| 4.0 excellent |
| Air France No Way Down |
| I disagree, Air France doesn't sound like Jens Lekman. There are vague similarities such as string and horn arrangements, but Air France uses vocal samples and drum machines instead of corny, crooned lyrics and a live band. Don't get me wrong, I like Jens fine, but I'd choose these guys anyday. The best tracks are the middle three: June Evenings, Collapsing at Your Doorstep, &, my personal favorite, No Excuses. |
| Beirut The Rip Tide |
| Clive Tanaka y Su Orquesta Jet Set Siempre No. 1 |
| This album wins my Air France chill-out record of the year award. Soothing electronic music to lay on the beach to. An unexpected favorite album of 2010 |
| Cut Copy Zonoscope |
| D'Angelo Voodoo |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Feist The Reminder |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere |
| Hot Chip DJ Kicks: Hot Chip |
| Jens Lekman Night Falls Over Kortedala |
| Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around |
| Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young |
| k-os Atlantis: Hymns For Disco |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kings of Convenience Versus |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane |
| Moby Play |
| Neil Young Harvest Moon |
| Oasis The Masterplan |
| Oasis Be Here Now |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe |
| OutKast Stankonia |
| Passion Pit Manners |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Poolside Pacific Standard Time |
| Ryan Adams Love is Hell |
| Ryan Adams Cold Roses |
| Sleigh Bells Treats |
| Sublime Sublime |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Beatles Let It Be |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Beatles Please Please Me |
| The Head And The Heart The Head And The Heart |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth |
| The Tough Alliance The New School |
| The Tough Alliance A New Chance |
| The Walkmen Bows + Arrows |
| The Walkmen Heaven |
| The Whitest Boy Alive Rules |
| I used to write-off Whitest Boy Alive as Erlend trying to make a Phoenix album and coming up a little bit short. Since Phoenix no longer really sounds like Phoenix, I gave Whitest Boy another chance. This album is much more polished and, in my opinion, better than Dreams. It is filling my United / Alphabetical void quite nicely. Best songs are Island, Rollercoaster Ride, & 1517. |
| U2 The Joshua Tree |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City |
| Yelle Pop-Up |
| 3.5 great |
| 2Pac All Eyez on Me |
| Air Moon Safari |
| Air Talkie Walkie |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare |
| Athlete Vehicles & Animals |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill |
| Beastie Boys Hello Nasty |
| Beck Odelay |
| Beirut Gulag Orkestar |
| Beirut Lon Gisland |
| Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People |
| Chromatics Kill for Love |
| Cody ChesnuTT The Headphone Masterpiece |
| Coldplay Parachutes |
| Common Market Tobacco Road |
| Cults Cults |
| Cut Copy Bright Like Neon Love |
| Daft Punk Homework |
| Delorean Ayrton Senna |
| Delorean Subiza |
| Doves (UK) The Last Broadcast |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Feist Let It Die |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand |
| French Kicks Two Thousand |
| Girl Talk All Day |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Gram Parsons Grievous Angel |
| Gram Parsons GP |
| Grand National Kicking The National Habit |
| Holy Ghost! Holy Ghost! |
| Hot Chip The Warning |
| Jack Johnson In Between Dreams |
| Jay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life |
| Jens Lekman When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog |
| Jens Lekman I Know What Love Isn't |
| Jet Get Born |
| Justice †|
| Justin Townes Earle Harlem River Blues |
| k-os Joyful Rebellion |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kanye West Graduation |
| Kasabian Kasabian |
| Keane Hopes & Fears |
| Kings of Convenience Declaration of Dependence |
| M.I.A. Kala |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis VS. |
| Matisyahu Live At Stubb's |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular |
| Moby 18 |
| Modill Midnight Green |
| Nujabes Modal Soul |
| ODESZA Summer's Gone |
| Osees Carrion Crawler/The Dream |
| Passion Pit Chunk of Change |
| Paul Van Dyk Reflections |
| People Under the Stairs ...Or Stay Tuned |
| Peter Bjorn and John Writer's Block |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
| Royksopp Melody A.M. |
| Ryan Adams Easy Tiger |
This is a great Ryan Adams starter album like the review says, a microcosm of his body of work. It is solid all the way through, which is not representative of most of Adam's records (usually there are a handful of misses on each album).
Here's a guide to which album to buy depending on which song you like. These songs would fit well on the albums that follow them:
Goodbye Rose – Cold Roses
Two – Love is Hell
Everybody Knows – Gold
Halloweenhead – Rock ‘n’ Roll
Oh My God, Whatever, Etc. – Heartbreaker
Tears of Gold – Jackson Cit Nights
The Sun Also Sets – Love is Hell
Off Broadway – Love is Hell
Pearls on a String – Cold Roses
Rip Off – Gold
Two Hearts – Gold
These Girls – Heartbreaker
I Taught Myself How To Grow Old – Heartbreaker
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| Ryan Adams Demolition |
| Ryan Adams Cardinology |
| Ryan Adams Ryan Adams |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Spin Doctors Pocket Full of Kryptonite |
| Spoon Gimme Fiction |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga |
| Starsailor Silence Is Easy |
| Strange Talk Strange Talk - EP |
| Tahiti 80 Fosbury |
| The Black Keys Brothers |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die |
| The Physics Future Talk |
| The Police Synchronicity |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land |
| The Rapture Pieces Of The People We Love |
| The Rapture !K7 Tapes - The Rapture |
| The Rapture In the Grace of Your Love |
| The Roots How I Got Over |
| The Strokes Angles |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Thrills So Much For The City |
| The Thrills Teenager |
| After their last album (except for the only memorable song "Not For All The Love In The World"), The Thrills had me hoping they'd head back to San Diego and write another "So Much For The City." Fortunately, they stayed away and the result is this darker, equally good album that has anything but a So-Cal feel. The first three tracks grow on me everyday and the whole album has a much greater emotional impact. Worth another listen if you wrote this band off after their "Lets Bottle Bohemia." |
| The Very Best Warm Heart of Africa |
| The Walkmen You & Me |
| The Walkmen Lisbon |
| The Walkmen Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone |
| The xx xx |
| Vampire Weekend Contra |
| Whiskeytown Pneumonia |
| Wyclef Jean The Ecleftic (2 Sides II A Book) |
| Yeasayer Odd Blood |
| Yelle Safari Disco Club |
| 3.0 good |
| Annie Anniemal |
| Annie Don't Stop |
| Blur Blur |
| Bob Sinclar Western Dream |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells |
| Caitlin Rose Own Side Now |
| Cassius Au Reve |
| ceo White Magic |
| Coldplay X&Y |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| This is how every review of Viva La Vida begins, “After the boring ‘X&Y,” Coldplay have returned with a daring new experimental album that, while no Radiohead, is miles better than their last album.” The problem with this statement is that X&Y wasn’t a bad album because it wasn’t experimental enough, it was bad because the songs, for the most part, weren’t very good. The fact is that this album has worse songs than X&Y, they’re just dressed up in fancier clothers (kinda like Chris Martin himself). It is no A Rush of Blood to the Head. Not even close. |
| Common Finding Forever |
| Common Market Common Market |
| Cornelius Point |
| Cults Cults 7" |
| Daft Punk Human After All |
| Damien Rice O |
| Dire Straits On Every Street |
| Doves (UK) Some Cities |
| Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Up From Below |
| El Perro del Mar Love Is Not Pop |
| Elefant Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid |
| Feist Open Season |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand |
| French Kicks Swimming |
| Gnarls Barkley The Odd Couple |
| Gold Panda Lucky Shiner |
| Grand National Drink and A Quick Decision |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
| Hercules and Love Affair Hercules and Love Affair |
| Hot Chip Made in the Dark |
| Jack Johnson Brushfire Fairytales |
| James Blake James Blake |
| Javelin No Mas |
| Jay-Z Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter |
| Justin Townes Earle Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me |
| Kings of Convenience Quiet is the New Loud |
| Ladyhawke Ladyhawke |
| Lykke Li Youth Novels |
| M.I.A. Arular |
| Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long |
| Miami Horror Illumination |
| Miami Horror Bravado |
| Miike Snow Miike Snow |
| Oasis Don't Believe the Truth |
| Oasis Heathen Chemistry |
| Oasis Standing on the Shoulder of Giants |
| Oasis Dig Out Your Soul |
I think with this Oasis album, I have finally realized that Oasis are not, and never, will be the band they were from 94 to 98. This album no longer pines for those days like Let There Be Love and Stop Crying Your Heart Out did. It�s all Oasis mark 2 on this album, building on the groundwork of Don�t Believe The Truth and adding a lot of organ. And while I�m glad that they are moving on, I just wish it was better than this. Its so by the numbers that they no longer bother to emulate The Beatles, they just sample their songs and voices. In the DVD that comes with the album, Noel says something like, �People are always telling me to get out of my comfort zone, but I am just going to stay there and keep making great songs.� Minus the great songs, that about sums up this album.
...Oh, and Shock Of The Lightning is an unbelievably blatant rip-off of The Way It Is by The Strokes. |
| Osees Warm Slime |
| People Under the Stairs O.S.T. |
| People Under the Stairs Fun DMC |
| Phoenix (FRA) Kitsuné Tabloid |
| No new songs by Phoenix on this album. Just songs that influenced them, or they really like. I would recommend this only for the super Phoenix fan. |
| Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell |
| Pink Floyd Relics |
| Ra Ra Riot The Rhumb Line |
| Revolver Music For A While |
| Ryan Adams 29 |
| Ryan Adams Follow The Lights |
| Ryan Adams Ashes And Fire |
| Sea Wolf White Water, White Bloom |
| Sea Wolf Leaves in the River |
| Snow Patrol Final Straw |
| Starsailor Love Is Here |
| Tahiti 80 Wallpaper for the Soul |
| The Cool Kids Totally Flossed Out EP |
| The Killers Sam's Town |
| The Killers Day & Age |
| The Libertines Up The Bracket |
| The Morning Benders Big Echo |
| The Music The Music |
| The Postmarks Memoirs At The End Of The World |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird |
| The Thrills Let's Bottle Bohemia |
| The Virgins The Virgins |
| The Whitest Boy Alive Dreams |
| Tiesto Just Be |
| Timbaland Timbaland Presents Shock Value |
| Time Machine (USA-CA) Life Is Expensive |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor |
| Travis The Man Who |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind |
| U2 War |
| Washed Out Life of Leisure |
| Wilco Sky Blue Sky |
| Wiz Khalifa Rolling Papers |
| Wyclef Jean The Carnival Volume II (Memoirs of an Immigrant) |
| Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals |
| You Say Party! We Say Die! XXXX |
