| 5.0 classic |
| Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs |
| Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On |
| This just might be my favorite album of all time. It is one of the most emotionally and musically intense pieces of music that I have ever experienced. Doug Martsch is a master of tension and release, an art that is lost in too much of modern music. Each song is a roller coaster ride, with dark and brooding sections contrasted with lighter, more major-chord sounding sections. Just compare 2:10 of Out Of Sight with the noise guitar solo that ends I Would Hurt A Fly. One is light and almost bouncy, while the other is dark and intense. Each song has many different sections to it, each with a different ambiance, which seems like it shouldn't work, but these sections flow together perfectly. The last 1:40 of Made-Up Dreams is easily one of the most heartbreaking and beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard. And through all of its intensity and power, beautiful is the best word to describe this album, as it is always laying just under the surface and we may need to look past the noise and loud guitars to find it (in a good way.) This album is a masterpiece, on par with In The Aeroplane Over The Sea or Kind Of Blue or whatever you wish to compare it to. This is what music should be. |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| DSOTM is a masterpiece. Being a well-known band, Pink Floyd's music has been cheapened by radio airplay alongside other "classic" rock bands like Foreigner and Def Leppard. Because of this, we all hear these songs quite often but never realize their power. But after listening to the full album all the way through, it becomes clear that DSOTM is indeed one of the greatest and most powerful albums ever created |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Rory Gallagher Irish Tour '74 |
| Television Marquee Moon |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Clash London Calling |
| The Who Live at Leeds |
| Some people may never give a live album a 5, but in my opinion this album merits nothing less than a 5. The Who has great studio albums such as Who's Next, The Who Sell Out, etc., but live is really where they shined. The pure energy and power of their performances is astounding, which is why they are, in my humble opinion, both the greatest hard rock band of all time and the greatest live band of all time. |
| The Who Live at Leeds (Deluxe Edition) |
| Like the regular Live at Leeds, but more songs! And it's just as awesome, if not more so b/c of the extra songs! |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor |
