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2008
Simple Plan Simple Plan1.0
2007
Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between5.0
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold4.0
Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow3.5
A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide4.0
Nightwish Dark Passion Play3.0
Dethklok The Dethalbum 3.5
Yellowcard Paper Walls2.5
Reel Big Fish Monkeys for Nothin' and The Chimps...2.5
Bad Religion New Maps of Hell4.5
Tiger Army Music From Regions Beyond5.0
Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long4.0
Good Charlotte Good Morning Revival2.0
Big D and the Kids Table Strictly Rude4.0
Alkaline Trio Remains4.5

2006
Evanescence The Open Door2.5
Heavens Patent Pending5.0
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness3.5
Lordi The Arockalypse3.5
Rob Zombie Educated Horses4.0
From First to Last Heroine3.5
Streetlight Manifesto Keasbey Nights3.5
2005
System of a Down Hypnotize5.0
Green Day Bullet In A Bible1.0
Thrice Vheissu4.0
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness4.5
Hard-Fi Stars Of CCTV4.0
Haste the Day When Everything Falls3.0
The Offspring Greatest Hits3.0
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil3.5
Alesana Try This With Your Eyes Closed3.0
Alkaline Trio Crimson4.5
System of a Down Mezmerize4.5
Reel Big Fish We're Not Happy 'Till You're Not Happy4.0

2004
Arkona (RUS) Lepta4.0
Turisas Battle Metal4.0
The Clash London Calling: Legacy Edition2.0
Nightwish Once3.0
Good Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and Death2.5
Green Day American Idiot4.5
Flogging Molly Within a Mile of Home3.0
Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture3.5
From First to Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count4.5
Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First5.0
The Matches E. Von Dahl Killed the Locals3.0

2003
The Offspring Splinter4.5
Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation3.5
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 33.5
Rob Zombie Past, Present & Future3.5
Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen3.5
Dashboard Confessional A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar4.0
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance4.5
Eve 6 It's All In Your Head5.0
Eve 6 had an amazing run as a band. While many claim they faltered in their last album before breaking up in 2005, I personally think it’s just in their heads. Their third album is more than amazing. True, it is not as hard an album as Horrorscope and Eve 6. However, the diversity in the topics and styles presented more than makes up for that.
Hey Montana is a rather slow sad song, with no drums. Still Here Waiting is a fast-paced, almost punkish song about, well, waiting. Hokis, the hardest song on the album, is almost a headbanging song. Bring the Night On lyrically sounds quite a bit like rap; it is quite clever and unique.
Overall, It’s All In Your Head will get in your head in a big way. With one of the greatest rock songwriters of recent times behind it, there can be no doubt that an appreciator of good music can find something to enjoy here.
Recommended Tracks: Hokis, Bring the Night On, Good Lives.
From First to Last Aesthetic2.5
Less Than Jake Anthem4.0
Evanescence Fallen3.5
DragonForce Valley of the Damned4.0
The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk3.0
Minor Threat First Demo Tape3.5
Yellowcard Ocean Avenue4.0
Ska-P Que Corra La Voz4.5
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb5.0
Alkaline Trio Good Mourning5.0

2002
My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love4.5
Green Day Shenanigans1.0
Reel Big Fish Cheer Up!3.5
Maroon 5 Songs About Jane4.5
Flogging Molly Drunken Lullabies3.0
Bad Religion The Process of Belief4.0
Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless3.5
Nightwish Century Child4.0

2001
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms3.5
Green Day International Superhits2.5
System of a Down Toxicity4.0
The Damned Grave Disorder4.5
Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet4.0
Rise Against The Unraveling4.0
The Unraveling is the first work by the now widely-known rock band Rise Against. Luckily for music fans, this album’s title is not at all an indicator of its quality. Here the listener can hear the beginnings of the Rise Against sound that has become rather popular in the punk world today. Alternating between melancholic and empowering, the message of “soldiering on” that Rise Against has popularized in its later works began with this album. This is also their hardest album; it has a sound much more akin to hardcore punk albums then it does to the pop/acoustic sounds of Swing Life Away.
The album covers a variety of topics, from love to the state of the world to religion. The stand-out song from the album, Gethsemane, is a perfect close to the album, with a catchy tune and very interpretable lyrics. (With arms raised to the stars begging them to listen…with scars cut from these olive branches…tonight we give in to temptation). Either a love song or a song about Jesus’ final betrayal, it’s up to the listener to decide.
Ultimately, the complex lyrics and catchy, pounding tunes of Rise Against have earned a wide following. Seeing where it all began and uncovering the inception just takes a little unraveling.
Recommended Tracks: Gethsemane, Everchanging, Stained Glass and Marble.
Dashboard Confessional The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most2.5
2000
Catch 22 Alone in a Crowd5.0
Green Day Warning5.0
Good Charlotte Good Charlotte2.0
Alkaline Trio Alkaline Trio3.5
Alkaline Trio Maybe I'll Catch Fire4.0
Alkaline Trio’s sophomore full-length album, Maybe I’ll Catch Fire, marks a strong departure from their previous works in Goddamnit! Much of the latter contained lyrics mostly dealing with the dark side of life, with a dark edge to it but had lighter melodies and long riffs with no vocals. In MICF, the dark side has almost completely taken over in some ways. One song after another expresses self-loathing and hatred for unnamed persons and situations. It expresses a rather murderous thirst for vengeance and violence, such as seen in the fifth track, Sleepyhead (Hey there sleepy smile/I see you brought your bedroom eyes/ I’m assuming you want to keep ‘em/ I’m assuming you reckon you won’t). While still highly witty and at times amusing, it is a much more angry album then their first effort. MICF is also more compact, with less of the long riffs very common in Goddamnit!
Overall, Alkaline Trio morphed their sound quite a bit between their first and second albums, but in the end there is still enough in common that fans of Goddamnit! will almost surely find something to enjoy.
Recommended Tracks: Sleepyhead, Maybe I’ll Catch Fire, Radio
Eve 6 Horrorscope4.5

1998
The Offspring Americana4.0
Alkaline Trio Goddamnit4.5
Less Than Jake Hello Rockview4.5
Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe4.0
System of a Down System of a Down4.0
Catch 22 Keasbey Nights5.0
Reel Big Fish Why Do They Rock So Hard?4.0
Eve 6 Eve 64.5

1997
Green Day Nimrod3.5
Mad Caddies Quality Soft Core4.0

1996
Reel Big Fish Turn the Radio Off2.5
Good Riddance A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion4.5
Less Than Jake Losing Streak4.0

1995
Green Day Insomniac4.0
Misfits Collection II3.0

1994
The Offspring Smash3.5
Green Day Dookie3.0
Less Than Jake Pezcore3.5

1993
Nirvana In Utero4.0

1992
Bad Religion Generator3.0
The Offspring Ignition3.0

1991
Green Day Kerplunk3.5
Nirvana Nevermind4.0
Green Day 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours4.0
1990
Bad Religion Against the Grain5.0
Minor Threat Complete Discography4.5

1989
Nirvana Bleach3.5
Bad Religion No Control5.0

1988
Bad Religion Suffer4.0

1983
Minor Threat Out of Step4.0
Bad Brains Rock For Light4.5

1982
Bad Brains Bad Brains4.5

1981
Minor Threat In My Eyes4.0
Minor Threat Minor Threat4.5
1979
The Clash London Calling5.0

1977
Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols3.0

1973
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon3.0
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