| *NSYNC Celebrity | 2.5 |
| *NSYNC No Strings Attached | 3.5 |
| Mr. Fountain obviously has no idea what he is talking about. N Sync isn't about the musicianship, and his implication they had any real hand in that is absurd. What this album is pure, unadulterated bubble-gum pop, and arguably the best of the century. "Bye Bye Bye" and "It's Gonna Be Me" are both fantastic, and while there are some terrible songs, overall its an enjoyable collection of pop tunes to blast while you play "Barbie: Equestrian Fun." |
| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow | 3.5 |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo | 3.5 |
| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating | 3.0 |
| ...Who Calls So Loud ...Who Calls So Loud | 3.5 |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect | 3.0 |
| 1000 Travels of Jawaharlal Owari Wa Konai | 3.5 |
| 108 A New Beat From A Dead Heart | 4.0 |
| 1905 Voice | 4.0 |
| 2Pac All Eyez on Me | 3.0 |
| 2Pac Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| 2Pac Loyal To The Game | 2.0 |
| 3 The End is Begun | 3.5 |
| 3 The Ghost You Gave To Me | 3.0 |
| 3 Wake Pig | 3.0 |
| 3 Summercamp Nightmare | 2.5 |
| 3 Mice Send Me a Postcard | 4.3 |
| The feel good album of 2012. This album makes me happy in ways that I didn't know I could still feel from music. |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' | 3.0 |
| 50 Cent The Massacre | 2.0 |
| 50 Cent Curtis | 2.0 |
| A City Safe From Sea Throw Me Through Walls | 4.0 |
| Some bands just have it. A City Safe From Sea may not have anything to worry about from the Caspian, but they might be treading knee-deep in that shit. |
| A City Sorrow Built Motions | 3.4 |
| A Day In Black And White My Heroes Have Always Killed Cowboys | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart | 2.0 |
| A Day To Remember Homesick | 1.5 |
| A Hawk And A Hacksaw Delivrance | 3.5 |
| After they put on a surprisingly moving performance opening for Swans (when you got forty year old neckbeards grooving, you're doing something right), I decided to check em out. While I love all the eaten European flavor, its honestly just a little too far being on the side of kitsch for me, and without a live setting, it losses some appeal. still a solid, interesting listen. |
| A Static Lullaby A Static Lullaby | 2.0 |
| A Static Lullaby Faso Latido | 2.0 |
| A Static Lullaby ...And Don't Forget to Breathe | 2.5 |
| A Static Lullaby Rattlesnake! | 2.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders | 3.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory | 3.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Love Movement | 2.5 |
| A Tribe Called Quest Beats, Rhymes And Life | 2.5 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Ruiner | 4.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 4.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Mute Print | 4.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream A Wilhelm Scream | 4.0 |
| ABBA ABBA Gold | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 4.5 |
| AC/DC T.N.T. | 3.5 |
| AC/DC High Voltage | 3.5 |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap | 3.5 |
| AC/DC Powerage | 3.5 |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 4.0 |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 2.5 |
| AFI AFI | 3.5 |
| AFI The Art of Drowning | 2.5 |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset | 3.5 |
| AFI Crash Love | 3.0 |
| Against Me! Crime as Forgiven By | 4.5 |
| Against Me! Black Crosses | 3.0 |
| Worse in almost every way than White Crosses. There are reasons a band gets more streamlined |
| Against Me! Vivida Vis! | 3.5 |
| Against Me! Against Me! | 5.0 |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose | 4.5 |
| Against Me! Searching for a Former Clarity | 4.5 |
| Against Me! As the Eternal Cowboy | 4.0 |
| Against Me! New Wave | 3.5 |
| Against Me! White Crosses | 4.5 |
| I don't think anyone has made as big of a "fuck you" album to their old fans as Against Me! have done here. Luckily, those fans were all dirty, disgusting hippies anyways. White Crosses is louder, more frenetic, and catchier than their previous record New Wave, while providing an even bigger adrenaline rush. This is a new Against Me! for a new fanbase, and its kick-ass. |
| Against Me! The Disco Before the Breakdown | 4.0 |
| Against Me! Against Me! 12'' | 2.0 |
| Against Me! Total Clarity | 2.5 |
| Against Me! The Original Cowboy | 3.5 |
| Age Sixteen Open Up Finders, Please | 3.0 |
| Aiden Nightmare Anatomy | 1.0 |
Oh look at me I'm a pretty little make up wearing fairy. Oh wait you want me to make music? Is it ok if that music sounds like a bad ripoff of My Chemical Romance and Maroon 5 at the same time? Cool. Is it ok if I sound like I have a testicle clamp? Yeah? Right on dude.
Oh, and this album is terrible. Buy something by From First to Last if you want something in this vein. |
| Air Talkie Walkie | 4.0 |
| Air Love 2 | 3.0 |
| Air Pocket Symphony | 3.0 |
| Air Moon Safari | 4.0 |
| Air 10,000 Hz Legends | 2.0 |
| Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go... | 3.5 |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 2 | 3.0 |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill | 4.5 |
| Alanis Morissette Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie | 2.5 |
| Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge | 2.0 |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 2.5 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals | 3.5 |
| A bunch of really good rock songs. The vocals can be grating and the song formula is pretty consistent and unvariable, but all in all it contains some of the most instantly accessible music alexisonfire have made to date. |
| Algernon Cadwallader Some Kind Of Cadwallader | 3.5 |
| Algernon Cadwallader Parrot Flies | 3.5 |
| Hey did you listen to the first Algernon Cadwallader album? The one with all the twinkly fun bullshit that was sort of like a weirdly darker Cap'n Jazz? Yeah, this is their second album. Its more twinkly bullshit that is sort of like a weirdly darker Cap'n Jazz. Weirdly Darker Jazz'n Cap |
| Alias The Other Side Of The Looking Glass | 4.0 |
| Alias Resurgam | 3.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Goddamnit | 4.0 |
| Alkaline Trio From Here To Infirmary | 4.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Maybe I'll Catch Fire | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio Good Mourning | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio Crimson | 4.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Damnesia | 4.0 |
| All the Empires of the World ...Will Be Laid To Waste | 4.0 |
| Amanda Woodward La Decadence de la Decadence | 3.0 |
| American Steel Destroy Their Future | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth Twilight Of The Thunder God | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth With Oden On Our Side | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World | 4.0 |
| Amon Tobin ISAM | 3.0 |
| Amon Tobin Adventures In Foam | 3.5 |
| Amon Tobin Foley Room | 3.5 |
| Amon Tobin Chaos Theory - Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Amon Tobin Out From Out Where | 3.5 |
| Amon Tobin Supermodified | 4.0 |
| Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today | 3.5 |
| Ampere Like Shadows | 4.0 |
| The best emo album of the short year so far, but after being spoiled for years with bands who played a longer, more satisfying style of music, is Ampere as impactful as they once were? Eh, still gonna rule live. |
| Ampere / Daitro Split | 4.0 |
| Amy Winehouse Back To Black | 2.0 |
| An Albatross We Are The Lazer Viking | 3.5 |
| An Albatross The An Albatross Family Album | 3.5 |
| An Albatross Blessphemy (Of The Peace-Beast Feastgive | 3.5 |
| Anasarca Discography 1994-1997 | 4.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar | 3.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures | 3.0 |
| this does nothing for me. i had a good conversion with weepingbanana about this last night. i won't share what we said, but it would make people rating this 4+ upset! |
| Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha | 3.0 |
| Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs | 4.0 |
| Andrew Jackson Jihad People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People | 2.5 |
| Andrew Jackson Jihad Only God Can Judge Me | 1.0 |
| Andrew Jackson Jihad Can't Maintain | 1.0 |
| Angel Hair Pregnant With The Senior Class | 3.5 |
| Angelo Badalamenti Mulholland Drive (score) | 4.0 |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper | 1.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves? More like Angels and Suckwaves amirite? No, but seriously folks, how about them guitar effects? Yeah, they're supposed to make Tom and crew look really neat, but all they really do is make me want to listen to a better band that uses them. Did I mention Tom still can't write a good song by himself worth a shit? Well, he can't. He still also has a very, very boring voice, and we now see the genious that was Mark on the Blink records. If you want pretentious prog, get something by The Mars Volta. If you want catchy pop punk, well, get Blink 182. Just plain don't get this. It has AIDS. AIDS is evil. |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 5.0 |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 4.5 |
| Pretty sure from here on out, Animal Collective is going to be a band you desperately love, sort of enjoy, or think are really, really stupid. Its pretty certainly the best EP the Co have released, with its fairly condensed running time and fantastic version of "What Would I Want? Sky" being the biggest contributing factor to its excellence. |
| Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone... | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective Danse Manatee | 2.0 |
| Animal Collective Here Comes the Indian | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Campfire Songs | 2.5 |
| Anthony Green Avalon | 2.5 |
| Anti-Flag For Blood And Empire | 2.0 |
| Anti-Flag The Bright Lights Of America | 1.0 |
| Anti-Flag The People Or The Gun | 1.0 |
| Anti-Flag The Terror State | 1.0 |
| Antioch Arrow In Love with Jetts/The Lady Is a Cat | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 3.8 |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant | 3.0 |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine | 3.0 |
| Architects Ruin | 3.5 |
| Architects Nightmares | 3.5 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am... | 3.0 |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom | 3.5 |
| Arghoslent Incorrigible Bigotry | 4.0 |
| Army of the Pharaohs Ritual of Battle | 3.0 |
| Army of the Pharaohs The Torture Papers | 2.5 |
| Army of the Pharaohs The Unholy Terror | 3.0 |
| Arsis We Are the Nightmare | 2.5 |
| As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You | 3.0 |
| Asher Roth Asleep In The Bread Aisle | 4.5 |
| Ashlee Simpson Autobiography | 2.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 5.0 |
| Sometimes, you just dont like an album when you first hear it. That was the case with me and Relationship of Command; I just didn't like it at first. After a year of laying off of it, I gave it another listen, and it absolutely blew me away. The energy on the album is incredible, almost greater than anything you could imagine them doing live. Oh, did I mention that the guys can play their instruments pretty goddamn well? Each member is far more than competent at their instrument, and in combination with the eclectic song structures and Cedric's passionate shouting and screaming, this album is rather brilliant in every fashion. |
| At the Drive-In Vaya | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 4.5 |
| At the Drive-In El Gran Orgo | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Alfaro Vive, Carajo! | 3.0 |
| At the Drive-In Hell Paso | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational | 3.0 |
| Atmosphere God Loves Ugly | 2.5 |
| Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons... | 4.0 |
| Atmosphere The Family Sign | 3.0 |
| After the initial blast of honesty and "ohmygod i love atmosphere!1!" wore off, this has really become quite a disappointment. Yeah, the record is fucking "real", and some of the songs really touch a nerve. Thing is, a lot of it is tripe. "The Last to Say" is a stunning song, and if even most of the album had been in a similar vein, this would be so much better. Unfortunately, most of its more akin to "Bad Bad Daddy". Being pretty cheesy has always been a pretty big part of Atmosphere, but here it overwhelms. "im a bad bad daddy, im a bad bad daddy". Are you, fucker? |
| Atreyu Fractures In the Facade Of Your.... | 1.5 |
| leik omg there is no base on this album. No seriously, where is it? I don't know. The guitarists are almost passable here, but overreach their goals and end up being pretentious. The vocalist is even worse than on The Curse, which means he should have been executed on this album. The drummer is ok. He lets this album get an extra .5 because I'm a nice guy if you haven't noticed. |
| Atreyu A Deathgrip On Yesterday | 1.5 |
| This is the third time Atreyu have been below a 2. Do I like any album I've heard by them at all? No. No I do not. The sad thing Brendan (drummer) shows he is actually probably the best backup vocalist in metalcore, and could actually hold a lot of these popcore songs together if he was allowed too. Instead, teh dinosaur decides to come shrieking back in at every possible waking hour, and leads me to want to go all Godzilla on his ass. I could take him. |
| Atreyu The Curse | 1.0 |
| Rawr. I'm a dinosaur. Hear me roar. Well, squak. Wanna know what I sound like on this record? Ok. FOIHSDIGSOIDUFIPSHDIPFGUOGF*GE)GFREOUGFPIUGSDPIG. Thats sexy and catchy right? Yeah my drummers a much better singer but all the kids like to hear me rip apart my vocal chords so I get to be lead Velociraptor. Oh, and my band is like uber generic. Yeah. It's like they sound like a bad metalcore version of Hawthorne Heights. Except we kinda want to be really poppy still so we make really simple basslines and just faux-wank on our guitars. Squawk. |
| Atreyu Visions | 1.0 |
| Atreyu Suicide Notes And Butterfly Kisses | 1.0 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 3.0 |
| Audioslave Revelations | 3.0 |
| Autechre Exai | 3.4 |
| this is the only time ill ever agree with baseline00000000000000 lolnot |
| AVAST! Faultlines | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 1.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go | 2.0 |
| Avril Lavigne Under My Skin | 3.0 |
| Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing | 3.0 |
| Ayumi Hamasaki Rainbow | 2.0 |
| B.o.B The Adventures Of Bobby Ray | 4.0 |
| Backstreet Boys Unbreakable | 2.0 |
| Bad Brains Build A Nation | 3.0 |
| Baha Men Who Let the Dogs Out | 3.0 |
| Baroness Red Album | 3.5 |
| Bars Introducing... | 3.5 |
| BATS Cruel Sea Scientist | 3.5 |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw | 3.5 |
| Bayside The Walking Wounded | 2.5 |
| Bayside Bayside | 3.5 |
| Bayside Sirens & Condolences | 3.0 |
| Bear vs. Shark Right Now You're in the Best of Hands | 2.0 |
| Beastie Boys To The 5 Boroughs | 3.5 |
| The BEastie Boys had been gone for a while, and the announcement of another project without the Dust Brothers was kind of scary. However, the boys pull it off well; while their production skills have nothing on the Dust Brothers, they still pull it off quite well ("Triple Trouble" has chimes that make me shiver). Their flow, while getting a bit tired, is still as solid as ever, and Adrock continues to shine through as a standout rapper in his own right. The lyrics are a product of the times; political and social commentary that is perhaps a tad bit too preachy. While the album isn't made for repeated listens, it's more than a small bit enjoyable for a few listens here and there. |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys Hello Nasty | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Check Your Head | 3.5 |
| Beck One Foot In The Grave | 2.5 |
| Beck Modern Guilt | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Demigod | 3.5 |
| Belle Epoque Wicked Ones and Thieves | 4.0 |
| Ben Folds Songs for Silverman | 3.5 |
| Ben Folds Rockin' The Suburbs | 3.5 |
| Better Music Magnvm Opvs | 4.1 |
| I haven't felt this way since the last time I did heroin |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.5 |
| Beyonce B'Day | 2.0 |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum | 4.0 |
| The best album released this year that I have reduced to background music, "Dandelion Gum" is a trippy ass psychedelic/trip hop album that features some heavily upbeat material, and has some great 60/70's vibes going on throughout it. It's a great record to just have playing while you're browsing the internet, taking a relaxing drive down an empty highway, or even watching a low-key movie. A massive improvement over "Start a People". |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Eating Us | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Greatest Hits 1970-1978 | 2.5 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 2.5 |
| Black Tusk Passage Through Purgatory | 3.0 |
| Black Veil Brides Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones | 2.0 |
| Honestly, anyone who hates this with enough passion to get butthurt on the internet about it probably hasn't heard it. It's cock rock with a few extra bells and whistles and an attempt to personally connect to the band's audience with some silly story about a girl and her nightmares. I'd suggest staying away, but if you're, for some reason, in the mood for some bland radio metal, go for it and take a peek! |
| Blackalicious Blazing Arrow | 4.0 |
| Blacklisted Peace On Earth, War On Stage | 4.5 |
| Blacklisted We're Unstoppable | 3.5 |
| Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God | 4.0 |
| Blacklisted No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me | 3.0 |
| Blaqk Audio CexCells | 3.0 |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth | 3.5 |
| Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Cheshire Cat | 2.0 |
| blink-182 blink-182 | 4.5 |
| blink-182 Enema of the State | 2.5 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 3.0 |
| blink-182 The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show | 3.5 |
| Bloc Party A Weekend In The City | 2.0 |
| Bloodhound Gang One Fierce Beer Coaster | 2.5 |
| Blu and Exile Below the Heavens | 3.5 |
| Blues Traveler Four | 3.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - The Desanctification | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has The Right To Children | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Adults!!! | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Everybody That You Love | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles | 5.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World! | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave Or Die In Long Island | 4.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation | 4.5 |
| Somebody mentioned recently that Vacation is the Pet Sounds of punk music. Obviously, that is a ridiculous statement, but the thing is Bomb The Music Industry! fans really might think that. In todays music scene, BTMI! might have the most slavishly devoted fan base in the US. Its interesting that all the reasons BTMI! is great to those people, the sloppy punk riffs, silly and ridiculous shouted gang vocals and hooks, the hilariously stupid (but imminently relatable and thought out) lyrics, and the disregard for songwriting conventions, are why most people would HATE them, but BTMI! do everything with so much enthusiasm and energy its like watching a kid learn how to ride a bike for the first time. Its pure magic.r |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 2.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver | 3.5 |
| A solid to borderline exceptional album, marred by the fact that Vernon still doesn't delve into depths worthy of his obvious songwriting ability. |
| Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet | 2.0 |
| Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Strength And Loyalty | 3.0 |
| Boomerang Sounds of Sirens | 2.5 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.0 |
| Boys Like Girls Boys Like Girls | 2.0 |
| Boysetsfire The Misery Index: Notes From The Plague | 4.0 |
| Boysetsfire Tomorrow Come Today | 3.0 |
| Boysetsfire After The Eulogy | 2.5 |
| Boysetsfire Suckerpunch Training | 3.5 |
| Boysetsfire The Day The Sun Went Out | 2.5 |
| Boysetsfire Before The Eulogy | 3.0 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 3.0 |
| If you ever want to hear what a smart guy can do when he tries to make a record as messy as possible, Daisy is probably the place to start with. |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.0 |
| Britney Spears In The Zone | 2.5 |
| Britney Spears ...Baby One More Time | 2.5 |
| Britney Spears Blackout | 2.0 |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells | 3.0 |
| Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record | 3.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Magic | 3.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Devils & Dust | 4.0 |
| The last "great" thing Bruce will ever record. If something akin to this was released during his heyday, it would be compared with Nebraska as his strongest record. |
| Bruno Mars Doo-Wops & Hooligans | 3.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 3.0 |
| Buried Inside Chronoclast | 3.0 |
| Burton Wagner 21 | 3.5 |
| BUS Moving People | 3.0 |
| Butch Walker Sycamore Meadows | 2.5 |
| Caliban The Opposite From Within | 1.5 |
| They sound like heavy Atreyu to me. Yeah, the vocals are ten times better, but when you're muliplying ten by zero, you still get zero. The musicianship is almost solid, but for some odd reason this album doesnt do it for me at all and I get bored about halfway through. The Beoved is a good song, but everything else? Think "You're Beautiful" in badness. |
| Camel Mirage | 4.2 |
| wow another bitch ass who hasnt heard camel did you realise camel is the best band ever besides rush? did you even know?r |
| Camel Moonmadness | 4.1 |
| wow another bitch ass who hasnt heard camel did you realise camel is the best band ever besides rush? did you even know?r |
| Camel The Snow Goose | 4.2 |
| wow another bitch ass who hasnt heard camel did you realise camel is the best band ever besides rush? did you even know?r |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague | 3.5 |
| Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology | 4.0 |
| One of the most "developed" emo compilations I've heard from the early days of the genre, Cap'n Jazz was something special; incredibly catchy, extremely emotional, and great (if sloppy) musicians with a sense for melody and simple-but-effective. Vocalist Tim often sings completely off key, but you'd hardly notice with all the passion in his voice. The ylrics are something else, both relatable and profound (for the most part). While disc 1 is a bit better than 2, its pretty evenly distributed, and you cant fault over 90 minutes of Cap'n Jazz at all. |
| Capsule [US] Blue | 4.0 |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled | 4.1 |
| Wow this is a real pop punk album fuck the wonder years ugh |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms World of Sleepers | 3.5 |
| Carole King Tapestry | 3.0 |
| Carpathian Isolation | 3.0 |
| Cat Power Jukebox | 3.0 |
| Cattle Decapitation Karma.Bloody.Karma | 2.0 |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity | 2.5 |
| Cave In Perfect Pitch Black | 3.0 |
| Cave In Until Your Heart Stops | 3.5 |
| Cave In White Silence | 3.5 |
| Cease Upon the Capitol Untitled | 4.0 |
| An eclectic mix of various different types of emo, Cease Upon the Capitol have somewhat adopted the recent post-rock trend that bands have been jumping on for years it seems, Cease Upon the Capitol combine the tension of a band like In First Person with the theatrics and churning/building nature of City of Caterpillar, all the while not overblowing it with songs twice as long as they need to be. Definitely one of the strongest emo releases of 2007, and possibly the only real challenger to the Kidcrash's "Jokes". |
| Cease Upon the Capitol Cease Upon the Capitol | 3.0 |
| Celeste Pessimiste(s) | 3.0 |
| Celeste Nihiliste(s) | 3.0 |
| Celeste Morte(s) Nee(s) | 2.5 |
| Ceremonial Oath Carpet | 2.0 |
| Ceremony Violence Violence | 4.0 |
| Ceremony Scared People | 3.5 |
| Ceremony Still Nothing Moves You | 4.0 |
| Ceremony Ruined | 5.0 |
| Ceremony Rohnert Park | 4.0 |
| Chamillionaire Ultimate Victory | 4.0 |
Chamillionaire produces the hip hop album of the year, in one of the biggest efforts I've heard this side of a Martin Scorsese film. Ultimate Victory is a collection of intelligent raps on current affairs, traditional southern crunk songs about cash and groupies, and discussion on the current state of Hip Hop itself. Featuring one of the smoothest flows in mainstream rap, Chamillionaire is truly the shining gem among all those other "gangsta" rappers out there, up there with the duo from Clipse as the leading figures in popular rap. |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 3.5 |
| Chevelle This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 1.5 |
| Listening to this album is so painful that the only way I know how to ease the pain is to kill a kitten. From the generic songs (everything sounds the fucking same, and don't say "BUT THE SLOW SONG" kill yourself), the boring riffing and shredding (and don't say "BUT CLASSICAL SCALES" kill yourself), and Alexi's affront to vocalists everywhere (and don't say...ok well no one likes his vocals on this album KILL YOURSELF), there is nothing of note here for anything but CoB fans. |
| Chimaira Chimaira | 3.0 |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well | 1.5 |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet | 2.5 |
| Chiodos The Heartless Control Everything | 1.5 |
| Chiodos Illuminaudio | 2.5 |
| Chris Brown Exclusive | 3.0 |
| Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves Canyons | 4.0 |
| Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera | 3.0 |
| Christina Aguilera Stripped | 3.0 |
| Christina Aguilera Back to Basics | 3.5 |
| Chuck Ragan Los Feliz | 3.0 |
| Chuck Ragan Gold Country | 2.5 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 3.0 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 2.5 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 3.0 |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves | 1.0 |
| I honestly cannot stress how painfully unoriginal and grating this band has become. Just because they don't sound like any other epitaph or equal vision band does not mean they're doing something new or exciting. Fuck this band. |
| Circle Takes The Square As the Roots Undo | 5.0 |
| So, Circle Takes the Square is rapidly becoming a favorite band of mine. They only have 13 true songs to even choose from, but every single one of those 13 songs is amazing in its own right. The strongest of those come from this, As the Roots Undo. It's epic, its incredibly emotional, it's technically stunning, and the lyrics are pure poetry. It's a triumph of recent times that should be required listening, if not required love. |
| Circle Takes The Square Circle Takes the Square | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes The Square Rites of Initiation | 4.5 |
| Circle Takes The Square Decompositions: Volume Number One | 3.5 |
| okay so i knew the first half would be a 4, and the second half lives up to that. no big surprise, except for the fact that it feels so fucking long. i don't think its really any longer than as the roots undo, but it just lacks the dynamic songwriting that really made that record. |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 3.5 |
| Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet & Mogwai The Fountain | 3.5 |
| Clipse Lord Willin' | 3.5 |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury | 4.5 |
| Clipse make a large return to form with Hell Hath No Fury, and so so with more vigor, skill, and production values than ever before. While you can vaguely tie them in with todays "gangsta-bitch" styling of rap, they do it much better than anyone else; envenomed flows, psuedo-experimental beats, and a sense of majesty T.I. wished he had. |
| cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD | 5.0 |
| cLOUDDEAD Ten | 3.5 |
| Coalesce OX | 1.0 |
| Cogito Vital EP | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.5 |
| Usually, I save 5's for albums that either have huge influential purposes, or in which every song is just so brilliant that it would be unjust to give anything lower. For some reason, Good Apollo has 9 outstanding songs and 5 pretty good ones, yet I can't help but be in love with it. Don't let anyone else deter you; Coheed are staking themselves as the commercial leaders of this new movement of radio prog, and this album has cemented the fact that they're also largely unique and competent as musicians (particularly Sanchez and Stever). |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 5.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Kerrang! / XFM UK Acoustic Sessions | 2.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Last Supper: Live At Hammerstein Ballroom | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Neverender | 5.0 |
I have only listened to three songs but I already know how much I'm going to like this and so do you.
Only review needed. |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 2.3 |
| I don't know what you guys are thinking. This is the same shit as Year if the Black Rainbow, with more guitar pedals and vocal effects. Number City is a really cool pop song, and Gravity's almost becomes something great, but the rest of the album is full of boring songwriting and extremely forgettable riffs. Coheed and Cambria are fucking dead. |
| Colbie Caillat Breakthrough | 2.0 |
| Cold Year Of The Spider | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Viva La Vida | 4.0 |
| Comadre Burn Your Bones | 5.0 |
| Comadre More Songs About The Man | 3.5 |
| Comadre Comadre | 4.5 |
Sometimes I give up on hardcore music, and then sometimes a band like Comadre release an album and my
faith is briefly restored. A rare band that can really transfer the energy of their live show to record.
Combining the frantic musicianship of their past material with a newf pound willingness to go full on with
their 80's post-punk and 90's Weezer influence, Comadre is hopefully a stepping stone for more dense,
macabre and danceable punk music to come into the scene. |
| Combatwoundedveteran This is Not an Erect, All-Red Neon Body | 4.0 |
| An essential collection of spazzcore/grind songs, this compilation includes everything Combatwoundedveteran did besides their full length, and thus also is everything good that they ever recorded. Gritty as fuck and also ridiculous and sometimes hysterically intense, everyone who wants to pretend to be a hardcore nut should pick this up. |
| Combatwoundedveteran I Know A Girl Who Develops Crime Scene Photos | 3.0 |
| Common Be | 3.0 |
| Conducting From the Grave When Legends Become Dust | 2.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 4.0 |
By far the most *** kicking release of the year, Converge drop their second guitarist but continue to be one of the most intense bands on the planet. From the brutal opening tracks, to the near ballad-y ?Grim Heart/Black Rose,? to the almost emocore ?Lonewolves,? this is arguably the most well rounded album Converge have yet to release. |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 3.5 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 5.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
I fucking knocked this one kids face in once.
This album is pretty much like knocking face in for 45 minutes, plus breakdowns. |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing | 4.8 |
| Converge Caring and Killing | 3.0 |
| Converge Unloved and Weeded Out | 3.0 |
| Converge The Poacher Diaries | 3.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.3 |
| Converge Halo in a Haystack | 3.0 |
| Looking 15 years back on it, you really see how much goddamn potential this band and even this album had. With a decent remastering this could be almost equal to their other works. But even for Converge, the sound here is just so awful its hard to really appreciate whats going on here. Couple that with the fact at times its a bit too weird, makes this arguably the "worst" Converge record, but goddamn if it isn't impressive nonetheless. |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Creed My Own Prison | 2.5 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Chronicle, Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Crossed Out 1990-1993 | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 4.0 |
| CSTVT Summer Fences | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 3.5 |
| Cursed III: Architects of Troubled Sleep | 3.0 |
| Cursive Such Blinding Stars for Starving Eyes | 2.5 |
| Cursive Domestica | 5.0 |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 4.0 |
| Cursive The Storms of Early Summer: Semantics of | 2.5 |
| Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen | 4.0 |
| I had extreme anxiety coming into "Mama, I'm Swollen". On one hand, the two studio songs I had heard were amazingly catchy and well written, and the live version of "What Have I Done?" was astounding. On the other hand, this is now their 6th full studio record, and I was scared that perhaps Tim Kasher would run out of things to write about. He did. This album is still amazing. |
| Cynic Demo 1991 | 3.5 |
| Cynic Focus | 5.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 5.0 |
| Listening to "Traced in Air", it isn't some massive evolution from "Focus". However, everything about the band has been tightened in the 15 year layover, and the album is far smoother and more focused, resulting in a much more listenable and flowing affair. The incredible riffs and solos are back, and the vocals are far better and are actually now reason enough to listen. With improved percussion, bass work that while not as show-offy as before is still just as precise, and an incredible overarching sense of beauty, "Traced in Air" is one of the best records of 2008, even with only a night of listening under my belt. |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy | 4.5 |
| D12 D12 World | 2.0 |
| Daddy Yankee Barrio Fino En Directo | 1.0 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 4.0 |
| Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes | 4.0 |
| Daitro Des Cendres, Je Me Consume | 3.5 |
| Daitro Y | 3.0 |
| Daitro / Sed Non Satiata Split | 4.0 |
| Damien Dempsey To Hell Or Barbados | 3.5 |
| Dan Deacon Bromst | 3.5 |
| Dan The Automator A Much Better Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain | 2.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance | 2.0 |
| DangerDoom The Mouse And The Mask | 3.0 |
| Dangers Anger | 4.0 |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? | 3.5 |
| Danny Elfman Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 4.0 |
| Danny Elfman The Nightmare Before Christmas | 4.0 |
| Danny Elfman The Corpse Bride | 3.0 |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel | 2.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 3.0 |
| Darkspace Dark Space II | 3.5 |
| Darkspace Dark Space III | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance | 4.9 |
| bump in honor of black metal history month |
| Dashboard Confessional Dusk and Summer | 3.0 |
| Dashboard Confessional The Shade of Poison Trees | 3.0 |
| Dashboard Confessional The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most | 4.0 |
| Daughters Daughters | 4.5 |
| Every single time you've gone over 100 on the freeway, every single time you've ever been at a metal show headbanging, every single time you've ever seen or heard a large explosion, every single time you've ever seen a transvestite dance on a table, every single time this has been WAY HEAVIER, WEIRDER, LOUDER, AND FASTER THAN ANYTHING YOU'VE EVER FUCKING EXPERIENCED get bent |
| Dead Man In Reno Dead Man In Reno | 3.5 |
| Death Symbolic | 3.5 |
| Death By Stereo Death Alive | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Drive Well, Sleep Carefully (DVD) | 2.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 3.0 |
| Deep Puddle Dynamics The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel | 4.5 |
| Deep Sleep Turn Me Off | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Monomania | 3.8 |
| An album that isn't as grand or incredibly OVERWHELMING as their previous records, but is probably an easier listen. Best praise I could give it is that I listened to this more than once in a row when I first heard it, unlike Microcastle or Halcyon Digest |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 4.0 |
| Defeater Travels | 3.5 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 3.0 |
| Defiance, Ohio The Fear, The Fear, The Fear | 4.0 |
| Defiance, Ohio The Great Depression | 4.5 |
| Probably the most important "folk punk" album (at least, of the scene they hail from), "The Great Depression" is a beautiful achievement that probably wont be matched by a bunch of smelly hippies again. |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.0 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.4 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 3.5 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 3.0 |
| Del tha Funkee Homosapien Eleventh Hour | 2.5 |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 4.0 |
| Demians Building An Empire | 3.5 |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych | 2.0 |
| Demons and Wizards Demons & Wizards | 3.5 |
| Demons and Wizards Touched by the Crimson King | 3.0 |
| Destiny's Child #1’s | 3.5 |
| Dewey Cox Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story | 3.5 |
| Dido Life For Rent | 3.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli | 2.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Farm | 3.0 |
| DIR EN GREY Vulgar | 3.5 |
| DIR EN GREY MISSA | 3.5 |
| DIR EN GREY Withering To Death | 3.5 |
| DIR EN GREY GAUZE | 3.0 |
| DIR EN GREY The Marrow of a Bone | 3.0 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 2.0 |
| Dismember Dismember | 3.0 |
| Disney Disney's Princess Collection... | 3.5 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 3.5 |
| Dixie Chicks Taking The Long Way | 2.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.0 |
| Dolores O'Riordan Are You Listening? | 3.0 |
| Don Caballero Punkgasm | 3.0 |
| DOOMRIDERS Darkness Come Alive | 3.5 |
| I had a dream last night doomriders had high top nikes, they had diamonds on their necks and diamonds on there mikes |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic | 3.5 |
| Dr. Dre 2001 | 2.0 |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst | 3.5 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 2.5 |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm | 3.0 |
| DragonForce Valley Of The Damned | 3.5 |
| DragonForce Ultra Beatdown | 2.0 |
| Drake So Far Gone | 4.0 |
| Drake Take Care | 4.0 |
| Seriously, Drake has always been awesome. This is just more awesome stuff from Drake with only like, two filler songs this time as opposed to the half records worth he normally populates. Word. |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds & Silver Linings | 3.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 5.0 |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion | 4.5 |
| I thought this was going to suck so bad and was ready to absolutely de-hype it to hell but now I think I am going the opposite way. "Pariah" could be the best song they have ever written. |
| dredg Catch Without Arms | 4.5 |
| dredg Leitmotif | 4.0 |
| dredg Chuckles & Mr. Squeezy | 3.0 |
| Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime | 4.5 |
| Dust For Life Dust For Life | 1.0 |
| Eagles Eagles | 3.0 |
| Eagles Hotel California | 3.5 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain | 4.0 |
| Eels Hombre Lobo | 4.0 |
| Eiffel 65 Europop | 1.5 |
| Blue is a genuinely catchy song. Everything else? Well, meh. It's all pretty much trash. They takes good european techno artist ideas (Ladytron and Miss Kittin ftw), and craft it into some weird mainstream pop album, that doesnt have the strengths of either but the weaknesses of well everything. It's boring, overdone, too intricate for its own good, lyrically retarded, and musically you can only dance to it for about 5 minutes. Then you kill yourself. I don't make the rules folks, God does. God hates this album. |
| El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Cryptomnesia | 1.0 |
| El-P Fantastic Damage | 3.5 |
| Eluvium Copia | 4.0 |
| Eluvium An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death | 3.0 |
| Eluvium Similes | 3.0 |
| Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs | 3.0 |
| Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough | 3.5 |
| Emarosa Relativity | 2.5 |
| Embrace Embrace | 4.5 |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Brain Salad Surgery | 3.0 |
| Emery The Weak's End | 3.0 |
| Emery The Question | 3.0 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.0 |
| Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady EP | 3.0 |
| Eminem Relapse | 5.0 |
It's hard for me to say this, but the old Eminem every white kid in America used to love just isn't there anymore. With that STUNNING realization out of the way, the Eminem that was essentially hinted to on Encore turns out to not be all that bad, as "Relapse" shows Em experimenting with his flow and voice to create a weird, if still familiar record. While it may be horribly offensive to old fans, the album is filled with oddly appealing raps and lyrics, with the best tracks living up to the potential we all know he still has somewhere in him. "Insane", "Medicine Ball", "Stay Wide Awake" and particularly "Beautiful" and "Underground" are all excellent songs, and despite some awful duds in the early stages of the album, the album is surprisingly solid. Here's to Slim
Word of warning to the people though, Eminem is not from the UK still so you may still hate it |
| Eminem Encore | 2.0 |
| Eminem Recovery | 4.0 |
| Empty Space Orchestra Empty Space Orchestra | 4.5 |
| Instrumental bands are always a really cool novelty, but in the end if they don't perform in the vein of a Godspeed You! Black Emperor or early Explosions in the Sky, they rarely can keep my attention for very long. Enter Empty Space Orchestra, one of those crazy bands from the northwest that play a super eclectic blend of progressive, jazz and post-rock. They jump from so many different genres, styles, and rhythms that is could be overbearing, but the musicianship is so tight and the songwriting so fluid, its enters the realm of sublime often. Hopefully, this is a band that breaks through this year. |
| Energy Punch The Clock | 3.5 |
| Energy Invasions Of The Mind | 3.0 |
| Engine Down Demure | 3.5 |
| Enochian Theory A Monument to the Death of an Idea | 3.5 |
| Ensiferum Victory Songs | 3.5 |
| Enter Shikari Take to the Skies | 2.5 |
| Entombed Left Hand Path | 4.0 |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story | 4.0 |
| Envy From Here To Eternity | 3.5 |
| Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left... | 4.0 |
| Envy Insomniac Doze | 4.0 |
| Envy Recitation | 1.0 |
| Goodbye, Envy. We will all really, really (probably) miss you. |
| Envy / Jesu Envy/Jesu Split Ep | 3.0 |
| Envy On The Coast Lucy Gray | 4.0 |
| Envy On The Coast Lowcountry | 4.0 |
| Equilibrium Sagas | 2.5 |
| Equus Osaka Rose | 1.0 |
| Erykah Badu Mama's Gun | 2.0 |
| Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. 1 (4th World War) | 3.5 |
| Esoteric The Maniacal Vale | 3.5 |
| Esoteric Paragon Of Dissonance | 3.5 |
| Esoteric Metamorphogenesis | 4.0 |
| Esoteric The Pernicious Enigma | 3.5 |
| Esoteric Subconscious Dissolution into the Contin | 3.0 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 2.5 |
| Everclear So Much For The Afterglow | 3.0 |
| Everybody Else Everybody Else | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place | 3.5 |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 4.5 |
| RIKKI TIKKI RIKKI TIKKI TAVIIII RIKKI TIKKI RIKKI TIKKI TAVIIII RIKKI TIKKI RIKKI TIKKI TAVIIII RIKKI TIKKI RIKKI TIKKI TAVIIII RIKKI TIKKI RIKKI TIKKI TAVIIII RIKKI TIKKI RIKKI TIKKI TAVIIII RIKKI TIKKI RIKKI TIKKI TAVIIII RIKKI TIKKI RIKKI TIKKI TAVIIII |
| Falkenbach Heralding - The Fireblade | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under The Cork Tree | 2.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity On High | 2.0 |
| Fall Out Boy Take This To Your Grave | 1.5 |
| Fang Island Fang Island | 2.5 |
| Fates Warning FWX | 3.5 |
| Feist The Reminder | 4.0 |
| Feral Children Second to the Last Frontier | 3.0 |
| Fergie The Dutchess | 1.5 |
| Fightstar Grand Unification | 3.5 |
| Finale A Pipe Dream and a Promise | 3.0 |
| Fire! Orchestra Exit | 3.9 |
| Fireworks All I Have To Offer Is My Own Confusion | 3.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 4.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Say You Will | 2.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Mirage | 2.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Tusk | 2.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Tango In The Night | 2.0 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 3.5 |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 2.5 |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 2.5 |
| Forgive Durden Razia's Shadow: A Musical | 2.5 |
| Fort Minor The Rising Tied | 3.5 |
| Four Tet There is Love in You | 3.0 |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra | 4.5 |
| Frank Turner Sleep Is For The Week | 3.5 |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 4.5 |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song | 4.5 |
| Frank Turner The First Three Years | 4.5 |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart | 4.5 |
| false bullshit with an ethos that makes me want to fucking puke r |
| Frank Turner Poetry of the Deed | 2.5 |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats | 3.5 |
| Frank Zappa Zoot Allures | 4.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better | 2.5 |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse | 3.5 |
| From First To Last Heroine | 3.5 |
| From First To Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body... | 2.5 |
| From First To Last From First To Last | 1.0 |
| From Monument To Masses On Little Known Frequencies | 2.0 |
| A week or two I bitched about Isis this and that and post-rock being dead. Well, if you need any more proof, you can listen to this album. |
| Fucked Up Hidden World | 3.5 |
| Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life | 3.0 |
| Fugazi 13 Songs | 4.4 |
| Fugazi The Argument | 5.0 |
| Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing | 3.9 |
| Fugazi In on the Kill Taker | 4.6 |
| Fugazi Red Medicine | 4.5 |
| Fugazi End Hits | 4.2 |
| Fugazi Repeater | 5.0 |
| fun. Aim and Ignite | 3.0 |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark | 4.0 |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back | 3.5 |
| George Strait For the Last Time: Live From the Astrodome | 3.5 |
| Ghastly City Sleep Ghastly City Sleep | 4.5 |
| Ghastly City Sleep Moondrifts | 4.5 |
| Ghost Mice All We Got Is Each Other | 4.0 |
| Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab | 3.5 |
| Ghostface Killah Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City | 2.5 |
| Ghostlimb Ghostlimb | 3.5 |
| Ghostlimb Bearing & Distance | 3.5 |
| Giant Squid The Ichthyologist | 2.5 |
| Giant Squid Metridium Fields | 3.5 |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey | 3.5 |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 3.0 |
| Girls Aloud What Will The Neighbours Say? | 3.0 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 5.0 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw El Mark | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | 2.5 |
| Glassjaw Impossible Shot | 1.5 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 3.5 |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere | 3.0 |
| godheadSilo Skyward in Triumph | 3.5 |
| Godsmack IV | 1.5 |
| Godsmasck have made the same exact album IV times now. Honest,y it was really good the first time, pretty good the second time, meh the third time, and now it's just become sucktastic. There are some generic solos to be had, but when the solos in a Maroon 5 song are better than anything on your album, what is that saying? Combined with typical and generic metal vocals, this albums pretty much summed by saying "turd." |
| Godsmack The Other Side | 2.5 |
| Godsmack Faceless | 2.0 |
| Godsmack Awake | 3.0 |
| Godsmack Godsmack | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas... | 4.5 |
| This is a double album. Yet it has 4 songs. Each songs about 22 minutes long, which means its barely a double album. Who cares. This is the peak of what GY!BE does for me; epic and moving music that is really excellent for sleeping to be perfectly honest. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F#A# (Infinity) | 3.5 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 3.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl | 3.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Gutterflower | 3.5 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Let Love In | 3.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo | 3.0 |
| Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless | 1.5 |
| Oh dear lord its Good Charlotte. So, I really don't have anything against them, really. Their first album is pretty good, and their newest one showed flashes of promise. However, this album is one of the few times I'll scream along with pople in "SELL OUT." It's rather obvious much of the money was meant to just sell records, as evidenced by the completely cliche lyrics, whiney vocals with little emotion, and the generic instrumentation I expect off of a Click Five album. This is pretty bad in all honesty. |
| Good Charlotte Good Charlotte | 3.0 |
| Good Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and Death | 2.0 |
| Gorguts Obscura | 4.0 |
| Gorilla Biscuits Start Today | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 2.5 |
| Gorillaz Laika Come Home | 1.0 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 4.0 |
| Sometimes at night, I believe I will spend my hours dancing on my couch in tighty whities listening to this album. That's how silly, fun, and explosive it is. |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 4.0 |
| Grade Under the Radar | 3.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 1.5 |
| In all honesty, I don't really have many reasons to back up my 1.5 Rating, obviously, every time you have a 1 or 1.5, it means you have a particular distaste for an album, but I honestly can't get past how unoriginal this album sounds. It's like Green Day wanted to pretend they were making musical progress, so they just took a bunch of things they did in the past, took some ideas from better bands, and threw it all together. The thing is, it only really works on Jesus of Surburbia. Yeah, kind of a shitty situation overall. |
| Green Day Dookie | 3.5 |
| Green Day Bullet in a Bible | 3.0 |
| Gregor Samsa 55:12 | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 3.5 |
| Grotesque In the Embrace of Evil | 4.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy | 2.5 |
| Gwen Stefani The Sweet Escape | 2.0 |
| Handsome Boy Modeling School White People | 3.5 |
| Haram Haram | 3.5 |
| Harvey Milk Life... The Best Game in Town | 4.0 |
| Harvey Milk Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men | 4.5 |
| Hatebreed Hatebreed | 2.5 |
| Have A Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 3.0 |
| Have Heart Songs to Scream at the Sun | 3.0 |
| Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely | 1.0 |
| I so wish I was "saying Goodbye" to this album. I had heard there was vast improvement on this disc as opposed to the first, so because I'm a dumbass I acquired it. I was pleased to hear...well, none of it. It's pretty much the generic embodiment of generisticity, which isn't even a word, which should indicate just how bad this album really is. Oh and they have 3 guitarists, og which they nee about a keyboard player to accomplish everything they do. Probably to better effect. |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence In Black And White | 1.0 |
| The impressive debut record from Hawthorne Heights features an almost decent song in "Ohio is For Lovers" and then nothing else. Being a true mark that hardcore is getting ready to blow up (but labels refuse to see it and try to sugarcoat it), Hawthorne Heights incorporate a psuedo-TOCS-era Underoath with even more pop punk sensibilities, and a vocalist who should really not be singing professionally anywhere but at a Barmitzvah. |
| He Is Legend Suck Out The Poison | 1.5 |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know | 4.0 |
| Makes me kind of wish I was alive for the days when metal was just fucking metal and wasn't caught up with being heavy as shit or technical as fuck. |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy | 3.0 |
| Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 | 4.0 |
| High on Fire Snakes For The Divine | 3.5 |
| High School Musical High School Musical | 3.5 |
| Hilary Duff Dignity | 2.0 |
| HIM Dark Light | 1.5 |
| Wow god we're up to HIM. There's really not a lot you can say about them. They revel in being some kind of love metal band. Thing is, they don't have any technicality whatsoever, and "love" doesnt describe their overall sound very well. A better title would be "bland and monotonous/pretentious radio rock." Ocassionally there'll be a decent moment, sure, but mostly its the same old boring vocal performances and guitar parts every time. Oh, and the drummers fat. Which means when he takes off his shirt for concerts, woo boy. |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 3.1 |
| Despite is occasional (maybe even frequent moments of brilliance), "Get Disowned" suffers from being an album trying to aspire to some sort of transcendent experience, where the true joy in it lies in its simple folk-punk sections. When Frances Quinlan starts to go apeshit with he vocal interplays you really start to notice her lack of control and general tonal oddness, and while its endearing at times at others it becomes a chore to sit through. Give this girl a good songwriter to back her and hell yes I'd be totally down. As it is, some cute little lyrics and pop-punk songs. |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years | 3.5 |
| Hopesfall Magnetic North | 3.0 |
| Hopesfall A Types | 2.5 |
| HORSE the band Pizza | 3.0 |
| HORSE the band R. Borlax | 4.0 |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand | 4.5 |
| HORSE the band A Natural Death | 3.0 |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living | 5.0 |
| HORSE the band Secret Rhythm of the Universe | 1.0 |
| Hot Cross Cryonics | 3.5 |
| Hot Cross A New Set of Lungs | 3.5 |
| Hot Cross Fair Trades and Farewells | 4.5 |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival | 3.5 |
| Hot Hot Heat Elevator | 2.5 |
| Hot Water Music A Flight and a Crash | 4.5 |
| Hour Cast State Of Disgrace | 3.0 |
| Howard Shore The Fellowship of the Ring | 3.5 |
| I Am Ghost Those We Leave Behind | 2.0 |
| I Hate Myself 10 Songs | 3.5 |
| I Would Set Myself On Fire For You Believes In Patterns | 3.0 |
| I Would Set Myself On Fire For You I Would Set Myself On Fire For You | 2.5 |
| Ice Cube The Predator | 4.0 |
| To be completely honest, gangsta rap sucks. Hardcore. However, thats merely in todays society where the gangsta lifestyle has been glamourized. While Ice Cube may have been rather affluent, it's almost impossible to deny this albums absolute amazingness. Cube is one of the most passionate rappers of his day with a sick flow yo, and the production on this album is still nearly untouched to this day. Quite possibly the best hip hop album of all time. |
| Iced Earth The Glorious Burden | 2.5 |
| Ihsahn The Adversary | 2.5 |
| Iluvatar Iluvatar | 5.0 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 4.0 |
| consistent death metal band puts out another consistent death metal album, but at the same time delivering it so well that it comes close to matching the epic heights set by their mid-era masterpieces. |
| In First Person Lost Between Hands Held Tight | 5.0 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 2.5 |
| In Flames Colony | 1.5 |
| In Flames Clayman | 1.5 |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine | 4.5 |
| In/Humanity Violent Resignation: The Great American Teenage Su | 4.0 |
| Incubus Morning View | 4.0 |
| Indian Summer Discography | 3.0 |
| Infest Slave | 4.0 |
| Insane Clown Posse The Great Milenko | 1.0 |
| So, um, this is the Insane Clown Posse's best album. It has one good song in "Boogeyman" and then a bunch of pretentious tripe that attempts to be funny at every turn but instead ends up being cliche and redundant. Oh, and their flows are whack and the production/instrumental work is almost as bad as S Club 7. Just distorted. Which makes them so much more edge. Man. |
| Integrity Humanity Is The Devil | 4.0 |
| Integrity was one of the most influential hardcore bands of the early/mid 90s, paving the way for pretty much everything that is called hardcore today. Combining elements of metal into their sound, they along with a few others like Biohazard really pushed hardcore into a new direction and essentially kept the genre alive. "Humanity is the Devil" is perhaps the best output these 'legends' (relatively) released, and features extended songs that don't conform to any formula. While the last track can go fuck itself, everything else here is Integrity's formula played to near perfection. |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 3.0 |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death | 4.0 |
| Iselia Life From Dead Limbs | 3.0 |
| Isis Panopticon | 3.5 |
| Isis Wavering Radiant | 2.5 |
A few years ago, I listened to a little album called "Panopticon" and I thought it was okay. Boring, tepid, and a little uninspired but it was a time when such was just the norm. A few less years ago, I heard an album called "In the Absence of Truth", which was less heavy but retained all the other weaknesses of Isis' previous work, and was quite underwhelming. Now I hear "Wavering Radiant", and I wonder; when will post-post-rock finally get here so I can stop hearing crap like this.
For people too stupid to get it: This sounds like Panopticon and In the Absence of Truth smashed together and it is average generic and uneventful. |
| It Dies Today Sirens | 1.5 |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening | 2.0 |
| Ja Rule Blood in My Eye | 2.0 |
| Jack Johnson In Between Dreams | 4.0 |
| Jack Johnson On and On | 3.5 |
| Jack Johnson Brushfire Fairytales | 3.5 |
| Jack Johnson Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for Curious George | 4.0 |
| Jack Johnson Sleep Through the Static | 4.0 |
| Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorius | 4.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist One-Armed Bandit | 3.0 |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 3.5 |
| Jaguar Love Take Me to the Sea | 2.0 |
| Jaguar Love Hologram Jams | 1.0 |
| James Blake James Blake | 2.5 |
| James Blake Overgrown | 5.0 |
Most of the time I'm joking when I say this but: seriously, this album is important and
wonderful.
GYPSY SWAG EMREIEIEITUS THIS IS A FOUR POINT FOUR
actually sorry after listening to this for 17 hours in the first day and a half of having it
it's a 5 sorry |
| James Blunt Back To Bedlam | 1.5 |
| It revels in being stereotypical and clich?with oh-so-little room for originality outside of the rather trippy cover art. I honestly cannot find an ounce of real talent to even be able to say the standby line in these circumstances, He has talent and hopefully hell build on that next album This album may not have originally made to be a major label tool for selling albums, but honestly, the only people I see enjoying this album are housewives in turbulent marriages and pre-teens who just got broken up with because summer came. If you have a strong tolerance for utter manufactured pop, you may be able to tolerate this album. If you like crap for music, well, this is just for you. What I see her is nothing but artificial balladry with the occasional attempt to be edgy; and by golly, it sure does sell records. But I cant give this above a 1.5 |
| Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking | 3.5 |
| Jardin de la Croix Pomeroy | 4.0 |
| Jason Mraz Mr. A-Z | 3.5 |
| Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy | 3.0 |
| Jay-Z Unplugged | 2.5 |
| Jay-Z The Black Album | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z Kingdom Come | 2.0 |
| Jay-Z American Gangster | 2.5 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 3.5 |
| Jeniferever Choose a Bright Morning | 3.0 |
| Jenny Hval Innocence Is Kinky | 4.1 |
| Jenny Piccolo Jenny Piccolo | 3.0 |
| Jeromes Dream Completed | 3.5 |
| Jessica Simpson In This Skin (Collector's Edition) | 2.0 |
| Jessica Simpson A Public Affair | 3.5 |
| Jessica Simpson Do You Know | 2.0 |
| Jet Get Born | 2.0 |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Buffett Songs You Know By Heart | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 2.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light | 2.5 |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me | 4.5 |
| Haha I feel like this is one of the most ridiculous, stupid albums I've ever heard. I was a casual fan of Ys, not getting the hype and totally understanding why people hated it but still enjoying it all the same. This however, is so much easier to listen to even though its over two hours long. Fuck me man, fuck meeee |
| Joe Satriani Super Colossal | 3.5 |
| John Carpenter Halloween 20th Anniversary Edition | 2.5 |
| John Frusciante Curtains | 3.0 |
| John Frusciante The Empyrean | 3.0 |
| John Legend Once Again | 3.5 |
| John Lithgoat Who Gives a Fuck Nowhere | 3.7 |
| this jams hard one can only hope the rumors of a potential break up ARE NOT TRUE |
| John Mayer Continuum | 4.0 |
| John Mayer Battle Studies | 4.0 |
| John Murphy 28 Days Later Soundtrack | 3.0 |
| Joshua Fit For Battle To Bring Our Own End | 4.0 |
| Journey Trial By Fire | 2.0 |
| Joy Division Substance | 3.5 |
| Julia [USA] Julia | 4.0 |
| Combining some parts that sound like a more frantic Drive Like Jehu, others that are reminiscent of Rites of Spring, and then build ups akin to Moss Icon, Julia are a fairly great mid-90's emo band. Songs like "Scarification" and "Untitled" meld all of their sounds together perfectly, while others like "Trigger Happy" are great hardcore songs. While they sometimes get lost in themselves, "Julia" is a great effort that should get mentioned around these here parts more than it does. |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control | 3.5 |
| Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers | 3.5 |
| Justice Cross | 4.0 |
| Justin Timberlake Justified | 4.0 |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds | 4.5 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 5.0 |
| bump for black metal history month twenty thirteen yoli swag jt love |
| k-os Atlantis: Hymns For Disco | 2.5 |
| Kaki King Junior | 3.0 |
| Kamelot The Black Halo | 4.5 |
| Kamelot Epica | 4.0 |
| Kamelot Karma | 3.5 |
| Kamelot Ghost Opera | 3.5 |
| Kamelot Poetry for the Poisoned | 1.0 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 3.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.0 |
| Kanye West 808s & Heartbreak | 4.0 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 3.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 5.0 |
| You know, for someone who once said "George Bush doesn't care about black people", Kanye West sure makes good music for us white folks!rThanks Kanye! |
| Kaospilot Shadows | 3.0 |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue | 4.0 |
| maudlin/Kayo Dot continue to grow with this release, which sees a larger shift away from their metal influences and into a more free form category. However, the songs are all still just as epic and gripping as ever; and right from the start you see how much more of a sustained kickass this is than its contemporaries. |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 4.5 |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward | 3.0 |
| Kayo Dot Coyote | 2.5 |
| There was a review on rateyourmusic that pretty much said this reminds them of Choirs of the Eye minus the metal. I would pretty much agree, except also strip the wide eyed wonder that album made me have. Toby Driver is dead. |
| Ke$ha Animal | 3.0 |
| TiK ToK is pure bliss. The rest of the album is suitably sluttily adorable as well. None of you would like this, however, so steer very very clear. |
| Kelly Clarkson Breakaway | 4.0 |
| Kelly Clarkson Thankful | 2.5 |
| KiD CuDi Man On The Moon: The End Of Day | 3.5 |
| I've gotta be honest, usually I don't particularly like rap as hyped up as this especially due to the type of rap it "is", but damn if this isn't a damn good record. |
| Kid Kilowatt Guitar Method 1996-1999 | 3.5 |
| Kidcrash Jokes | 3.5 |
| Kidcrash New Ruins | 3.0 |
| Kidcrash Snacks | 1.0 |
| Kidz Bop Kidz Kidz Bop, Volume 9 | 0.5 |
| Kill Your Ex From Words to Motion | 2.5 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 5.0 |
| This album holds its place as overall the best album of all time in my book. Listening to it, it really doesnt feel as though it is. Sure, four of the tracks are breathtaking (21st Century and the title track being the choice cuts), but Moonchild has 8 minutes of boring noise. All this matters not; this was the pioneering record of '69, and easily one of the most influential (directly and indirectly) in history. |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic | 4.5 |
| King Crimson Lizard | 4.5 |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon | 3.0 |
| King Crimson The Power to Believe | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Starless and Bible Black | 4.0 |
| King Crimson THRAK | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Discipline | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Red | 5.0 |
| King Crimson Islands | 3.0 |
| King Crimson The ConstruKction of Light | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair | 3.0 |
| King Crimson Beat | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 3.5 |
| Kingston Wall Kingston Wall II | 4.5 |
| Klute The Emperors New Clothes | 3.5 |
| KMFDM Attak | 1.5 |
| KMFDM Symbols | 1.5 |
| KMFDM Nihil | 1.5 |
| KMFDM Blitz | 2.0 |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony | 4.5 |
| Kottonmouth Kings High Society | 1.5 |
| Hahahahah. It's the Kottonmouth Kings. They're a rowdy bunch of guys. This is teen angst music at its height within the nu metal genre. They rap and stuff, but its really done quite terribly. I honestly havent the faintest what they're talking about, as when I listen to them, I'm too busy being rebellious and telling my parents I wont wash my own clothes to really pay attention. |
| Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express | 4.5 |
| Kraftwerk Autobahn | 3.5 |
| Kraftwerk Computer World | 4.0 |
| Krallice Krallice | 3.5 |
| Kvelertak Meir | 3.6 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River... | 2.5 |
| La Dispute Untitled 7" | 2.5 |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 3.0 |
i THINK i HEARD THIS IN MY DREAMS, DARLING. iT WAS PRETTY MEDIOCRE i GIVE IT A lA dISPUTE
OUT OF /5 |
| La Roux La Roux | 2.0 |
A Revolution in british pop/electroclash, it's almost as if La Roux and her partners have looked into the future and seen what the world needed next in music and then RECREATED IT but it isn't really recreation because what she was her was her album in the first place.
MINDFREAK |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 4.0 |
| Ladytron Witching Hour | 4.5 |
| Ladytron are what one can consider a good Electroclash band; they barely even fit in the genre. However, their mixture of rock, pop, and massive amounts of various electronica influences are almost unrivaled, and their ability to craft songs that stick inside your head can only be described as N*Sync-esque. Easily the best pop release of 2005, and one of the most captivating albums of the century. |
| Ladytron Light & Magic | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 3.0 |
| Last Laugh No Regrets | 3.5 |
| Laura Stevenson The Runner | 3.7 |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 3.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 4.1 |
| This is a lot better than Sit. Resist. Is it the second coming of music? No. Is it a lovely and heartrendingly beautiful outlook on someone's own partial existential death? Yes. This album is striking in all the right ways. |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 1: Early Days | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Coda | 2.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Presence | 2.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin In Through The Out Door | 2.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 2: Latter Days | 2.5 |
| Les Savy Fav Let's Stay Friends | 3.5 |
| Less Than Jake GNV FLA | 3.0 |
| Letlive. Fake History | 2.7 |
| I mean...I guess this isn't bad post-hardcore, but people loving this? I guess there really hasn't been a glassjaw full length in a long, long time...the lyrics are just god awful. |
| Letlive. Fake History (Re-Release) | 3.0 |
| I mean...I guess this isn't bad post-hardcore, but people loving this? I guess there really hasn't been a glassjaw full length in a long, long time... |
| Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life | 3.5 |
| Lifetime Lifetime | 3.5 |
| Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide | 2.5 |
| Lights Out Asia In The Days Of Jupiter | 2.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish... | 1.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Three Dolla Bill Y'all | 2.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other | 2.0 |
| Limp Bizkit New Old Songs | 1.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Results May Vary | 1.5 |
| Limp Bizkit The Unquestionable Truth [Part 1] | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Reanimation | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 1.5 |
| Linkin Park Live In Texas | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Minutes To Midnight | 1.0 |
| Listener Wooden Heart | 1.5 |
| The fountain of creative energy here would best be used towards something that isn't music. Hell, ANYTHING that isn't this. |
| Loma Prieta Last City | 3.0 |
| Loma Prieta Dark Mountain | 3.0 |
| Loma Prieta Life/Less | 3.5 |
| Loma Prieta I.V. | 3.5 |
| Loma Prieta finally live up to their potential and create a great screamo record, and then Sputnikmusic lives up to its reputation and overrates the hell out of it. |
| Look What I Did Minuteman For The Moment | 3.5 |
| Los Campesinos! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed | 1.0 |
| Lostprophets Liberation Transmission | 3.0 |
| Lovage Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By | 4.5 |
| Love Forever Changes | 4.1 |
| Love American Love American | 3.0 |
| Love American Disquiet | 2.5 |
| this would have been so much better if they would have paid for a decent mastering job!!!!!!! |
| LoveHateHero White Lies | 3.0 |
| LoveHateHero Just Breathe | 4.0 |
| Ludacris Chicken 'N' Beer | 2.0 |
| Ludacris Release Therapy | 3.0 |
| Ludacris Theater of the Mind | 3.5 |
| Luna Halo Luna Halo | 2.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor | 4.0 |
| Lydia Illuminate | 3.0 |
| M.I.A. Arular | 2.0 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 2.0 |
| M.I.A. Maya | 2.5 |
| Machinae Supremacy Redeemer (Underground Edition) | 4.5 |
| Redeemer is undoubtedly the most impressive album Ive heard all year, not only because its from some no name bunch of losers from Sweden (seriously, shouldnt they be playing death metal or something?), but because theyve truly crafted an inimitable record with an incredible amount of musicianship, songwriting prowess, and overall zest for what theyre doing. Every song they make could (relatively) be a highlight on a good amount of the albums Ive heard not only this year, but of the past 5. Redeemer deserves to be the album that, at the end of the year, everyone is talking about, and Machinae Supremacy at least deserve to be the band you next check out when you have a few minutes of free time to spare. Oh, but make sure you can miss whatever appointment youll have next, as youll probably want to go play Space Invaders afterwards. |
| Machinae Supremacy Deus Ex Machinae | 3.5 |
| Machinae Supremacy Overworld | 2.5 |
| Macy Gray Big | 1.5 |
| Madonna Like a Virgin | 3.0 |
| Madonna Ray of Light | 2.5 |
| Magma Mekanïk Destruktiw Kommandoh | 5.0 |
| Okay guys, I finally got this after two years of thinking it was just ridiculous. This is so good. |
| Mago de Oz Finisterra | 4.0 |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds Of Fire | 4.0 |
| Mahria Mahria | 3.0 |
| Make Me Make Me | 4.5 |
| Maps & Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses | 4.0 |
| Maps & Atlases You and Me and the Mountain | 4.5 |
| What Maps & Atlases have done with "You and Me and the Mountain" is create a more melodic, less flashy, and overall far more listenable version of their trademark sound. The tapping is still here, but with stronger vocal melodies and a great emphasis on songwriting than random wankery. Its a magic EP sure to make Maps & Atlases even bigger than they already are. |
| Maps & Atlases Perch Patchwork | 3.0 |
| Mariah Carey The Emancipation of Mimi | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Eat Me, Drink Me | 2.0 |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane | 4.0 |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long | 4.0 |
| Masashi Hamauzu Final Fantasy XIII | 4.5 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 5.0 |
| There are really only two albums you can choose when answering the age old question "Whats your favorite Trip Hop album?" Personally, this would have to be it. Not only does the album work as the perfect atmospheric music for a variety of activities, you can just plain out listen to it and be awestruck by the arrangements and scope of it. |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines | 3.0 |
| Massive Attack Splitting the Atom | 4.0 |
do people not realize these are all just remixes or are people just retarded
the half that arent are basic mixes that arent even going to be what resembles the record durr |
| Massive Attack Heligoland | 4.0 |
| Mastodon The Workhorse Chronicles [DVD] | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 2.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.5 |
| Mat Kearney Nothing Left to Lose | 3.0 |
| Matchbook Romance Voices | 2.5 |
| Matchbox Twenty Mad Season | 5.0 |
| Mad Season is the magnum opus of one of our times most talented singer-songwriter and rock act, and while it would be an absolute delight to see them ever overtake this album, to do so would be nigh impossible. What matchbox twenty have done here is make an album completely devoid of filler, and then also crafting such meticulate pieces that you never want it to stop. While its fairly obvious that my love for matchbox twenty and everything they do may skew my vision slightly, all that originated from this little album right here. While it would be a rare occurrence for one to never have heard Bent or any number of the hit singles matchbox twenty has produced, Mad Season would be the perfect place to start your listening. |
| Matchbox Twenty More Than You Think You Are | 4.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You | 3.5 |
| Matchbox Twenty Exile on Mainstream | 4.0 |
| Matisyahu Youth | 3.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 4.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible | 3.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 3.5 |
| The first three songs are as good as anything motW had ever put out. Now I just wish the last two were at that same level. It was a nice thing of Driver to do I suppose though! |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster II | 3.5 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster Maylene and the Sons of Disaster | 3.5 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster III | 3.5 |
| Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell | 4.0 |
| Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell | 3.5 |
| Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell III | 1.0 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 3.5 |
| Men As Trees Weltschmerz | 3.5 |
| i really didnt want to bother rating this but unfortunately I feel like I'm being forced too. would be much better post rockish emo if they just had a better vocalist and/or lyricist. |
| Merchandise (Strange Songs) In the Dark | 4.0 |
| Merchandise Children of Desire | 4.0 |
| Mesa Verde The Old Road | 5.0 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 3.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 3.5 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 1.5 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.5 |
| Meth, Ghost and Rae Wu-Massacre | 3.5 |
| Method Man Tical | 3.0 |
| Mew No More Stories | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou I Never Said That I Was Brave | 3.0 |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 5.0 |
It's arguably one of the most emotionally impacting debut records of all time, squeezing every ounce of sorrow and pain out of a relationship that can be imagined. The lyrics, atmosphere and singing almost make the music a non-point (despite its excellence), transcending genre.
It's one of the most underappreciated albums on sputnik and all of you should adhere to its greatness immediately. |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us The Foxes | 5.0 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 5.0 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's all | 5.0 |
| My problem with the album is that despite all of its good intentions it plain and simple delivers like previous mewithoutYou efforts. |
| mewithoutYou Blood Enough For Us All | 2.0 |
| Aaron Weiss has said something about this EP being a huge downer on him in his life. I must agree, it hurts me to know something like this exists from one of my favorite bands of all time. |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 5.0 |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday | 3.5 |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food | 3.0 |
| Micachu Jewellery | 4.5 |
| I love Lewis Parry as much as I love this album. If you know the man, then you know this album. |
| Michael Andrews Donnie Darko | 3.5 |
| Michael Franti and Spearhead All Rebel Rockers | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson Dangerous | 3.0 |
| Michael Jackson Bad | 3.5 |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 4.0 |
| Midtown Forget What You Know | 3.0 |
| Midtown Living Well is the Best Revenge | 2.5 |
| Mihai Edrisch Un Jour Sans Lendemain | 3.0 |
| Mike Jones Who Is Mike Jones? | 1.0 |
| Hey, I'm Mike Jones. I really do just rap about everything other rappers rap abou,t but I have that one song that goes "Who? Mike Jones!" so everybody rips me off like Dave Chappelle. Honestly, I know I'm a very bad MC and even worse lyricist and can't pick beats for the life of me, but I mean, where would we be in todays society if every white kid in high school wasn't able to shout "Who? MIKE JONES!" at every possible moment and have 5 airhead girls giggle profusely? |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will... | 4.5 |
| "I love my mommy cause she fucked my dad" is all that really needs to be said about this album. Some say its more of a collection of half songs than actual music. Those people are communist. This album is rpetty goddamn amazing, and sans The Downward Spiral the best industrial release of all time. |
| Mindless Self Indulgence You'll Rebel To Anything | 2.0 |
| I'm a Mindless Self Indulgence fanboy to the max. I'm one of the few "serious" music fans (what stfu) who would count an MSI album among their top 10, let alone top 7. So, this album was a massive dissapointment. From the horrendicity of the Rush cover to basically everything else on the album, its a tavesty to MSI's once good name. I remember going to an MSI show, and having lil Jimmy Urine pour piss on me. Yes, I was that lucky boy. Thats how this album makes me feel, except without all the godliness. |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Tight | 3.0 |
| Minor Threat Out of Step | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Omni | 3.5 |
| Mirrorthrone Gangrene | 2.5 |
| Moby 18 | 2.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Witness | 4.7 |
| Modern Life Is War My Love. My Way | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Good News For People Who Love Bad News | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.0 |
| Modestep Evolution Theory | 2.2 |
| Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling | 3.0 |
| Mono Hymn To The Immortal Wind | 3.5 |
| Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus | 4.9 |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go | 3.5 |
| Moss Icon Lyburnum | 4.5 |
| Undoubtedly one of the most solid hardcore/emo albums ever released, Moss Icon took the style of music created by Rites of Spring and pushed it even farther into what we call "emo" today. The first band to bring in soft breaks and loud dynamics, clean arpeggiated guitar, and of course the requisite vocals-from-a-guy-about-to-cry. Their only full length, Lyburnum was the perfection of that style of hardcore, and paved the way for later bands like Indian Summer to develop emo even further. |
| Motion City Soundtrack Commit This To Memory | 2.5 |
| Motion City Soundtrack Even If It Kills Me | 3.5 |
| Motley Crue Theatre Of Pain | 2.0 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 2.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Babel | 5.0 |
| Murder by Death Like the Exorcist, but More Breakdancing | 3.5 |
| Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? | 3.5 |
| Murder by Death Red Of Tooth And Claw | 3.5 |
| Muse Absolution Tour | 3.5 |
| Muse Black Holes and Revelations | 3.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 3.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 2.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 2.1 |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought... | 1.5 |
| I had a big ant prepared for this album. Then I listened to "Our Lady of Sorrows". And I was sad because thats a genuinely good song surrounded by mountains of crap. Everyone here does what they're supposed to do at almost an average level, but overall the songs feel hollow and as if their all missing something. Gerard wasn't even decent on this album, which is one of the few saving graces of their next record. Honestly, dont bother with this. You'll die a happier man. I'm not politcally correct stfu women. |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge | 2.5 |
| My Chemical Romance Life on the Murder Scene | 3.0 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 3.5 |
| Nahvalr Nahvalr | 3.5 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.2 |
| bump in honor of kit brown story scout history month |
| Narrows New Distances | 3.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 3.5 |
| Nas Hip Hop Is Dead | 2.5 |
| Natalie Imbruglia Left of the Middle | 4.0 |
| Natalie Imbruglia Come to Life | 3.5 |
| Native Wrestling Moves | 3.0 |
| Native Nod Today Puberty, Tomorrow the World | 3.5 |
| Navio Forge As We Quietly Burn A Hole Into... | 3.5 |
| Neil Perry Lineage Situation | 3.0 |
| Neko Case Middle Cyclone | 4.0 |
| Nelly Furtado Loose | 3.0 |
| Nelly Furtado Whoa, Nelly! | 3.0 |
| Neurosis Pain of Mind | 2.5 |
| Neurosis Times of Grace | 5.0 |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 5.0 |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero | 4.0 |
| Neurosis The Word as Law | 2.0 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 4.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 2.5 |
| New Found Glory Catalyst | 2.0 |
| New Found Glory Coming Home | 1.5 |
| New Found Glory Not Without A Fight | 3.5 |
| Nick Lachey What's Left of Me | 1.5 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 2.0 |
| Nickelback Dark Horse | 4.5 |
| Nightmare Of You Nightmare Of You | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.5 |
| If I had to absolutely nail down only one album from the 90's to submit as my number 1, I would likely end up choosing this. Reznor hit his dark and moody plateu here, creating some incredibly dark and emotional music that was both heavy, yet accessible at the same time. It helps that "Hurt" is by golly one of the best songs ever recorded. |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip | 3.5 |
| Maybe Trent has realized his masterpiece days are over, so he is just going to release a steady stream of solid albums from now on? One would certainly hope so, as this is his strongest traditional album since The Fragile, and perhaps even The Downward Spiral. It's almost what "Year Zero" should have been, a conglomeration of all of his past sounds that doesn't sound redundant and uninspired. Its a different, less angry Trent whose days of youth angst and bitterness are gone, replaced by a sense of uneasy acceptance. Not to say that the album doesn't have Trent's edge, or that it isn't as "aggressive" as his previous albums. |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 2.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 2.5 |
| Nirvana [UK] The Story of Simon Simopath | 2.5 |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom | 4.0 |
| No Doubt Rock Steady | 3.0 |
| No Doubt The Beacon Street Collection | 3.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu FFVII: Advent Children OST | 3.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VIII: Original Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy X: Original Soundtrack | 3.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VIII: Piano Collections | 4.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VI: Original Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| NOFX Wolves in Wolves Clothing | 3.0 |
| Noisy Sins of the Insect | 2.0 |
| Norma Jean Redeemer | 1.5 |
| North What You Were | 3.5 |
| The atmospheric post-metal crap mixed with a grungier sound than most gives the album a life of its own, but the vocals bring down an otherwise spectacularly entertaining and interesting record. |
| Nothing Rhymes With David Beard Logic Riddles | 2.0 |
| November 5th 1955 Bears of the Sea | 3.0 |
| NWA Straight Outta Compton | 4.0 |
| Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory? | 2.5 |
| Oceansize Effloresce | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Frames | 3.0 |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 5.0 |
| Off Minor Problematic Courtship | 4.0 |
| Off Minor Some Blood | 4.5 |
| With Some Blood, Off Minor have perfected their trade so much that its astounding how much they were able to fit into this twenty two minute LP. Drawing mostly from their previous record Innominate, but with enough fresh ideas and slightly reminiscent parts from the days of Heat Death of the Universe to make a fanboy cream his pants, Some Blood ups the ante on the technicality Off Minor have previously shown, with Behar's jazz influenced guitar playing and Roche's surprisingly improved bass work and tone pushing Off Minor to the limit of what they can do. While the rest of the album may be overshadowed by "Practice Absence" a bit, every song here is an astounding portrayal of the chaotic blend of screamo, hardcore and math rock that one would expect and anticipate from one of the true innovators in the genre. |
| Ohana Dead Beat | 4.0 |
| Oingo Boingo Dead Man's Party | 4.0 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Megaritual | 2.5 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Old Money | 3.5 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Los Sueños De Un Higado | 3.0 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Xenophanes | 3.0 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Un Corazón De Nadie | 3.5 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez どういたしまして | 4.5 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Mantra Hiroshima | 1.0 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & John Frusciante Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and John Frusciante | 4.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 3.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 3.5 |
| Orange 9mm Driver not included | 2.5 |
| Orchid Chaos Is Me | 5.0 |
| Orchid Gatefold | 4.0 |
| Origin Echoes of Decimation | 2.5 |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) | 3.5 |
| Orthrelm Iorxhscimtor | 2.5 |
| Otis Redding The Dock of the Bay | 3.5 |
| Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | 3.5 |
| Outkast Idlewild | 2.0 |
| Overview Forty-Four Stone Tigers | 4.0 |
| Owen At Home With Owen | 3.5 |
| P!nk I'm Not Dead | 3.0 |
| Pain Of Salvation Scarsick | 2.5 |
| Panda Bear Tomboy | 3.5 |
| People are gonna come at this album expecting to "get" Animal Collective/Panda Bear, and its unfortunate that this doesn't do anything to convert the 'non-believers' that Merriweather Post Pavilion didn't already do. However, its still a great album, only marred by its perhaps too light nature. Also, "Drone" is kind of annoying (and yes, I get it). |
| Panic! At the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 4.0 |
| Panic! At the Disco Pretty. Odd. | 2.0 |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 2.5 |
| Paramore Riot! | 3.0 |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 3.0 |
This will be revised.
Brand New Eyes sounds different than either Riot! or All We Know is Falling, but the differences are fairly irrelevant. It's like listening to the same record as last time: you'll sing along to a bunch of Hayley's hooks, sometimes think there is a cool moment in a song musically, and skip over the slower, ballady type of songs. Hayley Williams can still rule a mic, but the band still plays a little too safe to really compliment her voice beyond mere competence.
See, the problem is that while Hayley is a ridiculously accessible singer, the songs are just so boring a lot of the time that the album drags on and on despite its relatively short length. They do pop rock fine, and the singles will be great, but as an album this is merely just fairly okay. |
| Paramore Paramore | 1.5 |
this is the biggest mess of the year and I seriously have no idea how anyone could think
this should honestly count as a real attempt at a real album |
| Paris Hilton Paris | 1.0 |
| Past Lives Strange Symmetry | 4.5 |
| The album is "scarier" and arguably more experimental than anything the Blood Brothers ever made. Less genre defying than just plain genreless, "Strange Symmetry" is something of a weird evolution from "Crimes" by the Blood Brothers, an EP with 5 short, direct songs filled with well executed ideas and unique songwriting. You won't hear anything quite like this for a while, so best to get your fill while you can. |
| Past Lives Tapestry of Webs | 4.5 |
| Peaches The Teaches of Peaches | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Pearl Jam | 2.0 |
| Pearl Jam Backspacer | 3.5 |
| Solid rock songs from a solid rock band. three point five |
| Pedro the Lion Control | 3.0 |
| Pelican City of Echoes | 2.5 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 3.5 |
| Pennywise Pennywise | 3.5 |
| Pennywise Reason to Believe | 2.5 |
| Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel (Melt) | 3.5 |
| Pg. 99 Document #7 | 2.0 |
| Pg. 99 Document #8 | 4.0 |
| Pg. 99 Document #5 | 4.0 |
| pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! | 4.5 |
| pg.lost Yes I Am EP | 4.0 |
| pg.lost In Never Out | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride | 3.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Saltwater | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 3.0 |
| More pretty decent stuff for people who are into 'the wave' or whatever its called. Still not really getting it but enjoyable nonetheless. The songs I heard live off of this were cool |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.3 |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut | 4.0 |
| Pito Perez Con Más Poder | 3.0 |
| Placebo Meds | 3.0 |
| Poison the Well Versions | 2.5 |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot | 4.5 |
| Remember how Versions was a really cool record, that just ended up not being that good? Well, Tropic Rot is a really cool record that rivals The Opposite of December as being their most focused and aggressive, and You Come Before You as their most interesting and accessible. Besides the mediocre "Celebrate the Pyre", every song here is a hit, in particular...well everything. The light country aesthetic is more fully integrated in the clean sections, which meld seamlessly with the heavy metal sections. It's tough to call this a real metalcore album, but whatever the hell it is, it is fucking great. Could bump up to a 4.5 if it stays on this level of excellence with time. |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 4.0 |
| Pokemon 2BA Masta | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways | 2.0 |
| Porcupine Tree On the Sunday of Life | 1.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Voyage 34: The Complete Trip | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 3.0 |
| Portrait Discography | 5.0 |
| Portraits Of Past 0100101110100011100100100 | 2.0 |
| Portraits Of Past Cypress Dust Witch | 3.0 |
| Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!'' | 3.5 |
| Portugal. The Man Church Mouth | 3.0 |
| Portugal. The Man Censored Colors | 2.5 |
| If I have ever heard a more self indulgent, repetitive, tiring, and harder to listen to album than "Censored Colors"...wait I haven't. |
| Portugal. The Man The Satanic Satanist | 2.0 |
| The album cover has a gross nipple on display. That's almost kind of like what Portugal. the Man have become: a dry withered teet that while gave life to a fledgling "progressive indie rock" genre years ago, is now all scabby and gross from all the suckling. It's nothing new. |
| Portugal. The Man American Ghetto | 2.0 |
| Portugal. The Man In The Mountain In The Cloud | 2.5 |
| Primordial To The Nameless Dead | 4.0 |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese | 4.0 |
| Primus The Brown Album | 2.5 |
| Prince 1999 | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 3.0 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 3.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 3.0 |
| Pulling Teeth Martyr Immortal | 3.5 |
| Punch Push Pull | 3.5 |
| Pygmy Lush Bitter River | 3.0 |
| Pyramids (Emo) Following the Tracks, Forcing Motion Thr | 2.5 |
| Queen Live At Wembley Stadium (DVD) | 3.5 |
| Queensryche Empire | 2.5 |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime II | 2.5 |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime | 4.0 |
| Queensryche Queensryche EP | 2.0 |
| Queensryche Operation: Livecrime | 2.0 |
| Queensryche Promised Land | 2.0 |
| Queensryche The Warning | 1.0 |
| Queensryche American Soldier | 2.5 |
| Quicksand Slip | 4.0 |
| Quicksand Manic Compression | 3.0 |
| Quiet Steps Quiet Steps [EP] | 3.5 |
| R. Kelly Trapped in the Closet (Chapters 1-12) | 1.0 |
| This would be a good song. Hell, it would be a good two or three songs. The beat is actually pretty nifty, and R. Kelly sounds good for the first 8 minutes or so. But then...you realize its going to go on for over half an hour. And then you get scared. And then you turn off the dvd player. And then you watch the Colbert Report, and its all better. Oh, so anyways, this is just so incredibly pretentious and so impossibly overblown I can't help but give it a 1. |
| Rachel Grimes Book Of Leaves | 3.0 |
| listen to rachels listen to rachels listen to rachels listen to rachels listen to rachels lateen to travels listen to rachels |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 3.5 |
| This was a pretty good album. Sometimes it dragged on a bit, and perhaps had too much going on for its own good. but all in all arguably the best album by Radiohead. If only the vocals were better tbqh. |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
| Raein Il n'y Pas de Orchestre | 3.0 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... | 4.0 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 4.5 |
| pretty much the best hip hop album since...oh hey Only Built for Cuban Linx. what a weird fucking coincidence |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 2.5 |
| Raine Maida The Hunters Lullaby | 3.5 |
| Ratatat LP3 | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 4.0 |
| So yeah, I got laid while listening to this album. Pretty much sums up my feelings in a nutshell on the subject. Stadium Arcadium = Sex. Albeit ear sex. |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 4.0 |
| Refused The Shape of Punk to Come | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Far | 3.0 |
| Her next album I will definitively be able to describe as "more overrated psuedo-intellectual pop". |
| Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats | 2.5 |
| Rick Wakeman The Seven Wonders of the World | 4.0 |
| Rifles at Recess To Whisper in Tongues | 3.5 |
| Rihanna Rated R | 3.5 |
| Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things | 3.5 |
| Rinoa An Age Among Them | 2.5 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 3.5 |
| Ready to Fall and the second half of the cd are so so good, I just wish the rest of the first half was more distinguished. |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 2.0 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 3.5 |
| Rites of Spring End on End | 4.0 |
| Rob Zombie Educated Horses | 3.0 |
| Robbie Williams Sing When You're Winning | 2.5 |
| Robert Glasper In My Element | 3.5 |
| Rush 2112 | 3.9 |
| Rush Hemispheres | 5.0 |
| Rush is a silly little band. Geddy Lee has a silly voice, and Alex Lifeson uses entirely too silly guitar tones. It's too bad that Lifeson (along with Lee and Peart) are each among the top musicians for each of their respective instruments, and no where was this showcased better than Hempispheres. The title track is second only to 2112 in Rush's standards, and "The Trees" and "La Villa Strangiato" are both Rush's best single and instrumental (respectively). |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 4.0 |
| Rush A Farewell to Kings | 4.5 |
| Rush Permanent Waves | 3.5 |
| Rush Rush | 3.0 |
| Rush Fly by Night | 4.0 |
| Rush Caress of Steel | 3.0 |
| Rush Roll the Bones | 2.5 |
| Rush Exit...Stage Left | 3.5 |
| Rush Hold Your Fire | 4.0 |
| Rush Chronicles | 4.0 |
| Rush The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Rush Rush Replay X3 | 4.0 |
| Rush Snakes & Arrows | 4.0 |
| Rush Retrospective I: 1974 - 1980 | 4.5 |
| Rush Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland | 5.0 |
| god you guys are idiots for having this at a 4.5 what the fuck is wrong with you |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 4.9 |
| RVIVR RVIVR LP | 4.0 |
| RVIVR The Beauty Between | 4.2 |
| In case people didn't know, this album rules and is easy top 3 for the year. Probably the best pop punk album I've heard in...forever |
| Rx Bandits Mandala | 3.5 |
| Saetia A Retrospective | 5.0 |
| Santana Abraxas | 4.0 |
| Santana Santana III | 4.0 |
| Santana Supernatural | 3.5 |
| Saosin Saosin | 3.5 |
| Saosin Translating the Name | 3.5 |
| Sara Bareilles Little Voice | 3.0 |
| Sarah McLachlan Surfacing | 3.5 |
| Satyricon Nemesis Divina | 4.0 |
| Satyricon The Shadowthrone | 3.5 |
| Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release) | 3.0 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 4.0 |
| Say Anything Baseball | 2.0 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 5.0 |
I totally pop a boner whenever I hear this record.
Its really good I dunno it turns me on. Its like the Jessica Alba of musical pieces. |
| Say Anything Say Anything | 5.0 |
| Say Anything sell out, but you realize that they've been sellouts forever, and what excellent sell outs they are. Track after track of witticisms and catchy riffs, culminating in the incredible "Ahhh...Men" |
| Schoolyard Heroes Abominations | 4.0 |
| Seahaven Winter Forever | 2.5 |
| Sean Kingston Sean Kingston | 1.5 |
| Sean Milo Sunroom | 2.5 |
| Secret Machines Ten Silver Drops | 3.0 |
| Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata | 3.8 |
| Seether Disclaimer II | 1.5 |
| Oh god I'm broken. Broken when it comes to this album. Honestly, this dude is just a terrible songwriter. The band itself has constructed a high 2-low 2.5 album, being generic but not terrible. But the voalist is absolutely dreadful and boring, and writes some of the most faux-touching and psuedo-emotional lyrics I've seen since Styx. But Styx was awesome. Seether is just a rock band that really should have never of made it big. |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You | 2.5 |
| Senses Fail Still Searching | 3.0 |
| Senses Fail Life Is Not A Waiting Room | 1.5 |
| Sepalcure Sepalcure | 3.5 |
| September 22nd Hello, Throne | 2.5 |
| Sepultura Dante XXI | 3.0 |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead | 3.0 |
| Shabutie Penelope | 3.0 |
| Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure | 3.5 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 4.0 |
| koi no yokan / jane doe / every other dumb album version 2 apparently right guys hurr hurr hurr |
| Shakira Oral Fixation Vol. 2 | 4.0 |
| Shakira ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones? | 4.0 |
| Shakira Fijacion Oral Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Shangrala This Is How We Communicate | 3.5 |
| She Screams Remedy She Screams Remedy EP | 3.5 |
| She Wants Revenge She Wants Revenge | 2.0 |
| She Wants Revenge This is Forever | 1.0 |
| Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad | 4.5 |
| V- Halmstad is only a black metal record by the loosest stretch. Progressive black metal may be the best tag for this, and purists are going to absolutely hate it. Shining actively combat stereotypes and standards within the genre, and whether or not they should be applauded for it depends on your idea about the black metal scene. What they deliver with V- Halmstad is a black metal album for people who dont really like black metal, but have always sort of wished they would. Its heavy, its vaguely intelligent (musically- lyrically the translations Ive been able to find are hilariously bad), and its got the ability to make you rethink your hate for an entire genre. Then again, Shining probably would want you to say Fuck black metal anyways. |
| Shining (SWE) VI - Klagopsalmer | 3.5 |
| Shipwreck A.D. Shipwreck | 4.0 |
| Shipwreck A.D. Abyss | 3.0 |
| Showbread Anorexia Nervosa | 2.5 |
| Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland | 3.0 |
| Shugo Tokumaru Exit | 3.5 |
| Sick of It All Based on a True Story | 3.0 |
| Siekiera Nowa Aleksandria | 4.0 |
| I laughed, I cried, I danced, I think this album did every last thing it could for me. A really great album, if a little on the "extreme"end of the post-punk spectrum. |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 3.5 |
| Silverstein When Broken Is Easily Fixed | 1.5 |
| What do you want me to do here, really? Silverstein are a rather bland pop punk band, with hardcore influences, much in the vein of Hawthorne Heights. While they are slightly better than their contemporaries, it still sounds like a watered down version of Atreyu, aka its watered down suck. That does help the album slightly, as it isn't in your face suck. It's just bad lyricism (cliched and rather shoddy writing overall) and mediocre instrumentation combined with vomit-inducing vocals. |
| Silverstein Arrivals and Departures | 2.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 4.0 |
| Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any... | 1.5 |
| Its more of this mainstream emo as the kids call it (I prefer faux-emo in this context), and its not even average for that. Its certainly catchy-how could it not be at this point?-but it also has almost no other merits to it. Those looking for a technicality-dont get this album. Those looking for a good singer-dont get this album. Those looking for introspective lyrics-dont get this. Those looking for moderately catchy, whiney, and accessible music-get about 10 other artists discographys before you pick this up. Sans Untitled, this album is just the same song on repeat. And that song is Id Do Anything from their previous. Please, unless youre really desperate for mediocre radio pop-punk, dont buy this album. |
| Sinaloa Oceans of Islands | 2.5 |
| A terrible disappointment, for the second full length in a row Sinaloa take all the promise they have of reigniting a more traditional emo style's fire and turn it into a tired, monotonous record filled with filler. The attempts at variety hardly work, and unlike previous works the intensity isn't even at a high level anymore. Maybe next time. |
| Sinead O'Connor The Lion And The Cobra | 4.0 |
| Skepticism Alloy | 3.5 |
| Slayer South of Heaven | 3.0 |
| Slayer Christ Illusion | 2.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 2.5 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) | 3.5 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 2.0 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 1.5 |
| I like new Slipknot. I don't like old Slipknot. What am I ever to do? Oh yes, not listen to this record. My main problem is thats its heavy without any true anger or purpose. Joey's drumming was unfocused around this time, so instead of the skilled yet powerful drumming we'd see late,r he's pretty much a thrash drummer. Albeit with a better mix. The vocals are also pretty shoddy, making me want to take a rather large piece of my hand off every time I hear them. Yeah, I don't like this album very much I think. |
| Small Brown Bike The River Bed | 3.0 |
| Snapcase Progression Through Unlearning | 4.0 |
| Snoop Dogg Doggystyle | 2.0 |
| Snoop Dogg Ego Trippin' | 3.0 |
| Snow Patrol Eyes Open | 2.5 |
| Snow Patrol Final Straw | 3.0 |
| Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit | 3.0 |
| So the Story Goes As We March With Victims | 1.5 |
| Soap and Skin Lovetune for Vacuum | 3.0 |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Plastique | 3.5 |
| Son Lux At War With Walls And Mazes | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Rather Ripped | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Goo | 1.0 |
| Sons of Noel and Adrian Sons of Noel and Adrian | 2.5 |
| Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com | 1.5 |
| Crank That itself is catchy before it gets overplayed for you, as is Yahhh!, but besides that this is pretty bad stuff, I don't do it really. Yeah its meant to be mindless dance/driving music, but its really just horrible in every aspect besides perhaps the novelty. |
| Soundtrack Once More With Feeling | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack A Clockwork Orange | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack South Park (Original Soundtrack) | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack Grindhouse | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack Hotline Miami Official Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| South Park Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics | 1.5 |
| South Park Chef Aid: The South Park Album | 2.5 |
| Sparta Threes | 3.0 |
| Spice Girls Spice | 1.0 |
| So, a lot of people try and tell me/you that this album is good. Those people are phony liars. I decided to listen to this album again after a favorable review on this here site, and I was surprised to find I hated every waking moment of i. Sure, if you can stand their singing, this could be decent pop. But it's mostly female angst and by-the-numbers love lyrics sung by a bunch of women with voices I just can't comprehend people liking. Honestly, I'd say this album is overrated. |
| Spice Girls Spiceworld | 2.5 |
| Spires (USA) Flowers And Fireworks | 3.0 |
| Skramz isis. This would be a lot better if it wasn't so contrived and long, but I mean for what it is it is pretty great. If you are looking for slow music to headbang too, Spires are a pretty solid choice. |
| State Radio Us Against the Crown | 2.5 |
| State Radio Year of the Crow | 3.0 |
| Steinski What Does It All Mean? | 3.5 |
| Stephen Lynch A Litte Bit Special | 4.5 |
| Stephen Lynch Superhero | 4.0 |
| Stephen Malkmus Real Emotional Trash | 3.5 |
| Stratovarius Destiny | 4.0 |
| Stratovarius Intermission | 4.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 3.5 |
| Styx Kilroy Was Here | 2.5 |
| Styx The Grand Illusion | 4.5 |
Ah, the Grand Illusion. What a splendid album. This was the first album I ever bought of my own accord, and it owns a special place in my heart. It's bombastic, dynamic, and by golly Dennis DeYoung has one of the most homoerotic voices I ever heard. I love it.
btw Come Saily Away > You. |
| Styx Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Sublime Sublime | 3.0 |
| Subtle For Hero: For Fool | 4.0 |
| Subtle ExitingARM | 4.5 |
| Suede Coming Up | 3.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 2.5 |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed | 3.0 |
| SuidAkrA Caledonia | 3.5 |
| Suis La Lune Quiet, Pull the Strings! | 3.5 |
| Sum 41 Go Chuck Yourself | 2.5 |
| Summoning Oath Bound | 3.6 |
| Sun Kil Moon April | 4.0 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 4.0 |
| Surfer Blood Astro Coast | 3.0 |
| Swallow The Sun Hope | 3.5 |
| Swans The Seer | 4.5 |
| This is undeniably the best album I have heard this year. This is a monument to the fact that as long as what you're doing is passionate and creative, you can get away with songs that 'go nowhere' for five minutes a time. However, its the fact that at times I have to actively tell myself to sit through sections that causes me to readily pick this as my 'favorite' album of the year, despite the impressive and often brilliant songs on it. |
| Sweet Smoke From Darkness To Light | 4.5 |
| Sweet Smoke Just A Poke | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot Nothing is Sound | 2.5 |
| Switchfoot Oh! Gravity. | 3.5 |
| Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite | 4.0 |
| Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy | 3.0 |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 3.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 5.0 |
| In 1998, System of a Down came out with a little album called, gasp, System of a Down. Although the singles Sugar and Spiders received airplay, the album never blew up, especially compared to their next effort. However, this is arguably their best output. It is by far the weirdest album theyve put out, relying for less on the heavy riffs found on Toxicity and beyond, and rather on strange intertwining bass and guitar lines. Its also the only time you ever really hear Serj growl, and to those who were introduced to the band with Toxicity, its quite a surprise. The albums only low point is the extremely repetitive Darts, although on an album as strong as this, it still isnt a bad song (Life threatening lifestyles is one of the memorable lines on the album). Highlights include Spiders (Featuring a rare Daron solo), War? (System at their political best), and Mind (Their longest song to date, and also the most haunting). This was one of the most promising debuts of the 90s, and System followed it up well with |
| System of a Down Los Angeles Live | 2.0 |
| T-Pain Epiphany | 3.5 |
| T-Pain Thr33 Ringz | 2.5 |
| t.A.T.u. 200 km/H In The Wrong Lane | 4.0 |
| T.I. King | 2.0 |
| T.I. Paper Trail | 3.5 |
| Takaru A Light in the Attic / Takaru Split | 3.5 |
| Takaru There Can Be Only None | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 5.0 |
| Back in 7th and 8th grade, I was pretty much listening to Linkin PArk constantly. Then I go this album (even though I heard it sucked by my num etal-head friends), and I was absolutely smitten by it. I had to hide my love for it due to the obvious reaction I would have gotten, but it really got me into pop punk, along with Blink 182's self titled. |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be | 5.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 5.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again | 5.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Mars Polaris | 3.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Phaedra | 4.5 |
| Tarot Suffer Our Pleasures | 4.0 |
| Tegan and Sara Heartthrob | 3.9 |
| Tegan and Sara The Con | 4.1 |
| Temposhark The Invisible Line | 3.0 |
| Ten Grand This Is The Way To Rule | 3.5 |
| Ten Grand The Comprehensive List of Everyone Who H | 4.0 |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny | 3.0 |
| Terror Rhythm Amongst The Chaos | 3.0 |
| Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? | 4.0 |
| The All-American Rejects Move Along | 3.5 |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls with Sand | 3.5 |
| The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha | 3.0 |
| The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For Disappointment | 3.0 |
| The Audition Self-Titled Album | 3.5 |
| The Bacon Brothers Getting There | 2.0 |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds | 4.0 |
| Blah blah blah Sgt Peppers was the musical revolution of the 1960s blah blah. Fuck that shit yo, this i where its at. It was a slightly trippy record, but altogether one of the most fun listens I've ever had. Though I havent listened to it for like two years so I don't have quite as much to say about it as I normally would. Well, it basically paved the way for progressive music you could say. But then you could say the opposite. ITs oh so contrived. |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| Abbey Road. This was the first Beatles album I had in full, and still my favorite. As a whole, Revolver is better, but there are moments of absolute magic on this record that the Beatles never had pulled off before. The three track suite near the end of the album is both incredibly fun and mesmerizing, while tracks like Octopus Garden and Maxwells Silver Hammer are among my favorite songs of all time. The best Beatles album for sure, and right up there on the all time charts. |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Help! | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Please Please Me | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 1.5 |
| The Bled Found In The Flood | 2.5 |
| The Bled Pass The Flask | 2.5 |
| The Blood Brothers This Adultery Is Ripe | 4.5 |
| The Blood Brothers March On Electric Children | 4.0 |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn | 4.5 |
| The Blood Brothers Rumors Laid Waste | 3.5 |
| The Blood Brothers Crimes | 3.5 |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes | 4.5 |
| The Cape May Glass Mountain Roads | 3.0 |
| The Clash London Calling | 3.0 |
| The Click Five Greetings from Imrie House | 1.5 |
| The Cranberries No Need to Argue | 3.0 |
| The Darkness Permission to Land | 2.5 |
| The Darkness One Way Ticket To Hell And Back | 1.5 |
| I believe in a thing called suck. Oh wait wrong Darkness album. Anyways, much like a few other albums in the abtss of my ratings, I had heard a bunch of talk of how this album was actually pretty good. So, when I listen to it, I first went "Huh, this still sucks pretty hardcore man." The vocals aren't what got me as much as the almost Jet-bad music ripoffs, with every song sounding like something out of the 70's or 80's. Honestly, The Darkness should go back to The Darkness. Mommy says she'll be me ice cream if she never has to hear them again. |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Black | 2.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Violet | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter White | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Indigo | 2.5 |
| Better than "Black" but still way, way worse than any of the traditional/sunnier Color Spectrum records. |
| The Dear Hunter Red | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Orange | 3.0 |
| The Incubus worship album of The Color Spectrum. Not bad, just kind of an odd listen. |
| The Dear Hunter Blue | 3.5 |
| The literally blues-y, oftentimes Led Zeppelin like record of the Color Spectrum. Some great tunes, but a little boring in its adherence to the concept. |
| The Dear Hunter Green | 4.5 |
| The only 'experiment' of The Color Spectrum that succeeds with flying colors. Slightly psychedelic, incredibly heartfelt, and astounding musicianship make this a contender with Violet for my favorite EP. |
| The Dear Hunter Yellow | 4.5 |
| It's Dear Hunter, just way happier and sunnier than normal. One of the EPs that really shows just how influenced by The Beatles "White Album" this whole thing really is. |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant | 3.5 |
| The Death of Anna Karina New Liberalistic Pleasures | 4.0 |
| Everything you ever knew about screamo and electronic music is turned UPSIDE DOWN ON ITS HEAD IN THE DEFINING RELEASE OF THE TRUE ELECTROSKRAMZ SCENE. Neophytes be warned: your face WILL be danced off. |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 4.0 |
| While I had enjoyed about half of Picaresque, I hadn?t expected to enjoy The Crane Wife quite as much as I ended up. However, they?ve toned down the excess instruments and gone to a more streamlined, poppy sound that works magnificently for them. It also helps they have an extended track to match the heights of ?The Mariner?s Revenge Song? with ?The Crane Wife 1 and 2? |
| The Decemberists Always the Bridesmaid | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists The Hazards Of Love | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 1.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 3.5 |
| The Dum Dum Project Export Quality | 3.5 |
| The End Elementary | 2.5 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Ghostship | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips The Terror | 4.0 |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life | 3.0 |
| The Flower Kings The Rainmaker | 4.0 |
| The Fray How to Save a Life | 1.0 |
| The Game LAX | 3.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The 59 Sound | 3.5 |
| The Hold Steady Heaven Is Whenever | 2.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 2.5 |
| The Khayembii Communique The Khayembii Communiqué | 4.0 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.5 |
| The Killers Sam's Town | 4.0 |
| The Killers Sawdust | 3.0 |
| The Killers Day & Age | 4.0 |
Brandon Flower's drops the ridiculous posturing he has had in the past of being a "cool guy", and in the process finds the chemistry with his music he has always been looking for. Incredibly upbeat, catchy, uplifting and well thought out, it's a perfect blend of 80's pop music and a bit of 90's alt brit rock. Each song is filled to the brim with memorable hooks and interesting nuances. Truly a surprising and fantastic effort by a band I had written off as good, but standard pop fare.
As a side note, I give this a 4.5 |
| The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year | 2.5 |
| The Knife Shaking the Habitual | 3.1 |
| Get ready to see how easy it is to review this album: this album is an album demanding respect and showcasing a unique understanding of contrarian ideas and execution. It's too bad I honestly get disinterested and immediately fall back to wondering what kind of point the Knife really think they're making with this record. |
| The Kodan Armada Ohio Killed the Grey Ghost | 4.0 |
| The Kodan Armada A Collection Of Songs | 4.0 |
| The Locust Safety Second, Body Last | 4.0 |
| The Locust Plague Soundscapes | 3.0 |
| The Locust New Erections | 4.0 |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad | 4.0 |
| I figured that the 4 songs released before the album was completed were going to easily be the best material, but I was mistaken. A musically accomplished comedy album, the brilliance of certain songs makes up for the more filler-ish moments on the record. Filled with ridiculous hooks and lyrics, Incredibad is just plain awesome. |
| The Mars Volta Scab Dates | 2.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta Tremulant | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 5.0 |
| So yeah I'm generally a Mars Volta fanboy. Particularly for this album. I get rather agitated and I hit things when someone gives this below a 4.5, and I eat babies whenever I see a 3.5 I black out otherwise. Anyways, this album is pretty goddamn amazing. Despite there being only 5 (6 if you include the single) songs, there's more variety here than on many a more bloated disc (traks wise), with salsa-y L'via juxtaposing with a power ballad in The Widow and a very industrialized song in Miranda. All in all though, it's a rather fantastic album that should be picked up by everyone. Everyone. |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 3.5 |
| Amputechture is both TMV's most all-around solid work, et it isn't their best. The album itself contains a huge amount of highlights and melds the breakout-pace and style of De-Loused with the vastness and musicianship or Frances, all while taking it a step further in terms of songwriting. However, it isn't anything truly new, and despite the fact that "Tetragrammaton" and "Day of the Baphomets" are two of the finest songs I've heard all year, the album is just a tad bit too long for its own good. |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.8 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 4.5 |
| Dad said "the worst part about living is, the mars volta haven't released an album for almost three years" WELL FUCK YOU DAD NOCTOURNIQUET RULES |
| The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits | 3.5 |
| The Menzingers A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology | 4.0 |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past | 4.9 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 (Re-release) | 3.5 |
| The Moldy Peaches The Moldy Peaches | 3.5 |
| The Monkees Greatest Hits | 3.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Sweden | 4.2 |
| The Nation of Ulysses Plays Pretty for Baby | 4.0 |
| The National High Violet | 1.0 |
| I even bought this cd thinking "maybe, just maybe I was missing something before". NOPE, SHIT IS STILL SUPER FUCKING BORING. |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 2.0 |
| high violet 2.0. did someone already make that soundoff? i hope not i know im pretty late =/ |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You An Inch of Gold for An Inch of Time | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 3.3 |
| The Offspring Complete Music Video Collection | 2.5 |
| The Omar Rodriguez Lopez Quintet The Apocalypse Inside Of An Orange | 4.0 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 3.0 |
| The Pax Cecilia Nouveau | 4.0 |
| The Pink Spiders Teenage Graffiti | 3.0 |
| The Postal Service Give Up | 3.5 |
| The Prize Fighter Inferno My Brother's Blood Machine | 4.0 |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land | 4.0 |
| The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers | 2.5 |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It | 1.0 |
| The Replacements Don't Tell a Soul | 2.0 |
| The Rocky Horror Picture Show The Rocky Horror Picture Show | 4.5 |
| A lot of people don't like The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I think it's a rather fantastic thing to be perfectly honest. Blending rock with jazz with pop with blues, it's actually a stunning musical composition in its own right, with songs that range from impossibly danceable (Time Warp, Hot Patootie) to sad, almost touching songs (Science Fiction/Double Theatre, I Can Make you a Man). Oh, and its about transvestites and stuff. Hot. |
| The Smith Street Band No One Gets Lost Anymore | 5.0 |
| The Smith Street Band South East Facing Wall | 4.5 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 4.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... | 1.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke | 2.5 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun | 3.0 |
| The Streets The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living | 2.0 |
| The String Quartet Tribute to The Mars Volta | 2.0 |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 2.0 |
| The Swell Season The Swell Season | 4.5 |
| The Swell Season Strict Joy | 4.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 3.5 |
| The Thirty Years War Martyrs Among the Casualties | 4.5 |
| The Ting Tings We Started Nothing | 4.0 |
| The Vidablue Our Miracle Point of Contact | 4.5 |
| The Weakerthans Reunion Tour | 4.0 |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation | 2.9 |
| The World is a Beautiful Place And... Whenever, If Ever | 3.5 |
| This Soundoff Is a Waste of Space, And I Have become a Terrible User |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 3.0 |
| Thera If This is the End | 2.5 |
| Therapy? Crooked Timber | 4.5 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Easter | 4.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home | 4.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove | 3.5 |
| With "Tail Swallower and Dove" These Arms Are Snakes have toned down the crazyness without sacrificing their X-factor. It's one of the most rock and roll records I've heard all year, heavy hitting and deliciously riff-heavy. They still leave room for just enough experimentation to not get stale. A very good album. |
| These Arms Are Snakes This Is Meant To Hurt You | 4.0 |
| Third Ear Band Third Ear Band | 3.9 |
| This Time We Will Not Promise... 歌詞を読まない世代へ継ぐ | 3.5 |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser | 2.0 |
| Three 6 Mafia When the Smoke Clears | 4.0 |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace | 1.5 |
| Just Like You is a good song. Then there are a lot of bad songs on this album, And that really sucks because I really wanted to like this album. The problem is everything sounds honestly like every other radio rock song I've heard since Pearl Jam first made headway, so I really don't know what to make out of this album. Maybe if I made out with the case it would help. No, it really doesn't. So, its angsty and suffocatingly bad. And the cd case tastes like spaghetti. But that might just be me... |
| Thrice Vheissu | 5.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion Of Safety | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Artist In The Ambulance | 3.0 |
| Thrice Identity Crisis | 3.0 |
| Thrice First Impressions | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 3.5 |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 2.5 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.0 |
| Thursday War All the Time | 3.5 |
| Thursday Five Stories Falling | 2.5 |
| Thursday Waiting | 2.0 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 2.5 |
| When this album is on it's the most mature and overall excellent stuff they've made (Last Call, As He Climbed the Dark Mountain, You Were the Cancer). Slightly progressive in nature and highly "experimental" when it comes to their sound, Common Existence doesn't fail at its attempts to evolve the band, for better or worse. However, most of the songs don't work well, as the acoustic/ambient droning of "Time's Arrow" or the attempt at making another At this Velocity in "Unintended Long Term Effects" prove. Another hit or miss Thursday record, Common Existence is undeniably their weakest overall effort yet, and its time for even the hardcore of Thursday fans to start questioning the amount of juice the band really has left. |
| Thursday/Envy Thursday/Envy | 2.5 |
This highly awaited split lands to mixed opinions it seems. The Thursday side is highly "experimental" and pushes the electronic/atmospheric side of A City By the Light Divided to greater heights, but besides "An Absurd and Unrealistic Dream of Peace" the songs tend to get a bit full of themselves, with closer "Appeared and Was Gone" being the most pretentious thing Thursday have ever done.
The Envy side is as mixed of a bag, being solid in its own right but adding absolutely nothing to the cannon of Envy. They keep treading old waters, and its starting to become apparent that water is shallower than any of us wanted to admit. "Pure Birth and Loneliness" stands out but when it comes after the borefests that are "An Umbrella Fallen into Fiction" and "Isolation of a Light Source", it's hard to really care.
All in all, a disappointing release from both bands to an extent. Envy prove themselves to be almost irrelevant here, and Thursday despite their best effort still can't reach any sort of real high points. Better luck next time guys. |
| Tim McGraw Set This Circus Down | 2.5 |
| Timbaland Shock Value | 3.0 |
| Timbaland Timbaland Presents Shock Value II | 3.5 |
| Time of Orchids Namesake Caution | 3.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 3.3 |
| Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances | 3.0 |
| Titus Andronicus Local Business | 3.0 |
| I mean its another Titus Andronicus record. They sound a little different. And yet they still sound exactly the same. Fucking weird. |
| Tom Jones 24 Hours | 4.0 |
| I have no idea how Tom Jones has managed to keep his voice as strong today as it was over 40 years ago when he started, but however he has God bless him. "24 Hours" features Tom Jones having arguably the most fun he has ever had in his epic career, every song feeling like a blast of energy and nostalgia for a new generation of listeners. While it is heavily rooted in 60's and 70's pop and soul, there is a definite new age twist on it that makes it not feel dated. Cuts like "I'm Alive" and "Feels Like Music" are funky pop anthems, while "If He Should Ever Leave You" and "Never" are classic love tunes that we've just come to expect from Mr. Jones. A triumphant collection of new songs, "24 Hours" is just another affirmation that Tom Jones is still the sexiest voice in show business. |
| Tom Waits Mule Variations | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Orphans | 4.5 |
| Never hearing more than one or two songs by him, Orphans and its vast scope introduced me to pretty much every aspect I could imagine about Mr. Waits. While Bastards may be the best disc, none of the three are below fantastic, and there isn?t a bad song of note on this sprawling album, while there are innumerable gems. |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 3.0 |
| Tool Aenima | 3.0 |
| Tool Undertow | 2.0 |
| Tortoise Beacons of Ancestorship | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 3.0 |
| As awesome as this is, they have the potential to do so much more. |
| Touche Amore/Pianos Become the Teeth Split | 3.0 |
| Towers Full Circle | 3.0 |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft | 3.5 |
| Trapt Someone in Control | 3.0 |
| Trash Talk Plagues | 3.5 |
| Trash Talk Trash Talk | 2.0 |
| I just got reminded how lame and repetitive and boring this shitty album is. Listen to Plagues like 3 times if you are in the mood to listen to a Trash Talk LP, its better to pretend than actually do it. |
| Trinidad Jame$ Don't Be S.A.F.E. | 4.9 |
| ill review Trinidad Jame$ |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 2.0 |
| God those guitarists are orgasmic. In a way. I'll give them that they're incredibly skilled, but goddamn stop jacking your guitar off and compose a decent solo that require you to travel the distance of your fretboard 5 times (in 4 seconds). Mostly everything else is meh on this album, besides the vocals. Imagine even louder, less obnoxious, but even more horrifically destructive screaming than Atreyu. Thats where you'll find the screaming on this album to be. Just even worse. |
| Trivium The Crusade | 1.5 |
| Trivium Shogun | 2.0 |
| Trivium go from being a wannabe thrash outfit back to a psuedo metalcore band, and improve on their last horrific outing by making a bad album that is at least listenable. Good riffs abound with little else to call "good" here. |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck | 5.0 |
| The most focused Trophy Scars outing yet (EP or otherwise), epic in scope yet smooth and incredibly listenable, "Bad Luck" shows the band treading into a slower groove, and creating more noteworthy "crescendos". While "Anna Lucia" is the most obvious standout, the trio of songs "Toronto", "Nola", and "Years so Much" (All six minutes plus) are excellent forays in odd song structures and musical and lyrcial tones. Straight off from "Bad Dreams" through "Good Luck", "Bad Luck" is the culmination of what one small punk band from Jersey can do with enough time and vision.rWhich is to say, a lot. |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 5.0 |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead | 5.0 |
In the end though, all of that crazy orchestration and songwriting only serves to highlight
the simple elegance of Never Born, Never Dead. Regardless of what the story may be behind
the album, regardless of what instruments they use or how they put them together, or even
what they may have expressly meant to produce, Never Born, Never Dead succeeds because it
taps into some deeper meaning of what music can be: a sprawling, emotional, spiritual and
ambitious work that by not pretending to take itself seriously, becomes so much more honest
than 99% of music being put out today. |
| Troubled Medium CAN U FEEL IT??? | 4.5 |
| Btmi worship via Smith Street Band. this album is everything I want in a punk record. more please |
| Trvth Black Horse Plague | 3.7 |
| Turisas Battle Metal | 3.5 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 4.0 |
| For all the praise Bon Iver gets for being a simple, enjoyable listen, TV on the Radio accomplish all that while creating truly inspiring, eclectic, forward thinking music. Pretentious while not being pretentious; "Dear Science," is an indie album that combines itself with elements of hip hop, electronica and a good 'ol helping of soul to make it the ultimate vision of what the band has always done. Surprise of the year. |
| Twain Harte A Sunny Place for Shady People | 3.5 |
| Tyler Brown The Hollows | 3.7 |
| More good music to be coming out of nowhere but I am scared this will become another example of people overvaluing something pleasant and indie |
| Tyler The Creator Goblin | 2.5 |
| Tyler The Creator Wolf | 3.0 |
| every Tyler, the Creator album is immaculate and beautiful and more important than anything us shithead's will ever do with our lives |
| U2 No Line on the Horizon | 2.5 |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun | 4.0 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 1.5 |
| So, underOATH used to be really, really, really bad. But before that, they were decent. This is when they were really, really, really bad. It sounds like a pop band trying to be really hardcore and impressive with their musicianship, but instead its faux-christian lyrics (by this point they had begun to shed them) and bland musicianship. Why the 1.5? Spencer is one of the most god awful vocalists I've ever heard. I honestly want to punch Hilary Duff in the mouth when I hear him scream, but since I don't know Hilary Duff, I just punch the picture of her I have in my room, but as theres a concrete wall behind it, my hand just starts to bleed and get infected and stuff... |
| Underoath Cries of the Past | 1.5 |
| Underoath The Changing of Times | 2.5 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.5 |
| Underoath Act of Depression | 2.0 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 3.5 |
It's interesting, no doubt, and filled with the most mature music underoath have made to date. The songs are all tight, compound pieces with very little fluff, and the new ideas all compliment the heavily "Define the Great Line" derived sound well. However, listenability has been lost in the evolution, and there is a distinct lack of the heavyness that made their last record so catchy and enjoyable.
Edit: Insert insulting remark to another user here! |
| Underoath Disambiguation | 4.5 |
| There is only one thing that matters here, and its going to keep all the old nancyboy underoath fans from appreciating this: HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS IS HEAVY |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire | 2.5 |
| Unfathoms Da Lowd NOIZ Demo | 1.5 |
| United Nations United Nations | 4.0 |
| It's a joke/tribute album featuring some of the most ridiculous music written this year that purists are already starting to hate. However, the combination of Thursday's sound with a real "screamo" bent with some grind musicians being thrown into the mix is an immense one. Arguably the record of the year. |
| Usher Confessions | 3.5 |
| Usurp Synapse Disinformation Fix | 4.0 |
| Valencia Dancing With A Ghost | 1.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 3.0 |
| Vanilla Ice To the Extreme | 2.0 |
| Various Artists Snakes On A Plane | 2.0 |
| Various Artists (Punk) The Importance of Falling | 3.0 |
| Velvet Revolver Libertad | 2.0 |
| VersaEmerge VersaEmerge | 3.5 |
| VersaEmerge Perceptions | 4.0 |
| Vessels White Fields and Open Devices | 3.5 |
| Warning Watching from a Distance | 4.5 |
| Warrant Cherry Pie | 2.0 |
| Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt | 4.4 |
| Weekend Nachos Worthless | 4.5 |
| Weerd Science Friends and Nervous Breakdowns | 1.5 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 1.0 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Straight Outta Lynwood | 2.5 |
| Westlife World Of Our Own | 2.0 |
| Wil Wagner Laika | 4.9 |
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| Wilco Sky Blue Sky | 3.0 |
| With Blood Comes Cleansing Horror | 2.0 |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary | 3.0 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 1.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 3.0 |
| I don't know why people go crazy for Two Hunters or this. I guess when an american black metal band doesn't suck it must mean they are amazing. |
| Write This Down Write This Down | 2.5 |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain | 3.0 |
| Kind of like a band that is going to flame out in a year or two. |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.0 |
| X Japan Blue Blood | 4.0 |
| X Japan Art of Life | 3.0 |
| Xiu Xiu Women As Lovers | 3.5 |
| Yaphet Kotto We Bury Our Dead Alive | 3.0 |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones | 2.0 |
| Yellowcard Lights and Sounds | 4.0 |
| Yes The Yes Album | 4.0 |
| Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans | 4.0 |
| Yes Close to the Edge | 3.5 |
| Yip-Yip Two Kings of the Same Kingdom | 3.5 |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 4.0 |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Trilogy | 3.0 |
| Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass | 3.5 |
| Yo La Tengo Popular Songs | 3.0 |
| Yoko Ono Yes, I'm A Witch | 3.5 |
| You and I Discography | 4.0 |
| You and I The Curtain Falls | 4.0 |
| Young Widows Old Wounds | 3.0 |
| Yuka Tsujiyoko Paper Mario GMS (Disc 1 and 2) | 3.0 |
| Yusef Lateef Eastern Sounds | 4.0 |
| Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here | 3.0 |
| Zao All Else Failed | 3.5 |
| Zebrahead Broadcast to the World | 2.0 |
