| 5.0 classic |
| At the Drive-In Vaya |
| Bad Religion No Control |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Brian Wilson Smile |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Fucked Up David Comes to Life |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| NOFX The Decline |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Swans To Be Kind |
| Swans The Seer |
| The Beach Boys The Smile Sessions |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| Each year, for one random week, the Smashing Pumpkins are the best band in the world. I?m never sure when it?s going to happen and I?m still not sure why it happens, but each year, for that short period I just really get into what they managed to do for the all too brief period in which they made their legacy.rThe band only managed to make three of what I consider to be true ?Smashing Pumpkins? albums (the rest of their output in the 90s and early 00s largely being what I consider to be Billy Corgan vanity projects and the results of their 2007 reformation being forgettable at best) but the one positive element of this was that one of them was a double album which helped elongate their ?lightning in a bottle? period of genuine interesting output.rThis album is far from perfect ? indeed, once X.Y.U has finished pounding my eardrums into oblivion, the rest is largely of side two is of little importance. However across the two discs and twenty eight tracks lies most of the Smashing Pumpkins career highlights, be it the lengthy epics (Porcelina, ?Ruby and X.Y.U) or the true contenders for the best alternative rock song ever written (Tonight Tonight, 1979).rIt?s possible the only double album that I can think of that wouldn?t be improved by being chopped in half. I just wish there was more left after this came out for the band to release another album that was even half as good. Sadly, as the years go by it?s clear that they hit an impossible peak all too soon ? a peak which the band are unlikely to ever ascend to again.r |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
