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5.0 classic
The Beatles Rubber Soul
The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin
The Libertines Up The Bracket

4.5 superb
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Beck Sea Change
Kings of Leon Because Of The Times
Klaxons Myths of the Near Future
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
The Beatles Abbey Road
The Strokes Is This It
Weezer Weezer

4.0 excellent
Arcade Fire Funeral
Arctic Monkeys Five Minutes With Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?
Beck Odelay
Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit
Blur Parklife
Blur Modern Life Is Rubbish
Muse Absolution
Muse Origin of Symmetry
Muse Black Holes & Revelations
Oasis Definitely Maybe
Oasis Stop the Clocks
Radiohead The Bends
The Automatic Not Accepted Anywhere
Raised on a diet of Hardcore Punk, Indie Rock and Electronic Dance, The Automatic are the sound of a band hunting through their record collections, blending ideas and genres together in a way that could make The Mars Volta green with envy. The Automatic's secret formula is all based on top of the Pop blueprint, layered with elements of every genres they could think of when recording. 'Raoul', 'On The Campaign Trail' and 'That's What She Said' are all clear signs of this. Whilst the likes of 'Monster' and 'Keep Your Eyes Peeled' both give modern Pop music a much-deserved shot of adrenaline. 'Recover' even sees the band taking their genre-mashing Pop Rock onto the dancefloor, with incredible (funktastic) results. The album's only downfall is that at times the band seem to have too many ideas and things slowly begin to entry Self-indulgent territory.

So in a nutshell:

The energy of Refused + The Disco friendliness of The Rapture + The Pop undertones of Kaiser Chiefs = A strong contender for album of year
The Beatles Revolver
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Cribs New Fellas
The Libertines The Libertines
The Rapture Pieces Of The People We Love
The Streets Original Pirate Material
The Strokes First Impressions of Earth
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell

3.5 great
Albert Hammond Jr Yours To Keep
Blur Blur
Blur The Best Of
Blur 13
Gallows (UK) Orchestra Of Wolves
Green Day American Idiot
Jarvis Cocker Jarvis
After five years of dodgy Electro albums and cameo appearances in Harry Potter, everyone's favourite lank returned in 2006 to show the world what it was missing. 'Jarvis' is Cocker's first solo effort and it's a pretty strong one at that. Sure, the youthful energy of Pulp is now no where to be seen but tracks such as 'Don't Let Him Your Time', 'Fat Children' and 'Running The World' (Hidden Track) sure then make up for it with their sharp wit and heavy humour.
A must-have for any Pulp fan
Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak
Klaxons Xan Valleys
Muse Showbiz
Oasis The Masterplan
Radiohead OK Computer
The Beatles Please Please Me
The Beatles The Beatles
The Beatles Help!
The Beatles 1
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Killers Hot Fuss
The Libertines I Get Along EP
The Rapture Echoes
The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free
The Strokes Room on Fire

3.0 good
Arcade Fire Neon Bible
Beck Guero
Blur The Great Escape
Five Invincible
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better
Hot Chip The Warning
Kaiser Chiefs Employment
LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem
Oasis Familiar To Millions
Oasis Stop the Clocks EP
Well well well what do we have here? Manchester's favourite sons releasing two 10 year old B-sides to promote their new Best Of? (of which I'm currently working on a review for) oh well! I'd argue that it's a bit of a weak move for a band but when the two B-sides in question are the lairier Rock n' roll monster 'Acquiesce' and the pant-shittingly brilliant ballad 'The Masterplan' I don't really care. Not only that we get a live version of 'Some Might Say' thrown in for good measure. Although track #2 is definitely final proof that 'Cigarettes And Alcohol' is just a speeded-up version of T-Rex's 'Get It On'.

In A Nutshell: Just wait for the best of to be released . . . or just download their first two albums for that matter
The Long Blondes Someone To Drive You Home
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2.5 average
Bloc Party Silent Alarm
Blur Leisure
Kings of Leon Youth and Young Manhood
Oasis Don't Believe the Truth
The Beatles Let It Be
The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics
The Fratellis Costello Music
Another bunch of Post-Arctic Monkeys wannabes decide to ditch their jobs as plumbers and jump onto the Indie Rock bandwagon. There's the odd moment of greatness here, 'Chelsea Dagger' and 'Flathead' are both reasonably enojoyable Pop song but for the most part this album is nothing more then FM-friendly Indie Pop pap!
The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers
*sigh* This should have been a classic. The line up of The Raconteurs was an Indie kid's wet dream. White Stripes mainman Jack White playing along side cult Pop Rock guru Brendan Benson and Detroit Rockers The Greenhornes filling up the rhythm section gap - what could have gone wrong? Well um, alot of things to be honest. 'Broken Boy Soldiers' fails to match up to any of the dizzy heights it's first single 'Steady As She Goes' promises. The album is chock full of filler. From diet Led Zepplin ('Broken Boy Soldiers', 'Level'), under produced Acoustic Pop ('Yellow Sun'), Coffee table ballads ('Together','Call It A Day')
to disposable Pop ('Hands'). When you look at the band's line up and the possibilities that 'Broken Boy Soldiers' could have delivered, it's just not good enough.


My advice? Save your money for the next White Stripes record
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones

2.0 poor
Babyshambles Down In Albion
Foo Fighters One by One
*Raises his glass to Derek*

My buddy played this record pretty much none stop for about 3 years (since it was released in late 2002 till 'In Your Honour' came out last Summer) and honestly, it didn't impress me the first few times I heard let alone the next 7,4938 times! I know part of the Foo Fighters' appeal is to just come out with simple, honest, Radio-friendly Pop Rock but this is just fucking dreadful. Even it's singles (aka the songs that the band thought were the best on the record) are soulless, uninspired, unoriginal piles of piss that sound like they were written by a bunch 13 year olds in the back room of a Youth Club, not a man who once wrote songs as beautiful and jaw-dropping as 'Everlong' and 'Walking After You'.

In a nutshell: Just don't bother with this record one bit
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade
Oasis Be Here Now
Oasis Heathen Chemistry
Razorlight Up All Night
The Streets The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living

1.5 very poor
Bloc Party Silent Alarm Remixed
Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree
Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Although it may ruin my Indie credibility to say this, I was one of the millions upon millions of youngsters who jumped on the Limp Bizkit bandwagon back in the Summer of 2000. At the time I kinda went along with it all - just because everyone was listening to and I was only 10. But listening to it is almost impossible. Honestly, what were my generation thinking when we managed to put this in the charts and make Limp Bizkit one of the biggest bands in the world (at the time). Not only were the band the musical equivalent of a Big Mac meal, their lyrics were some of the worst ever written. I'd type some examples up for you but #1 We all know them anyway and #2 I've just got in from College and I can't really be arsed :-)

Anyway am off to listen to 'Daydream Nation'. Let's us never speak of 'Chocolate Starfish . . .' again, ok?
Oasis Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Razorlight Razorlight
Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium
The Kooks Inside In/Inside Out
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses

1.0 awful
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step
Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Tool 10,000 Days
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