| 4.5 superb |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs |
| Beirut The Flying Club Cup |
| After thoroughly enjoying Beirut's previous releases, "Gulag Orkestar," "Pompeii EP," and "Lon Gisland EP," this is precisely the album for which I had been waiting. The album flows seamlessly and Condon's forlorn and beautiful voice perfectly fits the haunting, eastern-european-inspired folk melodies. This album is definitely a keeper and leaves me anxious for Beirut's next release. |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister |
| Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Kim is almost certainly the most emotionally-charged rap song ever composed. I never "felt" a hip-hop album until this one came out. |
| Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead |
| Gantz Les jours se suivent et ne se ressemblent plus |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor can, in my eyes, proudly proclaim to have created one of the greatest post-rock albums ever with "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven." GY!BE have perfected the ability to show utmost restraint while building a sweeping soundscape, and still reward the listener greatly with powerful and inspirational crescendos. For this reason, this album transcends post-rock and could be considered as one of the best pieces of music ever recorded - no exaggeration. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor have created an utterly breathtaking concept album in "F# A# ∞" This album truly defines "post-apocalyptic rock" and illustrates a beautifully devastating soundscape that depicts the end of the world. I hope to live to see the end of the world, someday. Then, I will listen to this album and everything will be right. Just right. |
| Immolation Close to a World Below |
| In Mourning Monolith |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| Jesu Conqueror |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| Moving Mountains Foreword |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Widely considered Opeth's magnum opus, Blackwater Park is the epitome of one of the world's greatest and most innovative bands. Flawlessly uniting progressive rock and death metal, Blackwater Park's sound might possibly be the most unique and captivating ever recorded. |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| I often find anything labeled "progressive," be it rock or metal, to be inconsistent. This is inherent in the nature of the style as the musicians strive to experiment with new sounds and blend genres and there's usually something with which I don't connect. However, one album stands out in my prog catalogue: Porcupine Tree's "Deadwing." An ideal proportion of mellow atmosphere, heavy riffage, and melodic composition keeps this album consistent throughout. What drives this album to the top of the progressive rock heap? Those familiar with basic algebra will understand when I say that the ratio of killer to filler on this album is simply "Cannot Divide By Zero." |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Most likely a product of the ridiculous hype surrounding this album, my first few listens left me quite unsatisfied with OK Computer. I was impressed by a few tracks, but the album didn't quite make the impression I had expected. Every time I listened, though, I found a new track I had missed recognizing as a solid track the previous time around. Where did that leave me? Over the course of a month, my rating for OK Computer slowly climbed from a 3 to its current standing as a 4.5. It took time and an open mind, but I now view OK Computer as Radiohead's second greatest album, one of the top alternative records of all time, and, most surprisingly, capable of living up to the tremendous hype. |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
The pinnacle of modern, mainstream music. Plain and simple. Musically, Rage Against The Machine's self titled marks the apex of rap, punk, metal, and funk at a single point in time. Never has a band so seamlessly blended such contrasting styles of music and infused such passion into the mix. What sets this album apart, however, is the gravity and power of the message and the importance to our current society. Rage Against The Machine singlehandedly took on the task of acting as the opposing force to a corrupt government and a propaganda-fueled media. When music of great quality has a message of great importance, it is untouchable. "Rage Against The Machine" is untouchable.
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| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Static Colours Sun Swells |
| The Antlers Hospice |
"I wish I had known in
that first minute we met,
the unpayable debt
that I owed you."
Well, Hospice, now I know. |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| Tool Lateralus |
| The tribal drumming gets me every time... Maynard's voice and Tool's innovativeness come together to form the MJK masterpiece. |
| Trespassers William Having |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade |
| 4.0 excellent |
| # Psy Brazil # Erotic Dream - Progressive Sensations |
| A free album from Jamendo, # Psy Brazil # has made the trance album I feel like I've been waiting to hear. Mesmerizing and poignant, the pulsating beats and waves of synths make for the ideal trance experience. |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| Above and Beyond Tri State |
| Agalloch The Silence of Forgotten Landscapes |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising |
| Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Beirut The Rip Tide |
| Belle and Sebastian The Boy With the Arab Strap |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Big Business Here Come the Waterworks |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Sunset Mission |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Black Earth |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
While I really didn't enjoy either of Brand New's previous releases, I was definitely able to connect with "The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me." It's always refreshing to see a band moving in a positive and more progressive direction, breaking out of the molds of a given genre. "Sowing Season," "Jesus Christ," and "Limousine" are standout tracks.
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| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People |
| Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On |
| Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love |
| Built to Spill There Is No Enemy |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| Circ Love Electric |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure |
| CunninLynguists Southernunderground |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 |
| Daft Punk Tron: Legacy |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction |
| DeVotchKa How It Ends |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane |
| Dr. Dog Fate |
| Draconian Where Lovers Mourn |
| Draconian Arcane Rain Fell |
| Draconian is one of the most severely underrated bands in the metal world today. Seamlessly intertwining doom, death, and gothic metal, Draconian stands out in that they feature two vocalists - one male and one female. And when Lisa Johansson's beautifully transcendent vocals are used in harmony with the brutal death growls of Anders Jacobsson, heaven and hell become one on Earth. Developed by the same producers who worked with Opeth and Katatonia, Arcane Rain Fell is Draconian's most compelling album to date. Also deserving mention, "Death, Come Near Me" is the album closer and a supreme chef-d'oeuvre of epic proportions. |
| dredg Catch Without Arms |
| Drudkh Blood In Our Wells |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone |
| Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse |
| Enslaved Ruun |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story |
| Estatic Fear A Sombre Dance |
| Estatic Fear's "A Sombre Dance" is a beautifully breathtaking album. Though it suffers from stagnation in some places, the vast majority of the album effectively captures the listener in epic, symphonic metal soundscapes. The stark contrast between the satanic male vocals and the angelic female vocals is marvelously highlighted by the meandering violin, flute, and electric guitar-driven passages. This album is a must for fans of Draconian or My Dying Bride. |
| From Monument To Masses The Impossible Leap in One Hundred Simple Steps |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Gustav Holst The Planets, Op. 32 |
| Hammock Kenotic |
| Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo |
| Have a Nice Life Voids |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 2 |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| In Flames Colony |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must |
| Janis Joplin Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Violent by Design |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| Jesu Silver |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night |
| Musically, I love this album. Lyrically, though, Kings of Leon's "Only By The Night" leaves much to be desired. When these boys grow up and stop singing about trivial and immature concepts, they have the potential to be an excellent band. Until then, this album proves that they are at least ready musically to make a significant impact. Highlights on the album include "Manhattan," "Closer," and "Crawl." |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti |
| Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 2: Latter Days |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No14 C-sharp minor,Op.27No2 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| Max Richter The Blue Notebooks |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular |
| Mono One Step More and You Die |
| Moonsorrow Verisäkeet |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma |
| Muse Absolution |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| My Dying Bride Songs of Darkness, Words of Light |
| My Dying Bride A Line of Deathless Kings |
| Nadja Truth Becomes Death |
| Negura Bunget Maiastru Sfetnic |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island |
| Nick Drake Bryter Layter |
| Nick Drake Time Of No Reply |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Novembre Materia |
| Novembre The Blue |
| Novembre's "The Blue" is a rare album that is so flawlessly assembled that individual tracks are effectively meaningless. Without being redundant, this album is united under one picturesque theme that paints a panoramic landscape for the imaginative listener. Standout clean and growled vocals thrive in the environment created by walls of electric guitar riffs and mesmerizing drum patterns. Novembre has certainly made a name for themselves as genre-redefining innovators with this ambient release. |
| OceanLab Sirens Of The Sea |
| Oceansize Effloresce |
| of Montreal The Sunlandic Twins |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Opeth have certainly mastered their trade. For 7 years Opeth tried to replicate the perfection achieved in the form of Blackwater Park on one single album, but to no avail. Finally, Watershed has accomplished the once-believed-impossible task of matching BwP in beauty and brutality. The clean vocals are haunting and poignant and the death growls are equal parts grating and soothing - just what every Opeth fan expects. However, Opeth continues to innovate musically, to the surprise of many. The jazz interlude in "The Lotus Eater", the detuning of the guitar to close out "Burden", and the beautiful female vocals featured in "Coil" are sure highlights on the album. Only Opeth could release such a masterpiece album and have it considered routine. |
| Paysage d'Hiver Winterkälte |
| Pending Disappointment New York Penn, NY |
| Indie rock gets some backbone. In the era of Animal Collective and Passion Pit, it's refreshing to hear a brand of indie rock that isn't afraid to play with distortion. With definite punk influences and a Franz-esque vocal performance, this album entertains all the way through. While the riffs were great (a la Sonic Youth, minus 2 minutes of feedback), it would have been nice to hear them played out a bit, perhaps sacrificing some of the compact song-lengths. Overall, the composition is good, the execution delivers, and the songs pack energy. Check out Held Taught, Hanged For Treason, and Firedamp for starters. |
| Peste Noire La Sanie des Siècles |
| Peter Bjorn and John Writer's Block |
| pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident |
| Portishead Portishead |
| Portishead Roseland NYC Live |
| Portishead Third |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Both highly acclaimed and highly despised, Protest the Hero's "Fortress" has stirred up much controversy in the metal community. I fall clearly into the camp that supports the album as an enjoyable and intriguing composition worthy of high praise. While the constant fluttering of the guitars can be slightly gaudy, it's a guilty pleasure I thoroughly enjoy. The highlight of the album, however, is Rody Walker's vocals. The drastic switches from falsetto wails to piercing screams to the occasional guttural growl match perfectly the schizophrenic changes in song structure. The only feature of the album that keeps it from achieving a classic rating in my eyes is the lyrics, which are mostly about goddess worship. Although, many proponents of the album consider the lyrics a guilty pleasure as well (I do). |
| Pyotr Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture, Op. 49 |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Radius System Escape/Restart |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Rage Against the Machine Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium (DVD) |
| Ride Nowhere |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality |
| Santana Milagro |
| Often overlooked, Santana's earlier works were outstanding albums! Without the pop-stylings and big-name artist accompaniment on these albums, the focus shifts to the rightful place - on the beautiful guitar work of Carlos Santana. While Abraxas and Supernatural were great albums, I firmly believe Milagro is Santana's greatest work and is deserving of much more attention. Those seeking a few tracks to sample, "Saja Right On" and "Somewhere In Heaven" are standout tracks on this standout album. |
| Satyricon Nemesis Divina |
| Satyricon Dark Medieval Times |
| Shining (SWE) I - Within Deep Dark Chambers |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim |
| Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) |
| Slayer Reign in Blood |
| sleepmakeswaves In Today Already Walks Tomorrow |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Greatest Hits |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| Taake Nattestid Ser Porten Vid |
| Taake Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden |
| Tearwave Different Shade of Beauty |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand |
| The Angelic Process Coma Waering |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Black Keys Rubber Factory |
| The Decemberists Picaresque |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution |
| The Evpatoria Report Golevka |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life |
| The Flashbulb Arboreal |
| The Gathering Souvenirs |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride |
| The National Alligator |
| The National Boxer |
| The National High Violet |
| The Ocean Precambrian |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric |
| The Paper Raincoat The Paper Raincoat |
| Amber Rubarth and Alex Wong have managed to pull together an eclectic and lovable collection of tracks and, somehow, make New York City feel like home, even to an outsider. Leaning heavily on Amber Rubarth's adorable voice and fantastic songwriting, The Paper Raincoat have created an impressive, albeit top-heavy, debut album. Notable tracks include Sympathetic Vibrations, Brooklyn Blurs, and Rough Cut (and Rewind is worth mentioning too). |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds |
| The Phantom of the Opera The Phantom of the Opera(Original 1986) |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Rotten Apples |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward |
| Tool Ænima |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| Van Morrison Moondance |
| Voxtrot Raised By Wolves |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem in D minor, K. 626 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Jupiter" Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| Xasthur A Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss EP |
| 3.5 great |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart |
| A Place to Bury Strangers Exploding Head |
| Aaron Neville Bring It On Home... The Soul Classics |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days |
| Agalloch From Which of This Oak |
| Agalloch The White |
| Agalloch The Compendium Archive |
| Air Moon Safari |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill Acoustic |
| Alcest Le Secret |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God |
| Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster |
| Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| Rightly criticized for devolving as a band from a solid metal outfit to a mediocre pop-rock band, Avenged Sevenfold should be given credit where credit is due. Waking the Fallen features solid technical ability, a refreshingly unique vocal performance, and fairly consistent quality throughout. In essence, this is an excellent album, puts most modern metalcore to shame, and deserves significant kudos from the metal community. |
| Beach House Teen Dream |
| Beirut Gulag Orkestar |
| Bel Auburn Lullabies In A & C |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Dolores |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene |
| Bruce Springsteen Greatest Hits (1995) |
| Buckethead Population Override |
| Built to Spill You in Reverse |
| Built to Spill Ancient Melodies of the Future |
| Burst Origo |
| Burst Lazarus Bird |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| Burzum Burzum/Aske |
| Burzum Burzum |
| Burzum Belus |
| Califone Roots and Crowns |
| Chamillionaire Ultimate Victory |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Cream The Very Best Of Cream |
| CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange |
| Cynic Focus |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Dan Swano Moontower |
| Daniel Licht Dexter - Season 4 |
| Dark Tranquillity Character |
| Dark Tranquillity Haven |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky |
| David Bowie Space Oddity |
| Deadsy Commencement |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
| Devin Townsend Terria |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug |
| Dirty Three Horse Stories |
| Dirty Three Ocean Songs |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Draconian Turning Season Within |
| Dreamerion The Pain Without Name |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion |
| Drudkh Forgotten Legends |
| Drudkh The Swan Road |
| Eagles Hell Freezes Over |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Elliott Smith Figure 8 |
| Eluvium Copia |
| Eminem The Eminem Show |
| Eminem Recovery |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Enslaved Frost |
| Enslaved Vertebrae |
| Evanescence Fallen |
| Evanescence The Open Door |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... |
| Feist The Reminder |
| Feist Open Season |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Fleetwood Mac The Dance |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand |
| Gabriel Faure Pavane, Op. 50 |
| Gantz La Chambre Des Morts |
| Gas Pop |
| George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue |
| Gorgoroth Pentagram |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
| Hallucinogen Twisted |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living |
| Howard Shore The Fellowship of the Ring |
| Howard Shore The Two Towers |
| Howard Shore The Return of the King |
| Ikuinen Kaamos Closure |
| Immolation Failures for Gods |
| Immolation Unholy Cult |
| Immolation Harnessing Ruin |
| Immolation Dawn of Possession |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 1 |
| Imogen Heap Speak For Yourself |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant |
| Jaga Jazzist The Stix |
| James Taylor Greatest Hits |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint |
| Jay-Z The Black Album |
| Jay-Z and Linkin Park Collision Course |
| Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygene |
| Jedi Mind Tricks The Psycho-Social |
| Jeff Buckley Mystery White Boy |
| Jesu Jesu |
| Jesu Ascension |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick |
| Johann Johannsson IBM 1401, A User's Manual |
| Johann Pachelbel Canon and Gigue in D |
| Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048 |
| John Legend Get Lifted |
| Joy Wants Eternity Must You Smash Your Ears Before You Lear |
| Joy Wants Eternity You Who Pretend to Sleep |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue |
| King Crimson Red |
| King Crimson Lizard |
| Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Led Zeppelin Early Days/Latter Days |
| Les Discrets/Alcest Split |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter II |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Skynyrd's Innyrds |
| Madvillain Madvillainy |
| Massive Attack 100th Window |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
| Max Richter Infra |
| Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Metallica Metallica |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life |
| Miles Davis The Best of Miles Davis |
| Moby Play |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Modest Mouse Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks |
| Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast |
| Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined |
| Mono You Are There |
| Mono Under the Pipal Tree |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind |
| Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja |
| Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty |
| Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky |
| Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick |
| Morbid Angel Covenant |
| Muddy Waters His Best: 1947 to 1955 |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More |
| Muse Showbiz |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Muse HAARP |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything |
| My Bloody Valentine Ecstasy and Wine |
| My Morning Jacket Z |
| Nadja Bliss Torn From Emptiness |
| Nadja The Bungled and the Botched |
| Nadja Corrasion |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Negura Bunget OM |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left |
| Nick Drake Family Tree |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? |
| OceanLab Sirens Of The Sea Remixed |
| Oceansize Frames |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) |
| Panopticon Collapse |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need |
| pg.lost Yes I Am EP |
| Philip Glass Koyaanisqatsi |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Porcupine Tree Signify |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back |
| Rachael Please Repulse and Devastation |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Ray Lynch Deep Breakfast |
| Red House Painters Down Colorful Hill |
| Ride Today Forever |
| Rise Against Revolutions per Minute |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason |
Rise Against succeeds once again with the release of "Appeal To Reason." However, this album seems to lack the level of frustration and angst that made "The Sufferer and the Witness" such a powerful album. While not Rise Against's best, this album is nonetheless an excellent release.
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| Santana Abraxas |
| Santana Supernatural |
| Sarah Fimm White Birds |
| Sarah Fimm The Vanishing Sessions (B-Sides Part I) |
| Sarah Fimm Karma Phala |
| Sarah Fimm Near Infinite Possibility |
| Sed Non Satiata Le Ciel De Notre Enfance |
| Shadows Fall The Art of Balance |
| Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad |
| Shining (SWE) IV - The Eerie Cold |
| Shining (SWE) III - Angst, Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie |
| Sigur Ros Von |
| Sigur Ros Svefn-g-englar |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon |
| Sky Eats Airplane Everything Perfect on the Wrong Day |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| Slowdive Just for a Day |
| Solstafir Köld |
| Sonic Youth Dirty |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space |
| Spoon Girls Can Tell |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline |
| Stars of the Lid Avec Laudenum |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Couldn't Stand the Weather |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood |
| He doesn't play particularly fast. He doesn't make his guitar sound like any instrument besides a guitar. He doesn't do anything technically that has never been done before. Hell, he's not even in a metal band! Yet, he's one of the greatest guitarists of all time - Stevie Ray Vaughan. And his ultimate album, "Texas Flood," is a prime showcase of a musician who injects more feeling into every note than most guitarists manage in entire careers. |
| Subterranean Masquerade Suspended Animation Dreams |
| If you think you've heard genre-redefining music, you might have to reconsider. The product of members of Novembers Doom and Agalloch, Subterranean Masquerade is an extremely unique and experimental progressive metal band. "Suspended Animation Dreams," Subterranean Masquerade's first full length release, typifies the band's style: employing death growls, spoken doom vocals, and clean singing layered over any instrument imaginable, from acoustic guitar to clarinet to harmonica to violin to trumpet. The fact that the album is unorthodox doesn't inherently make it a success, however. What impresses me is the seamless transitions between, seemingly, completely unrelated sections. Well done, guys. |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan |
| Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Talk Talk The Colour of Spring |
| The Angelic Process We All Die Laughing |
| The Antlers Burst Apart |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale |
| The Beatles Yellow Submarine Soundtrack |
| The Black Keys Magic Potion |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator |
| The Game The Documentary |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| The Mountain Goats Tallahassee |
| My first venture into The Mountain Goats, "Tallahassee" is an extremely entertaining album from many perspectives. From a lyrical perspective, the story John Darnielle tells is twisted and nuanced, but grounded in reality. From a musical perspective, the compositions are simplisitc and minimalistic for the majority of the album, and additional instrumentation is added only during the most crucial parts of the album. In addition, Darnielle has a captivating voice that perfectly suits the nature of the music. Overall, this album is an entertaining listen that exceeded my wildest expectations and deserves a listen from all.r |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel |
| The Ocean Heliocentric |
| The Paper Raincoat Safe In The Sound EP |
| The Rolling Stones Forty Licks |
| The Smiths The World Won't Listen |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat |
| The xx xx |
| Tool Undertow |
| Trespassers William The Natural Order of Things |
| Tricky Maxinquaye |
| TV on the Radio Young Liars |
| Twilight Monument To Time End |
| Tyler Bates 300 |
| U2 The Joshua Tree |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| Various Artists Phenomenon: Music From The Motion Picture |
| Various Artists (Hip Hop) 8 Mile OST |
| Voxtrot Mothers, Daughters, Sisters and Wives |
| Wale Attention Deficit |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| Winds The Imaginary Direction of Time |
| A fairly unknown metal band, Winds features a style of neo-classical metal that makes for an entertaining listen. While the vocals and song structures can be somewhat pedestrian, it all seems worth it when the electric guitar interrupts the strings, drums, and acoustic guitars and executes some of the most beautiful sweeps and solos ever composed. And I say composed because this music more closely resembles classical music than metal. "The Imaginary Direction of Time" is Winds' best album to date and features several standout tracks, such as "What is Beauty?," "Theory of Relativity," and "Visions of Perfection." |
| Winds Reflections of the I |
| Winds Prominence and Demise |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Demo |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Live at Roadburn 2008 |
| Woods of Ypres Against the Seasons |
| Woods of Ypres Pursuit of the Sun & Allure of the Earth |
| Xasthur To Violate the Oblivious |
| Year of No Light Nord |
| Yes Classic Yes |
| Young Buck Straight Outta Cashville |
| Zion I Mind Over Matter |
| 3.0 good |
| 009 Sound System 009 Sound System |
| A Day To Remember And Their Name Was Treason |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You |
| Aesop Rock Appleseed |
| Afterlives A Ticking Clock I Couldn't Stop |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose |
| Agalloch Of Stone, Wind and Pillor |
| Agalloch The Grey |
| Agalloch Tomorrow Will Never Come |
| Aghora Aghora |
| Alcest Tristesse Hivernale (Demo) |
| Alkaline Trio Crimson |
| All Shall Perish Hate. Malice. Revenge |
| All That Remains This Darkened Heart |
| All That Remains ...For We Are Many |
| All the Empires of the World Last Rites |
| Anathema Judgement |
| Arcturus The Sham Mirrors |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security |
| Atheist Elements |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence |
| Audioslave Audioslave |
| Audioslave Out of Exile |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
| Bassnectar Underground Communication |
| Beirut Lon Gisland |
| Beirut March of the Zapotec/Holland |
| This EP seems to be the tale of two discs. While March of the Zapotec doesn't come close to living up to the expectations set by Gulag Orkestar or The Flying Club Cup, the Realpeople Holland portion (Condon's electronic side-project) does a remarkable job innovating on Beirut's classic sound. Tracks like "Venice" and "No Dice" capitalize on the haunting vocal melodies Beirut fans know and love, but wonderfully introduce electronic beats that give the music an entirely new feel. Luckily, the captivating second half of the album fully compensates for the stale and unimpressive first half. |
| Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress |
| Belle and Sebastian Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska (Instrumental) |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Big Business Head for the Shallow |
| Bjork Homogenic |
| Black Mountain In the Future |
| Black Sabbath We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll |
| Blue Oyster Cult Don't Fear The Reaper: The Best Of |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Geisterfaust |
| Boris Flood |
| Boris Pink |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports |
| Buckethead Electric Tears |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison |
| Burial Untrue |
| Burzum Aske |
| Catherine Wheel Ferment |
| Celine Dion Falling into You |
| Chamillionaire The Sound of Revenge |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Clint Mansell and Kronos Quartet Requiem for a Dream |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Coldplay Parachutes |
| Coldplay X&Y |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| CunninLynguists Will Rap For Food |
| Cursive Domestica |
| Cynic Re-Traced |
| D12 D12 World |
| Daturah Daturah |
| David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World |
| David Gilmore Unified Presence |
| Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun |
| Death Symbolic |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum |
| Deerhunter Fluorescent Grey |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca |
| Dispatch Bang Bang |
| Disturbed The Sickness |
| DMX It's Dark and Hell Is Hot |
| DMX The Great Depression |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| dredg Leitmotif |
| Drudkh Anti-Urban |
| El Ten Eleven El Ten Eleven |
| Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record |
| Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics... |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Emmy Rossum Inside Out |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium |
| Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... |
| Entombed Clandestine |
| Envy Insomniac Doze |
| Evanescence Anywhere But Home |
| Evoken Antithesis of Light |
| Exivious Exivious |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True |
| Fall of Efrafa Inle |
| Feist Let It Die |
| Ferry Corsten Right of Way |
| Fleet Foxes Sun Giant |
| Flight of the Conchords The Distant Future |
| Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords |
| Foals Total Life Forever |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor |
| Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better |
| From Monument To Masses Beyond God & Elvis |
| Gates of Winter Lux Aeterna |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
| GZA Liquid Swords |
| Have a Nice Life Time of Land |
| Ill Nino One Nation Underground |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World |
| Jay-Z In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 |
| Jay-Z Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter |
| Jay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Visions of Gandhi |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Legacy of Blood |
| Jesu Why Are We Not Perfect? |
| Jesu Pale Sketches |
| Jesu Infinity |
| Jethro Tull Stand Up |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon |
| Kings of Leon Because Of The Times |
| Korn Issues |
| Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 1 |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley |
| Lady Gaga The Fame |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 1: Early Days |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Limbonic Art Moon In The Scorpio |
| Linkin Park Live In Texas |
| Lloyd Banks The Hunger For More |
| Ludacris Word Of Mouf |
| Massive Attack Protection |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map |
| Mazzy Star Among My Swan |
| Mazzy Star She Hangs Brightly |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| MGMT Time to Pretend |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young |
| Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk |
| Moving Mountains Moving Mountains Demo |
| Murs Murs 3:16: the 9th Edition |
| My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans |
| Nadja Guilted by the Sun |
| As consistent as Nadja usually are, this release is a harder pill to swallow - even by their standards. While it's nice to see a band pay homage to it's influences or favorite artists, not every song works in a doom drone landscape. I enjoyed "Needle in the Hay" and "Only Shallow" a bit, but overall this doesn't live up to Nadja's usual quality (but, hey, it is a cover album). |
| Negura Bunget Sala Molksa |
| Negura Bunget Zîrnindu-să |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday |
| She has promise as a lyricist and I really enjoy her flow, but this album comes across as a pop album first, rap album second. If she gets her priorities in order, she has the potential to become my favorite female rapper. |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position |
| of Montreal Icons, Abstract Thee |
| Off Minor Innominate |
| Opeth Burden |
| Orchid Orchid |
| Owl City Ocean Eyes |
| Passion Pit Manners |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Penguin Cafe Orchestra Music from the Penguin Cafe |
| Peste Noire Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor |
| Pete and J Plenty Good Reasons EP |
| Peter Bjorn and John Falling Down |
| Peter Bjorn and John Living Thing |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds |
| Pretty Lights Making Up A Changing Mind |
| Protest the Hero Fortress (Instrumental) |
| Queen Greatest Hits |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead My Iron Lung |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Rise Against The Unraveling |
| Santana Shaman |
| Scala and Kolacny Brothers Dream On |
| After seeing the trailer for the movie "The Social Network," the poignant cover of Radiohead's "Creep" was intriguing enough to prompt some research. As a result, I stumbled upon this Belgian girls' choir - Scala and Kolacny Brothers. While many of the covers are hit or miss, ranging from amusing to interesting, the two Radiohead covers (Creep & Exit Music) are incredibly moving and worth checking out. |
| Senses Fail Still Searching |
| Shadows Fall Of One Blood |
| Shadows Fall The War Within |
| Shadows Fall Somber Eyes to the Sky |
| Shining (SWE) II - Livets Andhallplats |
| Silversun Pickups Pikul |
| sleepmakeswaves Sleepmakeswaves |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Smash Mouth Astro Lounge |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside |
| State Radio Us Against the Crown |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan In Step |
| Sting Brand New Day |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Sublime Sublime |
| Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten |
| Summoning Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame |
| Sunn O))) Black One |
| Swollen Members Black Magic |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| The Allman Brothers Band Eat a Peach |
| The Angelic Process Sigh |
| The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe |
| The Beach Boys The Platinum Collection: Sounds of Summer Edition |
| The Bravery The Bravery |
| The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists |
| The Decemberists The Tain |
| The Decemberists Picaresqueties |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland |
| The Killers Sam's Town |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad |
| The Mountain Goats The Coroner's Gambit |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie |
| Tony Bennett Duets: An American Classic |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die |
| Trespassers William Anchor |
| TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes |
| TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light |
| U2 Achtung Baby |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb |
| Uaral Lamentos A Poema Muerto |
| An interesting folk/doom metal band in the vein of Agalloch, Uaral develops some very enthralling soundscapes with prominent latin influence. The only downside for me is the vocals - especially the clean vocals. While Agalloch enhances its music with fantastic clean and black metal vocals, Uaral fails to achieve the same effect and the music suffers somewhat as a result. |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium |
| VAST Music For People |
| Weezer The Green Album |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Wolves in the Throne Room |
| Woods of Ypres Woods III: Deepest Roots and Darkest Blu |
| X Japan Art of Life |
| Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth |
| Young the Giant Young the Giant |
| Zion I Deep Water Slang V2.0 |
| Zion I True & Livin' |
