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5.0 classic
Bad Religion No Control
Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band
Descendents Milo Goes to College
Led Zeppelin Houses Of The Holy
Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime

4.5 superb
Adolescents Adolescents
Animal Collective Feels
Arcade Fire Funeral
Bad Astronaut Houston: We Have a Drinking Problem
Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First
Bad Religion Suffer
Bad Religion Against the Grain
Bad Religion Generator
Bad Religion All Ages
Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister
Black Flag The First Four Years
Bomb the Music Industry! Everybody That You Love
Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles
Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave or Die in Long Island
Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation
Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
dredg El Cielo
Fugazi The Argument
Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump
Johann Johannsson IBM 1401, A User's Manual
Lagwagon Let's Talk About Feelings
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
NOFX Punk in Drublic
NOFX The Longest Line
Radiohead OK Computer
Say Anything In Defense of the Genre
Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth Sister
Subhumans The Day the Country Died
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz
Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77
Talking Heads Remain in Light
Television Marquee Moon
The Cure Disintegration
The Ergs! Dorkrockcorkrod
The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin
This album was lent to me one weekend by a good friend of mine whose musical reputation I admired. I listened to the album once from beginning to end and that was that. I thought it was good; some songs are catchy, some seemed far out, and the rest just took me along but were not compelling. I decided to listen to the album again before returning it to my friend and to this day I am glad I made that decision. Every diminutive detail that I had missed during my first listen stood out to me like nothing I had ever heard before. The music was incredible because it was so surreal. I felt disconnected entirely from reality. I was convinced that The Flaming Lips wanted me to feel like I was on drugs. I listened to the album again and again. From a listener’s perspective, I loved the album because of Wayne’s scratchy, high-pitched vocals that are analogous to the cries of a child. I was completely satisfied with this album from a scientist’s perspective because it was a musical experiment. This album is complete. It allows me to think while I listen to the music, but at the same time demands my attention to its intricate beauties. It does not resonate well with some individuals because of their musical preference, which is completely understandable. Some individuals think The Flaming Lips sound terrible, but cannot attack their originality. Their music delivers an undeniable magnificence that can rarely be appreciated in any genre. I recommend this album because it goes beyond what I expected musically and unravels my mind during every listen. Even if it takes more than a single listen I bet it will do the same for you.
The Lawrence Arms Cocktails and Dreams
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site
The Weakerthans Reunion Tour
Thrice The Illusion of Safety
Titus Andronicus The Monitor
Wire Pink Flag
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

4.0 excellent
311 311
This album deserves a solid 4/5. 311 is an old favorite of mine and this is my favorite album from their catalog. 311 is very creative and their style is refreshing because it is much different than what you typically expect on the radio. Although 311 is a mainstream rock band, they have a very significant sound that no other band can be compared with. Tracks on this album which prove very entertaining are "Down," "Purpose," and "Don't Stay Home." The seemingly metal and rap combination for most tracks is cohesive and works well with the most of the album. I recommend it as an introduction to 311 as well as a must if you enjoy mainstream rock.
A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide
Air Talkie Walkie
Air Moon Safari
ALL Allroy for Prez
Animal Collective Prospect Hummer
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam
Arcade Fire Neon Bible
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
Bad Astronaut Acrophobe
Bad Astronaut Twelve Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment
Bad Brains Bad Brains
Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Bjork Homogenic
Bjork Vespertine
Black Flag Damaged
Bomb the Music Industry! Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!!
Bomb the Music Industry! Get Warmer
Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World!
Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People
Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret
Built to Spill Perfect from Now On
Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady
Cake Comfort Eagle
Cake Fashion Nugget
Catch 22 Keasbey Nights
Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters
Descendents ALL
Descendents Somery
Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me
Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust
dredg Catch Without Arms
Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain
Eluvium Copia
Embrace (US) Embrace
Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Face to Face Don't Turn Away
Face to Face Face to Face
Feist The Reminder
Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape
Fugazi Red Medicine
Fugazi 13 Songs
Fugazi End Hits
Gang of Four Entertainment!
Green Day Dookie
Guided by Voices Alien Lanes
Jay-Z The Black Album
Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt
Joanna Newsom Ys
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
Lagwagon Resolve
Lagwagon Trashed
Lagwagon Hoss
Laura Stevenson A Record
LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV
Lou Reed Transformer
MDC Millions of Dead Cops
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Have a Ball
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Take a Break
Minutemen 3-Way Tie (For Last)
Minutemen What Makes a Man Start Fires?
Muse Absolution
My Morning Jacket Z
No Use for a Name Making Friends
No Use for a Name More Betterness!
NOFX The Decline
NOFX So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes
Panda Bear Person Pitch
Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes
Reagan Youth A Collection of Pop Classics
Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things
Rites of Spring End on End
Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Spiritualized Let It Come Down
Spoon Gimme Fiction
Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between
Subhumans From the Cradle to the Grave
System of a Down System of a Down
T.S.O.L. Dance With Me
Ten Foot Pole Rev
The Adicts Songs of Praise
The Cure Pornography
The Damned Machine Gun Etiquette
The Damned Damned Damned Damned
The Deadly Syndrome The Ortolan
The Decemberists Picaresque
The Exploding Hearts Shattered
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic
The Living End Roll On
The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree
The Nation of Ulysses Plays Pretty for Baby
The National Alligator
The Smiths Hatful of Hollow
The Stooges Fun House
The Stooges Raw Power
The Vandals Hitler Bad, Vandals Good
The Vibrators Pure Mania
The Weakerthans Left and Leaving
Thrice Vheissu
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance
Weezer Pinkerton
Weezer Weezer
Wire Chairs Missing
Youth Brigade (CA) Sink With Kalifornjia

3.5 great
Air The Virgin Suicides
ALL Allroy's Revenge
ALL Mass Nerder
Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal
Animal Collective Sung Tongs
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction
Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
Bad Religion Recipe for Hate
Bad Religion 80-85
Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill
Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit
Best Coast Crazy For You
Black Flag My War
Bomb the Music Industry! Others! Others! Volume 1
Yeah, B-sides, rarities, demos, covers, whatever. It's a must for fans. There's also an awesome track called SUPERTALK! which tells a story of their live performances with compilations of bits from their live recordings. It's very funny and well done. There are also a few songs on here that are high quality, so it's not a throwaway album whatsoever.
Cake Prolonging The Magic
Cake Motorcade Of Generosity
Circle Jerks Group Sex
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist
Dead Kennedys Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death
Descendents I Don't Want to Grow Up
Descendents Fat
Destroyer Kaputt
Dinosaur Jr. Beyond
Dinosaur Jr. Bug
Eisley The Valley
Fear The Record
Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords
Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose
Foo Fighters In Your Honor
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters
Fugazi In on the Kill Taker
Fugazi Repeater
Fugazi Furniture
Grandaddy Sumday
Green Day International Superhits
Green Day Insomniac
J Church Prophylaxis
James Blake James Blake
Lagwagon Double Plaidinum
Lagwagon Blaze
Lagwagon Duh
Lagwagon Let's Talk About Leftovers
Lagwagon Live In A Dive
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Blow in the Wind
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah
Millencolin Home From Home
Millencolin Life On A Plate
Minutemen Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat
Minutemen The Punch Line
Muse Black Holes & Revelations
Muse Origin of Symmetry
No Use for a Name Hard Rock Bottom
No Use for a Name ¡Leche con Carne!
NOFX Pump Up the Valuum
NOFX Ribbed
NOFX I Heard They Suck Live!!
NOFX White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean
Pennywise Straight Ahead
Propagandhi Less Talk, More Rock
Propagandhi How to Clean Everything
Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits
Radiohead In Rainbows
Radon Metric Buttloads of Rock!
Radon We Bare All
Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release)
Seaweed Four
Shinobu Strange Spring Air
Excellent songs but a little too noticeable influences. Some of their songs sound like lifts from their influences. But it's really quality stuff regardless. Teachers Get Tired and Antarctic Stare are probably the top two songs, and they're great.
Spiritualized Lazer Guided Melodies
Subhumans Rats
T.S.O.L. T.S.O.L./Weathered Statues
The Adicts Sound of Music
The Adicts Joker in the Pack
The Bouncing Souls How I Spent My Summer Vacation
The Bouncing Souls The Gold Record
The Bouncing Souls Hopeless Romantic
The Cure Seventeen Seconds
The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists
The Decemberists The Crane Wife
The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts
The Ergs! Jersey's Best Prancers
The Ergs! Upstairs/Downstairs
The Falcon Unicornography
The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta!
The Lemonheads The Lemonheads
The Mr. T Experience Milk Milk Lemonade
The Nation of Ulysses 13-Point Program To Destroy America
The Promise Ring Nothing Feels Good
The Smiths Meat Is Murder
The Smiths The Smiths
The Vandals Quickening
The Vandals Live Fast Diarrhea
The Vandals Fear of a Punk Planet
The Vandals Peace Thru Vandalism
The Vandals Oi to the World
Thrice Identity Crisis

3.0 good
+44 When Your Heart Stops Beating
This album has its highs and lows, both musically and lyrically. Lyrically, there are plenty of shortcomings and some lyric topics, including "slit our wrists and burn," are tired. Musically it seems that anyone around Travis Barker is a shortcoming. However, this album is catchy, entertaining, and is a definite sign of maturity on the part of 2/3 of what used to be Blink 182. It would not be a mistake to purchase, but there is better stuff out there.
ALL Breaking Things
ALL Allroy Sez
ALL Problematic
Anberlin Cities
Animal Collective Ark
Bad Religion The Process of Belief
Bad Religion Bad Religion
Bad Religion New Maps of Hell
Beastie Boys Hello Nasty
Bjork Medulla
Bjork Volta
Bracket Requiem
Burial Untrue
Chuck Ragan Feast Or Famine
Chuck Ragan left the post-hardcore band Hot Water Music to focus on his personal life. Apparently his connection with music is so personal that Ragan has decided to release two solo albums within a little over a year since his departure in 2006. His works include a live effort entitled Los Feliz, and as of August 7, 2007, a full-length studio album called Feast or Famine. Armed with an acoustic guitar and surrounded by a musical atmosphere of violin and harmonica, Ragan strums along, creating folk-punk that addresses clich?ubjects of suffering in life and love. The solitary pleas enhance the appeal of his approach, allowing his worn voice to shed wisdom from a broken man. The highlight of the album, “Don’t Cry,” features Ragan providing encouraging messages through an empathetic tone. Though Ragan doesn’t break any ground on Feast or Famine, he manages to deliver sensible warmth that makes the album an enjoyable listen.
Circle Jerks Wild in the Streets
Dead Kennedys Bedtime For Democracy
Descendents Everything Sucks
Descendents Cool to Be You
Descendents Enjoy!
Descendents 'Merican
Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home
Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone
Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence
Explosions in the Sky The Rescue
Fake Problems It's Great to Be Alive
Fake Problems How Far Our Bodies Go
Foo Fighters One by One
Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere
Green Day Warning
Jay-Z The Blueprint
Jens Lekman Night Falls Over Kortedala
Kings of Leon Because Of The Times
Lemuria (USA-NY) The First Collection
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
NOFX The War on Errorism
NOFX S&M Airlines
NOFX 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough
Pennywise About Time
Sonic Youth Washing Machine
Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Subhumans Worlds Apart
System of a Down Toxicity
The Ergs! 3 Guys, 12 Eyes
The Ergs! Ben Kweller EP
The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics
The Lawrence Arms A Guided Tour of Chicago
The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come
The Vandals When in Rome Do as the Vandals
The Weakerthans Fallow
Trenchmouth Vs. The Light of the Sun

2.5 average
Adolescents Brats in Battalions
Air Pocket Symphony
Architecture In Helsinki In Case We Die
Bad Religion The Gray Race
Beastie Boys To the 5 Boroughs
Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost
Deerhoof The Runners Four
Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Green Day Shenanigans
Jay-Z Kingdom Come
Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender
Mae Singularity
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Are a Drag
NOFX Liberal Animation
NOFX Maximum Rocknroll
NOFX Heavy Petting Zoo
Pulley Together Again For The First Time
The Adicts Smart Alex
The Matches Decomposer
Weezer The Green Album

2.0 poor
ALL Allroy Saves
ALL Percolator
Bad Brains Build A Nation
Bad Religion No Substance
This album truly is one of Bad Religion's worst. Relative to their previous performances, it's just terrible. There are very few good songs on this album. I do not think they improved or fully recovered from Stranger than Fiction, and this album was an unfortunate disappointment.
Belle and Sebastian The Boy With the Arab Strap
Deerhoof Friend Opportunity
Kevin Devine Make the Clocks Move
Subhumans Internal Riot

1.5 very poor
Aiden Conviction
Architecture In Helsinki Places Like This
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Some Loud Thunder
Hilary Duff Metamorphosis
Nelly Country Grammar
Ricky Martin Ricky Martin
Sufjan Stevens Enjoy Your Rabbit
To rate this album above a 2 denies reasonable judgment, while above a 2.5 ensures an utter void where a listener's sanity once existed. This album sounds nothing like it should, and as a matter of fact, sounds like nothing at all. It's nonsense electronic noises that have no cohesiveness to speak of this side of the Pacific.
Weezer Make Believe

1.0 awful
Kevin Federline Playing with Fire
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight
Simple Plan No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls
The Stooges The Weirdness
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