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5.0 classic
Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue
David Bowie "Heroes"
There are only a few perfect albums, "Heroes" being one of them. The original electronic album that carried a sweeping, moving electronic backdrop on top of Bowie's more eclectic older pop nature makes "Heroes" perhaps the best album ever made in rock music. If you listen to "Heroes", the album still sounds surprisingly modern to today's standard. The title track's swooshing and sweeping electronics and howling guitars trace Bowie's roots, mixing Ziggy with his future endeavors, putting forth the perfect mixture of Bowie's versatility and influences. A true masterpiece. (Sputnikmusic won't let me rate anything a 5...)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞
Godspeed's so-called soundtrack to the apocalypse is very much what it is considered. Where 'Lift' was more dynamic, this one is drab, dark, and anti-establishment in it's very core, a very alternative masterpiece that captures insanity and paranoia in one damn-fine CD.
Mr. Bungle California
As far as rock musicians go, Mr. Bungle are the most talented musicians in the act. Their self-titled showed the band sticking to funk-metal too strictly, Disco Volante showed the band straying too far out of range, and California is the perfect mixture. California is a beautifully bipolar album with it's fair share of aggression that mixes with any instrument, sampling, or technique you can think of. Patton's vocals are excellent, soothing, harsh, or whatever the song calls for. A truly magnificent album.
Muse Origin of Symmetry
My Bloody Valentine Loveless
My Bloody Valentine's twisted mixture of fuzz, pop, and dream/shoegaze is an incessant nagging feature of the 90s bursting at their seams to sound different. At first, Loveless might sound like noise-but this noise is more diverse and clean that nearly any other, the vocals are bright and fade into the noise, creating an incredibly dense aura of sound.
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral
The Downward Spiral is a true rock masterpiece. Dark, decaying, demented, and emotional-it bleeds Reznor's heart in the form of songs like Reptile, Hurt, and A Warm Place without ever sounding melo-dramatic or boring for that matter. It's an insane album that lets up when necessary and truly was created as a work of pure art, nothing more nothing less. A true 90s masterpiece, there was only two before, and none sense that match it's greatness.
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Only so much can be said about Wish You Were Here. So I won't do it, let the music do it for you.
Pixies Surfer Rosa
The Pixies created a genre with Surfer Rosa-a fun, lazy album that never strays too far away from the formula; but is so damn catchy and fun that it's worth the listening.
Radiohead Kid A
Radiohead's beautiful 'Kid A' is a magnificent album that twists and turns into bleak solemness, an anthem for a cold, dead world. If you thought music couldn't give you a feeling, you were wrong-Kid A is a chillingly cold art form that never loses it's grip on your strings. Songs like How to Disappear Completely, Idioteque, and Everything In It's Right Place are deep anthems with tight construction and emotion bleeding from every which way. Kid A never loses it's swagger, and ends just as epic as it began.
The Cure Disintegration
From the lonesome Plainsong to the end of the album, Disintegration bleeds loneliness and human emotion. Solemn, but a true rock record, The Cure's opus is a master plan of emotion in only the way Robert Smith could do it-by making a ridiculously depressing record.
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is a perfect double album. Despite Corgan saying it's not a concept album, Mellon Collie follows life until death, the grand opening track to the symphonies of Tonight, Tonight-to the brutal teenage angst of Bullet With Butterfly Wings, to the denial of love with Bodies, to the ending of life with Farewell and Goodnight. Mellon Collie captures life as a whole in an oddly old-fashioned way, it gleaming with old-world shine. If you like Corgan's vocals, this album is the best you can listen to in Alternative Rock.
The Who Who's Next
The Who's "Who's Next" was the true successor to the albums of the 60s, an album that formed rock n' roll as we know it. Courtesy of the keyboard, guitar, bass, vocals, and an amazing drum player, "Who's Next" perfectly crafted the optimistic aura of the time with an album that still sounds modern to this day.

4.5 superb
A Place to Bury Strangers A Place to Bury Strangers
A Place to Bury Strangers literally came from nowhere and have surprised music fans across the world with their retro shoegaze style. Pure sonic annihilation is a true deion of them, as the music is hypnotically heavy, feedback-wrought, and just altogether pretty damn great. It's one of the best debut albums I've ever listened to. They sound as if they've been playing together for years on their first CD.
Alice in Chains Jar of Flies
Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker-
Some people think Feedbacker is Boris's best album. Not to call them wrong-but Feedbacker is a damn fine album but not perfect unlike Dronevil, their opus. As far as their drone albums go, this one is the most diverse and eclectic, relinquishing a bit of their Stoner sound into an aggressive, crunchy attack typical of Boris's sound.
Boris Dronevil -Final-
Boris's Dronevil is a classic return to their drone/doom sound, escaping the relatively listener-friendly Stoner Rock albums of past. Dronevil is abusive to the ears, a hypnotic mix of distortion, feedback, mysterious vocals, and loose rhythms.
Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes
Chevelle have made the album of their lives, it's such an epic album it has everything that makes Chevelle so good, has everything that they needed before, and doesn't have the junk they had that they didn't need. May become a 5 in the future.
Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me
You're Living All Over Me showcases Dinosaur Jr at their creative peak with a very low budget. The production is hideously horrible-Furry Little Things is painful to listen to-but, the music is so strong and the lo-fi production only compliments the lazy, drab style of J Mascis's vocals and the songs. A lo-fi work of art.
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
The title of the album is far from the truth-Explosions in the Sky's sound makes you think the earth truly is a cold and dark place. Drab, minimal, and wholly cold as well as paranoid, Explosions in the Sky mask a bleak atmosphere with their unique riffs and their post-rock leanings.
ISIS Oceanic
Isis is often claimed to want to sound like Tool. This couldn't be farther from the truth-Tool is drab and all alike, Isis is fresh, brutal, and ridiculously dense as well as tense. At every moment, their music feels at it's bursting point, about to blow your speakers, and this tension as well as attention to every detail in the music whether it be 20 mixes down in the mix, makes Isis's Oceanic a true perfect album.
Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley
Melvins Bullhead
Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree
Meshuggah obZen
Muse Black Holes & Revelations
Neurosis Through Silver in Blood
Nine Inch Nails The Fragile
Most musicians have one album to define them. Nine Inch Nails, on the other hand, have two. One is a traditional opus with strong meaning, the other, a collection of oddities, creativity, and unusual style. The Fragile's multitude of unusual instruments, soft, piano led tunes, completely un-NIN songs, and what makes NIN, NIN made The Fragile a complete masterpiece that is astonishing all the way through.
Nirvana In Utero
In Utero is Cobain's true masterpiece. Straying away from the ridiculous pop of Nevermind, it captured the pop aspects of Grunge much better than the glossy Nevermind did, and was just altogether a gritty, nasty mainstream album.
Porcupine Tree In Absentia
Porcupine Tree's method of songwriting seems all too familiar before you realize that in every song something else changes-that brutal riff that fades into a soft, clean singing part may very well go on for another 10 minutes. In Absentia is a perfect modern concise of everything Progressive, from 70s Progressive Rock, to the Progressive Metal of today, and even some Alternative Rock thrown in for good measure.
Radiohead OK Computer
Radiohead danced with modern paranoia on OK Computer, a seemingly multi-faced affair that goes soft, loud, and paranoid all at once without ever sounding trite. Yorke's vocals wail behind Greenwood's flairing guitar and corky synthesizers, making a truly enveloping album-and showing a bit of what was to come with Kid A.
Silversun Pickups Swoon
Slowdive Souvlaki
Make a much more accessible version of Loveless-going to a standard pop song formula and keeping all that noise-Slowdive's album is a pop classic.
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth Murray Street
The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works
The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon
The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics
The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy
The Jesus and Mary Chain made shoegaze and noise rock accessible by down-tuning their guitars and engulfing them in noises of feedback. It's shocking to see these guys make these noises with just a guitar-but they do, making Psychocandy, their one true noise album, a classic.
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute
It's a damn mystery how The Mars Volta have gotten so popular-same mystery that made Kid A popular, I guess. I guess it just proves people do want good music. But whatever, Frances the Mute shows at the band at the brink of making a perfect album, a lengthy, fast-sped, multi-faced affair with lots of guitar wankery, deep meaning, and epic vocals.
The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath
The Bedlam in Goliath shows the band pushing out what they were criticized for-75 minutes of unrelenting rock music, backed up by extremely odd vocal effects, high register vox, furious guitars, and insane drum fills.
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
Siamese Dream is truly the last of the great noise rock records, as it confided in making My Bloody Valentine as accessible as possible while retaining their sound and throwing in a few tricks of their own. Out of all the Pumpkins' albums, Billy's ever-changing voice fits in with the fuzz best here, creating a visceral slice to the neck on a lot of songs, seeming as a part of the music. The guitar tone they create is legendary, forming epics like 'Soma' and 'Mayonaise'-Siamese Dream is a classic whether you like Billy Corgan and his antics or not.
The Smashing Pumpkins Adore
This album made the fans and critics lurch in their seats-while a song like 'Ava Adore' could have easily been featured on Mellon Collie, the darker, slower burning electro-pop tracks on Adore could have not. But they hold their own, with Corgan's true emotion bleeding from these tracks and the pure songwriting talent of Corgan shining through.
Weezer Pinkerton
I don't want Rivers to go and get all depressed and sad, but it's obvious when sane, he is a complete loser musically. Pinkerton is a gritty, edgy power pop work of art bleeding Cuomo's heart, at times emo but never overbearing or fake.

4.0 excellent
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step
Alice in Chains Alice in Chains
Alice in Chains Facelift
Beck Odelay
Beck Modern Guilt
Boris Flood
Boris Smile
Creed My Own Prison
Cynic Traced in Air
Cynic's Traced in Air is the most beautifully aggressive metal album I've ever heard. A mixture of loose electronics and sweeping guitars packaged with crunching, brutal guitar work makes one of the best metal albums of all time.
David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
David Bowie Low
David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Deftones White Pony
Along with Korn, the Deftones helped create a genre destined to birth some truly bad talent. However, White Pony shows the band moving onto better things. Increasing the atmosphere, darkness, and Chino's vocal talent, White Pony is a depressing masterpiece of human emotion and things that go 'bump in the night'.
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist
Dinosaur Jr. Bug
Dinosaur Jr. Beyond
Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...
Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone
Faith No More Angel Dust
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Post-Rock can be very boring. However, Godspeed keep it as interesting as possible by making the music as loud and dynamic as possible. Sounding as apocalyptic by instruments as possible, Godspeed strays away from the norm and typical by keeping their music interesting, fresh, and varied throughout the extreme length of the album. Double-albums are usually tests in self-indulgence, but Godspeed pulls it off successfully by brutally attacking the listener before letting up, and repeating as necessary until you are pounded into submission and realize the gravity of the album.
Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness
ISIS Panopticon
ISIS In the Absence of Truth
Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward
Kings of Leon Because Of The Times
Kings of Leon Only By The Night
KMFDM Angst
KMFDM Hau Ruck
Korn Korn
Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun
M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us
M83 Saturdays=Youth
Mastodon Leviathan
Mastodon Blood Mountain
Mastodon Crack the Skye
Melvins Houdini
Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve
Metallica Master of Puppets
Metallica Metallica
Metallica Death Magnetic
Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle
Muse Showbiz
Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets
Nine Inch Nails Year Zero
Nine Inch Nails The Slip
Nirvana Nevermind
Opeth Still Life
Opeth Deliverance
Opeth Watershed
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd The Division Bell
Pixies Doolittle
Porcupine Tree Signify
Porcupine Tree Deadwing
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet
Radiohead Amnesiac
Radiohead The Bends
Silversun Pickups Carnavas
Slowdive Pygmalion
Sonic Youth Sister
Sonic Youth Washing Machine
Swervedriver Mezcal Head
Swervedriver Raise
The Butterfly Effect Imago
The Butterfly Effect Final Conversation of Kings
The Cure Pornography
The Cure The Head on the Door
The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
The Cure 4:13 Dream
The Fall of Troy Doppelganger
The Flaming Lips Zaireeka
The Killers Hot Fuss
The Killers Sam's Town
The Killers Day & Age
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta Amputechture
The Smashing Pumpkins Gish
The Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines of God
The Smashing Pumpkins Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
The White Stripes De Stijl
The White Stripes Icky Thump
The Who Tommy
The Who Quadrophenia
I don't quite like The Who's endless rock operas-but luckily the music on Quadrophenia is good enough to keep me interested.
Thrice Vheissu
Throbbing Gristle 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Weezer Weezer

3.5 great
Alice in Chains Dirt
Beck Mellow Gold
Beck Sea Change
Boris Pink
Boris Amplifier Worship
Boris Vein (Hardcore Version)
Cynic Focus
David Bowie Diamond Dogs
David Bowie Hunky Dory
David Bowie Heathen
David Bowie Black Tie White Noise
Deftones Deftones
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O.
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye
Mastodon Remission
Melvins Stag
Meshuggah Nothing
Meshuggah Chaosphere
Metallica Ride the Lightning
Mr. Bungle Disco Volante
Muse Absolution
Muse The Resistance
WHERE THE FUCK DID MUSE GO this is awful, outside of a few songs. Seriously, were they listening to a Maroon 5 album when they wrote it. What a cock-block of an album. Stop trying to appeal to teenyboppers in America you play freaking incredible hard rock, and where did it all go?
Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm
Nickelback The State
Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine
Nine Inch Nails Broken
Nine Inch Nails Still
Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV
Opeth Blackwater Park
Opeth Damnation
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse
Protest the Hero Kezia
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Radiohead In Rainbows
Sonic Youth A Thousand Leaves
Sonic Youth Rather Ripped
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity
The Fall of Troy Manipulator
The White Stripes Elephant
The White Stripes White Blood Cells
The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan

2.5 average
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Boris Vein (Drone Version)
Creed Human Clay
Dinosaur Jr. Hand It Over
Kyuss ...And the Circus Leaves Town
Nickelback Silver Side Up
Nickelback The Long Road
Nickelback Dark Horse
Nine Inch Nails With Teeth
Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun
The Cure Wild Mood Swings
The Smashing Pumpkins Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, Vol. 1
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance
Trivium Shogun
VAST Me and You

2.0 poor
A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe
Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare
Creed Weathered
David Bowie Let's Dance
Deftones Adrenaline
Protest the Hero Fortress
Radiohead Pablo Honey
The Cure The Cure
The Killers Sawdust
Thrice The Illusion of Safety
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV
Tool Lateralus
Tool 10,000 Days

1.5 very poor
Dinosaur Jr. Without a Sound
Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy
Metallica St. Anger
Nickelback All the Right Reasons
The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist
Trivium The Crusade
Weezer The Red Album

1.0 awful
Thrice Beggars
Weezer Maladroit
Weezer The Green Album
Weezer Make Believe

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