| 5.0 classic |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset |
| Alice Cooper Love It To Death |
| Anathema Judgement |
| Bad Religion Suffer |
| Bad Religion No Control |
| Bad Religion The Process of Belief |
| Bad Religion Generator |
| Bad Religion Against the Grain |
| Bananarama True Confessions |
| Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum |
| Blur The Magic Whip |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast - Re-Mistressed |
| David Bowie Heathen |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| Dir En Grey Withering to Death |
| Dir En Grey Macabre |
| Dir En Grey Uroboros (Remastered & Expanded) |
Trash the original release of UROBOROS.
While it still retains the bi-polar track list that is intent on spoiling the rest of the album for you by opening with
VINUSHKA (which makes more sense as a closer), & making you jump from slow to fast to slow in a blink of an eye, &
randomly has a remade song (HYDRA-666) taking a narrative non-sequitor in the middle, this is a vast improvement in
every conceivable area over the initial release.
Anyone who denies this is either deaf, in denial, or justifying their purchase of a now inferior musical product (& this is
coming from a guy who bought the expensive CD/DVD/Vinyl set).
It properly sounds like the bridge between MARROW & DUM SPIRO SPERO; crystal clear production of the latter, but with
a slight more emphasis on the lower & bassier ends of the earlier.
Regardless, the album is finally deserving of some of the overblown, masturbatory praise many western 'johnny come
latleys' gave to the un-remastered version years ago. |
| Dir En Grey Arche |
| ... |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Hildur Gudnadottir Chernobyl (Music from the Original TV Series) |
| Hildur Gudnadottir Joker (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |
| Lana Del Rey Honeymoon |
| LCD Soundsystem American Dream |
| Probably their best release, even when including the debut. |
| Ling Tosite Sigure #5 |
| Madonna Like a Virgin |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood |
| Metallica Ride The Lightning |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Alienating Our Audience |
| Mindless Self Indulgence How I Learned to Stop Giving A Shit and Love MSI |
| MUCC Zekuu |
| Penicillin Union Jap |
| Pretty Poison Catch Me I’m Falling |
| Queens of the Stone Age Villains |
| Takes cues from the previous two albums, but pumps the melody up to 11. Excellent stuff, but hopefully a one time deal. |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Stevie Nicks Bella Donna |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| The Cure Bloodflowers |
| The Offspring Smash |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder |
| The Streets Original Pirate Material |
| Tycho Dive |
| Weezer The White Album |
| 4.0 excellent |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| AFI AFI (The Blood Album) |
| It pisses me off that I like this album. How does this work here and not the shitty bunny cover album or the golden heart shaped turd record? Or the black goatse album for that matter? |
| AFI Bodies |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues |
| Against Me! Shape Shift With Me |
| Alice Cooper Killer |
| Alice Cooper School's Out |
| Alice Cooper Welcome to My Nightmare |
| Alice Cooper Alice Cooper Goes to Hell |
| Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies |
| Alice Cooper From the Inside |
| Alice Cooper DaDa |
| Angel'in Heavy Syrup III |
| Anti-Flag Underground Network |
| Anti-Flag A New Kind of Army |
| Anti-Flag For Blood and Empire |
| Anti-Flag Die For the Government |
| ArnoCorps The Greatest Band of All Time |
| Asian Kung-Fu Generation Hometown |
| Ayumi Hamasaki Rainbow |
| Ayumi Hamasaki (miss)understood |
| Ayumi Hamasaki MY STORY |
| Ayumi Hamasaki I am... |
| Ayumi Hamasaki Duty |
| Ayumi Hamasaki LOVEppears |
| Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First |
| Bad Religion The New America |
| Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse? |
| Bad Religion The Gray Race |
| Bad Religion Along the Way (DVD) |
| Bad Religion 30 Years Live |
| Bad Religion Age of Unreason |
| Oh lordy the negativity... *cracks knuckles* |
| bansheebeat Spiral Power |
| bansheebeat Lumine |
| Baroness Gold And Grey |
| Black Flag Slip It In |
| Black Sabbath 13 |
| Blondie Eat to the Beat |
| BUCK-TICK Seventh Heaven |
| BUCK-TICK Kyokutou I Love You |
| BUCK-TICK Mona Lisa Overdrive |
| BUCK-TICK 13-kai wa Gekkou |
| BUCK-TICK Razzle Dazzle |
| Chelsea Wolfe Pain Is Beauty |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss |
| D'espairsRay Coll:set |
| D'espairsRay Monsters |
| Daft Punk Human After All |
| David Bowie Earthling |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane |
| David Bowie Station to Station |
| David Bowie Reality |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Dio Holy Diver |
| Dir En Grey Kisou |
| Dir En Grey The Marrow of a Bone |
| Dir En Grey The Insulated World |
| Disturbed The Sickness |
| Disturbed Believe |
| Do As Infinity TRUE SONG |
| Do As Infinity GATES OF HEAVEN |
| Eminem Music To Be Murdered By: Side B |
| Fleetwood Mac Tusk |
| Gackt MOON |
| Gackt Crescent |
| Gackt DIABOLOS |
| Good Tiger A Head Full of Moonlight |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach |
| Gorillaz Humanz |
| Gorillaz Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez |
| Green Day Kerplunk |
| Hikaru Utada This is the One |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| John Carpenter Lost Themes II |
| Judas Priest Sin After Sin |
| Kiyoharu SOLOIST |
| His most Kiyoharu album yet. Moment, Quietlife, & DIARY are favorites. |
| Korn Korn III: Remember Who You Are |
| Overtime, this album grows on me a lot & throughly enjoy the music played when in the right mood. rSadly, the lyrics are a vast glaring weakness on this album, & I would've honestly preferred no-vocals & vocal scatting more often than the weak lyrics offered (disguised in an otherwise good vocal performance). |
| Kuroyume Fake Star |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Awake |
| La Roux Trouble In Paradise |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver |
| Ling Tosite Sigure I'mperfect |
| Ling Tosite Sigure es or s |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Lorde The Love Club |
| Lorde Tennis Court |
| Lorde Pure Heroine |
| Luna Sea Mother |
| Luna Sea Style |
| Luna Sea Eden |
| Luna Sea Image |
| lynch. Inferiority Complex |
| Madonna Confessions on a Dancefloor |
| Madonna Madonna |
| Madonna Hard Candy |
| Marilyn Manson Portrait of an American Family |
| Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor |
| Maschera Pretty Neurosis |
| Megumi Hayashibara Vintage S |
| Melt-Banana Teeny Shiny |
| Melt-Banana Bambi's Dilemma |
| Melt-Banana Fetch |
| Merry M.E.R.R.Y. |
| Merry Modern Garde |
| Metallica Master Of Puppets |
| Michael Jackson Bad |
| Mindless Self Indulgence If |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Pink (1990-1997) |
| Molly Nilsson These Things Take Time |
| Molly Nilsson Zenith |
| MUCC Tsuuzetsu |
| MUCC Houyoku |
| MUCC Karma |
I'd have to disagree w/ redriver below; this is a far better & cohesive album than MUCC's past 2 or 3 releases.
The problem with this, however, is that it's a complete about face to what they were attempting with the past 2 or 3 releases (Kyuutai, Shion & Gokusai being some sort of hybrid of their old sound structures w/ more trendy metal-pop), that the sense of betrayal still remains:
"Tatsurou being autotune? Where are the real drums? What the fu**?" & so forth.
In discographical context, Karma should be given credit where it's due: it feels like it has an identity, even when it abruptly goes back to Homura Uta w/ the refreshing old school "Daraku", & you can tell the band spent a good amount of time making the songs, regardless of their out of character sound, compared to familiar melodies & structures that can be found on Kyuutai.
I hated Karma the first listen (I would've given it a 0.5 at some point), & even though it sounds like the "Grand Tatsurou Solo Band" playing Electronic Disco half the time (yes, I still roll my eyes at the autotune), I have to admit it sounded like they gave a damn this time.
It's also almost sinfully catchy; it's just a random aberration that MUCC, a once traditionally Angura-Kei band, ended up releasing this, & not some other properly underground Shibuya-Kei band. |
| MUCC Shangri-La |
| Nightmare Anima |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Nirvana Nirvana |
| NOFX Punk in Drublic |
| Onmyo-Za Kongo Kyuubi |
| Papa Roach Infest |
| Papa Roach lovehatetragedy |
| Pierrot Heaven: The Customized Landscape |
| Pierrot Private Enemy |
| Polkadot Stingray Uchōten |
| Polyenso Pure In The Plastic |
| Some of the songs rely too much on "African" sounding instruments & beats, but the effect is potent all throughout the album. rWhile I prefer One Particular Loop's sound, this is a much stronger & more deliberate album. |
| Prince HITnRUN Phase One |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Rainbow Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow |
| Rainbow Rising |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You |
| Muuuuuch fucking better than stadium arcadium. RHCP should change guitarists every two albums, tbh. SA was a wankfest compared to this. |
| Serj Tankian Imperfect Harmonies |
| Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light |
| Sleater-Kinney The Woods |
| Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love |
| Sleater-Kinney The Center Won’t Hold |
| Stevie Nicks The Wild Heart |
| Stevie Nicks Rock a Little |
| Stevie Nicks The Other Side of the Mirror |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| t.A.T.u. Lyudi Invalidy |
| t.A.T.u. Happy Smiles |
| Tears for Fears The Seeds of Love |
| The Cure Pornography |
| The Cure The Cure |
| The Cure The Head on the Door |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| The Cure Faith |
| The Cure The Top |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
| The Cure Wish |
| The Cure Wild Mood Swings |
| Horrifically under-rated album, but it does have some flaws. It's aged like fine wine compared to an album like 4:13 Dream. |
| The Killers Sawdust |
| The Offspring Ignition |
| The Offspring Americana |
| The Pillows Little Busters |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| The Smiths The Smiths |
| The Sounds Dying to Say This to You |
| The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free |
| The Streets Everything is Borrowed |
| The Who Who |
| Tobacco Ultima II Massage |
| together PANGEA Badillac |
| Tokyo Police Club A Lesson in Crime |
| Tycho Awake |
| Tycho Epoch |
| Vince Staples FM! |
| Warpaint Warpaint |
| Warpaint Heads Up |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
| My reaction while listening to this album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQRNFgO-ho0 |
| Weezer Pacific Daydream |
| Weezer The Black Album |
| Wilco Ode to Joy |
| 3.5 great |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| AFI The Art of Drowning |
| AFI Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes |
| AFI Burials |
| AFI finally comes back from the dead with Burials. This was an album they needed to release, & renewed refforts at composition & constructing melodies are evident within the first 2 tracks. rIMO, I hope they can progress back to the complexity of Sing the Sorrow, which still remains to be their best rpurley from a compositional standpoint. STS felt like they were on the verge of a band defining sound, & rBurials feels like them picking up the pieces to try & lay a foundation for something akin, but different. r"Heart Stops" and "A Deep Slow Panic" still bring the radio friendliess, but more tastefully this time around & rrenewed interest in NIN like electronic elements via "The Conductor", & creating songs that take their time in rthe verses to display a story (Arcade Fire's recent "Reflecktor" comes to mind with some of the guitar rnoodling): these all help differentiate "Burials" from "Decemberunderground" & "Crash Love". rGood stuff; I hope the band takes more time to make new music & revisits more older material in their tours. rIt would do them a huge service to relearn from their past selves. r"I Hope You Suffer", "17 Crimes", "No Resurrection", & "The Embrace" are worth looking up. |
| Alice Cooper Lace and Whiskey |
| Alice Cooper Easy Action |
| Alice Cooper Zipper Catches Skin |
| Anti-Flag The Terror State |
| Ayumi Hamasaki A Song For XX |
| Ayumi Hamasaki Next Level |
| Bad Religion No Substance |
| Bad Religion Tested |
| Bad Religion New Maps of Hell |
| Black Flag My War |
| Black Flag In My Head |
| Black Flag Loose Nut |
| Black Mountain Black Mountain |
| Blondie Parallel Lines |
| Blondie Panic of Girls |
| Blondie The Curse of Blondie |
| Blondie Ghosts of Download |
| BUCK-TICK Tenshi no Revolver |
| BUCK-TICK Atom Miraiha No.9 |
BT finally releases an album with some character after the last two entries.
Not a challenging album by any means, but any band that's been around this long is bound to recycle some of their own ideas.
However, the band makes it work, albeit if some of the songs are overwrought & bloated, & provides a comfortable listen for their long time fans.
As for me, I'm still waiting for something that tops Razzle Dazzle creatively. This album is a step in that direction, but the band doesn't take many risks here.
*10/17/16 - Might need a 3rd or 4th listen, this is at least a 3.5 perhaps. |
| Coldplay X&Y |
| D'espairsRay Mirror |
| D'espairsRay Redeemer |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| David Bowie Low |
| David Bowie Young Americans |
| David Bowie "Heroes" |
| David Bowie Outside |
| David Bowie Black Tie White Noise |
| David Bowie The Buddha of Suburbia |
| Dead Can Dance Anastasis |
| Dir En Grey The Unraveling |
| Do As Infinity ETERNAL FLAME |
| Eminem Kamikaze |
| Fleetwood Mac Say You Will |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Gorillaz The Now Now |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Green Day Insomniac |
| Greg Graffin Cold as the Clay |
| Greg Graffin Millport |
| Grimes Art Angels |
| John Carpenter Lost Themes |
| Judas Priest Rocka Rolla |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Fishing For Fishies |
| L'arc-en-Ciel heavenly |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Heart |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Ark |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Ray |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Real |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Smile |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight |
| Luna Sea SHINE |
| Luna Sea Luna Sea |
| lynch. Gallows |
| Madonna Rebel Heart |
| Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque |
| Marilyn Manson Eat Me, Drink Me |
| Maschera Interface |
| Merry Peep Show |
| Merry Gendai Stoic |
| Merry Nu Chemical Rhetoric |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct |
The 1st CD sounds mostly like Death Magnetic leftovers, & therefore is hot garbage.
The 2nd CD, however, is actually kind of amazing & has their strongest material since The Black
Album.
Strange; I guess they got paranoid about whittling down the album. The identity suffers.
Best Tracks: All of the 2nd disc
Hardwired
(great opener, wish they had done more shorter songs like this)
When A Blind Man Cries
(lyrics are very simple, but this is a great throwback to a bluesy Black Sabbath like
ballad)
Worst Tracks:
Atlas Rise
(repetitive; I went into Audacity & cut off the song at the 3:10 mark; everything afterwards is
mediocre masturbation)
Dream No More (fuck this song; whoever thinks this is "doom" inspired never listens to
doom or is an idiot)
Halo on Fire (terrible lazy ballad, so fuck this song too)
Moth Into Flame (bland; several songs do the structure & pace much better) |
| Michael Jackson Thriller |
| Michael Jackson HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I |
| Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz |
| Mindless Self Indulgence You'll Rebel To Anything |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Tight |
| MUCC Shion |
| MUCC The End of the World |
| This is an odd release, but I guess every MUCC release is nowadays odd. rIt diverges from the last two albums but doesn't quite go back to their old sound found on mini-album 6 & prior, either. Will need more listens for a better impression. |
| MUCC Myakuhaku |
| Nightmare Ultimate Circus |
| Nightmare The WORLD Ruler |
| Nightmare Majestical Parade |
| Nightmare Livid |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| NOFX Pump Up the Valuum |
| NOFX First Ditch Effort |
| Pierrot Finale |
| Serj Tankian Harakiri |
| Masterfully blends the past two albums styles together; it seems too curt & catchy in the first half, but the 2nd half let's the orchestral influences shine more so it balances out the earlier's more aggressive punk. rSerj is turning out to be an amazing songwriter in his own right, even by his own previous SOAD standards. |
| Skeletonwitch Beyond the Permafrost |
| Skeletonwitch Breathing the Fire |
| Stevie Nicks Street Angel |
| Sukekiyo Immortalis |
| Randomly impressive album by visual-kei alumni that effortlessly sounds old school visual-kei but with the benefits of modern production, years of experience per member, & moderate experimentation.rWould pair well with Dir en grey's MACABRE, I think. |
| t.A.T.u. Dangerous and Moving |
| t.A.T.u. 200 Po Vstrechnoy |
| Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair |
| The Cure Three Imaginary Boys |
| The Offspring Ixnay on the Hombre |
| The Offspring Conspiracy of One |
| The Offspring Let the Bad Times Roll |
| The Pillows My Foot |
| The Pillows Trial |
| The Pretty Reckless Going to Hell |
| The Sounds Living in America |
| The Sounds Weekend |
| The Sounds The Tales That We Tell |
| The Streets The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| Tobacco Maniac Meat |
| Tokyo Police Club TPC |
| Wilco Star Wars |
| Wilco Schmilco |
