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2024
Adrianne Lenker Bright Future	4.5

2023
Ana Frango Eletrico Me Chama de Gato Que Eu Sou Sua	4.0
Ratboys The Window	3.5
George Clanton Ooh Rap I Ya	4.0
feeble little horse Girl With Fish	3.5
Indigo De Souza All of This Will End	3.5
Wednesday Rat Saw God	4.5

2022
feeble little horse Hayday	3.5
Alvvays Blue Rev	4.5
Alex G God Save The Animals	4.5
The Beths Expert in a Dying Field	4.0
Zach Bryan American Heartbreak	4.0
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Endless Rooms	3.5
MJ Lenderman Boat Songs	4.0
Kurt Vile Watch My Moves	3.5
Wednesday Mowing The Leaves Instead Of Piling 'Em Up	4.0
Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You	4.0
Pinegrove 11:11	3.5

2021
Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert	4.0
Indigo De Souza Any Shape You Take	3.5
Wednesday Twin Plagues	4.5
Mike and the Moonpies One To Grow On	4.5
ZelooperZ Van Gogh's Left Ear	4.0
Flatland Cavalry Welcome to Countryland	3.5
Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost	3.5
I don't know who's idea it was to let the annoying fuck yell all over the album. Like why?

2020
George Clanton & Nick Hexum George Clanton and Nick Hexum	3.5
The Beths Jump Rope Gazers	4.0
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Sideways to New Italy	4.0
Might not be much more than some tight sounding sunny Aussie rock but honestly what more could you want in life?
Soccer Mommy Color Theory	3.5
King Krule Man Alive!	4.0
Tennis Swimmer	4.0
Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked	4.0
Wednesday I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone	4.5
Frances Quinlan Likewise	4.0
Pet Shimmers Face Down in Meta	4.0
Pinegrove Marigold	3.5
Mac Miller Circles	4.0
would probably be a bit better if mac's enunciation didnt sound like he was in the middle of od'ing

2019
Kaytranada Bubba	3.5
Kanye West Jesus Is King	2.0
beabadoobee Space Cadet	4.0
'his' 'he' wtf doublez
Big Thief Two Hands	3.5
Alex G House Of Sugar	4.5
for the ppl who thought Rocket was too all over the place House of Sugar brings Alex's experimental sounds into a cohesive package that should entice any fan of indie music
Whitney Forever Turned Around	3.5
Jay Som Anak Ko	3.5
Bon Iver i,i	4.0
Mike and the Moonpies Cheap Silver and Solid Country Gold	3.5
Chance the Rapper The Big Day	1.5
Lil Nas X 7	3.0
MJ Lenderman MJ Lenderman	4.0
Jai Paul Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones)	4.0
Ian Noe Between The Country	4.0
Tyler, the Creator IGOR	4.0
The National I Am Easy to Find	3.5
Big Thief U.F.O.F.	3.5
Foxygen Seeing Other People	4.0
Martha Love Keeps Kicking	3.5
Flatland Cavalry Homeland Insecurity	4.0

2018
Kurt Vile Bottle It In	3.5
Pinegrove Skylight	4.0
Arlie Wait	3.5
The Spirit Of The Beehive Hypnic Jerks	4.0
The Beths Future Me Hates Me	4.0
Mid-Air Thief Crumbling	4.0
Denzel Curry TA13OO	4.0
Mom Jeans. Puppy Love	3.5
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Hope Downs	4.5
im addicted to listening to these guys right now got damn
Nas NASIR	3.5
Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts	3.5
Indigo De Souza I Love My Mom	4.0
Kanye West ye	3.5
Pusha T DAYTONA	3.5
Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel	3.5
Brent Cobb Providence Canyon	3.5
Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog	5.0
Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour	4.0
Trace Mountains A Partner to Lean On	4.0
XXXTENTACION ?	1.5
Haley Heynderickx I Need to Start a Garden	3.0
Soccer Mommy Clean	4.0
Mt. Joy Mt. Joy	3.5
George Clanton Slide	4.0
Anderson East Encore	3.0
a more bland, less risky, and just worse overall version of his debut
Mike and the Moonpies Steak Night at The Prairie Rose	4.0

2017
Chris Stapleton From A Room: Volume 2	3.5
Cyhi The Prynce No Dope On Sundays	3.0
c'mon this isn't as bad as you guys are saying
Yaeji EP2	4.0
Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights	2.5
dam gurl, when u gonna use a drum??
Big K.R.I.T. 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time	3.5
Krizzle sounds rejuvenated here, and is surprisingly able to make the double album work
Brasstracks For Those Who Know Pt. I	3.0
Radiator Hospital Play The Songs You Like	4.0
Turnpike Troubadours A Long Way From Your Heart	4.0
Future and Young Thug Super Slimey	2.0
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile Lotta Sea Lice	3.5
The Lonely Biscuits The San Francisco EP	4.0
Open Mike Eagle Brick Body Kids Still Daydream	4.0
Ariel Pink Dedicated to Bobby Jameson	4.0
Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps	4.0
The National Sleep Well Beast	3.5
Alvvays Antisocialites	4.0
Neil Young Hitchhiker	4.0
Partner In Search of Lost Time	4.0
Fuck these skits,you're not the Wu-Tang Clan. Otherwise this seems v dope
The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding	3.5
the same drum loop for the past 2 albums
XXXTENTACION 17	3.5
Daniel Caesar Freudian	4.0
Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness	3.0
Fuck violins and fuck the French language. Otherwise this is pretty decent. Coulda been an easy 4(+) with a little bit of quality control
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Sketches of Brunswick East (w/ Mild High Club)	3.0
like it's pleasant enough, but after listening for more than a few songs it starts to get boring as fuck. kinda felt the same way about Loveless
Brand New Science Fiction	3.5
The Districts Popular Manipulations	3.5
Tyler Childers Purgatory	3.5
Bedouine Bedouine	3.5
Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy	3.5
Waxahatchee Out in the Storm	3.5
Japanese Breakfast Soft Sounds From Another Planet	3.5
Ratboys GN	3.5
Not sure if I prefer this to AOID, it's less pop and more meandering with tinges of Americana.
Jeff Tweedy Together At Last	2.0
Tweedy basically ruined: Muzzle of Bees, Ashes of American Flags, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, and I'm Always In Love. The other tracks are basically yawn-inducing acoustic covers.
Vince Staples Big Fish Theory	3.5
DJ Khaled Grateful	1.0
i've heard like 4 of these songs on the radio and they're all ASS as FUCK
Lorde Melodrama	3.5
Jason Isbell The Nashville Sound	4.0
Young Thug BEAUTIFUL THUGGER GIRLS	3.5
Usually hate Young Thug and my goddam roommates never stop playing him... but 1st track off this is 10/10. Maybe this'll make me a fan update: we'll this is ok, didn't really make me a Thugger fan. Some cool tracks on this tho
Big Thief Capacity	4.0
John Baumann Proving Grounds	3.5
Alex G Rocket	4.5
Clowns Lucid Again	4.0
Colter Wall Colter Wall	4.0
Mac DeMarco This Old Dog	3.5
I think that this album has some of the best songs that Mac Demarco has put out. And these songs manage to escape the rtypical 'Mac Demarco' sound. While he should be commended, the album kind of lags at times, which prevents this from rbeing higher than a 4.
Chris Stapleton From A Room: Volume 1	3.5
John Moreland Big Bad Luv	4.0
Kendrick Lamar DAMN.	3.5
Big disappointment. Kendrick the type of artist where a weak four is a big disappointment.
The Smith Street Band More Scared of You Than You Are of Me	3.5
Craig Finn We All Want the Same Things	3.5
Jay Som Everybody Works	3.5
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever The French Press	4.0
Fog Lake Dragonchaser	4.0
Rattlesnake is one of those songs that you wish you could just play over and over forever
Son Volt Notes of Blue	3.0
Ryan Adams Prisoner	3.0
Sampha Process	3.5
The Menzingers After the Party	3.0
Pinegrove Elsewhere	3.0
Natalie Hemby Puxico	4.0

2016
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3	4.0
take ur sjw-ass selves somewhere else. like canada
Tyler Childers Live On Red Barn Radio I & II	4.0
J. Cole 4 Your Eyez Only	3.0
dne These Semi Feelings, They Are Everywhere	3.0
Is there anything that sounds worse than an off time british rapper?
Bruno Mars 24K Magic	3.0
All the ballads/slower tracks sound like songs I've heard a million times before. 24K Magic is bitchin tho.
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Talk Tight	3.5
Anal Trump That Makes Me Smart!	3.0
The Chainsmokers Collage	2.5
Hurrrrrrr durrrrrrrr, DAE worse than Nickelback? DAE douchebag?
NxWorries Yes Lawd!	3.0
Feel asleep then woke up then fell asleep again while listening to this. Not really, but I wish I could've
Conor Oberst Ruminations	4.0
ppl turned off by the harmonica have never listened to bob dyl
Jeff Rosenstock WORRY.	4.0
Brent Cobb Shine On Rainy Day	4.0
Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition	3.5
Hey Danny pls use your low rap voice more than your screech
Bon Iver 22, A Million	3.5
Good, but I feel like there are hints of this being potentially so much better and developed.rFor example: 45 could've been absolutely astonishing if it was allowed to develop a little bit more.
Banks The Altar	3.5
This starts off pretty good but has a lot of weaker songs at the end. The ending song is good tho.
Drive-By Truckers American Band	4.0
Wilco Schmilco	3.5
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree	3.0
Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion: Side B	3.5
Frank Ocean Blonde	3.5
Why you always gotta fuck up the flow of your albums by concentrating a shit-ton of skits at certain parts? Why Frank? EDIT: Also Facebook Story pisses me off every time I hear it
Brasstracks Good Love	3.5
Summer Summer Summer Summer Summer Summer Summer Summer
Rae Sremmurd SremmLife 2	2.5
If you think this is better than Sremmlife then you don't fuck. Like I don't even fuck but I know for a fact if you thinking like that then you don't fuck.
Cody Jinks I'm Not the Devil	4.0
Street Scholars 1 Hundo % Garbage Time	2.5
Noname Telefone	3.0
Nothing on here is as good as her verses on Lost and Drown/Finish Line, but it's hard to recreate perfection. Good lyrics with chill/samey production.
Jamila Woods HEAVN	4.0
Nite-Funk Nite-Funk	3.0
Souveneer Merit Badge Season	4.0
Desiigner New English	2.0
A few decent songs intermixed with a lot of trash songs. The interludes are neutral as they don't really fit at all but they're just about the only musically creative moments on the whole tape.
Mitski Puberty 2	3.0
Case/Lang/Veirs Case/Lang/Veirs	3.5
Whitney Light Upon the Lake	4.0
William Tyler Modern Country	3.5
An album I imagine you'd put on when you're driving through the barren American landscape at night. Except you'd probably be lulled to sleep so don't do that.
PUP The Dream Is Over	3.5
The Hotelier Goodness	4.0
Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere	3.5
Pinegrove An Audiotree Live Session	3.5
Big Thief Masterpiece	4.0
as with Pinegrove's Cardinal, I think this is kind of underrated here
Cody Jinks 30	4.0
Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial	4.0
Brevity is the soul of wit. Brevity is not the soul of Will.
Chance the Rapper Coloring Book	3.5
Take off Mixtape and Smoke Break and this mixtape becomes insanely better.
Modern Baseball Holy Ghost	3.0
First half > Second half if you dont agree fight me
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool	4.5
ANOHNI HOPELESSNESS	3.5
I find the lyrics as cringeworthy as much as the next red-blooded Bud drinkin' American male, but something about the unique voice coupled with the stellar production make this record an intriguing listen. I Don't Love You Anymore and Why Would You Seperate Me from the Earth on paper don't really seem like something I would particularly enjoy but they're quite good.
Kaytranada 99.9%	4.0
All the beats are excellent beats. The majority of the songs with features are excellent (Glowed Up isn't very good). The atmosphere from song to song, while just different enough, form a nice cohesiveness.
Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid	3.5
Iron Eyes Cody Goodness All Good Saints Have Died	4.0
Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide To Earth	4.0
Kevin Morby Singing Saw	3.5
Frankie Cosmos Next Thing	3.5
Vocals feel like they have no life behind them in the worst hipstery way possible. Some of the songs are too short to really reach their potential. The hook of 'I'm 20' sounds like a toothpaste commercial and the last several songs kind of drop off in quality Also @TheManMachine has the best and most unique soundoffs on this site.
Weezer The White Album	4.0
Catchier than the blue album but not quite as rewarding of a listen.
Flatland Cavalry Humble Folks	4.0
Japanese Breakfast Psychopomp	3.5
Night Moves Pennied Days	4.0
Margo Price Midwest Farmer's Daughter	4.0
Various Artists (Country) Southern Family	3.0
Flatbush Zombies 3001: A Laced Odyssey	3.0
The Beths Warm Blood	3.5
Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered.	4.5
King Kendrick showing us he not just a 3 album hit wonder and might still have some left in the tank. Prob a 4.5 if Untitled 3 was the same as on the Colbert Show EDIT: FUCK IT its a 4.5. DAMN. being a disappointment really showed how great Kendrick was during his TPAB sessions.
Kanye West The Life of Pablo	3.5
The Jezabels Synthia	4.0
Pinegrove Cardinal	5.0
Old Friends is the kind of song that feels a part of the great american songbook. You feel like you've heard the song somewhere before, but never as realized or as affecting. The rest of Cardinal isn't too far behind.
Kevin Gates Islah	3.0
Daughter Not to Disappear	3.5
Anderson .Paak Malibu	4.0
.Paak should not have released this in January, this thing has summer vibes to the max.
David Bowie Blackstar	3.5

2015
The Walters Young Men	3.5
The Walter's 2nd EP is a consistent continuation of their sound, but it does little to expand into new territories.
Pinegrove Everything So Far	4.5
Pinegrove can do no wrong (already hyped for the follow-up to Cardinal)
Julien Baker Sprained Ankle	3.0
The Chainsmokers Bouquet	1.5
Radiator Hospital/Martha Radiator Hospital/Martha	3.5
Alex G Beach Music	4.5
Kurt Vile b'lieve i'm goin' down...	3.5
George Clanton 100% Electronica	4.0
Turnpike Troubadours The Turnpike Troubadours	4.0
Tom Misch Beat Tape 2	3.0
Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion	3.5
Some FANTASTIC pop songs on this, but a few too many average songs to bump this up to 4+
Mac DeMarco Another One	3.5
Jason Isbell Something More Than Free	4.0
Whatever this lacks in musicality is made up in lyricism.
Wilco Star Wars	3.5
Eyukaliptus Eyukaliptus	3.5
Anderson East Delilah	4.0
Street Scholars The Best Mixtape in 5evar	1.0
The Walters Hunk Beach / I Wanna Be Good	4.0
Both of these singles rank among the best The Walters have put out.
Everything Everything Get to Heaven	3.0
Plums Jen	3.0
This has a few good songs that really rip off Real Estate's style. Sprinkle in a little Mac Demarco and you got yourself an OK hipster EP.
Ratboys AOID	4.0
Jamie xx In Colour	4.0
Alina Baraz and Galimatias Urban Flora	3.5
The production on this is just outstanding. Listen to this when you're high, sober, tense, relaxed, etc, etc..
Flatland Cavalry Come May	4.0
Hop Along Painted Shut	4.5
While the highs may not be as high and the songs not as dynamic as the previous album, this time around Hop Along rocks your socks off for 40 straight minutes with very few missteps.
Turnover Peripheral Vision	3.5
John Moreland High on Tulsa Heat	3.5
Young Thug Barter 6	3.0
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell	4.0
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly	5.0
James McMurtry Complicated Game	4.0
Joey Badass B4.DA.$$	4.0
Cody Jinks Adobe Sessions	4.0
Rae Sremmurd SremmLife	3.5
Best album to party too. Hands down. H20 LEAN SAME THING.

2014
Adrianne Lenker Hours Were the Birds	3.5
The Walters Songs For Dads	4.0
Ariel Pink Pom Pom	4.0
Drug Cabin Wiggle Room	4.0
Light and breezy, some songs even reminisce of the country pop of the 70s (Sister Golden Hair, Amie, etc). An all around pleasant record.
The Smith Street Band Throw Me in the River	3.5
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2	3.5
Taylor Swift 1989	3.5
Tweedy Sukierae	3.0
Alvvays Alvvays	4.0
Radiator Hospital Torch Song	3.5
Alex G DSU	4.0
Happyness Weird Little Birthday	4.5
John Baumann High Plains Alchemy	4.0
Pinegrove Mixtape Two	4.0
Gavin Clark Beautiful Skeletons	4.0
Sturgill Simpson Metamodern Sounds In Country Music	4.0
Willie Watson Folk Singer, Vol 1	3.5
basically a redneck version of the tallest man on earth
Mac DeMarco Salad Days	3.5
This is a good bunch of songs that for now I give a 3.5. But give me a full summer of day drinking to this album and I feel this rcould easily be 4.0+ material
The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream	3.5
Frankie Cosmos Zentropy	2.5
As is the case in Next Thing, Frankie's le quirky lyrics fall short and are fairly annoying
The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There	3.5
Sun Kil Moon Benji	4.0

2013
There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright	5.0
Forth Wanderers Mahogany	4.0
Pinegrove Ampersand	4.0
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels	4.0
I haven't felt this hard blasting rap music out the car since 36 chambers. And this time one of the rappers is white! Everything's coming up Milhouse!
August Burns Red Rescue & Restore	4.0
Radiator Hospital Something Wild	4.0
Kanye West Yeezus	3.0
Overrated. The best songs on this showcase Kanye's pre-Yeezus side rather than his new Yeezus industrial side aside from I'm In It and Black Skinhead. On Sight and Send It Up join Barry Bonds and Drunken Hot Girls as trash-tier Kanye.
Jason Isbell Southeastern	4.5
John Moreland In The Throes	4.5
The National Trouble Will Find Me	4.0
Chance the Rapper Acid Rap	4.0
If Nana and Smoke Again weren't on this easy 4.5. The production is fantastic, gives off a amateur(in the best way)/forward thinking vibe. I think looking back this will be seen as influential.
Laura Stevenson Wheel	4.0
Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze	4.0
The Touch Funk G-Funk Instrumental, Vol. 2	4.5
The key to having a great night is to smoke some swishers while playing G funk beats.
Kacey Musgraves Same Trailer Different Park	4.0
Plini Other Things	3.5
R.L. Kelly Life's A Bummer	4.0
Foxygen We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors...	4.0
Vanilla For What It's Worth	3.5

2012
Alex G Trick	5.0
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city	4.5
Mac DeMarco 2	4.0
August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill	3.5
Tame Impala Lonerism	4.0
Bells Our Forest, Our Empire	3.0
Some songs are immensely beautiful, some just alright. Such is life.
The Smith Street Band Sunshine and Technology	4.0
Frank Ocean channel ORANGE	4.0
A little bit too much filler and I never got the love for Super Rich Kids.
Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal	3.5
Walk the Moon Walk the Moon	3.0
John Baumann West Texas Vernacular	4.5
Beach House Bloom	4.0
Lecrae Church Clothes	3.5
this thing has some great production, rapping is pretty good too
Turnpike Troubadours Goodbye Normal Street	4.5
Hop Along Get Disowned	4.5
Billy Bragg and Wilco Mermaid Avenue Vol. III	3.0
Boys, you should've quit while you were ahead with volumes 1 + 2. Although you did bring the world more Woody Guthrie, which is always a positive. And why does Tweedy only have like 4 songs?
Chance the Rapper 10 Day	3.5
Mac DeMarco Rock and Roll Night Club	3.5
Pinegrove Meridian	4.0
More complex, varied, and emo-sounding than Cardinal but I feel Meridian is worse off without country tinges present on Cardinal and is less emotional (at least to me). All in all an excellent first LP from Pinegrove.
The Menzingers On the Impossible Past	3.5
Alex G Rules	4.5

2011
There Will Be Fireworks Because, Because	4.0
The Oh Hellos The Oh Hellos	3.5
Drake Take Care	3.5
Tycho Dive	3.0
The start of the first song is really blissful and might be the high point. It's a good album to do your homework to, but to actively listen to? I'm not so sure.
Real Estate Days	3.5
Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire	3.5
Wilco The Whole Love	4.0
The Front Bottoms The Front Bottoms	3.5
Alex G Easy	4.0
Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne	4.0
Danny Brown XXX	3.0
The Smith Street Band No One Gets Lost Anymore	4.5
Alex G Winner	4.0
Kendrick Lamar Section.80	4.0
Some say that this eclipses GKMC and TPAB but I don't see it. I do think that this shows his immense potential that he would later capitalize on in his next albums. Also: K Dot watchu thinking by putting out songs like Tammy's Song and Spiteful Chant?
John Maus We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves	4.0
August Burns Red Leveler	4.0
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver	4.0
Angel Vivaldi Universal Language	3.0
The National Think You Can Wait/Exile Vilify	4.0
If there was an album that maintained the quality of these singles then it'd be an easy 5.
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues	3.5
Texas in July One Reality	3.0
Laura Stevenson Sit Resist	4.0
Jason Isbell Here We Rest	3.5
Emery We Do What We Want	4.0
Big K.R.I.T. ReturnOf4eva	3.5
TesseracT One	4.0
Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo	3.5
song 1: interesting guitar lines w/ psuedo singing wrapped up in subdued dream-like production songs 2-10: see song 1
Scale the Summit The Collective	3.5

2010
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	4.5
Consistently good but never great. Power and All of the Lights are amazing poppier cuts while Monster and Hell of a Life are darker and harder. The vocals to Devil In a New Dress don't do justice to the beat. Runaway and Blame Game are both immensely beautiful but a little long for their own good. Lost in the World is fantastic and outside the box. It's a great record but lacks that little extra 'umph'/'it factor' that would make it amazing.
J. Cole Friday Night Lights	4.0
Alter Bridge AB III	3.5
Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell	4.0
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz	4.0
August Burns Red Home	3.5
Deerhunter Halcyon Digest	4.0
Kendrick Lamar Overly Dedicated	3.5
The Heart Pt. 2 might be Kendrick's best song. The mixtape creates a cohesive vibe throughout and shows that Kendrick has always had good musical ideas.
Turnpike Troubadours Diamonds and Gasoline	4.0
Cody Jinks Less Wise	5.0
seriously underrated
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Before Today	4.5
The National High Violet	4.0
A change in vibe/atmosphere from Alligator and Boxer but it still quintessential The National meaning it still takes a while to warm up to.
Big K.R.I.T. K.R.I.T Wuz Here	4.0
Big Krits best. Hometown Hero is amazing. As the album goes on it evolves into a very good, night-time sounding brand of southern rap.
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt	4.0
Titus Andronicus The Monitor	4.0
2nd of verse of Theme From Cheers is one of the best verses ever made
Beach House Teen Dream	3.0
Pinegrove Mixtape One	4.0
Alex G RACE	4.0
Blaze Foley Sittin By The Road	4.0

2009
Dave Rawlings Machine A Friend of a Friend	4.0
I'm still not convinced that Ruby wasn't recorded in the 70's.
Kendrick Lamar Kendrick Lamar	3.0
BEYONCE IS ONE OF THE BEST SONGS OF ALL TIME. Decent music from Kendrick before becoming rap royalty. I think he mentioned 'good kid mad city' in one of the songs, so its interesting to see that particular concept was in Kendrick's brain from the beginning.
Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony	3.5
Sweet Trip You Will Never Know Why	4.0
Tigers on Trains Grandfather	4.0
Why does nobody talk about The Silk Road? Musically, it's gorgeous. The lyrics talk about death and invoke fantastical imagery of journeys on the silk road and being buried off the coast of Mozambique. It gives off a feeling of peace and beauty and fantasy surrounding death, which really speaks to me. As a 20 year old, death seems far off and not real, but if I'm ever on death's door, I think I'll try to listen to this song and I think it'll be comforting in a way not many other things could be. r
Washed Out Life of Leisure	3.5
The xx xx	3.0
got dam this thing gets really boring in the 2nd half
August Burns Red Constellations	4.0
The album that introduced me to music outside of the radio.
Wilco Wilco (The Album)	3.5
J. Cole The Warm Up	3.5
Gregory Alan Isakov This Empty Northern Hemisphere	4.0
Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct	3.5
Bon Iver Blood Bank	3.5
P.S. Eliot Introverted Romance In Our Troubled Minds	3.5
Glossary How We Handle Our Midnights	4.0

2008
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak	3.5
Nickelback Dark Horse	1.5
La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair	3.5
Taylor Swift Fearless	4.0
Lecrae Rebel	3.5
Carly Rae Jepsen Tug of War	4.0
Carly's take on early 2000's alt/contemporary/rock/pop/whatever. It may be kind of poppy but I really dig the vibes given off. Each song is catchier than the next.
The Reign of Kindo Rhythm, Chord & Melody	4.5
This generation's Aja
The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound	4.0
All the songs kind of sound the same, but it's a good sound. So that's good, right?!
The National The Virginia EP	4.0
The non-live songs kick ass. the rest, not so much.
Kurt Vile Constant Hitmaker	2.5
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend	2.5
The musical embodiment of everything annoying about millenials

2007
Radiohead In Rainbows	4.5
Radiohead In Rainbows Disk 2	3.5
These are considerably shittier than the main disk
Ryan Bingham Mescalito	4.0
Between the Buried and Me Colors	4.0
One of my favorite albums in my early stages of listening to metal/full albums when I played electric guitar and loved shredding. Incredibly ambitious concept and manages to pull it off well enough.
Kanye West Graduation	3.5
The Reign of Kindo The Reign Of Kindo	4.5
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago	4.5
August Burns Red Messengers	3.5
The National Boxer	4.5
Wilco Sky Blue Sky	4.0

2006
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me	4.0
Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas	4.0
Wilco Kicking Television: Live in Chicago	3.5
Skillet Comatose	3.5
Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain	4.0
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It	3.5
Red (USA) End of Silence	3.0
J Dilla Donuts	3.5
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not	4.0

2005
August Burns Red Thrill Seeker	3.5
Thrice Vheissu	4.0
Nickelback All the Right Reasons	3.5
Kanye West Late Registration	4.0
Jack's Mannequin Everything in Transit	4.5
Music kinda like Weezer but the subject matter is better and the singer doesn't have an extremely punchable bitchface and the name 'Rivers.'
Hop Along Freshman Year	3.0
Sufjan Stevens Illinois	3.0
The National Alligator	5.0
Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy	4.5
Ryan Adams Cold Roses	4.0
Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs	4.0
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning	4.0

2004
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes	3.5
Arcade Fire Funeral	3.0
I feel like most of the people's music opinions I respect gave this a 5. I feel like a pleb
Drive-By Truckers The Dirty South	4.0
The National Cherry Tree	3.5
Wilco A Ghost Is Born	4.5
Madvillain Madvillainy	4.0
Didn't understand the hype at first but rapid fire shorter songs and chaotic production work well.
Kanye West The College Dropout	5.0
While everyone and their mother label Kanye "not the most technical rapper," Kanye, at least on this record, always has something substantial to say. And his signature soulful production hasn't been bested since. Not by Kanye or anyone else.

2003
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place	3.0
Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway	4.0
Nickelback The Long Road	3.0
The Wrens The Meadowlands	4.5
After about 4 or 5 songs I expected a drop in quality at some point, but it never came.
The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers	4.5
The avg for this is a fucking sham. Better than anything they've done after Boxer. The real trilogy is SSFDL, Alligator, Boxer.
Okkervil River Down the River of Golden Dreams	4.0
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance	4.0
Sufjan Stevens Michigan	3.0
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium	4.0
A record of very interesting and chaotic music and lyrics. This has just the right amount of melody and dissonance. The concept of being in a coma and trapped in a hospital are very scary to me so this can sometimes bring out a feeling of anxiety and fear, which is always a plus .
Brand New Deja Entendu	3.5
Drive-By Truckers Decoration Day	3.5
Sweet Trip Velocity : Design : Comfort	4.0
Gillian Welch Soul Journey	4.0
Lucinda Williams World Without Tears	4.0
Opeth Damnation	4.5
Magnolia Electric Co Magnolia Electric Co	4.5
The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site	4.5
I don't know how to explain it, but something about this album is very comforting. It's the musical equivalent of being a kid snuggled up in a warm blanket during December while Christmas lights and classic Christmas movies guide you to sleep.
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Worn Copy	3.5

2002
Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things	3.5
Porcupine Tree In Absentia	4.0
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights	3.0
Songs: Ohia Didn't It Rain	4.0
Thrice The Illusion of Safety	4.0
Okkervil River Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See	4.0
Lucero Tennessee	3.5

2001
The National The National	3.0
The Strokes Is This It	3.5
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot	5.0
Probably the best album of all time.
Nickelback Silver Side Up	2.5
Radiohead Amnesiac	3.5
Sparklehorse It's a Wonderful Life	4.0
these songs creep into your soul
Saves the Day Stay What You Are	4.0
Lucinda Williams Essence	3.5
Whiskeytown Pneumonia	4.0
Destroyer Streethawk: A Seduction	4.0
Red House Painters Old Ramon	4.0
Opeth Blackwater Park	4.0
Against Me! Against Me!	4.0

2000
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven	3.5
Stretches of greatness but I don't think I quite 'get it' yet. Maybe I never will.
Radiohead Kid A	4.0
It's always interesting to think about how expectations play into the enjoyment of an album. If I expected myself to love this on the first few listens I would've probably rated it lower. But since I thought I wouldn't like this record for a while, now that I finally do I feel I've given it a kinder rating.
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command	3.5
Ryan Adams Heartbreaker	4.0
The Weakerthans Left and Leaving	3.5
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica	4.0
Billy Bragg and Wilco Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2	3.5
Songs: Ohia The Lioness	3.0

1999
The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I	3.5
Opeth Still Life	4.0
American Football American Football	3.5
Counting Crows This Desert Life	3.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada	3.5
The only GY!BE record I feel like I may somewhat 'get' due to the lack of long periods of train noises and silence. Good shit.
Sparklehorse Good Morning Spider	4.5
Wilco Summerteeth	4.5

1998
Silver Jews American Water	3.5
Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road	4.0
On paper the songs are all very good, but it just seems to draaaag when listening in one go.
Billy Bragg and Wilco Mermaid Avenue	4.5
Sunhouse Crazy on the Weekend	4.0
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea	4.0

1997
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West	4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞	3.0
Whiskeytown Stranger's Almanac	4.5
Old 97s Too Far to Care	4.0
Radiohead OK Computer	4.0
I can see why the album is considered one of the best of the 90's, if I had to think of ways to improve it, I don't think I could. It's 'perfect' in that aspect, but this record doesn't speak to me on an emotional/certain time of my life level like others have.
Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind	4.0
Elliott Smith Either/Or	4.0
Pavement Brighten the Corners	4.0

1996
Wilco Being There	4.5
OutKast ATLiens	3.5
Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt	4.0
Nas It Was Written	4.0
Whiskeytown Faithless Street	4.0

1995
Sparklehorse Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot	4.0
This is basically a more fucked up (and thus better) version of The Bends.
Son Volt Trace	4.0
Pavement Wowee Zowee	4.5
Radiohead The Bends	3.0
Wilco A.M.	4.5
honestly this is pretty alright. don't let the haters tell you otherwise
The Jayhawks Tomorrow the Green Grass	3.5

1994
Tom Petty Wildflowers	3.5
Elliott Smith Roman Candle	3.5
Guided by Voices Bee Thousand	4.5
Weezer Weezer	4.0
Nas Illmatic	4.5
back when i thought i was black, this shit right here gave myself all the reason i needed to think that i was about that life. 36 chambers? that shit was too fkin hard for me. but this shit? thats that shit.
Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain	4.0
The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die	4.0

1993
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)	4.5
I started listening to this the summer after my senior year of HS and GOT DAM WAS I THE HARDEST MUTHERFUCKER AROUND BLASTING THIS WITH MY WINDOWS DOWN
A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders	3.5
Man Phife Dog is so much shittier than the other members of ATCQ. Like learn how to have more than 1 flow.
Uncle Tupelo Anodyne	4.0
Who r all you people rating this a 3.5, what is wrong with you
Counting Crows August And Everything After	4.5

1992
Pavement Slanted and Enchanted	4.0
Pavement Watery, Domestic	4.0
Uncle Tupelo March 16 to 20, 1992	4.0
The Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde	4.0

1991
My Bloody Valentine Loveless	3.5
The general sound is good but gets boring long before the 48 minute runtime is up. I EVEN LISTENED TO THE WHOLE THING WHILE HIGH, but alas, I got bored halfway through. Come in Alone is a standout. I give it a 5 for creativity and a 3 for enjoyment.
A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory	3.5
Undoubtedly some hip-hop classic songs on this but 6/14 songs are pretty eh and sound the same.
Uncle Tupelo Still Feel Gone	4.0
Pixies Trompe Le Monde	4.0

1990
Pixies Bossanova	4.0
Social Distortion Social Distortion	4.0
Uncle Tupelo No Depression	4.0
This grew on me in a way that I did not expect.

1989
Pixies Doolittle	5.0

1988
Pixies Surfer Rosa	4.0

1987
Pixies Come On Pilgrim	4.0

1986
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead	3.5

1984
The Replacements Let It Be	3.5

1982
Michael Jackson Thriller	3.5

1980
Talking Heads Remain in Light	3.0

1978
Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports	3.0

1977
Steely Dan Aja	4.0
Fleetwood Mac Rumours	4.0
Nobody really seems to mention You Make Loving Fun, but it's the best song on here. Dreams is a close second. The album is all around great but for some reason the male singer's voice kind of annoys me.

1976
Bob Dylan Desire	4.0

1975
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	4.0
Hard to find a lot of faults with this. Welcome to Machine has kind of a different vibe than the rest and is a little long, but the Shine-ons are beautiful and the remaining two songs are rock classics.
Willie Nelson Red Headed Stranger	4.0
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks	4.5
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run	4.0

1974
Van Morrison Veedon Fleece	4.0
Neil Young On the Beach	4.0
Holy shit, Motion Pictures (For Carrie) is basically a song I would write if I had any talent. It connects on a deep-ass level.
Bob Dylan Planet Waves	4.0

1973
Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd	4.0
When half the songs can be heard on any classic rock station the album has to be pretty good, right?
David Bowie Aladdin Sane	3.5
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon	4.5
Gram Parsons Grievous Angel	4.0
Jerry Jeff Walker Viva Terlingua	4.0

1972
Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill	4.0
Van Morrison Saint Dominic's Preview	4.0
David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars	4.0
The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St.	4.0
Nick Drake Pink Moon	4.0
Neil Young Harvest	3.5
Gram Parsons GP	4.0

1971
David Bowie Hunky Dory	4.0
Sly and The Family Stone There's A Riot Goin' On	4.0
Laura Nyro Gonna Take a Miracle	3.5
The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers	4.0
Carole King Tapestry	4.5
Near perfection. All of the songs (although not too fond of the title track) are both beautiful and able to convey the late 60's early 70's aesthetic as well as any other album.
Joni Mitchell Blue	4.0
More than other albums from this time period, this seems like the record that all the cool kids in the early 70s were listening to.
Gil Scott-Heron Pieces of a Man	4.0
Townes Van Zandt Delta Momma Blues	3.5
John Prine John Prine	3.5

1970
George Harrison All Things Must Pass	4.0
Laura Nyro Christmas and the Beads of Sweat	3.5
Grateful Dead American Beauty	3.5
Bob Dylan New Morning	4.0
Neil Young After the Gold Rush	3.5
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Deja Vu	4.0
Van Morrison Moondance	4.0

1969
The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed	4.0
The Allman Brothers Band The Allman Brothers Band	3.5
The Beatles Abbey Road	4.5
Best album The Beatles made. Enough said...........
Laura Nyro New York Tendaberry	3.0
The Band The Band	4.0
Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere	3.5
Townes Van Zandt Townes Van Zandt	4.5
Townes Van Zandt Our Mother the Mountain	4.0
As much as people criticize the extra instruments added to Townes' guitar playing and singing, he sounds pretty dang good with strings. Examples: Kathleen, St. John
The Flying Burrito Brothers The Gilded Palace of Sin	4.0
Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline	4.0

1968
The Beatles The Beatles	3.5
Van Morrison Astral Weeks	4.0
The Band Music from Big Pink	3.5
The Zombies Odessey and Oracle	4.0
Laura Nyro Eli and The 13th Confession	4.0
This record starts off with a BANG with three fast-paced varied songs and then slows down and speeds up throughout the rest. When Laura is ON she makes some of the best music I've ever heard. Her voice is very distinct and I can see how some may not like it, but I dig it.
Townes Van Zandt For the Sake of the Song	4.0

1967
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love	4.0
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour	4.0
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	4.0
Love Forever Changes	4.0
Laura Nyro More Than a New Discovery	4.0
Maybe I'm the only one, but this is exactly what I want from a Laura Nyro record. Nothing too out there. Just some nice soul-pop songs.
Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding	4.0

1966
The Beatles Revolver	4.0
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds	4.0
Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde	4.0

1965
The Beatles Rubber Soul	4.0
Jackson C. Frank Jackson C. Frank	4.0
The Tallest Man On Earth and Nick Drake (with a little Van Morrison sprinkled in) combined into one tight 30 minute rpackage
Otis Redding Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul	3.5
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited	5.0
Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home	4.0
John Coltrane A Love Supreme	3.0

1963
Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	4.0

1960
Wes Montgomery The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery	4.0

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