| 5.0 classic |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession |
For a very long piece of art, one's exhaustion will be predictable after listening to this.
For a genre that's starting to wane, this band brought out a different output just by mixing
out those cliched simple, obvious techniques. Highlighting technicality put no drawback to
their sense of creativity. |
| Anberlin Cities |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Celebrating mortality instead of merely grieving over it, Arcade Fire has created one of the few original indie rock albums in the modern time. The instruments and lyrics are both beautiful and emotional. A very tight debut that simply proves how Arcade Fire is one of the best modern bands. |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| The rawness of the album is the reason why it is held as one of hard rock's classic albums. This is a gem for the post-hardcore genre. Highlights include the afro-beat of the Arcarsenal; their most famous song One Armed Scissors; and the piano-laden Invalid Letter Dept. Those aside, every track is enjoyable and not even one should be skipped. |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence |
| Coming from a death metal band, using jazz-like harmonies, subtle Latin rhythms and unusual time signatures surely makes it one of a unique album. It is widely considered as a landmark album in the genre of technical death metal. |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live |
| Playing the whole album live is not an easy feat, yet this live album still sounds amazing. A few mistakes may be done, but are tolerable. The second part, playing fan-requested tracks should not also be missed. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| Boris Boris At Last - Feedbacker |
| Boris Flood |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Some will say that this album has a progressive mix to it, but who am I to disagree with them? Brand New has created a very dark yet still attractive album. Some may dislike this album because of the simple song structures but it is one reason why it still stands beyond passage of time, it has become familiar yet captivating at the same time. |
| Burial Untrue |
| This album right here shows how tight production should be done. The creative utilization of samples is really the distinctive trait of Burial. The album marked a development in Burial's sound; it employed pitch-shifted and time-stretched vocal samples in many tracks, in comparison to his previous mostly instrumental work. It really wasn't a shocker when this one received many plaudits. |
| Circle Takes The Square As the Roots Undo |
| Insanely chaotic, it perfectly mixes post-rock, post-hardcore, screamo, and thrash into an understandable mess. The dual male-female vocals trading-off is possibly the strength of CTTS. Also, the instrumental work are top-notch. |
| Circle Takes The Square Decompositions: Volume Number One |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Investing on the visual aspect, the lyrics truly create a rich story which I guess everyone knows right now. The instrumentalists are extremely talented, Claudio's vocals attract me in a way (in little doses), and the lyrics are well-written. In this album, nothing is traded off, it is catchy yet still proggy. The title track is probably the best song they have written, 8 minutes of epicness.rFavorite tracks: Title track, Faint of Hearts, The Light & The Glass. |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Truly a great mix of musicality, meaningful lyrics, and poppy sensibilities, C&C's debut is a mix of a lot of genres, from post-hardcore, pop punk, and prog rock. The strength of this album is the storyline, I must say.rFavorite tracks: Time Consumer, Devil in Jersey City, Neverender, and Godsend Conspirator |
| Coheed and Cambria Neverender |
| EVERY Coheed and Cambria fan should have this live album. This one is made for the fans, not to gather new followers. Performing all of their albums live and playing them awesomely. Coheed and Cambria is a very great band live, that they have even exceeded what they do in the studio. |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Seldom can we see a hardcore album to be critically successful, but alas, Converge has done it with their most famous masterpiece Jane Doe. With the intelligent lyrics, and insane acrobatic instrumentation, Jane Doe has altered a whole genre, proving that it should be at the top. Some may be put off by Jacob's "pig squeals", but it just needs a little time to get used to it. I recommend to listen to Homewrecker, and the two Phoenix. Really, a brutal and angry album. |
| Counting Crows August And Everything After |
| Cynic Focus |
| This album is usually recommended when one asks for a jazz-influenced metal album. Some say this is prog metal, while others coined a different term "jazz metal". Both can be right, elements of both can be found: progressive rock/metal is reflected in some song structures and occasional odd-time meters, while jazz influences are evident in some harmonic and rhythmic phenomena. The trading off of death grunts are vocoder vocals is quite attractive. Every aspect: lyrics, instrumentation, vocals are too advanced for their time. I recommend you go to Cynic Sphere to learn how to play every parts. A very influential album for the Prog Metal genre. |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Fueled with nostalgia, Discovery is a tribute album to the music from 1975 to 1985. Relying heavily on samples, the songs are still very cohesive, and another good thing about Daft Punk is they make a lot of their samples themselves. The solo on Digital Love is my favorite part. Truly a classic album for electronic music. Also great for club music! |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones' magnum opus, Deftones have melded Alternative Metal with New Age and shoegaze influences. Lyrics are intelligently composed that even Wikipedia has a concise summary for it. Highlights include electronic soundscapes at Digital Bath, and the vocal bridge in Knife Party. |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| So good, it sounds awesome, still on the first track and the 3 singles. Gotta do a proper soundoff later. Yeah. |
| Derek and the Dominos Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs |
| Like a very long journey, finishing this album is so contemplating. Every song is varied from each other and Eric Clapton's guitar skills are still topnotch. |
| DIR EN GREY Uroboros |
| The album is named after the Ouroboros symbol, which is a dragon or snake figure depicted in full circle consuming itself. This represents continuity and the cycle of power, emphasizing the theme of reincarnation, an idea propagated heavily by the band during promotion. Melding eastern with western sounds feels like a hard thing to do, yet our Japanese friends Dir En Grey have perfected this style. A lot of world instruments were utilized, and still doesn't sound overwhelming. This is possibly one of the best albums ever made by a very innovative band. |
| Dispatch Bang Bang |
| From a band with influences from 70s and 90s, Bang Bang sounds like a very awesome Jam Rock album. A lot of influences are heard, reggae, dub, funk, etc. This is probably my favorite underground release, that is if we consider Dispatch underground. |
| dredg El Cielo |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes To Move Forward |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats |
| Fugazi The Argument |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F#A# (Infinity) |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas... |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade |
| Isis Oceanic |
| Isis Panopticon |
| Janis Joplin Pearl |
| John Frusciante The Empyrean |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Koriza Koriza |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River... |
| Letlive. Fake History (Re-Release) |
| Lydia Illuminate |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds Of Fire |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories |
| Oh no, I read your soundoffs and now I'm disappointed. :| |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe |
| Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory? |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Despite exploring the theme of absence, and the fact that recording sessions were very problematic, Wish You Were Here feels like a very complete epic album. The title track is definitely one of my favorite tracks by this band. The centerpiece track Shine On You Crazy Diamond also shares a lot of awesome moments. Definitely a tight musique concrete, the electronic soundscape serves as the cornerstone and the guitars add flavor to the mix. All 5 tracks I say are amazing and wonderful. |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Expecting the band to fall out after the leaving of principal member Syd Barrett is a very wrong notion. The Dark Side of the Moon has proven that Pink Floyd's silly experimentation will make sure that they'll survive. The ridiculous usage of household objects, mixed with advanced production is the band's staple to make this album big. Every track is amazingly done, yet the highlight for me is the non-lexical vocals heard at The Great Gig in the Sky, and the tracks Money and Us and Them. |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Primus Frizzle Fry |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Refused The Shape of Punk to Come |
| Rush Clockwork Angels |
| Rx Bandits ...And the Battle Begun |
| Saetia A Retrospective |
| Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release) |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun |
| Shai Hulud That Within Blood Ill-Tempered |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Sigur Ros Ágætis Byrjun |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation |
| Stan Getz Getz/Gilberto |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind |
| Swans The Seer |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Clash London Calling |
| The Cure Pornography |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Early November In Currents |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The National High Violet |
| The National Boxer |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| The Who Quadrophenia |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia: I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind |
| Thrice The Illusion Of Safety |
| Thrice The Artist In The Ambulance |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thursday No Devolucion |
| This marks a very large progression of Thursday. Unlike bands that fail to cohesively mix genres, Thursday has impressively fused ambient, post-rock instrumentation along with post-hardcore atmosphere, topped with Geoff's heartfelt and improved vocals. They really have proved themselves to be one of the pillars of post-hardcore. |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| toe CUT_DVD |
| toe For Long Tomorrow |
| Tom Waits Orphans |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead |
| It took me a few spins to avoid being bothered by the vocals. It was awful of me to listen to this EP first out of their whole discography. It may be true that his vocals may give polarized remarks, but this is definitely fine. This unfortunately short EP grew out on me. And for those who are bothered by his vocals, listen to their first post-hardcore-laced releases. It won't be much of a bummer there. Then sooner, you'll appreciate him well. |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You |
| Vendetta Red Sisters of the Red Death |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem in D minor, K. 626 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| 4.5 superb |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece |
| I do admit I rated this album higher than what I would really give, but I appreciate their efforts in giving out a really good collection of songs. This album has a lot of filler tracks, knowing that some songs were already written before Kurt's arrival. But I don't mind. In this album, I treat Cory and Kurt's vocals as instruments. Kurt was intently made to shine here, and I just hate that. |
| Acres Acres |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire |
| Anathema Weather Systems |
| Anberlin Vital |
A review said, Old and new fans alike will embrace this decision, for this release brings
back the intensity of Cities as well as incorporating new musical outlets never before
explored by the band. Hey, rock AOTY, why the f#ck not?
Edit: Yes, it's awesome!  |
| Animals as Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Architects Hollow Crown |
| Augustana Can't Love, Can't Hurt |
| Ayreon The Human Equation |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 |
| Barrow Being Without |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Boris Präparat |
| Boris New Album |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Buckethead Electric Sea |
| Burial Kindred |
| Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled |
| Carissa's Wierd Songs About Leaving |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar |
| CityCop Seasons |
| CityCop The Hope In Forgiving & Giving Up Hope |
| Cloudkicker Beacons |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ |
| Cursive Domestica |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain |
| Dark Time Sunshine ANX |
| Dead Can Dance Anastasis |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights |
| Defeater Lost Ground |
| Defeater Travels |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Pandora's Pinata |
| DIR EN GREY DUM SPIRO SPERO |
| DIR EN GREY The Unraveling |
| Dispatch Circles Around the Sun |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure |
| Eleventh He Reaches London Hollow Be My Name |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left... |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo I Have Made My Bed in Darkness |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth |
| Fightstar Be Human Deluxe Edition |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones |
| Fugazi Red Medicine |
| Fugazi 13 Songs |
| Fugazi Repeater |
| Future Of The Left The Plot Against Common Sense |
| Gaza No Absolutes In Human Suffering |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Hammock Departure Songs |
| Have A Nice Life Deathconsciousness |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood |
| Hopesfall No Wings To Speak Of |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years |
| I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business Enola |
| In Vain AEnigma |
| Incubus Make Yourself |
| Incubus S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Jack's Mannequin Everything In Transit |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity |
| John Frusciante Shadows Collide with People |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| La Dispute Untitled 7" |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel |
| Lauryn Hill The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill |
| Led Zeppelin Early Days/Latter Days |
| Less Than Jake Hello Rockview |
| Less Than Jake Losing Streak |
| Listener Wooden Heart |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Marvin Gaye What's Going On |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony |
| Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics |
| Memphis May Fire Challenger |
| Mesa Verde The Old Road |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us The Foxes |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Modest Mouse This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To.. |
| Mono Hymn To The Immortal Wind |
| Mono You Are There |
| Mono Walking Cloud And Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered.... |
| Monuments Gnosis |
| Motion City Soundtrack Commit This To Memory (Deluxe Edition) |
| Motion City Soundtrack Go |
| Moving Mountains Foreword EP |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| Mr. Bungle Disco Volante |
| Mr. Bungle Mr Bungle |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Muse Absolution |
| Nails Abandon All Life |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm |
| Neurosis Times of Grace |
| Niechec Smierc w miekkim futerku |
| Nujabes Metaphorical Music |
| Nujabes Modal Soul |
| Number Girl NUM-HEAVYMETALLIC |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Pg. 99 Document #8 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After |
| Pierce the Veil Collide With the Sky |
Jason Butler's feature in Tangled in the Great Escape is probably one of the highlights in
this album. This one exceeded my expectations. |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| This is the best example of how a musician's personal experience can define the direction of an album. Because of one simple event, this album has explored a lot of very heavy themes. Probably the best rock opera, this one should be accompanied with the movie, to fully grasp what Pink Floyd wants to tell us. |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Prawn You Can Just Leave It All |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Rolo Tomassi Astraea |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites |
| Rx Bandits Mandala |
| Rx Bandits The Resignation |
| Saosin Translating the Name |
| Scale The Summit The Collective |
| Scale The Summit The Migration |
| Senses Fail Renacer |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur |
| Currently DLing leak, but in regards with the singles, this album may shape up to be a great one. |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| SMV Thunder |
| SORNE House of Stone |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve |
| Super Snake Summer Girls |
| T.R.A.M. Lingua Franca |
| Tame Impala Lonerism |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Chariot Long Live |
| The Chariot One Wing |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant |
| The Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| Listening to a mediocre quality (192), but damn, this one is great. I'll still be waiting for the CD though. :D |
| The Graduate Only Every Time |
| The Horrible Crowes Elsie |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Killers Live from the Royal Albert Hall |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The National Alligator |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds |
| The Roots undun |
| The Roots Game Theory |
| The Roots Illadelph Halflife |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart |
| The Saddest Landscape You Will Not Survive |
| The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt |
| The Story So Far What You Don't See |
| The Victor Ship In Somnis Veritas |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump |
| The Who Who's Next |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation |
| The World is a Beautiful Place And... Whenever, If Ever |
| This Providence Our Worlds Divorce |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Tool Aenima |
| Trioscapes Separate Realities |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music |
| Trophywife Hold Onto Your Luck |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Unwound New Plastic Ideas |
| Urbandub Influence |
| Vanessa Carlton Rabbits on the Run |
| Victor Wooten A Show of Hands |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss |
