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5.0 classic
A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory
Amy Winehouse Back to Black
Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique
Beck Odelay
Billy Bragg and Wilco Mermaid Avenue
Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish
Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde
Bob Marley and The Wailers Catch A Fire
Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend
Bob Marley and The Wailers Exodus
Boogie Down Productions Criminal Minded
Brian Wilson Smile
Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A.
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Safe As Milk
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Clipse Hell Hath No Fury
Common Be
Cypress Hill Cypress Hill
D'Angelo Black Messiah
Das EFX Dead Serious
Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....
Elvis Costello My Aim Is True
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues
Fleetwood Mac Rumours
Frank Sinatra Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years
Fugees The Score
Gang of Four Entertainment!
Gang Starr Daily Operation
Ghostface Killah Fishscale
Neurotic, absurd, and compulsively detailed, Ghostface makes his ghetto tales of murder and cocaine sound like a Woody Allen script directed by David Lynch. One minute he's dictating a shopping list while snorting cocaine; the next, he finds the necklace Rose dropped at the end of "Titanic" as a mermaid takes him on a tour of a supernatural Muslim paradise at the bottom of the ocean. He doesn't watch TV, he watches "Larry King Live." He doesn't want an ice tea; he wants Cranberry Snapple, thank you.
Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele
Girl Talk Feed the Animals
Green Day Dookie
GZA Liquid Swords
Harry Nilsson Nilsson Schmilsson
Howlin Wolf Moanin' in the Moonlight
Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Ice-T O.G. Original Gangster
Ice-T Power
Ice-T The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What Yo
James Brown Star Time
James Brown 20 All Time Greatest Hits!
Jay-Z The Blueprint
Jay-Z The Black Album
John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
Kanye West Late Registration
Kanye West The College Dropout
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly
KRS-One Return Of The Boom Bap
Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Liz Phair Exile In Guyville
M.I.A. Kala
Madvillain Madvillainy
Main Source Breaking Atoms
Marvin Gaye What's Going On
Marvin Gaye Let's Get It On
Michael Jackson Thriller
Miles Davis Kind of Blue
Mobb Deep The Infamous
N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton
Nas Illmatic
The greatest album I've ever heard, "Illmatic" succeeds not by its technical perfection, but by the way its technical perfection allows Nas' vision to focus. Nas is not a protagonist, but a voyeur and his keen powers of observation capture a place and time with photographic precision. A time capsule inimitable precisely because of its specificity, the view from Nas' project window is breathtaking whether or not you know what a buck fifty cut is.
Nick Drake Pink Moon
Nick Drake Five Leaves Left
Nick Drake Bryter Layter
Nirvana Nevermind
OutKast ATLiens
Parliament Mothership Connection
If the songs seem too long, you're just not dancing hard enough.
Paul McCartney Ram
Paul Simon Graceland
Paul Simon So Beautiful or So What
Phil Ochs Greatest Hits
Prince Purple Rain
Prince Sign o' the Times
Public Enemy It Takes A Nation (...) To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy Fear Of A Black Planet
Public Enemy Power to the People and the Beats
Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
Ramones Ramones
Randy Newman Sail Away
Randy Newman 12 Songs
Rick James Street Songs
Funky as you'd expect, political when it needs to be, funny when it wants to be ("They call me a faggot / And me and all my women laugh.")
Robert Wyatt Nothing Can Stop Us
Run-D.M.C. Raising Hell
Scarface The Fix
Kanye and the Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella crew gift an abused vet with the best beats of his career in exchange for the most mature and self-possessed lyrics he'll ever write.
Scarface Mr. Scarface Is Back
Cocaine is a hell of a drug. ("A homicidal maniac with suicidal tendencies.")
Scarface The Diary
Three albums deep, DJ Aksiun becomes Scarface. The flows slow, the beats thicken, and even murder becomes philosophical.
She and Him Volume Two
Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water
Small Faces Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
Soundtrack (Film) 8 Mile Soundtrack
St. Vincent St. Vincent
Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life
The Band The Band
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys Wild Honey
The Beach Boys Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
The Beach Boys The Smile Sessions
The Beatles Revolver
The Beatles Abbey Road
The Beatles The Beatles
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Clash London Calling
The Clash Sandinista!
The Clash The Clash
The Clash London Calling: Legacy Edition
The Kinks The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
The Kinks Face to Face
The Kinks Muswell Hillbillies
The Kinks Something Else by The Kinks
The Kinks The Kinks in Mono
The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs
The Magnetic Fields The Wayward Bus
Not yet singing, and thus not needing a protective coating of irony, Merritt writes heartbroken synthpop that only works on one level. But how it works.
The Magnetic Fields The Charm Of The Highway Strip
For when you wish melancholic country music about the open road didn't sound like melancholic country music about the open road. ("Your eyes are Kansas City / In Kansas and in misery.")
The Magnetic Fields The House Of Tomorrow
5 loop songs a la "Death of Ferdinand de Saussure." If you've heard a better song concept than "Either You Don't Love Me or I Don't Love You," that just means you're wrong.
The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die
The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Zombies Odessey and Oracle
They Might Be Giants Flood
UGK Ridin' Dirty
Van Dyke Parks Song Cycle
Woody Guthrie This Land Is Your Land
Woody Guthrie Hard Travelin'
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

4.5 superb
2Pac Me Against the World
A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders
Adele 21
Beastie Boys Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
Big Pun Capital Punishment
Billy Bragg Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Blur Parklife
Boogie Down Productions By All Means Necessary
Boogie Down Productions Edutainment
Bruce Springsteen The Rising
Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Ice Cream for Crow
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Doc at the Radar Station
Cee Lo Green The Lady Killer
Chuck Berry The Great Twenty-Eight
Courtney Barnett sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper
Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst
Elvis Costello This Year's Model
Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full
FKA Twigs LP1
"LP1" is a puzzle I cannot solve. Without its rhythmic core, it would be an absolute mess, but when I put it on I can only hear the melodies. Its sole subject is sex, but sung this way, it only sounds post-coital. I cannot for the life of me figure out how she pulled this off. I plan to sort it out every time I put it on, but bliss this pure is just too intoxicating to analyze. ("How does it feel to have me thinking about you?")
Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac
Frank Sinatra In The Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
fun. Some Nights
The only rock band smart enough to rip off "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy."
Gang Starr Moment of Truth
Gang Starr Hard to Earn
Ghostface Killah Ironman
Ghostface Killah Hidden Darts: Special Edition
Girl Talk All Day
Green Day Warning
Ice Cube Kill at Will
Ice Cube Death Certificate
Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt
Jeff Bridges Sleeping Tapes
John Legend Once Again
Johnny Cash At San Quentin
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
Madonna Like a Virgin
Michael Jackson Off the Wall
Nas Life Is Good
Nirvana In Utero
OutKast Stankonia
OutKast Aquemini
Pharoahe Monch Desire
Phil Ochs I Ain't Marching Anymore
Phil Ochs Pleasures of the Harbor
Prince 1999
Puff Daddy No Way Out
Biggie's pen gives it a strong core. Outlandishly bad taste and shameless beatjacking make it fun.
Q-Tip The Renaissance
Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II
Randy Newman Randy Newman
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2
Run-D.M.C. Tougher Than Leather
On their last great album, Run-DMC drag their beats and rhyme patterns into a modern age that was fast outpacing them, but leave their core concepts untouched for better and for worse.
Scarface The World Is Yours
At once overblown and bombastic, a clearly strained Scarface zig zags between frantic and plain manic. If only the asinine skits and pointless instrumental jams would get out of his way.
Scarface The Last Of A Dying Breed
Scarface Emeritus
She and Him Volume One
Simon and Garfunkel Bookends
Skeeter Davis The Essential Skeeter Davis
Slick Rick The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
Stevie Nicks Bella Donna
The Beach Boys Love You
The Beach Boys Sunflower
The Beach Boys Today!
The Beach Boys All Summer Long
The Beatles Rubber Soul
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
The Clash The Clash (US version)
The Clash Super Black Market Clash
The Clash Black Market Clash
The Clash The Cost Of Living
The Kinks The Kink Kontroversy
The Kinks Low Budget
The Kinks BBC Sessions 1964-1977
The Kinks Kinkdom
The Kinks To the Bone (Double LP version)
The Magnetic Fields Holiday
The Magnetic Fields Distortion
The Sonics Here Are the Sonics
Van Dyke Parks Songs Cycled
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell

4.0 excellent
2Pac All Eyez on Me
ABBA ABBA Gold
Hey, not every hit can be a hit. What's great here, though, is self-explanatory.
AZ Doe or Die
Beastie Boys Ill Communication
Beastie Boys Hello Nasty
Beastie Boys Check Your Head
Bee Gees Odessa
Big L The Big Picture
Someone got enough sense to give Big L good beats; Big L got enough sense to start writing songs instead of just verses.
Big Pun Endangered Species
Billy Bragg Back to Basics
A spurned lover's anger and jealousy define his politics and politics invade his quiet moments. Angry young man music at its most honest. ("Though I put you on a pedestal, they put you on the pill / I don't feel bad about letting you go, I just feel sad about letting you know.")
Billy Bragg Workers Playtime
Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin'
Bob Dylan Together Through Life
Bob Dylan Christmas in the Heart
Bob Marley and The Wailers Burnin'
Boogie Down Productions Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip Hop
Brian Wilson That Lucky Old Sun
Chamillionaire Ultimate Victory
Clipse Lord Willin'
Common Resurrection
Cypress Hill Black Sunday
DJ Jazzy Jeff The Return of the Magnificent
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP
A disturbed artist's definitive statement, abundant in lyrical manifestos but weighed down by lackluster posse cuts, Chronic 2001 outtakes, and of course the worst homophobia and misogyny you'll ever hear. ("I just want you all to notice me and for people to see / That somewhere deep down there's a decent human being in me / It just can't be found, the reason you've been seeing this me / Cuz this is me now, the recent dude who's being this mean.")
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
Ghostface Killah More Fish
There are a lot of guests, and Ghost doesn't even show up for some of the songs. But still the album features his best song, "Alex (Stolen Script)". That these songs weren't good enough to make Fishscale proper just proves what a masterwork that album was. ("The motherfucker spoke Spanish.")
Ghostface Killah The Pretty Toney Album
Debuting on Def Jam, Ghostface (temporarily dropping the "Killah" for the sake of mainstream acceptance), was looking to move units. But he is just too weird to cash in even when he tries to. Polished as it is, the record is still a grimy, heady, pleasure.
Ghostface Killah Bulletproof Wallets
Ghostface Killah Apollo Kids
Ice Cube The Predator
Ice Cube Laugh Now, Cry Later
Jay-Z Unplugged
Jay takes the intimate, stripped down environment as a chance to prove that he does in fact have a soul. He may have backed out of his original "no singles" concept, but The Roots manage to make even the big records sound reserved. And there's nothing funnier than playing an excerpt of "NY State of Mind" under "Takeover." ("Welcome to Jay-Z's poetry reading.")
John Lennon Double Fantasy
Kanye West Graduation
Some great pop songs, some good bars, a raw confession of brotherly love. But Kanye shows his hand too much in admitting he's rhyming over a beat Common rejected, not to mention the mixtape homage repurposed for Coldplay fans. For the first time, he has an aesthetic but not a vision.
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak
Kanye West Yeezus
Borrowing liberally from drill and Death Grips, the music is perfectly timed. But from the tone deaf Parkinson's joke to the easily fixed Trojans/Romans mix up to the occasionally racist misogyny to the ill advised line about wanting an abortion right after his daughter was born, there's a tangible disappointment in getting to the end only to realize the best lyric was a joke about his Benz.
Lady Gaga The Cherrytree Sessions
Lady Gaga The Fame Monster
Lana Del Rey Born to Die
The "I," "me," "you" songs are convincing and consistent but she's tripped up by "us" and "we." Which makes her a metaphor for a generation even if she's not its voice. ("Take me like a vitamin.")
Lindisfarne The Very Best of Lindisfarne
Lupe Fiasco Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
Madonna Madonna
Matching Mole Matching Mole
Matching Mole Little Red Record
Michael Jackson Bad
Nas Stillmatic
Nas It Was Written
Nas God's Son
Nick Drake Time Of No Reply
OutKast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Peter Tosh Legalize It
Pharoahe Monch PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Phil Ochs Rehearsals for Retirement
Phil Ochs Phil Ochs in Concert
Prince Musicology
Public Enemy Yo! Bum Rush The Show
Pusha T My Name Is My Name
Ramones Pleasant Dreams
Scarface The Untouchable
Simon and Garfunkel Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Often beautiful, but Simon hadn't yet pulled his head all the way out of his ass. In a rare break from false humility, Simon pens a scathing attack on Bob Dylan capped off by a cry of "Folk rock!"
Simon and Garfunkel Sounds of Silence
Slick Rick The Art Of Storytelling
Slick Rick The Ruler's Back
Snoop Dogg Doggystyle
Snoop Dogg R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta) - The Masterpiece
Snoop Dogg Tha Blue Carpet Treatment
St. Vincent Actor
T.I. Urban Legend
Termanology Politics As Usual
The Beach Boys Smiley Smile
The Beach Boys Surf's Up
The Beach Boys Shut Down Volume 2
The Beach Boys The Beach Boys' Christmas Album
The Byrds Mr. Tambourine Man
The Clash Give 'Em Enough Rope
The Gothic Archies The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfort
Sags when it tries too hard to tie in to the books; soars when Merritt focuses on atmosphere and the fictional misadventures of his troupe of depressed weirdos.
The Kinks Kinks
The Kinks State of Confusion
The Magnetic Fields Realism
The Smiths Meat Is Murder
The Softies It's Love
The Sonics Boom

3.5 great
Apathy Eastern Philosophy
Billy Bragg and Wilco Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2
Bob Marley and The Wailers Kaya
Bob Marley and The Wailers Rastaman Vibration
Chamillionaire The Sound of Revenge
Common Finding Forever
Eminem The Slim Shady LP
Eminem The Eminem Show
Eminem crafts some surprisingly intelligent and rational lyrics (see: "Square Dance," "White America") as the self pity and G-Unit posturing begin to visibly eat away at his ability to focus.
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2
Green Day American Idiot
Jay-Z Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter
Jay-Z The Dynasty: Roc La Familia
Jim Jones Hustler's P.O.M.E. Deluxe Edition
KRS-One Maximum Strength 2008
Lady Gaga Born This Way
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist
N.W.A. N.W.A. and the Posse
Nas Hip Hop Is Dead
Nas Street's Disciple
On his obligatory double CD, Nas gets acerbic about race, mealy mouthed about life and love.
Nas Untitled
Paul McCartney Memory Almost Full
Phil Ochs All The News That's Fit to Sing
Prince 3121
Prince Graffiti Bridge
Prince Planet Earth
Prince Diamonds & Pearls
Rakim The 18th Letter
Ray Davies Other People's Lives
Ray Davies See My Friends
Ray Davies Working Man's Café
Rick Ross Port of Miami
Ross growls and the beats kick. It's pure junk food, but who doesn't like junk food? ("Who the fuck you think you fuckin' with? I'm the fuck boss.")
Rick Ross Trilla
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels
Scarface Made
Face attempts to remake The Fix but his heart's not in it. An EP of inspired material padded by label-pleasers. Writing to fill space, he declares he'll never "fall off and rap about my clothes and chain" before proceeding to do just that. "Suicide Note," however, is a career highlight that somehow finds a new angle on an old obsession by positioning suicide survivor Face as witness rather than trigger puller. ("Not even words I write in this song can right that wrong / My n-a is gone, and life goes on.")
She and Him A Very She & Him Christmas
Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love
When the lyrics fall, the music doesn't catch them.
Snoop Dogg Tha Doggfather
Snoop Dogg Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$
T.I. King
T.I. T.I. vs. T.I.P.
The Beatles Yellow Submarine
The Byrds Turn! Turn! Turn!
The Clash Combat Rock
The Clash have slowed it down before, but for the first time they sound tired.
The Kinks Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround
The Kinks Kinda Kinks
The Kinks Preservation Act 1
The Kinks One for the Road
The Kinks Word of Mouth
The Yellow Balloon The Yellow Balloon
Will Smith Greatest Hits

3.0 good
Billy Bragg The Internationale
Crass The Feeding of the 5000
Cypress Hill Stash
Dr. Dre 2001
Fort Minor The Rising Tied
Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab
Girl Talk Night Ripper
Ice-T Rhyme Pays
Jay-Z In My Lifetime, Vol. 1
Jay-Z The Blueprint 3
Jim Jones Hustler's P.O.M.E. Standard Edition
John Lennon Imagine
Katy Perry Teenage Dream
Still trashy, more colorful. Perry finds her voice and trades mean spirited, depressing shlock for pandering, tongue-in-cheek shlock. Derivative as anything, but content with it.
Kid Rock Devil Without a Cause
Simplifying his EMSP sound and throwing in a bunch of dirty jokes, Rock doesn't aspire to anything but a good time, and succeeds.
Kid Rock Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp
No one's going to mistake him for a great MC, but between being a bad Beastie Boys knock off and a Korn impersonator, he hit upon a unique and memorable blend of funk and hip hop. Mixtape rappers really should steal some of these beats.
KRS-One The Mix Tape
KRS-One Hip Hop Lives [With Marley Marl]
Lady Gaga The Fame
Nirvana Bleach
Prince Batman
Puff Daddy Last Train to Paris
Ray Davies The Storyteller
"Autumn Almanac" shines, and a bluesy take on "You Really Got Me" punctuated with a hearty "fuck off!" is invigorating, but once Ray starts talking about himself he can't stop. The few new songs are bad to terrible.
Rick Ross Teflon Don
Run-D.M.C. Run DMC
She and Him Volume Three
Snoop Dogg Tha Last Meal
Snoop Dogg Ego Trippin'
T.I. Trap Muzik
T.I. Paper Trail
Taylor Swift 1989
The Beach Boys 20/20
The Beach Boys Party!
The Beatles Let It Be
The Magnetic Fields Love At The Bottom Of The Sea
The Tornadoes Bustin' Surfboards
Will Smith Big Willie Style

2.5 average
Apathy Wanna Snuggle?
Beastie Boys To The 5 Boroughs
Tinny and dated-on-arrival, but still the proudest love song to New York they've ever done besides Paul's Boutique. Chalk it up to post-9/11 depression.
Big L Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous
Big Pun Yeeeah Baby
Cypress Hill Stoned Raiders
Eazy-E Eazy-Duz-It
Eazy-E 5150: Home 4 tha Sick
Jay-Z Kingdom Come
Jay-Z Magna Carta... Holy Grail
The video teasers suggested Jay had some great beats and little else. Honesty in advertising at last. Nas steals the show with an 8 bar mini-verse, and Jay doesn't seem to mind. ("Britney, bitch.")
Katy Perry Prism
Miley Cyrus Bangerz
A political and moral disaster, maybe. But Miley Cyrus has a good singing voice and this is the only time she's ever been given enough freedom to prove it.
Puff Daddy Press Play
The Beach Boys Surfin' U.S.A.
The Beach Boys That's Why God Made The Radio
The Kinks Everybody's in Show-Biz
Will Smith Lost and Found
The lyrics aren't great, and neither are the beats. But for once, a Will Smith solo project sounds genuine. You don't compare Christian fundamentalists to the 9/11 terrorists because you're trying to reach the radio. Sincere, if mediocre.

2.0 poor
Dr. Dre The Chronic
Flat production that at best aspires to efficiently copy Parliament. Some nice appearances by the newly discovered Snoop Doggy Dogg, oceans of sexual threats, terrible lyrics, and forgettable guests. A short man that casts a long shadow.
Eminem Encore
Jay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life
Jim Jones On My Way To Church
Kid Rock Live Trucker
Kid Rock First Kiss
You put it on and forget it's on. Too bland and underwritten to be offensive.
KRS-One Adventures In Emceein
Nas I Am...
Rakim The Master
Run-D.M.C. King Of Rock
Scarface Balls And My Word
Selena Gomez Stars Dance
Simon and Garfunkel Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
Paul Simon wrote a lot of obnoxious, overly precious lyrics that taint even S&G's best work. His childish lyrics covered up only by guitar and neat harmonies, Simon's own bullshittery overwhelms him.
Slick Rick Behind Bars
The usual themes are here, but this time the reference to his own fear of rape is all too real, and even the made-for-radio songs sound miserable. It's hard to create through this kind of depression.
Snoop Dogg Doggumentary
The Beach Boys Friends
The Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe
The Beach Boys Surfer Girl
The Beach Boys Holland
The Beach Boys sans Brian sound a lot better trying to imitate Brian Wilson than their later days trying to sound like the living equivalent of a toy Casio keyboard with a palm tree sticker on it.
The Kinks Misfits
The Kinks Phobia

1.5 very poor
2Pac The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
Asher Roth Asleep In The Bread Aisle
Brian Wilson In the Key of Disney
"Whistle While You Work" is a perfect candidate for the Brian Wilson treatment. "Bare Necessities" is fine, but absolutely nothing else works. At least Disney rescinded their threat to release a part two.
Eazy-E It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa
Ghostface Killah Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City
Jay-Z American Gangster
Jay-Z The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse
Biggie pulled off the hip hop double album, but Jay Z isn't Biggie. From the sound of it, he's not even Jay Z. What should have been a victory lap faceplants after the starting pistol.
Jay-Z Live in Brooklyn
You know you're in trouble when you're doing a short set in your hometown and you still need to call in your wife to save you from dying onstage.
Katy Perry One of the Boys
She's one of the boys insofar as boys are often assholes who call each other gay and think saying "you PMS like a bitch" is naughty.
Kesha Animal
Kesha Warrior
Kid Rock Cocky
There's a big difference between not giving a fuck and not giving a shit, and the only thing worse than a messiah complex is a false messiah with a victim complex. "Picture" is good for a Kid Rock song, bad for a Sheryl Crow song.
Lady Gaga Artpop
In a classic case of Eminem Syndrome, Gaga begins with the faulty premise that someone gives a shit and proceeds to argue her way into irrelevancy. Ironically, "Applause" is both the worst example of this and the only song here that holds up alongside her best work.
Lupe Fiasco The Cool
N.W.A. Niggaz4Life
NWA's genius flowed from the collision of the core impulses of Dr. Dre and Ice Cube - the former sophomoric, the latter political. In Cube's absence Dre's worst tendencies fuse with Eazy-E's cruel nihilism to produce a hideous Frankenstein's monster.
Rick Ross Mastermind
Snoop Dogg The Best of Snoop Dogg
Not to be confused with Snoop Doggy Dogg. A string of disasters created after Snoop left Death Row and before he got his shit together, if you really want to put down money for "Gin and Juice Part 2" that's on you.
The Beach Boys Surfin' Safari
The Beach Boys Carl and the Passions
The Beach Boys 15 Big Ones
The Beach Boys Still Cruisin'
The Kinks Preservation Act 2
The Kinks Schoolboys in Disgrace
The Kinks Sleepwalker
The Kinks Give the People What They Want
The Kinks Think Visual
The Kinks UK Jive
"Loony Balloon," "Dear Margaret" are good.
The Notorious B.I.G. Born Again
Various Artists (Hip Hop) SHADYXV
If you thought listening to someone reading a dictionary would be boring, wait until you hear Eminem reading a rhyming dictionary. Not only gibberish, but absolutely grating.

1.0 awful
2Pac Nu-Mixx Klazzics
Beats so atrocious even 2Pac wouldn't touch them.
2Pac Nu Mixx Klazzics Vol. 2
Yet more beats so atrocious even 2Pac wouldn't touch them.
Common Universal Mind Control
Common indeed. Dance music so gray and repressed it can only be described as totalitarian. Recommended for sobering up or getting out of sex.
Eminem Relapse
Add "cynical" to your list of adjectives that describe Eminem.
Eminem Recovery
His breakthrough was a mixed bag of high concept singles and lowbrow trash rhymed very, very well. He crafted a persona and a career on the backlash he didn't see coming and sunk into semi-retirement a shell of his former self. The problem isn't that he's found himself, the problem is there may not have been much there to begin with.
Ice-T Gangsta Rap
Jim Jones Harlem: Diary Of A Summer
Kid Rock Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast
Life is Too $hort. Bob Ritchie most definitely is not.
Kid Rock The Polyfuze Method
Kid Rock The History of Rock
At least the Beastie Boys had the courtesy to name their compilation of crappy juvenilia "Some Old Bullshit."
Kid Rock Kid Rock
Kid Rock Rock N Roll Jesus
Limp Bizkit Results May Vary
Lupe Fiasco Lasers
Nas Nastradamus
Rick Ross God Forgives, I Don't
Even Lil Wayne would be embarrassed to release songs that are so clearly unfinished.
Snoop Dogg Da Game is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told
Snoop Dogg No Limit Top Dogg
The Beach Boys Keepin' the Summer Alive
The Beach Boys Summer in Paradise
The Beach Boys M.I.U. Album
The Beach Boys The Beach Boys
The Clash Cut The Crap
The Kinks Soap Opera
The Notorious B.I.G. Duets: The Final Chapter
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