| !!! Me and Giuliani Down By the Schoolyard | 3.0 |
| !!! Myth Takes | 2.5 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes | 2.5 |
| 311 Don't Tread On Me | 2.5 |
| 50 Cent The Massacre | 4.0 |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' | 3.0 |
| A Minor Forest Inindependence | 2.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 3.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory | 3.5 |
| AC/DC High Voltage | 2.0 |
| Ace of Base The Sign | 2.0 |
| Aerosmith Rocks | 4.0 |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days | 3.5 |
| Aesop Rock None Shall Pass | 3.0 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 3.0 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 3.5 |
| Air Moon Safari | 4.5 |
| Air's Moon Safari is one of my favorite electronica albums of all time, but that's not a very stunning thing. The album features lush keyboard melodies over soft beats and smooth, twinkly guitar lines. Sexy Boy and Remember are both crunchy synth-pop songs that get you hooked right away with their catchy keyboard riffs and drumbeats. For the most part Moon Safari is an ambient album, Ce Matin La features a nice little trumpet part while All I Need focuses on a jazzy acoustic guitar and a soothing female vocalist. All in all Moon Safari won't letdown an fans of electronica music, the album has a soothing and mellow vibe yet it still shows a lot of range with influences or jazz and synth-pop. |
| Air Talkie Walkie | 3.5 |
| Air 10,000 Hz Legends | 2.5 |
| Air Pocket Symphony | 3.5 |
| Alec Empire Generation Star Wars | 3.0 |
| Alice in Chains Facelift | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 3.0 |
| Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary | 3.0 |
| Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs | 4.0 |
| Andrew Bird Weather Systems | 3.5 |
| Andrew Bird Music Of Hair | 2.0 |
| Andrew W.K. I Get Wet | 2.0 |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.0 |
| Anohni and the Johnsons I Am A Bird Now | 3.0 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Come to Daddy | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs | 3.0 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 3.5 |
| Some consider this album to be Aphex Twin's greatest record, but I disagree. There are some great songs such as the jittery 4 and the lo-key, soothing Fingerbib. Most of these songs are pretty well done, but their are a few bad ones towards the end of the album. Logon Rock Witch sounds very out of place, and it sounds like something that would belong on a Cartoon Network show. Inkeys is another track which seems out of place and the end of the album is pretty weak. Richard does a great job with the first nine tracks or so, but the record quickly loses it's fun and bouncy atmosphere towards the end. Other highlights include To Cure a Weakling Child and Yellow Calx. |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do | 4.5 |
| Richard David James most forgotten album, I Care Because You Do is in my opinion his best. The album features a lot of range but my personal favorites are his more ambient and progressive songs. Alberto Balsalm is a nice, laid-back gem while The Waxen Pithis an eerie yet ambient song. At points the album gets very haunting, Icct Hedral features a pounding beat over scary background effects while Come On You Slags! is a dark, morbid song that is oddly exhilerating. I Care Because You Do offers a ton of variety, I dig the songs with pounding beats and I also enjoy the more suble and lo-key tunes. |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 3.0 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 2.5 |
| Archers of Loaf Icky Mettle | 4.0 |
| Architecture In Helsinki Fingers Crossed | 1.0 |
| Architecture In Helsinki In Case We Die | 1.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 3.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 3.0 |
| Atom and His Package Redefining Music | 3.0 |
| Audioslave Out of Exile | 2.0 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 2.0 |
| Autechre Confield | 2.0 |
| Autechre Tri Repetae | 4.0 |
| Autechre Amber | 4.5 |
| Bad Astronaut Houston: We Have a Drinking Problem | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion The New America | 2.5 |
| Barenaked Ladies Maybe You Should Drive | 2.5 |
| Bark Psychosis Hex | 4.0 |
| Basement Jaxx Remedy | 3.0 |
| Basement Jaxx Rooty | 3.0 |
| Battles B EP | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys Hello Nasty | 2.5 |
| Beastie Boys Ill Communication | 2.5 |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys To the 5 Boroughs | 2.5 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill | 2.0 |
| Beat Happening Beat Happening | 4.0 |
| Beat Happening Jamboree | 3.0 |
| Beck Sea Change | 3.0 |
| Beck Guero | 3.0 |
| Beck Stereopathetic Soulmanure | 2.0 |
| Beck Midnite Vultures | 4.0 |
| Beck Odelay | 4.5 |
| Beck Mellow Gold | 3.0 |
| Beck Mutations | 4.0 |
| Beck The Information | 2.5 |
| Beck Modern Guilt | 3.0 |
| Bedouin Soundclash Street Gospels | 2.0 |
| Bela Fleck and The Flecktones Flight Of The Cosmic Hippo | 4.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister | 3.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian The Boy With the Arab Strap | 2.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit | 3.5 |
| Ben Harper Fight For Your Mind | 3.5 |
| Benoit Pioulard Precis | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 3.0 |
| Big Black Songs About Fucking | 3.5 |
| Big Black Atomizer | 3.0 |
| Big D and the Kids Table Good Luck | 3.0 |
| Big D and the Kids Table Strictly Rude | 2.5 |
| Biosphere Cirque | 4.0 |
| Biosphere Substrata | 3.5 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 4.0 |
| Bjork Debut | 3.5 |
| Black Dice Beaches and Canyons | 3.5 |
| Black Dice Broken Ear Record | 3.5 |
| Black Dice Creature Comforts | 3.5 |
| Black Flag Damaged | 4.0 |
| Black Milk Tronic | 4.0 |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Start A People | 3.5 |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Falling Through a Field | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 3.0 |
| Paranoid is the only Sabbath that I've heard in full. It's a solid record with some really neat tracks like the late night, jazzy "Planet Caravan" and "War Pigs" yet there are to many dull spots. Every track has something worthwhile; The drum solo in Rat Salad, the eerie guitar rifs of Electric Funeral and the classic tune Iron Man yet the record seems a little stale and dry in places. Metal is probably the only genre of music that I tend to avoid yet Paranoid is an album that I tend to enjoy on a regular basis. |
| Black Uhuru Red | 3.5 |
| Blackalicious Blazing Arrow | 5.0 |
| Blackalicious Nia | 4.0 |
| Blackalicious The Craft | 2.5 |
| blink-182 Cheshire Cat | 3.0 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 2.5 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult | 3.0 |
| Blur Leisure | 2.0 |
| Blur Parklife | 3.0 |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase | 4.0 |
| With The Campfire Headphase Boards of Canada move away from their more beat oriented sound and start playing around with more atmospheric keyboard effects. The soothing beats that were once found on Music Had the Right to Children have vanished, but that's not exactly a bad thing. The overall sound of the album hints towards ambient electronica yet the music isn't as dark or bleak as it was on previous releases. Soothing soundscapes, subtle guitar hooks, and mellow keyboard tones make up The Campfire Headphase, while it's a huge change from the duos earlier sound it's still a natural and positive evolution. |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 4.5 |
| This is the ideal electronica album to chill to. The relaxed beats and swirling keyboard effects fit together perfectly creating an extremely atmospheric and lazy atmosphere. At first the songs seem way to long and repetitive but the songs change so subtly and quick that it's difficult to even notice. With a good set of headphones this album will put you in a trance for a good hour or so, although the music isn't complex or challenging it sure is hypnotic. |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 3.0 |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home | 3.5 |
| Bob James One | 4.0 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend | 4.0 |
| Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun | 4.5 |
| Boredoms Super Ae | 3.0 |
| Boris Akuma no Uta | 3.0 |
| Boris Smile | 2.5 |
| Boston Boston | 3.5 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 1.0 |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports | 4.5 |
| This album is monumental for any fans of ambient electronica. Eno's soothing piano work is ace and although this record isn't for everyone it almost forces you to kick back and relax. This was the third Eno album I purchased and although I was used to his more post-punk influenced stuff Ambient One: Music For Airports always does it for me. The only downside is that the music can get boring at points, but that's easy to understand since this is ambient music. |
| Brian Eno Another Green World | 5.0 |
| Another Green World is a mixture of soothing pop tunes and ambient electronica. Eno uses lush keyboard soundscapes and sparkling keyboard tones to create some relaxing tunes that create vivid imagery and interesting ideas. Songs like I'll Come Running showcase some poppy piano parts while St. Elmos Fire features Fripp shredding up a storm, the ambient pieces don't drag the album down and Eno keeps things moving quite well. There is an excellent balance between pop and ambient, sometimes Eno even combines the two (Everything Merges With the Night). Another Green World is flooding with everything that an electronica fan could hope for, and absoute essential album for anyones music collection. |
| Brian Eno Ambient 4: On Land | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) | 3.0 |
| Brian Eno Neroli | 3.0 |
| Brian Eno and David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | 2.0 |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning | 2.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love | 3.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska | 3.5 |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 3.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 3.5 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 3.5 |
| Butthole Surfers Electriclarryland | 3.0 |
| Butthole Surfers Independent Worm Saloon | 4.0 |
| Butthole Surfers Locust Abortion Technician | 4.0 |
| Butthole Surfers Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac | 4.0 |
| Butthole Surfers Rembrandt Pussyhorse | 3.5 |
| Cake Prolonging The Magic | 3.5 |
| Cake Pressure Chief | 2.5 |
| Cake Fashion Nugget | 4.0 |
| Cake Motorcade Of Generosity | 4.0 |
| Cake Comfort Eagle | 4.5 |
| Call Florence Pow The Strange Situation EP | 3.0 |
| Camel Mirage | 3.5 |
| Can Tago Mago | 5.0 |
| Can Ege Bamyasi | 4.5 |
| Can Monster Movie | 4.0 |
| Can Future Days | 3.0 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Safe As Milk | 3.5 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Hydroponic Garden | 2.0 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms World Of Sleepers | 1.0 |
| Casino Versus Japan Whole Numbers Play the Basics | 3.0 |
| Casiotone For The Painfully Alone Etiquette | 3.0 |
| Cat Power The Greatest | 3.0 |
| Cat Power You Are Free | 3.0 |
| Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman | 4.0 |
| Cat Stevens Teaser and the Firecat | 3.5 |
| Cat Stevens Catch Bull at Four | 3.0 |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights | 4.0 |
| Cerberus Shoal Homb | 3.5 |
| Chapterhouse Whirlpool | 4.0 |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um | 3.5 |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 3.0 |
| Chocolate Genius Godmusic | 2.0 |
| Chris Bell I Am The Cosmos | 3.0 |
| Circle Jerks Group Sex | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 3.0 |
| Clann Zu Rua | 2.5 |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | 2.0 |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Some Loud Thunder | 2.5 |
| cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD | 4.0 |
| Cluster Cluster II | 4.5 |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure | 4.5 |
| Codeine Frigid Stars | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 2.5 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 3.0 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 3.5 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 2.5 |
| Coldplay The Blue Room | 3.5 |
| Common Finding Forever | 2.0 |
| Common Rider Last Wave Rockers | 3.0 |
| Comus First Utterance | 3.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.0 |
| Cows Cunning Stunts | 3.0 |
| Cream Disraeli Gears | 3.5 |
| Crow Tongue Ghost Eye Seeker | 4.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles | 2.5 |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 2.0 |
| Cyne Evolution Fight | 4.5 |
| Cynic Focus | 4.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 3.5 |
| D4L Down for Life | 2.0 |
| Daft Punk Homework | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 4.0 |
| How can you possibly sit still when listening to this album? The first four tracks are the best off of the album, but then I feel like it all goes downhill from there. I really dig the glossy, glimmery production and even if it does go a bit overboard it still makes some great dance music. I think the other big reason I enjoy listening to Discovery so much is how elements of jazz and funk also make their way into the music creating an even more upbeat and bouncy vibe. While Discovery can get tiresome at points it's still an excellent dance album that rivals some of my personal favorites within the genre. |
| Daft Punk Human After All | 3.0 |
| Dalek Gutter Tactics | 2.0 |
| Danny Elfman The Nightmare Before Christmas | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory | 3.5 |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 4.5 |
| Dead Meadow Feathers | 4.0 |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine | 3.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 3.5 |
| Delerium Karma | 3.5 |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 4.5 |
| Depeche Mode Violator | 4.0 |
| Descendents Everything Sucks | 3.5 |
| Descendents Milo Goes to College | 4.5 |
| Descendents I Don't Want to Grow Up | 2.0 |
| Descendents Enjoy! | 2.0 |
| Devendra Banhart Cripple Crow | 3.5 |
| Devo Freedom of Choice | 4.0 |
| Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! | 3.5 |
| Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) | 3.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me | 3.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug | 3.5 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow The Outsider | 2.5 |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn | 2.0 |
| Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet | 3.0 |
| Don Caballero Punkgasm | 2.0 |
| Don Caballero American Don | 3.5 |
| Don Caballero World Class Listening Problem | 4.0 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic | 3.5 |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 4.0 |
| Drive Like Jehu Drive Like Jehu | 3.5 |
| Dropkick Murphys Sing Loud, Sing Proud! | 3.5 |
| Duran Duran Rio | 4.0 |
| Eagles Hotel California | 3.5 |
| Easy Star All Stars Dub Side of the Moon | 3.0 |
| Easy Star All Stars Radiodread | 3.5 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Songs to Learn and Sing | 4.0 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain | 4.0 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 3.0 |
| Eluvium Copia | 3.5 |
| Emerson Lake and Palmer Pictures at an Exhibition | 3.5 |
| Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full | 4.0 |
| Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch! | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 4.0 |
| Fagan Shipping Secrets | 3.0 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 4.0 |
| Faith No More The Real Thing | 4.0 |
| Faith No More We Care a Lot | 3.0 |
| Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave | 1.0 |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 2.0 |
| Fatboy Slim You've Come a Long Way, Baby | 3.5 |
| Fatboy Slim Palookaville | 3.0 |
| Fatboy Slim Why Try Harder | 4.0 |
| Fatboy Slim Better Living Through Chemistry | 3.5 |
| Feathers Feathers | 3.0 |
| Feeder Comfort In Sound | 2.5 |
| Feist The Reminder | 4.0 |
| Fennesz Endless Summer | 3.0 |
| Fennesz Venice | 3.5 |
| Flogging Molly Swagger | 2.5 |
| Flogging Molly Within a Mile of Home | 3.0 |
| Flotation Toy Warning Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck | 3.0 |
| Flying Lotus 1983 | 4.0 |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles | 4.5 |
| Shifting away from his more minimal approach with "1983" Flying Lotus showcases a lot more variety on his newest offering, "Los Angeles." Although the album is often tagged as instrumental hip-hop every song has a unique set of beats matched with Ellison's lush keyboard arrangements and organic production. The pulsing, hypnotic variety of beats never wears thin making "Los Angeles" a zany and trance-inducing listen. |
| Flying Saucer Attack Further | 4.5 |
| Flying Saucer Attack Flying Saucer Attack | 4.0 |
| Four Tet Ringer | 3.5 |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats | 4.0 |
| Frank Zappa Sheik Yerbouti | 2.5 |
| Frank Zappa Apostrophe | 3.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better | 3.0 |
| Frontier Ruckus The Orion Songbook | 4.0 |
| Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing | 2.5 |
| Fugazi 13 Songs | 3.5 |
| Fugazi Red Medicine | 3.5 |
| Fugazi End Hits | 4.0 |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain | 3.5 |
| Funkadelic One Nation Under a Groove | 3.5 |
| Gang of Four Entertainment! | 3.5 |
| George Michael Faith | 3.0 |
| Germs M.I.A.: The Complete Anthology | 4.0 |
| Ghost Mice Ghost Mice | 4.0 |
| Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab | 3.0 |
| Giant Sand Chore of Enchantment | 4.0 |
| Gin Blossoms New Miserable Experience | 3.5 |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper | 3.0 |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 2.5 |
| Glenn Branca The Ascension | 3.5 |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 2.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 1.0 |
| Goldfinger Goldfinger | 3.5 |
| Goldfinger Open Your Eyes | 1.5 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 2.5 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 3.0 |
| Grand Ulena Gateway to Dignity | 3.5 |
| Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump | 4.5 |
| Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep | 3.5 |
| Green Day 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours | 3.5 |
| Green Day Nimrod | 2.5 |
| Green Day Insomniac | 4.0 |
| Green Day Warning | 2.5 |
| Green Day Dookie | 3.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 2.0 |
| Green Day Bullet In A Bible | 3.0 |
| Gregor Samsa 55:12 | 4.0 |
| Grinderman Grinderman | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 3.5 |
| Guided by Voices Bee Thousand | 4.0 |
| Guided by Voices Alien Lanes | 4.0 |
| Gwen Stefani Love. Angel. Music. Baby. | 1.5 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 4.5 |
| Hallucinogen Twisted | 4.0 |
| Harmonia Musik von Harmonia | 4.0 |
| Harvey Milk Life... The Best Game in Town | 4.0 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 3.5 |
| Hawksley Workman Lover/Fighter | 3.0 |
| Helmet Meantime | 2.5 |
| Hepcat Right On Time | 4.5 |
| Hepcat Scientific | 4.0 |
| Herbie Hancock Head Hunters | 4.0 |
| Herbie Hancock is the man, and he proves it with Headhunters. The first track is 15 minutes of smooth funkiness showing off a snazzy brass section along with that dope bassline. Hancocks keyboard skills shine towards the middle of the track showcasing some blazing scales and bringing electronica into the mix. "Watermelon Man" is a slow, steady jazz tune while Sly is a vivid, quick-paced funk tune bringing in obvious african influences plus some raging trumpet lines. The album closes out with a slow, soothing number focusing on a steady drumline and some more of those cool trumpets. Overall Headhunters can be entertaining, relaxing, and upbeat at the same time; it's essential for any fan of funk or jazz music. |
| Herbie Hancock Sextant | 3.0 |
| Herbie Hancock Thrust | 3.5 |
| Herbie Hancock Man-Child | 4.0 |
| Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage | 4.0 |
| Hot Hot Heat Make Up the Breakdown | 2.5 |
| Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut | 4.0 |
| Human Bell Human Bell | 2.0 |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade | 4.5 |
| Husker Du New Day Rising | 3.5 |
| Ima Robot Ima Robot | 1.0 |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire | 2.5 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 3.5 |
| Interpol Antics | 3.0 |
| Iron And Wine The Creek Drank the Cradle | 4.5 |
| Iron And Wine Woman King | 3.0 |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days | 3.0 |
| Isaac Hayes Hot Buttered Soul | 4.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 3.0 |
| Islands Return To The Sea | 3.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 4.5 |
| Jane's Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual | 4.0 |
| Jean-Michel Jarre Equinoxe | 3.5 |
| Jeff Beck Blow by Blow | 3.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 3.5 |
| Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow | 4.5 |
| Jeru the Damaja Wrath of the Math | 3.5 |
| Jesu Jesu | 4.0 |
| Jesu Silver | 2.5 |
| Jesu Conqueror | 2.0 |
| Jesu/Battle of Mice Split | 3.0 |
| Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender | 2.5 |
| Joanna Newsom Ys | 2.0 |
| Joe Satriani Surfing With The Alien | 2.5 |
| John Cale Fear | 3.5 |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme | 4.5 |
| John Coltrane Giant Steps | 3.0 |
| John Coltrane Interstellar Space | 3.5 |
| John Coltrane Meditations | 4.0 |
| John Coltrane Lush Life | 4.0 |
| John McLaughlin Industrial Zen | 2.5 |
| John Zorn Astronome | 3.5 |
| Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison | 4.0 |
| Jose Gonzalez In Our Nature | 2.5 |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 3.5 |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control | 3.0 |
| Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers | 4.5 |
| Kaiser Chiefs Employment | 3.0 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 3.5 |
| Kashmir No Balance Palace | 3.0 |
| Killdozer Intellectuals Are the Shoeshine Boys of | 4.0 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 3.0 |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic | 3.5 |
| King Crimson Discipline | 2.0 |
| King Tubby Crucial Dub | 3.5 |
| Klute The Emperors New Clothes | 3.5 |
| Kraftwerk Autobahn | 4.5 |
| Kraftwerk The Man-Machine | 4.0 |
| Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 3.0 |
| Leftfield Rhythm And Stealth | 3.0 |
| Lemon Jelly Lost Horizons | 4.0 |
| Lemon Jelly Lemonjelly.KY | 3.5 |
| Less Than Jake Hello Rockview | 3.0 |
| Less Than Jake Losing Streak | 3.5 |
| Less Than Jake Anthem | 1.5 |
| Less Than Jake B Is for B-sides | 2.0 |
| Less Than Jake Borders and Boundaries | 2.0 |
| Lets Go Bowling Music to Bowl By | 4.0 |
| Liars Liars | 3.5 |
| LITE Phantasia | 3.5 |
| Live Throwing Copper | 3.5 |
| Los Lonely Boys Los Lonely Boys | 3.0 |
| Love Forever Changes | 2.0 |
| Low Long Division | 3.5 |
| Lusine Serial Hodgepodge | 2.0 |
| Mad Caddies Rock the Plank | 2.0 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 3.5 |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame | 3.0 |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire | 2.0 |
| Mantronix Mantronix: The Album | 4.0 |
| Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 2.0 |
| Matisyahu Shake Off the Dust...Arise | 3.0 |
| Matisyahu Youth | 3.5 |
| Matisyahu Live At Stubb's | 3.5 |
| Live At Stubbs is arguably Matisyahus best effort. It shows off some energetic and compelling tunes such as the hit single King Without A Crown, Refuge, and Close My Eyes as well as some chilled out and religious moments like Lord Raise Me Up and Aish Timid. Although the music can get quite bland at times there are enough interesting hooks and grooves to keep your attention throughout the course of the album. Live At Stubbs is not a monumental or amazing piece of work but it is a great record for anyones reggae collection. |
| Meet Me in St. Louis And With The Right Kind Of Eyes... | 3.0 |
| Melvins Houdini | 4.0 |
| Melvins Stag | 3.0 |
| Melvins Electroretard | 3.0 |
| Melvins Gluey Porch Treatments | 4.5 |
| Mercury Rev Boces | 4.5 |
| Merzbow 1930 | 2.0 |
| Method Man Tical | 3.0 |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 3.0 |
| Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells | 4.0 |
| Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells II | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way | 4.0 |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis Miles Smiles | 4.5 |
| Miles Davis Sketches of Spain | 2.5 |
| Millencolin Pennybridge Pioneers | 3.5 |
| Millencolin Kingwood | 3.0 |
| Minor Threat Complete Discography | 4.5 |
| Minotaur Shock Maritime | 3.0 |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 3.0 |
| Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime | 4.0 |
| Moby Play | 3.5 |
| Moby Hotel | 2.0 |
| Moby Play: The B Sides | 2.5 |
| Moby 18 | 2.0 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 2.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Fruit That Ate Itself | 2.0 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 2.0 |
| Mogwai Young Team | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young | 3.0 |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast | 2.5 |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People | 3.0 |
| Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling | 2.5 |
| Aside from a couple of decent cuts "The Hawk is Howling" fails to boast any unique or original material. Tracks such as "Local Authority" and "The Precipe" sound like lazy "Come on Die Young" b-sides. Although the music is pleasant enough Mogwai seem to have run out of fresh ideas since most of the songs plod along and fail to go anywhere. |
| Mono You Are There | 4.0 |
| Morphine Cure for Pain | 4.5 |
| Morphine Yes | 3.5 |
| Morrissey Maladjusted | 2.5 |
| Motion City Soundtrack I Am the Movie | 1.5 |
| Mouse on Mars Autoditacker | 4.0 |
| Mouse on Mars Radical Connector | 3.0 |
| Mouse on Mars Niun Niggung | 3.5 |
| Mouse on Mars Vulvaland | 3.5 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Quietly | 3.5 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 3.5 |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle | 4.0 |
| This has to be one of the strangest albums that I have ever listened to. Mike Patton fuses together funk, jazz, death metal, ska, circus music, and punk all together to create on hell of a ride. Every song lasts from about five to ten minutes long and while listening to each song five or six genres will be exposed. Patton will be screaming into the microphone over heavy guitar riffs and a few seconds later the music will change into jazz or funk. With Mr. Bungles s/t there are no rules and although the album can be to much to handle at points it's worth it if you want something unconventional or unique. |
| Mr. Bungle Disco Volante | 3.0 |
| MU330 Chumps On Parade | 4.0 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 2.0 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 2.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 2.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything | 2.5 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 2.0 |
| Nadja Radiance of Shadows | 3.5 |
| Naked City Torture Garden | 4.5 |
| Naked City Naked City | 4.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
| Native Nod Today Puberty, Tomorrow the World | 4.0 |
| Navio Forge As We Quietly Burn A Hole Into... | 3.5 |
| Neu! Neu! | 3.5 |
| Neu! Neu! '75 | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 2.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 2.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island | 3.0 |
| New Found Glory Catalyst | 1.5 |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left | 3.5 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 4.5 |
| Pink Moon proves that you only need a guitar and a vocalist to create breathtakingly beautiful music. Pink Moon is much more baron and stripped down then any other Drake release and that's why I enjoy it the most. While some claim that the guitar playing is way to simple that doesn't matter, Drake puts all of his emotions into twenty-six mintues of music. Pink Moon is not only my favorite "folk" album of all time it's also my favorite singer/songwriter album also. |
| Nick Drake Bryter Layter | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Still | 3.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 1.5 |
| Nirvana Incesticide | 3.0 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 1.0 |
| No Doubt Return of Saturn | 2.0 |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom | 3.5 |
| No Doubt Rock Steady | 2.5 |
| Nobukazu Takemura Scope | 4.0 |
| NOFX Punk in Drublic | 3.5 |
| NOFX Ribbed | 3.5 |
| NOFX The Decline | 3.0 |
| NOFX So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes | 2.5 |
| NOFX Pump Up the Valuum | 3.0 |
| NoMeansNo Wrong | 3.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 3.0 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 4.0 |
| of Montreal The Gay Parade | 4.5 |
| of Montreal Satanic Panic in the Attic | 3.0 |
| of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? | 3.0 |
| Oingo Boingo Dead Man's Party | 3.5 |
| OK Go Oh No | 2.0 |
| Okkervil River The Stage Names | 2.5 |
| Ol' Dirty Bastard Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version | 3.5 |
| Oneida The Wedding | 3.5 |
| Operation Ivy Energy | 4.5 |
| Organized Konfusion Stress: The Extinction Agenda | 4.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Strangeitude | 4.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles Erpland | 4.0 |
| Pale Saints The Comforts of Madness | 4.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 1.0 |
| When first hearing about Panic!At the Disco I thought they were a disco band that caused panic. Unforuntunately I was wrong and P!ATD are a pop-punk band that have a similar sound to Fall Out Boy. A Fever You Can't Sweat Out is filled with catchy melodies and upbeat guitar hooks but I still don't see what seperates this band from all of the other bland pop-punk bands out there. There are occasional piano scales played in a few songs but in all honesty P!ATD are basically your run of the mill pop band. |
| Parliament Mothership Connection | 4.5 |
| Patti Smith Horses | 3.0 |
| Patti Smith Easter | 3.5 |
| Pavement Brighten the Corners | 3.5 |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted | 4.0 |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | 3.5 |
| Pavement Terror Twilight | 3.0 |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee | 4.5 |
| Pearl Jam Vs. | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Yield | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy | 3.5 |
| Peeping Tom Peeping Tom | 3.5 |
| Pelican City of Echoes | 2.0 |
| Pelican Australasia | 3.5 |
| Pelican City Rhode Island | 3.0 |
| Penguin Cafe Orchestra Music from the Penguin Cafe | 3.5 |
| Pere Ubu The Modern Dance | 3.5 |
| Pete Namlook Air II | 4.0 |
| Peter Tosh Legalize It | 4.5 |
| After listening to Legalize It I instantly wonder why this guy wasn't as popular as Marley. Tosh's music has a heavy soul vibe and he brings in many female vocalists to sing back up on this album. Every track has an extremely laid-back and relaxing edge, while listening to the music it nearly makes you feel like you're laying on a beach in Jamaica. While no songs really stand out amongst each other Legalize It establishes a very cool and sublime atmosphere that few reggae albums could capture. |
| Peter Tosh Mama Africa | 4.5 |
| pg.99 Document #8 | 3.5 |
| Pharoah Sanders Karma | 4.5 |
| Pharoahe Monch Desire | 3.0 |
| Philip Glass Glassworks | 4.0 |
| Phish Junta | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother | 1.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd Is There Anybody Out There? | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 3.5 |
| If you are into psychadelic music then this is a must own album. While some refer to this as a Syd Barret album I disagree. 'Piper' ranges from the poppy 'Lucifer Sam' to the eerie and playful 'The Gnome.' Barrets hypnotic and trippy voice is firm throughout the course of the album but the ten minute instrumental 'Instersteller Overdrive" is one of the best drug songs of all time. and stands out amongst the rest of the songs off the album. Throughout the album their is creepy guitar work, twinkly effects and Syds hypnotic vocals add on and make this album extremely druggy. Even the lyrics on 'Flaming' are creepy revealiving information about a stalker. The album closes with 'Bike' a song that sounds like it would come out of a 70's horror movie. "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" is a masterpiece and every psychadelic fan should own it, or it least give it a chance. |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell | 2.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyds Dark Side of the Moon is one of the most popular and well known albums of all time. While the album is superb it isn't Floyds best album, but I can see why it got so much critical acclaim. The albums definately got range, 'Breathe' is a slow, atmospheric track powered by a simple guitar riff and Waters soothing vocal delivery fits in perfectly. 'Us and Them' is as soothing and jazzy as it gets, featuring a jazzy saxophone line and a soulful chorus. 'Money' is another jazzy tune with a groovy guitar solo and a choppy guitar riff. The albums closer 'Eclipse' is the most upbeat track off the album and is filled with hard hitting drums and psychadelic vocals. The album clearly has a lot of range and it mixes in psychadelic, jazz, and basic rock music. It's been more then 30 years since Dark Side of the Moon was released, and it is still fun to listen to since it is very relaxing and soothing. |
| Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 3.0 |
| Meddle is probably the most underated Pink Floyd album out there. While it isn't anything amazing or up to par with albums such as 'Animals' and 'Wish You Were Here' is still a good album. The album kicks off with the intense 'One of These Days.' It has a vibrant bassline and some smooth wind like effects. The next three tracks are very relaxing and soothing. 'San Tropez' has a nice, dinky piano solo along with a simple guitar riff. 'Fearless' is a riff based track, it's nothing special but then again it's soothing. 'Seamus' is the most creative and hit or miss track off the album. It features an acoustic guitar along with a dog barking in the background, it has an ultra bluesy feel to it. Meddle closes with a 23 minute track, 'Echoes.' It has some cool effects and nice guitar licks but overall it is just a bore. Gilmour plays a well done solo but that doesn't do much over the course of 23 minutes. While Meddle is a good, solid album it can be boring at times and that is why it is so forgotten. |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 2.0 |
| Pink Floyd Pulse — The Film | 3.5 |
| Pixies Best of Pixies: Wave of Mutilation | 4.0 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 3.5 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 4.0 |
| Pole Steingarten | 3.0 |
| Popol Vuh Aguirre | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 3.5 |
| port-royal Flares | 4.0 |
| Port Royals' "Flares" is one of the best ambient/post-rock albums that I've listened to in quite some time. Organic keyboard tones, lush production, crunchy beats, and hypntoic guitars are all found throughout the album. The music is able to create vivid imagery with minimal instrumentation, at times only a keyboard and drum machine are used throughout an entire song. Perhaps the most important aspect about the music is that it's so easy to get lost in, after two minutes of the opening track "Jeka" I already find myself hypnotized. "Flares" may not be the most unique album out their but it's an excellent ambient/post-rock album. |
| port-royal Afraid to Dance | 3.5 |
| Portugal. The Man Church Mouth | 2.0 |
| Prefuse 73 One Word Extinguisher | 3.5 |
| Primal Scream Screamadelica | 2.0 |
| Primus Frizzle Fry | 3.5 |
| Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits | 3.5 |
| Propagandhi How to Clean Everything | 4.5 |
| Propellerheads Decksandrumsandrockandroll | 3.0 |
| Public Enemy There's A Poison Going On | 3.0 |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 2.0 |
| Pulp His 'n' Hers | 3.5 |
| Pussycat Dolls PCD | 3.0 |
| Quasimoto The Further Adventures of Lord Quas | 4.0 |
| Quasimoto is the Mr.Bungle of hip-hop music. "Further Adventures..." features twenty six songs which all started out as skits. Madlib adds in plenty of special effects, odd sound recordings, and his helium like voice is truly something that hip-hop has never experienced. These songs range from gangsta rap, to smooth soulful tunes. Madlib will start a song out with a certain beat or rhythm and that same beat will appear just a few tracks later. Almost all of these songs are hit or miss tracks simply because there is so much going on at once that the music can just be hard to listen to at times. While there are a lot of sloppy and rushed songs slapped on here this album is still excellent because of the crucial tracks it contains. This isn't for your casual hip-hop fan, it's one of the weirdest and funkiest rap albums in the past five years. |
| Quasimoto The Unseen | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 2.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 2.5 |
| R. Kelly Trapped In The Closet (Chapters 1-12) | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. Monster | 3.5 |
| When people think of R.E.M. I'm sure that Monster isn't an album that comes to mind. This is by far and the most heavy and hard rocking album that R.E.M. has ever released and although many critics dispise this album I enjoy it. The big single 'What's the Frequency Kenneth' is a riff based rocker with some great distortion sounds, and that's the song most people including myself associate Monster with. Most of the album is filled with rough guitar riffs, hard hitting drums and distorted basslines. While things get extremely sloppy and unorganized at points Monster is worth it for hardcore R.E.M. fans and for those who want some music to rock out to. |
| R.E.M. Out of Time | 2.5 |
| R.E.M. Reckoning | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. Up | 2.0 |
| R.E.M. Lifes Rich Pageant | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. Reveal | 3.5 |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. Document | 4.0 |
| R.E.M. Murmur | 5.0 |
| I don't give to many albums five star ratings and it's a mystery why I enjoy this album as much as I do. There is no fancy instrumentation, clever production, or deep lyrics. It's not a deep or reflective album either, the music is as stripped down and basic as you can get. Every song is catchy as hell and the hazy, mysterious vibe of the Michael Stipes voice will always intruige me. Maybe Murmur doesn't deserve a five star rating but I can't find any flaws with the album and I've been listening to it for a good five years or so. |
| R.E.M. Dead Letter Office | 2.5 |
| R.E.M. New Adventures in Hi-Fi | 4.0 |
| R.E.M. Green | 3.0 |
| R.E.M. Accelerate | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 2.0 |
| Pablo Honey is a Radioheads debut album with hints of aggressive rock and grunge influences. The hit single 'Creep' is a soft dreary tune that has a depressing and somewhat hard rocking chorus. Thom Yorke and co. create an average rock album at best simply because there isn't enough substance to keep this from being a meh album. 'Ripcord' is the albums rocker, with some nice guitar lines and a loud abrasive chorus. Pablo Honey has some excellent moments, but overall to many songs sound to basic and stripped down. I think that there are just to many forgotten songs such as 'Vegetable' 'Prove Yourself' and the strange closer 'Blow Out.' All in all Pablo Honey is worth it if you enjoyed The Bends or are a pretty big Radiohead or alt/rock fan. Otherwise pass this one up. |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 2.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 3.5 |
| Rancid Indestructible | 3.0 |
| Rancid Let's Go | 3.0 |
| Rancid Rancid (2000) | 3.5 |
| Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves | 3.0 |
| Rancid Rancid | 3.0 |
| Rancid Life Won't Wait | 3.5 |
| Rapeman Two Nuns and a Pack Mule | 3.5 |
| Raphael Saadiq The Way I See It | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 2.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute | 2.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Red Hot Chili Peppers | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 2.5 |
| Like most double albums Stadium Arcadium has one disc full of solid tracks and the rest is either uninspired or filler. Most of the highlights are found on the first disk, and that's nothing surprising. Stadium Arcadium features a good amount of range, songs go from the laid-back and chilled out Snow to the upbeat and funky Warlocks. Overall Stadium Arcadium features some good, fun songs but in the end there are just to many boring tracks that bring it down. |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 4.0 |
| Red House Painters Red House Painters | 4.0 |
| Red House Painters Down Colorful Hill | 4.0 |
| Reel Big Fish We're Not Happy 'Till You're Not Happy | 2.5 |
| Reel Big Fish Cheer Up! | 3.0 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.0 |
| Return to Forever Romantic Warrior | 4.0 |
| Return to Forever Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy | 4.0 |
| Reverend Bizarre In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend | 4.5 |
| Richard Hell and The Voidoids Blank Generation | 4.5 |
| Richard Youngs Airs of the Ear | 4.0 |
| Ride Nowhere | 4.5 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 2.5 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela Rodrigo y Gabriela | 3.0 |
| Royksopp Melody A.M. | 4.0 |
| Rush Fly by Night | 3.5 |
| Rush Hemispheres | 4.0 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 3.0 |
| Russian Circles Enter | 3.0 |
| Sam Shalabi Eid | 3.0 |
| Save Ferris It Means Everything | 1.5 |
| Shellac At Action Park | 4.0 |
| Shellac Excellent Italian Greyhound | 3.0 |
| Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible | 4.5 |
| Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost | 4.5 |
| Shpongle Are You Shpongled? | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 2.0 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 3.0 |
| Silver Apples Silver Apples | 4.0 |
| Silver Jews American Water | 3.5 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water | 4.0 |
| Slapstick Slapstick | 3.0 |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Of Natural History | 4.0 |
| Slint Tweez | 2.5 |
| Slint Spiderland | 3.5 |
| Slowdive Souvlaki | 4.0 |
| Sly and The Family Stone Stand! | 4.5 |
| Smog Red Apple Falls | 3.0 |
| Sneaker Pimps Bloodsport | 4.0 |
| Snoop Dogg Doggystyle | 3.0 |
| Snow Patrol Final Straw | 1.0 |
| Social Distortion Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth Washing Machine | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth Goo | 2.0 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youths Daydream Nation is a very frustrating and discouraging listen. There are some mindblowingly good songs like "Teenage Riot" "Erics Trip" and "Rain King" yet the album drags on for such a long time. Sonic Youth are at their best when they play direct, to the point rock songs and don't screw around with delay or lengthy blasts of noise; "The Sprawl" and "Hyperstation" never seem to come to an end and a lot of these tracks could have easily been shortened. While I think that Daydream Nation is a worthwhile listen because of its standout tracks the album is very draggy and to long for its own good. |
| Sonic Youth Dirty | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Sister | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth Murray Street | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Rather Ripped | 2.5 |
| Sonic Youth Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star | 1.5 |
| Sonic Youth Evol | 2.5 |
| Sparklehorse Good Morning Spider | 4.5 |
| Sparklehorse Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot | 4.0 |
| Sparklehorse Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain | 3.0 |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space | 3.5 |
| Spiritualized Let It Come Down | 3.0 |
| Squarepusher Hard Normal Daddy | 3.5 |
| Stars of the Lid Avec Laudenum | 3.0 |
| Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | 3.5 |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 1.5 |
| Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup | 3.0 |
| Steve Roach New Life Dreaming | 3.5 |
| Stevie Wonder Innervisions | 4.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 4.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 3.5 |
| Sublime Sublime | 3.5 |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 3.5 |
| Illinois was possibly one of the most popular albums amongst the "indie" crowd in 2005. I enjoy the album and think that it's a great listen, but it's nothing amazing. Sufjan creates atmospheric, hypnotic, and beautiful melodies. The music is so soft and relaxing that it could put you right to sleep. Sufjan's voice is just like the music, soft and soothing which makes the music almost to gentle. There are points in the album where you just want to go to sleep, 22 songs is quite a stretch and the man needs to learn when to stop adding songs onto the album. There are six tracks that are less then one minute long yet the album lasts over an hour. The instruments consist of acoustic guitars, soothing basslines and some catchy vocal harmonies. All in all Illinois is worth your time but at the same time could put you right to sleep if you're a bit drowzy. |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway | 3.0 |
| Sun Ra Space is the Place | 4.0 |
| Sun Ra The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol 1 | 3.5 |
| Sunn O))) The Grimmrobe Demos (Demo) | 1.0 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 4.5 |
| Super Furry Animals Radiator | 4.5 |
| Super Furry Animals Guerilla | 4.5 |
| Super Furry Animals Love Kraft | 4.0 |
| Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity | 4.5 |
| Swervedriver Mezcal Head | 4.0 |
| Syd Barrett The Madcap Laughs | 3.5 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 5.0 |
| Talk Talk It's My Life | 2.5 |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden | 4.0 |
| Talk Talk The Party's Over | 2.0 |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 | 4.5 |
| Punky, funky, new-wavish post-punk from the late 70's. Every track is just so damn catchy, I'll have a different favorite from this album everytime I listen to it because it's so solid all the way through. David Byrnes erratic voice mixed with upbeat guitar grooves seems odd but it works very well. This may not be the Talking Heads most innovative release but it's their most simple, stripped down piece of work. |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 5.0 |
| Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues | 3.0 |
| Talking Heads Little Creatures | 2.5 |
| Talking Heads Naked | 3.0 |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music | 3.5 |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Phaedra | 4.5 |
| Tangerine Dream Cyclone | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Rubycon | 4.5 |
| Television Marquee Moon | 4.0 |
| Television Adventure | 3.0 |
| The Afghan Whigs 1965 | 3.0 |
| The Afghan Whigs Black Love | 4.0 |
| The Afghan Whigs Congregation | 3.5 |
| The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen | 3.5 |
| The Animals The Best of the Animals | 3.0 |
| The Aquabats Charge!! | 4.0 |
| With Charge The Aquabats put away the brass instruments and venture towards a more synth-pop influenced direction. It's extremely easy to compare The Aquabats to other new-wave groups such as Oingo Boingo and Devo as Charge consists of upbeat guitar riffs, quirky keyboard synths and humorous lyrics. Awesome Forces! and Fashion Zombies! are some of the catchiest pop-punk songs that I've ever heard and the MC Bat Commander avoids all pop-punk writing cliches as he sings about tigers, waterslides, and demolition derbies. Charge! may not be the greatest new-wave album out there but it's certaintly one of the most entertaining and fun albums that I've listened to in quite some time. |
| The Aquabats . . . Vs. the Floating Eye of Death! | 5.0 |
| The Aquabats The Fury of the Aquabats! | 4.5 |
| The Aquabats Myths, Legends and Other. . . Adventures | 3.5 |
| The Aquabats The Return of the Aquabats | 4.0 |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You | 3.0 |
| The Beach Boys Surf's Up | 2.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 2.5 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Help! | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 3.5 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 2.5 |
| The Beatles Let It Be… Naked | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 3.0 |
| The Bouncing Souls How I Spent My Summer Vacation | 3.5 |
| The Bouncing Souls The Bouncing Souls | 2.0 |
| The Bouncing Souls Hopeless Romantic | 3.5 |
| The Bouncing Souls The Good, The Bad, and The Argyle | 3.5 |
| The Briggs Numbers | 3.0 |
| The Bronx The Bronx | 3.5 |
| The Casualties On the Front Line | 3.0 |
| The Clash The Clash (US version) | 4.5 |
| The Clash The Clash | 4.0 |
| The Clash London Calling | 4.0 |
| The Cranberries Wake Up and Smell the Coffee | 2.5 |
| The Damned Damned Damned Damned | 4.5 |
| The Dead C The White House | 4.0 |
| The Dead C Future Artists | 4.0 |
| The Dead C Secret Earth | 3.5 |
| The Dears No Cities Left | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists | 2.5 |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts | 4.0 |
| The Dresden Dolls Yes, Virginia... | 2.0 |
| The Eleventh House Introducing The Eleventh House... | 4.5 |
| The Faint Wet From Birth | 2.0 |
| The Faint Danse Macabre | 2.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Oh My Gawd!!! | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Hit To Death In The Future Head | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Hear It Is | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic | 4.5 |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics | 2.0 |
| The Forces Of Evil Friend or FOE? | 3.0 |
| The Fucking Champs VI | 4.0 |
| The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike | 3.0 |
| The Good Life Black Out | 3.0 |
| The Hippos Heads Are Gonna Roll | 2.5 |
| The Hives Tyrannosaurus Hives | 3.0 |
| The Incredible String Band The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter | 3.5 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy | 3.0 |
| The Jesus Lizard Liar | 3.5 |
| The Jesus Lizard Goat | 3.5 |
| The Jesus Lizard Head | 3.0 |
| The Jesus Lizard Down | 2.0 |
| The Jolly Rogers The Jolly Rogers | 3.5 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 2.5 |
| The KLF Chill Out | 4.5 |
| The Knife Silent Shout | 3.0 |
| The Knife Deep Cuts | 3.0 |
| The Libertines The Libertines | 2.0 |
| The Magic Numbers The Magic Numbers | 2.0 |
| The Mamas and The Papas California Dreamin' | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 1.5 |
| The Microphones Mount Eerie | 4.0 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 | 4.5 |
| The Microphones Window | 3.0 |
| The Mothers of Invention Freak Out! | 4.0 |
| The Mothers of Invention Over-Nite Sensation | 3.5 |
| The Mothers of Invention We're Only in It for the Money | 4.5 |
| The Mothers of Invention Roxy & Elsewhere | 4.0 |
| The Mothers of Invention Weasels Ripped My Flesh | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride | 3.0 |
| The Nation of Ulysses Plays Pretty for Baby | 4.5 |
| The National Bank The National Bank | 3.5 |
| The New Pornographers Twin Cinema | 3.5 |
| The Notwist Neon Golden | 4.0 |
| The Offspring The Offspring | 3.0 |
| The Offspring Ignition | 3.0 |
| The Offspring Greatest Hits | 1.5 |
| The Offspring Americana | 2.0 |
| The Offspring Ixnay on the Hombre | 3.5 |
| The Offspring Splinter | 1.5 |
| The Offspring Conspiracy of One | 1.0 |
| The Offspring Smash | 4.0 |
| The Orb Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld | 4.0 |
| The Pietasters Oolooloo | 3.0 |
| The Pogues If I Should Fall from Grace with God | 3.5 |
| The Pogues Rum Sodomy & the Lash | 2.5 |
| The Pogues Hell's Ditch | 3.0 |
| The Police Zenyatta Mondatta | 3.0 |
| The Postal Service Give Up | 2.5 |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land | 3.5 |
| The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation | 2.5 |
| The Prodigy Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned | 3.0 |
| The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers | 3.0 |
| The Rentals Return of the Rentals | 4.0 |
| The Replacements Tim | 3.5 |
| The Sea And Cake Nassau | 4.0 |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow | 3.0 |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World | 3.0 |
| The Slackers Peculiar | 4.0 |
| The Slackers Close My Eyes | 3.5 |
| The Slits Cut | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines of God | 1.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot | 2.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 3.0 |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come | 2.5 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 3.5 |
| The Specials Specials | 4.5 |
| The Specials Too Much Too Young | 4.0 |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses | 1.0 |
| The Stooges Fun House | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 2.5 |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 2.5 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 3.5 |
| The Suicide Machines War Profiteering Is Killing Us All | 1.5 |
| The Suicide Machines A Match and Some Gasoline | 2.5 |
| The Suicide Machines Destruction By Definition | 3.5 |
| The Unicorns Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? | 3.0 |
| The Vagabonds ...And Still Counting | 4.5 |
| The Vandals Hollywood Potato Chips | 4.0 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 2.0 |
| The Who Live at Leeds | 4.5 |
| The Who Tommy | 4.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Horses in the Sky | 3.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes This Is Meant To Hurt You | 2.5 |
| They Might Be Giants Flood | 4.0 |
| They Might Be Giants Lincoln | 4.5 |
| They Might Be Giants They Might Be Giants | 3.5 |
| They Might Be Giants Apollo 18 | 3.0 |
| They Might Be Giants No! | 3.0 |
| They Might Be Giants The Spine | 3.0 |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser | 2.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 3.5 |
| Thursday Waiting | 3.0 |
| Tiger Army Tiger Army | 2.0 |
| Times New Viking Rip It Off | 4.0 |
| Tom Waits Small Change | 3.0 |
| Tom Waits Closing Time | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones | 4.0 |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs | 4.5 |
Rain Dogs incorporates influences of country, folk, jazz, and blues all into one. Groovy brass instruments weave their way in and out of twangy acoustic guitars and Toms loud, raspy voice. While listening to the album it almost seems like Waits and his crew picked up some old instruments laying around and just started playing. Rain Dogs has an extremely raw feel and songs jump from tense and boisterous rockers (Downtown Train, Big Black Mariah) to slow, bluesy tunes (Jockey Full of Bourbon, Walking Spanish. Accordians, marracas, and timpani's all find their way into the music and create a somber and nocturnal feel. Rain Dogs is a classic album featuring nineteen gloomy, dark, and occasionally chaotic songs.
Favorite Tracks:
Jockey Full of Bourbon
Hang Down Your Head
Walking Spanish |
| Tom Waits Bone Machine | 4.5 |
| Tom Waits Mule Variations | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Alice | 4.0 |
| Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards | 4.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 2.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 2.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 2.5 |
| Tortoise TNT | 4.5 |
| Tortoise Standards | 4.0 |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die | 4.5 |
| Tortoise Its All Around You | 3.0 |
| Tortoise A Lazarus Taxon | 4.0 |
| Traffic John Barleycorn Must Die | 2.5 |
| Transplants Haunted Cities | 1.0 |
| TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes | 2.0 |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain | 3.0 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 3.0 |
| U.S. Maple Long Hair in Three Stages | 4.5 |
| U2 Boy | 4.0 |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 3.0 |
| U2 War | 3.5 |
| Ulaan Khol I | 4.0 |
| Valet Blood Is Clean | 3.5 |
| Valet Naked Acid | 3.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.0 |
| Van Morrison Wavelength | 4.0 |
| Various Artists We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to the R | 1.5 |
| Vashti Bunyan Just Another Diamond Day | 1.5 |
| Venetian Snares The Chocolate Wheelchair Album | 2.0 |
| Venetian Snares Detrimentalist | 3.5 |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett | 3.0 |
| Violent Femmes Violent Femmes | 4.0 |
| Vitalic Ok Cowboy | 4.0 |
| Wagon Christ Musipal | 3.0 |
| We Are Scientists With Love and Squalor | 4.5 |
| Weather Report Heavy Weather | 2.0 |
| Heavy Weather is regarded as a fusion classic but I fail to understand why. Birdland is the only song that I truly enjoy, Teen Town has some funky bass parts, A Remark You Made is soothing, and Havona is a decent track but the rest is either boring or forgettable. Pastorious showcases some nice bass playing and there are some cool parts in certain songs but in the end Heavy Weather is a dull and boring listen. |
| Weather Report Mysterious Traveller | 4.0 |
| Weather Report Black Market | 2.5 |
| Ween Chocolate and Cheese | 4.0 |
| Ween GodWeenSatan: The Oneness | 3.5 |
| Ween The Mollusk | 4.5 |
| Ween The Pod | 3.5 |
| Ween Pure Guava | 5.0 |
| Nearly everything is found on this disc. One minute you'll be listening to low key tracks that consist of nothing but a sparse drum beat and random mumblings, the next thing you know a blast of noise is casted upon your ears! Pure Guava is so refreshing because the music is so different yet it remains accessible and strangely addicting at the same time. Some criticize Pure Guava for being too "uneven" but that's what makes it so fun. |
| Ween White Pepper | 2.5 |
| Ween Quebec | 4.0 |
| Ween Shinola, Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| Ween Friends | 3.5 |
| Ween La Cucaracha | 2.5 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 2.0 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 3.0 |
| Weezer Maladroit | 1.5 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 1.5 |
| Weezer Weezer | 3.5 |
| Weird Al Yankovic The Food Album | 3.5 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Bad Hair Day | 3.5 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Poodle Hat | 2.0 |
| Why? Alopecia | 2.5 |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 3.5 |
| Wilco A Ghost Is Born | 2.5 |
| Wilco Summerteeth | 4.0 |
| Wilco Being There | 3.0 |
| William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I | 4.5 |
| Windy and Carl Consciousness | 4.5 |
| Wipers Is This Real? | 3.0 |
| Wire Pink Flag | 4.0 |
| Wire Chairs Missing | 3.5 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 2.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars | 4.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.5 |
| Xzibit Man vs. Machine | 1.0 |
| Yakuza Transmutations | 4.0 |
| Yakuza Samsara | 4.0 |
| Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans | 2.0 |
| Yes Fragile | 3.5 |
| Yes 90125 | 1.0 |
| Yes Big Generator | 0.5 |
| Yes were one of the greatest progressive rock bands of all time. Unfortunately once the 80's came around the corner you knew that things were changing and it was completely obvious once the group released Big Generator. Instead of playing long prog-rock songs Yes decided to play upbeat, overlly joyful new-wave/pop songs that focused on love. The downside is that they still kept the song lengths and every one of these tracks are at least over four and a half minutes long. Throughout the course of the album you will experience sugary keyboards, upbeat guitar riffage, and worst all the horrid, high pitched vocal performance. The cheesy glimmering keyboards make their way into every one of these songs and it's like Yes are trying to make seven minute long pop songs. When people poke fun at 80's music this is the kind of music that are making fun of. |
| Yes Relayer | 3.5 |
| Yes Close to the Edge | 4.5 |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Rising Force | 3.0 |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One | 5.0 |
| Yo La Tengo Painful | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo Ride the Tiger | 3.0 |
| Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside... | 4.0 |
| Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass | 4.0 |
| Yowie Cryptooology | 4.0 |
| Yusef Lateef Eastern Sounds | 4.5 |
| Zebrahead MFZB | 3.0 |
| Zero 7 The Garden | 2.5 |
| Zwan Mary Star Of The Sea | 2.0 |
