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2019
Arch/Matheos Winter Ethereal	5.0
Bad Religion Age of Unreason	1.0
PassCode Clarity	4.5

2018
Jason Becker Triumphant Hearts	5.0
Ghost (SWE) Prequelle	3.0
Kanye West ye	3.0
Pusha T DAYTONA	3.5
Sleep The Sciences	3.5
Spanish Love Songs Schmaltz	3.0
Ministry AmeriKKKant	1.0
Judas Priest Firepower	4.0
Angra Ømni	4.0
Band-Maid World Domination	4.5
Scandal (JPN) Honey	4.0
Machine Head Catharsis	1.5
Soulja Boy King Soulja 8	2.5
Jeff Rosenstock POST-	2.0

2017
Eminem Revival	1.5
So awful that it has me thinking MMLP2 as some sort of modern rap classic.
Kendrick Lamar DAMN. Collector's Edition	1.0
Galneryus Ultimate Sacrifice	4.5
Prophets of Rage Prophets of Rage	1.0
Queens of the Stone Age Villains	3.5
Edguy Monuments	3.5
Blind Guardian Live Beyond the Spheres	4.0
Soundtrack (Film) Baby Driver	3.5
Suffocation …Of the Dark Light	1.5
DragonForce Reaching into Infinity	3.5
Sayuri Mikazuki no Koukai	4.0
Tricot 3	4.0
Logic Everybody	1.5
Though i don't love the Logic brand, TITS was a decent listen, and i was hoping that this would be the album he'd either build a solid project, or at least have a runaway hit that would bleach the radio for a summer. We got neither. If his most honest shit has nothing to do with his biracial identity, why make it the entire marketing gimmick for your third album. Its almost like he's following in the blueprints of other artists. Oh wait he is. :^)
Ayreon The Source	4.5
Kendrick Lamar DAMN.	3.0
"Kendrick lamar. Is trash. Look at how he looks . like a fucking skinny ass nerd. Werd to mommy. Lmao u be humble nigga. When u get on an album with jadakiss styles p Lloyd banks or fabulous come see us in NYC u pussy ass binocular ass bitch. Ass nigg...See More" - from the datpiff fb comments
Joey Badass ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$	2.5
The Smith Street Band More Scared of You Than You Are of Me	3.5
Mastodon Emperor of Sand	3.0
Pallbearer Heartless	3.5
The Menzingers After the Party	4.0
Less Than Jake Sound the Alarm	2.5
One Ok Rock Ambitions	2.0
Band-Maid Just Bring It	4.5

2016
Soulja Boy King Soulja 7	1.0
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3	3.0
J. Cole 4 Your Eyez Only	2.0
CERTAIN LEVEL OF INTELLIGENCE TO VIBE TO J.COLEr
Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct	3.5
Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many	3.5
Okilly Dokilly Howdilly Doodilly	1.0
Testament Brotherhood of the Snake	3.0
good riffs, terrible production, the type that makes things sound clean and even, until you're suffering from fatigue 5 tracks in.
Soulja Boy and Bow Wow Ignorant Shit	2.0
u need a certain lvl of intelligence to understnd soulja
The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation	5.0
Jeff Rosenstock WORRY.	4.0
Dance Gavin Dance Mothership	3.0
Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason	3.0
Soulja Boy King Soulja 6	2.5
The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional	4.5
Prophets of Rage The Party's Over	1.5
Sabaton The Last Stand	3.0
Descendents Hypercaffium Spazzinate	3.0
i really wasn't in the mood when i streamed this. I'm really hoping to bump this up on future listens unless they really droppeed a dud.
Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty	3.0
Bro-Prog giants produce a weaker effort. I think they've hit their peak with II, but a few genius moments prevent this (and the band) from losing my interest.
Fates Warning Theories of Flight	4.5
Logic Bobby Tarantino	1.0
Desiigner New English	1.5
The Hotelier Goodness	4.0
There are so many better hotels than this in FL I can't see any reason for staying here. This is one of the worst international chain hotels I stayed at considering the brand name. Everything went wrong start from the beginning. From the perspective of Hotelier front staff and management needs more education, they have no clue about the customer service. Manager on duty that I was dealing with was very lackadaisical. I was promised a late check out during the checking time and but the manager on duty next was almost argue with me and trying explain that she was doing me a favor.
PUP The Dream Is Over	4.0
Band-Maid Brand New Maid	3.5
Drake Views	3.0
Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid	4.5
ASAP Ferg Always Strive and Prosper	1.5
The Fall of Troy OK	2.5
BABYMETAL Metal Resistance	4.0
A lot of the cringey moments have been removed, which actually hurts the bottom line. Gone is an album one listens to with some self-doubt and a little shame to go along. In comes a fresh mix of styles - Djent (KARATE), Fates Warning-core (Tales of the Destinies) and Extreme Power Metal (Road of Resistance). I'll give this such a high score ignoring many forgettable tracks (Metaro is the lone embarraser, a anthem track that's more repetitive than anything else they've made) with many that can be played on repeat, something i thought was impossible in 2016. Recommended tracks, 1,2,4.8,9,11. A disappointing lack of neoclassical wonder in the forms of instrumental sections akin to IDZ on the first album.
Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered.	3.5
Scandal (JPN) Yellow	3.5
Anthrax For All Kings	4.0
This is one of the few truly Middle-heavy albums made today. I was quite ready to think of about anything else to listen to for the first 2 tracks. So after those two moments of mediocrity? Some strong melodic trash with lean production. Recommended Tracks- Evil Twin, Suzerian, The Battle Chose Us! Skip - Blood Eagle Wings.
Simple Plan Taking One for the Team	1.5
Kanye West The Life of Pablo	3.0
EARLY ACCESS PRE RELEASE REVIEW OPEN BETA PLANNED APRIL 17TH be there or be square - G.O.O.D. Music. #BillCosbyInnocent
Future EVOL	2.5
Avantasia Ghostlights	4.5
I'll continue supporting Tobias Sammet as long as he continues making these rock-opera power metal smorgasbords of energy and a rotating guest list substantially lacking in terrible phoned in performances. Recommended tracks - A Restless Heart and Obsidian Skies and the title track for those wonderful Michael Kiske choruses.
Dream Theater The Astonishing	2.0
Cheese is a food derived from milk that is produced in a wide range of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep. During production, the milk is usually acidified, and adding the enzyme rennet causes coagulation. The solids are separated and pressed into final form. Some cheeses have molds on the rind or throughout. Most cheeses melt at cooking temperature.rI love the taste of cheese. this just smells like Casu marzu yet tastes like cheddar.
Megadeth Dystopia	3.5
I mean, maybe their songwriting has deteriorated, maybe we as fans and would-be fans have grown tired of Mustaine & Company, but what we have here is one of the few legacy acts still able to kick the listeners ass. People complaining about politics sound like the same neo-cons who'd critique them message of Rust and Piece back in the 90s. Recommended tracks - Intro, Lying in State
Primal Fear Rulebreaker	3.0
One of the more boring acts I've seen live, the not-quite-Judas Priest tribute/cover band creates some more kickass vocals. Production is kind of compressed but maybe its just the strong vocals of Ralf that give it such a crisp, modern sound. This is a 2.0 for casual listens and an light 4 for balls-to-the-wall volume abuse.
Rhapsody of Fire Into The Legend	3.5
Exmortus Ride Forth	3.5
A short burst of tech trash wizardry. Its undoubted they've crafted a signature sound; a miracle in 2016. The drawback is the 38 minute duration is entirely that sound, with a strictly neo-classical instrumental as the only break. An absolutely worth contender for your money to see live.

2015
Galneryus Under the Force of Courage	4.5
Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams	2.0
SikTh Opacities	4.0
Sunn O))) Kannon	2.5
Kid Cudi Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven	1.0
G-Eazy When It's Dark Out	2.0
Foo Fighters Saint Cecilia	2.5
Band-Maid New Beginning	4.0
Logic The Incredible True Story	3.0
Machine Gun Kelly General Admission	2.5
Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars	2.0
Sithu Aye Senpai	4.0
Avicii Stories	1.0
Deafheaven New Bermuda	3.0
Clutch Psychic Warfare	4.0
Queensryche Condition Human	3.0
Soulja Boy Plug Talk	1.0
Run the Jewels Meow the Jewels	1.0
Ryan Adams 1989	3.5
Drake and Future What a Time to Be Alive	3.0
TesseracT Polaris	3.5
Mac Miller GO:OD AM	3.5
Jay Rock 90059	3.5
Blackalicious Imani Vol. 1	4.0
Shinedown Threat to Survival	2.0
T.I. Da' Nic	3.0
Slayer Repentless	2.5
Stratovarius Eternal	3.5
Ben Folds So There	3.0
Iron Maiden The Book of Souls	4.5
Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats The Night Creeper	3.5
The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise	4.0
Amorphis Under the Red Cloud	4.0
Ling Tosite Sigure es or s	3.0
Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz	2.5
The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness	3.0
Beach House Depression Cherry	2.5
Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion	3.5
Bon Jovi Burning Bridges	1.5
Ghost (SWE) Meliora	4.0
Bullet for My Valentine Venom	3.0
Toby Fox Undertale OST	4.5
Okilly Dokilly Okilly Demos	1.0
Dr. Dre Compton	3.0
Yousei Teikoku Shadow Corps[e]	4.5
Teenage Time Killers Greatest Hits, Vol. 1	1.5
Soulja Boy King Soulja 4	2.0
Soulja Boy 25 The Movie	1.5
Machine Gun Kelly Fuck It	1.5
Soulja Boy M & M: Money & Music	1.0
Sublime with Rome Sirens	1.5
Future DS2	3.0
Wilco Star Wars	3.5
Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic	2.5
Opened for DTP among a few other bands, surprisingly from different walks of life. They were to play this 2015 album in its entirety. I have not touched the band since colors and had only heard about this album being a little softer. Not being much of a fan of harsh vocals live, i took that as a good thing, but i found my self in an ecliptic coma by the end of it.
Animals As Leaders Animals As Leaders: Encore Edition	4.5
Rosetta Quintessential Ephemera	4.0
High on Fire Luminiferous	4.0
Luca Turilli's Rhapsody Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus	3.5
mewithoutYou Pale Horses	4.0
Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful	3.5
Suburban Legends Forever In The FriendZone	3.0
Theres's nothing besides the title track that has any genius or even chops around me but they've taken Bowling For Soups's signature sound and modernized it poorly. Some really catch choruses though.
Jason Derulo Everything Is 4	2.5
Moonman Whitetopia	4.5
Frank Zappa Dance Me This	3.0
Major Lazer Peace Is The Mission	2.0
Paradise Lost The Plague Within	4.0
Helloween My God-Given Right	3.0
Not sure if what's autoplagarism or what's homage, but its all catchy and fun. The fact that i'm enjoying this though I was delaying the listen to months after release due to having doubts and still coming out happy is the most obvious sign that I have become a fanboy. Favorite cut so far - Lost In America, bonus track "Wicked Game" has this lovable infectious chorus.
ASAP Rocky At.Long.Last.A$AP	3.5
Faith No More Sol Invictus	3.5
Snoop Dogg Bush	1.5
Insane Clown Posse The Marvelous Missing Link: Lost	1.0
Polyphia Muse (Re-release)	2.5
Young Thug Barter 6	5.0
Young Thug is the greatest musician alive. You could even say he's the Frank Zappa of our generation. He is not just another manufactured rap star, he is a complete artist. He is not someone that is being controlled by a record label. Thugger is singlehandedly one of the most innovative and unique rap artists of this decade. He is a melodic genius, his beats are experimental, innovative, unique, he isn't afraid to experiment, he is constantly evolving and changing his style. Young Thug, from the beginning, has always pushed boundaries and has continued to make progressive music that others could only hope to imitate. His voice is an instrument. He wants you to look beyond just the lyrics. They are there just to complement the music, they are an application of the voice as an instrument rather than a medium for verbal communication and storytelling. His voice and his sounds are something that no one else is doing. Young Thug obviously isn't a Kendrick/Drake type of rapper with outstanding rapping ability but he still manages to make better music than them. His mixtape, Barter 6, is an extremely introspective and personal record. It allows you to better understand the perspective and emotions of Jeffrey Lamar Williams. The mixtape has become a bridge for white youth to enjoy the art of the black inner city and empathize with the likes of Thugger and that is what is so wonderful about art.
Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification	4.0
Tyler, the Creator Cherry Bomb	1.5
Run the Jewels Blockbuster Night - Part II	3.0
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell	4.0
Hollywood Undead Day of the Dead	1.0
Ludacris Ludaversal	3.0
Wale The Album About Nothing	1.5
Soundtrack (Television) Catch the Throne: The Mixtape, Vol. 2	3.0
Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside	3.5
Future 56 Nights	3.5
Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death	3.5
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly	4.5
I could write paragraphs about either the crazy instrumentation, the lyrical juggernaut that is this album or just state that in the age where every Beyonce single is taken apart and deconstructed to be some modern gospel, TPAB is entirely worthy of multi-page write-ups and imaginary interviews that distinguish modern music hack journalism. Shame about Modern Man's lack of replay value, it unwrites "I" as a definitive closure to the sonic textures of unease instead closes with a purported mock interview with 2Pac, which reads like a long fanfiction.
Loone Loone	1.0
LiSA Launcher	3.5
Jeff Rosenstock We Cool?	4.5
Soundtrack (Anime) Akame ga Kill! Soundtrack 1	3.5
Imagine Dragons Smoke + Mirrors	1.5
Drake If You're Reading This It's Too Late	4.0
Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror	4.0
Bob Dylan Shadows in the Night	1.0
Soulja Boy Loyalty	1.5
Periphery Juggernaut: Omega	3.5
Doomtree All Hands	4.0
Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha	3.0
Venom From the Very Depths	2.0
King Crimson Live at the Orpheum	2.5
Fall Out Boy American Beauty/American Psycho	1.5
Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth	3.5
Preoccupations Viet Cong	3.5
BABYMETAL LIVE AT BUDOKAN ~RED NIGHT~	4.5
Avicii The Days/Nights	1.0

2014
Ludacris Burning Bridges	2.5
Thanks for the free EP of your upcoming disappointment of an album Luda-kun~!
Reel Big Fish Happy Skalidays	1.5
Nicki Minaj The Pinkprint	2.5
Dir En Grey Arche	4.5
J. Cole 2014 Forest Hills Drive	3.0
Walk the Moon Talking is Hard	3.5
AC/DC Rock or Bust	1.5
Judas Priest 5 Souls	2.0
Insane Clown Posse House of Wax	1.0
David Guetta Listen	1.0
Skrillex Ragga Bomb/Ease My Mind - Remixes	1.0
Attila Guilty Pleasure	1.0
Pink Floyd The Endless River	2.5
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways	2.5
Soulja Boy Young Millionaire	2.5
The Smith Street Band Throw Me in the River	4.0
Logic Under Pressure	3.0
Pimped out by his Def Jam contract, freshman rapper Logic fails to find an opportunity to find his own voice. Ditto the Kendrick comparisons, both suffer from the same rehashing of the tropes exercised by Dre and OutKast. Production is layered and outstanding, with the only fault being a corny robotic voice "tour guide" straight out of a Tribe Called Quest album. Logic grew up in a unstable household in a section 8 housing project in a relatively well-off town, providing a different viewpoint from the same "grew up on the streets, no I made it" tale. Unfortunately he doesn't exactly work with it, instead talking about gangs, drugs and all similarly discussed topics, just with a air of doubt. In interviews he's quite an abstinent from many vices, yet decide to capitalize on them for his album. As "generic" as he may be, his flow is on par with many classics, you get the feeling he practices his game out of the studio.rRecommended Tracks - Title track, Buried Alive, Gang Related.
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2	4.0
At the Gates At War with Reality	2.5
Taylor Swift 1989	3.0
Rancid Honor Is All We Know	2.5
Sonata Arctica Ecliptica - Revisited: 15th Anniversary Edition	2.5
Lil B Ultimate Bitch	3.0
Exodus Blood In, Blood Out	3.5
Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End	4.0
Absolutely not a single original idea or concept of this album. So is it bad? Nope. Is it Pinkerton 2? Nope. Hurley was better than this. The first half is relatively mediocre, asides for "Eulogy..." and contains the poppy rhythms that made both the blue and green album best sellers. The later half has more complex, and some very memorable songs ("Foolish Father, Cleopatra"). The album is let down by some cliche lyrics and a few melodies stolen from a variety of sources, even old-school U2, but this is a great continuation of the comeback started on Raditude, expanded on in Hurley, and this wouldn't make a bad ending to their discography.
Soundtrack (Anime) Samurai Champloo Music Record: Impression	5.0
Genesis R-Kive	4.0
Chris Brown X	1.5
King Crimson The Elements of King Crimson - 2014 Tour Box	2.5
U2 Songs of Innocence	2.5
In Flames Siren Charms	1.5
xSPONGEXCOREx How Tough Are Yah?	2.0
Polyphia Muse	3.5
Young Thug 1017 Thug 3: The Finale	1.5
Soundtrack (Anime) Sword Art Online Song Collection	2.5
Opeth Pale Communion	3.0
Wiz Khalifa Blacc Hollywood	2.5
DragonForce Maximum Overload	3.5
Accept Blind Rage	4.0
Alestorm Sunset on the Golden Age	4.0
Gucci Mane The Oddfather	1.5
Yes Heaven and Earth	1.0
Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again	3.0
I, Omega Transients	4.5
Judas Priest Redeemer of Souls	3.0
Finally a proper comeback album....to the mixing sins of the early 80s.rBands I adore that once they ran out of original ideas quickly stole from JP now are the inspiration for this album, I'm looking at you Gamma Ray!
Trey Songz Trigga	3.0
Soulja Boy King Soulja 3	1.5
Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun	4.0
Ab-Soul These Days...	2.5
Ed Sheeran x	2.0
Linkin Park The Hunting Party	2.0
Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon	3.0
50 Cent Animal Ambition	1.5
Lil B Hoop Life	3.5
Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool	4.5
Michael Jackson Xscape	2.0
Future Honest	2.5
The Menzingers Rented World	3.0
Edguy Space Police - Defenders of the Crown	3.5
Jason Derulo Talk Dirty	1.5
Nas Illmatic XX	1.0
Illmatic was great. This is not. Scout out for the original pressing, as the remasters do nothing, and the price is heavily inflated due to its title as a "classic" The new cover also blows, and that may seem like a minor complaint but this is a release, and packaging is a big thing when reviewing that.
Sonata Arctica Pariah's Child	4.0
Gamma Ray Empire of the Undead	3.0
Asia Gravitas	2.0
Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion	4.5
Soulja Boy King Soulja 2	1.5
Tycho Awake	3.5
Skrillex Recess	1.0
Man with a Mission Tales of Purefly	3.5
Yousei Teikoku Shito Kakusei	4.0
Wishbone Ash Blue Horizon	4.5
How the honest hell can a band still..deliver after so many years of never quite reaching the stardom they deserve. We owe it to their cult fanbase and their driving spirit to making more honest albums in a age where bands of their era are making cashgrab comeback albums.
BABYMETAL BABYMETAL	4.0
Who knew a well arranged mess of singles/bsides/rereleases from one of the forerunners of commercial music could make such a statement about the status of metal in 2014 and its various fanbases; from the open-minded to the closed off elitists
ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron	3.0
Kid Cudi Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon	2.0
The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There	4.5
Sean Paul Full Frequency	1.0
Lil B Basedworld Paradise	3.5
Of Mice and Men Restoring Force	1.5
Periphery Clear	3.0
The Lawrence Arms Metropole	2.0
The Lawrence Arms News From Yalta	3.0
Dir En Grey Sustain the Untruth	4.0
Yousei Teikoku Hades: The Other World	4.0

2013
Lil B 05 Fuck Em	4.0
Beyonce Beyonce	2.0
Soulja Boy The King	2.0
Rhapsody of Fire Dark Wings of Steel	2.5
BABYMETAL Live Legend I, D, Z Apocalypse	4.5
The amount of energy electrifies the audience and therefore the viewer. Film quality is 10/10, and the questionable stylistic choices are crushed by the weight of the backing band's intense performance. I predicted them to blow up as they did but I was expecting content like this to win fans over, not the music videos for their most simplistic songs. Probably the most fun I've had at a live show since I saw Maiden.
Death Grips Government Plates	2.5
Armory (USA-MA) Empyrean Realms	4.0
nothing new, just fanservice to these ears. Far more euro influence than most USPM and representing Massachusetts can never go wrong. Beyond the Horizon is the standout track, so many jovial melodies into one composition it's incredible.
Less Than Jake See the Light	2.5
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2	3.5
Black Flag What The...	1.0
Avril Lavigne Avril Lavigne	2.0
Protest the Hero Volition	4.5
Bad Religion Christmas Songs	4.0
P.O.S WDELH/MDS/RMX	2.5
Soundtrack (Anime) High School DxD New	3.5
Miley Cyrus Bangerz	1.5
Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech	3.0
Panic! at the Disco Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!	1.5
Protest the Hero The Best of Protest the Hero	1.0
One of those bands where you can't make a best of album , especially with only 3 albums counted here. You're better off making a shuffle playlist with this shit. No flow either. Sometimes on greatest hits CDs they had some genius way of realigning tracks. But not here.
Fates Warning Darkness in a Different Light	4.0
Drake Nothing Was the Same	2.5
Dream Theater Dream Theater	3.0
Sean Kingston Back 2 Life	1.0
Avicii True	1.0
Ulcerate Vermis	4.5
Soulja Boy 23	1.5
Earl Sweatshirt Doris	4.0
Asking Alexandria From Death to Destiny	1.5
Maximum the Hormone Yoshu Fukushu	4.0
Soundtrack (Anime) Attack on Titan	3.5
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels	4.0
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels (Instrumentals)	3.5
Attila About That Life	1.0
BABYMETAL Megitsune	3.0
Kanye West Yeezus	3.5
Mac Miller Watching Movies With The Sound Off	3.5
Big Time Rush 24/Seven	1.5
Black Sabbath 13	3.0
Megadeth Super Collider	1.5
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork	3.5
Light Bringer Scenes of Infinity	4.0
TesseracT Altered State	4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer	4.0
Logic Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever	3.5
Soundtrack (Film) The Great Gatsby (Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film)	3.0
Rhapsody of Fire Live - From Chaos to Eternity	4.5
Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve	3.5
Queensryche Frequency Unknown (Tate's Queensryche)	1.0
Kid Cudi Indicud	1.5
Polyphia Inspire	3.5
will.i.am #Willpower	1.0
Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll	1.0
Major Lazer Free The Universe	2.5
Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam	3.5
Tyler, the Creator Wolf	2.5
Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal	2.5
Avantasia The Mystery Of Time	4.0
Yousei Teikoku Pax Vesania	4.0
Soundtrack (Anime) Haganai NEXT	4.0
Gamma Ray Master of Confusion	4.5
Bon Jovi What About Now	1.0
Soulja Boy All Black	1.5
Stratovarius Nemesis	4.0
Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper	1.0
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension	3.5
Soulja Boy Foreign	1.5
Bad Religion True North	3.5
Helloween Straight Out of Hell	3.5
Oh man I was so excited for this, bought it day one though (at the time) I didn't care at all for post-2000 Helloween. Songs like Burning Sun , World of War and Nabataea had modern production along with that classic helloween sound. Asshole and I Wanna Be God add some variety. Church Breaks Down is a nice ending that is quite underplayed. On later listens the more unoriginal songs, (title track, Far Among the Stars) stood out. Live Now and Waiting for the Thunder are poppier songs that haven't aged well.
ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP	3.0
BABYMETAL Ijime, Dame, Zettai	4.0
Not perfect, but this was the single which took influence from a more technical side of metal, instead of the standard jpop tone with chugging for interludes. The drumming on "Catch me..." is extremely catchy, and the title track's power metal/extreme metal influence, combined with its neoclassical solo made this the transition from the viral video band to something actually worth reporting on metal news sites, but that would wait for their singles on their debut album.
Hollywood Undead Notes From the Underground	1.5
Skrillex Leaving	1.0

2012
Soundtrack (Film) Django Unchained	4.0
Polyphia Resurrect	2.5
Green Day iTRE!	1.5
Gamma Ray Skeletons & Majesties Live	4.0
One of (if not the best) live act I've ever had the privilege of seeing. This CD comes very close to mimicking that live experience, as this bands live releases are an event on their own, which I can't say for their last few lackluster studio albums. Almost every one of their songs' live counterparts are more energetic, more involving and more impressive. I'd give the DVD a 4.5 due to their age hurting visually the stage presence, and Kiske's welcome surprise ruined by his douche glasses. Tracklist features many of their rarer cuts, which improve heavily on their studio versions. My only complain about the audio is by the time "Rise" appears on disc 2, it feels the band is tired out, something which cannot be said on their last DVD.
Deftones Koi No Yokan	3.0
The Weeknd Trilogy	3.5
Green Day iDOS!	1.0
Public Enemy The Evil Empire Of Everything	2.0
Aerosmith Music from Another Dimension	1.5
Soulja Boy Keep Living Keep Playing	2.0
P.O.S We Don't Even Live Here	3.5
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city	4.5
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension	3.5
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence	3.5
Death Grips No Love Deep Web	3.0
Soundtrack (Anime) Accel World Soundtrack 3	4.5
No Doubt Push and Shove	1.0
Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album Pt.1	2.5
Green Day ¡UNO!	1.5
Deadmau5 >album title goes here<	1.5
Carly Rae Jepsen Kiss	3.0
The Killers Battle Born	1.5
David Guetta Nothing but the Beat 2.0	1.5
Imagine Dragons Night Visions	2.5
Propagandhi Failed States	3.5
Smash Mouth Magic	2.0
Skrillex Make It Bun Dem After Hours	1.0
Trey Songz Chapter V	2.5
Insane Clown Posse The Mighty Death Pop!	1.5
Reel Big Fish Candy Coated Fury	3.0
Testament Dark Roots of Earth	4.0
Man with a Mission Mash Up the World	4.0
Frank Ocean channel ORANGE	4.0
Nas Life Is Good	3.0
BABYMETAL BABYMETAL - Headbangeeeeerrrrr!!!	3.5
Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal	4.0
Asia XXX	3.0
Chris Brown Fortune	1.0
Luca Turilli's Rhapsody Ascending to Infinity	4.5
Soundtrack (Anime) Jormungand	2.5
Stratovarius Under Flaming Winter Skies	4.0
Linkin Park Living Things	2.0
Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage	3.5
The Offspring Days Go By	3.0
Van der Graaf Generator ALT	2.0
Walk the Moon Walk the Moon	3.5
Rush Clockwork Angels	4.5
King 810 Midwest Monsters	1.0
Kreator Phantom Antichrist	4.5
TesseracT Perspective	2.0
Sonata Arctica Stones Grow Her Name	3.0
Killer Mike R.A.P. Music	4.0
I, Omega The Ravenous	2.5
Beach House Bloom	3.0
Deadmau5 The Veldt	1.0
Logic Young Sinatra: Undeniable	4.0
Death Grips The Money Store	3.5
Paradise Lost Tragic Idol	3.5
DragonForce The Power Within	4.5
Emmure Slave To The Game	1.0
Accept Stalingrad: Brothers In Death	4.0
Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded	1.0
Meshuggah Koloss	3.5
Sakura Gakuin Nendo 2011 ~Friends~	3.5
Soundtrack (Anime) High School DxD	3.0
BABYMETAL BABYMETAL x Kiba of Akiba	3.0
Lil B God's Father	4.0
Imminent Sonic Destruction Recurring Themes	4.0
No Trigger Tycoon	4.0
The Menzingers On the Impossible Past	4.0
Lana Del Rey Born to Die	3.0
Blind Guardian Memories of a Time to Come	4.0
Dir En Grey Uroboros (Remastered & Expanded)	5.0

2011
Lil B Gold House	3.5
Skrillex Bangarang	2.0
Soundtrack (Anime) Haganai	4.0
Avicii Levels (Remixes)	2.5
Macintosh Plus Floral Shoppe	5.0
The soundscapes presented are both dark and haunting, with a superficial cheery 80s nostalgic coverup. I wouldn't think so highly of this album without a certain experience in the quite aura of the city with an hotel where everyone was asleep and the only noise in the universe was "Lisa Frank 420" off of a mono phone speaker. The melody is so immersive that songs from my youth that spark serious nostalgia can't paint the picture of where I first heard them as well as this.
50 Cent The Big 10	1.5
Korn The Path of Totality	1.0
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones The Magic of Youth	3.0
Soulja Boy Gold On Deck	1.5
Doomtree No Kings	3.5
Michael Jackson Immortal	1.5
Nickelback Here and Now	1.5
Yelawolf Radioactive	2.0
Big Time Rush Elevate	1.5
Sonata Arctica Live in Finland	4.0
Drake Take Care	3.5
Crying in the 6 with my hoes, cuz they have a tough life.
brokeNCYDE Guilty Pleasure	1.5
Mac Miller Blue Slide Park	1.0
Tycho Dive	4.0
Animals As Leaders Weightless	3.5
Megadeth Th1rt3en	2.5
Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu	1.5
ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP.	4.0
Soulja Boy Skate Boy	3.0
Five Finger Death Punch American Capitalist	2.5
Dessa Castor, The Twin	4.0
DJ Shadow The Less You Know, the Better	2.0
Wilco The Whole Love	4.0
Mastodon The Hunter	3.5
Driving the very bandwagon critics have been riding on since Leviathan, or even some since their first album, Mastodon turn on cruise control well having a tough time getting used to their Reprise Records GPS.
Logic Young Sinatra	3.5
Soulja Boy Supreme	3.0
Opeth Heritage	3.5
Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events	3.0
The Aristocrats The Aristocrats	4.0
Soulja Boy The Last Crown	3.0
Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You	2.5
David Guetta Nothing but the Beat	1.5
MC Frontalot Solved	3.5
Black Tide Post Mortem	2.0
Merzbow Dead Zone	3.5
Dir En Grey Dum Spiro Spero	4.0
Soulja Boy 21	1.5
Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation	3.5
Sublime with Rome Yours Truly	2.5
Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors	4.0
Kendrick Lamar Section.80	3.5
Soulja Boy Bernard Arnault	2.0
Yes Fly from Here	2.0
Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra	2.5
Queensryche Dedicated to Chaos	1.0
Lmfao Sorry For Party Rocking	1.5
Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction	4.5
Rhapsody of Fire From Chaos to Eternity	4.0
The Kindred Lore	4.0
Man with a Mission Man with a Mission	3.5
Young Thug I Came From Nothing	1.0
Skrillex More Monsters and Sprites	2.0
Alestorm Back Through Time	3.0
Soundtrack (Video Game) The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings	4.0
Tyler, the Creator Goblin	2.5
Sakura Gakuin Nendo 2010 ~Message~	4.0
Death Grips Exmilitary	4.0
Soulja Boy Juice	3.0
Periphery Icarus	3.5
Jessie J Who You Are	1.0
Foo Fighters Wasting Light	3.5
Gamma Ray Skeletons & Majesties	3.0
Soundtrack (Anime) Infinite Stratos	2.5
Asking Alexandria Reckless and Relentless	1.0
Hollywood Undead American Tragedy	1.5
Sum 41 Screaming Bloody Murder	1.5
Wiz Khalifa Rolling Papers	1.0
Snoop Dogg Doggumentary	1.5
Protest the Hero Scurrilous	5.0
TesseracT One	3.5
Panic! at the Disco Vices & Virtues	2.5
Soulja Boy 1Up	2.5
Mastodon Live at the Aragon	3.5
Van der Graaf Generator A Grounding in Numbers	3.0
Lupe Fiasco Lasers	2.0
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II	2.5
Radiohead The King of Limbs	2.5
Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra.	3.5
Soulja Boy Smooky	1.5
Stratovarius Elysium	3.5
The Hotelier It Never Goes Out	4.0
Attila Outlawed	1.5

2010
Yousei Teikoku Gothic Lolita Agitator	3.5
Logic Young, Broke & Infamous	3.0
Michael Jackson Michael	1.0
Soulja Boy The DeAndre Way	2.0
Lil B Evil Red Flame	4.0
Jay-Z The Hits Collection Vol. 1	3.0
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	4.5
Nicki Minaj Pink Friday	1.5
My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys	1.5
Machine Gun Kelly Lace Up	3.5
Lil B Red Flame	3.5
brokeNCYDE Will Never Die	1.0
Kid Cudi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager	3.5
The Black Eyed Peas The Beginning	1.0
Helloween 7 Sinners	4.0
I wanted to hate this album so much. Over the year before its release I had got heavily invested in their material covered in [Treasure Chest] A few singles from the 00s convinced me that the band had lost its ways. Are You Metal?!'s laughable lyrics and dense production scared me away, with the music video looking like a midwest horrrorcore rap vid. A few songs sort of stick out when played live, specifically Where the Sinners Go. Not to mention When a Mounntain Could Talk comes on my last.fm radio. I'm hooked that the 80s sound is back in the solo. I buy the album. Blown away by the sheer catchiness of the melodies, the first half is song after song of greatness, the flute solo in Raise the Noise being smile inducing. Some of the slower songs, specifically The Smile of the Sun and most of the closer really feel phoned in. Though it has a lot of fanservice, I do recommend this as the best recent album by them to recommend.
Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites	2.5
Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous	4.5
Dance Gavin Dance Live at Bamboozle 2010	1.0
Big Time Rush B.T.R.	1.0
Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It...	2.0
Bad Religion The Dissent of Man	4.0
Ice Cube I Am the West	2.5
Ling Tosite Sigure Still a Sigure Virgin?	4.0
Soundtrack (Anime) Highschool of the Dead	1.5
Weezer Hurley	3.5
Kendrick Lamar Overly Dedicated	3.0
DragonForce Twilight Dementia	1.5
Lil B Blue Flame	4.0
Linkin Park A Thousand Suns	1.5
Accept Blood of the Nations	4.5
Iron Maiden The Final Frontier	3.5
Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time	4.0
Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot	4.0
Mastodon Jonah Hex: Revenge Gets Ugly EP	1.5
3OH!3 Streets of Gold	1.0
Miley Cyrus Can't Be Tamed	1.0
Eminem Recovery	2.5
Flow Microcosm	4.5
Ozzy Osbourne Scream	1.5
Drake Thank Me Later	2.5
Stereopony Over the Border	4.0
Skrillex My Name Is Skrillex	2.5
Iyaz Replay	1.0
Soulja Boy Cookin' Soulja Boy	3.0
Bad Religion 30 Years Live	4.0
Attila Rage	1.0
Soulja Boy Death Note	2.5
Bullet for My Valentine Fever	2.5
Rhapsody of Fire The Frozen Tears of Angels	4.5
Asia Omega	1.5
Periphery Periphery	3.5
Periphery Periphery (Instrumental)	4.0
AC/DC Iron Man 2	3.0
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow	3.0
Taking another cue from the Rush pool of ideas, this time stealing the muddy production of 2002's Vapor Trails.
The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits	3.0
MC Frontalot Zero Day	3.5
Wiz Khalifa Kush & Orange Juice	3.0
Avantasia The Wicked Symphony	4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis	3.5
Snoop Dogg More Malice	1.5
Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men	2.0
Ludacris Battle of the Sexes	1.5
Bomb the Music Industry! Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!!	3.5
Helloween Unarmed	2.0
Gamma Ray To the Metal!	3.0
Beach House Teen Dream	4.0
Lana Del Rey Lana Del Ray a.k.a Lizzy Grant	2.5

2009
Soundtrack (Anime) Bleach Soundtrack 4	5.0
Shiro Sagisu may not write the most original compositions, but everyone who cares at least a bit about musical lore should take a listen to the intricacies of every little note performed. I'd pay good money for him to rerecord any classic in his vision.
Soundtrack (Anime) Naruto Shippuden Soundtrack 2	4.5
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Pin Points and Gin Joints	2.5
Snoop Dogg Malice 'n' Wonderland	1.5
Timbaland Timbaland Presents Shock Value II	2.0
Dir En Grey Hageshisa To, Kono Mune no Naka de Karamitsuita...	4.5
Kanye West VH1 Storytellers: Kanye West	2.5
Justin Bieber My World	1.0
50 Cent Before I Self Destruct	2.0
Wale Attention Deficit	3.0
Slayer World Painted Blood	3.0
Bon Jovi The Circle	2.0
Weezer Raditude	1.0
The Lawrence Arms Buttsweat and Tears	4.5
Scandal (JPN) Best Scandal	3.5
Sufjan Stevens The BQE	4.0
Bob Dylan Christmas in the Heart	1.5
The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event	2.0
Kendrick Lamar Kendrick Lamar	3.0
Brand New Daisy	3.0
Brand New comes out with another album which has a sum greater than its parts. Shame those parts are highly derivative and were performed better in the bands that wrote the material with more glamor. Jesse's Lyricism stays strong although more multi-line schemes would be welcomed. Sink ocks hard.
Sean Kingston Tomorrow	1.0
Sonata Arctica The Days of Grays	3.5
Protest the Hero Gallop Meets the Earth	2.5
Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream	2.0
Megadeth Endgame	4.5
Dream Theater Wither	1.0
High and Mighty Color Swamp Man	4.0
Insane Clown Posse Bang! Pow! Boom!	1.5
Yousei Teikoku Gothic Lolita Doctrine	3.5
Trey Songz Ready	2.0
Soulja Boy Work On Deck	1.0
Sugar Ray Music for Cougars	1.0
Lmfao Party Rock	2.0
Wilco Wilco (The Album)	3.0
Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings	4.0
brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It!	1.0
Dance Gavin Dance Happiness	4.0
The Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)	1.5
Alestorm Black Sails at Midnight	3.5
The Syncope Threshold Tale of The Complex Circuit	4.0
Stratovarius Polaris	4.0
mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright!	3.5
Busta Rhymes Back On My B.S.	2.0
Eminem Relapse	2.0
Green Day 21st Century Breakdown	2.0
Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders	5.0
Nicki Minaj Beam Me Up Scotty	1.5
NOFX The Myspace Transmissions, Vol. 11	2.5
Mastodon Crack the Skye	4.0
Coheed and Cambria Neverender	5.0
Deserving a 5 not just for the content but the sheer amount of it, the ultimate collectors package for Coheed without a big price.
Radiohead OK Computer: Collector's Edition	5.0
Propagandhi Supporting Caste	4.5
U2 No Line on the Horizon	2.5
Coheed and Cambria Neverender 12%	3.5
Soulja Boy Lord Of The Ringtones	1.5
Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles	4.5
P.O.S Never Better	5.0
What really got me into hip hop, i wish this was bigger so it could teach people that "nigga" isn't needed as a hook.
Kendrick Lamar C4	2.5
Sepultura A-Lex	2.0
Reel Big Fish Fame, Fortune and Fornication	1.5
Kreator Hordes of Chaos	4.0
Music meant to KILL THINGS TO!!!!! BROOTAL!!. If you're 13 or find your lifestyle defines you as a hardcore person, you won't find a better soundtrack than this. 40 minutes of anger, with excellent production values (I like my thrash raw and detailed).
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion	3.5
Diplo Decent Work For Decent Pay	2.5
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season Cut Up!	1.0

2008
Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux	2.0
Soulja Boy iSouljaBoyTellEm	1.5
Common Universal Mind Control	1.5
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak	2.5
Arch Enemy Tyrants of the Rising Sun	4.5
Arch Enemy may have seen their best output before (or during) 2002, but their live act remains strong. Great setlist promotes one of the most powerful performances I've heard "Burning Angel", and the guitar/bass/drum solos are enjoyable without too much wankery, and some melody which is usually drowned out by Angela.
The Killers Day & Age	2.0
Gamma Ray Hell Yeah!!! The Awesome Foursome	5.0
One of (if not the best) live act I've ever had the privilege of seeing. This CD comes very close to mimicking that live experience, as this bands live releases are an event on their own, which I can't say for their last few lackluster studio albums. The first record shop I came across to actually stock their work had a few albums, and this for some reason caught my eye, even though I only heard about 1 or 2 songs by them before. Coming as a Helloween fan I knew what Kai could do on stage, so I took the gamble. I'm really glad I did so, because this performance is so tight, it almost had me disappointed for when I actually saw them live. Sound on the cds don't really explode like other classic live releases, which wouldn't be a problem on their DVD, which I wish I had purchased.
Nickelback Dark Horse	1.0
Dir En Grey Uroboros	4.5
Soundtrack (Anime) Bleach Soundtrack 3	5.0
MC Frontalot Final Boss	4.0
brokeNCYDE BC 13	1.5
AC/DC Black Ice	2.5
Gojira The Way of All Flesh	4.0
Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God	4.0
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season	1.5
Metallica Death Magnetic	2.0
Hollywood Undead Swan Songs	2.0
Soulja Boy Live N Direct	1.0
DragonForce Ultra Beatdown	1.5
Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance	3.5
The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound	4.0
Jonas Brothers A Little Bit Longer	1.0
Protest the Hero Sequoia Throne: Remixed	1.5
Only on something this awful can a Devin Townsend production suck.
Doomtree Doomtree	4.0
Miley Cyrus Breakout	1.5
Nas Untitled	2.5
Orange Range Panic Fancy	4.0
Soulja Boy Teen Of The South	1.0
Less Than Jake GNV FLA	4.0
Judas Priest Nostradamus	3.0
The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace	2.5
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends	3.5
Kendrick Lamar and Jay Rock No Sleep Til NYC	2.5
Venom Hell	2.5
Weezer The Red Album	2.0
Opeth Watershed	3.5
Sabaton The Art of War	3.5
Asia Phoenix	2.5
Elephant Man Let's Get Physical	1.0
Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd.	1.5
Flow Isle	3.5
Van der Graaf Generator Trisector	2.5
Meshuggah obZen	4.0
Snoop Dogg Ego Trippin'	1.5
Asian Kung-Fu Generation World World World	4.0
Viper the Rapper You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack	4.5
A starving artist predicts the state of meme-rap in 2014 with this album. Great vibes, and droning beats make this a great album to pull out that ol' ghetto blaster too, or destroy your friend's car's subs too. Recommended Track: I Sell Dope Boy.
Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge	3.5
Protest the Hero Fortress (Instrumental)	4.5
Protest the Hero Fortress	5.0
Attila Soundtrack to a Party	1.0

2007
Soundtrack (Anime) Naruto Shippuden Soundtrack 1	5.0
Lupe Fiasco The Cool	4.0
Aqua Timez Dareka no Chijoue	3.5
Gamma Ray Land of the Free II	3.5
Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between	4.5
Jay-Z American Gangster	4.0
Nas Greatest Hits	1.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works	3.5
Backstreet Boys Unbreakable	3.0
Helloween Gambling with the Devil	4.0
Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow	4.0
Bland production and a certainly less progressive songwriting can't kill this band's thunder, only weaken it.
Wishbone Ash The Power of Eternity	4.5
Radiohead In Rainbows	4.0
Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com	1.0
Sodom The Final Sign of Evil	3.0
Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace	2.5
Primal Fear New Religion	3.0
Between the Buried and Me Colors	3.5
Kanye West Graduation	3.0
50 Cent Curtis	1.0
Yoko Kanno Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex OST Vol 4	5.0
The flow on this break less 50 minute homework-music-compendium is outstanding. Nearly all popular styles of music are expressed and whether Kanno's originality is on the line be damned, the performances are top notch.
Public Enemy How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People..	2.0
Jonas Brothers Jonas Brothers	1.5
Soundtrack (Anime) Naruto Shippuden: The Movie 1	3.5
Sean Kingston Sean Kingston	1.0
Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer	4.5
Soundtrack (Anime) Claymore TV Animation OST	3.5
Sum 41 Underclass Hero	1.5
The Menzingers A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology	2.0
Bad Religion New Maps of Hell	4.0
Reel Big Fish Monkeys for Nothin' and The Chimps...	3.0
brokeNCYDE The Broken	1.0
Bon Jovi Lost Highway	1.5
Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True	4.5
Dream Theater Systematic Chaos	2.0
The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim	4.0
Sonata Arctica Unia	3.0
Ozzy Osbourne Black Rain	1.0
Megadeth United Abominations	4.0
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain	4.0
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight	2.5
Rush Snakes & Arrows	4.0
The Fall of Troy Manipulator	2.5
Yousei Teikoku GOTHIC LOLITA PROPAGANDA	3.5
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet	3.5
MC Frontalot Secrets from the Future	4.0
Timbaland Timbaland Presents Shock Value	1.0
Attila Fallacy	1.0
Soundtrack (Anime) Death Note Soundtrack 2	3.0
Insane Clown Posse The Tempest	2.5
Maximum the Hormone Bu-ikikaesu	5.0
Stylistically vague, and with an ambiguous theme, this album is the black sheep among my 5s. Except I'm pretty sure nothing I've heard has this amount of raw energy from the entire band, often at the same time. Vocally MtH is a barrage of varying vocal ranges, encompassing every genre from rap, rock, metal, nu-metal, j-pop, opera, and jazz. on paper it should just sound like a mess, but its just so sonically pleasing. This is the type of music that both th listener and the musician would have a smirk or even a smile for the duration of the album... Only flaw is some melodies extend to long...I don't know if the whole "Japanese System of a Down" moniker would work for me but I get a mathcore vibe, not bad for something that got this big.
Emmure Goodbye To The Gallows	1.5
Dir En Grey The Marrow of a Bone (Limited Edition)	4.0
Dir En Grey The Marrow of a Bone	3.5
Fall Out Boy Infinity on High	2.5
Doomtree False Hopes XII	4.0
Asking Alexandria The Irony of Your Perfection	1.0

2006
Soundtrack (Anime) Death Note Soundtrack 1	3.5
Nas Hip Hop Is Dead	3.0
Orange Range Orange Range	4.0
Aqua Timez Kaze o Atsumete	4.0
Yoko Kanno Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. Solid State S	5.0
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me	4.5
this album suffers from "Shawshank Redemption Syndrome". Its had over the last 9 years a long history of absolute critical appraise from numerous outputs. That means many people are led towards listening to this album with the state of mind that they're getting a masterpiece, and will fight any negative emotions to sustain that image provided. On the contrary, dissenters will note the popularity and dismiss it, looking lonely and unguided with their "look at me" low ratings. This is an amazing album, which surely beats the sums of its parts as Jesse isn't exactly what I'd call a talented singer by any margin, and the instrumentals barely surpass the best high school bands. And speaking of high school, the oft celebrated lyrics relate more to high school melodrama from the forms of overt deep poems than many albums. So this sounds like a 2 so far? Brand New have an uncanny ability to understand how to format an album. On early listens it seems top heavy ...but repeat listens give light to songs such as "Limozeen", which doesn't overstay its welcome. It has questionable staying power, as the weak instrumentals don't benefit its already memorable hooks and verses. >somewhere between a 3.5 and a 4, this is it.
Reel Big Fish Greatest Hit... And More	1.0
2Pac Pac's Life	1.5
Snoop Dogg Tha Blue Carpet Treatment	3.0
Dance Gavin Dance Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean	4.0
Coheed and Cambria The Last Supper: Live At Hammerstein Ballroom	4.0
Flavor Flav Flavor Flav	1.0
Angra Aurora Consurgens	4.5
Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings	1.5
Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side	4.0
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister	4.5
Rhapsody of Fire Triumph or Agony	3.0
Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor	4.5
Smash Mouth Summer Girl	1.5
Fergie The Dutchess	1.0
Mastodon Blood Mountain	4.0
Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth	3.5
Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death	4.0
Reel Big Fish Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live	5.0
Two CDs and a DVD of some hilarious, hard to take serious musicans forget almost everything that drags down music with the single focus to give their audience an enjoyable time. I'd think that the Ska-punk sounds and almost singular focus lyrical will bore 3 tracks in but their motivation and energy outshine, combined with a healthy amount of well performed covers make this a great listen.
OutKast Idlewild	2.5
Soundtrack (Anime) Bleach Soundtrack 2	4.0
Strapping Young Lad The New Black	3.5
SikTh Death of a Dead Day	4.5
Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World!	4.0
Amon Amarth Wrath of the Norsemen	4.5
7 fucking hours of content. All for relatively cheap. Cologne show is intense as all hell. Not as much of a fan of the band as before but their live act is one of the best. Sound quality is great enough to push the limits of DVD-audio.
Less Than Jake In with the Out Crowd	2.0
Tool 10,000 Days	3.5
Kanye West Late Orchestration	4.5
NOFX Wolves in Wolves' Clothing	3.5
Sonata Arctica For the Sake of Revenge	4.0
The Black Eyed Peas Renegotiations: The Remixes	1.0
No Trigger Canyoneer	4.0
Asian Kung-Fu Generation Fanclub	4.5
Bad Religion Live at the Palladium (DVD)	4.5
The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta!	5.0
Mastodon Call of the Mastodon	3.5
J Dilla Donuts	4.5
P.O.S Audition	5.0
The only hip hop album I'll ever yell at naysayers for not enjoying, though there is a reason why he's so underground.
Rhapsody of Fire Live in Canada 2005: The Dark Secret	4.0
DragonForce Inhuman Rampage	3.0
Wishbone Ash Clan Destiny	4.0
Compton's Most Wanted Music to Gang Bang	1.0
AC/DC Rare, Rarer, Rarities	2.0

2005
Chris Brown Chris Brown	1.5
Fort Minor The Rising Tied	3.5
Yousei Teikoku Stigma	3.5
Ozzy Osbourne Under Cover	2.0
Public Enemy New Whirl Odor	2.5
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy	3.0
Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits	4.0
Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island	3.0
Orange Range Natural	3.5
Gamma Ray Majestic	4.0
Nickelback All the Right Reasons	2.5
Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out	2.0
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness	4.5
Bon Jovi Have a Nice Day	1.5
Stratovarius Stratovarius	2.0
Between the Buried and Me Alaska	3.5
Protest the Hero Kezia	5.0
Kanye West Late Registration	4.0
MC Frontalot Nerdcore Rising	3.5
The Fall of Troy Doppelganger	4.5
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza	3.5
Deadmau5 Get Scraped	3.0
Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well	2.0
Flow Golden Coast	3.0
Sufjan Stevens Illinois	5.0
Megadeth Greatest Hits: Back to the Start	3.5
L'arc-en-Ciel Awake	4.0
The Offspring Greatest Hits	2.5
The Lawrence Arms Cocktails and Dreams	4.5
Foo Fighters In Your Honor	3.0
The Black Eyed Peas Monkey Business	2.0
Coldplay X&Y	2.5
Dream Theater Octavarium	3.0
Soundtrack (Anime) Bleach Soundtrack 1	4.5
System of a Down Mezmerize	3.5
Beat Crusaders P.O.A.: Pop on Arrival	3.5
Weezer Make Believe	3.0
Soundtrack (Anime) Naruto Soundtrack 3	4.5
Porcupine Tree Deadwing	4.0
Ben Folds Songs for Silverman	3.5
Van der Graaf Generator Present	3.0
Reel Big Fish We're Not Happy 'Till You're Not Happy	4.0
Coheed and Cambria Live at the Starland Ballroom	4.5
Strapping Young Lad Alien	4.5
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze	3.5
Dir En Grey Withering to Death	4.0
50 Cent The Massacre	2.0
Maximum the Hormone Rokkinpo Goroshi	4.0
Judas Priest Angel of Retribution	3.0
Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band	3.0
Gojira From Mars to Sirius	4.0
Kendrick Lamar Training Day	1.5

2004
2Pac Loyal to the Game	1.5
Orange Range MusiQ	4.0
U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb	2.0
Eminem Encore	1.5
Soundtrack (Anime) Girls Bravo	1.5
Asian Kung-Fu Generation Sol-fa	4.5
ISIS Panopticon	4.5
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes	4.0
Sonata Arctica Reckoning Night	4.5
Sum 41 Chuck	4.0
Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands II	4.0
Green Day American Idiot	3.5
Megadeth The System Has Failed	3.5
Amon Amarth Fate of Norns	4.0
Mastodon Leviathan	4.5
Asia Silent Nation	1.0
Soundtrack (Film) Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie	1.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine	4.5
Diplo Florida	3.5
Metallica Some Kind of Monster	2.0
The Roots The Tipping Point	2.0
Rush Feedback	3.5
Flow Game	3.5
Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First	4.5
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge	3.0
Yoko Kanno Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex OST Vol 2	4.0
Ayreon The Human Equation	5.0
Judas Priest Metalogy	3.5
I dig the really nice packaging, and the included content is great. But i can't recommend it to newer fans due to the remastered tracks.
Clutch Blast Tyrant	5.0
L'arc-en-Ciel Smile	4.0
Madvillain Madvillainy	4.5
Descendents Cool to Be You	4.0
Soundtrack (Anime) Naruto Soundtrack 2	3.5
P.O.S Ipecac Neat	4.0
Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any...	1.0
Descendents 'Merican	4.5
Maximum the Hormone Kusoban	3.5
Orange Range 1st Contact	3.5
Kanye West The College Dropout	4.0
Nas Street's Disciple	2.5
DragonForce Sonic Firestorm	4.0
Edguy Hellfire Club	4.0
Angra Temple of Shadows	5.0

2003
The Offspring Splinter	3.0
Korn Take a Look in the Mirror	2.5
Asian Kung-Fu Generation Kimi Tsunagi Five M	5.0
Dream Theater Train of Thought	3.0
The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy	3.5
Stratovarius Elements, Pt. 2	3.0
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus	4.0
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3	5.0
The album which only gets better with time. Just like wine, the intoxication stays for a while, leaving you in love with the audio. But seriously, if one can get into the grove of Claudio's vocals, and give the 70 minute album a fair share of time, you'll find a particular moving album, with everything from Rush-inspired bridges to pop-punk inspired choruses. I've never been a fan of the lyrics or the backstory but they're easy to ignore, with Claudio's voice breaking language gaps easily.
OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below	3.5
will.i.am Must B 21	1.5
Aesop Rock Bazooka Tooth	3.5
The Lawrence Arms The Greatest Story Ever Told	4.5
Ying Yang Twins Me & My Brother	2.0
Limp Bizkit Results May Vary	1.0
Dir En Grey Vulgar	4.0
Iron Maiden Dance of Death	3.5
Gamma Ray Skeletons in the Closet	4.0
SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild	4.0
Smash Mouth Get the Picture	1.0
Prince N.E.W.S	2.0
Brand New Deja Entendu	4.5
Radiohead Hail to the Thief	3.0
Sugar Ray In The Pursuit Of Leisure	2.0
Metallica St. Anger	1.5
MC Eiht Hood Arrest	1.0
King Crimson The Power to Believe Tour Box	2.0
Korpiklaani Spirit Of The Forest	4.0
Less Than Jake Anthem	3.5
Helloween Rabbit Don't Come Easy	3.5
NOFX The War on Errorism	4.0
If i was perpetually living in 2003 this would be a fun and informing album to represent the scene, now it reeks of age like Farenheit 9/11 and other critical properties of that era. Its immaturity is luckily overshadowed by some very fun, accessible and catchy interpretations of major issues.
Ozma Spending Time on the Borderline	4.0
Protest the Hero A Calculated Use of Sound	3.5
Soundtrack (Anime) Naruto Soundtrack 1	4.0
Linkin Park Meteora	3.0
Killer Mike Monster	3.5
King Crimson The Power to Believe	2.5
Sonata Arctica Winterheart's Guild	4.0
Rush The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits	3.5
Although its majority their "big hits", you'll find an excellent array of their notable work from their golden years, an actual greatest hits album.
Stratovarius Elements, Pt. 1	4.0
Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad	3.5
Frank Zappa Halloween	4.0
50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin'	2.5
DragonForce Valley of the Damned	4.5
Yoko Kanno Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex OST Vol 1	4.0
The Yardbirds Birdland	1.0
Kendrick Lamar Youngest Head Nigga in Charge	1.0
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb	5.0
The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk	2.5

2002
Nas God's Son	3.5
Sum 41 Does This Look Infected?	3.5
2Pac Better Dayz	1.0
Luca Turilli Prophet of the Last Eclipse	4.0
Iron Maiden Edward the Great	4.0
Amon Amarth Versus the World	4.5
Jay-Z The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse	3.0
Opeth Deliverance	4.0
Symphony X The Odyssey	4.0
Soundtrack (Film) 8 Mile Soundtrack	3.5
Maximum the Hormone Mimi Kajiru	2.5
Foo Fighters One by One	2.5
Beat Crusaders Sexcite!	4.5
King Crimson Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With	3.5
Porcupine Tree In Absentia	4.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene	4.5
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf	4.5
Public Enemy Revolverlution	3.0
Camel A Nod and a Wink	4.5
Sonata Arctica Songs of Silence	4.0
Reel Big Fish Cheer Up!	4.0
Weezer Maladroit	2.5
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones A Jackknife To A Swan	3.0
Protest the Hero Search for the Truth	2.5
Mastodon Remission	3.5
Wishbone Ash Bona Fide	3.5
Eminem The Eminem Show	3.5
Rush Vapor Trails	3.5
Blackalicious Blazing Arrow	4.5
Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me	3.0
Bad Religion Punk Rock Songs	2.5
Primal Fear Black Sun	4.5
Helloween Treasure Chest	5.0
Ying Yang Twins Alley: The Return of the Ying Yang Twins	1.5
Rhapsody of Fire Power of the Dragonflame	4.5
Blind Guardian A Night at the Opera	4.5
The heavy hitting sounds of previous albums are lost, but the corny lyrics remain. Production is so good it will get Kanye West jealous (and on the last track..cry). Featuring Queen style layered vocals over an overproduced guitar tone with bass guitar drowned out. Similarly drowned out is their drummer, although that works to benefit the music for the most part. I'm glad their drummer left because their replacement seems to blend in with the multitudes of synthetic symphony instruments with ease. Standouts are "Precious Jerusalem", "Battlefield", "The Soulforged" and the 14 minute epic "And then there was Silence".
The Lawrence Arms Apathy and Exhaustion	4.5
Dir En Grey Kisou	4.0
Bad Religion The Process of Belief	4.0
Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence	3.5
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade	4.0
SPUTNIK CORE WARNINGrThis is one of their catchiest releases, along with me-too Rush bridges and enjoyable low budget mastering. Emo influence is what makes this unique in their discography yet also weakens it due to comparisons to hot-topic core bands of the early aughts.
Protest the Hero 3 Track Demo	2.0
Nile In Their Darkened Shrines	4.0

2001
Rhapsody of Fire Rain of a Thousand Flames	3.0
Dir En Grey embryo	4.5
Nas STILLmatic	3.5
Jay-Z Unplugged	4.0
Smash Mouth Smash Mouth	1.5
Edguy Mandrake	4.0
King Crimson Level Five	3.0
Michael Jackson Invincible	3.0
Death Live in L.A.: Death & Raw	4.5
Brand New Your Favorite Weapon	3.5
Brand New's debut is a great example of solid fast food in musical form. Catchy, memorable but leaves a bad aftertaste, and too much can make you a bit sick. Criticized for being immature and too "i wanna be 18 forever", which strikes me odd because if that's a complaint, certainly their entire discography suffers from that too. Songs such as "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad" and "Mixtape" contain catchy choruses which stay in your head for hours, which sadly are on a whole different level then the rest. Not to say other songs, as 70x7 aren't catchy, but like a half-pound burger, you need to segment some fires and a Coke in between large bites.
will.i.am Lost Change	2.0
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot	4.5
Aesop Rock Labor Days	4.5
Nickelback Silver Side Up	3.0
Jay-Z The Blueprint	4.0
Ben Folds Rockin' The Suburbs	4.0
Gamma Ray No World Order	4.5
System of a Down Toxicity	4.0
Sonata Arctica Silence	4.5
Converge Jane Doe	4.5
Radiohead Amnesiac	4.0
Descendents Live Plus One	4.5
Judas Priest Demolition	1.5
Asia Aura	2.0
Sum 41 All Killer No Filler	3.5
Weezer The Green Album	2.5
Tool Lateralus	4.5
Megadeth The World Needs a Hero	3.0
Soundtrack (Video Game) Deus Ex	5.0
Clutch Pure Rock Fury	3.5
Sodom M-16	5.0
2Pac Until the End of Time	2.0
Opeth Blackwater Park	4.5
Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes	4.0
Thorns Thorns	4.5
Fugazi The Argument	4.5
Angra Rebirth	3.5

2000
The Avalanches Since I Left You	4.5
The Offspring Conspiracy of One	3.5
Avantasia The Metal Opera	4.5
Stratovarius Infinite Visions	4.0
Jay-Z The Dynasty: Roc La Familia	2.0
OutKast Stankonia	4.0
Hip-hop diversifies, expands sub-genres and appears to be more critically and radio-friendly Too bad for the other groups that did this, because OutKast's forte of strong hooks, great instrumentals and interesting song structures continue, making this one of their best.
Rhapsody of Fire Dawn of Victory	4.5
Helloween The Dark Ride	3.5
U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind	3.5
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory	3.0
Less Than Jake Borders and Boundaries	4.0
Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite	4.5
Radiohead Kid A	3.0
An experimental journey, in a similar fashion to being a child blessed with access to an instrument or device for the first time, nothing goes exactly as planned and to people not quite seeing your vision, the entire experience seems stupid, but the mysticism is still there.
The Black Eyed Peas Bridging the Gap	3.0
Dir En Grey Macabre	4.0
Stratovarius 14 Diamonds	2.0
Bad Religion The New America	3.5
Into The Unknown Part 2: Punk fans are stick stuck up and can't appreciate a little honesty and optimism to contrast with the depressing unsure future.
Edguy The Savage Poetry	4.0
Gamma Ray Blast From the Past	4.5
Sunny Day Real Estate The Rising Tide	3.0
Deftones White Pony	4.5
NOFX Pump Up the Valuum	4.0
Queens of the Stone Age Rated R	4.0
Iron Maiden Brave New World	4.0
Stratovarius Infinite	4.0
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP	4.0
King Crimson The ConstruKction of Light	3.5
DJ Quik Balance & Options	4.0
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Pay Attention	3.5
King Crimson Beginners' Guide to the Collectors' Club	1.0
Stratovarius Hunting High and Low	4.5
Sean Paul Stage One	1.5
Ice Cube War & Peace Vol. 2 (The Peace Disc)	2.0
AC/DC Stiff Upper Lip	2.5
Mastodon 9 Song Demo	2.5
Fates Warning Disconnected	4.0
Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water	1.5
Compton's Most Wanted Represent	1.5
The Lawrence Arms Ghost Stories	3.0

1999
Jay-Z Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter	2.5
Nas Nastradamus	1.5
Dr. Dre 2001	3.5
Helloween Metal Jukebox	2.5
Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose	3.5
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory	4.5
Opeth Still Life	4.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity	5.0
American Football American Football	4.0
Megadeth Risk	2.5
Jethro Tull J-Tull Dot Com	1.5
Soundtrack (Video Game) System Shock 2 OST	5.0
Limp Bizkit Significant Other	2.0
Smash Mouth Astro Lounge	3.0
NOFX The Decline	5.0
Arch Enemy Burning Bridges	4.0
Nas I Am...	2.0
Gamma Ray Power Plant	4.0
Eminem The Slim Shady LP	4.0
The Roots Things Fall Apart	4.5
Edguy Theater of Salvation	4.5
Sugar Ray 14:59	3.0
Control Denied The Fragile Art of Existence	3.0
Kreator Endorama	2.0
Torsofuck High Level Cannibalistic Violence (Demo)	2.0
Sodom Code Red	4.5
2Pac Still I Rise	1.0
Dir En Grey Gauze	3.0
Wilco Summerteeth	4.0
Sonata Arctica Ecliptica	4.0
Atmosphere Headshots: Se7en	3.5
The Lawrence Arms A Guided Tour of Chicago	3.0

1998
2Pac Greatest Hits	4.5
Ice Cube War & Peace Vol. 1 (The War Disc)	2.5
The Offspring Americana	3.5
Meshuggah Chaosphere	4.0
Helloween Pumpkin Box	4.0
Less Than Jake Hello Rockview	4.5
Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands	4.0
OutKast Aquemini	5.0
Judas Priest '98 Live Meltdown	3.0
Death The Sound of Perseverance	5.0
Eschewing nearly all of their early crossover/thrash roots and marred with mediocre quality on the original recording (You'll have to decide between this or the brickwalled but more sonically superior Relapse 2011 rerelease with demos) There are prog metal influences which signal sort of apex of the talent Death possessed as a band. Hardcore Death fans will whine about the softened tone but this comes as a great sequel to the Dream Theatre type riffs found on Symbolic. Gone are the repetitive drums which give death metal a band name, and a focus on hooks gives this a less niche sound, although one certainly can't exactly call anything on this mainstream. From the double bass solo opening up "Scavenger of Human Sorrow" to the out of place but golden "Painkiller" cover comes some of the most intense riffage and drumming in late 90s metal. Bass guitar is never forgotten, and creates interesting segways in this album's several 7+ minute songs.
Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On	4.0
Ayreon Into the Electric Castle	5.0
Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill	4.5
The New Power Generation Newpower Soul	1.0
System of a Down System of a Down	4.0
The Black Eyed Peas Behind the Front	3.0
King Crimson Absent Lovers	5.0
Slayer Diabolus in Musica	2.5
Edguy Vain Glory Opera	4.0
Deep Purple Abandon	2.5
The Seatbelts Cowboy Bebop	4.5
Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth	4.5
Public Enemy He Got Game	2.5
Helloween Better Than Raw	4.0
Clutch The Elephant Riders	4.0
Iron Maiden Virtual XI	3.0
Van Halen Van Halen III	1.5
Symphony X Twilight in Olympus	4.0
The Pillows Little Busters	4.5
Stratovarius Destiny	4.0
Reel Big Fish Why Do They Rock So Hard?	4.0
Jay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life	3.0
Bad Religion No Substance	1.5
Stratovarius Visions Of Europe	4.5

1997
Metallica Reload	2.0
Jay-Z In My Lifetime, Vol. 1	3.5
Judas Priest Jugulator	3.5
Tim is an excellent vocalist, fuck the critics. Too he sings over some relatively boring songs, with the exception of the nine minute "Cathedral Spires", one of the best Priest epics they made.
Rhapsody of Fire Legendary Tales	3.5
NOFX So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes	4.0
Green Day Nimrod	3.0
Aphex Twin Come to Daddy	4.0
Dream Theater Falling into Infinity	2.0
Genesis Calling All Stations	1.0
Gamma Ray Somewhere Out in Space	5.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞	4.0
Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all	2.5
Insane Clown Posse The Great Milenko	3.0
Megadeth Cryptic Writings	3.5
Radiohead OK Computer	4.0
Smash Mouth Fush Yu Mang	4.0
Gamma Ray Valley of the Kings	4.0
Stratovarius Visions	4.5
Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape	4.0
Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy	4.5
Ben Folds Five Whatever and Ever, Amen	4.0
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Let's Face It	4.0
U2 Pop	2.5
Strapping Young Lad City	5.0
The Offspring Ixnay on the Hombre	4.0
Wishbone Ash Trance Visionary	2.0
Fates Warning A Pleasant Shade of Gray	4.0
Bad Religion Tested	2.5
Wishbone Ash Pyschic Terrorism	2.5
King Crimson Epitaph	4.0
Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind	4.5

1996
Dr. Dre Dr. Dre Presents... The Aftermath	2.5
Prince Emancipation	1.5
2Pac The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory	4.0
Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album	4.5
Bad Company Stories Told & Untold	2.5
Tool Ænima	4.0
Weezer Pinkerton	4.0
Descendents Everything Sucks	4.5
The Roots Illadelph Halflife	4.0
Rush Test for Echo	2.5
R.E.M. New Adventures in Hi-Fi	4.0
OutKast ATLiens	4.5
Reel Big Fish Turn the Radio Off	4.5
Sublime Sublime	4.0
Metallica Load	2.5
Gamma Ray Alive '95	4.5
Stratovarius Episode	4.5
Nickelback Curb	1.0
Helloween The Time of the Oath	4.0
Bad Religion The Gray Race	4.0
In Flames The Jester Race	4.5
2Pac All Eyez on Me	4.0
Gamma Ray Silent Miracles	4.5
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....	4.5
Eazy-E Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin...	3.0
Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt	5.0
Fugees The Score	4.0
Less Than Jake Losers, Kings and Other Things We Don't Understand	4.5
Less Than Jake Losing Streak	5.0
Nas It Was Written	4.0
Asia Arena	3.0
Propagandhi Less Talk, More Rock	3.0

1995
GZA Liquid Swords	5.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness	3.5
KRS-One KRS-One	4.0
Insane Clown Posse Riddle Box	4.0
Iron Maiden The X Factor	4.0
Caravan The Battle of Hastings	3.5
AC/DC Ballbreaker	2.5
Dream Theater A Change of Seasons	4.5
Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve	4.5
Less "out-there" than other Meshuggah releases, this has a unique sound among their discography for being a tad more enjoyable. Credit goes to the more catchy hooks. This maybe less game-changing, but its a game a larger audience can admire, it isn't trying to push the boundaries on every song, and for that it actually sounds more diverse than newer content like Koloss, due to changing volume levels.
Ben Folds Five Ben Folds Five	5.0
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	3.0
Michael Jackson HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I	3.0
Black Sabbath Forbidden	1.0
Bad Company Company Of Strangers	2.0
Gamma Ray Land of the Free	5.0
Bad Brains God of Love	1.5
Gamma Ray Rebellion in Dreamland	4.0
King Crimson THRAK	4.0
Stratovarius Fourth Dimension	4.0
Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side	4.5
I've had this album for many years, and its album art always seems to inviting. There's a definite issue of bass volume on this album, but the production also allows Thomen's drumming to roar with a fury that carries this album to be my favorite BG release overall. The cheese is imo used pretty sparringly here, especially compared to later releases.
Radiohead The Bends	3.5
Strapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing	3.5
Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime	4.0
Death Symbolic	4.5
2Pac Me Against the World	4.0
Van Halen Balance	2.0
Rich Kids on LSD Riches to Rags	4.0
The Roots Do You Want More?!!!??!	4.5
Kreator Cause for Conflict	3.0
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Question the Answers	4.0
Bad Religion All Ages	4.5
NOW THIS IS HOW YOU MAKE A GREATEST HITS ALBUM THIS IS IN CAPS BECAUSE THERES NO TRACK ON HERE THAT SHOULDN'T BE CAPITALIZED ON.
Soundtrack (Anime) Neon Genesis Evangelion	4.5
Sunny Day Real Estate Sunny Day Real Estate	3.0
Reel Big Fish Everything Sucks	3.5
Rainbow Stranger in Us All	3.0
At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul	4.5
Fugazi Red Medicine	4.0

1994
Megadeth Youthanasia	4.0
Foreigner Mr. Moonlight	1.0
Common Resurrection	4.0
Dream Theater Awake	4.5
R.E.M. Monster	3.5
Emerson, Lake and Palmer In the Hot Seat	2.0
This album has a few tracks that really are too sad for their own good, or maybe I was at a tough time in my life the first time I heard "daddy"
Slayer Divine Intervention	3.5
Thug Life Thug Life	3.5
Stratovarius Dreamspace	3.5
Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction	4.5
Fresh from their first debut on mainstream radio, and then signing to a major label (Atlantic), BR finds themselves to sell out, at the expense of continuing themes found on Generator and Recipie (The themes of songwriting, the lyrics are still there). Finds a very complete album, with a longer run time than their golden late 80s era, but with the same machine gun drums and erudite lyrics abound. Their poppier tracks haven't aged well, as Infected seemed like a cash in on the grunge movement which died soon after this album was released (Or maybe I always thought that song was Nirvana or Soundgarden?) Top tracks are Marked, Inner Logic, Hooray for Me, Better Off Dead , the Title Track and Tiny Voices. Andy Wallace puts a great job on the production standpoint. Its much clearer than earlier releases but not at the expense of intensity or depth.
Sublime Robbin' the Hood	3.0
Helloween Master of the Rings	4.5
NOFX Punk in Drublic	4.0
Weezer Weezer	4.5
Public Enemy Muse Sick-N-Hour Message	4.0
OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik	4.0
Fates Warning Inside Out	3.5
Nas Illmatic	4.5
The Offspring Smash	4.5
"Smash is the way you deal with your life" - This is the known pinnacle of my go-to "was good until they sold out" punk rock band. Everyone who's jammed an alt-rock station in their lives knows tracks 7 and 8, but the album as a whole is the highly emotional, arrogant and adolescent value statement for being a teenager with a license. Highlights include the title, track, Nitro for being the sonic equivalent of slaming the gas pedal, Genocide for being the hardest track and What Happened? to You being a nice break from the anger.
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II	5.0
Green Day Dookie	3.5
Sodom Get What You Deserve	2.5
King Crimson VROOOM	3.0
Asia Aria	2.5
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary	4.5
Less Than Jake Pezcore	3.5

1993
Ice Cube Lethal Injection	3.5
Snoop Dogg Doggystyle	4.5
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)	4.5
Rush Counterparts	4.5
Extremely detailed production mixed with a youthful grunge influence brings life (and potential financial success) back in to the Canadian trio's hands.
KRS-One Return Of The Boom Bap	4.5
Gamma Ray Insanity and Genius	3.5
Nirvana In Utero	4.0
Melvins Houdini	4.5
Propagandhi How to Clean a Couple o’ Things	3.5
X Japan Art of Life	5.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream	4.5
U2 Zooropa	3.5
Fugazi In on the Kill Taker	4.0
Billy Idol Cyberpunk	5.0
an average album should not have a wikipedia page this long. rhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_(album)rAbout the music, its a bit more average. People in the BR2049 cyberpunk wave of listening to lo-fi synthpop with neon overtones should find some actual authenticity in some of the themes and concepts in this album.
Death Individual Thought Patterns	4.0
Propagandhi How to Clean Everything	4.0
Helloween Chameleon	3.5
A controversial album whose best cuts will forever be associated with the offputting slowjams which ruined Helloween's reputation. rRecommended Songs - First Time. Crazy Cat, Giants, Revolution Now and especially When the Sinner. The rest is skippable but those 5 remain underrated pop gems from a band struggling to find its image without Kai and trying to experiment.
Judas Priest Metal Works '73-'93	5.0
I love me some double' album compilations. rThe tracklist is is great ,the run time is long and this really should already be in your glovebox as a stash for that emergency once a season roadtrip.
New Order Republic	3.5
Radiohead Pablo Honey	2.5
Stratovarius Twilight Time	3.5
Tool Undertow	4.0
Genesis The Way We Walk, Volume 2: The Longs	3.0
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Don't Know How to Party	4.5
Bad Religion Recipe for Hate	4.0
King Crimson The Concise King Crimson	2.5
2Pac Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.	4.0

1992
Dr. Dre The Chronic	4.5
Ice Cube The Predator	4.0
Genesis The Way We Walk, Volume 1: The Shorts	2.0
NOFX White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean	3.5
Kreator Renewal	2.5
R.E.M. Automatic for the People	5.0
Bad Company Here Comes Trouble	2.5
The Beach Boys Summer in Paradise	1.0
Dream Theater Images and Words	5.0
Megadeth Countdown to Extinction	4.5
Porcupine Tree On the Sunday of Life	2.0
Blind Guardian Somewhere Far Beyond	4.5
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Black Moon	2.5
Faith No More Angel Dust	5.0
Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark	3.5
NOFX The Longest Line	5.0
A band who's earlier years are marred by extreme immaturity (which still continues along today in some form) finds grace on their self-depreciating 5-track EP The Longest Line. Aside for their Reggae parody in "Kill All The White Man", a humorous track, the first four deal with relationships, the pressure of being an average joe with a family, having shit luck. Recording quality is either lovably raw or awful depending on your musical discipline. The Death of John Smith is one of their more impressive songs, and inspired the first few minutes of The Decline. The Longest Line achieves some simplistic genius, with a chorus that's way more powerful than either Fat Mike's voice or that chord progression should ever be.
Bad Religion Generator	4.5
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92	4.5
Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom	4.0
Compton's Most Wanted Music to Driveby	3.5
Asia Aqua	2.0
2Pac 2Pacalypse Now	3.5
Well the production, beats and instrumentals are lacking compared to later LPs (still stronger than his many posthumous releases), 2Pacalypse finds itself a tough sell in the age of digital, nearly exacting instrumentals created by computers. Well this doesn't exactly display 2pac's legacy defining work, it shows how strong of a start he had compared to many of his contemporaries.
The Offspring Ignition	4.0

1991
Green Day Kerplunk	4.0
Michael Jackson Dangerous	4.5
Gamma Ray Sigh No More	3.0
U2 Achtung Baby	4.0
Genesis We Can't Dance	1.5
Ice Cube Death Certificate	5.0
Descendents Two Things at Once	4.5
Death Human	4.5
Public Enemy Apocalypse 91 The Enemy Strikes Black	4.5
Nirvana Nevermind	3.5
A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory	4.0
Q-TIP writes the next 20 years' worth of hip hop.
Rush Roll the Bones	3.0
Metallica Metallica	3.5
Descendents Somery	3.5
Foreigner Unusual Heat	1.5
N.W.A. Niggaz4Life	4.0
Melvins Bullhead	5.0
NOFX Ribbed	3.5
R.E.M. Out of Time	3.0
Helloween Pink Bubbles Go Ape	4.0
X Japan Jealousy	4.5
Fates Warning Parallels	4.5
Insane Clown Posse Bass-ment Cuts	1.0
Bad Religion 80-85	4.0
Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears	4.0
New Kids on the Block No More Games - The Remix Album	1.0

1990
Bad Religion Against the Grain	5.0
Venom Tear Your Soul Apart	1.0
Deep Purple Slaves and Masters	1.0
Kreator Coma of Souls	4.5
Slayer Seasons in the Abyss	5.0
Blind Guardian Tales from the Twilight World	4.0
Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying	2.5
AC/DC The Razors Edge	3.5
Megadeth Rust in Peace	5.0
Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas	4.0
Rush Chronicles	4.5
Judas Priest Painkiller	4.5
Queensryche Empire	4.0
Bad Company Holy Water	2.5
Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted	4.5
Gamma Ray Heading for Tomorrow	3.5
Death Spiritual Healing	4.0
Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet	5.0
Insane Clown Posse Intelligence & Violence	1.0
Bad Religion Along the Way (DVD)	4.0
Sodom Better Off Dead	3.0
Compton's Most Wanted One Time Gaffled Em Up	1.0
Compton's Most Wanted It's A Compton Thang	3.0

1989
Rush Presto	3.0
The feel good guilty pleasure rush album. Songs like War Paint make one happy in a bizarre way.
Blind Guardian Follow the Blind	3.5
Testament Practice What You Preach	3.5
Operation Ivy Energy	4.0
Faith No More The Real Thing	4.5
Kreator Extreme Aggression	5.0
Nirvana Bleach	3.0
Stratovarius Fright Night	3.0
The Offspring The Offspring	4.0
X Japan Blue Blood	5.0
Black Sabbath Headless Cross	3.5
Sodom Agent Orange	5.0
New Order Technique	4.5
Fates Warning Perfect Symmetry	4.5
Bad Religion No Control	4.5
NOFX S&M Airlines	3.5

1988
Bad Religion Suffer	5.0
Hey are you 18? Remember that age well? Remember ending high school and looking at the world like a tiger uncaged? This is is the colder, more logical companion to The Offspring's Smash (as punk rock albums go), with lyrics as pretentious as a college freshman's 3AM thesaurus testimony, 3 chord guitar riffs chugged so fast (with practice) to break speed limits but enough wisdom in those lyrics to be a great reference for all minutia of life. Recommended tracks - Do What You Want, What Can You Do? and Land of Competition.
Eazy-E Eazy-Duz-It	4.5
Ozzy Osbourne No Rest for the Wicked	3.5
Bon Jovi New Jersey	3.5
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II	5.0
Metallica ...And Justice for All	5.0
Bad Company Dangerous Age	2.0
Death Leprosy	4.5
N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton	4.5
Slayer South of Heaven	4.5
Van Halen OU812	3.0
Blind Guardian Battalions of Fear	3.0
Judas Priest Ram It Down	3.5
Testament The New Order	4.5
Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime	5.0
NOFX Liberal Animation	3.0
Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son	4.0
Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What!	4.0
R.E.M. Eponymous	4.0
Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back	5.0
Eloy Ra	2.5
Fates Warning No Exit	4.0

1987
Black Sabbath The Eternal Idol	2.5
Exodus Pleasures of the Flesh	3.5
Kreator Terrible Certainty	4.5
If there was an album Satan himself would possess, this would be it.
Rush Hold Your Fire	3.5
The "imma listen to this in my sleep" Rush album. Great set of songs, just that production is so artificial it demands no attention from my ears. This isn't like Signals dream sequence-like melodies, this is more like melodrama heard miles away.
R.E.M. Document	4.0
Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason	3.5
Michael Jackson Bad	4.5
The real beginning of pop music becomming more of a trend in physical fashion than straight music, helped by MTV and increased media coverage, before there was fashion scenes, but it was mid 80s MJ which connected the red carpet and the songs played on car radios.
Testament The Legacy	4.5
Judas Priest Priest...Live!	4.0
Death Scream Bloody Gore	4.0
Descendents ALL	3.5
Anthrax Among the Living	4.5
U2 The Joshua Tree	4.5
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I	5.0
Deep Purple The House of Blue Light	2.0
Public Enemy Yo! Bum Rush the Show	4.0
Dio Dream Evil	4.5
Descendents Liveage!	4.0
Sodom Persecution Mania	4.5

1986
Slayer Reign in Blood	5.0
Bad Company Fame & Fortune	1.0
Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time	5.0
R.E.M. Lifes Rich Pageant	4.5
Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?	5.0
Helloween Judas	4.5
Genesis Invisible Touch	4.0
AC/DC Who Made Who	3.0
Sodom Obsessed by Cruelty	3.5
Judas Priest Turbo	3.0
Metallica Master of Puppets	4.5
Black Sabbath Seventh Star	2.0
Queensryche Rage for Order	3.0
Fates Warning Awaken the Guardian	5.0
Descendents Enjoy!	2.5
Europe The Final Countdown	3.5
Kreator Pleasure to Kill	4.5

1985
Accept Metal Heart	4.0
Helloween Walls of Jericho	4.5
Being in Germany during the late 80s must of been being wedged between the might of USA and Russia, who could both end the world with a press of a button, with Hamburg in the middle of all that. Accept, Metallica and early Kreator have a meth-addled child in the mid 80s that's raised with a bizarre prog-rock upbringing. Loved by people who think Helloween went to crap when Kiske joined, and Loved by those who think it went to crap after Kai left, the heaviness is properly recognized but the happiness which helped birth power metal is here and strong. Unlike contemporaries yelling about the very decay of the world, Helloween sings of hope, of a humanistic need for freedom which separates them from protopowermetal such as Judas Priest. Best cuts? Nearly every song is great, with the emotional impact of How Many Tears and Victim of Fate being very rare in mid 80s metal.
Frank Zappa Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention	4.0
Anthrax Spreading the Disease	4.5
Rush Power Windows	3.5
Descendents I Don't Want to Grow Up	4.0
Kreator Endless Pain	3.5
Iron Maiden Live After Death	5.0
Slayer Hell Awaits	3.5
Asia Astra	2.5
Dio Sacred Heart	3.5
AC/DC Fly On The Wall	3.0
Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!	4.0
R.E.M. Fables of the Reconstruction	3.5
New Order Low-Life	4.0
Supertramp Brother Where You Bound	4.0
Exodus Bonded by Blood	4.0
Prince Around the World in a Day	4.0
Helloween Helloween EP	4.0
Fates Warning The Spectre Within	4.0
Uriah Heep Equator	1.0

1984
Foreigner Agent Provocateur	2.5
U2 The Unforgettable Fire	3.5
Iron Maiden Powerslave	5.0
Metallica Ride the Lightning	5.0
Dio The Last in Line	4.5
Prince Purple Rain	5.0
Rush Grace Under Pressure	4.0
King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair	4.5
Europe Wings of Tomorrow	4.0
Anthrax Fistful of Metal	3.5
Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith	4.0
Diana Ross Swept Away	3.0
ITS ALL IN YOUR HEADrITS ALL IN YOUR HEAD rITS ALL IN YOUR HEADrITS ALL IN YOUR HEADrMake Your Move....
Queensryche The Warning	4.0
R.E.M. Reckoning	4.5
Black Flag My War	3.5

1983
Accept Balls to the Wall	4.0
Slayer Show No Mercy	3.5
Genesis Genesis	2.5
Queensryche Queensryche EP	3.5
AC/DC Flick Of The Switch	3.5
Black Sabbath Born Again	3.0
Metallica Kill 'Em All	4.5
Pantera Metal Magic	1.0
Dio Holy Diver	5.0
This is a soft 5 if there ever was one. I've probably overplayed early Dio enough to fall asleep to the very tone of his glorious vocals. The cross-effect of that is whenever some band goes for a poppy take on 80s hard-rock it will always seem like a poor man's Dio.
Iron Maiden Piece of Mind	4.0
New Order Power, Corruption and Lies	4.0
Pink Floyd The Final Cut	3.0
U2 War	4.0
R.E.M. Murmur	4.5
Bad Religion Into the Unknown	4.0
DUN DUN DUN DUH DUN DUN DUH ITS ONLY OVER WHEN YOU GIVE UP!rGreat album that shouldn't exist. Sounds better production wise than many later BR albums. I'd hate to be in the punk scene in the early 80s to have this be considered a black sheep.
Asia Alpha	3.0
Rainbow Bent Out of Shape	2.0

1982
Michael Jackson Thriller	5.0
Prince 1999	5.0
Accept Restless and Wild	4.5
Rush Signals	5.0
Subdivisions is one of the few songs that on my first listen, I pressed repeat...8 times. Simple lyrics about non-conformity come alive with a deeper and more illustrated meaning for every repeated listen. Little metaphors become crystal clear, and that polarizing synth intro and segments become the paint brush setting the mood. I don't know if this was simply a epiphany but the euphoria this album creates is unlike any song to ever get a single on the radio. I was in my junior year of high school, and I felt like I could really see my place from an extraneous perspective, where my first years alive met with my future, and a premonition for my time in school, a mix of great and awful, was soon going to be over. Technically its crazy how well the 4/4 to 7/4 shifts are on the ears. So this blog about subjective musical experiences finally continues on. Other tracks continue the vibe, but don't meet the sheer power of Subdivisions....But the rest of the album is solid
Bad Company Rough Diamonds	1.0
Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance	4.0
King Crimson Beat	3.5
Genesis Three Sides Live	3.0
Camel The Single Factor	3.0
Van Halen Diver Down	3.0
Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast	4.5
Asia Asia	3.5
Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse?	4.5
Descendents Milo Goes to College	5.0
Wishbone Ash Twin Barrels Burning	4.0
Rainbow Straight Between the Eyes	2.5
Bad Brains Bad Brains	4.0

1981
Black Flag Damaged	4.0
AC/DC For Those About To Rock We Salute You	3.0
Black Sabbath Mob Rules	3.5
King Crimson Discipline	5.0
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Genesis Abacab	1.5
Iron Maiden Maiden Japan	3.0
Frank Zappa You Are What You Is	3.5
Foreigner 4	2.5
Frank Zappa Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar	4.0
Van Halen Fair Warning	4.0
Judas Priest Point of Entry	3.5
Rush Moving Pictures	5.0
Iron Maiden Killers	4.0
Descendents Fat	3.0
Soundtrack (Film) Heavy Metal	4.0

1980
Motorhead Ace of Spades	5.0
Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz	4.0
AC/DC Back In Black	3.5
Yes Drama	4.0
Joy Division Closer	4.5
Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell	4.0
Judas Priest British Steel	3.5
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	4.5
Genesis Duke	4.5
Van Halen Women and Children First	4.0
Rush Permanent Waves	4.0
Gentle Giant Civilian	2.0
Rainbow Difficult to Cure	2.5

1979
The Clash London Calling	4.0
Pink Floyd The Wall	3.5
Motorhead Bomber	4.0
Judas Priest Unleashed in the East	5.0
Foreigner Head Games	3.0
Michael Jackson Off the Wall	4.0
Rainbow Down To Earth	3.5
AC/DC Highway To Hell	4.0
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures	4.0
Motorhead Overkill	4.5
Van Halen Van Halen II	4.0
Bad Company Desolation Angels	2.5

1978
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Love Beach	1.5
Rush Hemispheres	4.5
Judas Priest Killing Machine	4.5
Black Sabbath Never Say Die!	3.5
Foreigner Double Vision	3.5
AC/DC Powerage	3.5
Rainbow Long Live Rock 'n' Roll	4.5
Genesis ...And Then There Were Three...	3.5
Frank Zappa Zappa In New York	4.5
Judas Priest Stained Class	4.5
Van Halen Van Halen	5.0
Yes Tormato	2.0

1977
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Works Volume 2	3.0
Genesis Seconds Out	3.0
Rush A Farewell to Kings	4.0
Judas Priest Sin After Sin	4.0
Supertramp Even In the Quietest Moments	3.5
AC/DC Let There Be Rock	5.0
Eschewed from most acclaim to due becoming more associated with repeat playings of Back In Black at bars and stadiums in the same fashion Zeppelin got the stigma of Dad Rock. Giving AC/DC a 5 is a tough sell to many. Bon Scott is much preferred as an singer, famous for hooks on Highway To Hell LP and High Voltage more than his singing between those albums, on their best releases such as Powerage and This. Whole Lotta Rosie, Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be, and especially the title track convey a melody and energy weakened by the time Brian came to sing.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Works Volume 1	3.5
Foreigner Foreigner	3.5
Bad Company Burnin' Sky	2.5
Television Marquee Moon	5.0
Pink Floyd Animals	5.0
Yes Going for the One	4.0
Eloy Ocean	4.5

1976
Genesis Wind & Wuthering	4.0
Bad Company Run With The Pack	2.5
Queen A Day at the Races	3.5
Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy	2.5
AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap	3.5
Wishbone Ash New England	4.0
Rainbow Rising	5.0
AC/DC High Voltage	4.5
Van der Graaf Generator Still Life	4.5
Rush 2112	4.5
A sprawling epic dominates this album with melodies which while not involving the listener, take them on a physical journey, think Yes no Genesis, this is no cautionary tale or emotional rollercoaster. The B side has good tunes which feel useless in comparison to Peart's purported title track.
Camel Moonmadness	5.0
Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny	5.0
Genesis A Trick of the Tail	4.5
Caravan Blind Dog at St. Dunstans	4.0

1975
AC/DC T.N.T.	4.0
Fripp and Eno Evening Star	5.0
Queen A Night at the Opera	5.0
Van der Graaf Generator Godbluff	5.0
Rush Caress of Steel	4.0
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	3.0
Gentle Giant Free Hand	5.0
Rainbow Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow	4.0
Black Sabbath Sabotage	4.5
King Crimson USA	4.5
Bad Company Straight Shooter	3.5
AC/DC High Voltage (Australia)	2.5
Rush Fly by Night	4.0
The title track's catchy tune can't quell how derivative this is. Some longer songs, hardly progressive in nature.
Eloy Power and the Passion	4.0

1974
Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway	5.0
One of the few double albums without bore. rIT is one of the few songs that's made me tear up on repeat listens.
Queen Sheer Heart Attack	4.0
King Crimson Red	4.0
Judas Priest Rocka Rolla	3.0
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Welcome Back To The Show That Never Ends	5.0
Wishbone Ash There's the Rub	4.0
Frank Zappa Apostrophe	4.5
King Crimson Starless and Bible Black	4.5
Queen Queen II	4.5
Bad Company Bad Company	4.5
Rush Rush	4.0
This may be Cream meets Led Zepp meets other early 70s contemporary rock artists but the playing is solid, the rip-off love songs are defeated by the outstanding playing o n "Working Man", an over-rated track which really deserves the claim.
Camel Mirage	4.5
Deep Purple Burn	4.0
Yes Relayer	4.5

1973
Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans	4.0
Gong Angel's Egg	4.0
Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath	4.5
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Brain Salad Surgery	4.5
Fripp and Eno No Pussyfooting	4.5
Genesis Selling England by the Pound	5.0
Caravan For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night	4.0
Gentle Giant In a Glass House	5.0
Genesis Live	4.5
Queen Queen	4.0
Yes Yessongs	5.0
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon	3.5
King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic	4.0
Bob Dylan Dylan	1.0

1972
Deep Purple Made in Japan	4.5
Deep Purple Machine Head	4.5
Genesis Foxtrot	5.0
Black Sabbath Vol. 4	4.0
Yes Close to the Edge	5.0
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Trilogy	4.0
Frank Zappa Waka/Jawaka	4.0
David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars	5.0
Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds	3.5
King Crimson Earthbound	2.5
Uriah Heep Demons and Wizards	4.5
Wishbone Ash Argus	5.0
Where do i even begin with the only Wishbone Ash album that ever received retroactive praise and press? Its a tough pill pill to swallow, and harder to find legally as this is the most overrated album from Rock and Roll's most undercredited band. Progressive, but not in a earnestly-defining fashion, Argus finds itself ahead of its time, inspiring dual guitar melodies and triumphic choruses akin to what Thrash would become in the early 90s.
Can Ege Bamyasi	4.5
Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick	5.0

1971
Yes Fragile	5.0
Genesis Nursery Cryme	4.0
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV	4.5
Pink Floyd Meddle	5.0
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Pictures at an Exhibition	4.0
Van der Graaf Generator Pawn Hearts	4.5
Wishbone Ash Pilgrimage	4.5
Deep Purple Fireball	4.0
Black Sabbath Master of Reality	5.0
Gentle Giant Acquiring the Taste	4.5
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Tarkus	4.5
Caravan In the Land of Grey and Pink	4.5
Yes The Yes Album	4.5
Jethro Tull Aqualung	4.5

1970
Van der Graaf Generator H to He, Who Am the Only One	4.0
Wishbone Ash Wishbone Ash	4.5
King Crimson Lizard	5.0
Genesis Trespass	4.0
Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother	4.0
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer	4.5
Black Sabbath Paranoid	4.0
Yes Time and a Word	3.5
Bob Dylan Self-Portrait	2.0
Deep Purple Deep Purple In Rock	5.0
King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon	4.5
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	5.0
Van der Graaf Generator The Least We Can Do Is Wave to...	3.5
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Lick My Decals Off, Baby	4.0

1969
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King	4.5
Van der Graaf Generator The Aerosol Grey Machine	2.5
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica	4.5
Pink Floyd More	2.5
Genesis From Genesis to Revelation	3.0
Yes Yes	3.0
Can Monster Movie	4.0
Frank Zappa Hot Rats	5.0

1968
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland	4.0
Caravan Caravan	4.0

1967
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love	4.5
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Safe As Milk	3.5
Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn	4.5
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced	5.0

1966
Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde	5.0
John Coltrane Ascension	4.5

1965
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited	4.0
Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home	5.0
John Coltrane A Love Supreme	5.0

1964
Bob Dylan Another Side of Bob Dylan	4.0
Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin'	5.0

1963
Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	4.0

1962
Bob Dylan Bob Dylan	3.0

1824
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125	5.0
Stupid rich asshole makes all this money, doesn't go on tour at all, and then claims he did it all while deaf. Bitch you'd be deaf just hearing how much your fans hate your greedy ways. I bet all this compilation albums you sign your name on will continue, you'll die, and no one will notice at all. The fuck man.

Unknown
Asia Rare (Soundtrack)	1.0

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