
| An excellent debut album for the pop-minded new wave outfit Blondie, featuring some of their very best work in the singles "X Offender" and "Rip Her to Shreds". Not their strongest album, but the Blondie formula is introduced here with it's punk aggression, new wave instrumentation and bubblegum pop-minded songwriting. Recommended for fans and newcomers alike. |
| Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish |
| Bob Dylan Bob Dylan |
| Bob Dylan Time Out Of Mind |
| Bob Dylan Modern Times |
| Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave Or Die In Long Island |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Boris Pink |
| Botch American Nervoso |
| Braid Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five |
| Some of Braid's absolute best work can be found on here. Highlights include "Capricorn", "Three Point Turn", and "Zero Frisco". This band wrote some of the best material of the early 90s emo scene. |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Broken Bells Meyrin Fields |
| Burial Kindred |
| Candlebox Candlebox |
| Cee Lo Green The Lady Killer |
| Ceremony Ruined |
| Childish Gambino Culdesac |
| Children of the Corn Children of the Corn: The Collector's Edition |
| CityCop The Hope In Forgiving & Giving Up Hope |
| Cloudkicker Beacons |
| Coldplay X & Y |
| Collective Soul Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid |
| Comeback Kid Wake The Dead |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Crass The Feeding of the 5000 |
| Cream Goodbye |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| Crocodiles Sleep Forever |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles |
| D12 Devil's Night |
| Danny Brown The Hybrid |
| Danny Brown's debut album lives up to the street hype. Tony Yayo's Detroit-based protege sounds confident and assured on every track while he delivers rapid-fire lines musing on everything from Super Nintendo games to drug dealing. The beats are consistently engaging, the production is slick yet still maintains the feeling of an underground release, and there's nary a weak moment to be found. Keep your eyes on Mr. Danny Brown from Detroit ladies and gentlemen, because he has big things in his future and his debut album is a rousing success on almost every front. |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs |
| David Gilmour On An Island |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Deerhunter Microcastle |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Depeche Mode Some Great Reward |
| Depeche Mode Construction Time Again |
| Discharge Why |
| Drake So Far Gone |
| Drake Thank Me Later |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| Eazy-E It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Heaven Up Here |
| Evergreen Terrace Losing All Hope Is Freedom |
| Fabolous Real Talk |
| Feeder Comfort In Sound |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Fugazi End Hits |
| Fugazi Furniture |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker |
| Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing |
| Gangrene Vodka & Ayahuasca |
| Underground stoner rap duo goes on a long, strange Ayahausca trip. Hip hop fans profit. |
| Ghostface Killah Fishscale |
| Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere |
| Gnarls Barkley The Odd Couple |
| Godsmack Godsmack |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach |
| Groundswell Wave of Popular Feeling |
| Group Home Livin' Proof |
| Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely |
| Hawthorne Heights Hate |
| Some of the best music they've ever made, if not the best. The lyrics remain a bit amateurish and sophomoric, but they make up for it in spades with the performances on each song. Perhaps this band can finally win over some of the more ardent post-hardcore/emo fans with this EP. Or maybe not. Either way, it's a great little record and "Hate" might be the best song they've ever made. |
| Hodgy Beats Untitled |
| Hot Hot Heat Make Up the Breakdown |
| Husker Du Everything Falls Apart |
| Ice Cube Lethal Injection |
| Ice-T Rhyme Pays |
| Jawbreaker Bivouac |
| Jawbreaker Unfun |
| Jawbreaker Etc. |
| Jay Reatard Watch Me Fall |
| Jay Reatard Singles 06-07 |
| Jay Reatard Matador Singles '08 |
| Jay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life |
| Jeru the Damaja Wrath of the Math |
| Jimmy Eat World Static Prevails |
| Jimmy Eat World Singles |
| John Grant Queen Of Denmark |
| John Lennon Double Fantasy |
| Kanye West Graduation |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 |
| KISS KISS |
| Kno Death Is Silent |
| Korn Issues |
| Korn Follow The Leader |
| Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy |
| Led Zeppelin In Through The Out Door |
| Leftover Crack Mediocre Generica |
| Lenny Kravitz Are You Gonna Go My Way |
| Lenny Kravitz 5 |
| Less Than Jake Losers, Kings and Other Things We Don't Understand |
| Lifetime Hello Bastards |
| Limp Bizkit Three Dolla Bill Y'all |
| Linkin Park Reanimation |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns |
| Lupe Fiasco The Cool |
| M.I.A. Arular |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts |
| Marilyn Manson Born Villain |
| MC Ren Kizz My Black Azz |
| MC Ren Shock of the Hour |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular |
| MGMT Congratulations |
| Michael Jackson Dangerous |
| Millencolin Pennybridge Pioneers |
| Mobb Deep Murda Muzik |
| Mouth Sewn Shut Doomed Future Today |
| My Morning Jacket At Dawn |
| Nas Hip Hop Is Dead |
| Neil Sedaka Oh Carol! |
| Neil Young Freedom |
| New Found Glory New Found Glory |
| New Order Movement |
| New Order Get Ready |
| "Crystal" starts the album off with a bang as it's the best song New Order has recorded in over a decade when it was released in 2001. The rest of the album delivers the goods as well, showing a spirited, reinvigorated group of musicians returning to their roots and producing some of their very best songs in many years in the process. Highly recommended for both New Order fans and newcomers alike. Also worth noting that Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins fame and Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream fame have guest appearances on the album, Corgan's in particular is excellent. |
| Nicola Roberts Cinderella's Eyes |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| NWA N.W.A. and the Posse |
| NWA 100 Miles and Runnin' |
| Oasis The Masterplan |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe |
| OMC How Bizarre |
| A wonderful record that unfortunately isn't remembered as much as it should be outside of OMC's native New Zealand. Everyone remembers the smash hit "How Bizarre", and it remains one of the best pop songs of the 90s with a carefree summertime feeling to it that permeates every facet of this record, making the entire album a pleasure to listen to. OMC mixes rock, rap, electronica, and even worldbeat and folk while always maintaining a keen and structured pop songwriting sensibility. A nostalgic gem from the 90s that has remained a part of my playlist for many years. |
| Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below |
| Papa Roach Infest |
| Pearl Jam Binaural |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy |
| Pg. 99 Document #8 |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets |
| Placebo Sleeping With Ghosts |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Pusha T Fear of God II: Let Us Pray |
| Imagine if Kanye West was actually a gangsta rapper and you pretty much have this album here. GOOD Music for sure, in the vein of Kanye and CuDi but a bit more grim. |
| R.E.M. Out Of Time |
| R.E.M. Accelerate |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| This is the Radiohead I love. Experimental, beautiful, haunting, emotional. As great as the group is I've always found them a bit overrated, feeling that their epic ballads were sometimes quite sterile, but this album just clicked with me from start to finish. While some say it's a return to the Kid A sound, it's more than that, it's a progression of that and it's both fresh and unique. There are some amazing songs on here, mainly "Bloom", "Codex", and "Separator", but all of the songs are good really. Maybe it helps that I first listened to it on a rainy Monday afternoon so the downtempo mood was appropriate. rTheir best since Amnesiac. |
| Ramones Road to Ruin |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| Redman Whut? Thee Album |
| Reflection Eternal The RE:Union Mixtape |
| Refused This Just Might Be... the Truth |
| Run DMC Down With The King |
| Most of the album is average at best, but the title track is the best song Run DMC ever wrote in the 90s, yeah they were kind of out of their element trying the "gangsta rap" phase, but "Down With the King" still hits HARD after all these years and is their last truly great song. |
| Rush Clockwork Angels |
| Say Anything Menorah/Majora |
| Say Anything Say Anything |
| Say Anything Anarchy, My Dear |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost |
| Silverchair Diorama |
| Silverstein Rescue |
| Soulfly Soulfly |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler |
| Syd Barrett Barrett |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| Tha Dogg Pound Dogg Food |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Birthday Party The Birthday Party |
| The Black Angels Passover |
| The Boys Next Door Door, Door |
| The Cars Candy-O |
| The Clash Give 'Em Enough Rope |
| The Clash Sandinista! |
| The Clash Super Black Market Clash |
| The Cramps Psychedelic Jungle |
| The Cult Sonic Temple |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| The Cure Faith |
| The Cure Wish |
| The Cure Japanese Whispers |
| The Diplomats Diplomatic Immunity 2 |
| The Hives Barely Legal |
| The Hives Lex Hives |
| In a day and age where every rock band is trying to be experimental and alternative and indie and different it's good to know The Hives are still kicking out straight up, no frills garage rock with some heart to it. There will always be a place for that kind of rock and roll band. |
| The Horrors Primary Colours |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Honey's Dead |
| The Killers Sam's Town |
| The Killing Tree Bury Me at Make-Out Creek |
| The Lemonheads Lick |
| The LOX Money, Power & Respect |
| The Morning Benders Big Echo |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses |
| The Queers Love Songs for the Retarded |
| The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers |
| The Rolling Stones Out Of Our Heads |
| The Rolling Stones 12 X 5 |
| The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones No.2 |
| Their version of Solomon Burke's "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" is the greatest version ever in my opinion. Great album all around. |
| The Rolling Stones December's Children (And Everybody's) |
| The Roots undun |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| The Who The Who By Numbers |
| The Who Who Are You |
| The Wonder Years The Upsides |
| Thursday Waiting |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb |
| U2 War |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation |
| Unwound Fake Train |
| Unwritten Law Elva |
| Violent Femmes Hallowed Ground |
| Wavves Life Sux |
| Weezer Maladroit |
| Weezer Death to False Metal |
| Young Buck Straight Outta Cashville |
| Young the Giant Young the Giant |
| 3.0 good |
| 12 Stones 12 Stones |
| 7 Seconds New Wind |
| 88 Fingers Louie Behind Bars |
| Ace Frehley Ace Frehley |
| AFI Decemberunderground |
| Against Me! The Disco Before the Breakdown |
| Agent Orange Sonic Snake Session |
| Alcest Souvenirs d'un autre Monde |
| Anti-Flag The General Strike |
| Arctic Monkeys Humbug |
| Aus-Rotten The Rotten Agenda |
| Bad Religion Into the Unknown |
| Bad Religion The Dissent of Man |
| Band of Skulls Baby Darling Doll Face Honey |
| BATS Cruel Sea Scientist |
| Bayside Bayside |
| Beach House Teen Dream |
| Beck The Information |
| Black Flag Loose Nut |
| Blondie Eat to the Beat |
| Blur Think Tank |
| Blur Leisure |
| Blur 13 |
| Bob Dylan Love and Theft |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer |
| Boredoms Super Ae |
| Braid Movie Music Vol. One |
| Braid Movie Music, Vol. 2 |
| Brand New Holiday |
| Brand New and Safety In Numbers Split |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells |
| Caribou Swim |
| Cashis The County Hound EP |
| Don't listen to "TheIllmatics", this is a solid debut EP from a talented young artist. He deals with the same cliched gangster-isms of the hardcore rap genre, true, but he does it with a flair a dark sense of realism that is reminiscent of the work of Notorious B.I.G. in a way, particularly on the spectacular track "Thoughts of Suicide". There are hints of true artistry and complexity through-out this EP, and it gives me great hope for the future of this rapper. Highly recommended to all serious hip-hop fans, especially those who enjoy the works of Eminem, Biggie, Tupac, Dre, and all the other hardcore rap classics. |
| Childish Gambino Camp |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah |
| Cloud Cult Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge Halo in a Haystack |
| Crazy Town The Gift of Game |
| Creed My Own Prison |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology |
| Depeche Mode A Broken Frame |
| DJ Khaled Listennn... the Album |
| "Grammy Family" is absolutely stellar, a jaw-dropping single with an unbelievably smooth and catchy beat. Rest of the album ranges from average to great, the guest spots are frequently switched up so it never feels stale or repetitive, overall a very good debut for DJ Khaled here. Did I mention how good "Grammy Family" is? |
| Eazy-E 5150: Home 4 tha Sick |
| Eminem Encore |
| Eminem Infinite |
| Eminem Relapse |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives |
| Filter Short Bus |
| Fine Young Cannibals Fine Young Cannibals |
| Flobots Fight With Tools |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left To Lose |
| From First To Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body... |
| G-Unit Beg For Mercy |
| Good Charlotte Good Charlotte |
| Green Day Warning |
| Green Day Shenanigans |
| Green Day ¡UNO! |
| Guthrie Govan Erotic Cakes |
| Hanson Middle of Nowhere |
| Hawthorne Heights Hope |
| Hollywood Undead Swan Songs |
| Integrity Those Who Fear Tomorrow |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening |
| Jay-Z Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter |
| Jay-Z and Linkin Park Collision Course |
| Jimmy Eat World Stay on My Side Tonight |
| Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light |
| Jimmy Eat World Invented |
| Kid Rock History Of Rock |
| KISS Hotter Than Hell |
| Korn Life Is Peachy |
| Led Zeppelin Coda |
| Led Zeppelin Presence |
| Lenny Kravitz Let Love Rule |
| Lil Wyte Doubt Me Now |
| Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra |
| Local H Pack Up the Cats |
| Love Four Sail |
| M.I.A. Maya |
| Manic Street Preachers Gold Against The Soul |
| Manic Street Preachers This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours |
| Manic Street Preachers Generation Terrorists |
| Marilyn Manson The Golden Age Of Grotesque |
| Marilyn Manson Portrait Of An American Family |
| Mase Harlem World |
| Maybach Music Group Self Made Vol. 1 |
| BITCH IMA BOSS |
| Megadeth Youthanasia |
| Metallica Garage, Inc |
| Mike G ALI |
| Millencolin Life On A Plate |
| Mobb Deep Black Cocaine |
| Murderdolls Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls |
| My Morning Jacket The Tennessee Fire |
| My Morning Jacket Evil Urges |
| Nas I Am...The Autobiography |
| New Order Republic |
| New Order Waiting for the Siren's Call |
| No Age Everything In Between |
| Outkast Idlewild |
| Pearl Jam Riot Act |
| Pearl Jam Pearl Jam |
| Pearl Jam Backspacer |
| Placebo B3 |
| Proof Searching for Jerry Garcia |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Reagan Youth Volume Two |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Refused The Demo Compilation |
| Rockwell Somebody's Watching Me |
| Fun and all kinds of funky, Rockwell's Somebody's Watching Me is one heck of a fun relic from the 80s, mixing up rock, soul, dance, and R&B under the Motown label to create a well-crafted album of tunes to dance to. It helps when Michael Jackson sings the hook of your single ("Somebody's Watching Me") and it hits number one for five weeks straight on the R&B charts as well. The paranoid single is undoubtedly the highlight, but the whole album is worth a spin if you're feeling nostalgic for the 80s. |
| Shpongle Are You Shpongled? |
| Soen Cognitive |
| Sublime with Rome Yours Truly |
| Talk Talk It's My life |
| The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Built to Fail |
| The raw, chaotic, but fun early beginnings of The Arrogant Bastards. Not essential but it has it's merits. |
| The Cure The Top |
| The Hives Black And White Album |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Stoned & Dethroned |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Automatic |
| The Killers Day & Age |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Pay Attention |
| The Police Ghost In The Machine |
| The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones, Now! |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Who Endless Wire |
| Tool Opiate |
| U2 The Unforgettable Fire |
| Violent Femmes Freak Magnet |
| Weezer The Green Album |
| Weezer The Red Album |
| Weezer Hurley |
| WZRD WZRD |
