| 5.0 classic |
| ABBA ABBA Gold |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Alice in Chains Jar Of Flies |
| Amon Duul II Wolf City |
| Amon Duul II Yeti |
| Ash Ra Tempel Ash Ra Tempel |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere |
| Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks |
| Caravan In the Land of Grey and Pink |
| Cocteau Twins Victorialand |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure |
| 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 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 Idle Moments |
| Grant Green Talkin' About! |
| 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 The Missing Years |
| John Prine John Prine |
| John Prine Great Days: The John Prine Anthology |
| 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 ...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...! |
| Kyuss Welcome To Sky Valley |
| Perfect mix of woofer-chewin' heaviness and exploratory psych. Indelible. |
| Kyuss Blues For The Red Sun |
| Le Orme Felona e Sorona |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way |
| Miles Davis Filles de Kilimanjaro |
| Miles Davis Steamin' With the Miles Davis Quintet |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Morphine Cure for Pain |
| Neil Young Sleeps with Angels |
| Neil Young On the Beach |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush |
| New Order Movement |
| New Order 1981-1982 |
| New Order Substance |
| 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 Animals |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon |
| 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 Permanent Waves |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| 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 Into the Music |
| Van Morrison Veedon Fleece |
| Van Morrison Moondance |
| Van Morrison Astral Weeks |
| Vangelis Blade Runner Soundtrack |
| Waxahatchee Saint Cloud |
| Ween Quebec |
| Yes The Yes Album |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| 4.5 superb |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| Alice in Chains Sap |
| Alice in Chains Alice In Chains |
| 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 Vemod |
| Anekdoten Nucleus |
| 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 Moroccan Roll |
| Brand X Unorthodox Behaviour |
| 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 Ambient 4: On Land |
| Brian Eno Another Green World |
| 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 Blackstar |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| Dawnwalker House of Sand |
| Dead Can Dance Dionysus |
| Dead Can Dance Aion |
| Dead Can Dance The Serpent's Egg |
| 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 Street of Dreams |
| Grant Green Nigeria |
| Grant Green First Session |
| Grant Green Grantstand |
| Hot and cool licks, right in the pocket. Rhythm just cooks along. Amazing stuff. |
| 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 Workout |
| Hank Mobley Hank Mobley |
| Hank Mobley Hank Mobley and His All Stars |
| Hank Mobley Roll Call |
| 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 Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Iron Maiden Piece Of Mind |
| 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 Bruised Orange |
| John Prine Sweet Revenge |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Joy Division Substance |
| Judas Priest Stained Class |
| Judas Priest Sin After Sin |
| King Crimson Discipline |
| King Crimson Music Is Our Friend |
| King Crimson Meltdown: Live In Mexico City |
| 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. |
| Klaus Schulze Moondawn |
| Kraftwerk Autobahn |
| Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express |
| Kraftwerk Computer World |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze |
| 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 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 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 Relaxin' With the Miles Davis Quintet |
| Miles Davis Jack Johnson |
| Miles Davis Sorcerer |
| Miles Davis E.S.P |
| Miles Davis Workin' With Miles Davis and the Quintet |
| Miles Davis Sketches of Spain |
| Miles Davis Cookin' With the Miles Davis Quintet |
| 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 The Night |
| Morphine Yes |
| Nebula Let It Burn |
| Pure fuzzed out energy. If you can only have one Nebula, this is probably the one. |
| Neil Young Freedom |
| Neil Young Tonight's the Night |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere |
| Neu! Neu! '75 |
| Neu! Neu! |
| New Order Power, Corruption and Lies |
| New Order Low-Life |
| 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 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night |
| Stereolab Dots and Loops |
| 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 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 Moody Blues Days of Future Passed |
| 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 Salisbury |
| Uriah Heep Demons And Wizards |
| Uriah Heep Look At Yourself |
| Van Morrison Common One |
| Van Morrison Saint Dominic's Preview |
| 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 Tales from Topographic Oceans |
| Yes Relayer |
| Yes Going for the One |
| 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. |
| Alda A Distant Fire |
| All Them Witches Nothing as the Ideal |
| Amon Duul II Tanz Der Lemminge |
| An Abstract Illusion The Sleeping City |
| Anekdoten From Within |
| Anekdoten Gravity |
| Anekdoten Until All The Ghosts Are Gone |
| Anekdoten A Time of Day |
| Anglagard Viljans Oga |
| Ash Ra Tempel Schwingungen |
| Baroness Gold And Grey |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Billy Cobham Crosswinds |
| Bjork Debut |
| Black Sabbath Heaven And Hell |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| 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 Darkness on the Edge of Town |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run |
| Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. |
| Castle Rat The Bestiary |
| Circulatory System Circulatory System |
| Clan of Xymox |
| Clan of Xymox Clan of Xymox |
| Clan of Xymox Medusa |
| Club d'Elf You Never Know |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas |
| Cocteau Twins Love's Easy Tears |
| Cocteau Twins Echoes in a Shallow Bay |
| Cocteau Twins Tiny Dynamine |
| 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 Ages |
| Dawnwalker Human Ruins |
| In Nov. 2023 Dawnwalker remastered this, and it sounds much better. Improved dynamic range, smoother, punchier production. Recommended. |
| 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 Byrd in Flight |
| Donald Byrd Ethiopian Knights |
| 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. |
| Dozer In The Tail Of A Comet |
| Dzo-nga Thunder In the Mountains |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Porcupine |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain |
| 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 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." |
| Golden Earring Moontan |
| Gong The Universe Also Collapses |
| Gong Angel's Egg |
| Gong Flying Teapot |
| Gong Camembert Electrique |
| Grant Green Live At The Lighthouse |
| Grant Green Born to be Blue |
| Grant Green Oleo |
| Grant Green Solid |
| Grant Green Matador |
| Grant Green Sunday Mornin' |
| Grant Green Grant's First Stand |
| Hallas Isle of Wisdom |
| Hawkestrel Presents Pre-Med |
| Hawkwind There Is No Space For Us |
| Hawkwind Levitation |
| Hawkwind Quark, Strangeness and Charm |
| Hawkwind In Search of Space |
| Hawkwind Stories from Time and Space |
| 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 The Tree Of Forgiveness |
| John Prine Diamonds in the Rough |
| 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 Lizard |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Butterfly 3000 |
| KMFDM Nihil |
| KMFDM Angst |
| KMFDM Naïve |
| 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 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 Presence |
| Led Zeppelin Houses Of The Holy |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Led Zeppelin Coda |
| 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. |
| Legendry The Wizard and the Tower Keep |
| Great epic metal. Title track is an earworm: "the wizard and the tow-er kee-e-eep..." |
| 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 Protection |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines |
| 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 Porgy and Bess |
| Miles Davis Get Up with It |
| Miles Davis On the Corner |
| Miles Davis Nefertiti |
| Miles Davis Pangaea |
| Miles Davis Agharta |
| Miles Davis Dark Magus |
| 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 Homegrown |
| Neil Young Harvest Moon |
| Neil Young This Note's for You |
| Neil Young Harvest |
| Neil Young Zuma |
| Neil Young Comes a Time |
| Neil Young Trans |
| 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 Sorceress |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| 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 In den Garten Pharaos |
| Popol Vuh Nosferatu OST |
| Popol Vuh Aguirre |
| 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 Era Vulgaris |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| 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 Twice Removed From Yesterday |
| Robin Trower Bridge Of Sighs |
| 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 Traverse the Bealach |
| Sgaile Ideals & Morality |
| 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 |
| 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 Nova |
| Sylvaine Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone |
| 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 Alpha Centauri |
| Tangerine Dream Zeit |
| 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. |
| Tangerine Dream Phaedra |
| Tangerine Dream Stratosfear |
| Tangerine Dream Rubycon |
| Tangerine Dream Encore |
| Tangerine Dream Ricochet |
| Tangerine Dream Poland: The Warsaw Concert |
| Tangerine Dream Force Majeure |
| 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 Sea And Cake Oui |
| The Sea And Cake The Biz |
| The Sea And Cake The Fawn |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Who The Who by Numbers |
| The Who Tommy |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures |
| Thin Lizzy Bad Reputation |
| Thin Lizzy Fighting |
| Thin Lizzy Johnny The Fox |
| 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 ...Very 'Eavy Very 'Umble... |
| Uriah Heep The Magician's Birthday |
| Uriah Heep Sweet Freedom |
| Van Morrison Beautiful Vision |
| Van Morrison Wavelength |
| Van Morrison His Band and the Street Choir |
| 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 Yes |
| Yes Fragile |
| 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 Inner Conflicts |
| Billy Cobham Total Eclipse |
| Bjork Vespertine |
| Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules |
| Black Sabbath Never Say Die! |
| 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 Nebraska |
| Bruce Springsteen Tunnel Of Love |
| Caravan If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Derelicts |
| Cocteau Twins Aikea-Guinea |
| Cocteau Twins Head Over Heels |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| David Bowie Outside |
| David Bowie Lodger |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane |
| David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World |
| 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 Downwind |
| Gong Expresso II |
| Grant Green Iron City! |
| Grant Green I Want to Hold Your Hand |
| Grant Green The Latin Bit |
| Hank Mobley Thinking Of Home |
| Harmonia Musik von Harmonia |
| Haunted Plasma I |
| Hawkwind [Light Orchestra] Carnivorous |
| Hawkwind [Light Orchestra] Stellar Variations |
| Hawkwind PXR5 |
| Hawkwind Hawkwind |
| 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 Pink Cadillac |
| John Prine Aimless Love |
| John Prine Storm Windows |
| 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. |
| 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 Killing Machine |
| Judas Priest Point Of Entry |
| Judas Priest Screaming For Vengeance |
| 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... |
| 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 Elementi |
| Le Orme Smogmagica |
| Le Orme Collage |
| Low The Curtain Hits the Cast |
| Martin Sturtzer Relativity |
| Martin Sturtzer Antimatter Resonance |
| Martin Sturtzer Between the worlds |
| Martin Sturtzer Farcaster |
| Martin Sturtzer Temporal Paradox |
| Martin Sturtzer The Omarion Nebula |
| Martin Sturtzer P-Brane |
| Masters of Reality Masters of Reality |
| Mazzy Star She Hangs Brightly |
| Mechina Cenotaph |
| Mechina Venator |
| Mechina Bellum Interruptum |
| Megadeth Dystopia |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! |
| 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 Ragged Glory |
| Neil Young American Stars 'n Bars |
| Neil Young Hitchhiker |
| Neil Young Hawks & Doves |
| Nik Turner Past Or Future? |
| Nik Turner Prophets Of Time |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Orange Goblin Time Travelling Blues |
| Orange Goblin The Big Black |
| Peter Gabriel Car |
| Peter Gabriel So |
| 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. |
| Popol Vuh Die Nacht Der Seele: Tantric Songs |
| Prins Thomas 8 |
| Prins Thomas 9 |
| Queen The Works |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Queens of the Stone Age Split: Queens of the Stone Age/Beaver |
| Queens of the Stone Age Villains |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Renaissance Prologue |
| 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. |
| Robin Trower Long Misty Days |
| 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 T. Rex |
| T. Rex Tanx |
| Tangerine Dream Tangram |
| Tangerine Dream Atem |
| Tangerine Dream Hyperborea |
| Tangerine Dream White Eagle |
| 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 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. |
| 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 A Sense of Wonder |
| Van Morrison The Inarticulate Speech of the Heart |
| Van Morrison Tupelo Honey |
| 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 |
