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Joe Sullivan
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Approval 96%
Site Rank 180

Album Ratings 156
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Last Active 01-18-09 3:32 pm
Joined 01-07-04

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Average Rating: 3.56
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Objectivity Score: 73%
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5 classic
Metallica Master of Puppets
Operation Ivy Energy
The Clash London Calling

4.5 superb
(Young) Pioneers Free The (Young) Pioneers Now!
Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose
Against Me! Searching for a Former Clarity
blink-182 The Mark, Tom, And Travis Show
Box Car Racer Box Car Racer
Culture Two Sevens Clash
Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse
Feeder Yesterday Went Too Soon
Finch What It is to Burn
Iron Maiden Powerslave
Jimi Hendrix Experience Hendrix: The Best of Hendrix
Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros Global A Go-Go
Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison
Lee Scratch Perry The Upsetter: Essential Madness From The Scratch Files
Metallica S&M
Rancid Life Won't Wait
Symphony X The Odyssey
The Clash Super Black Market Clash
The Clash Combat Rock
The Clash Clash On Broadway
The Jam Setting Sons
The Jam Sound Affects
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute
The Mars Volta Octahedron
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell

4 excellent
(Young) Pioneers On Trial
Against Me! As the Eternal Cowboy
Against Me! Crime, As Forgiven By..
Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion
At the Drive-In This Station is Non-Operational
Billy Bragg Worker's Playtime: Special Reissue
Billy Bragg Brewing Up With Billy Bragg: Special Rei
Billy Bragg Back to Basics
blink-182 Cheshire Cat
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (Bonus Tracks)
blink-182 Dude Ranch
Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World
Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave Or Die In Long Island
Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer
Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles
Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Feeder Comfort In Sound
Feeder The Singles
Green Day American Idiot
Jimi Hendrix BlueWildAngel: Live at the Isle of Wight
Johnny Cash American V: A Hundred Highways
Johnny Cash At San Quentin
King Tubby Crucial Dub
Live The Distance To Here
Metallica Kill Em All
Pearl Jam Riot Act
Rancid Radio Radio Radio EP
Rancid Indestructible
Rancid Rancid [2000]
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come
The Clash Sandinista!
The Clash Live: From Here to Eternity
The Clash Give 'Em Enough Rope
The Clash The Clash (UK)
The Clash London Calling: Legacy Edition
London Calling is undeniably a classic album, so it is nice to see it reissued. The bonus stuff is okay:

The Vanilla Tapes are interesting but you wont listen to them more than once or twice. Of the five new songs on there only Hearts and Minds is really any good (and even that deviates into a 101ers cover at the end). The rest include a cover of Dylan's The Man In Me, a pointless blues instrumental, A Don Gibson country song called Lonesome Me. The only otheroriginal Clash composition here is a by-the-numbers quasi-reggae tune called Where You Gonna Go, which is pretty boring. Other than that it is London Calling demos and a run through of Remote Control.

Most of the docmentary is bits from Westway To The World about the making of London Calling interspersed with a new Kosmo Vinyl interview. This is a bit disappointing, as you will probably have already seen it. Also included is the London Calling video, plus two awesome live vids of Clampdown and Train In Vain. However, all three are included on The Essential Clash DVD anyway. Not essential stuff by any means.
The Jam All Mod Cons
The Jam Live Jam
The King Blues Save the World, Get the Girl
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta Tremulant
The Mars Volta Scab Dates [Live]

3.5 great
Against Me! Cavalier Eternel 7
Against Me! The Disco Before The Breakdown EP
Against Me! The Acoustic EP
Against Me! Americans Abroad! Against Me! Live In London!
Bedouin Soundclash Root Fire
Bedouin Soundclash Sounding A Mosaic
Billy Bragg Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Billy Bragg William Bloke: Special Reissue
Billy Bragg Mr. Love And Justice
Billy Bragg Life's A Riot With Spy Vs Spy: Special R
blink-182 Blink 182 Greatest Hits
blink-182 blink-182
blink-182 Enema Of The State
Burning Spear Hail HIM
Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner
In my opinion, this is the best of Dizzee Rascals albums. He uses inventive samples and peppers his straight-up grime/hip-hop backing with dub-inflected ideas and rhythms. Add to this his insanely fast rapping (Jus' A Rascal) and a good use of one liners (I Luv U) and you have a real quality album that has proved to be quite crossover - tracks like Fix Up Look Sharp are often played in rock clubs. The best tracks are quite often the slower, more pensieve tracks - my personal favourite is opener Sittin Here - and his lyrics mostly avoid the typical grime cliches of 'thug life' (which he has slipped into with his latest release), with his take on modern sociality a more prevalent theme.

Joe
Easy Star All Stars Radiodread
Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland
Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around
Metallica Death Magnetic
Metallica Ride the Lightning
Metallica ...And Justice for All
NOFX They've Actually Gotten Worse Live
Rancid Rancid
Rancid Let The Dominoes Fall
Seasick Steve Dog House Music
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb
Sum 41 Half Hour Of Power
Sum 41 All Killer No Filler
The Clash The Clash (US)
The Clash The Essential Clash
The Mars Volta The Bedlam In Goliath
Tim Armstrong A Poet's Life

3 good
Against Me! New Wave
Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper
Arch Enemy Wages of Sin
Bedouin Soundclash Street Gospels
Billy Bragg England, Half English: Special Reissue
Billy Bragg Don't Try This At Home: Special Reissue
Billy Bragg Reaching To The Converted
Billy Bragg The Internationale: Special Reissue
blink-182 Buddha
Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend
Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band
Feeder Two Colours EP
Feeder Echo Park
Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced? [remastered]
Metallica Reload
Metallica Metallica
NOFX Wolves in Wolves' Clothing
Operation Ivy Hectic EP
Rancid Let's Go
Rancid ...And Out Come The Wolves
Rancid Rancid [EP]
Sum 41 Chuck
Sum 41 Does This Look Infected
The Aggrolites The Aggrolites
I can't exactly remember how I came across The Aggrolites, it was probably a 'if you like that then you might like this' suggestion by Amazon or something. Anyway I got hold of this record in the end. And I find it a confusing record. There are sme very definite awesome songs on here - Countrman Fiddle, Mr.Misery, Someday, Time To Get Tough, A.G.G.R.O - but to find them you he to trawl trough a lot of similar sounding instrumental tracks and filler songs that add very little to the overall album. The instrumentals that litter the album do serve the purpose of showing just how tight The Aggrolites are as a band, and it is awesome how they have nailed that old-school -chicka-chic-chicka-chic sound, but the balence between filler and good material is very thin - except that the good material is very, very good. Needless to say, i find this quite difficult to listen to in one sitting, as it seems to go on for ages in the same vein. Cut down to 12 or 13 tracks this would be an essential record, but as it is the album gets boring quite quickly.
Joe
The Cat Empire The Cat Empire
The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound
Tom Gabel Heart Burns
Various Artists (Metal) Master of Puppets- Remastered by Kerrang
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Zwan Mary Star Of The Sea

2.5 average
Against Me! Sink.Florida.Sink EP
blink-182 Flyswatter
Bunny Wailer Blackheart Man
Dizzee Rascal Showtime
Dizzee Rascal Maths and English
Lee Scratch Perry Master Cuts Lee
Pearl Jam Vs.
Slipknot All Hope is Gone
Stereophonics Just Enough Education To Perform
System of a Down Hypnotize
The Gaslight Anthem SeƱor and the Queen
The Jam In The City
The King Blues Under The Fog
The Mars Volta Amputechture
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones

2 poor
Arch Enemy Rare And Unreleased
Feeder Pushing the Senses
Metallica Load
Metallica St. Anger
Metallica Garage, Inc

1.5 very poor
The Clash Cut The Crap

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