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5.0 classic
Animal Collective Sung Tongs
Beck Odelay
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath
Bob Dylan Desire
Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People
David Bowie Aladdin Sane
David Bowie Station to Station
Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me
Dire Straits Brothers in Arms
Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something
My Bloody Valentine Loveless
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Quicksilver Messenger Service Quicksilver Messenger Service
Radiohead Amnesiac
Ryan Adams Heartbreaker
Silver Jews American Water
The Breeders Last Splash
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
The Specials Specials
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses
The Traveling Wilburys Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1
A criminally overlooked album due to the fact that these guys were a bit out of fashion at the time. It however stands as a showcase for each of these musical giants songwriting brilliance.
The White Stripes De Stijl
Weezer Weezer

4.5 superb
Belle and Sebastian Tigermilk
Belle and Sebastian The Boy With the Arab Strap
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Howl
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Take Them On, On Your Own
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Blonde Redhead Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline
Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde
Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret
Daft Punk Discovery
Fantastic album, and in retrospect it was definitely ahead of it's time. This was the seminal album for electronic dance music in the '00s.
David Bowie Hunky Dory
David Bowie Diamond Dogs
Devendra Banhart Oh Me Oh My ...
This is a weird one alright. If you like oddball stuff you'll find every track here a small well portioned slice of brilliance. The extremely lo-fi production (many of the tracks were supposedly recorded on an answering machine) lends an inimitable level of ambiance; sometimes rustic and at others incredibly eery.
Endless Boogie Focus Level
Giant Drag Hearts and Unicorns
Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction
Jay Reatard Blood Visions
JEFF the Brotherhood Heavy Days
Karate Some Boots
Absolutely brilliant album. Takes a while to get into but it pays off in the end. Insane jazz freakout guitar solos.
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West
Mr Twin Sister Color Your Life
My Bloody Valentine You Made Me Realise
Panda Bear Person Pitch
Pink Floyd Animals
Quicksilver Messenger Service Happy Trails
Radiohead OK Computer
Radiohead Kid A
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine
Section 25 Looking From A Hilltop
This is the most well known version of this song and the most well known Section 25 song. This release is two different remixes of the song off the album From The Hip by one of the guys in New Order. It's an absolutely amazing track that sounds like it could have come out today.
Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain
Sonic Youth Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star
Sonic Youth Washing Machine
Stereo Total Oh Ah!
An album of exceedingly clever pop and garage rock from this German/French duo. Originally released in Germany in '95, it didn't see a US release until 7 years later.
The Cure The Head on the Door
The Doors The Doors
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Horrors Primary Colours
The Jesus and Mary Chain Stoned & Dethroned
The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy
The Knife Silent Shout
The Smashing Pumpkins Gish
The Strokes Is This It
The Strokes Room on Fire
The White Stripes The White Stripes
The White Stripes White Blood Cells

4.0 excellent
An Albatross We Are The Lazer Viking
Arcade Fire Funeral
Beck Mutations
Beck Stray Blues: A Collection Of B-Sides
Bjork Post
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children
Bob Dylan New Morning
Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Boris Pink
Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love
Casino Versus Japan Whole Numbers Play the Basics
In a similar vein to Boards of Canada. The tracks are divided between the glitched-out and beautiful melodic soundscapes. Music to daydream to, but won't put you to sleep.
Cat Power Moon Pix
Cream Disraeli Gears
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles
Deerhunter Cryptograms
Devendra Banhart Cripple Crow
Earth Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons
Fool's Gold Fool's Gold
Gorillaz Gorillaz
Gorillaz Demon Days
Gorillaz G-Sides
Grateful Dead Workingman's Dead
Karate The Bed is in The Ocean
L7 Bricks Are Heavy
Ladytron 604
Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow
Medicine Shot Forth Self Living
Mudhoney Superfuzz Bigmuff
My Bloody Valentine Sunny Sundae Smile
My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything
My Bloody Valentine Ecstasy and Wine
My Bloody Valentine Feed Me with Your Kiss
My Morning Jacket It Still Moves
My Morning Jacket Z
Nena Nena
Nena Fragezeichen
of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pavement Slanted and Enchanted
Pink Floyd The Wall
Pink Floyd Relics
Pink Floyd Meddle
Plasmatics Coup d'Etat
Psychic Ills Dins
Pulp Different Class
Radiohead The Bends
Ratatat Classics
Section 25 From The Hip
Shop Assistants Will Anything Happen
Sigur Ros ( )
Silver Jews The Natural Bridge
Silver Jews Starlite Walker
The Clash London Calling
The Concretes The Concretes
The Cramps Psychedelic Jungle
The Cult Sonic Temple
The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
The Cure Boys Don't Cry
The Faint Danse Macabre
The Flaming Lips Fight Test
The Jesus and Mary Chain Automatic
The Knife Deep Cuts
The Libertines I Get Along EP
The Libertines Up The Bracket
The Rapture Echoes
The Raveonettes Lust Lust Lust
The Rolling Stones Between the Buttons
The Rolling Stones Aftermath
The Shangri-Las Myrmidons Of Melodrama
The Shins Chutes Too Narrow
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico
The War On Drugs Wagonwheel Blues
The War On Drugs Barrel of Batteries EP
This is a promotional EP that was available free to download as a preview of Wagonwheel Blues. So it's basically earlier mixes of songs that were on that album. It's really good but it made WWB kind of a rip-off because nearly all the songs on WWB were on this.
The White Stripes Elephant
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST
Washed Out Life of Leisure
Weezer Maladroit
Easily the most underrated Weezer album. A solid album all the way through.
Whale We Care
Winters Black Clouds In Twin Galaxies
Chunky Melvins style riffage and concise songwriting make for a smart and tasty bit of doom-pop.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell

3.5 great
Beach House Devotion
Beck Mellow Gold
Beck The Information
Bjork Debut
Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum
Blonde Redhead Misery is a Butterfly
Boris Heavy Rocks
Built to Spill The Normal Years
Cat Power You Are Free
Cat Power The Greatest
Daft Punk Homework
David Bowie Low
David Bowie Lodger
Deerhunter Weird Era Cont.
Dungen Tio Bitar
Dungen Ta Det Lugnt
Husker Du Zen Arcade
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat
Ladytron Light and Magic
Let's Active Afoot
M83 Saturdays=Youth
When it's good it's really good. When it's not it borders on embarrassing treacle that you'll run to shut off quickly if anyone happens to walk in the room.
Mercury Rev Deserter's Songs
MGMT Oracular Spectacular
MGMT Congratulations
Once you get used to the idea that this is not Oracular Spectacular this album is actually pretty good. Whoever mastered the album is an idiot though, they put worst tracks first. By the time you get into the meat of the good stuff towards the middle of the album you've already lost all interest. Try reversing the song order in iTunes, it's a bit better. As for the songs themselves, they definitely lack the immediacy of the previous album, instead going for a sort of subdued orchestrated synth-pop. There are some genuinely enjoyable moments in the melodies, arpeggios and Beatles like mid-stride theme changes contained in songs such as 'I Found A Whistle', 'Siberian Breaks', 'Lady Dada's Nightmare', and 'Congratulations'.
Nico Chelsea Girl
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets
Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother
R.E.M. Monster
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Ramones Rocket to Russia
Ride Nowhere
Sleep Dopesmoker
Sleep Jerusalem
Sonic Youth Goo
The Black Keys Thickfreakness
The Brian Jonestown Massacre Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective
The Clash Combat Rock
The Cranberries No Need to Argue
The Cult Love
The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics
The Flaming Lips Embryonic
The Hives Veni Vidi Vicious
The Jesus and Mary Chain 21 Singles
The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers
The Rapture Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks
The Rolling Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request
The Shins Oh, Inverted World
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Zutons Who Killed The Zutons
Toto Dune
This is probably the coolest thing Toto was ever responsible for.
Weezer Pinkerton
Witch Witch
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Machine

3.0 good
A Place to Bury Strangers A Place to Bury Strangers
Against Me! As the Eternal Cowboy
Animal Collective Campfire Songs
Arab on Radar Queen Hygiene II
Arab on Radar Yahweh or the Highway
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Beck One Foot In The Grave
Beck Midnite Vultures
Beck Sea Change
Beck Guero
Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister
Bjork Medulla
Black Mountain Black Mountain
Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase
Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost
Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene
Built to Spill Perfect from Now On
Built to Spill Ancient Melodies of the Future
Cat Power The Covers Record
Chapterhouse Whirlpool
Charlotte Gainsbourg IRM
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II
David Bowie Changesonebowie
Deerhunter Microcastle
Devendra Banhart Rejoicing in the Hands
Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur
Dinosaur Jr. Bug
Evangelicals The Evening Descends
Girls Album
Guided by Voices Isolation Drills
Hanoi Rocks Self Destruction Blues
Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual
Jay Reatard Singles 06-07
Jay Reatard Watch Me Fall
Ladytron Witching Hour
Let's Active Cypress
Lou Reed Transformer
Memory Tapes Seek Magic
Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica
Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Modest Mouse Sad Sappy Sucker
Mr Twin Sister Vampires With Dreaming Kids
My Bloody Valentine Tremolo
My Bloody Valentine Glider
Nena 99 Luftballons
Neon Indian Psychic Chasms
Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island
Plasmatics Beyond the Valley of 1984
Psychic Ills Mirror Eye
Pulp This is Hardcore
Radiohead Pablo Honey
Radiohead In Rainbows
Ryan Adams Rock 'n' Roll
Ryan Adams Cold Roses
Sahara Hotnights Jennie Bomb
Sean Lennon Friendly Fire
Sigur Ros Takk...
Small Black Small Black
The Band Music from Big Pink
The Black Keys Rubber Factory
The Clash The Clash
The Cramps Songs the Lord Taught Us
The Cure Disintegration
The Cure Wish
The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin
The Hives Tyrannosaurus Hives
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2
The Murder City Devils In Name and Blood
The Raveonettes Chain Gang of Love
The Raveonettes Whip It On
The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St.
The Strokes First Impressions of Earth
The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes Icky Thump
The xx xx
Times New Viking Stay Awake
TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Vivian Girls Vivian Girls
Washed Out High Times
Weezer The Green Album
Wolf Parade Apologies to the Queen Mary
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones
Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz!

2.5 average
Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
Arcade Fire Neon Bible
Babes In Toyland Fontanelle
Beck Modern Guilt
Beck Stereopathetic Soulmanure
Black Moth Super Rainbow Eating Us
Blonde Redhead 23
Blonde Redhead Penny Sparkle
Blue Cheer Vincebus Eruptum
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica
Cat Power What Would the Community Think
David Gilmour About Face
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Gorillaz Laika Come Home
Grizzly Bear Horn of Plenty
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
Guided by Voices Under the Bushes Under the Stars
Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II
Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I
Hanoi Rocks Two Steps From The Move
Hanoi Rocks Oriental Beat
Mates of State My Solo Project
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Muse Showbiz
My Bloody Valentine This Is Your Bloody Valentine
My Bloody Valentine The New Record By My Bloody Valentine
New York Dolls New York Dolls
of Montreal Icons, Abstract Thee
Pink Floyd The Final Cut
Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pixies Bossanova
Plasmatics New Hope for the Wretched
Portishead Dummy
Queens of the Stone Age Rated R
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf
Screaming Females Power Move
Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
For the most part pretty average '70s hardrock. Although you gotta love Rotten's vocals at times. EMI is a great song.
Slowdive Souvlaki
Sonic Youth Rather Ripped
Sonic Youth Dirty
Sonic Youth Murray Street
Sonic Youth Sonic Nurse
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Hearts of Oak
The Allman Brothers Band Brothers and Sisters
The Breeders Title TK
The Church Priest=Aura
The Cult Electric
The Faint Wet From Birth
The Flaming Lips The Day They Shot a Hole In The Jesus Egg
The Gun Club Fire of Love
The Hives Barely Legal
The Libertines The Libertines
The Moldy Peaches The Moldy Peaches
The Psychedelic Furs Forever Now
The Raveonettes In and Out of Control
The Thermals More Parts Per Million
The Traveling Wilburys Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3
Toto Toto IV
High Points: Rosanna, Africa, the killer solo Lukather pulls at the end of Lovers In The Night. Low Points: everything else. Not that it's bad (the cheesy aspect of it is for the most part endearing), it's just not that good either.
Ugly Casanova Sharpen Your Teeth
Vivian Girls Everything Goes Wrong
Warpaint The Fool
Starts out pretty strong but totally drives into a ditch around the 3rd to last track which it never manages to pull itself out of. I would give this a 3 were it not for those awful last three songs. "Baby" is just a horrible mess of aimlessly meandering vocals.
Whirlwind Heat Do Rabbits Wonder?

2.0 poor
!!! Me and Giuliani Down By the Schoolyard
Catherine Wheel Chrome
Hanoi Rocks Bangkok Shocks,Saigon Shakes,Hanoi Rocks
Pink Floyd The Division Bell
Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Primal Scream Screamadelica
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
The Big Pink A Brief History of Love
I could not disagree with the JAMC comparisons more. It's like, look, just 'cause there's distortion and feedback does not mean it's Jesus and Mary Chain. Distortion and feedback plus sixties pop sensibilities, THAT equals Jesus and Mary Chain. I just could not connect with this album. No real standout melodies and the singer just doesn't have much that draws you in with his voice. A pretty bland album I thought.
The New Pornographers Mass Romantic
The New Pornographers Electric Version
Wilco Sky Blue Sky

1.5 very poor
Primal Scream Riot City Blues
Tegan and Sara If It Was You
Weezer The Red Album
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