| 5.0 classic |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Some of the most creative punk rock ever made. Joe Strummer and Ian MacKaye would be proud. |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| If there was ever a magnum opus for both Black Sabbath and undiluted heavy metal itself, it's this album. |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited |
| The best of Dylan's electric era, a deranged mixture of folk, rock, and absurdist lyrics. |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' |
| The best of Dylan's acoustic era, with some of the most powerful and biting social commentary this side of Dead Kennedys. |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Exodus |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Burnin' |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables |
| Elvis Costello Armed Forces |
| Elvis Costello Imperial Bedroom |
| Elvis Costello King of America |
| Fugazi The Argument |
| Fugazi 13 Songs |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Bombastic, ridiculous, and it includes Tre Cool singing (something that, as a rule, should never happen). And yet, it works. It works really, really well. Probably the best pop-punk album ever, and it should be considered the best Green Day album as well - if only they'd ended on this high note. |
| GZA Liquid Swords |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade |
| Living Colour Vivid |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Minutemen Double Nickels On the Dime |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush |
| Outkast Stankonia |
| Peter Tosh Equal Rights |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us |
| Queen A Night at the Opera |
| R.E.M. Automatic For the People |
| R.E.M. Document |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Refused The Shape of Punk to Come |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Clash Combat Rock |
| The Clash The Clash (US) |
| The Clash London Calling |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Grateful Dead Workingman's Dead |
| The Grateful Dead American Beauty |
| The Pogues Rum, Sodomy & The Lash |
| Thin Lizzy Jailbreak |
| U2 Achtung Baby |
| U2 The Joshua Tree |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| 2.5 average |
| Alter Bridge One Day Remains |
| Anberlin Vital |
| Anti-Flag The People Or The Gun |
| Anti-Flag The General Strike |
| Atoms for Peace Amok |
| Basically anything electronic that Thom Yorke makes at this point is going to end up sounding like Kid A or Amnesiac B-Sides. |
| Audioslave Out of Exile |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| B.o.B The Adventures Of Bobby Ray |
| Bad Brains Build A Nation |
| Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse? |
| Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction |
| Bad Religion The Process of Belief |
| Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First |
| Bad Religion New Maps Of Hell |
| Bad Religion The Dissent of Man |
| Bikini Kill The CD Version of the First Two Records |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage |
| Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods |
| Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn |
| Bring Me The Horizon Sempiternal |
| Their vocalist is fucking appalling, but the music's not half-bad. |
| Bullet For My Valentine Scream, Aim, Fire |
| Coldplay X & Y |
| Corrosion of Conformity Eye For An Eye |
| Creed Human Clay |
| Creed Full Circle |
| Cypress Hill Rise Up |
| Dead Kennedys In God We Trust, Inc. |
| Dead Kennedys Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death |
| "Police Truck", "Too Drunk to Fuck", "Night of the Living Rednecks", and the single versions of "Holiday in Cambodia" and "California Uber Alles" are the only real standouts here. |
| Evanescence Fallen |
| Faith No More We Care A Lot |
| Five Finger Death Punch Way Of The Fist |
| Funeral for a Friend Conduit |
| Gorillaz The Fall |
| Green Day Insomniac |
| In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading |
| In This Moment Blood |
| Incubus Fungus Amongus |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time |
| Iron Maiden Dance Of Death |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience |
| Just because you can repeat choruses and bridges over and over again until your album is seventy minutes long does not mean you are being innovative or progressive. |
| Kanye West 808s & Heartbreak |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage II |
| Korn See You on the Other Side |
| Korn Take A Look in the Mirror |
| Korn Untouchables |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter III |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns |
| Living Colour The Chair in the Doorway |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en |
| Megadeth Youthanasia |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Misfits Static Age |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought... |
| N.E.R.D. Fly Or Die |
| Nas Hip Hop Is Dead |
| NOFX White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean |
| Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling |
| Pearl Jam Backspacer |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Queen News Of The World |
| Queen Jazz |
| Rancid Rancid |
| Rancid Let's Go |
| Rancid Rancid [2000] |
| Rise Against The Unraveling |
| Skillet Awake |
| Social Distortion Mommy's Little Monster |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| Suicidal Tendencies No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler |
| The Damned Damned Damned Damned |
| The Jet Age Of Tomorrow Voyager |
| The Offspring Days Go By |
| It's an improvement. "Cruisin' California" and "All I Have Left is You" stick out like a bad weave, though. Highlights include "Secrets From the Underground", "Dividing By Zero", "Slim Pickens" and "O.C. Guns". |
| The Offspring Ignition |
| The Offspring Americana |
| The Offspring Splinter |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The White Stripes The White Stripes |
| Thin Lizzy Thunder and Lightning |
| Trash Talk 119 |
| U-God Golden Arms Redemption |
| U2 No Line on the Horizon |
| Vampire Weekend Contra |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City |
| Weezer Hurley |
| XTC Skylarking |
| Yellowcard Lights and Sounds |
| 2.0 poor |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| All That Remains Overcome |
| Anti-Flag Die For The Government |
| Anti-Flag The Bright Lights Of America |
| Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch |
| Bruno Mars Doo-Wops & Hooligans |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| I can't fault this for sounding bad, because it doesn't. But I can fault it for being so homogenized that it's basically air. |
| Disturbed The Sickness |
| Disturbed The Lost Children |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Eminem Recovery |
| Eminem Relapse |
| Evanescence Evanescence |
| Five Finger Death Punch American Capitalist |
| Green Day ¡UNO! |
| The lyrics are dumb as shit and the band is just ripping themselves off musically. Some songs are enjoyable, but they don't feel fresh - just tired. I quit. |
| Green Day iDOS! |
| Quality over quantity, Green Day. Not the other way around. |
| Green Day iTRE! |
| Incubus If Not Now, When? |
| Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying |
| Jay-Z In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 |
| Jay-Z Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 |
| Lil Wayne I Am Not A Human Being |
| Linkin Park Minutes To Midnight |
| Lupe Fiasco Lasers |
| Marilyn Manson The High End of Low |
| Marilyn Manson Eat Me, Drink Me |
| Maroon 5 Hands All Over |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse |
| Metallica St. Anger |
| Misfits Walk Among Us |
| N.E.R.D. Nothing |
| Nas STILLmatic |
| Neon Trees Habits |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded |
| Ozzy Osbourne Scream |
| Public Image Ltd Metal Box |
| Public Image Ltd First Issue |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Red Release The Panic |
| This is boring and overproduced, and Barnes is off with his vocals more than I'd like (he sounds like a sedated Jonathan Davis on "Damage"). We must demand Howard Benson's head. |
| Snoop Dogg Doggystyle |
| Soundgarden Louder Than Love |
| Stone Sour Audio Secrecy |
| Sublime Robbin' the Hood |
| Suicidal Tendencies Suicidal for Life |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected |
| Sum 41 Underclass Hero |
| Tegan and Sara Heartthrob |
| Tegan & Sara employed pop, rock, and electronic influences to great results on their past three albums, combining them with bright and quick-witted songwriting. So...what the hell happened here? |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal |
| The Exploited Troops of Tomorrow |
| The Script Science & Faith |
| The Stooges Ready To Die |
| It's rather boring. Doesn't live up to their first three albums, unsurprisingly. |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend |
| Weezer Raditude |
