| A Skylit Drive Identity on Fire | 2.0 |
| A Skylit Drive Wires...and the Concept of Breathing | 3.0 |
| A Skylit Drive She Watched the Sky | 3.5 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 4.5 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 2.5 |
| Alien Ant Farm ANThology | 4.0 |
| Anamanaguchi Endless Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 3.0 |
| Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Before Today | 3.5 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 1.5 |
| Autopilot Off Make A Sound | 4.5 |
| Barenaked Ladies Maroon | 4.0 |
| Barenaked Ladies Barenaked Ladies Are Me | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.5 |
| Built to Spill There Is No Enemy | 3.5 |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 4.5 |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet | 3.0 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 5.0 |
| Cutting Pink With Knives Populuxxe | 4.0 |
| Damiera Quiet Mouth Loud Hands | 3.5 |
| Damiera M(US)IC | 4.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance | 2.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain | 3.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness | 4.0 |
| Dashboard Confessional Dusk and Summer | 2.5 |
| Everybody Else Everybody Else | 3.0 |
| Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux | 4.0 |
| Fear Before A Little Less Teeth | 2.5 |
| Fear Before Art Damage | 3.0 |
| Fear Before Odd How People Shake | 4.0 |
| Fear Before Fear Before | 4.0 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 4.5 |
| Hit the Switch Domestic Tranquility & Social Justice | 4.5 |
| one of my all time favorite punk albums. The lyrics are a-ma-zing. The music always leaves me breathless and I love every second |
| Jamie's Elsewhere Guidebook for Sinners Turned Saints | 1.5 |
| Jamie's Elsewhere Goodbye Rocketman, St. George is under fire | 2.5 |
| Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.0 |
| My American Heart Hiding Inside the Horrible Weather | 2.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 4.0 |
| Oceana The Tide | 3.5 |
| This is pretty much what you expect from RISE records. But everything feels extremely fine tuned, and I love every bit of it. Fantastic vocals, Great guitars. Bass is a little hard to hear but live it's quite good. Not much else to say. It's great at what it does. |
| Odd Project Lovers Fighters Sinners Saints | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.5 |
| Portugal. The Man Censored Colors | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 3.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.5 |
| Rivers Cuomo Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo | 2.0 |
the tracks are okay at best, terrible at worst. Sometimes you have to wonder why anyone would bother making this CD. this is no b-sides CD. this CD is essentially just Rivers messing around with music recording. The booklet that comes with the CD saves it from being downright terrible. insight into what was going on in the process of making each track can be very interesting.
The 17th track seems to be rivers and friends discussing exactly what an axe guitar is. It makes you wonder how many kids have had that argument in their life... Sometimes you just assume your favorite artists were born gods. you can really see rivers was a pretty average guy before weezer.
The whole album never goes anywhere and I just can't recommend it unless you absolutely HAVE to hear rivers cuomo's band practice sessions and random recordings he probably found in his garage.
The replayability of the album is terrible. the first few songs have such terrible recordings you just don't really want to listen to them after the first time. hell the first track is just a vocal warm up.
overall, unless you like listening to stuff that never had a chance because it really did suck, then go ahead and by this CD. Otherwise I just suggest sticking with the good ol' blue album and pinkerton. Nothing here will make you think better or worse of rivers, but myself, it feels like he's trying to rip off his fan base by putting out a CD of stuff that really have no redeeming value whatsoever...
Skip this CD. If you're dying to hear it, try borrowing it.
the only standout tracks are "Wanda (You're My Only Love)" and "buddy holly"
2/5 |
| Shiny Toy Guns Season of Poison | 1.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Ghostship Demos | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 4.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.5 |
| The Locust The Locust | 3.5 |
| The Locust New Erections | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses | 4.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel | 4.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... | 2.0 |
| The Thirty Years War Martyrs Among the Casualties | 3.0 |
| Waking Ashland The Well | 3.5 |
| Weezer The Red Album | 2.5 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 3.5 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 5.0 |
| Zandelle Vengeance Rising | 3.0 |
