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2015
Jeff Rosenstock We Cool?	4.0
Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase.	4.5

2014
The Smith Street Band Throw Me in the River	5.0
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2	4.5
Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You	3.5
Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were	4.5
Two fives in one year. Fuck it, I don't care anymore. Ugh.
Caribou Our Love	4.0
Yellowcard Lift a Sail	3.0
Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End	3.5
Gerard Way Hesitant Alien	3.5
alt-J This Is All Yours	3.0
Royal Blood Royal Blood	3.0
Prawn Kingfisher	4.0
The Gaslight Anthem Get Hurt	3.0
I first heard The 59 Sound in high school, back when I was incredibly impressionable, growing out of the shitty "middle-school-music" phase (Linkin Park, Korn, Disturbed, etc). It, along with the Gaslight Anthem, became one of my absolute favorites, always wanting to drive around, late on a summer night with the windows down, jamming to "The Patient Ferris Wheel". When Handwritten came out, I wanted to love it, and I did, for a bit. Now I can't listen to any of it, save maybe "45". I was excited to see what Get Hurt would do for the band, maybe Fallon and Co would reach a sound we didn't think they were capable of. The results ended up flat and disappointing. Still a decent album, but I don't think I'll ever get that same feeling from a new Gaslight song as I did when I first heard that record scratching on "Great Expectations".
Spoon They Want My Soul	4.0
Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again	4.0
You Blew It! You Blue It	2.5
'68 In Humor and Sadness	3.0
Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties We Don't Have Each Other	4.0
White Lung Deep Fantasy	3.5
The Antlers Familiars	3.0
The Front Bottoms Rose	3.5
Say Anything Hebrews	3.5
Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon	2.0
Sharon Van Etten Are We There	4.0
Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool	4.0
Swans To Be Kind	3.0
AJJ Christmas Island	4.0
The Menzingers Rented World	4.0
Trophy Scars Holy Vacants	4.5
Todd Terje It's Album Time	3.5
Manchester Orchestra Cope	3.0
Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else	4.0
Chevelle La Gárgola	2.5
Chevelle has never been a band that has impressed me. That doesn't change here.
The Hold Steady Teeth Dreams	4.5
After Franz Nicolay left the band, the Hold Steady tripped up a bit. Despite it holding their best song (Hurricane J), Heaven is Whenever seemed to fall a bit flat. However, they have finally found their footing. Teeth Dreams is a step in a different direction, but it's a step in a good direction.r
Fireworks Oh, Common Life	3.0
Taking Back Sunday Happiness Is	3.0
The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There	4.5
St. Vincent St. Vincent	3.5
Sun Kil Moon Benji	4.5
I wrote a song to explain my soundoff. "I started to listen to the new Sun Kil Moon album and thought it was really gooooooood, thought it was really good, really good, really good. / I thought the lyrics were a little bit bad, but eventually learned to enjoy them for the story instead of the subtleties, instead of the suuuuuuutleties / Overall I think it's a pretty good album and I think I'll rate it pretty high because I personally think it's their best since Ghosts of the Great Highway, but that's just my opinion" What'd'ya think, guys, am I the new Kozelek?
Modern Baseball You’re Gonna Miss It All	4.0
Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World	4.0
Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues	3.5
You Blew It! Keep Doing What You’re Doing	4.0

2013
Childish Gambino Because the Internet	3.5
Foxing The Albatross	4.0
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2	3.5
Upon further listens, the only thing to weigh down the excellence are the singles. Tracks like Berzerk, The Monster, and Survival only do the album harm. An otherwise excellent album; his best since The Eminem Show.
Arcade Fire Reflektor	3.5
Friendzone DX	4.0
The Dismemberment Plan Uncanney Valley	2.0
Tim Hecker Virgins	3.5
Danny Brown Old	4.5
Lorde Pure Heroine	4.0
Touche Amore Is Survived By	4.5
Drake Nothing Was the Same	2.5
Janelle Monae The Electric Lady	4.0
Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing	3.0
Arctic Monkeys AM	4.0
Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King	2.0
The Dodos Carrier	4.0
Franz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action	3.5
King Krule 6 Feet Beneath the Moon	3.5
Blue October Sway	3.0
Earl Sweatshirt Doris	3.0
The Smith Street Band Don't Fuck With Our Dreams	4.5
Hands Like Houses Unimagine	3.5
Defeater Letters Home	2.5
letlive. The Blackest Beautiful	4.0
A Great Big Pile of Leaves You're Always on My Mind	3.5
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels	4.0
Palms Palms	3.0
August Burns Red Rescue & Restore	3.5
Falling in Reverse Fashionably Late	1.5
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever	4.5
Kanye West Yeezus	4.0
Jesus died for our sins, and Yeezus came back as all seven incarnate.
Sigur Ros Kveikur	4.5
Deafheaven Sunbather	4.5
Citizen Youth	4.0
Black Sabbath 13	3.0
Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest	3.5
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork	3.5
Baths Obsidian	3.0
Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here	3.5
Dark Tranquillity Construct	3.0
Have Mercy (Indie) The Earth Pushed Back	4.0
The Front Bottoms Talon of the Hawk	4.0
The National Trouble Will Find Me	4.5
Sorry I hurt you, but they say love is a virtue, don't they?
Daft Punk Random Access Memories	3.5
Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City	4.0
The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation	5.0
I'm sorry I don't "five" at the right times.
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer	4.0
Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled	4.5
Chance the Rapper Acid Rap	4.0
Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve	4.5
Streetlight Manifesto prove that they can stay the same, try out something a little new, and still retain an incredibly solid sound. All around a wonderfully crafted album, pushing Thomas and the gang a little further on the tightrope of perfection.
Laura Stevenson Wheel	4.5
Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart	4.0
There's something about Frank Turner that just makes people happy. This album shows no differently. A great addition to a great discography.
will.i.am #Willpower	1.0
You know, I never thought will.i.am could make worse music. #killme
Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll	1.5
If Fall Out Boy is the rock equivalent of Jesus Christ, I might as well carve the satanic star into my stomach.
Iron And Wine Ghost on Ghost	2.5
Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze	3.5
Tyler, the Creator Wolf	3.0
The Dear Hunter Migrant	3.5
The Story So Far What You Don't See	4.0
Senses Fail Renacer	3.5
OneRepublic Native	3.0
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience	4.0
The Men New Moon	3.0
Soilwork The Living Infinite	4.0
Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)	4.0
Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun	4.0
Sadistik Flowers for My Father	4.0
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension	3.0
Coheed and Cambria make a Coheed and Cambria album. That sounds a lot like Coheed and Cambria. Too bad I'm burnt out on Coheed and Cambria.
Silverstein This Is How the Wind Shifts	4.0
Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse	4.0
My Bloody Valentine m b v	3.5
TTNG 13.0.0.0.0	3.5
Touche Amore/Pianos Become the Teeth Split	3.5
Twenty One Pilots Vessel	3.0

2012
Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One	4.5
blink-182 Dogs Eating Dogs	3.5
Yeah, it sounds like Neighborhoods. But I liked Neighborhoods.
Modern Baseball Sports	4.5
Soundgarden King Animal	4.0
Deftones Koi No Yokan	4.5
Although this album rode in on a hype train and was generally disliked because of it, it still manages to be one of the Deftones' best. Deftones can create an atmosphere that hangs over their album like no other band. We saw it with White Pony, Diamond Eyes and now again with Koi No Yokan. Chino's vocals and mixed with the combination of both metal and soft alt-rock is something only a band like Deftones can pull off, and there aren't any other bands like Deftones. Although it's no White Pony, it still stands alongside Diamond Eyes and far above any other Deftones release thus far. Brilliantly put together and atmospheric, Deftones do it again.
Green Day iDOS!	1.0
Titus Andronicus Local Business	4.0
It's no Monitor, but if we're being honest here, nothing is. Titus Andronicus really can't do anything wrong, even when they change what they sound like (at least a little bit) they still maintain a nice, solid sound. Took a couple of listens, but this really is an amazing album.
Jeff Rosenstock I Look Like Shit	4.0
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city	5.0
From start to finish a triumph, not just for rap, but for music in general. Kendrick shows the world what he's made of, and along the way, isn't afraid to be himself, breaking from the generic "fuck bitches get money" song content and building a world full of wonderful story telling and excellent music.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!	4.0
Anberlin Vital	4.5
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind	4.0
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension	3.5
Tame Impala Lonerism	3.5
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist	3.5
Unfortunately a late listen for me. Should be a part of all end of the lists.
The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth	4.0
Death Grips No Love Deep Web	1.5
I'll openly admit that I don't get Death Grips. If there really is anything to get.
Mumford and Sons Babel	2.0
Green Day ¡UNO!	1.5
Deer Leap Here. Home.	4.0
Animal Collective Centipede Hz	2.5
Two Door Cinema Club Beacon	3.0
Propagandhi Failed States	4.0
Circa Survive Violent Waves	4.0
The Chariot One Wing	3.5
Katatonia Dead End Kings	4.0
Swans The Seer	4.0
The Smith Street Band Sunshine and Technology	4.5
Yellowcard Southern Air	4.0
Cloudkicker Fade	4.0
Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering	2.5
The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten	3.5
With the Gaslight Anthem as well as Brian Fallon's voice, it's the imperfections that make their music perfect. With Handwritten, it's the perfections that make it perfect.
The Antlers Undersea	3.5
Om Advaitic Songs	3.0
Frank Ocean channel ORANGE	4.0
Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan	2.5
Aesop Rock Skelethon	3.0
DIIV Oshin	3.5
Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel...	3.5
The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now	4.0
Rush Clockwork Angels	4.0
Future of the Left The Plot Against Common Sense	3.0
Japandroids Celebration Rock	4.5
I don't really care if I'm supposed to rate things subjectively or not on this site, but this one, I really can't. Although it's not perfect in the sense that 'The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me' and 'White Pony' are perfect, it still seems almost flawless in my heart. The music is simple and the lyrics are cheesy, but that's what makes the Japandroids so good. I recently saw them at a small venue here in Denver, and they even admitted to having easy songs to sing along to. The complexity of the lyrics isn't what matters though, deep, meaningful lyrics aren't what makes an album stick with a person. I believe it was Hemingway who once said in response to Faulkner "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?" Japandroids sing about going out, getting drunk, and having a damn good time, not caring about anything but the night ahead and the friends by your side. Complex or not, Japandroids will always know how to bring forth a sense of nostalgia in us all.
Regina Spektor What We Saw from the Cheap Seats	3.0
alt-J An Awesome Wave	4.0
El-P Cancer 4 Cure	4.0
Dope Body Natural History	3.5
mewithoutYou Ten Stories	4.0
Killer Mike R.A.P. Music	4.5
Hot Water Music Exister	3.5
Ghost Mice All We Got Is Each Other	3.5
Jack White Blunderbuss	2.5
Torche Harmonicraft	2.5
Death Grips The Money Store	2.0
You Blew It! Grow Up, Dude	4.5
Anathema Weather Systems	4.0
The Mars Volta Noctourniquet	3.5
Janus Nox Aeris	4.0
Say Anything Anarchy, My Dear	3.5
Max: just because you called a song "Admit It Again" doesn't make this anything like ...Is a Real Boy. This could have been so much better.
The Menzingers On the Impossible Past	5.0
The Fray Scars and Stories	2.0
Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory	3.5

2011
The Weeknd Echoes of Silence	4.5
Two words: holy shit. Although, I'll have to put more because sputnik won't let the sound-off be shorter than however many characters.
Korn The Path of Totality	1.0
The Black Keys El Camino	3.5
Childish Gambino Camp	3.5
Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After	4.5
Florence and the Machine Ceremonials	4.0
M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming	4.0
This shit. Seriously, this fucking shit. God damn.
Five Finger Death Punch American Capitalist	3.5
I Am the Avalanche Avalanche United	3.5
La Dispute Wildlife	4.0
blink-182 Neighborhoods	3.5
Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning	4.5
If Steven Wilson isn't considered a God among men on this planet, I don't want to live here anymore.
AJJ Knife Man	4.5
Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal	4.0
Yeah, basically every song sounds the same, but at least that one song is really, really good.
The Jezabels Prisoner	3.0
St. Vincent Strange Mercy	4.0
Deer Leap/The World Is A Beautiful Place... Are Here To Help You	4.5
Thrice Major/Minor	4.0
The Front Bottoms The Front Bottoms	4.5
Sleeper Agent Celabrasion	3.0
The Weeknd Thursday	4.0
Blue October Any Man in America	4.0
There are few bands out there that truly make me smile whenever I listen to them. Blue October, from their start, have been fantastic, and this album, is their best effort yet. Sure, it's not perfect, I would much rather have the rap section taken out of the title track, but that doesn't take away from the album as a whole. The concept is, although sad, still beautiful. From start to finish, I didn't find a dull moment; they experiment with their sound with every song, and never really fail at finding something that doesn't work. I truly hope Blue October grows from this album, and all their future releases are even better. The best album of 2011 so far, and it's close to the end of the year, so maybe even the best.
Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation	5.0
Best opener to an album ever. Best closer to an album ever. Best album ever.
Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead	4.5
Ah screw it, this little EP deserves it. Wonderful inside and out, the first piece by Trophy Scars I listened to, and it got me hooked. What can I say, the audio clip in "Angels" that they took from Lost, gets me every time.
Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors	4.0
Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When?	2.5
Basement I Wish I Could Stay Here	3.5
The Smith Street Band No One Gets Lost Anymore	4.5
Kendrick Lamar Section.80	4.0
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver	4.0
Lmfao Sorry For Party Rocking	1.5
The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt	4.5
The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing	5.0
Unless it's about a girl, you usually don't get this brutally honest with pop punk. Suburbia sets The Wonder Years apart from their compatriots with lyrics that hit like a train and music to match.
The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection)	4.0
Easily the most ambitious album of 2011, and one of the most ambitious albums ever. Brilliant.
Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me	4.0
Fucked Up David Comes to Life	3.5
Skrillex More Monsters and Sprites	2.5
All Time Low Dirty Work	1.0
Frank Turner England Keep My Bones	4.5
In England talk, a brilliant album beginning to end, not quite Love, Ire and Song, but it's so close it's almost too good.
Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire	3.5
Fireworks Gospel	3.5
Dot Dot Curve I'm Still Here	1.0
The Antlers Burst Apart	3.5
Manchester Orchestra Simple Math	4.0
This is the number one album of 2011 so far, and probably end up taking the number one spot at the end of the year.
Tyler, the Creator Goblin	3.0
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues	4.0
dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy	1.5
You know, I never thought dredg was as good as everyone on this site said they were. I thought they were good, but not that good. Let it be that I didn't love the band, I still didn't think they could make something this bad. This is just...bad.
Laura Stevenson Sit Resist	4.5
Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care	2.5
Thursday No Devolucion	4.0
letlive. Fake History (Re-Release)	4.5
Foo Fighters Wasting Light	4.5
Hyro The Hero Birth, School, Work, Death	4.0
Sum 41 Screaming Bloody Murder	1.5
Swarms Old Raves End	4.5
Yellowcard When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes	4.5
Oh Yellowcard, you can't make bad music, can you? Oh well, we'll just ignore those first few albums, yeah? Sounds good.
Protest the Hero Scurrilous	3.0
The Strokes Angles	3.0
CunninLynguists Oneirology	4.0
Panic! at the Disco Vices & Virtues	3.0
The Weeknd House of Balloons	4.5
Why did it take me so long to listen to this album? Holy shit, this is so good. God damn, seriously. Fuck.
Rise Against Endgame	4.0
Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon	3.0
Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights	4.0
I love concept albums. I grew up with them, and I'll be listening to them until the day I die. This concept, although I'm still figuring the lyrics out, is amazing. I never thought a hardcore band could produce something this amazing. Travels was great and I honestly never thought that they could do anything better, but Empty Days and Sleepless Nights proves that Defeater is the new king of hardcore. A truly awe-inspiring album.
Scale the Summit The Collective	3.5
Dropkick Murphys Going Out In Style	3.5
Eisley The Valley	4.0
Until Your Heart Stops Errors	3.5
Radiohead The King of Limbs	3.5
Really good, not their best (obviously). I was expecting a lot more, but the album was just a little too short for me.
Glassjaw Coloring Book	4.0
Defeater Dear Father	2.5
Cut Copy Zonoscope	2.5
James Blake James Blake	4.0
Onry Ozzborn Hold On for Dear Life	4.0
Destroyer Kaputt	4.0
A surprisingly good album. I didn't really think anything in 2011 would be this good, this early, but this (and Defeater) proved me wrong. A superb album.
The Decemberists The King Is Dead	3.5
Lil B Angels Exodus	1.5
Childish Gambino EP	3.5
Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles)	3.5

2010
Gorillaz The Fall	2.0
Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession	4.0
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	4.5
Kanye West is an asshole. He is an egotistical, self worshiping, self centered shit. And I fucking love it. What West created with 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' is awe inspiring. No longer is he relying on catchy hooks and poppy auto-tuned lyrics. He's actually focusing on what really counts, the passion behind the music. If all Kanye had to do is disrespect someone to make this good of an album, I want fists flying at the next MTV awards.
My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys	3.5
I'm honestly not sure what this site has against this album. It's catchy and awesome. It's up there with 'The Black Parade'.
The Black Eyed Peas The Beginning	1.0
Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell	4.0
Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites	3.0
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz	4.0
Mae (e)vening	3.0
Deerhunter Halcyon Digest	3.5
No Age Everything In Between	3.5
How to Dress Well Love Remains	2.5
Cloudkicker Beacons	4.0
Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up	3.0
Linkin Park A Thousand Suns	1.0
Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place	4.0
The Contortionist Exoplanet	3.0
Disturbed Asylum	2.0
Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People	3.5
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Formlessness	3.0
Arcade Fire The Suburbs	3.5
Korn Korn III: Remember Who You Are	1.0
M.I.A. Maya	2.0
Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot	3.5
3OH!3 Streets of Gold	1.0
Eminem Recovery	3.5
The Gaslight Anthem American Slang	4.0
Attack Attack! Attack Attack!	1.0
Skrillex My Name Is Skrillex	2.5
(The) Slowest Runner (In All The World) We, Burning Giraffes	4.0
Jack Johnson To the Sea	3.0
The Glitch Mob Drink the Sea	3.0
Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid	4.0
LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening	4.0
The National High Violet	5.0
The National doesn't fuck around when it comes to making good music.
Deftones Diamond Eyes	4.5
There just seems to be something about Deftones. No band (that I've seen) has been able to change their sound this much and still remain at the top of their game with every single album release thus far. Defying any sort of genre, Deftones create their own world made up of their own music, using their god given talent for the good of all mankind.
The Hold Steady Heaven Is Whenever	4.0
Dark Time Sunshine Vessel	3.0
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise	4.0
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt	4.5
I've started listening to this album more and more. And the more I listen to it, the better it gets. Obviously the best of 2010 and could walk away with a top spot in the best of decade. It may be very far off, but I still look forward to this tall man's other releases, knowing they will only get better as time goes on.
letlive. Fake History	4.5
Probably the best post-hardcore album I've heard. Can't get enough.
Earl Sweatshirt EARL	3.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis	3.5
Flobots Survival Story	2.0
Streetlight Manifesto 99 Songs of Revolution: Volume I	3.5
Immolation Majesty and Decay	3.0
Titus Andronicus The Monitor	5.0
Why is it that this album is so good? I mean, the vocals aren't anything to write home about, in fact, they could be considered somewhat bad. The production value is a little less than average, and sometimes, the songs just sound like noise. It's bands like Titus Andronicus that make me look for a brighter future in a musical present filled with shitty pop and dubstep. It's nice to know that a band can still pull off something completely original and unique and still get critical praise for such a thing. Sure, they may not be popular, they may not be played on the radio, but they still pull off being recognized by all the major music sites and magazines as one of the best albums of 2010 and one of the best albums of all time (for me at least.) Titus Andronicus makes the future of music a little less "wubby" and I'm perfectly okay with that.
Gorillaz Plastic Beach	4.0
With this album, the good songs are fantastic and the bad songs are shit. Let's just be glad the good outweighs the bad.
Daughters Daughters	2.5
Four Year Strong Enemy of the World	4.0
Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History	4.0
Everyone Everywhere Everyone Everywhere	4.0
Fang Island Fang Island	3.5
Peter Gabriel Scratch My Back	3.5
Bomb the Music Industry! Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!!	4.5
Just as good as a full release, solid and fun, if a bit short.
The Wonder Years The Upsides	4.5
Motion City Soundtrack My Dinosaur Life	3.5
Vampire Weekend Contra	3.5
Dangers Messy, Isn't It?	3.5
More Than Life Love Let Me Go	3.5

2009
Tyler, the Creator Bastard	4.0
La Dispute Here, Hear. III	3.5
Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War	3.5
Defeater Lost Ground	4.5
Say Anything Say Anything	4.5
So this may be Say Anything's weakest album to date, but that doesn't mean it can't be one of the greatest albums out there. I'm going to say this again, but there really isn't another person who is as great of a lyricist as Max Bemis. Every song is rich with speech and fluency. Truly an amazing album.
We Came As Romans To Plant a Seed	2.5
Weezer Raditude	1.5
Train Save Me San Francisco	1.5
Thrice Beggars	4.0
Bowling for Soup Sorry for Partyin'	2.5
HORSE the band Desperate Living	2.0
Just what in the fuck is this horse-(the band)-shit?
Mumford and Sons Sigh No More	3.5
Converge Axe to Fall	4.0
Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony	2.0
AFI Crash Love	3.5
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward	4.5
Three Days Grace Life Starts Now	2.0
Brand New Daisy	4.0
Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name	2.5
Dizzee Rascal Tongue N' Cheek	2.0
Porcupine Tree The Incident	3.5
Pearl Jam Backspacer	2.5
Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream	1.0
Muse The Resistance	2.5
Jay-Z The Blueprint 3	1.5
Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II	4.0
AJJ Can't Maintain	4.0
Freelance Whales Weathervanes	3.5
Insane Clown Posse Bang! Pow! Boom!	1.0
Tigers on Trains Grandfather	4.5
Superb to the last chord, "A Year in the Garden Shed" is one of the greatest songs I've ever heard. Fantastic beginning to end.
Collective Soul Rabbit	3.0
Skillet Awake	2.5
Arctic Monkeys Humbug	3.0
Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next	3.5
Daughtry Leave This Town	1.5
All Time Low Nothing Personal	1.0
Lmfao Party Rock	1.5
Florence and the Machine Lungs	4.0
Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride	3.5
Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse	4.0
Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals	3.5
Meese Broadcast	3.0
Regina Spektor Far	2.5
Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca	3.0
dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion	3.5
The Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)	1.0
There is not a single band in the world that I grew to hate more than the Black Eyed Peas. When I was younger, they were awesome. "Pump It" and "Where is the Love" were some of my favorite songs, but as they got older, they started making pure, party music. Except this isn't the kind of party music that you can't listen to on your own, but party to at a dance; no, this album is literally pure shit. I would rather lay in my own fecal matter than listen to "Imma be, Imma be, Imma Imma Imma be" one more fucking time.
Taking Back Sunday New Again	3.5
311 Uplifter	2.5
Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix	4.0
mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright!	3.0
Eminem Relapse	1.5
You know what? I'll admit it, I liked Encore. Yeah, seriously. But this. This shit? What the actual fuck. Recovery was pretty decent, but this...jesus. I couldn't even finish the album. Sorry Em, you've disappointed me.
Green Day 21st Century Breakdown	2.0
Bomb the Music Industry! Others! Others! Volume 1	3.0
Japandroids Post-Nothing	4.0
Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing	4.0
Silversun Pickups Swoon	3.0
Single File Common Struggle	3.5
Flo Rida R.O.O.T.S.	1.0
Blue October Approaching Normal	3.5
The Decemberists The Hazards of Love	4.0
U2 No Line on the Horizon	2.0
The Antlers Hospice	4.5
Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles	4.5
Stay young, stay fun. Do the stuff that you like and get a little bit pumped. BtMI! shows the ska/punk world that they're the best of the underground.
The Fray The Fray	3.0
A Day To Remember Homesick	3.0
Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand	3.5
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion	4.5
What I love about Animal Collective is that they are so different. They're different from every other band out there, but they're also different every time they release an album. Sung Tongs and Strawberry Jam were a ton different from Feels and Merrriweather Post Pavilion is even stranger. This band doesn't ever fail to impress and this is the album that they shine on.
Grown Ups Songs	3.5

2008
The All-American Rejects When the World Comes Down	2.0
Steven Wilson Insurgentes	4.0
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak	2.0
Nickelback Dark Horse	1.0
La Dispute Here, Hear. II	3.5
Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly	1.0
La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair	5.0
I think I saw you in my sleep, darling. I think I saw you in my dreams you were stitching up the seams on every broken promise that your body couldn't keep. I think I saw you in my sleep. OH! I thought I heard the door open, OH NO! thought I heard the door open but I only heard it close. I thought I heard a plane, crashing. But now I think it was your passion snap-ing. I think you saw me, confronting my fear, it went up with the bottle and went down with the beer and. I think you outta stay away from here there are ghosts in the walls and they crawl in your head through your ears. I think I saw you in my sleep, LOVER, I think I saw you in my dreams you were stitching up the seams on every mangled promise that your body couldn't keep. I think I...saw you in my...dreams. (dum dum, da, duh duh da, duh duh dum dum, dah, duh duh dum da duh dum dum)
La Dispute Here, Hear.	3.5
Cynic Traced in Air	3.5
Lady Gaga The Fame	1.5
Rise Against Appeal to Reason	3.5
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's Not Animal.	3.5
Senses Fail Life Is Not a Waiting Room	3.5
Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God	2.5
Anberlin New Surrender	3.5
Innerpartysystem Innerpartysystem	3.0
Kings of Leon Only By The Night	3.0
Defeater Travels	4.5
Metallica Death Magnetic	2.5
Gym Class Heroes The Quilt	1.5
Deadmau5 Random Album Title	2.5
Hollywood Undead Swan Songs	2.5
Deerhunter Microcastle	3.5
The Reign of Kindo Rhythm, Chord & Melody	4.5
Other than the lack of an Oxford Comma in the album's title, this album is practically flawless.
The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound	5.0
I can hear the 59 sound coming through on grandmama's radio, and it's the best sound I've heard in a while.
The Hold Steady Stay Positive	4.5
3OH!3 Want	2.0
Tickle Me Pink Madeline	3.5
Cage The Elephant Cage the Elephant	3.5
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends	3.5
The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace	2.0
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes	4.0
Weezer The Red Album	2.0
Opeth Watershed	4.0
Disturbed Indestructible	3.0
No Age Nouns	2.5
Portishead Third	2.5
Blue Sky Black Death Late Night Cinema	3.5
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV	4.0
Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight	4.5
Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances	4.0
Cut Copy In Ghost Colours	3.5
Theory of a Deadman Scars and Souvenirs	2.0
Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song	5.0
Frank Turner can just make you feel good. Doesn't matter the mood you're in, sad, angry, depressed, you pop in Frank and he will turn(er) your frown upside down.
Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd.	2.5
Flo Rida Mail on Sunday	2.0
Snoop Dogg Ego Trippin'	2.0
The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave	3.5
Jack Johnson Sleep Through the Static	3.0
The Gaslight Anthem Señor and the Queen	4.0
The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life	4.0
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend	3.5
The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath	4.0
Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness	4.5
You Slut! Critical Meat	2.5

2007
Giraffes? Giraffes! More Skin With Milk-Mouth	3.5
Primordial To the Nameless Dead	4.0
Fantastic. Watch your back Agalloch, these guys might win the best black folk metal award.
Gorillaz D-Sides	2.5
Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between	4.5
Angels and Airwaves I-Empire	3.0
Burial Untrue	4.5
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold	2.5
Serj Tankian Elect the Dead	3.0
Say Anything In Defense of the Genre	4.5
Although this album isn't as good as ...Is a Real Boy, it's still fantastic. Max Bemis's lyrics still pierce the heart of angst-ridden teens everywhere, and I love it. The huge 27 song album is great from start to finish and never left me wishing there was more.
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II	4.0
Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light	3.0
Radiohead In Rainbows	4.0
The Wonder Years Get Stoked on It!	3.5
A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide	4.5
Oceansize Frames	4.5
Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace	3.0
All Time Low So Wrong, It's Right	1.5
Between the Buried and Me Colors	4.0
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam	4.0
Flobots Fight with Tools	3.5
AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People	4.5
Collective Soul Afterwords	3.5
Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I	4.5
When I first downloaded this album, I thought something had gone wrong. Why were there only two songs? that's ridiculous, that's a demo, not a fucking album. Then I noticed the length of these two songs, both over 25 minutes. I put off listening to this album for awhile (considering I never really had an hour to sit down and actually listen intently) but when I finally did I loved it. It's a very odd album, but every second is worth the listen.
M.I.A. Kala	3.5
Korn Untitled	1.5
Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer	3.5
Sum 41 Underclass Hero	1.5
Yellowcard Paper Walls	3.5
Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga	3.5
Interpol Our Love to Admire	3.5
The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist	2.0
Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics	4.0
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago	4.5
When I first put in For Emma, I didn't know what to expect. I had picked it up from the library and on my weekly run and recognized it from this site. I put it in and the minute "Re:Stacks" was over, this album became one of my favorites. I recently rediscovered it and bumped it up to a classic rating. Justin Vernon should go down in the history books as one of the greatest artists of our modern generation. Inspiring and quite, this album is a perfect fit for anyone.
Pharoahe Monch Desire	2.5
Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True	4.5
If there's one word I hate more than any word in the English language, it's "epic." I understand it being used to describe a poem, book or anything else that actually stands by the definition of "epic". This album stands by the definition. While not "epic" in length, the sure quality of it is absolutely fantastic. Although the lyrics rarely make any sense, I want to sing along with every song. The vocalist has such a great range it just helps the "epic-ness" of the album.
Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris	2.5
The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim	4.5
The National Boxer	5.0
The National knows love. The National knows heartbreak. The National knows music.
The Used Lies for the Liars	3.5
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight	1.5
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet	5.0
Okay Steven Wilson, we get it, you're basically a god among men. Go make more music please.
Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline	5.0
Eerily fantastic. This album has put me to sleep almost every night my brain just could handle all the bullshit of everyday life. If I was stressed, I would put this album on and just listen. The smooth, haunting sounds would eventually put me to sleep.
Kings of Leon Because Of The Times	2.0
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank	4.0
LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver	4.0
Arcade Fire Neon Bible	4.0
Eluvium Copia	4.0
Anberlin Cities	4.5
There's always something to be admired in a consistent band. Unless, of course, they're consistently bad. But that's not what Anberlin is, at all. With the recent release of their latest album, Vital, it made me go back and listen to everything they released again. They really knew what they were doing on every single album. Every single one was excellent. But then there are the ones like Cities (and I'm sure Vital will become this way after a couple more listens). The albums that, although don't break from the consistency the band worked so hard to achieve year after year, but only improves on it, making it not only an incredibly solid album, but and album that can be enjoyed for hours on end without break. From start to finish, Cities is wonderful. The chanting section in the middle of (Fin) is one of the most beautiful and spine chilling moments I've ever experienced in a song.
A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart	3.5
Frank Turner Sleep Is For The Week	4.0
3OH!3 3OH!3	1.0
Kings to You The Antidote	3.5

2006
Warning Watching from a Distance	3.0
Clipse Hell Hath No Fury	4.0
Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades	3.0
Daughtry Daughtry	2.5
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me	5.0
I'm not really sure if it's fair to call Brand New a pop punk band. At least, not with this album. Setting them apart from every band out there, The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me skyrocket Brand New into perfection.
Bowling for Soup The Great Burrito Extortion Case	3.0
Joanna Newsom Ys	3.0
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist	4.0
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade	4.0
The Blood Brothers Young Machetes	3.0
Senses Fail Still Searching	4.0
Skillet Comatose	3.5
The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America	5.0
Apparently, Craig Finn was a failed slam poet. I'm not necessarily sure why/how someone would tell them they're a failed slam poet, but he definitely proves them wrong with Boys and Girls.
The Decemberists The Crane Wife	4.5
When we arrive, sons and daughter, we'll make our homes, on the water. We'll build our homes, aluminum! We'll fill our mouths, with cinnamon, now.
Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child	3.5
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister	4.5
This album is truly inspiring. There aren't many albums that can do what this one did. It really helped me stay positive through life. This album came to me when I was down and right after everything turned itself around. My life just kept getting better and this album walked with me through all of it. Sure, it didn't help me through shit, but it helped me get even more out of life than I thought possible.
Weird Al Yankovic Straight Outta Lynwood	2.5
Fergie The Dutchess	1.5
Fear Before The Always Open Mouth	4.5
Audioslave Revelations	2.5
Grizzly Bear Yellow House	3.0
Alexisonfire Crisis	4.5
Now, people may say that Watch Out! is Alexisonfire's masterpiece, but for me, Crisis is just perfect. I've been digging this album hardcore for about a week now and every time I listen to it, I'm just more impressed than I was before. This Canadian band obviously has some major talent. One of the best, if not the best, post-hardcore album I have in my iTunes library.
Cursive Happy Hollow	3.0
Lamb of God Sacrament	3.0
Breaking Benjamin Phobia	3.0
Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain	4.0
Gym Class Heroes As Cruel As School Children	3.5
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It	2.5
Muse Black Holes & Revelations	3.5
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness	4.5
Underoath Define the Great Line	3.5
Three Days Grace One-X	3.5
AFI Decemberunderground	3.0
Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World!	4.0
Dangers Anger	4.0
Phoenix (FRA) It's Never Been Like That	4.0
Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper	3.0
Tool 10,000 Days	4.0
Blue October Foiled	4.0
La Dispute Vancouver	4.0
Streetlight Manifesto Keasbey Nights	4.0
The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta!	4.0
Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes	4.0
Yellowcard Lights and Sounds	3.5
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not	3.5
Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue	2.5

2005
Korn See You on the Other Side	3.0
System of a Down Hypnotize	3.5
Death From Above 1979 Romance Bloody Romance	2.5
Rosetta The Galilean Satellites	4.0
Animal Collective Feels	3.5
Thrice Vheissu	4.5
Everything about it is awesome. On of, if not THE, definitive post hardcore albums ever.
Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island	4.0
Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out	2.5
Bloodhound Gang Hefty Fine	1.5
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness	3.5
Bon Jovi Have a Nice Day	2.0
Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists	3.0
Oceansize Everyone Into Position	4.0
The Fray How to Save a Life	3.0
Sigur Ros Takk...	4.0
Between the Buried and Me Alaska	4.0
Protest the Hero Kezia	3.5
Death Cab for Cutie Plans	4.0
Opeth Ghost Reveries	4.5
Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie	3.0
Jack's Mannequin Everything in Transit	4.5
A Textbook Tragedy A Partial Dialogue Between Ghost and Pri	2.0
The All-American Rejects Move Along	3.0
Sufjan Stevens Illinois	4.5
The Offspring Greatest Hits	3.5
Dropkick Murphys The Warrior's Code	4.0
Foo Fighters In Your Honor	3.5
Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost	3.0
Dream Theater Octavarium	3.5
Coldplay X&Y	2.5
The Black Eyed Peas Monkey Business	2.0
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil	3.5
Motion City Soundtrack Commit This to Memory	4.0
Audioslave Out of Exile	3.0
Gorillaz Demon Days	3.5
M.I.A. Arular	3.0
System of a Down Mezmerize	3.5
In Pieces Lions Write History	4.0
The Hold Steady Separation Sunday	5.0
AJJ Candy Cigarettes and Cap Guns	4.0
The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse	4.0
Porcupine Tree Deadwing	4.5
Jaga Jazzist What We Must	4.5
The National Alligator	4.5
The Decemberists Picaresque	4.0
Jack Johnson In Between Dreams	4.0
Gym Class Heroes The Papercut Chronicles	4.0
Blackfield Blackfield	4.0
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute	4.0
Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal	4.0
Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band	4.0
Modern Life Is War Witness	4.5
Almost a five. Do I really have to say anything else?

2004
Eminem Encore	3.0
Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine	4.0
ISIS Panopticon	3.5
Cult of Luna Salvation	3.0
Jimmy Eat World Futures	3.0
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes	4.5
Pig Destroyer Terrifyer	3.5
The Blood Brothers Crimes	2.5
Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 1	3.5
Sum 41 Chuck	3.5
Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake	3.0
Converge You Fail Me	3.5
Green Day American Idiot	4.0
This album was my first album ever, it obviously has some special place in my heart. When I was in sixth grade, I played this album at least once every other day.
Bowling for Soup A Hangover You Don't Deserve	3.5
Arcade Fire Funeral	4.5
Fantastic. There's not much else I have to say about it. It's just that good.
Fear Before Art Damage	3.5
Senses Fail Let It Enfold You	3.5
Leftover Crack Fuсk World Trade	4.0
Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch	3.0
Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture	4.5
This is the best Rise Against album. Anyone who says otherwise obviously doesn't know what music is.
Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy	5.0
I have a lot of sound-offs. Mainly because when I first came to this site, I figured I'd put them on every single album I ever rated. Also because Sputnik won't let you remove them. All that aside, Id my shitty sound-off for this album and have decided to replace it with this. I like this album.
Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone	2.5
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge	3.5
Alexisonfire Watch Out!	4.0
Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News	4.5
The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me	4.0
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand	3.5
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo	4.5
From all the comments I've been seeing, you either love this album, or hate it. Personally, I understand the perspective of each standing, however, I have enjoyed this album from the minute I first heard it. The songs seem to get longer as the album goes on and as the songs get longer, the songs get better. This album wouldn't work without the emotion that Circle Takes the Square put into it. If the singing and playing was flat, this album wouldn't be anymore than a "good." But CTtS shows us that they have what it takes to be considered among the top emo bands.
Piglet lava land	3.0
Corrupted Se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesinos	3.0
Kanye West The College Dropout	3.5
Animal Collective Sung Tongs	4.0

2003
blink-182 Blink-182	4.5
I still remember when my mom wouldn't let me listen to blink because they were just too vulgar. Of course she heard this from a friend who heard from a friend whose son's friend's older brother listened to the stuff, but really. I was never really in to them until late, but I still remember seeing the look on my friend's face when he heard they were getting back together. I'm glad they did, but they will never make another album like this again. I won't lie, I do like the new "Box Car Blink" sound, but their self-titled was the epitome of amazing pop punk. It's interesting, being a late blink-bloomer, to see the change blink-182 went through over the years. Starting out as a generic punk band, they grew into pop punk, and as Tom DeLonge explored the more melodic side, the band ever grew (well, might I add) with him. Who would have thought the band that put farting and pissing noises into an album would end up making anything close to "I Miss You" and "I'm Lost Without You"?
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place	4.0
Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway	4.5
Fantasmigorical. Almost a five, (it was previously, but I bumped it down).
Against Me! As the Eternal Cowboy	4.0
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye	4.0
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow	3.0
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism	4.0
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3	4.0
Muse Absolution	4.0
Oceansize Effloresce	4.0
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step	3.5
The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers	3.5
Kings of Leon Youth and Young Manhood	1.5
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance	4.0
Three Days Grace Three Days Grace	3.5
Blue October History for Sale	4.5
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium	4.5
Fantastic prog rock. Really. I usually go for the Pink Floyd types, not really the Yes types, but this really stuck with me.
Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner	4.5
I really love this rap album. One of the best, could be a five, but it's not quite there.
Brand New Deja Entendu	4.5
Mew Frengers	4.0
Radiohead Hail to the Thief	3.5
Dropkick Murphys Blackout	4.0
Metallica St. Anger	1.5
Deftones Deftones	3.5
Jack Johnson On and On	3.5
Weird Al Yankovic Poodle Hat	2.5
Opeth Damnation	4.5
Imagine what Opeth created with Blackwater Park, now just tone down everything. Take is slower, don't growl as much (or at all) and you've got yourself Damnation. This album, like Blackwater Park, is perfect. It shows that even the heaviest of black metal bands can tone it down and still sound fantastic. Essential not just for progressive metal fans, but for music fans everywhere.
Rise Against Revolutions per Minute	4.0
Linkin Park Meteora	3.5
AFI Sing the Sorrow	4.0
Cursive The Ugly Organ	4.0
Cat Power You Are Free	3.0
The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn	3.0
The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk	2.5
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb	5.0
Thomas Kalnoky and the gang at their absolute best. Lyrically and musically perfect.
Yellowcard Ocean Avenue	4.5
Yeah, yeah, I know it's Sowing's thing, but seriously, this is a fantastic break-up album. I was listening to Yellowcard (and this album) for probably just as long as my relationship with this girl, and I put this album on (coincidentally) on the drive over to her house one night, where she promptly broke up with me. It was tough, but as soon as "Believe" came on, well, I knew that everything was going to be alright. I recently saw them at the Warped Tour in Denver, and "Ocean Avenue" and "Only One" finally clicked for me, unleashing my true feelings. This album, sure the songs may all sound kind of the same, sure, they may be all about breaking up, but there's so much emotion poured into each song, I can't help but love it. Yeah, I still miss that girl, her name was Heather, but I know that only time and Yellowcard will heal the wounds that cut so deep when we finally came to an end.
Fear Before Odd How People Shake	4.0

2002
Sum 41 Does This Look Infected?	3.0
System of a Down Steal This Album!	3.0
Audioslave Audioslave	3.5
Sigur Ros ( )	4.5
Foo Fighters One by One	3.0
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People	3.5
The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects	1.5
Porcupine Tree In Absentia	4.5
No, this is NOT Porcupine Tree's best album. Fear of a Blank Planet is Porcupine Tree's best album. This album is still genius however. I was the start of their new sound. Instead of more of a Floyd sound, their sound started getting heavier. I love both of the sounds, pre-Absentia and post-Absentia, and this album is right in the middle, making it just amazing.
Peter Gabriel Up	4.0
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head	3.0
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf	4.0
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute	4.5
After listening to some of the band's music on Youtube, I thought I wouldn't enjoy this album; I was so wrong. I started listening to it, and it immediately grew on me. I enjoy the hardcore sound. They pull it off well.
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights	3.5
Bowling for Soup Drunk Enough To Dance	2.5
My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love	3.0
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots	3.5
Reel Big Fish Cheer Up!	4.0
mewithoutYou A to B: Life	4.0
The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts	4.0
Eminem The Eminem Show	4.0
Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose	3.5
Blackalicious Blazing Arrow	4.5
Currently fighting for a five, it's one of the best rap albums I've heard.
Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends	4.5
dredg El Cielo	3.5
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes	3.5
Thrice The Illusion of Safety	4.0
Agalloch The Mantle	4.0
ISIS Oceanic	3.5
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade	4.0
Say Anything Menorah/Majora	3.5

2001
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map	4.0
The National The National	3.0
Thursday Full Collapse	3.5
Brand New Your Favorite Weapon	4.0
The Strokes Is This It	4.0
Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View	4.0
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot	4.0
Jay-Z The Blueprint	3.5
Nickelback Silver Side Up	2.0
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2	4.5
Converge Jane Doe	4.5
So much anger in such a small album. I love it. My favorite lyrics from the album: "a;kdslfa;oiexkjnvgwournwen;iusjogh" Brings tears to my eyes every time.
System of a Down Toxicity	4.0
Radiohead Amnesiac	3.5
Bjork Vespertine	3.0
Jimmy Eat World Bleed American	3.5
Super Furry Animals Rings Around the World	3.0
maudlin of the Well Bath	4.0
The most interesting combination of music I've ever heard. Beautiful and dark.
Muse Origin of Symmetry	3.5
Saves the Day Stay What You Are	4.0
Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible	4.0
pg.99 Document #8	3.5
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket	4.0
Sum 41 All Killer No Filler	3.0
Tool Lateralus	4.5
Great, just great. Probably better than Aenima, but I'll have to give that another listen to be sure.
Weezer The Green Album	2.5
Gorillaz Gorillaz	3.0
Daft Punk Discovery	3.0
Opeth Blackwater Park	4.5
This is Opeth's magnum opus. Nothing the made, or will make, will be better than this album right here. The eight songs last forever but never seem to take too long to get finished. The album is perfect in every way. Plus Steven Wilson helped them out with the production, which just makes it that much better.
Dropkick Murphys Sing Loud, Sing Proud!	3.5
Fugazi The Argument	4.0
Say Anything Baseball	3.5

2000
The Avalanches Since I Left You	3.0
OutKast Stankonia	4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven	4.5
Beautiful. In every way, shape, and form, beautiful. There's no denying that this album is amazing, and one that is actually deserving of its status on many levels. It just seems to have that extra something that F#A#(Infinity) doesn't have. Maybe it's the more uplifting mood or the fact that there's an extra song to listen to. Whatever the case may be, this album is extraordinary in every sense of the word and deserves to go down in history as such.
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory	3.5
Green Day Warning	3.0
Radiohead Kid A	4.5
I am really all over the place with this album. Not being a huge fan of Radiohead, I picked it up after I saw it at the top of all these "Best of the Decade" list. I started listening and hated it. I thought it was over-hyped and it didn't stand to 'OK Computer'. I would get angry every time someone would say that 'Kid A' was the best Radiohead album, because deep down inside, I knew it wasn't true. Later, I grew to love the album, but I still thought it was far less superior than 'OK Computer'. Later, I found myself listening to it all the time, realizing, that this may be one of my favorite albums. That was the day I realized that 'OK Computer' had been beaten by it's little brother 'Kid A'.
The Black Eyed Peas Bridging the Gap	2.0
AFI The Art of Drowning	3.5
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command	4.5
It took me a really long time to get into this album, almost too long. Upon my first listen, I found this to be one of my favorite albums. This albums is one of the best post hardcore albums I've heard. The singing was gut wrenching at first listen, but after I got used to it, I loved the sound of it.
Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence	4.0
The Weakerthans Left and Leaving	4.0
Coldplay Parachutes	3.0
Cursive Domestica	4.0
Deftones White Pony	5.0
Rest in Peace Chi Cheng. This album is ultimately superior to anything else that has been released in a while.
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica	5.0
Everything that keeps us together is fallin' apart, I got this thing that I consider my only art of fuckin' people over.
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP	4.5
You know, I don't think I've ever wanted a musician to do drugs more than I want Eminem to relapse back into his pill addiction. I mean, he was so much better when he was rapping about homosexuals and Vicodin. Recovery wasn't as bad as Relapse, no, but still, he needs to be this good again.
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms	3.0
Bloodhound Gang Hooray For Boobies	1.5
Elliott Smith Figure 8	4.0
Disturbed The Sickness	1.5
Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside...	3.5
Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030	4.0
Immolation Close to a World Below	3.5
Blue October Consent to Treatment	3.5
Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun	4.5
This is one of Porcupine Tree's best albums. No, not better than In Absentia or Fear of a Blank Planet, but it's at least number 3. It shows what they were like before turning dark and gloomy. Fine, fine work.

1999
Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose	3.5
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory	4.0
The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I	4.0
Opeth Still Life	4.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity	4.0
I really have to be in the metal mood for this album to be a 4. Otherwise it's about a 2.
American Football American Football	4.5
Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself	4.0
Yellowcard Where We Stand	2.0
Weird Al Yankovic Running With Scissors	3.0
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun	4.5
blink-182 Enema Of The State	4.0
Insane Clown Posse The Amazing Jeckel Brothers	1.5
The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin	4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada	4.5
Dropkick Murphys The Gang's All Here	3.5
The Roots Things Fall Apart	4.0
Eminem The Slim Shady LP	4.0
Jimmy Eat World Clarity	3.5
Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream	4.5
This is the album that started it all. For me at least. One Christmas, my uncle got me a CD, this CD. I hadn't heard of the band was was in a crappy metalcore stage. When I started listening, I got so into it, I couldn't stop listening. Later, my uncle gave me their entire discography. Although this isn't Porcupine Tree's best, it still shows as a milestone in their discography.

1998
Meshuggah Chaosphere	4.0
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come	4.5
Barenaked Ladies Stunt	3.5
System of a Down System of a Down	3.5
Catch 22 Keasbey Nights	4.0
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea	4.5
Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology	4.5
Eve 6 Eve 6	2.5

1997
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West	4.5
Great album, but it just can't stand to 'Moon & Antarctica'.
Deftones Around the Fur	4.5
Deftones are slowly growing to be my favorite band. I had missed my chance to see them live in concert, I consider this one of my greatest mistakes as a music lover. Being their second release, this showed fans and haters that Deftones could be more than just a nu-metal band. They slowed down and cut back on the vocals for some songs, showing their melodic side. This sophomore release is wonderful to listen to, and I do listen to it, quite often.
Green Day Nimrod	3.5
Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E.	4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞	4.5
Insane Clown Posse The Great Milenko	1.0
blink-182 Dude Ranch	4.0
Radiohead OK Computer	4.5
Radiohead created a modern masterpiece with OK Computer. What seemed to be a normal alternative rock band crafted something so wonderful it changed what we are as human beings. Not really, but it was still a landmark in musical achievements. Great band, fantastic album.
Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape	4.5
Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind	5.0
My soundoffs are all fucking terrible.
Yellowcard Midget Tossing	1.5
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Let's Face It	4.0
Elliott Smith Either/Or	4.5
Built to Spill Perfect from Now On	4.0

1996
Tool Ænima	4.5
Weezer Pinkerton	4.0
Cake Fashion Nugget	3.0
Reel Big Fish Turn the Radio Off	4.0
Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About	4.0
Weird Al Yankovic Bad Hair Day	2.5
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....	4.5
At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement	3.0
Porcupine Tree Signify	4.0

1995
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness	4.5
Insane Clown Posse Riddle Box	2.0
Green Day Insomniac	3.5
Deftones Adrenaline	4.0
Elliott Smith Elliott Smith	4.5
Radiohead The Bends	4.0
Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime	4.0
blink-182 Cheshire Cat	3.0
Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways	4.0

1994
Jeff Buckley Grace	4.5
Beautiful and dynamic. Buckley showed what he was made of with Grace. From start to finish the album feels complete. Every song sounds different and unique. Jeff Buckley showed the world that he could be soft with "Hallelujah" and could rock hard with "Eternal Life". One of, if not THE essential album of the nineties. If you don't own this album, you don't know music.
Portishead Dummy	4.0
Weezer Weezer	4.0
Nas Illmatic	4.5
Soundgarden Superunknown	4.0
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral	4.5
A work of genius. Highly disturbed genius. "Hurt" seems to wrap the entire thing up almost too well. Trent, why you so good?
The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die	4.5
Green Day Dookie	4.0
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary	4.0
Cap'n Jazz Shmap'n Shmazz	4.5

1993
Snoop Dogg Doggystyle	3.0
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)	4.5
Great hip-hop. Well, not great... almost classic.
Nirvana In Utero	4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream	4.5
A truly great piece of music. Glad I picked it up.
Radiohead Pablo Honey	2.5
Cynic Focus	3.5
Porcupine Tree Up the Downstair	4.0

1992
Pavement Slanted and Enchanted	4.0
Alice in Chains Dirt	4.0
Tom Waits Bone Machine	4.0
Dream Theater Images and Words	4.0
Porcupine Tree On the Sunday of Life	3.0
Faith No More Angel Dust	4.5
Yeah, this.rYour soundoff was too short, it has to be at least 50 characters
Weird Al Yankovic Off the Deep End	2.5

1991
My Bloody Valentine Loveless	4.5
A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory	4.0
Nirvana Nevermind	4.5
Really great. This album jumps back and forth between a 5 and a 4.5 every week it seems. Not sure if it will ever stay in one place.
Pearl Jam Ten	4.0
Slint Spiderland	4.0

1990
Bad Religion Against the Grain	4.0
Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas	3.5
Green Day 39/Smooth	2.5

1989
Operation Ivy Energy	4.5
The Cure Disintegration	4.5
Pixies Doolittle	4.5
Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique	4.0
Bad Religion No Control	4.0

1988
Bad Religion Suffer	4.0
Metallica ...And Justice for All	4.0
N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton	4.0
Pixies Surfer Rosa	4.5

1987
Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me	4.0
Echo and The Bunnymen Echo and The Bunnymen	3.0
U2 The Joshua Tree	4.0
Big Black Songs About Fucking	3.5

1986
Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill	3.0
XTC Skylarking	3.5
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead	4.5
Genesis Invisible Touch	3.0
Peter Gabriel So	4.5
Metallica Master of Puppets	4.0

1985
Tom Waits Rain Dogs	4.5
Rain Dogs has got to be the most interesting album I've ever heard, it's definitely unlike anything I've ever heard. Tom Waits's vocals are ragged and rough, but also quite tolerable to listen to. I found every second of the album to be enjoyable and smiled through the entire thing.

1984
Metallica Ride the Lightning	4.0
Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime	4.0
The Smiths The Smiths	4.5

1983
Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones	3.5

1982
Peter Gabriel Security	4.0

1981
Echo and The Bunnymen Heaven Up Here	3.5
Rush Moving Pictures	4.0
Phil Collins Face Value	3.0

1980
Dire Straits Making Movies	3.5
Joy Division Closer	4.5
Peter Gabriel Melt	4.5
I grew up on Peter Gabriel. The one CD that was always playing in my parents' car was Peter Gabriel's 'Shaking the Tree: Greatest Hits'. I loved this album, and once I grew up to realize that there are actually songs outside of greatest hits albums, I picked this up. There isn't anything Peter Gabriel can't do. He was fantastic in Genesis, and he's still going strong solo (except for the 'Scratch My Back' exception). Overall an amazing album, I also happen to have found it on vinyl for $3, how fucking great is that?

1979
The Clash London Calling	4.5
Pink Floyd The Wall	4.5
This is nothing besides a five to me. I don't care what anyone says, I think it's much better than 'Dark Side of the Moon' and 'Animals'. Don't get me wrong, I think those albums are stand outs among progressive music, but to me 'The Wall' is just so much better. The story of it just pulls me in. Although there's a lot of filler, it's all needed, there's nothing there that shouldn't be there. It all seems to fit in to place. Now, I'm never going to say that 'The Wall' is better than 'Wish You Were Here', oh hell no. HELL NAW, but it's still a stand out album.
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures	4.5

1978
Peter Gabriel Scratch	3.5

1977
Iggy Pop The Idiot	4.0
Peter Gabriel Car	3.0
Pink Floyd Animals	4.5

1975
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	4.5
It might only have five songs, but Wish You Were Here lasts a damn long time. This was one of my first albums that really got me into music. Without it, I don't think I would have even found this site which changed my musical tastes even more. Also, "Have a Cigar" is one of my favorite songs of all time. OF ALL TIME!!!

1974
Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway	4.5
This album is a pure beast. A behemoth in terms of both length and concept. The last album that the Gabriel Genesis brought to us, and quite honestly, the best. Whether the concept came to Gabriel in a dream, or he was just this crazy, the album came out beautifully. Every song brings out what Genesis got right in their previous albums. There couldn't be a better way to spend an hour and a half.

1973
Genesis Selling England by the Pound	4.5
The Who Quadrophenia	4.5
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon	4.5

1972
Yes Close to the Edge	4.0
David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars	4.0

1971
Yes Fragile	4.0
Genesis Nursery Cryme	4.0

1970
Miles Davis Bitches Brew	4.0

1969
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King	4.5
The Who Tommy	3.5
Miles Davis In a Silent Way	4.0

1967
Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn	4.0
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	4.0
"The Beatles suck." Those three words enter my ears almost every day. I hate them so very much. I will agree that they might not be the best band ever (personally) but I will agree that they are the most important band ever. The Beatles changed music with this album, but I still don't think it's as good as Abbey Road. Just an opinion, but one I personally enjoy having. I still love the Beatles though.

1966
The Beatles Revolver	4.0

1965
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited	4.0
John Coltrane A Love Supreme	4.0

1959
Miles Davis Kind of Blue	4.5
This album is honestly jazz perfection. There is not other jazz musician that could do what Davis pulled off in the incredible album. A true masterpiece.

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