| A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of Rhythm | 4.0 |
| Alesana The Emptiness | 2.5 |
| Anberlin Cities | 4.0 |
| Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream | 1.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 5.0 |
| Perfect variation, perfect transitions within and between songs, and music written with intellect but executed with instinct. With everything played and sung on the album being being done in a way that just felt right at that very moment, the album is a true-as-can be visceral, unrestrained journey through the human heart and soul. With nothing out of place, and nothing missing, Relationship of Command is nothing less than perfection. |
| Autopsy Severed Survival | 4.5 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill | 2.0 |
| Uneven, cheesy, and too much yelling. The rhymes are simplistic and boring, and the beat for 'Girls' is one of the worst hip-hop beats I've ever heard. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 4.5 |
| Moved up from a 4. This album did grow on me, but it's just not gonna be as good as Colors. At a 4.5 is where it's gonna stay. |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 5.0 |
| What do you get when you take a cornucopia of creativity, incredible musicianship and songwriting ability, and elaborate storytelling lyrics, and run all three with an amazing, speaker-breaking energy for 64 minutes? You get Between the Buried and Me's Colors, and possibly my favorite album of all time. - This album is a long journey, but not a daunting one. There may be three songs over 10 minutes long, but every single note is potent, and every passage has a point. You're never bored because every part of each song is strong, which makes the following part, be it a refrain, bridge, build-up, breakdown, or solo, even stronger. Speaking of solos, the clean jazzy ones in "Ants of the Sky" are pretty amazing, and the epic shredfest that closes "White Walls" gives Dave Murray a run for his money. - And who keeps saying this album isn't coherent? Come on! Like I previously said, every part of the album is on here for reason, and contributes to keeping the listener enthralled the whole way through. The way it manages to be so unique and progressive, and still so up-close and personal at the same time, floors me every time I listen to it. This album moves me in a way few others do. Every heavy part crushes, every clean melody soars, but most importantly, every note makes its way into your brain, and from there, into your heart. It did it to me, anyway.r |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live | 5.0 |
| Black Flag Damaged | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell | 5.0 |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign | 3.5 |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place | 3.5 |
| Boston Boston | 4.5 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 2.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 2.5 |
| This album is the epitome of meh. The entire album is strictly mediocre, with the exception of the surprisingly emotional acoustic instrumental "15 Fathoms, Counting," and the riffing and soloing in the last track, "Off the Heezay." |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 2.5 |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 4.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 5.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| Jane Doe is hands-down, the most emotionally involving album I have ever heard. But even if it didn't have that going for it, I'd still probably give it a 5 just for the songwriting, and how perfectly all the riffs and rhythms blend together. And let's not forget how it revolutionized extreme music, either. |
| Counting Crows August And Everything After | 4.0 |
| Counting Crows This Desert Life | 4.5 |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 5.0 |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore | 4.0 |
| Death Leprosy | 4.0 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.5 |
| Death Human | 4.5 |
| Death Symbolic | 5.0 |
| Decapitated Nihility | 4.0 |
| Decapitated The Negation | 4.0 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 1.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 4.5 |
| Eminem Encore | 2.0 |
| If it weren't for Like Toy Soldiers and Mockingbird, this album would be an absolute turd. |
| Eminem Relapse | 3.5 |
| Eminem Recovery | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 5.0 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 5.0 |
| It took me a whiiiiile to decide between a 4.5 and a 5 on this one. But I decided that since it was the album that put Eminem on the map, and because of its originality, hilarity, and just sheer brilliant rhyming...it's nothing less than a classic. |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 5.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.5 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 3.5 |
| 'K, I'm trying to my previous rating explanation by writing a new one...is it gonna work..lol |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave | 4.0 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 4.0 |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.5 |
| It's so close to a 5, sooo close... just not quite there yet... |
| Hinder Extreme Behavior | 1.0 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind | 4.5 |
| Yes, the instrumental break in Where Eagles Dare is a bit too long, and To Tame A Land does lose steam at some parts. But it's not enough to drag the rest of this masterpiece down. |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 5.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 5.0 |
| Kesha Animal | 1.0 |
| King Crimson Red | 4.5 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 5.0 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.0 |
| Lye By Mistake Fea Jur | 4.0 |
| Massacre From Beyond | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty More Than You Think You Are | 2.5 |
| Matchbox Twenty Exile on Mainstream | 3.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You | 3.5 |
| Matchbox Twenty Mad Season | 5.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 3.5 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 4.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 5.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 5.0 |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found | 2.5 |
| Municipal Waste The Art of Partying | 3.0 |
| Municipal Waste Massive Aggressive | 3.5 |
| My Morning Jacket Evil Urges | 3.5 |
| Nas Illmatic | 5.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 1.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.0 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 3.5 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.5 |
| A 4.5 seems a bit generous, but a 4 seems too low. I wish I could give this like, a 4.3 or something. It's a really good album, let's just leave it at that. |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 3.0 |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 3.5 |
| Paramore Riot! | 4.0 |
| Of course, this album is not better than albums by better bands I've given lower ratings, but by the standards of mainstream pop-punk/alternative, this is an excellent record. Even the one filler track ("Miracle") is still catchy as hell. Hayley Williams's voice soars on every song, and has to be one of the best, most listenable voices I've heard in popular music for a long time. And the album's instrumentation is often pretty simple, but is still entertaining and serves its purpose well. Also, this album just feels more...real than other albums in its category. While the actual music is not exactly wildly original, it's still executed with an irresistibly fun energy, that you just cannot help but sing along to. |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.5 |
| The good parts are so damn good, but when it loses steam, it really sticks out. For me, anyway. It'll probably turn into a 5 soon enough. |
| Primus They Can't All Be Zingers | 3.5 |
| Psyopus Odd Senses | 2.5 |
| Psyopus Ideas of Reference | 4.0 |
| Psyopus Our Puzzling Encounters Considered | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| Kid A is the soundtrack to the world that just may be coming to us. A world where gaining information is the main objective, a world that's run by soulless robots. And that's why, until that world finally arrives, this album will always sound like it's from the future. |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| I am now convinced that this album is inherently a flawless masterpiece, and that the only reason it's not considered this unanimously is because some people just haven't realized it yet. But they will. Eventually. |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... | 4.5 |
| Rumpelstiltskin Grinder Living For Death, Destroying the Rest | 3.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.5 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 2.5 |
| Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com | 1.0 |
| Soulja Boy iSouljaBoyTellEm | 1.0 |
| The Color Morale We All Have Demons | 3.0 |
| The Contortionist Apparition | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.0 |
| This album is overall pretty good, with a few really good songs, but a lot of the time, it's experimental to the point of sounding jagged. And the short, mathy songs (Fix Your Face, Lurch, 82588, a few others) don't really have as much of an identity as say, Panasonic Youth, or Good Neighbor, from Option Paralysis. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 5.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 5.0 |
| Option Paralysis is still just as experimental and unique as Ire Works, but it does it so much more gracefully. This album is just a smooth, but still incredibly intense, musical adventure from start to finish. And it'll definitely stand the coming test of time. |
| The Faceless Akeldama | 4.0 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 5.0 |
| This album is 10 songs of entrancing, intricate, dissonant goodness. |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 5.0 |
| Oh, what the hell. Frances, you get a 5. Seriously, though, figuring out what the hell is going on at all in this album takes a while, let alone absorbing all of it. But once you crawl inside the epic, joyously pretentious atmosphere, it is sooooo worth it. |
| The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet | 4.0 |
| Toxic Holocaust An Overdose of Death... | 3.5 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 3.5 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.0 |
| Veil of Maya [id] | 3.5 |
| This album absolutely overflows with potential. I have a feeling Veil of Maya are going to be great someday. |
| Vital Remains Let Us Pray | 4.5 |
| Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler | 1.0 |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption | 4.0 |
| A New Era of Corruption is an original, fun, and of course, heavy deathcore album we may actually remember in 5 years. |
| Wren Rainy Days | 3.5 |
| Yes Fragile | 4.0 |
| Yes Close to the Edge | 4.5 |
| The title track doesn't lose steam for 18 fucking minutes. This album paints quite the prog-rock picture. Descriptive, thoughtful lyrics, awesome musicianship, and beautifully arranged vocal patterns, it's all here, man. Check this shit out if you haven't heard it yet. |
