| 4.5 superb |
| 2Pac Me Against the World |
| AC/DC Powerage |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged |
| American Football American Football |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber Jesus Christ Superstar: Original Cast |
| An absolutely thrilling take on the life of Jesus, which I find to be fitting to secular listeners as well and still fresh-feeling almost 50 years after its release. |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage |
| Blind Faith Blind Faith |
| Cream was not a supergroup. Blind Faith was, and a super group it was. If there were a couple more songs and a shorter version of "Do What You Like," this would be an easy 5. |
| Blue Cheer Vincebus Eruptum |
| Blue Cheer Outsideinside |
| Louder and heavier than anything else that existed in 1968. Not only does it sounds better production-wise, it featured heavier, fuzzier tunes than Vincebus Eruptum. It's anything a crazy hippie would ever want. |
| Blue Oyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult |
| Blue Oyster Cult Secret Treaties |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks |
| Bryan Adams Reckless |
| Budgie Bandolier |
| Budgie Never Turn Your Back on a Friend |
| Captain Beyond Captain Beyond |
| Cream Wheels Of Fire |
| Cream Disraeli Gears |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| Deep Purple Machine Head |
| Deep Purple Burn |
| Derek and the Dominos Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs |
| Dio Holy Diver |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac |
| Focus Focus II (a.k.a. Moving Waves) |
| Yeah, the OTHER flute rock band. I was surprised to see how spectacular this album was after hearing Hocus Pocus. In fact, it's still one of my favorite prog albums. I wish it was more talked about in larger prog communities. |
| Focus Hamburger Concerto |
| Genesis A Trick of the Tail |
| Genesis Foxtrot |
| Genesis Nursery Cryme |
| Genesis Selling England by the Pound |
| Gordon Lightfoot Lightfoot! |
| Gordon Lightfoot Sundown |
| Gordon Lightfoot Summertime Dream |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
| Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida |
| Iron Maiden The Number Of The Beast |
| Iron Maiden Piece Of Mind |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung |
| The best strengths of this album are that it flows very nicely and the lyrical content is perfectly balanced with the music. The heavy riffing of the title track, for example, matches the brash lyrics perfectly, and Cross-Eyed Mary has the same going for it. The spiteful anger of My God and Hymn 43 is executed perfectly in this fashion as well. This is the closest to perfection the Tull would ever get. |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| Judas Priest Unleashed In The East |
| Judas Priest Screaming For Vengeance |
| Judas Priest Painkiller |
| King Crimson Discipline |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic |
| King's X Gretchen Goes to Nebraska |
| KISS Alive! |
| Led Zeppelin How The West Was Won |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti |
| Metallica ...And Justice For All |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Motorhead Ace Of Spades |
| Mountain Climbing! |
| N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Queen A Night at the Opera |
| Queen Sheer Heart Attack |
| Rainbow Rising |
| Ramones Ramones |
| Ramones Road To Ruin |
| Rush 2112 |
| Rush Permanent Waves |
| Rush A Farewell To Kings |
| Santana Abraxas |
| Scorpions Lovedrive |
| Scorpions Virgin Killer |
| Incredibly underrated album. NEVER judge a book by its cover, this shit rules |
| Sir Lord Baltimore Kingdom Come |
| Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto Getz/Gilberto |
| Steely Dan Gaucho |
| Stevie Wonder Fulfillingness' First Finale |
| Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life |
| Styx Equinox |
| This is one of their best. It mixes their early stuff with what was to come very well. Suite Madame Blue is their second best song in my opinion and Lorelei & Midnight Ride follow close behind. |
| Styx The Grand Illusion |
| Tame Impala Currents |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Clash London Calling |
This is barely closer to a 4.5 than a 5. I shit you not when I say that the only flaw this album has at all is Lover's
Rock, and I can't stand that cringe-inducing travesty one bit. If the band had left that song off the album this
would be absolutely be a classic.
It's crazy how close London Calling comes to perfection. The album maintains an almost impossible balance of
variety and consistency. I absolutely love it.
Fuck Lover's Rock. |
| The Clash The Clash (US version) |
| The Doors L.A. Woman |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die |
| The Police Reggatta de Blanc |
| The Police Synchronicity |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Smiths The Smiths |
| The Smiths Louder Than Bombs |
| The Smiths Hatful of Hollow |
| The Who Quadrophenia |
| Thin Lizzy Bad Reputation |
| UFO Strangers In The Night |
| UFO Lights Out |
| Van Halen Van Halen |
| Van Halen II |
| Yes Fragile |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 2Pac All Eyez on Me |
| AC/DC Let There Be Rock |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap |
| AC/DC Back In Black |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| Alice in Chains Jar Of Flies |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black |
| Bang Bang |
| Black Sabbath The Manor Tapes (Born Again Unmixed) |
| Black Sabbath Heaven And Hell |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules |
| Black Sabbath The Eternal Idol |
| Blue Oyster Cult Tyranny and Mutation |
| Blue Oyster Cult Agents of Fortune |
| Blue Oyster Cult Spectres |
| Blue Oyster Cult Fire of Unknown Origin |
| Boston Don't Look Back |
| Budgie Squawk |
| Budgie Budgie |
| Budgie In for the Kill! |
| Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield |
| Cactus Cactus |
| Cactus One Way...Or Another |
| Casiopea Mint Jams |
| Chic Risqué |
| Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex |
| Commodores Commodores |
| Commodores Live! |
| Cream Live Cream - Volume II |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane |
| Deep Purple Live In Paris 1975 |
| Deep Purple Fireball |
| Deep Purple Perfect Strangers |
| Def Leppard Pyromania |
| Def Leppard Hysteria |
| Dokken Under Lock And Key |
| Dokken Tooth And Nail |
| Elvis Costello My Aim Is True |
| Eric Johnson Ah Via Musicom |
| Focus Focus 3 |
| Focus At the Rainbow |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain |
| Genesis Trespass |
| Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway |
| Green Day Nimrod |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted |
| Iron Butterfly Ball |
| Iron Butterfly Live |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| Jethro Tull Stand Up |
| Jethro Tull Benefit |
| There would be no Aqualung without this album. Sandwiched between two truly monumental albums chronologically, Benefit deserves more love. Do you think the band could have jumped straight from the typical heavy blues plus flute of Stand Up straight into the sarcastic fervor of Aqualung? If you say yes, you're wrong. Benefit is much darker and more serious than Stand Up, and I believe it's better than both Stand Up and Aqualung, if not more accessible. Don't skip this one. |
| Jethro Tull A Passion Play |
| I don't care what the critics say. This is a very worthy follow-up to Thick as a Brick. It could obviously be improved, but for what it tries to do, it does well. |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Judas Priest Sin After Sin |
| Judas Priest Defenders Of The Faith |
| Judas Priest Killing Machine |
| King Crimson Islands |
| King Crimson Starless and Bible Black |
| The improvised instrumentals might seem boring and overindulgent at first listen, but the beautiful Trio and the slithering The Mincer are completely improvised and are still amazing. This lineup was full of improv masters. For that reason, I would almost give this a 4.5. Even though I'm not, every second of this album is worth at least a couple listens, especially The Great Deceiver and The Night Watch. |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon |
| King Crimson Lizard |
| King Crimson Live in Hyde Park |
| King's X Out of the Silent Planet |
| King's X Faith, Hope, Love |
| King's X King's X |
| KISS KISS |
| KISS Hotter Than Hell |
| KISS Destroyer |
| One of the most beloved Kiss albums for good reason. It rocks hard when it feels like it, and it flows well, except for when it comes to a screeching halt with "Beth." I don't really like "Great Expectations" either. The highlights, however, are some of Kiss' very best. |
| KISS Rock And Roll Over |
| KISS Love Gun |
| KISS Creatures Of The Night |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Led Zeppelin Presence |
| Leslie West Mountain |
| Marvin Gaye Here, My Dear |
| Marvin Gaye I Want You |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Motley Crue Shout At The Devil |
| Motley Crue Too Fast For Love |
| Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood |
| Motorhead Overkill |
| Mountain Nantucket Sleighride |
| Nazareth Hair Of The Dog |
| Nazareth Razamanaz |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard Of Ozz |
| Ozzy Osbourne Diary Of A Madman |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful Of Secrets |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Queen Queen |
| Queen News of the World |
| Queensryche Empire |
| Rainbow Long Live Rock 'N' Roll |
| Ramones Leave Home |
| Ramones Rocket To Russia |
| Robin Trower Bridge Of Sighs |
| Rush Hemispheres |
| Rush Rush |
| Rush Signals |
| Rush Clockwork Angels |
| Rush All The World's A Stage |
| Rush Exit...Stage Left |
| Scorpions In Trance |
| Scorpions Taken By Force |
| Scorpions Love At First Sting |
| Scorpions Crazy World |
| Scorpions Blackout |
| Scorpions Animal Magnetism |
| Steppenwolf Steppenwolf |
| Stevie Wonder Signed, Sealed & Delivered |
| Styx Paradise Theatre |
| Styx The Mission |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 |
| Tame Impala Lonerism |
| Ted Nugent Ted Nugent |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale |
| The Beatles Help! |
| The Byrds Mr. Tambourine Man |
| The Cars The Cars |
| The Clash Give 'Em Enough Rope |
| The Clash The Clash |
| The Clash Sandinista! |
| The Crazy World of Arthur Brown The Crazy World of Arthur Brown |
| The Cult Electric |
| The Doobie Brothers Minute By Minute |
| The Doors Strange Days |
| The Doors Morrison Hotel |
| The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed |
| The Outfield Play Deep |
| The Police Zenyatta Mondatta |
| The Police Outlandos d'Amour |
| The Raspberries Raspberries |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come |
| The Stooges Fun House |
| The Who Tommy |
| Trauma (USA-CA) Scratch and Scream |
| UFO Phenomenon |
| UFO Force It |
| UFO Live |
| UFO No Heavy Petting |
| UFO Obsession |
| Uriah Heep Look At Yourself |
| Van der Graaf Generator H to He, Who Am the Only One |
| Van Halen Women And Children First |
| Van Halen 1984 |
| Van Halen OU812 |
| Weezer The White Album |
| Westside Connection Bow Down |
| Yes The Yes Album |
| Yes Going for the One |
