2Pac Me Against the World | 2.5 |
311 Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
311 311 | 3.5 |
AFI Decemberunderground | 2.5 |
AFI All Hallow's E.P. | 3.0 |
AFI The Art of Drowning | 3.5 |
AFI Sing the Sorrow | 3.5 |
Alkaline Trio Goddamnit | 3.0 |
Anthony Green Avalon | 2.5 |
Arctic Monkeys AM | 3.5 |
Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 4.0 |
Arctic Monkeys Humbug | 4.0 |
Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See | 4.0 |
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 4.5 |
Arkells Jackson Square | 3.0 |
As Cities Burn Hell or High Water | 3.5 |
As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You | 3.5 |
As Tall As Lions Into The Flood | 4.0 |
As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions | 4.5 |
Audioslave Audioslave | 3.5 |
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.0 |
Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 4.0 |
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 4.0 |
Bad Books II | 3.5 |
Band of Horses Everything All the Time | 3.0 |
Blackalicious Blazing Arrow | 3.0 |
Blind Pilot 3 Rounds and a Sound | 3.5 |
Brian Setzer Orchestra Boogie Woogie Christmas | 3.5 |
Bruce Springsteen The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle | 4.0 |
Cassino Sounds of Salvation | 3.5 |
Chadwick Stokes Simmerkane II | 4.0 |
Chance the Rapper Acid Rap | 4.0 |
Chuck Ragan Feast Or Famine | 3.0 |
Circa Survive On Letting Go | 3.0 |
Closure in Moscow First Temple | 3.5 |
Coldplay Parachutes | 3.5 |
Common Universal Mind Control | 2.0 |
Common Finding Forever | 3.0 |
Common Be | 3.5 |
Common Resurrection | 4.0 |
Creedence Clearwater Revival Creedence Clearwater Revival | 4.0 |
Dear and the Headlights Small Steps Heavy Hooves | 3.0 |
Deep Purple Machine Head | 3.5 |
Deep Purple Fireball | 3.5 |
Deep Purple Deep Purple In Rock | 4.0 |
This is personally my favorite Deep Purple album. It is the first with the Mark II line-up, featuring Ian Gillian on vocals and Roger Glover on bass. From the fast-paced explosion of "Speed King", to Gillian's screams on "Bloodsucker", to Blackmore's intense shredding on the 10 minute epic "Child In Time", Deep Purple established themselves as one metal's godfathers in 1970 with this release. |
Deep Purple Made in Japan | 4.0 |
Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan | 3.0 |
Dispatch Bang Bang | 4.0 |
DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 2.0 |
DragonForce Sonic Firestorm | 3.0 |
Dream Theater Train of Thought | 3.0 |
Dream Theater Octavarium | 3.0 |
Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 3.0 |
Dream Theater Images and Words | 3.5 |
Eric B and Rakim Follow the Leader | 3.5 |
Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 3.0 |
Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 3.0 |
Every Time I Die Hot Damn! | 3.5 |
Every Time I Die The Big Dirty | 4.0 |
Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better | 2.5 |
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 3.0 |
G. Love and Special Sauce Fixin to Die | 2.0 |
G. Love and Special Sauce The Hustle | 3.5 |
Goldfinger Hang-ups | 3.5 |
Good Old War Good Old War | 3.0 |
Good Old War Only Way To Be Alone | 4.0 |
Guster Ganging Up on the Sun | 2.5 |
GZA Liquid Swords | 4.0 |
He Is Legend I Am Hollywood | 3.5 |
Hellogoodbye Would It Kill You? | 3.5 |
Hey Rosetta! Seeds | 4.0 |
Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades | 2.5 |
Incubus (USA-CA) Enjoy Incubus | 3.5 |
Jack Johnson In Between Dreams | 3.5 |
Jack Johnson On and On | 4.0 |
Jason Mraz Mr. A-Z | 2.5 |
Jason Mraz We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things | 3.0 |
Jason Mraz Waiting For My Rocket To Come | 3.5 |
This is kind of a guilty pleasure for me but, I've got to give Jason Mraz props. He's a talented dude. His songwriting is strong and consistent, he does a solid job on the guitar and vocally, he's one of the best male singers today. While tihs is mostly a pop album, some songs have tinges of country, rap, reggae and jam to them. Highlight track "Waiting For My Rocket To Come" features Mraz rapping/singing over a funky beat with some nice banjo playing. "On Love, In Sadness" also borders on country and has some excellent lyrics. Overall, a great debut from a talented young man. |
Jay-Z Kingdom Come | 3.0 |
I understand why some people hate on this album, but it's really under appreciated I think. It's got some great beats and great tracks and unlike some of his other albums, I doesn't often feel boring or repetitive |
Jay-Z In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt | 4.5 |
I have to give it an excellent simply for "Brooklyn's Finest" and "Feelin' It". Those two songs are so awesome, but there are definitely other awesome songs on here that make it worth the rating |
John Butler Trio April Uprising | 2.5 |
John Butler Trio Sunrise Over Sea | 3.0 |
John Legend Once Again | 3.5 |
John Legend Live at S.O.B.'s - New York City | 4.0 |
Jurassic 5 Feedback | 3.0 |
Jurassic 5 Quality Control | 3.5 |
Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 2.5 |
Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 3.5 |
Local Natives Gorilla Manor | 2.5 |
Los Campesinos! Hello Sadness | 3.5 |
Love You Moon Waxwane | 4.0 |
Lucky Boys Confusion Throwing the Game | 3.5 |
Mad Caddies Rock the Plank | 3.0 |
Mad Caddies Duck and Cover | 3.5 |
Mad Caddies Quality Soft Core | 3.5 |
Mad Caddies Just One More | 4.0 |
Mad Caddies Keep It Going | 4.0 |
Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child | 3.0 |
Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 3.5 |
Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 4.0 |
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster II | 3.0 |
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster III | 3.0 |
Minus the Bear Interpretaciones Del Oso | 1.5 |
Minus the Bear They Make Beer Commercials Like This | 3.0 |
Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead | 3.0 |
Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 3.5 |
Minus the Bear Acoustics | 3.5 |
Minus The Bear's acoustic album offers a short, sweet and pleasant listen. Songs like "We Are Not A Football Team", "Knights", and "Pachuca Sunrise" all translate well onto acoustic guitars and slower drums. New song "Guns and Ammo" is another pleasant listen but doesn't bring anything too new to the table. Only complaint is Jake Snider's vocals fall flat towards the end on songs like "Burying Luck" and "Ice Monster". Overall a nice, short album. |
Minus the Bear Omni | 3.5 |
Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 4.0 |
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.5 |
Mos Def The Ecstatic | 3.0 |
Mos Def Black on Both Sides | 4.5 |
Mutemath Odd Soul | 4.0 |
Oh, Sleeper When I Am God | 3.5 |
OutKast Stankonia | 3.5 |
OutKast Aquemini | 4.0 |
OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik | 4.0 |
OutKast ATLiens | 4.5 |
Pepper No Shame | 3.0 |
Pepper Kona Town | 3.5 |
Pepper In With The Old | 3.5 |
Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 3.0 |
Portugal. The Man Church Mouth | 3.0 |
Portugal. The Man In The Mountain In The Cloud | 3.0 |
Portugal. The Man Censored Colors | 3.5 |
Portugal. The Man American Ghetto | 3.5 |
Portugal. The Man The Satanic Satanist | 4.0 |
Queen Hot Space | 1.5 |
Queen Greatest Hits I & II | 3.5 |
Queen Greatest Hits II | 3.5 |
Queen A Night at the Opera | 4.0 |
Queen A Day at the Races | 4.0 |
Queen Sheer Heart Attack | 4.5 |
Rancid Let the Dominoes Fall | 2.5 |
Rancid Let's Go | 3.0 |
Rancid Indestructible | 3.5 |
Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves | 4.0 |
Rancid Life Won't Wait | 4.0 |
Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.5 |
Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 4.0 |
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 4.0 |
Red Hot Chili Peppers Funky Monks (DVD) | 4.0 |
Reel Big Fish Why Do They Rock So Hard? | 3.0 |
Reel Big Fish Cheer Up! | 3.5 |
Relient K Forget and Not Slow Down | 3.5 |
Rx Bandits Halfway Between Here and There | 3.0 |
Rx Bandits The Resignation | 4.5 |
Rx Bandits ...And the Battle Begun | 5.0 |
Rx Bandits Mandala | 5.0 |
Sean Kingston Sean Kingston | 1.0 |
Slightly Stoopid Closer To The Sun | 3.5 |
"Closer To The Sun" is a solid release and that's about it. While Slightly Stoopid does pump out some great, catchy tunes, and solid guitar work, the album runs too long and the songs all blend into one another after awhile. Also, singers Miles Doughty and Kyle McDonald's faux-Jamaican accents become very tiring (they're from California). However there are some excellent songs on here like the fast, aggressive "Nothin Over Me" and "Righteous Man", "Bandelero" and "Babylon is Falling" which show the band's heavy reggae influence, or the jammer finale "Open Road" whose hidden track features dazzling guitar riffage. Overall, this is a great CD but nothing ground-breaking. |
Social Distortion Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll | 3.0 |
Sublime Sublime | 4.0 |
Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom | 4.0 |
System of a Down Hypnotize | 2.5 |
System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.0 |
System of a Down Toxicity | 3.5 |
The Airborne Toxic Event The Airborne Toxic Event | 2.5 |
The Beautiful Girls Ziggurats | 2.0 |
To be honest, I hate this album. I love Water and am certainly open to change, becasue I also love We're Already Gone, but this doesn't sound like The Beautiful Girls. It's more poppy and some of the songs sound forced |
The Beautiful Girls Learn Yourself | 3.0 |
The Beautiful Girls We're Already Gone | 3.5 |
The Beautiful Girls Water | 4.0 |
The Black Crowes The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion | 4.0 |
The Bled Found in the Flood | 3.5 |
The Bled Silent Treatment | 3.5 |
The Cat Empire The Cat Empire | 3.5 |
The Exit Home for an Island | 3.0 |
The Exploding Hearts Guitar Romantic | 3.0 |
The Fratellis Here We Stand | 3.5 |
The Fratellis Costello Music | 4.5 |
The Libertines Up The Bracket | 3.0 |
The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. | 4.0 |
The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... | 2.0 |
The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke | 4.0 |
The Sound of Animals Fighting We Must Become the Change We Want to See | 4.0 |
The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun | 4.0 |
The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 2.5 |
The Strokes Angles | 2.5 |
The Strokes Is This It | 4.0 |
The Strokes Room on Fire | 4.0 |
One of the most under-appreciated album of this decade. No, Room On Fire is not Is This It? but it sure isn't a sophomore slump album. One thing noteable on this album that isn't on Is This It? is more agression. "Reptilia" is easily the heaviest song they've ever written with guitar lines weaving through each other and Julian's voice on the verge of screaming, it's pure brilliance. This album matches their debut's emotion and the lyrics are equally as strong. Overall a very solid album from The Strokes. |
The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 4.0 |
The Temper Trap Conditions | 3.5 |
The Veils Time Stays, We Go | 3.0 |
Transplants Transplants | 3.0 |
TTNG Animals | 2.5 |
Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 3.0 |
Voxtrot Raised By Wolves | 3.0 |
Weezer Make Believe | 2.5 |
Weezer The Red Album (Deluxe Edition) | 2.5 |
Weezer Maladroit | 3.0 |
Weezer The Green Album | 3.5 |
Weezer Video Capture Device | 4.0 |
Weezer Pinkerton | 4.5 |
Weezer Weezer | 5.0 |
Young the Giant Young the Giant | 4.0 |