| 4.5 superb |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! |
| And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| One of the best progressive rock/metal albums I have ever heard. While it is evident that Abasi is the main focus of the band, every song is put together cohesively so that his amazing guitar work flows well with everything else. |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Architects Hollow Crown |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational |
| One of the top 5 bands of the 90s. This compilation sums up the greatness of At the Drive-In and is a great listen for anyone who has never given them a chance. |
| Atmosphere Lucy Ford: The Atmosphere EPs |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live |
| Black Star Black Star |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Brightwood The Love Antidote |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Copeland Eat, Sleep, Repeat |
| this is some of the easiest-listening rock music around. each song plays its part to complete an album that is extremely well-rounded with hardly any weak spots. "control freak" is an amazing song that everyone should listen to at least once in their life. |
| Copeland You Are My Sunshine |
| CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange |
| CunninLynguists Will Rap For Food |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain |
| Danger 09/14 2007 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Dispatch Bang Bang |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure |
| Emery The Weak's End |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail |
| upon further listening.... this album rocks. emery's second best album, not as good as "the question" but better than "the week's end". |
| Eric Clapton Unplugged |
| Everything Everything Man Alive |
| One of the best pop albums of the year, Man Alive is highlighted by superior song-writing and composition. No part of the band distinctly stands out, rather every song has an incredibly smooth feel and an atmosphere of completeness. |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Foo Fighters Live at Wembley Stadium |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
| Beautiful, majestic, and powerful. This is what post-rock is meant to sound like. I love this album. |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years |
| Hopesfall Magnetic North |
| Idiot Pilot Strange We Should Meet Here |
| Imogen Heap Speak For Yourself |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| In Flames Colony |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| J Dilla Dillanthology |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must |
| Jaga Jazzist A Livingroom Hush |
| Fun, light, and energetic, "A Livingroom Hush" offers an exceedingly enjoyable listen to anyone who simply just enjoys good music. This album offers much more jazz than their more recent efforts, which are centered more around prog rock, but whether one thinks this is a good or bad element it really does not matter because this album is so technically sound. |
| Janelle Monae Metropolis: The Chase Suite |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid |
| Vocally, Monae is one of the best artists in pop music today, but what sets her apart from everything else in contemporary pop music is her infusion of so many different styles, as well as the superlative amount of innovation seen throughout the album. The ArchAndroid is a little too scatter-shot to be a classic, but it exemplifies her ability to hopefully make one in the future. Monae is truly what an artist should be, one who CREATES instead of mimics. |
| John Coltrane Giant Steps |
| John Coltrane My Favorite Things |
| John Mayer Trio Try! |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| letlive. Fake History |
| Longing For Tomorrow Idee:Mensch |
| I have no idea what they are saying.... All I know is that they can fucking play music and the vocals are some of the best you will ever find in the post-hardcore scene. |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Matt Costa Songs We Sing |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday |
| Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart |
| Moby Play |
| Muse Absolution |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Muse HAARP |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Even though this album isn't musically the best, the songs on it made me want to get a guitar and shred up my vocal chords. It will always be awesome. |
| Nirvana With the Lights Out |
| Noah and the Whale The First Days of Spring |
| Beautiful. Haunting. Tranquil. Inspiring. These are just a few of the words that describe "The First Days of Spring". Turning a complete 180 from their first album, Noah and the Whale bring us to a place far removed from the peppy and light feel of "Peaceful the World" to a place much more in touch with the raw emotion that comes with heartbreak, but never in a way that is overbearing. |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? |
| P.O.S Never Better |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling |
| Paul Simon Graceland |
| pg.99 Document #8 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After |
| Pinback Blue Screen Life |
| Pinback Summer in Abaddon |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Right Away, Great Captain! The Eventually Home |
| Right Away, Great Captain! The Church of the Good Thief |
| One of the greatest acoustic albums I have ever heard. The Church of the Good Thief cements Hull as one of the great songwriters of this generation. |
| Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Raising Sand |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela Rodrigo y Gabriela |
| Russian Circles Enter |
| i just listened to this for the first time and i am really liking it. every song is so well-crafted and i love how they go from almost utter silence to an explosion of sound in a matter of seconds. |
| Ryan Adams Love is Hell |
| Ryan Adams Heartbreaker |
| Not quite country, not quite alternative rock, but something beautiful and heartbreaking all at the same time. Adams' debut shows him at his best, both in the songwriting and the musicianship. |
| Secret Band Secret Band |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon |
| this is close to being a 5 for me, but a couple songs fall a little short. |
| Straylight Run Straylight Run |
| such a good album.... if only the stuff they made after it sounded more like this. |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be |
| Taking Back Sunday Live from Orensanz |
| The Appleseed Cast Two Conversations |
| The Black Keys Brothers |
| The Bled Pass the Flask |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| A fantastic album that showcases the talent of DEP with tremendous technical skill. Instead of making 40 minutes of utter chaos, DEP create songs on "Miss Machine" that have depth with their lyrics as well as their musicianship. While most the album is a huge adrenaline rush, some of it also shows DEP's ability to slow it down and create a lot out of a little. |
| The National High Violet |
| The Postal Service Give Up |
| The Roots Game Theory |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart |
| The Roots undun |
| Through one full listen, I have to say this might be their best yet. |
| The Saddest Landscape Lift Your Burdens High For This is Where We Cross |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Swell Season The Swell Season |
| The Swell Season Once: Music From The Motion Picture |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now |
| The Used Artwork |
| with three albums under their belt, the used have created their masterpiece with "artwork". this album has a much more mature sound than anything they have created before and the end result is something uniquely impressive. screamo, emo, alternative, pop, whatever you want to call the used, they undeniably are a talented band and they really flex their muscles on "artwork". soooooo good. |
| The Vines Winning Days |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures |
| Third Eye Blind A Collection |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| apart from one or two average songs, this album is a masterpiece. |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Might be their best release yet. It builds upon what worked in Beggars and turns that into straight up gold. |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| by far their best. this album has an energy and drive that i feel they have lost on their last couple releases. "cross out the eyes" is an awesome song.... and the rest of the songs are stellar too. |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Underoath Survive Kaleidoscope |
| Underoath Define the Great Line Special Edition CD+DVD |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) |
| Vendetta Red Between the Never and the Now |
| Wale Mixtape About Nothing |
| Wolf Gang Suego Faults |
| Wolves and Machines Since Before Our Time |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| Xavier Rudd Food In The Belly |
| 4.0 excellent |
| A Day To Remember And Their Name Was Treason |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart |
| A Hope For Home Realis |
| A Static Lullaby Rattlesnake! |
| A Wilhelm Scream Mute Print |
| Acceptance Phantoms |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days |
| Aesop Rock None Shall Pass |
| Aesop Rock Float |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire |
| Amos Lee Supply And Demand |
| Anberlin Vital |
| Apocalyptica Apocalyptica |
| Architects Ruin |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise |
| Could be one of the best metalcore albums of the year. "The Powerless Rise" is undoubtedly AILD at their best and a notch better than everything else they have released. |
| Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons... |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| B.o.B The Adventures of Bobby Ray |
| A definite surprise, could end up being one of the best hip-hop albums of the year. Despite the presence of a couple filler tracks, the album as a whole is stellar with a few songs that will no doubt by sweeping across the radio waves for months to come. |
| Bad Rabbits Stick Up Kids |
| Band of Horses Cease to Begin |
| Ben Harper Diamonds on the Inside |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| the talent of this band can not be debated, but honestly i was exhausted after listening to this entire album. i appreciate "colors" as a work of art and that's about it. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm |
| Bloc Party A Weekend in the City |
| Blue Scholars Blue Scholars |
| Botch We Are the Romans |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Brand New continues to evolve and evolve and evolve (they have literally done it three times now). Seeing their change of pace from their last two albums I knew that "Daisy" would be something totally different and Jesse and the boys did not disappoint me. Every song is so well-crafted and I really can not get enough of it. "You Stole" and "Sink" have to be my two stand-outs right now. Although I still think TDAG is Brand New's classic to date, "Daisy" has solidified Brand New as one of the best bands of our time because they continue to make excellent albums without any letdown. |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene |
| Cake Comfort Eagle |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next |
| Chiodos Illuminaudio |
| Chromeo Fancy Footwork |
| While nothing on "Fancy Footwork" will blow you away musically, it is infectiously entertaining and does what it is meant to do. "Bonafied Lovin" is hysterical and "Momma's Boy" is definitely a stand-out single. |
| City and Colour Bring Me Your Love |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Coldplay Prospekt's March |
| Common Be |
| Common The Dreamer/The Believer |
| Common Market Common Market |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Copeland In Motion |
| Cypress Hill Black Sunday |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 |
| Damien Rice O |
| Damien Rice 9 |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning |
| Deadmau5 Random Album Title |
| Death Cab for Cutie Forbidden Love |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Open Door |
| What I like about this ep is that it has a completely different feel than most Death Cab material. I think it is a nice little change for a few songs. |
| Defeater Dear Father |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Destroyer Kaputt |
| You can't define it, you can't deny it... "Kaputt" is an incredible work of everything that music should be. |
| DJ Shadow The Outsider |
| Dr. Dog Fate |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Emarosa This Is Your Way Out |
| I think jonny craig owes everyone in emarsoa a huge apology for making the band so much worse than it used to be. This album is awesome and so much more intricate and technical than "relativity". It's really too bad that the original band couldn't have stayed together to create more great music. "Utah" is definitely a can't miss song. |
| Emery While Broken Hearts Prevail |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Every Time I Die Last Night in Town |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic |
| New Junk Aesthetic is like having your balls grabbed by the grip of Zeus and it never lets you escape. This is dirrrrrty southern rock at its finest and shows that ETID has absolutely no intention of ever slowing up. This is party music for rednecks so shotgun a PABST and let your head bang! |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True |
| Fear Before Odd How People Shake |
| Felt (USA-MN) Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez |
| Fiction Family Fiction Family |
| not sure and betrayal are amazing songs. i don't think there are many albums that have better acoustic guitar. |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor |
| Forgive Durden Razia's Shadow: A Musical |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song |
| Song-writing at its purest, Turner is able to create an entire album that sounds like you are talking to an old friend at the local pub. |
| Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation |
| Funeral for a Friend Hours |
| Funeral for a Friend The Young And Defenseless |
| Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon |
| I've always been a huge fan of FFAF, but have never been able to give any of their releases anything above a 4. For now, that trend isn't going to change, but this may eventually receive a higher rating. Welcome Home Armageddon is by far FFAF's best album since their debut. It is extremely well-written and the production is spot on. Essentially this album is a return to their roots. except now the roots are stronger and better than ever. |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Glen Hansard Rhythm and Repose |
| God Is an Astronaut Far from Refuge |
| Good Old War Only Way To Be Alone |
| Green Day International Superhits |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Gym Class Heroes The Papercut Chronicles |
| Halos Scarecrow EP |
| Haste the Day Burning Bridges |
| He Is Legend 91025 |
| Hellogoodbye Mush Slowly and Guac |
| Himsa Courting Tragedy & Disaster |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living |
| "Desperate Living" is very entertaining and showcases HORSE at their best. What slows down the album at points is a lack of focus that sends it off in different directions. It's a little bit of a grower, but overall an album that everyone should give time. |
| Icarus the Owl The Spotless Mind |
| Icarus the Owl Love Always, Leviathan |
| Idiot Pilot Wolves |
| Idiot Pilot Heart Is Long |
| "Mercury" is one of IP's best songs. "Last Chance" sounds beautiful acoustically as well. |
| In Flames Clayman |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days |
| Iron And Wine The Creek Drank the Cradle |
| J Dilla Donuts |
| J Dilla Jay Stay Paid |
| Jack's Mannequin Everything in Transit |
| Jaga Jazzist The Stix |
| Jamie Cullum Twentysomething |
| Jay-Z The Black Album |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures |
| Justice † |
| Kanye West Late Registration |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kid Cudi A Kid Named Cudi |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day |
| Kings of Leon Because Of The Times |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night |
| this band gets better and better with each album and this one has very few things wrong with it. their sound is much more mature and complete now. "closer" is an awesome song, definitely the best on the album. i loved "use somebody" but now it is so overplayed everywhere that i can barely even listen to it. |
| La Dispute Vancouver |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor |
| In the midst of Lupe's debut album are gems which include "Kick, Push", "I Gotcha", "Instrumental", and "Daydreamin'". The lyrics are thoughtful and provocative and are put together with fantastic flow. What keeps F&L from being a perfect hip-hop album is the presence of a few filler tracks |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Macklemore The Language of My World |
| Mae The Everglow |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes |
| Minus the Bear Omni |
| Misery Signals Mirrors |
| Misery Signals Misery Signals |
| Mos Def The Ecstatic |
| Mutemath Mutemath |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nickel Creek This Side |
| Nickel Creek Why Should the Fire Die? |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Noah and the Whale Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down |
| Norah Jones Come Away with Me |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother |
| This album is AWESOME. It is the most melodic music Norma Jean has written yet and offers a much more complete sound than their previous work. |
| Now, Now Threads |
| Oasis Dig Out Your Soul |
| Passion Pit Manners |
| Phoenix (FRA) It's Never Been Like That |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb |
| Pilot Speed Into The West |
| Following the blueprint of "pleasant rock" established by Coldplay and Snow Patrol, Pilot Speed offers a wonderfully constructed album for their first effort. While "Into The West" does not push any boundaries and may try too hard not to offend anyone with opinion, it is an easy listen and accessible to a variety of listeners. "Barely Listening" is the catchiest single on the album, while "Alright" is an incredibly moving song with a build-up that may be cliche, but is still done very well. |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot |
| Pompeii Assembly |
| Pompeii Nothing Happens for a Reason |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Ra Ra Riot The Rhumb Line |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II |
| Raekwon Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades |
| Ratatat Ratatat |
| Ratatat Ratatat Remixes Vol.II |
| Ray LaMontagne Gossip In The Grain |
| Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits |
| RJD2 Since We Last Spoke |
| Rooftops A Forest Of Polarity |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality |
| Rx Bandits ...And the Battle Begun |
| Rx Bandits Mandala |
| Saosin Translating the Name |
| Saosin Saosin |
| Secret And Whisper Teenage Fantasy |
| Senses Fail Still Searching |
| Sherwood A Different Light |
| Showbread Anorexia Nervosa |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas |
| Silversun Pickups Pikul |
| Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites |
| Snow Patrol Eyes Open |
| Something Corporate North |
| Sparta Wiretap Scars |
| Sparta Porcelain |
| Spoon Kill the Moonlight |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga |
| Spoon Transference |
| Stars Set Yourself On Fire |
| Stars of Track and Field Centuries Before Love and War |
| Static Colours Sun Swells |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| The Academy Is... Almost Here |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Appleseed Cast Sagarmatha |
| The Black Keys Rubber Factory |
| The Black Keys Attack & Release |
| The Boy Will Drown Fetish |
| The Classic Crime Seattle Sessions |
| The Dangerous Summer Reach for the Sun |
| The Dangerous Summer War Paint |
| Currently the best pop-rock outfit around. While the general formula for their songwriting hasn't changed since Reach For The Sun, War Paint offers a tighter and more mature sound, which gives reason for a promising future. |
| The Darkness Permission to Land |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon |
| The Forecast In The Shadow Of Two Gunmen |
| The Format Interventions and Lullabies |
| The Frames Burn The Maps |
| The Honorary Title Scream And Light Up the Sky |
| The Joy Formidable The Big Roar |
| An extremely impressive debut album built around volume, ambient riffs, and one hell of a lead chick. |
| The Music Welcome To The North |
| The Naked and Famous Passive Me, Aggressive You |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone |
| The Police Every Breath You Take: The Classics |
| The Saddest Landscape You Will Not Survive |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Rotten Apples |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke |
| The Spill Canvas Sunsets and Car Crashes |
| The Subways All or Nothing |
| The Swell Season Strict Joy |
| The Sword Age of Winters |
| The Used The Used |
| The Weepies Say I Am You |
| The Weepies Hideaway |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing |
| The Word Alive Deceiver |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Trap Them Sleepwell Deconstructor |
| Tubelord Feed Me a Box of Words |
| U2 The Best Of 1990-2000 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| Vessels White Fields and Open Devices |
| Wale Attention Deficit |
| Xavier Rudd Solace |
| 3.5 great |
| 36 Crazyfists A Snow Capped Romance |
| A Change Of Pace An Offer You Can't Refuse |
| A Day To Remember Homesick |
| A Wilhelm Scream Benefits of Thinking Out Loud |
| Aesop Rock Bazooka Tooth |
| AFI The Art of Drowning |
| Alexisonfire Dog's Blood |
| Alkaline Trio Crimson |
| Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market |
| Anberlin Cities |
| Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security |
| Audioslave Audioslave |
| August Burns Red Messengers |
| August Burns Red Leveler |
| Leveler not only proves ABR is one of the best metalcore bands around, but that they're fucking talented musicians as well. |
| AWOLNATION Back From Earth |
| There's really not a lot to this EP, but it's fun, loud, and for some reason makes you want to dry hump the closest thing to you. |
| Badly Drawn Boy One Plus One is One |
| Band of Horses Everything All the Time |
| Ben Harper There Will Be A Light |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II |
| blink-182 Blink-182 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket |
| blink-182 Greatest Hits |
| Bloc Party Intimacy |
| Box Car Racer Box Car Racer |
| Brand New The Holiday |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon |
| Brightwood Wake |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison |
| Cage The Elephant Cage the Elephant |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) |
| Cinematic Sunrise A Coloring Story Book And A Long-Playing |
| City and Colour Little Hell |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow |
| Cold War Kids Robbers and Cowards |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto |
| It's better than X&Y Coldplay, but not as good as A Rush of Blood to the Head Coldplay. The band is never going to reinvent themselves, but that's ok because they are pretty damn good at what they do. |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album |
| Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs |
| Deerhunter Microcastle |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Digitalism Idealism |
| Dr. Dog We All Belong |
| Drake Take Care |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL |
| Eels Beautiful Freak |
| Ellie Goulding Bright Lights |
| Emarosa Emarosa |
| In their self-titled release, Emarosa has taken everything that was good in Relativity and enhanced it to create a very solid album. Although the music itself is enjoyable to listen to, the lack of variation throughout the album is what keeps it from being anything fresh or original. |
| Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits |
| Eminem Recovery |
| Eric Clapton The Cream of Clapton (US) |
| The sexual title of this album fits perfectly for all the baby-making music found inside. Although quite a few of these songs aren't really my cup of tea, this album is a great summary of Clapton's music and a fun listen from time to time. It is indisputable that Clapton has some damn fine cream. |
| Fear Before Art Damage |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf |
| Frank Turner Poetry of the Deed |
| Funeral for a Friend Memory and Humanity |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper |
| God Is an Astronaut The End of the Beginning |
| God Is an Astronaut God Is an Astronaut |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Green Day Bullet In A Bible |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House |
| Haste the Day Attack of the Wolf King |
| He Is Legend Suck Out the Poison |
| He Is Legend It Hates You |
| Head Automatica Decadence |
| I See Stars 3D |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades |
| Infant Sorrow Get Him To The Greek |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Interpol Antics |
| It Prevails The Inspiration |
| Jakob Dylan Women + Country |
| James Blake James Blake |
| After hearing so much praise for this album, I really thought it would blow me away. However, in the end it is a very well-done piece of work to chill out to, but no masterpiece. |
| Jars Of Clay Jars Of Clay |
| Jay-Z and Linkin Park Collision Course |
| John Mayer Continuum |
| John Nolan Live At Southpaw |
| Whatever Nolan seems to lose in his first solo release he seems to make up for in his live music. Stripped down acoustically without all the extra synth and electronic drumbeats his original music sounds much better. The addition of a Straylight Run song in the set also makes this a very worthwhile listen. |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds |
| Kanye West Graduation |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| It is undeniable that MBDTF contains amazing pieces of musicianship, but the album as a whole feels overblown and ridiculous, which I guess summarizes the man Kanye West. The lyrics in many of the songs are completely unnecessary and often just down right stupid, an aspect that ruins some of the songs (case in point would be "Runaway"). Although I am usually not one to be offended by lyrics, after 45 minutes it gets pretty exhausting listening to songs about pussies and fucking and bitches. I can't take this album seriously, although much of the music behind the lyrics makes me want to. |
| Keane Hopes & Fears |
| Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak |
| Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown |
| Lead Hands Lead Hands |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter II |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Linkin Park Road to Revolution |
| Two years later, Road to Revolution presents a Linkin Park that used to be, which is a shadow of what they have become. Chester's vocals are right on and even their forgettable tracks from Minutes to Midnight are given an energy that is not found on the deadbeat studio album. |
| Long-View Mercury |
| LoveHateHero White Lies |
| Lupe Fiasco The Cool |
| M. Ward Post-War |
| M. Ward Hold Time |
| M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts |
| M83 Before The Dawn Heals Us |
| Manchester Orchestra Cope |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mat Kearney Nothing Left to Lose |
| Matchbook Romance Stories and Alibis |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You |
| Matchbox Twenty More Than You Think You Are |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Metric Old World Underground, Where Are You Now |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular |
| Midlake Bamnan and Slivercork |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Modest Mouse Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks |
| Motion City Soundtrack Commit This to Memory |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| N.E.R.D. Seeing Sounds |
| Needtobreathe The Heat |
| Neko Case Middle Cyclone |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island |
| Oh, Sleeper When I Am God |
| Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning |
| I understand where people are coming from in not giving this an overly high rating. However, once you see this band live it gives you a completely different perception of how talented they really are. Musically they are extremely tight in performance and the vocals are just plain amazing. I still think this album falters in some areas and drags a little bit, but if they were to record a live dvd of it I think everyone would have a new-found appreciation for "Son of the Morning". |
| Orbs Asleep Next to Science |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch |
| People In Planes As Far As the Eye Can See |
| People In Planes Beyond the Horizon |
| This band has the talent to write incredible songs, "Pretty Buildings" on this album is one of my all-time favorite songs. |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Ratatat Classics |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| Relient K Mmhmm |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| RJD2 Deadringer |
| RJD2 The Horror |
| RJD2 The Third Hand |
| Rx Bandits Gemini, Her Majesty |
| Ryan Adams Easy Tiger |
| Saosin The Grey |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre |
| Scary Kids Scaring Kids The City Sleeps In Flames |
| Scary Kids Scaring Kids Scary Kids Scaring Kids |
| Secret And Whisper Great White Whale |
| Secret Machines Now Here is Nowhere |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You |
| Senses Fail The Fire |
| Sherwood Sing, But Keep Going |
| Shiny Toy Guns We Are Pilots |
| Showbread No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical |
| Shwayze Shwayze |
| "Babay will you be my corona and lime".... such a good song. The rest of the tracks are pretty great too. Nothing too original, but really fun music. |
| Silverstein When Broken Is Easily Fixed |
| Sky Eats Airplane The Sound of Symmetry |
| While not a masterpiece by any means, The Sound of Symmetry offers a sample of what is to come with SEA's new vocalist, and in fact it is an improvement from anything they have done before. The clean vocals are much improved with Zimmerman leading the gang and the instrumentals are as solid as ever. The full-length album should be one to watch out for. |
| Sleigh Bells Treats |
| It's noisy, crazy, sporadic, and a refreshing take on electronic-pop music. While Treats contains some forgettable tracks, it is a damn fun listen as a whole. |
| Snow Patrol Final Straw |
| Soundtrack (Film) Garden State |
| Stars Heart |
| Stars In Our Bedroom After The War |
| Sting Brand New Day |
| Story of the Year Page Avenue |
| Sugarcult Palm Trees And Power Lines |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? |
| Sum 41 Chuck |
| Sunny Day Real Estate The Rising Tide |
| Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D |
| The Appleseed Cast Peregrine |
| The album that really marked the transition of The Appleseed Cast from indie to progressive rock. A very well-done album, but an album that portrays a band searching for an identity. |
| The Black Keys El Camino |
| The Bled Silent Treatment |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes |
| The Cars Greatest Hits |
| The Classic Crime Albatross |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet |
| The Damned Things Ironiclast |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator |
| The Fold Secrets Keep You Sick |
| The Honorary Title Anything Else But The Truth |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil |
| The Hush Sound Like Vines |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The Roots The Tipping Point |
| The Roots Rising Down |
| The Roots How I Got Over |
| While by no means the best album they have produced, How I Got Over shows The Roots in top form doing what they do best: creating arguably the best hip-hop around. |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| The Subways Young For Eternity |
| The Used In Love and Death |
| The Used Lies for the Liars |
| The Vines Highly Evolved |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie |
| This or the Apocalypse Monuments |
| This Providence Our Worlds Divorce |
| Thom Yorke The Eraser |
| Thursday War All the Time |
| Thursday Common Existence |
| Tiny Vipers Life on Earth |
| Two Tongues Two Tongues |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue |
| 3.0 good |
| 3 Doors Down Away from the Sun |
| 3OH!3 Want |
| A Skylit Drive Wires...and the Concept of Breathing |
| Agraceful The Great I Am |
| Alkaline Trio Agony and Irony |
| Anberlin New Surrender |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place |
| Goes down like water..... Really, really filtered clean water. |
| Angels and Airwaves Love |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam |
| Backstreet Boys Never Gone |
| Blessthefall His Last Walk |
| Blue Scholars Bayani |
| Boys Like Girls Boys Like Girls |
| Breathe Carolina It's Classy Not Classic |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... |
| If this came out when I was in high school it would have been one of my favorite albums. It is by no means a bad album, it just isn't that interesting to me. Also, I can't wait for the 15 reviews that are going to be written over the next 24 hours. |
| Carolina Liar Coming to Terms |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet |
| some of these songs are really good. my favorites are "a letter for janelle" and "the undertaker's....." but.... just like their first album, chiodos fails to make a solid and complete set of songs. |
| Circa Survive Juturna |
| Coldplay X&Y |
| Common Finding Forever |
| Crash Kings Crash Kings |
| Creed Human Clay |
| Creed Weathered |
| Dashboard Confessional A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar |
| Dashboard Confessional The Swiss Army Romance |
| Dave Matthews Band Everyday |
| Dave Matthews Band Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King |
| Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes |
| Dropkick Murphys The Warrior's Code |
| Emarosa Relativity |
| Emery We Do What We Want |
| It starts off strong with Emery playing Emery at Emery's best, but then begins to lag as the album goes along and eventually ends with a gentle thud of mediocrity. |
| Eminem The Eminem Show |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine |
| Foo Fighters One by One |
| Framing Hanley The Moment |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain |
| Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless |
| Greeley Estates Go West Young Man, Let The Evil Go East |
| Gym Class Heroes As Cruel As School Children |
| Halifax The Inevitability of a Strange World |
| Haste the Day Dreamer |
| Hoobastank Hoobastank |
| I Killed the Prom Queen Music for the Recently Deceased |
| i've never given these guys a listen until recently and i have to say "Music For The Recently Deceased" is a pretty good album. however, what i will never understand is how so many people gave this a 4 or dare i even say..... a 5??? are you kidding me?? this is pretty good but if you are going to say it is perfect you have to be out of your mind. yes it is good, but it so repetitive that you only really have to listen to the first few songs to get the gist of the entire album. |
| Ice Nine Kills The Burning |
| Inhale Exhale I Swear... |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire |
| Ivoryline Vessels |
| Jaga Jazzist Day (EP) |
| Jakob Dylan Seeing Things |
| JamisonParker Sleepwalker |
| Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne |
| A solid album, but one that doesn't quite live up to all the hype. |
| Jonezetta Popularity |
| Kaiser Chiefs Employment |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak |
| Kelly Clarkson Breakaway |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager |
| Lady Gaga The Fame |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter III |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Matt Costa Unfamiliar Faces |
| Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster III |
| Memphis May Fire The Hollow |
| Midtown Forget What You Know |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk |
| Motion City Soundtrack Even If It Kills Me |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love |
| Norma Jean Redeemer |
| Norma Jean Meridional |
| Our Lady Peace Gravity |
| Our Last Night We Will All Evolve |
| P.O.D. Satellite |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes |
| After one listen I have to say that Paramore is still not making music nearly as good as "All We Know Is Falling". Hayley's voice sounds amazing but most of the songs end up just sounding average. I'm not expecting Paramore to necessarily evolve their sound, but just make something that is on par with their first release. This is not a bad album by any means, and I do think it is better than "Riot!", but I am still disappointed. |
| Paul Simon So Beautiful or So What |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| in my opinion nirvana is what made grunge music popular outside of just the seattle area. pearl jam is good at what they do but they tend to be overrated. |
| Pharrell Williams In My Mind |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Ratatat Ratatat Remixes Vol.1 |
| Reggie and The Full Effect Last Stop: Crappy Town |
| Ryan Adams Rock 'n' Roll |
| Secondhand Serenade Awake |
| Set Your Goals This Will Be the Death of Us |
| Sigur Ros Von |
| Sky Eats Airplane Sky Eats Airplane |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror |
| Snow Patrol A Hundred Million Suns |
| Something Corporate Ready...Break |
| Sparta Threes |
| Spoken Spoken |
| Story of the Year The Black Swan |
| Straylight Run Prepare To Be Wrong |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| Teddybears Soft Machine |
| The Acacia Strain The Dead Walk |
| The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects |
| this album is actually pretty decent. "swing, swing" was one of my favorite songs like.... sophmore year of high school i guess. it seems to me that there are quite a few pop punk bands like AAR that make a decent debut album and then instead of going in the "better" direction by maturing their sound, they only get progressively worse as they try hard to make radio-friendly music for teenage girls. other examples are fall out boy, the academy is..., and this providence. |
| The Almost Southern Weather |
| The Bled Found in the Flood |
| The Classic Crime The Silver Cord |
| The Cool Kids The Bake Sale |
| The Dangerous Summer Live In Baltimore |
| An adequate compilation of live material, Live in Baltimore showcases some of the Dangerous Summer's best songs, but for whatever seems to lack the energy of their recorded tracks. |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord |
| The Fratellis Costello Music |
| The Fray How to Save a Life |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away |
| The Spill Canvas One Fell Swoop |
| The Vines Vision Valley |
| The Vines Melodia |
| The Wedding Polarity |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace |
| Timbaland Timbaland Presents Shock Value |
| Twista Adrenaline Rush |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind |
| Underoath The Changing of Times |
| We The Kings We The Kings |
| Yellowcard Lights and Sounds |
| 2.5 average |
| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating |
| A Skylit Drive Adelphia |
| AFI Decemberunderground |
| Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal |
| Anberlin Lowborn |
| Angels and Airwaves I-Empire |
| Anthony Green Avalon |
| Architects The Here and Now |
| Architects have stripped away their technical sound for something much more mainstream and riff-laden. Although the move isn't a failure by any means, "The Here and Now" will be viewed as a severe disappointment by the fans of any of their previous work. I think after years of touring with Bring Me The Horizon, Architects has finally found the formula to the heart of a fourteen year old scene girl. |
| Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly |
| i liked this way more before the notorious crabcore video and seeing a couple live videos of them..... still a lot of this album is pretty catchy and fun. |
| Backstreet Boys Millennium |
| Backstreet Boys Black and Blue |
| Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods |
| Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn |
| Bright Eyes Cassadaga |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go |
| i don't get what the big deal is with this band. musically they aren't that great and anthony green's voice is wayyyyyy overrated. deal with it. |
| Cobra Starship While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Stree |
| Cobra Starship Hot Mess |
| Cute Is What We Aim For Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch |
| Dead By Sunrise Out of Ashes |
| This album just never reaches the heights Chester apparently thinks his attempt of an "epic" rock album can achieve. While nothing is necessarily bad, there is also nothing that is really worth remembering. This is a band completely created around Chester, and his vocals we have all been hearing for the last decade can only carry this album to a level of mediocrity. It is definitely better than what LP has become though. |
| Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys |
| When "You are a Tourist" came out I got extremely excited for the release of this album... then when it was released I got extremely disappointed. Let's hope to god it's a grower. |
| Dr. Acula The Social Event of the Century |
| Drop Dead, Gorgeous In Vogue |
| Drop Dead, Gorgeous Hot N' Heavy |
| upon further listening, i can only listen to the first four songs and can't stand the rest. |
| EAT ME RAW XxBurritoXX |
| How do you rate an album that is supposed to be a joke? Well the music is terrible but it's also pretty damn hilarious..... so i guess you rate it average. |
| Emery I'm Only A Man |
| Evanescence Fallen |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand |
| Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better |
| Gavin Castleton Home |
| Good Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and Death |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White |
| i give this an "average" because this album is better than a lot of the emo crap that came out around the same time. "ohio is for lovers", no matter how terrible the lyrics, is an incredibly catchy song and some others have their moments of goodness. but for the most part this is a completely forgettable band. |
| Hellogoodbye Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! |
| Hey Monday Beneath It All |
| Not near as good as Paramore used to be, but a small step above what Paramore has become. Wish You Were Here and I Don't Wanna Dance are extremely catchy and fun tracks, while the rest of the EP is very hit and miss. Also, the girl has to be the hottest frontwoman around, a title I always thought would belong to Ms. Williams. |
| Hollywood Undead Swan Songs |
| Hypernova Through The Chaos |
| Ivoryline There Came A Lion |
| Jet Get Born |
| Job for a Cowboy Genesis |
| John Mayer Heavier Things |
| John Nolan Height |
| Kaiser Chiefs Yours Truly, Angry Mob |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys |
| Kelly Clarkson Thankful |
| Kevin Rudolf In The City |
| it's not that bad..... a couple of the songs are pretty tight |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns |
| Lostprophets Start Something |
| Lostprophets The Fake Sound Of Progress |
| Lupe Fiasco Lasers |
| Metallica Metallica |
| one of the most overrated bands to ever try to "punish" us with their "brutal" rock. their earlier work is by far better than their previous two albums that came out the last couple years but still.... that ain't saying too much. |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso |
| i first got into these guys a few years ago when i got to college cuz a couple buddies in my dorm played em all the time. then they came to play on campus and i have to say it was probably the most boring live show i have ever seen and really made me lose interest in the band.... too bad. |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| New Found Glory Sticks and Stones |
| one of the first shows i ever went to was these guys and good charlotte... and i probably thought it was really good. |
| New Found Glory Catalyst |
| Newsboys Shine: The Hits |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up |
| Noah and the Whale Last Night On Earth |
| October Fall A Season in Hell |
| OneRepublic Dreaming Out Loud |
| Our Last Night The Ghosts Among Us |
| Paramore Riot! |
| paramore's first album was so good, not one song was a miss. but this album for the most part just sounds like them trying hard to get on the radio, pretty disappointing. |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue |
| I was going to write a real sound off for this, until I realized there was already 35 of them. |
| Pearl Jam rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003) |
| Phantom Planet The Guest |
| Quietdrive When All That's Left Is You |
| Ratatat LP3 |
| Red (USA) Until We Have Faces |
| Secret Machines Secret Machines |
| Senses Fail Life Is Not a Waiting Room |
| Shakira Laundry Service |
| Sherwood QU |
| With the release of "A Different Light", it really seemed as if Sherwood was on their way to being one of the biggest acts in pop-rock. Now, with "QU" it seems that they have fallen back on making mediocre pop music that consists of nothing with real substance. While they are able to retain an ample amount of "catchiness" throughout the album, the songs are often unforgivably boring and seem to lack any amount of effort. A disappointment for anyone who has been a fan of Sherwood's first two releases. |
| Soundtrack (Film) Across the Universe |
| Sugarcult Lights Out |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again |
| This is Taking Back Sunday at rock bottom, which is still an average album with highlights that save it from being a travesty ("everything must go" is one of the best songs they have ever written). Although there are a couple good songs, as a whole New Again is generic to say the least, and honestly sounds like it could not have taken longer than a couple weeks to write. |
| Taking Back Sunday Taking Back Sunday |
| Taking Back Sunday's self-titled album is one that lacks identity, focus, and originality. The heralded return of John Nolan offers absolutely nothing of significance, which is sure to be a disappointment to the TBS fans who were praying for a return to the good ol days of Tell All Your Friends. There are a couple great single-worthy songs , but most of the album is completely worthless and harkens back to what made us cringe throughout New Again. In the end, it looks like the rebirth of Taking Back Sunday may end up being their short final chapter. |
| Terrible Things Terrible Things |
| A couple tracks can be salvaged as worth your time, but as a whole Terrible Things' debut album disappoints when it is realized how much talent is in the band and how little of that talent is heard. |
| The Academy Is... Santi |
| The Airborne Toxic Event The Airborne Toxic Event |
| The All-American Rejects Move Along |
| The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk |
| The Decemberists Picaresque |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife |
| The Killers Sam's Town |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It |
| The Spill Canvas No Really, I'm Fine |
| This Providence This Providence |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb |
| Weezer The Green Album |
| Weezer Hurley |
| It's better than anything they have done in years, which means it is still very average. |
