| 4.5 superb |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Arctic Monkeys AM |
| Arthur Russell Calling Out of Context |
| Arthur Russell Another Thought |
| Arthur Russell The World of Arthur Russell |
| Bell X1 Arms |
| After six albums ranging from good to mediocre, Noonan and co. have nailed the formula, their folk-electronica leanings and erudite, idiosyncratic lyricism to the best album of their nearly 20-year career. Tracks like 'Sons & Daughters', 'Take Your Sweet Time', and 'Fake Memory' combining catchy grooves and catching lyrics for a brilliant work. |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Brian Eno and David Byrne Everything that Happens Will Happen Today |
| Brian Eno and David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts |
| Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah |
| David Bowie Station to Station |
| David Bowie Lodger |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| David Byrne and St. Vincent Love This Giant |
| Delta Spirit Delta Spirit |
| Emmylou Harris Wrecking Ball |
| Everything Everything Get to Heaven |
| Ezra Furman Transangelic Exodus |
| Fairport Convention Liege and Lief |
| George Harrison All Things Must Pass |
Disregarding (and/or discarding) the half-baked jams, 'All Things Must Pass' is an outstanding
album, and may possibly be the best solo album released by any of the former Fab Four. |
| Gotye Making Mirrors |
| Interpol El Pintor |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog |
| James Supercave Better Strange |
| How is this album so overlooked? It?s like David Byrne and the Ting Tings had a love child. |
| John Cale Paris 1919 |
| Joseph Arthur Our Shadows Will Remain |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Joy Division Closer |
| King Crimson Discipline |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver |
| LCD Soundsystem The Long Goodbye |
| Leonard Cohen The Best of Leonard Cohen |
| Lisa Hannigan At Swim |
| Lord Huron Vide Noir |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way |
| Neil Young Harvest |
| Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps |
| Neil Young Live Rust |
| Neil Young and Crazy Horse rocking at their hardest. |
| Neil Young Decade |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left |
| Ninja Sex Party NSFW |
| Ninja Sex Party Strawberries and Cream |
| Ninja Sex Party Attitude City |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Architecture & Morality |
| Paul Simon Graceland |
| Peter Gabriel Security |
| Philip Glass Glassworks |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Pixies Bossanova |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Richard and Linda Thompson Shoot Out The Lights |
| Rostam Half-Light |
| Spoon Gimme Fiction |
| Spoon They Want My Soul |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent |
| Steve Earle Transcendental Blues |
| Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians |
| Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues |
| The only issue I have with this album is the murky production. This is the only indication that Talking Heads have suffered with the departure of producer/collaborator Brian Eno. Perfect pop sounds lost in the mix. |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food |
| Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77 |
| I never fully listened to it. I regret having not done so before rating this the first time. |
| Television Marquee Moon |
| The Band The Band |
| The Band Music from Big Pink |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Black Keys El Camino |
| The Black Keys Brothers |
| The Black Keys Attack & Release |
| The Black Keys Rubber Factory |
| The Caretaker An Empty Bliss Beyond This World |
| The Clash London Calling |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| 'Disintegration is the best album ever!' --South ParkrTruer words have never been spoken. |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife |
| The Jayhawks Tomorrow the Green Grass |
| The Kinks The Village Green Preservation Society |
| The National High Violet |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me |
| The National Sleep Well Beast |
| The New Pornographers Together |
| The Rolling Stones Hot Rocks |
| The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come |
| The Smiths Hatful of Hollow |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| Twin Shadow Confess |
| U2 The Best Of 1980-1990 |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City |
| 'Unbelievers', and 'Diane Young' are the two stand-out rockers on the album, while 'Step' and 'Ya Hey' are slow, mellow songs with baroque touches and funky rhythms. Last two songs 'Hudson' and 'Young Lions' are slightly unfulfilling closers, but the pros far outweigh the cons. |
| Vampire Weekend Contra |
| Van Morrison Moondance |
| Van Morrison Astral Weeks |
| Van Morrison Veedon Fleece |
| Van Morrison It's Too Late to Stop Now |
| Vashti Bunyan Just Another Diamond Day |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| Wilco Summerteeth |
| Wire Chairs Missing |
| Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 10,000 Maniacs In My Tribe |
| Alejandro Escovedo Real Animal |
| alt-J This Is All Yours |
| Amen Dunes Love |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See |
| Arthur Russell Love is Overtaking Me |
| Arthur Russell Corn |
| Beach House Depression Cherry |
| Beck Sea Change |
| Beirut No No No |
| The album has a Latin American groove to it, that puts David Byrne's 'Rei Momo' in mind. Not a terrible album, but as it is a bit of a departure for Beirut, those who liked 'Gulag Orkestar' may be disappointed. |
| Bell X1 Blue Lights On the Runway |
| Those looking for more tunes like the Talking Heads-inspired 'Great Defector' may be disappointed, but the other nine songs on this album are magnificent in their own rights. |
| Bell X1 Chop Chop |
| Beautiful album. Every song is simply arranged, with breathtaking lyrics. Paul Noonan's vocals are startling in their expressiveness. |
| Bjork Post |
| Blondie Parallel Lines |
| Blur The Magic Whip |
| Bob Dylan Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks |
| Bob Dylan Oh Mercy |
| Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding |
| Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline |
| Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways |
| Bombay Bicycle Club A Different Kind of Fix |
| Bombay Bicycle Club So Long, See You Tomorrow |
| Bombay Bicycle Club Everything Else Has Gone Wrong |
| Brian Eno Music For Films |
| Brian Eno Before and After Science |
| Brian Eno Another Green World |
| Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) |
| Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record |
| Bruce Springsteen The River |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run |
| Bruce Springsteen The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle |
| Cake Motorcade Of Generosity |
| Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Hysterical |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy |
| Daniel Lanois Acadie |
| David Bowie "Heroes" |
| David Bowie Heathen |
| David Byrne Rei Momo |
| The Tracks on this song are fantastic! 'Make Believe Mambo', 'Good and Evil', 'Loco de Amor', and 'Dream Police' are my favorites, but the rest are great too! |
| David Byrne Look into the Eyeball |
| David Byrne Grown Backwards |
| With music running from violin-tinged house to straight-up opera, 'Grown Backwards' is, for all of its eclecticism, remarkably consistent in quality. |
| David Byrne The Catherine Wheel |
| David Gray Life In Slow Motion |
| Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys |
| Delta Spirit History From Below |
| Department of Eagles In Ear Park |
| Discovery LP |
| Divine Fits A Thing Called Divine Fits |
| Django Django Django Django |
| Dr. Dog Be The Void |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain |
| Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid |
| Elbow Cast of Thousands |
| Elbow Leaders of the Free World |
| Elbow The Take Off And Landing Of Everything |
| Elvis Costello My Aim Is True |
| Elvis Costello This Year's Model |
| Elvis Costello Armed Forces |
| Emmylou Harris All I Intended to Be |
| Emmylou Harris Stumble into Grace |
| Emmylou Harris Red Dirt Girl |
| Eugene McGuinness The Invitation to the Voyage |
| Stomping, visceral indie rock saturated in sixties flourishes and vibes (see the Peter Gunn theme sampled in 'Shotgun' and the surf rock guitar shredding on 'Lion'. |
| Everything Everything Arc |
| Everything Everything Man Alive |
| Ezra Furman Twelve Nudes |
| Ezra Furman Day of the Dog |
| Ezra Furman Perpetual Motion People |
| Fairport Convention Unhalfbricking |
| Feist The Reminder |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Fleetwood Mac The Dance |
| Foals What Went Down |
| Foster the People Torches |
| Francis and the Lights It'll Be Better |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand |
| Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand |
| Franz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action |
| Friendly Fires Pala |
| Future Islands Singles |
| Gang of Four Entertainment! |
| George Harrison Brainwashed |
| George Harrison Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison |
| Glass Animals How To Be A Human Being |
| Gotye Like Drawing Blood |
| Grateful Dead American Beauty |
| Grateful Dead Europe '72 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest |
| Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam I Had a Dream That You Were Mine |
| Harry Nilsson Nilsson Schmilsson |
| Here We Go Magic The January EP |
| Here We Go Magic A Different Ship |
| Hot Chip The Warning |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days |
| Jake Bugg Jake Bugg |
| James Blake Overgrown |
| John Cale Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood |
| John Cale The Island Years |
| John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band |
| Joni Mitchell Ladies of the Canyon |
| Joni Mitchell Blue |
| Joni Mitchell Night Ride Home |
| Joni Mitchell Court and Spark |
| Jonsi Go |
| Jose Gonzalez Veneer |
| Joseph Arthur The Graduation Ceremony |
| Joseph Arthur's best album. Every song is catchy and beautiful to listen to. 'Midwest' is the high point of the album. |
| Kasabian Kasabian |
| Kate and Anna McGarrigle Love Over and Over |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love |
| King Crimson Beat |
| Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express |
| Kraftwerk Computer World |
| Kraftwerk The Man-Machine |
| Kraftwerk The Mix |
| Lake Street Dive Bad Self Portraits |
| Laurie Anderson Big Science |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening |
| LCD Soundsystem American Dream |
| Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker |
| Liars Mess |
| Liars WIXIW |
| Lord Huron Lonesome Dreams |
| Lou Reed Transformer |
| Lou Reed and John Cale Songs for Drella |
| Luke Temple Good Mood Fool |
| Marika Hackman We Slept at Last |
| Michelle Shocked Captain Swing |
| Miles Davis Bitches Brew |
| Miles Davis 'Round About Midnight |
| Miles Davis Get Up with It |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Neil Young Harvest Moon |
| Neil Young On the Beach |
| Neil Young Live at the Cellar Door |
| Neil Young Tonight's the Night |
| Neil Young Greatest Hits |
| Neil Young Le Noise |
| Neil Young Comes a Time |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Tender Prey |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds No More Shall We Part |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Boatman's Call |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree |
| of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? |
| OK Go Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky |
| OK Go Oh No |
| Papercuts Life Among The Savages |
| Papercuts Fading Parade |
| Parquet Courts Sunbathing Animal |
| Parts and Labor Mapmaker |
| Patti Smith Wave |
| Patti Smith Horses |
| Paul McCartney Back in the U.S. |
| Paul McCartney Flaming Pie |
| Paul Simon Surprise |
An unexpected collaboration with Brian Eno. The result is an astounding album where Simon's folksy
and occasionally melancholy lyrics interweave with Eno's atmospheric sonic textures. |
| Paul Simon Hearts and Bones |
| Pavement Terror Twilight |
| Pavement Wowee Zowee |
| Pete and the Pirates One Thousand Pictures |
| Peter Gabriel Us |
| Peter Gabriel So |
| Peter Gabriel Melt |
| Peter Wolf Lights Out |
| Prince 1999 |
| R.E.M. Document |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Ray LaMontagne Supernova |
| LaMontagne brings in Dan Auerbach for a record soaked in Laurel Valley shimmers, making it one of his brightest records. |
| Regina Spektor Far |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope |
| Richard and Linda Thompson Pour Down Like Silver |
| Richard Thompson Across a Crowded Room |
| Rickie Lee Jones Rickie Lee Jones |
| Rickie Lee Jones Flying Cowboys |
| Rickie Lee Jones Pirates |
| Robbie Robertson Robbie Robertson |
| Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Raising Sand |
| Rogue Wave Delusions of Grand Fur |
| Roxy Music Flesh + Blood |
| Santigold Santogold |
| School of Seven Bells Alpinisms |
| Shearwater Jet Plane and Oxbow |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water |
| Sinead O'Connor Throw Down Your Arms |
| Sinead O'Connor The Lion And The Cobra |
| Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love |
| Sleigh Bells Treats |
| Sonic Youth Evol |
| Sonic Youth Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star |
| Sonic Youth Murray Street |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga |
| Spoon Girls Can Tell |
| Spoon Love Ways |
| Spoon Transference |
| Spoon Kill the Moonlight |
| Spoon Hot Thoughts |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy |
| St. Vincent Actor |
| St. Vincent Masseduction |
| Steely Dan Aja |
| Steve Earle El Corazón |
| Steve Winwood Back in the High Life |
| Super Furry Animals Rings Around the World |
| Talking Heads Stop Making Sense |
| Talking Heads The Name of this Band Is Talking Heads |
| Talking Heads Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites |
| Talking Heads Bonus Rarities and Outtakes |
| Tame Impala Lonerism |
| Taylor Swift 1989 |
| Temples Sun Structures |
| The Avett Brothers I and Love and You |
| The Band The Best of the Band |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Beatles Love |
| The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 2 |
| The Beatles Let It Be… Naked |
| The Beta Band The Three EPs |
| The Black Keys Magic Potion |
| The Captain and Me Peter Gabriel |
| The Clash Combat Rock |
| The Clash Sandinista! |
| The Cure Bloodflowers |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love |
| The Field Mice Where'd You Learn to Kiss That Way? |
| The Heavy The House That Dirt Built |
| The Joy Formidable A Balloon Called Moaning |
| The Kills Midnight Boom |
| The Kinks Face to Face |
| The Low Anthem Oh My God, Charlie Darwin |
| The Maccabees Marks To Prove It |
| The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs |
| The Magnetic Fields Holiday |
| The National Boxer |
| The National Think You Can Wait/Exile Vilify |
| The National I Am Easy to Find |
| The New Pornographers Electric Version |
| The New Pornographers Brill Bruisers |
| The New Pornographers Whiteout Conditions |
| The New Pornographers In the Morse Code of Brake Lights |
| The Police Synchronicity |
| The Pretenders Learning To Crawl |
| The Rolling Stones Some Girls |
| The Rolling Stones Black and Blue |
| The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers |
| The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet |
| The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed |
| The Shins Port of Morrow |
| The Swell Season Once: Music From The Motion Picture |
| The Traveling Wilburys Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 |
| The Velvet Underground VU |
| The Yardbirds Having a Rave Up |
| Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 |
| Tom Petty Full Moon Fever |
| Tom Vek Luck |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs |
| Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards |
| Tom Waits Glitter and Doom Live |
| Tom Waits Bad As Me |
| Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones |
| Toro Y Moi Anything In Return |
| tUnE-yArDs Nikki Nack |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science |
| TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend |
| Van Morrison His Band and the Street Choir |
| Van Morrison Tupelo Honey |
| Volcano Choir Repave |
| Wilco Being There |
| Wings Band on the Run |
| Wire It's Beginning To And Back Again |
| Wire 154 |
| Wire Wire |
| Wire Document and Eyewitness |
| Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary |
| Yeasayer Amen & Goodbye |
| Yo La Tengo Fade |
| 3.5 great |
| Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha |
| Arcade Fire Everything Now |
| Arthur Russell The Sleeping Bag Sessions |
| Arthur Russell Iowa Dream |
| Azealia Banks 1991 |
| Beck Guero |
| Beck Odelay |
| Bell X1 Flock |
| Bell X1 Music In Mouth |
| Belle and Sebastian Write About Love |
| Belle and Sebastian Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance |
| Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit |
| Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress |
| Bjork Volta |
| Blitzen Trapper Furr |
| Blondie The Best of Blondie |
| Bob Dylan Desire |
| Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind |
| Bob Dylan Planet Waves |
| Bombay Bicycle Club I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Bon Iver 22, A Million |
| Brian Eno and Karl Hyde Someday World |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene |
| Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. |
| Cake Comfort Eagle |
| Cake Showroom Of Compassion |
| Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career |
| Cayucas Bigfoot |
| Chairlift Something |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Some Loud Thunder |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Only Run |
| Coldplay Prospekt's March |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young So Far |
| CSS La Liberación |
| Their most mainstream album to date. Very good, with a variety of influences. A little bit of reggae, a little Talking Heads, and a lot of classic CSS. |
| Daniel Lanois Shine |
| Daniel Lanois For The Beauty of Wynona |
| David Bowie Low |
| David Bowie The Next Day |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) |
| David Bowie Black Tie White Noise |
| David Byrne American Utopia |
| David Byrne and Fatboy Slim Here Lies Love |
| David Byrne and St. Vincent Brass Tactics EP |
| Death Cab for Cutie Kintsugi |
| Deerhoof Breakup Song |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Songs to Learn and Sing |
| Eels Blinking Lights & Other Revelations |
| Emmylou Harris Hard Bargain |
| Eugene McGuinness The Early Learnings of Eugene McGuinness |
| Eugene McGuinness Chroma |
| A slightly weaker follow-up to 'The Invitation to the Voyage'. The album track 'Fairlight' differs significantly from the single version (which I feel is superior). |
| Eugene McGuinness Eugene McGuinness |
| Everything Everything A Fever Dream |
| Fleet Foxes Sun Giant |
| Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better |
| Franz Ferdinand Blood |
| Geographer Myth |
| George Harrison Living in the Material World |
| George Harrison Cloud Nine |
| Glass Animals Zaba |
| Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins |
| Grizzly Bear Shields |
| Harry Belafonte Calypso |
| Harry Belafonte brings the songs of the Caribbean to America with this terrific album featuring classics like 'Day-O' (made famous from the dinner party scene in 'Beetlejuice') and 'Hosanna'. The operatic backing vocals and over-the-top production, however, occasionally make for a cringing listen. |
| Here We Go Magic Here We Go Magic |
| Here We Go Magic Pigeons |
| Here We Go Magic Be Small |
| Interpol Antics |
| Interpol Marauder |
| Iron And Wine Kiss Each Other Clean |
| James Blake James Blake |
| James Blake The Colour in Anything |
| Jerry Harrison The Red and the Black |
| With this album, Jerry Harrison demonstrates that David Byrne wasn't the sole creative force behind Talking Heads. Smooth, glassy funk music with a soulful group of backup singers and terrific guitar work by Talking Heads/King Crimson alum Adrian Belew make tracks like 'Slink' and 'Magic Hymie' worth listening to. |
| John Cale Walking on Locusts |
| John Cale Vintage Violence |
| John Cale Words for the Dying |
| John Grant Pale Green Ghosts |
| John Grant Grey Tickles, Black Pressure |
| John Lennon Lennon Legend |
| John Lennon Walls and Bridges |
| John Lennon Double Fantasy |
| Joseph Arthur Redemption's Son |
| Joseph Arthur The Ballad of Boogie Christ |
| Joseph Arthur Nuclear Daydream |
| Joseph Arthur Come To Where I'm From |
| Jukebox the Ghost Off To The Races |
| Kaiser Chiefs Employment |
| Kate Nash My Best Friend Is You |
| King Creosote Astronaut Meets Appleman |
| King Creosote From Scotland With Love |
| Kraftwerk Electric Cafe |
| Kraftwerk Radio-Activity |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die |
| Little Feat Waiting For Columbus |
| Lord Huron Strange Trails |
| Lou Reed Coney Island Baby |
| Lou Reed New York |
| Lou Reed The Blue Mask |
| Lou Reed Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed |
| M.I.A. Arular |
| Michael Jackson Thriller |
| Michael Jackson Off the Wall |
| Miles Davis Birth of the Cool |
| My Morning Jacket It Still Moves |
| Mystery Jets Twenty One |
| Mystery Jets Curve of the Earth |
| Neil Young Unplugged |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus |
| Nick Drake Bryter Layter |
| Nick Drake Made To Love Magic |
| Panda Bear Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper |
| Paul McCartney Memory Almost Full |
| Paul McCartney McCartney II |
| I happen to love 'Temporary Secretary', which may shock many people. |
| Paul McCartney Ram |
| Paul McCartney Tug of War |
| Always avoided this album because I inexplicably loathe 'Ebony and Ivory'. The other Stevie Wonder duet is a great groove, though, and the other songs on this album, like 'Here Today' and 'Take It Away' are fantastic as well. |
| Paul Simon So Beautiful or So What |
| Paul Simon You're the One |
| Paul Simon One-Trick Pony |
| Peggy Sue Fossils and Other Phantoms |
| Pete and the Pirates Little Death |
| Peter Gabriel Up |
| Peter Gabriel Passion OST |
| Peter Gabriel Secret World Live |
| Peter Gabriel Big Blue Ball |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Pixies Trompe Le Monde |
| Pixies EP2 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa |
| Pixies Come On Pilgrim |
| Public Image Ltd. Flowers Of Romance |
| Pulp Different Class |
| R.E.M. Monster |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Radiohead In Rainbows Disk 2 |
| Ramones Ramones |
| Ray LaMontagne Ouroboros |
| Richard Thompson Mirror Blue |
| Richard Thompson Rumor And Sigh |
| Roy Orbison Mystery Girl |
| Rufus Wainwright Want One |
| It's good, but don't try to listen to 'Vicious World' with headphones. The stereo production work will make you nauseous and cause uncontrollable eye-twitching. |
| Ryan Adams Heartbreaker |
| Santigold Master of My Make-Believe |
| Shearwater Animal Joy |
| Sheryl Crow Tuesday Night Music Club |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror |
| Sly and The Family Stone Stand! |
| Sonic Youth Goo |
| Sonic Youth Dirty |
| Spoon Got Nuffin |
| St. Vincent Krokodil |
| St. Vincent Marry Me |
| Starbomb Starbomb |
| Starbomb Player Select |
| Sting ...Nothing Like the Sun |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz |
| Super Furry Animals Radiator |
| Talking Heads Little Creatures |
| Teleman Breakfast |
| Teleman Brilliant Sanity |
| Teleman Family of Aliens |
| The B-52s Cosmic Thing |
| The B-52s The B-52's |
| The Beach Boys The Smile Sessions |
| The Beatles Let It Be |
| The Beatles Help! |
| The Beatles Past Masters, Vol. 1 |
| The Beatles Hey Jude |
| The Beta Band Heroes to Zeros |
| The Cave Singers Welcome Joy |
| The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
| The Dandy Warhols Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia |
| The Fall This Nation's Saving Grace |
| The Futureheads The Futureheads |
| The Go! Team Rolling Blackouts |
| The Jam Sound Affects |
| The Jayhawks Paging Mr. Proust |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| The Killers Sam's Town |
| The Kinks The Ultimate Collection |
| The Kinks Something Else by The Kinks |
| The Kinks Muswell Hillbillies |
| The Kinks Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) |
| The Kinks Misfits |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad |
| The Low Anthem Smart Flesh |
| The Magnetic Fields Get Lost |
| The Magnetic Fields Distant Plastic Trees |
| The Magnetic Fields The Wayward Bus |
| The Magnetic Fields 50 Song Memoir |
| The Naked and Famous Passive Me, Aggressive You |
| The National Alligator |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers |
| The Police Reggatta de Blanc |
| The Police Zenyatta Mondatta |
| The Police Outlandos d'Amour |
| The Rolling Stones Goats Head Soup |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Smiths The Smiths |
| The Vaccines What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? |
| The Vaccines English Graffiti |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| Tom Waits Mule Variations |
| Tom Waits Bone Machine |
| Tom Waits Closing Time |
| Tom Waits Blood Money |
| Tom Waits Franks Wild Years |
| Tom Waits Alice |
| Tom Waits Small Change |
| tUnE-yArDs w h o k i l l |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain |
| TV on the Radio Seeds |
| Twin Shadow Forget |
| U2 Achtung Baby |
| Van Morrison A Sense of Wonder |
| Wilco Star Wars |
| Wings Venus and Mars |
| Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass |
| Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside... |
| Yoko Ono Season of Glass |
| 3.0 good |
| Arthur Russell Springfield |
| Arthur Russell 24 → 24 Music: The Definitive Arthur Russell |
| Arthur Russell First Thought Best Thought |
| Arthur Russell Let's Go Swimming (EP) |
| Azealia Banks Broke With Expensive Taste |
| Band of Horses Why Are You OK |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Beck The Information |
| Beck Mellow Gold |
| Bell X1 Bloodless Coup |
| Blur Parklife |
| Brian Eno Nerve Net |
| Bruce Springsteen The Rising |
| Cake Pressure Chief |
| Camper Van Beethoven Key Lime Pie |
| Chairlift Does You Inspire You |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young 4 Way Street |
| Cyndi Lauper She's So Unusual |
| David Bowie Best of Bowie |
| David Byrne Uh-Oh |
| David Byrne David Byrne |
| Delta Spirit Into the Wide |
| Duran Duran Rio |
| Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Up From Below |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Ezra Furman Songs By Others |
| Field Music Commontime |
| Fistful of Mercy As I Call You Down |
| Franz Ferdinand Always Ascending |
| Funkadelic Maggot Brain |
| Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway |
| George Harrison Dark Horse |
| Gogol Bordello Trans-Continental Hustle |
| Guided by Voices Motivational Jumpsuit |
| John Cale Extra Playful |
| John Mellencamp Scarecrow |
| Joni Mitchell Don Juan's Reckless Daughter |
| Joseph Arthur Redemption City |
| Joseph Arthur Lou |
| Justin Bieber Purpose |
| Yes, it's good. It's not great, but there are plenty of fantastic songs that I can't get out of my head. What do you want from me? I'm only human! |
| King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair |
| King Crimson VROOOM |
| Kongos Lunatic |
| Metric Fantasies |
| MGMT Congratulations |
| Monks Black Monk Time |
| My Morning Jacket Evil Urges |
| Neil Young Americana |
| Neil Young Trans |
| Ninja Sex Party Under the Covers |
| OK Go OK Go |
| Paul Simon Stranger to Stranger |
| Peter Gabriel Scratch My Back |
| Peter Gabriel New Blood |
Decent album. The tracks are solid, the execution is flawless. Not impressed with some of the
songs, but I really love the new version of 'In Your Eyes' and 'Mercy Street'. The question to ask
is, why make this album? Contractual Obligation? For the criminally procrastinating Gabriel, it's
something that unfortunately has been quite common since 2002's 'Up'. |
| Peter Gabriel Car |
| Peter Gabriel And I'll Scratch Yours |
| Quick note: This is not a Peter Gabriel album. Rather, it is a compilation of artists covering Peter Gabriel. It's a mixed bag, really. |
| Peter Gabriel Scratch |
| Phil Collins Face Value |
| Pixies EP1 |
| Pixies Indie Cindy |
| Bands are always evolving and changing. People are angry that this music doesn't sound like 'Doolittle', but disregarding their previous material this is still a solid set of songs. |
| Pixies Head Carrier |
| R.E.M. Green |
| R.E.M. New Adventures in Hi-Fi |
| Radiohead I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings |
| Ray LaMontagne Trouble |
| Ray LaMontagne Till the Sun Turns Black |
| Roky Erickson Roky Erickson And The Aliens |
| Ryan Adams 1989 |
| Sleigh Bells Bitter Rivals |
| Spirit Club Spirit Club |
| Some nice California indie rock with Beach-Boys crooning and bubbling guitar work. |
| Spoon Series of Sneaks |
| A transition album between the Pixies bombast of 'Telefono' and the minimalistic post-punk of 'Girls Can Tell'. While leaning heavily towards 'Telefono' with frenzied cuts like 'Utilitarian' and 'Car Radio' checking in under two minutes, songs like 'Metal Detektor' and the Lafitte suite on the re-release give a glimpse as to the direction the band will take in the years to come. |
| St. Vincent Pieta / Sparrow |
| Steve Miller Band Greatest Hits 1974-1978 |
| Steve Winwood Roll With It |
| Sting Ten Summoner's Tales |
| Talking Heads Naked |
| This is an underrated album. "Nothing But Flowers", "Totally Nude", "Cool Water", "Ruby Dear", and "Blind" rank among their best songs. The only truly bad song on the album in the overwhelmingly awful "Facts of Life". With that aside, this is one of my favorite Talking Heads Albums. |
| Talking Heads True Stories |
| The B-52s Mesopotamia |
| The Band Jericho |
| The Basics Keep Your Friends Close |
| The Beatles Yellow Submarine |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night |
| The Beatles 1 |
| The Beatles Yellow Submarine Soundtrack |
| The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk |
| The Black Eyed Peas Monkey Business |
| The Black Keys Turn Blue |
| The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World |
| The Jayhawks Mockingbird Time |
| The Lonely Island Turtleneck and Chain |
| The Magnetic Fields Realism |
| The Magnetic Fields i |
| The Magnetic Fields Distortion |
| The Police Ghost in the Machine |
| The Rolling Stones Forty Licks |
| The Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang |
| The Rolling Stones Tattoo You |
| The Rolling Stones Steel Wheels |
| The Ting Tings We Started Nothing |
| The Ting Tings Sounds from Nowheresville |
| The Ting Tings Super Critical |
| The Velvet Underground Loaded |
| The Verve Urban Hymns |
| The Young Knives Superabundance |
| The Young Knives Ornaments From The Silver Arcade |
| Tom Tom Club Tom Tom Club |
| Tom Waits Real Gone |
| U2 Songs of Innocence |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb |
| Vampire Weekend Father Of The Bride |
| While the good songs are truly great (Harmony Hall, This Life, Unbearably White), the country/jam band sound to many tracks are a bit shocking and off-putting. |
| Van Morrison Days Like This |
| Vince Staples FM! |
| Weezer The Red Album |
| Wilco A.M. |
| Wings Red Rose Speedway |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother |
| 2.0 poor |
| Belle and Sebastian Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant |
After the fantastic and flawless 'Boy with the Arab Strap', Belle & Sebastian craft a half-baked
followup with middling lyrics and unenthusiastic vocals. Closing songs 'Family Tree' and 'There's
Too Much Love' are the strongest tracks on the album, so why are they all the way in the back? Why
did we have to struggle through 9 middling songs to get to them? In 'Arab Strap', Murdoch's vocals
sounded delicate and wistful. On 'Fold Your Hands' they sound childish and grating. |
| Bob Dylan Under the Red Sky |
| Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams |
| Lou Reed Sally Can't Dance |
| Lou Reed Street Hassle |
| The title track is good, as is 'Wait', 'Shooting Star', and 'Leave Me Alone'. The rest, especially 'I Want to Be Black', 'Give Me Some Good Times' and a new version of the Velvet Underground's 'We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together', are crap. A mixed bag. On another note, the mixing of the sound can occasionally cause your eyes to start twitching spasmodically. |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Pink Floyd The Endless River |
| She and Him A Very She & Him Christmas |
| Sting If On A Winter's Night... |
