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5.0 classic
A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory
Air Moon Safari
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Richard D James has a way with producing such bizarre sounds that never cease to boggle the mind, and his first LP is him at his smoothest. Standout 'Green Calx' blows my mind every time I hear it, while 'Ageispolis' has the perfect amount of reverb. Every track on here is such a weird assortment of strange noises that are so original and manage to resonate each and every time I hear them.
Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend
So universal. Backpacking through West Africa was proof that everyone can connect with this album. Rightfully revered around the world, Marley has put forth a standard in Reggae music that hasn't been touched and strikes a chord with everyone in the room.
Bonobo Animal Magic
Daft Punk Discovery
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....
Dr. Dre 2001
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP
King Fantastic Finger Snaps And Gun Claps
thug life. thug life. thug life. thug life.
Lady Gaga The Fame
Madonna True Blue
Massive Attack Mezzanine
If you've never heard the song 'Angel' you need to put it on. Right now. Just be patient with it and it will slowly blow your mind. Nothing but great tracks on here all creating such a dark brooding tone that twist and turn. Unlike anything before or after.
Mylo Destroy Rock And Roll
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Nas Illmatic
Nosaj Thing Drift
Brilliant in its simplicity, Nosaj Thing manages to deliver a Flying Lotus esque sound to the masses while still putting enough of himself in it to leave fans excited for his sophomore release
Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon
'I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad...' Perfect composition, incredible inventiveness and precursors to an eerie yet soothing style of music that has in some ways never been matched.
R.E.M. Automatic for the People
Radiohead Kid A
'Yesterday I woke up sucking on lemon.' Nonsensical lyrics, twisted arrangements and bizarre beats. Genius
ScHoolboy Q Habits and Contradictions
Simon and Garfunkel Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Tangerine Dream Phaedra
The Beatles 1967 – 1970
The Doors The Doors
Philosophical, psychedelic and absolutely phenomenal. The keyboard work was so many years ahead of its time with lyrics that are so profound and hypnotizing. They just keep getting better the more you listen.
The Future Sound of London Lifeforms
I'd never given something a 5 after only 1 full listen before. But then again, I'd never heard Future Sound of London before either
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced
The xx xx
consider the VCR angle & run back to me when you realize she's wrong.rfortunately, that wasn't until the next album started. this one is complete and utter perfection. just don't listen next to somone whose only wish is to rave every moment of every day
Thievery Corporation The Mirror Conspiracy
Tones and I The Kids Are Coming
Eponymous "The Kids are Coming" seduces you the human in a way that terrifies the corrupt of ryesteryear. And into hit music banger "Dance Monkey", the EP sets a rapid pace that Samuel rIrving Newhouse Sr and Jr both love now .. .. .. ..
Tones and I Beautifully Ordinary
Tricky Maxinquaye
If Tricky's cover of 'black steel' isn't the greatest cover of all time, it is certainly the most inventive
Zero 7 Simple Things

4.5 superb
5 Seconds of Summer Calm
A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders
Ab-Soul Control System
A little choppy in a couple spots or it'd be a classic.r"you aint gotta love it cause the hood gon love it"
Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill
Ali Farka Toure Savane
Amon Tobin Permutation
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album
Aphex Twin Windowlicker
Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare
Whatever People Say I Am was the fastest selling debut in British history for a reason. It isn't musical genius, but it put a great punk-spin on Indie comparable to what Mumford and Sons has done in the folk genre. Favourite Worst Nightmare is more punk and less Indie. Anyone who enjoyed their first album should definitely check this out. Even though it may not be quite as good, I actually enjoy this album considerably more than the original (Oh, and Humbug is a piece of garbage)
Beastie Boys Licensed To Ill
Beck Guero
This is pretty easily my favorite Beck album, and though I haven't plunged into Midnite Vultures or Mutations, I would be shocked if either overtook this gem. From start to finish, Beck unleashes every bit of his diverse influences on us and while everyone may know 'Hell Yes,' 'Girl' and 'E-Pro,' every track on this album is phenomenal and if you haven't listened to this one all the way through, you should -- right now
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children
Bonobo The North Borders
Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club
Burial and Four Tet Ego/Mirror
Chet Baker The Best of Chet Baker Sings
This jazz trumpeter, with a backing piano and a minimalist drummer, has a voice that melts my heart every time i hear him sing
Coil Horse Rotorvator
Disclosure Settle
Dr. Dre The Chronic
Exoplanet Bourbon Tape Machine
The Sad Demise Of R. Milhous is an absolutely phenomenal use of context for a song to have, and all 3 tracks on here are absolutely sensational.r(offered by the label for free at: http://specialfordjs.com/house/3268-exoplanet-bourbon-tape-machine-ep.html )
Faithless Reverence
Flatbush Zombies D.R.U.G.S.
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma
Four Tet There is Love in You
James Blake James Blake
Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
Massive Attack Protection
Massive Attack Blue Lines
An ingeniously inventive album with some tracks ('safe from harm', 'daydreaming', 'unfinished symphony', 'blue lines') that are still unfathomably good. But whereas Mezzanine and Heligoland have a cover to cover flow, some tracks on here don't quite stand the test of time
Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise
Nicolas Jaar Don't Break My Love
One Direction Midnight Memories
Pink Floyd Animals
Portishead Dummy
Radiohead OK Computer
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Radiohead Amnesiac
This here's almost as good as the 2000 masterpiece Kid A. The transition from 'Pyramid Song' to 'Pulk / Pull' to 'You and Whose Army' is one of the most fascinating 3 song segments Radiohead has ever put together. Delve into this gem, and you'll be thrown in opposite directions simultaneously. Not easy listening at first, yet once you've made your peace, the songs become so soothing and so natural that you realize your entire world has changed.
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik
ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron
Smoke Room Vol. 2
Whoa. thanks washboardsuds for the awesome rec =]
Soundtrack (Film) Garden State
Susumu Yokota Sakura
The Beatles Abbey Road
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
My favorite album from my first favorite band. Cover to cover, this is the most complete Beatles album, and 'A Day in the Life' is their seminal achievement. Even the tracks on here that not everyone knows are gems that contribute to a sublime musical progression.
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland
The Orb Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow
Trentemoller The Last Resort
Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
Why Don't We The Good Times and The Bad Ones
Zomby Dedication

4.0 excellent
Ab-Soul Longterm Mentality
Fuck Sobhi Youssef EMERITUS he doesn't know what he's talking about
AFI Sing the Sorrow
AJR OK Orchestra
Amon Tobin Foley Room
Amon Tobin ISAM
Anais Mitchell Young Man in America
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam
Animal Collective Feels
Animal Collective Sung Tongs
Animal Collective Centipede Hz
Aphex Twin Drukqs
Autechre Tri Repetae
Beck Odelay
Beck Midnite Vultures
Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot
Bonobo Black Sands
Broken Bells Meyrin Fields
Burial Untrue
Burial Burial
Burial Kindred
Burial and Four Tet Moth/Wolf Cub
Caribou Swim
Darkside Darkside
Deadmau5 Random Album Title
DJ Shadow The Private Press
So everyone knows Endtroducing is awesome, and everyone knows The Outsider was garbage. But The Private Press is nearly as good as Endtroducing and nobody seems to realize it. If you're a fan of Endtroducing, you gotta jump into The Private Press
DJ Shadow Preemptive Strike
DJ Shadow I Gotta Rokk
Eminem The Slim Shady LP
Exoplanet Nothing Divides Us Here
Flatbush Zombies BetterOffDEAD
Flying Lotus Los Angeles
Grimes Visions
Grizzly Bear Yellow House
Jack Johnson In Between Dreams
James Zabiela Blame
John Talabot Fin
Kendrick Lamar Section.80
Leftfield Leftism
Lotus Nomad
You probably haven't heard of these guys -- and that's a mistake. Being a kind of fusion between Phish and Aphex Twin, their music has been dubbed jamtronica (electronic jam band). Constantly touring and playing big festivals to clouds of weed, with hippies on all sorts of drugs, they are a band to watch in the coming years as well as one you have to see live if they're coming to a town near you. (sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1syZXrL9WA4)
Massive Attack Heligoland
The kings of trip-hop released an excellent album last year and it didn't even make it on Sputnik's top 100 of 2010? "Paradise Circus," "Psyche," "Rush Minute" and "Atlas Air" are all phenomenal tracks on an album that doesn't have a weak point. Is it as good as Mezzanine? No, but will a trip-hop album ever be released that is?
Massive Attack vs. Burial Four Walls/Paradise Circus
Michael Jackson Thriller
Muse Absolution
Nas Stillmatic
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York
Nirvana Nevermind
OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Pantha Du Prince This Bliss
Phish Billy Breathes
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd Meddle
Polygon Window Surfing On Sine Waves
Public Enemy It Takes A Nation (...) To Hold Us Back
Radiohead In Rainbows
Radiohead The King of Limbs
The optimistic tone of in rainbows, the cohesiveness of amnesiac, the experimentalism of hail to the thief taken in as new a direction as has been seen since kid a. Old timers hoping for something more like ok computer will be disappointed, but such a carefully constructed album could be the closest to true beauty that radiohead has ever come
Radiohead Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Easily the greatest Radiohead release in the pre Ok Computer era and one that goes far too unnoticed. The depth of 'Street Spirit', the brilliance of 'Talk Show Host' and 3 other solid tracks make this an excellent release and also make it perhaps the best starting point for someone looking to get into the band.
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool
Hitting the right notes for people wanting new Radiohead. b-side junkies recognize identikit and the oft performed "true love waits" with an elegant piano based studio recording. "burn the witch" and "daydreaming" being more upbeat and chipper could have been very refreshing and remain a good change of pace. Good video for daydreaming in the mix.
Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
Before he had to work his ass off to get the voice he currently has, Anthony Kiedis was afraid to sing. But he had a sick flow and rapped the truth on top of an innovative group of funk/punk badasses. This is the last album to feature Hillel Slovak on guitar before he died and Jack Irons on drums before he quit, but even with a change of personnel, this sounds more like the following LP, Mother's Milk, than the previous Freaky Styley. With tracks "Fight Like a Brave" and "Behind the Sun" leading the way, this is an album that I'm always up to listen to.
Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication
Simon and Garfunkel Bookends
Sublime Sublime
Talking Heads Remain in Light
Tangerine Dream Stratosfear
during the middle of invisible limits i was like omg dj shadow!
Tangerine Dream Rubycon
The Beatles Rubber Soul
The Beatles The Beatles
The Beatles 1962 - 1966
The Future Sound of London Dead Cities
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2
The Shins Wincing the Night Away
A new take on their first two albums and every bit as good. Considering The Shins is one of the best pure Indie bands around, this is a crucial 3rd LP that adds so much to their repertoire.
The Weeknd Starboy
Thom Yorke The Eraser
Tones and I Welcome to the Madhouse
phenomenal sound, near brilliant execution. Tones and I's criminally underrated, and she has a very bright future ahead of her
Tool Lateralus
Tool Ænima
Trentemoller Reworked / Remixed
Tricky Pre-Millenium Tension
Wolfmother Wolfmother
Xploding Plastix Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents

3.5 great
.L.W.H. The Tape Hiss Hooligan
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AFI All Hallow's E.P.
Amon Tobin Supermodified
Arandel In D
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Autechre Amber
Beck Modern Guilt
Beck Sea Change
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
Bonobo Dial 'M' For Monkey
Boston Boston
Boys Noize Oi Oi Oi
Broken Bells Broken Bells
Burial Street Halo
CunninLynguists Oneirology
De La Soul 3 Feet High And Rising
Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name
Dido No Angel
Discomendments Tales From the Bunka
DJ Shadow The Less You Know, the Better
DJ Shadow Excessive Ephemera
, but http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/d/dj_shadow/midnight_in_a_perfect_world_gift_of_gab_mix.html are still are still some of the best lyrics i've ever read.
Dominik Eulberg Diorama
Feed Me Feed Me's Big Adventure
Four Tet Rounds
Four Tet Pink
about what i expected. cool new loops and some of his most impressive musicianship, but it doesn't establish as much of an emotional relationship with me as 'there is love in you' . dunno which one i like more between this and 'rounds'
Gayngs Relayted
Gorillaz Demon Days
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
Gui Boratto Chromophobia
Gui Boratto III
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan Hawk
Jack Johnson Brushfire Fairytales
Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers
Kanye West The College Dropout
Kendrick Lamar Overly Dedicated
Kendrick tells it like it is. Kendrick's always told it like it is. Kendrick always will tell it like it is. Awesome mixtape that got him his start. More raw, but at times even more passionate than his later releases
Killer Mike R.A.P. Music
Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express
Local Natives Gorilla Manor
Lone Lemurian
Lotus Hammerstrike
Lotus Lotus
Massive Attack 100th Window
MF DOOM MM.. Food
Muse Black Holes & Revelations
My Bloody Valentine Loveless
Nas and Damian Marley Distant Relatives
Nirvana In Utero
Nosaj Thing Drift Remixed
Seems like he's better at remixing others than they are at remixing him. borderline 3-3.5
Portishead Third
Prefuse 73 Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
Radiohead The Bends
Radiohead COM LAG (2plus2isfive)
Sepalcure Sepalcure
Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water
Slightly Stoopid Closer To The Sun
Sneaker Pimps Becoming X
Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom
Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz
Swarms Old Raves End
An infectious album that tempers the power of dubstep with an incredibly smooth trip hop atmosphere
Tangerine Dream Alpha Centauri
Tangerine Dream The Angel from the West Window
As Good as a lot of vintage Tangerine Dream, which is quite an achievement sadly gone unnoticed
The Beatles Help!
The Beatles A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles Revolver
The Cure Disintegration
The Karminsky Experience Inc. Power Of Suggestion
The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath
The Morning Benders Big Echo
The Shins Oh, Inverted World
The Weeknd House of Balloons
Thievery Corporation The Richest Man in Babylon
Thievery Corporation Culture of Fear
Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972
Tool 10,000 Days
Twenty One Pilots Trench
Tyler, the Creator Goblin
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
Wonder Bear Avalanche
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

3.0 good
Actress R.I.P
AFI Decemberunderground
Air Talkie Walkie
Animal Collective Fall Be Kind
Arcade Fire Funeral
Beck The Information
Blue Stahli Blue Stahli
Boards of Canada Geogaddi
Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports
Brian Eno Another Green World
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange
Dan Deacon Bromst
DangerDoom The Mouse And The Mask
Deadmau5 4x4=12
Dido Life For Rent
DJ Krush Kaku-Sei
Efdemin Efdemin
El-P Cancer 4 Cure
Fall Out Boy Infinity on High
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
Green Day American Idiot
first half of the album is awesome, but aside from 'when september ends' i think the back half really lags. still kinda cool though i s'pose.
Handsome Boy Modeling School So ... How's Your Girl?
How to Dress Well Love Remains
Jack Johnson On and On
Juanes Mi Sangre
Juanes Un Dia Normal
Jurassic 5 Quality Control
K'naan Troubadour
K'naan The Dusty Foot Philosopher
Kanye West Graduation
Kassem Mosse EP5
Lamb Lamb
Mana Revolución de Amor
Maroon 5 Songs About Jane
Martina Topley-Bird The Blue God
Marxman 33 Revolutions Per Minute
Memory Tapes Seek Magic
MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday
Moby Play
Modeselektor Monkeytown
Morcheeba Big Calm
Mumford and Sons Sigh No More
Mutemath Mutemath
Mutemath Armistice
Nightmares On Wax Smoker's Delight
No Regular Play Fall Up To the Sky
Panda Bear Person Pitch
Panda Bear Tomboy
As talented as Noah Lennox is, his latest release is neither novel enough nor engaging enough to merit the endless praise that undoubtedly will be lavished upon it.
Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Paul Kalkbrenner Icke Wieder
Pink Floyd The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Porcupine Tree In Absentia
Radiohead TKOL RMX 1234567
Ratatat Classics
Real Estate Days
RJD2 Deadringer
Shabazz Palaces Black Up
Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible
Sigur Ros ( )
Slightly Stoopid Chronchitis
Slightly Stoopid Everything You Need
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Squarepusher Feed Me Weird Things
Sufjan Stevens Illinois
Tangerine Dream Zeit
The Beatles Beatles for Sale
The Beatles With the Beatles
The Flaming Lips Embryonic
The Killers Hot Fuss
The KLF Chill Out
The Mars Volta Octahedron
The Morning Benders Talking Through Tin Cans
The Shins Port of Morrow
The xx Coexist
Thievery Corporation Radio Retaliation
Titus Andronicus The Monitor
tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l
Tyler, the Creator Bastard
Wolfmother Cosmic Egg
Zero 7 When It Falls

2.5 average
Animal Collective Keep + Animal Collective
Autechre Incunabula
Ava Max Heaven and Hell
In theory this is the best music of its kind since 1989. In theory this girl's talents really exist. However, this winds up not aging well. Amanda, referred to by everyone as Ava, has the personality of a cardboard box, the self awareness of a dachsund and is as selfish as damn near anyone in the industry. A good looking girl when this album was made - I hear she's gotten fat - the industry glitz and glitter gets hollow after time goes on, and what seemed like it may have been remarkable here really wasn't. Forget this nonsense girl.
Avey Tare Down There
Bowery Electric Beat
Clark Body Riddle
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
Jack Johnson Sleep Through the Static
Juanes Fijate Bien
Kosheen Resist
Lil B I'm Gay (I'm Happy)
Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long
Matt Costa Songs We Sing
Morcheeba Blood Like Lemonade
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Pavement Slanted and Enchanted
Philip Selway Familial
Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way
Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You
A decent album by one of the '90s best. Enough to show they're still alive and kicking, but not enough to really add anything to their legacy
Slightly Stoopid Slightly Not Stoned Enough... EP
Talib Kweli The Beautiful Struggle
The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects
The Egg Forwards
The Killers Sam's Town
The National High Violet
The Notwist Neon Golden

2.0 poor
Arctic Monkeys Humbug
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command
Born Ruffians Red, Yellow and Blue
Childish Gambino Culdesac
Childish Gambino EP
Danger Mouse The Grey Album
David Guetta Nothing but the Beat
DJ Shadow The Outsider
Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak
Lil Wayne Tha Carter III
Lone Galaxy Garden
Maroon 5 Hands All Over
Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
Muse The Resistance
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
of Montreal Paralytic Stalks
ugh, i agree with robertsona? at least i have aids
Taking Back Sunday Louder Now
The Bravery The Bravery
The Killers Day & Age
The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free
Usher Confessions

1.5 very poor
AFI Crash Love
Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia
Ages awful. Sounds redundant. A not bad Song, the eponymous title track, basically doesn't exist. You're not "all good already"; you are the girl from "break my heart". You "uhh like were gonna not go near this dude who makes you become a terrible person" and then "uhh went anyways and everything sucks if it's anything near your disgusting existence". Worst new music. This fad's over.
Julian Plenti Julian Plenti is... Skyscraper
Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight
Matt Costa Unfamiliar Faces
The Bravery The Sun and the Moon
The Bravery Stir The Blood
Unwritten Law Swan
Usher Raymond v. Raymond
William Hung Hung For The Holidays

1.0 awful
5 Seconds of Summer Youngblood
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