| 5.0 classic |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide |
| I cannot even describe how awesome this is. God damn. |
| Bane Give Blood |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or the Story is in the Soil... |
| Bruce Springsteen Born In The USA |
| Pretty much the definition of the word "classic". |
| Iron Chic Not Like This |
| Minor Threat Complete Discography |
| Misfits Collection II |
| Misfits Collection I |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| No Trigger Canyoneer |
| Operation Ivy Energy |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Slayer Reign in Blood |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| #1 for 2003 and a 4.5 average on Sputnik. It's always great to see something get what it deserves. When I first heard this album when I was 15, they pretty much became my favorite band. Quite simply, this is 12 tracks of everything I love about music. It's a non-stop assault of classic lyrics, tempo changes, hooks, sing-a-longs, great vocals, and killer musicianship. If there's one album in the history of Ska to listen to, it's this one. Not just Ska's best, not just one of punk's best.. but simply, one of the best albums of all time. |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve |
| My god, they've done it again. Totally lived up to the years of hype. This may unfortunately be their last album.. but man, this is how you go out. If I for whatever reason needed validation after all these years why this band has been my favorite since high school, then this sure does the job. Three albums in a row earning a 5.0 score cements this band's discography as unparalleled in my eyes, especially in the genre. There's so much I could say, but why bother. Simply put: they're still the best. |
| The Get Up Kids Something To Write Home About |
| Title Fight The Last Thing You Forget |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 9 Shocks Terror Paying Ohmage |
| 9 Shocks Terror Zen and the Art of Beating Your Ass |
| A Wilhelm Scream A Wilhelm Scream |
| Adolescents Adolescents |
| AFI All Hallow's EP |
| AFI Very Proud Of Ya |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset |
| AFI The Art of Drowning |
| Andrew W.K. The Wolf |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Bad Religion No Control |
| Balance and Composure Separation |
| Bane It All Comes Down To This |
| Basement I Wish I Could Stay Here |
| Basement Songs About The Weather |
| Beach Fossils Clash the Truth |
| Black SS Terror of the Northeast (2004-2007) |
| blink-182 Enema of the State |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver |
| Brunt Of It Certain Uncertainty |
| Charles Bronson Complete Discocrappy |
| Classics of Love Classics of Love |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Crime In Stereo The Troubled Stateside |
| Daylight Jar |
| If Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Balance & Composure, and late Basement had an orgy, Daylight's "Jar" would appear in a flash of light. Jar somehow captures the feel that was thought of as something that could only be created during the 90's alternative wave. A sound like this could easily start to drag, but they manage to keep the entire album cohesive, varied, and catchy enough to stay interesting. The slow, emotional heaviness of "Youngest Daughter" is a highlight. The lyrics are melancholy, the production is excellent (Will Yip!), and this is overall just a great album and it would've been HUGE in the 90's. |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Defiance, Ohio Share What Ya Got |
| Desaparecidos Read Music/Speak Spanish |
| Descendents Milo Goes to College |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Everyone Everywhere Everyone Everywhere (2012) |
| Way more people need to hear this. It's too good to ever slip under the radar. |
| Ghost Mice Europe |
| Gorilla Biscuits Gorilla Biscuits |
| Grown Ups More Songs |
| Hostage Calm Lens |
| Hostage Calm Hostage Calm |
| Hostage Calm Please Remain Calm |
| Hot Water Music Caution |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade |
| Husker Du New Day Rising |
| Into It. Over It. Proper |
| Iron Chic Shitty Rambo |
| Iron Chic Spooky Action EP |
| Jawbreaker Dear You |
| Jay Reatard Blood Visions |
| Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne |
| Joyce Manor Joyce Manor |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kid Dynamite Shorter, Faster, Louder |
| Kid Dynamite Kid Dynamite |
| Last in Line L'Esercito Del Morto |
| Limp Wrist Thee Official Limp Wrist Discography |
| Make Do and Mend Bodies Of Water |
| Make Do and Mend End Measured Mile |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself Or Someone Like You |
| The 90's nostalgia and car rides to school with my mom when I was a kid make me feel so much when I hear this that I can't help giving it anything less than a 4. This is how you make a radio rock album. |
| Modest Mouse Good News For People Who Love Bad News |
| Municipal Waste The Art of Partying |
| Municipal Waste Waste 'Em All |
| My Heart To Joy Seasons In Verse |
| Negative Approach Total Recall |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| No Trigger Tycoon |
| NOFX Punk in Drublic |
| Outkast Stankonia |
| Outkast ATLiens |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Ramones Hey! Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology |
| Razor's Edge Magical Jet Light |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Yes, this is a punk album that debuted at #10 on the Billboard charts in 2006. Don't let it fool you. Despite being accessible enough for play on rock radio (although at times it's hard to believe), even the most underground fans of the genre can't deny that this is a solid album. This alongside No Trigger's Canyoneer from the same year furthered my interest in melodic punk in high school. "The Approaching Curve" is the only song I'd skip here, but every other track sounds like it could be a single. The production's great, and with all things considered.. nothing ever travels too far into the 'generic' realm of punk. This is Rise Against at their best. |
| RVIVR Dirty Water EP |
| RVIVR RVIVR LP |
| RVIVR The Beauty Between |
| Saintseneca Last |
| Snowing I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted |
| From Dayquil to goodnight, hey fuck yeah I'm alright today! |
| Spazz Crush Kill Destroy |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends |
| Tegan and Sara So Jealous |
| Tegan and Sara The Con |
| Tegan and Sara Sainthood |
| The Anniversary Designing For a Nervous Breakdown |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn |
| The Casualties On the Front Line |
| The Exploding Hearts Guitar Romantic |
| The First Step Open Hearts and Clear Minds EP |
| The First Step What We Know |
| The Get Up Kids Four Minute Mile |
| The Offspring Smash |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Pains of Being Pure at Heart |
| The Postal Service Give Up |
| The Sidekicks Awkward Breeds |
| The Sounds Dying to say this to You |
| The Sounds Crossing the Rubicon |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses |
| The Story So Far What You Don't See |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| The Vicious Alienated |
| Tigers Jaw Tigers Jaw |
| Title Fight Shed |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me |
| Veronica Falls Veronica Falls |
| We Are The U nion Who We Are |
| We Are The U nion Great Leaps Forward |
| We Are The U nion You Can't Hide the Sun |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Wipers Is This Real? |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary |
| You Blew It! Grow Up, Dude |
| 3.5 great |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags & Codes |
| 3 Inches of Blood Advance and Vanquish |
| 7 Seconds The Crew |
| 7 Seconds Walk Together, Rock Together |
| A Global Threat What the Fuck Will Change? |
| A Global Threat Until We Die |
| AFI Answer That And Stay Fashionable |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| Algernon Cadwallader Some Kind Of Cadwallader |
| Algernon Cadwallader Parrot Flies |
| All Teeth I Am Losing |
| Arcade Fire The Arcade Fire |
| At All Costs Direction EP |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
| Bad Religion Suffer |
| Balance and Composure Only Boundaries |
| Bane The Note |
| Banner Pilot Collapser |
| Basement Colourmeinkindness |
| For their supposed last album, UK's Basement have fully embraced their late 90's emo and grunge influences. Tracks 1-5 stand out for me on this, with the solid intro of "Whole", songs that sound like they could've been on rock radio 15 or so years ago ("Spoiled", "Covet"), vocals and melody shining on "Pine", and "Bad Apple" sounding somewhere between Nirvana and Balance & Composure. The lyrical themes aren't too different from their previous releases. "Wish" is a strong final track, emotional with a great build-up. Every time I listen to this, I notice something new to like. If this is the last we ever hear from Basement, then this is quite the parting gift. |
| Beach Fossils Beach Fossils |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| blink-182 blink-182 |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods |
| If you're a Blink-182 fan and you approach this album with an open mind, you should realize that this is better than some people like to make it seem. Sure, there's stale tracks where Tom DeLonge's vocals are cringe-worthy and most of the lyrics are mediocre.. but the rest of the album does a good job of displaying the band's different styles throughout their discography. "Heart's All Gone" sounds like it could've been on Enema of the State and "After Midnight" is like an excerpt from the 2003 self-titled. Blink-182 came back after 8 years, barely sounded like they ever left, and avoided creating something that could've been awful. All things considered, this is a great album, and anyone who enjoyed their more mature sound before their break-up should have no trouble enjoying this. |
| blink-182 Dogs Eating Dogs |
| Aside from the awkward "day after Christmas" chorus in "Boxing Day" and the Yelawolf verse in "Pretty Little Girl", this is a great EP and continues right where Neighborhoods left off. |
| Bloc Party A Weekend In The City |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon |
| Bright Eyes The People's Key |
| Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People |
| Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record |
| Bruce Springsteen Darkness On The Edge Of Town |
| Brunt Of It Frenna Frenna |
| Brunt Of It All Aboard the Cannabus |
| Bubblegum Octopus The Album Formerly Known As |
| Ceremony Rohnert Park |
| Choking Victim No Gods, No Managers |
| Crime In Stereo I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone |
| Cross Examination The Hung Jury EP |
| Cross Examination Menace II Sobriety |
| D.R.I. Dirty Rotten LP |
| Dads American Radass (this is important) |
| Dangers Dangers |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables |
| Dead Kennedys Bedtime For Democracy |
| Dead Kennedys In God We Trust, Inc. |
| Defeater Lost Ground |
| Defeater Travels |
| Defiance, Ohio The Calling EP |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage |
| Ridiculous lyrics and long/repetitive song structure- these things are nothing new for DragonForce. However, Inhuman Rampage is faster, more varied instrumentally, more exciting, and overall their best album. The addition of the aggressive-style back-up vocals makes a difference as well, and even the ballad is actually bearable this time around. I'm not sure what people are expecting listening to this. It's not meant to change your life, break boundaries, or be relatable.. it's supposed to be fast, over the top, and sound like the soundtrack to fighting a war against demons, riding through the sky on a dragon, and shooting flames and lightning out of a sword.. and it succeeds. |
| Electric President Electric President |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Elvis Costello This Year's Model |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Flesh Parade Kill Whitey |
| Floorpunch Fast Times At The Jersey Shore |
| Ghost Mice Debt of the Dead |
| Give up the Ghost We're Down Til We're Underground |
| Glocca Morra Just Married |
| It sounds like if Algernon Cadwallader and Snowing had a baby. |
| Government Warning Arrested |
| Government Warning No Moderation |
| Grown Ups Hand Holder |
| Guided By Voices Alien Lanes |
| Hostage Calm Demo |
| I Hate Myself 10 Songs |
| Jay Reatard Matador Singles '08 |
| Jay Reatard Watch Me Fall |
| Jewel Pieces of You |
| Jimmy Eat World Static Prevails |
| Jonsi Go |
| Joyce Manor Constant Headache |
| Joyce Manor Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| KiD CuDi Man On The Moon: The End Of Day |
| Kids Icarus Kids Icarus |
| Make Do and Mend Everything You Ever Loved |
| Maker Mirrors |
| Masked Intruder Masked Intruder |
| Masshysteri Vår Del Av Stan |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular |
| MGMT Congratulations |
| MGMT Time to Pretend |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something |
| Modest Mouse This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To.. |
| Municipal Waste Massive Aggressive |
| My Heart To Joy Heavenly Bodies |
| My Heart To Joy Reasons to Be |
| My Revenge! Less Plot, More Blood |
| Night Owls Wounds Again |
| Night Owls Dearly |
| Nightlights So It Goes |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Nirvana Incesticide |
| No Trigger Extinction in Stereo |
| NOFX Coaster |
| NOFX Wolves in Wolves Clothing |
| NOFX Ribbed |
| NOFX Self Entitled |
| Now, Now Threads |
| Threads' main downfall is extremely repetitive lyrical themes.. almost every song refers to sleep and/or the act of not being able to do so. But besides that, I really love this album. Catchy, great vocals, and sometimes chill inducing. When this album is good, man is it good. Although it may be hard to do so, I hope that Now, Now manages to make something even better than this in the future. They have the potential. |
| OFF! First Four EPs |
| Outbreak Failure |
| Owen I Do Perceive |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes |
| Passion Pit Manners |
| Passion Pit Gossamer |
| Paul Baribeau Paul Baribeau |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Rilo Kiley Take-Offs & Landings |
| Rise Against The Unraveling |
| Slingshot Dakota Dark Hearts |
| Sport Colors |
| Streetlight Manifesto 99 Songs of Revolution: Volume I |
| Tegan and Sara Heartthrob |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma |
| The Casualties Underground Army |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I |
| The First Step Connection EP |
| The Flaming Tsunamis Fear Everything |
| The Flaming Tsunamis Zombies vs Robots! |
| The Flaming Tsunamis Focus the Fury |
| The Get Up Kids Eudora |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Killers Sam's Town |
| The Offspring Ixnay on the Hombre |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Belong |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Smiths The Smiths |
| The Sounds Living in America |
| The Strokes Angles |
| The World is a Beautiful Place And... Formlessness |
| The World is a Beautiful Place And... Whenever, If Ever |
| Tigers Jaw Spirit Desire |
| Tigers Jaw Two Worlds |
| Tokyo Police Club Elephant Shell |
| Transit Listen and Forgive |
| Turnover Turnover |
| Right from the opener "Sasha", this EP just sounds like stage dives and finger point singalongs. To no surprise, lyrics about heartache, friendship, being alone, etc. but delivered well vocally and with a good amount of energy. Overall, a great pop-punk debut. |
| Turnover Magnolia |
| Wavves King of the Beach |
| Say what you want about Nathan Williams and Wavves' live performance, but this album is a lot of fun. An odd mixture of pop-punk, surf rock, indie, and psychedelic that wound up being a perfect album for the summer of 2010. It's pretty mindless, simple, and nothing life changing, but all I know is that when I put on this on, regardless of the season, I feel like I'm basking in 90+ degree weather all over again. |
| Weekend Nachos Punish and Destroy |
| You may not know what you're getting yourself into from reading the name 'Weekend Nachos', but then the album title should give you a clue. Punish & Destroy serves as a perfect balance between the raw, noisy Torture EP and the Nachos' later, super heavy releases. These songs are loud, fast and dark with a style similar to that of Infest. Lyrics are angry towards many things: trends, celebrities, bringing dogs to shows, elitists, sluts, jocks, etc. While some could easily read this off as typical hardcore fare, I definitely agree with a lot of sentiments on issues written about here (except for all the people being killed and dying, but I get it). Heavy hardcore done right. |
| Weezer The Blue Album |
| Wipers Youth of America |
| Witch Hunt Blood-Red States |
| With Honor This is Our Revenge |
| Youth Brigade To Sell the Truth |
| 3.0 good |
| Algernon Cadwallader Fun |
| blink-182 Cheshire Cat |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants and Jacket |
| Bloc Party Intimacy |
| Bones Brigade I Hate Myself When I'm Not Skateboarding |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga |
| Cat Power Moon Pix |
| Ceremony Violence Violence |
| Ceremony Scared People |
| Cloud Cult The Meaning of 8 |
| Common Enemy Late Night Skate |
| Common Enemy T.U.I. |
| Concrete Facelift Loud, Fast, Raw |
| Well, it's loud, fast.. and raw. These guys like skateboarding, marijuana, and partying. Pretty catchy and will probably induce circle pits. |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Dads Brush Your Teeth, Again ;) |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans |
| Deerhunter Microcastle |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights |
| Defiance, Ohio The Fear, The Fear, The Fear |
| Detonate Undead |
| Detonate Television |
| Dinosaur Jr. Where You Been |
| DragonForce Valley Of The Damned |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm |
| Energy Punch The Clock |
| Everyone Everywhere Everyone Everywhere |
| Filth Live the Chaos EP |
| Ghost Mice Collection One or The Fairy War |
| Government Warning No Way Out |
| Grimes Visions |
| If the entire album was as great (and insanely catchy) as "Genesis" and "Oblivion", this would really be something. Unfortunately, Visions has a couple obvious highlight tracks throughout and the rest is pretty forgettable. |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
| House Boat The Delaware Octopus |
| Husker Du Everything Falls Apart |
| I Hate Myself 4 Songs |
| I Hate Myself 3 Songs |
| Jay Reatard Singles 06-07 |
| Kanye West Graduation |
| Last in Line Congested EP |
| Le Tigre Le Tigre |
| Leftover Crack Mediocre Generica |
| Make Do and Mend We're All Just Living |
| Maker Maker EP |
| Metronomy Nights Out |
| My Heart To Joy Virgin Sails |
| My Revenge! Strength Through Nonviolence |
| Paul Baribeau Grand Ledge |
| Paul Baribeau Unbearable |
| PlayRadioPlay! Texas |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Real Estate Days |
| Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch |
| Rilo Kiley More Adventurous |
| Slingshot Dakota Their Dreams Are Dead,But Ours Is The Golden Ghost |
| Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit |
| Stuck Lucky Hate the Light of Day |
| Tear It Up Nothing to Nothing |
| The B-52s Wild Planet |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed |
| The Cranberries To the Faithful Departed |
| The Killers Sawdust |
| The Offspring Americana |
| The Sounds Something to Die For |
| I love The Sounds. Each album they've released has provided with a soundtrack to good weather, parties, and car sing-a-longs. They make pop music with attitude, you have to take in the fun of it all and not take it too seriously. It's about hooks and delivery over lyrics. While The Sounds still haven't released an album I dislike, they have released the first grouping of tracks I haven't loved. I didn't enjoy this at first, but after multiple listens, the first half winds up being classic Sounds fun. A few tracks here sound like they could've come straight off their last (and underrated) album, Crossing the Rubicon. The last group of tracks take on a different direction and while it's underwhelming and forgettable at times, I can't help but get into it.. even a little bit. |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser |
| Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History |
| Veronica Falls Waiting For Something To Happen |
| Wavves Afraid of Heights |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks In the Pit of the Stomach |
| X-Ray Spex Germ Free Adolescents |
| 2.5 average |
| Grouplove Never Trust A Happy Song |
| Paramore Paramore |
| Paramore throws a curveball and releases an experimental 17 track album with the new line-up to a very mixed reaction. Containing pop songs, pop-punk songs, ukulele interludes, and tracks that sound like anywhere from No Doubt to Best Coast. While it works sometimes, the misses tend to outweigh the hits here. There are times where I do enjoy this, with highlights "Ain't It Fun", "Fast in My Car", "Anklebiters", and "Part II". Even "Still Into You" isn't bad and neither are the interludes. However, just about every other song is pretty forgettable and tends to drag on, especially the last 5 tracks. This isn't a bad album. It's just average. |
| Public Access Hindsight |
| Sea Wolf Leaves in the River |
| Seabear The Ghost That Carried Us Away |
| The Naked and Famous Passive Me, Aggressive You |
| The Strokes Comedown Machine |
| The first half of the album is hit or miss with good tracks like "Tap Out" and "80's Comedown Machine" (which might be the best Strokes song in a long time), but a dull single "All the Time" and the awkward "One Way Trigger". Unfortunately, the second half is almost totally forgettable for me and at times doesn't even feel like I'm listening to The Strokes anymore.. and this is coming from someone who liked Angles more than most, which by the way, this album is not better than despite what you'll hear. |
| You Me At Six Sinners Never Sleep |
