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5.0 classic
Anberlin Vital
This album is so good. Most definitely my album of the year, of the past two years, maybe five years.
Anberlin Devotion
As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus
Between the Buried and Me Alaska
Brie Larson Finally Out of P.E.
Defeater Lost Ground
dredg El Cielo
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP
Fantastimo Fantastimo Journey
The myriad sounds heard here--sometimes
delightfully optimistic, sometimes as dark as a
cavern, always deeply moving and hypnotic--serve to
make the songs seem much shorter than they really
are: this magnificent EP will be over before you know
it and you will feel compelled to press play again,
immersing yourself in the sonic voyage anew. This
will be played, end to end, ad infinitum, for the rest
of your life. Such is the power of Fantastimo.
From First to Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count
Fuel Something Like Human
fun. Aim and Ignite
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
Grouper A I A
Howard Shore The Fellowship of the Ring
Howard Shore The Two Towers
Howard Shore The Return of the King
Love Through Cannibalism Metapodestroyer
Mastodon Leviathan
Although Leviathan was inspired by Herman
Melville's great American novel Moby-Dick and not
the biblical tale of Jonah and the whale, the album
envelopes you much in the same way as the whale
swallows the man: you cannot escape its clutch, but
you will emerge as a changed man.
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister
Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come
Neurosis Through Silver In Blood
Nirvana In Utero
O'Brother The Death of Day
O'Brother Garden Window
O'Brother Disillusion
I've been waiting for new O'Brother since I first saw them live on the Thrice farewell tour. Their debut album Garden Window was phenomenal, but Disillusion is simply better in every single possible way, especially songs like Come Into The Divide and Perilous Love. The notion that Disillusion is a sophomore record unbelievable, when taking into account the maturity and skill and musicianship evident in this album. While listening, I couldn't stop grinning ear to ear. This is what I've been waiting for.
Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe
Opeth Still Life
Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After
Rush Moving Pictures
Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 1 in F♯ minor, Op. 1
Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40
Sergei Rachmaninoff Preludes, Op. 23
Sergei Rachmaninoff Preludes, Op. 32
Silverchair Neon Ballroom
Swans Children of God
Tau Tau Eyelids
The Antlers Hospice
The Bled Pass the Flask
The Bled Found in the Flood
The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear.
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone
The Weeknd House of Balloons
Thrice Major/Minor
I don't think anyone expected this album to be so good. In truth, it's flawless.
Titus Andronicus The Monitor
Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell
Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead
Underoath Define the Great Line

4.5 superb
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms
Anberlin Cities
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow
Converge Jane Doe
Deafheaven Sunbather
Deftones Diamond Eyes
dredg Catch Without Arms
Fear Before The Always Open Mouth
Frank Ocean channel ORANGE
Fuel Sunburn
Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
Grizzly Bear Yellow House
Grizzly Bear Shields
Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around
letlive. Fake History
Everything in moderation; often the brilliance is swept away in a whirlwind.
Loma Prieta I.V.
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes
Mudvayne L.D. 50
Neurosis Times Of Grace
Opeth Blackwater Park
Blackwater Park begins excellently but grows decidedly weaker as the album progresses. Rating the first few songs alone, I would give it a perfect five.
Pearl Jam Vs.
Rush 2112
We are the Priests of the Temples of SyrinxrOur great computers fill the hallowed hallsrWe are the Priests of the Temples of SyrinxrAll the gifts of life are held within our walls
Rush Hemispheres
Silverchair Diorama
The Classic Crime Phoenix
The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten
The Weeknd Echoes of Silence
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II
Tool Lateralus
Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets
Wil Wagner Laika

4.0 excellent
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step
Air Review Low Wishes
Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place
Ash Borer Ash Borer
Ash Borer Cold of Ages
BATS Red In Tooth and Claw
Bear in Heaven Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Between the Buried and Me Colors
Bon Iver Blood Bank
Brand New Daisy
Children of God We Set Fire to the Sky
Circa Survive Juturna
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind
Crooks Nevermore
Daniel Striped Tiger Condition
Death Grips The Money Store
Deftones White Pony
Deftones Koi No Yokan
Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030
dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
Dustin Kensrue The Water and the Blood
Eleventh He Reaches London Hollow Be My Name
Eminem The Slim Shady LP
Filter Title Of Record
Fire In The Cave Fire In the Cave
Fuel Natural Selection
fun. Some Nights
Grizzly Bear Horn of Plenty
Igorrr Hallelujah
Jacobi Wichita Bonez Malone
James Blake James Blake
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience
Kvelertak Kvelertak
M. Ward Post-War
Mastodon Crack the Skye
Maximillian Colby Discography
mewithoutYou A to B: Life
mewithoutYou Ten Stories
Mudvayne Lost and Found
Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride
Rush A Farewell To Kings
Cities full of hatred, fear, and liesrWithered hearts and cruel tormented eyesrScheming demons dressed in kingly guiserBeating down the multitude and scoffing at the wiserCan't we raise our eyes and make a start?rCan't we find the minds to lead us closer to the heart?
Rush Clockwork Angels
Shabazz Palaces Black Up
Slices Still Cruising
State Faults Desolate Peaks
The Dissociatives The Dissociatives
The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim
The Gaslight Anthem American Slang
The Human Abstract Digital Veil
Initially I rated this a four. Perhaps I had succumbed to the 'everything is relative' phenomenon. Digital Veil is infinitely superior to Midheaven. Travis Richter is infinitely better than Nathan Ells. Digital Veil is the Mona Lisa to Midheaven's Crayola scribbles. Digital Veil is a masterpiece when compared to the garbage that is Midheaven. But, ultimately, Digital Veil is only good.
The Mayan Factor 44
The Used The Used
The Weeknd Thursday
The Weeknd Trilogy
Thrice The Illusion of Safety
Thrice Beggars
Torture Chain Time is but a Doorway to the Incinerator
Trophy Scars Bad Luck
White Arms of Athena Astrodrama
Yaphet Kotto The Killer Was in the Government Blankets
Zelliack Noir Tone

3.5 great
Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession
Anberlin New Surrender
Andrew W.K. I Get Wet
Art By Numbers Reticence: The Musical
Art By Numbers' vocalist sounding a lot like Stephen Christian of Anberlin = win
Ashes Divide Keep Telling Myself It's Alright
Augustana Can't Love, Can't Hurt
Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live
Colors_Live is only as good as Colors will ever be, which begs the question: Why does Colors_Live exist? Other than Tommy Rogers addressing the crowd a couple times, there are no real differences between this and Colors.
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Howl
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Brand New Deja Entendu
Childish Gambino Camp
Children of God Coup De Grace
Circa Survive On Letting Go
Circa Survive Violent Waves
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Coldplay LeftRightLeftRightLeft
Coma Cinema Blue Suicide
Converge You Fail Me
Converge Axe to Fall
Courtships The Feral Sound
Creed Weathered
Crevice In Between
Crevice Peering
Masterful guitar playing and serviceable vocals make this acoustic death album an entertaining listening.
dredg Leitmotif
Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home
Eminem The Eminem Show
Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True
Flaw Through the Eyes
From First to Last Heroine
Glassjaw Coloring Book
Liberteer Better to Die on Your Feet...
Majority Rule Emergency Numbers
mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright!
Mudvayne Mudvayne
Neurosis Honor Found In Decay
Pianos Become the Teeth Saltwater
Pomegranate Tiger Entities
Rush Snakes & Arrows
Shinedown Leave a Whisper
Shinedown The Sound of Madness
Silverchair Young Modern
Sparta Wiretap Scars
Sparta Porcelain
Super Snake Summer Girls
The Antlers Uprooted
The Human Abstract Nocturne
The Mayan Factor In Lake 'CH
The Used In Love and Death
The Used Berth
The Wooden Sky City Of Light
Nice folk band from Canada whose vocalist sounds a lot like Dustin Kensrue
The Zutons Who Killed The Zutons
Thomas Giles Pulse
Draughts of ineffective experimentation are mitigated by such poignant odes as "Scared" and "Mr. Bird," whose soft palettes reverberate like chromatic pulses in the dark.
Thrice Vheissu
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV
Thrice Daytrotter Sessions
Wow, Owls! Pick Your Patterns
Wow, Owls! Pee Sout
Yaphet Kotto We Bury Our Dead Alive

3.0 good
Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal
Augustana All the Stars and Boulevards
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
Brand New Your Favorite Weapon
Caleb McAlpine Science Fiction
Cerce Cerce
Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One
Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow
Converge No Heroes
Diamond Rings Free Dimensional
dredg Orph
dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy
Eminem Infinite
Eminem Recovery
Every Time I Die Ex Lives
Lol the average rating is too high, we need more threes
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma
Giles Corey Deconstructionist
Laying in bed while listening to this on a pair of good headphones reminds of having an MRI done.
Gotic Escenes
Hollow Leg Instinct
Hoobastank Hoobastank
Only a 3 because of certain memories that have to do with certain things that I don't want to sound off about. Thank you.
Iceage You're Nothing
Mudvayne The New Game
Mumford and Sons Sigh No More
Nirvana Nevermind
Psychothermia Fall To The Rising Sun
Pyramids Pyramids
Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun
Shinedown Us and Them
Shone Heat Thing
Silverchair Frogstomp
Silverchair The Best Of: Vol. 1
Silverchair Freak Show
Sparta Threes
Tanner Merritt Doubt
The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe
The Antlers Burst Apart
The Bled Heat Fetish
Heat Fetish lacks the youthful exuberance of Pass The Flask and the progressive creativity of Found In The Flood, though it shares the same mediocrity as Silent Treatment.
The Human Abstract Midheaven
This is funny, I don't care who you are! Up there with the best comedic performances!
The Used Maybe Memories
The Used Lies for the Liars

2.5 average
Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market
Cage The Elephant Thank You Happy Birthday
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension
dredg Conscious
Ducktails The Flower Lane
Hellyeah Hellyeah
Jonny Craig A Dream Is A Question You Don't Know How To Answer
Korn Untouchables
Nickelback Silver Side Up
Shinedown Amaryllis
The Used Artwork
Thrice Identity Crisis
Thrice First Impressions

2.0 poor
Design the Skyline Nevaeh
Greeley Estates Outside of This
Hellyeah Stampede
Korn The Path of Totality
It's not the worst thing ever made. There, that's the best I can say about it.
Nickelback All the Right Reasons

1.5 very poor
Aaron Lewis The Road
Nickelback Dark Horse

1.0 awful
An Arrow to the Knee Getting Over Thunderdome
Green Day iDOS!
Nickelback Here and Now
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