Average Rating: 3.59 Rating Variance: 1.19 Objectivity Score: 77% (Well Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicCamel MirageLonney(s) Sleep Paralysis in SpheresLonney(s) As Sunhoner: AnhedoniaFan-freaking-tastic. This album has depth and variation, and expresses everything I enjoy about metal.Lonney(s) Eternal Paralysis in VerityAnother instant classic from Lonney(s). If you don't have time to listen to anything else, check out Waltz of the Radiant Demon. Just wow.Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity4.5 superbLonney(s) AmphantastLonney(s) / Volcanic Queen Marble & StoneSwans To Be Kind4.0 excellentIncubus (USA-CA) Make YourselfI have to rate this a four because The Warmth and Drive are two of my favorite songs, and here they are on a single album. Smiling Alongside Killers Street RatsSome great stuff here - it's a pity this is so short. But since Condition Unstable is my morning alarm, and Street Rat is one of the better songs to come out recently - a definite favorite of mine - this still gets a high rating from me.Sublime SublimeTori Amos Little Earthquakes3.5 greatNine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine: 2010 RemasterIt's Pretty Hate Machine. It's remastered. What's not to love? Porcupine Tree WarszawaI listen to Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth often. Beuatiful song. But this whole album is pretty great.Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex MagikRed Hot Chili Peppers I'm With YouTenacious D Tenacious DTribute and Wonderboy are two of Tenacious D's best, hands down, and here they are back to back. You've got to love that. Some of the lyrics on this album are so good they've stuck with me, becoming a part of me, prompting me to some really inappropriate things at times (this is especially true of Kielbasa and F*** Her Gently.) The skits are hit and miss, and you have to be in the mood for this, but overall, this is, IMO, the best of Tenacious D even to this day.The Residents Duck Stab 3.0 goodFlight of the Conchords Flight of the ConchordsI can't help but smile when I listen to these songs. Hiphopopotamous vs Rhymnocerous is one of the best rap songs ever written, and if you believe Bret and Jemaine, it is the foundation from which all other rap stems. Jemaine, especially, manages to put a lot of emotion into his lyrics. When he claims his lyrics are bottomless before awkwardly trailing off, or gets irritated at a guy named Steve, or quickly and somewhat embarrassingly finishes the second part of the line: "Yes, sometimes my lyrics are sexist/ But you lovely bitches and hoes should know I'm trying to correct this," he makes it funny simply by the way he says it. Other tracks I enjoy include the soulful "The Most Beautiful Girl (in the room)," which is pretty much easy listening with a grin, and Mutha'Uckas, which is funny and, toward the end, utterly absurd. The "editing" gets so intense you can barely make out what's being said, and somehow, that's awesome. "mango... /f'...r'k...'k/ and pop an apple in his ass, yeah!" It's weird. It's funny. It sounds decent. Overall, I like. :DGreen Day DookieDookie was my introduction to Green Day, and as a teenager, it spoke to me. Having a Blast was my go-to song when I was in a mood. I remember half screaming along with it many times. Other people have mentioned Longview's bassline - it's downright sexy. One of the reasons I play bass today. Welcome to Paradise was an anthem for kids like me ready to leave home. And Basketcase. Man. I loved that song. All that said, Dookie has not aged well for me. As an adult, the lyrics no longer have the "Hell Yeah" appeal they once did for me, and musically, there's just something left to be desired.Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar2.0 poorAlanis Morissette Jagged Little PillThe first time I heard this, I was a young teen hanging out with a "cool" girl in her mid-twenties. I'd never heard Alanis Morissette before, she was the new "thing," and her abrasive voice and bold lyrics got my attention enough that after hearing "You Oughta Know," I went out and bought Jagged Little Pill for myself. What a let down. I wanted to like it. I tried to like it. I even pretended to like it. But in the end, this whole album feels like it's trying too hard, and it made me feel like I was trying too hard, and I dropped it.Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask ReplicaThis album was so bad I had to laugh - and I laughed until there were tears in my eyes. There is not a single song on this album that doesn't stumble and fall apart; sometimes hilariously so, but other times in a way that physically made me cringe. Even though I listened to this with my lover, and we enjoyed the laughter and the novelty, by the end, I was counting down the minutes until it was over. And yet... there is something about this album that sticks with you, for better or for worse. I find myself singing the lyrics (albeit in funny voices) and wanting to hear some of those songs "just one more time" just to "remind myself how bad it was." This is a terrible, terrible album. And I just might listen to it again really soon.Sam Smith In the Lonely HourI came here specifically to register severe dislike for this album, especially that annoying piece of tripe they constantly play on the radio around here, Stay With Me. Its overdone, gospel-chorus-style refrain and whiny lyrics are enough to ruin any album, and the rest of what this one has to offer are nowhere near enough to save it - in fact, it's all a bunch of the same.Snow 12 Inches of SnowI kind of liked Informer. I mean, it's surprisingly catchy, considering that most of the words are garbled beyond comprehension. And you've got to love a white, clean-cut Canadian in glasses rapping about how thug he is in a Jamaican accent that he got without ever necessarily stepping foot in Jamaica. I've shown various people the Informer video, and it's made all the more amusing by the fact that for all that he looks like a spoiled kid from an upper-class neighborhood, Snow's story in Informer - about stabbing someone - is legit. Mo fo stabbed someone. On the other hand, every other freaking song on this album was, in my opinion, complete crap. Seriously, terribly awful. In the end, I can't rate an album with one song that amuses me and 12 that make me want to stuff anything I can find into my ears just to block out the sound any higher than a 2.1.0 awfulVanilla Ice To the ExtremePractically everyone who remembers "Ice, Ice, Baby" remembers it as one of the worst songs ever written, but I promise you, it was the best one on this album. No, I want to talk to you about a song that is much, much worse: "Life is a Fantasy." Not only is it devoid of any musical merit whatsoever, Ice's vocal style combined with super squicky lyrics leaves my skin crawling over two decades later. This is the epitome of of suck. This song is so incredibly, sickeningly un-sexy that it was probably single-handedly responsible for the steep drop in teen pregnancy rates seen in 1990.
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