| ABBA Super Trouper | 4.5 |
| ABBA Voulez-Vous | 4.0 |
| Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate In the Heart of the Moon | 4.0 |
| Anata The Conductor's Departure | 4.0 |
| Anata Under a Stone With No Inscription | 3.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 4.0 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 4.5 |
| Bjork Vespertine | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy | 2.0 |
| Black Sabbath Never Say Die! | 1.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. | 4.0 |
| Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club | 4.0 |
| Burst Lazarus Bird | 4.5 |
| Demigod Slumber of Sullen Eyes | 4.0 |
| Empyrium A Wintersunset | 3.0 |
| Fell Voices Fell Voices | 4.0 |
| Heid Alba | 2.5 |
This doesn't really sound like black metal to me. More like melodic death. Folky
guitars/recorders/fiddles adorn adept and cleanly-produced metal. Or else comprise entire
tracks.
Seems kind of upbeat. Some interesting guitar work (solos etc.) but the songs overall are
lacking a bit in memorability. |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down | 3.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.0 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach Mass in B minor, BWV 232 | 4.5 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 | 5.0 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 | 5.0 |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day | 3.5 |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 3.5 |
This didn't stand out to me at first but grew on me quite a bit. There are lots of intricate details in each song. The vocals are perhaps a weak point in terms of variety, although it sounds good. Also could criticize the overall sameness in their sound going back a number of years now.
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| Megiddo The Devil and the Whore | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 3.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 5.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.5 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 3.0 |
| Metallica Garage Inc. | 4.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.5 |
| Metallica Load | 3.0 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.5 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.0 |
| Mithras Behind the Shadows Lie Madness | 4.0 |
| Mithras Worlds Beyond the Veil | 4.0 |
| Mithras Time Never Lasts | 3.5 |
| Mithras Forever Advancing... Legions | 3.0 |
| Moby Destroyed | 3.5 |
| Moby Play | 3.5 |
| Moonsorrow Voimasta ja kunniasta | 3.5 |
| Nada Surf Let Go | 4.5 |
| Nada Surf The Weight Is a Gift | 3.5 |
| Nada Surf Lucky | 3.0 |
| Nada Surf High/Low | 3.5 |
| Nile Annihilation of the Wicked | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.5 |
| Obsidian Gate The Nightspectral Voyage | 3.5 |
| Primus The Brown Album | 4.0 |
| Primus Antipop | 3.5 |
| Primus Frizzle Fry | 4.0 |
| Primus Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People | 3.5 |
| Primus Green Naugahyde | 3.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 3.5 |
| Schammasch Triangle | 4.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.0 |
| Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto Getz/Gilberto | 4.5 |
| Strawberry Girls American Graffiti | 2.0 |
| Takacs Quartet Beethoven: Late String Quartets | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.5 |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Let It Be… Naked | 4.0 |
| The Caesars Love for the Streets | 3.0 |
| This is similar in quality to their Paper Tigers album. I appreciate that each song has character, even if a few are a bit silly, and a few I like a lot. Many bands sound good, but few actually write interesting songs. Common comments about this band apply to this release, for me primarily relating to the lyrics. The songs are fun and catchy which is no mean feat in this world. But the lyrics are sometimes embarrassing. And the raw sound can drag if you listen too long. Mixing the best from here with the best from Paper Tigers results in an excellent set of songs. |
| The Field From Here We Go Sublime | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 2.5 |
| U2 No Line on the Horizon | 2.5 |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 2.5 |
| U2 Achtung Baby | 3.0 |
| Weezer Maladroit | 4.0 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 3.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 3.5 |
| Weezer The Red Album | 2.0 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 2.0 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 2.5 |
| Weezer Raditude | 2.0 |
| Windir 1184 | 4.5 |
| Windir Arntor | 4.0 |
| Winterkyla Uppland | 3.5 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 4.5 |
| Wintersun Time I | 4.0 |
| Witchcraft Nucleus | 3.5 |
| Witchery In His Infernal Majesty's Service | 4.0 |
| Witchery... I always thought they had a lot of potential and they seem to finally fulfill that here. At least for what I wanted out of them. Angry and driving, clean production but deep and buzzing, infectious lyrical moments, songs with structural variety, technicality and musicality. Above all: not boring! At least a 4. |
