| 4.5 superb |
| Animal Collective Feels |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique |
| Interviewer: Nathanael Hornblower, you've been working with the Beasties for the last three years. What can you tell us about their new record, "Paul's Boutique"? Nathanael Hornblower: Vell, I can tell you that it has been a remarkable experience. Ze boys have brought a whole new skill set to zis record. I have verked vith many artists, and none have impressed me like ze Beastie Boys have. Interviewer: Can you elaborate? Nathanael Hornblower: Zey are fragmented, allusive, aggressive, and inspired. Zey dredge all of musical history for samples (zey bite from John Williams, ze Beatles, and Idris Muhammad, for Gott's sake!), namedrop scientists, writers (after all, zey got more rhymes zan JDs got Salingers), and buy drinks from Orange Julius. Zis is a postmodern crisis of consciousness, a dick-measuring contest von by pop-culture knowledge, a rap battle fought vith a TV Guide in one hand and a syllabus in ze other. Fuck concepts, fuck tradition, zis is innovation. Interviewer: Well...um...we're certainly looking forward to it. Nathanael Hornblower: Yes, ve are looking forward to the release. I hope all ze Swiss girls come to ze party. |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On |
| Can Ege Bamyasi |
| Can Future Days |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| David Bowie Low |
| David Bowie "Heroes" |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
| Destroyer Kaputt |
| A cynical Canadian Modernist (born too late) makes airy porno-core. |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone |
| This album has one sound and it weighs two fucking tons. Pack a bowl, light up, listen, and nod your head, because we hate you. |
| Elvis Costello My Aim Is True |
| Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats |
| Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Guided by Voices Bee Thousand |
| GZA Liquid Swords |
| J Dilla Donuts |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| Jefferson Airplane After Bathing at Baxter's |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| Joni Mitchell Blue |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Black balls, black balls, black balls, black balls. |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen |
| Love Forever Changes |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Mercury Rev Boces |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime |
| Morbid Saint Spectrum of Death |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Everybody else has said what I want to say about this album, only they've said it better. It's as haunting, scary, moving, and genius as they all say it is. Listen to it. |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Pavement Slanted and Enchanted |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| When I was 14, I was primarily listening to Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, and Boston. There's nothing really wrong with these bands, but they all sort of bely tendency toward "Dad-Rock", a tendency that came from...well, my dad. This album changed that. From the opening crash of the cymbals in "Bone Machine", I knew I was listening to something Dad would never get into. This album single-handedly started me down the path to music nerd-dom. Fuck you, Dad. |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead's best work. Floored me when I first heard it, and I continue to find new, compelling reasons to spin it again. |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Rites of Spring End on End |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Sonic Youth Sister |
| Sonic Youth Evol |
| Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| Swans To Be Kind |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Clash London Calling |
| The Future Sound of London Lifeforms |
| The album that got me into electronic music. Beeps and boops and some groovy tunes, man. |
| The Microphones Mount Eerie |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
| The Microphones It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water |
| The Modern Lovers The Modern Lovers |
| The Olivia Tremor Control Music From The Unrealized Film Script |
| The Olivia Tremor Control Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume 1 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The United States of America The United States of America |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells |
| The Zombies Odessey and Oracle |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs |
| Listening to this album is like being told a bunch of sad stories by a retired carnival barker, and I'll be damned if those stories aren't great. |
| Van Morrison Astral Weeks |
| Wire Pink Flag |
| A conversation with my friend Austin. Me: Dude, so have you heard Wire? Austin: No, what's it like? Me: So, it's punk, but it's not punk. It's like post-punk before post-punk was a thing. Wikipedia calls it art-punk. I don't really know how to describe it. Like, short, weird, catchy-as-hell melodic punk tunes. You've just got to listen to it. Austin: ... |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| 4.0 excellent |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the Sullen |
| A Winged Victory for the Sullen Atomos |
| Afrirampo A |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Aguaturbia Psychedelic Drugstore |
| AJJ Knife Man |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| Aretha Franklin I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You |
| Ariel Pink Pom Pom |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Atomic Rooster Death Walks Behind You |
| Autechre Tri Repetae |
| Bark Psychosis Hex |
| Beck Odelay |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot |
| Big Brother And The Holding Company Cheap Thrills |
| Big L Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous |
| Billy Woods History Will Absolve Me |
| Binary Star Masters of the Universe |
| Biosphere Substrata |
| Bjork Post |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Start A People |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Black Star Black Star |
| Blondie Parallel Lines |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun |
| Boris Pink |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Brian Eno Another Green World |
| Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets |
| Brian Eno Before and After Science |
| Brian Wilson Smile |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run |
| Buffy Sainte-Marie Illuminations |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| Butthole Surfers Locust Abortion Technician |
| Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady |
| Buzzov-en ...At A Loss |
| Can Monster Movie |
| Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus |
| Captain Beyond Captain Beyond |
| Caribou Swim |
| Chad VanGaalen Diaper Island |
| Church of Misery Early Works Compilation |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges |
| Corpus Creation a Child |
| Country Joe And The Fish Electric Music for the Mind and Body |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory |
| Cynic Focus |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Daisy Chainsaw Eleventeen |
| Danny Brown XXX |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Death Human |
| Deerhoof Apple O' |
| Deerhoof Breakup Song |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest |
| Derek and the Dominos Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs |
| Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies |
| Destroyer Poison Season |
| Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! |
| diSEMBOWELMENT Transcendence into the Peripheral |
| Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst |
| dredg El Cielo |
| Dusty Springfield Dusty in Memphis |
| Earth Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions |
| Eels Electro-Shock Blues |
| Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics... |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Elvis Costello This Year's Model |
| Embrace (US) Embrace |
| Eyehategod In the Name of Suffering |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear |
| Faust Faust IV |
| Fela Kuti Zombie |
| Fela Kuti Expensive Shit |
| Fifty Foot Hose Cauldron |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Fly Pan Am Fly Pan Am |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
| Frank Sinatra In The Wee Small Hours |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones |
| Funeral Diner The Underdark |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain |
| Gang of Four Entertainment! |
| Girls Broken Dreams Club |
| Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost |
| Global Communication 76:14 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Goldie Timeless |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Grouper A I A |
| Harold Budd and Brian Eno Ambient 2 - The Plateaux of Mirror |
| Helios Eingya |
| Herbie Hancock Head Hunters |
| Human Instinct Stoned Guitar |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade |
| iamamiwhoami Kin |
| Iggy Pop Lust For Life |
| Iggy Pop The Idiot |
| International Harvester Sov Gott Rose-Marie |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| James Blackshaw O True Believer |
| James Blake CMYK |
| James Blake Klavierwerke |
| James Blake James Blake |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid |
| Jay Reatard Blood Visions |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint |
| Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick |
| Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Karriem Riggins Alone Together |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Kevin Ayers Joy of a Toy |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music |
| Kraftwerk The Man-Machine |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate |
| Liars They Were Wrong, So We Drowned |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See |
| mclusky McLusky Do Dallas |
| Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Melt-Banana Cell-Scape |
| Melvins Houdini |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories |
| Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther |
| Miles Davis Sketches of Spain |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours |
| Nachtmystium Silencing Machine |
| Neil Young Harvest |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush |
| Neu! Neu! |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Returnal |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Organisation Tone Float |
| Os Mutantes Technicolor |
| Otis Redding Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch |
| Parson Sound Parson Sound |
| Parts and Labor Mapmaker |
| Patti Smith Horses |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee |
| pg.99 Document #8 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After |
| Pile Dripping |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets |
| Portico Quartet Portico Quartet |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong |
| Primal Scream Screamadelica |
| Quicksilver Messenger Service Happy Trails |
| Rachel's Music for Egon Schiele |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... |
| Randy Newman Sail Away |
| Red House Painters Red House Painters |
| Red Krayola The Parable of Arable Land |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| RJD2 Deadringer |
| Robert Wyatt Rock Bottom |
| Roxy Music For Your Pleasure |
| Royksopp Melody A.M. |
| Scratch Acid The Greatest Gift |
| Serge Gainsbourg Histoire de Melody Nelson |
| Set Fire to Flames Sings Reign Rebuilder |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain |
| Sleep Research Facility Deep Frieze |
| Sly and The Family Stone Stand! |
| Soap and Skin Narrow |
| Sonic Youth Goo |
| Sonic Youth Murray Street |
| Sparks Kimono My House |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space |
| Spoon Kill the Moonlight |
| Spoon Transference |
| Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid |
| Stateless Matilda |
| Stevie Wonder Innervisions |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
| Sun Kil Moon April |
| Sunn O))) Black One |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary |
| Swallow the Sun The Morning Never Came |
| Swans Filth |
| Swans The Seer |
| Swarms Old Raves End |
| Swell Maps ....In "Jane From Occupied Europe" |
| T. Rex The Slider |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music |
| Tame Impala Lonerism |
| Television Marquee Moon |
| The 13th Floor Elevators The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators |
| The 13th Floor Elevators Easter Everywhere |
| The Clash The Clash |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) |
| The Electric Prunes I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) |
| The Evens The Odds |
| The Fall This Nation's Saving Grace |
| The Feelies Crazy Rhythms |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic |
| The Fun Years Baby, It's Cold Inside |
| The Gaslamp Killer Breakthrough |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There |
| The Jesus Lizard Goat |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Men Leave Home |
| The Mountain Goats Tallahassee |
| The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas |
| The Pop Group Y |
| The Pretty Things S.F. Sorrow |
| The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. |
| The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart |
| The Stooges Fun House |
| The Sword Age of Winters |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| The Velvet Underground Loaded |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons |
| The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band A Child's Guide to Good and Evil |
| The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Part One |
| The Who The Who Sell Out |
| The Zephyrs When the Sky Comes Down It Comes Down on Your Head |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra This Is Our Punk-Rock, Thee Rusted Satellites Gather and Sing |
| Tim Buckley Starsailor |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Tim Hecker Virgins |
| Toad (CHE) Toad |
| Tom Waits Bad As Me |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die |
| Tricky Maxinquaye |
| tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| Vangelis Blade Runner Soundtrack |
| Vektor Black Future |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett |
| Violent Femmes Violent Femmes |
| Ween The Mollusk |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| I'm embarrassed to like this album. It's ugly, creepy, and frequently despicable. This is an album for dudes who believe in "The Friend Zone". I mean, Christ, how am I supposed to explain a song like "Across the Sea"? It's an album that begs you to hate it, but I suppose that's the point. How often do we get to hear something that yells at the listener, with capital-H honesty, "I'm beyond fucked-up, lonely, and angry, but so are you, or you wouldn't be listening to this again at 1 AM on a Wednesday night. Let's pretend we're 15, put on Pinkerton, and dance the rage away." |
| Weezer Weezer |
| White Suns Sinews |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| Wire Chairs Missing |
| Wire 154 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars |
| Women Women |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain |
| XTC Drums And Wires |
| Yes Fragile |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One |
