Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' | 4.5 |
Mogwai Every Country's Sun | 4.0 |
Beck Colors | 3.5 |
Neil Cicierega Mouth Sounds | 3.0 |
Neil Cicierega Mouth Silence | 4.0 |
Neil Cicierega Mouth Moods | 4.5 |
Caravan Palace Robot Face | 3.5 |
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 4.0 |
Guy Garvey Courting The Squall | 3.5 |
DJ Shadow The Mountain Will Fall | 2.0 |
Royksopp Junior | 4.0 |
Royksopp Senior | 3.5 |
Royksopp The Inevitable End | 4.5 |
Lemon Demon Spirit Phone | 4.5 |
Elbow The Take Off And Landing Of Everything | 4.0 |
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 4.5 |
Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 4.5 |
Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase | 4.5 |
Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 5.0 |
Passion Pit Gossamer | 4.0 |
Passion Pit Manners | 3.0 |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.5 |
Bjork Selmasongs | 3.5 |
The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike [US Reissue] | 4.0 |
The Go! Team Rolling Blackouts | 3.5 |
The Go! Team Proof of Youth | 3.0 |
The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike | 4.0 |
The Breeders Pod | 3.0 |
Bonobo The North Borders | 4.5 |
Crash Test Dummies God Shuffled His Feet | 4.5 |
Bjork Bastards | 3.5 |
Bjork Telegram | 3.5 |
Bjork Voltaic | 3.5 |
Meat Beat Manifesto RUOK? | 3.0 |
Rush Clockwork Angels | 5.0 |
The Chemical Brothers Further | 4.5 |
The Orb The Dream | 4.5 |
The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania | 4.5 |
Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 3.0 |
Matchbox Twenty Mad Season | 4.5 |
The Arrogant Worms Semi-Conducted | 4.0 |
The Chemical Brothers Don't Think | 3.5 |
Caravan Palace Caravan Palace | 4.0 |
Masakatsu Takagi Coieda | 3.5 |
Lovely ambient electronica and classical pieces - the piano composition Girls is probably the best song on here. |
Caravan Palace Panic | 4.0 |
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.5 |
Battles Gloss Drop | 4.0 |
Battles Mirrored | 4.5 |
Ochre Lemodie | 4.5 |
Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 4.5 |
Bjork Biophilia | 2.5 |
0edit Neotokyo | 5.0 |
Renard Intensive Care Unit | 3.5 |
Renard This Place Will Grow | 3.5 |
Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Lab... Portal 2: Songs to Test By | 3.5 |
BT These Hopeful Machines | 2.5 |
Goldfrapp Felt Mountain | 4.5 |
The Breeders Last Splash | 4.0 |
Ladytron Gravity the Seducer | 4.0 |
Animal Collective Prospect Hummer | 2.0 |
Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 5.0 |
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 4.5 |
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 5.0 |
Basement Jaxx Attack The Block | 4.5 |
Talking Heads Stop Making Sense | 5.0 |
Talking Heads Remain in Light | 3.5 |
Talking Heads Fear of Music | 4.5 |
Barenaked Ladies disc one: All Their Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
Barenaked Ladies All in Good Time | 3.0 |
Barenaked Ladies Barenaked Ladies Are Me | 4.0 |
Barenaked Ladies Everything to Everyone | 3.5 |
Barenaked Ladies Maroon | 4.5 |
Barenaked Ladies Gordon | 3.5 |
Barenaked Ladies Maybe You Should Drive | 3.5 |
Barenaked Ladies Stunt | 4.0 |
Hybrid (UK) Wide Angle | 5.0 |
Hybrid (UK) Morning Sci-Fi | 3.0 |
Hybrid (UK) I Choose Noise | 4.5 |
Hybrid (UK) Disappear Here | 3.5 |
Mercury Rev Snowflake Midnight | 3.0 |
Mercury Rev The Secret Migration | 2.5 |
Mercury Rev All Is Dream | 4.5 |
Mercury Rev Deserter's Songs | 4.5 |
Daft Punk Daft Club | 2.0 |
Daft Punk Alive 2007 | 4.5 |
Daft Punk Homework | 4.0 |
Daft Punk Discovery | 4.5 |
Basement Jaxx Zephyr | 3.5 |
Basement Jaxx Rooty | 3.0 |
Basement Jaxx Kish Kash | 3.0 |
Basement Jaxx Crazy Itch Radio | 4.0 |
The Avalanches Since I Left You | 5.0 |
Basement Jaxx Scars | 3.0 |
Beck The Information | 3.0 |
Beck Guero | 4.5 |
Beck Sea Change | 5.0 |
Beck Odelay | 4.5 |
The White Stripes Icky Thump | 3.5 |
The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 4.0 |
The White Stripes Elephant | 4.5 |
The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 4.0 |
The White Stripes De Stijl | 3.5 |
The White Stripes The White Stripes | 2.5 |
The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights | 4.5 |
Curve Come Clean | 4.0 |
Curve Gift | 4.5 |
Moby Destroyed | 3.5 |
Moby Wait for Me | 3.0 |
Moby Last Night | 3.0 |
Moby Hotel | 3.0 |
Album is flat and boring, ambient disc has some really nice songs on it. |
Moby 18 | 3.0 |
Moby Play | 4.5 |
Moby Everything is Wrong | 3.5 |
Moby Go – The Very Best of Moby | 3.0 |
The version of God Moving Over the Face of the Water here is slightly better than the original, and the remix album is at the very least interesting (some are actually quite good.) |
Moby 18 B Sides | 3.0 |
The album itself is mediocre, but the accompanying DVD containing weird short films done during touring, Moby's Glastonbury performance, and ~20 remixes makes it worth at least checking out. |
Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill | 4.0 |
Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 2 | 5.0 |
Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 3 | 4.0 |
Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 4: The Room | 3.5 |
Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill Sounds Box | 3.5 |
Radiohead The King of Limbs | 2.5 |
Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.0 |
Radiohead The Bends | 4.5 |
Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.0 |
Radiohead COM LAG (2plus2isfive) | 2.5 |
Radiohead My Iron Lung | 4.0 |
Radiohead TKOL RMX 1234567 | 3.0 |
Peter Gabriel Scratch My Back | 3.5 |
For the most part, these covers are very well-done - I'm in an odd spot on this though, having never heard of half of the original songs. Of the ones I can compare, the rendition of Elbow's Mirrorball is just as stunningly beautiful as the original, Talking Heads' paranoid Listening Wind is turned into a story of someone becoming a freedom fighter/terrorist out of desperation (I actually prefer this version), and the climax of the cover of David Bowie's Heroes is wonderful, even if before that point it's rather unremarkable. On a low note, the one terrible cover on here is also the closer, the atrocious cover of Radiohead's Street Spirit (which stings even more since that's the song that got me to buy this album.) Overall, it's an interesting set of reinterpretations mostly done quite well. |
Peter Gabriel Up | 4.5 |
Peter Gabriel Us | 3.5 |
Peter Gabriel So | 5.0 |
Peter Gabriel Security | 4.5 |
Peter Gabriel Melt | 5.0 |
Peter Gabriel Car | 2.5 |
Outside of Solsbury Hill and the rather odd Moribund the Burgermeister, nothing on this album really stands out. The original, overproduced version of Here Comes the Flood does provide a good "Wait, what?" reaction from anyone who heard the later lone piano version of the song first. |
Peter Gabriel Growing Up: Live (DVD) | 4.5 |
Peter Gabriel Secret World Live | 4.5 |
Laurie Anderson Big Science | 3.5 |
Laurie Anderson Mister Heartbreak | 3.5 |
David Bowie "Heroes" | 4.0 |
David Bowie Best of Bowie | 2.5 |
The Police Every Breath You Take: The Classics | 4.0 |
Queen A Night at the Opera | 4.5 |
Queen The Miracle | 3.5 |
Bjork Volta | 4.5 |
Bjork Vespertine | 4.5 |
Bjork Homogenic | 5.0 |
Bjork Post | 4.5 |
Bjork Debut | 3.5 |
Orbital The Middle of Nowhere | 4.0 |
Orbital In Sides | 5.0 |
Orbital Snivilisation | 5.0 |
Orbital Orbital 2 | 4.0 |
Orbital Orbital | 2.5 |
Orbital Blue Album | 2.5 |
The Birthday Massacre Violet | 3.5 |
The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole | 4.5 |
The Chemical Brothers Surrender | 4.5 |
The Chemical Brothers Come with Us | 3.5 |
The Chemical Brothers Push the Button | 3.0 |
The Chemical Brothers We Are the Night | 3.0 |
Feist The Reminder | 3.5 |
Feist Let It Die | 3.5 |
k-os Yes! | 3.5 |
k-os Joyful Rebellion | 4.0 |
k-os Atlantis: Hymns For Disco | 4.5 |
OK Go Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky | 4.5 |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 3.5 |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.5 |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 5.0 |
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 5.0 |
DJ Shadow The Less You Know, the Better | 3.0 |
DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 5.0 |
DJ Shadow The Private Press | 4.5 |
Massive Attack Blue Lines | 3.0 |
Massive Attack Protection | 3.5 |
Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.5 |
Massive Attack 100th Window | 3.0 |
Massive Attack Heligoland | 4.5 |
Ladytron 604 | 3.0 |
Ladytron Velocifero | 4.5 |
Ladytron Witching Hour | 3.5 |
Elbow Build A Rocket Boys! | 4.5 |
Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid | 5.0 |
Meat Beat Manifesto Storm The Studio RMXS | 4.0 |
Meat Beat Manifesto Original Fire | 3.5 |
Meat Beat Manifesto Subliminal Sandwich | 4.0 |
Meat Beat Manifesto Actual Sounds + Voices | 5.0 |
Meat Beat Manifesto ...In Dub | 3.5 |
Meat Beat Manifesto At the Center | 4.5 |
Meat Beat Manifesto Autoimmune | 3.0 |
Paul Oakenfold Tranceport | 1.5 |
Perhaps the dullest album I've listened to - I am aware that it IS trance, but each song rarely wavers from sounding exactly the same as the previous. There are a couple that might be worth a listen, but overall avoid this. |
Thievery Corporation Culture of Fear | 4.0 |
Radiohead In Rainbows | 5.0 |
Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
Radiohead Airbag/How Am I Driving? | 4.5 |
Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
Royksopp The Understanding | 4.5 |
The Chemical Brothers Exit Planet Dust | 3.0 |
Junkie XL Today | 4.5 |
Easily the best of JXL's albums, he cuts way back on the synths and straightforward club music to make a mix of clean ringing guitars, hypnotic sounds and energetic drums. Mushroom's gradual build to its shining second half, Such a Tease's shimmering groove and the smooth acoustic and violin interlude of Honey are highlights. |
Freezepop Imaginary Friends | 3.5 |
Freezepop Future Future Future Perfect | 4.5 |
Orbital The Altogether | 2.0 |
While the second disc (self-done remixes) is reasonably interesting and the finale of the album itself, Meltdown, possibly being the best song Orbital's ever done, the main body of the album itself is generic at best and irritating for the rest of it. Only buy if you find it somewhere for a cheap price, just for Meltdown and the remix disc. |
Radiohead I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings | 3.5 |