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5.0 classic
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step
Thirteenth Step is APC's opus, it's as simple as that. Combining excellent musicianship with flawless songwriting, APC perfected their sound and the result was a gorgeous concept album that never for a second comes off as pretentious or overbearing. APC is a band with a wholly unique sound that is still absolutely accessible, and Thirteenth Step showcases them are their best.
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism
Death Cab for Cutie Plans
Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues
Frank Ocean channel ORANGE
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly
La Dispute Wildlife
Opeth Damnation
Say Anything In Defense of the Genre
Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy (re-release)
Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy
The Antlers Hospice
The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree
Tool 10,000 Days

4.5 superb
AJJ Knife Man
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Chance the Rapper Acid Rap
Childish Gambino Because the Internet
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo
Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs
Father John Misty Mahashmashana
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
Foxy Shazam Foxy Shazam
Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
Green Day American Idiot
Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness
Jeff Rosenstock We Cool?
Kanye West Late Registration
La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair
Laura Stevenson Sit Resist
Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics
Metallica Master Of Puppets
One shouldn't be surprised to see or hear that Metallica's infamous "Master of Puppets" album is praised as a classic by most. It's interesting how even though a great deal of time has passed, it still displays why it's strengths today. The production doesn't show any age, the band is tight and together, and every song is memorable and enjoyable. It's easy to overlook that most of the songs on the album are decently long because there are no dull moments in any of them. Metallica keeps the intensity and power tight on every song.
Overall, it's just a really enjoyable record. Not for everyone, sure, but what is? The truth is, if it wasn't for record like Master of Puppets not only would I have never found the music I love, but it would have been the same for so many others. And that, if anything, is what makes this a classic record.
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister
mewithoutYou Ten Stories
Milo I Wish My Brother Rob Was Here
Moving Mountains Foreword
Mudbeard Literally Same EP
Opeth Blackwater Park
Prawn False Institutions
Radiohead OK Computer
Radiohead Kid A
Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch
Saosin Translating the Name
Say Anything Say Anything
Say Anything Menorah/Majora
Say Anything All My Friends Are Enemies
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
Slipknot has really come a long way. From their point of view, it was probably difficult to give up that "I hate the world" mentality that was usually included in their records for a much more mature approach to songwriting. This led to obvious criticism from their older fans, but there's no question that this was the best road to take.
Joey's drumming is outstanding, and Mick and James really take songs up to the next level with blistering solos this time around. However, with all this musical progression, it's actually the fact that Slipknot's finally learned when to hold back that really makes this album stand out. Giving up that "all aggression all the time" aesthetic of metal has really made songs like Vermillion much more effective.
Topping the musical aspect of the album off, Corey Taylor's done a really exception job on the lyrics this time around. He really digs deep emotionally, but uses lots of a double meanings, which may hint to the title of the album.
Overall this is a very strong record, I highly recommend it to get into Slipknot's much better material.
Sufjan Stevens Illinois
System of a Down Toxicity
The Decemberists Picaresque
The Decemberists The Crane Wife
The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene
Mad man Mike Patton is truly at his best as he collaborates with a band just as insane as he is. It's hard to complain that there's only four tracks when every track is ridiculously good. As Mr. Patton announces it's "The End" at the end of Hollywood Squares, it's really just beginning. With the strange atmosphere of Pig Latin, to the truly awe inspiring "When Good Dogs Do Bad Things", Irony is a Dead Scene features every artist at their absolute best. I strongly recommend this album to anyone trying to get into Dillinger's eclectic style, somehow Patton makes the album more accessible with his presence...which is by no means a bad thing.
The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine
The Future Kings of Nowhere The Future Kings of Nowhere
The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas
The Mountain Goats Tallahassee
The Mountain Goats Beat the Champ
The Postal Service Give Up
Tool Ænima
Tool Lateralus
Weezer Pinkerton

4.0 excellent
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms
AJJ Can't Maintain
AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
Benjamin Gibbard Former Lives
Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow
Extremely catchy and enjoyable, this album has a lot of great tracks, especially the first 8. The downfall of the album is actually the ending of the story tracks, which are simply not up to par with the rest of the tracks on the album. The title track, Mother Superior and Feathers make up for this immensely however. A solid buy for any prog rock fan.
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
Dethklok The Dethalbum
Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists
Mainly this high for nostalgia purposes. But still, Disturbed's best record. Fun, catchy and aggressive hard rock without (too many) cliches.
Disturbed Believe
Disturbed The Sickness
Drake Take Care
Dream Theater Images And Words
Dream Theater Octavarium
Dream Theater Systematic Chaos
Evans Blue The Melody and the Energetic Nature of Volume
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Faith No More This Is It: The Best of Faith No More
Faith No More Angel Dust
Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords
Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape
Funeral for a Friend Memory and Humanity
Funeral for a Friend Hours
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Good Luck Into Lake Griffy
In Flames Whoracle
Melodic Death metal at it's finest, it is at the this point that Ander's perfected his vocals and was at the absolute top of his game, along with everyone else in the band. Practically perfect, this album has a lot of stand out tracks, like Jotun, The Hive, Jester Transfigured, and of course Episode 666. Interesting concept too. The place the album falters is sub par production and somewhat repetitiveness. As far as melo-death albums go though, this is a must for any fan of the genre.
In Flames Come Clarity
In Flames A Sense of Purpose
Jens Lekman I Know What Love Isn't
Jimmy Eat World Futures
Kanye West The College Dropout
Katatonia The Great Cold Distance
Korn Issues
Laura Stevenson Wheel
Machine Head The Blackening
maudlin of the Well Bath
Metallica ...And Justice For All
mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright!
Milo Things That Happen At Day
Milo Things That Happen At Night
Moving Mountains Pneuma
Mudvayne L.D. 50
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade
Nine Inch Nails Broken
Pain of Salvation Be
Pantera Reinventing Hell: The Best of Pantera
Paul Baribeau Grand Ledge
Porcupine Tree Deadwing
Porcupine Tree In Absentia
Psyclon Nine We the Fallen
Psyclon Nine Crwn Thy Frnicatr
Radiohead The Bends
Radiohead In Rainbows
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness
Slipknot All Hope Is Gone
Stars Nightsongs
Stars Set Yourself On Fire
System of a Down Mezmerize
The Decemberists The Hazards of Love
The Decemberists The King Is Dead
The Decemberists We All Raise Our Voices to the Air
Even if live albums don't usually appeal to you, We All Raise Our Voices To The Air is an awesome ride, and actually a magnificent introduction to The Decemberist's discography (the setlist has been chosen perfectly). The band sounds fantastic, but it's Colin's between song banter and the moments when he gets the audience involved that really make the record so much fun to listen to (just listen to Dracula's Daughter/O Valencia and tell me you don't at least crack a smile). And hearing all three parts of The Crane Wife consecutively is worth the listen alone.
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity
The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth
The Mountain Goats In League With Dragons
The Mountain Goats Goths
The Mountain Goats Get Lonely
The Used Lies for the Liars
The Venetia Fair The Circus
Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me
Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse
Underoath Lost In The Sound Of Separation

3.5 great
10 Years Division
3 (USA) The End is Begun
Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge
Arsis A Diamond for Disease
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Brand New Deja Entendu
Chance the Rapper 10 Day
Childish Gambino Kauai
Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys
Death Cab for Cutie Kintsugi
Death Cab for Cutie The Open Door
Drake Nothing Was the Same
Drake Thank Me Later
Drake If You're Reading This It's Too Late
Dream Theater Awake
Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra.
fun. Some Nights
Green Day Dookie
In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak
Korn Untitled
Laura Stevenson A Record + 3
Laura Stevenson A Record
Metallica Death Magnetic
Metallica Metallica
Metallica Ride The Lightning
Mudvayne Lost and Found
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Nine Inch Nails With Teeth
Paul Baribeau Paul Baribeau
Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon
PlayRadioPlay! Texas
Prawn Basement Tapes
Saosin Saosin
Say Anything Baseball
Slipknot Iowa
Slipknot Slipknot
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans
Symphony X Paradise Lost
Thrice Vheissu
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance
Tony Clark As Dark as a Moonless Night
Tool Undertow
Tyler, the Creator Wolf
Underoath Define The Great Line

3.0 good
10 Years The Autumn Effect
AJJ Candy Cigarettes and Cap Guns
All the Empires of the World ...Will Be Laid To Waste
Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side
Andrew Dost Columbus
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Avenged Sevenfold Waking The Fallen
Avenged Sevenfold City Of Evil
Breaking Benjamin Phobia
Bullet For My Valentine The Poison
Burial Untrue
Deadlock Wolves
Disturbed Indestructible
Dream Theater Train of Thought
Evanescence Fallen
Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Framing Hanley The Moment
Not bad for a radio rock CD. The band holds potential that they show off with songs like Hear Me Now and Built For Sin, but the CD is slightly repetitive. Still, the polished, streamlined rock song can be infectious. It's hard to dislike them, but it's not anything to crazy over either.
James Blake James Blake
I can never really decide whether I like this album or not. Some days it feel awkward and bare, and others it feels hypnotizing and intimate. But whether I'm digging it or skipping tracks, I always find myself thinking that this album has gotten a bit more praise than it really deserves. Mr.Blake still has a lot of room to grow.
Kanye West Graduation
Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies
Korn See You on the Other Side
Lamb of God Sacrament
Megadeth United Abominations
mewithoutYou A to B: Life
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes
Ministry The Last Sucker
Rise Against Appeal to Reason
Streetlight Manifesto 99 Songs of Revolution: Volume I
The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath
The Postal Service We Will Become Silhouettes
Three Days Grace One-X
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II
Thrice Beggars
Tool Opiate
Tyler, the Creator Goblin

2.5 average
A Day To Remember Homesick
A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe
AJJ Christmas Island
Bush Sixteen Stone
Childish Gambino Camp
Five Finger Death Punch The Way Of The Fist
Hellogoodbye Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!
Judas Priest British Steel
Moving Mountains Waves
Nine Inch Nails Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D
Nine Inch Nails Year Zero
Victor! Fix the Sun Person Place Or Thing

2.0 poor
Bullet For My Valentine Scream Aim Fire
In a desperate attempt to lose the "emo" label that had been following them since their creation, Bullet For My Valentine has practically abandoned all their strengths and in their place adopted the song writing styles of others. Much like Trivium before them, this resulted in a horrible release from the Bullet. The band is obviously trying to be heavier, but in pretty much every case of this they fail miserably. It is actually the album's more melodic content that stands out the most, with the uplifting rocker "Hearts Burst Into Fire" easily cementing itself as an album highlight. However the track practically stands alone as a good track, as there are either glaring flaws or annoying nuances in every other song on the album that makes it very difficult to listen to. Despite a few enjoyable moments, overall I would classify this album as an absolute failure.
Kanye West Yeezus
Mudvayne The New Game
Penfold Amateurs and Professionals
Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium
Say Anything Anarchy, My Dear
I guess I just wanted to believe that the material on the Painful Splits records was simply throw away
material...not really an indicator that Max was losing his touch. I'm so disappointed that I was wrong. I think
the Song Shop project which started as a brilliant idea has made Max a lazy songwriter, who thinks less and
less about what he's putting into each song. So this record could never be ...Is A Real Boy (which he so
desperately wanted it to be), because it simply doesn't feel as sincere. And without the sincerity, what is Say
Anything? Haven't been this disappointed by an album in a long time.
Scary Kids Scaring Kids The City Sleeps In Flames
The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist
Weezer The Red Album

1.5 very poor
Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor
Atreyu The Curse
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold
Childish Gambino STN MTN
DragonForce Inhuman Rampage
From First to Last From First to Last
This album is a crushing disappointment in so many ways. Looking at what FFTL used to be and then looking at this is almost disgusting. The band is a weakened, diminished shell of it's former self without Sonny, that's really the bottom line. Without his emotionally charged wails, the weak guitar and bass lines really stand out, and there's only so much that drummer Derek Bloom can do to pick up the slack. If there is one good thing about the album, it's that Derek always gives 110% on every song.
There's no reason why this record should exist. Matthew is not only a mediocre vocalist (only really serving as a good vocalist as Sonny's backup), he's simply not fit to front the band.
I can't name one song I'd like to listen to again off this record, it's awful on so many levels.
Hellyeah Hellyeah
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight
I was way too harsh on this album in my last sound off, and I kind of feel like a douche for that. So it's not the worst record ever, and some songs are okay, like Bleed It Out, Shadow of the Day, etc.
Bottom line though: Linkin Park WAS good and they aren't anymore. It's a shame, but it's true. There's never going to be another "By Myself" or "Points of Authority. There's going to be more "What I've Done" 's. And anything besides that is basically "This album's version of By Myself because it's 'heavy' and there's screaming!"
Linkin Park is a parody of their former selves, giving into mainstream pressures and finally becoming radio rock darlings. And people bought it. So there's probably no going back.
Metallica St. Anger
Sum 41 Underclass Hero
System of a Down Hypnotize

1.0 awful
Abandon All Ships Geeving
Grumblecunt I Piss Shit
Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com
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