| 4.5 superb |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am... |
| Arctic Monkeys I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It And See |
| It seems like the Arctic Monkeys have finally found a sound to move forward with. When the Monkeys released "Whatever People Say I Am..." about five years back, legions of fans instantly fell in love with the fast, in your face, catchy tunes that it seemed like the band could churn out effortlessly. Moving forward though, it seemed like the band had nowhere to go from there. Sure, "Favorite Worst Nightmare" relived some of the moments of brilliance that were so prevalent on "Whatver..", and "Humbug" had some moments of Homme-influenced stoner brilliance, but neither albums felt complete. So what did the Monkeys do next? They created a dreamy-pop album full of 60's inspired pop rock and some of the best lyrics Turner has ever written. If this is the path the Monkeys continue to follow, I think it's safe to say there is reason again to be very excited about their future. |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Big Star Radio City |
| Big Star #1 Record |
| Big Star Third/Sister Lovers |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home |
| Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Live in 1975 |
| Bob Dylan Time Out Of Mind |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Bruce Springsteen Darkness On The Edge Of Town |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska |
| Buddy Holly The Best of Buddy Holly |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory |
| David Bowie Low |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane |
| Death Symbolic |
| DeVotchKa How It Ends |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic |
| Frank Sinatra Nothing But the Best |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song |
| George Harrison All Things Must Pass |
| Golden Ashes We Are Golden Ashes |
| Harry Nilsson Nilsson Schmilsson |
| Howard Shore The Fellowship of the Ring |
| Iggy Pop Lust For Life |
| Iggy Pop The Idiot |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| Jimi Hendrix Experience Hendrix: The Best of Hendrix |
| Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros Streetcore |
| Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around |
| Joy Division Closer |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. III |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Miles Davis Sketches of Spain |
| Misfits Walk Among Us |
| Misfits Static Age |
| Misfits Collection II |
| Misfits Collection I |
| Morrissey Bona Drag |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory? |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Ramones Ramones |
| Ramones Leave Home |
| Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Sam Cooke Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Swans The Seer |
| T. Rex Electric Warrior |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Beatles 1 |
| The Black Keys Rubber Factory |
| The Clash The Clash (US) |
| The Clash The Story of the Clash |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Doors The Doors |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin |
| The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim |
| The Libertines Up The Bracket |
| The National Boxer |
| The National High Violet |
| The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. |
| The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet |
| The Smiths The Smiths |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come |
| The Stooges Raw Power |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| The Velvet Underground Loaded |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells |
| The White Stripes De Stijl |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs |
| Tom Waits Nighthawks At The Diner |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Weezer The Blue Album |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| 3.0 good |
| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating |
| AC/DC Back In Black |
| Albert Hammond Jr ¿Cómo Te Llama? |
| Beady Eye Different Gear, Still Speeding |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods |
| Comeback albums often feel like a half assed attempt at recreating a bands glory days. Too often bands reunite only to produce watered down albums packed with filler as a last ditch attempt to remain relevant and put some money in their wallets. Blink-182, however, who have basically been a model of consistency throughout their career, have once again put out an album that even the pickiest of their fans can enjoy. With Neighborhoods, blink avoids the easy way out of just attempting to replicate the sound that made them famous and instead, they pick up right where they left off on their self titled record and continue to push their music forward into new territories. While songs like "MH 4.18.2011" and "Natives" have that familiar/vintage blink feel, songs like "Ghost on the Dancefloor" and "Snake Charmer" expand on the darker sound blink brought forward on their self titled. Neighborhoods not only exceeds expectations, it actually holds it's own against blinks past work, which is no small feat for an album that comes 8 years after it's predecessor. |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Others! Others! (Volume 1: 2005 - 2008) |
| Brandon Flowers Flamingo |
| Crystal Castles (III) |
| Not as good as their first two albums. |
| Fall Out Boy From Under The Cork Tree |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
| Harry and the Potters Voldemort Can't Stop The Rock! |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies |
| Max Bemis and The Painful Splits Max Bemis and The Painful Splits |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Muse Black Holes and Revelations |
| NineteenSeventyNine Die Tonight, Live Forever |
| This is suprisingly good, I'd recommend listening to Out Of Sight, it's the best track vocally and instrumentally |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre |
| Slayer God Hates Us All |
| Slayer World Painted Blood |
| Stealers Wheel Stealers Wheel |
| Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican... |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again |
| The Killers (RED) Christmas |
| The White Panda Pandamonium |
| U2 Rattle And Hum |
