| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes | 3.5 |
| 50 Cent The Massacre | 2.5 |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' | 3.0 |
| 7L & Esoteric A New Dope | 3.0 |
| 7L & Esoteric Moment of Rarities | 3.5 |
| ABBA ABBA Gold | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 1.0 |
| Aesop Rock Bazooka Tooth | 3.0 |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days | 4.0 |
| AFI Answer That and Stay Fashionable | 3.0 |
| Aim Hinterland | 3.5 |
| Air Talkie Walkie | 3.0 |
| Air Moon Safari | 4.5 |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill | 3.5 |
| Alec Empire Generation Star Wars | 3.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper | 1.5 |
| A laughable attempt of Tom DeLonge trying to prove he's original. His voice sounds like a goat getting butchered alive, no longer accepting that he sounds like a 12 year old, he tries to lower his voice making a horrible noise that you'd only get anywhere else in a prison shower. The only thing innovative about this album is that it's been a while since anyone in pop music has thought delay pedals and ripping off U2 is cool. Oooh wow, 90 second intros to songs, and not singing about getting dumped! How groundbreaking! |
| Animal Collective Feels | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 3.0 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.5 |
| Army Of The Pharaohs The Torture Papers | 3.5 |
| Atmosphere God Loves Ugly | 3.5 |
| AZ Doe or Die | 4.5 |
| Basement Jaxx Kish Kash | 3.0 |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique | 4.5 |
| Beck Guero | 2.5 |
| Beck Odelay | 3.0 |
| Beck One Foot In The Grave | 3.5 |
| Beck Sea Change | 4.0 |
| Beck Mutations | 4.0 |
| Beirut Gulag Orkestar | 3.5 |
| Bell X1 Flock | 4.0 |
| Belle and Sebastian The Boy With the Arab Strap | 3.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister | 4.5 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 4.0 |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 2.0 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 3.5 |
| Blur Parklife | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited | 4.0 |
| Box Car Racer Box Car Racer | 3.5 |
| Brainticket Celestial Ocean | 2.5 |
| Brian Eno Neroli | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno Another Green World | 4.5 |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 4.0 |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 4.5 |
| Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love | 3.0 |
| Burton Wagner A Sentinel's Eyes | 3.0 |
| Can Tago Mago | 4.5 |
| Cardiacs Songs for Ships and Irons | 2.0 |
| Caspian The Four Trees | 3.0 |
| Cat Power Myra Lee | 3.0 |
| Cat Power You Are Free | 3.5 |
| Cat Stevens Catch Bull at Four | 3.5 |
| Cat Stevens Numbers | 3.5 |
| Cat Stevens Mona Bone Jakon | 4.0 |
| Cat Stevens Teaser and the Firecat | 4.0 |
| Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf Big Shots | 3.5 |
| City and Colour Sometimes | 3.0 |
| CKY An Answer Can Be Found | 1.0 |
| Codeine Frigid Stars | 2.0 |
| Company Flow Funcrusher Plus | 3.5 |
| CunninLynguists Dirty Acres | 4.0 |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 3.0 |
| Cursive Happy Hollow | 4.0 |
| Dalek Abandoned Language | 4.0 |
| Damien Rice O | 3.5 |
| DangerDoom The Mouse And The Mask | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Low | 5.0 |
| David Gilmour About Face | 1.5 |
| David Gilmour David Gilmour | 3.0 |
| David Gilmour On An Island | 3.5 |
| David Grubbs Rickets & Scurvy | 2.5 |
| David Grubbs Act Five, Scene One | 3.5 |
| Death From Above 1979 Romance Bloody Romance | 2.0 |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine | 3.5 |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien No Need For Alarm | 3.0 |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Both Sides of the Brain | 4.0 |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug | 3.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 5.0 |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust | 4.5 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic | 3.5 |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst | 4.5 |
| Drop Nineteens Delaware | 3.5 |
| Eagles Hell Freezes Over | 2.5 |
| El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead | 4.0 |
| Elliott Smith Figure 8 | 3.0 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 3.5 |
| Elliott Smith Roman Candle | 4.0 |
| Elliott Smith New Moon | 4.0 |
| Elliott Smith XO | 4.5 |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith | 5.0 |
| Eloy Inside | 3.5 |
| Eloy Ocean | 4.0 |
| Elvis Costello This Year's Model | 3.5 |
| Emerson Lake and Palmer Love Beach | 1.0 |
| Emerson Lake and Palmer Works Volume 1 | 1.5 |
| What happens when you add three guys with virtuoso skills and affinities to progressive music, let them frolick freely in the studio, and inflate their egos? You get a bloated wank-fest of ELP believing they're musical gods. I usually stick up for prog when it's bad-mouthed for being too pretentious and self-indulgent, but here ELP are giving the critics too much to work with. Well, at least it's no Love Beach. Ugggh. |
| Emerson Lake and Palmer Works Volume 2 | 2.0 |
| Eminem Encore | 1.5 |
| Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits | 2.5 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 3.0 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.5 |
| EPMD Strictly Business | 4.0 |
| Equus Observing the Moon | 3.5 |
| Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 2.5 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 2.5 |
| Frank Zappa Thing-Fish | 1.0 |
Truly the most awful Zappa album I've come across. The storyline, which was originally intended to be a broadway play (fortunately it never went through), is incredibly plodding and boring. Though it contains moments of humour, it goes nowhere most of the time. It's based on a scientist who develops some sort of mutation device, but tests it on poor Southern black people. Somehow the plot turns to these people have to go peform on Broadway. That's about as much as I can understand...
It's narrated by Thing-Fish, who never really develops into an actual character, and just gives vulgar commentary and narration in a poorly developed Southern Accent. Dialogue between the other characters is usually better, but don't frequent as often as Thing-Fish.
The music is arguably just as bad, generically repeating as the story is told; not really a musical, now is it? Even stranger is that Zappa decides to frequently use overdubs from previous albums instead of new music. Occasionally there are quirky, catchy moments, such as "Clowns on Velvet". After 5 songs I couldn't believe this was actually a double album. Steer clear of this. |
| Frank Zappa Guitar | 1.5 |
| Frank Zappa Jazz From Hell | 3.0 |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats | 4.5 |
| Galactic From the Corner to the Block | 3.0 |
| Gang Starr Daily Operation | 4.0 |
| Gang Starr Moment of Truth | 4.0 |
| Genesis From Genesis to Revelation | 2.0 |
| Genesis Foxtrot | 3.0 |
| Genesis We Can't Dance | 3.0 |
| Genesis Trespass | 3.5 |
| Genesis Nursery Cryme | 3.5 |
| Genesis Wind & Wuthering | 3.5 |
| Genesis Genesis | 3.5 |
| Genesis Selling England by the Pound | 4.5 |
| Gentle Giant Giant for a Day | 2.0 |
| Gentle Giant Three Friends | 3.0 |
| Gentle Giant Octopus | 3.0 |
| Gentle Giant Acquiring the Taste | 4.5 |
| Ghostface Killah More Fish | 3.5 |
| Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab | 3.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Fishscale | 4.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Ironman | 4.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele | 4.0 |
| Giant Drag Hearts and Unicorns | 3.0 |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper | 3.0 |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 2.5 |
| Green Day Dookie | 3.5 |
| Gwen Stefani Love. Angel. Music. Baby. | 1.5 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 4.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 3.5 |
| Hawksley Workman Lover/Fighter | 3.0 |
| Hedley Hedley | 1.5 |
| HIM Love Metal | 1.0 |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years | 2.0 |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade | 3.5 |
| Infidel?/Castro! Bioentropic Damage Fractal | 3.5 |
| Inspectah Deck Uncontrolled Substance | 2.5 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 3.5 |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days | 3.0 |
| J Dilla Ruff Draft | 3.0 |
| J Dilla Donuts | 4.5 |
| Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking | 4.0 |
| Jane's Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual | 4.0 |
| Jaylib Champion Sound | 3.5 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 5.0 |
| Jethro Tull War Child | 2.5 |
| Jethro Tull This Was | 3.5 |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung | 4.5 |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick | 5.0 |
| Jim O'Rourke Eureka | 3.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Ys | 3.0 |
| John Frusciante To Record Only Water for Ten Days | 3.5 |
| John Frusciante Curtains | 4.5 |
| Juana Molina Son | 2.0 |
| k-os Atlantis: Hymns For Disco | 3.5 |
| k-os Exit | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 3.0 |
| Kate Bush Aerial | 3.5 |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon | 2.5 |
| King Crimson Islands | 2.5 |
| King Crimson Lizard | 4.0 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.5 |
| King Crimson Red | 4.5 |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic | 5.0 |
| KISS Alive! | 2.5 |
| Ladytron Witching Hour | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Presence | 2.0 |
| Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door | 2.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Early Days/Latter Days | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 4.5 |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate | 3.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 0.5 |
| Limp Bizkit New Old Songs | 1.0 |
| Lindsay Lohan A Little More Personal (Raw) | 1.5 |
| Little Brother The Listening | 3.0 |
| Low The Great Destroyer | 3.5 |
| Low Things We Lost in the Fire | 4.0 |
| Ludacris Chicken-n-Beer | 2.5 |
| Chicken N' Beer? Does Ludacris have nothing Southern left to overkill? Word of Mouf was a cool album, but Chicken N' Beer solidifies his status as a formulaic rapper. No matter which song, it sounds like Luda is rapping to the same metronome every time, or at least the same rhyme pattern. This is fine for an occasional background music listen, but nothing else as Ludacris has exhausted his "talents". |
| Ludacris Word Of Mouf | 3.5 |
| M.I.A. Arular | 4.5 |
| Madlib Shades of Blue | 4.0 |
| Madonna Ray of Light | 4.0 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 4.5 |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame | 4.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers Know Your Enemy | 2.5 |
| Possibly the album that effectively killed the Manics' chances of becoming critically acclaimed arena rockers after the commercial rock success This is my Truth, Tell me Yours. Know Your Enemy is a lumbering, and pretentious collage of their old and new sound, and half-assed tributes to too many things to count. On one side, it contains hard rock that throws back to the Manics' early 90s days, on another it offers soft rockers, and somewhere in between it gives us a disco parody, hidden tracks, and other oddities that bulken the junk in Enemy's trunk. Some truly great melodies do shine through, though, when not dampened by awkward political messages or overly-processed studio effects. The end result wouldn't have been so bad if the album were shorter, it grates me that the album goes on for another half hour after it's given all it can, musically and... well, whatever the hell the Manics were trying to prove this time. |
| Manic Street Preachers Forever Delayed | 3.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers Gold Against The Soul | 3.5 |
| Manic Street Preachers Lifeblood | 3.5 |
| Manic Street Preachers Send Away The Tigers | 3.5 |
| Manic Street Preachers Generation Terrorists | 4.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go | 4.5 |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible | 5.0 |
| Marcy Playground Marcy Playground | 3.0 |
| One of the most labeled "One hit wonders" of the 90s, one might not even remember them unless "Sex and Candy" were to come up in a conversation. Its strangely deviant lyrics and minimalist, but catchy chorus, made it a rare gem in the one hit wonder world of Ace of Base and Dee-Lite. Marcy Playground's debut, though not the best of Alternative 90s, definitely goes deeper than most flash in the pans. The music varies from bluesy to poppy, to ominous to simply catchy, but the recurring disturbing themes such as drug use (the lead singer admitted to doing tons of drugs earlier in his life) are constantly present. |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines | 3.0 |
| I was probably expecting too much from this album. Unfinished Sympathy is one of the greatest songs of all time, and the rest of the album doesn't even touch it. While Unfinished Sympathy is an epic, rushing melancholic song, pairing an addictive rhythm with surging string arrangements, the rest of the album keeps a low-key, yet danceable feel. But the group's mix at the time of dub and hip hop just doesn't stand up to their later development of truly hypnotic, arcane music. Maybe I'm just comparing it too much to its lead single, and Massive Attack's later work, but the loose, hazy jams of Blue Lines get monotonous quickly. |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.0 |
| Masta Killa No Said Date | 4.0 |
| Metallica Reload | 1.0 |
| Method Man Tical | 3.0 |
| The first solo album to come out of the Wu-Tang canon, Tical showcases the reefer loving Method Man breaking out in a tumble of murky beats and raw atmosphere. RZA's beats are less bare than on 36 Chambers, but often don't define anything notable. At least Meth's smooth flow and uniquely slurred voice fits the album's washy griminess when the album is hitting sweet spots. On the first listen Tical seems to come close to other Wu solo releases like Only Built 4 Cuban Linx..., but the album's instant appeal only slides with repeated plays. |
| Metric Old World Underground, Where Are You Now | 3.0 |
| Metric Live It Out | 3.0 |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food | 3.5 |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 3.0 |
| Minus the Bear They Make Beer Commercials Like This | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People | 3.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 2.5 |
| A lot of people complain that we don't need Muse, there's already a Porcupine Tree, there's already a Radiohead, there's already a Dredg. Well, they're pretty much right when Absolution is considered. When it isn't blasted by pseudo- cryptic filler, it's chocked with songs that I feel I've heard before anyway. As they energetically mix hard riffs with bubbly synths, classically-inspired piano and Matt Bellamy's soaring falsetto, I find that though it may seem exciting, it has no substance. Whether it be Bellamy's cliche lyrics or his cliche styles, Muse rarely break through with true talent on Absolution. Try Black Holes and Revelations instead. |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything | 3.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Ecstasy and Wine | 3.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 4.0 |
| Nas It Was Written | 3.5 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
| Neil Young Neil Young | 3.0 |
| Neil Young Greendale | 4.0 |
| Neu! Neu! | 4.0 |
| Neu! Neu! '75 | 4.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island | 3.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| Nickelback The Long Road | 1.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 3.5 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 4.0 |
| Nirvana (UK) The Story of Simon Simopath | 3.0 |
| of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? | 3.0 |
| of Montreal The Gay Parade | 4.0 |
| Oh No Dr. No's Oxperiment | 3.5 |
| Organized Konfusion Stress: The Extinction Agenda | 4.0 |
| Os Mutantes Os Mutantes | 3.5 |
| Our Lady Peace Gravity | 2.5 |
| OutKast ATLiens | 3.5 |
| OutKast Aquemini | 4.5 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch | 3.0 |
| A messy, sprawling album, even for an Animal Collective related effort! But what makes it a redeeming and interesting album is the production, which morphs Panda Bear's Brian Wilsonized happy-go-lucky harmonic vocals into part of the wild soundscapes that are created on this album. The atmosphere encompasses every aspect of the music into one psychedelic chain of sound, whether it'd be the jingly percussion, jangly guitars, or jumbled sound effects, sounding like the album is being tumbled through a washing machine. The Can-like meandering of Person Pitch aside, most of the songs themselves are weak, and half-baked, seeming like Panda Bear had to rely too much on making the lyrics incomprehensible and magic mushroom trip recreation to keep the album together. That being said, if I were to take a load of mind boggling drugs, I'd certainly agree with everyone else and say this is one of 2007's best. Until then, I'll stick to my other Animal Collective albums. |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | 3.0 |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee | 4.0 |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted | 4.5 |
| Pearl Jam Pearl Jam | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 4.0 |
| People Under the Stairs O.S.T. | 3.5 |
| Pete Rock and CL Smooth The Main Ingredient | 4.5 |
| Peter Gabriel Melt | 4.5 |
| Pharoahe Monch Internal Affairs | 4.5 |
| Pharoahe Monch Desire | 4.5 |
| Pinback Autumn of the Seraphs | 2.5 |
| Pinback Blue Screen Life | 3.5 |
| Pinback Offcell | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason | 1.5 |
| Pink Floyd Echoes | 2.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd Pulse | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd More | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Pulse — The Film | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Relics | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.5 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 3.5 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 4.5 |
| Placebo Without You I'm Nothing | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree On the Sunday of Life | 2.0 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 3.0 |
| Progressive/psychedelic veterans Porcupine Tree enter the new millenium with a polished, safer feel than earlier works. The result is a solid album, with a unique modern rock touch, similar to The Bends era Radiohead. A lot of the songs abandon any quirkiness the band used to have, sounding more like songs to appeal to rock radio. The generic guitar sound takes another toll on the band's sound, Wedding Nails sounds like a Nu-Metal instrumental. One place where the album does shine is the classic Trains, an acoustic, melancholic epic. Easily the band's weakest album in a long time. Frontman studio wizard Steven Wilson may want to reconsider taking a walk on the wild side again. |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Stars Die: The Delerium Years | 4.0 |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 4.5 |
| Pulp Different Class | 4.0 |
| Queen Innuendo | 3.5 |
| R. Kelly Trapped In The Closet (Chapters 1-12) | 1.5 |
| R.E.M. Murmur | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People | 4.5 |
| Rachel's The Sea and the Bells | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 2.0 |
| Dull as Dilbert. Sure Radiohead have always been a bit dull, but here it comes out full-fledged in a bunch of generic pop-rock tunes. The only reason it has any credibility is because it was released during the golden years of alternative rock, and anything that's grungy somehow is supposed to be credible. Take away that alt rock flavour and there's nothing bit a bunch of boring songs. If it weren't for the legions of Radiohead fanboys, this would be a record to be forgotten with the ages. But since Thom Torke is a demi-god of music, we'll have to keep putting up with the constant reminding of this album. It's a good thing Dilbert doesn't have fanboys. |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 2.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 3.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 4.0 |
| Red House Painters Red House Painters II | 3.5 |
| Red House Painters Ocean Beach | 4.0 |
| Red House Painters Red House Painters | 4.5 |
| Ride Nowhere | 4.5 |
| RZA RZA as Bobby Digital in Stereo | 2.0 |
| RZA Afro Samurai Soundtrack | 3.0 |
| Seether Karma And Effect | 1.0 |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 1.0 |
| Shpongle Are You Shpongled? | 3.5 |
| Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.5 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.0 |
| Slowdive Souvlaki | 3.0 |
| Snoop Dogg Doggystyle | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Dirty | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth A Thousand Leaves | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Goo | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Confusion is Sex/Kill Yr Idols | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth's first full length LP repackaged with one of their EPs makes this vicious little number. The punk energy is here, and that strange Youth way, presenting Stooges covers like they've never been heard before. Minimal basslines are the core of all the atonal songs. Unlike later Youth, that incorporates pop and psychedelic into their sound, this is pure, insane noise. The enigmatic lyrics are delivered in manic howls or hypnotic spoken word. Not a very enjoyable Sonic Youth album, especially for a new fan, but still an fantastically odd and intriguing one. |
| Sonic Youth Confusion Is Sex | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Rather Ripped | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Evol | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Sister | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth Washing Machine | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 5.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon April | 4.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway | 4.5 |
| Swollen Members Monsters in the Closet | 3.0 |
| Syd Barrett The Madcap Laughs | 2.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.0 |
| Talib Kweli Eardrum | 3.0 |
| Talib Kweli Quality | 3.5 |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 4.5 |
| Tangerine Dream Stratosfear | 3.5 |
| Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Hearts of Oak | 3.5 |
| Television Marquee Moon | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Let It Be… Naked | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Help! | 3.5 |
| The Beatles 1 | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.5 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Love | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| The Clash London Calling | 4.0 |
| The Clash The Clash (US version) | 4.0 |
| The Cure Greatest Hits | 2.5 |
| The Cure Bloodflowers | 2.5 |
| The Cure The Cure | 3.0 |
| The Cure Faith | 3.5 |
| The Cure Pornography | 4.0 |
| The Cure Boys Don't Cry | 4.0 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 4.5 |
| The Cure The Head on the Door | 4.5 |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 4.0 |
| The Doors The Soft Parade | 3.0 |
| The Feelies Crazy Rhythms | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics | 2.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 4.5 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy | 4.0 |
| The Libertines The Libertines | 1.5 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 2.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.0 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 | 4.0 |
| The Mothers of Invention Uncle Meat | 3.5 |
| The Mothers of Invention Freak Out! | 4.0 |
| The National Boxer | 3.5 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 4.5 |
| The Offspring Splinter | 1.0 |
| The Offspring Smash | 3.0 |
| The Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde | 4.0 |
| The Replacements Let It Be | 4.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Goats Head Soup | 3.5 |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines of God | 2.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Lull | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Rotten Apples | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Earphoria | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Judas O | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins The Aeroplane Flies High | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Zero | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Adore | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 5.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish | 5.0 |
| The Smiths The Smiths | 3.0 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 3.5 |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come | 4.0 |
| The Smiths Singles | 4.0 |
| The Smiths Hatful of Hollow | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 4.5 |
| The Who 20th Century Masters | 2.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward | 3.5 |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser | 2.5 |
| Basically, if Amnesiac were more monotonous and had less personality, there'd be The Eraser. The idea of Thom using fragmented old samples of his bandmates sounds interesting at first, but the charm wears off. The result is a of bunch cold, clammy songs with a less charismatic than usual Yorke singing over fidgety, creaky loops of what sound like old tapes that have been laying around in Radiohead's studio. The mix of what Yorke chooses to sample is what makes the album pleasant enough to sit through, but not to be engaged completely. Also, is it just me, or has his lyrics become predictable? Maybe Thom and I have just been together for too long. |
| Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards | 4.5 |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain | 4.0 |
| U2 The Joshua Tree | 2.5 |
| Venetian Snares Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Pom Poms | 4.0 |
| Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain | 4.0 |
| Weezer Maladroit | 1.5 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 2.5 |
| Weezer Weezer | 3.5 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 4.0 |
| William Patrick Corgan TheFutureEmbrace | 2.0 |
| Wire Pink Flag | 4.0 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 2.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan The W | 2.5 |
| The third group effort from the Wu-Tang Clan continues the downward slope that began with their '97 sophomore album Wu-Tang Forever. Though that album itself still held together and presented innovation, what followed were underwhelming solo attempts from respected members, and a lack of unity clouding over many of the releases from the Clan in the late 90s. The W is no exception, and despite having more production from Wu mastermind RZA than other release of the time, a lot of it comes up sounding incomplete and tepid. While the singles Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off) and Gravel Pit re-energize the album, songs like Conditioner and Careful (Click, Click) create painfully dull and inconsistent moments. |
| Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams | 3.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever | 4.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 5.0 |
| Xiu Xiu Fabulous Muscles | 4.0 |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 1.0 |
| Yes Big Generator | 1.5 |
| Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans | 2.0 |
| Yes 90125 | 2.0 |
| Yes Yes | 3.0 |
| Yes Close to the Edge | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo's greatest strength has to be their unrelenting experimentation and diversity within albums. Using the similar formula from I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One in spanning as much as they can within their trio in styles and genres to make a fearlessly long album. The result is instrumentals veering off in lengthy directions, shimmering pop songs, and exotic juxtapositions of styles. Fronting duo couple Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley's sweet harmonies are backed from chamber pop grooves to Kinks-powered garage rock. While it has a great collection of songs, it makes a weaker package as an album, but still proves to be one of 2006's best. |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One | 4.0 |
| Yusuf Islam An Other Cup | 4.0 |
| Zion I and The Grouch Heroes in the City of Dope | 4.0 |
| Zwan Mary Star Of The Sea | 1.0 |
| I knew there was something strange about this album the first time I heard it. And after the breaking up of Zwan, Billy Corgan bitterly stated that Zwan was a giant lie. Well, now the awkward twee mood of the album makes sense. It seems like Corgan is just begging people to ask him "why so happy?" with cheerfully stupid lines like "a little sunshine/just to butter my toast/and your love next to mine". Not to mention the strange proclamation of his love for Jesus demonstrated here. The guitar chemistry is dull, three are obviously too many for the band, and the classic Jimmy Chamberlain and Billy Corgan formula falls flat. The worst part is, Zwan's pre-album work was pretty good. |
