Average Rating: 4.06 Rating Variance: 0.78 Objectivity Score: 60% (Somewhat Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicAutechre Tri RepetaeBelle and Sebastian If You're Feeling SinisterBoards of Canada Music Has the Right to ChildrenDescribing a song is fine enough and talking about why you like it is even better but describing how a song, even an entire album, makes you feel is a different story altogether. For most albums at least. 'Music has the right to children' is all about the effect that it has on, for lack of a better term, the soul. It attacks you with the exaggerated beats and frenetic vocal samples of Telephasic Workshop, creating not only a song but a paranoid delusion whilst also wrapping itself around your head with the creamy ambience of Wildlife Analysis and Turqoise Hexagon Sun, like dreams that you can relive over and over. 'Music has...' ultimately makes you feel as if you are the only person on the planet even if you're surrounded by activity. Your eyes lose focus your mind wonders and your muscles relax. The only problem with the album is that 18 songs later the trance is over.Burning Spear Marcus GarveyDJ Shadow Endtroducing.....With this album Shadow took a lifetime of compiling and listening to a diverse array of music from a varied selection of genres and breaking these pieces down to construct new compositions, creating his masterpiece 'Endtroducing...'. Perfect for listening alone or to set a mellow mood the music is like something you've heard before (which quite often it can be) but can't quite put your finger on where or when and even whilst throwing so many styles together Shadow manages keeps his work subtle and compelling and keeps the listener in awe. As I said before this album is perfect for listening alone, whether you want to switch your mind off or switch it on. Stand out tacks include: The Number Song, Changeling**Transmission 1 and Midnight in a Perfect WorldElliott Smith XOFareWell Poetry Hoping for the Invisible to IgniteGodspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞The nontet from Montreal are a fiercely independent collective, even their name is believed to be so in order to antagonise the music industry that they try to keep as much of a distance from as posible. Full or dare and willing to sacrifice for their music Godspeed You! Black Emperor offer an incredibly intense listen. It's not just the songs that build and build, the entire album is saturated with fear and hope and itself builds, song by song, starting with the contrasting feeling of doom and bliss of The Dead Flag Blue and continuing into the atmospheric meanderings of East Hastings, the album finaly releases itself as an epic hidden punk tinged track at the end of the third and last song Providence. Once the album has finished prepare to be nonplussed and at a totall loss of what to do next, except to maybe put the album on for a second spin. Guided by Voices Alien LanesMassive Attack MezzanineMurcof MartesFor that particular sensation of late night and driving home in the rain having recently dropped your loved one at some small airport or train station, there's no alternative. Put on for that feeling of greater understanding and/or contemplation even when you're sorely lacking in both.My Bloody Valentine LovelessNeutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the SeaNick Drake Pink MoonA fantastic record with a 'cult' following that, like Vashti Bunyans 'Just Another Diamond Day', was practicaly completely ignored on its first release, a time when folk music was becoming more and more extrovert, and frankly more and more medi-evil. This album however was an introspective look at Nick Drake's own deteriating psyche as his deep depression grew, producing some of the most beautiful and emotional songwriting that I've ever heard. Simple enough to stop it from sounding conceited but with enough variation to keep the listener enthralled, this album is a masterpiece. Some listeners may find the barren style, with practicaly only guitar and vocal, takes some time to get into but it is well worth the effort. I can't imagine anyone who would say this album is over rated or boring. As well as talking about the album as a whole it can be noted that firstly, Drake's vocals are quiet and reserved without detracting from the emotion they bring to each song, as if he is whispering right into your ear and secondly Drake's unique guitar and picking technique is completely individual and sometimes worth listening to the album just for the guitar. Standout tacks include: Pink Moon, Things Behind the Sun and Know, a song that is only 6 notes repeated with Drake mostly humming over the top but builds up into an almost suffocating atosmosphere where you can practicaly feel every note.Paul Simon GracelandPavement Crooked Rain, Crooked RainPixies DoolittleRadiohead Kid AThe Tallest Man on Earth The Wild HuntThe Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & NicoYes Close to the Edge4.5 superbAFX Chosen LordsAphex Twin ...I Care Because You DoAutechre AmberBeck OdelayBob Dylan Blood on the TracksBob Marley and The Wailers LegendBruce Springsteen Born to RunBruce Springsteen NebraskaBurial UntrueCaribou Up in Flames (as Manitoba)Catch 22 Keasbey NightsCharles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner LadyDavid Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From MarsDavid Bowie Hunky DoryDeep Puddle Dynamics The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel?Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030Edan Beauty and the BeatFairport Convention UnhalfbrickingFour Tet RoundsFour Tet Everything EcstaticGeorge Harrison All Things Must PassGodspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to HeavenGodspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero KanadaGodspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'Guided by Voices Bee ThousandGZA Liquid SwordsHappy Mondays Pills 'n' Thrills and BellyachesHungry Ghosts Alone, AloneJohn Coltrane A Love SupremeJohn Martyn Solid AirThis album is really something special. I'd never heard folk like this before John Martyn. Pre-Martyn folk, for me, was just Bob Dylan warbeling along, I didn't even know that so much could be done with the genre. Very mellow and very blissfull as well as miles ahead of its time, it is seen as the first 'trip-hop' album. Standout tracks include: Solid Air, Don't Want To Know and The Man in the StationJoy Division CloserJoy Division Unknown PleasuresKasabian KasabianLed Zeppelin Led ZeppelinLed Zeppelin Physical GraffitiMahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting FlameManic Street Preachers The Holy BibleMassive Attack Blue LinesMassive Attack CollectedNathan Fake Drowning in a Sea of LoveNeil Young HarvestNeil Young After the Gold RushNeil Young On the BeachNeil Young Everybody Knows This Is NowhereNine Inch Nails The Downward SpiralPavement Slanted and EnchantedPavement Wowee Zowee - Sordid Sentinels EditionPink Floyd The Dark Side Of The MoonPink Floyd Wish You Were HerePink Floyd MeddlePixies Surfer RosaPortishead DummyPortishead ThirdRadiohead The BendsRadiohead OK ComputerRJD2 DeadringerRoxy Music Roxy MusicRoyksopp Melody A.M.Sigur Ros Agætis byrjunSigur Ros Takk...Slint SpiderlandSonic Youth Daydream NationSonic Youth SisterStreetlight Manifesto Everything Goes NumbHated it. Hated it. Hated it. Hated it. Liked it. Loved it. In love with it.Talk Talk Laughing StockThe Avalanches Since I Left YouThe Beatles RevolverThe Beatles Rubber SoulThe Beatles Abbey RoadThe Beatles 1The Beatles LoveReads like a greatest hits, but greater. Produced by George Martin and his son, this mash up album brings The Beatles back to life whilst meandering through The Beatles repitoire and, as you'd expect, delivers on every track. Beatles buffs will even have the added enjoyment of trying to figure out which songs the samples have been taken from. The highlight has to be Strawberry Fields Forever, which begins with Lennon's origional demo for the song and builds and builds untill at the end of the track there are about 5 different Beatles songs just all going at once. Beatlemania on a disc.The Drones HavilahThe Jesus and Mary Chain PsychocandyThe Microphones The Glow Pt. 2The Shins Oh, Inverted WorldAtomospheric, experimental and infectious 'Oh, Inverted World' is an easy way to while away 33.3 minutes. Taking notes from 60's psychodelic pop, The Shins craft a style that doesn't detract from their influences and still sounds fresh and new. Their brand of indie music is a welcome change when the charts are saturated with Jet, The Kilers et al. An album full of great instrumentation, exceptional melodies and great lyrics, once you figure out what the hell they are actualy about, this is well worth buying, or in fact 'buying', and allthough not at the level of a Beatles or Beach Boys record, it is a modern day progression of the genre. It would also be interesting to see what The Shins would offer if they had a band to spar with, as Their 60's contemporaries often did, to better and get the better of one another. Standout tracks include: Caring is Creepy, Girl Inform Me and New SlangThe Stone Roses The Stone RosesThe Strokes Is This ItThe Velvet Underground White Light/White HeatA horrible album. Disgusting sounds, awfull dischord that just goes on and on and on. Yet somehow brilliant. Perfectly sums up what the VU where about (at this point in time at least), from the pumping, pounding White Light/White Heat to the strangely facinating Sister Ray and by way of the totally surreal Lady Godiva's Operation the entire album is a joy. An awfull, dispicable joy.The Velvet Underground The Velvet UndergroundToots and The Maytals Funky KingstonTricky MaxinquayeU2 The Joshua TreeVan Morrison Astral WeeksViolent Femmes Violent FemmesWeezer WeezerYo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One4.0 excellentAir Moon SafariArctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm NotBeck MutationsBlackalicious Blazing ArrowBob Dylan Blonde on BlondeBob Dylan Highway 61 RevisitedBonnie 'Prince' Billy I See a DarknessBoredoms Vision Creation NewsunBruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A.Can Tago MagoDaft Punk DiscoveryDangerDoom The Mouse And The MaskDo Make Say Think & Yet & YetElton John Honky ChateauFugees The ScoreHave a Nice Life DeathconsciousnessJeff Buckley GraceJoy Division PermanentMahavishnu Orchestra Birds of FireMF DOOM MM.. FoodNick Drake Bryter LayterNintendo Play It Loud!Nirvana NevermindPink Floyd The Final CutPink Floyd Obscured By CloudsRadiohead In RainbowsSantana AbraxasThe Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own HoleThe Prodigy Music For The Jilted GenerationThe Shins Chutes Too NarrowThe Smashing Pumpkins Siamese DreamYusef Lateef Eastern Sounds3.5 greatAphex Twin DrukqsBeck Mellow GoldAn album with 1 or 2 good songs that are dragged down by, well, the rest. I say 1 or 2, I mean 1. Even though it's on its own, loser is still an ace song and this album is important in that it showed Beck that his now trademark style, as he used on loser, worked.Beck GueroMF DOOM Special Herbs: The Box SetThe Prodigy The Fat Of The Land3.0 goodBjork VoltaDJ Shadow The Private PressDragonForce Inhuman Rampagedredg El CieloKyuss Welcome To Sky ValleyMark Ronson VersionOrson Bright IdeaThe Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandThe Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite HeartApart from the sensation of 'She Don't Use Jelly' this album just doesn't have enough going for it to make me want to bother putting it on rotation again. Its slacker ethos seems, in places, to boarder on just not bothering to produce decent songs.2.5 averageCaribou The Milk Of Human KindnessChildren of Bodom Trashed, Lost & StrungoutDJ Shadow The OutsiderDream Theater Systematic ChaosExplosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...Kyuss Blues For The Red SunM83 Before The Dawn Heals Us2.0 poorAkon KonvictedBone Thugs-N-Harmony Strength And LoyaltyChildren of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork TreeGreen Day American IdiotGreen Day Bullet In A BibleHawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and WhiteHawthorne Heights If Only You Were LonelyM83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost GhostsThe Knife Silent ShoutThe Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness1.5 very poorBabyshambles Down In Albion1.0 awfulInsane Clown Posse RingmasterPanic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
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