| 4.0 excellent |
| David Bowie Low |
| David Bowie Station to Station |
| David Bowie "Heroes" |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| This one has an atmosphere like nothing else. Sinister and sexual, primal and poetic. You've heard it a thousand times, I don't think I need to say more. |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Brutal and unrelenting and somber and gorgeous and the perfect culmination of everything they'd be working toward since '95. |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Elliott Smith Roman Candle |
| Elliott Smith Figure 8 |
| Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill |
| Foster the People Supermodel |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| Joy Division Closer |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Metallica Live Shit: Binge & Purge |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Metallica Load |
| The rousing manifesto for a new era of Metallica -- one which, unfortunately, never lived up to its promises. "Bleeding Me" and "The Outlaw Torn" are brilliant career milestones. |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct |
| Their best album in twenty years. For real this time. |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Oliver Tree Ugly Is Beautiful |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| R.E.M. Lifes Rich Pageant |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music |
| Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues |
| The lyric "There's a moon in my throat" warrants at least a 3.5. |
| The Cure The Top |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| How this is their lowest-rated album here is beyond me. I get that the experimental tracks might feel a little underdeveloped but they're so eclectic and engaging that the record flows smooth as butter. And the rest is classic Dillinger with a few twists. The final trifecta might be the best three-track run in their entire catalog. Love it. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation |
| What a stellar way to cap things off, and I don't even have the sentimental attachment that longtime Dillinger fans might. Very all-encompassing, touching on just about every genre they ever dabbled in, and there are still some curveballs thrown in. To sweeten the pot, the closing track is among their best ever. This is how you go out swinging. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The Hoosiers The Illusion Of Safety |
| The Killers Sam's Town |
| Twenty One Pilots Trench |
| Leaving the unnecessary sidesteps and painful regressions of "Blurryface" behind, Twenty One Pilots deliver their most mature effort yet, at the cost of some of the wistful fun that made their earlier work so appealing. |
| 3.5 great |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Bill Withers Just As I Am |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs |
| David Bowie No Plan |
| David Bowie Lodger |
| Decidedly more vanilla than its Berlin brethren, but a thoroughly enjoyable listen in its own right. |
| Deftones White Pony |
| I understand why this album is put on a pedestal. It makes some huge leaps in their sound without losing the raw energy of Around the Fur. But it also doesn't provide much that isn't done better on that record or on some later record. |
| Deftones Gore |
| Like if you programmed a really smart AI to write a Deftones record. Solid songs beaten down by drowsy, off-putting production and an occasional lack of palpable enthusiasm. I'm glad it exists though. No other album of theirs has this aesthetic, for better or for worse. |
| Deftones Ohms |
| More sonically clean, more focused, and all around more 'Deftones-y' than Gore, no doubt. But a few of these songs have yet to resonate with me like they should if I'm gonna fawn like everyone else. I welcome that to change. |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| I love the simplicity, and some of Steph's most creative riffage is here. But ultimately it's just prepubescent AtF. There are much worse things to be. |
| Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree |
| Foster the People Torches |
| Gerard Way Hesitant Alien |
| HEALTH Max Payne 3 |
| HEALTH VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR |
| HEALTH RAT WARS |
| Indigo De Souza All of This Will End |
| Indigo De Souza I Love My Mom |
| Indigo De Souza Any Shape You Take |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Marvin Gaye What's Going On |
| Metallica 72 Seasons |
| Has a lower ceiling than Hardwired but a higher floor. |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| The first album, and by extension the first band, that spurred my love of music. I likely will never be able to look at this record objectively. Same goes for the rest of MCR's work. |
| My Chemical Romance May Death Never Stop You |
| My Chemical Romance Number Two |
| My Chemical Romance Number Three |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| R.E.M. Reckoning |
| R.E.M. Document |
| R.E.M. Fables of the Reconstruction |
| R.E.M. Green |
| R.E.M. Out of Time |
| R.E.M. Monster |
| R.E.M. New Adventures in Hi-Fi |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Rush Permanent Waves |
| Silversun Pickups The Singles Collection |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food |
| Talking Heads True Stories |
| The Cure Three Imaginary Boys |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| The Cure Faith |
| The Cure The Head on the Door |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
| It runs too long and the lyrics are more saccharine than ever, but you won't care when the sweet sounds of "How Beautiful You Are" or "Just Like Heaven" kick in. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| I admire what this record is doing even if it doesn't always gel with me personally. It's a classic for a reason. Plus, "43% Burnt" was the first Dillinger track I ever heard and it's still among my favorites, so extra points there. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| If I ever want to introduce someone to Dillinger, this is the album I'll point to. A perfect mix of their debut's jagged insanity and the polished hardcore soundscapes that grew to define them. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| This seems to be a favorite around here, and on the surface I can see why. Obviously, "Farewell, Mona Lisa" is one of their masterpieces, and there are a few other highlights as well. But this also contains the most forgettable material the band ever produced. I don't know if it'll ever fully click with me. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| I don't think it's a hot take to call this their most normie album. Greg's vocals especially are hookier than ever. A lot of great songs here but also the first (and only) time it feels like they might be treading water. |
| The Hoosiers The Trick To Life |
| The Hoosiers The News From Nowhere |
| The Hoosiers Confidence |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| Twenty One Pilots Scaled and Icy |
| Twenty One Pilots Twenty One Pilots |
