| Clark Totems Flare | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 4.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.0 |
| Grant-Lee Phillips Mobilize | 3.0 |
| Thom Yorke Tomorrow's Modern Boxes | 2.5 |
| alt-J This Is All Yours | 3.5 |
| The Cure Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Big Lebowski | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Space Jam | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 | 5.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) South Park (Original Soundtrack) | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Fight Club | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) I Am Sam | 2.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Donnie Darko | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Once More With Feeling | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Scott Pilgrim vs. The World | 2.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Pitch Perfect | 3.5 |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave | 3.0 |
| Coldplay Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories | 2.0 |
| Maroon 5 Overexposed | 2.5 |
| Puscifer Conditions of My Parole | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 3.5 |
| Broken Bells After The Disco | 3.5 |
| Zedd Clarity | 3.0 |
| Phantogram Phantogram | 3.5 |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 3.0 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 3.5 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 3.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Tron Legacy: Reconfigured | 3.0 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 3.5 |
| Vince Guaraldi Trio A Boy Named Charlie Brown | 4.5 |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 3.5 |
| Four Tet There is Love in You | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks | 3.0 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 5.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows Disk 2 | 3.5 |
| Great collection of songs, but the lack of flow from one song to the next makes for a choppy listen. |
| Seether Karma And Effect | 3.5 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars Love Lust Faith + Dreams | 2.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Distant Worlds: Music From Final Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Mother Mother Eureka | 4.0 |
| Clark Iradelphic | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Shields | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 3.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Bankrupt! | 2.5 |
| Does anyone else get an 80s synth vibe from this album? It's definitely an interesting sound, and it's an enjoyable album. I'm only listening through one long iTunes stream (sans separate tracks), but I haven't noticed any clear stand out singles. It doesn't mean this album is bad, far from it, but I didn't find myself clamouring to hear any songs again right away. |
| Atoms for Peace Amok | 3.0 |
| If you're a Thom Yorke fan, than this album is a must hear. This guy doesn't put out anything less than top notch work. However, having heard about this band years ago, I was expecting something less digital. I've been excited to hear what can happen when the robotic Thom teams up with the likes of the insane Flea. However, despite being a member of the band, I hear almost nothing resembling a real bass in this album. This is by no means to put the album down, but this is far from what I'd expect from a band. This is basically a Thom Yorke solo album. |
| How to Destroy Angels Welcome Oblivion | 3.5 |
| Four Tet 0181 | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift Red | 2.5 |
| The Beatles Love | 4.0 |
| How to Destroy Angels An Omen | 3.5 |
This was a surprising follow up to the bands debut EP. It doesn't have the same high points as the first, the
tracks are generally less interesting then The Distance In Between andFur Lined from the first EP. But An Omen
is an overall better album, and a lot more interesting to listen to. The singer no longer sounds bored and
lifeless, the beats are a lot more detailed, and the overall tone, while still a downer, can actually be a little
lighthearted at times with the track like Ice Age and On a Wing and The Sleep of Reason. It still doesn't
compare to the work of NIN, but I think this is a sign of good faith that such work is on its way. |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines of God | 2.5 |
| This album is a serious letdown. With the amazing opening track, and great second and third, I was really expecting to enjoy this. Well, I've listened to the album twice, and still nothing has ever stood out to me besides the aforementioned tracks. But with fifteen songs on the album, you'd really hope for more than three noticeable songs. I'll will try this again, I really want to like it, as I have the bands other work, but I'll have to wait till I have the patience to try it again. |
| The Verve Urban Hymns | 4.0 |
| A warm, rocking, album full of majestic tracks. With an amazing use of an orchestra string section (especially noticeable in the singles), each song manages to build itself into a grand finale, and the album is constantly bursting with drama and emotion. And yet it is still a solid rock album, any orchestral backing or effects only accentuate the core band, and none of it ever sounds sappy or weak, instead feeling quite epic and empowering. This is going into the permanent collection. |
| Nine Inch Nails Purest Feeling | 2.0 |
| This is an awful record. But it's true value is not really in it's listenability, definitely not that. It's really best as a peek into the creative process of making an album, and an early NIN one at at that. |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Rotten Apples | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania | 4.0 |
I've only in the last few months started listening to The Smashing Pumpkins, but it's been a LONG time
coming. So taking a little detour, skipping from Adore to Oceania (as any listener should never do), there is a
certain amount of culture shock. It's a great deal different, going rockier in the ways of Mellon Collie and
Siamese Dreams, but also with an air of whimsy unseen from the band before, with light backing vocals and a
little synthetic glitter here and there. The sound may have evolved a little, but the music is just as epic,
beautiful, and as enjoyable as its always been. |
| Cake Comfort Eagle | 4.0 |
| It's always a little awkward listening to this album. With the flamboyant music (never missing a moment to utilize a horn section), and the monotone singer always off beat, with the weird intonation, and constantly straddling the line between singing and spoken word. However, despite all that, everything gels so well and meshes to make a great album. It's quirky and it's fun, and no matter what the hell a songs about, it always begs you to try and sing along. |
| Cake Fashion Nugget | 3.0 |
| Listening to this band is always an enjoyable experience. No matter how mediocre the song may be, the band always goes at it with full enthusiasm. While I can appreciate the band trying to move out into different genres, the results tend to be very hit or miss. While I think the country flavour works for Stickshifts And Safetybelts, it doesn't help as well on She'll Come Back To Me. This back and forth of hit and miss makes up the general experience of the album. It's not bad, not by any means, but certainly not the bands best. |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Adore | 4.0 |
The first Smashing Pumpkins album I got into, and definitely my favourite. Adore takes big leaps in maturity
from the last couple albums, with the band no longer relying on heavier and heavier guitars to add drama and
power to each track. With most of the album on the slower side, the band really steps up with more powerful
lyrics, experimentation with digital beats to replace their missing drummer, and orchestrated music to make
each track as grandiose as their usual sound. It may not have as many popular singles, but this album
definitely has the more powerful. |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 3.5 |
| Drake Take Care | 2.0 |
I really wanted to like this album, he's got an interesting voice, but most importantly, he doesn't just rap
about living a thug life. However, if I have to wade through the usual rap to find gems like Look What You've
Done, than I can't promise I'll give it another listen. |
| Radiohead My Iron Lung | 3.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Smells Like Children | 2.0 |
| Foo Fighters One by One | 3.0 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 4.5 |
| Joy Division Closer | 2.5 |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Living Things | 3.0 |
| This is more like what I expected from A Thousand Suns, a lot more edge and charge. It's faster and it's catchier, but despite all that, it still doesn't compare with Hybrid Theory or Meteora. |
| The Bravery The Sun and the Moon Complete | 3.0 |
| The Bravery The Sun and the Moon | 2.5 |
| Blur Parklife | 3.0 |
| Moby 18 | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods | 3.0 |
| I've become obsessed with this band over the last 4-5 months, their music is enjoyable, and has some bite to it. However, the newest album is too tame, there's no passion. I can forgive that there aren't as many loud moments as Swoon, but most of these songs have no recognizable tune, and overall, this album if forgettable. It's not bad, but it's not up to normal Silversun standards. |
| Soundgarden Louder Than Love | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 4.5 |
| Eric Clapton Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton | 3.0 |
| Eric Clapton Unplugged | 3.5 |
| The Good, The Bad and The Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen | 4.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.0 |
| Art Garfunkel Breakaway | 4.0 |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Fluorescent Grey | 3.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Pikul | 3.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 5.0 |
| Despite being decades old now, this album is still flawless. |
| Foo Fighters Skin and Bones | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden A-Sides | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Beside You in Time | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 3.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu FINAL FANTASY IX Original Soundtrack Plus | 2.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy X - Piano Collections | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Seasick | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 4.0 |
| Seether Disclaimer II | 3.0 |
| Seether Disclaimer | 3.0 |
| Seether Holding Onto Strings Better Left To Fray | 2.5 |
| Savage Garden Affirmation | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 3.5 |
| Beck Modern Guilt | 3.0 |
| Beck The Information | 2.5 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II | 2.5 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles | 3.0 |
| Cage The Elephant Cage the Elephant | 2.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Don Davis The Matrix | 3.0 |
| Don Davis The Matrix Revolutions | 1.5 |
| I agree that it's unfair to criticize the album for not having a compilation set like the first couple movie soundtracks, but I think it's a letdown. The actual scores for the movie are interesting at moments, but generally repetitive and boring. Even the best song, Navras, goes on longer than it needs to. |
| Duran Duran Decade: Greatest Hits | 3.0 |
| Evanescence The Open Door | 3.0 |
| Flight of the Conchords Folk the World Tour | 3.5 |
| Foster the People Torches | 2.5 |
| Four Tet Everything Ecstatic | 3.5 |
| Imogen Heap Speak For Yourself | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 3.5 |
| I feel like I'm doing something awful by writing this review, like I'm killing a newborn baby, supporting Hitler, or wishing cancer on someone.rWhile I think this has some the bands best work, overall the album is very uneven. Beautiful songs like Two of rUs and Across the universe are split by the mediocre Dig a Pony. Let it Be is lead in by the filler track Dig It, rI've got a Feeling by Maggie Mae, and The Long and Winding Road follows One After 909. And while I've never rbeen a fan of the rustic Get Back (I know that's weird) it's not preceded by anything good either. rWhile I'm sure many will disagree, I think this album is over-rated. |
| The Beatles Yellow Submarine | 2.5 |
| Bear McCreary Battlestar Galactica - Season Two | 3.5 |
| Bear McCreary Battlestar Galactica - Season Three | 3.0 |
| Avril Lavigne Under My Skin | 3.0 |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go | 2.0 |
| Ace of Base The Sign | 2.5 |
| Street Sweeper Social Club Street Sweeper Social Club | 1.5 |
| I found this band through the NIN Light in the Sky sample album. The songs were amazing, easily 4 material. I started the album wondering how they could only choose 2 songs for the sample, the answer is now pretty obvious. Except for The Oath and Clap for the Killers, this album is pretty bad. |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 3.0 |
| Sum 41 Chuck | 2.5 |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? | 2.0 |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler | 4.0 |
| Social Distortion Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes | 2.0 |
| I took notice of this album for the single Machine Gun Blues, its got great hooks and is a good single. I'm willing to admit that I should give this album another chance, there wasn't anything particularly offensive about this album, but than again, there wasn't anything else memorable either that would make giving this album another shot any easier than the first time. |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 3.5 |
| The Network Money Money 2020 | 3.5 |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad | 3.0 |
| Lmfao Sorry For Party Rocking | 1.0 |
| You're forgiven. Thanks for not putting out more of these albums. |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.0 |
| "Small and soulful" best describes this album. Completely free of any embellishments or frills, the album is a raw piece of work that allows you to enjoy the poetic lyrics, and simple but enjoyable soundscape. |
| fun. Some Nights | 3.5 |
| Damon Albarn Monkey: Journey to the West | 2.0 |
| I assume it works magic with Hewlett's visuals... |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.0 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Straight Outta Lynwood | 3.5 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Running With Scissors | 4.5 |
| I was considering rating this a classic, but there's a few tracks I see more as filler. However, to this day I still know the lyrics to a lot of these songs, and that's the sign of an amazing album. I'd recommend this to anyone. |
| The Cure Pornography | 4.0 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 4.0 |
| Billy Joel The Stranger | 4.5 |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells | 4.0 |
| Bryan Adams The Best of Me | 4.0 |
| For me, Bryan Adams is the king of sappy soft rock. And this album is a great collection of his sappiest, most romantic music I could ever want to hear. |
| Bryan Adams On a Day Like Today | 3.5 |
| Carole King Tapestry | 5.0 |
| This is pretty much a compilation of all these famous songs I've heard throughout my life, but never known who wrote or sang them. Who doesn't know all the lyrics for You've Got a Friend, Feel Like a Natural Woman, or even Will You Love Me Tomorrow? Every single song is a classic that will unfortunately be far more memorable than this album, or even Carole King herself. |
| AWOLNATION Megalithic Symphony | 2.0 |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.0 |
| Tokyo Police Club Elephant Shell | 3.5 |
| Bush The Sea of Memories | 3.0 |
| This album is just good, not great, not bad, just good. When I listen to the album, I can enjoy it quite a bit without skipping anything. But, except for a couple tracks, I haven't ever cared to listen to them on their own. |
| Gorillaz Laika Come Home | 2.0 |
| The Black Keys El Camino | 3.0 |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror | 3.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 3.5 |
| Box Car Racer Box Car Racer | 2.5 |
| Fatboy Slim You've Come a Long Way, Baby | 3.0 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST | 4.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | 2.5 |
| These aren't directly from the movie. I listened to the soundtrack looking for certain snippets of music, and none of them were there. |
| Hans Zimmer Inception | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.0 |
| Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker APPROVED | 3.5 |
| Vince Guaraldi Trio A Charlie Brown Christmas | 4.5 |
| This album musically defines christmas, and I don't think I'm alone with that sentiment. Too bad Guaraldi didn't make it to see how beloved his music would become. |
| Gotye Making Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Animal Kingdom Signs and Wonders | 2.0 |
| Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker Questamation | 3.0 |
| Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker Welding the C:/ | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs: From the Basement | 3.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows: From the Basement | 4.5 |
| Radiohead I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings | 3.5 |
| Live tracks mostly from the Kid A and Amnesiac albums. It's ironic that despite feeling Amnesiac as the weaker of the two albums, the live rendition from that album, Like Spinning Plates, is the highlight. |
| Radiohead No Surprises/Running From Demons | 3.5 |
| Radiohead COM LAG (2plus2isfive) | 3.5 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo OST | 2.5 |
| Yes, the soundtrack fits the low-key tone of the movie to a tee. As a soundtrack it fits perfectly to the visuals with all it's dark and ominous tones. This of course, is the sole purpose of a soundtrack, and with that in mind, this soundtrack works wonders. But as an album, it fails to capture the subtle attitude present in The Social Network. The songs lack any real intrigue or interest, unlike The Social Network, there's nothing noticeable or even worth listening to. With that said, the song covers at the very beginning and end, recorded for the opening and closing credits are amazing. Karen O is in typical form, but Mariqueen Maandig needs a shout out. She sings with so much emotion, it's too bad she isn't like that on the How to Destroy Angel's albums. |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 3.5 |
| Audioslave Revelations | 2.5 |
| Audioslave Out of Exile | 3.0 |
| Martina Topley-Bird The Blue God | 4.0 |
| A hauntingly beautiful album. Has a great flow, and each song slides well into the next. It may take a few listens to separate each track, but once you do you'll see they're almost all gems. |
| Deadmau5 4x4=12 | 2.5 |
| Raise your weapon is a perfect 5, but sadly not the rest of the album. |
| City and Colour Little Hell | 3.0 |
| The Chemical Brothers Hanna OST | 4.0 |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 3.5 |
| Thornley Come Again | 3.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.0 |
| Green Day Nimrod | 3.5 |
| Green Day Dookie | 3.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 3.5 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 3.5 |
| I applaud MCR for really reaching for this album. It's got a solid concept, and some of these tracks elevate to quite epic proportions. The album lags a bit near the end, but is quite enjoyable. |
| Vangelis Blade Runner Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 4.5 |
| I have always argued that Revolver is my favourite Beatles album, but Abbey Road is the best (especially over the usual Sgt. Peppers). But strangely not a whole lot of people argue for Abbey Road, no one denies the albums greatness, but this album barely cracked Rolling Stones top 15 albums of all time. (Not that I agree with Rolling Stone on music taste after the 60s) For any band, this would be a great accomplishment, but when The Beatles make up half the top 10, it's a snub. The whole first half of the album is literally classic after classic, not a single weak track (that's right, I like Octopus' Garden!). And the second half is this amazing ramp up to what I can only describe as one of the best album finales of all time, each band member contributing a quick little solo followed by the quintessential Beatles' lyric, "And in the end/the love you take/ is equal to the love you make" |
| Belle and Sebastian The Boy With the Arab Strap | 4.0 |
| How to Destroy Angels How To Destroy Angels | 3.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta really know how to party, but it's too bad the don't know when to go home. The songs are great, but when most of the songs end after the first 4-5 minutes, but go on long trippy instrumentals for another 5-10, they start to overstay their welcome. |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 3.5 |
| Puscifer "V" Is For Vagina | 3.0 |
| Seal Seal II | 4.0 |
| Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords | 4.0 |
| Flight of the Conchords The Distant Future | 4.0 |
| Flight of the Conchords I Told You I Was Freaky | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline | 4.5 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme | 4.0 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water | 4.5 |
| Yasunori Mitsuda Chrono Trigger Original Sound Version | 5.0 |
| It's funny to listen to all these contemporary video game soundtracks, despite their production value, nothing has managed to reach the level of Chrono Trigger. Even with the SNES quality pixel sounds, every single song is unique and perfectly composed. I can't remember every part of the game off the top of my head, but listening to each track, I can list off each place almost instantly. Isn't that what a video game soundtrack should be able to do? |
| Yasunori Mitsuda Chrono Cross Original Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| To think that this soundtrack is the successor to the faultless Chrono Trigger, and yet it can actually hold it's own is an amazing feat. |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy IX - Piano Collections | 3.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy X: Original Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy IX: Original Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VIII: Original Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VIII: Piano Collections | 4.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII Piano Collections | 4.0 |
| Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record | 5.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) It's Never Been Like That | 3.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Alphabetical | 2.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 4.0 |
| John Frusciante Shadows Collide with People | 4.0 |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 4.0 |
| Rihanna Rated R | 3.0 |
| Rihanna Loud | 3.0 |
| Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded | 3.5 |
| Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Tron: Legacy | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Human After All | 2.0 |
The tracks make great ingredients for Daft Punks live performances, but as a solid album this album falls flat. Aside
from an interesting song or two, the tracks are dull and forgetful. |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 4.0 |
| All the track on this album are amazing, but almost all of them are too repetitive. Repetition is not necessarily a bad thing, but when songs like High Life are a two second clip repeated for three and a half minutes, no matter how much I love it, I will eventually start skipping to the next track mid song. |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz G-Sides | 3.0 |
| Gorillaz D-Sides | 2.5 |
| Gorillaz The Fall | 2.5 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 2.5 |
| Gorillaz finally got crushed under the weight of it's guest stars. The album lacks cohesion and suffers from mediocrity. I miss the good old fun, Gorillaz was designed as an escape where Damon can hide behind the cartoon band, but it seems like after two albums, this has become a full-fledged gig. Rather than try out whatever he couldn't do as a group, he's just created another one. But this time, they've got bloated members like Lou Reed. |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.0 |
| Many of the subjects covered within this album are quite horrifying, but they don't sound so bad when the album sounds this good. Demon Days has a good blend of hip-hop and rock, neither over-powering or outshining the other. The guests are a hell of lot subtler than later work, but still leave a strong mark on their respective songs. |
| Tokyo Police Club Champ | 4.0 |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser | 3.5 |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long | 3.0 |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane | 3.5 |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine: 2010 Remaster | 4.5 |
I was hoping this would be a remake of the original album, replacing all the synthetic electronic sounds with
live instruments and such. Nope, this is a remaster. The sounds been cleaned, and the volume of the tracks
and all their layers has been pretty well retuned. However, I'm not the best listener, and unless I compare each
track one by one, a lot of the remastering goes over my head. However, I do notice an unexplainable
improvement, and it's a great album, and I just reassigned the same rating as the original. |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip | 3.5 |
| Our Lady Peace Naveed | 3.0 |
| Our Lady Peace Healthy In Paranoid Times | 2.5 |
| Our Lady Peace Gravity | 3.0 |
| Not a bad album by any stretch, but I mourn the loss of a great Canadian grunge band. |
| Our Lady Peace Spiritual Machines | 4.5 |
| Our Lady Peace Clumsy | 4.5 |
| Our Lady Peace Happiness... | 5.0 |
Happiness is definitely Our Lady Peace at their best.
Coming from the slightly off-kilter album, Clumsy, OLP manages to broaden their music while maintaining
their unique grungy sound. Singles like One Man Army, Is Anybody Home?, and Thief are more rock oriented
tracks, while songs like Lying Awake, Annie, and Consequences of laughing retain their familiar style. |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 2.0 |
| Whenever I listen to the cover of Imagine, I think back to the scene in the first terminator movie when Kyle Reese is walking through the resistance tunnel, watching as kids are scrounging for rats to eat, and then all of a sudden a terminator gets past security and kills them all. When I listen to this album I hope the terminator manages to euthanize everyone. Aside from Passive, and possibly another song I forgot, this is an poor album. |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 3.5 |
| Some songs are easily 4 material, as I used to rate this album. But when the songs suck, boy do they suck bad. |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 3.5 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 4.0 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 4.0 |
| A beautifully intimate record. It feels so small and comfortable, away from the anthemic rock Coldplay's gotten into over their last few albums. |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 5.0 |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 4.5 |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside | 4.0 |
| Chris Cornell Scream | 1.5 |
| Rock God Chris Cornell is brought down this level of pop trash. Even as a pop/dance album this pretty bad. The only reason I don't give this album a total 1 is because I heard a live performance of Long Gone, and it wasn't terrible. I also have a weird liking for the song Ground Zero, but as a Soundgarden fan, I'm quite ashamed of it. |
| Chris Cornell Carry On | 2.0 |
Not every song on this is poor, Scar on the Sky is bearable, but it's unfortunate that the only good song was
commissioned for a Bond movie. |
| Chris Cornell Euphoria Morning | 5.0 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 4.0 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent | 3.5 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent III | 2.5 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II | 4.0 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 3.5 |
It's a great album, yes, some of these tracks are timeless, but I've never been able to understand how this can
be considered the greatest album ever by so many people. The title tracks are pretty good, and I think they
serve as great openers and closers, not to mention as a lead in to A Day in the Life (a song I appreciate for its
intricacy and grandeur but have never truly cared for). When it comes to a few of the tracks Getting Better,
Fixing a Hole, Lovely Rita, and When I'm Sixty-Four, I've never seen any of these as more than filler. They're
good, but cannot compare at all with classics A Little Help, Lucy in the Sky, or Within you Without You. As far
as just plain good goes, I've always been a fan of She's Leaving Home (which is generally seen as a weaker
track), and have always been on the fence with Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite (which is almost always
relegated to Beatles classics). I see this album as a great Beatles record, but hardly classic. |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 5.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Live at Sin-é | 4.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 5.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk | 4.5 |
This one is a tough one to rate. The first disc is a heavenly compilation of songs. They don't always flow well,
and some are vastly different than others, but they are still amazing songs.
Unfortunately for disc 2... sketches really is the best word to describe it. While a couple of tracks are gems,
even in their raw state, a lot of them needed more work, which will unfortunately never happen.
Still an essential Jeff Buckley listen, it's sad to think some of these disc 2 gems will never be perfected. |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black | 3.0 |
| Amy Winehouse Frank | 3.5 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose | 4.5 |
| The Tea Party The Edges Of Twilight | 4.5 |
| The Tea Party Transmission | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 5.0 |
| Radiohead Airbag/How Am I Driving? | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 2.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.5 |
Not only are they releasing the album without much warning, but they're also springing it out a day early.
Radiohead is really trying to kill the hype for this thing. And I see good reason, this is not what anyone would
have guessed from a Radiohead album, it's short, very rough, and almost indie sounding. It's a great album,
but for all the fans hoping for another Kid A, or even The Bends, this as far as possible from what they were
hoping for. |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
| For an album recorded in 2 weeks, this is pretty damn good. But than again, I think an extra couple of weeks could have helped this album. |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.0 |
It's meant to be a companion piece to Kid A, but I can't help but feel that this more of an afterthought album.
It feels like the best stuff was compiled for Kid A, and the rest were just released later on Amnesiac. There are
a few classic Radiohead tracks on here, but for the most part it's a pretty inferior collection of music. Instead
check out the Pyramid Song single and its B-Sides. |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.0 |
| The albums sounds like a normal Queens album without the heart. It sounds fine and the singles are great. But as a fan in the long run, the only track I'd take with me beyond the album is Into the Hollow. |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 2.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 5.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 4.5 |
| The lyrics for some of these songs are pretty embarrassing to listen to, and I'm really hoping to hear this album one day with a later-NIN rock sound. However, despite that, this is a very well crafted, precise- yet wild record. The album's bite is downplayed by the over-bearing 80's digital sound. but they're still very well layered and coordinated tracks. And the lyrics, despite sounding incredibly corny, actually come off feeling honest rather than stupid. You'll just never catch me singing in public, "I gave you my purity, and my purity you stole." |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 4.5 |
