Average Rating: 3.68 Rating Variance: 0.91 Objectivity Score: 75% (Fairly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicAnata Under a Stone With No InscriptionThis album is perfect from start to finish. It's both mind numbingly complex yet is somehow really catchy. Hard to accomplish. Just like a lot of those riffs. Not to mention the drummer is a beast. What really puts it over the top for me is the absolutely juiced production value. It makes it sound like a classic. One of my favorite metal albums of all time.Aphex Twin SyroAutechre elseq 1-5Eyehategod EyehategodFaith No More Angel DustUnbelievable. I remember listening this album in high school and feeling like I was possessed. The other half of the time, it scared the crap out of me. Seeing the song Caffeine performed on MTV in the early 90s was unbelievable. The band just seemed so disturbing, and the audience just stood around captivated and confused. Lots of depth to this album, it grows on you, it has a wide variety of different types of songs, and it just moves you. Everything you need for a classic.Inquisition Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar...Intronaut Valley of SmokeKyuss Welcome to Sky ValleyMegadeth Rust in Peacesimply unbelievable. mustaine is out of his mind on this, putting forth his best megadeth record by far. sure, there may be one or two tracks that aren't quite up to the rest of the offerings, but "Take No Prisoners" and "Holy Wars" would make this album classic regardless of what else was on there. simply one of the best metal albums of all time.Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of ReasonMr. Bungle Mr. BungleMy Bloody Valentine Lovelesspure interdimensional bliss! obscured painted sound layers underneath distorted caked magnetic tape. I could list my favorite songs, but they wouldnt be much better than the other stuff on here, just get it if you haven't alreadyy!My Bloody Valentine EPs 1988-1991Oneida Anthem of the MoonOranssi Pazuzu Mestarin KynsiPrefuse 73 One Word ExtinguisherPrimus Sailing the Seas of CheeseShorty Thumb DaysThe Mars Volta De-Loused in the ComatoriumWow, what a unique, mind blowing epic of an album. Still probably their best album, although I love them all. Top notch musicianship, interesting, abstract storyline, etc. Just get it if you haven't already!Thou Rhea SylviaToday Is the Day In the Eyes of GodToday Is the Day WillpowerToday Is the Day Temple of the Morning StarToday Is the Day SupernovaToday Is the Day Sadness Will PrevailToday Is the Day Today Is the DayYowie Synchromysticismhow anyone could rate this below a 4 reveals their lack of perception4.5 superbAcid Bath When the Kite String PopsThis is a classic metal album spanning all genres of metal. one of the first alt-metal bands that stayed true to the tradition. it's a shame this band only put out two albumsAmon Tobin SupermodifiedThis album is near perfect. I love some of the more mellow moments, and the really dark stuff is really cool as well. There's one or two tracks I could have done without, saving it from a perfect score, but there's no other album like this out there imo. Btw, the graphic for this on this website I think is actually the cover for permutation, not supermodified.Aphex Twin Richard D. James Albumthe mozart of the 20th century as some have said. this album is just raw fun poked at everyone. I can't really see why anyone wouldn't get this genius suiteAphex Twin ...I Care Because You DoAphex Twin DrukqsBehold... The Arctopus Cognitive EmancipationBrant Bjork JalamantaCathedral The Last SpireCephalic Carnage Misled by CertaintyCheer-Accident Fear Draws MisfortuneClutch Blast TyrantThis is Clutch at its rip-roarin best, with superior production to boot. The best thing that Clutch has done since Pure Rock FuryDalek AbsenceDalek Endangered PhilosophiesDeathspell Omega The Synarchy of Molten BonesDel Tha Funkee Homosapien Funk Man (The Stimulus Package)Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030one of the most original hiphop albums in my collection, this is both heady material and a fun listen. cinematic in scope, yet a good party album, del and dan are in top form.Don Caballero Singles Breaking UpDown NOLAeasily one of my favorite metal albums of all time, I'd give it a Classic rating except that their albums after this weren't so classic. and you know they can do better.Dysrhythmia Psychic Mapsa couple of the tracks drag a little bit, but on the strength of tracks like Room of Vertigo, Festival of Popular Delusions, and Iron Cathedral, etc I have to give this a superb ratingDysrhythmia The Veil Of ControlEarth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I Ecferus PangaeaEstradasphere Palace Of MirrorsFennesz Venicegorgeous rivers of textured ambience, from a guitar and a laptop. very unique and cool, makes you think of the sunlight filtering through everythingGigan Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescenceit's already growing on me, went from a 4 to a 4.5Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to HeavenGorguts Obscurait's near unlistenably bizarre heaviness it's only weak trait, this album is some of the best death metal I have ever heard. the drummer sounds like he is on infinite bpm and the guitars are giant sludgehammers of doom with high caliber rapid fire machine guns attached to them conjuring some sort of dark ritualGorguts Pleiades' DustIntronaut PrehistoricismsJawbox For Your Own Special SweetheartThis was one of my favorite albums when it came out, I think I nearly wore out the tape. Savory is indeed an amazing song, and the rest of the album is very creative and distances the band from the rest of the dischord groups. very catchy but in their own way... I think this was a very influential album.John Coltrane Giant Stepsone of my favorite jazz albums of all time. Coltrane puts forth one of his best efforts of his entire career, and is a good middle point between his more traditional earlier works and his later more avant garde stuff like 'ascension'Krallice PrelapsarianKyuss Blues for the Red SunLatitudes IndividuationLychgate The Contagion in Nine StepsMadvillain MadvillainyMelody's Echo Chamber Melody's Echo Chamberlooooooove this album, will go on my overlooked list for 2012Melvins HoudiniMelvins BullheadMeshuggah KolossMF DOOM Operation: DoomsdaySimply one of my favorite hiphop discs of all time! Doom's delivery is sort of in a drunken master style, and his tales of experience and wisdom are among the best in hiphop. Not to mention, I love the obscure samples and dusty production value. If you haven't heard Metal Face Doom, you haven't heard nuttnMr. Bungle Disco Volantethis is one of the most inventive and re-interpretive cds in my collection, which is sort of a rare category but few bands pull this off. speed metal jazz sessions mix with supernatural film scores and avant garde jazz freakouts. made by a gradeschoolerMy Bloody Valentine m b vNels Cline Destroy All Nels Clinechilling, mind blowing stuff! extremely original guitar mastery! utter chaos forming into subtle beauty. the only way to describe this would be to play it for you.Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiralthe most memorable album of this era imho. I saw this presented live in des moines and it was the shit with jim rose sideshow circus and an early version of marilyn manson openingOneida Secret WarsOpeth Blackwater ParkOranssi Pazuzu ValonieluPantera Vulgar Display of Powersimply the best Pantera album. defines a generation with tracks liks fucking hostile and a new level not to mention mouth for war.or this love. the heaviest mainstream metal except maybe some of slayerPinback Blue Screen Lifethis is some of the best pop music I've ever heard. much better than anything on the friggin radio at this time. pinback needs to be heard, if for nothing else, for the rhythms.Polvo In PrismPrimus Pork SodaQueens of the Stone Age Rated RRadiohead OK ComputerRage Against the Machine Rage Against the MachineRush Moving PicturesI gave this album a superb just for yyz alone. limelight is also one of my favorite rush songs; just a stellar outing for a very important band.Rush R30: 30th Anniversary TourSax Ruins YawiquoSleep Sleep's Holy Mountainanother one of my favorite metal albums, this is just pure metal from start to finish. If you don't like this, you're probably not into metal Squarepusher Just a SouvenirTame Impala InnerspeakerThe Faceless Planetary Dualityone of the fastest bands I've ever heard, and it's also very technical. off the top of my head only origin and necrophagist are on this levelThe Jesus Lizard LiarTool LateralusThis is the best Tool album, albeit it's not its most popular. This is Tool taking it to the next level with even more Floyd and King Crimson influences and turning the radio world on its head with extra long compositions that threw a chink into the armor of the clear channel dominion.Ulcerate Everything Is FireUnwound Leaves Turn Inside Youwow, this puts shivers into your spine at least one point during it's long playing time, over 2 discs or records. the cd does come out into a nice two folding double album. this is a very underrated record, since it didn't sound that much like some of their older material. but it's a very moving masterpiece of astounding poignance that it is not to be missed.Ween The MolluskYes FragileThis album is gold. One of my favorite springtime cds to bust out and listen to. It just has an organic feel about it, and it's Yes' best outing. Roundabout is probably one of the coolest things you'll hear on classic rock radio. What keeps this from a perfect rating imo is some of the noodly solos in between songs. but other than that, pure genius!4.0 excellent311 TransistorAmon Tobin Foley RoomI loved the idea behind this album, but was a little disappointed to find out he didn't exclusively just use the source recordings and threw in some other stuff... but it still worked really well and got the idea across. I didn't enjoy this quite as much as supermodified or permutation (maybe it's something about the obscure records he used), but this is still a daunting project and it had some very memorable moments.Amon Tobin Permutationthis is my favorite jazzy sounding electronic record, well along with Flanger - Nuclear Jazz. It's awesome how all his albums have different sounds and feels, but still have his trademark chaotic drums all over them. This is the graphic for supermodified, however.Anal Cunt Fuckin' AAphex Twin Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt 2Augury Fragmentary EvidenceBaroness Red AlbumSouthern rock/metal absorbing a bunch of styles including prog rock, blues, post-hardcore (more isis than neurosis), with great vocal melodies and a few instrumental thrown in. Nicely done.Blut Aus Nord 777 - Sect(s)Cheer-Accident Enduring the American DreamCHON Newborn SunClutch The Elephant RidersClutch Strange Cousins From The WestCobalt GinConverge No HeroesThis is probably my favorite Converge album, or at least tied with Jane Doe. The production is top notch and is one of the loudest things you'll ever hear. These guys know how to write a riff, there's no doubt about it. And they are unrelenting, the drummer sounds like he wants to bash in your skull nearly at all times. The main things that hold them back imo are the vocals being much too one dimensional, and they have a knack for drawing things out far too long on some songs. Other than that, this is one of the best releases the year it came out.Cynic Traced in AirDavid Lynch The Big DreamDeath Grips No Love Deep WebDeathspell Omega KenoseDeathspell Omega Si Monvmentvm Reqvires CircvmspiceDecapitated Carnival Is ForeverDeerhunter MicrocastleDeftones White PonyDon Caballero What Burns Never ReturnsDon Caballero American DonDon Caballero World Class Listening ProblemDon Caballero PunkgasmEarth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light IIEcferus PrehistoryFailure Fantastic Planetvery good album! fantastic planet took a while to grow on me, considering how good 'magnified' was. but it's a "fantastic" album, recommended for a wide range of music fans.Faith No More The Real ThingMike Patton's major label debut is as exciting now as it was back then. Just a moving, adventurous disc. Sleeper song on here for me is The Morning After. Also love From Out of Nowhere and Zombie Eaters (as well as the Slayer tinged Surprise! Your Dead!)Future of the Left Travels With Myself And AnotherGojira The Way of All FleshHigh on Fire De Vermis MysteriisImmolation Majesty and DecayImmolation AtonementISIS Panopticonspacious and elegant, this is one of the better Isis records (along with everything before it). few complaints here except that this would lead to a more complacent sound.Krallice Krallicethe songs "Wicked Wisdom" and "Energy Chasms" along make this a must have for metal, punk or black metal fans. fierce shredding abounds!Mastodon Blood Mountainthis is by far mastodon's best album. it has both supremely heavy and technical moments, as well as psychedelia. I hope on the next one Brann Dailor lets it all loose, because I feel he is somewhat restrained on this... could have something to do with the production though. the album loses a few points too because the lyrics are pretty bad. But all in all, this is still one of my favorites. I think their next one will be their coup de graceMastodon Crack the SkyeMeat Beat Manifesto Answers Come In DreamsMeshuggah obZenMitochondrion ParasignosisNirvana In UteroOmar Rodriguez-Lopez Sworn VirginsOneida Happy New YearOneida Rated OOpeth Ghost ReveriesPallbearer Sorrow And ExtinctionPortishead ThirdWhat a great comeback album. And to throw in a lot of avant garde stuff, and use actual instruments rather than samples, takes a lot of cajones for a band this big. This singing is as beautiful and as fragile as ever, if not more so. I give it excellent just for the tracks "Hunter", "Small", and "We Carry On" alone. everything else is good too, although Machine Gun gets old after a while. I even found myself singing along with Deep Water out of nowhere one day after I woke up. Who would have thought a ukelele song about melting ice caps could be so catchy.Radiohead Kid ARadiohead Hail to the Thiefone of my favorite radiohead albums. It has some of my favorite songs of theirs (and it has some of their worst ones). I really like Wolf at the Door. it always puts chills up and down my spine.Radiohead A Moon Shaped PoolRefused The Shape Of Punk To ComeRush Grace Under PressureA very very amazing cd. One of the best "mainstream" albums of the 80s. Geddy tones it down a bit, but the compositions of these songs are damn near perfect!Sepultura Chaos A.D.The Mars Volta The Bedlam in GoliathProbably my least favorite Mars Volta record (I still love this record), the most exciting thing is the new drummer, Thomas Prigden. He's sort of a more rocking/hard hitting Zach Hill channeling a bit of Neal Peart. Also, it's quite possibly MV's noisiest album, but simultaneously most catchy. I would have liked the disc more if it weren't for Tourniquet Man, the worst song they've ever done imo. That said, my favorite songs on here are conjugal burns, cavalettas, ouroboros and metatron, the epic length mind melter on this one. Oh yeah, and that one song that was the first single was really cool too. I guess the main reason (other than I think all of their albums before this are pure genius, yes, even amputechture) that I don't like this one as much (I'd probably give it a superb) is the production is very tinny and overproduced.Thou HeathenTribulation The HorrorViktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villainjust extremely inventive raps and production to be found here. heck, you might even like this if you don't like hiphop3.5 greatAnal Trump That Makes Me Smart!Between the Buried and Me Colors_LiveBuckethead The Dragons Of EdenBurst Lazarus BirdButthole Surfers ElectriclarrylandConverge All We Love We Leave BehindCorrosion of Conformity Corrosion of ConformityDeafheaven SunbatherDeathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem AeternumDeftones Diamond EyesDisma Towards the MegalithFlying Lotus Los AngelesI liked this a lot at first, but on repeated listens it didn't quite live up to it's initial luster. The production is very flat, and overly loud. Some of the songs sound like sophomoric experiments, just throwing in cool sounding samples with non-reckless abandon. That said, it was a great introduction to this artist, and it's very unique and original, even if this has been done before.Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!Gojira L'Enfant SauvageKayo Dot Choirs of the EyeMeek Is Murder AlgorithmsMetallica Hardwired...To Self-DestructOneida The WeddingOneida Preteen WeaponryOpeth WatershedOrange Goblin A Eulogy for the DamnedPig Destroyer NatashaPrimitive Man Causticit's really good, but too drawn out. better taken in small doses.Queens of the Stone Age ...Like ClockworkRush Test for Echogood stuff! no, great stuff! this is a very tight record... there's some hits and misses on here, but I still think it's amazing to see these guys continue to be one of the only bands to last this long with the same 3 guys over 30 some years.Rush Snakes & ArrowsI think that I am one of the few people that actually liked Vapor Trails more than this one. I was a little bit let down when this came out; but it's still Rush goddamnit, and these guys are the best.Sigur Ros Agætis byrjunSublime 40 Oz. to FreedomSwarms Old Raves EndSylosis Edge of the EarthTestament The Formation of DamnationThe Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble From the StairwellToday Is the Day Axis of EdenToday Is the Day Animal MotherToday Is the Day No Good To AnyoneTool 10,000 DaysWhile this is Tool's worst album, there's still a whole lot to like here. The production on this cd is friggin sweet. Maynard's vocals blend in with some kind of computer effects, Adam Jones' guitar has never sounded better, and of course the rhythm section is killing it as always. My main gripe is that there is a ton of filler on here, and that Lateralus was way better (half of this sounds like it's Lateralus b-sides)Transcending Bizarre? The Serpent's ManifoldsTrenches The Tide Will Swallow Us WholeUlcerate The Destroyers of AllUlcerate Shrines of Paralysis3.0 goodBell Witch LongingBeyond Creation The AuraClutch Earth RockerDevin Townsend Project GhostDir En Grey UroborosEnslaved VertebraeEnslaved Axioma Ethica OdiniHigh on Fire Snakes for the DivineHungry For Hands I Was Hungry For HandsIn Mourning Shrouded DivineIron Maiden Live After Death (DVD)Jesu AscensionJustice †I just like this album because of it's very unique sound. There's about 3 tracks that I'll listen to though... the rest I can do withoutMark Lanegan Blues FuneralMaserati Inventions for the New SeasonMegadeth EndgameMelvins The Bride Screamed MurderMono Hymn to the Immortal WindNe Obliviscaris Portal of IOceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float UpOneida Each One Teach OneOrigin EntityPrefuse 73 PreparationsRed Fang Murder the MountainsRush Clockwork AngelsStevie Ray Vaughan Live at the El Mocambo (Live Video)STRFKR ReptiliansSwans To Be KindTesseracT OneThe Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 (Re-release)Today Is the Day Kiss the PigVerse AggressionWitch Mountain Cauldron Of The Wild2.5 averageAgalloch Ashes Against the GrainAmon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder GodBaroness Yellow and GreenCarach Angren Where the Corpses Sink ForeverCoheed and Cambria NeverenderDan Deacon BromstDJ Sprinkles Midtown 120 BluesDragonForce Ultra BeatdownYay, they play really really well, virtuoso like even. But this is pure cheese. Not very original either.DragonForce Twilight DementiaEminem The Eminem ShowExivious ExiviousFallujah NomadicFever Ray Fever RayFlying Lotus CosmogrammaGalneryus Angel of SalvationHope For The Dying DissimulationMew No More StoriesNicolas Jaar Space Is Only NoiseNovembers Doom AphoticProtest the Hero Fortresswhat a stupid name for a band. this music is nothing special. I did like the rhythms quite a bit though.Rx Bandits MandalaSigur Ros Heima (DVD)The Clash London Calling: Legacy EditionThe Gaslight Anthem The '59 SoundThe Offspring Complete Music Video CollectionThe Tallest Man on Earth The Wild HuntThrice Live At The House Of BluesToday Is the Day Pain Is a WarningTrent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST2.0 poor*shels Plains Of The Purple BuffaloChevelle Sci-Fi CrimesElectric Wizard Wizard Bloody WizardExotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of TonguesLil B Task ForceMudvayne The New GameNachtmystium Silencing MachineSavatage Streets: A Rock OperaSufjan Stevens IllinoisThe Dear Hunter IndigoThe Dear Hunter VioletThe Prodigy Invaders Must Die1.5 very poorA Perfect Circle eMOTIVewow, it's surprising how bad this was compared to their original material. one of the biggest letdowns, it sounded like a really cool idea to hear them do more covers (in addition to the great Failure cover)Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Lie Down in the LightHinder Take It to the LimitKanye West 808s and HeartbreakMy Chemical Romance The Black Parade1.0 awfulBon Iver For Emma, Forever AgoColdplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His FriendsCute Is What We Aim For RotationMiley Cyrus BreakoutThe Cool Kids The Bake SaleThe National High Violet
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