| 5.0 classic |
| Aerosmith Rocks |
| This has an unusually high density of memorable songs. |
| Aerosmith Toys In The Attic |
| Anal Cunt Top 40 Hits |
| Aqua Aquarium |
| Yes, it's a singles album. Who gives a shit? The singles are stone cold CLASSICS. |
| Bee Gees Bee Gees 1st |
| Bee Gees Idea |
| Bee Gees Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack |
| Bill Conti Rocky |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| There is no reason to give an album of this level of quality and cultural influence anything but a 5 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Bobby Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers Monster Mash |
| Boston Boston |
| Boston Don't Look Back |
| Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory |
| Def Leppard Hysteria |
| Depeche Mode Violator |
| Donna Summer I Remember Yesterday |
| Eagles Hotel California |
| I don't know why you wouldn't give this a 5 unless you're mad about hearing Hotel California and Life In The Fast Lane too many times. And I don't even like the fuckin Eagles that much |
| Eagles Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) |
| I'm not really an Eagles fan, but this meets every requirement of being called a "classic" that you could possibly ask for. |
| Foreigner Foreigner |
| This album only really has 3 good songs: "Feels Like the First Time", "Cold as Ice", and "Starrider". But the first 2 are fuckin CLASSIC, BABY! |
| Gary Numan The Pleasure Principle |
| Gordon Lightfoot Sit Down Young Stranger |
| There's more music and intensity of feeling in "If You Could Read My Mind" than there is in entire discographies by any of the bisexual white chick singer-songwriters that always seem to get featured on the front page of this site. You weirdos need to listen to this and recalibrate your taste-meters |
| Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five The Message |
| This contains genuinely interesting and insightful social commentary, and while sample-heavy, it was original enough to add a new beat or two to the sample pool. Kendrick Lamar and Donald Glover, eat your hearts out |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
| Jim Croce Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits |
| Johann Sebastian Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier II BWV 870-893 |
| you can't argue with that prelude and fugue no. 1 |
| John Denver Back Home Again |
| YOU FILL UP MY SEEEEENSEEEES... COME FILL ME AGAAAAAIN |
| John Denver Rocky Mountain High |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other |
| I have a new respect for limp bizkit after watching the woodstock '99 concert and their impeccable performance of george michael's "Faith" |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| I'm giving this a 5 not because it's objectively great, but because it has no filler, and when you are attempting to communicate the concept of "early-to-mid 00s angsty nu metal", this is always what will instantly come to mind. People will be mock-quoting "Crawling" long after technically better but less ridiculous bands have been forgotten. |
| Machine Head The Burning Red |
| I'm not gonna let this stay in the 2s while almost all taylor swift and kanye west albums are 3 or above. This is about as good as it gets for nu-metal, even if it sends metalheads into fits of rage and disappointment |
| Mercyful Fate Melissa |
| Mercyful Fate Don't Break The Oath |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| I appreciate the fact that it sounds like the band spent hours in the studio trying to squeeze every last bit of obnoxiousness out of every song |
| New Order Substance |
| Nitzer Ebb Showtime |
| "Fun To Be Had" is the greatest, most profoundly affecting song ever written |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pink Floyd The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| I'm giving this a 5 to bump up its average rating, which is WAY too low compared to most of their other albums, which are so "artistic" and "avant-garde" that they forsake such stuffy conventions as "melody", and "not being completely fucking boring". "Creep" is their best song |
| Ramones Ramones |
| the band that inspired dozens of now-famous musicians by showing them that they didn't actually need to spend 10,000 hours practicing in their garage before doing music in the real world |
| Ramones Rocket To Russia |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols |
| Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life |
| An album is officially a classic when a sample from it is used in a chart-topping rap song |
| Styx Pieces Of Eight |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Cars The Cars |
| As far as I'm concerned, this album started the 80s. |
| The Four Seasons New Gold Hits |
| "Beggin'" is a song so good and timeless that it can become a hit whenever and however it is covered. It's as if it's made entirely out of hooks. |
| The Kinks Kinks |
| The Kinks Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround |
| APEMAN IS THE BEST SONG OFF THIS ALBUM. LOLA CAN EAT A DICK |
| The Kinks The Village Green Preservation Society |
| The Prodigy The Fat Of The Land |
| The Stooges The Stooges |
| The Verve Urban Hymns |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| The Who Who's Next |
| Yes 90125 |
| I'm sure prog rockers hate this on principle and consider it a betrayal, but it's still about as good as pop rock gets. |
| 3.5 great |
| Aerosmith Nine Lives |
| Alice Cooper School's Out |
| Blind Guardian Battalions Of Fear |
| Speed metal Blind Guardian is the greatest form of Blind Guardian |
| Blind Guardian Follow The Blind |
| Blumchen Herzfrequenz |
| Craig Armstrong As If to Nothing |
| David Bowie Station to Station |
| Dr. Bombay Rice & Curry |
| if you haven't heard "My Sitar" you haven't lived |
| Drowning Pool Sinner |
| Erasure The Innocents |
| Evanescence Origin |
| Genitorturers Flesh is the Law |
| "Lecher Bitch" is 80% of the reason for this rating. |
| George Clinton Computer Games |
| If you want to hear the difference between LSD and cocaine, listen to any Parliament album and then this back-to-back. Anyway Atomic Dog is classic |
| Global Communication Pentamerous Metamorphosis |
| Hampton The Hampster Hampsterdance the Album |
| a wonderful album, full of joie de vivre. definitely the best hamster-themed album of all time |
| Jamie Christopherson Metal Gear Rising Revengeance (Vocal Tracks) |
| Jesus Jones Doubt |
| Kylie Minogue Fever |
| Lacuna Coil Comalies |
| Lindsey Buckingham Go Insane |
| Loudness Thunder In The East |
| Maaya Sakamoto Lucy |
| Mad at Gravity Resonance |
| Manic Street Preachers This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours |
| Mindless Self Indulgence You'll Rebel To Anything |
| I should have outgrown this by now, but I will not. It has too much zazz.rThe songs on this are more "radio-friendly" than any from the previous album (which was 30 straight tracks of insanity and obnoxiousness), but I personally consider that a positive. |
| Modern Talking Let's Talk About Love |
| Muse Showbiz |
| O-Zone Disc-O Zone |
| this is the summit of eurodance and moldova's greatest export |
| Orgy Candyass |
| Orgy Vapor Transmission |
| Pendulum Hold Your Colour |
| Qntal IV: Ozymandias |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Ramones Road To Ruin |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
| Remy Zero The Golden Hum |
| Screeching Weasel Boogadaboogadaboogada! |
| Sixx:A.M. Heroin Diaries Soundtrack |
| SOiL Scars |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip |
| t.A.T.u. 200 km/H In The Wrong Lane |
| For a manufactured duo of phony-lesbians, some of their songs hold up surprisingly well. This is about as good as it gets for europop schlock. |
| The Carpenters Now & Then |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| I hate the goddamn Cure, but this is some of the best gloomy semi-ambient music ever made. Listen to it and watch as you become more goth by the minute. "A Forest" is possibly their best song. |
| The Rasmus Dead Letters |
| The Rasmus Hide from the Sun |
| The Tea Party Seven Circles |
| Three Days Grace One-X |
| This is partly a nostalgia rating, but I can say without exaggeration that half of the songs on here have catchier choruses than most straight-up pop hits of at least the last 15 years. That's not an easy thing to achieve. |
| Tiamat Prey |
| "They should have kept going in the Pink Floyd wannabe direction instead of making music that normies like", some say. While I understand that viewpoint, you can only make that kind of music for as long as your depression reserves last. Johan Edlund obviously used up his with A Deeper Kind of Slumber.rAnyway, this album. Solid goffik metal/rock. Not technically mind-blowing, and it doesn't need to be. The only truly weak songs on here are the title track and "The Pentagram". |
| Type O Negative Life Is Killing Me |
| "Nettie" is the darkest, most brootal song anyone has ever written about their dear old mom |
| Virgin Steele Guardians Of The Flame |
| Yazoo Upstairs at Eric's |
| 3.0 good |
| 4 Strings Believe |
| Adema Adema |
| AFI Decemberunderground |
| Alice Cooper Trash |
| Alice Deejay Who Needs Guitars Anyways? |
| Alizee Mes Courants Electriques |
| Alizee Gourmandises |
| Anastacia Anastacia |
| Above average early 00s pop rock album. "Left Outside Alone" is the highlight |
| Aqua Aquarius |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go |
| Avril Lavigne Under My Skin |
| Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing |
| Bananarama Bananarama |
| Basshunter LOL |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| "Supernaut" is great, but there's little else of interest here |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm |
| Blumchen Verliebt... |
| Blumchen Jasmin |
| Butthole Surfers Weird Revolution |
| "Dracula from Houston" is a genuinely good song, which is proven by its extensive usage in early-mid 2000s World of Warcraft videos |
| Candlebox Candlebox |
| Cascada Everytime We Touch |
| Creed Weathered |
| PLOT TWIST: Creed is good! Or do they just seem comparatively good now that Imagine Dragons is the only "rock" band that shows up on the Billboard 200? If so, we're dealing with pure human tragedy. |
| Darling Violetta Parlour |
| David Bowie Space Oddity |
| David Usher Morning Orbit |
| A real goldmine of AMV songs, second only to Cascada's Everytime We Touch |
| EMF Schubert Dip |
| Extreme Extreme II: Pornograffitti |
| "More Than Words" is the LEAST extreme song I have EVER heard |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Haddaway What Is Love |
| Henry Gross Release |
| "Shannon" is the most beautiful, most heartfelt song anyone ever wrote about a dog |
| Hoobastank The Reason |
| Inspiral Carpets Revenge of the Goldfish |
| "two worlds collide", real good song, definitely in the upper half of 90s alternative rock songs. go listen to it. there are also other songs on here, I suppose |
| Jean Ferrat Deux Enfants Au Soleil |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Lacks the hilarious angsty energy of their first album, but still much less boring and uninspired than their later albums. |
| Manic Street Preachers Generation Terrorists |
| Morris Albert Feelings |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge |
| I'm an emo kid, nonconforming as can be. You'd be nonconforming too if you looked just like me |
| Nickelback The Long Road |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up |
| the real redpill is that Nickelback is actually good |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom |
| "Don't Speak" is their best song by a ridiculously huge margin |
| Papa Roach Getting Away With Murder |
| Papa Roach Infest |
| Paula Abdul Forever Your Girl |
| "Straight Up" is the best song of her career. The rest are not so notable. |
| Qntal Qntal I |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| SMiLE.dk Smile |
| Mostly forgettable bubblegum europop, but "Butterfly" is a highly memorable song |
| Spice Girls Spice |
| Spice Girls Spiceworld |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1 |
| t.A.T.u. Lyudi Invalidy |
| the title track is a good song about degenerates. the english version is weaksauce |
| Talk Talk The Party's Over |
| Talk Talk It's My Life |
| The Association And Then...Along Comes The Association |
| this being a pop album, it's not meant to be unforgettable all the way through. "cherish" is obviously the highlight, great love song |
| The Association Insight Out |
| The Bangles Different Light |
| The Beach Boys Surf's Up |
| what a fucking downer... "Til' I Die" is a good song though |
| The Killers Sam's Town |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Rasmus Hell of a Tester |
| The Rasmus Black Roses |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth |
| it sure was nice of em to put the three good songs right at the beginning |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| Turbonegro Retox |
| Turbonegro Party Animals |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain |
| Vengaboys The Party Album |
| Wheatus Wheatus |
| Yes Big Generator |
| 1.0 awful |
| BTS Love Yourself: 轉 'Tear' |
| BTS Map of the Soul: 7 |
| BTS Wings |
| BTS Dark and Wild |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
| This is not dance or pop music. It's a steady endorphin drip. It wears the skin of 80s pop, but the songwriting isn't even Scritti Politti tier. The songs have no identity of their own. The hookless verses serve no purpose but to build up to exhilarated choruses that were carefully constructed by a team of scientists to ensure that you never become lucid enough to have doubts about serving your reptilian overlords. |
| Halsey Manic |
| What is up with the disturbing lack of stage presence of all new pop stars? Halsey claims to be inspired by outrageous artists like Marilyn Manson and Beck, but her discography is so musically and lyrically bland that she makes Alanis Morisette look like GG Allin. |
| Halsey If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power |
| Despite involvement from several dinosaurs of a better time (including Lindsey Buckingham, what the hell?), this is almost as uninspired and boring as her previous albums. What's wrong with you assholes |
| Imagine Dragons Night Visions |
| Lmfao Party Rock |
| Lmfao Sorry For Party Rocking |
| Lorde Solar Power |
| Lorde Pure Heroine |
| Lorde Melodrama |
| Olivia Rodrigo Sour |
| This is good for nothing but making a couple of neurons fire in the brains of heavily medicated teenagers |
| Sam Smith In the Lonely Hour |
| Sam Smith commits the greatest sin of all, which is being goddamn BORING |
| Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any... |
| Soulja Boy iSouljaBoyTellEm |
| Tate McRae I Used to Think I Could Fly |
| Do CURRENT YEAR teenagers have any feelings besides self-pity, bitterness, and jealousy? The lyrical content could be forgiven if the music wasn't so derivative, and if the singer didn't sound like she's pretending to have a speech impediment. But I can't blame her, since clean enunciation hasn't been in vogue for several years. It's nothing but the sounds of various 2000s bands (which were already pretty derivative), but watered down 10x. |
| The Weeknd After Hours |
| There is no reason to listen to this pseudo-80s pap unless you have already consumed every cultural product of the actual 80s. The Weeknd is even less cool than a third-rate band like Crowded House, who were at least failing at a higher level |
| Tones and I The Kids Are Coming |
