| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 4.0 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 5.0 |
| La Roux La Roux | 4.5 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 4.5 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.0 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.0 |
| Happy End Kazemachi Roman | 4.5 |
| Bad Religion Suffer | 5.0 |
| I am just an atom in an ectoplasmic sea/Without direction or a reason to exist/The anechoic nebula rotating in my brain/Is persuading me, contritely, to persist rLyrically the greatest album of all time. |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 5.0 |
| If he's wasn't the best damn rapper period, he certainly had the best flow and released arguably the best hip-hop album of all time. |
| Soundtrack (Disney) The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 4.5 |
| The best Disney movie, with the best Disney villain, and the all-time best Disney song (Hellfire). |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back | 4.0 |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode VI: Return of the Jedi | 4.5 |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days | 4.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne | 4.0 |
| Don't let me get in my zone. Don't let me get in my zone. Don't let me get in my zone. |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 5.0 |
| The pinnacle of a genre. R.I.P. Cliff Burton, Metallica died with you. |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited | 5.0 |
| "Like a Rolling Stone" was named by Rolling Stone magazine as the greatest song of all time. I can see where they're coming from. Then there's the 7 others track of folk-rock perfection ("Desolation Row" being the other major highlight), which make this an absolute masterpiece. 'Blood on the Tracks' nothing, this is Dylan's best album. |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks | 4.5 |
| "A lot of people tell me they enjoy that album. It's hard for me to relate to that. I mean, it, you know, people enjoying that type of pain, you know?" |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 5.0 |
| What the hell happened...this record is such a brilliantly well-done display of grandiose violence in music that's its hard to believe this is the same Eminem who made, well, every Eminem album after this one. |
| John Williams Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope | 5.0 |
| See my review for my thoughts on the greatest soundtrack of all time. |
| Nas Illmatic | 5.0 |
| Deep like The Shinin', sparkle like a diamond/Sneak a uzi on the island in my army jacket linin/Hit the Earth like a comet, invasion/Nas is like the Afrocentric Asian, half-man, half-amazin |
| Blackalicious Blazing Arrow | 5.0 |
| Gift of Gab is an absolute BEAST. His delivery is so incredible that I can't do it justice via text. You have to hear it for yourself. Chief Xcel's beats are equally good, and add the right atmosphere to this album that makes it one of the most uplifting in all of hip-hop. |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 5.0 |
| I tried giving this something other than a 5 but Satan punched me in the face and told me to stop being such a pussy. |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 5.0 |
| The best grunge album bar none. It's easy to see how this foreshadows Staley's tragic death. |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 5.0 |
| DOOM engrosses the listener in such a dense wall of rhymes and Madlib's production is so involved (it's the best-produced hip-hop album ever in my opinion) that the natural high this record induces in you almost starts to approach the artificial high they utilized to make this record. |
| Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First | 4.5 |
| Proving you don't have to sound like shit to play good punk rock. Either that, or I'm just part of the machine, man. |
| Sleep Dopesmoker | 4.0 |
| holy war on drugs batman! this album is a holy war on drugs |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 5.0 |
| You know why it's called "Ten"? Because that's the rating it deserves. Even though sputnik only goes up to 5. This is pure, raw emotion, a gem of the 90's rock movement and Vedder's "golden baritone" is godlike. |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 5.0 |
| One of the all time best Floyd albums. It's their most rock-oriented, contains what may be the greatest guitar solo of all time, and its nihilistic message adds a certain philosophical weight. |
| X Japan Art of Life | 5.0 |
| Aptly named, 'Art of Life' covers the full scale of life's emotions in half an hour. Even better, it does it in 9 minutes with the piano solo. |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come | 3.5 |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder | 3.0 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 5.0 |
| The crowning moment of The Smiths' career, and a crowning moment of alternative music itself. If you don't love "There is a Light that Never Goes Out", you're not human. |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| This is one of those "how the fuck does a human mind create this" albums. I can't say anything about this that hasn't been said. |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| The best album of the 90's, and the 20th century, and the A.D.'s, and of all time. Nothing I could say here would explain how much I love this album. |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 5.0 |
| A less manic-depressive OK Computer with even more gorgeous instrumentation. |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible | 4.0 |
| Dusty Springfield Dusty in Memphis | 4.5 |
| Bad Religion Generator | 3.5 |
| Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse? | 4.0 |
| MellowHype BLACKENEDWHITE | 3.5 |
| Atheist Piece of Time | 3.5 |
| Atheist Jupiter | 4.0 |
| Greydon Square The Cpt Theorem | 4.0 |
| Greydon Square Type I: The Kardashev Scale | 3.5 |
| Greydon Square The Compton Effect | 3.5 |
| Bad Religion The Process of Belief | 4.0 |
| XTC Skylarking | 4.5 |
| Whether they're smoking grass, singing about Supergirl, or yelling at God, XTC delivers. |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer | 4.0 |
| Neil Young Harvest | 4.5 |
| MellowHype Yellowhite | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion The Gray Race | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 4.5 |
| If Alice and Chains played 'Dirt' on a porch somewhere in the South. |
| Sage Francis Personal Journals | 3.5 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 3.0 |
| aka "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) + Assorted Background Noise". |
| Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion Bad Religion | 3.5 |
| Bad Religion Into the Unknown | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion Against the Grain | 5.0 |
| I'm not entirely sure why I love this album so much. It makes me some cool atheist kid, I guess.rBut in all seriousness, this fucking kicks ass. |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion Recipe for Hate | 4.5 |
| Mac Lethal The Original 11:11 Sessions | 4.0 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 3.0 |
| The Standards' Station 37 | 3.5 |
| Pantera Metal Magic | 2.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 4.5 |
| Her fashion sense is outrageous, her message can be preachy, and Born this Way is of questionable quality, but The Fame Monster is a superb work of pop music, namely, "Alejandro". Pop's "Like a Rolling Stone", the king of its genre. Yes. It's that good. |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 3.5 |
| Warning Watching from a Distance | 4.5 |
| Soulja Boy iSouljaBoyTellEm | 1.0 |
| Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com | 1.0 |
| brokeNCYDE Will Never Die | 1.0 |
| brokeNCYDE The Broken | 1.0 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory | 4.5 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell | 4.0 |
| Finally...Vinnie Paz puts some thought into his lyrics. There's self-loathing, ancient wisdom done right, there's even a Dillinger Escape Plan reference. "Uncommon Valor" is Paz's most mature verse to date, and R.A.'s verse is the single best verse I've ever heard. Definitely the highlight of the album, and even the highlight of JMT's discography. |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Visions of Gandhi | 1.5 |
| Vinnie Paz is 'Muslim'. He makes that explicitly clear. He hates gays, Christians, the government, and all of the other stuff 'Muslims' hate that gets them the reputation they have among uneducated bigots. Did I mention he hates gays? Highlight lyrics of this album include such gems as "I like anything related to death". Deep. |
| Wiz Khalifa Rolling Papers | 1.5 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 3.0 |
| Vinnie Paz Season of the Assassin | 4.0 |
| A welcome change from Vinnie Paz's standard raps about being a half-machine-half-Muslim Christ-killing boxer (although there's still plenty of that), Vinnie has switched to a more traditional from of braggadocio. He also offers his opinions on serious topics and shows his maturity in a way not seen since his verse on "Uncommon Valor". Recommended tracks: End of Days, WarMonger, Same Story (My Dedication). |
| Jedi Mind Tricks A History of Violence | 2.5 |
| Vinnie Paz has become too comfortable rehashing the same flow and thoughts, Jus Allah returns and worries that if he doesn't force 50 rhymed syllables into every bar he'll die, and Stoupe's fascination with string arrangements and female vocal samples becomes annoying rather than awe-inspiring. |
| Nas STILLmatic | 3.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.5 |
| Second only to Madvillainy in production, this albums is hampered by West's lyrics and some questionable guest stars. Still pretty close to a 5. |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
| Aural Vampire Vampire Ecstasy | 4.5 |
| The Smiths The Smiths | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Airbag/How Am I Driving? | 3.5 |
| The Smiths Rank | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Never Say Die! | 2.0 |
| Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy | 1.5 |
| Six Feet Under Maximum Violence | 2.0 |
| Not sure why there's a 'Live' here...boring, repetitive, even a quality cover of Kiss' "War Machine" can't save this album from mediocrity. |
| Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 3.5 |
| Radiohead My Iron Lung | 2.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.5 |
| Philip Selway Familial | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side | 4.0 |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill | 4.0 |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse | 3.0 |
| James Taylor Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague | 2.5 |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Chronicle, Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Metallica Garage Inc. | 3.5 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon | 3.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman | 3.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz | 4.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 3.5 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 2.0 |
| Green Day Insomniac | 3.5 |
| Green Day Dookie | 4.0 |
| Green Day Shenanigans | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.0 |
| Rush 2112 | 3.5 |
| R.E.M. In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 | 4.0 |
| Toby Keith Shock'n Y'all | 2.5 |
| Boston Boston | 3.5 |
| Deicide Once Upon the Cross | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel | 2.0 |
| Lamb of God Wrath | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 3.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap | 4.0 |
| AC/DC High Voltage | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Youthanasia | 3.5 |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 3.5 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.5 |
| Slayer South of Heaven | 4.0 |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss | 3.5 |
| Testament The Gathering | 2.5 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 3.5 |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain | 3.5 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 2.5 |
| Rise Against The Unraveling | 4.0 |
| Rise Against Revolutions per Minute | 4.0 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 4.0 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 4.0 |
| Cynic Focus | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Believe | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 3.0 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 4.0 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 2.5 |
| Neil Young Decade | 3.5 |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.0 |
| Eric Clapton Slowhand | 3.5 |
| This is probably closer to a 3, especially because I'm such a huge fan of Dominos-era Clapton, but "Cocaine" and "Wonderful Tonight" make this a great album. |
| Derek and the Dominos Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs | 4.5 |
| Cream Disraeli Gears | 4.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated | 2.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn | 3.0 |
| One Day as a Lion One Day as a Lion | 4.0 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 3.5 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 2.5 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill | 4.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 4.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love | 3.0 |
| Santana Supernatural | 4.0 |
| Van Halen Van Halen | 4.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.5 |
| The Beatles 1 | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Yield | 3.5 |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence | 4.0 |
| Atheist Elements | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 4.5 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 3.5 |
| Army Of The Pharaohs The Torture Papers | 2.5 |
| Celph Titled The Gatalog: A Collection Of Chaos | 4.0 |
| The (main) problem with the Army of the Pharaohs collective is that all of the members are outshined by Celph Titled. Some of the members such as Apathy and Vinnie Paz are good enough to not be completely murdered by a Celph Titled verse, but truth be told his verses are always the funniest and most memorable. This huge collection of songs featuring Celph show why he's the best (and by far the most clever) member of AOTP. |
| Maximum the Hormone Rokkinpo Goroshi | 3.5 |
| Maximum the Hormone Bu-ikikaesu | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd showing yet again why they're probably the best rock band ever. |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 5.0 |
| This sprawling five-song epic is just too damn good. The best album from a band I absolutely worship. |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 4.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.5 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.5 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 3.0 |
| Gets way more shit than it should, and it's a more honest-to-themselves record than the shitty piece of fan-service that is "Death Magnetic". |
| Metallica Reload | 3.0 |
| Metallica Load | 3.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.0 |
| Begrudgingly giving this a 3 because I subjectively despise it but it's not that bad. |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 4.5 |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel | 3.0 |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell | 4.0 |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill | 4.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.0 |
