| Say Anything Oliver Appropriate | 3.5 |
Only listened to it once so far. Pink Snot is definitely the best and most IaRB-y song on the
album, and a few tracks here and there are fairly unremarkable, but there aren't any flat-out
clunkers. Definitely his best work since the self-titled. |
| Stars Hollow Happy Again | 4.0 |
| The Midnight Nocturnal | 4.0 |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 5.0 |
| They actually did it. |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures | 3.5 |
| Free Throw Bear Your Mind | 3.5 |
| Free Throw Those Days Are Gone | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
| Dashboard Confessional Alter The Ending | 2.5 |
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| Taking Back Sunday Tidal Wave | 3.0 |
| The Hotelier Goodness | 3.5 |
| Tiny Moving Parts This Couch Is Long & Full of Friendship | 3.5 |
| Say Anything I Don't Think It Is | 3.0 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 5.0 |
| This is one of those albums that I wish I could have written. |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 5.0 |
| Bemis carefully walks the line between "beat you over the head" bluntness, and "what the hell does that mean?" cryptic lyricism, and does so while a rock opera plays out in the background, complete with la's, da's, and doo's. Every song on here is intensely catchy as well as thought-provoking, perfectly capturing Bemis's schizophrenia in one of the best albums ever concocted. |
| Say Anything Hebrews | 3.0 |
| Although a bit gimmicky, the album has a surprising amount of heart and ambition not seen for a couple of albums mixed in with the typical Max Bemis flare and gusto. |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House | 3.0 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 3.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Happiness Is | 2.5 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 2.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux | 4.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 4.0 |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful | 3.0 |
| Falling in Reverse Fashionably Late | 1.0 |
| Patrick Stump Soul Punk | 2.0 |
| Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll | 3.0 |
| Bleed from Within Uprising | 1.0 |
| Senses Fail Renacer | 2.5 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 1.5 |
| Florida Georgia Line Here's to the Good Times | 1.0 |
| Future Pluto | 1.0 |
| The Killers Battle Born | 3.0 |
| Kid Rock Rebel Soul | 1.0 |
| Defeater Travels | 3.5 |
| Woe, Is Me Genesi[s] | 1.0 |
| Falling in Reverse The Drug in Me Is You | 2.0 |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Anthem of the Outcast | 1.0 |
| Interrupting Cow Gorsmotchua | 1.0 |
| Underoath Act of Depression | 1.0 |
| Underoath Cries of the Past | 1.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 2.0 |
| Further Seems Forever Penny Black | 2.5 |
| Some great melodies, but why water down Carrabba's fantastically raw voice with so much pitch correction? Seems counter-productive. |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega | 1.5 |
| Muse The Resistance | 2.5 |
| Muse The 2nd Law | 1.0 |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 2.5 |
| The Flaming Lips The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends | 1.0 |
| fun. Aim and Ignite | 3.5 |
| Five Finger Death Punch American Capitalist | 1.0 |
| Yellowcard One for the Kids | 2.0 |
| One Direction Up All Night | 1.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 1.5 |
| Upon a Burning Body Red. White. Green. | 1.0 |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now | 3.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 2.5 |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption | 1.0 |
| Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement | 1.0 |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace | 2.0 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 2.0 |
| Say Anything Anarchy, My Dear | 2.5 |
| I don't need a reason. I'm an anarchist. |
| American Football American Football | 3.0 |
| Say Anything Menorah/Majora | 3.0 |
| Jordan Blake and Etienne Sin The Legend, The Leader | 1.0 |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| There's not much to say about this record that hasn't been said. The first side is a great selection of catchy, varied songs, while the suite on the second side is brilliant in it's flow and feeling. It's home to some of Paul's greatest work, and certainly Ringo and George's as well. Definitely the best Beatles album as a whole. |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 3.5 |
| Of Mice and Men The Flood | 1.5 |
| Etienne Sin The Art of Stealing Hearts | 1.0 |
| Rose Funeral The Resting Sonata | 1.0 |
| Waking The Cadaver Beyond Cops, Beyond God | 1.0 |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Goodbye Lullaby | 2.0 |
| Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing | 3.0 |
| Avril Lavigne Under My Skin | 2.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go | 2.5 |
| Abandon All Ships Geeving | 1.0 |
| Jack's Mannequin People and Things | 2.5 |
| The Beatles Help! | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale | 3.0 |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 4.0 |
| Design the Skyline Nevaeh | 1.0 |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night | 4.5 |
| The Beatles With the Beatles | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Please Please Me | 4.0 |
| Wormrot Noise | 1.5 |
| Bloodhound Gang One Fierce Beer Coaster | 3.0 |
| Dramarama Cinema Verite | 3.5 |
| Dot Dot Curve I'm Still Here | 1.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Taking Back Sunday | 3.0 |
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| The Lonely Island Turtleneck and Chain | 3.0 |
| Rise Against Endgame | 3.0 |
| Max Bemis and The Painful Splits Max Bemis and The Painful Splits 2 | 3.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco Vices & Virtues | 3.0 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 3.0 |
| Kesha Cannibal | 3.0 |
| Kesha Animal | 2.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Once More With Feeling | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Television) Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 3.0 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 3.0 |
| Weezer Death to False Metal | 3.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 2.5 |
| This album is alright. Not great, not bad. It's okay. |
| The Republic of Wolves The Cartographer | 3.0 |
| You, Me, And Everyone We Know Some Things Don't Wash Out | 2.5 |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad | 3.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra | 2.0 |
| Got it as a gag gift from a friend on Christmas because I'm always making fun of 'extreme' metal. I wouldn't say this one's good, but it's kind of fun in a super cheesy symphonic way. |
| Skeletonwitch Breathing the Fire | 1.5 |
| Got it as a gag gift from a friend on Christmas because I'm always making fun of 'extreme' metal. Yeah it's pretty bad. The guitar is pretty cool but it suffers from the two major things that all black/death/thrash/metal/core does: the vocalist sucks, and every song sounds the same. Awesome name though. |
| The Republic of Wolves His Old Branches | 2.5 |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place | 2.0 |
| Dropkick Murphys The Meanest of Times | 3.0 |
| Dropkick Murphys The Warrior's Code | 3.0 |
| Bowling for Soup Sorry for Partyin' | 1.5 |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile | 1.5 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 2.5 |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 2.5 |
| The Acacia Strain Wormwood | 1.0 |
| Emery I'm Only A Man | 2.0 |
| Emery The Question | 2.5 |
| Emery The Weak's End | 2.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| What it lacks in quality recording, it more than makes up for in Mangum's passionate vocals and abstract lyrics that almost make you feel like you SHOULD know what they mean. The man can do more with one chord than most bands can do with four. Two-Headed Boy is a definite contender for the best acoustic song of all time. |
| The Republic of Wolves Varuna | 3.0 |
| OK Go Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky | 2.0 |
| OK Go OK Go | 3.0 |
| OK Go Oh No | 3.0 |
| Blood on the Dance Floor EPIC | 1.0 |
| Max Bemis and The Painful Splits Max Bemis and The Painful Splits | 3.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys | 3.5 |
| Dot Dot Curve Til the Wheels Fall Off | 1.0 |
| Say Anything Baseball | 3.5 |
| Senses Fail The Fire | 2.5 |
| Matchbook Romance Voices | 2.5 |
| Anberlin New Surrender | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 3.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 3.0 |
| Thrice Identity Crisis | 2.5 |
| All That Remains For We Are Many | 2.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 5.0 |
| Some albums grow on you and some albums hit you hard on the first go. This is both. It's a demanding album that rarely lets up its unrelenting wave of depression and doubt, with countless moments of catharsis along the way. Jesse's tortured shouts make the album, cutting deep to the center of the soul. Just try to listen to "You Won't Know"'s thunderous chorus without getting chills. I dare you. |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.5 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.0 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 3.5 |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
| Weezer Hurley | 3.5 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War | 2.5 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie | 3.0 |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 2.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| Sum 41 Chuck | 3.0 |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead | 3.0 |
| Scars on Broadway Scars on Broadway | 2.5 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 2.5 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 3.0 |
| Paramore Riot! | 3.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd. | 3.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 4.0 |
| Mayday Parade Anywhere But Here | 2.5 |
| Matchbook Romance Stories and Alibis | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 2.5 |
| Good Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and Death | 2.5 |
| A Day To Remember Homesick | 2.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 1.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 2.0 |
| Bowling for Soup A Hangover You Don't Deserve | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 2.5 |
| Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses | 1.5 |
| Atreyu The Curse | 2.5 |
| Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday | 2.5 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 3.0 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 3.0 |
| Anberlin Cities | 3.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 2.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 3.0 |
| letlive. Fake History | 4.0 |
| Escape the Fate This War Is Ours | 1.5 |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion | 3.0 |
| Islands Arm's Way | 3.5 |
| Senses Fail Life Is Not a Waiting Room | 3.0 |
| Senses Fail Still Searching | 3.0 |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You | 3.0 |
| Senses Fail From the Depths of Dreams | 2.5 |
| Islands Return To The Sea | 3.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Live from Orensanz | 4.0 |
| Could have swapped some New Again material around (the title track does not need to be on here; where is Swing or Cut Me Up Jenny?) and some more tracks from Tell All Your Friends, but it otherwise a very solid and incredibly interesting live album. |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love | 3.0 |
| All That Remains Overcome | 2.5 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 2.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 3.0 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 2.0 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 2.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 3.5 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 3.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 3.0 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 2.0 |
| Dashboard Confessional The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most | 3.5 |
| Dashboard Confessional The Swiss Army Romance | 3.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 2.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 2.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 3.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again | 3.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 3.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be | 4.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 5.0 |
| This album is laced with such a ridiculous urgency and melodrama that it's almost impossible not to get sucked in. Lazzara and Nolan complement each other perfectly with their imperfect yet passionate vocals, and each song builds to capacity, never letting down until the anthemic release of Head Club. |
| Four Year Strong Enemy of the World | 3.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 2.5 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.0 |
| Jack's Mannequin The Glass Passenger | 3.5 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 4.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Fever | 2.0 |
| Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler | 1.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.0 |
| Jack's Mannequin Everything in Transit | 5.0 |
| This is the ultimate summer pop album. With a emotional, yet laid-back style, Andrew McMahon croons his way into your heart with catchy piano melodies and an unshakably sunny atmosphere. |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.0 |
| Trivium Shogun | 2.5 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 2.0 |
| Weezer Maladroit | 4.0 |
| The Used Artwork | 3.5 |
| The Offspring Americana | 3.5 |
| The Offspring Ixnay on the Hombre | 3.5 |
| The Offspring Smash | 3.5 |
| The Offspring Conspiracy of One | 3.0 |
| The Offspring Splinter | 3.0 |
| The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace | 3.5 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 4.5 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 4.5 |
| The Used Lies for the Liars | 3.0 |
| The Used In Love and Death | 3.0 |
| The Used The Used | 3.5 |
| Atreyu Congregation of the Damned | 2.5 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent III | 2.5 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II | 3.5 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent | 2.5 |
| Weezer Raditude | 3.0 |
| Weezer The Red Album (Deluxe Edition) | 3.5 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 4.0 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 3.0 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 5.0 |
| This album is far too personal. And that's what makes it great. It's pure, unadulterated Rivers Cuomo doing what he does best. With much of the album being remnants of a failed space rock opera, you'd think it wouldn't rise and fall as well as it does. But by the time "Butterfly" rolls around, you reflect back on the album, and what a great journey it was, and how it felt to live inside Cuomo's head for half an hour. |
| Weezer Weezer | 5.0 |
| This might be the catchiest album of all time. Complete with Beach Boys harmonies and Rivers' least direct lyrics of his whole career, this album is impossible not to love. |
| Dashboard Confessional The Shade of Poison Trees | 3.5 |
| Dashboard Confessional Dusk and Summer | 3.5 |
| Dashboard Confessional A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar | 4.0 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 5.0 |
| Whereas ...Is a Real Boy was carefully structured (albeit with some memorable spastic moments), In Defense of the Genre does no such thing. Bemis throws absolutely everything at the wall, including showtunes and minute-long Italian influenced laments, and just about everything sticks. While it is a bit difficult to digest due to its length, once you scarf it all down, you will be completely satisfied for a long while. |
| Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release) | 5.0 |
| Bemis carefully walks the line between "beat you over the head" bluntness, and "what the hell does that mean?" cryptic lyricism, and does so while a rock opera plays out in the background, complete with la's, da's, and doo's. Every song on here is intensely catchy as well as thought-provoking, perfectly capturing Bemis's schizophrenia in one of the best albums ever concocted. |
| Say Anything Say Anything | 4.5 |
