| 5.0 classic |
| ABBA ABBA Gold |
| Alice in Chains Jar Of Flies |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Amon Duul II Yeti |
| Amon Duul II Wolf City |
| Ash Ra Tempel Ash Ra Tempel |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage |
| Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere |
| Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks |
| Caravan In the Land of Grey and Pink |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure |
| Cocteau Twins Victorialand |
| Cocteau Twins The Pink Opaque |
| Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun |
| Dexter Gordon One Flight Up |
| My favorite DG album. The side-long Tanya almost invents a new genre--it almost gets trancey with the rolling drums and the repeating melody. Amazing album. |
| Donovan H.M.S. Donovan |
| An album of children's songs and poetry songs, done very spare. Piano, guitar, voice. A few songs add a few other elements. Children's songs, poetry from Lewis Carroll, William Blake, and a clutch of English poets set to very catchy melodies, and some Donovan originals. Amazingly captivating melodies throughout. There's nothing like this in the universe. Only snag is two lesser tracks: a long tape loop experiment and pseudo rock song forced on him by his producer. The rest is sheer genius. |
| Elder (USA-MA) Lore |
| Fleetwood Mac Tusk |
| Misunderstood at the time, perhaps, as just another good Mac album but over-indulgent. But the years have been really kind to this platter: all the songs hit and play off of each other, Buckingham's touches are all over and brilliant, and the non-Buckinghams all bring their A game. It's just a straight-up, indelible classic. |
| Fu Manchu The Action is Go |
| Gary Numan The Pleasure Principle |
| Gong You |
| Grant Green Idle Moments |
| Grant Green The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark |
| This is prime Green, and Sonny Clark is always spot on. You can play this all day. |
| Grant Green Talkin' About! |
| Grateful Dead American Beauty |
| Grateful Dead Workingman's Dead |
| Hank Mobley Soul Station |
| Harmonia Deluxe |
| Stunning record. A few quiet electronic interludes separating sprawling, inventive tracks. Warm synth tones and that pulsing motorik beat. |
| Hawkwind Hall of the Mountain Grill |
| Hawkwind Doremi Fasol Latido |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth |
| Jane's Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual |
| John Prine Great Days: The John Prine Anthology |
| John Prine John Prine |
| John Prine The Missing Years |
| Joy Division Closer |
| Judas Priest Sad Wings Of Destiny |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| King Crimson Red |
| Kraftwerk The Man-Machine |
| Kyuss Welcome To Sky Valley |
| Perfect mix of woofer-chewin' heaviness and exploratory psych. Indelible. |
| Kyuss Blues For The Red Sun |
| Kyuss ...And The Circus Leaves Town |
| This one just as much a classic as Sky Valley. Maybe doesn't have quite the same flow. But the one-two punch of openers Hurricane and One Inch Man, tons of other killer tracks, then that monster closer, Spaceship Landing--which is in my top 5 Kyuss tracks. ... Well, it doesn't have Lick My Doo. But other than that...! |
| Le Orme Felona e Sorona |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way |
| Miles Davis Filles de Kilimanjaro |
| Miles Davis Steamin' With the Miles Davis Quintet |
| Morphine Cure for Pain |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush |
| Neil Young On the Beach |
| Neil Young Sleeps with Angels |
| New Order Movement |
| New Order Substance |
| New Order 1981-1982 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Architecture & Morality |
| Dark, moody, and a bit experimental, yet also hopeful and very tuneful. An indelible classic. |
| Peter Gabriel Security |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Popol Vuh Hosianna Mantra |
| Popol Vuh Coeur De Verre |
| One of my most played Popol Vuh albums. Just the perfect distillation of all he was about. Piano, guitar, a little percussion, sometimes some wordless voice. Nothing else sounds like this, and it sounds amazing. |
| Psychotic Waltz Into the Everflow |
| Psychotic Waltz Bleeding |
| Queen Queen |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Rush Permanent Waves |
| Rush Signals |
| Scorpions Taken By Force |
| T. Rex The Slider |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The House of Love The House Of Love |
| Postpunk culminated in this album, a stone classic of young angst, with plenty of ruminations on being young and male, but with surprisingly-wise-for-their-years anticipations about how age will change you. Bickers' guitar work is amazing. Every song lands. In my top 10 of 80's albums. Maybe top 5. |
| The Moody Blues In Search of the Lost Chord |
| The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. |
| The Who Who's Next |
| Tina Brooks True Blue |
| Van Morrison Astral Weeks |
| Van Morrison Moondance |
| Van Morrison Veedon Fleece |
| Van Morrison Into the Music |
| Vangelis Blade Runner Soundtrack |
| Waxahatchee Saint Cloud |
| Ween Quebec |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| Yes The Yes Album |
| 4.5 superb |
| Alice in Chains Alice In Chains |
| Alice in Chains Sap |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| Alphaville Forever Young |
| Amiensus Reclamation: Part 1 |
| Part 1 of a two part album drop in 2024. I prefer part 1. Perfect mix of melodic black metal and prog. While there are of course stand out tracks, the real wonder is that *everything* works. |
| Anekdoten Nucleus |
| Anekdoten Vemod |
| Anglagard Hybris |
| Anglagard Epilog |
| Ash Ra Tempel Join Inn |
| Ash Ra Tempel Le Berceau De Cristal |
| Athemon Athemon |
| Austere Beneath the Threshold |
| I had to bump this up to a 4.5. This is just savagely immersive. Gonna make my top ten of the year, I think. |
| Bernard Xolotl Last Wave |
| In addition to the light percussion sprinkled throughout, and the impressive keyboard variety and layering, the use of violin really elevates the overall album. By far my most played Xolotl album, and well worth picking up. |
| Billy Cobham Spectrum |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Blue Oyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult |
| Brand X Unorthodox Behaviour |
| Brand X Moroccan Roll |
| Brass Construction Brass Construction |
| Sublimely great dance funk from the mid-70s. Killer bass, great grooves that keep developing, and a horn section to take it all home. |
| Bremer and McCoy Natten |
| Brian Eno Another Green World |
| Brian Eno Ambient 4: On Land |
| Bruce Springsteen The River |
| Can Ege Bamyasi |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Seeker |
| This invites endless replays. Has become my favorite by them. |
| Cocteau Twins Blue Bell Knoll |
| Daft Punk Tron: Legacy |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| Dawnwalker House of Sand |
| Dead Can Dance Aion |
| Dead Can Dance The Serpent's Egg |
| Dead Can Dance Dionysus |
| Deadly Carnage Endless Blue |
| Dexter Gordon Go! |
| Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current |
| Donovan A Gift From A Flower To A Garden |
| A two album tour. The first record is terrific Donovan firing on all cylinders, just classic and evocative song after another, including the genius of There Is A Mountain. Record 2 is just as good, but it was Donovan's attempt at appealing to children (and it was later released separately as For Wee Ones). This is absolutely awesome stuff, although he would perfect this approach on HMS Donovan. Donovan is often misunderstood: he wasn't a dopey hippie at all; he renounced drugs pretty quickly, for instance. Instead, he used psychedelia to explore innocence, whimsy, happiness, humor, and verse in a very English/Scottish manner. |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Heaven Up Here |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Crocodiles |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World |
| Electric Wizard Chrono.Naut |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer |
| Eneferens The Bleakness Of Our Constant |
| I broke down and procured the vinyl. This is pretty amazing and I keep playing it regularly. Is he ever going to release another album like this? |
| Fu Manchu In Search Of... |
| Gary Numan Telekon |
| This album rules. Trent Reznor says he played this album nonstop while he was recording Pretty Hate Machine. Telekon was Numan's way of dealing with instant stardom, which he seriously struggled with. |
| Genghis Tron Dream Weapon |
| Gentle Giant Acquiring the Taste |
| Gentle Giant Octopus |
| Gentle Giant Free Hand |
| Gong Gazeuse! (Expresso) |
| Grant Green Green Street |
| Grant Green Grantstand |
| Hot and cool licks, right in the pocket. Rhythm just cooks along. Amazing stuff. |
| Grant Green Nigeria |
| Grant Green First Session |
| Grant Green Street of Dreams |
| Grateful Dead Terrapin Station |
| Guadalcanal Diary Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man |
| Cool tunes, REM-ish jangle, but their own sound, especially the massive and awesome drums. |
| Hank Mobley Roll Call |
| Hank Mobley Workout |
| Hank Mobley Hank Mobley |
| Hank Mobley Hank Mobley and His All Stars |
| Hawkwind Warrior on the Edge of Time |
| Hawkwind Space Ritual |
| Iotunn Access All Worlds |
| Liked it well at first, but it kept growing on me, and now it's my 2021 AOTY. Massive sounding. As Christgau said of the first Van Halen record, this sounds like it was recorded on an aircraft carrier. That's high praise! |
| Iotunn Kinship |
| Took a while longer for this one to soak in, compared to Access All Worlds. Partially because it's longer. But the songwriting rewards multiple listens. |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Iron Maiden Piece Of Mind |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son |
| Joe Walsh Barnstorm |
| The mixture of clean and distorted guitar, in a way that is both psych-oriented hard rock and folky americana, is indelible. Hangs together as an album of strong songs and a coherent mood probably better than anything else he ever did. Has the first version of "Turn of Stone," a hit when redone on *So What*. |
| John Prine Sweet Revenge |
| John Prine Bruised Orange |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Joy Division Substance |
| Judas Priest Stained Class |
| Judas Priest Sin After Sin |
| King Crimson Discipline |
| King Crimson Meltdown: Live In Mexico City |
| King Crimson Music Is Our Friend |
| Klaus Schulze Moondawn |
| Klaus Schulze Deus Arrakis |
| This is Schulze's last album, and while it doesn't bring any revelations, it is almost surprisingly quite good. Fairly mellow, but with a good bit of sequencer work to keep things moving, with cerebral and moving cello and "voice noises." Deserving of more love. |
| Kraftwerk Computer World |
| Kraftwerk Autobahn |
| Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze |
| La Dusseldorf La Dusseldorf |
| La Dusseldorf Viva |
| Every track is a smooth motorik banger. There's a Youtube video of them doing Rheinata live at some small club that makes you wish you there. At one point they let the machines take over and dance with each other. Transcendent. |
| La Dusseldorf Individuellos |
| Amazing record. A reinvention of what Germany could be in the face of the Riechian horrors of what (for them in the '70s) was not too long ago, achieved through music. Minimalist, propulsive motorik beats and inventive, evocative synth and vocals, with a few ambient tracks to evoke specific places in Germany that are being musically reforged. |
| La Maschera Di Cera S.E.I. |
| Rooted in Rock Progressivo Italiano from the 70s, but with contemporary sensibilities. Layered, complex, evocative--and great songwriting. Their best yet. Would go great following the new Wobbler album. |
| Le Orme Uomo di pezza |
| Le Orme Contrappunti |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Lowlife Rain |
| With an ex-bassist from the Cocteau Twins, this hits an interesting spot among proto-shoegaze, goth, and post-punk. It's both dreamy and immersive yet full of angst and sorrow and plenty of post-punk bass drive. Gothgaze, maybe? And the songs are good. |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Second Helping |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Street Survivors |
| Makaya McCraven In These Times |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Miles Davis Sketches of Spain |
| Miles Davis Jack Johnson |
| Miles Davis Workin' With Miles Davis and the Quintet |
| Miles Davis Relaxin' With the Miles Davis Quintet |
| Miles Davis Cookin' With the Miles Davis Quintet |
| Miles Davis E.S.P |
| Miles Davis Sorcerer |
| MJ Lenderman Ghost of Your Guitar Solo |
| This is a wack classic splitting Americana and indie. "Infinity Pool" and "Someone Get That Grill out of the Rain" are instant classics. |
| Morgan Delt Phase Zero |
| Morphine Yes |
| Morphine The Night |
| Nebula Let It Burn |
| Pure fuzzed out energy. If you can only have one Nebula, this is probably the one. |
| Neil Young Tonight's the Night |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere |
| Neil Young Freedom |
| Neu! Neu! |
| Neu! Neu! '75 |
| New Order Low-Life |
| New Order Power, Corruption and Lies |
| Nik Turner Space Fusion Odyssey |
| This is like nothing else in Turner's or Hawkwind's discog. This has some funk and jazz touches, and grooves like mother. Why? Cause jazz fusion great Billy Cobham is drumming on it! Other cats joining him are Doors' guitarist Robby Krieger, Steve Hillage of Gong, Soft Machine's John Etheridge, Amon Duul II founder John Weinzierl, and some more. Great record. |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Peter Gabriel Melt |
| Peter Gabriel Passion OST |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| Pixies Trompe Le Monde |
| Popol Vuh Einsjäger und Siebenjäger |
| A lot of people think this might be the perfect mid-period Vuh. Does all the Vuh things, all the different moods, to tremendous effect. |
| Popol Vuh Das Hohelied Salomos |
| Jangling, searching, keening--earthy but also ethereal, improvised but also catchy. Mostly piano, guitar, percussion, with Renate Knaup doing vocals on some tracks. |
| Popol Vuh Agape – Agape |
| One of the last of the truly stellar ones by PV. Everything aims upward, everything remains grounded, it's perfect. |
| Popol Vuh Bruder Des Schattens Sohne Des Lichts |
| The long opening track, side long on the album, is tremendous. The rest is strong, too, there's no filler. Just classic Vuh. |
| Portico Quartet Monument |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Public Image Ltd. Album |
| Queen Queen II |
| Queen Sheer Heart Attack |
| Quella Vecchia Locanda Quella vecchia locanda |
| Quella Vecchia Locanda Il tempo della gioia |
| Rain Parade Emergency Third Rail Power Trip |
| Rain Parade Explosions in the Glass Palace |
| Renaissance Scheherazade and Other Stories |
| Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Raise The Roof |
| Rush 2112 |
| Rush A Farewell to Kings |
| Rush Hemispheres |
| Rymden Reflections and Odysseys |
| Very grounded prog-jazz. A good bit of improvisation, but not flashy like fusion; it's all worked into the songs. A lot of the songs have very propulsive bass and percussion, too. I can play this 2-3 times in a row and not get bored. Great to work to. |
| Scorpions Lovedrive |
| Shriekback Oil and Gold |
| Simple Minds Sons and Fascination |
| Nice mix of groove bass, innovative synth, and alternatively hypnotic and edgy songwriting. Killer postpunk on the verge of alternative. |
| Simple Minds New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) |
| Skyforest A New Dawn |
| Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup |
| Stereolab Dots and Loops |
| Stereolab Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans |
| T. Rex Electric Warrior |
| The Buggles The Age of Plastic |
| The Buggles Adventures in Modern Recording |
| The Chronicles of Father Robin The Songs & Tales of Airoea – Book I |
| Excellent with many excellences. Making my top ten of the year. Old school prog done for today. |
| The Cure Faith |
| The Dandy Warhols Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia |
| The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time OutTakes |
| Alternate versions of the sons Dave Brubeck Quartet's 1959 classic, Take Five. Plus a couple new tracks. A completely different drum solo on the famous title track, too. Not essential, but great anyway. |
| The House of Love Shine On |
| The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed |
| The Moody Blues To Our Children's Children's Children |
| One of their best and most consistent albums. Opens with the sound of a Saturn V taking off, and at volume, it'll rattle your windows bigtime. But lots of quiet moments, too. Only bad moment is that line about "ten thousand butterfly sneezes." They'd like to have that one back, I bet. |
| The Necks Drive By |
| The Sea And Cake Nassau |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish |
| The Sugarcubes Life's Too Good |
| The Thirteenth Sun Stardust |
| Recently discovered this. Strong engaging and shifting songwriting. Evocative, heavy, explorative, light, dark. A new fave! |
| The Who Quadrophenia |
| Thelonious Monk Palo Alto |
| Thin Lizzy Black Rose A Rock Legend |
| Tigran Hamasyan The Call Within |
| Tigran Hamasyan The Bird of a Thousand Voices |
| Just discovering this, although I really like his 2020 record, The Call Within. A couple of the synthier tracks remind me of a jazzier Mitochondrial Sun--the rest is just totally unique and amazing. |
| Tricky Maxinquaye |
| Uriah Heep Demons And Wizards |
| Uriah Heep Look At Yourself |
| Uriah Heep Salisbury |
| Van Morrison Saint Dominic's Preview |
| Van Morrison Common One |
| Vista Chino Peace |
| Ween The Mollusk |
| Wobbler Dwellers of the Deep |
| You can still spot all the older prog influences--Yes, Genesis, Anglagard, even some Italian prog--but it's so baked into great songwriting that Wobbler just sounds like Wobbler now. Their apotheosis, possibly. |
| Wolfgang Bock Cycles |
| One of the last great Berlin School electronica albums. Lengthy, developing tracks that flow into each other. Great use of bells to bring the album to a close. |
| Yes Relayer |
| Yes Going for the One |
| Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans |
| Yes Drama |
| I had to bump my rating of this album up to 4.5. It's just so good. Might have Alan White's best drum sound, too. |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 35007 35007 |
| Mixes desert/stoner rock riffs of the kind coming out the Man's Ruin label in the 90s with some cool post-Hawkwind electronica. Finds a great balance, and the riffs are mostly strong. Vocals are idiosyncratic but work well with the style, and they even have a couple catchy melodies. Still play this, when so much I've abandoned from that era. |
| A Light In The Dark A Long Journey Home |
| A Light In The Dark Insomnia |
| The guy who does this goes by initials B.M.--does other projects such as Skyforest and Abstract Void. This is a smooth, ethereal black metal project, with the rough edges polished out and the energy and mystical feeling pushed forward. Great album for driving, going for a run, etc. |
| Abstract Void Forever |
| Perfect mix of black metal guitar and drumwork with 80s synthwork--think Signals-era Rush. |
| AFI Silver Bleeds the Black Sun |
| Alda A Distant Fire |
| All Them Witches Nothing as the Ideal |
| Amon Duul II Tanz Der Lemminge |
| An Abstract Illusion The Sleeping City |
| Anekdoten Gravity |
| Anekdoten From Within |
| Anekdoten A Time of Day |
| Anekdoten Until All The Ghosts Are Gone |
| Anglagard Viljans Oga |
| Ash Ra Tempel Schwingungen |
| Asira As Ink in Water |
| This was in many people's top 10/top20 albums of the year for 2025, and for good reason. Consistently strong and captivating songwriting. The cover art's many hues captures the diversity of the music, and it blends perfectly, just like it does on the cover art. |
| Baroness Gold And Grey |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Billy Cobham Crosswinds |
| Bjork Debut |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Heaven And Hell |
| Blue Oyster Cult Spectres |
| Blut Aus Nord Ethereal Horizons |
| Borknagar True North |
| Boucle Infinie 直線移動 |
| Boucle Infinie Summit |
| This album rules--atmosphere, beats, enjoys of endless repeats. |
| Brand X Masques |
| Brass Construction Brass Construction II |
| More dance funk, almost as good as the first, maybe as good. Grooves, then some grooves, and then some more grooves. |
| Breidablik Alduorka |
| Like prime Tangerine Dream, with some Floydian elements, but with modern production values and other contemporary touches. Much better than most of this kind of work. |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Brian Eno Before and After Science |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run |
| Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. |
| Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town |
| Castle Rat The Bestiary |
| Circulatory System Circulatory System |
| Clan of Xymox Clan of Xymox |
| Clan of Xymox Medusa |
| Clan of Xymox |
| Club d'Elf You Never Know |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas |
| Cocteau Twins Tiny Dynamine |
| Cocteau Twins Echoes in a Shallow Bay |
| Cocteau Twins Love's Easy Tears |
| Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd The Moon and the Melodies |
| Countless Skies Glow |
| Surprised this doesn't have a review yet. Perfect mix of prog and heavy. The clean vocals are amazing. The mixture of clean and harsh on the opening song is a total earworm. |
| Cynic Ascension Codes |
| David Bowie Low |
| Dawnwalker Human Ruins |
| In Nov. 2023 Dawnwalker remastered this, and it sounds much better. Improved dynamic range, smoother, punchier production. Recommended. |
| Dawnwalker Ages |
| Dawnwalker The Unknowing |
| A continuation of House of Sand--maybe a bit more keyboard-driven, a tad more eclectic. |
| Dead Can Dance Spleen and Ideal |
| Dead Can Dance Toward the Within |
| Dominic Sanderson Impermanence |
| Donald Byrd Byrd In Hand |
| Donald Byrd Ethiopian Knights |
| Donald Byrd Byrd in Flight |
| Dozer In The Tail Of A Comet |
| Dozer Drifting In The Endless Void |
| This album deserves a review... so much better than the so called "stoner rock" that keeps clogging the review cycles. Vocals with real melodies mesh with riffs that kick and evolve and build off beats and synths that do something like actual songs ought to do. |
| Dzo-nga Thunder In the Mountains |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Porcupine |
| Elder (USA-MA) Innate Passage |
| Electric Light Orchestra Time |
| Evan Marc and Steve Hillage Dreamtime Submersible |
| You can put this on for days. It'll elevate anything you're doing. |
| Fenella The Metallic Index |
| Creative, compelling, sometimes haunting ambient, often with beats. Every bit as immersive, imagistic, and colorful as the cover art. |
| Finsterforst Jenseits |
| Firienholt White Frost and Elder Blood |
| Fleetwood Mac Mirage |
| Fleetwood Mac Future Games |
| Fu Manchu King of the Road |
| A strong follow-up to Action is Go, which is their peak. This has some great stuff but not quite as consistently great. After this, a patch of weaker albums, until a renaissance with Gigantoid and especially Clone. |
| Fu Manchu Eatin' Dust |
| Fu Manchu Clone of the Universe |
| Funkadelic Standing on the Verge of Getting It On |
| Gentle Giant In a Glass House |
| Gentle Giant The Power and the Glory |
| Ghostheart Nebula Bllackshift |
| Massive cosmic doom, with mix of male harsh and female clean vocals. Great songwriting throughout. |
| Golden Earring Moontan |
| Golden Earring Switch |
| A couple duff tracks, but overall, this is strong followup to Moontan (the one with Radar Love.) Great drum sound on this record, too. Has my favorite all time GE track, "The Lonesome DJ." |
| Gong Flying Teapot |
| Gong Angel's Egg |
| Gong Camembert Electrique |
| Gong The Universe Also Collapses |
| Grant Green Matador |
| Grant Green Solid |
| Grant Green Sunday Mornin' |
| Grant Green Live At The Lighthouse |
| Grant Green Grant's First Stand |
| Grant Green Born to be Blue |
| Grant Green Oleo |
| Grateful Dead Wake of the Flood |
| Grateful Dead Blues for Allah |
| Grateful Dead From the Mars Hotel |
| Hallas Isle of Wisdom |
| Hawkestrel Presents Pre-Med |
| Hawkwind In Search of Space |
| Hawkwind Levitation |
| Hawkwind Quark, Strangeness and Charm |
| Hawkwind Stories from Time and Space |
| Hawkwind There Is No Space For Us |
| HEALTH RAT WARS |
| Helga (SWE) Wrapped in Mist |
| Humanotone A Flourishing Fall in a Grain of Sand |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere In Time |
| Iron Maiden The Number Of The Beast |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant |
| Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking |
| Jethro Tull The Jethro Tull Christmas Album |
| John Prine Diamonds in the Rough |
| John Prine The Tree Of Forgiveness |
| Joy Division Still |
| Julian Lage View with a Room |
| Great listen. Can listen to on repeat. Endlessly absorbing--mellow energy, great improvisation. |
| Kauan Ice Fleet |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic |
| King Crimson Lizard |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Butterfly 3000 |
| Klaus Schulze X |
| Klaus Schulze Mirage |
| Klaus Schulze Blackdance |
| Klaus Schulze Picture Music |
| Klaus Schulze Body Love |
| Klaus Schulze Body Love Vol. 2 |
| KMFDM Nihil |
| KMFDM Naïve |
| KMFDM Angst |
| Kosmischer Läufer Volume One |
| Supposedly recovered tapes of early 1970s kosmische (aka krautrock) used to accompany Olympic training for East German athletes, but really it was done in the 2010s. Excellent recreation, with that moterik beat and very creative synth and other instrumental work. Actually good for running, among other things! This is the first of five albums so far. All excellent. |
| Kosmischer Läufer Volume 3 |
| Kraftwerk Tour De France Soundtracks |
| This thing is just a banger. After losing their edge in the 80s following the magnificent Computerwelt, they finally return with this, their last, truly great album. |
| Lamp of Murmuur The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy |
| Landberk Riktigt Äkta |
| Led Zeppelin Coda |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Led Zeppelin Presence |
| Led Zeppelin In Through The Out Door |
| Kinda think ITTOD is underrated overall--South Bound Suarez is okay, I'm Gonna Crawl not as great as Tea for One, their last great slow blues--but all other tracks are pretty great. Leaves Hot Dog as the weak track. And if they had switched that out for, say, Wearing and Tearing (off Coda)? Bet this would be really elevated in a lot of people's minds... |
| Led Zeppelin Houses Of The Holy |
| Legendry The Wizard and the Tower Keep |
| Great epic metal. Title track is an earworm: "the wizard and the tow-er kee-e-eep..." |
| Legendry Time Immortal Wept |
| In the band picture the guitarist has a Jimmy Page special--a nice looking double-neck. Says it all right there. Great album. |
| Leon III Antlers in Velvet |
| Lindstrom and Prins Thomas Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas II |
| "Cosmic disco"--I really dig this. Electronica with cool psych explorations, grounded in propulsive beats. |
| Low Long Division |
| Lowrider Ode To Io |
| Martin Sturtzer Theta Serpentis |
| This one stands out a bit from the pack. Dude's prolific, no doubt. This one has a better mix of sequencers and light beats against the keys and pads. |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| Massive Attack Protection |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim |
| Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See |
| Mechina Siege |
| Megaton Sword Blood Hails Steel - Steel Hails Fire |
| Is this bottom feeding, with swords? But for some reason most of the songs sound pretty damn good, starting with the cool first track, alternating a moody arpeggio with a slamming riff. |
| Messa The Spin |
| Miles Davis Agharta |
| Miles Davis Nefertiti |
| Miles Davis Porgy and Bess |
| Miles Davis On the Corner |
| Miles Davis Get Up with It |
| Miles Davis Pangaea |
| Miles Davis Dark Magus |
| Mitochondrial Sun Machine Dialectics |
| MJ Lenderman Boat Songs |
| Moebius and Plank Rastakraut Pasta |
| Mutant electronic reggae. Slowed down to a drooling crawl, but with machinic heft, and somehow it works. |
| Moon Duo Stars Are The Light |
| Morphine Good |
| Nad Sylvan Courting the Widow |
| Nebula To The Center |
| Good mix of the heavier with the psych, with pretty strong songwriting and hooks. Probably their best LP. |
| Nebula Sun Creature |
| Pretty short but very solid. Well worth picking up, will reward repeat listening. |
| Neil Young Harvest |
| Neil Young Trans |
| Neil Young This Note's for You |
| Neil Young Harvest Moon |
| Neil Young Zuma |
| Neil Young Comes a Time |
| Neil Young Homegrown |
| Neu! Neu! 2 |
| New Order Brotherhood |
| New Order Technique |
| Nik Turner Space Gypsy |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile |
| Onsegen Ensemble Fear |
| This is killer dark(ish) prog/psych. Excited about the new 2022 album that just dropped. |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| Opeth Sorceress |
| Orochen Anthroposcenic |
| This album bangs. Surprised there's no love for it. It's in my top 20, maybe 10 of the year. |
| OU II: Frailty |
| Pelegrin Ways of Avicenna |
| Peter Gabriel Scratch |
| Pink Floyd Pink Floyd at Pompeii - MCMLXXII |
| Worth the price of admission just for Echoes alone. |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Popol Vuh Aguirre |
| Popol Vuh Nosferatu OST |
| Popol Vuh In den Garten Pharaos |
| Popol Vuh Seligpreisung |
| Popol Vuh Letzte Tage Letzte Nachte |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun |
| Portishead Third |
| Psychotic Waltz Mosquito |
| Psychotic Waltz The God-Shaped Void |
| Public Image Ltd. Metal Box |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Talk About the Weather |
| Reformat Precursed |
| Hybrid mix of electronic and alt-metal, melodic and moody, sometimes heavy, but with some shades of light. Not too distant from what Genghis Tron was doing on Dream Weapon. Compelling stuff. |
| Reformat The Singularity |
| A creative mix of heavy metal, electronica, and prog, but with short songs that consistently evolve. Robo-futuro vocals, strong beats, some of them glitchy. Compelling and diverse keyboard work. They have a gift for song titles: The Nevergator, Hot/Knives, System Terror, Vectrex. |
| Renaissance Ashes Are Burning |
| Renaissance Turn of the Cards |
| Robin Trower Bridge Of Sighs |
| Robin Trower Twice Removed From Yesterday |
| Rush Fly by Night |
| Rush Grace Under Pressure |
| Rush Clockwork Angels |
| Rymden Space Sailors |
| Piano/electronics-bass-drums jazz, with some added instruments and a strong prog sensibility--just check the song titles. Improvisation within a good bit of song structure. About half the songs have driving, propulsive bass, too. A re-imagining of what cosmic-prog jazz can be. |
| Scorpions Animal Magnetism |
| Sgaile Ideals & Morality |
| Sgaile Traverse the Bealach |
| Spirit Spirit of '76 |
| Difficult to describe this album. Originally a sprawling two album set, it mixes originals and covers. The originals can be quite good; the covers mostly very good. The cover of Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone completely reinvents the original as an acoustic psych track, and it works amazingly well. Some dated reverbed vocal shenanigans and experiments that don't quite hit are the only downsides of what is otherwise a quite strong album. Great guitar and drumwork throughout, almost goes without saying. |
| State Azure Stellar Descent |
| Spacey and cool ambient techno. Great, layered synthwork that's immersive. |
| Stereolab Mars Audiac Quintet |
| Stereolab Sound-Dust |
| Stereolab Instant Holograms On Metal Film |
| Much better than it has any right to be, this late into their career. Their best since Sound-rDust. Catchy with a bit more complexity and less poppy than their final couple albums. |
| Strawbs Grave New World |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
| SVNTH Pink Noise Youth |
| Strong blackgaze record, with some surprisingly savage passages scattered throughout. Unsurprisingly, given their name, there is also some cool and evocative synth work. |
| Swamp Dogg Total Destruction to Your Mind |
| Swamp Dogg I'm Not Selling Out / I'm Buying In! |
| Sylvaine Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone |
| Sylvaine Nova |
| Szun Waves Earth Patterns |
| T. Rex 20th Century Boy |
| T. Rex T. Rextasy: The Best Of T. Rex, 1970-1973 |
| Good compilation, but lacks the wack deep cuts that make Electric Warrior and The Slider so indelible. |
| Tangerine Dream Phaedra |
| Tangerine Dream Encore |
| Tangerine Dream Rubycon |
| Tangerine Dream Stratosfear |
| Tangerine Dream Force Majeure |
| Tangerine Dream Ricochet |
| Tangerine Dream Poland: The Warsaw Concert |
| Tangerine Dream Zeit |
| Tangerine Dream Alpha Centauri |
| Tangerine Dream Green Desert |
| Tangerine Dream took old, unfinished recordings from the mid-70s and reworked them in the 80s to create something both well written yet up to date. Really quite good, far better than most of their 80s or 90s output. |
| The Chronicles of Father Robin The Songs & Tales of Airoea – Book II |
| The Comet Is Coming Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam |
| The Cure The Head on the Door |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| The Fixx Reach the Beach |
| The Future Sound of London Dead Cities |
| The House of Love The House Of Love [1990] |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Moody Blues On the Threshold of a Dream |
| The Moody Blues A Question of Balance |
| The Moody Blues Seventh Sojourn |
| The Necks Sex |
| The Olivia Tremor Control Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume 1 |
| The Ruins of Beverast Tempelschlaf |
| The Sea And Cake The Biz |
| The Sea And Cake Oui |
| The Sea And Cake The Fawn |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot |
| The Who Tommy |
| The Who The Who by Numbers |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures |
| Thin Lizzy Johnny The Fox |
| Thin Lizzy Bad Reputation |
| Thin Lizzy Fighting |
| This Mortal Coil It'll End in Tears |
| U.K. U.K. |
| Unreqvited Mosaic II: la déteste et la détresse |
| Unreqvited A Pathway to the Moon |
| Uriah Heep The Magician's Birthday |
| Uriah Heep ...Very 'Eavy Very 'Umble... |
| Uriah Heep Sweet Freedom |
| Van der Graaf Generator Pawn Hearts |
| Van der Graaf Generator The Least We Can Do Is Wave to... |
| Van der Graaf Generator H to He, Who Am the Only One |
| Van Morrison Wavelength |
| Van Morrison His Band and the Street Choir |
| Van Morrison Beautiful Vision |
| Van Morrison & Joey DeFrancesco You're Driving Me Crazy |
| This is an excellent late period album from Van. This teams him with jazz trumpeter and organist Joey DeFrancesco. It's more a vocal jazz album than his usual stylings. A very fresh direction for him. He did a second with DeFrancesco, The Prophet Speaks; not quite as good as this one, but still strong. Wish Van would pursue more of the vocal jazz direction rather than rock/pop/soul--it's grittier and more rewarding. |
| Vanessa Funke Void |
| So, I listened to this a bit last year, and I've been revisiting the past week, and the cd just won't leave my car cd player. This is an excellent, well-written album, with a great mix of slamming, ethereal, and evocative in the blackgaze vicinity. |
| Vemod (NO) The Deepening |
| Vitskar Suden The Faceless King |
| The opening is a bit slow and lugubrious, but things pick up majorly around track 3--well written dark proggy psych. |
| Vulkan Technatura |
| Vvon Dogma I The Kvlt of Glitch |
| Wilderun Veil of Imagination |
| Wilderun Epigone |
| A grower. Took a couple months of on and off casual listening to really gel. Very different than Veil, tho--different musical/conceptual foundations. |
| Yes Fragile |
| Yes Yes |
| 3.5 great |
| A Light In The Dark A Light in the Dark |
| Abstract Void Wishdream |
| AC/DC Back In Black |
| Aklash Reincarnation |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| Alice in Chains The Essential Alice in Chains |
| Alice In Chains benefits from having the deeper cuts surround the well known ones. You don't really need this. Just pick up Dirt, Jar of Flies, and then keep going from there. S/T probably next, Sap ep (sometimes bundled with Jar), and don't neglect Black Gives Way to Blue. |
| Angry Samoans Back From Samoa |
| Ash Ra Tempel Starring Rosi |
| Barclay James Harvest Gone To Earth |
| Probably my most played by them. Side 2 just okay, but side 1 strong, especially with "Poor Man's Moody Blues" which is a bit of a self-own since it does sound like the Moody Blues and is also the best song on the album. |
| Barclay James Harvest Octoberon |
| Battles Juice B Crypts |
| Agreed that this is the best one since Mirrored. Solid record! |
| Billy Cobham Total Eclipse |
| Billy Cobham Inner Conflicts |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Black Sabbath Never Say Die! |
| Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules |
| Borknagar Fall |
| Brass Construction Brass Construction III |
| So, side 1 is nearly as good as the material on Brass Construction's first two albums--prime disco funk, great grooves and guitar work, not to mention the brass work. Side 2 brings it down--I'd give side 2 only a 3--because of some mediocre ballads. |
| Breidablik Nhoor |
| A bit drifty overall. I'd like more sequencers to give it more pulse. But for drifty post-Berlin School, it's well done. |
| Brian Eno The Shutov Assembly |
| This album doesn't get the kudos it deserves. It's one of his stronger ambient albums, and really sustains a mood over the whole. |
| Bruce Springsteen Tunnel Of Love |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska |
| Caravan If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Derelicts |
| Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels |
| Cocteau Twins Aikea-Guinea |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane |
| David Bowie Outside |
| David Bowie Lodger |
| Dead Can Dance Into the Labyrinth |
| Dexter Gordon Dexter Calling... |
| Nothing Dex did for Blue Note is less that great. And this is great. But not his best for Blue Note. |
| Donovan Barabajagal |
| While it certainly works within the Donovan folk-pop-psych wheelhouse, it's still fairly eclectic overall. Some work by the Jeff Beck band elevates a few tunes, there's a few stand out tracks like the title track, and then there's the wack-genius of Atlantis. |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Echo and The Bunnymen |
| Elder (USA-MA) Omens |
| Electric Light Orchestra The Electric Light Orchestra |
| Fer de Lance The Hyperborean |
| Fu Manchu Daredevil |
| Fu Manchu Gigantoid |
| Fu Manchu The Return Of Tomorrow |
| Gary Numan Jagged |
| Gong Expresso II |
| Gong Downwind |
| Grant Green The Latin Bit |
| Grant Green I Want to Hold Your Hand |
| Grant Green Iron City! |
| Grateful Dead Aoxomoxoa |
| Hank Mobley Thinking Of Home |
| Harmonia Musik von Harmonia |
| Haunted Plasma I |
| Hawkwind Hawkwind |
| Hawkwind PXR5 |
| Hawkwind [Light Orchestra] Stellar Variations |
| Hawkwind [Light Orchestra] Carnivorous |
| Iron Maiden The Book Of Souls |
| Joe Walsh But Seriously Folks.... |
| Joe Walsh The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get |
| John Prine German Afternoons |
| John Prine Common Sense |
| Not his greatest, but great anyway. A few songs were pulled from here for his double CD Great Days anthology, which is terrific, but there's several other songs that could just as easily made the cut. |
| John Prine Pink Cadillac |
| John Prine Storm Windows |
| John Prine Aimless Love |
| Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks True |
| Much better than you might expect going in. This band can play, and it can actually write songs you want to hear again. Jon amazingly has kept his voice. |
| Judas Priest British Steel |
| Judas Priest Screaming For Vengeance |
| Judas Priest Killing Machine |
| Judas Priest Point Of Entry |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon |
| King Crimson Starless and Bible Black |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of... |
| Klaus Schulze Dune |
| KMFDM Symbols |
| KMFDM XTORT |
| Kraftwerk Ralf und Florian |
| Kurt Vile b'lieve i'm goin' down... |
| Kyuss Muchas Gracias: The Best Of Kyuss |
| Kyuss Muchas gracias - The Best of Kyuss |
| Le Orme Collage |
| Le Orme Smogmagica |
| Le Orme Elementi |
| Low The Curtain Hits the Cast |
| Martin Sturtzer Temporal Paradox |
| Martin Sturtzer Antimatter Resonance |
| Martin Sturtzer Between the worlds |
| Martin Sturtzer P-Brane |
| Martin Sturtzer The Omarion Nebula |
| Martin Sturtzer Farcaster |
| Martin Sturtzer Relativity |
| Masters of Reality Masters of Reality |
| Mazzy Star She Hangs Brightly |
| Mechina Venator |
| Mechina Cenotaph |
| Mechina Bellum Interruptum |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! |
| Megadeth Dystopia |
| Miles Davis Big Fun |
| Moebius, Plank and Neumeier Zero Set |
| Morphine Like Swimming |
| Mothman and the Thunderbirds Portal Hopper |
| Nad Sylvan Bride Said No |
| Nad Sylvan The Regal Bastard |
| Neil Young American Stars 'n Bars |
| Neil Young Hawks & Doves |
| Neil Young Ragged Glory |
| Neil Young Hitchhiker |
| Nik Turner Prophets Of Time |
| Nik Turner Past Or Future? |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum |
| Orange Goblin The Big Black |
| Orange Goblin Time Travelling Blues |
| Peter Gabriel So |
| Peter Gabriel Car |
| Popol Vuh Die Nacht Der Seele: Tantric Songs |
| Popol Vuh Sei Still Wisse Ich Bin |
| This one has a heavier feel to it than some of his other albums. Less air in the writing. Good though if you want that from Vuh. |
| Prins Thomas 8 |
| Prins Thomas 9 |
| Queen The Works |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Queens of the Stone Age Split: Queens of the Stone Age/Beaver |
| Queens of the Stone Age Villains |
| Renaissance Prologue |
| Robin Trower Long Misty Days |
| Robin Trower For Earth Below |
| Can't improve on Robbit's review. Trower running out of gas, but still manages to put together half a strong album, with the rest just decent. |
| Silhouette (FRA) Les Dires de l'Âme |
| Only listened once so far, might bump it up if this initial promise holds up to more listenings. A bit like Sylvaine's Nova album, but denser, and with a male vocalist alongside the female. |
| Simple Minds Sister Feelings Call |
| Skyforest Unity |
| Spahn Ranch The Coiled One |
| It's fine to great, but their best album is Architecture, which isn't even listed here. But that's the one to get. |
| Swamp Dogg The White Man Made Me Do It |
| T. Rex Tanx |
| T. Rex T. Rex |
| Tangerine Dream Tangram |
| Tangerine Dream White Eagle |
| Tangerine Dream Hyperborea |
| Tangerine Dream Atem |
| The Cure Pornography |
| The Dandy Warhols Come Down |
| The Fixx Shuttered Room |
| The Moody Blues Every Good Boy Deserves Favour |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Who Who Are You |
| Tricky Pre-Millenium Tension |
| Unreqvited Beautiful Ghosts |
| Van Morrison Tupelo Honey |
| Van Morrison Hymns to the Silence |
| One of his stronger late-period albums. It would be even stronger if it was cut down to one disc. But nothing here sucks, even if not everything is great. |
| Van Morrison Enlightenment |
| Van Morrison The Inarticulate Speech of the Heart |
| Van Morrison A Sense of Wonder |
| Van Morrison The Prophet Speaks |
| The second jazz album with Joey DeFrancesco. This is good stuff! Not quite as good as the first one from the previous year, You're Driving Me Crazy. I actually wish Van would collaborate more with jazzbos. It's a strong, fresh direction for him. |
| Wang Chung Points On the Curve |
| Wang Chung To Live and Die in L.A. |
| Title track a stone classic, total earworm, too. Don't remember the rest as well. |
| Waxahatchee Tigers Blood |
| Yes Time and a Word |
