| 2Pac Me Against the World | 4.5 |
| 2Pac All Eyez on Me | 4.5 |
| Unlike Me Against the World, All Eyez on Me is not the poetic and reflective look on ghetto life. All Eyez on Me is more about being a "thug," and living life without regard to others or to consequences. This might be why Tupac met an untimely demise, which adds some historical significance to this album, but overall this album is not as strong as Me Against the World. It lacks the depth and creativity of its predecessor. This album is far from being completely devoid of depth, it just concentrates more on the beat production and lyrics portraying the thug life. For that it is plagued by the usual gangsta cliches, but despite this it is still a great album for rap enthusiasts. |
| 2Pac Greatest Hits | 4.5 |
| 2pac is one of the most infamous and prolific rap artists to have ever lived, so an equally prolific compilation album should have been produced to honor his death, yes? Well Death Row's Greatest Hits might not be as prolific as it could've been, and is far from a historical reflection into 2pac's music, but it is still an adequate mix of some of Tupac's great songs. Getting all of his greatest hits was an impossible thing to do on two discs, so this isn't the definitive compilation album, but it serves well to those who just want a compilation of some good 2pac. |
| 311 From Chaos | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 4.0 |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 3.0 |
| AFX Chosen Lords | 4.5 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 4.5 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains Sap | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Nothing Safe: Best of the Box | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Facelift | 4.5 |
| Anthrax Spreading the Disease | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Windowlicker | 3.0 |
| Aphex Twin Classics | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Come to Daddy | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 4.5 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II | 4.5 |
| Few albums in existence are as beautiful or as haunting as this album is. Unlike S.A.W. 85-92, Vol. II is pure ambient. And just as with Drukqs, this album is an exercise in contrast. The most touchingly beautiful opuses you will probably ever hear are met with chilling dark ambient pieces. Each song presents its own atmosphere, and although this album is not as cohesive as it could be, it still makes for a wonderful whole. I'd give this album a 5 but it just is too inconsistent, but despite this it is still an amazing album that should be experienced by anyone interested in electronica or ambient music. |
| Aphex Twin On | 4.5 |
| For a release with only four songs, this EP accomplishes a lot. On #1 can be looked as a very short overview of Aphex Twin's unique sound in the early 90s (circa 1993), which varied from ambient electronica to hardcore acid techno. Each track represents a different sound (whether it be ambient electronica or acid techno). Tracks 1 and 4 are beautifully textured and structured ambient techno pieces reminiscent of Selected Ambient Works 85-92, while tracks 2 and 3 are rougher and harder-edged songs more akin to I Care Because You Do. Overall it's a short but great EP that sums up the early career of Richard D. James better than any of his other much longer LP releases. |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 5.0 |
| Aphex Twin is easily one of the most influential electronica artists ever, and this album is easily one of the most influential IDM albums ever, and is easily one of Richard D. James' best. Despite the name (which implies it is ambient), this album is pure IDM at its best. Much more consistent but less evocative than S.A.W. Vol. II, it's regarded by many as his best, and although I wouldn't feel completely confident saying the same, it is one of his best. |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs | 5.0 |
| I have read a lot of negative reviews about Drukqs, and I can understand why. I used to think the same way about this album. It is an album of stark contrast, far beyond anything else Richard D. James has done. One song will consist of minimalistic piano pieces, the next will be hard drum n' bass, and the next will be dark ambient. It's not an easy album to get used to, but, given time and an open mind, Drukqs will reveal itself to be perfected by its contrast. At first it seems like Drukqs is just a bunch of random songs assembled into a two disk set, but it is really far from the truth. Drukqs is a masterpiece of experimental electronica, and is one of James' best albums, and is probably my favorite. |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Burning Bridges | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Black Earth | 4.0 |
| At the Gates With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness | 4.0 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 4.5 |
| Slaughter of the Soul seemed to mark the beginning of At the Gates' widespread success, but it actually meant the beginning of the end for the melodic death metal group. Slaughter of the Soul is seen as a landmark melodic death metal album, and for good reason. It is far more brutal than Dark Tranquillity's The Gallery and In Flames' The Jester Race, and what it lacks in creativity it makes up for with its crushing sound. Even dismissing its influence, which cannot be overlooked, this album is a masterpiece of melodic death metal. |
| At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease | 4.5 |
| Slaughter of the Soul may be At the Gates' undisputed hit, but Terminal Spirit Disease is my personal favorite. Not quite as polished as its successor, it is harder edged than SOTS, and it is more diverse in its sound. |
| Autechre LP5 | 4.0 |
| Autechre Peel Session 2 | 4.0 |
| Autechre Incunabula | 4.5 |
| The early 90s was an amazing time for electronica music, as some of the most acclaimed albums were released during this time. Incunabula marked the debut of Autechre in 1993. It followed the IDM/ambient trends of the day, with Autechre's own special IDM sound textured with ambient and even some hip-hop influences. Incunabula is by far Autechre's most accessible release (it was my first, and was my favorite for quite a while), and is one of my favorites. The sound production sounds a bit dated, but Incunabula still stands as one of the great electronica releases on the early 90s. |
| Autechre Peel Session | 4.5 |
| Autechre Tri Repetae | 5.0 |
| After their first two IDM-based albums, Autechre began to change there sound here, on their most acclaimed and influential album. Tri Repetae++ is what the world would sound like if the machines took over. In ways it is completely desensitized, but in others it retains the human emotion and inspiration from Amber. It's Autechre's middle-ground, between their IDM/ambient works of the early 90s and the harsh glitch that would come about in the late 90s and ealry 2000s, and it represents Autechre's musicianship more than adequately. Although I prefer Amber, Tri Repetae++ is a landmark electronica release that must be experienced. |
| Autechre Amber | 5.0 |
| Incunabula may be more accessible, and Tri Repetae++ might be a more complete overlook at Autechre's unique sound (and has gained more critical acclaim), but Amber is my favorite Autechre album. It is probably their accessible and consistent album of Autechre's early years (every album after Tri Repetae++ would prove to be much more challenging), Amber is Autechre's most evocative album. It mixes ambient, IDM, and even some industrial and glitch all into one blissful package. Consistency is an issue here, especially when compared to Incunabula and Tri Repetae++, but this only adds to the overall darker atmosphere of the album. Amber is certainly an experience to behold, and will remain near the top of my electronica albums list. |
| Backstreet Boys Millennium | 2.0 |
| Bathory Bathory | 3.5 |
| Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark | 4.0 |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death | 4.5 |
| Bathory Hammerheart | 4.5 |
| Biosphere Substrata | 4.5 |
| Biosphere Microgravity | 4.5 |
| Bjork Post | 4.0 |
| Bjork Medulla | 4.0 |
| Bjork Vespertine | 4.5 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 5.0 |
| Bjork is known as one of the strangest artists in popular music, but strange isn't always bad. Her voice is absolutely sublime and stunning, inspiring awe in the listener as to how she has such a beautiful and soft, yet potent and powerful voice. The music behind her voice is only supplements her beauty, adding texture and atmosphere, helping portray the song's meaning and emotion. Bjork's beautiful voice, wonderful lyrics, and equally wonderful music has made her one of the most well-known artists in the electronica genre, and Homogenic is her magnum opus in my opinion. Every song is a gem. |
| Black Sabbath We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll | 4.5 |
| Blue October Foiled | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Twoism | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Peel Session | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada Trans Canada Highway | 4.0 |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada Hi Scores | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country | 4.5 |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 5.0 |
| What can I say about this album? A better question to ask is what can I not say about this album? When I listen to music and decide whether it is any good or not, I tend to look first at the overall texture and atmosphere of the music; the overall quality of the music. Music Has the Right to Children is probably my favorite album of all time because it possesses these qualities many times over. It fills the listeners ears and brain with sounds that evoke a child-like nostalgia, love, mystery, and awe. Every sound is a soundtrack of its own kind. Each piece forms together to make a breath-taking cohesion of perfected sound. |
| Boston Third Stage | 3.5 |
| Boston Don't Look Back | 4.0 |
| Boston Boston | 4.5 |
| Brian Eno Neroli | 3.5 |
| Brian Eno Ambient 4: On Land | 4.0 |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports | 4.5 |
| Brian Eno Another Green World | 5.0 |
| Brian Eno is known as the father of ambient music, and his creation of ambient music begins here. Another Green World is a strange yet beautiful mix of Eno's earlier prog/art rock and of the ambient music he would become even more famous for than he already was. It represents each of these two genres in their prime, which makes Another Green World one of the Eno's best albums. |
| Britney Spears Oops!...I Did It Again | 2.0 |
| Burzum Filosofem | 4.5 |
| Bush Razorblade Suitcase | 3.0 |
| Bush Sixteen Stone | 4.0 |
| Carcass Heartwork | 4.5 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild | 4.0 |
| Chimaira Resurrection | 3.5 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 4.0 |
| Common Be | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Live Bait for the Dead | 2.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Bitter Suites to Succubi | 3.0 |
| Cradle of Filth The Principle of Evil Made Flesh | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Thornography | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Midian | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Damnation and a Day | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Lovecraft & Witch Hearts | 4.5 |
| Daft Punk Homework | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 4.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Character | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Projector | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Skydancer/Of Chaos And Eternal Night | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity The Mind's I | 4.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Soulside Journey | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger | 4.0 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.0 |
| Death Human | 4.0 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 4.5 |
| Death Symbolic | 4.5 |
| Deerhoof Reveille | 3.5 |
| Deerhoof Friend Opportunity | 3.5 |
| Deerhoof Milk Man | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.0 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 4.0 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.0 |
| Delerium Karma | 4.0 |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand | 3.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon | 4.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions | 4.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant | 4.5 |
| Dissection The Somberlain | 4.0 |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane | 4.5 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 3.5 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 3.5 |
| Dr. Dre 2001 | 3.5 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic | 4.0 |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Images and Words | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons | 4.0 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 3.5 |
| Eagles Hotel California | 4.5 |
| Eagles Hell Freezes Over | 4.5 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.5 |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium | 4.0 |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse | 4.5 |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk | 5.0 |
| Being fairly new to the black metal genre, I have not listened to all the black metal albums that are out there, but I have listened to a few, and Anthems to Welkin at Dusk is easily my favorite of them all. Emperor might not have invented the genre, but they definately changed the sound of black metal with In the Nightside Eclipse. Anthems follows in its predecessor's footsteps, using the same crushing vocals, guitar work, and drumming along with the atmospheric keyboarding that makes for an all-around symphonic black metal masterpiece. |
| Enya Shepherd Moons | 4.0 |
| Enya A Day Without Rain | 4.5 |
| Enya Watermark | 4.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 4.0 |
| Global Communication 76:14 | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.5 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 3.5 |
| Green Day Nimrod | 3.5 |
| Green Day Kerplunk | 3.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 4.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 4.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 4.0 |
| Harold Budd and Brian Eno The Pearl | 4.5 |
| Harold Budd and Brian Eno had already made an ambient landmark release in 1980 with Ambient 2, but in 1984 they created an even greater album: The Pearl. Using the same minimalist ambient formula used in Ambient 2, the duo create a beautifully painted work of art with their soft and atmospheric approach. The Pearl is my favorite Eno/Budd album, and is easily one of the my favorite ambient albums of all time. |
| HIM Dark Light | 3.0 |
| HIM Love Metal | 4.0 |
| HIM Razorblade Romance | 4.0 |
| HIM Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights | 4.0 |
| Hypocrisy Abducted | 4.0 |
| Hypocrisy The Final Chapter | 4.0 |
| Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted | 3.0 |
| Iced Earth Night of the Stormrider | 4.0 |
| Iced Earth The Blessed and the Damned | 4.0 |
| Ihsahn The Adversary | 4.0 |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape | 3.0 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 3.5 |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain | 4.0 |
| In Flames Lunar Strain | 4.0 |
| In Flames The Tokyo Showdown | 4.0 |
| In Flames Colony | 4.5 |
| After Jester Race and Whoracle, it seemed like things couldn't have gotten better for In Flames. Colony proved that this would be an incorrect assumption, as Colony marked the continued progression of the band's sound, without compromising their quality. Colony marks the progression towards In Flames' new sound, which isn't a bad thing, at least for this album. It is still definately melodic death metal, and it is still as great as ever. |
| In Flames Clayman | 4.5 |
| In Flames Whoracle | 4.5 |
| In Flames perfected melodic death metal with The Jester Race, so they had quite a lot to live up to with Whoracle, and although it lacks the influence or overall atmosphere of its predecessor, it is still an amazing album. It has a more crushing, powerful, and epic sound than The Jester Race, and only looses out with the a few weak songs. Other than that, this album is a complete masterpiece of melodic death metal. |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 5.0 |
| It might not be the most brutal or heavy death metal album to be produced, but Jester Race is definately one of the greatest. This is widely considered to be In Flames' masterpiece, and I would strongly agree with this statement. A landmark melodic death metal release, it fuses elements of death metal, power metal, progressive metal, and folk to form this amazing album. If only In Flames were still this great... |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Killers | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 4.5 |
| Judas Priest British Steel | 3.5 |
| Judas Priest Killing Machine | 3.5 |
| Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers | 3.5 |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control | 4.0 |
| Kansas The Best of Kansas | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 4.0 |
| Korn Untouchables | 3.0 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 3.0 |
| Korn Take a Look in the Mirror | 3.5 |
| Korn Life Is Peachy | 3.5 |
| Korn Deuce DVD | 3.5 |
| Korn Korn | 4.0 |
| Korn Issues | 4.0 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 4.0 |
| Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 2: Latter Days | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 1: Early Days | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 4.5 |
| Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz Kings of Crunk | 1.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Smells Like Children | 2.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 5.0 |
| Trip-Hop isn't a necessarily complex genre when you look at it. Just mix huge bass with some slower electronic beats, add some heavy effects in the background and add either a rapper or female vocalist to the mix, and viola, you have some trip hop. But Mezzanine is so much more than this. Everything about this album oozes quality. From the production quality to the arrangement of beats to the vocals, it all is assembled perfectly. Mezzanine is the essential trip-hop album, and for good reason. |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah I | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 4.0 |
| Metallica Some Kind of Monster | 2.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 3.0 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.5 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 4.5 |
| Moby 18 | 3.0 |
| Moby Play | 4.0 |
| Mouse on Mars Instrumentals | 4.0 |
| Mouse on Mars Autoditacker | 4.5 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 3.0 |
| Mudvayne The Beginning of All Things to End | 3.0 |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found | 3.5 |
| Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come | 4.0 |
| Mushroomhead XX | 3.0 |
| Mushroomhead XIII | 4.0 |
| My Dying Bride The Angel and the Dark River | 4.0 |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours | 4.5 |
| N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton | 4.0 |
| Nas It Was Written | 3.5 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Things Falling Apart | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Further Down the Spiral (US) | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Still | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails And All That Could Have Been | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 5.0 |
| If you want to know the definition of angst through sound, just listen to The Downward Spiral. Representing the high school outcast in all of us, Trent Reznor paints a perfectly bleak picture with his industrial sounds. Far better produced than Broken, and in my opinion all around superior album, The Downward Spiral is beautifully chaotic and deranged. It's an extremely emotional album that doesn't let the listener go until the end of one of the most suicidal songs ever written, "Hurt." It's a dark masterpiece of anger and loathing. |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 4.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 3.5 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 4.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.0 |
| Opeth Orchid | 4.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| Opeth is easily one of the greatest metal albums in existence, successfully mixing progressive and folk elements with death metal (newer works) and with symphonic black metal (older works). Blackwater Park follows the template presented in Still Life, and adds more texture to that sound. What results is a more atmospheric, equally brutal, and less balanced album. For its few flaws it makes up for in far greater measure in terms of beauty, creativity, and brutality. It might not be their greatest album (I would reserve that title for Still Life or Deliverance), but it is one of their best, and is subsequently one of the best releases in the metal genre. Highly recommended. |
| Opeth Deliverance | 4.5 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 4.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 5.0 |
| Opeth is easily one of the greatest metal bands in existence today, if not the greatest. I could go on forever why, but I'll spare you that for now, and talk about their best album, Still Life. All of their albums are top-notch, but Still Life is my personal favorite. It has a fresher, better produced sound than My Arms, Your Hearse or Morningrise, and set the sound that would be modified on Blackwater Park. It represents the balance between the overall brutality of My Arms, Your Hearse and the atmospheric tunes of Blackwater Park, which makes for a wonderful compromise. The overall balance, beauty, and atmosphere of Still Life makes it my favorite Opeth album, and one of my favorite metal albums of all time. |
| Orgy Candyass | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Echoes | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Ummagumma | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
| Even though Dark Side of the Moon is Pink Floyd's universal hit, Wish You Were Here deserves just as much praise, if not more. It represents Pink Floyd in their prime; such gems as "Wish You Were Here" and "Welcome to the Machine" sandwiched between the 15 minutes opuses of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" pts. 1-5 and 6-9. The overall cohesion of the album transcends that of Dark Side of the Moon, which still is an amazing album... just not as amazing as Wish You Were Here. |
| Placebo Sleeping with Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Placebo Without You I'm Nothing | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.5 |
| Portishead Portishead | 3.5 |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.5 |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 4.0 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 4.5 |
| Rush Permanent Waves | 4.5 |
| Sentenced Down | 4.0 |
| Sepultura Roots | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Chaos A.D. | 4.0 |
| Sepultura Arise | 4.5 |
| Shadows Fall The War Within | 4.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 3.5 |
| Slipknot Disasterpieces | 3.5 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Vol.3: The Subliminal Verses [Reissue] | 4.0 |
| Snoop Dogg Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$ | 2.0 |
| Snoop Dogg Doggystyle | 4.0 |
| Soilwork A Predator's Portrait | 3.5 |
| Soilwork The Chainheart Machine | 4.5 |
| Squarepusher Ultravisitor | 4.0 |
| Squarepusher Selection Sixteen | 4.0 |
| Squarepusher Go Plastic | 4.5 |
| Squarepusher Hard Normal Daddy | 4.5 |
| Static-X Beneath... Between... Beyond | 2.5 |
| Static-X Start A War | 3.0 |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip | 4.0 |
| Sugar Ray Floored | 3.5 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 4.5 |
| Taake Nattestid Ser Porten Vid | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 4.5 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 4.5 |
| The Beatles 1 | 4.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 4.0 |
| The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole | 4.0 |
| The Gathering Nighttime Birds | 4.5 |
| The Haunted Made Me Do It | 4.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.0 |
| The Orb Orblivion | 3.5 |
| The Orb Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld | 4.5 |
| The Orb Orbus Terrarum | 4.5 |
| The Police Every Breath You Take: The Classics | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Adore | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.5 |
| The Wallflowers Breach | 3.5 |
| Tiamat Wildhoney | 4.5 |
| Tool Opiate | 3.5 |
| Tool Undertow | 4.0 |
| Tool Salival | 4.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 5.0 |
| Words simply cannot describe the depth and complexity of this album. I don't know why Tool is so popular, because most of the people who listen to know don't know anything about the music. Lateralus is probably the most symbolically dense albums that has ever been created. The music that is the vehicle for this symbolism is just as amazing, thanks to the supreme talent of this band. Everything about this album is beautifully textured and composed. I could go on and on about how truly amazing this album is. |
| Type O Negative October Rust | 3.5 |
| Type O Negative Bloody Kisses | 4.0 |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal | 3.5 |
| Ulver Kveldssanger | 4.0 |
| Ulver Themes From William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell | 4.0 |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 4.5 |
| Van Halen Van Halen | 4.0 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Straight Outta Lynwood | 3.5 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Running With Scissors | 4.0 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Bad Hair Day | 4.0 |
| Weird Al Yankovic In 3-D | 4.0 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 4.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 3.0 |
