Average Rating: 3.94 Rating Variance: 0.55 Objectivity Score: 60% (Somewhat Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicJay-Z The Black AlbumJay-Z Reasonable DoubtJeff Beck WiredJeff Beck You Had It ComingJohn Coltrane My Favorite ThingsJohn Mayer ContinuumMahavishnu Orchestra Birds of FireMahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting FlameMiles Davis Kind of BlueMiles Davis In a Silent WayNas IllmaticPhil Ochs Phil Ochs in ConcertRobert Johnson The Complete RecordingsWu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)4.5 superbAesop Rock Labor DaysAesop Rock None Shall PassAesop Rock FloatCharles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner LadyCharles Mingus Mingus Ah UmDeep Purple Perfect StrangersDert The Westside of the MoonExcellent work. This is fun to bump. Very clever in concept and very well executed.Eminem The Marshall Mathers LPJay-Z Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. CarterJay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock LifeJeff Beck Blow by BlowJohn Coltrane A Love SupremeJohn Coltrane Giant StepsJohn Mayer Where the Light IsJohn Mayer Trio Try!John McLaughlin My Goal's BeyondNas StillmaticPunch Brothers Who's Feeling Young Now?Punch Brothers Ahoy!Return to Forever Romantic WarriorRory Gallagher Irish Tour '74Weather Report Heavy Weather4.0 excellentDeep Purple Machine HeadDeep Purple Deep Purple In RockDeep Purple Who Do We Think We AreEminem The Slim Shady LPEric Clapton From The CradleEric Clapton Sessions For Robert JClapton's second try at a Johnson cover album goes much better than his previous Me and Mr. Johnson. Generally speaking, the album offers much higher energy pieces than the former, and there is little doubt that this was worth making, despite many of the tracks being repeats. All of the unplugged numbers are great, with "Terraplane Blues" being the big highlight, both for the extraordinary tone from Clapton's and Bramhalls guitars, as well as the stunning vocals from Eric Clapton. In fact, this might, vocally speaking, be Clapton's strongest album ever, despite his age. The full band takes on "Sweet Home Chicago," "If I Had Possession," and "Traveling Riverside," among others, are also standouts. For more tracks, as well as video of the audio, the accompanying makes this a very fun experience.Jay-Z The BlueprintJeff Beck Who Else!John Mayer Room for SquaresJohn McLaughlin Electric DreamsSome of my favorite McLaughlin tunes, albiet many of them in an "unrefined" form. Clearly was experimenting and finding his technological latitude, and so some of the music is a bit cheesy sounding. But hell, the playing's awesomeJulian Lage Modern LoreLive Throwing CopperLive Birds Of PrayLustmord [ O T H E R ]This album is terrifying. Best listened to at night and alone. Lustmord was my first introduction to non-Sunn o))) "drone metal," and this seems higher brow than most other things I've heard. It's like if Brian Eno had big teeth and hornsLustmord HeresyMahavishnu Orchestra Visions of the Emerald BeyondMahavishnu Orchestra The Lost Trident SessionsMiles Davis Jack JohnsonPhil Ochs Gunfight at Carnegie HallPunch Brothers AntifogmaticPunch Brothers The Phosphorescent BluesSage Francis A Healthy DistrustSkip James The Complete Early RecordingsTom Paxton Ain't That NewsTrio of Doom The Trio of Doom LivePretty solid effort. The album got canned critically, but I think it holds up pretty well. The rap was that Jaco was awful, but I rather thought he was brilliant. Tony Williams was tight, too. McLaughlin is a little wierd sometimes, though.Vertical Horizon Everything You Want3.5 greatAesop Rock Bazooka ToothAesop Rock Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and KnivesB.B. King Live at the RegalBuddy Guy A Man & The BluesEminem The Eminem ShowJay-Z American GangsterJay-Z The Blueprint 3John Mayer Heavier ThingsJohn McLaughlin Floating PointThis album grooves, hard. The guitar solos aren't as overblown or obvious as on previous albums (a continuation of the trend started in Industrial Zen), but the midi guitar sounds taking a back seat to guest musicians in no way makes this a bad album. No, John might not rip as often as we'd like, but these are still some of the most fun McLaughlin tunes you'll hear. It's fun to hear them both in "studio" and "live" settings when comparing this to the official pirate CD as well. Standout performer Debashish BhattacharyaLive Secret SamadhiMahavishnu Orchestra Between Nothingness & EternityMiles Davis Someday My Prince Will ComeNickel Creek This SideNickel Creek Nickel CreekNickel Creek Why Should the Fire Die?Nickel Creek CelebrantsReturning after a long hiatus, Nickel Creek's recent release,Celebrants, raises questions which may elude answers on first listening. Questions such as, "why has the coward Jeremy Ferwerda axed the forum section of the website"? The long-running collaboration between these nu-grass pioneers spans back to their childhoods. While each of the trio have long evolved away from pursuing Nickel Creek as their projet principal, these periodic check-ins from Thile, Watkins, and Watkins serve is both a reminder of what was as well as what can still be. The music resulting from these sessions is, for lack of a better comparison, like when Sweboy checks in to the community thread. We'd all be much more impoverished if these things didn't happen. Projects like these can run into a perception that they aren't necessary, that the artists have moved onto more ambitious projects, that pining for nostalgia leaves one empty, searching, yearning for what perhaps never truly was in the first place. Does MacArthur-certified genius Chris Thile still need his teenage collaborators, when his more recent outfits (Punch Brothers, Goat Rodeo, among others) both shred harder and represent headier songwriting? Do we still need obscure vbulletin message boards in the face of Facebook, Twitter, and other big socials? This thinking is wrongheaded. We can capture what was grand about older projects - reify to ourselves that there was indeed some there there, while nevertheless using those older tools in innovative ways. Nickel Creek's previous effort, A Dotted Line, perhaps was named after the very process that leads someone to stumble in, post "Remember eliminator? lol", and log off for twelve more years. Celebrants, upon first listen, is faithful to and continues that very spirit. Anyway, the first single, "strangers", is nice enough. Three point five outta five.Pink Floyd Wish You Were HereWiz Khalifa Show and ProveWiz Khalifa Deal or No Deal3.0 goodJay-Z The Blueprint²: The Gift & the CurseJeff Beck Jeff Beck's Guitar ShopJohn Scofield That's What I Say: Plays the Music of Ray CharlesLed Zeppelin Houses Of The HolyMy only gripe is the lack of material, as the album boasts a miserly 8 tracks. The quality of those tracks, however, seriously deliver. While Led Zeppelin is certainley the most hailed of the "big three" fathers of heavy metal, this album showed that, unlike Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, these guys don't HAVE to play overpowering, crunchy riffs to make a great album. For example, the 'D'yer Mak'er' is reggae, 'The Rain Song' is far from what we would today call "heavy metal," and 'The Ocean' is structurally reminiscint of country blues. This is what I believe truly separates Led Zeppelin from their counterparts: there is no way to generally lump all of their material collectivley under one genre, thus making the only apt classification "legendary."Miles Davis Miles SmilesNas It Was WrittenPunch Brothers PunchRocco Deluca I Trust You to Kill MeSage Francis Human The Death DanceVan Halen The Best Of Both WorldsWiz Khalifa Burn After RollingWiz Khalifa Kush & Orange JuiceWu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams2.5 averageEminem RecoverySage Francis Road Tested (2003-2005)2.0 poorAvenged Sevenfold City Of EvilDrake Thank Me Later1.5 very poorMahavishnu Orchestra Inner Worlds
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